Bernard Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and
singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of
Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger. Born and raised in
Toowong, Brisbane, he began writing music at 15. With Ian Haug, John
Collins, and Darren Middleton, the band released five studio albums in
fifteen years and achieved mainstream success in Australia. During
Powderfinger's hiatus in 2005, Fanning began his solo music career with
the studio album Tea & Sympathy. Powderfinger reunited in 2007 and
released two more albums before disbanding in 2010. While Powderfinger's
style focuses on alternative rock, Fanning's solo music is generally
described as a mixture of blues and acoustic folk. He plays guitar,
piano, keyboards and harmonica. Often speaking out against Australian
political figures, Fanning has donated much of his time to philanthropic
causes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fanning>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1261:
Michael VIII Palaiologos (depiction shown) was crowned
Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos>
1915:
The New York World revealed that Germany had purchased excess
phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the
Allied war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Phenol_Plot>
1944:
World War II: Allied forces began their invasion of southern
France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dragoon>
1998:
A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army
killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern
Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
neroli:
More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from
the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium
subsp. amara) used to make perfumes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neroli>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the
temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in
their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be
allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
--Sri Aurobindo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo>
Show replies by thread