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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45
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Sade (band)
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Sade are an English band formed in London in 1982. Three of their members were originally from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Sade Adu is the lead singer of the eponymous band. Their music features elements of soul, R&B, jazz, soft rock, and funk. Sades debut studio album Diamond Life, was released in 1984, reaching No.2 in the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies in the UK, and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. The album was also a hit internationally, reaching No.1 in several countries, in late 1985, Sade released their second studio album Promise, which peaked at No.1 in both the UK and the US. It was certified platinum in the UK, and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and their 2000 fifth studio album, Lovers Rock, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Sades sixth studio album Soldier of Love, was released on 8 February 2010, and peaked at No.4 in the UK, in 2011, the band won their fourth Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Sades US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America, the band were ranked at No.50 on VH1s list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. The musical group Sade was formed in London in 1982, by members of a Latin soul band, Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Denman, together with Paul Anthony Cook, formed the break-away group and began to write their own material. They named the band lead singer Sade Adu, and made their debut performance in December 1982 at Ronnie Scotts Club in London in support of Pride. In May 1983 the band performed their first US show at Danceteria Club in New York City, andrew Hale joined the band in 1983, Cook left in 1984. Sade received more attention from the media and record companies than Pride had, on 18 October 1983, the band signed with Portrait Records. When singer Sade and her band of the name were establishing themselves, their record company, Epic. In February 1984, Sade released their first single, Your Love Is King, which became a Top Ten hit. A second single, When Am I Going to Make a Living barely made the Top 40 and it spent over six months in the UK Top Ten and was later certified 4x Platinum by the BPI. Diamond Life won the 1985 Brit Award for Best British Album, the band embarked on their first major UK tour, augmented by Dave Early, Martin Ditcham, Terry Bailey and Gordon Matthewman. A third single, Smooth Operator, was released from the album with a directed by Julian Temple
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Sade performing at the
SAP Arena in
Mannheim,
Germany on November 16, 2011
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Soldier of Love (album)
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Soldier of Love is the sixth studio album by English band Sade, released on 5 February 2010 by Epic Records. Following the release of Lovers Rock, the band went into a 10-year hiatus, in 2008, the band re-grouped in order to begin work on their sixth album, making it the first time each member had been together. The recording of the album took place at the Real World Studios in Box, England, with additional sessions at El Cortijo in San Pedro de Alcántara. The albums recording began in 2009 and was completed in the summer of that year, the first single Soldier of Love premiered on US radio on 8 December 2009, and was released digitally on 11 January 2010. Subsequent singles Babyfather and The Moon and the Sky were serviced to US urban AC radio on 13 April and 24 August 2010, the album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart. Upon its release, Soldier of Love received generally positive reviews from most music critics, the band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live. Following an eight-year hiatus, Sade released their studio album, Lovers Rock. To promote the album Sade and the band embarked on their concert tour entitled Lovers Rock Tour. Following the release of Lovers Rock, Sade took a 10-year hiatus, during this time, Sade made only one rare public appearance in 2002 to accept an OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music. She then moved Gloucestershire countryside where, in 2005, she bought a run-down, Sade stated that she was in no rush to release music and was not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling a product. It was the first time the four principals had met up since the Lovers Rock Tour wrapped in 2001, bassist Paul Denman de-camped from Los Angeles, where he had been managing his teenage sons punk band, Orange. Guitarist and saxman Stuart Matthewman interrupted his film work in New York. According to Billboard, the band had been working on the album throughout June 2009, at that time, Sony Music had not set a release date but it hoped to put the record out by the end of 2009. She is in the studio and the album will come when it is ready and you dont wait for years for one and then rush it. In a series of sessions at Real World, Sade sketched out the material for a new album which, in particular, the sonic layering and martial beats of the title track, Soldier Of Love, sounded quite different from anything they had previously recorded. Hale said, The big question for all of us at the beginning was, Did we still want to do this, shes never, ever seemed to doubt what it was she wanted. You feel like youre all on this quest thats always been in the back of her mind, shes got more stamina than the rest of us. Denman stated that each member of the band lived on different continents and did not bring any completed songs into the studio
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Real World Studios studios were one of the recording locations of the album
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Soldier of Love
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Gramophone record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Edison wax cylinder phonograph c. 1899
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Emil Berliner with disc record gramophone
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Hungarian Pathé record, 90 to 100 rpm
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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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Bob Marley in 1980.
