The Final Touches On The Twentieth Century After corruption and tragic history that occurred in the early twentieth century fame, massacres, and inventions turn out to close the doors on the eventful century. American people will forever remember the year of 1999 as a year of chaos and pivotal change, from new inventions to the massacre at Columbine High School, the year was a declaration of glory and sadness. Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical innovator who was known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant dress and makeup, and wide vocal range. Turning the tables from popular artist of the time to world-wide famous athletes. Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, …show more content…
Mike lived most his young life in Brooklyn, New York with violence, drugs, and gang warfare going on all around him which was hard not to put Mike in a difficult situation at a young age in a difficult community. “Stealing became a way of life. By age eleven he was drinking, smoking marijuana, mugging people, and shooting up the streets of Brooklyn. He was arrested over forty times before he was twelve. Since his mother could not control the boy, he was sent to the Tryon Reform School in Johnstown, New York, in 1977”(Bryne 1). After winning the Junior Olympics in 1981, Tyson released his power early in his career causing Mike to turn professional at a very young age. His boxing career was becoming incredibly historical until “in 1999 when he served nine months at the Montgomery County Correction and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville, Maryland, convicted of assaulting two men in a road ina road rage incident”(“Mike Tyson” 1). From unfortunate events Mike committed, his boxing career never escalated, and the year 1999 is when Mike Tyson Historical career started its …show more content…
Prince “a performer whose music synthesized elements of funk, soul, jazz, hip-hop, and rock”(“Prince”1). Prince is looked up to by so many people around the world for many reasons but most people look up to him for being innovated for his music. His erratic music is the most innovative of its kind in its time era due to him tying in so many different kinds of music. His music brought elements of high, intense, starting falsettos, and always interesting vintage funk percussion parts. “The music on 1999 Album displayed the mature style that made Prince a consistent hit-maker throughout the 1980s”(“Prince” 2). With this combo of styles it surged him as a common hitmaker and always found his name on the most popular musicians list. The album 1999 will go down in history as Prince’s second best album and the basis for his most famous gratification, Purple Rain album. Celebrities were not the only booming icons that were going around in