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Universal Amphitheatre
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Universal Amphitheatre was an indoor amphitheatre located in Los Angeles, California within Universal City. It was originally built as a venue, opening in the summer of 1972 with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was remodeled and converted into a theatre in 1982 to improve acoustics. The amphitheater closed on September 6,2013 to be demolished for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, the Amphitheatre was originally built as a daytime arena where patrons of the Universal Studios Studio Tour could watch stuntmen perform a western-themed stunt show and shootout. By 1970, the stage was completed and three old west facades were constructed for the show, the arena was completed in 1971. Because it was empty at night, a studio tour guide suggested that the arena be used to hold rock concerts. On June 28,1972, the venue hosted its first concert, the show was a hit and was extended until cold weather forced its closure. During these early years, the stunt show was performed during the day while at night the venue hosted concerts, the theatre proved to be so popular that it regularly filled up to 98% capacity. After only one year, the studio expanded it to seat 5,200 patrons, in 1980, the venue closed for two years for a major renovation. During this time, a roof was constructed to allow for entertainment, acoustics were improved. In May 1993, Universal added the Universal CityWalk shopping and dining district and this allowed patrons to eat and drink before and after concerts. The amphitheatre was best known for its acoustics and its sightlines, on December 6,2011, it was announced that Gibson Amphitheatre would close and would be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park area at Universal Studios Hollywood. Although the venue had events scheduled until October 2013, it closed in September of that year. The final performance held at the Gibson Amphitheatre was Pepe Aguilar on September 6th,2013, at the time of its closure, it was the third largest mid-sized venue in California, behind Nokia Theatre and the Shrine Auditorium - two other Los Angeles venues. The amphitheatre was demolished on September 25,2013, list of contemporary amphitheatres Gibson Amphitheatre on Live Nation Gibson Amphitheatre Home movies showing the arena with the original Wild West stunt show in 1971
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Arsenio Hall
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Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, a talk show that ran from 1989 until 1994. Other television shows and films Hall has appeared in are Martial Law, Star Search, Coming to America, Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thickes sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the Night. In 2012, Hall won NBCs reality-competition game show Celebrity Apprentice 5, Arsenio was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Fred and Anne Hall. His father is a Baptist minister, Hall performed as a magician when he was a child. He graduated from Warrensville Heights High School in Warrensville Heights, Ohio in 1973, after he graduated, he attended Ohio University, where he was on the speech team with Nancy Cartwright. He then transferred to and graduated from Kent State University in 1977, Hall later moved to Chicago, and then Los Angeles, to pursue a career in comedy, making a couple of appearances on Soul Train. In 1984, he was the announcer/sidekick for Alan Thicke during the talk show Thicke of the Night. Arsenio was the voice of Winston Zeddemore in the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, he co-starred in the comedy film Coming to America with Eddie Murphy, in 1986, the Fox network introduced The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, created to directly challenge The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After a moderate start, ratings for the show sagged, behind-the-scenes relations between Rivers and network executives at Fox quickly eroded, and Rivers left in 1987. The series was subsequently renamed The Late Show, and featured several hosts, including Ross Shafer, Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer and Robert Townsend before it was cancelled in 1988. Hall was also chosen to host the show in the fall of 1987, from January 2,1989 until May 27,1994, he had a Paramount contract to host a nationwide syndicated late night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show. The practice soon became such a ritual that by 1991 had become a pop culture stamp of approval — one that Hall said had become so popular its getting on peoples nerves. In Disneys Aladdin, the Genie character voiced by Robin Williams performs the gesture while mimicking the appearance of Hall. This popular gesture can also be found in the 1993 Mel Brooks comedy, Robin Hood and it was also seen in the movie Passenger 57, in which an old woman confuses the character played by Wesley Snipes with Arsenio Hall. After saving the day, the passengers on the plane do the gesture toward the protagonist. He also had a rivalry with Jay Leno, after the latter was named host of The Tonight Show, Hall used his fame during this period to help fight worldwide prejudice against HIV/AIDS, after Magic Johnson contracted the disease
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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1988 MTV Video Music Awards
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The 1988 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7,1988, honoring the best music videos from May 2,1987, to April 1,1988. The show was hosted by Arsenio Hall at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, australian group INXS was the nights biggest winner and nominee, taking home five awards out of nine nominations. The groups awards included Video of the Year and Viewers Choice, making this the very first of few times in which the same artist, iNXSs nominations, meanwhile, totaled up to nine, eight for Need You Tonight/Mediate and one for Devil Inside. In the meantime, George Harrison and U2 were tied in for second place in terms of nominations, furthermore, both artists split their nominations between two different videos in 1988, and at least once both of their videos competed against one another in the same category. Finally, this show saw the elimination of another category. At the same time, the category of Most Experimental Video was renamed Breakthrough Video, a name that it still keeps
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MTV Video Music Award
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award, the statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards, since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTVs website. The first VMA ceremony was held in 1984 at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, the ceremonies are normally held in either New York City or Los Angeles. However, the ceremonies have also hosted in Miami and Las Vegas. 1984, At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her hit Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, during the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and a garter. Cyndi Lauper spoke in Exorcist-esque gibberish to explain the VMA rules right before winning the Best Female video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, David Bowie and The Beatles were rewarded with the first ever Video Vanguard Awards for their work in pioneering the music video. 1988, At the 1988 Video Music Awards Michael Jackson appeared for the first time, a pre-recorded live performance of Bad was shown. He was also awarded the Video Vanguard Award, paula Abdul was nominated for six awards, picking up four wins. She performed a medley of her singles Straight Up, Cold Hearted. When Madonna won the Viewers Choice Award for her Like a Prayer video, the tone that the commercial sought to convey sharply contrasted with the music video. When Pepsi executives saw the video, they yanked the advertisement after only two airings, in an attempt to dissociate themselves from Madonna. She also gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit Express Yourself, the performance consisted of both a dramatic 18th-century reinterpretation of Vogue as well as her dramatically becorseted breasts. His video Thriller influenced and changed music videos into what it is like today, a conflict between Poisons Bret Michaels and C. C. DeVille culminated in a fistfight at the Video Music Awards in 1991, deVille was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen. Paul Reubens had his first public appearance following an arrest for lewd-conduct earlier that year, taking the stage in costume as Pee-wee Herman, he received a standing ovation, after which he asked the audience, Heard any good jokes lately. Prince & The New Power Generation performed their sexually charged song Gett Off on a Caligula-esque set and his trousers were parodied numerous times throughout the following year, on In Living Color & even on the next years VMAs by Howard Stern. It also marked the last TV appearance of Kiss with Eric Carr,1992, In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs Rape Me and tourettes
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Paula Abdul
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Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, voice actress, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the video era. Abdul later scored a string of pop hits in the late 1980s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for seventh among the female performers who have topped the chart. She won a Grammy for Best Music Video – Short Form for Opposites Attract, after her initial period of success, Abdul suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life. She saw renewed fame and success as a judge on American Idol in the 2000s. Abdul was born in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents, Abduls father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian-Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. Rykiss, grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Ukraine, Abdul holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. She has a sister named Wendy, in 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School. An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin in the Rain. Abdul began taking lessons at an early age in ballet, jazz. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader, at 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School. Abdul studied broadcasting at the California State University, Northridge, during her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team—the famed Laker Girls. Within a year, she became head choreographer, Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single Torture and my only problem was how to tell the Jacksons how to dance, Abdul later recalled. Imagine me telling them what routines to do, I was young, I was scared. Im not quite sure how I got through that, the success of the choreography in the video led to Abduls career of choreographer in music videos. It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons Victory tour, Abdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era
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Living Colour
