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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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McFly
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McFly is an English pop rock band formed in London in 2003. The band consists of Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and they were signed to Island Records from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records. McFly rose to fame after fellow band Busted helped launch them by inviting them to tour in 2004, in 2005, they won the Brit Award for Best British Pop Act. A month after the album was released, the band had their first UK headlining tour, the bands second album, Wonderland, which was released in 2005, also charted at number 1 in the UK making them the youngest band to have topped the UK album charts twice. Their third album, Motion in the Ocean, was released on 6 November 2006, McFly released their All the Greatest Hits compilation album on 5 November 2007, which charted at number 4 in the UK. The bands fourth album, Radio, Active, was given away for free as a supplement in the Mail on Sunday on 20 July 2008. Fifth album Above the Noise was released in November 2010 and charted at number 20, as of 2016, McFly have had 18 consecutive UK top 20 singles, seven of which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and seventeen of which were consecutive top ten singles. The band have currently, based on BPI certifications, sold a minimum of 1.5 million records in the UK alone, in 2006, McFly appeared as themselves in the film Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine. They released a US album, Just My Luck, which was used as the films soundtrack. They have also performed at various charity projects such as Comic Relief, Children in Need, Live 8, Sport Relief, in November 2013, it was announced that McFly would be joining forces with Busted to form the supergroup McBusted. They played a 34-date tour with both Busted and McFly songs, the only member of the original groups not to participate in the new lineup was former Busted singer Charlie Simpson. After Simpsons return to Busted in November 2015, McFly made a return, in 2001, Tom Fletcher auditioned for Busted, but lost out on the place to Charlie Simpson. Fletcher was originally accepted as part of Busteds line-up, but Island Records went on to reassess the situation, while writing Busteds second album, A Present for Everyone, Fletcher was asked by the record label if he was available to film auditions for a new band, V. Fletcher was impressed with Jones unique style and so approached and invited him to write with himself, bassist Dougie Poynter and drummer Harry Judd were subsequently recruited via a classified advertisement in the NME magazine. McFlys early sound was surf/pop rock and their debut single,5 Colours in Her Hair, released 29 March 2004, entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 in April 2004 and stayed there the following week. In July 2004 their second single, Obviously, also topped the charts and this was followed by the album Room on the 3rd Floor debuting at number 1 in the UK Albums Chart. It would go on to be certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The idea for the name came from where Jones and Fletcher wrote most of the songs for the album
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Room on the 3rd Floor
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Room on the 3rd Floor is the debut studio album by English pop rock band McFly. It was released on 5 July 2004 in the United Kingdom via Island Records, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, breaking the world record for the youngest ever band with a number-one album, a record previously held by The Beatles. It reached the top of the charts selling over 61,000 copies in its first week. The album has been certified 2× Platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies, the album won Best Album at the 2004 Smash Hits Awards. As of 2014, the album has sold over 2 million copies worldwide, the albums main songwriters include band members Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, as well as contributions from James Bourne from the band Busted, as well as some of Busteds main producers. The album is influenced by three things, modern pop punk, 1960s surfer pop, and tales of unrequited love. The track Get Over You is hidden, and does not appear on the track listing and it can be accessed by rewinding into the pre-gap, prior to the first track, Five Colours in Her Hair. The track cannot be accessed if the album is played in a computer, a demo version of the track Saturday Night was previously released as Saturday Nite on the B-side of the Five Colours in Her Hair single. The international version of the album removes the songs Broccoli and Surfer Babe for contractual reasons and this version also features alternate artwork - the colour of the band logo is altered from yellow to red. James Bourne of Busted did additional writing on nine of their tracks on this album and he Co-wrote Three of their singles-5 Colours in Her Hair, Obviously and That girl. He also helped with the writing on three regular tracks- She left me, Down the lake and Unsaid things, sharon Mawer of AllMusic said of the album, When a vacancy appears in pop music, it doesnt take long to fill it. As Busted moved out of pop into more serious material. That Girl, the single released, could have sat easily on a Beach Boys album from the 1960s. Surfer Babe and Down by the Lake were also Beach Boys-sounding tracks and its not that good, however—just a fun summery mid-2000s pop album from four lads who sound as if they were enjoying themselves singing mostly about girls. Met This Girl also took its influences from the Rolling Stones of the 1960s with a touch of Manfred Manns fast-paced blues. Everybody likes to party on a Saturday night, claim the lads on the track Saturday Night, and if you were thirteen years old and female. After a minor supporting slot with Busted, the band announced their very first headline tour in 2004 and they started the tour just sixteen days after the release of the albums third single, That Girl. The tour began on 22 September 2004, and ended on 13 October, with a total of fifteen sell-out dates
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Surf music
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Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California. It was especially popular from 1962 to 1964 in two major forms, the first is instrumental surf, distinguished by reverb-drenched electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. The second is vocal surf, which took the original sound and added vocal harmonies backed by basic Chuck Berry rhythms. Dick Dale developed the sound from instrumental rock, where he added Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, a spring reverb. His regional hit Lets Go Trippin launched the surf music craze, the genre reached national exposure when it was represented by vocal groups such as the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and Bruce & Terry. Their vocal surf style drew more from African-American genres such as doo wop with its scat singing, Dale is quoted on such groups, They were surfing sounds surfing lyrics. In other words, the music wasnt surfing music, the words made them surfing songs. The real surfing music is instrumental, at the height of its popularity, surf music rivaled girl groups and Motown for top American popular music trends. It is sometimes referred to interchangeably with the California Sound, during the later stages of the surf music craze, many of its groups started to write songs about cars and girls, this was later known as hot rod rock. Surf music began in the early 1960s as instrumental music, almost always in straight 4/4 time. The outboard separate Fender Reverb Unit that was developed by Fender in 1961 was the actual first wet surf reverb tone and this unit is the reverb effect heard on Dick Dale records, and others such as Pipeline by the Chantays and Point Panic by the Surfaris. It had more of a wet plucky tone than the built in amp reverb, guitarists also made use of the vibrato arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward, electronic tremolo effects and rapid tremolo picking. Guitar models favored included those made by Fender, Mosrite, Teisco, or Danelectro, Surf music was one of the first genres to universally adopt the electric bass, particularly the Fender Precision Bass. Classic surf drum kits tended to be Rogers, Ludwig, Gretsch or Slingerland, some popular songs also incorporated a tenor or baritone saxophone, as on The Lively Ones Surf Rider and The Revels Comanche. Often an electric organ or an electric piano featured as backing harmony, by the early 1960s, instrumental rock and roll had been pioneered successfully by performers such as Link Wray, The Ventures and Duane Eddy. This trend was developed by Dick Dale, who added Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, the distinctive reverb, groups such as The Bel-Airs, The Challengers and then Eddie & the Showmen followed Dale to regional success. The Chantays scored a top ten hit with Pipeline, reaching number 4 in May 1963. The group also had two other hits, Surfer Joe and Point Panic
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Pop punk
