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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45 rpm single record
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Bush (band)
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Bush are a British rock band formed in London, England in 1992. Their current lineup includes lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Gavin Rossdale, lead guitarist Chris Traynor, bassist Corey Britz, Bush found their immediate success with the release of their debut album Sixteen Stone in 1994, which is certified 6× multi-platinum by the RIAA. They went on to one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1990s. Despite their success in the United States, the band were well known in their home country. Bush have had top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts. The band broke up in 2002 but reformed in 2010, and have released three albums since then, The Sea of Memories, Man on the Run and Black, after leaving his band Midnight, Gavin Rossdale met former King Blank guitarist Nigel Pulsford in 1992. The two bonded over an appreciation of the American alternative rock group the Pixies, the two formed a new band which they called Future Primitive. Describing the early sound of the group, one British record label executive said years later, the pair then recruited bassist Dave Parsons and drummer Robin Goodridge to complete the line-up. The group soon chose the name Bush, naming themselves after Shepherds Bush, London, in 1993, the band was signed by Rob Kahane, who had a distribution deal with Disneys Hollywood Records. The band completed recording its debut album Sixteen Stone in early 1994, however, the death of Disney executive Frank G. Wells eliminated a supporter for Kahane, and executives at Hollywood deemed Bushs album unacceptable for release. As a result, the members of Bush took jobs performing menial labour, on the Billboard Music Charts, Sixteen Stone peaked at No.4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts. The album spawned two Top 40 singles, after about six months of promotion for Sixteen Stone, the album began to sell well, once Comedown and Glycerine struck America. Additionally, Little Things and Machinehead both charted well in North America, in late 1996 Bush released the first single Swallowed from their second album titled Razorblade Suitcase. The song spent seven weeks on top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart and this was followed by single Greedy Fly. The album hit number 1 in America and placed high in many European countries, Razorblade Suitcase featured American recording engineer Steve Albini, a move which was viewed negatively by critics. Albini had worked with Nirvana on their studio album, In Utero. Bush later released the remix album Deconstructed, the album saw Bush re-arranging their songs into dance and techno stylings. The album went platinum less than a year after release, following the completion of touring, Rossdale went into seclusion in Ireland, where he worked on material for the groups next album
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Bush performing in Texas in 2011
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Bush, 2001. L-R: Nigel Pulsford, Robin Goodridge, Gavin Rossdale, and Dave Parsons
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Bush stage before playing 8-17-2011 Austin, TX
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Sixteen Stone
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Sixteen Stone is the debut album of British rock band Bush, released on 6 December 1994, through Trauma Records. Widely regarded as the bands most popular album, it peaked at four on the Billboard 200. Comedown and Glycerine remain two of the bands biggest hits to date, each reaching number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Comedown, Machinehead, and Glycerine were the three songs from the album to enter the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number thirty, number forty-three, to mark its 20th anniversary, on 14 October 2014 a remastered edition of the albums original recordings was released. In the UK, a stone is a unit of weight that equals 14 pounds, therefore, sixteen stone means 224 pounds or about 102 kilograms. When asked why lead singer Gavin Rossdale chose the name Sixteen Stone for the name of their album, he said and my friend, who called a phone number advertising a 21-year old Scandinavian beauty, new in town. When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone, in the booklet of Sixteen Stone, there is a heart and a dedication to Rupert and Julie, two of Gavins friends who died in a boating accident along the Thames in England. The cover insert has a picture of what looks like a bush or mop head flying through the air and this is actually Gavins dog named Winston. A Puli, a breed of dog with dreadlock-like cords, that has been tossed in the air or is jumping. Beck used the effect in 1996 with a Komondor, another Hungarian dog breed that has similar fur to the Puli. Sixteen Stone was released on 6 December 1994, through Trauma Records, around the albums 20th anniversary, a remastered edition of its original recordings was released. When asked about also remixing the album for the anniversary edition, but its really, like, you just cant do that. Those mixes, every level of those songs is just ingrained in my DNA as its probably in anybodys DNA who knows it. It just sounds really weird when you mess with it, Sixteen Stone received mostly positive feedback from music critics. In a three out of five review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic calls their sound impressive. In later years Bush would distance themselves from the grunge sounds with experimental releases such as Deconstructed. Retrospectively, Sixteen Stone has received critical acclaim, in April 2014, Rolling Stone placed the album at number thirty-nine on their 1994, The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternatives Greatest Year list. A month later, Loudwire placed Sixteen Stone at number eight on its 10 Best Hard Rock Albums of 1994 list, in July 2014 Guitar World placed the album on its Superunknown,50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list
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Sixteen Stone
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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Hansons " Give a Little " as promo-CD-single.
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Post-grunge
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Post-grunge is a style of rock music that began in the 1990s and is considered a subgenre of alternative rock and hard rock. Originally, post-grunge was an informal and even pejorative label used to describe bands that emulated the sound of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, such as Bush, Candlebox. In the late 1990s, post-grunge morphed into a clearly defined style that married the sound. Post-grunge rose to prominence in the 1990s and continued to remain popular in the 2000s, Post-grunge bands such as Foo Fighters, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Nickelback, Creed and Matchbox Twenty all achieved mainstream success. During the 1990s, a post-grunge sound emerged which emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly its thick, distorted guitars, Post-grunge music tends to be in mid-tempo and is noted for having a polished, radio-ready production. Post-grunge tends to feature melodies and song structures that are common in pop music, sometimes post-grunge music features both an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar playing simultaneously. Post-grunge lyrics also tend to be about such as relationships, romance. According to Geffen, grunges frontmen posed with their addictions, post-grunges songwriters sought redemption for them, according to Geffen, artists such as Alanis Morissette, No Doubt and Sarah McLachlan all crystallized the songwriting strategy that would form the emotional core of the post-grunge moment. Post-grunge tends to have quality that is higher and cleaner than the quality in grunge. When grunge became a mainstream genre because of such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. According to Tim Grierson of About, during the late 1990s, post-grunge morphed, becoming a derivative of grunge that combined characteristics of grunge with a more commercially accessible tone. During this time, post-grunge bands such as Creed and Nickelback emerged, Grierson wrote, Creed and Nickelback espoused a more conventional, almost conservative worldview built around the comforts of community and romantic relationships. Grierson also wrote, Post-grunge was a musical style, but bands like Nirvana. Post-grunge, by comparison, seemed to exist in order to court that very audience, in late 1992, Cobain was photographed in a T-shirt with Grunge is Dead printed on its front and the genres decline started to be widely discussed. The death of Cobain in 1994, as well as Pearl Jams touring problems, problems of addiction for Layne Staley of Alice in Chains led to the band cancelling scheduled dates in 1995. When grunge was mainstream, major labels began signing and promoting bands emulating the genre. In spite of the fact that such as Bush and Candlebox have been categorized as grunge. Collective Soul and Live are two other bands categorized as post-grunge that emerged along with Bush and Candlebox and its song Far Behind peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Foo Fighters performing an acoustic show in 2007
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Grunge
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Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U. S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattles independent record label Sub Pop, the success of these bands boosted the popularity of alternative rock and made grunge the most popular form of rock music at the time. Grunge was also an influence on subsequent genres such as post-grunge, Grunge fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal, such as the distorted electric guitar used in both genres, although some bands performed with more emphasis on one or the other. Like these genres, grunge typically uses electric guitar, bass guitar, a drummer, Grunge also incorporates influences from indie rock bands such as Sonic Youth. Lyrics are typically angst-filled and introspective, often addressing themes such as alienation, apathy, concerns about confinement. A number of factors contributed to decline in prominence. During the mid-late 1990s, many grunge bands broke up or became less visible, the word grunge was used in print in prior to the use of the term in mainstream publications to refer to the Seattle music genre. Rock has always been about it, a reference to distorted sounds in rock in a general sense. Mark Arm, the vocalist for the Seattle band Green River—and later Mudhoney—is generally credited as being the first to use the term grunge to describe the Seattle genre of music. Arm first used the term in 1981, when he wrote a letter under his given name Mark McLaughlin to the Seattle zine Desperate Times, criticizing his own band Mr. Epp and the Calculations as Pure grunge. Sub Pop called Green Rivers 1986 EP Dry as a Bone ultra-loose GRUNGE that destroyed the morals of a generation, Everett True states that when Arm stated that Seattles streets were paved with grunge, he was using the word in a negative way to mean orthless. In this use of the word grunge, Arm was using it as an adjective, Arm used grunge as a descriptive term rather than a genre term, but it eventually came to describe the punk/metal hybrid sound of the Seattle music scene. Catherine Strong states that grunges dirty sound in the late 1980s, when low budgets, unfamiliarity with recording, the term grunge has been extended to other forms, such as writer Josh Henderson referring to Seattle scene members from the 1990s as grungers in 2016. When grunge first developed, music journalists called it pain rock, evergreen State was a progressive college which did not use grading and which had its own alternative music radio station. Bands from Portland, Oregon, such as the Wipers, also influenced the genres pioneers. Some bands associated with the genre, such as Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, have not been receptive to the label, preferring instead to be referred to as rock and roll bands. Ben Shepherd from Soundgarden stated that he hates the word grunge, Rolling Stone noted the genres lack of a clear definition. Roy Shuker states that the term obscured a variety of styles, Stetson states that grunge was not a movement, monolithic musical genre, or a way to react to 1980s-era metal pop, he calls the term a misnomer mostly based on hype
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Seattle punk/metal band The U-Men performing in Seattle.
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Cosmic Psychos, one of several Australian bands which influenced and interacted with the Seattle scene
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Nirvana performing at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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Interscope Records
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Songwriter and singer Chris de Burgh.
