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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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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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Peace (Eurythmics album)
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Peace is the ninth and final studio album by the British band Eurythmics, released in October 1999. It was the bands first album of new material in ten years, following their first performance together in eight years at a record company party in 1998, David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox began writing and recording together for the first time since 1989. The title was designed to reflect the ongoing concern with global conflict. The record was promoted with a concert on the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II, a 24-date world tour followed soon after, with all profits donated to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. The final show of the tour, on 6 December 1999 at the London Docklands Arena, was filmed and released on video, I Saved the World Today was the lead single from the album, reaching number eleven on the UK singles chart. Another single,17 Again, was released in January 2000 and it reached the UK Top 30 and topped the US dance chart. Critics were generally impressed with the record, although NME commented that it lacked the power of their previous releases, on 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalogue as Deluxe Edition Reissues. Each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks, for unknown reasons, many songs on the 2005 reissue of Peace are alternate mixes compared to the original 1999 release. The most dramatically different mix is Ive Tried Everything, which is upbeat with additional drums. Other songs with mix differences include,17 Again, I Saved the World Today, Power to the Meek, Peace Is Just a Word, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Something in the Air by Speedy Keen
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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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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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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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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Annie Lennox
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Ann Annie Lennox, OBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times and she has also been named the Brits Champion of Champions. Lennox embarked on a career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva. To date, she has released six studio albums and a compilation album. Aside from her eight Brit Awards, she has collected four Grammy Awards. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award, the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine. In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Into the West, written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her tireless charity campaigns, on 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. Lennox performed the song Little Bird during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London on 12 August 2012, Lennox has been named The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No.22 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women in Music and she has earned the distinction of most successful female British artist in UK music history due to her commercial success since the early 1980s. As of June 2008, including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide, Annie Lennox was born on Christmas Day 1954 in Summerfield Maternity hospital, Aberdeen, the daughter of Dorothy and Thomas Allison Lennox. In the 1970s, Lennox won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London and she lived on a student grant and worked at part-time jobs for extra money. Lennox was unhappy during her time at the Royal Academy and spent her time wondering what direction she could take. Lennoxs flute teachers final report stated, Ann has not always sure of where to direct her efforts. She is very, very able, however, two years later, Lennox reported to the Academy, I have had to work as a waitress, barmaid, and shop assistant to keep me when not in musical work. She also played and sang with a few bands, such as Windsong, during the period of her course, in 2006, the academy made her an honorary Fellow. Lennox also was made a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, in 1976, Lennox was flautist with a band called Dragons Playground, leaving before they appeared on TVs New Faces
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David A. Stewart
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David Allan Dave Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named Dave Stewart and he won Best British Producer at the 1986,1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart was born in Sunderland, England, in 1952 and he attended Bede Grammar School for Boys, whilst still in his teens, he secured a record deal as part of folk-rock band Longdancer. Despite being signed to Elton Johns record label, The Rocket Record Company, after leaving Wearside Stewart then spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs, soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the pair had teamed up with Sunderland musician Peet Coombes, the band then developed into The Tourists who enjoyed modest success, including a hit in 1979 with a cover of the Dusty Springfield hit I Only Want to Be with You. The Tourists split up in 1980, as did Stewart and Lennox and they formed a new musical project named Eurythmics. After a string of hit singles and albums, the duo split in 1990, Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics 25th anniversary. When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released an album with his new band The Spiritual Cowboys, the song Party Town was featured in the 1990 film Flatliners. A second album followed in 1991, both albums were Gold