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Living Legends
While I was driving today, I heard a radio news story about Les Paul, one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. I was surprised to learn that he is not only still alive, but is still performing every week at a jazz club - at 92 years old!
And of course, the writer Ray Bradbury is still alive, and writing. I've grown a little tired of his style, but there's no doubt he is a master, and a legend in his field. There are many more incredible people, masters at their field, who are not only still living, but well-respected, productive and thriving in their old age - living legends, in other words. Who do you consider to be living legends? Most amazing jew boots |
Let me be the first to say Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Miyamoto is a toddler with only 55 years behind him.
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One that comes at the top of my mind is composer Elliott Carter, whose music I don't really enjoy, but is a respected man in his field, producing quite a few significant developments in Western classical music and passing that to his pupils. He is currently 98 years old and still actively composing.
I would also say that the 23 (as of now) surviving veterans of WWI would qualify as living legends. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Besides, you won't find many people > 55 that can claim the game designing crown. Try. John Archibald Wheeler is still alive as well. I was speaking idiomatically.
Last edited by Alai; Aug 20, 2007 at 11:05 AM.
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(How about Romero, lollin.) FELIPE NO |
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Stan Lee. He's a living comic book legend at the age of 85.
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Ralph Baer. He single handedly created home console video games as we know it. Without him, there would be no Miyamoto.
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Norman Ernest Borlaug for revolutions in agriculture which are credited with saving over a billion lives from starvation.
And Yuji Naka for giving us Sonic the Hedgehog. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |