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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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Sandra (singer)
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Her albums Into a Secret Land and Close to Seven have won Sandra high critical acclaim. Prior to embarking on a career, Sandra was the lead singer of an all-female disco trio Arabesque. Also, between 1990 and 2001, she provided vocals on releases of the very successful musical project Enigma. A cult star with a fan base, Sandra remains one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Continental Europe. During the height of her popularity, she managed to outsell Madonna in a number of countries around the world. With sales in excess of 30 million records worldwide, Sandra has established her position as the most successful German disco/pop female vocalist, Sandra Ann Lauer was born in the German town of Saarbrücken, close to the French border. Her father, Robert, who owned a store in Saarbrücken, is French and her mother, Karin. She also had a brother, Gaston, a paraplegic who died in 1995. In 1975, at the age of thirteen, Sandra went with her mother to see Young Star Festival, the impromptu performance gained considerable recognition and led to the release of her first single, which was a childrens song about a pet dog, Andy mein Freund. The single, however, performed poorly on charts at that time dominated by disco mania, in 1979, now seventeen, Sandra joined Arabesque, a disco group consisting of Michaela Rose and Jasmine Vetter, and would become the bands lead singer. At that time Sandra met a keyboardist named Michael Cretu and they found that they share the same birthday, albeit five years apart, and became good friends. Arabesque became successful with their music and flamboyant, sometimes daring costumes, winning a massive following in Japan. After nine albums, emerging differences in interests of group members. Sandra and Michael Cretu, at that point already romantically involved, moved to Munich and their first single together was 1984s Japan ist weit, a German cover of the Alphaville song Big in Japan. However, the failed to enter any charts and only 125 copies of the single were sold. Sandra won international success in 1985 with a song Maria Magdalena and her first album, The Long Play, reached number 12 in her home country of Germany and was a top 10 success in Scandinavia. The follow-up single, In the Heat of the Night, continued her international success, the song also earned Sandra second place at the Tokyo Music Festival in 1986. Little Girl became the single from the album in 1986, with the music video filmed in Venice
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The Long Play
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The Long Play is the debut studio album by German pop singer Sandra, released on 9 December 1985. The album was a commercial success. The lead single Maria Magdalena was released in March 1985 and went on to top the charts in 21 countries worldwide and it stayed in the German top 20 for 16 weeks, remaining her Sandras only chart-topper in her home country, and is now considered her signature song. In the Heat of the Night was chosen as the single to the very successful Maria Magdalena in late 1985. The song was another triumph, peaking within top 5 in a number of European countries. The single version would become available on CD on The Platinum Collection in 2009. The third and final single taken from The Long Play was Little Girl. The songs music video was filmed entirely on location in Venice, Little Girl met with modest success in international music market. Sisters and Brothers was released in 1988 as a single in Japan only. The song, dedicated to Sandras brother Gaston, is a version of Michael Cretus song Zeitlose Reise from his 1983 solo album Legionäre
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Synthpop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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Virgin Records
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Virgin Records is a British-founded record label originally founded by English entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, today, the operations of Virgin Records America, Inc. are still active and headquartered in Hollywood, California, as it operates exclusively under the Capitol Music Group since 2007. US artists include Knox Hamilton, LTric and Rise Against, in fact the first real store was above a shoe shop at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, the name Virgin, according to Branson, arose from Tessa Watts, a colleague of his, when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin – as they were all new to business – like virgins, the original Virgin logo was designed by English artist and illustrator Roger Dean, a young naked woman in mirror image with a large long-tailed serpent and the word Virgin in Deans familiar script. A variation on the logo was used for the spin-off Caroline Records label and this was soon followed by some notable krautrock releases, including electronic breakthrough album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, and The Faust Tapes and Faust IV by Faust. The Faust Tapes album retailed for 49p and as a result allowed this relatively unknown band to reach number 12 in the album charts, other early albums include Gongs Flying Teapot, which Daevid Allen has been quoted as having never been paid for. Under the guidance of Tessa Watts, Virgins Head of Publicity, shortly afterwards, the Notting Hill record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols in the window. After modified versions of the label came the red, white and blue design introduced in 1975. The current Virgin logo was created in 1978, commissioned by Simon Draper, brian Cooke of Cooke Key Associates commissioned a graphic designer to produce a stylised signature. In 1983 Virgin purchased Charisma Records, renaming it Charisma/Virgin, then later Virgin/Charisma, before folding the label in 1986, in the process they acquired Genesis and comedy group Monty Python. The Charisma label was reactivated in the US in 1990 and enjoyed success with such as Maxi Priest, Right Said Fred,38 Special. When this Charisma label was retired in 1992, all of its artists were, as before, in 1987, Venture Records was created for new age and modern classical artists including Klaus Schulze, who had been associated with Virgin since the early 1970s. 10 Records Immortal Records Delabel Caroline Records was a label used from 1973 to 1977. The name and logo were used for some American editions of Virgin records in the 1980s and 1990s. Caroline was primarily used for independent distribution until the label was reactivated in 2013, today, Caroline Records acts as an independent label taking the place of EMI Label Services, after Virgins former parent company EMI was purchased by Universal Music Group. Front Line Records was a label for issuing Jamaican and English reggae music from 1978 to approximately 1987, a short-lived associated label, Dindisc, had Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Monochrome Set during its brief existence, after which its recordings became part of Virgins catalogue. Noo Trybe Records was a hip hop label that existed from 1994 to 1999