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Pop punk is a punk rock music genre and a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music. Pop punk typically combines fast punk rock tempos, power chord changes and loud, distorted guitars with pop-influenced melodies. Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a style that was stylistically similar to power pop. By the mid-1980s, several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new, faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty, Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s. Pop punk particularly thrived in California, where independent record labels adopted a do it approach to releasing music. By the mid-1990s, a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive radio and television airplay. By 1994, pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, the late 1990s, exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182s Enema of the State, represented the genres mainstream peak, although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s. In the mid-2000s, emo pop, a genre combining emo and pop punk. By the end of the 2000s, the pop sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity. Pop punk typically merges upbeat pop melodies with catchy hooks, catchy choruses, harmonies, speedy tempos, punk rock power chord changes and loud, distorted electric guitars. About. com has described second-wave pop punk bands as having a radio friendly sheen to their music, club, pop punk often pits sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs. Lyrical topics that are common in pop punk include love, lust, drunkenness, adolescence, cartoonish violence, some pop punk lyrics focus on jokes and humor. Some pop punk music features elements of rock, power pop. According to Ryan Cooper of About. com, pop punk is a style that more to the Beatles. It is not clear when the pop punk was first used. Protopunk and power pop bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the pop punk sound, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys all paved the way for pop punk. With their love of the Beach Boys and late 1960s bubblegum pop, the Ramones loud and fast melodic minimalism differentiated them from other bands in New York Citys budding art rock scene, but pop punk was not considered a separate subgenre until later. An early use of the pop punk appeared in a 1977 New York Times article, Cabaret
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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Island Records
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Island Records is a major record label that operates as a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959, Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Three Island labels exist in the world, Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, current key people of Island Records include Island president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to the labels significant legacy, Island remains one of UMGs pre-eminent record labels, Island Records was founded in Jamaica on 4 July 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong, and partially financed by Stanley Borden from RKO. Its name was inspired by the Harry Belafonte song Island in the Sun. Blackwell explained in 2009, “I loved music so much, I just wanted to get into it, or be as close to it as I could. ”Tom Hayes, the labels sales manager between 1965 and 1967, referred to the early period of the label in the UK as “organized chaos”. “My Boy Lollipop”, sung by Millie Small, was the labels first success in the UK, Blackwell explained in a 50-year-anniversary documentary that he was only interested in building long-term careers at that stage in time, rather than short-term projects. Suzette Newman has been a colleague of Chris Blackwells since working together in the early days of Island Records. Suzette Newman and Chris Salewicz were the editors for the book “The Story of Island Records, Blackwell relocated to England in May 1962 to garner greater levels of attention after the local Jamaican sound systems proved to be overwhelmingly successful. The vast majority of the artists who had signed to Blackwells fledgling label while he was in Jamaica agreed to allow the entrepreneur to release their music in the UK. While in England, Blackwell travelled throughout the city carrying his stock with him and he did not provide any copies to radio stations, as they would not play any of the Island music, the music was also not reviewed by the press. Meanwhile, Goodall left to start the Doctor Bird record label in 1965, Blackwell signed the Spencer Davis Group to the label. The group became popular and Island started their own independent series to spotlight UK rock talent. They signed artists like John Martyn, Fairport Convention, Free, by the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a major label in England with artists like Roxy Music, King Crimson, Traffic, The Wailers, and many others. Blackwell had signed Bob Marley, and now Toots and the Maytals, in November 2016, Jackie Jackson described the formation of the group in a radio interview for Kool 97 FM Jamaica. Accompanied by Paul Douglas and Radcliffe Dougie Bryan in studio, Jackson explained, Were all original members of Toots, first it was Toots and the Maytals, three guys, Toots, Raleigh, and Jerry. …And then they were signed to Island Records, Chris Blackwell, and we were their recording band. One day we were summoned to Chris house, and he says, Alright gentleman, I think its time
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Tom Fletcher
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Thomas Tom Michael Fletcher is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, childrens author and YouTube vlogger. Among his accomplishments, he is one of the vocalists and guitarists of English pop rock band McFly, in addition to being the groups founder. However, he carried on writing with the band. In his thirteen-year career as a songwriter, Fletcher has penned ten UK number one singles. He is credited as having written songs for bands including One Direction, Busted, Fletcher released his first childrens book in 2012. Co-written with band-mate Dougie Poynter, The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas sold over 72,000 copies, Fletcher has released his first solo novel, The Christmasaurus, on 6 October 2016. Fletcher was born in Harrow, London and his father, Bob Fletcher, who worked at Kodak and played in local bands, and his mother, Debbie Fletcher, a special needs teacher, encouraged and supported his love of music from a young age. He attended a music school, Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, where, at age 13, he met Giovanna Falcone. When he was 10, Fletcher starred as the role in Oliver. At the London Palladium alongside Jim Dale as Fagin and he then went on to do a documentary about HIV for schools and starred in a commercial. In 1995, Fletcher made a appearance in the video to the Mike + The Mechanics song Over My Shoulder. When Fletcher was a schoolchild, he was schoolmates with Busted bassist Matt Willis, at a very young age, Fletcher began writing music commercially. He has since stated that it was Bourne who taught him how to structure songs. During the writing project for Busteds second album A Present for Everyone, Fletcher was asked by the label if he was available to film auditions for a new band. Fletcher was impressed with Joness style, and invited him to write with him, during this time together Fletcher and Jones wrote most of their first album, Room on the 3rd Floor. Bassist Dougie Poynter and drummer Harry Judd were subsequently recruited via a classified advertisement, Fletcher came up with the idea to name the band after Marty McFly, the main character from his favorite film Back to the Future. McFly then rose to fame after Busted helped launch them by inviting them to be the act on their tour in March 2004. In 2004, McFly made it into the Guinness Book of World Records, Fletcher has written the majority of McFlys songs with Jones and Poynter, with occasional contributions by Judd, Bourne has also assisted with songwriting on occasions
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Obviously
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Obviously is a song by English pop rock band McFly. It was released as the single from their debut studio album. The single was the bands second single on the UK Singles Chart. It also got to number 14 in Ireland, the song is about the lead singer having a crush on a girl he knows is way out of his league. He really wants that girl, but he knows that he never will be enough for her. Even though he had given up and desperately wanted to ignore the fact, the video features the boys as caddies in a golf game which features the characters mentioned in the song. The band members eventually have fun around the course on the buggies. Shots also involve them being in a hall where they play their instruments, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Fearne Cotton
