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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Fort Lauderdale /ˌfɔərt ˈlɔːdərdeɪl/ is a city in the U. S. state of Florida,28 miles north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County, as of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average temperature of 75.5 °F and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, the district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012, greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants,63 golf courses,12 shopping malls,16 museums,132 nightclubs,278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts. Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War, the forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort, however, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century. The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the New River Settlement before the 20th century, in the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6,1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children. The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, the fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County, Fort Lauderdales first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob, a group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery
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Nassau, Bahamas
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Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has an population of 274,400 as of 2016. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which much like a business district. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named in honour of William III of England, nassaus modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of American Loyalists and their slaves to the Bahamas following the American Revolutionary War. Many of them settled in Nassau and eventually came to outnumber the original inhabitants, as the population of Nassau grew, so did its populated areas. Today the city dominates the island and its satellite, Paradise Island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed, most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were resettled there following the American Revolutionary War, they established several plantations, such as Clifton and Tusculum. In addition, slaves freed from American ships, such as the Creole case in 1841, were allowed to settle there, Nassau was formerly known as Charles Town, it was burned to the ground by the Spanish in 1684 during one of their frequent wars with the English. The name Nassau derives from the House of Nassau and ultimately from the town of Nassau, due to a lack of effective Governors, Nassau fell on hard times. In 1703 Spanish and French allied forces briefly occupied Nassau, from 1703 to 1718 there was no governor in the colony and by 1713, the sparsely settled Bahamas had become a pirate haven. The Governor of Bermuda stated that there were over 1,000 pirates in Nassau and they proclaimed Nassau a pirate republic, establishing themselves as governors. Examples of pirates that used Nassau as their base are Charles Vane, Thomas Barrow, Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, in 1718, the British sought to regain control of the islands and appointed Captain Woodes Rogers as Royal governor. He successfully clamped down on the pirates, reformed the civil administration, Rogers cleaned up Nassau and rebuilt the fort, using his own wealth to try to overcome problems. In 1720 the Spanish made an attempt to capture Nassau. During the wars in the Thirteen Colonies, Nassau experienced an economic boom, with funds from privateering, a new fort, street lights and over 2300 sumptuous houses were built and Nassau was extended. In addition to this, mosquito breeding swamps were filled, in 1778 after an overnight invasion, American raiders led by Captain Rathburn, left with ships, gunpowder and military stores after stopping in Nassau for only two days. In 1782 Spain captured Nassau for the last time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5000 men
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Fort Lauderdale High School
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Fort Lauderdale High School is a high school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida serving students in grades 9 through 12. The school is a part of the Broward County Public Schools district, founded in 1899 as a school for whites, the high school is the oldest continuously functioning high school in Broward County, Florida, and the oldest in South Florida. Fort Lauderdale High has an FCAT School grade of A for the 2011-2012 school year, on October 2,1899, Fort Lauderdale’s first school would open in what was then Dade County. Ivy Cromartie welcomed nine students into a wood-framed schoolhouse located on South Andrews Avenue, by 1901, there were 18 students enrolled at Fort Lauderdale with only 997 enrolled in all of Dade County. In 1902 the School Board began offering transportation to students living in Hallandale who needed to attend school, each day, students would climb aboard wagons for the ride. By 1910, Fort Lauderdale’s population had enough to require the building of a new school so. The “modern” two-story concrete school was constructed for a total cost of $7,000, at the time, Fort Lauderdale was the only high school in the 68-mile stretch between Miami and West Palm Beach. By 1914, enrollment reached 325 with only 47 being high school students, in 1915, a 46 to 16 vote led the way for construction of a new Fort Lauderdale High School in the newly designated Broward County. The new school was located three blocks east of Andrews Avenue adjacent to Stranahan Park and was constructed for $55,000, the school was also referred to as Central High School because of the large area it served. The first graduating class in 1915 consisted of five boys, by 1916, it could boast that all nine of its teachers had college degrees. In 1924, Fort Lauderdale established its first Honor Society,1962 saw the opening of the new Fort Lauderdale High School at its present location on NE Fourth Avenue, with its first graduating class celebrating commencement in June,1963. The past few years have seen changes to the FLHS campus, most notably the opening of a new three-story classroom building, a modern library. 2007 also saw the renaming of NE4 Ave between the city divider and NE13 St as “Flying L Drive” in honor of the commitment to education. The project was completed by a group of four students in John Pellegrinos Public Affairs class, a college preparatory program designed for those interested in careers in Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Affairs. Because of its location in the county seat, the program allows access to governmental agencies that are utilized as “living laboratories” for the ultimate learning experience. Students participate in trials in a courtroom housed within the school as well as take field trips to the Broward County Courthouse to witness actual trials. Due to the high interest of its students in Pre-Law, the FLHS debate team is one of the best in the state, allows for students to take more Advanced Placement courses, putting them ahead when they enter college. They offer a variety of AP courses from Art to History to English
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University of Miami
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The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, the university offers 116 undergraduate,105 masters, and 63 doctoral degree programs, of which 59 are research/scholarship and four professional areas of study. Over the years, the students have represented all 50 states. With more than 14,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, uM’s main campus in Coral Gables has 239 acres and over 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In the 2017 U. S. News and World Report study of colleges and universities, Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage. UM also offers a range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities. UMs intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, UMs football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982. They believed that a university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak, the university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 18,1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the boom had collapsed. For the next 15 years the university barely remained solvent, the construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, in 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UMs plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open, a reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UMs first president Bowman Foster Ashe. The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E. B, douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C, in 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest
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Florida State University
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Florida State University is an American public space-grant and sea-grant research university. Its primary campus is located on a 1,391. 54-acre campus in Tallahassee, Florida and it is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida, the university is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university comprises 16 separate colleges and more than 110 centers, facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 360 programs of study, the university has an annual budget of over $1.7 billion and an annual economic impact of over $10 billion. Florida State is home to Floridas only National Laboratory – the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and is the birthplace of the commercially viable anti-cancer drug Taxol. Florida State University also operates The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Florida State University leads Florida in four of eight areas of external funding for the STEM disciplines, FSU officially launched the Raise the Torch, The Campaign for Florida State on October 17,2014. The campaign has a goal of more than $1 billion which will improve academics, research. As of September 30,2016, Florida State Universitys Raise the Torch campaign has raised $938,972,249, for 2017, U. S. News & World Report ranked Florida State as the 38th best public university in the United States. FSUs intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their Florida State Seminoles nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, in their 113-year history, Florida States varsity sports teams have won 20 national athletic championships and Seminole athletes have won 78 individual NCAA national championships. In 1819 the Florida Territory was ceded to the United States by Spain as an element of the Adams–Onís Treaty, the Territory was conventionally split by the Appalachicola or later the Suwannee rivers into East and West areas. Florida State University is traceable to a set by the 1823 U. S. Congress to create a system of higher education. The 1838 Florida Constitution codified the system by providing for land allocated for the schools. In 1845 Florida became the 27th State of the United States, in 1851 the Florida Legislature voted to establish two seminaries of higher education on opposite sides of the Suwannee River. Francis W. Eppes and other city leaders established an academy called the Florida Institute in Tallahassee as a legislative inducement to locate the West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee. The East Florida Seminary opened in Ocala in 1853, closed in 1861, the East Florida Seminary is the institution to which the modern University of Florida traces its foundation. Two years later the institution absorbed the Tallahassee Female Academy founded in 1843 as the Misses Bates School, the West Florida Seminary stood near the front of the Westcott Building on the existing FSU campus, making this site the oldest continually used location of higher learning in Florida. In 1860–61 the legislature started formal training at the school with a law amending the original 1851 statute