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Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the music is a creative fusion influenced by heavy metal, funk, jazz, hip hop, country, exploratative. Their lyrics range from the personal to the political, in some of the latter cases attacking Eurocentrism and racism in America, Living Colour rose to fame with their debut album Vivid in 1988. Although the band scored a number of hits, they are best remembered for the rock anthem Cult of Personality and they were also named Best New Artist at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards and won their second Grammy Award for their follow-up album Times Up. After disbanding in 1995, Living Colour reunited in late 2000, english-born guitarist Vernon Reid had formed a number of bands, and after a few years, he formed Living Colour in New York in 1984. Reid assembled a number of bands under the name Vernon Reids Living Colour from 1984 to 1986, Reid was well known on the downtown New York jazz scenes because of his tenure in Ronald Shannon Jacksons Decoding Society. The bands sound was different from the songs that showed up later on their major label recordings. Soon after, the band became experienced at touring, including performing regular gigs at the club CBGB, Vivid, released on May 3,1988, gathered sales momentum only when later that year, MTV began playing the video for Cult of Personality. The album reached No.6 on the U. S. Billboard 200 chart, on April 1,1989, the band performed on NBCs Saturday Night Live. Four months later, the band gained exposure as an opening act, along with Guns N Roses. The album reached No.13 on the Billboard 200, other guests included Maceo Parker and Little Richard. In 1991, Living Colour joined the inaugural Lollapalooza tour, in 1992, Skillings left the band and was replaced by Doug Wimbish. This new line up released their third album, Stain, in February 1993. The album reached No.26 in the U. S. a further drop since their debut, despite retaining their strong fan base, Living Colour disbanded in January 1995, after failing to settle on a common musical goal during sessions for their fourth studio album. Four of these tracks were included on the compilation Pride, following the breakup, individual band members released a variety of solo efforts. Living Colour reformed on December 21,2000, at CBGB as a gig billed Head>>Fake w/ special guests, Head>>Fake was the current drum and bass project headed by Calhoun and Wimbish. Glover was on the bill to sing a few songs and Reid came on three songs. The reunion was followed by the release of the fourth studio album, Collideøscope, in 2003, their first album not to chart in the United States
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Leave Me Alone
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Leave Me Alone is a single by American artist Michael Jackson. The song was featured on Jacksons seventh studio album, Bad, and was its eighth single in February 1989, but was released outside of the United States and Canada. Leave Me Alone was recorded during the album sessions but the song only appeared on the CD editions of Bad as a bonus track. The song was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones, internationally, the song was a success, peaking at number one and two in Ireland and the United Kingdom respectively and reaching the top 10 in Belgium, New Zealand and Spain. Leave Me Alone was generally received by contemporary music critics. A short film was released for the song, in the film, Jackson pokes fun at the false rumors about him such as the stories about him purchasing the bones of The Elephant Man and his cosmetic surgeries. The short film was the recipient of a Grammy Award in 1990 for Best Short Form Music Video, despite the success of the single, the song never appeared on any of Jacksons world concert tours. Leave Me Alone was a response to negative and false stories about Jackson that frequently appeared in the media and tabloids post-1986 after the success of Thriller. Beginning in 1986, the tabloids began to publish stories about Jackson. A picture leaked out to the media of him lying down in a chamber at a hospital he visited. An unknown person took the picture of Jackson while he was testing out the chamber out of curiosity, when Jackson bought a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles, the media viewed it as evidence of Jacksons increasing detachment from reality. It was also reported that Jackson had offered to buy the bones of Joseph Merrick and these stories inspired the nickname Wacko Jacko, which Jackson acquired the following year, and would come to despise. Another frequent response from the media was about Jacksons plastic surgery, Jacksons manager said of the medias criticism towards the topic, So many terrible things have been written. Okay, so he had his nose fixed, and the cleft — big deal, I got news for you, my nose has broke five times. Marilyn Monroe had her nose done, had her breasts done, the song has been viewed as having a paranoia theme, a theme that Jackson had frequently used on previous studio albums. The Atlantic felt that Jackson showed obvious expressions of distrust in the song and that the song was one of multiple songs where Jacksons persistent loneliness in his music was prominent. In 2009, J. Edward Keyes, of Rolling Stone, described Leave Me Alone as sounding like vintage Michael and the works because of its music. Leave Me Alone is a song played with a synthesizer
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Smooth Criminal
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Smooth Criminal is the seventh single from American recording artist Michael Jacksons 1987 Bad album. The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jacksons lyrics about a woman named Annie, first broadcast on television as a video in early October, it was released as a single on October 21,1988, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It was re-released on April 10,2006, as a part of the Visionary, the re-released Visionary single charted at number 19 in the UK. The song serves as the song to Jacksons 1988 film Moonwalker. Smooth Criminal is a written by Jackson and co-produced with Quincy Jones. Two early versions of the song were written in 1985 and the demo was recorded in 1986. The first song was called Chicago 1945 which evolved into Al Capone and this version did not make the album and was re-worked and re-written as Smooth Criminal. This song is played in the key of A minor, Jacksons vocal spans from G3 to E5. It has a tempo of 118 beats per minute. The refrain of the song contains the phrase Annie, are you OK and this is a phrase used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training courses, and Michael Jackson is known to have taken a CPR course. Resusci Anne, otherwise known as Annie in English-speaking countries, is the name of a commonly used in CPR training. As part of the course, trainees are taught to say Annie, are you OK. to the dummy in order to check that the patient is conscious and responsive. Jason Elias of AllMusic called the one of Jacksons best, Despite the content Smooth Criminal is a gorgeous. The New York Times Jon Pareles wrote, in Smooth Criminal, the finds a bloodstained carpet and an unconscious body. Rolling Stones Davitt Sigerson wrote, Smooth Criminal may be the result of retiring too soon after a Brian de Palma picture. Jackson originally wanted to make the video in the western genre. Film was shot between mid-February and April 1987, jeffrey Daniel of the soul music group Shalamar co-choreographed the Smooth Criminal video with Jackson and Vincent Paterson, who was a back-up dancer in Beat It and Thriller. It was directed by special effects coordinator Colin Chilvers, the dance sequence of the video in the 1930s style lounge pays tribute to the Fred Astaire musical comedy film The Band Wagon
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Neil Young
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop
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The Cars
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The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that was becoming popular. The Cars were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers Poll and their debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. As of 2001, the Cars have sold over 23 million albums in the United States, the band broke up in 1988, and Ocasek later discouraged talk of a reunion. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer, in 2005, Easton and Hawkes joined with Todd Rundgren to form a spin-off band, the New Cars, which performed classic Cars and Rundgren songs alongside new material. The original surviving members reunited in 2010 to record a new album, Move Like This, in 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before the Cars, members of the band performed together in different incarnations. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program. The two were in bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, Ocasek and Orr, along with lead guitarist Jas Goodkind, formed a Crosby, Stills and they released one album, Hows the Weather, on Paramount Records in 1973 that failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, the band included Greg Hawkes, who had studied at the Berklee School of Music and had played saxophone on Milkwoods album. Hawkes left to tour with Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture, Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr then performed as an acoustic duo called simply Ocasek and Orr at the Idler coffeehouse in Cambridge. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs, later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Capn Swing. Capn Swing also featured drummer Glenn Evans, later followed by Kevin Robichaud, and a bass player. Benjamin Orr was the lead vocalist and did not play an instrument, Capn Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After being rejected by record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass player and drummer. Orr took over on bass and Robichaud was replaced by David Robinson, Robinson had also played in DMZ and the Pop. Hawkes returned to play keyboards and the band became The Cars, a nine-song demo tape was recorded in early 1977 and soon Just What I Needed was getting heavy airplay on Boston radio stations WBCN and WCOZ
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Like a Prayer (song)
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Like a Prayer is a song by American singer Madonna, from her studio album of the same name. Sire Records released it as the lead single on March 3,1989. She co-wrote and co-produced the song with Patrick Leonard, the track denoted a more artistic and personal approach to songwriting for Madonna, who felt she needed to cater more to her adult audience. Like a Prayer is a pop song with elements of gospel music. A choir provides background vocals that heighten the songs spiritual nature, Madonna introduced liturgical words in the lyrics—inspired by her Catholic upbringing—but changed the context in which they were used. They have dual meanings of sexual innuendo and religion, like a Prayer was acclaimed by critics, and was a commercial success. The music video, directed by Mary Lambert, portrays Madonna as a witness to a murder of a girl by white supremacists. While a black man is arrested for the murder, Madonna hides in a church for safety seeking strength to go forth as a witness, the clip depicts Catholic symbols such as stigmata, Ku Klux Klan-style cross burning, and a dream about kissing a black saint. The Vatican condemned the video, while family and religious groups protested its broadcast and they boycotted products by soft drink manufacturer Pepsi, which used the song for a commercial. Madonnas contract with Pepsi was then canceled, although she was allowed to retain her initial fee, the song has been featured on five of Madonnas concert tours, most recently the Rebel Heart Tour in 2015. Like a Prayer has been covered by many artists, the song is noted for the mayhem surrounding the music video, and the different interpretations of its content, leading to discussions among music and film scholars. Alongside its respective album, Like a Prayer has been considered a point in Madonnas career. 1988 was a year on the recording front for Madonna. Following the critical and commercial failure of her 1987 film Whos That Girl, however, unfavorable reviews once again caused her discomfort. Her marriage to actor Sean Penn ended and the couple filed for divorce in January 1989, Madonna turned 30, the age at which her mother had died, and thus the singer experienced more emotional turmoil. No matter how you try to get away from it, the sin is within you all the time and it was this fear that haunted me, it taunted and pained me every moment. My music was probably the only distraction I had, but she understood that as she was growing up, so was her core audience. Feeling the need to attempt something different, Madonna wanted the sound of her new album to indicate what could be popular in the music world and she had certain personal matters on her mind that she thought could be the musical direction of the album
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Andrew Dice Clay
