Portrait of the artist (a work in progress)
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Peter Blake is famous for the record cover of 'Sergeant Pepper' but has other work exhibited world-wide. He has done artwork for the Live Aid poster and the Band Aid cover. He is on the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy whose summer show opens on Jun 6 1992 with 1,700 works including six of his own. His room will display 350 paintings to include popularist subjects and other things unusual for the RA. An illness in 1992 has convinced him to complete unfinished works while he has time, including 'David Hockney in a Hollywood Spanish Interior' and 'The Tarzan Family at the Roxy Cinema in New York', both begun in 1964 and sold. He has finished 'Titania' and nearly completed a series of 26 alphabet screen prints.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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The six-million-dollar man can't be beat
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Anthony Cheetham, along with five others, founded the publishing company Century with 600,000 pounds sterling in 1982, putting in 20,000 pounds sterling of his own money. In 1989 he sold it for 64 million pounds to New York's Random House and the six founder members became instant millionaires, Cheetham getting six million pounds sterling. In October 1991 he was asked to resign by Random House boss Alberto Vitale but he would not do so nor undertake not to work in publishing for a year. This meant he forfeited three years' pay, 150,000 pounds sterling. On September 3, 1992 he and his wife are to launch their new firm Orion.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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The Coal Board chairman who got away
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President of the National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill, 55, was an only child who refused to sit the 11-plus as he thought grammar schools were full of snobs. He left school at 15 and became a miner. He found terrible conditions, noise, dust, and freezing cold, but became involved with the Young Communist League. He married Anne in 1961 and they have one daughter. He has suffered harassment from the tabloid press. He organised two marches in Oct 1992 against the government plans to close mines.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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