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Tallahassee, Florida
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Tallahassee /ˌtæləˈhæsi/ is the capital of the U. S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2015, the population was 189,907, making the city the 126th-largest city in the United States, the population of the Tallahassee metropolitan area was 377,924 as of 2015. Tallahassee is the largest city in the Northwest Florida region as well as the center for trade and agriculture in the Florida Big Bend. Tallahassee is home to Florida State University, ranked the nations thirty-eighth best public university by U. S. News & World Report and it is also home to the Florida A&M University, one of the countrys largest historically black universities by total enrollment. Tallahassee is home to the Florida State Capitol, Supreme Court of Florida, Florida Governors Mansion, the city is also known for its large number of law firms, lobbying organizations, trade associations and professional associations, including the Florida Bar and the Florida Chamber of Commerce. It is also a regional center for scientific research. In 2015, Tallahassee was awarded the All-American City Award by the National Civic League for the second time, Tallahassee is currently ranked as the 18th best college town in the nation by Best College Reviews. During the 17th century several Spanish missions were established in the territory of the Apalachee to procure food, the largest, Mission San Luis de Apalachee, has been partially reconstructed by the state of Florida. They found large areas of cleared land previously occupied by the Apalachee tribe, earlier, the Mississippian Indians built mounds near Lake Jackson around AD1200, which survive today in the Lake Jackson Archaeological State Park. The expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez encountered the Apalachees, although it did not reach the site of Tallahassee, hernando de Soto and his expedition occupied the Apalachee town of Anhaica in what is now Tallahassee in the winter of 1538–1539. Based on archaeological excavations this site is now known to be located about 0.5 miles east of the present Florida State Capitol, the DeSoto encampment is believed to be the first place Christmas was celebrated in the continental United States. During the First Seminole War, General Andrew Jackson fought two separate skirmishes in and around Tallahassee, the first battle took place on November 12,1817. Chief Neamathla, of the village of Fowltown, just west of present day Tallahassee had refused Jacksons orders to relocate, Jackson responded by entering the village, burning it to the ground, and driving off its occupants. The Indians later retaliated, by killing 50 soldiers and civilians, Jackson reentered Florida in March 1818. According to Jacksons adjutant, Colonel Robert Butler, they advanced on the Indian village called Tallahasse two of the enemy were made prisoner, Tallahassee became the capital of Florida during the second legislative session. It was chosen as it was equidistant from St. Augustine and Pensacola. The first session of Floridas Legislative Council—as a territory of the United States—met on July 22,1822 at Pensacola, the second session was in St. Augustine and required western delegates to travel perilously around the peninsula on a twenty-eight-day trek
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Grand Cayman
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Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territorys capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of Little Cayman and 90 miles southwest of Cayman Brac, Grand Cayman encompasses 76% of the territorys entire land mass. The island is approximately 22 miles long with its widest point being 8 miles wide, the elevation ranges from sea level at the beaches to 60 feet above sea level on the North Sides Mastic Trail. Grand Cayman Island includes five of the six districts of the Cayman Islands, Bodden Town, East End, George Town, North Side, and West Bay. Bodden Town - Founded in the 1700s, Bodden Town district comprises the part of Grand Cayman Island. The village of Bodden Town was the capital of the Cayman Islands. Its population is listed at 5,764. East End - The East End district is located at the east side of Grand Cayman Island and consists mostly of the Village of East End, numerous attractions, restaurants. Its population is listed at 1,371. George Town - The capital of the Cayman Islands and world-famous centre for offshore banking, North Side - Includes Kaibo, Rum Point, and Breakers. Its population is listed at 1,079. Sand Point Cove in Rum Point is home to a Bioluminescent Bay or Bio Bay, West Bay - Has numerous tourist attractions including the Cayman Turtle Farm and the Cayman Motor Museum. Towns in the West Bay district include Seven Mile Beach, Hell and its population is currently listed at 8,243. The remaining district is Sister Islands, which consists of the islands of Cayman Brac and its population is currently listed at 1,937. Of the flora, a representation of the variety of plant life on Grand Cayman can be found at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park located in the North Side District. Wild banana orchids, ghost orchids, thatch palm trees, red birch trees, mahogany trees and various fruit trees such as avocado, mango, guinep, naseberry, breadfruit, and tamarind. Yellow mastics, black mastics are also seen in the park as well as on the 2 miles -long Mastic Trail, elsewhere outside the park, all of these species can be seen around Grand Cayman, including coconut palm, Casuarina pine, mangrove, and poinciana trees. Fauna seen in locations around the island include blue iguanas, Grand Cayman amazon parrots, Central American agouti, and Gecarcinus ruricola
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Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman
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Seven Mile Beach is a long crescent of coral-sand beach on the western end of Grand Cayman island. Seven Mile Beach is known for its beauty, recently receiving the honor of The Caribbeans Best Beach from Caribbean Travel and it is public property and one is able to walk the full length of the beach, regardless of where you are staying. The Seven Mile Beach is the most popular and most developed area of Grand Cayman and it is home to the majority of the islands luxury resorts and hotels. Despite the name, a generous measurement puts the actual length at just a bit over 6.3 miles long, a realistic length for the uninterrupted sandy beach is about 6 miles. The beach falls victim to erosion, which has reduced its size in some areas. Like the rest of Grand Cayman, the development around the Seven Mile Beach was severely damaged in Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, restaurants open to the public can be found at most of the resorts, which includes several public beach bars. Some small reefs are located just off shore which offer good snorkelling, most notably by the Marriott hotel, Government House, and just north of Seven Mile Public beach
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Hell, Grand Cayman
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Hell is a group of short, black, limestone formations located in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Located in West Bay, it is roughly the size of half a football field, visitors are not permitted to walk on the limestone formations but viewing platforms are provided. There are numerous versions of how Hell received its name, but they are variations on a ministration exclaimed. And Where the hell are you from, ironically, some of the stores in the area feature prominent quotations from the Bible on their sides. This is due to the pious and religious nature of Caymanian society, Hell is a unique formation which is characterized by jagged, spongy pinnacles of black-covered limestone. This phytokarst formation is produced when attacking filamentous algae interact with the Ironshore Formation limestone present at this location, phytokarst is a distinctive landform resulting from a curious type of biologic erosion. Filamentous algae bore their way into limestone to produce black-coated, jagged pinnacles marked by delicate, ordinary rainfall-produced karst and littoral karst are characterized by flat-bottomed pans and vertically oriented flutes, thus differing from phytokarst. Algae attack by dissolving calcite preferentially to dolomite, the ironshore karst is a special type, both in terms of its texture and origin. First, texture – it is a black, random spongework of pits, jagged ridges and it is developed in a narrow strip just above the tide line on ancient limestone rocks. If you break off a piece, you see that the black color is present near the surface. Second, origin – it is being dissolved largely by algae, bacteria and these tiny organisms bore into the rock and dissolve the calcite crystals. They are most dense within a centimeter or so at the surface, why this results in the characteristic macro-texture is not fully understood, but you always see the two elements together so they must be linked somehow. It is clear that proximity to the environment is key. Maybe the splash, spray and mist from the waves breaking provide just enough moisture to sustain the algae, so, when you travel around the Caribbean, look at the rocky shoreline, if it is limestone, biokarst may be well developed. The most famous occurrence is at a place called Hell on Grand Cayman
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Reggae
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Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A1968 single by Toots and the Maytals Do the Reggay was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre, Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being known first as ‘Rudie Blues’, then ‘Ska’, later ‘Blue Beat’ and it is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady, from the latter, stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, African music, as well as other genres. One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms, staccato chords played by a guitar or piano on the offbeats of the measure, the tempo of reggae is usually slower than ska but faster than rocksteady. The concept of call and response can be found throughout reggae music, the genre of reggae music is led by the drum and bass. The bass guitar often plays the dominant role in reggae, the bass sound in reggae is thick and heavy, and equalized so the upper frequencies are removed and the lower frequencies emphasized. The guitar in reggae usually plays on the off beat of the rhythm and it is common for reggae to be sung in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, and Iyaric dialects. Reggae is noted for its tradition of criticism and religion in its lyrics, although many reggae songs discuss lighter, more personal subjects, such as love. Reggae has spread to countries across the world, often incorporating local instruments. Reggae en Español spread from the mainland South America countries of Venezuela, Caribbean music in the United Kingdom, including reggae, has been popular since the late 1960s, and has evolved into several subgenres and fusions. Many reggae artists began their careers in the UK, and there have been a number of European artists and bands drawing their inspiration directly from Jamaica, Reggae in Africa was boosted by the visit of Bob Marley to Zimbabwe in 1980. In Jamaica, authentic reggae is one of the biggest sources of income, the 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as a recently estab. Sp. for rege, as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either rags, ragged clothing or a quarrel, a row. Reggae as a term first appeared in print with the 1968 rocksteady hit Do the Reggay by The Maytals which named the genre of Reggae for the world. Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae into reggae, however, Toots Hibbert said, Theres a word we used to use in Jamaica called streggae. If a girl is walking and the look at her and say Man, shes streggae it means she dont dress well