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In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of the Radio 1 Chart Show, which she co-hosted with Reggie Yates for two years. She went on to present her own Radio 1 show, airing every weekday morning since 2009 and she left Radio 1 in May 2015. In 2007, Cotton presented The Xtra Factor, an ITV2 spin-off from the main show and she hosted the show for one year before being replaced by Holly Willoughby for the following series. Since 2008, Cotton has appeared as a captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice alongside host Keith Lemon. Away from presenting, Cotton has her own fashion and homeware range with online retailer Very. co. uk, Cotton was born in Northwood, London to Mick and Lyn Cotton, she has a younger brother, Jamie Cotton. Her father was a signwriter for events such as Live Aid and she grew up in Eastcote, Hillingdon in Middlesex and was educated at Haydon School. She is a pescatarian and an animal lover and she runs 5 km at least three times a week, and has participated in several half marathons for charity. Former BBC executive Bill Cotton was her paternal grandfathers cousin and he was the son of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton. Cotton studied art at A level, a skill she made use of whilst presenting the series Draw Your Own Toons. Cotton began her career in 1996, at the age of 15, with early morning GMTV childrens programme The Disney Club. After, Cotton continued with the show and with its replacement Diggit and she left in 2000, to concentrate on her other projects with CITV, including Draw Your Own Toons and Mouse, aimed at encouraging children to use computers. Cotton joined CBBC in 2001 to present childrens science programme Eureka TV, from 2001 until 2003, she presented Finger Tips, an arts and crafts programme for children, which she co-presented with Stephen Mulhern. She later co-presented on CBBCs Sunday morning show, Smile and on The Saturday Show and she has also made appearances in the CBBC show Only in America, alongside her good friend and fellow presenter Reggie Yates. In 2006, Cotton presented the series of Love Island with Patrick Kielty on ITV. In 2007, she took over from Ben Shephard as the host of The X Factor spin-off programme and she presented it for one series before resigning to work in America. She was replaced the series by Holly Willoughby. She also presented The X Factor, Interactive DVD Game in 2007, starting on 5 September 2007, Cotton co-hosted Holly & Fearne Go Dating, a dating programme alongside Holly Willoughby for ITV2. The show saw them try to find dates for lonely singletons, since 2008, Cotton has appeared as a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice alongside host Keith Lemon and fellow team captain Holly Willoughby
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The Kinks
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The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most important and influential bands of the era. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat and their third single, the Ray Davies-penned You Really Got Me, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States. Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the released a string of hit singles, studio albums drew good reviews. Their music was influenced by a range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk. They gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies observational writing style, in addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks record sales. In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence, the Kinks broke up in 1996, a result of the commercial failures of their last few albums and creative tension between the Davies brothers. Ray Davies and Dave Davies remained members throughout the groups 32-year run, longest-serving member Mick Avory was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984. Original bassist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1969 the band became an official five-piece when keyboardist John Gosling joined them, being replaced by Ian Gibbons in 1979, the group had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40, in the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and have gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide, among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Service to British Music. In 1990, the four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Davies brothers were born in suburban North London on Huntingdon Road, East Finchley and their parents, Frederick and Annie Davies, moved the family to 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, in the neighbouring suburb of Muswell Hill. At home they were immersed in a world of varied styles, from the music hall of their parents generation to the jazz and early rock. Both Ray and his brother Dave, younger by almost three years, learned to play guitar, and they played skiffle and rock and roll together. The brothers attended William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School, where formed a band. Their debut at a dance was well received, which encouraged the group to play at local pubs
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Lola (song)
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Lola is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by English rock band the Kinks on their album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details an encounter between a young man and a possible transvestite, whom he meets in a club in Soho. In the song, the narrator describes his confusion towards a person named Lola who walked like a woman, although Ray Davies claims that the incident was inspired by a true encounter experienced by the bands manager, alternate explanations for the song have been given by drummer Mick Avory. The song was released in the United Kingdom on 12 June 1970, commercially, the single reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Due to its subject matter and use of the brand name Coca-Cola. The single version used the words cherry cola while the album uses the name Coca-Cola. Since its release, Lola has appeared on compilation and live albums. In 1980, a version of the song from the album One for the Road was released as a single in the US and some European countries. Other versions include live renditions from 1972s Everybodys in Show-Biz and 1996s To the Bone, the Lola character also made an appearance in the lyrics of the bands 1981 song, Destroyer. Ray Davies has claimed that he was inspired to write Lola after Kinks manager Robert Wace spent a night in Paris dancing with a transgender woman. Davies said of the incident, In his apartment, Robert had been dancing with this black woman, and it was okay until we left at six in the morning and then I said, Have you seen the stubble. He said Yeah, but he was too pissed to care, drummer Mick Avory has offered an alternate explanation for the songs lyrics, claiming that Lola was partially inspired by Avorys frequenting of trans bars in west London. Avory said, We used to know this character called Michael McGrath and he used to hound the group a bit, because being called The Kinks did attract these sorts of people. He used to come down to Top of the Pops, and he used to have this place in Earls Court, and he used to invite me to all these drag queen acts and transsexual pubs. And thats where Ray got the idea for Lola, when he was invited too, he wrote it while I was getting drunk. In his autobiography, Dave Davies said that he came up with the music for what would become Lola, noting that brother Ray added the lyrics after hearing it. Written in April 1970, Lola was cited by Ray Davies as the first song he wrote following a break he took to act in the 1970 Play for Today film The Long Distance Piano Player. Davies said that he had struggled with writing an opening that would sell the song
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Dreadlocks
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Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jata, are ropelike strands of hair formed by matting or braiding hair. Dreadlocks can also be formed through a technique called twist and rip, various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing, braiding, rolling and the crochet hook method. All of these methods require ongoing work to be applied to the dread before it becomes neat, however, if the crochet hook method is applied by a skilled hand throughout the length of the dread, then the resulting dreadlocks are instantly tight and will not need any rolling. Some of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 3600 years to the Minoan civilization, frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera, depict individuals with braided hair styled in long dreadlocks. In ancient Egypt examples of Egyptians wearing locked hairstyles and wigs have appeared on bas-reliefs, statuary, mummified remains of ancient Egyptians with locked wigs, have also been recovered from archaeological sites. In Ancient Greece, kouros sculptures from the Archaic period depict men wearing dreadlocks while Spartan hoplites wore formal locks as part of their battle dress. Spartan magistrates known as Ephors also wore their hair braided in long locks, the style was worn by Ancient Christian Ascetics in the Middle East and Mediterranean, and the Dervishes of Islam, among others. Pre-Columbian Aztec priests were described in Aztec codices as wearing their hair untouched, allowing it to grow long and matted. In Senegal, the Baye Fall, followers of the Mouride movement, cheikh Ibra Fall, founder of the Baye Fall school of the Mouride Brotherhood, popularized the style by adding a mystic touch to it. Warriors among the Fulani, Wolof and Serer in Mauritania, and Mandinka in Mali and Niger