in France, where Stewart concentrated his efforts. In 1992, Stewart collaborated with singer Terry Hall on the project Vegas, the duo released one self-titled album but this was commercially unsuccessful, though one of the singles from the album made the UK Top 40. In 1993, Stewart appeared in an Apple Inc. advertisement for the Power Macintosh in which he riffed on the word power and he also had a small cameo as a computer hacker in the 1995 film Hackers. In 1994, Stewart released an album, Greetings from the Gutter. The album was not a success, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single Heart Of Stone which reached number 36. He then released another album, Sly-Fi, first on the internet, in 1997, Stewart released an album Come Alive with the actress and singer Rhona Mitra. In 1999, he produced an album, Female Icon. In November 2002, Stewart worked with former South African president Nelson Mandela and he then began organising the 46664 campaign and series of concerts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In 2007, Stewart announced on his MySpace page that he would be playing live concerts showcasing his entire career, according to the announcement, he was to be accompanied by various guest musicians as well as a 30 piece orchestra
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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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Andy Wright (music producer)
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Active since the mid 1980s, he has been involved as a programmer, musical arranger and producer on projects spanning all music genres. In the mid-1980s, chasing up a job advertisement in The Melody Maker, Wright started working for a keyboard hire company in London and this was at a time when keyboard and drum programming technology was advancing, although few people really knew how to operate the equipment. In the 1990s, Wright set up his own recording studio and despite difficult conditions due to the UK being in economic recession. Working as a musician/producer/programmer, he worked on The KLF hit America and this was followed up by a programming stint with Massive Attack on their seminal album Protection. 1995 also saw the beginning of Wrights long and successful working relationship with Simply Red on the album Life, the number one hit Fairground which featured on the record owed plenty to Wrights musical vision of blending Brazilian rhythms and trance house keyboards. Since Life, Wright has worked on every Simply Red and Mick Hucknall album, by 1996, Wrights career had really started picking up. Friendly with Curve vocalist Toni Halliday and her husband, Alan Moulder. This led to collaborations on pop records for Shakespears Sister, Imogen Heap, Sinead OConnor. A co-production credit for Tom Jones on the album The Lead and How To Swing It with Alan Moulder and U2 producer, Flood, came soon after. Working with Stewart was a time for Wright, “I still maintain that that the 2-3 years I spent working with Dave Stewart was probably the most fun I had in my working life. Dave was unpredictable, always coming up with some idea, project, adventure and often in far flung destination, the most notable being a recording/ songwriting trip on the Amazon”. ”In 1999 Wright was involved with the production of the Eurythmics album Peace which contained the hit singles I Saved the World Today,17 Again. In 2000 Wright began working with guitar legend Jeff Beck, the resulting album, You Had It Coming, produced a Grammy award winning track Dirty Mind in the best rock instrumental performance category. Also in 2000 he provided production on S Club 7s singles Reach and Bring It All Back. 2001 saw Wright score a UK number one single with Atomic Kittens Eternal Flame, in 2003 Wright and Jeff Beck worked together again on the eponymously titled album Jeff. This too, produced a Grammy winning track, Plan B,2004 saw Wright working with Shakespears Sister and Turkish star Sertab Erener. 2005 involved extensive work for Simply Red including co-production of the album Simplified, in 2006 Wright began his collaboration with Macedonian superstar, Toše Proeski on songs for the album The Hardest Thing. Toše was killed in a accident in October 2007 - he was twenty-six years old. He was given a funeral on 17 October 2007 in his home town of Krusevo
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I Saved the World Today
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I Saved the World Today is a song recorded by the British pop music duo Eurythmics from their album Peace in 1999. It was written and co-produced by band-members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, the song was released as the first single from the album and returned Eurythmics to the UK singles chart for the first time in nearly a decade, peaking at number eleven. I Saved the World Today was not released as a single in the United States and it was also used in the diner scene and over the closing credits of Norwegian film Lønsj. A hi-NRG/eurotrance version by TR-808 was released as a single in 2000. American singer, Emilie Autumn, performed a cover of this song. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I've Got a Life
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Ive Got a Life is a single released by pop music duo Eurythmics on the 2005 Ultimate Collection. It is written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, the song was one of two newly recorded tracks included on Eurythmics second greatest hits package Ultimate Collection and the only one of the two released as a single. The song is a dance tune with uplifting lyrics of empowerment. Its music video featured Lennox and Stewart performing the song in front of television screens showing scenes from videos spanning their Eurythmics career. Lennox also reprised her Sweet Dreams image by performing the song in a mans suit, the music video for the song is directed by Matthew Rolston. The song was released as a download in the United States. The track spent three weeks at one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart at the end of 2005. List of number-one dance