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Audio engineer
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An audio engineer works on the recording, manipulating the record using equalization and electronic effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the. technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the physical recording of any project is done by an engineer. Many audio engineers creatively use technologies to produce sound for film, radio, television, music, electronic products and computer games. Audio engineers also set up, sound check and do live sound mixing using an audio console, research and development audio engineers invent new technologies, equipment and techniques, to enhance the process and art of audio engineering. They might also be referred to as acoustic engineers, audio engineers in research and development usually possess a bachelors degree, masters degree or higher qualification in acoustics, physics, computer science or another engineering discipline. They might work in consultancy, specializing in architectural acoustics. Alternatively they might work in companies, or other industries that need audio expertise. Some positions, such as faculty require a Doctor of Philosophy, in Germany a Toningenieur is an audio engineer who designs, builds and repairs audio systems. The listed subdisciplines are based on PACS coding used by the Acoustical Society of America with some revision, audio engineers develop algorithms to allow the electronic manipulation of audio signals. These can be processed at the heart of audio production such as reverberation. Alternatively, the algorithms might carry out echo cancellation on Skype, or identify, architectural acoustics is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a room. For audio engineers, architectural acoustics can be about achieving good speech intelligibility in a stadium or enhancing the quality of music in a theatre, architectural Acoustic design is usually done by acoustic consultants. Electroacoustics is concerned with the design of headphones, microphones, loudspeakers, sound reproduction systems, examples of electroacoustic design include portable electronic devices, sound systems in architectural acoustics, surround sound in movie theater and vehicle audio. Musical acoustics is concerned with researching and describing the science of music, in audio engineering, this includes the design of electronic instruments such as synthesizers, the human voice, computer analysis of audio, music therapy, and the perception and cognition of music. Psychoacoustics is the study of how humans respond to what they hear. At the heart of audio engineering are listeners who are the final arbitrator as to whether a design is successful. The production, computer processing and perception of speech is an important part of audio engineering, ensuring speech is transmitted intelligibly, efficiently and with high quality, in rooms, through public address systems and through mobile telephone systems are important areas of study. Producer, engineer, and mixer Phil Ek has described audio engineering as the aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, the turning of pre-amp knobs
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Neil Young
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop
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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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Bob Marley and the Wailers
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Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley which developed from the earlier ska vocal group, the Wailers, created by Marley with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. By late 1963 singers Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith had joined the Wailers, by the early 1970s, Marley and Bunny Wailer had learned to play some instruments and brothers Aston Family Man Barrett and Carlton Barrett, had joined the band. After Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh left the band in 1974 and his new backing band included the Barrett brothers, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl Wya Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin Seeco Patterson on percussion. The I Threes, consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, the Wailers were formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh met the singers Neville Livingston, and Robert Nesta Marley in 1963. The lineup was known variously as the Teenagers, the Wailing Rudeboys, the original lineup featured Junior Braithwaite on vocals, Bob Marley on guitar, Peter Tosh on keyboard, Neville Livingston on drums, and Cherry Smith and Beverley Kelso on backing vocals. By 1966 Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith had left the band, some of the Wailers most notable songs were recorded with Lee Scratch Perry and his studio band the Upsetters. In 1964, the Wailers topped the Jamaican charts with Simmer Down, during the early 1970s the Upsetters members Aston Family Man Barrett and his brother Carlton Barrett, formed the Wailers Band, providing instrumental backing for The Wailers. The Wailers recorded groundbreaking ska and reggae songs such as Simmer Down, Trenchtown Rock, Nice Time, War, Stir It Up and Get Up, Stand Up. An attempt at creating a full overview of all the music made by The Wailers prior to their signing to Island Records was made by the Roots Reggae Library, the original Wailers line-up disbanded in 1974 due to Tosh and Livingstons refusal to play freak clubs. The pair believed doing so would violate their Rastafarian faith, Bob Marley formed Bob Marley and the Wailers with himself as guitarist, songwriter and main singer, the Wailers Band as the backing band, and the I Three as backup vocalists. The I Three consisted of Bob Marleys wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and these changes caused a major dispute between Marley and Perry, when the former saw the albums, six months after their publication, in the Half Way Road in England. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer all enjoyed success as reggae music continued to gain popularity during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the last performances that included Marley was in 1980 at Madison Square Garden, several of the groups members have died subsequent to Marleys death in 1981, Carlton Barrett and Tosh in 1987, Braithwaite in 1999, and Smith in 2008. Bunny Wailer and Beverley Kelso are the surviving members of the groups original line-up. The I Three, commonly called I Threes, were formed in 1974 to support Bob Marley, the three members were Marleys wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths. Their name is intended as a spin on the Rastafarian I and I concept of the Godhead within each person. W, norton & Company ISBN 978-0-393-08117-6 Official website 45cat Bob Marley discography www. MusicGonnaTeach. com - The Wailers
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Rastaman Vibration
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Rastaman Vibration is a reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers released on 30 April 1976. Synthesizers are featured prominently on album, adding a breezy embellishment to otherwise hard-driving songs with strong elements of rock guitar. This is one of the three Wailers solo albums released in 1976, along with Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer and Legalize It by Peter Tosh, although the albums liner notes list multiple songwriters, including family friends and bandmembers, all songs were written by Marley. Marley was involved in a dispute at the time with his former publishing company. A1987 court decision favored the Marley estate, which assumed control of the songs. The original jacket had divots in it which made its texture bumpy and this cover version, though not released as a single, entered John Peels Festive Fifty at number 15 in 1979 and continued to feature through to 1982. Boxer Lennox Lewis used the song Crazy Baldhead as his song in a number of his fights. Its not music right now, were dealing with a message, right now the music not important, were dealing with a message. Rastaman Vibration is more like a dub album and its come without tampering yknow. Like War or Rat Race, the music dont take you away, –Bob Marley, June 1976 Detailed examination of the original album and the deluxe edition from wailers. co. uk. Transcript of Haile Selassies 1963 speech addressed to the United Nations, sound recording of Selassies speech, spoken in Amharic, but also interpreted in English
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Grace Jones
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Grace Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, lyricist, supermodel, record producer, and actress. Born in Jamaica, at age 13 she moved with her siblings to their parents home in Syracuse, New York. Jones began her career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo. She worked with such as Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer. In 1977 Jones secured a deal with Island Records, initially becoming a star of New York Citys Studio 54-centered disco scene. Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing, and Slave to the Rhythm and she scored Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with Pull Up to the Bumper, Ive Seen That Face Before, Private Life, and Slave to the Rhythm. In 1982, she released the video collection A One Man Show. Jones appeared in some films in the US during the 1970s. In 1986 she played a vampire in Vamp, and acted in and she appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl. For her work in Conan the Destroyer, A View to a Kill, in 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2008, she was honored with a Q Idol Award. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 40th most successful dance artist of all-time, Grace Jones was born in 1948 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie and Robert W. Jones, who was a local politician and Apostolic clergyman. The couple already had two children, and would go on to have four more, while they were in the US, they left their children with Marjories mother and her new husband, Peart. Jones knew him as Mas P and later noted that she hated him, as a strict disciplinarian he regularly beat the children in his care. She was raised into the familys Pentecostal faith, having to part in prayer meetings. She initially attended the Pentecostal All Saints School, before being sent to a public school. As a child, shy Jones had only one schoolfriend and was teased by classmates for her skinny frame, but she excelled at sports and found solace in the nature of Jamaica. Marjorie and Robert eventually brought their children – including the 13 year old Grace – to live them in the US. It was in the city that her father had established his own ministry, Jones continued her schooling and after she graduated, enrolled at Onondaga Community College majoring in Spanish