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Gavin Rossdale
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Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician and actor, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped form Bush in 1992, upon its separation in 2002, he became the singer and guitarist for Institute. When performing solo, Rossdale plays songs from his musical libraries and he was ranked 75th in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader. In 2013 Rossdale received the British Academys Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement, in 2017, Rossdale became a coach on ITVs The Voice UK. Rossdale was born in Marylebone, London, the son of Barbara Stephan and Douglas Rossdale and his mother was born in Scotland and his father was of Russian Jewish descent, with the familys surname originally being Rosenthal. His parents divorced when he was 11, and he was raised by his father and his mother remarried and moved to Tampa, Florida. Rossdale has a sister, Soraya, and an older sister. His half-sister, Georgina, is a doctor, Rossdale learned to play bass guitar after hanging out with Lorraines boyfriend, who was in a band, but he switched to rhythm guitar. At 17, Rossdale left Westminster School and formed a band called Midnight, in 1991, Rossdale moved to Los Angeles for six months, lived wherever was available in the city, and took whatever part-time jobs he could, including as a production assistant on music video shoots. He then spent some time in New York City before returning to England, where he reconnected with his future manager Dave Dorrell, in 1992, Rossdale formed Future Primitive, its original line-up included Sacha Gervasi, who left to become a filmmaker. The band changed its name to Bush in the summer of 1994, Rossdale has been the lead singer and songwriter for the British post-grunge rock band Bush since its inception. Their debut album, Sixteen Stone, was a commercial success. Almost overnight, Bush went from playing small pubs in London to headlining arenas in the US, however, some critics labelled them as an inferior derivative of bands such as Nirvana and Pixies, and this criticism followed them throughout their career as a band. In particular, Rossdales forced, raspy singing voice and random, stream of lyrics were dismissed by some as an imitation of Nirvanas lead singer. Although the band reached superstar status in the US, they failed to have impact in the UK. The sole exception to this was their single Swallowed, which reached Number 7 on the UK charts, a change in record labels, management and an extended hiatus did not bode well for the band, who unofficially split in 2002. Rossdale performed a song entitled Adrenaline for the soundtrack of the film XXX and this song was also the official theme song for WWEs Unforgiven pay-per-view event in September 2002 and also was The Undertakers Desire/Tribute theme of that same year. He also guest appeared for Blue Man Groups The Current and is featured in its video and this song was used in the ending credits of Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines
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Gavin Rossdale at NOVA ROCK 2008
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Rossdale married singer Gwen Stefani in 2002.
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alan Parsons in an ESO 50th anniversary video.
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A Danish recording session
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Glycerine (song)
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Glycerine is a song by English band Bush. It was released in November 1995 as the single from their debut album. The song is in the key of F major, the chord progression is F5, C5, D5, and B♭5 throughout the whole song with various ornamental embellishments. Glycerine was recorded on 7 November 1995 at River Studios, London, the music video for Glycerine was notable for being shot in a very short time period when the band was on tour in the United States. The video was shot so quickly because the bands visas had expired, the music video was directed by Kevin Kerslake and shot in Atlanta, Georgia on 2 October 1995. Glycerine Solomons Bones Alien Following the albums single, Comedown. Like Comedown, it reached number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for two weeks, in December 1995 and it is also the bands biggest pop hit to date, peaking at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 24 February 1996. The song won the Viewers Choice Award at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards, the song was voted number 5 on the Australian annual music poll Triple J Hottest 100 in 1996. The single was never released on an album, as both Stefani and Bush were not working on any new material, after its release, the live version received moderate success in the United States. On the Billboard Alternative Digital Singles chart, Glycerine peaked at number 16, whereas on the Billboard Rock Digital Singles, Glycerine Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Glycerine"
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Bush (British band)
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Bush are a British rock band formed in London, England in 1992. Their current lineup includes lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Gavin Rossdale, lead guitarist Chris Traynor, bassist Corey Britz, Bush found their immediate success with the release of their debut album Sixteen Stone in 1994, which is certified 6× multi-platinum by the RIAA. They went on to one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1990s. Despite their success in the United States, the band were well known in their home country. Bush have had top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts. The band broke up in 2002 but reformed in 2010, and have released three albums since then, The Sea of Memories, Man on the Run and Black, after leaving his band Midnight, Gavin Rossdale met former King Blank guitarist Nigel Pulsford in 1992. The two bonded over an appreciation of the American alternative rock group the Pixies, the two formed a new band which they called Future Primitive. Describing the early sound of the group, one British record label executive said years later, the pair then recruited bassist Dave Parsons and drummer Robin Goodridge to complete the line-up. The group soon chose the name Bush, naming themselves after Shepherds Bush, London, in 1993, the band was signed by Rob Kahane, who had a distribution deal with Disneys Hollywood Records. The band completed recording its debut album Sixteen Stone in early 1994, however, the death of Disney executive Frank G. Wells eliminated a supporter for Kahane, and executives at Hollywood deemed Bushs album unacceptable for release. As a result, the members of Bush took jobs performing menial labour, on the Billboard Music Charts, Sixteen Stone peaked at No.4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts. The album spawned two Top 40 singles, after about six months of promotion for Sixteen Stone, the album began to sell well, once Comedown and Glycerine struck America. Additionally, Little Things and Machinehead both charted well in North America, in late 1996 Bush released the first single Swallowed from their second album titled Razorblade Suitcase. The song spent seven weeks on top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart and this was followed by single Greedy Fly. The album hit number 1 in America and placed high in many European countries, Razorblade Suitcase featured American recording engineer Steve Albini, a move which was viewed negatively by critics. Albini had worked with Nirvana on their studio album, In Utero. Bush later released the remix album Deconstructed, the album saw Bush re-arranging their songs into dance and techno stylings. The album went platinum less than a year after release, following the completion of touring, Rossdale went into seclusion in Ireland, where he worked on material for the groups next album
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Bush performing in Texas in 2011
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Bush, 2001. L-R: Nigel Pulsford, Robin Goodridge, Gavin Rossdale, and Dave Parsons
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Bush stage before playing 8-17-2011 Austin, TX
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Rock Band 3
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Rock Band 3 is a 2010 music video game developed by Harmonix. The game was published and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts, respectively. Mad Catz took over both roles and re-released the title on November 23,2011 and it is the third main game in the Rock Band series. Distinguishing it from all previous rhythm games, Rock Band 3 features Pro mode. Real instruments and original Basic controllers can be played simultaneously in various combinations within the game to simulate playing in a real band, before a song starts, the players choose which instrument they will represent within the song. If the right note is hit or played, it is heard in the audio, if notes are missed, they are not heard. The game includes a list of 83 songs, fully upgraded to Pro — many emphasize the keyboard instrument. Rock Band 3 is designed as a platform to take advantage of players existing libraries by providing user-created set lists and challenges and tools to easily search and select songs from the library. Rock Band 3 was initially released worldwide during the last week of October 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and it was also the last Rock Band game to be distributed by Electronic Arts as Mad Catz signed on to produce future Rock Band games. Rock Band 3 allows for 1–7 players, either locally or through online game services, support for MIDI compatible electronic drum kits as well. As the band performs, they score points, each player can build up a multiplier by hitting consecutive notes correctly, which increases how many points each note is worth, but the multiplier is set back to 1× if a note is missed. After successfully completing a song, the performance of each player, players can also gain additional points by using Overdrive. Each instrument deploys overdrive differently, and some instruments have multiple methods of activating it, in point competitive mode, players who are doing poorly might be forced to drop out of the band, which silences their part temporarily while the rest of the players continue to play. In some game modes, an option is available to continue the song right from where the band failed at the cost of not being able to record a score for the rest of the songs playthrough. In such sections, players are rewarded for being exactly on cue, players have better tools to sort through songs to help manage a song library that was expected to be larger than 2,000 songs after the games release by the end of 2010. Players are able to rate songs from 1 to 5 lighters, the rating system also allows Harmonix to suggest new songs to players in the Rock Band store. Players are also able to create, save, name, Harmonix also creates custom setlists and battles. The official Rock Band website was updated to reflect these new features, the career mode includes over 700 career goals, similar to Xbox 360 Achievements or PlayStation 3 Trophies, which helps to drive players to progress in the game
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Rock Band 3 cover
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Two official guitar controllers work with Rock Band 3 's Pro mode. One (left) is the stringed Fender Squier Stratocaster, while the other (right) is the Fender Mustang (modeled after the actual bass guitar), which has 102 buttons to simulate frets and 6 strings on the body of the guitar for strumming.