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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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Hubert Kah
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Hubert Kah is a German synthpop band, led by Hubert Kemmler. Kemmler is a German musician, composer, songwriter and producer, and with the albums Meine Höhepunkte and Ich Komme. During this time, Kemmler caused quite a stir by his TV appearances, before Kemmlers music career, he studied law at the University of Tübingen. As of 1984, the band working with producer Michael Cretu. After a German album Goldene Zeiten, the band recorded the English-language albums Tensongs and Sound of My Heart, Hubert Kemmler also contributed backing vocals to most of Sandras hit singles between 1985 and 1989. Kemmler fell ill in the latter 1980s with depression and withdrew from music completely, after his recovery, he appeared with a new version of the band in 1996 with the self-titled Hubert Kah and the singles Cest La Vie and Sailing. The production with classic elements was not commercially as successful as hoped for by Kemmler, in 1998, a new single Love Chain and a Best Of CD were released. Kemmler then became ill again and had to undergo medical treatment, in 2005, Kemmler began his second comeback with the album Seelentaucher. The first single was called No Rain, the album featured a mixture of English and German language tracks. In the spring of 2007, Kemmler went as Ice King Kini in the musical Princess Lillifee, on 26 May 2007, he was one of four guests of honor at the acoustic concert of the band ASP on the Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2007 in Leipzig. Kemmler recorded new songs with Sandra for her new album Stay in Touch, which was released in late 2012. hubert-kah. com
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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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Big in Japan (Alphaville song)
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Big in Japan is the debut single of the German band Alphaville. It is from their 1984 album Forever Young, the single was a great success in many countries, including Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. It was also the groups only UK hit, getting to No.8 on the UK Singles chart, the song also reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play in December 1984. The title comes from the phrase Big in Japan, which was used to describe Western bands who are popular with Japanese audiences while garnering little attention in their home country. In 1986, Marian Gold recalled that he bought an album of an unknown British band named Big in Japan, as you know, theres a considerable musical market in Japan. If you wanted to become famous, what you should do was to form a rock group and then release an album over there. The statement fitted well to my storyline about a couple of drug addicted lovers, the video was directed by Yellos Dieter Meier. The 7 version is a different studio recording from the one released later on the album, a new remix of Seeds also appears on Dreamscapes. The original version of the song appears on So80s presents Alphaville. Alphaville re-released the song, with new remixes, in 1992 to coincide with the release of their compilation album First Harvest 1984–92, EU CD single Big in Japan 1992 A. D. Freedom Mix –3,14 Big in Japan The Mix –4,14 Big in Japan 1992 A. D, freedom Mix –4,51 Big in Japan The Mix –6,05 The Mix is the same as the Culture Mix from First Harvest 1984–92. EU CD single Big in Japan Swemix Remix Big in Japan –3,57 Big in Japan –8,27 Big in Japan –6,44 EU12 vinyl single Big in Japan 1992 A. D. Freedom Mix –4,51 Big in Japan 1992 A. D, in 2000, Guano Apes released a cover version as their lead single for their second album Dont Give Me Names on 12 April 2000. The music video shows the band performing in an empty arena and she sang the song in German, as Japan ist weit. The song was produced by her future husband Michael Cretu and was Sandras first try as a solo artist after she separated from the trio Arabesque, the song was not successful, as only 125 copies were sold. Swedish melodic black metal band Embraced did a cover of Big in Japan on their 1998 album Amorous Anathema, Spanish singer José Galisteo, a contestant in the fifth season of the Spanish reality television series Operación Triunfo, covered the song for his 2007 debut album Remember. In 2008, Norwegian singer Ane Brun did her own version of Big in Japan. The song was recorded to be part of the soundtrack for the Swedish TV-documentary Stor i Japan on TV6 and it has been released on Ane Bruns albums Live at Stocholm Concert Hall, Songs 2003-2013, Song Tour 2013, and as a bonus track on Changing of the Seasons
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In the Heat of the Night (Sandra song)
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In the Heat of the Night is a Disco song by German singer Sandra. The song was released in November 1985 as the single from the album The Long Play, where it charted at #1 in Switzerland and Israel, #2 in Germany. Also in 1999, a version of the song by Sandra was released as a promo single only in France. In 2007 Virgin Music France decided to release a version of Reflections. In the Heat of the Night was planned to be released as a single in France containing four new versions of the song, a few promotional copies were sent to the media, however, the commercial release was cancelled and it was only released online as a digital single. In 2006, Sandra recorded a new mix of this song and this mix appeared on her compilation Reflections - Reproduced Hits. In Sandras first proper video, the singer was featured in a steaming sauna filled with bare-chested men
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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. 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. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Close to Seven