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Marianne Faithfull
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Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single As Tears Go By, born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending The Rolling Stones party where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single As Tears Go By and her debut album Marianne Faithfull was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records. From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was enhanced by her film roles, such as Ill Never Forget Whatsisname, The Girl on a Motorcycle. However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal struggles in the 1970s, during that time she suffered from heroin addiction, alcoholism, and anorexia. After a long absence, Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English. The album was a success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is regarded as her definitive recording. She followed with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances, A Childs Adventure, Faithfull also wrote three books about her life, Faithfull, An Autobiography, Memories, Dreams & Reflections, and Marianne Faithfull, A Life on Record. Faithfull is listed on VH1s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll list and she received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Womens World Awards and was also awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London and her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British Army officer, Faithfulls mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch. Eva chose to style herself as Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, Faithfulls mother had been born in Budapest and moved to Vienna in 1918. The family of Sacher-Masoch had secretly opposed the Nazi regime in Vienna, Glynn Faithfulls work as an Intelligence Officer for the British Army brought him into contact with the family, and he thus met Eva. Faithfulls maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots, in the Habsburg Dynasty, Erisso was a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Faithfulls maternal great uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs. Ive inherited the Baroness Sacher-Masoch title -- it comes one of my great-great uncles who gave his name to masochism
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Robert Palmer (singer)
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Robert Allen Palmer was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues. He found success both in his career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US. Palmers involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades, Palmers father was a British naval intelligence officer stationed in Malta. Palmer moved with his family from Batley to Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1949. Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys High School. His first major break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden from the band The Alan Bown Set in 1969, the vocals for the album The Alan Bown Set. Originally recorded by Roden, were re-recorded by Palmer after the success of the single, according to music journalist Paul Lester, Palmer rose from northern clubs in England to become elegant and sophisticated and the master of several styles. In 1970 Palmer joined the 12-piece jazz-rock fusion band Dada, which featured singer Elkie Brooks, the band lasted a year, after which Brooks and Palmer formed the critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, rhythm and blues group, Vinegar Joe, Palmer sang and played rhythm guitar. Signed to the Island Records label, they released three albums, Vinegar Joe, Rock n Roll Gypsies and Six Star General, before disbanding in March 1974, Island Records signed Palmer to a solo deal in 1974. Although unsuccessful in the UK, both the album and single reached the Top 100 in the US. Notably, Sailin Shoes, Palmers own Hey Julia and the Allen Toussaint–penned title track carry virtually the same rhythm, and were packaged on the album as a trilogy without a pause between them. After relocating with his wife to New York City, Palmer released Pressure Drop, named for the version of the reggae hit by Toots & the Maytals. An album infused with his interests in reggae and rock music, it was noted for its cover art of a woman on the threshold of a balcony. He toured with Little Feat to promote the album, however, with the failure of follow-up album Some People Can Do What They Like, Palmer decided to move to Nassau, Bahamas, directly across the street from Compass Point Studios. In 1978, he released Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock, the album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard chart and scored a Top 20 single with the Andy Fraser–penned Every Kinda People. The song has been covered by artists including Chaka Demus and Pliers, Randy Crawford. It reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100, Palmers next album was an artistic departure, concentrating on pure rock
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Joe Cocker
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John Robert Joseph Joe Cocker, OBE was an English singer and musician. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, Cockers cover of the Beatles With a Little Help from My Friends reached number one in the UK in 1968. He performed the live at Woodstock in 1969 and at the Party at the Palace concert for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002. His version also became the song for the TV series The Wonder Years. His 1974 cover of You Are So Beautiful reached number five in the US, Cocker was the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his US number one Up Where We Belong, a duet with Jennifer Warnes. Cocker was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stones 100 greatest singers list, Cocker was born on 20 May 1944 at 38 Tasker Road, Crookes, Sheffield. He was the youngest son of a servant, Harold Cocker. According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a game called Cowboy Joe. Cockers main musical influences growing up were Ray Charles and Lonnie Donegan, Cockers first experience singing in public was at age 12 when his elder brother Victor invited him on stage to sing during a gig of his skiffle group. In 1960, along with three friends, Cocker formed his first group, the Cavaliers, for the groups first performance at a youth club, they were required to pay the price of admission before entering. Cocker was not related to fellow Sheffield-born musician Jarvis Cocker, despite a rumour to this effect, in 1961, under the stage name Vance Arnold, Cocker continued his career with a new group, Vance Arnold and the Avengers. The name was a combination of Vince Everett, Elvis Presleys character in Jailhouse Rock, the group mostly played in the pubs of Sheffield, performing covers of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles songs. Cocker developed an interest in music and sought out recordings by John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Lightnin Hopkins. In 1963, they booked their first significant gig when they supported the Rolling Stones at Sheffield City Hall, in 1964, Cocker signed a recording contract as a solo act with Decca and released his first single, a cover of the Beatles Ill Cry Instead. Despite extensive promotion from Decca lauding his youth and working-class roots, after Cocker recorded the single, he dropped his stage name and formed a new group, Joe Cockers Blues Band. There is only one recording of Joe Cockers Blues Band on an EP given out by The Sheffield College during Rag Week. In 1966, after a hiatus from music, Cocker teamed up with Chris Stainton. The Grease Band was named after Cocker read an interview with jazz keyboardist Jimmy Smith, like the Avengers, Cockers group mostly played in pubs in and around Sheffield
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Talking Heads
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Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, after a hiatus, the band hit its commercial peak in 1983 with the US Top 10 hit Burning Down the House and released the concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. They would release more albums, including their best-selling LP Little Creatures. In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Talking Heads were also included at number 64 on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In the 2011 update of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth were alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. There, Byrne and Frantz formed a band called The Artistics in 1973, Weymouth was Frantzs girlfriend and often provided transportation for the band. The Artistics dissolved the year, and the three moved to New York, eventually sharing a communal loft. Unable to find a player in New York City, Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums. They played their first gig as Talking Heads opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5,1975, later that year, the trio recorded a series of demos for CBS, but the band was not signed to the label. They quickly drew a following and were signed to Sire Records in November 1976, the group released their first single in February that year, Love → Building on Fire. In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison, formerly of Jonathan Richmans band The Modern Lovers and their first album was released soon afterwards, Talking Heads,77, which did not contain the earlier single. The album received acclaim and spawned what became the groups first charted single. The song was released to the radio just months after the killer known as the Son of Sam had been terrorizing New York City. However, it was revealed that Byrne had written the song nearly four years earlier. This recording also established the long term recording studio relationship with the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau. Cover of Al Greens Take Me to the River broke Talking Heads into general public consciousness, Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration at its most mutually fruitful and equitable. The single Life During Wartime produced the catchphrase, This aint no party, the song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time. 1980s Remain in Light was heavily influenced by the afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti and it explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and found voices
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James Brown
