Sentence examples for experienced fame from inspiring English sources

But it wasn't until 1970, when Alan Douglas – the white record producer who made Jimi Hendrix a star – convinced them to record their first album (Douglas drove into the heart of Harlem in his silver Jaguar and appealed to them himself), that they experienced fame.

The judges experienced fame and notoriety, too.

Somewhere in between the football tearjerker Rudy and the offbeat cult-classic Jamaican bobsled team bio Cool Runnings, there is room for this very disarming, true-life tale of a bumbling British ski jumper, Michael "Eddie" Edwards, who made it to the 1988 Calgary Olympics, against the odds, and experienced fame.

She landed a role in Mermaids, aged nine, but is sanguine about it: experiencing fame so early was "probably better".

But because film actors typically experience fame in greater measure, our personas can feel at the mercy of forces far beyond our control.

Poor Peter never experienced such fame: No one photographed me on results day.

Many members of the 1979 Crenshaw team would get drafted, but none experienced the fame or notoriety of Darryl Strawberry.

Before Heart of Gold, Young had already experienced considerable fame - firstly with the continually bickering Buffalo Springfield, later with America's first supergroup, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

He had already experienced literary fame with his college novel, "The Broom of the System," and sunk into obscurity with his postmodern short-story cabinet of wonders, "Girl with Curious Hair" (twenty-two hundred copiesoldld in hardcover).

Sir Paul, like some others who've experienced colossal fame, can't quite hide his air of self-importance, but onstage he connects with the audience in a big way and the audiences still scream.

By the time Song was written in 2002, sixteen years after her previous autobiography, Angelou had experienced great fame and recognition as an author and poet.