They did so with the help of notable friends: writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Conrad, and chocolate magnate William Cadbury.
Sara Lee, another pioneering bassist, also enlists many notable friends for her solo debut.
She and childhood chums often show up fictionalized in the brothers' writings, as do, later on, notable friends and sporadic lovers.
In the meantime, he's been soliciting notable friends to make playlists named after the forthcoming album, "Pretty Girls Like Trap Music"; they're worth digging into.
The guest list included notable Friends of Bill like Warren E. Buffett; major customers like Michael Dell of Dell Computer and Michael D. Capellas of Compaq Computer; fellow software vendors like Carol Bartz of Autodesk Inc.; international luminaries like Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group; and cultural icons like Martha Stewart.
Premièring on June 21st at the SilverDocs festival, in Washington, D.C., and directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling, the film contains interviews with notable friends and peers like Hugh Hefner, Peter Matthiessen, and James Lipton, though the majority of this remarkable account is narrated by none other than George Plimpton.
As expected, notable friends drop in on the visual globe trekking tour too: Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder, Shane Dorian, Tom Curren and many more.
On the recommendation of John Lindley, Darwin wrote to Lady Dorothy Nevill, who responded generously by sending numerous exotic orchids, and requested a signed photograph of him to hang in her sitting room next to portraits of her other notable friends, including Hooker.
Place Steichen's work next to that of other notables — friends of his like Clarence H. White and Gertrude Käsebier — and you realize that, for all the apparent closeness of tone, there is an unbridgeable chasm between Steichen's sturdy adventures in refinement and the bloodless pastoral of his fellow-Secessionists. Steichen suffered no trace of Pre-Raphaelite hangover.
Benji, in particular, must be disappointed, seeing as he's made a notable Twitter friend: A quick look around the credible available sources (their site, readers, Wiki) reveals some of the strangeness at the heart of Graceland, if no explanation for that strangeness.