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James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and bandleader. The creator of music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance. In a career spanned six decades, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown began his career as a singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He joined an R&B vocal group, the Gospel Starlighters, in which he was the lead singer. His success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as Papas Got a Brand New Bag, I Got You and Its a Mans Mans Mans World. During the late 1960s he moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms, by the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J. B. s with records such as Get Up Sex Machine and The Payback. He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit Say It Loud – Im Black, Brown continued to perform and record until his death from congestive heart failure in 2006. Brown recorded 16 singles that reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and he also holds the record for the most singles listed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart which did not reach number one. Brown has received honors from many institutions, including inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Joel Whitburns analysis of the Billboard R&B charts from 1942 to 2010, James Brown is ranked as number one in The Top 500 Artists. He is ranked seventh on the music magazine Rolling Stones list of its 100 greatest artists of all time, Rolling Stone has also cited Brown as the most sampled artist of all time. Brown was born on May 3,1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to 16-year-old Susie and 22-year-old Joseph Joe Gardner Brown, in a small wooden shack. Browns name was supposed to have been Joseph James Brown, Jr. however, his first and he later legally changed his name to remove Jr. His parents were black, in his autobiography, Brown stated that he also had Chinese and Native American ancestry. The Brown family lived in poverty in Elko, South Carolina. They later moved to Augusta, Georgia, when James was four or five and his family first settled at one of his aunts brothels. They later moved into a house shared with another aunt, Browns mother later left the family after a contentious marriage and moved to New York. Brown spent long stretches of time on his own, hanging out in the streets and he managed to stay in school until the sixth grade
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The J. Geils Band
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The J. Geils Band /ˌdʒeɪ ˈɡaɪlz/ is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist J. Geils. Since its initial break-up in 1985, the band has reunited several times, the band first released several Top 40 singles in the early 1970s, including a cover of the song Lookin for a Love by The Valentinos, as well as the single Give it to me. 1 in the United States in early 1982, the band started as an acoustic blues trio in the mid 1960s, with vocalist and guitarist John Geils, bassist Danny Klein and harmonica player Richard Salwitz. The band formed under the name Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels, drummer Stephen Jo Bladd and his fellow bandmate singer Peter Wolf, born Peter Blankenfeld. They became the J. Geils Blues Band, later dropping the word Blues from the band name, the following year, former fan Seth Justman joined as an organist, and the band started to earn a sizable local following in the Boston. The group signed to Atlantic Records in 1970, the band received FM radio airplay with their first single, a rock-cover of The Contours Motown hit, First I Look at the Purse. Harmonicalinks. com later called Magic Dick a pioneer in sound, allMusic. com described their 1970s period as a band pure and simple, churning out greasy covers of obscure R&B, doo wop, and soul tunes, while cutting them with a healthy dose of Stonesy swagger. On August 17,1971, at a show on the Boston Common, both bands later played the last show at the Fillmore East prior to the venue closing. Although living in Boston, the band had always considered Detroit its second home because of its enormous popularity there, two of its three live albums were recorded in Detroit at the Cinderella Ballroom and Pine Knob Music Theater. The song Cry One More Time was later covered by Gram Parsons on his album in 1973. After the release of their first two albums, and keeping a busy schedule, it was the The J. After spending the early part of 1974 on the road with a touring schedule. It was later that year that the band started playing arenas across the US with a variety of artists, including The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart,49 on the Billboard 200 and spun off a sizable hit single in One Last Kiss. The album included the massive hit-single Centerfold, and then the title cut, Centerfold also became their only major hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached No.3 in February 1982. The bands videos for Centerfold and Freeze-Frame were heavily rotated on MTV as well contributed to the albums success. Another live album, Showtime, contained their hit cover of I Do, Wolf left the group in 1983 over artistic disagreements over the direction of their music. The band went on to one more album of new material, Youre Gettin Even While Im Gettin Odd. He was not replaced, and Seth Justman took over most of the vocal duties, the album produced only one single, Concealed Weapons, and was not a commercial success
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Thompson Twins
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Thompson Twins were a British music group that formed in April 1977. In 1993, they changed the name to Babble, to reflect their change in music from new wave to dub-influenced chill-out, the band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergés comic strip The Adventures of Tintin. At various stages, the band had up to seven members and they became a prominent act in the Second British Invasion, and in 1985, the band performed at Live Aid, where they were joined onstage by Madonna. In 1977, the original Thompson Twins line-up consisted of Tom Bailey on bass and vocals, Pete Dodd on guitar and vocals, John Roog on guitar, Dodd and Roog first met when they were both 13 years old. Arriving in London with very little money, they lived as squatters in Lillieshall Road, Future Thompson Twins member Alannah Currie lived in another squat in the same street — which is how she met Bailey. It was in this ramshackle and run-down house that they found a way of borrowing electricity from the house next door. Bailey described themselves as back then, as they were living on very little. He even said that the instruments they had were bought. Dodd managed to get a council flat not far away and their roadie at that time was John Hade, who lived in the same house, and who later became their manager. As Podgorski had decided to stay in the north, the group auditioned for drummers at the Point Studio in Victoria, London. Andrew Edge joined them on drums for less than one year, and went on to join Savage Progress, in 1980, the band released their first single Squares and Triangles on their own Dirty Discs label. A follow-up single, Shes In Love With Mystery, was issued later that year, in 1981, the line-up became Bailey, Dodd, Roog, Bell and two new members, former band roadie Joe Leeway on congas and percussion, and Jane Shorter on saxophone. This line-up recorded the first Thompson Twins album A Product of, documented in the film, Listen to London. Currie, who had associated with the band for a few years, played and sang on the first album. After the first album, the bands line-up shifted yet again, the band signed to Arista Records and released the album Set. Thomas Dolby played some keyboards on Set and some live gigs, Set contained the single In the Name of Love, sung and largely written by Bailey. It became a No.1 dance club hit in the US, and it entered the US Billboard 200. When In The Name Of Love failed to make an impact in the UK record charts
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Foreigner (band)
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Jones came up with the bands name as he, McDonald and Dennis Elliott were British, while Gramm, Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi were American. Their biggest hit single, I Want to Know What Love Is, topped the United Kingdom and they are one of the worlds best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, including 37.5 million records in the US. Since its inception, Foreigner has been led by English musician Mick Jones, Jones got together with New York keyboardist Al Greenwood, drummer Stan Williams and Louisiana bassist Jay Davis and began jamming. Another friend, Stories singer Ian Lloyd, was brought in to sing but Jones decided the chemistry was not quite right and retained only Greenwood as he renewed his search for players. Jones put in a call to Gramm, who was back in his hometown of Rochester, New York after Black Sheeps break up, Gramm proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle and Brooklyn, New York bassist Ed Gagliardi completed the new sextet. A name, Trigger, was agreed to and was the name that appeared on their demo tape. Kalodner had just been to hear an outfit called Trigger and realized that this was not the same band and he convinced Greenberg that at least one of the songs on the tape could be a big hit and to look into signing this group immediately. The first attempt at mixing the album was done at Sarm Studios, but, due to the bands dissatisfaction with the results, the album was re-mixed back at Atlantic by Mick Jones and Jimmy Douglass. Bud Prager signed on as the manager, a role he would continue in for the next 17 years. By May 1977, Foreigner was already headlining theaters and had scored a gold record for the first album. Not long afterwards, they were selling out U. S. basketball arenas, for Head Games, bassist Ed Gagliardi was replaced by Englishman Rick Wills. Ed was obstinate at times, playing the song the way he wanted to play it rather than the way it was drawn up, Jones often had to stop sessions to get Ed back on track. After a while it became tiresome and slowed down the recording process, Gramm went on to say that he was disappointed overall with Head Games and thought it sounded unfinished. It ended up selling about two million fewer than its predecessor and we were really aware that Head Games didnt sell nearly as much as the first album or Double Vision. Part of that was because of the cover, the song Head Games was banned by a lot of radio stations after the cover of the album came out. Today, that would not have even been a problem, but in the Bible Belt, the cover of the cute little girl in the boys bathroom erasing her number off the wall. They didnt see the humor in that and it wasnt supposed to even be sexy. It was just the time and the place of what she was doing that was supposed to leave the impression and she was erasing her phone number off the wall of the boys bathroom and thats all it was
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Duran Duran
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Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978. The band grew from alternative sensations in 1982 to mainstream pop stars by 1984, by the end of the decade, membership and music style changes challenged the band before a resurgence in the early 1990s. The group were a band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. They have placed 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, when they first emerged, they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, along with bands such as Spandau Ballet. Soon they would shed this image, using fashion and marketing to build a more refined and they were also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The video age catapulted Duran Duran into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV, many of their videos were shot on 35 mm film, which gave a much more polished look than was standard at the time. They also collaborated with film directors to take the quality a step further. In 1984, the band were early innovators with video technology in their stadium shows. These five members featured the most commercially successful line-up, the reunion of the original five members in the early 2000s created a stir among the bands fans and music media. Andy Taylor left the once again in mid-2006, and guitarist Dom Brown has since been working with the band as a session player. John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in Birmingham, England in 1978, at the club they were doing jobs such as John working the door and with Nick deejaying for £10 a night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at the venue, There were many nearby nightclubs, and the one significant one, where bands such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called Barbarellas. They would go on to name the band after a character from Barbarella, the character, played by Milo OShea, is named Dr. Durand Durand. The bands first singer was Stephen Duffy, Simon Colley soon joined Taylor, Rhodes and Duffy. Colley was the original bass player, as John Taylor was the guitarist at this point. This was the first complete line-up of the band played live shows. For drums and percussion, a drum machine belonging to Rhodes was used. Colley left the prior to the addition of Andy Taylor