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Close to Seven is the fifth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 1992. The albums title symbolized the upcoming seventh anniversary of Sandras career, the male vocals were sung by Andy Jonas, also known as Andy Angel Hart. Close to Seven was a success and remains Sandras second highest-charting album in Germany. Dont Be Aggressive served as the first single in January 1992, I Need Love was then released as the second and final regular single in April 1992, however, it failed to chart. Steady Me was released in June 1992 as a single in Germany only while Seal It Forever was a promotional single in Brazil
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Nights in White Satin
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Nights in White Satin is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written and composed by Justin Hayward and first featured as the segment The Night on the album Days of Future Passed. When first released in 1967, the song reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart and it was the first significant chart entry by the team since Go Now and its recent lineup change, in which Denny Laine had resigned and both Hayward and John Lodge had joined. Upon its 1972 reissue, the single hit #2 – for two weeks – on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 in the United States and it earned a Gold certification for sales of over a million U. S. copies. It also hit #1 in Canada, in the wake of its American success, the song re-charted in the U. K. in late 1972 and climbed to #9. The song was re-released yet again in 1979, and charted for a time in the U. K. – peaking at #14. Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 in Swindon, the song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward. It was just another song I was writing and I thought it was very powerful and it was a very personal song and every note, every word in it means something to me and I found that a lot of other people have felt that very same way about it. The orchestral sounds in the body of the song were actually produced by Mike Pinders Mellotron keyboard device. The song is written in the key of E minor and features the Neapolitan chord, there are two single versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestral and Late Lament poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriters credit shown as Redwave, was a hasty sounding 3,06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. However, there are versions of the single that are listed on the labels at 3,06. Some versions, instead of ending cold as most do, segue briefly into the second half and, in fact. For the second edited version, the parts of the song were kept intact. Most single versions were backed with a non-LP B-side, Cities, although it only had limited commercial success on its first release, the song has since garnered much critical acclaim, ranking #36 in BBC Radio 2s Sold on Song Top 100 list. The spoken-word poem heard near the mark of the album version of the song is called Late Lament. Drummer Graeme Edge wrote the verses, which were recited by keyboardist Mike Pinder, on Days of Future Passed, the poems last five lines bracket the album and also appear at the end of track 1. Both compilations feature the track in a different form than on Days of Future Passed. The orchestral ending is kept intact, but recording engineers have completely edited out the gong that closes the track on the original LP, from 1992 through the early 2000s, the Moody Blues toured with shows backed by live orchestras
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Forever (Sandra song)
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Forever is a pop song by German singer Sandra. It was released in October 2001 as the single from her seventh studio album The Wheel of Time. The song reached #47 on the official German Charts, Forever was written by Peter Ries and Wolfgang Filz and it was produced by Michael Cretu and Jens Gad. The photograph on the sleeve of Forever was shot by Dieter Eikelpoth, the Music video was directed by Thomas Job. CD single Forever Forever Forever Forever allmusic Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Disco
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Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. It was popular with men and women, from many different backgrounds. The disco sound often has several components, a beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s, well-known 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M. KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the disco sound. Many non-disco artists recorded songs at the height of discos popularity. Disco was the last mass popular movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on 12 July 1979, is thought of as a factor in discos fast. By the late 1970s most major U. S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, Studio 54, a venue popular amongst celebrities, is a well-known example of a disco club. Popular dances included the Hustle, a suggestive dance. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions, Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity. Disco was a key influence on the 1980s electronic dance style called house. The term is derived from discothèque, by the early 1940s, the terms disc jockey and DJ were in use to describe radio presenters. During WWII, because of restrictions set in place by the Nazi occupiers, eventually more than one of these jazz venues had the proper name discothèque. By 1959, the term was used in Paris to describe any of these type of nightclubs and that year a young reporter named Klaus Quirini started to select and introduce records at the Scotch-Club in Aachen, West Germany
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GfK Entertainment Charts
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The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Following a lawsuit in March 2014 by Media Control AG, Media Control® GfK International had to change its name, dissemination of the charts is conducted by various media outlets, some of which include VIVA music channel, and the Swiss charts website. Other entities that present the charts are MusicLoad and MIX1, furthermore, GfK Entertainment also runs a dedicated website providing chart-related news and access to most of the charts. Charts have been published in Germany since 1959, in a magazine called Der Musikmarkt, since 1959, the growing desire to have a well-developed music program has made Bundesverband Musikindustrie work together with charts providers to improve the way the charts are determined. For this purpose, different research institutes were tested, out of which Media Control, hence, the first official charts were made available in the magazine Der Musikmarkt in September 1977. Initially, there used to be 50 positions only, which later in January 1980, was extended to 75 slots, since 1989, however, GfK Entertainment has adapted the international