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Andrew Dice Clay is an American comedian and actor. He came to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, macho, in 1990 he became the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row. That same year he played the role in the comedy-mystery film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. Clay has been in movies and has released a number of stand-up comedy albums. He is currently continuing his focus on acting while still touring and performing his stand-up, Clay was born to a Jewish family and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay and his parents are Jacqueline and Fred Silverstein, he has one sister. Clays father worked in real estate sales and also as a boxer, Clay was doing impressions and entertaining his family in his living room by age 5. He played the drums at James Madison High School and later worked as a drummer in the Catskills in the late 1970s. In 1978, he auditioned at Pips, a comedy club in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, doing comedic impressions. His act at the time included an impression of John Travolta in Grease and he did a character called the dice man that was wildly popular that was based on Buddy Love. Clay eventually became this character full-time in his act, Clay graduated to the major Manhattan comedy clubs, including Budd Friedmans The Improv, Catch a Rising Star and Dangerfields. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was adopted by Mitzi Shore and his work at the Store led to sitcom appearances on M*A*S*H and Diffrent Strokes. He later landed roles in such as Making the Grade, Pretty in Pink. He had a role on Crime Story from 1986 to 1988. He eventually turned from acting to pursue a career in stand-up comedy and his big break came in 1988 when he did a seven-minute set at Dangerfields during the Rodney Dangerfield special Nothing Goes Right. It was there that he met his agent Dennis Arfa, which led to his first HBO special, in 1995, Clay released an HBO special Assume the Position. That same year, he signed a development deal with CBS and producer Bruce Helford, in 1998, Clay released the triple-live album Filth via the Internet. Soon afterward, Clay aligned himself with New York City–based talk program The Opie, in 2000, Clay released Im Over Here Now and Banned for Life
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Mother Goose
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The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes often published as Mother Gooses Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme, a Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom. The so-called Mother Goose rhymes and stories have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes, Mother Goose is the name given to an archetypal country woman. She is credited with the Mother Goose stories and rhymes popularized in the 17th century in English-language literature, an early mention appears in an aside in a versified French chronicle of weekly events, Jean Lorets La Muse Historique, collected in 1650. His remark, comme un conte de la Mère Oye shows that the term was readily understood, additional 17th-century Mother Goose/Mere lOye references appear in French literature in the 1620s and 1630s. According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930s, and 1940s and she was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose, who brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaacs ten. After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who had married Thomas Fleet, according to Early, Mother Goose used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them. Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them, another authority on the Mother Goose tradition, Iona Opie, does not give any credence to either the Elwes-Thomas or the Boston suppositions. Perraults publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories, the first public appearance of the Mother Goose stories in the New World was in Worcester, Massachusetts, where printer Isaiah Thomas reprinted Sambers volume under the same title in 1786. This edition was registered with the Stationers Company in 1780, however, no copy has been traced, and the earliest surviving edition is dated 1784. The name Mother Goose has been associated in the English-speaking world with childrens poetry ever since, in 1837, John Bellenden Ker Gawler published a book deriving the origin of the Mother Goose rhymes from Flemish puns. In music, Maurice Ravel wrote Ma mère loye, a suite for the piano, there is also a song called Mother Goose by progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 Aqualung album. The song seems to be unrelated to the figure of Mother Goose, since she is only the first of many images that the narrator encounters. The pantomime was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 29 December, in the first scene, the stage directions show her raising a storm and, for the very first time, flying a gander. The magical Mother Goose transformed the old miser into Pantaloon of the commedia dellarte and the British pantomime tradition, and she was played en travesti by Samuel Simmons – a pantomime tradition that survives today – and she also raises a ghost in a macabre churchyard scene. Some families in Utah give their gifts from Mother Goose on New Years Eve. Books by L. Frank Baum and illustrator W. W, denslow in the late 1890s featured Mother Goose and Father Goose. The Complete Mother Goose, nursery rhymes old and new, fully annotated edition by Daryl Leyland, with decorations and illustrations by Max Van Doren
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Def Leppard
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Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen, Phil Collen and this is the bands longest-standing line-up. The bands strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s, the bands next studio album, Pyromania in January 1983, with Photograph and Rock of Ages as the lead singles, turned Def Leppard into a household name. In the U. S. Pyromania was certified diamond, in 2003, the album ranked number 384 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Def Leppards fourth album Hysteria, released in 1987, topped the UK and U. S. album charts. As of 2009, it has reached beyond the success of Pyromania, having been certified 12× platinum for sales of over 12 million in the U. S. and has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide. The album spawned seven hit singles, including the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 number one Love Bites, alongside Pour Some Sugar on Me, Hysteria, Armageddon It, Animal, Rocket, and Women. Their next studio album, Adrenalize, reached number one in the UK and U. S. charts in 1992, and contained several hits, including Lets Get Rocked and Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad. Their 1993 album, Retro Active, contained the hit song Two Steps Behind, while their greatest-hits album Vault, released in 1995. As one of the worlds best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide and they are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies in the U. S. The band were ranked No.31 in VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1977. The band originally consisted of Willis on guitar, Savage on bass, only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus, in November 1977. During his audition it was decided that he was suited to be the lead singer. Their first ever gig was in the hall in A Block in Westfield School in Mosborough. The band adopted a name proposed by Elliott, Deaf Leopard, at Kennings suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January 1978, Steve Clark joined the band, according to Elliott, he successfully auditioned for the band by playing Lynyrd Skynyrds Free Bird in its entirety. In November, just prior to recording sessions for what would be a three-song release known as The Def Leppard E. P, Kenning abruptly left the band, he would later form the band Cairo. He was replaced for those sessions by Frank Noon, by the end of the month, Rick Allen, then only 15 years old, had joined the band as its full-time drummer
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Adrenalize
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Adrenalize is the fifth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 31 March 1992 through Mercury Records. The album was the first by the following the 1991 death of guitarist Steve Clark. It was produced by Mike Shipley and Def Leppard, with Robert John Mutt Lange as executive producer, the album debuted at No.1 on the U. S. Billboard 200 and peaked at No.1 on the UK Albums Chart. Tracks 1-4 are taken from the bands Live, In the Clubs, in Your Face EP, recorded at Bonn, Germany, Tracks 7 &8 taken from Tonight single. Track 9 taken from Make Love Like a Man U. K. single, track 10 taken from Two Steps Behind single. Tracks 11 &12 taken from Lets Get Rocked single
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Guitarist
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A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, the correctness of techniques that a guitarist acquires depends on the quality of training. Learning how to play correctly is crucial for any guitarist no matter which guitar he/she plays, the guitarist may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre, and bottleneck or steel-guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance, while music is an art form in itself, playing an instrument such as the guitar has long been a popular subject for painters. Despite perceived tendencies in mainstream music diffusion, to Rock music and electric guitar, notable guitarists arrived from other genres, Rolling Stone In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. This list included 100 guitarists whom the magazine editor David Fricke considered the best, the first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at #50 in the list. Artists who had not been included in the previous list were added, rory Gallagher, for example, was ranked in 57th place. The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is mentioned in many biographies about artists who appear in the list, despite the appearance in other magazines like Billboard, this publication by Guitar World was criticized for including no female musicians within its selection. However, Guitar World recently published a list of Eight Amazing Female Acoustic Players, including Kaki King, TIME and others Following the death of Les Paul, TIME website presented their list of 10 greatest artists in electric guitar. As in Rolling Stone magazines list, Jimi Hendrix was chosen as the greatest guitarist followed by Slash from Guns N Roses, B. B. King, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton. Gigwise. com, a music magazine, also ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist ever, followed by Jimmy Page, B. B. King, Keith Richards. There are many classical guitarists listed as notable in their respective epochs, media related to Guitarists at Wikimedia Commons
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Steve Clark