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Machinehead (song)
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Machinehead is a hit single from rock band Bush, released in 1996 as the final single from their debut album Sixteen Stone. The music video was directed by Shawn Mortensen on 21 November 1995 in London, if you watch closely you can see sections of Shepherds Bush, where the band members used to live. Gavin Rossdales dog Winston is also in the video, the song reached the Top 5 of the Modern Rock Tracks as well as the Mainstream Rock Tracks, lifting the band to stardom in the 1990s. The song reached #43 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 4 May 1996 and #24 on the Hot 100 Airplay on 18 May 1996. The song was nominated for Best Video from a Film at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards but lost, however, wrestler Jim Steele used this song as an entrance theme in All Japan Pro Wrestling. The song is featured in the video games Guitar Hero, Warriors of Rock, Madden NFL11, Saints Row, and Rocksmith 2014 The song was featured on Cold Case in the episode The Plan. The song was used as the song to Paul Finebaums radio show. The song is one of two Bush songs that were featured in the film Fear, the other being Comedown, an instrumental version of the song was featured on WWEs Elimination Chamber DVDs. Machinehead Official music video on YouTube
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"Machinehead"
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Fear (1996 film)
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Fear is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by James Foley and written by Christopher Crowe. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano, the film was largely derided by critics upon its release, but became a sleeper hit in the spring of 1996, grossing $20 million at the U. S. box office. It has since become a film, while at the same time launching teen idol status for its two young leads, who were romantically linked at the time of the films premiere. Wahlberg was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, Nicole Walker is a fairly innocent teenager with a rebellious streak who is sent out from her mothers house. She lives in the suburbs of Seattle with her well-meaning but overbearing father Steven and his new family, second wife, Laura, at a rave with best friend Margo Masse, Nicole meets David McCall, who is part of the same group of friends with Margo. Though he has features, she is swept off her feet by his sweet. When Steven meets David, he mistrusts him immediately and starts to become wary of this man when Nicole violates her curfews to spend more time with David. Eventually Nicole and David sleep together at her home while Steven and Laura are on a business trip, one day David scares Nicole by assaulting her friend Gary Rohmer upon seeing them hug each other. He shoves Nicole to the ground when she tries to stop him, Nicole ends things with David, leaving him crushed, but her fathers now intense opposition to David ironically drives her to accept Davids apologies. Stevens suspicion of David leads to him checking into Davids background and learning that David spent his life with various foster families. When David turned 18, he was released from foster care, Steven confronts David on a street corner and tells him to leave Nicole alone. However, David spins the encounter against Steven, making it look like Steven punched him, one evening, Nicole is invited by David to a party at his friend Logans house. She declines at first but, after a fight with her dad, reconsiders, looking in through a window, Nicole witnesses Margo smoking crack and having sex with Logan, only to be interrupted by David who takes Margo for himself. Nicole swears off David for good and leaves without anyone noticing her, then goes home, the next day at school, David tries to surprise Nicole, only to be pushed away by her, and also by Gary. Nicole also ends her friendship with Margo, despite Margo saying that David took advantage of her while she was high against her will, when David finds out why Nicole dumped him, he violently threatens Margo, unless she patches things up between him and Nicole. David becomes obsessed with Nicole, tattooing his own chest with the words Nicole 4 Eva and he sees her hugging Gary again and gets furious. Nicole goes with Toby and Laura to the mall, they invite Gary along, as Gary walks alone through the woods, David kills him by breaking his neck. David then vandalizes Stevens prized Mustang and leaves a taunting note and he then heads to the mall, where he harasses Nicole further, insisting that everybody is jealous of the love they had
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Theatrical release poster
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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The original 1975 cast, from left to right: Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase
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Creator Lorne Michaels.
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Comcast Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza, or "30 Rock") from where the show is broadcast.
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SNL 's main stage, during rehearsal, 2008
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Chris Kanyon
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Christopher Morgan Chris Klucsarits was an American professional wrestler. After college, he began training under Pete McKay Gonzalez, Ismael Gerena, Kanyon worked as a physical therapist for the next three years, wrestling on weekends and in the evenings, before finally deciding to become a full-time professional wrestler in 1995. Early in his career, Kanyon formed a tag team with Billy Kidman which saw both men wrestle in hockey uniforms. In late 1994, he made appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber, facing wrestlers such as Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Tatanka. His friend and future manager James Mitchell saw potential in him and sent him for training with The Fabulous Moolah in South Carolina, Kanyon debuted in World Championship Wrestling as a jobber. After several months he was placed with Mark Starr in a tag team called Men at Work, Kanyon was replaced with Mike Winner before the team disbanded altogether. In 1997, Kanyon donned a mask and was repackaged as Mortis, managed by James Vandenberg, Kanyon feuded with Glacier. Kanyon faced Glacier at Uncensored on March 16 in his pay-per-view debut, following the match, Wrath debuted, siding with Kanyon and assaulting Glacier. Glacier defeated Kanyon in a match at Slamboree on May 18. After the match, Wrath and Mortis once again attacked Glacier, however, Glacier was spared a post-match beating when Ernest Miller ran to the ring to defend him. The four men fought one another over the weeks, culminating in a match at Bash at the Beach on July 13 which was won by Kanyon. Kanyon and Wrath continued to team together until the angle was dropped in late 1997. Kanyon failed to defeat Page for the title on the February 12 episode of Thunder, the Triad feuded with Saturn and Chris Benoit over the Tag Team Championship, defeating them for the title on June 13 in the Baltimore Arena at The Great American Bash. During their reign, they were given dispensation by WCW President Ric Flair to defend the title as a three-man unit. However, the ruling was overturned by Flairs replacement Sting, and Kanyon, Kanyon returned to WCW in late 1999 as Chris Champagne Kanyon, abbreviated to C. C. K. Accompanied by J. Biggs, his agent, and two former Nitro Girls, Baby and Chameleon and he claimed that he had become acclimatised to the glamor of Hollywood and thus began indulging in luxuries such as champagne, women, and expensive cars. He feuded briefly with Bigelow and Page before being removed from WCW by interim booker Kevin Sullivan, Kanyon returned to WCW once more on April 10,2000, when Vince Russo replaced Sullivan. Kanyon saved Page, but Awesome turned his attention to Kanyon, throwing him off the cage onto the ramp below
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Kanyon as WCW United States Champion and "The Alliance MVP" during World Wrestling Federation 's Invasion storyline in 2001.
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World Championship Wrestling
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WCW Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion, historically based in Atlanta, Georgia. Immediately after the buyout, the business was renamed the Universal Wrestling Corporation, WCW also developed a popular cruiserweight division. WCW eclipsed the WWF in popularity throughout the United States for much of the latter-1990s, however, numerous financial, Turner owned WCW until 2001, when selected assets were purchased by the WWF. Since 2001, WCW images and video footage have been distributed in WWE-owned media. Two separate subsidiary companies exist as successors to WCW, WCW, Inc. is the WWE subsidiary established in Delaware in late 2000, initially as W. Acquisition Company, which holds the rights to the WCW video library and other intellectual property. The former WCW entity, which retained liabilities not acquired by WWE, was renamed back to the Universal Wrestling Corporation, the name World Championship Wrestling was first used as a brand and television show title in 1982. Jim Barnett came to Atlanta in the 1970s during a struggle over Georgia Championship Wrestling. Barnett ultimately became majority owner of the promotion, and began using his previous name for his new promotions television program in 1982. The promotion was purchased by Jim Crockett Promotions. However, it was not until November 2,1988 that an actual, National Wrestling Alliance -affiliated promotion called World Championship Wrestling appeared on the national scene and this entity was under the ownership of media mogul and cable-TV pioneer Ted Turner, based in Atlanta, Georgia. WCW went through changes in business and creative leadership during its existence. Once Bischoff was relieved of his duties in 1999, Vince Russo, the two, however, did not get along well and Bischoff soon resigned from the sinking company. It was only a few months later that Russo would also depart after suffering from a concussion at the hands of Bill Goldberg, following Russos departure, the creative needs of the WCW were handled by a booking committee which included Johnny Ace and Terry Taylor. From 2000 to 2001, Monster Jam had a series of trucks based on wrestlers names. These include nWo, Sting, Nitro Machine, Madusa and Goldberg, the first to go was nWo, which only ran for a season. Next, all but Goldberg, Nitro, and Madusa were retired after the WCW sponsorship was lost, Nitro then became Flashfire, and then was converted into Inferno. Madusa has stayed the same since its creation, because it is driven by former WCW wrestler Debrah Miceli, as for Goldberg, it was changed to Team Meents in 2002, then into Maximum Destruction, which debuted in 2003 and continues to compete in the series. WCW also had a presence in NASCAR from the mid-1990s to 2000, sponsoring the #29 team in the Busch Grand National Series full-time and the #9 Melling Racing team in the Winston Cup Series part-time
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World Championship Wrestling Inc.
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Mayday Parade
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Mayday Parade is an American pop punk band from Tallahassee, Florida. Their debut EP Tales Told by Dead Friends was released in 2006, in July 2007, Mayday Parade released their debut album A Lesson in Romantics. After signing to Fearless in 2006, the band signed onto a major label with Atlantic in 2009. Their second studio album, Anywhere but Here was released in October 2009 and their third album, Mayday Parades fourth album, titled Monsters in the Closet, was released in October 2013. Their fifth album, titled Black Lines, was released October 2015, Mayday Parade was formed in the winter of 2005 following the merger of two local Tallahassee bands, Kid Named Chicago and Defining Moment. Both bands previously practiced in the building, before it occurred to Lenzo that it made more sense if we put them together instead of playing separately. Still arguing over a name, the band went into the studio to record their first EP Tales Told by Dead Friends with producer Lee Dyess and they decided on the band name Mayday Parade during the week they spent recording in the studio. The band went on their first U. S. tour with Brandtson and Mêlée, in January 2007, the band started to record their debut studio album, A Lesson in Romantics. In April, shortly after the album was completed, lead singer Jason Lancaster left the band citing a lack of writing credit on the bands releases, the album was released on July 11,2007. Mayday Parade supported their album on the 2007 Vans Warped Tour, the band made their first UK appearance in April 2008 performing at the Give it a Name festival in Sheffield and London. The band played the 2008 Vans Warped Tour and toured with All Time Low, The Maine, and Every Avenue in Fall 2008 on the Compromising of Integrity, Morality, and Principles in Exchange for Money tour. The band began writing their new record in December 2008, the first writing process as a band without lyricist Lancaster, the band finished recording in June 2009. On August 4, The Silence was released on Mayday Parades MySpace, on September 9, Mayday Parade released another song from the album called Kids in Love to their MySpace page. The new album, entitled Anywhere But Here, was released on October 6,2009, the band also played the 2010 Vans Warped Tour. The band covered the song We Are the Champions by Queen for the compilation album Punk Goes Classic Rock, released on April 27,2010. They also recorded a cover of In My Head by Jason Derülo for the release in the franchise, Punk Goes Pop 3. In 2011, the released a EP, entitled Valdosta that contained six tracks, including 2 brand new tracks titled Amber Lynn. Valdosta was released through Atlantic and Fearless Records on March 8,2011, Mayday Parade played all the dates on the Australian 2009 Soundwave Festival
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Mayday Parade at the 2008 Buzz Bake Sale
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Punk Goes 90's 2
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Punk Goes 90s Vol.2 is the fifteenth compilation album in the Punk Goes. Series and the installment in the Punk Goes 90s series. Each artist that appeared on the album was approached by Fearless Records to cover a song from the 1990s. It was announced on February 6 that the album would be released on April 1 the same year, the next song released from the album was Asking Alexandrias cover of Nine Inch Nails song Closer, released on February 25. In March it was revealed that rock band Mayday Parade had been recording a video for their cover of Comedown by Bush. The song itself was released on March 18, accompanied by its lyric video, the album was officially released on April 1, along with the release of Chunk. No, Captain Chunk. s music video for All Star, Smash Mouth themselves praised the bands cover and stated that they were excited for the new album. Music videos for Hands Like Houses cover of Torn and Falling in Reverses Gangstas Paradise were also released, Asking Alexandria chose to cover Closer due to its gritty, dirty sound. Guitarist Ben Bruce explained Growing up in the 90s means that all of us have a spot for 90s jams from the weird and wonderful, to the cheesy boy bands to the dirty. Falling in Reverses cover of Gangstas Paradise featured Ronnie Radke rapping, japan additionally received a second disk of Japanese artists covering American 90s songs. Artists featured included Artema, Before My Life Fails, Cleave, Fear From The Hate, A Ghost of Flare, Her Name In Blood, Lost, Make My Day, The Winking Owl, キバオブアキバ and ヒステリックパニック. Brian Kraus of the Alternative Press stated that not one song from the album sounded like it was recorded in the 1990s, no, Captain Chunk. s All Star was one of the highlights of the album, despite it being corny
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Punk Goes 90s Volume 2
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. As of February 2017, there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, as of April 2017, the website is ranked as the second most popular site in the world by Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day
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From left to right: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim
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Screenshot of YouTube's homepage
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YouTube's headquarters as of 2010 in San Bruno, California.