singles of 2005 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Sweet Dreams is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. The song is the track of their album of the same name and was released as the fourth. The song became their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide and its music video helped to propel the song to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the first single released by Eurythmics in the US, Sweet Dreams is arguably Eurythmics signature song. Following its success, their previous single, Love Is a Stranger, was re-released, on Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue in 2003, Sweet Dreams was ranked number 356. Eurythmics have regularly performed the song in all their live sets since 1982, in 1991, the song was remixed and reissued to promote Eurythmics Greatest Hits album. It re-charted in the UK, reaching number 48, and was also a hit in dance clubs. Another remix by Steve Angello was released in France in 2006, the original recordings main instrumentation featured a sequenced analog synthesizer riff, which Stewart accidentally discovered in the studio when he played a bass track backwards. Apart from the synthesizer, the arrangement also uses a Movement Systems Drum Computer, a piano in the middle eight, Sweet Dreams was Eurythmics commercial breakthrough in the United Kingdom and all over the world. The single entered the UK chart at #63 in February 1983, Sweet Dreams was the first ever single release by Eurythmics in the United States when it was released in May 1983. The single debuted at #90 and slowly eased up the chart, by August, the single had reached number two and stayed there for four weeks, kept from the top by The Polices Every Breath You Take before Sweet Dreams took the number one spot. The music video for Sweet Dreams was directed by Chris Ashbrook and filmed in January 1983, shortly before the single, the video received heavy airplay on the then-fledgling MTV channel and is widely considered a classic clip from the early-MTV era. Stewart is shown typing on a computer, the camera cuts to Lennox and Stewart meditating on the table. Stewart is next shown playing a cello in a field, the scene then returns to the boardroom, with Lennox and Stewart lying down on the table, and a cow walking around them. Stewart is shown typing on the computer, with the cow chewing something right next to him. The scene cuts to the duo in a field, with a herd of cows, Lennox and Stewart are then seen floating in a boat, with Stewart again playing cello. The video ends with Lennox lying in bed, with the last shot being a book on a bearing a cover identical to the album. The screen then fades to black as Lennox turns off the bedside lamp, the video has 125 million views by March 11,2017
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Dance Club Songs
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The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U. S. dance clubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply, the current number-one song on the Dance Club Songs chart for the issue dated April 15,2017, is Lick Me Up by Tony Moran and Dani Toro featuring Zhana Roiya. Dance Club Songs has undergone several incarnations since its inception in 1974, originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26,1974 under the title Disco Action. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week, Billboard continued to run regional and city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976 until the issue dated August 28,1976, when a thirty-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered. During the first half of the 1980s the chart maintained eighty slots until March 16,1985 when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed, two charts appeared, Hot Dance/Disco, which ranked club play, and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, which ranked 12-inch single sales. Only Hot Dance Club Songs still exists today and these stations are also a part of the electronically monitored panel that encompasses the Hot 100. Radio airplay is not limited to that counted on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, during this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since adopted Record Worlds chart data from the weeks between March 29,1975 and August 21,1976 into Billboards club play history. For the sake of continuity, Record Worlds national chart is incorporated into both Whitburns Dance/Disco publication as well as the 1975 and 1976 number-ones lists, with the issue dated August 28,1976, Billboard premiered its own national chart and their data is used from this date forward. For the full list of all 100 All Time Top Dance Club Artists, both Enrique Iglesias and Dave Aude are tied with 14 number-ones on the chart, the most among male artists. Iglesias, however, is the male vocalist to accomplish this feat, while Aude is the only producer to achieve this milestone. Four acts have attained thirteen number-one songs, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Yoko Ono, Kylie Minogue became the first act to have two songs in the top three on March 5,2011. Her song Better than Today was number-one while Higher, a song by Taio Cruz on which Minogue features, was number three, the first 12-inch single made commercially available to the public was Ten Percent by Double Exposure in 1976. The first number one on Billboards Disco Action chart was Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor in 1974, the first number one on Billboards National Disco Action Top 30 was You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees in 1976. Beginning with the February 23,1991 issue, the dance chart became song specific, in all scenarios this was due to the tracks being included in film soundtrack albums. In 1978, four tracks from Thank God Its Friday, in 1980, madonna holds the record for the most chart hits, the most top-twenty hits, the most top-ten hits and the most total weeks at number one. The Trammps are the act to replace themselves at number one. The longest running number-ones on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart are Bad Luck by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes2 in 1975, both entries spent eleven weeks in the top spot