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Stephen Maynard Steve Clark was an English musician. He was a guitarist and principal songwriter for the British hard rock band Def Leppard, in 2007, Clark was ranked No.11 on Classic Rock Magazines 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes. Stephen Maynard Clark was born and raised in Hillsborough, South Yorkshire, from an early age, he showed an interest in music, attending a concert held by Cliff Richard and the Shadows aged 6. At 11, he received his first guitar which was purchased by his father on the condition that he learned to play, Clark studied classical guitar for a year before he first heard the music of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin at a friends house. When Clark left school his first employer was a firm called GEC Traction where he worked as a lathe operator. He was 3 years into a 4-year apprenticeship with the firm by the time his band Def Leppard decided to sign a record deal with Phonogram Records. Before joining Def Leppard in 1978, Clark played cover songs with his band, Electric Chicken. Around that time, he met Pete Willis at a technical college, Willis spotted that Clark was reading a guitar book and asked if he played. He then invited Steve to come and audition for his band as they were looking to add a second guitarist, Clark never showed up, but when Willis and singer Joe Elliott bumped into Clark again at a Judas Priest gig, Willis re-issued his invitation. Clark finally came down to their room and joined Def Leppard in January 1978. According to Elliott in Behind the Music, Clark auditioned for Def Leppard by playing all of Lynyrd Skynyrds Freebird without accompaniment, while a member of Def Leppard, Clark contributed to over 90% of the music. Clark and Pete Willis shared lead duties, and Clark was nicknamed The Riffmaster due to his amazing talent. Towards the end of the Pyromania recording sessions Pete Willis was asked to leave, Clark and Collen quickly bonded, becoming close friends and leading to the trademark dual-guitar sound of Def Leppard. He and Clark became known as the Terror Twins in recognition of their close friendship, part of their success as a duo was attributed by Collen to their ability to swap between rhythm and lead guitar, often both playing lead or both doing rhythm within the same song. The fact that came from entirely different musical backgrounds also contributed to their unique guitar partnership. Steve Clark, I do read and write and I know the rules of music which is great in a two guitar band because were so different in our approach to playing. Phil will play something if it sounds right, whereas I look at things and say, its wrong to play that note, its not musically correct. ”Whereas Collen stopped drinking alcohol during the mid-1980s in pursuit of a healthier lifestyle, Clark never managed to escape his addiction to alcohol. Clark primarily played Gibson Guitars during his career and signed an endorsement with Gibson sometime before the commencement of the Hysteria World Tour, Gibson made some custom specification guitars for Clark
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Fine Young Cannibals
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Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by bassist David Steele, guitarist Andy Cox, and singer Roland Gift. Their self-titled 1985 debut album contained Johnny Come Home and a cover of Suspicious Minds and their 1988 album, The Raw & the Cooked, topped the UK and US album charts, and contained their two Billboard Hot 100 number ones, She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing. In 1990 the band won two Brit Awards, Best British Group, and Best British Album and their name came from the 1960 film All the Fine Young Cannibals starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. The group was formed in 1984 after the dissolution of The Beat, with whom Cox, the duo of Steele and Cox spent eight months listening to over 500 cassettes of potential singers before settling on Gift. They had difficulty obtaining a contract but when a video of their song Johnny Come Home appeared on British TV show The Tube. The bands eponymous album was released in 1985, spawning two UK hit singles, Johnny Come Home and a cover of Elvis Presleys Suspicious Minds featuring additional vocals by Jimmy Somerville. These two songs became hits internationally, charting in the top 40 in Europe, Canada and Australia. Fine Young Cannibals appeared as the band in a nightclub in the 1987 comedy film Tin Men. 18 in the UK Singles Chart and was popular on the U. S. dance chart, during this time, Gift appeared in the movie Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. The band continued their success with the singles She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing. The latter song was their second U. S. number one and it also peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. The Raw & the Cooked included three songs the band had recorded for Tin Men, and their cover of the Buzzcocks Ever Fallen in Love recorded for the film Something Wild. In the early 2000s, Gift reactivated the band name and toured as Roland Gift, dance chart Fine Young Cannibals Discography on Discogs. com
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She Drives Me Crazy
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She Drives Me Crazy is a song recorded by English group Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1988 album The Raw & the Cooked. The song peaked at Number 5 on the British singles chart in the bands native U. K. in January 1989 before hitting Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 15 April 1989. She Drives Me Crazy also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Spain and it also was a top 3 hit on the German and Dutch Top 40. The unique snare drum pop sound was created by recording the drum portion separately. A speaker was placed on top of the snare drum. The original recording of the drum part was played back through the speaker. The song was re-released in 1997 in support of Fine Young Cannibals compilation album The Finest and it included a remix by Roger Sanchez, as well as Mousse T. remixes of Johnny Come Home. The single reached #36 on the UK Singles Chart, two music videos were produced for the song, one by Philippe Decouflé and one by Pedro Romhanyi. This version received several nominations at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, the song is featured in the nightclub scene of the Season 4 The Equalizer episode The Caper. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy recorded a version as the track to the 1994 Muppet album Kermit Unpigged. A music video, featuring appearances by various celebrities, was released to promote the album. Atlanta-based consumer advocate and radio show host Clark Howard has for years used the opening bars of this song as the introduction to his syndicated radio program. The Flying Pickets recorded an a cappella version for their 1994 The Original Flying Pickets, former Cantopop singer Yvonne Lau Man-Kuen released a Cantonese cover based on this song named The Grey Art Gallery in 1990. Dolly Parton covered the song for her album Backwoods Barbie, changing the title to Drives Me Crazy, the Fine Young Camels sing C Drives Me Crazy, an Sesame Street parody of She Drives Me Crazy. A Muppet camel in the Mojave Desert sings about how he loves the letter C and he is backed by two male Anything Muppets dressed as Bedouins. A Muppet cookie and a Muppet cat also sing and dance along, the number features an introduction by Jerry Nelson, stating its their greatest, and only, hit ever. American comedian Arsenio Hall, under the pseudonym Chunky A, recorded a novelty parody of this song and it appears on the 1989 album Large and In Charge. Weird Al Yankovic parodied this song as She Drives Like Crazy for his 1989 soundtrack album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, electric Six recorded a cover version as part of a pledge package for their Absolute Treasure Kickstarter campaign
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Steve Winwood
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Stephen Lawrence Steve Winwood is an English musician whose genres include rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays guitar, drums, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, violin. Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a solo career with hits including While You See a Chance, Valerie, Back in the High Life Again. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004, in 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his enduring influence on generations of music makers. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist,1988 and 1989, like Eric Clapton, he has been part of many bands, including Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group, and Blind Faith. Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and his father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy, began playing piano at age four and he first performed with his father and older brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. Winwood was a choirboy at St Johns Church of England, Perry Barr and he later admitted to having sneaked a few plays of the organ there. While he was young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Great Barr at the northern edge of the city. Winwood attended the Great Barr School which was one of the first comprehensive schools and he also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course. B. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, Winwood modelled his singing after Ray Charles. Winwood joined the Spencer Davis Group at age 14, along with his brother, Muff. Steves distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles, at the end of 1965 the group had their first number one single with Keep On Running and the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ. During this time Winwood joined forces with guitarist Eric Clapton as part of the one-off group Eric Clapton, songs were recorded for the Elektra label, but only three tracks made the compilation album, Whats Shakin. Winwood co-wrote and recorded the hits Gimme Some Lovin and Im a Man before leaving the Spencer Davis Group, Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham. After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic, soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music
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Roll with It (Steve Winwood song)
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Roll with It is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album, Roll with It, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and songwriter Will Jennings, publishing rights organization BMI later had Motown songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker hit Roadrunner. The single spent four weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1988 and it topped the Billboard adult contemporary chart for two weeks, and also spent four weeks at No.1 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart. In addition, the song reached No.30 on the R&B chart, in the United Kingdom, the song reached No.53 on the UK Singles Chart. The song Roll with It was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1989, Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal performance, the album Roll with It was also nominated as Album of the Year. com Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Elvis Costello
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Declan Patrick MacManus, better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His critically acclaimed album, My Aim Is True, was released in 1977. Shortly after recording it, he formed the Attractions as his backing band and his second album, This Years Model, was released in 1978, and was ranked number 11 by Rolling Stone on its list of the best albums from 1967–1987. His third album, Armed Forces, was released in 1979 and his first three albums all appeared on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Costello and the Attractions toured and recorded together for the part of a decade. Much of Costellos work since has been as a solo artist, steeped in wordplay, the vocabulary of Costellos lyrics is broad. His music has drawn on many genres, one critic described him as a pop encyclopaedia. He has won awards in his career, including a Grammy Award. In 2003, Costello and the Attractions were inducted into the Rock, in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Costello has co-written several original songs for motion pictures, including God Give Me Strength from Grace of My Heart, for the latter, Costello was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Costello was born in 25 August 1954 at St Marys Hospital, London, the son of Lilian Alda and Ross MacManus, Costello lived in Twickenham, attending Archbishop Myers R. C. School, which is now St Marks Catholic Secondary School, in neighbouring Hounslow, with a musically inclined father, Costellos first broadcast recording was with his father in a television commercial for R. Whites Lemonade. His father wrote and sang the song, Costello provided backing vocals, the advertisement won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival. Costello moved with his Liverpool-born mother to Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1971, there, he formed his first band, a folk duo called Rusty, with Allan Mayes. After completing secondary school at St. Francis Xaviers College he moved back to London where he formed a band called Flip City. They were active from 1974 through to early 1976, around this time, Costello adopted the stage name D. P. His father had performed under the name Day Costello, and Elvis has said in interviews that he took this name as a tribute to his father and he worked for a short period as a computer operator at the Midland Bank computer centre in Bootle. He continued to write songs and began looking for a recording contract