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Aston Barret
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UB40 's former frontman
Ali Campbell performing in 2009.
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UB40 perform in Birmingham, 2010
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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James Brown
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Al Green, influential soul performer
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Levi Stubbs singing lead with the Four Tops in 1966
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Isaac Hayes performing in 1973
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Sony Records
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970
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550 Madison Avenue in
New York City, the headquarters of Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment
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Primary businesses
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Songwriter and singer
Chris de Burgh.
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Sade (singer)
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Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer. With members Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, following a brief stint as a fashion designer of mens clothing and part-time model, Adu began backup singing for the band Pride. Growing attention from record labels led her, along with fellow band members, to separate from Pride. Following a record deal with Epic Records the band released their debut album Diamond Life, the album sold over six million copies, becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the 1980s, and the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist. Following the release of the debut album they went on to release a string of multi-platinum selling albums. Their follow-up Promise was released in 1985 and peaked at number-one in the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, and went on to sell four million copies in the US. Sade would later go on to make her debut in the British film, Absolute Beginners, before the release of the bands albums, Stronger Than Pride. After the release of the album, Lovers Rock, the band embarked on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her daughter. Following the hiatus the band returned with their album, Soldier of Love which became a commercial success. Sades US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America website and have more than 50 million units worldwide to date. The band was ranked at number 50 on VH1s list of the 100 greatest artists of all time, in 2002, Adu was awarded an OBE for services to music, and stated her award was a great gesture to me and all black women in England. In 2010, The Sunday Times named her the most successful solo British female artist in history, in 2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women In Music. Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State and her middle name, Folasade, means honour confers a crown. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes and her parents separated, however, and Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and older brother Banji with her to live with their grandparents near Colchester, Essex. When Sade was 11 years old, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex, after completing her education at Clacton County High School at age 18 she moved to London and studied fashion design at Saint Martins School of Art. After completing a course work in fashion design, and later modeling briefly. During this time she formed a partnership with Prides guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman and together, backed by Prides rhythm section. By the time she performed her first show at Londons Heaven nightclub she had become so popular that 1,000 people were turned away at the door, in May 1983, Sade performed their first US show at the Danceteria nightclub in New York City
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Sade performing at the
SAP Arena,
Mannheim,
Germany, in 2011
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Sade Adu and Band at the
SAP Arena,
Mannheim,
Germany, in 2011
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Sade Adu in 2011
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The
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alan Parsons in an
ESO 50th anniversary video.
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A
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Mixing Console
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Soldier of Love (Sade song)
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Soldier of Love is the first single and title track from the album Soldier of Love by the English band Sade. It premiered worldwide on 8 December 2009, and it was released on iTunes digitally on 12 January 2010 and it was also the bands first new material in almost ten years, preceding their long-awaited sixth studio album of the same name which was released worldwide on 8 February 2010. The song was number-one on the Billboard Adult R&B, the song debuted at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the bands highest debut on the chart. It has peaked at number 52, making it the bands highest-peaking single on that chart since 1992s No Ordinary Love, the track won the Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony. The song was written by Sade Adu along with the band members. Soldier of Love has been received positively from the music critics, pitchfork Media hailed the singers incomparable voice, which sounds as passionately poised as it did on 1984s Diamond Life. The Hollywood Reporter gave also a review, saying that It may be just a taste of whats to come. Digital Spy rated the song four out of five, and described it as a bit of revelation - a rich. Since then, it has peaked at number-6 on the chart, the track debuted at number 11 on the Urban Hot AC chart, making