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Will & Grace
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Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan about the relationship between best friends Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler, a straight interior designer. It was broadcast on NBC from September 21,1998 to May 18,2006, during its original run, Will & Grace was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters. Despite initial criticism for its portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBCs Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run, the show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49, from 2001 and 2005. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards and 83 nominations, all four stars each received an Emmy Award throughout the series, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this feat. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show probably did more to educate the American public on LGBT issues than almost anything anybody has ever done so far. In 2014 the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will, the curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture that was daring and broke ground in American media. When the set was removed in April 2014, rumours came up about a cast reunion and it was merely moved to Emersons new center in Los Angeles. A long-running legal battle between both the executive producers and creators and NBC took place between 2003 and 2007. All seasons of the series have released on DVD and the show has been broadcast in more than 60 countries. On September 26,2016, the cast reunited for a 10-minute special, after the success of the 10-minute reunion special, NBC announced that the network is exploring the idea of putting Will & Grace back into production. In January 2017, NBC confirmed the return, for a ten-episode ninth season. The episode order was increased to 12 on April 5,2017, will & Grace is set in New York City and focuses on the relationship between Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who owns an interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a socialite, and Jack McFarland. The interplay of relationships features the trials and tribulations of dating, marriage, divorce and casual sex, as well as comical key stereotypes of gay and he is very precise and obsessive when it comes to certain tasks, especially cleaning, dressing, and decorating. However, Will does have a patient and compassionate nature towards those close to him. Even though Will is gay, he not to be too overt
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Charmed
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Charmed is an American television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadcast by The WB for eight seasons from October 7,1998, each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern-day San Francisco. The series initially focuses on the three Halliwell sisters, Prue, Piper and Phoebe, however, following Prues death in the third-season finale, their long-lost half sister Paige Matthews assumes her place within the Power of Three from season four onwards. During its fifth season, the became the highest-rated Sunday night program in The WBs history. The shows ratings, although smaller than rival shows on the big four networks, were substantial for The WB as it was not one of the main TV networks in the US. At 178 episodes, Charmed is the second-longest drama broadcast by The WB, the series has also received numerous awards and nominations. Charmed has also become a source of pop culture references in film, the shows success has led to its development in other media, including a video game, board games, novels, and a comic book series which serves as a continuation of its narrative. Throughout 2012, six years after it ceased broadcasting, Charmed was the second-most watched television series on subscription services, including Amazon Video. The series starts when Phoebe Halliwell returns from New York and moves back into the familys Halliwell Manor in San Francisco to live with her sisters Prue and Piper. By the end of the first episode, each sister learns that she has a magical power. Prue, the eldest, has the power of telekinesis, Piper, the middle sister, has the power to effectively freeze people and objects. As she grows more proficient, she learns how to freeze only certain people or objects or body parts, in season three, her powers evolve further, as she is able to cause evil beings or objects to explode using her hands. Phoebe, the youngest of the three, initially possesses the power of allowing her to receive visions of the future. She later develops the powers of levitation in season three, and empathy in season six, the latter allowing her to sense and tap into others emotions and, sometimes, in accordance with the series mythology, a witchs powers are tied to their emotions. During the first two seasons, the sisters face various evil beings from week to week, however, in the third season, they discover that their ultimate enemy is The Underworlds demonic ruler, The Source of All Evil. Eventually, Prue is killed in the season three finale by The Sources personal assassin, Shax, the Source, responsible for the majority of attacks on the sisters, becomes the main villain during season four until he is finally vanquished. After his demise, an annual season-long storyline and several antagonists are introduced in subsequent seasons, the sisters also fight to prevent the exposure of the existence of magic to the human community at large, contending with several police and FBI investigations. The sisters also face romantic storylines, eventually, the two manage to marry and consecrate their union in season three, producing a son named Wyatt in season five
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In the Garden (Eurythmics album)