standards providing 100 positions, now called Offizielle Top 100 Charts. In 2001, the Top-100 singles charts was modified to reflect the sales of the singles, Media Control developed Music Video charts in 2001, which later, in 2004, was renamed as DVD charts. While music-videos have their own charts, in 2001, GfK Entertainment made it possible for the music-video singles to have the ability to enter the Top-100 singles chart. Similarly, in 2002, it was available for music-video albums to chart on the Top-100 album chart. If not, then, the DVD album could qualify for the DVD chart only, in the same vein, if an audio CD contains at least 50% of video recording, then, it could qualify to chart on the DVD chart. In 2003, Media Control joined forces with GfK, thus the name officially being changed to Media Control GfK International GmbH. In 2004, Germany became one of the first music markets wherein sales charts were reflected by online digital downloads, digital-only releases came into existence on 13 July 2007, for online downloads only, which also altered the way the sales figures were conducted up to that point. Consequently, chart positions would no longer be affected by the number of music downloads as before. Thus, the albums would not necessarily be the ones ending up in the number-one position on the charts. In March 2014, GfK announced that the official chart providers name in Germany will change from Media Control GfK International GmbH to GfK Entertainment, there are currently 3,000 outlets that report their sales on weekly bases in Germany. The weekly sales data is transmitted to GfK Entertainment via communication network channel and this is the list of categories, for each of which charts are provided by GfK Entertainment
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Stay in Touch
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Stay in Touch is the tenth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 2012. It was also the first album since 1988s Into a Secret Land to feature Hubert Kemmler as a songwriter, stay in Touch was released on October 26,2012 in both standard format and a limited deluxe 2-CD set featuring extended versions of songs. The album has received favourable response from Sandras fans and met with commercial success internationally. Maybe Tonight was released as the first single in May 2012, the second and final single became Infinite Kiss in autumn 2012, but failed to chart
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Dutch Top 40
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The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40. It started as a program titled Veronica Top 40, on the offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained The Veronica Top 40 until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting, joost den Draaijer was the initiator of the top 40 in the Netherlands. On January 2,1965, the first Top 40 was compiled, in 1974, the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40 bought the Top 40 and named it De Nederlandse Top 40. Currently, Radio 538 is airing the Dutch Top 40 on radio, jeroen Nieuwenhuize presents the program every Friday afternoon from 14.00 until 18.00. As of February 2014 the chart is a combination of airplay, streaming, the more often a song gets played on the radio, the higher its place in the Top 40. For year end chart positions, #1 position gets 40 points and this way you just count up all numbers and sort them from most points till least points. There is a set of rules, of some have existed since 1972. Some of these have been criticised as a hindrance, singles must remain minimal two weeks in the chart. If a single officially no longer belongs in the top 40, example, Missy Elliotts Lose Control, Remained two weeks on #40 in the chart, because it did not sell enough and also wasnt played enough on the radio. Singles that highly change position upwards are noted as having superstip status and these singles are not allowed to fall down in chart position the following week. Recent example, Guus Meeuwis Ik Wil Dat Ons Land Juicht, The song entered the chart at #11, the following week it was meant to drop in chart position, but remained on the #5 position. The following two weeks, it went from #5 to #39, because of this rule, this single is the biggest fall down in the Dutch Top 40. However this is not always the case, sometimes singles with a superstip do drop for some reason Re-entry only takes place when the single re-enters within the top 30, if differently, these re-entried singles are ignored. Example, Racoon recently re-entered the Dutch Top 40 at #31 though with the song Love You More, singles with double A-side are noted separately in the top 40, due the different number of airplay the two songs get. Example, Robbie Williams first single off his 2005 album Intensive Care was Tripping with the B-side being Make Me Pure, while Tripping topped the chart by peaking at #1, Make Me Pure peaked at #15 in the Top 40. This is a listing of significant achievements and milestones based upon the Dutch Top 40 charts. & Pharrell Williams — Blurred Lines Avicii — Wake Me Up Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne — Rather Be OMI — Cheerleader 10 weeks Heintje — Ich bau dir ein Schloß4 Non Blondes — Whats Up
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19 (song)
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19 is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled third studio album Paul Hardcastle. The song has a strong message, focusing on Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. The track was notable for use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words nineteen. It also includes various non-speech, re-dubbed sampling, such as crowd noise, in 2009, the song placed at 73 on VH1s 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s. 19 became the single in 13 countries. This was helped by the fact that versions of the song, spoken by local news anchors, were recorded in French, Spanish, German. The song received the Ivor Novello award for Best-selling single of 1985, the songs English-language release came in three different 12 versions - Extended Version, Destruction Mix and The Final Story, each with an alternative cover design. I was out having fun in pubs and clubs when I was 19, not being shoved into jungles, the title 19 comes from the documentarys claim that the average age of an American combat soldier in the war was 19, as compared to World War IIs 26. This claim has since been disputed, undisputed statistics do not exist, although Southeast Asia Combat Area Casualties Current File, the source for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, shows a large number of deaths were ages 19 or 20. According to the source,23 is the average age at time of death. The