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Last Word: Richard Hamilton, Michael Hart, Gabriel Valdes and Wardell Quezergue

16/09/2011

Richard Hamilton, Michael Hart, Gabriel Valdes and Wardell Quezergue

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Matthew Bannister on artist Richard Hamilton, founder of Project Gutenberg Michael Hart, Chilean politician Gabriel Valdes, and New Orleans arranger Wardell Quezergue.

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Richard Hamilton - the father of pop art who was inspired by technology and modern life.

Michael Hart, who founded Project Gutenberg to digitise great works of literature and make them freely available to all.

Gabriel Valdes, the Chilean politician who played a leading role in ousting Pinochet's military junta

Wardell Quezergue, the arranger credited with developing the New Orleans sound. He worked with Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney

And the poet Herbert Lomas, whose work on the death of his wife inspired Ted Hughes to write his Birthday Letters.

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