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Joe Jordan, the world-class Scottish footballer who played for Leeds United, Manchester United, AC Milan and Verona, tells the story of his intense and inspirational career. Joe Jordan was one of many gifted and ambitious Scots who made the journey south to England and, ultimately, glory and success. He was part of the great tradition of Alex James, Denis Law and Graham Souness who laid siege to the England game. He played fifty-two times for his country and became the first Scot to score in three World Cups. When he moved from Leeds to Manchester United in 1978, his transfer fee of pound]350,000 broke the record for a deal between British clubs. He recaptures this fascinating era, where he had to endure the tough rites of passage involved in playing for the most successful and demanding teams in the world.
Joe Jordan's bestselling book, Living a Life of Significance, has sold more than 40,000 copies to date. The second edition was published in 2013, in addition to his audiobook. Living a Life of Significance is Joe's masterpiece of inspiration, personal reflection, and motivation. The highly acclaimed book chronicles his personal journey in the financial services industry, applying the lessons he has learned in the business to an inspiring reflection on financial services approaches and mentalities.
A gifted and ambitious Scot who made the journey south to England and ultimately, glory and success. When he moved from Leeds to Manchester United in 1978, his 350,000 pounds transfer fee broke the record for a deal between British clubs.
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Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong was not only jazz's greatest musician and innovator, but also arguably its most famous entertainer and the frontal figure in the development of contemporary popular music. Overcoming social and political obstacles, he created a long and impressive career and an enormous musical output. Now, his ground breaking musical career is amassed and detailed in this discography of all his works, from professionally made commercial releases, to amateur and unissued recordings. All of Me is a comprehensive, chronological discography born out of love and admiration for Louis Armstrong, and devotion to years of collecting his musical accomplishments. Author Jos Willems has meticu...
These are the recollections of "Ragtime Bob" Darch (1920-2002) told in his own words and transcribed by his longtime friend Steve Spracklen. Bob begins by recalling his life from childhood in Detroit through his college years and then service in World War II as an army paratrooper and in the Korean conflict as an Alaskan post engineer. Then he recounts his nearly six decades as an itinerant ragtime piano player sharing stories as only Bob could tell them of the many celebrities with whom he worked and the countless tales of his experiences "on the Ragtime Trail." Bob entertained his audiences with music and stories of ragtime, past and present. He was not encumbered by facts...he had a story to tell. Bob died in 2002 at the age of 82 and he is buried in Sedalia, Missouri where he often said his style of classic ragtime music began. March 31, 2020 marked the centennial of his birth and like he said of ragtime, Bob's legacy isn't dead, it isn't even sick.
Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African. American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth. century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a. seven-decade career. His talent transformed every genre of black music before the. advent of rock and roll?pickaninny bands, minstrelsy, circus sideshows, vaudeville. (both black and white), night clubs, and cabarets. Sweatman was the first African. American musician to be offered a long-term recording contract, and he dazzled. listeners with jazz clarinet solos before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's so-called first. jazz records.. S...
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Can one summer together be enough to heal old wounds? A quiet summer on the coast. That’s all Jordan Manning was looking for. After a near-fatal accident and finally breaking free from an abusive relationship, she was looking forward to time spent with her sons and healing her wounds—the physical and the emotional ones. But her plans are thrown off course when she runs into the last person she expected to see—the first man to ever break her heart. What they say about absence making the heart grow fonder is true. In all the time since he walked away from his first love, Rob Tyler never got over her, no matter how many times he tried to convince himself otherwise. When fate intervenes and makes their paths cross all these years later, Rob is determined to show Jordan that he’s the man for her—that this time he can give her the future they both wanted. **This book was previous released in 2011 and 2016**
THE STORY: Mr. Jordan is checking passengers who are to depart in an airplane for the Hereafter. The routine is interrupted by the arrival of Joe Pendleton, an attractive prizefighter, who refuses to admit he is dead and induces Jordan to look up t