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Veronica (song)
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Veronica is a single from Elvis Costellos 1989 album Spike, co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney. The song Veronica was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, in 2004, Entertainment Weekly voted it one of Costellos top ten greatest tunes. The song focuses on a woman who has experienced severe memory loss. Costellos inspiration for song was his grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimers. When talking about the song on a VH1 interview, Costello reminisced about his grandmother having terrifying moments of lucidity, in fact, her Catholic confirmation name, Veronica, provided the very title of the song. The video for Veronica featured Costello delivering a monologue to the camera. The video, co-directed by John Hillcoat and Evan English, earned an MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video, list of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 1980s Veronica at AllMusic Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Every Little Step
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Every Little Step is a 1989 single by American singer Bobby Brown, written by L. A. Reid and Kenneth Babyface Edmonds and released by MCA Records. The song also appears on Browns remix album Dance. Ya Know It, the single garnered Browns first career Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990. Around the time Dont Be Cruel was in production, Reid was dating singer Pebbles, inspired by his relationship with his girlfriend at the time, he wrote and co-produced the song with Edmonds, intending to give it to the group Midnight Star. Bobby Brown, however, heard a demo of the song and liked it instantly and this video style has been replicated since then, most notably in commercials for Gap. Oaktowns 357s Yeah Yeah Yeah in 1989, comedian Jimmy Fallon parodied the music video in the video for his 2002 song Idiot Boyfriend. Performed by Marcus Canty on The X Factor USA in 2011, R&B and pop singer Usher covered Every Little Step on his 1999 album, Live. Play covered the song for their Dont Stop the Music album, mercury4 covered the song on their debut album. The song was sampled in If You Must by Del the Funky Homosapien without credit, australian band Bluejuice covered the song on the weekly segment Like a Version on Triple J in September 2008. John Travolta covered the song on the soundtrack to the film Old Dogs and this version is talking about the father-daughter relationship between Travolta and his daughter Ella Bleu. The music video itself bears strong resemblance to the video and features The Travoltas watching various clips from the movie on their computer. Although not a cover, the music from Spring Yard Zone in the video game Sonic the Hedgehog sounds very similar. Wayne Brady and Mike Tyson parodied this song in a video for the website Funny or Die, Bobby himself appears in the parody. Nelly and Joe Jonas performed this on The Next, Fame Is at Your Doorstep, rough Copy performed a medley of Every Little Step and Shes Got That Vibe on the tenth series of The X Factor in 2013. The song makes an appearance in Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2, official Video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Lou Reed
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Lewis Allan Lou Reed was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, the Velvet Underground was unsuccessful during their active years, but gained a significant cult following to become one of the most widely acclaimed and influential bands in rock history. Brian Eno famously stated that, while the Velvet Undergrounds debut album sold only 30,000 copies, Reeds solo career began in 1972. He had a hit the year with Walk on the Wild Side. Reed was known for his distinctive voice and poetic lyrics. Reed was born on March 2,1942 at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, contrary to some sources, his birth name was Lewis Allan Reed, not Louis Firbanks, a name that was coined as a joke by Lester Bangs in Creem magazine. Reed was the son of Toby and Sidney Joseph Reed, an accountant and his family was Jewish, and although he said that he was Jewish, he added, My God is rocknroll. Its an obscure power that can change your life, the most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Reed attended Atkinson Elementary School in Freeport and went on to Freeport Junior High School and his sister said that as a teenager, he suffered panic attacks, became socially awkward and possessed a fragile temperament but was highly focused on things that he liked – principally music. Having learned to play the guitar from the radio, he developed an early interest in rock and roll and rhythm and blues, Reed began experimenting with drugs at the age of 16. His first recording was as a member of a group called the Jades. His love for playing music and his desire to play gigs brought him into confrontation with his anxious, visiting a psychologist, Reeds parents were made to feel guilty as inadequate parents, and consented to electroconvulsive therapy. Reed appeared to blame his father principally for what he had subjected to. He wrote about the experience in his 1974 song, Kill Your Sons, in an interview, Reed said of the experience, They put the thing down your throat so you dont swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. Thats what was recommended in Rockland County then to discourage homosexual feelings, the effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You cant read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go back to page one again. Upon his recovery from the bout of illness and associated treatment, Reed resumed his education at Syracuse University in 1960, studying journalism, film directing and he was a platoon leader in ROTC and was later expelled from the program for holding an unloaded gun to his superiors head. In 1961, he began hosting a radio program on WAER called Excursions On A Wobbly Rail
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Dirty Blvd.
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Dirty Blvd. is a Lou Reed song from his 1989 album, New York. The song contrasts the poor and the rich in New York City, Live versions appear on Perfect Night, Live in London and Animal Serenade. Dirty Blvd. was one of the four songs Reed performed with David Bowie on the latters 50th birthday celebration in 1997, the song features a three-chord progression, a repeated sequence of G D A D. Number one modern rock hits of 1989
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Straight Up (Paula Abdul song)
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Straight Up is a song recorded by American singer Paula Abdul, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and brought her widespread public attention. It was written and produced by Elliot Wolff, the song is a mid-tempo dance tune. The synthetic lead trumpet sound comes from the Roland D-50, daniel J. Levitins This Is Your Brain On Music praises the song as hold a certain appeal over many, many listenings. Paula says in a YouTube video that her mother found this song for her and she says that her mom knew someone whose boyfriend was an aspiring songwriter, and she got Straight Up as an 8-Track Demo. The Demo version was so bad that Paulas mom was crying laughing at it, but Paula heard something she liked in it, and retrieved it. At that time she was a choreographer, and on the side. The music label didnt think the song was any good, but Paula made a deal with them that she would record 2 songs they wanted, which she didnt like, if they would let her do Straight Up. The song was recorded at a cost of $3,000, later a friend of hers told her that somebody with her same name was being played on a northern California radio station. Literally, within 10 days I sold a million copies, the song was originally recorded in a bathroom, and in the masters of the recording, you can hear someone in the next apartment yelling Shut up. The Roland trumpet sound was used on Taylor Daynes Tell It To My Heart. Straight Up was the single released from her debut album Forever Your Girl, after Knocked Out. While the latter was enjoying success on the R&B charts, radio station KMEL in San Francisco started playing Straight Up from the album, the label decided to abandon The Way That You Love Me and refocus its attention on Straight Up. The strategy paid off, as Straight Up was followed by three more hits from the same album. One of the 12 versions was remixed by LA Powermixers Chris Modig and Boris Granich, after debuting at #79 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of December 3,1988, the single quickly rose up the chart, reaching #13 by January 21,1989. It ultimately spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart beginning February 11,1989 and it was certified Platinum by the RIAA with sales of more than one million units. It reached number three in the UK and Germany, the song became so popular that it ascended up the charts before a music video had even been shot for the song. The video features an appearance by Paulas friend, comedian Arsenio Hall. Djimon Hounsou also made a special appearance, released in February 1989, the video at the time went into very heavy rotation on MTV, and it also made Abdul known for her exceptionally creative and distinct videos
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Tracy Chapman
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She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist. Chapman was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987, the following year she released her critically acclaimed debut album Tracy Chapman, which became a multi-platinum worldwide hit. The album garnered Chapman six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year, three of which she won, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single Fast Car, Chapman released her second album Crossroads the following year, which garnered her an additional Grammy nomination. Chapmans most recent release is Our Bright Future, in 2008, Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised by her mother, who recognized Tracys love of music and, despite not having much money, Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of eight. She says that she may have been first inspired to play the guitar by the television show Hee Haw, raised Baptist, Chapman attended an Episcopal high school. She was accepted into the program A Better Chance, which students at college-preparatory high schools away from their home community. She graduated from Wooster School in Connecticut, then attended Tufts University and she graduated with a B. A. degree in anthropology and African studies. During college, Chapman began busking in Harvard Square and playing guitar in Club Passim, the Nameless Coffeehouse and she made her major-stage debut as an opening act for womens music pioneer Linda Tillery at Bostons Strand Theater on May 3,1985. Another Tufts student, Brian Koppelman, heard Chapman playing and brought her to the attention of his father, Koppelman, who ran SBK Publishing, signed Chapman in 1986. After Chapman graduated from Tufts in 1987, he helped her to sign a contract with Elektra Records, at Elektra, she released Tracy Chapman. The album was acclaimed, and she began touring and building a fanbase. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 167 on their 2010 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and it is the highest-ranking song both written and performed by a female performer. Talkin bout a Revolution, the follow-up, charted at number 75 and was followed by Baby Can I Hold You, the album sold well, going multi-platinum and winning three Grammy Awards, including an honor for Chapman as Best New Artist. Later in 1988, Chapman was a performer on the worldwide Amnesty International Human Rights Now. According to the VH1 website, Her album helped usher in the era of political correctness—along with 10,000 Maniacs, Chapmans liberal politics proved enormously influential on American college campuses in the late 80s. Her follow-up album Crossroads was less successful, but still achieved platinum status. By 1992s Matters of the Heart, Chapman was playing to a small and her fourth album New Beginning proved successful, selling over three million copies in the U. S