were known for centuries to have worn cornrows when young, another name for the style is locks. Within Tibetan Buddhism and other more esoteric forms of Buddhism, dreadlocks have occasionally been substituted for the more traditional shaved head, the most recognizable of these groups are known as the Ngagpas of Tibet. For many practicing Buddhists, dreadlocks are a way to let go of material vanity, dreadlocks were required for many esoteric Buddhist rituals in medieval South Asia performed by Buddhist yogis. For instance,1.4.15 of the Hevajratantra states that the practitioner should arrange his piled up hair, in contemporary Tibetan practice matted hair is replaced by crowns with matted hair attached to them. Members of various African ethnic groups wear locks and the styles, maasai warriors are famous for their long, thin, red locks. Many people dye their hair red with root extracts or red ochre, in various cultures what are known as shamans, spiritual men or women who serve and speak to spirits or deities, often wear locks. In Nigeria, some children are born with locked hair and are given a special name. Yoruba priests of Olokun, the Orisha of the deep ocean, another group is the Turkana people of Kenya. In Ghana, the Akan refer to dreadlocks as Mpɛsɛ, which is the hairstyle of Akomfoɔ or priests, along with the Asante-Akan drums known as Kete drums, this hairstyle was later adopted by Rastafarians, with its roots in Jamaica from the slave trade era
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Beat music
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Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll, doo-wop, skiffle, the exact origins of the terms beat music and Merseybeat are uncertain. The name Mersey Beat was used for a Liverpool music magazine founded in 1961 by Bill Harry, Harry claims to have coined the term based on a policemans beat and not that of the music. The band the Pacifics were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler, MC at the Cavern Club, the equivalent scenes in Birmingham and London were described as Brum beat and the Tottenham Sound respectively. The most distinctive characteristic of the music was the beat, using the backbeat common to rock and roll and rhythm and blues. The 8/8 rhythm was flexible enough to be adopted for songs from a range of genres and this flexibility also meant that beat music could cope with a greater range of time-signatures and song shapes than rock & roll had been able to. Beat groups usually had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies, the most common instrumentation of beat groups featured lead, rhythm and bass guitars plus drums, as popularized by the Beatles, the Searchers, and others. Beat groups—even those with a separate lead singer—often sang both verses and choruses in harmony, resembling doo wop, with nonsense syllables in the backing vocals. In the late 1950s, a culture of groups began to emerge, often out of the declining skiffle scene, in major urban centres in the UK like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. This was particularly true in Liverpool, where it has estimated that there were around 350 different bands active, often playing ballrooms, concert halls. Liverpool was perhaps uniquely placed within Britain to be the point of origin of a new form of music. It was also a port with links to America, which made for much greater access to American records and instruments like guitars. As a result, Beat bands were influenced by American groups of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Outside of Liverpool many local scenes were influenced by rock and roll and more by the rhythm and blues. These included bands from Birmingham who were grouped with the beat movement, the most successful being the Spencer Davis Group. Similar blues influenced bands who broke out from local scenes to national prominence were the Animals from Newcastle, the term British Invasion was coined by T. V. reporter Walter Cronkite to describe the Beatles arrival in the United States and the outbreak of Beatlemania in 1964. Their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show soon after led to chart success, by 1967 beat music was beginning to sound out of date, particularly compared with the harder edged blues rock that was beginning to emerge. Most of the groups that had not already disbanded, like the Beatles, moved into different forms of music and pop music, including psychedelic rock
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Thunderbirds / 3AM
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Thunderbirds / 3AM is a double A-side single by English pop rock band Busted. It was released on 26 July 2004 as the single from their second studio album. Thunderbirds was not originally included on the album, having been written specifically for the 2004 film Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds was not released on an album in the United Kingdom until the release of the groups live album A Ticket for Everyone, Busted Live in 2005. Thunderbirds / 3AM was Busteds last single to enter the UK Singles Chart until the release of On What Youre On in 2016, reaching number one. It was the 19th best-selling single of 2004 in the UK and also won the title of 2004 Record of the Year, 3AM was later performed by Matt Willis during his 2007 solo tour, and by James Bourne on his 2012 acoustic solo tour. On 27 April 2010, both songs were available as downloadable content for the Rock Band music video game series
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Simon Amstell
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Amstell was born in Gants Hill, Redbridge, east London in 1979, to David and Tina Amstell. He was brought up in a Jewish family, and he was the eldest of four children and he was educated at Beal High School, a state comprehensive school in Ilford. Amstells first television appearance was in 1993 when he appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 game show GamesMaster, in 1994 he appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick performing an impression of Dame Edna Everage. Also that year, he appeared in an episode of Family Catchphrase, describing himself as a magician and showing one of his tricks to the shows presenter Andrew OConnor. Amstell and his family won a television and a video recorder, Amstell started performing on the comedy circuit when he was in his early teens and later became the youngest finalist to appear in the BBC New Comedy Awards. His first professional appearance was in 1998 as a presenter on the UK childrens channel Nickelodeon. He then began presenting the Channel 4 show, Popworld – where he gained a following for his groundbreaking work in making pop stars uncomfortable. From 2000 to 2006, Amstell presented Popworld on Channel 4 with Miquita Oliver, another was a Si-chiatrist interview with Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris of The Kooks in which Amstell played the role of psychiatrist and Pritchard and Harris his patients. Amstell first appeared on the comedy show Never Mind the Buzzcocks as a guest during Mark Lamarrs tenure as host, following Lamarrs departure, he was one of the series guest hosts before being appointed as permanent host beginning in October 2006. He said at the time that he hoped to beat the universal, exceptionless rule that when a new host takes over an old show it is a horrible, in June 2007, Amstell and long-term collaborator Dan Swimer wrote Imagine. A Mildly Amusing Panel Show, a version of Alan Yentobs arts programme Imagine. Yentob and Amstell play themselves in an interview between what a number of commentators described as overtly sexual clips taken from Amstells Never Mind the Buzzcocks episodes. It was followed in February 2008 by Never Mind the Buzzcocks, A Moving Tribute, Amstell won several awards for his work on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In March 2007, he won the 2006 Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Performance, in December 2007, he won two British Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality and Best Comedy Entertainment Series for Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In addition, Never Mind the Buzzcocks won the Best Entertainment Programme award at the Broadcast Awards 2008, Amstells era was the reason why Never Mind the Buzzcocks was chosen as the 36th-best TV show of the decade by The Times. This was later denied by Fielding, during Fieldings period as a guest captain before his permanent role, he had been involved in a semi-sarcastic confrontation with Amstell during the show, who mocked his surreal sense of humour. The British Comedy Guide suggested there was tension between the two of them, Amstell also caused The Ordinary Boys frontman Samuel Preston to storm off set after reading passages from the autobiography of his then-wife Chantelle Houghton. In 2009, BBC2 commissioned a series titled Grandmas House from Tiger Aspect Productions, written by and starring Amstell
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Popworld