it the highest debut of the decade and the third highest all-time on the Urban Hot AC chart. It debuted at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song peaking at number 52, the song became the bands first number-one on the U. S. The song rose 3-1 in its week, marking the charts speediest ascent to the top spot since Anita Baker topped the chart in under five weeks with Youre My Everything in 2004. Soldier of Love became the first ever vocal to hit number-one on the Smooth Jazz Top 20 countdown, each of the tallys 45 previous leaders had been instrumentals. The Soldier of Love music video made its premiere onto the internet via Amazon. com on 10 January 2010 and it was directed by British director Sophie Muller and choreographed by Fatima Robinson. The music video, rich in odd symbolism, left many viewers wondering what it meant, Adu said the soldiers in the video represent her emotions in the battle ground of life. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Soldier of Love"
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Studio album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Early record albums were packages of 78
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Two vinyl records with inner and outer album sleeves
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A blank compact cassette tape and case
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A compact disc within an open 'Jewel Case'
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The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13,2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers, barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were announced on December 1,2010 and a total of 109 awards were presented, most of the awards were presented during the pre-telecast, which took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center next to the Staples Center, where the main telecast took place. The eligibility period was September 1,2009 to September 30,2010, for the third year, nominations were announced on prime-time television as part of The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live. – Countdown to Musics Biggest Night a one-hour special broadcast live on CBS from Club Nokia at L. A. Live, arcade Fire won Album of the Year for The Suburbs becoming the first indie act to do so, and surprising many viewers and critics. Baba Yetu composed and arranged by Christopher Tin won Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist, is the first Grammy given to a piece of written for a Video Game. Esperanza Spalding was awarded Best New Artist, Lady Antebellum won five awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Need You Now. Other multiple winners include, David Frost, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, the Black Keys, Eminem, Herbie Hancock, Alicia Keys, The Roots, Christopher Tin and BeBe Winans won two awards each. The television broadcast of the 53rd Grammy Awards marked the last awards show for the Grammys executive producer, John Cossette, dre, Eminem, Havoc, Emile Haynie, Jim Jonsin, Just Blaze, Mr. Luke, Kuk Harrell, Max Martin, Stargate, C. Power – Kanye West Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group On to the Next One – Jay Z & Swiss Beatz Shutterbugg – Big Boi & Cutty Fancy – Drake, T. I. & Swizz Beatz My Chick Bad – Ludacris & Nicki Minaj Lose My Mind – Young Jeezy & Plies Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Empire State of Mind – Jay-Z & Alicia Keys Nothin on You – B. o. Battle Studies Michael H. Luke California Gurls – Katy Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg For Your Entertainment – Adam Lambert Hungover – Ke$ha Kiss n Tell – Ke$ha Magic – B. o. o. Johnson, surround mix engineer, Keith O. Daugherty, Metropolis Symphony, Deus Ex Machina Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers Have You Ever Been
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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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The December 1, 2014, edition of People
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Teen People cover, April 2006
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Digital Spy
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Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website launched in 1999. The site focuses on reporting breaking entertainment news related to movies, music, television, in addition to news articles there are regular reviews posted on popular films, theatre, and concerts. On 9 April 2008 it was announced that the website had been purchased by magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, on 1 August 2011, ownership of Hachette UK was sold to Hearst Magazines UK. As well as articles, the site also features forums, which went live in March 2000, representatives of several major companies, including Top Up TV, Joost, BSkyB, Goodmans, and Amstrad CEO Lord Alan Sugar are registered members who have posted on the forums. Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news, both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very quickly, Iain and Chris discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the digiNEWS Network, on 28 February 1999 digiNEWS and ONfaq merged and were rebranded as sites of the new digiNEWS network. Both sites were redesigned with common branding, and new header graphics identifying the digiNEWS network, more sites continued to join the network - Chris Norriss cablenews, uk, Mark Hughes DVDNews and Neil Wilkes TV, uk. The network was growing, but technically it was disjointed, served from personal webspace from ISPs such as Freeserve. Discussions with website guru Jose Cardoso began, and work started on integrating the multitude of sites into a single portal. It was important for the new site to be accessible, so a. COM address was preferable, unfortunately the diginews. com address was already taken. After many many emails back and forth, the name Digital Spy was chosen, the new Digital Spy forums went live on 1 March 2000. They were built on the UBB forum platform, the new Digital Spy news portal went live on 19 May 2001, running on a custom-built content management system developed by Jose and called RAMS. In November 2015, Digital Spy hired ex editor of Heat Julian Linley in the role of editor-in-chief as the attempts to challenge BuzzFeed