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Fast Car
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Fast Car is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released in April 1988 as the single from her self-titled debut album. According to Metro Weekly critic Chris Gerard, Fast Car tells a grittily realistic story of a poor woman trying to escape the cycle of poverty. The songs arrangement was described by Orlando Sentinel writer Thom Duffy as subtle folk-rock, dave Marsh said it was perhaps an optimistic folk-rock narrative, whose characters are in a homeless shelter. American culture critic Jim Cullen believed that songs like Fast Car, Chapman brought a uniquely Black and feminist perspective to acoustic folk-rocks generally White. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 167 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and it is Chapmans only song on the list. Pitchfork Media placed the song at number 86 on their list of the 200 Best Songs of the 1980s, in April 2011 the track also hit the UK top ten at number 4 after Michael Collings performed it on Britains Got Talent. The single was certified Platinum in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry in 2014, based on digital downloads, the song has sold 661,500 copies in the United Kingdom, as of January 2016. Chart successions In 2015, a house cover of Fast Car was released by British record producer Jonas Blue. It is Blues debut single and features the vocals from English singer Dakota, in an interview with iHeartRadio, Blue stated, When I was growing up, it was just a very varied type of music. My dad schooled me on soul, funk, disco, things like that, and then my mom was kind of more pop, and ABBA, things like that, Tracy Chapman. So it was a varied sound growing up, lots of different big acts. And definitely influenced me into what Im doing today, regarding Fast Car, Chapmans original 1988 hit is a favorite of Blues mothers, who would often play it in the car. It was a song in London that time when I was growing up, so it was always on the radio. And it just kind of stuck with me and it was that song on the long journeys, and I loved it. Regarding Dakota, who provides vocals on the song, Blue said, I had actually finished the instrumental of Fast Car, and we were looking for a singer. But on this night, we went out, we werent obviously looking for the singer. We just went to this pub for a beer, and this pub is kind of renowned for its new acts and unsigned artists and things like that
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Express Yourself (Madonna song)
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Express Yourself is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna, from her fourth studio album Like a Prayer. It was released as the single from the album on May 9,1989 by Sire Records. The song was included on the greatest hits compilation albums The Immaculate Collection, Express Yourself was the first song that Madonna and producer Stephen Bray collaborated on for Like a Prayer. Written and produced by them, the song was a tribute to American funk and soul band Sly, the main inspiration behind the song is female empowerment, urging women never to go for second-best and to always express their inner feelings. Express Yourself is an upbeat song that features instrumentation from brass, hand claps and drum beats, while the chorus is backed by the sound of saxophone. The lyrics talk about rejecting material pleasures and only accepting the best for oneself, commercially, the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Madonnas sixth number-one hit on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. It also reached the top of the charts in Canada, Italy and Switzerland. The accompanying music video, directed by David Fincher, was inspired by the Fritz Lang classic film Metropolis and it had a total budget of $5 million, which made it the most expensive music video made up to then, and currently the third most expensive of all time. The video portrayed a city full of skyscrapers and railway lines. Madonna played the part of a lady and chained masochist. In the end, she one of them—played by model Cameron Alborzian—as her date. Critics noted the videos exploitation of female sexuality and that Madonnas masculine image in the video was gender-bending, the song and the video are noted for their freedom expression and feminist aspects, and its postmodern nature entranced academics, by resisting definition. It has also left its mark on the work of pop acts, including the Spice Girls, Christina Aguilera. Express Yourself was released as the single from her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, on May 9,1989, with The Look of Love, from the 1987 film soundtrack Whos That Girl. When Madonna started work on Like a Prayer, she considered many options and she had certain matters on her mind, including her troubled relationship with her ex-husband Sean Penn, her family, her lost mother and even her belief in God. Madonna thought about lyrical ideas for the songs on topics that, until then, were personal mediation never to be shared with her public so openly and pointedly. She came to the realization that as she and her fans were growing up, and it was time for her to move away from the teen appeal to wider audiences, and en-cash on the longevity of the album market. Madonna wanted her new sound to be calculative and indicative of what was fashionable, Express Yourself was the first song that Madonna and Bray collaborated on for Like a Prayer, co-written and co-produced as a tribute to American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone
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Tanita Tikaram
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Tanita Tikaram is a German-born English pop/folk singer-songwriter. She achieved chart success with the singles Twist in My Sobriety and Good Tradition from her 1988 debut album and she is known for her powerful, husky voice, and poetic and somewhat obscure lyrics. Tikaram was born in Münster, Germany, the daughter of an Indo-Fijian father, Pramod Tikaram, and her fathers military career meant that she spent her early life in Germany before moving to Basingstoke, Hampshire, England when she was in her early teens. Tikaram started singing in nightclubs while she was still a teenager and her debut album, Ancient Heart, produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, was released in September 1988 when she was 19 years old. The albums first two singles, Good Tradition and Twist In My Sobriety, became top 10 hits around Europe and her 1992 album Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, which was the first Tikaram fully produced herself, did not chart at all. Still, it was her last studio album for WEA and her contract was finished in 1996 with the release of the compilation album The Best of Tanita Tikaram, in 2012, she released Cant Go Back, her first album in seven years. Since 2013, she has been touring the UK and Europe, Tikarams new album, Closer To the People, was released on 11 March 2016. In December 2015, Tikaram released a videoclip for the song Food On My Table, the first single, Glass Love Train, was released on 22 January 2016. Tikaram moved from Basingstoke to the Primrose Hill area of London when she became famous,1, GER No.1 –3 million worldwide The Sweet Keeper UK No. 7, GER No.3 Everybodys Angel UK No,19, GER No.17 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness AUT No.33 Lovers in the City UK No. 75, GER No.74 The Best of Tanita Tikaram – compilation The Cappuccino Songs UK No.69 Sentimental Cant Go Back UK No,33, GER No.50 Closer to the People GER No. 68, SWI No.84 Harmony vocals on Thats Why Im Leaving Here on the 1989 self-titled third album by Brendan Croker, cover of Loving You, included in the 1990 Elvis tribute album The Last Temptation of Elvis. Vocals on I Never Will Know, also a US/Can single, guest vocals on Its Too Late on Nanci Griffiths 1991 album Late Night Grande Hotel. Guest vocals on the single Je Te Voudrai Quand Même from Pierre Schotts album Le Nouveau Monde, writer of three tracks on the Brontë Brothers 1993 album The Way Through The Woods, Live A Little More, Beneath The August Moon and A Winner Too. Writer of the B-side Need This Lover Growing of Brontë Brothers 1993 single Live A Little More, writer of the re-recorded version of Live A Little More by Brontë Brothers,1994 single. Vocals on Redemption Song on the 1997 Moodswings album Psychedelicatessen, guest vocals on Im Looking Up To You on Christie Hennessys 1995 album Lord of Your Eyes. My Love Tonight commissioned for the Abitare Il Tempo exhibition in Milan, Italy, adaptation of the poem Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith, commissioned by the BBC for their Texts in Time educational series and released on the 1995 Tikaram single I Might Be Crying. Contributed to Italian exhibition Viaggio di Italia, released in 1995 on the Tikaram single Wonderful Shadow, duet Dove Sei with Cristiano Prunas, released in Italy in 1997 as single and on the Prunas self-titled album
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Twist in My Sobriety
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Twist in My Sobriety is a song written and recorded by Tanita Tikaram. Released as a single in 1988 from her album, Ancient Heart, it was Tikarams biggest international success. The first line of the song, All Gods children need traveling shoes, is the title of a book by writer/poet Maya Angelou. The song is really about not understanding - when youre 18, youve got a particular emotional relationship with the world, you feel very isolated. And I think I was singing about not feeling anything or not being moved by things around, I think this is a strong feeling when youre just after adolescence. Malcolm Messiter plays the oboe on the song, which is featured prominently on the songs chorus, as well as being used on instrumental solos throughout the song. A rarity on pop songs, the use of the oboe was favourably remarked by several reviewers, citing that it made the song unique, in 2001, the song appeared on the soundtrack of the film Bandits. Released as the single from her debut album Ancient Heart. Despite heavy promotion, the single was a hit in the UK, peaking at #22. The song was a success when released in Europe, and was a top 10 hit in several countries, including Ireland, France, Norway, Germany, Switzerland. It mostly charted within the top 40 in other European countries and was a big hit all around Europe in 1988-89. The single was Tikarams only chart hit in the USA charts, peaking at #25 on the Modern Rock charts, the song featured prominently during the 1988 Miami Vice episode The Lost Madonna. In 1996, a new remixed version by Ramp with a much faster tempo was included on the compilation The Best of Tanita Tikaram and was released as a single to promote the album. The single peaked at #82 in the UK, in 1998, Tikaram issued a new version of the song as a b-side to her single Stop Listening. This version, with re-recorded vocals, has an ambient house/downtempo sound, a new acoustic version was released on the special edition of Tikarams 2012 album Cant Go Back. The sepia-colored music video was directed by Gerard de Thame and premiered in the autumn of 1988, shot on location on the Altiplano Plateau in Bolivia, the video shows various residents of a destitute village interacting with each other amidst their daily struggles. Interspersed throughout these scenes are shots of Tanita Tikaram singing in a room with only one light shining on her face. In 2008, a Czech version of the Tikarams song was recorded by Slovak chanteuse Szidi Tobias under title Závoj tkaný touhami, in 1989, Kati Kovács Hungarian singer, Music Weeks The Star of The Year 1975 sang the song on a compilation album of 1989s hits