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Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
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Tomorrow is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair which was released on 16 September 1994 on their debut extended play album, also titled Tomorrow. The song also appeared on the bands first full-length album, Frogstomp and it won the 1995 ARIA Music Award for Single of the Year and Highest Selling Single. The track was written by the lead vocalist, lead guitarist and front man, Daniel Johns. It was produced and engineered by Phil McKellar at national radio station, Triple Js studios for SBS-TVs show, Nomad, after the broadcast the band were signed to the Murmur label – a Sony Music subsidiary – which subsequently issued the Tomorrow EP. Tomorrow became a hit for Silverchair when it reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart in October. In the United Kingdom, the song made No.59 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1995. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995, Tomorrow won three awards in the categories Single of the Year, Highest Selling Single and Breakthrough Artist – Single, they won two further awards for Frogstomp. Johns explained writing Tomorrow, I saw on SBS once this documentary about a guy that takes a rich guy to a poor persons hotel to experience what its like being a poor person. And the rich guy is complaining to get out and that, Ben Gillies and Daniel Johns co-wrote Tomorrow when they were performing with Chris Joannou as Innocent Criminals. Innocent Criminals entered YouthRock, a competition for school-based bands, in 1994, early in that year they recorded demos of Acid Rain, Cicada, Pure Massacre and Tomorrow at Platinum Sound Studios. Johns recalled making the demos e had just recorded that at a cheap studio. We werent in there for more than an hour, the version we entered went for about six minutes. In April 1994, the band won a band competition called Pick Me. The competition was conducted by the SBS TV show Nomad and Australian Broadcasting Corporation alternative radio station Triple J, as part of the prize, Triple J recorded the song and ABC filmed a video, which was aired on 16 June. For the videos broadcast, they had changed their name to Silverchair, on 16 September, their Triple J recording of Tomorrow was released as a four-track extended play with Acid Rain, Blind, and Stoned. From late October, it spent six weeks at number-one on the ARIA Singles Chart and it also reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart in February 1995. In 1995, a version of Tomorrow was made for the United States market. In the US it peaked at one on both the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and the Album Rock Tracks charts, it made No.28 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart
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"Tomorrow"
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UK edition CD/7" vinyl single
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Silverchair
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The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS TV show Nomad and ABC radio station, Triple J. The band were signed by Murmur, and were successful on the Australian, as of 2011, Silverchair have won a record number of 21 ARIA Music Awards from 49 nominations. The band have received six APRA Awards with Johns winning three songwriting awards at the 2008 ceremony. All five of their albums have peaked at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart, Frogstomp, Freak Show, Neon Ballroom, Diorama. Three of the singles have reached number-one on the related ARIA Singles Chart, Tomorrow, Freak. The songwriting and singing of Johns had evolved steadily while the band had developed an increased element of complexity. In 2003, following the release of Diorama, the band announced a hiatus, during which time members recorded with side projects The Dissociatives, The Mess Hall, Silverchair were reunited at the 2005 Wave Aid concerts. In 2007, they released their album, Young Modern. In May 2011, Silverchair announced an indefinite hiatus, as of 2016, Silverchair have sold 9 million albums worldwide. Silverchairs founders, Ben Gillies and Daniel Johns, attended the primary school in the Newcastle suburb of Merewether. As teenagers, singer-guitarist Johns and drummer Gillies, started playing music together – in one class they built a stage out of desks, when they moved on to Newcastle High School, a fellow student, Chris Joannou, joined the pair on bass guitar. In 1992, they formed Death Rides a Sandwich with Tobin Finane as a second guitarist – and they played numerous shows around the Hunter Region in their early teens, their repertoire was cover versions of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. In 1994 Innocent Criminals entered YouthRock, a competition for school-based bands. Early in the year they recorded demos of Acid Rain, Cicada, Pure Massacre, in April, the bands mainstream breakthrough came when they won a national competition called Pick Me, using their demo of Tomorrow. The competition was conducted by the SBS TV show Nomad and Australian Broadcasting Corporation alternative radio station Triple J, as part of the prize, Triple J recorded the song and ABC filmed a video, which was aired on 16 June. For the videos broadcast, they had changed their name to Silverchair, in a 1994 interview with Melbourne magazine Buzz, the band claimed the name derived from a radio request for Sliver by Nirvana and Berlin Chair by You Am I being mixed up as Silver Chair. It was later revealed they were named for the C. S. Lewis-penned novel The Silver Chair from The Chronicles of Narnia series, following a bidding war between rival labels, Silverchair signed a three-album recording contract with Sony Music subsidiary Murmur Records. Initially the group were managed by their parents, Sony A&R manager John Watson, who was jointly responsible for signing the group, subsequently left the label to become their band manager
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Silverchair on stage in August 2006. Left to right: Paul Mac, Daniel Johns, Ben Gillies, Chris Joannou
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Silverchair performing on the Across the Great Divide Tour in September 2007.
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Silverchair performing in Bendigo May 2010
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Name (song)
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Name is an alternative rock song by the American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in September 1995 as the single from the album A Boy Named Goo. As the bands first hit, the song topped both the US Modern Rock chart and the US Album Rock chart, and reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the Goo Goo Dolls were considered a group prior to the singles release, Name crossed over to pop and adult contemporary radio. Prior to the release of the Dizzy Up the Girl album three years later, Name was the bands most successful single and it is currently their 3rd most successful single, after Iris and Slide. The band re-recorded this song for their album, Greatest Hits Volume One, The Singles. In an interview with Guitar World Magazine, the singer and songwriter Johnny Rzeznik explained, whenever I tried tuning a regular B string up to E, it would pop. It was really tough on the tension, ive seen guys play Name with regular tuning. Rzeznik says that the unusual composition happened quite accidentally. I just sat there and let my fingers play the fretboard openly, Rzeznik admitted to the inspiration in the book, saying I was trying to capture a moment. it was pretty interesting to have a song inspired by a moment. And I thought it was a sweet song. In October 2012, Name was ranked #24 on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart and this chart also featured the Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide and Iris. The Goo Goo Dolls are the musicians to have three songs chart on the list, two breaking the top 10 and all three falling within the top 25. They are also the only musicians who have back to back singles featured on the list, List of number-one mainstream rock hits Number one modern rock hits of 1995 List of RPM Rock/Alternative number-one singles Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Goo Goo Dolls
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The Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik, vocalist and bassist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska. Mike Malinin was the drummer from January 1995 until December 27,2013. Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single Iris, they have had other notable and popular singles including Name. The Goo Goo Dolls have had 19 top ten singles on various charts, in October 2012, Iris was ranked #1 on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart, which also featured Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide, ranking at #9, and Name at #24. Their biggest hit, Iris, from the City of Angels soundtrack, spent nearly 12 straight months on the Billboard charts and held the number one position on the Hot 100 Airplay chart for 18 weeks. The first single from their 2010 album, Something for the Rest of Us, Home, the bands tenth album, Magnetic, was released on June 11,2013. On May 6,2016, their studio album, Boxes, was released. The bands original lineup included John Rzeznik, Robby Takac, Takac and Tutuska had been long-time friends in school and met Rzeznik while he was playing in the band The Beaumonts with Takacs cousin, Paul Takac. The trio picked their name from a True Detective ad for a toy called a Goo Goo Doll and we were young and we were a garage band not trying to get a deal. We had a gig that night and needed a name and its the best we came up with, and for some reason it stuck. If I had five minutes, I definitely would have picked a better name. With Takac as their singer, the band released their first album, Goo Goo Dolls in 1987 on Mercenary Records, but was picked up in 1988 by Celluloid Records. They played around Buffalos underground music circuit opening for bands such as SNFU, Dag Nasty, ALL, The Dead Milkmen, Gang Green, Doughboys. The band released its second album Jed in 1989, after being embraced by local college radio and punk scenes, the Goo Goo Dolls third release incorporated elements of heavy metal, pop rock, and punk rock. In 1991, the song Im Awake Now was recorded for the soundtrack of Freddys Dead, superstar Car Wash, released in 1993, received significant media attention. The critical success and encouraging sales of their last album resulted in a budget from Metal Blade Records. The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario. We Are the Normal received a push toward play on college and independent radio
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Goo Goo Dolls in 2010. From left to right: John Rzeznik, Robby Takac
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Goo Goo Dolls perform their song " Before It's Too Late " from the OST of the 2007 film Transformers at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on July 22, 2007.