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The show began on 20 January 2001 and was initially presented by Miquita Oliver and Simon Amstell. Alex Zane and Alexa Chung took over the role in 2006. Popworld was broadcast every Sunday Morning on Channel 4 at 10, 30am, on 27 April 2007, Channel 4 announced they would not be recommissioning the show, and after six years on air, Popworld ended on 14 July 2007. Popworld began in 2000 as a website founded by pop mogul Simon Fuller, the shows original hosts were Nickelodeon presenter Simon Amstell and 16-year-old Miquita Oliver. The original ratings for the programme were dismal, but as Amstell and Oliver gradually warmed to each other and had control of what they could say. Popworld finally made it on to T4 in the spring of 2001, in the early series, the show featured Leigh Francis as the character Barry Gibson. Since its inception, the show grew more and more dry and sarcastic, with singers and bands being subtly. By the end of Amstell and Olivers tenure on the show, notable events that occurred during their tenure included openly gay Amstell coming on to homophobic reggae star Beenie Man and Britney Spears walking out of an interview in tears. The Kooks refused to do an interview on their appearance on the show. In February 2006, Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver announced they would be leaving the show, following their departure episode, Alex Zane and Alexa Chung took over presenting until its series finale in July 2007. Popworld launched a magazine of the name in 2003. In late 2006, it was announced that Popworld was launching a magazine called Popworld Pulp. 130,000 copies were produced for launch, which place in April 2007. However, after two weeks, it was axed, the publishers claiming it had undersold against its sales targets, two weeks later, the show, too, announced it was ending. Popworld website Popworld at Channel4. com Internet Movie Database entry The new TOTP, get up early on Sunday - article from The Guardian Popworld, the irreverent music show - article from The Independent How did a gay geek and a bolshie schoolgirl change the face of music TV
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies
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Chroma key
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Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects / post-production technique for compositing two images or video streams together based on color hues. The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the footage is made transparent, allowing separately filmed background footage or a static image to be inserted into the scene. The chroma keying technique is used in video production and post-production. No part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate the color used as the backing, when using a blue screen, different weather maps are added on the parts of the image where the color is blue. If the news presenter wears blue clothes, his or her clothes will also be replaced with the background video, chroma keying is also common in the entertainment industry for visual effects in movies and videogames. Prior to the introduction of travelling mattes and optical printing, double exposure was used to introduce elements into a scene which werent present in the initial exposure and this was done using black draping where a green screen would be used today. George Albert Smith first used this approach in 1898, in 1903, The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter used double exposure to add background scenes to windows which were black when filmed on set, using a garbage matte to expose only the window areas. In 1918 Frank Williams patented a travelling matte technique, again based on using a black background and this was used in many films, such as The Invisible Man. In the 1920s, Walt Disney used a backdrop to include human actors with cartoon characters. The blue screen method was developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures, at RKO, Linwood Dunn used an early version of the travelling matte to create wipes – where there were transitions like a windshield wiper in films such as Flying Down to Rio. In 1950, Warner Brothers employee and ex-Kodak researcher Arthur Widmer began working on a travelling matte process. He also began developing techniques, one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man. Petro Vlahos was awarded an Academy Award for his refinement of techniques in 1964. His technique exploits the fact that most objects in real-world scenes have a color whose blue-color component is similar in intensity to their green-color component, zbigniew Rybczyński also contributed to bluescreen technology. An optical printer with two projectors, a camera and a beam splitter, was used to combine the actor in front of a blue screen together with the background footage. In the early 1970s, American and British television networks began using green backdrops instead of blue for their newscasts, during the 1980s, minicomputers were used to control the optical printer. For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created an optical printer that accelerated the process considerably
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Just My Luck (2006 film)
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Just My Luck is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and written by I. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine as the main characters, Lohan stars as Ashley, the luckiest girl in Manhattan, New York. She loses her luck after kissing Jake, portrayed by Pine, the film features supporting roles by Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Missi Pyle, and McFly, the English band whom Jake discovers in the film and tries to help by finding them a producer. Persistent in her effort to hold onto a client, Ashley manages to sell Damon Phillips on the idea of a masquerade party. Meanwhile, Jake tries to get a music businessman to sign up a band he leads, when Ashleys boss, Peggy, learns of the plan, she is, to Ashleys surprise, impressed with the idea, leaving her with the task of organizing the party independently. Jake, hearing of the party and of the number of sponsors who could be there, hatches a plan to attend, in order to meet a very famous man who could rehire him. He poses as a dancer for the party and gains entry. During the party, Ashley is confronted by a teller who warns her she will soon be struck by bad luck. As Jake wanders around the party, he is taken with Ashleys beauty and asks her to him in a dance. Neither can see the face, as they are both wearing masks. During the kiss, their luck is switched, Jake gets Ashleys good luck, Jake spots Phillips and saves him from a taxi cab that nearly hit him. As a way of thanking him, Phillips, who is in charge of a record company, signs up McFly. Jake is surprised that something actually happened to him. Meanwhile, Ashleys new bad luck kicks in and not only does she break her shoe, tear her dress, and nearly choke on an olive, even in jail, Ashley experiences more bad luck. After she gets out, she has more bad luck, such as a flood in her house, a zit on her face. Fed up and wanting to know why these bad things are happening to her, Ashley goes to the fortune teller, who tells her someone else has her lost good luck and he needed it more. Desperate to regain her luck, Ashley asks more of the fortune teller, Ashley begins hunting down all the dancers from the company who had supplied the dancers at the party. While on her search, Ashley tries to get food from a cafe but is rejected because she doesnt have enough money
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Please, Please
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Please, Please is a song by McFly from their third album Motion in the Ocean, released as a double A-side single with their cover version of the Queen song Dont Stop Me Now. It was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 7 June 2006, the single entered the UK Singles Chart on 23 July 2006 at number one, knocking Smile by Lily Allen off the top spot. It was the 1038th UK number one single and it reached number 15 in Ireland. Please, Please was written by all of McFly, Julian Emery, also, a recurring line in the song is Please, please, Lindsay, please. Danny Jones wasnt so sure though, He had a dream about it, tom revealed on the DVD single that it was the most fun video shoot other than 5 Colours in Her Hair. It also was the theme for the Sport Relief Mile, which McFly also took part in, also for Sport Relief band member Harry Judd travelled to India with a collection of other British celebrities including presenter and comedian Nick Hancock and radio DJ and presenter Chris Evans. Whilst out in India, Harry took part in a tournament, travelling across Indias poorest areas and playing with everyone from the kids to the professionals. The video for Please, Please was the bands most enjoyable video shoot and it was shot in an old hospital and featured each of the members McFly being admitted to hospital with various injuries and being taken care of by a red-headed nurse named Lindsay Albright. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Busted (band)