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In the Garden is the debut studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released in October 1981. Plank had previously worked with the duo whilst they were in their previous band The Tourists, two singles were released from the album in the UK, Never Gonna Cry Again and Belinda. Neither the album nor the singles achieved much success, although Never Gonna Cry Again charted at #63 in the UK singles chart. On 14 November 2005, RCA repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalog as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, the re-issue of In the Garden added the B-sides from the albums two singles, plus three tracks recorded live on the accompanying tour. On the way, they mug up on their Foxx, Bowie, and Joy Division without forgetting their own roots, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except English Summer and Caveman Head co-written by Roger Pomphrey
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (album)
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Sweet Dreams is the second studio album by British new wave duo Eurythmics, released by RCA Records on 4 January 1983. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, after almost two years of initial commercial failure for Eurythmics, this album became a commercial breakthrough for the duo on both sides of the Atlantic. In the wake of success, the single Love Is a Stranger, previously a flop, was re-released. It too was accompanied by a video, which featured Lennox dressed both as a man and a woman. The album was re-released in 2005 with the rest of the Eurythmics studio catalogue, the recordings were remastered and several bonus tracks were added to each of eight albums. In this release Sweet Dreams acquired six bonus tracks, Sweet Dreams saw the duo move away from the psychedelic, guitar-tinged band-oriented sound of their 1981 debut album In the Garden, instead focusing on raw analogue synthesizers and drum machines. Whilst the synthpop genre had grown in popularity in the years, it was often associated with all-male groups and somewhat clinical. Eurythmics brought a soul music twist to the sound, which proved popular with broader audiences. Early Australian, German and US CD releases and the 2005 reissue version of this album have a longer version of This City Never Sleeps. The length of 6,41 is due to some mixed sound effects, very good, very good that total 21 seconds. This message also appears on original UK vinyl pressings, during 1982 Eurythmics recorded many tracks which ended up as B-sides of singles or as alternative versions of other songs. Tracks such as Step on the Beast, Invisible Hands, Dr. Trash, or the versions of The Walk have not been released on CD yet. However these tracks can now be heard through YouTube, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Wrap It Up by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, and Satellite of Love by Lou Reed. Annie Lennox – vocals, keyboards, synthesisers, flute David A, Sweet Dreams at Discogs Sweet Dreams at Radio3Net
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Touch (Eurythmics album)
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Touch is the third studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released on 14 November 1983. The album was the duos first UK number-one album, and also reached the top 10 in the US and it has since been certified Platinum in both the UK and the US. The album was listed in Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, by the time Touch was released, Eurythmics had achieved international success with their hit single Sweet Dreams and their album of the same name. Preceded by the hit single Whos That Girl, Touch was recorded and mixed in only about three weeks at Eurythmics own London studio facility, The Church. A remix album, Touch Dance, was released in 1984, Touch was also the first album to be released simultaneously on record and on the then-new CD format in the United States. The album features the singles Whos That Girl, right by Your Side and Here Comes the Rain Again. On 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalog as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. In 2012, the album was ranked number 492 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and it had originally appeared at #500 on the 2003 version of the list. Slant Magazine listed the album at #47 on its list of Best Albums of the 1980s. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Fame by David Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon and ABC by David A. Stewart, Timothy Wheater, Nadine Masseron
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Be Yourself Tonight
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Be Yourself Tonight is the fifth album by the British pop duo Eurythmics, released in 1985. Combining elements of Motown and rock music, the album incorporates a traditional band line-up/instrumentation. Nonetheless, the recordings still possessed an atmospheric and cutting edge sound, be Yourself Tonight included guest appearances by notable artists such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Elvis Costello. Be Yourself Tonight is Eurythmics best-selling studio album and it reached the top 3 in the UK and top 10 in the US, as well as spawning several hit singles. The album included the duos first UK number-one There Must Be an Angel, no tour followed the albums release, due to Lennoxs recuperation from vocal fold nodules. On 14 November 2005, Sony BMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalogue as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except where noted
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Revenge (Eurythmics album)
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Revenge is the sixth album by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics, released in 1986. Following on from their previous album, Be Yourself Tonight, Revenge continued further in direction as the duo embraced a more rock band style. The album included hit singles and was a commercial success. Its release was followed by a world tour. A1987 concert from the Australian leg of tour was also released on home video. On 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalog as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. The bonus track Revenge 2 is a different remake of Revenge. A line from the song is heard at the end of A Little of You. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except When Tomorrow Comes co-written by Patrick Seymour, and My Guy by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