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Jody Watley
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In 1987, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Along with Janet Jackson and Madonna, she ranks as one of MTV Video Music Awards most nominated female artists ever, with six nominations for her ‘Real Love’ video. In 2008, she was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Billboard magazine, in December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 21st most successful dance artists of all-time. Watley was born in Chicago, Illinois, Watley made her first stage appearance at 8 years old with family friend and godfather Jackie Wilson. She got her start on the TV dance show Soul Train at the age of 14. Documented by Ebony magazine in 1977 as a part of The New Generation, Jody Watley was one of the most popular on the show and recognized as a trendsetter for her style, the lineup of Hewett, Watley, and Daniel would be the most successful. Watley remained with the group from 1977 to 1983, the trio released several albums and scored several hits including the US Top 20 Dead Giveaway, and the R&B hits The Second Time Around, For The Lover In You, and A Night To Remember. Post-Shalamar, Watley moved to England, and while there she recorded a guest vocal with British Jamaican roots reggae group Musical Youth for their album Different Style and she also recorded with Gary Langan, Anne Dudley and J. J Jeczalik. She had a stint with Phonogram Records where two singles were released under the moniker Jody, Where the Boys Are and Girls Night Out. After two and a half years in England, Watley returned to America and secured a deal with MCA Records. Her album Jody Watley was released in March 1987, and she co-wrote six of the nine songs. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Watley would say that she wanted to showcase her voice against really funky hard dance tracks, the albums lead single, Looking for a New Love, became a hit and was certified gold. The album peaked at #10 on the US Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, number-one on the Billboard Hot R&B Albums Chart, at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988, Watley won the award for Best New Artist, and was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. That same year, she received nominations for four MTV Video Music Awards. After Shalamar she had two singles released under the name of Jody without her name even though adverts in UK pop magazine Smash Hits mentioned that she was Formerly of Shalamar. This technicality allowed her controversially to be considered a New Artist at the Grammys, beating Breakfast Club, Cutting Crew, Terence Trent DArby, shortly after winning the Grammy Award, Watley would be featured in Harpers Bazaar magazine photographed by Francesco Scavullo. In the spring of 1989, Watley released her album, Larger than Life. & Rakim, and Everything, her first ballad release, the albums fourth and final single, Precious Love, was a minor hit, peaking at #87 in the US
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Real Love (Jody Watley song)
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Real Love is a song by American singer Jody Watley from her second studio album Larger than Life. Real Love became one of the biggest pop and R&B singles of 1989, the single reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart and dance chart. On the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Real Love rocketed into the Top 40 from #51 to #37, the week of April 1,1989. The single lingered in the Top 10 for six weeks, peaking at #2 for two weeks, beginning May 20,1989, held out of the top position by Paula Abduls Forever Your Girl. That record was held until Michael Jackson and Janet Jacksons video Scream received eleven VMA nominations in 1995, the song was also nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best Female Single. The music video premiered in March 1989 on Cable television networks, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Cult of Personality (song)
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Cult of Personality is a song by rock band Living Colour. It was their second single off their album, Vivid. Cult of Personality reached No.13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it also won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1990. Its music video earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video, the song was ranked No.69 on VH1s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. The solo was ranked No.87 in Guitar Worlds 100 Greatest Guitar Solos list and it was also selected for inclusion in the musical reference book,1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, And 10,001 You Must Download. The sections before the bridge are similar to a hook in Black Sabbaths Wheels Of Confusion, in 2007, the song was re-recorded and released for the video game Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock. The re-recording later appeared in Guitar Hero Smash Hits and it also appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas on the radio station Radio X. The song is also the music for former ROH and WWE wrestler turned UFC fighter, CM Punk. The song also appeared on the soundtrack for the 2015 video game NBA 2K16, the bands founder, Vernon Reid described the song as very special for the band not just for its commercial success but because it was essentially written in just one rehearsal session. The riff was stumbled upon while practicing something else and by the end of the session they had written what was to become Living Colours best known song, the song contains many political references, and shares its name with a phenomenon involving psychology and politics. Cult of Personality prominently includes several samples of speeches from 20th-century political leaders. The song begins with a quote from the beginning of Message to the Grass Roots. As it appears in the song, the quote is, and during the few moments that we have left. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand, the unabridged beginning of the speech is. And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just a chat between you and me—us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand, during a rest in the music at 4,35, John F. Kennedys inaugural address is heard. The song ends with Franklin D. Roosevelt saying The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, the lyrics also mention Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, and Mahatma Gandhi. It is included in the soundtrack of the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything, a shortened version appeared in Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas soundtrack on the in-game alternative radio station Radio X
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Guns N' Roses
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Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1985. The lineup, when first signed to Geffen Records in 1986, consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current lineup consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese, guitarist Richard Fortus, the success of the debut was followed by the eight-song album G N R Lies which reached number two on the Billboard 200. The cover album The Spaghetti Incident. was the bands last studio album to feature Slash and it debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 but undersold industry expectations, despite mostly positive critical reception. Former members Slash and McKagan both rejoined the band in 2016, embarking on the Not in This Lifetime, Guns N Roses has been credited with reviving the mainstream popularity of rock n roll, at a time when popular music was dominated by dance music and glam metal. The bands classic lineup, along with later members Reed and drummer Matt Sorum, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, in 1984, Hollywood Rose member Izzy Stradlin was living with L. A. Guns needed a new vocalist, Stradlin suggested Hollywood Rose singer Axl Rose, Guns N Roses was formed in March 1985 by Rose and rhythm guitarist Stradlin, along with lead guitarist Tracii Guns, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner of L. A. Guns. The band coined its name by combining the names of both previous groups, rejected names for the band included Heads of Amazon and AIDS. After a short time, during which the band played two or three shows, Beich was fired and replaced by Duff McKagan. Tracii Guns left the band after an argument with Rose leading to his replacement by Rose and Stradlins one-time Hollywood Rose bandmate, Gardner quit soon after and was replaced by another former Hollywood Rose member, Steven Adler. Slash had also played with McKagan and Adler in Road Crew. In June 1985, four days after the lineup was finalized, through the bands increasing presence on the Hollywood club scene – playing famed bars such as The Troubadour and The Roxy – Guns N Roses drew the attention of major record labels. The group was signed by Geffen Records in March 1986, receiving a $75,000 advance. In December of that year, the released the four-song EP Live. *@ Like a Suicide. The EP contained covers of Rose Tattoos Nice Boys and Aerosmiths Mama Kin, although billed as a live recording, the four songs were taken from the bands demo tapes and overdubbed with crowd noise. Live. *@ Like a Suicide was released on the Geffen subsidiary Uzi Suicide, Guns N Roses debut album Appetite for Destruction was released July 21,1987. The band stated the artwork was a symbolic social statement. The revised cover was done by Andy Engell, based on a design by tattoo artist Bill White Jr. who had designed the artwork for a tattoo Rose had acquired the previous year, the artwork featured each of the five band members skulls layered on a cross
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Sweet Child o' Mine
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Sweet Child o Mine is a song by the American rock band Guns N Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction. It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart, when re-released in 1989, lead guitarist Slash has been quoted as having an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a string skipping exercise and a joke at the time. During a jam session at the house in the Sunset Strip, drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up. Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin asked Slash to play it again, Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan created a bassline and Adler planned a beat. In his autobiography, Slash said within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else, meanwhile, lead singer Axl Rose was listening to the musicians upstairs in his room and was inspired to write lyrics, which became complete by the following afternoon. He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly, and declared that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration to make sure that wed got that heartfelt feeling, on the next composing session in Burbank, the band added both a bridge and a guitar solo. While the band was recording demos with producer Spencer Proffer, he suggested adding a breakdown at the songs end, the musicians agreed, but were not sure what to do. Listening to the demo in a loop, Rose started saying to himself, and Proffer suggested that he sing that. The Sweet Child o Mine video depicts the band rehearsing in the Huntington Ballroom at Huntington Beach, All of the band members girlfriends at the time were shown in the clip. Rose was dating Erin Everly at the time, whose father is Don Everly of The Everly Brothers fame, mcKagans girlfriend Mandy from the all-female rock band The Lame Flames was there, as was Adlers girlfriend Cheryl and Slashs girlfriend Sally. The video was successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio. In an effort to make Sweet Child o Mine more marketable to MTV and radio stations and this move drew the ire of the band members, including Rose, who commented on it in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone, I hate the edit of Sweet Child O Mine. Radio stations said, Well, your vocals arent cut and my favorite part of the song is Slashs slow solo, its the heaviest part for me. Theres no reason for it to be missing except to create space for commercials. When you get the chopped version of Paradise City or half of Sweet Child and Patience cut, the video uses the same edits as the radio version with the exception of Slashs solo, which is fully intact. A 7-inch vinyl format and cassette single were released, the album version of the song was included on the US single release, while the UK single was the edit/remix version. The 12 vinyl format also contained the longer LP version, the b-side to the single is a non-album, live version of Its So Easy. On an interview on Eddie Trunks New York radio show in May 2006, according to Rose, the video was to depict an Asian woman carrying a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin
