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Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know (other)
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know may refer to: *"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", a phrase used by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) to describe her lover Lord Byron * ''Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'' (Dead or Alive album), 1986 *''Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'' (EP by Joolz Denby with New Model Army), 1986 * ''Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know'' (The Cross album), 1990 *"Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know", a 2005 song by Blue Tears from ''Mad, Bad and Dangerous'' *''Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'', a 2008 book by Ranulph Fiennes *''Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce'', a 2018 book by Colm TóibÃn *''Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know'', a 2020 novel by Samira Ahmed See also *''Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema'', a 2005 book by Christopher Frayling *''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783–1846'', a 2006 book by Boyd Hilton Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for ''Glenarvon'', a Gothic novel. In 1812 she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Her husband was The Hon. William Lamb, who after her death became British prime minister. Family background She was the only daughter of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo-Irish peer, and Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough. She was known as the Honourable Caroline Ponsonby until her father succeeded to the earldom in 1793. While her brother, Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, was severely injured in the Battle of Waterloo, in the days after the battle she had an affair with the Duke of Wellington. She was related to other leading society ladies, being the niece of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and cousin (by marriage) of Annabella, Lady Byron. She was related to Sarah Ponsonby, one half o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy Narrative poem, narratives ''Don Juan (poem), Don Juan'' and ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''; many of his shorter lyrics in ''Hebrew Melodies'' also became popular. Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, later traveling extensively across Europe to places such as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to lynching threats. During his stay in Italy, he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know (Dead Or Alive Album)
''Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'' is the third studio album by British pop band Dead or Alive, released on 21 November 1986 on Epic Records. Continuing their association with the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) production team, Dead or Alive scored several hit singles from this album, including " Brand New Lover", " Something in My House", "Hooked on Love" and "I'll Save You All My Kisses". Production of the album was marked by arguments between the band and SAW, with the latter frustrated by the band's refusal to branch into House music, and singer Pete Burns unwilling to hand over songwriting duties to the producers. Burns expressed frustration with his record company's attitude to his single choices, complaining the label only relented on scheduling "Brand New Lover" for release after Bananarama had a hit with their Dead or Alive-inspired cover of "Venus", and alleging they also refused to give "Something In My House" a Halloween release date. While Burns claimed vicious st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joolz Denby
Joolz Denby (born Julianne Mumford 9 April 1955, previously known simply as Joolz) is a poet, novelist, artist and tattooist based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Early life Born to an Army family at Colchester Garrison, Colchester Barracks in Essex, England, Julianne Mumford moved with her parents to Harrogate, North Yorkshire at age 11. While a pupil at Harrogate Ladies' College, she started to hang around with local Outlaw biker, bikers at age 15, although she was more interested in the mechanical side of motorcycles than becoming a biker-chick. In 1975, at age 19, she married Kenneth Denby, who wanted to be a "Outlaw motorcycle club#Membership, prospect" or probationary member of the Bradford chapter of the Satans Slaves Motorcycle Club. In an interview with the BBC in 2005, she described her time as a Satans Slave associate as: "It was very difficult. We didn't have a very good relationship with the police. If anything happened you knew you would immediately get th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Model Army (band)
New Model Army are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1980 by lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Justin Sullivan, bassist Stuart Morrow and drummer Phil Tompkins. Sullivan has been the only continuous member of the band, which has seen numerous line-up changes in its four-decade history. Their music draws on influences across the musical spectrum, from punk rock, punk and folk music, folk to soul music, soul, metal music, metal and classical music, classical. Sullivan's lyrics, which range from directly political through to spiritual and personal, have always been considered as a key part of the band's appeal. Whilst having their roots in punk rock, the band have always been difficult to categorise. In 1999, when asked about this, Sullivan said, "We've been labelled as punks, post-punks, Gothic rock, Goth, metal, folk – the lot, but we've always been beyond those style confines". Following a large turnover of personnel, bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know (The Cross Album)
''Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'' is the second studio album by The Cross, released in 1990. In contrast to debut '' Shove It'', the album is a rock album and is a more collaborate effort with each band member contributing to the songwriting. Guitarist Clayton Moss sings lead vocals on "Better Things". It has been suggested that Roger Taylor contributed less to this album as he was busy promoting the Queen album '' The Miracle''. Following poor sales in the UK, the band were dropped by EMI. Track listing # "Top of the World, Ma" (Clayton Moss, Roger Taylor, Spike Edney, Peter Noone, Josh Macrae) – 3:31 # "Liar" (Noone) – 4:32 # "Closer to You" (Edney) – 3:15 # "Breakdown" (Noone) – 3:53 # "Penetration Guru" (Moss) – 3:45 # "Power to Love" (Macrae/Noone/Moss) – 4:03 # "Sister Blue" (Noone) – 4:13 # "Foxy Lady" ( Jimi Hendrix) – 3:26 (CD version only) # "Better Things" (Moss) – 2:45 # "Passion for Trash" (Macrae) – 2:35 # "Old Men (Lay Down)" (Taylor) †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad, Bad And Dangerous
''Mad, Bad and Dangerous'' is the second album released by the late-80s hard rock band Blue Tears. The album was one of many recordings by the band which went unreleased following the increased popularity of alternative and grunge music. Long after the band members got involved in other projects, some of these unreleased material started to surface on the Internet. Bandleader Gregg Fulkerson decided to compile an album of most of this material and release it officially. The album was finally released in 2005 by Suncity Records. It marked, perhaps, the return of the band, since they released an all-new album '' The Innocent Ones'' the following year. Track listing # "Long Way Home" # "Girl Crazy" # "With You Tonight" # "Mystery Man" # "Rock You to Heaven" # "Evidence of Love" # "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know" # "Misty Blue" # "Kisses in the Dark" # "Everywhere I Go" # "Midnight Train" # "Follow Your Heart" # "Russia Tonight" # "Love Machine" # "The Last Serenade" # "Live It Up" Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes () and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years, including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and South Pole by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. In May 2009, at the age of 65, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. According to the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' in 1984, he was the world's greatest living explorer. Fiennes has written numerous books about his army service and his expeditions as well as books on explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Early life and education Fiennes was born in Windsor, Berkshire on 7 March 1944, nearly four months af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm TóibÃn
Colm TóibÃn (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. '' The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. '' The Master'' (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for ToÃbÃn a bounty of thousands of euro as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. ''Nora Webster'' won the Hawthornden Prize, whilst ''The Magician'' (a fictionalised version of the life of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021. He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor (education), Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017. He is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samira Ahmed (author)
Samira Ahmed is an American author of young adult fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, best known for her ''New York Times'' best selling novels ''Love, Hate & Other Filters'' and ''Internment''. Early life Ahmed was born in Mumbai, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois. She has a degree from the University of Chicago, taught high school English for seven years, and worked in nonprofit before publishing her first novel in 2018. Career Her young adult debut novel ''Love, Hate & Other Filter''s, about a Muslim Indian-American teen filmmaker making plans about her future while dealing with islamophobia, debuted on #8 of the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list and received starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Her 2019 sophomore novel ''Internment,'' set in near-future America where Muslims are sent to internment camps following a law enacted by the islamophobic president, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. Early life and education Christopher Frayling was born in Hampton, a suburb of London, in affluent circumstances. His father, Major Arthur Frederick Frayling, OBE (1910–1993), late of the Royal Army Service Corps, was chairman of the Hudson's Bay fur auction house in London and of the International Fur Trade Federation; his mother, Barbara Kathleen ("Betty"), daughter of record and audio equipment store owner Alfred Imhof, was a driver in international car rallies, and won the RAC Rally with her brother, Godfrey Imhof, in 1952. His brother, Nicholas, was Dean of Chichester Cathedral from 2002-2014. After attending Repton School, Frayling read history at Churchill College, Cambridge and gained a PhD in the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was appointed a Fellow of the college in 2009. Career Frayling taught history at the University of Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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