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Savage (Eurythmics album)
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Savage is the seventh album by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in 1987. The album peaked at no.7 in the UK and was certified Platinum by the BPI for sales in excess of 300,000 copies, produced in France, the album made heavy use of the NED Synclavier digital sampling keyboard. The only other working on the recordings with Stewart and Annie Lennox was drummer Olle Romo. Lennox brought more of a feminist focus to her lyrics which was more evident by the accompanying video album. Although the album was not as successful as their previous two albums, in the UK it made the Top 10, produced three UK Top 30 singles, and was certified platinum. It was less successful in the US, where it peaked at no.41, despite this, Lennox and Stewart themselves stated that Savage is their personal favourite album out of the entire Eurythmics discography. On 14 November 2005 Sony BMG repackaged and released most of Eurythmics back catalogue as Deluxe Edition Reissues, each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Come Together by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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We Too Are One
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We Too Are One is the eighth album by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in September 1989. It would be the duos last studio release until 1999s Peace, when it was released in 1989, the album went straight to number one in the UK, where it has since been certified double platinum. It spawned four singles, all of which reached the UK top 30, Revival, Dont Ask Me Why, The King and Queen of America, in the United States, Babys Gonna Cry was also released as a single but failed to chart. On 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalogue as Deluxe Edition reissues, the original track listing was supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. Despite the four singles being reasonably successful, none of them were included on the duos 2005 Ultimate Collection album. This is actually the only release of the promo video for the 1989 single Revival. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except where noted
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1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
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Virgin Films produced the film for release in its namesake year, and commissioned Eurythmics to write a soundtrack. Lennox and Stewart worked as a duo for these recordings, with no contribution from other musicians, the music, while containing many electronic elements, was far from being synthpop, Stewart described some tracks as being like Kraftwerk meets African tribal meets Booker T and the MGs. Unknown to the group, Radford had commissioned his own orchestral score, two versions of the film were released, one featuring Eurythmics music, and the directors cut, which replaced most of Eurythmics music by the orchestral score. When accepting an award for the film, Radford publicly complained of having Eurythmics music foisted on him. Eurythmics issued a statement saying that they had accepted Virgins commission in good faith, most of the tracks are instrumental, with song titles and lyrics of two songs on the album being derived from Orwells text. Julia was the name of Winstons lover, Sexcrime and Doubleplusgood are examples of Newspeak, the revised version of the English language spoken in Orwells story. The Ministry of Love was the government police and torture department, and included Room 101, where each torture victim would be confronted with their own worst nightmare. The album was released by Virgin Records in the UK and RCA Records in the US, two singles were released from the album, the punchy pop track, Sexcrime, and the long, gentle ballad, Julia. The former was a top 10 hit in most territories, but Julia achieved little commercial success, promotional videos were produced for both singles. One U. S. LP release had a sticker that stated CENSORED BY THE THOUGHT POLICE. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart
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Greatest Hits (Eurythmics album)
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Greatest Hits is a 1991 retrospective compilation album by Eurythmics, containing their successful singles spanning the years 1982 through 1990. It was enormously successful, topping the charts in the UK for a total of 10 weeks, neither the European nor the US version of Greatest Hits contained their top 30 hits Beethoven or Revival. This greatest hits collection was largely superseded by Ultimate Collection released in 2005, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except When Tomorrow Comes co-written by Patrick Seymour. A version of the compilation with 21 music videos was released, on VHS in 1991. In contrast to the versions of the compilation, the music videos are presented in chronological order
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Ultimate Collection (Eurythmics album)
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Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits compilation album by the British pop duo Eurythmics, and was released in November 2005. This set preceded the re-issuing of all eight Eurythmics back-catalogue albums originally released by RCA Records and these re-issues include remastered tracks and bonus material. The fact that the Ultimate Collection was closely connected to these re-issues is also the reason for the omission of Sexcrime. While that song gave Eurythmics a No, unlike 1991s Greatest Hits, Ultimate Collection contains two newly recorded songs Ive Got a Life and Was It Just Another Love Affair. and all of the tracks have been remastered. Also unlike the 1991 compilation, Ultimate Collection contains no tracks from the duos 1989 album We Too Are One, One of the new songs recorded for this collection, Ive Got a Life, was released as a single. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 and spent three weeks at one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. Ultimate Collection peaked at No.5 on the UK Albums Chart and has since been certified triple Platinum by the BPI and it peaked at No.116 on the US Billboard 200. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except When Tomorrow Comes co-written by Patrick Seymour