song also comments that while the tour of duty was longer during World War II, the songs pivotal hook, the repetitive N-n-n-n-nineteen, was chosen due to the limitations of the early sampling technology used. The E-mu Emulator could only sample for two seconds, so the hook was based around the bit of the narrative that made sense in two seconds. Hardcastle wasnt optimistic about the chances in the charts. His previous two singles for independent labels had failed to make it into the UKs Top 40 and the policy at Radio 1 was felt to be unsupportive of dance music. News interest in the song helped, with the 10th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War seeing Hardcastle interviewed by Alastair Stewart of ITN. Tony Blackburn, then breakfast DJ for Radio London was a supporter of the song and it quickly reached number 1 in the UK. Hardcastle produced different mixes of the song to maintain interest in it. The songs reliance on sampling also caused problems with legal clearance, Ken Grunbaum recalled in 2012 that there were no precedents for something like this
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There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
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There Must Be an Angel is a 1985 song written and performed by the British musical duo Eurythmics. Released as the single from their fifth album Be Yourself Tonight. The song became a success, most notably in Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. Ever since the record has been covered by musical artists, including Brittany Murphy, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Leningrad Cowboys, Luciano Pavarotti, Kylie Minogue. Upon its release, There Must Be an Angel became Eurythmics first number-one single in the UK, also topping the charts in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. While the song peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100, it became another Top 10 success for the band in Sweden, Belgium, in 2013 the song was voted as the third best number one song of all time in the NME. Eurythmics Annie Lennox – vocals, keyboards David A, in that cover the mouth organ was replaced by an electric guitar for the instrumentation and the intro was so taken with the electric guitar, this version is very different from original. The cover also served as a B-side for her cover of the song Youre My Heart and we were speechless and very happy about. The animated movie was a world premiere and something really big for us and we immediately said yes, Lucy Diakovska said in an interview. Sandy Mölling noted, that the song was a favourite of the band. The record was included on the Special Winter Edition reissue of the Ellements album. There Must Be an Angel was awarded for Top Single Germany at the 2001 Top of the Pops Awards, vanessa Petruo stated in 2005 that the song was most unnecessary of all cover versions the band had released between the years of 2001 and 2003. The music video for There Must Be an Angel was directed by Jörn Heitmann and filmed near the General-Steinhof-Kaserne at the Gatow Airport in Berlin-Spandau, Germany on 19 July 2001. Inspired by Tony Scotts 1986 film Top Gun, the features the quintet as fighter pilots of the fictional U. S. military squadron 68 at an also-fictional airbase in Angelville. Additionally, it incorporates a 1940s World War II theme, heavily inspired by performances of Marilyn Monroe, among the aircraft shown in the video are MiG-21s, a B-57 Canberra, a F-104 Starfighter and a Dassault Mystère. The groups first non-album release following Daylight in Your Eyes and Rivers of Joy and it entered the charts straight at number-one on the German Singles Chart, staying at the top for five consecutive weeks, twelve weeks in the top forty, and seventeen weeks inside the top sixty. It was eventually certified gold by the IFPI for more than 250,000 shipped copies, in Austria, the single opened at number 8 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40 singles chart. However, it was not until 23 September 2001, the fifth week of release
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Eurythmics
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Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart. Stewart and Lennox were both previously in the band The Tourists, who split up in 1980, Eurythmics were formed that year in London. The duo released their first album, In the Garden, in 1981 to little fanfare, the title track was a worldwide hit, topping the charts in various countries including the US. The duo went on to release a string of hit singles, by this time Stewart was a sought-after record producer, while Lennox began a solo recording career in 1992 with her debut album Diva. After almost a decade apart, Eurythmics reunited to record their album, Peace. They reunited again in 2005 to release the single Ive Got a Life, as part of a new Eurythmics compilation album, Eurythmics have sold an estimated 75 million records worldwide. Lennox and Stewart met in 1975 in a restaurant in London and they first played together in 1976 in the punk rock band The Catch. After releasing one single as The Catch in 1977, the band evolved into The Tourists, Stewart and Lennox were also romantically involved. The Tourists achieved some success, but the experience was reportedly an unhappy one. Personal and musical tensions existed within the group, whose main songwriter was Peet Coombes and they were interested in creating pop music, but wanted freedom to experiment with electronics and the avant-garde. It was in a hotel in Wagga Wagga, Australia, while playing around with a portable mini-synthesizer that Lennox, the duo signed to RCA Records. At this time, Lennox and Stewart also split as a couple, during the period that Lennox and Stewart were in The Tourists, and later as Eurythmics, they were managed by Kenny Smith and Sandra Turnbull of Hyper Kinetics Ltd. They recorded their first album in Cologne with Conny Plank and this resulted in the album In the Garden, released in October 1981. The album mixed psychedelic, krautrock and electropop influences, and featured contributions from Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, drummer Clem Burke, Robert Görl, a couple of the songs were co-written by guitarist Roger Pomphrey. The album was not a commercial success, however, the three new singles they released that year all performed badly on initial release in the UK. Lennox apparently suffered at least one nervous breakdown during this period, Eurythmics commercial breakthrough came with their second album, Sweet Dreams, released in January 1983. The successful title track featured a dark and powerful sequenced synth bass line, the song reached no.2 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming one of the years biggest sellers, and later topped the US charts. The bands fortunes changed immensely from this moment on, and Lennox quickly became a pop icon and their previous single, Love Is a Stranger, was also re-released and became another chart success
