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May 18, 2022 · Bill Wichrowski has earned bragging rights after 40+ years of experience in the industry. But this leads fans to wonder about his age. So, how old is the Deadliest Catch star?
Mar 16, 2013 · Although born in Scotland in 1909, Bill McCluskey had plenty of Irish ancestry and turned that heritage, and a nice tenor voice, into a career when he immigrated to Pittsburgh, then Chicago, in the 1920s. He found work at WLS around 1932 as an Irish tenor and program host.
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The Slut Boys are usually called a bunch of punk rockers because they swaggered onto the unsuspecting Tallahassee club scene in the late ‘70s, not long after punk sneered and mutated to life. They weren’t technically punk (well, OK, maybe the don’t-care attitude was punk rock) and shared more in common with the garage-rock primitives such as The St...
The artsy drummer Donny Crenshaw is the one who came up with the name The Slut Boys. He overheard a co-worker singing the lyrics to “Dirty White Boy” by the FM-friendly band Foreigner. She changed the song to “Dirty Slut Boy.” The proverbial light bulb exploded. “The name was aggressive and so was the music,” as writer-professor Diane “D.K.” Robert...
Controversy usually followed The Slut Boys. When a local minister, the Rev. Charles Boykin of Lakeview Baptist Church, held a burning of popular albums and claimed 984 of 1,000 girls became pregnant while listening to evil rock music, The Slut Boys did the responsible thing and wrote a song about him. Sample lyrics: “Reverend Boykin, you’re right/ ...
While The Slut Boys never achieved national fame, they sure hung around with some famous folks. In 1980, they were on the bill when Joan Jett and Iggy Pop played Tommy’s Deep South Music Hall on Tennessee Street. Singer Mickey Thomas, of Jefferson Starship, loved the music of The Slut Boys so much that he hired them to play a party at, of all unlik...
The band called it quits in 1982. After a reunion gig, they really did say no mas in 1985. The first official vinyl by The Slut Boys is set to be released sometime next year. It’s a collection of covers and originals, such as “Mister Stupid” (which inspired Bill Otersen’s still-running comic-strip character). I guess The Slut Boys never got around ...
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Bill McCluskey has been comprehensively involved in the performing arts for over forty years. As an actor he has been contracted by every state theatre company in Australia. As a producer and director he has created new independent companies including Red Desert Productions and Western Edge Theatre Projects Inc.
Bill McCluskey is known as an Actor. Some of their work includes Shame, The Chain Reaction, Evil Angels, Strike of the Panther, Manganinnie, 3 Acts of Murder, Teesh and Trude, and Fast Talking.
'Bill McCluskey has been a nationally recogniseable actor for 30 years. He worked with Meryl Streep in the highly successful Fred Schepsi film Evil Angels and formed part pf the Melbourne Theatre Companies Ensemble that delivered the award winning 8 hour production of Angels in America.
Bill McCluskey is known for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Parallax (2004) and Winners & Losers (2011).
