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Jon Symon
Jon Symon (born 10 January 1941 as Simon John Hornsby in Epsom, United Kingdom; died 7 December 2015 on the Isle of Wight, England) was a British rock musician and composer who lived in Germany from the mid-1960s. He was part of the founding generation of the Hanoverian rock music, rock scene. He became known to a wider audience in the early 1980s as the composer of the rock ballet ''Warlock'', in which he was also the singer with the accompanying German rock, Deutschrock band, most of whose members were from Jane (German band), Jane. Early life (1941 - 1963) Symon came into contact with music at the age of 4 when he was able to play a miniature drum kit at St George's Hotel, Bradford, where his father worked as a hotel manager. First performances with the hotel orchestra followed. At the age of 15, Symon formed his first band, a skiffle band called Satellites. During the same period, he also discovered his interest in space travel and astronautics, which led to him leaving college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epsom
Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the mid-Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, but the modern settlement probably grew up in the area surrounding St Martin's Church in the 6th or 7th centuries and the street pattern is thought to have become established in the England in the Middle Ages, Middle Ages. Today the High Street is dominated by the clock tower, which was erected in 1847–8. Like other nearby settlements, Epsom is located on the spring line settlement, spring line where the permeable chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay. Several tributaries of the Hogsmill River rise in the town and in the 17th and early 18th centuries, the spring on Epsom Common was believed to have healing quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
