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Wilson Pickett was born in 1941, in Prattville, Alabama and the fourth of 11 children. The family moved to Detroit in his mid teens and he sang in several Baptist church choirs. His forceful, passionate style of singing was developed between the sacred and the secular whist singing on the streets with the other kids.
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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
The Barbican Centre in London is hosting ‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier; From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk’ exhibition. The first exhibition of its kind dedicated to the French couturier; it is a theatrical installation of 165 couture and ready-to-wear garments that encompasses Gaultier’s career from the 1970’s to the current day.
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Fifty Years On -Sam Cooke Remembered (22nd January 1931 – 11th December 1964) 
Samuel Cook was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1931. One of five boys and three girls, his father was Rev. Charles and mother, Annie Mae Cook. In 1933 the Cook family joined the great migration and moved to Chicago. Young Samuel featured as vocalist in his church choir before teaming up with three of his siblings in a quartet dubbed the Soul Children.
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Bohemian Paradise – The Beat Hotel, Paris 
"When good Americans die, they go to Paris.”Oscar Wilde.Wilde may not have been American, but he was good ( and his words and work are still a source of inspiration) and he died penniless at Hôtel d'Alsace , Paris, 30th November 1900, three years after being exiled from England,
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A Brief History of Greenwich Village
The area which is now Greenwich Village was once marshland and 16th century Native Americans referred to it as Sapokanikan ("tobacco field"). After the Dutch settlers drove the Indians off the land they cleared it and turned it into pasture
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