His most recent film score featured in the 2001 war thriller Enigma, while a musical version of Brighton Rock, created with lyricist Don Black, had its London premiere in 2004.

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After World War II Lowe's became known hundreds of miles around for rock-bottom prices on nails, copper pipe and lumber by the railcar-load.

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Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.

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Jared Leto, famous for roles in movies like Requiem for a Dream and Lord of War, is also the lead singer and guitarist for popular rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.

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He followed that up with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, starring rock star David Bowie and Tom Conti as WWII prisoners of war, interned in a Japanese camp.

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The group has released three albums, the most recent of which, This Is War, peaked at the number four spot on the Billboard rock album charts.

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But Avril Lavigne's idea of having 21 drummers stacked up the wall like a rock version of Celebrity Squares was inspired, and Ms Dynamite's anti-war duet with George Michael was one of the special moments that the Brits were once known for.

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Prog rock and arena rock were not good weapons to be holding in this war because they were nothing more than different forms of the pretentiousness that was disco.

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Holtzman returned to California with a suitcase full of cassettes of this unique, Farfisa-organ-driven psychedelic-rock sound that was forged during the Vietnam War, when American radio influenced traditional Cambodian styles.

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