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Talk shows
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A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre in which one person discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host. Usually, guests consist of a group of people who are learned or who have experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts, a call-in show takes live phone calls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc. Sometimes, guests are already seated but are introduced and enter from backstage. There have been many notable talk show hosts, in many cases, there are several major formats of talk shows. Generally, each subgenre predominates during a specific programming block during the broadcast day, Breakfast chat or early morning shows that generally alternate between news summaries, political coverage, feature stories, celebrity interviews, and musical performances. Late morning chat shows that two or more hosts or a celebrity panel, and focus on entertainment and lifestyle features. Daytime talk shows, generally featuring a host, a guest or a panel of guests, and these shows may feature celebrities, political commentators, or ordinary people who present unusual or controversial topics. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues, Sunday talk or political discussion shows are a staple of network programming in North America. These shows feature elected political figures and candidates for office, commentators, syndicated daytime shows may appear overnight in some markets, and some afternoon programs have similar structures to late night talk shows. These formats may vary across different countries or markets, Late night talk shows are especially significant in the United States. Breakfast television is a staple of British television, the daytime talk format has become popular in Latin America as well as the United States. Talk-radio host Howard Stern also hosted a show that was syndicated nationally in the USA. The tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue but popularized by Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century, politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows, however. Sports talk shows are very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellermans original public-access television cable TV show Max on Boxing. Craigslistin in Philly is a show you can attend at Plays & Players theatre in Philadelphia. The host is Aaron and they comment on and invite acts, to be considered one just has to post on craigslist mentioning the show in your post helps. Talk shows had been broadcast on television since the earliest days of the medium, joe Franklin, an American radio and television personality, hosted the first television talk show
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise debuted on May 25,1992, three days after Johnny Carsons retirement as host of the program. The program originated from NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and was broadcast Monday through Friday at 11,35 PM in the Eastern, unlike Carson or his predecessor Jack Paar, Leno only once used a guest host, preferring to host the series by himself. The series, which followed the basic format as that of its predecessors, ran until May 29,2009. NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a talk show in the 10,00 pm ET timeslot. The primetime series, titled The Jay Leno Show, debuted on September 14,2009, neither OBriens version of the program, which premiered June 1,2009, nor The Jay Leno Show generated the ratings NBC had expected. The network decided to move a condensed 30-minute version of Lenos show to OBriens time slot and this decision met with opposition from OBrien, whose stint on The Tonight Show ended January 22,2010, after which he began his own talk show on TBS. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno then began its second incarnation, the sixth of the franchise, on March 1,2010. Leno left The Tonight Show for good on February 6,2014 and on February 17, was succeeded by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Carson retired from The Tonight Show on May 22,1992, and was replaced by Jay Leno. David Letterman wanted to move into the time slot from his late night spot after The Tonight Show. With his heart set on the time slot, Letterman left NBC. Late Show with David Letterman, airing in the same slot, Conan OBrien slid into the late night time slot vacated by Letterman. On September 27,2004, the 50th anniversary of The Tonight Shows debut, NBC announced Leno would be succeeded by OBrien, in 2009. Leno explained he did not want to see a repeat of the hard feelings and it was announced on July 21,2008 that Leno would host his final episode of The Tonight Show on Friday, May 29,2009 with OBrien and James Taylor as his guests. OBrien took over hosting duties commencing the following Monday, on June 1,2009, on December 9,2008, it was announced Leno would be hosting a new nightly show in September 2009, which aired at 10 pm EST, during the networks prime time period. The Jay Leno Show ended after a run on February 9,2010. After several days of negotiations, OBrien reached a settlement with NBC that allowed him to leave NBC, on January 21,2010, NBC announced Leno would return to The Tonight Show. Jay Leno began his tenure on March 1,2010. The show moved to Stage 11 in Burbank, the home of The Jay Leno Show, with a similar set
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Dancing with the Stars