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J.A.R.
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J. A. R. is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Angus in 1995, the acronym stands for Jason Andrew Relva, a childhood friend of Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt. Jason Relva was born on November 16,1972 and died at the age of 19 on April 18,1992 as the result of injuries sustained from a car accident, Mike Dirnt wrote the song in remembrance of him. In August 1995, the reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. This song was worked on during the Dookie sessions, the song peaked at number 22 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song was featured as the eighth track on Green Days 2001 greatest hits collection International Superhits. Jason Relva is thanked in the notes of 1, 039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Vinyl Box Set PopMatters listed J. A. R
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Green Day
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Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. For much of the career, the band has been a trio with drummer Tré Cool. Guitarist Jason White, who has worked with the band as a member since 1999, was an official member from 2012 to 2016. Green Day was originally part of the scene at the DIY924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley. The bands early releases were with the independent record label Lookout, in 1994, its major label debut Dookie became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the U. S. The bands rock opera, American Idiot, reignited the bands popularity with a younger generation, the bands eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released in 2009 and achieved the bands best chart performance to date. 21st Century Breakdown was followed up by a trilogy of albums called ¡Uno, ¡Dos. and ¡Tré. which were released in September, November and December 2012 respectively. The bands twelfth album, Revolution Radio was released on October 7,2016 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide, in 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical was nominated for three Tony Awards, Best Musical, Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design, losing only the first, also in 2010, Green Day was ranked no.91 in the VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On April 18,2015, the band was inducted into the Rock, in 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt,14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children. The groups first live performance took place on October 17,1987, at Rods Hickory Pit in Vallejo, in 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt began working with former Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante. As said in the film Punks Not Dead, Armstrong cites the band Operation Ivy as an influence. In 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout, Records, saw the band play an early show and signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band recorded its debut extended play,1,000 Hours, before 1,000 Hours was released, the group dropped the name Sweet Children, according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby. The band adopted the name Green Day, due to the fondness for cannabis. Released Green Days debut studio album, 39/Smooth in early 1990, Records re-released 39/Smooth under the name 1, 039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, and added the songs from the bands first two EPs, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours. In late 1990, shortly after the bands first nationwide tour, Kiffmeyer left the East Bay area to attend Humboldt State University in Arcata, California
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Green Day performing in Cleveland, Ohio in 2015. From left to right: Jason White, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt.
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Armstrong performing in 1994.
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Tré Cool (bottom left) and Mike Dirnt (right) performing on July 27, 2005.
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Green Day live in Germany during the American Idiot tour.
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Lump (song)
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Lump is a song by alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America. It was released in 1995 and featured on their debut album. The song reached #1 on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1995, the musical part was described by Ballew as him trying to write a Buzzcocks song. Ballew considers it his favorite composition, later in the same year, it debuted on the Album Rock Tracks chart, and went on to hit #7. The song is featured in the video games Rock Band 2, the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero, Just Dance and it has additionally been covered or remade by several artists such as The Johnstones and Weird Al Yankovic. The video shows the band singing in a swamp as well as on the stern of a barge in Elliott Bay interspersed with a silhouette scene of the band performing. Another video was made for the song. This version, commonly referred to as Lump 2, was considered too disturbing and it features the band performing on a dark stage while various people lip sync the lines Shes lump. during the chorus. This version can be found on Ten Year Super Bonus Special Anniversary Edition of The Presidents of the United States of Americas debut album, Weird Al Yankovic released a parody version of the song known as Gump, a joking tribute to Forrest Gump. Notably, the last line of parody, and thats all I have to say about that would later be used by The Presidents of the United States of America in their subsequent live performances of the song. ApologetiX also recorded a parody entitled Plump, canadian ska punk band The Johnstones covered Lump on their 2008 EP SEX. The Blackout have also covered Lump and it features on the end of their album, Hope, Lump music video on YouTube Lump 2 music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Chris Traynor
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Chris Traynor is an American guitarist, bassist and studio musician. He has played with Orange 9mm, Helmet, Bush, Rival Schools, Institute, Gavin Rossdale, Traynor has also done studio soundtrack work with Blue Man Group, and with critically acclaimed indie rock band Rival Schools. Chris has studied guitar with Mark Lonergan from Band of Susans, Richard Lloyd of the rock band Television, Robert Fripps Guitar Craft, Traynor is currently living in Los Angeles and is touring with Bush. He is also in the process of releasing High Desert Fires debut album Light is the Revelation and he continually writes for soundtrack and television music. He cut his teeth in the early 90s post-hardcore scene, as a founding member of the highly influential band Orange 9mm, Traynor developed a unique style of guitar and bass in the studio. Alongside Chaka Malik, Chris went on to record 3 albums with the band including Orange 9mm, Driver Not Included, before the touring for their third album began Chris departed to play with another highly popular band Helmet. Traynor moved on to become a member of the seminal rock band Helmet on their third studio record. He was recruited for the tour of Aftertaste which was recorded by their three remaining members prior to Traynors arrival. He had worked on and off with the band for ten years throughout the bands breakup, while on tour with Helmet, Chris was noticed by producer Dave Sardy, and recommended as replacement guitarist in 2001 for the multi-platinum selling rock band Bush. Bushs guitarist at the time, Nigel Pulsford, had backed out of their current tour midstream, Traynor came on board to help finish out the rest of the tour. After the tour Bush was put on the back burner until some time later when it was announced that Bush was no more, in between Helmets down time and the fall of Bush, Traynor joined up with Rival Schools. Rival Schools longtime guitarist, Ian Love, had left the band in 2002 making way for Chris and they recorded a bunch of songs together, but never released an album. By September 2003 the band split and Chris along with bandmate Cache Tolman headed off to do a new project with a familiar friend, Gavin Rossdale. After a year as a member of the band Bush, Traynor and singer Gavin Rossdale began writing songs for a different project. Their first and only album titled Distort Yourself received only mild success on the airwaves. They toured throughout the United States as well as Europe before finally calling it quits in 2005, the song was number 1 on iTunes rock chart and sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. WANDERlust had nationwide success in the United States, Chris toured in support of WANDERlust in 2008 and 2009. In June 2010, it was announced that Bush had reunited, Traynor once again took over as lead guitarist
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Traynor in 2015 photo by Trevor Traynor
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Razorblade Suitcase
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Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by British rock band Bush, released on 19 November 1996, through Trauma Records. It was the follow up to their multi-platinum album Sixteen Stone and debuted at one on the Billboard 200. To date it remains the only Bush album to top the Billboard 200, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London with engineer/producer Steve Albini, the albums sound has been compared by many to Nirvanas In Utero album, which was also produced and engineered by Albini. The 20th anniversary of Razorblade Suitcase was marked by a reissue and it was released digitally on December 16,2016, and on vinyl on February 10,2017. The reissue includes the album and four rare bonus tracks, Broken TV, Old, Sleeper. Prior to the reissue, three of the four tracks had been released as B-sides or found on compilations. Gavin Rossdale wrote most of the songs for Razorblade Suitcase in under one month, Swallowed, along with others from the album were written while on the road. In an interview with Deseret News published on 2 January 1997, Rossdale explained, while my longtime girlfriend of five years was leaving and packing in one room, I was writing in the other room. The band chose Steve Albini to produce the album, around the same time Albini declared that he put more time and energy into Razorblade Suitcase than he had with any previous albums. In 1997, Bush embarked on a tour, the Razorblade Suitcase Tour. Stretching from late January into November of that year, it took the band through Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Australia. It included stops at major music festivals around the world, including Glastonbury Festival, Pinkpop Festival, Reading Festival, Rock am Ring, Rock im Park. Razorblade Suitcase was released on 19 November 1996, through Trauma Records and it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 293,000 copies in its first week. It remained at number one during its week of release in the US. The album also debuted at one in Canada, with first-week sales of 45,900 copies. Despite the album selling fewer copies than Sixteen Stone in the US, it marked a peak for the band in their native Britain. The band originally planned to release the album in early 1997 but decided it would be better for a late 1996 release, especially considering that U2s next album was pushed into 1997. The lead single from the album, Swallowed, was released in October 1996 and was a success in the US
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Golden State (album)
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Golden State is the fourth studio album by the British band Bush, released in 2001. However, it ended up being their worst-selling album to date and this would also prove to be the last album to feature Nigel Pulsford and Dave Parsons. Bush would not release another album until ten years later with The Sea of Memories. The liner notes of Golden State cite the album in memory of Ian Lowery, in the documentary Making Of Golden State, the title is revealed as being inspired by the Golden State Freeway, which Gavin Rossdale used to use to get home. In discussing the direction, frontman Gavin Rossdale commented, is quite rough. Its kind of coming back full circle, after almost a decade of being a band, I think we passed the stage of having to prove anything. He also described it as very naked and definitely a rock record. Rossdale added The album is very empowering and uplifting, though Im not really sure what its contemporaries are, thats the weird thing about it. Its like the record exists in its own space, to counteract this, he used the name Golden State because it sounded warm and positive. Regarding the songs theme, Rossdale noted Im far more relaxed. The stripped down style was a result of the band practicing all the songs five weeks before recording. This voided the use of elements as heard on The Science of Things. And as a final test, Rossdale played the songs through a shitty car stereo to make sure they recorded well, Nigel Pulsford later expressed disappointment at the final mix of the album, The albums original cover featured an outline of a passenger airliner. Following the September 11,2001 attacks, the changed the artwork to something more minimal. Upon release, The People That We Love saw significant radio play as well as rotation of its music video on MTV2. However, compared to earlier Bush hits, it has since been forgotten on radio. A follow up single was not released in the US, making this Bushs final American single for 9 years until reunited in 2010 with the single Afterlife, in the UK, Inflatable was released as a single with an accompanying video. Golden State was released by Atlantic Records, which originally distributed Sixteen Stone, Bush co-hosted the 22 October 2001 edition of Channel One News to promote the album and give away an autographed copy, an act which critics of the educational program derided
