Graduate
The West Midlands label, Graduate, best known for UB40, loved ‘24 Hours’, and signed the Chefs to their label, rereleasing the single. There were plans to record an album, but these never progressed beyond the demo stage. The Chefs resisted Graduate’s attempts to mould them. Interviewed by Everett True in 2012, Helen said, ‘They tried to get me to wear make-up and girly clothes, but I was a total tomboy and would have felt like a drag queen.’.
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Famous quotes containing the word graduate:
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.”
—Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)