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Currently the format has been licensed to over 42 territories. Versions have also produced in dozens of countries across the world. The dancers are then scored by a panel of judges, viewers are given a certain amount of time to place votes for their favourite dancers, either by telephone or online. The couple with the lowest combined score provided by the judges and this process continues until there are only two or three couples left, when they have competed for the last time one couple is declared the champion and wins a trophy. There have been a total of 377 winners of Dancing with the Stars around the world, country of origin Currently airing Upcoming or returning No longer airing The Chinese version is a co-production between mainland Chinas HBS and Hong Kongs TVB, under licence from the BBC. In mainland China it is aired on Hunan Television and in Hong Kong on TVB Jade, the Chinese title is difficult to translate, but could be rendered as Miracle Dancing or Miracles of Dance Moves. The official English title is Strictly Come Dancing, each broadcaster provides five male and five female dancers, for a total of twenty. Pairs were determined by audience SMS votes, the programme began airing in late 2007, in order to mark the anniversary of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to the Peoples Republic of China. The Indian version is called Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and it was first broadcast in September 2006 on Sony Entertainment Television. A lot of people confuse Dancing With The Stars with Nach Baliye which airs on StarPlus, Nach Baliye and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa have similar content and presentation but there are minor differences in the concept. The celebrity dancers on Nach Baliye are real life couples, the dancers on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa have one celebrity paired with a trained dancer/choreographer. A notice at the end of the show verifies that the Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is indeed a version of Dancing With The Stars and it has the same title as the 1996 movie by the same name, but it has no relation to it beyond the shared name. This one ran from 8 April 2006, to 17 March 2007 on NTV-4, the show has aired on MBC TV since June 10,2011, and is hosted by Lee Deok-hwa, with co-host Lee So-ra in Season 1 while former contestant Kim Gyu-ri co-hosted the second season. The first season was won by Moon Hee-joon and his partner Ahn Hye-sang while the season was won by Choi Yeo-jin. The 3rd Season was won by pop-singer and dancer Fei and her partner Kim Soo Ro, nachley is the Pakistani version of Dancing with the Stars. The show is aired on ARY Digital and its theme is based around traditional Pakistani music, the first Peruvian reality show based on Dancing With The Stars was Baila con las estrellas, hosted by Rebeca Escribens and broadcast on Panamericana Televisión on Saturday afternoon. The show had 2 series, then it was cancelled and this show was hosted by Gisela Valcárcel and Giancarlo Chichizola and aired every Saturday night. The show was like Dancing With The Stars, but instead of professional dancers and they danced every week in order to win a prize, to achieve a personal/humanitarian goal or dream
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International versions of Dancing with the Stars (map correct as of October 2014)
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. It was the iteration of the Late Late Show franchise. It followed Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, the Late Late Show franchise had previously aired as The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, then as The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. Since launching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on January 3,2005, despite not initially having a sidekick, comedian and voice actor Josh Robert Thompson joined the show in 2010 and voiced sidekick Geoff Peterson until the shows finale. On April 28,2014, Ferguson announced that he was ending the show at the end of the year, the last episode aired on December 19,2014. Afterwards, Late Late Show began a series of episodes with guest hosts, the show starts with a cold open which consists of a short improvised monologue or commentary by Ferguson either as himself or involving his various puppets. Later the show featured banter with Geoff Peterson, his sidekick, and Secretariat. The cold open is followed by the credits and a commercial break. Following the break and his introduction by announcer Shadoe Stevens, Ferguson begins with Welcome to Los Angeles, California, I am your host, TVs Craig Ferguson, this is soon followed by Its a great day for America, everybody. And a free-form, largely ad-libbed monologue, after another commercial break, Ferguson is seated behind his desk, where he usually reads and responds to viewer emails and tweets from his proclaimed robot skeleton army. Generally, one or two celebrities are interviewed, sometimes, a stand-up comedian, cooking segment, or a musical guest performs, the latter of which is typically pre-taped. Ferguson has had many running gags, the show infrequently uses variations of the latter gag featuring other pairs of look-alike celebrities, such as Cher being shown as Marilyn Manson. The show ends with What Did We Learn on the Show Tonight, a segment that starts with an animation of a kitten and in which Ferguson removes his tie, puts his feet on his desk, and summarizes the preceding hour of TV. Fergusons first show as host was on January 3,2005, for approximately the first two months, he continued his predecessors monologue format, reading 5–10 jokes from cue cards. He would ad-lib between the jokes, and soon noticed that the stuff in-between got the most reaction from his audience, after that realization, he decided he and his writers would stop writing jokes. By May 2006, Studio 58, the CBS Television City venue from which the show is taped, had been updated with a digital broadcast Solid State Logic mixing console, a new set debuted on the July 24,2006 episode. It included a miniature CBS airship that floated along over the backdrop depicting Los Angeles. In the week of March 17,2008, The Late Late Show debuted a new set featuring an interview area on a raised platform