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The original album cover featuring a plane
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The Sea of Memories
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The Sea of Memories is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Bush, which was released on 13 September 2011 through Zuma Rock Records, E1 Music and earMUSIC. It is the bands first studio album in ten years, since 2001s Golden State, and it is also the first Bush album released on E1 Records, marking their first venture away from Interscope, who handled all of their previous releases. The albums title comes from a line in the song Baby Come Home, the cover art is by Los Angeles-based street artist, RETNA. Originally intended for a fall 2010 release, the title for this album was Everything Always Now. The Sea of Memories was produced by Bob Rock, the album took more than a year to materialise with pre-production beginning in June 2010 and recording sessions wrapping up a year later. The band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. on 21 July, the band also performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 22 September and Discovery Channels American Chopper Live on 6 December 2011. Their Chopper appearance marked the second highest rated episode to date. The Sound of Winter is the track for the film which is directed by the founder of Tennis Channel Steve Bellamy. In January 2012 the band released the third single Baby Come Home. To promote the single the band appeared again on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to perform the song on 2 February 2012. The albums lead single The Afterlife, originally released in June 2010, in Canada the song also had good success reaching #2 the Canadian Alternative Chart, number four on the Active Rock Chart and number ninety-seven on the Canadian Hot 100. Released on 13 September 2011, The Sea of Memories sold 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at number eighteen on The Billboard 200 chart. The Sea of Memories received mixed reviews from music critics, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, stating The Sea of Memories is easily the most enjoyable collection of songs released under Bushs name. Rockfreaks. net praised the album and the tracks The Sound of Winter, Shes a Stallion and Stand Up, stating, IGN gave the album 7 out of 10, stating Ultimately, Bushs return is far from perfect, but still proves to be a welcome return. Many reviews were mixed or negative, however. Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly said that the album adds exactly zero entries to the totally awesome Bush greatest-hits album that doesnt exist yet, club said that the album plays like an endless replay of Rossdales past musical miscues. Kevin Barber of Consequence of Sound said in a review, What The Sea of Memories does is inject some life into the Bush brand. All songs written by Gavin Rossdale The Sea of Memories at Metacritic
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Man on the Run (album)
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Man on the Run is the sixth studio album by the British band Bush, released on 21 October 2014, through Zuma Rock Records. It marks the second studio album to be recorded under its current incarnation. The album release in 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the debut album. The band spent two years touring in support of their previous album, The Sea of Memories, before returning to the studio in 2013 to record new music, singer-guitarist Gavin Rossdale wrote most of Man on the Run at his home studio in Los Angeles. Music published on 19 August 2014, Rossdale described the process for the album. Im really untrained with music, so its always a process of understanding more about music by writing songs. So its a grand voyage of discovery, I have a good time doing it, I love my job. I have a collection of words that Ive been writing over the couple of years. I have a file of that stuff and each day I dive into that, then I think of the tempo and the feeling of the songs and how it fits my mood for that day. Rossdale says the album was written with the live show in mind. In an interview with USA Today, he stated, Every song I write has to be able to co-exist with some big songs in our set list that people have come to accept as part of the fabric of Bush. Theres not one song on the new record that isnt going to translate live, due to scheduling conflicts, the albums recording sessions were split between Studio 606 in Los Angeles and NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California. The Studio 606 songs were produced by Nick Raskulinecz, while the tracks recorded at NRG were produced by Jay Baumgardner, with Raskulineczs background in metal and hard rock, Rossdale says he thought Raskulinecz would never let me get too sentimental, sonically or lyrically. I thought he would keep it muscular, live and animalistic, while recording, the band combined futuristic sounds using modern studio technology while having a garage mentality, using pawn-shop guitars and old amplifiers. Rossdale says he wrote about 30 songs for the album, many of which he is excited about, on 18 August 2014, Rossdale revealed the albums title as Man on the Run through a video announcement. Rossdale tells Rolling Stone the title is meant as a take on a slice of my life. It just seems that the doors are closing and everyone is trying to out their way. Its the most universal title Ive ever had, I always figure everyone is on the run
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Deconstructed (Bush album)
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Deconstructed is a remix album by British band Bush, released on 11 November 1997, through Trauma Records. Mouth was released as a single in 1997 and became a minor hit, three tracks from this album, Mouth, Everything Zen, and Swallowed also appear on Bushs 2005 greatest hits compilation, The Best of, 1994-1999. In a way, they are the old singles, but remixed they’ve got a different slant which is certainly interesting. While not an album, Deconstructed often stands among the bands studio catalog and has been frequently cited regarding Bushs transformation from simple post-grunge to more experimental rock. It was followed two years later by their studio album, The Science of Things, which continued this incorporation of electronic elements into hard rock. This decision brought upon mixed reviews throughout the music world, allMusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine suggested that Deconstructed reflected Bushs need to diversify in the face of the fading post-grunge style. Robert Levine of Rolling Stone also showed skepticism in Bushs sudden decision to jump into electronic experimentation after long establishing themselves as a stripped down hard rock act, nevertheless, he claimed, they make the move more easily than one might expect. Levine complemented various tracks including the eerie soundscape of Swallowed and added that amid that ominous din, Gavin Rossdales voice comes through only occasionally and faintly, ironically, its one of the strongest musical statements hes made yet. Jae-Ha Kim of Entertainment Weekly stated that Goldie and Bushs Gavin Rossdale are an unlikely combination, on the European Edition of the album, Mouth is longer at 5,59. Tracks 1,9, and 10 are remixes of songs from the album Sixteen Stone, tracks 2-8 are remixes of songs from the album Razorblade Suitcase. The eleventh track, In a Lonely Place, was released on The Crow, City of Angels soundtrack
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Everything Zen
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Everything Zen is the debut single released by British alternative rock band Bush in early 1995 from their debut album Sixteen Stone. The video was the first video Bush had ever made, the video was directed by Matt Mahurin, who also makes an appearance in the video wearing a mask, and was shot on 12 and 13 November 1994. Scenes from the video were recreated in the credits of the TV series Millennium. Gavin Rossdale on the making of the video, I hadnt even seen that many videos before making this because I never had MTV, I just remember that it felt weird miming with all those people standing around, but you soon get over that. Obviously, this video was hugely important in breaking us in America, the song was parodied on Bill Nye the Science Guy in the episode Animal Locomotion. The lyrics Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow quotes David Bowies 1971 song Life on Mars, european CD single and 12-inch vinyl Everything Zen Bud Monkey Everything Zen Everything Zen Official music video on YouTube
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Swallowed (song)
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Swallowed is a song by British alternative rock band Bush. It was included on the 1996 album Razorblade Suitcase, which topped the Billboard 200 chart and it was later included on the remix album Deconstructed, the live album Zen X Four, and the Bush greatest hits compilation. The song was featured in the TV series Cold Case and My Mad Fat Diary, a remix of the song was featured in the film The Jackal. Swallowed was released as the first single from the follow-up to their successful debut album, Sixteen Stone. Upon release, the song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven consecutive weeks and this is the longest Bush ever stayed at number one on any chart. It was also Bushs biggest hit in their native Britain, where it peaked at number 7 in the UK Singles Chart and it was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards, but lost to the Smashing Pumpkins The End Is the Beginning Is the End. This was the fourth crossover hit to Top 40 radio after Comedown, Glycerine. The song is in A-flat major, the music video, directed by Jamie Morgan, was filmed in October 1996 and released later that month, is set in a retro apartment with myriad alternative youths. A neon crucifix is frequently interspersed amongst the antics of houseguests, the video was shot at Twickenham Studios England and in Florida The video was nominated for several MTV Video Music Awards
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Greedy Fly
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Greedy Fly is a song by alternative rock band Bush from their 1996 album Razorblade Suitcase. Bush were one of the pioneers of the enhanced CD single. The video was directed by Marcus Nispel in December 1996 in Los Angeles, the video was shot in the same building Se7en was shot in and cost nearly half a million pounds. It was released as the single from the album, after Swallowed. The song became a hit, possibly due to its music video. The song reached the top 5 on both the US Alternative Songs chart and Mainstream Rock Tracks, the song is also the bands second biggest hit in their native Britain where it peaked at #22. All songs written by Gavin Rossdale unless stated, greedy Fly Official music video on YouTube
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Bonedriven
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Bonedriven is the third single by the band Bush from their 1996 second album Razorblade Suitcase. As a Bush single, it followed the hit singles Swallowed, the video was the last video to be made off the Razorblade Suitcase album. While reasonably popular in the U. K. the song failed to chart at all in the United States. It is the first single released by the band that did not chart on the Modern Rock Tracks, the singles cover may be based on that of R. E. M. s Lifes Rich Pageant. com
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Cold Contagious
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Cold Contagious was the fourth and final single from the band Bushs second studio album, Razorblade Suitcase. Cold Contagious features a distorted sound and a heavy, dark drumbeat. The lyrics seem to be about a breaking up, accompanied by a desire for revenge. However, Distant Voices contains two hidden tracks, the radio edit of Cold Contagious is much shorter. Directed by Mark Lebon in March and April 1997, the video was shot in West Palm Beach, Florida at the Days Inn Hotel, East Rutherford, New Jersey, dave Parsons girlfriend is also in the video. While Razorblade Suitcase initially reached the top spot on the U. S. Billboard 200, its sound proved not to be as radio-friendly as that of Bushs first album, Sixteen Stone. Cold Contagious was not a big hit, although it was successful than the third single from the album, Bonedriven. Cold Contagious peaked at No.18 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No.23 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. AUS CD Single IND95548 Cold Contagious -3,55 Swallowed -5,50 Synapse -6,29 In a Lonely Place -6,00 Cold Contagious Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Chemicals Between Us
