At three and a half years old, here, i caught polio. There was an epidemic at that time. They said, stephen wont live through this. But during those years in and out of hospital, he developed a passion for music, and after a spell as a journalist, he began trying out his songs at folk clubs before finally hitting the big time. But when his chart success began to slide, his attention shifted to another musical avenue. Sing once again with me. He was given the chance to record the single for andrew lloyd webber s phantom of the opera, but he was devastated when he wasnt chosen to play the role for the west end. Youve done it all, broken every code. Nevertheless, he continued to perform. The effects of his childhood polio were lifelong, but onstage in the spotlight he said it was the one place he could forget it all and simply be steve harley, the rock star. Ooh ooh, la la la. That is David Sillito looking back at the life of steve harley, the front man of Cockney Rebel who has died at th
He later apologised for what he called rude comments. Plenty of people saw the remarks straightaway as racist but it took an age in political terms for rishi sunak to agree. At a rally on friday night in hackney, diane abbott told the crowd to stand firm against racism. This is about the way that black women are disrespected. Decade upon decade. The conservative Cabinet Minister and transport secretary, mark harper, spoke to laura kuennsberg, on her sunday morning programme, she asked him Whether Frank Hester s comments were racist. Did you think these comments were racist . Yes, look, the Prime Minister made it very clear at Prime Ministers questions on wednesday that they were racist. It took him some time to do that. Did you think straight they were racist . You said it took an age in political terms but it didnt take long at all, the Prime Minister said it on wednesday and his spokesperson was clear the day before that they were racist comments and unacceptable. And frank hester ap
please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
And reformed welfare, which the president said he did want to do. fast forward to obama, obama raised taxes, which he said he wouldn t do in the first two months. he kept spending too much. he lost the house and most of the senate. what did republicans do? we ll raise the debt ceiling, but you need to reduce overspending. they tyke about $2 trillion of what obama wanted to spend out of the spending, and we didn t reduce as much spending as i would have liked, but it was a reduction from the tremendous amount of spending. again, i want to let your points out, but isn t it a contradiction to say you re about fiscal responsibility, if you re not willing to take it,less no leverage, because you back down, radio i got? we have the number here of just the many trillions of dollars that would be borne out with business how is that