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Harris attended Bassendean State School and Perth Modern School in Subiaco, later gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Education from Claremont Teachers' College (now Edith Cowan University). [17] [18] [ failed verification] While he was just 16, and still a student at Perth Modern School, his self-portrait in oils was one of the 80 works (out of 200 submitted) accepted to be hung in the Art Gallery of New South Wales as an entry in the 1947 Archibald Prize. [19] He painted a portrait of the then Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell, for the 1948 Archibald Prize. [20] He won the 1949 Claude Hotchin prize for oil colours with his landscape "On a May Morning, Guildford". [21] Aged 84, he was sentenced to five years and nine months in jail in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults on four young women and girls between 1968 and 1986 (one conviction was later quashed). Sentencing Harris, Mr Justice Sweeney said: “Your reputation now lies in ruins. you have been stripped of your honours, but you have no one to blame but yourself.”Greatest Guitar Solos – October 2006". Guitar World. Archived from the original on 23 December 2008 . Retrieved 18 October 2009. Oliver Keens (1 February 2013). "Can you tell what it is yet? 10 reasons to love Rolf Harris". Time Out London . Retrieved 7 June 2014. Find sources: "Stairway to Heaven"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Rolf Harris plaque to be retained despite being stolen". The Guardian. Australian Associated Press. 30 July 2014 . Retrieved 7 April 2015.

Rolling Stone. "Stairway to Heaven". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 28 October 2007 . Retrieved 7 June 2006. Rolf Harris". Rolfharrisentertainer.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011 . Retrieved 19 April 2013. Having completed our review, we have concluded there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Harris to be charged... The decision has been taken in accordance with the code for crown prosecutors and the Director of Public Prosecutions's interim guidelines on prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse. We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest. [108]Jacquelin Magnay (13 May 2014). "Jubilee final straw for Rolf Harris accuser". The Australian . Retrieved 7 June 2014. Hughes, Lorna (3 July 2014). "Rolf Harris stripped of honorary degree from Liverpool Hope University". Liverpool Echo. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.244. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Following his conviction, it was reported in July 2014, [131] October 2014 [132] and February 2015 [133] that he was being investigated by police over other alleged sexual offences.

Churchill 'Rolf Harris' TV ad – 30 sec advert". Tellyads.com. 26 September 2007. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018 . Retrieved 4 February 2010. After the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, Harris was arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree police investigation regarding historical allegations of sexual offences in 2013. [5] Harris denied any wrongdoing and was placed on trial in 2014. In July 2014, Harris was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison after being convicted on twelve counts of indecent assault on four female victims, who were between the ages of eight and nineteen at the time that the offences took place between the 1960s and 1980s. He was released on licence in 2017 after serving nearly three years at HM Prison Stafford. Following his conviction, he was stripped of many of his honours and reruns of his television programmes were pulled from syndication. [6] [7] [8] The conviction involving an eight-year-old girl in Portsmouth was overturned as unsafe in 2017. [9] He applied for permission to appeal against his convictions concerning the three other girls, but this was refused. [10] Early life At 14, he swam the fastest time, swimming from scratch, in the "Swim through Bassendean" handicap race, 27 January 1945. [11] Italian single certifications – Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 9 September 2019. Select "2019" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Stairway to Heaven" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione". a b Alec Lom (5 October 2008). "Rolf Harris tells how he nearly lost his nerve during Queen portrait". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 7 June 2014. Rolf Harris guilty: The victims of the 12 counts of indecent assault". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 June 2014 . Retrieved 7 July 2014.The key influence on Harris in those early years was the Australian impressionist painter Hayward Veal. “Veal was the one who got me on the right road for doing all these huge paintings I did on television,” Harris recalled. “I was just using a simplified version of his impressionist painting.” Lou Gramm, Zakk Wylde, Tim Pierce, James Kottak, Jeff Pilson, Richard Baker, Lita Ford, Alex Ligetw… Creswell, Toby (2005). "Stairway to Heaven". 1001 Songs: the Great Songs of All Time (1sted.). Prahran: Hardie Grant Books. p.516. ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5.