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Busted are an English pop rock band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, consisting of James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson. They have also won two Brit Awards and won The Record of the Year in 2004 with their single Thunderbirds, Busted have sold over 5 million albums worldwide. In November 2013, Willis and Bourne announced plans to tour together with McFly as the supergroup McBusted in 2014, on 10 November 2015, it was revealed that Simpson had rejoined Busted after successful secret writing sessions. The band then embarked on the Pigs Can Fly arena tour in May 2016 and released their studio album, Night Driver. James Bourne and Matt Willis had been friends for a number of years and had written material together, Willis claimed that they had been inspired by Green Day, Blink-182 and BBMak. Busted were formed in early 2000 and originally consisted of Bourne, Willis, Ki Fitzgerald and Owen Doyle, Charlie Simpson and Tom Fletcher auditioned to be in the band and were both offered a place to complete the lineup. 24 hours later, however, Busteds manager told Fletcher via a call that the band was to go ahead as a trio, comprising Bourne, Willis. The band was launched in August 2002, making their first appearance on the cover of Smash Hits with the headline, Meet Busted, making it a first for any pop band to appear on the magazines cover before releasing a single. Their debut single, What I Go to School For, inspired by a teacher that Willis had a crush on at school, was released in September 2002. It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and their debut album Busted was then released, initially charting only around the UK Top 30 and receiving mixed reviews from critics. The follow-up Year 3000, which was written about Bournes obsession with the film Back to the Future, then followed in January 2003, in April, their third single, You Said No finally reached number one. British Hit Singles & Albums certified them as the first act ever to have their debut three singles enter the top three in an ascending order, recording began for their second album while the debut album was re-released with new tracks and an enhanced CD section. It would go on to sell 1.2 million copies by the end of the year, the debut albums final single, Sleeping with the Light On, reached number 3 in August 2003, beaten to number one by Blu Cantrells Breathe. Busted started the summer of 2003 with a win for Favourite Newcomer at the National Music Awards, as well as Best Band at that years Disney Channel Kids Awards. After this, the band launched the promotional trail for their new album, A Present for Everyone and its lead single Crashed the Wedding, more edgy than their previous album, Simpson said that it had some harder, Good Charlotte type vibes coming through on this album. This album would go on to reach sales of over 1 million copies. During 2003, Charlie met fellow songwriter-guitarist Alex Westaway and drummer Omar Abidi at a party, during the aforementioned party, an impromptu jam session took place. Simpson, Westaway and Abidi played Rage Against the Machines song Killing in the Name on loop, after the show, they went back to Simpsons flat and began performing on guitars and a v-drum kit, which led to their first song being written, titled Too Much Punch
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British Phonographic Industry
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The BPI Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industrys trade association. Its membership comprises hundreds of companies including all three major record companies in the UK, and hundreds of independent music labels and small to medium-sized music businesses. It has represented the interests of British record companies since being formally incorporated in 1973 when the aim was to promote British music. In 2007, the legal name was changed from British Phonographic Industry Limited. It founded the annual BRIT Awards for the British music industry in 1977, the organizing company, BRIT Awards Limited, is a fully owned subsidiary of the BPI. Proceeds from both shows go to the BRIT Trust, the arm of the BPI that has donated almost £15m to charitable causes nationwide since its foundation in 1989. In September 2013, the BPI presented the first ever BRITs Icon Award to Sir Elton John, the BPI also endorsed the launch of the Mercury Prize for the Album of the Year in 1992. In September 2008, the BPI became one of the members of UK Music. The BRIT Trust is the music charity actively supporting all types of education across the entire spectrum of music. Through the projects it supports, which include Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the BRIT School, proceeds from the BRIT Awards and the Classic BRITs shows go to the BRIT Trust, which has donated almost £15m to charitable causes nationwide since its foundation. Opened in September 1991, the BRIT School is a joint venture between The BRIT Trust and the Department for Education and Skills, based at Selhurst in Croydon, the school is the only non fee-paying performing arts school in the UK. It teaches up to 1,100 students each year aged from 14–19 years in music, dance, drama, musical theatre, production, media and art & design. Students are from diverse backgrounds and are not required to stick to their own discipline, dancers learn songwriting. Nor do students have to work/perform in the evening to pay for the tuition, the BPI administers the Platinum, Gold and Silver awards scheme for music releases in the United Kingdom. The level of the award varies depending on the format of the release, member companies do, however, still have the option to certify titles based on shipment levels if they choose to. Since July 2014, audio streaming has also included for singles at a ratio of 100 streams equivalent to 1 unit. From June 2015, audio streams were added to album certifications, according to BPI, they would take the 12 most-streamed tracks from the standard version of an album, with the top two songs down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams will be divided by 1,000, additionally, personnel are also seconded to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit top support anti-piracy operations
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The Vamps (British band)
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The Vamps are a British pop rock band consisting of Brad Simpson, James McVey, Connor Ball and Tristan Evans. They first gained fame in late 2012 with cover songs uploaded to YouTube, leading to comparisons with One Direction and they were signed to Mercury Records in November 2012. They supported McFly on their Memory Lane Tour in early 2013, on 29 September 2013, the Vamps released their debut single Can We Dance, which debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Their second single Wild Heart was released on 18 January 2014 and their third single Last Night was released on UK radio on 24 February 2014 and digital download on 6 April 2014. Their debut album Meet the Vamps was released on 14 April 2014, in February 2014, the Vamps released Wild Heart as their debut single in the US and Canada. The Vamps released their studio album Wake Up on 27 November 2015. The lead single from the album, Wake Up, was released on 2 October 2015, James McVey was already managed by Richard Rashman and Joe ONeill of Prestige Management. Deciding he wanted to form a band, McVey subsequently discovered Bradley Simpson in 2011 through YouTube, together, the pair wrote songs towards the later months of 2011, with Simpson later becoming lead singer. In 2012, Simpson and McVey met Tristan Evans through Facebook, the trio then met Connor Ball via a mutual friend. In mid-2012, the band started uploading songs to their YouTube channel. By October they were being described as a new boy band, strong fan support helped bring them wide notice. On 22 July 2013, the band uploaded their first original song, Wildheart, onto their YouTube account, on 6 August 2013, they released the music video for their debut single Can We Dance, which received over 1 million views within two weeks. Can We Dance was released on 29 September 2013 and debuted at two on the UK Singles Chart on 6 October 2013, beaten to number one by OneRepublics Counting Stars. On 19 November 2013 the band announced they would release their debut album around Easter, on 22 November 2013, the Vamps announced that their second single would be Wild Heart. The song received its first airplay three days later and was released on 19 January 2014, peaking at three on the UK Singles Chart the following week. On 13 March 2014, the Vamps announced that their album would be released on 14 April 2014. On 22 March, it was revealed the album would be titled Meet the Vamps, on 6 April, they released Last Night as the third single from the album. It debuted at two in the UK
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Wild Heart (The Vamps song)
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Wild Heart is a song by British pop rock band The Vamps. It was released in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2014 as the single from their debut studio album Meet the Vamps. The single also includes a cover of Mcflys 5 Colours in Her Hair, Wild Heart was written by all four members of The Vamps along with Amund Bjørklund, Espen Lind, Ben Harrison, Ibrahim Ayb Asmar, and Jamie Scott. There are eight different versions of the track to purchase, including one featuring vocals from English singer Pixie Lott and we like to try and push ourselves into directions to try new things really and weve gone for more of a folky vibe so we hope people like it. We like to think its a good song I guess. Frontman Brad Simpson admitted that the song influenced the rest of the album sound almost just because it was such a key song for us. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy gave the song a review, stating, Ironically, as their namesake suggests. On 23 November, the song debuted at six on the Irish Singles Chart. It then debuted at three on the UK Singles Chart three days later, giving The Vamps their second consecutive UK top 3 hit. A live video was uploaded to YouTube on 22 July 2013, the official music video was directed by Dean Sherwood. It was uploaded to YouTube on 3 December 2013. Digital download Wild Heart –3,11 Digital download - EP Wild Heart –3,11 Five Colours in Her Hair –2,57 Twist & Shout –2,39 Whyd You Only Call Me When Youre High