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Boxed (Eurythmics)
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Boxed is a box set by Eurythmics, containing eight digitally remastered albums including 43 bonus tracks. It was released on 14 November 2005, many of the bonus tracks have originally appeared as B-sides and extra tracks on various single releases. A selection of cover versions, recorded by Eurythmics for the aborted TV Planet project, are also included, boxed features all eight studio albums originally released by RCA Records remastered and expanded. Each expanded release includes a selection of b-sides, and/or remixes, also scattered across seven of the eight expanded releases are a selection of seven cover songs from a never-realized project called TV Planet. Announced in early 1986, TV Planet was to have been a television show which took place on a world that had forgotten about music. The show never got past the planning stages, while the recording dates of the TV Planet cover songs are not detailed anywhere in the package, they would appear to date from anywhere between 1983 and 1988, or later
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Never Gonna Cry Again
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Never Gonna Cry Again is the debut single by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released in 1981. It was taken from their debut album In the Garden, the single achieved little commercial success, peaking at #63 in the UK. The single was accompanied by a video, a medium for which Eurythmics would later receive notable acclaim. To date, the video remains commercially unavailable, though it is available on YouTube, stills from it were used for the sleeve art of the In The Garden album, and footage from it can also be seen during the song Jennifer on the Sweet Dreams video album. The sleeve design of the features an eerie picture of vocalist Annie Lennox made up to look like a gargoyle. Co-produced by respected krautrock producer Conny Plank, the track also featured two members of the krautrock band Can, the singles B-side, Le Sinistre, is an experimental piece, featuring musical arrangements similar to those used in horror film scores. A, Never Gonna Cry Again -3,02 B, Le Sinistre –2,47 Annie Lennox, vocals, keyboards/synthesizer, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Belinda (song)
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Belinda is a 1981 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was the second single, and the second and final single to be taken from their debut album In the Garden. The single, which was released only in the UK, was not a commercial success, no music video was made for the single. The song was co-produced by Conny Plank and featured members of Can, the B-side, Heartbeat, Heartbeat was exclusive to this single, though it was later included on the remastered version of In The Garden in 2005. Belinda 4,01 B, Heartbeat Heartbeat 2,06
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This Is the House
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This Is the House is a 1982 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was their single, and would be included on the bands second album Sweet Dreams. Recorded in early 1982 on their own 8-track home studio in north London, no music video was made for the single. In Australia, This Is the House was released in 1983, following the success of Sweet Dreams. The single was listed on the Kent Music Report chart as receiving significant sales reports outside the top 100, the highest ranking This Is the House achieved on this list was fifth place. On its second appearance on this list, the single charted alongside Whos That Girl. The B-side of the 7 single is entitled Home Is Where The Heart Is, the 12-inch single featured an extended remix of This Is The House, plus four live tracks. This extended mix, plus the version of Your Time Will Come, were omitted from SonyBMGs 2005 remastered releases of Eurythmics back catalogue. However, the versions of Never Gonna Cry Again, 4/4 in Leather. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Walk (Eurythmics song)
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The Walk is a 1982 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was the fourth single, and was included on their second album Sweet Dreams. Produced by band member David A. Stewart and Adam Williams, as with their previous three singles, it was commercially unsuccessful, though it was included on the bands platinum-selling second album Sweet Dreams in 1983. Several variations of the track have been released, the original 7 single featured The Walk and The Walk, whereas the 12 version included what would become the album version of the track. A fourth version, entitled Lets Just Close Our Eyes, was released on the 12 of the next single Love Is A Stranger. A music video was made to accompany the single, which was only the second since their formation. To date, the video has not been released commercially, though is available on YouTube, the 7 and 12 releases of the single contain several B-side tracks, none of which have been released elsewhere. They were omitted from Sony BMGs remastering of Eurythmics back catalogue in 2005, invisible Hands had been the working title for what became the groups Sweet Dreams album, but in the end the track was dropped from the album altogether. Dr. Trash was written solely by Adam Williams, thus becoming one of the few Eurythmics recordings not to be written by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart
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Love Is a Stranger
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Love Is a Stranger is the fifth single by the British rock/pop duo Eurythmics. Originally released in late 1982, the single was commercially unsuccessful, the single was re-released again in 1991, to promote Eurythmics Greatest Hits album. Originally released in November 1982 in the United Kingdom, the reached a disappointing #54 on the singles chart. Following the huge success of Sweet Dreams the following year, the song was re-released and reached #6 in April 1983, in the United States, the song was the second single from the Sweet Dreams album and it was released just as the title track reached number one. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #81 on 17 September 1983, the song was in the charts for thirteen weeks. The single release was accompanied by a music video directed by Mike Brady, in which Stewart acts as chauffeur for an androgynous Lennox. This caused minor controversy in the USA, as some mistakenly thought Lennox was a male transvestite. Video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Who's That Girl? (Eurythmics song)
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Whos That Girl. is a 1983 song recorded by the British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by bandmembers Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, Whos That Girl. was the first single released in the UK from Eurythmics third album Touch. The song features Lennox in the role of a suspicious woman demanding to know with whom her lover has been seen associating, the song became Eurythmics third Top 10 single in the UK singles chart, peaking at number three. In the United States, Whos That Girl. was released as the single from the album. It climbed to number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100, the music video became a heavily played clip on MTV and further showcased Lennoxs gender-bending image. In it, she appears as a singer performing the song. At the end of the video, the female Lennox is shown kissing the male Lennox, the gender-bending pop star Marilyn also makes an appearance in the video as another of Stewarts escorts. Despite the small role, Marilyns appearance proved a high-profile move which helped lead to his own music career later the same year, -3,49 B, You Take Some Lentils And You Take Some Rice -3,0312 A, Whos That Girl. -6,58 B1, You Take Some Lentils And You Take Some Rice -3,03 B2 and it was included on their 1988 compilation Best of The Flying Pickets. Australian chamber pop group Naked Raven included a cover of the song on their 2004 album Holding Our Breath, the song was the focus of a popular sketch from Harry Enfield and Chums, centring on the characters Lee and Lance. On an episode of The Simpsons, this song starts while Lisa is trying to change personality in front of her friends, the video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Right by Your Side
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Right by Your Side is a song by the British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, the track was released as the second single in the UK from Eurythmics third album Touch. Right by Your Side became the fourth consecutive Eurythmics single to hit the Top 10 of the UK singles chart during 1983 and it also climbed to number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Here Comes the Rain Again
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Here Comes the Rain Again is a 1984 song by British duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, the song was released on 12 January 1984 as the third single in the UK from the album Touch and in the United States as the first single. It became Eurythmics second Top 10 U. S. hit, Here Comes the Rain Again hit number eight in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 single in that country. Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a mood in his songs is something at which he excels. So its kind of a weird course, and of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, so talk to me like lovers do and its the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose thats when its darkest unfolding and bloodred just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of statements and sentiments. The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra, however, due to the limited space in the studio, the Church, the players had to improvise by recording their parts in other parts of the studio. The song was mixed by blending the orchestral tracks on top of the original synthesized backing track. The basic melody had already written and Lennox looked out the window after their fight. She announced, Here comes the rain again, the running time for Here Comes the Rain Again is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Touch album. Although it was edited even further for its single and video release, the entire five-minute version did not appear on any Eurythmics album until the U. S. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991. In the UK, the single became Eurythmics fifth Top 10 hit and it was the duos second top ten hit in the United States, peaking at #4 in March 1984. The music video, featuring both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, was directed by Stewart, John Gerschfield and Jon Roseman, and released in December 1983, a month before the single came out. The video opens with an aerial shot of The Old Man of Hoy on the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands before transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore. She later explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and holding a lantern, Stewart stalks her with a video camera. In many scenes the two are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame, the result is that the viewer may perceive one as being a ghost in the world of the other. George Nozuka sings the same note when he says Talk to me with a slight stutter on his hit single, another hit by Nozuka, Last Night, features a riff that is inspired by Sweet Dreams