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A View to a Kill
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A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Flemings short story From a View to a Kill, in A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy Californias Silicon Valley. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and it was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. Christopher Walken was also praised for portraying a classic Bond villain, MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a microchip originating from the Soviet Union. Upon his return, Q analyses the microchip and establishes that it is a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse, Bond visits Ascot Racecourse to observe the companys owner, Max Zorin. Zorins horse wins a race but proves hard to control, Sir Godfrey Tibbett, a racehorse trainer and MI6 agent, believes that Zorins horse was drugged, although tests proved negative. Through Tibbett, Bond meets with French private detective Achille Aubergine who informs Bond that Zorin is holding a horse later in the month. During their dinner at the Eiffel Tower, Aubergine is assassinated by Zorins bodyguard May Day, Bond and Tibbett travel to Zorins estate for the horse sale. Bond is puzzled by a woman who rebuffs him and finds out that Zorin has written her a check for $5 million, at night, Bond and Tibbett break into Zorins laboratory and learn that he is implanting adrenaline-releasing devices in the horses. Zorin identifies Bond as an agent, has May Day assassinate Tibbett, General Gogol of the KGB confronts Zorin for killing Bond without permission and reveals that Zorin was initially trained and financed by the KGB but has now gone rogue. Later, Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley which will give him—and the potential investors—a monopoly over the microchip industry, Bond then investigates a nearby oil rig owned by Zorin and while there finds KGB agent Pola Ivanova recording Zorins conversation. Ivanovas partner Klolktoff is caputred and killed trying to place limpet mines on the rig. They go to her place where Bond is able to steal the recording, Bond tracks down the woman that Zorin attempted to pay off, State Geologist Stacey Sutton, and discovers that Zorin is trying to purchsae her familys oil business. The two travel to San Francisco City Hall to review Zorins submitted plan, Bond and Sutton survive the fire, but when the police prepare to arrest Bond for the murders of Howe and Chuck, he and Sutton escape in a fire truck. A larger bomb is also in the mine to destroy a lock that prevents the two faults from moving at the same time. Once the bombs are in place, Zorin and his security chief Scarpine flood the mines which kills the mine workers, Sutton escapes while Bond fights May Day. When May Day realizes that Zorin has abandoned her, she helps Bond remove the bomb by putting the device onto a handcar. The bomb then explodes which kills May Day, Zorin, who had escaped in his airship with Scarpine and Mortner, abducts Sutton as Bond grabs hold of the airships mooring rope
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Duran Duran
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Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978. The band grew from alternative sensations in 1982 to mainstream pop stars by 1984, by the end of the decade, membership and music style changes challenged the band before a resurgence in the early 1990s. The group were a band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. They have placed 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, when they first emerged, they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, along with bands such as Spandau Ballet. Soon they would shed this image, using fashion and marketing to build a more refined and they were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The video age catapulted Duran Duran into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV, many of their videos were shot on 35 mm film, which gave a much more polished look than was standard at the time. They also collaborated with film directors to take the quality a step further. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their stadium shows. These five members featured the most commercially successful line-up, the reunion of the original five members in the early 2000s created a stir among the bands fans and music media. Andy Taylor left the once again in mid-2006, and guitarist Dom Brown has since been working with the band as a session player. John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in Birmingham, England in 1978, at the club they were doing jobs such as John working the door and with Nick deejaying for £10 a night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue, There were many nearby nightclubs, and the one significant one, where bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called Barbarellas. They would go on to name the band after a character from Barbarella, the character, played by Milo OShea, is named Dr. Durand Durand. The bands first singer was Stephen Duffy, Simon Colley soon joined Taylor, Rhodes and Duffy. Colley was the original bass player, as John Taylor was the guitarist at this point. This was the first complete line-up of the band played live shows. For drums and percussion, a drum machine belonging to Rhodes was used. Colley left the prior to the addition of Andy Taylor
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Rock Me Amadeus
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Rock Me Amadeus is a 1985 song by Austrian musician Falco from his album Falco 3. It topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. It was Falcos only number one hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, despite the popularity in Germany, his native Austria. The song was written by Falco and Dutch music producers Bolland & Bolland, prior to Falco,99 Luftballons by Nena got to number one on Cashbox, but peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The single hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 29 March 1986. In the United Kingdom, where his Der Kommissar failed to make the charts, Vienna Calling hit number 10 and three subsequent singles briefly charted. In Canada, the reached number one on 1 February 1986. Rock Me Amadeus would later be ranked number 87 in VH1s 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, originally recorded in German, the song is about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his popularity and his debts. A longer version, named the Salieri Mix, appeared on the initial US release of the album Falco 3, the song was inspired by the movie Amadeus. For the US release, the song was remixed with an English background overlay, there was never a full English version. Voiceover facts 1756, Salzburg, January 27, Wolfgang Amadeus is born,1761, At the age of 5 Amadeus begins composing. 