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British Hit Singles & Albums
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British Hit Singles & Albums was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives. Later editions were published by Guinness World Records and HiT Entertainment and it listed all the singles and albums featured in the Top 75 pop charts in the UK. In 2004 the book became an amalgamation of two earlier Guinness publications, originally known as British Hit Singles and British Hit Albums, the publication of this amalgamation ceased in 2008. A new version of the published by Virgin and entitled The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles. The first ten editions were compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Mike Read and brothers Tim Rice, Read left the team in the mid-1980s and the other editors resigned in 1996. Chart editor for many editions was David Roberts, British Hit Singles & Albums was generally considered to be the authoritative reference source for both the UK Singles Chart and the UK Albums Chart. It listed all the singles and albums ever to have been in the UK charts since 1952, listing them in alphabetical order, the entries also included the date of chart entry, highest position, catalogue number and number of weeks in the chart. Short biographical notes accompanied many of the artists chart details, the books sources are the New Musical Express chart from November 1952 to March 1960, and the Record Retailer chart thereafter. Other records to which this applies include 19th Nervous Breakdown by The Rolling Stones, Stranger on the Shore by Acker Bilk and the Eurovision Song Contest entry Are You Sure by The Allisons. Co-founder Jo Rice has defended the choice of source material on the grounds that Record Retailer was the only chart to consistently publish a Top 50 from 1960 onwards. As a result, the placings in that chart were more open to error, the first edition was published as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles in July 1977. It wasnt the first Guinness music reference publication, as the year a book called The Guinness Book of Music Facts & Feats had been published. It also contained feats from the world of classical music, the first edition was issued to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first UK singles sales chart, which was published in November 1952, by the New Musical Express. Subsequently, a new edition was published two years, adding a few hundred titles to each edition. 1 hits, Most weeks on chart or Least successful chart artist, also included in the books were photographs and introductions written by the four authors. They also wrote a bi-annual lookback on the developments in the UK charts in the two preceding years. The series was regarded as the number one source for music and chart reference, thanks to the commercial success of the books. The series 10th edition, published in June 1995, was the last to feature its original authors Rice, Rice and Gambaccini
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Official Charts Company
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The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association. Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts, prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. All of the OCCs charts are published weekly on Friday nights, from 3 August 1969 until 5 July 2015, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart, the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts ― and the former Welsh Singles and Albums Chart ― appears in listings within the Official Charts Company. It is a regional listing reflecting how sales towards the UK Singles Chart, the Welsh Singles and Album Chart served the same purpose in Wales. It also charts the UK DVD Chart and UK Budget Album Chart, while their music charts are now Friday to Thursday, their video charts remain Sunday to Saturday. On 5 September 2008, the Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as the Official Charts Company and it later dropped the word Company and became just Official Charts. From May 2012, a new chart was launched – the Official Streaming Chart and this counts audio streams from streaming services Spotify, Deezer, Blinkbox Music, Napster, amongst others. In April 2015, the UKs first vinyl record chart was launched by the Official Charts Company due to the surge of interest in the sector. The chart was launched following the growth of the sector in the UK for the year in a row. Beginning in 2017 the Official Charts Company changed its methodology for calculating the Top 40, prior to January 2017,100 streams counted as one sale of a song. From January onward, the ratio became 150,1, UK Albums Chart UK Singles Chart UK Video Charts UK Singles Downloads Chart UK Album Downloads Chart British Phonographic Industry Official Charts Company website
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UKChartsPlus
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UKChartsPlus is an independent weekly newsletter about the UK music charts. It was first published in September 2001 as ChartsPlus in order to record the official music chart information in the United Kingdom. Its publication began after Hit Music ceased publication in May 2001, the newsletter was established to be totally independent of Music Week, licensing the chart data directly from Official Charts Company and other chart providers. Since then, it has expanded to include the BPI silver, gold or platinum awards, predictions of the success of forthcoming releases, Budget Albums Top 50, Airplay Top 100. The Welsh Singles and Albums Top 75s and the Scottish Singles and it also published genre specific charts, for Indie, Dance, Rock and R&B. In October 2008, publisher Musiqware Ltd. stopped production of ChartsPlus, in December 2008, ChartsPlus was relaunched by new publisher UKChartsPlus, the first issue under new control was number 383. Issues 372-382 were issued retrospectively between January and March 2009, with issue no.463 the publication was relaunched under the new title UKChartsPlus, featuring a new cover, several new charts, and some expanded charts, and a new colour scheme. It now also features an index and an albums index showing each entrys chart positions across all charts featured in UKChartsPlus. a. £43.75, £17.50 Express version, £120 p. a, £36.25, £13 Individual back issues are available at £5 each or in quarterly or annual batches
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Danny Jones
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Daniel Alan David Danny Jones is a British musician who is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists for pop-rock band McFly. Jones fellow band members are Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, Jones is married to former Miss England, Georgia Horsley. They married in Georgias home town Malton, North Yorkshire on August 2,2014, McFly rose to fame in 2004, partly to their association with Busted, McFly supported Busted on their A Present for Everyone Tour. Jones met Fletcher when he auditioned for the boy band V. Fletcher, the two conversed and discovered common interests, leading to a songwriting session between Fletcher, Jones and Busteds James Bourne. When they finished writing projects for Busted, Fletcher and Jones began writing for their own and they temporarily moved into the InterContinental Hotel in London, United Kingdom. Drummer Judd and bassist Poynter were subsequently recruited through an advertisement placed by Fletcher, Jones, working with his fellow band members, has co-written all five of McFlys studio albums. He also penned three of his own tracks on the first three McFly albums. Jones has also listed as a producer for McFlys 6th studio album. He has also produced countless demos for his band, alongside Fletcher, Jones also takes the role of lead guitarist in most performances, with Fletcher playing rhythm guitar. He can be seen performing solos in such as That Girl, I Wanna Hold You, Everybody Knows. As a side project, Jones works on remixes for his bands songs, including Party Girl or Nowhere Left to Run, some remixes can be found as b-sides on singles released from the album Above the Noise. Jones is a keen producer/DJ and footballer, as is McFly and he assisted Alan Shearer in a charity match in which England beat the rest of the world. After McFlys direction changed it was announced he would remix Party Girl as a b-side of the single after that he remixed Nowhere Left to Run for the Thats the Truth single. After this success Jones played songs such as Take Me There or End of the World, Jones produced a bonus track for One Direction on their second album Take Me Home and wrote Dont Forget Where You Belong from their third album Midnight Memories. Jones was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where his mother runs a hairdressing business and he got his education at Thornleigh Salesian College. He and his sister Vicky were interested in music from an early age, in 2014 Vicky took part in the third series of The Voice but was eliminated during the battle round. Jones attended Bury College where he studied for a BTEC National Diploma in music and their father walked out on the family when Danny was eighteen and it left a lasting impression on him. Not long after, he co-wrote the song Dont Know Why with Vicky, the McFly song The Ballad of Paul K, which he co-wrote with McFly bandmate Dougie Poynter, whose father also left home, was based on both their experiences