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970
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List of awards and nominations received by Sade
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The American Black Achievement Award is presented by Ebony and Jet magazines and given to African Americans that have achieved success in a variety of fields. The American Music Awards is an awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973. Sade has received one award from five nominations, the BET Awards are an annual awards ceremony created by Black Entertainment Television network in 2001. The Billboard Music Awards are held to honor artists for commercial performance in the U. S. based on charts published by Billboard. The awards are based on data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. The award ceremony was held from 1990 to 2007, until its reintroduction in 2011, before and after that time span, winners have been announced by Billboard, both in the press and as part of their year-end issue. The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards, the name was originally a shortened form of British or Britannia, but has subsequently become a backronym for British Record Industry Trust. Sade has received one award from four nominations, the Grammy Awards are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony, Sade has received four awards from nine nominations. The MOBO Awards, an acronym for Music of Black Origin, were established in 1996 by Kanya King, the MOBO Award show is held annually in the United Kingdom to recognize artists of any ethnicity or nationality performing black music. The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top videos of the year. The 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by members of the NAACP, the Porin Awards are a Croatian music award founded by Croatian Phonographic Association, Croatian Musicians Union, Croatian Radiotelevision and Croatian Composers Society. Sade has won two awards from three nominations, the Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show aired in national television syndication that honors the best in Black music and entertainment. The Soul Train Lady of Soul Award is an annual special that first aired in 1995 that honors the best in African-American music. It is produced by the makers of Soul Train, the program from which it takes its name, Video Awards Spotlight on Sade, Prince, Aretha
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Diamond Life
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Diamond Life is the debut studio album by English band Sade. It was first released in the United Kingdom on 16 July 1984 by Epic Records, after studying fashion design, and later modelling, Sade Adu began backup singing with British band Pride. During this time Adu and three of the members of Pride - Paul Anthony Cook, Paul Denman and Stuart Matthewman - left the group to form their own band called Sade. Following various demos and performances, Sade received interest from record labels, recording for the album began in 1983 at The Power Plant in London and took a total of six weeks to complete. The albums content was written by the group Sade whilst the production was handled by Robin Millar, a total of fifteen songs were recorded for the album with the use of live instruments that used sonically experimental material. The album contained a variety of elements including soul, jazz and sophisti-pop. Upon release, Diamond Life was met with acclaim from music critics, commercially the album was a success charting highly in the UK and US, and was later certified multi platinum in both regions. The album spawned four singles including the hit singles Your Love Is King, by the time she performed her first show at Londons Heaven nightclub she had become so popular that 1,000 people were turned away at the door. In May 1983, Sade performed for the first time in the United States, on 18 October 1983 Sade Adu signed with Epic Records, while the rest of the band signed to her as contractors in 1984. Prior to signing the deal, the group recorded Diamond Life in six weeks. It was recorded at The Power Plant in London, after cutting the proposed singles “Smooth Operator” and “Your Love is King, ”, the first album track recorded was “Sally, ” a song about the Salvation Army. During recording the band worked collectively on the direction, rehearsing each song in details. The song “When Am I Going to Make a Living” was started by Sade on the back of a ticket after she picked her clothes up from the cleaners. She had no money and she wrote down, “When Am I Going to Make a Living. ”Producer Robin Millar met the band in 1983, Millar booked a weeks worth of studio time and noted that the limitations of recording before computers had an impact upon the sound. We used a piano and a Fender Rhodes piano, painstakingly synching them up. They recorded fifteen songs, all written by Adu and members of the group, except Smooth Operator written exclusively by Adu and they also recorded a cover version of Why Cant We Live Together by Timmy Thomas. For the recording of Cherry Pie the band had no mixing desks with automation, each member had their job of putting a bit of echo, delay, then Millar would edit between the different mixes. Speaking about this Stuart Matthewman said Very often, we would have six people at the desk at the same time
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Promise (Sade album)