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Traveling Wilburys
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The Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums, the first in 1988 and the second in 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded, the projects work received much anticipation given the diverse nature of the singer-songwriters. Debut album Traveling Wilburys Vol.1 proved a critical success. George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys during a interview with Bob Coburn on the Rockline radio station in February 1988. When asked what he planned to do as a follow-up for his Cloud Nine album, Harrison replied, to do an album with me and some of my mates. Its this new group I got, its called the Traveling Wilburys, Id like to do an album with them, Wilbury was a slang term first used by Harrison during the recording of Cloud Nine with Jeff Lynne. Referring to recording errors created by some faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, thereafter, they used the term for any small error in performance and the term was used again when the group were together. Harrison suggested The Trembling Wilburys as the name, instead, Lynne suggested Traveling. Video footage of the process was partly shot by British photographer NJ Latham. Tom Pettys involvement came by chance, as Harrison had left his guitar at Pettys house, the record label, however, decided that the song that resulted, Handle with Care, was too good to be released as a single filler. The members enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create an album together. Written by all five men, it was recorded over a period in May 1988. The album was recorded in the house and garden of Eurythmics member Dave Stewart, the Wilburys joke was extended further, with the band members credited under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr. The album was a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles. The album was nominated for awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group in 1989. Liner notes on the cover were written by Michael Palin under a pseudonym. On the second album they were written by Eric Idle under a pseudonym, Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on December 6,1988. In tribute to Orbison, the video for End of the Line shows Orbisons guitar rocking in a chair as the rest of the group play
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Handle with Care (song)
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Handle with Care is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol.1, and the groups most successful single. Writing credits are shared by all five members, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty. The single reached #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #21 on the UK singles chart and #3 on the ARIA Chart. The song received a positive retrospective review from Allmusic journalist Matthew Greenwald. Greenwald wrote, Musically, the song is built around a descending, folk-rock chord pattern, George Harrison handles the verses, and there are also two excellent bridges featuring Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan. Orbisons section capitalizes on his awesome, operatic vocal pipes, the opening chords are reminiscent of Jeff Lynnes 10538 Overture, the ELO single from 1972. The song was intended as the B-side of Harrisons This Is Love. Harrison had not yet written a song for the B-side when a gathering of the musicians who became the Wilburys turned into an informal songwriting. Casting about for an idea while relaxing in a garden near Bob Dylans recording studio. The box also inspired the line, been beat up. The complete song quickly followed, with different members of the gathering contributing various lines, the group moved to a recording studio and quickly laid down the basic tracks which were later polished by eventual Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne. Harrisons record company decided that the song was too good to be released as filler, encouraged by this response and the enjoyable experience of recording together, the group re-convened to record the first Wilburys album, which featured Handle With Care as the lead track. There are brief cutaways to show photos of the singers as children or young teens. The song was the last release and video for group member Roy Orbison prior to his death on December 6,1988, after performing the song during the Concert for George, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers added it to their set list for their 2003 summer tour. The band performed the song with Petty singing most of the lead vocals and they also performed the song on their 2005 summer tour, their thirtieth anniversary tour in 2006, and their 2012 tour throughout the US and Europe. On 14 September 2014, during the BBC Radio 2 Festival in a Day event, Jeff Lynne performed Handle with Care as a tribute to both George Harrison and Roy Orbison
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What I Am
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What I Am is a song written by Edie Brickell and Kenny Withrow and recorded by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians for their debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. It peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the charts in Canada, but only peaked within the top forty of the charts in the United Kingdom and this version was ranked number 77 on VH1s list of The 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders. The song was featured in a 1989 episode of Miami Vice, the song is highlighted by a guitar solo that emulates the approach of Jerry Garcia including the use of an envelope filter. What I Am is written in the key of B minor in 44 time with a tempo of 89 beats per minute, the song follows a chord progression of Bsus2–Dsus2–Asus2, and the vocals span from G3 to B4. Released in November 1999 as the single from Tin Tin Outs second studio album. It also appeared on Buntons debut solo album, A Girl Like Me and it sold 106,000 copies to get to number two in its first week and around 221,787 copies altogether. What I Am was the UKs 88th best-selling single of 1999 and this is the format and track listing of the major single release of What I Am. UK CD single What I Am –3,54 What I Am –4,07 Weird –5,42 The song was sampled by New Edition on their song Something About You, from their 1996 album Home Again. Portions of the song were resung by Lauryn Hill and sampled into Aretha Franklins 1998 hit A Rose Is Still a Rose, part of the chorus and guitar riff is sampled by hip-hop group Brand Nubian on their song Slow Down from their 1990 debut album, One For All. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Neneh Cherry
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Neneh Mariann Karlsson, better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster. Cherry was born as Neneh Karlsson in Stockholm, the daughter of Monica Moki Karlsson, a Swedish painter and textile artist, Jah was born in Sierra Leone, the son of a chief. He went to Stockholm to study engineering at university, Cherrys mother married the influential American jazz musician Don Cherry, who helped raise Cherry since birth. Cherry has a half-sister, singer Titiyo, and half-brother, record producer Cherno Jah, Cherry also has a half-brother, musician Eagle-Eye Cherry, a stepsister, violinist Jan Cherry, and a stepbrother, jazz musician David Ornette Cherry from stepfather Don Cherrys side. Cherrys parents, Moki and Don Cherry, bought and converted an old schoolhouse in the countryside outside the town of Hässleholm in Sweden in 1970. In the early 1970s, the moved to the United States. Cherry dropped out of school at 14 and moved to London, Cherry said she found her voice singing along with Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex. She grew up in a family, she remembers singing with her father at the piano. Cherry moved to the United Kingdom when she was 14, at the end of the Punk era, Cherry had met Tessa Pollitt, Viv Albertine and Ari Up from The Slits earlier as her stepfather, Don Cherry, was touring with them and brought the 15-year-old Neneh along. She and Ari lived in a squat in Battersea and she felt at home, after ending up there because The Slits invited her stepfather, Don Cherry, to go on tour with them with Prince Hammer and Creation Rebel. In London, Cherry joined the rock band The Cherries. She moved through several bands, including The Slits, New Age Steppers, Rip Rig + Panic and she also deejayed, playing early rap music on the reggae pirate Dread Broadcasting Corporation. She began a career in 1982 with Stop the War. She worked with Jonny Dollar, The The and Cameron McVey, who co-wrote most of her 1989 debut album Raw Like Sushi, and whom she would eventually marry. She was intimately involved in the Bristol Urban Culture scene, working as an arranger on Massive Attacks Blue Lines album, both Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles of Massive Attack contributed to Raw Like Sushi. The single Buffalo Stance eventually peaked at number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, more singles released between 1988 and 1990 included Manchild, Kisses on the Wind, Heart, and Inna City Mama. She also found success with Ive Got You Under My Skin, a reworking of the Cole Porter song, the single reached number 25 in the UK. She won a Brit Award in 1990 for Raw Like Sushi, Cherry caused a press furore when she performed Buffalo Stance on Top of the Pops while pregnant
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Buffalo Stance
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Buffalo Stance is a 1988 single recorded by Neneh Cherry, which she released on her debut album, Raw Like Sushi. The song peaked at #3 on both the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song, titled Looking Good Diving with the Wild Bunch, was sung by Cherry. Such a stance would be to stand such a person who is, or such a group of people who are. The songs title is also a reference to Malcolm McLarens 1983 song Buffalo Gals, other samples came from Rock Steady Crews Are You Ready. and the saxophone break is from the band Miamis 1974 song Chicken Yellow. Tim Simenon, also called Bomb the Bass, was asked to help with the reworking of the song, Cherry pays homage to Simenon during the songs breaks with Yeah, Timmy. And Bomb the Bass, rock this place, Cherry notably performed the song live on Top of the Pops while seven months pregnant. When asked by an if it was safe for her to go up on stage performing, Cherry answered, Yes. The Daily Telegraph ranked Buffalo Stance at #37 in their Top 50 Dance Songs list in 2015, Buffalo Stance was released on both 3-inch CD single, and 5-inch CD single. S. Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the UK Singles Chart, Cherry vs Busta Rhymes –4,26 Buffalo Stance vs Brimful Of Asha N. Cherry vs Cornershop DJ Rock Your Buffalo Body N, Cherry vs Justin Timberlake The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the videogame Grand Theft Auto, Episodes from Liberty City. Westlife performed the song on the part of their Where the Dreams Come True Tour. It was featured in the movie Slaves of New York, which starred Bernadette Peters and was directed by James Ivory, swedish electroclash group Alice in Videoland covered the track on their 2011 album, A Million Thoughts and Theyre All About You. The song is the theme for Jamie Olivers 15 Minute Meals television show, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