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The Chemicals Between Us is a song by alternative band Bush from their third album The Science of Things. The song was featured in the TV series Charmed, however, it also bears a prominent rock guitar riff throughout, making it akin to the electronica genre of music. The songs music video, which was filmed in late August 1999 in Los Angeles, was played predominantly on the channels, MTV, MTV2. Gavin Rossdale on the video, Thinking about it, the most extravagant thing was my last video - that was fucking extravagant, I think the next video I do Im just going to get a pile of money and burn it, KLF style. I might as well just cut to the chase, the music video begins with Bush performing in an alley with a white monolith beside them, then Rossdale comes inside the monolith in a white background surrounded by a Japanese-inspired island. Later, the scene interspersed with Rossdale doing karate blindfolded. The video ends with the entering the monolith. It spent five weeks at number one on the U. S. Alternative Songs chart and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 67 on 4 December 1999, the song would eventually become Bushs last major worldwide hit before their 2002 breakup
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"The Chemicals Between Us"
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Letting the Cables Sleep
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Letting the Cables Sleep is the third and final single from British band Bushs third studio album The Science of Things, which was released in 1999. The song became a hit, and pushed the album to platinum status. The song was a hit than its predecessor Warm Machine. The song was featured in the film Goal II, Living the Dream and in the TV series Charmed and she is dressed in black and does not acknowledge him until their hands meet on the wall. After this first touch, they begin to kiss and take off their clothes and this sequence is interlinked with scenes of them wordlessly putting their clothes back on after sex. She seems troubled by either regret or the desire to tell him something, after this, she is sitting on a chair elsewhere while Gavin begins painting the wall with the lyrics about silence and talking, seeming upset and frustrated. Afterwards, Gavin catches up with her on a sidewalk, and she is then pulled away by a concerned friend who uses sign language to ask her why she did not call. Letting the Cables Sleep Official music video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Letting the Cables Sleep"
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The People That We Love
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The People That We Love is a song by the British band Bush and the lead single from their fourth album Golden State. Gavin Rossdale noted that the title has nothing to do with war, stylistically, The People That We Love saw a return to form after the experimental sounds of Deconstructed and The Science of Things. Described once as stop-start grunge heroics, the song also found significant radio play within the early weeks of release but was unable to persevere like early Bush singles, the video was directed by Ulf Buddensieck in the summer of 2001 at a London studio. The music video was a big success on television such as MTV2. Gavin Rossdale expressed his thoughts on the video, stating, He came up with a treatment that was exactly what I was looking for. It was as if I wrote a list and ticked off boxes. He wanted to do something that was edgy and vibrant and alive, too many videos today are just too dark and moody. They all look like they were shot in a garage and we wanted to be unmoody and undark
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Early covers of the single, showing the original title of the song, "Speed Kills".
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"The People That We Love"
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Inflatable (song)
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Inflatable is a song by alternative rock band Bush and the final single from their fourth album Golden State. Inflatable could not be included on compilations such as The Best Of. The songs chorus has a lyric inspired by a line from the Pixies song Bone Machine, Bone Machine features the line Youre so pretty when youre faithful to me, while Gavin Rossdale sings So pretty when youre faithful. It was mutual appreciation of the Pixies that drew founding members Gavin Rossdale, the song bears some resemblance to previous Bush hits Glycerine and Letting the Cables Sleep in that it is more subdued than the bands other singles. However, it is the only Bush song to feature an acoustic guitar, the song was featured in the TV series 7th Heaven and Smallville. Rossdale and new guitarist Chris Traynor performed the song acoustically on the short-lived show Late World with Zach in 2002, inflatable was the last Bush song prior to their 2010 The Sea of Memories to feature a music video and was directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. Guitarist Pulsford was absent from the video as he had left the band a month before, rossdales initial vision was for the video to be set at a wedding ceremony for a young conscript about to leave for the Vietnam war. However, Rossdale was concerned that he would be seen as capitalising on his own impending wedding to Gwen Stefani, the band can be seen performing on stage while people dance. Later a brawl outbreaks but the band continue to perform undisturbed in a manner in fitting with the mood of the song. The video was filmed in London at the Lambeth Liberal & Radical club
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"Inflatable"
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Afterlife (Bush song)
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Afterlife is a song by British band Bush from their fifth album The Sea of Memories. It was released as a single in June 2010. It was re-released to radio stations as the third official single in July 2012. A lyric video was uploaded on Bushs official YouTube account to promote the single, the video shows the band performing on stage while transitioning to Gavin singing with images depicting the lyrics. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Afterlife"
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The Sound of Winter
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The Sound of Winter is a song by British band Bush. The song is the single released from the bands fifth studio album The Sea of Memories. Afterwards the video unfolds into a summer party with jamming, shooting pool. Chris Traynors wife and daughter appear in the video. The song was the single released from the bands fifth studio album The Sea of Memories. The band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. on 21 July, the band also performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 22 September and Discovery Channels American Chopper Live on 6 December 2011. Their Chopper appearance marked the second highest rated episode to date. The song was featured on the television series The Lying Game. On 18 October 2011, The Sound of Winter topped the Alternative Songs chart and it was the bands fifth number-one hit single on the chart, as well as their first self-released single to reach number one on the alternative radio chart. On 19 November, it topped the Rock Songs chart, becoming their first number-one song on the chart, the Sound of Winter Official music video on YouTube
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"The Sound of Winter"
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Baby Come Home (Bush song)
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Baby Come Home is a 2012 song by British post-grunge band Bush from their fifth album The Sea of Memories. It was released as the single on 17 January 2012. The music video was directed by Gavin Rossdales brother-in-law Todd Stefani and it is available on Bushs VEVO account. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Baby Come Home"
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The Only Way Out
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The Only Way Out is a 2014 song by British rock band Bush, released on 9 September 2014, through Zuma Rock Records. Produced by Jay Baumgardner and recorded at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California, according to songwriter Gavin Rossdale, the song is a good gateway into the record. It gets a bit wider and probably a little darker and this is just the right way in. The Only Way Out was released on 9 September 2014, through Zuma Rock Records, on 1 October 2014, the music video for The Only Way Out premiered on Vevo. Tobias Hutzler is credited with the artwork for the The Only Way Out
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"The Only Way Out"
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Transvision Vamp
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Transvision Vamp were a British alternative rock group. Formed in 1986 by Nick Christian Sayer and Wendy James, the band enjoyed success in the late 1980s with their pop/punk sound. James, the singer and focal-point of the group, attracted media attention with her sexually charged. The bands original line-up was James, Sayer, Dave Parsons, Tex Axile and Pol Burton. Parsons and Axile had both been in punk prior to joining the band, Parsons in The Partisans, and Axile in various bands, most notably The Moors Murderers. The band were signed by MCA in December 1986 and released their first single, Revolution Baby and it stalled at #77 in the UK in September 1987. A cover of the Holly and the Italians song, Tell That Girl to Shut Up, was released as the second single in March 1988. The single became their only charting entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, moderate success was achieved with a re-release of Revolution Baby, which peaked within the top 40 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Fourth single, Sister Moon, narrowly missed the UK top 40, in October 1988 the band released their debut album, Pop Art. It was a success in the UK where it stayed on the album chart for 32 weeks. The album achieved a level of success in Australia, where it was certified platinum. 1989 proved to be the bands most successful year, with the release of the single Baby I Dont Care, the single peaked at #3 in both the UK and Australia, making it the bands most successful single in both countries. In Australia, the song spent 20 weeks in the top 50, the bands second album, Velveteen, was released shortly after, debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart and remaining on the chart for 26 weeks. Velveteen also reached #2 on the Australian Albums Chart, spending 25 weeks in the top 100, and becoming the 39th best selling album of the year. The other singles from Velveteen, The Only One, Landslide of Love and Born to Be Sold, all peaked within the top 30 in the UK, and the top 20 in Ireland, but fared less well in other countries. In Australia, the album was released and it peaked at #25, the albums first single, B with U, peaked at #16 in Australia, but barely entered the UK and Irish top 30. The second single released from the album, If Looks Could Kill, only entered the top 40 in New Zealand, on the third album, Wendy James has stated. it came out in America. By the time they were ready to release it, wed decided to split up
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Transvision Vamp promotional photo (1991)
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Institute (band)
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Institute was an American rock band featuring Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale. The bands only album, Distort Yourself, was released September 13,2005, Institute was formed in 2004 in the wake of a hiatus of lead singer Gavin Rossdales other band, Bush. Rossdale formed Institute with Chris Traynor after Bush agreed upon taking a break after their last album, the two later enlisted the help of bassist Cache Tolman and drummer Josh Freese. Freese was only enlisted temporarily, as the band needed a drummer for the recording of their first album, Rossdale later recruited Charlie Walker to take Freeses spot and round out the band. After reuniting with Interscope Records, Rossdale started work on Distort Yourself with Interscope Producer and Helmet frontman, Rossdale chose Hamilton to produce the bands debut album after being told Hamilton could provide the guitar sound that he was looking for. Distort Yourself was released 13 September 2005 via Interscope Records and debuted at No.81 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts with first week sales slightly over 12,000. The albums first single, Bulletproof Skin, reached a peak of 28th on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and it was also performed on various television programs and found significant radio play. It also gained traction from being included in the menu of the hockey video game NHL06 from EA Sports and its inclusion in the big-budget motion picture Stealth. Institute have played numerous Bush songs live, including Machinehead, The People that We Love, Swallowed, a version of Comedown. They also performed on The Tyra Banks Show with Banks after Rossdale gave her some guitar lessons, in late 2005, Institute opened for U2 for several of their Vertigo Tour dates. It is unlikely that Institute will reunite any time based on the fact that Gavin stated he enjoyed being in that band. An unrelated band using the name Institute formed in Texas in 2013, releasing an EP titled “Salt” in 2014, Gavin Rossdale Chris Traynor Cache Tolman Charlie Walker Studio albums Distort Yourself - US #81 Bush Official Website Institute Fansite
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Institute, 2005.