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Simply Red
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Simply Red are a British soul/pop band which formed in 1985 in Manchester. The lead singer of the band is the singer/songwriter Mick Hucknall and they have had five number one albums in the UK, with their 1991 album, Stars, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history. At the 1992 and 1993 Brit Awards, they received the award for Best British Group. They received three Grammy Award nominations, for Best New Artist in 1987, and Holding Back the Years, Simply Red have sold over 50 million records worldwide. Simply Reds origination dates from a 1976 Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. Manchester art student Mick Hucknall was one of the few young music fans present, along with Mark E. Smith of The Fall as well as members of the bands Joy Division, The Smiths. After the demise of The Frantic Elevators, Hucknall linked up with manager Elliot Rashman, by early 1985, Hucknall and Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name Red but then Hucknall decided it would sound better with the addition of the word Simply, the bands name is also linked to Hucknalls allegiance to being a supporter of Manchester United, as the clubs home shirt colour is red. The initial Simply Red line-up consisted of Mick Hucknall, David Fryman, Tony Bowers, Fritz McIntyre, Tim Kellett and Chris Joyce. Simply Red signed a contract with Elektra in 1985, but after recording one track, Fryman left the group and was replaced by guitarist Sylvan Richardson, who was billed only as Sylvan. Red Box would eventually see release in 1985 as a B-side to the groups first single, Moneys Too Tight, a cover of a soul song originally recorded by The Valentine Brothers. Moneys Too Tight gained international success, reaching the UK and Irish Top 20, then later the American, French and Dutch Top 30, and it was included on their debut album, Picture Book, also released in 1985. Several low-charting singles would follow for the band, among the comparative flops was a re-recording of the Frantic Elevators Holding Back the Years, done up in a new soul-ballad style arrangement. Released as Simply Reds third single in 1985, the initially placed outside the UK Top 50. However, upon being re-released in 1986, Holding Back the Years became a hit, peaking at #1 in Ireland, #2 in the UK, #3 in the Netherlands, #20 in Italy. The song established Simply Red as a household name, Simply Reds second album, 1987s Men and Women, saw the band adopting bowler hats and colourful suits instead of their earlier ragamuffin look. As well, the introspection and social commentary of their album was replaced by a blue-eyed soul sound with funk influences. The albums lead single The Right Thing was another hit, charting in the top 40 throughout Europe
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Arcadia (band)
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Arcadia were a new wave British group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran as a side project during a break in that bands schedule. Drummer Roger Taylor appeared in only a few photographs and in none of the music videos. The name of the band was inspired by the Nicolas Poussin painting Et in Arcadia ego. At the same time that So Red the Rose was in production, Asias third album, in production, was tentatively titled Arcadia but renamed to Astra, the group recorded just one album, the platinum-selling So Red the Rose. It peaked at #30 in the UK and #23 in the US and it also contains the single The Flame and the promo-singles Missing, El Diablo, and Keep Me in the Dark. Simon Le Bon described So Red the Rose as the most pretentious album ever made, solemn closing song Lady Ice features a long intro, largely based on samples from background music of Full Metal Jacket movies sniper scene. A video collection was released which featured music videos for the singles directed by Roger Christian, Marcelo Anciano, Russell Mulcahy. The band also recorded and released the standalone single Say the Word for the Playing for Keeps movie soundtrack, EMI re-released the album as a three disc box set in April 2010. This remastering collected all permutations and remixes of tracks released by the band, the third disc comprised the video collection on DVD, but it does not include the video for Say the Word. Arcadia continued the Duran Duran tradition of a slick image, for the Arcadia incarnation of their ever-changing band aesthetic, Le Bon, Rhodes, and Roger Taylor donned an upmarket gothic look of black tuxedos, vintage formal wear, and bow ties. The three also dyed their hair black, as seen when they performed at the 1985 Live Aid concert in Philadelphia. By the time the video for their single The Flame was made in early 1986, Rhodes had changed his colour to golden blond. The group did a variety of appearances on television. When Duran Duran released their Notorious album and toured, Election Day was included as part of the set as well as Some Like it Hot from The Power Station. Drummer Roger Taylor retired from the business for 15 years after the release of the Arcadia album. So Red The Rose Arcadia archive and fansite
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Quick Step and Side Kick
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Quick Step and Side Kick is the third album by the British synthpop group Thompson Twins. It was released in February 1983, and was their first album to be released as a trio, the album reached no.2 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified Platinum by the BPI. In the United States and Canada, the album was titled simply as Side Kicks, the album was the first collaboration between the band and producer Alex Sadkin and was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. The singer Grace Jones made a guest appearance on the track Watching, the album has several different versions according to different territories, containing different tracks and different track order. The UK and US cassette versions of the album contained a whole side of remixes of various album tracks. He nonetheless concluded the album to be one of the best examples of British funk to date. Side 1 Love On Your Side Tears Lies We Are Detective Love Lies Bleeding Side 2 Watching If You Were Here Kamikaze Judy Do All Fall Out Love On Your Side -4,25 UK /3,33 U. S. The second disc included most major 12 versions and B-sides, some of which appeared on CD for the first time and it was later featured in the Bobs Burgers episode Sheesh. It also featured in Hell Week, episode 2 of Scream Queens, as well as in the film Not Another Teen Movie. Love On Your Side was featured on the radio station Wave 103 in Grand Theft Auto. Lies was featured in the Regular Show first-season episode Grilled Cheese Deluxe, Kamikaze was used in Cipher the Video, an anime adaption of the manga Cipher by Minako Narita
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Into the Gap
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Into the Gap is the fourth studio album by the British pop group Thompson Twins. The album was released on 17 February 1984 on Arista Records. The album was recorded during 1983 at Compass Point Studios, in Nassau, Bahamas, and was again produced by Alex Sadkin who had produced the bands previous album. Despite a mixed response from critics, Into The Gap became the bands most commercially successful album, peaking at one on the UK Albums Chart. You Take Me Up, and Sister of Mercy were all released as singles in the UK with corresponding music videos, three of the four singles that were released in the UK made the Top 5 and the fourth just missed the Top 10. The Gap was also released as a single in other countries. According to the RIAA, the record sold one million copies in the US, and in the UK, the album sold over 600,000 copies. It became one of the years biggest sellers, selling five million copies worldwide, the band embarked on a world tour in support of the album. In March 2008, Into the Gap was reissued as an expanded 2-disc set by Edsel Records, the success of the terrible Twins represents the usual triumph of naked ambition over talent. After that, as Alannah Currie herself puts it, who can stop the rain, keith Sharp of Music Express wrote Into The Gap could be perceived as a distinctive milestone on how far new music has come in the past few years. Its enough to make you forget that the old dinosaur bands ever existed, and J. D. Considine of Musician wrote At times, the gimmicks can be as slight as a synthesizer setting, but they invariable make the album seem dazzling even when it isnt. However, the NME called them, 1984s most instantly kitsch mass program of monosodium glutamation of the brain, all songs written and composed by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway
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Lay Your Hands on Me (Thompson Twins song)
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Lay Your Hands on Me is a 1984 song by the British band Thompson Twins. It was the first single to be released from their 1985 album Heres to Future Days and it was written by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway. There are two versions of the song, with various edits and remixes of the two. The first version was produced by Alex Sadkin & Tom Bailey was released in late 1984 in Europe, the 1985 version was a reworking co-produced by Nile Rodgers, adding electric guitar and a gospel choir and released as a single in the US. The single peaked at #13 in the UK, spending nine weeks on the chart, the single fared better in America where it peaked at #6 on the US Billboard 100 and also peaked at #46 on the US Dance /Club Play Singles. The B-side, The Lewis Carol, is a variation of the song and was exclusive to this single. Two versions of the music video directed by Dee Trattmann exist for the single. When the song was reworked in 1985, the video was re-edited with the 1985 version dubbed instead. S, vinyl single Arista AS1-9396 Side A Lay Your Hands on Me –3,44 Side B The Lewis Carol –4,1212 U. S
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Here's to Future Days
