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Biography of Harrison Ford

Born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, actor Harrison Ford has starred in some of Hollywood's biggest films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. He grew up in Des Plaines, a suburb of Chicago, as the son of an advertising executive and a stay-at-home mother.
As a child, Ford was targeted by bullies. He went to Maine Township High School where he was involved in the social science and model train clubs, according to People magazineAfter graduating in 1960, Ford studied English and philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. There, he discovered an interest in performing nearly by accident. Ford signed up for a drama course, hoping for an easy good grade. "I was terrified to get up in front of people, but I really enjoyed the storytelling part," he explained to People magazine. Ford wasn't the best student in college, and he ended up leaving before completing his degree. With his future wife, Mary Marquardt, he made his way to Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Ford first landed a deal with Columbia Pictures as a contract player, earning $150 a week. He then ended up at Universal. In 1966, Ford made his film debut in a bit part in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. Studio executives were less than impressed with him. One studio official told him that "You'll never make it in this business," Ford told the Hollywood Reporter.

MONSTERS OF ROCK

Monsters of Rock was an annual (hard rock / heavy metal) music festival held in Castle Donington, England, that branched into other locations such as The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Argentina and Brazil. History: In 1979, promoter Paul Loasby, along with Maurice Jones, planned a one day festival dedicated specifically for bands within the hard rock and heavy metal genre. Loasby was an established and successful promoter working that year on the Rainbow UK tour and penned the festival as the final show of the tour for the band to headline. Jones knew the owner of the Donington Park race track, Tom Wheatcroft, located next to the village of Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England, and the site was chosen to host the event.

The first Monsters of Rock line-up consisted of a mix of British and international bands and was a success with 35,000 heavy metal fans attending. Although only conceived as a one off event, it was mentioned on the day the idea that the festival will return the following year and the first edition birthed what would become a regular festival for the next 15 years, becoming synonymous as a Mecca for fans of the genre and further establishing the Midlands as the home of heavy metal.
Over the years, the attendance continued to grow, reaching 107,000 in 1988, when two fans died during Guns N' Roses set. Initially the blame was thought to be the size of the crowd and a rush forward during the bands set but officially the cause is laid on the weather, causing muddy and wet conditions on the sloping ground. As a result the festival was cancelled the following year, returning in 1990 with a limitation to the crowd of 75,000. The festival had been held in parallel in West Germany from 1983 to 1991. In 1984 and 1986 the festival branched into Sweden. In 1988, the festival occurred for the first time in France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. It was held as a one-time event in 1991 in Soviet Union, Poland, Belgium, Hungary. In 1994, the festival was exported overseas to Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
The festival continued on as the premier hard rock event in Great Britain in the 1990s but started to fall upon hard times as heavy metal became less popular, with another cancellation in 1993 due to being unable to find a strong enough headliner. In 1995 the festival found itself in a similar situation until Metallica agreed to play with the condition of the band having control over the event and naming it "Escape from the Studio". In 1996 Ozzy Osbourne and KISS co-headlined the festival and although plans to extend the festival into a two-day event in 1997, the promoters once again found themselves in a struggle for headliners and the event was cancelled and discontinued. Donington Park remained event-less until 2001 when the Rock and Blues Festival and Stereophonics held events at the site. In 2002 the Ozzfest tour returned to the UK using Donington Park as their only British event and the following year Live Nation picked up the reins as Monsters of Rock's successor in the name of Download Festival. An outstanding success from the offset, the festival continues to this day having increased to a three-day event with five stages, though as of 2008 the event has been relegated outside of the track.
. In 2006, the Monsters of Rock name was revived and held at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, for a one off event headlined by Deep Purple and with Alice Cooper as a special guest.
To date, the only band that have headlined the festival more than twice, is AC/DC, with four occasions: 1981, 1984, 1991 and 2010 Line-ups: (Note: Line-ups are listed with the headlining band first, followed by the reverse order of appearance by the other bands) 1980: 16 August 1980 Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions, April Wine, Saxon (released as the semi-official live album Donnington: The Live Tracks sic ), Riot, Touch, 1981: 22 August 1981 AC/DC, Whitesnake, Blue Öyster Cult, Slade, Blackfoot, More, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1982: 21 August 1982 Status Quo, Gillan, Saxon (the first band to appear twice), Hawkwind, Uriah Heep, Anvil, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1983: 20 August 1983 Whitesnake, Meat Loaf, ZZ Top, Twisted Sister, Dio, Diamond Head, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1984: 18 August 1984 AC/DC (first band to headline twice), Van Halen (David Lee Roth's final appearance with Van Halen in the UK), Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Y&T, Accept, Mötley Crüe, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1985: 17 August 1985 ZZ Top, Marillion, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Ratt, Magnum, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1986: 16 August 1986 Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, McAuley Schenker Group, Warlock, Bad News, Tommy Vance (DJ), 1987: 22 August 1987 Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella, The Bailey Brothers (DJs), 1988: 20 August 1988 Iron Maiden, KISS, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns N' Roses, Helloween, 1990: 18 August 1990 The entire 1990 festival was simultaneously broadcast live on BBC Radio 1 Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Poison, Quireboys, Thunder, 1991: 17 August 1991 AC/DC (their portion released as the AC/DC video Live At Donington), Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Queensrÿche, The Black Crowes, 1992: 22 August 1992 Iron Maiden (recorded as Live at Donington), Skid Row, Thunder, Slayer, W.A.S.P., The Almighty, 1994: 4 June 1994 This was the first year that two stages were used.

The monsters of rock is a very crazy festival, and surely I would one day be able to go just to see slipknot rock the stage. And it would be really cool if I could take a picture with the band or with at least one of the members.

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