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LEGEND AND MENTOR: Stevie Wonder TALKING ABOUT the biggest lessons he garnered while working alongside Stevie Wonder, former manager Keith Harris OBE said the legendary singer installed a belief in him that ‘anything is possible’ I was very tired, I had been working very hard and I realised as time went on, I was actually getting more and more central for Stevie’s organisation. Keith Harris OBE Harris, who worked with Stevie Wonder at Motown admited in the latest Did Ya Know podcast that having immersed his whole life into all things Stevie Wonder, he didn’t have a clue what he was going to do with his career once he’d decided to pack up his bags and head back home to the UK. ....
Death of a Headmaster | BBC Sounds OTHERtone with Pharrell, Scott and Fam-Lay | Google Podcasts Twenty-five years ago last week, Philip Lawrence was stabbed. He was the headteacher at St George’s school in Maida Vale, north-west London, and had stepped in to protect a pupil who was being attacked at the school gates by teenagers from another school. Lawrence died later the same day. One of his former pupils, broadcaster Edward Adoo, presents Death of a Headmaster, a touching and fair-minded Radio 4 documentary about Lawrence and his legacy. “He was stabbed through the heart by someone who didn’t care about the values of the heart,” says Lawrence’s widow, Frances. His death “decimated” her life, along with those of their children, and her testimony is both devastating and inspirational. After the stabbing, there was “an outpouring of vitriol against young people”, so she set up the Philip Lawrence awards to celebrate positive actions by teenagers. ....