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Heres to Future Days is the fifth album by the British pop group Thompson Twins. It was the third and final release for the band as a trio, released in September 1985, it reached no.5 in the UK, and no.20 in the US. Following on from the highly successful fourth album, Into the Gap. The band recorded the single Lay Your Hands on Me with Alex Sadkin acting as producer, Sadkin had produced the last two Thompson Twins albums, which were the bands biggest commercial successes to date, and the new single climbed to #13 on the UK charts. However, the band decided to part company with Sadkin and opted to produce the new album by themselves in Paris. In March 1985, with the album nearing completion and the next single Roll Over just about to be released in the UK, after collapsing in his hotel room, he was diagnosed with nervous exhaustion and ordered to rest by doctors. The incident prompted the band to recall all copies of Roll Over, holding off on the albums release led the band to reconsider the entire project, and they began work on it again following Baileys recovery. This time they enlisted Nile Rodgers to take over production and rework the material they had already recorded, the direction of the new recordings featured a more guitar-oriented side to it. Before the albums release, the Thompson Twins performed at Live Aid in July 1985, the band were also joined onstage for this number by Rodgers himself, Madonna, and guitarist Steve Stevens. Although the album was a success in the UK and the US. Subsequent singles from the album met with mixed results. The new Nile Rodgers-produced version of Lay Your Hands on Me reached #6 in the United States, King for a Day followed in both markets, peaking at #8 in the US and becoming their third and final Top 10 hit there, but only reaching #22 in the UK. The aforementioned Revolution was also released as a single in the UK, the US cassette and CD versions of the album contain both Roll Over and Breakaway. All songs written and composed by Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, some UK copies came with a free 5-track album of re-mixes. The remixes were included as bonus tracks on the cassette version of the album. On 4 August 2008, Heres to Future Days was digitally remastered and reissued as a 2-disc set by Edsel Records, the song King For a Day appeared in the 1986 film, Lucas
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Tom Bailey (musician)
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Thomas Alexander Tom Bailey is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Doctor. and You Take Me Up and he was the only classic member of the band to have formal musical training. From 1994, Bailey was also a member of its incarnation, Babble. He currently works in various fields including scoring for film. He records and performs dub music under the name International Observer and his latest collaboration is the Bailey-Salgado Project, an audiovisual ensemble formed with José Francisco Salgado. Tom Bailey grew up in a associated with the medical profession. His father was the Medical Officer of Health for Chesterfield Borough Council, a whole school photograph from April 1969 shows him at age 13. Despite training as a classical pianist, Bailey initially worked as a teacher at Brook School. In his late teens and early twenties, he travelled the world, Bailey formed the Thompson Twins in 1977 with Pete Dodd, John Roog, and Jon Podgorski. Podgorski did not want to move to London, so Andrew Edge played drums with them for one year before Chris Bell joined. The group eventually ended up as a trio with Bailey on vocals, guitar, bass, and keyboards, his then girlfriend Alannah Currie, and Joe Leeway. The Thompson Twins became fixtures on MTV during the 1980s as the videos for Hold Me Now, Lay Your Hands on Me, subsequent to the marriage of Bailey and Currie, Thompson Twins released their final album, Queer, in 1991. In 1994, Bailey and Currie formed the duo, Babble. Between 2001 and 2015, Tom Bailey released several albums under the name International Observer. Tom Bailey performed Thompson Twins songs live for the first time in 27 years on August 17,2014, at Temple Island Meadows, Henley-On-Thames, also in 2014, Tom Bailey took part in the Retro Futura Tour in the USA. He was billed under the moniker Thompson Twins Tom Bailey, the 2014 Retro Futura Tour also featured Howard Jones, Midge Ure, China Crisis, and Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves. In 2016, Tom Bailey released a new single entitled Come So Far. Bailey also made a video for Come So Far
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Nile Rodgers
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Nile Gregory Rodgers, Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist. He is the lead guitarist and co-founding member with Bernard Edwards of the band Chic and he is famed for his chucking rhythm guitar style. On April 7,2017, Rodgers will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his mother became pregnant at age 13, and gave birth to him in New York City. His parents and step-father were all Beat-niks, and heavy heroin users throughout his childhood, king, Betty Wright, Earl Lewis and the Channels, Parliament Funkadelic, and many other legendary R&B artists. In his teens Rodgers was a member of the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and he remains friendly with numerous former Panthers, including Professor Jamal Joseph. Nile met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970 while working as a musician for the Sesame Street stage show. Together they formed The Big Apple Band, and worked as musicians for the vocal group New York City. New York Citys one hit allowed them to tour extensively, even opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973, the band continued playing mostly local bars. As the Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, since another New York artist, Walter Murphy, had a band also called The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards were forced to change their bands name to avoid confusion. Thus, in 1977 the band was renamed as Chic, between gigs, they recorded their first album with then-boss Luther Vandross, who provided background vocals on the groups early recordings. The band scored numerous top ten hits and helped propel disco to new levels of popularity, Chics chart-topping songs Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Everybody Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, My Forbidden Lover, and Good Times became club/pop/R&B standards. Le Freak was composed after being turned away from Studio 54, Le Freak was Atlantic Records only triple platinum selling single for more than 35 years and Good Times shot to the No.1 spot in spite of the Disco Sucks backlash in 1979. The success of Chics first singles led Atlantic to offer Rodgers and they chose Sister Sledge, whose 1979 album, We Are Family, peaked at No.3 and remained on the charts well into 1980. The first two singles, Hes the Greatest Dancer and the title cut We Are Family both reached No.1 on the R&B chart, and No.6 and No,2, respectively on the Pop chart. Hes the Greatest Dancer was sampled in 1998 on Will Smiths Gettin Jiggy Wit It, as the Chic Organizations tight sound became increasingly sought-after, Rodgers and Edwards began record production with numerous artists, together or individually. In 1980, Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced the album Diana for Diana Ross, yielding the smash hits Upside Down, the Chic Organization produced the smash hit Spacer for French disco act Sheila and B. Devotion and Deborah Harrys 1981 solo album Koo Koo, Chic dissolved in 1983 after its final Atlantic album on their contract, Believer and Soup For One. At that time Rodgers began a career producing his first album Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove
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Phil Thornalley
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Philip Thornalley is an English songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the Ednaswap song Torn and he also produced The Cures 1982 album Pornography and was later their bass player for eighteen months. Thornalley was born in Worlington, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, England and he began working as a recording engineer in 1978, at RAK Studios in St. Johns Wood, London for producers Mickie Most, Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin. Thornalley became the producer for The Cure on their fourth album, after Simon Gallup parted ways with the band in 1982, he was The Cures bassist for eighteen months. He produced their 1983 single The Love Cats and their first live album, however, he quit to resume working as a songwriter and producer. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 1984 for Into the Gap by the Thompson Twins, Thornalley has worked primarily as songwriter and record producer for other artists. In 1991, he co-wrote Torn, which appeared on Ednaswaps 1995 debut album. In 2012, the single was covered by One Direction on their live concert DVD Up All Night, other artists Thornalley has worked with include Bryan Adams, BBMak, Eliza Doolittle, Stephanie Kirkham and Pixie Lott. In 2010, he wrote three UK number ones, Mama Do, Boys and Girls and Cry Me Out for Pixie Lott, in 2016 Thornalley resumed touring as temporary bass player with Bryan Adams on his Get Up Tour playing shows in the US, UK and Canada. Thornalleys influences are Todd Rundgren, The Beatles and Pink Floyd, soul and R&B singer Reggie Sears has named Thornalley as his favourite singer and credits Thornalleys 1988 release Swamp as the main driving force for wanting to be a singer and musician
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The Cure
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The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several changes, with vocalist, guitarist. During the early 1980s, the increasingly dark and tormented music was a staple of the emerging gothic rock genre. After the release of Pornography in 1982, the future was uncertain. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million records as of 2004 and have released thirteen albums, ten EPs. The 1989 album Disintegration is regarded as the commercial and critical peak. That band consisted of Robert Smith on piano, Michael Mick Dempsey on guitar, Laurence Lol Tolhurst on percussion, Marc Ceccagno on lead guitar and Alan Hill on bass guitar. In January 1976 while at St. Wilfrids Comprehensive School Ceccagno formed a 5-piece rock band with Smith on guitar and Dempsey on bass and they called themselves Malice and rehearsed David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Alex Harvey songs in a local church hall. By late April 1976, Ceccagno and the two school friends had left, and Tolhurst, Martin Creasy, and Porl Thompson had joined the band. This lineup played all three of Malices only documented live shows during December 1976, both Malice and Easy Cure auditioned several vocalists before Smith assumed the role of Easy Cures frontman in September 1977. That year, Easy Cure won a talent competition with German label Hansa Records, although the band recorded tracks for the company, none were ever released. Following disagreements in March 1978 over the direction the band should take, Smith later recalled, We were very young. They just thought they could turn us into a teen group and they actually wanted us to do cover versions and we always refused. Thompson was dropped from the band in May, and the trio were soon renamed The Cure by Smith. Later that month, the recorded their first sessions as a trio at Chestnut Studios in Sussex. The demo found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, the Cure released their debut single Killing an Arab in December 1978 on the Small Wonder label as a stopgap until Fiction finalised distribution arrangements with Polydor. The band placed a label that denied the racist connotations on the singles 1979 reissue on Fiction. The Cure released their debut album Three Imaginary Boys in May 1979, because of the bands inexperience in the studio, Parry and engineer Mike Hedges took control of the recording
