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Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator estadunidense. Ele emplacou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezenove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.
Ricky deixou quatro filhos, os gêmeos Mathew e Gunnar, da banda Nelson dos anos 90; a atriz Tracy Nelson e o caçula Sam Nelson, além da mãe falecida em 1994 e do irmão David, morto em 2011 e que pode ser visto no filme Cry Baby (1990), como o pai do personagem de Tracy Lords.
Eric Hilliard Nelson, también conocido como Ricky Nelson y más tarde, como Rick Nelson (Teaneck, Nueva Jersey, 8 de mayo de 1940 – 31 de diciembre de 1985), fue un cantante, músico de rock and roll y actor estadounidense. Uno de los primeros íconos influyentes de rock juveniles estadounidenses.
- Early Life
- Education
- Music Career
- Film Actor
- Name Change and 1960s Career
- "Garden Party" and Short-Lived Comeback
- Personal Life
- Death
- Legacy
- References
Nelson was born on May 8, 1940, in Teaneck, New Jersey. He was the second son of entertainment couple Harriet Hilliard Nelson (born Peggy Lou Snyder; July 18, 1909 – October 2, 1994) and Ozzie Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975). His father Ozzie was of half Swedish descent. The Nelsons' older son was actor David Nelson(October 24, 1936 – Januar...
Nelson attended Gardner Street Public School, Bancroft Junior High, and, between 1954 and 1958, Hollywood High School, from which he graduated with a B average. He played football at Hollywood High and represented the school in interscholastic tennis matches. Twenty-five years later, Nelson told the Los Angeles Weekly he hated school because it "sm...
Debut
Nelson played clarinet and drums in his tweens and early teens, learned the rudimentary guitar chords, and vocally imitated his favorite Sun Records rockabilly artists in the bathroom at home or in the showers at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. He was strongly influenced by the music of Carl Perkins and once said he tried to emulate the sound and the tone of the guitar break in Perkins's March 1956 Top Ten hit "Blue Suede Shoes". At age sixteen, he wanted to impress his girlfriend of two years,...
First album, band, and #1 single
In early summer 1957, Ozzie Nelson pulled his son from Verve after disputes about royalties and signed him to a lucrative five-year deal with Imperial Records that gave him approval over song selection, sleeve artwork, and other production details. Ricky's first Imperial single, "Be-Bop Baby", generated 750,000 advance orders, sold over one million copies, and reached No. 3 on the charts. Nelson's first album, Ricky, was released in October 1957 and hit #1 before the end of the year. Followin...
In addition to his recording career, Nelson appeared in movies. He made his film debut in Here Come the Nelsons (1952) and had a small role in The Story of Three Loves (1953) at MGM directed by Vincente Minnelli playing Farley Grangeras a boy. Following his success on TV and with singing, Howard Hawks cast him as a gunslinger in Rio Bravo (1959) wi...
On May 8, 1961 (his 21st birthday), he officially modified his recording name from "Ricky Nelson" to "Rick Nelson". His childhood nickname proved hard to shake, especially among the generation who had watched him grow up on "Ozzie and Harriet". Even in the 1980s, when Nelson realized his dream of meeting Carl Perkins, Perkins noted that he and "Ric...
In 1972, Nelson reached the Top 40 one last time with "Garden Party," a song he wrote in disgust after a Richard Nader Oldies Concert at Madison Square Garden where the audience booed, perhaps against some unrelated police action. However, Nelson may have felt that the reason was because he was playing new songs instead of just his old hits. When h...
In 1957, when Nelson was 17, he met and fell in love with Marianne Gaba, who played the role of Ricky's girlfriend in three episodes of Ozzie and Harriet. Nelson and Gaba were too young to enter a serious relationship, although according to Gaba "we used to neck for hours." The next year, Nelson fell in love with 15-year-old Lorrie Collins, a count...
On December 31, 1985, Nelson died when the Douglas DC-3 on which he was a passenger crashed into trees, poles, and electrical wires, when it attempted to make an emergency landing while in flight between Guntersville, Alabama, and Dallas, Texas, where he was to perform a New Year's Eve concert. Nelson's DC-3 seemed constantly beset by mechanical pr...
In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Starswas dedicated to him.In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Nelson #91 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.In 2005, at the 20th anniversary of Nelson's death, PBS televised Ricky Nelson Sings, a documentary featuring interviews with his children, as well as James Burton and Kris Kristofferson.Hall of Fame baseball player Rickey Hendersonwas named Rickey Nelson Henley after Ricky Nelson.Bashe, Philip (1992). Teenage Idol, Travelin' Man: The Complete Biography of Rick Nelson. New York: Hyperion Books. ISBN 978-1-5628-2969-8.Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.Bronson, Fred (2003). Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-7738-0.Dennis, Jeffrey P. (2013) [2006]. Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-3177-6622-3.Cantor Pop Ricky Nelson nasceu em 8 de Maio, 1940 em Teaneck, New Jersey, United States (Ele morre aos 45 anos de idade, em 31 de Dezembro, 1985). Cantor, compositor e músico que era filho de Ozzie e Harriet Nelson. Ele estrelou a série The Adventures of Ozzie e Harriet com os membros da sua família.
- Rick Nelson
- May 8, 1940, Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
- Eric Hilliard Nelson
- December 31, 1985, De Kalb, Texas, U.S.
Eric Hilliard Nelson ( Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985 ), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator estadunidense. Ele emplacou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezenove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.
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