1773, He writes his first piano concerto,1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber. 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a Freemason,1791, Mozart composes The Magic Flute. On December 5 of that year, Mozart dies. 1985, Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus The song was released in Europe in 1985 in its original, however, the video, which featured the original European version, was used worldwide. Falco is shown in a 20th-century-style dinner jacket, walking past people in eighteenth-century formal wear, later, he is shown dressed as Mozart, with wild colored hair, being held on the shoulders of men dressed in modern motorcycle-riding attire. At the end, the two crowds mix, a different crowd in a more Mozart-era formal attire was excessively fraternizing at a party. This version also contains red line art of Falco, guitar riff clips, cantopop artist Anthony Wong covered the song with Chinese lyrics written by Albert Leung
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Falco (musician)
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Johann Hans Hölzel, better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian singer, songwriter and rapper. Falco had several hits, Rock Me Amadeus, Der Kommissar, Vienna Calling, Jeanny, The Sound of Musik, Coming Home and posthumously. Rock Me Amadeus reached No.1 on the Billboard charts in 1986, according to his estate, he has sold 20 million albums and 40 million singles, which makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of all-time. Falco was born Johann Hölzel on 19 February 1957 to Maria Hölzel in a working district of Vienna. Maria would later recall that she had been pregnant with triplets, as it was a dizygotic pregnancy, she miscarried the identical twins during the third month and Falco, who was conceived via a separate egg, survived. Falco mused that three souls in one breast sounds a little dramatic, but I do sense them sometimes. Ill be really up and then right after Ill be really down, in 1963, Hölzel began his schooling at a Roman Catholic private school, four years later, at age ten, he switched to the Rainer Gymnasium in Vienna. Falcos father left the family while he was still a child, Falco began to show signs of unusual musical talent very early. As a toddler, he was able to time with the drumbeat in songs he heard on the radio. He was given a grand piano for his fourth birthday, a year later, his birthday gift was a record player which he used to play music by Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard. At age five, he auditioned for the Vienna Music Academy, Falco wanted to be a pop star from a very early age. At age 16, he attended the Vienna Conservatoire, but was frustrated and his mother insisted he begin an apprenticeship with the Austrian employee pension insurance institute. This too only lasted a short time, at seventeen, he volunteered for eight months of military service with the Austrian army. He played bass guitar in a number of bands under various pseudonyms, including John Hudson, one such band with whom he appeared was Drahdiwaberl, an Austrian group that employed shock tactics and stage antics. It was around this time he began performing under the name of Falco. Despite being closely tied with the Viennese underground club scene, Falco looked uncharacteristically clean-cut, in contrast to shabbier fashions, he had short hair and wore Ray-Ban sunglasses and suits. His distinct style, coupled with his performance of the song Ganz Wien led to manager Markus Spiegel offering to sign Falco in 1981. Ironically, it was at a concert for drug prevention and Ganz Wien has a line proclaiming All Vienna is on heroin today, once Falco was signed as a solo artist, he continued composing his own music and hired lyricist Robert Ponger
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We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
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We Dont Need Another Hero is a 1985 song by Tina Turner. It was featured in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome which starred Turner, the song was written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle. We Dont Need Another Hero was released on the heels of Turners multiplatinum album Private Dancer, the song was released as a 7 single, and an extended version was released as a 12 single and on the films soundtrack album. In the UK, a picture disc was also released. In 1986, the received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. As songwriters, Lyle and Britten received the 1985 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, the music video features Turner dressed in her costume from the film, a heavy chain mail gown. As several spotlights shine on her, she proceeds to sing atop a platform while various scenes from the movie are interspersed, in the last portion of the video, Turners tour saxophonist, percussionist and keyboardist – Timmy Capello and a childrens choir accompany her. The music video received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video, Turner was backed by a choral group from Kings House School in Richmond, London. One of the members who appeared on the record, Lawrence Dallaglio, became famous as a rugby union star. 7 edit –4,167 instrumental –4,4112 Extended Mix –6,0712 Dub Mix –6,30 We Dont Need Another Hero became one of Tina Turners biggest worldwide hit singles. Soviet singer and DJ Sergey Minaev in 1985 recorded a song Mne moy mir segodnya tesen using original melody of We Dont Need Another Hero, uruguayan musician, comedian and writer Leo Maslíah recorded a parody cover titled No necesitamos otro héroe for his 1988 album I lique rock. In this version, he played the melody of the song but replaced the lyrics completely. Weird Al Yankovic parodied the song as We Wont Eat Another Hero and he has performed the song in concert, but it was never included on any of his albums. In 2004, Canadian singer Jane Child recorded a cover of the song, titling it Beyond Thunderdome for the album Whats Love, in March 2016, Seal and Jencarlos Canela performed a cover of the song during the Fox television special The Passion. It was sung in the story where Pontius Pilate is torn at sentencing Jesus to death, the lyrics were amended to remove the reference to Thunderdome, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Tina Turner
