From U2’s iconic bassist to one of the greatest musicians of our time, Adam Clayton has shaped the sound of rock music for decades! Here are his five famous works that stand out in his legendary career.
Fun Fact: Adam Clayton's bass work often becomes the heartbeat of U2’s music, balancing the band’s sound between power and subtlety.

Drop a if you’re a fan of Adam Clayton’s musical genius.
#AdamClayton #U2 #BassGenius #MusicLegends #FamousFive #RockAndRoll #ZPONZ

@Twirrim
Did your friends include Timothy, George, and Julian? Did you have lashings of ginger beer? Did you encounter smugglers?
#FamousFive

@vfrmedia

Oops, missed #PersonsDay by a whole day! Typical me, always late to the party—just like women's legal rights in Canada were. But hey, better late than never, right? Celebrating the amazing women who fought for equality today, tomorrow, & every day. #FamousFive #EqualityMatters

Happy Persons Day! Here’s my annual reminder of the complicated legal and moral legacy of the Famous 5 - a video I shot during the “high COVID” times of 2020. (Hence the outdoor mask and the very uncut hair.) But I don’t think the message is at all out of date. https://youtu.be/a_HhQP3HoxU?si=3SxCTSwsCH6_O9ly #SenateofCanada #PersonsDay #Famous5 #Alberta #FamousFive #Vriend #LGBQT

Weird how the Harry Potter franchise is irrevocably associated with transphobia, while a generation or two ago in Britain, one of the most popular series of kids books had as a main character a gender-dysphoric child in social transition.

Remember, George was AFAB but living as a boy, and everyone just shrugged and got on with it.

Smugglers tunnel, and instantly I was George.
Timmy and I had escaped from the smugglers, stumbling through the tunnel, searching for a way out.

(Shaldon, Ness Cove Beach, Devon, England)

Fuckin' hell, Enid Blyton must be on crack or something.

#FamousFive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c624g49qm5mo

In my juvenile mind's eye, these tunnels are rather Blytonesque, à la Five Go to Smuggler's Top.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-01/secret-tunnels-underneath-melbourne-citipower-power-network/103779884

Alas, they're rather more prosaic.

@kentparkstreet1 Exactly. I've pondered that too, many times over the aeons.

As i adored this 21-book series, i'll use it as an example. #FamousFive #EnidBlyton

George, aka Georgina, was a literary-stereotypical #tomboy, & whilst some of the featured adults kinda sorta mildly huffed & puffed, there was no serious sense that this was problematic in any existential way. I'd have loved to have seen, were it to have happened which ofc it never did, how she'd have been drawn on the page say a decade later. Would she have emerged as #lesbian? Would she have reverted to 1950s/1960s "classic" #cishet womanhood?

What if the Five had encountered, in one of their 21 adventures, an #AMAB person who manifested stereotypical "feminine" traits? What if Julian or Dick had emerged as less unambiguously male, or even overtly feminine? Would the FF never have achieved the popularity it did? Would EB have been run outta town?

Certainly there was nada, nothing & SFA available in the multitude of children's fiction i ravenously consumed, that gave a peep like me any succour, nor even any glimpse of alternative possibilities. Hence growing up in 1960s & 70s Straya, i had nothing at all available to inform me that peeps like me even existed. That emerging illumination had to wait many many many many more years before i was able to finally able to discover explanations & validation of my raging inner turmoil that had bedevilled me. I wonder how different things might have been, had peeps like me had some literary nourishment available, way back in the day.

Today is the 94th anniversary of Persons Day - when the Privy Council in London ruled Canadian women were person - in rights and privileges as well as pains and penalties. In 2020, I made this video essay about the complicated, painful, powerful legacy of the Famous 5, the magnificent, deeply flawed women who made equal rights in Canada reality. https://youtu.be/a_HhQP3HoxU?si=cuwZy_u5jA6243os #PersonsCase #PersonsDay #FamousFive #SenateofCanada #Vriend #abpoli #Edmonton #yeg #Alberta #Canada #eugenics #lgbtq

Didn't Comic Strip do this back in the day?

#FamousFive #FiveGoMadInDorset

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66879181

94 years ago, on October 18, 1929, Lord Sankey stated:
"The exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'person' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?
It is mindboggling that there are women alive today that were not considered persons under the law.
Hats off to the Famous Five for their courage and tenacity!
#PersonsCase #FamousFive #GenderEquality
https://bit.ly/3OyViZG

Huh. Nicolas Winding Refn is to reinterpret Enid Blyton's “Famous Five” for the BBC.

This is going to be interesting. Popcorn may be required.

A clip from today's episode about Henrietta Edwards, who spent her life campaigning for women's rights in Canada.

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One of my all-time favourite books: #MeddlingKids by #EdgarCantero.

Basically, it's the #FamousFive meets #ScoobyDoo via #Aliens and #Lovecraft.