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Johnny Hates Jazz
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Johnny Hates Jazz is a British band, currently consisting of Clark Datchler and Mike Nocito. In April 1987, they had success with their first hit single Shattered Dreams. Both Datchler and Nocito were born into musical families, Datchlers father, Fred, was a member of two chart-topping bands from the 1950s. The Stargazers had the distinction of being the first British band to reach No.1 on the UK Singles Chart, as part of the Polkadots, Fred Datchler sang backing vocals for The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark. Nocito hails from an American family, based in Europe with the United States armed forces and his mother was a singer in a close-harmony group called The Cactus Kids, performing for troops throughout Northern Europe. He went on to work with Rusty Egan of Visage, fusing electronic music with soul and he was subsequently signed to Warner Brothers Music as a songwriter and moved to Los Angeles, California, United States. Nocito was a guitarist in bands, having grown up alongside friend and fellow record producer, Phil Thornalley. He became an engineer and worked with Pink Floyd, The Police, The Cure, Duran Duran. They two met in 1982 at RAK Studios in London, Datchler had just become lead singer in the band, Hot Club, alongside the third and final original JHJ member, Calvin Hayes. The line-up also included bass player Glen Matlock and guitarist James Stevenson, in 1983, Hot Club released a single on RAK Records and performed at Londons Marquee Club, a performance that impressed RAK head, Mickie Most. He decided to sign Datchler to the label as a solo artist and it was Most who suggested that Datchler work with Nocito, who was an engineer at RAK Studios at the time. Over the next four years, the two worked together on Datchlers solo recordings, Most also guided Datchler, producing several of his recordings in the mid-1980s. In April 1986, Datchler, Nocito and Hayes released the first Johnny Hates Jazz single, Me And My Foolish Heart and it was not a commercial success, but gained substantial airplay and was Sounds magazines record of the week. Datchler began writing new songs which included Shattered Dreams, JHJ then performed a showcase at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, and were subsequently signed to Virgin Records. Shattered Dreams was released in March 1987 and became a top 5 hit in the UK, throughout mainland Europe and Asia and it was followed by three other worldwide hits, I Dont Want To Be A Hero, Turn Back The Clock and Heart Of Gold. In 1988, Shattered Dreams reached No.2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No.1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart and that same year, their album, Turn Back The Clock, entered the UK Albums Chart at No. At the end of 1987, JHJ made two videos with director David Fincher. The videos were for the US releases of Shattered Dreams and Heart Of Gold, Datchler left the band at the end of 1988
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Natalie Imbruglia
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Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian-British singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her hit cover of Ednaswaps song Torn. Her subsequent album, Left of the Middle, sold 7 million copies worldwide, further releases, White Lilies Island and Counting Down the Days, did not sell as well, although the latter became number one in the UK. In 2007 she released Glorious, The Singles 97–07, a compilation featuring the single Glorious. Since 1997 Imbruglia has sold 10 million album copies and she co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and was leading actress in the 2009 film Closed for Winter. On 3 December 2014, Imbruglia announced plans to release a newly recorded album of songs performed by male artists. The album, Male, her first since 2009s Come To Life, was released in July 2015, Imbruglia was born on 4 February 1975, in Sydney, Australia, second of four daughters of Maxene and Elliot Imbruglia. Her father is of Italian descent, Imbruglia grew up in Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, between Sydney and Newcastle. At 15, she moved to Sydney with her family and studied ballet, tap, Imbruglia appeared in Australian television commercials for Coca-Cola and the Australian snack Twisties. She left school at the age of 16, to pursue acting and she secured a role as Beth Brennan on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. By the end of her year, she left the show to move to London in 1994. She met Anne Barret, who became her manager and convinced her to record a demo of four songs and she signed a record deal with BMG, after a demo of Torn impressed RCA Records. Imbruglias first international single, Torn, was a cover of an Ednaswap song and it reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1997, number one on airplay around the world and number one on the Billboard Airplay chart for 14 weeks. It sold more than one million copies in the United Kingdom alone and it was released as a radio single in the US, but not on CD. The single was on Billboards Hot 100 Airplay chart for 14 weeks, at the time, singles not released commercially could not be on the overall Hot 100 chart. By the time the changed in late 1998, Torn was heading down the charts. The single also topped the Top 40 Mainstream/CHR Pop and Adult Top 40 charts, in October 1997, it broke the airplay record in the UK for six weeks. It was No.1 for 14 weeks in the UK radio chart and it was the No.1 radio single in the US from March to July 1998, knocked to No.2 by The Goo Goo Dolls Iris
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Ziggy Marley
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David Nesta Ziggy Marley is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, and the son of reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He also made the song for the childrens cartoon series Arthur. The moniker never stuck, however, and instead David went on to become known as Ziggy, but Ziggy stated the following to Melody Maker Magazine in 1988, Me name David but me big Bowie Fan. So at the time of the Ziggy Stardust album, me call meself Ziggy, during the late 70s, Ziggy could also be seen alongside his brother Stephen at some of their father’s larger concerts around Jamaica and abroad. In 1978, the duo appeared on stage at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, the track was written for them by their father, who had composed the song four years earlier for them and wanted to share this gift with children around the world. All royalties from the single were pledged to the United Nations, Ziggy was 11 years old at the time. Later in 1984, Ziggy Marley got back into the studio with his siblings and English producer Steve Levine for what became the single, the following year, they released their debut LP, Play the Game Right. The album was produced by their mother, Rita Marley, and featured Aston and Carlton Barrett on bass and drums, respectively, in 1986, Hey World was released and credited to Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers. This album laid the groundwork for the groups fast maturing sound, in support of the album, Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers embarked on their first tour, a veritable Tuff Gong roadshow with Nadine Sutherland and the I-Threes along as opening acts. The group was received at the yearly Reggae Sunsplash in 1986 and 1987. In 1988, the popularity was at such a height that they were signed to the international major label Virgin Records. Later that year, they went into the studio with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads to record their third album, the album charted at #23 on the Billboard 200 and at #26 on the R&B Albums chart. The album spawned the successful single Tomorrow People, which charted at #16 on the Mainstream Rock chart, the second single Tumblin Down was also well received charting at #1 on Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart and at #28 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles charts. The album received a Grammy award for Best Reggae Album, the Melody Makers follow-up album One Bright Day, released in 1989. The album charted at #26 on the Billboard 200 and at #43 on the R&B Albums chart, the single Look Whos Dancin received positive feedback and charted at #41 on Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart and at #23 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles charts. The album also spawned the singles Black My Story, One Bright Day, Justice, the album received a Grammy award for Best Reggae Album. In 1991, the released their sixth album, Jahmekya. The single Good Time only charted #85 on Hot 100 charts, the album charted at #3 on the Top World Music Albums and at #63 on the Billboard 200
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Stephen Stills
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Stephen Arthur Stills is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Beginning his professional career with Buffalo Springfield, he composed their only hit For What Its Worth, other notable songs he contributed to the band were Sit Down, I Think I Love You, Bluebird and Rock & Roll Woman. According to Richie Furay, he was the heart and soul of Buffalo Springfield, after Buffalo Springfield broke up, Stills began working with David Crosby and Graham Nash on their debut album. Stills, in addition to writing much of the album, played bass, guitar, the album sold over four million copies and at that point, had outsold anything from the three members prior bands, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Hollies. The album won the trio a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Neil Young, formerly of Buffalo Springfield, joined CSN months later for their second concert at Woodstock and subsequent album Déjà Vu. The album found Stills again as a leader of the group, living up to his nickname Captain Many Hands he played bass, guitar and keyboard on the title track, and electric guitar and piano on Helpless. The album became a success and sold over eight million copies. In its wake all four members of CSNY released solo albums that reached the top 20, Stills first solo album Stephen Stills went gold and is the only album to feature both Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Its hit single, Love The One Youre With became his biggest solo hit peaking at No.14 in the Billboard Hot 100, a string of solo albums, and a band with Chris Hillman called Manassas followed in 1972. In the summer of 1974 Young reunited with CSN after a hiatus for a concert tour which was recorded and released in 2014 as CSNY1974. It was one of the first ever tours, and the largest tour the band has done to date. CSN reunited in 1977 for their album CSN which became the trios best selling record, CSN continued to have platinum albums through the 1980s. Stills solo career and bands have combined sales of over 35 million albums to date, Stills was ranked #28 in Rolling Stones 2003 list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and #47 in the 2011 list. Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN. According to Neil Young, Stephen is a genius, Stills was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Talitha Quintilla and William Arthur Stills. Raised in a family, he moved around as a child. He also attended Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida and Saint Leo College Preparatory School in Saint Leo, Stills is also an avid sailor. Stills dropped out of University of Florida a week after enrolling to pursue a career in the early 1960s