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Harry Judd
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Harry Mark Christopher Judd is an English musician who is best known as the drummer for British pop rock band McFly, along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones. Judd won the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing, Judd was born in Chelmsford, Essex in southern England, the youngest of three children. He is the son of Emma and Christopher Judd, while at Uppingham, Judd was a member of Fircroft house, and was a promising batsman but gave up cricket to pursue a career in music. Judd appeared in Busteds music video for their 2003 single Crashed the Wedding, alongside his band mates in McFly, Judd has been seen on TV programmes including The Paul OGrady Show, T4s Freshly Squeezed and BBC programme Sound. In January 2005, McFly guest-starred in an episode of the long-running BBC One drama series Casualty, unfortunately, Judd went missing on set for half of the period that they were filming for the series. His bandmates thought he had fallen off a mosque in Tunisia, in May 2006, McFly starred in the teen comedy film Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, which was released in the US on 12 May 2006 and in the UK on 30 June 2006. They played themselves in the film and the featured a variety of their songs from their first two albums. During filming, rumours sparked of a relationship between Judd and Lohan, however, Lohans reps denied this and said that it was just a publicity stunt. Judd spoke of his romance in the Sun at the end of last year saying they spent the night together We did things teenagers do and we went far enough but not the full home run. In 2007 McFly appeared in the BBC One television series Doctor Who, Judd also appeared on the BBC2 panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. On 8 May 2009, McFly appeared on the Channel 4 show Hollyoaks, Judd appeared in McFlys own short movie Nowhere Left to Run. He starred in the role alongside his band mates to promote their new album Above the Noise. Judd appeared in his first ever solo photoshoot early in 2011 when he covered the February edition of Attitude and he also appeared on All Star Family Fortunes. Judd also appeared on the ITV2 Show Celebrity Juice on 1 March 2012, on 6 July 2012, Judd appeared on The Million Pound Drop Live along with Michelle, his partner he only met in person once they were on stage. Judd has also appeared in his second solo photo shoot in the October edition of Attitude after earning their Hottest Man Honours at the 2012 Attitude Awards, in December 2013, Judd appeared on Celebrity The Chase with Chris Bisson, Gareth Thomas and Naga Munchetty. He earned £6,000 in his chase, but he, Bisson. On 19 November 2010, Judd appeared on and won a special Strictly Come Dancing episode for Children in Need, on 6 September 2011 it was announced that Judd would take part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing. In the launch show of the series on 10 September, his dance partner was revealed as Aliona Vilani
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Dougie Poynter
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Dougie Lee Poynter is an English musician, songwriter, fashion model, clothing designer, author, actor and philanthropist. He is the bassist and youngest member of the pop rock band McFly, Poynter was born November 30,1987 Corringham, Essex, England. In 2003, a then 15 year-old Poynter auditioned for and subsequently became the player for the English band McFly. The band consists of Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, McFly rose to fame with their first single,5 Colours in Her Hair, which was released March 2004 and entered the UK Singles Chart at number one in April 2004. That year, McFly would support Busted on tour before going on to headline a tour in September 2004. The bands second album, Wonderland, was released in 2005 followed by Motion in the Ocean in 2006. A Greatest Hits compilation was released in 2007 followed by two studio albums, Radio, Active and Above the Noise. A second greatest hits album, Memory Lane, The Best of McFly, was released in November 2012, also in 2012, the band debuted their first written autobiography, McFly, Unsaid Things. Our Story with Transworld Publishers Ltd, in April 2016, McFly announced that they would be going on tour for a three-night residency in Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, and London. The Anthology tour, in which they play all five of their albums. The tour was postponed from June until September 2016 after drummer Harry Judd injured his neck, Poynter is credited as a lead writer and cowriter on many of McFlys tracks. He served as the writer for McFlys seventh number-one hit single 2007s Transylvania. He also wrote a track called Silence Is a Scary Sound. In addition to his work with McFly, Poynter has written collaboratively for talent such as 5 Seconds of Summer and he also worked alongside seasoned artists Mark Hoppus and Alex Gaskarth to develop the album for the McFly + Busted supergroup, McBusted. In November 2013, McFly joined the band Busted to form the super-group and they played a 34-date tour called The McBusted Tour. It was the biggest UK tour of 2014, McBusted concluded the tour headlining the British Summer Time concert series in Hyde Park where they performed for an audience of over 60,000 attendees. In 2015, the band went on tour for a second time, mcBusteds Most Excellent Adventure Tour consisted of 21 shows. Poynter made his debut in January 2016 at the Joshua Kane with Lab Series Autumn/Winter show for London Collections Men
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Wonderland (McFly album)
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Wonderland is the second studio album by English pop rock band McFly. Despite being less of a success in the UK, the album went on to match the sales of McFlys debut album Room on the 3rd Floor. The album contains production from early collaborator Hugh Padgham, who co-produced the majority of the debut album. The album follows more of a story-like narrative than the bands first album, unlike the bands first album, there is no hidden track on the album. A deluxe version of the album was released in special gatefold packagaing, the Japanese edition of the album contains two additional tracks plus two music videos. The boys even felt confident enough to include a sitar on the song Ultraviolet, and of course, there was quite a memorable song in there as well. One might sneer, but Wonderland was an album from an obviously talented group of young lads. The Wonderland Tour 2005 McFly website
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Motion in the Ocean
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Motion in the Ocean is the third studio album released by English pop rock band McFly. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2006, the album has sold more than 300,000 copies in the UK since its release, being ceritified platinum. The tour edition of the album was released on 14 May 2007, alongside the addition of bonus track Babys Coming Back, the album was accompanied by a DVD of the Motion in the Ocean Tour 2006, recorded live at Wembley Arena. The album was a limited edition and this version of the album reached number fourteen on the official album chart, selling 11,256 copies. The album was recorded in the infamous Grouse Lodge recording studio in Westmeath, the albums first song, We Are The Young, first featured as a demo B-side to the single Star Girl. This version is different, with stronger piano riffs. Please Please contains obvious references to actress Lindsay Lohan, who drummer Harry Judd met on the set of Lohans movie Just My Luck, in which McFly made an appearance. Lohan is not mentioned specifically, but the featured in the video for the song has green eyes, red hair. The name tag on her nurses uniform also says Lindsay Allbright – Lohans character in Just My Luck was named Ashley Allbright, the bands official position, as stated in the album notes, is that the song is not about Lohan. The double A-side of Dont Stop Me Now/Please, Please was released as the lead single on 17 July 2006. It charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, the single became the official single for Sport Relief 2006. Star Girl was released as the second single on 23 October 2006. It also went to one on the UK Singles Chart. The double A-side of Sorrys Not Good Enough/Friday Night was released as the third single on 18 December 2006. It reached number three on the Christmas charts, the double A-side of Babys Coming Back/Transylvania was released as the albums fourth and final single on 7 May 2007. It also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