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Spear of Destiny (band)
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Spear of Destiny is a British rock band, founded in 1983 by singer and songwriter Kirk Brandon and bassist Stan Stammers. It has had an ever-changing line-up through the years, formed in 1983, the bands original line-up consisted of Kirk Brandon, Stan Stammers, Chris Bell and Lascelles James. In late 1983 this line-up was superseded by Dolphin Taylor on drums, Alan St. Clair on guitar, John Lennard on sax and Neil Pyzer on keyboards, in 1984 John Lennard was replaced by Mickey Donnelly on Saxophone. Spear of Destiny recorded one session for John Peel, the band played a punk-influenced form of power rock, which often had an anthemic feel. The critical consensus is that Spear of Destinys second album, One Eyed Jacks, is their best album and it reached No.22 in the UK Albums Chart Spear of Destiny’s reputation in the mid-1980s depended to a greater extent on their live performances. In 1985, their album, World Service reached the UK Top 20, founder member Stan Stammers left in 1986. However, ill fortune struck on the eve of the appearance at the Reading Festival. Spear of Destiny have had 10 UK Singles Chart entries, four reached the Top 50 but only one made the Top 20 - Never Take Me Alive. Brandon is also a member of the supergroup, Dead Men Walking
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London 2012
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Stone Gods
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Stone Gods were a British hard rock / heavy metal band formed by some ex-members of the UK hard rock band The Darkness. Their debut album, titled Silver Spoons & Broken Bones, was released on 7 July 2008, on 9 December 2010 they officially went on hiatus. When Justin Hawkins decided to leave The Darkness in October 2006, Richie had previously sung lead vocals when The Darkness had covered AC/DC songs live, and he and Dan immediately started to think about a new musical direction. A new band was to be formed and Richie Edwards indeed made the move from bass guitar to centre stage as lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist, the line up was completed by drummer Ed Graham and bassist Toby MacFarlaine. The band spent the part of 2006 and early 2007 writing and rehearsing new material. This was the information available publicly for almost a year after the band had first formed. This news was confirmed by the launch of an official website a few days later, before all this activity started, the band released a sampler for the album. 3 songs were available exclusively on iTunes on 25 May 2008. The songs were Knight Of The Living Dead, Making it Hard, Silver Spoons & Broken Bones was released to great acclaim on 7 July. Classic Rock magazine called it One of the finest rock debuts of the millenium so far while Metal Hammer said the album was a text book example of something marvellous emerging from shitty adversity. Classic Rock magazine also nominated the band in the Best New Band, on 10 June 2008, Stone Gods were scheduled to start their Knight of the Living Dead tour. However, a statement appeared on the website on 9 June explaining that the first three dates had been cancelled due to an emergency health issue with drummer Ed Graham. This issue was not specified at the time and when the tour commenced on 13 June at the Download Festival it was with ex-Bush drummer Robin Goodridge behind the kit, the tour continued successfully and ended with a sold out date at Norwich Waterfront on 29 June 2008. As expected, it was announced on 29 July that Ed Graham had left the band permanently. Stone Gods performed a one off gig for Kerrang Radio on 13 September 2008. With Robin Goodridge unavailable, Stuart Cable filled in as temporary drummer, the band also announced a major UK tour as support to Australian rock band Airbourne that took place during November 2008. Before that, on 6 October 2008, it was confirmed by the band that Robin Goodridge was to become the permanent replacement for Ed Graham. This now leaves Dan Hawkins and Richie Edwards as the two members who used to be with The Darkness and with Dan as the only founding member of the defunct band
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Stone Gods 2008, Dundee UK
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Gwen Stefani
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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. During the bands hiatus, Stefani embarked on a pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was met both critical and commercial success. It spawned three successful singles, What You Waiting For. Rich Girl, and Hollaback Girl, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies. In 2006 Stefani released her studio album The Sweet Escape. The album produced two singles, Wind It Up and the albums title track The Sweet Escape. Her third solo album This Is What the Truth Feels Like was released in March 2016, Stefani has won three Grammy Awards. As a solo artist she has received accolades, including an American Music Award, Brit Award, World Music Award. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L. A. M. B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls. She was married to British musician Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2015, Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the 54th most successful artist and 37th most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade. VH1 ranked her 13th on their 100 Greatest Women in Music list in 2012, including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Stefani was born on October 3,1969, in Fullerton, California and she was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel Airport, and her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops 1968 cover of The Left Bankes 1966 song Walk Away Renée. Her father, Dennis Stefani, is Italian American and worked as a Yamaha marketing executive and her mother, Patti, worked as an accountant before becoming a housewife. Gwens parents were fans of music and exposed her to music by artists like Bob Dylan. She has two siblings, Jill and Todd, and an older brother named Eric. Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt before leaving the band to pursue a career in animation on The Simpsons. Her brother Eric introduced Gwen to 2 Tone music by Madness and The Selecter and, in 1986, he invited her to provide vocals for No Doubt, finally, in 1991, the band was signed to Interscope Records
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Stefani at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
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Stefani performing with No Doubt at Voodoo 2002
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Stefani performing during the Harajuku Lovers Tour in 2005
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Stefani performing during The Sweet Escape Tour in 2007
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Daisy Lowe
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Daisy Rebecca Lowe is an English fashion model who has modelled for editorial photo shoots, commercial advertising campaigns and at fashion shows. She is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, the singer-songwriter turned textile and fashion designer, Lowe was born in Westminster, London, England. Lowe has two younger half-brothers and a half-sister from her mothers marriage to Danny Goffey, Alfie, Frankie and she also has three younger half-brothers from her fathers marriage to Gwen Stefani, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo. Her mother Pearl Lowe wrote about the situation in her book, Daisys paternity was not questioned early on, and Pearl listed Bronner Lowe on Daisys birth certificate without informing Lowe that he may not be the father. At age 15, Daisy found out neither Bronner nor her mother shared her O-type blood and she mistakenly thought that one parent must share her blood type and that Bronner could not be her father. Daisy confronted her mother, who admitted to a stand with Rossdale. Daisy and Pearls lawyers arranged a paternity test, which Rossdale at first refused, results confirmed Rossdale was her biological father. Lowe began modelling at the age of two, and did some photoshoots when she was 12 and 14 years old, at 15 she was approached by a talent scout in Camden Town and, as a result, she signed with Select, a London modelling agency. In February 2006, Lowe was featured in Vogue Italia, shot by New York photographer Steven Klein, in September 2006, Lowe modelled for the Urban Outfitters catalogue, appeared in French Connection printed advertisements and was profiled in British Harpers Bazaar. Of the Whistles campaign, Lowe said, was a shoot of mine. Modelling is an outlet for me to express myself. I love that crosses into my other passions – music. She has recently appeared in campaigns for Marc by Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Pringle of Scotland, DKNY, Mango and Esprit. Lowe has worked as a DJ, appeared in the music videos NYC Beat by Armand Van Helden and Bloodthirsty Bastards by Dirty Pretty Things,2009 also saw Lowe feature in The First Days of Spring, Noah and the Whales film accompaniment to their second album. She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar photographed by Terry Richardson in Bahia, throughout May 2010 Lowe documented her daily fashion and style choices for Vogue. co. uks Today Im Wearing feature. In August 2010, Lowe became the face of the newly relaunched sixties label Biba and she is also the face of Stephen Websters 2011 jewellery campaign. In 2011, Lowe went topless for Esquire and nude for Playboy, also in 2011, she was featured in the music video for Miles Kanes Come Closer. In October 2014 Lowe appeared in a sketch with Jimmy Carr for Channel 4s The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night raising awareness of testicular cancer
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Daisy Lowe portrait (2014)
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Rock (music)
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Chubby Checker in 2005
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The Beach Boys performing in 1964
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Comedown (song)
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Comedown is a song by British rock band Bush, released in 1995 as the third single from their debut album, Sixteen Stone. The music video was directed by Jake Scott from June 19,1995 to June 21,1995 in Los Angeles, Scott used a special fish eye lens to film some of the scenes, to give that distorted view as if looking through a peep hole. The song also gave Bush their first American top 40 hit, along with Machinehead, Comedown appears in the 1996 film Fear. It can be heard over Nicoles second date with David, after he picks her up from school to play billiards, along with Glycerine, the band performed the song on Saturday Night Live in 1995. Pro wrestler Chris Kanyon used an edit of the song in the last days of World Championship Wrestling in 2001. In 2012 Robert Cole Band released a cover on the album Steel, in 2014 Mayday Parade released a cover for the compilation Punk Goes 90s 2. It was released as a single, Comedown Official music video on YouTube
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"Comedown"