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Tina Turner, is an American-born Swiss recording artist, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in the Southeastern United States, Turner obtained Swiss citizenship in 2013 and she began her musical career in the mid-1950s as a featured singer with Ike Turners Kings of Rhythm, first recording in 1958 under the name Little Ann. Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in 1960 as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the duo, including A Fool in Love, River Deep – Mountain High, Proud Mary, and Nutbush City Limits, a song which she herself wrote. In her autobiography, I, Tina, she revealed several instances of domestic abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split. After her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career through live performances, Whats Love Got to Do with It, the lead single won three Grammy Awards including Record of the Year. Whats Love Got to Do with It was later used as the title of a loosely based biographical film adapted from her autobiography, One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, she has also been referred to as The Queen of Rock n Roll. Turner has been termed the most successful female Rock n Roll artist, receiving eleven Grammy Awards, including eight competitive awards, Turner has also sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide and she is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. In 2008, Turner returned from semi-retirement to embark on her Tina, Turners tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–09. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Turner no.63 on their list of 100 greatest artists of all time, in 1991, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Turner announced in December 2016 that she has been working on Tina, Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26,1939, in Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee. Her parents were Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock, Anna Mae was born at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers. She is of African-American descent, with approximately 33% European and 1% Native American ancestry, Anna Mae had an older sister, Ruby Aillene. As young children, Anna Mae and Aillene were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, after the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community. In 1889, her uncle had sold the land on which the school was built to the school trustees. As a youngster, Anna Mae sang in the choir at Nutbushs Spring Hill Baptist Church
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Modern Talking
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Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen. They have been referred to as Germanys most successful pop duo, some of their most popular and widely known singles are Youre My Heart, Youre My Soul, You Can Win If You Want, Cheri, Cheri Lady, Brother Louie, Atlantis Is Calling and Geronimos Cadillac. Modern Talking worked together from 1983 to 1987, when the split up. In 1997, they reunited and made a comeback, recording and releasing music from 1998 to 2003. The duo released singles which entered the top ten in Germany. Some of those singles were Youre My Heart, Youre My Soul 98, You Are Not Alone, the track was then followed by another number-one hit, You Can Win If You Want, which was released in the middle of 1985 from the debut album The 1st Album. The album was certified platinum in Germany for selling over 500,000 units, the single, being the only track released from their second album Lets Talk About Love, managed to push the album to a platinum status in Germany for sales of over 500,000. The success continued with two number one singles such as Brother Louie and Atlantis Is Calling both from the third album Ready for Romance. The duo also charted high with their sixth single Geronimos Cadillac from the fourth album In the Middle of Nowhere and Jet Airliner from their fifth album Romantic Warriors. During this era, Modern Talking were successful in Europe, Asia, South America, Middle East, particularly in Iran, in the United Kingdom, they entered the top five only once, with the song Brother Louie. They were almost unknown in North America, never appearing on the US charts and they released two albums each year between 1985 and 1987, while also promoting their singles on television all over Europe, eventually selling sixty-five million records within three years. Anders recorded five albums in English, Different, Whispers, Down on Sunset, When Will I See You Again and Souled. He was more successful in foreign countries than his own country, despite all the quarrels and disagreements that Bohlen and Anders experienced between themselves in the past, they began keeping in touch again after Anders moved back to Koblenz, Germany in 1994. In the beginning of 1998, the duo reunited and had their first performance together in March on the German TV show Wetten and they released a re-packaged version of their 1984 single Youre My Heart, Youre My Soul 98, which features Eric Singleton on the rap vocals. The duo won the award for Best Selling German Band at the World Music Awards that year, the follow-up album Alone also went straight to number one in Germany and was very successful elsewhere, the album managed to sell over one million units in Europe alone. Bohlen and Anders followed the 1980s Modern Talking pattern as they chose to release two singles from album, as in the past. A series of singles and four albums followed such as Year of the Dragon, America, Victory. The second break-up seemed to have been triggered mainly from the portrayal of Anders by Bohlen written in his autobiographical book published on 4 October 2003
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You're a Woman
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Youre a Woman is a song by the pop group Bad Boys Blue. It was released as a single in 1985 and was a hit across Europe, reaching number 8 in West Germany, number 1 in Austria and it was either the lead single or the second single from the album Prudence Liew. The track featured a dance beat that proved to be very popular with the Hong Kong disco scene. The popularity of this song propelled Liews status in the music scene, Bad Boys Blue released a new version of the song under the title Youre a Woman 98 as a single in 1998. It was the single from their album Back. This re-release reached number 52 in Germany and number 4 in Finland, on May 22,2008 Prudence Liew released a ballad version of her song 最後一夜 as a single from her 2008 live album Opening the Sexual Boundaries Concert CD. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Bad Boys Blue - Youre A Woman on YouTube
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