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Promise is the second studio album by English band Sade, first released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 1985 by Epic Records and in the United States on 15 November 1985 by Portrait Records. In 1984 the band released their debut album Diamond Life, the album became highly successful selling six million copies, the albums title comes from a letter from Adus father where he refers to the promise of hope to recover from cancer. Upon release Promise was met with acclaim from music critics, commercially the album was a success peaking at number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, the album was later certified multi platinum in both regions. Promise became the bands first album to top the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The album also reached number one in Switzerland and Italy and the top five in countries including Canada, Germany. The album spawned three singles, including the charting single The Sweetest Taboo, which became a success worldwide. In 1983 Sade and Matthewman split from Pride along with keyboardist Andrew Hale, bassist Paul Denman, Diamond Life had international sales of over 6 million copies, becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the 1980s and the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist. Studio One is where the team initially listened to several of the songs in demo form. Like their debut album Promise was recorded live, however Promise featured the use of technology, Sade Adu served as the albums arranger, with Nick Ingman. Denman who provided the bass and bass guitar, Martin Ditcham provided the albums percussion along with Dave Early who provided percussion and drums, stuart Matthewman handled the albums guitar and saxophones and Tom Coyne remastered Promise. They were like hi-fi speakers, they only cost about 80 quid and they were really nice and natural-sounding, not designed to carry super-low heavy frequencies, but absolutely fine. The Sweetest Taboo peaked at five on the US Billboard Hot 100, one on the US adult Contemporary chart. Sade was so popular that some radio stations reinstated the 1970s practice of playing album tracks, adding Is It a Crime, following radio play Is It A Crime peaked at number fifty five on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Promise became the bands first album to number one on the US Billboard 200. The album has sold 983,000 copies in the United States since the introduction of Soundscan albums, credits adapted from the liner notes of Promise
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Love Deluxe
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Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade. It was released in the United States on 26 October 1992, the album peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200 and has sold 3.4 million copies in the United States. The album was certified four times platinum by the RIAA for shipments of four million copies. The album was commercially successful else where reaching number one in France, and reaching the top ten in New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland. The album went on to be certified Gold in the United Kingdom, amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe is low on the oomph meter. In a retrospective review, AllMusics Ron Wynn wrote that it marked a return to the cool jazz backing. During this time the members of the band Matthewman, Denman, and Hale went on to other projects, including the low-key Sweetback. Matthewman also played a role in the development of Maxwells career. Credits adapted from the notes of Love Deluxe. Sade Sade – arrangement, production Sade Adu – vocals Andrew Hale – keyboards Stuart Matthewman – guitar, saxophone Paul S. Denman – bass Additional personnel
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Lovers Rock (album)
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Lovers Rock is the fifth studio album by English band Sade, released on 13 November 2000 by Epic Records. Following the groups Love Deluxe World Tour, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denman, during the eight-year hiatus Sade would experience media scrutiny and would later go on to give birth to her first child. Lovers Rock was titled after a style of music known as lovers rock, noted for its romantic sound and content. The albums production has been characterized as spare, with simple arrangements, a concept album, the lyrics focus on both the positive and the negative sides of love, the albums lyrical content also touches upon political themes. Upon release Lovers Rock was met generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised the bands musical direction. Commercially the album was a success reaching number 18 on the UK Albums Chart and it has since been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, having sold 3.9 million copies in the United States by February 2010. The album spawned two singles—By Your Side and King of Sorrow—and was further promoted by the bands Lovers Rock Tour, Love Deluxe was released as the bands fourth studio album on 26 October 1992. The album peaked at three on the US Billboard 200 and has sold 3.4 million copies in the United States. The album was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of four million copies. The album was commercially successful elsewhere, reaching number one in France and the top 10 in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland. During this time the members of the band Matthewman, Denman, and Hale worked on other projects, including the band Sweetback. Matthewman also played a role in the development of Maxwells career. Lovers Rock was recorded in only a year, and was influenced by Sades experiences during the eight-year hiatus, mike Pela helped with the co-production of the album and its recording, Andy Nipper Davies served as the assistant engineer whilst Tom Coyne mastered Lovers Rock. Additional help came from a variety of people Karl Van Den Bossche supplied the albums percussion, unlike Sades previous work, Lovers Rock did not contain saxophones or instrumentation, but instead spare, deceptively simple arrangement—sometimes no more than an acoustic guitar. The albums music borrowed reverb and echo effects from dub as well as an ease and fluidity, tougher beats and basslines, from R&B. Ed Hogan of AllMusic stated that Lovers Rock was the first album by the band that contained an experimental sound with the infusion of mainstream rock elements. Lovers Rock was described as a collection of songs with sparse arrangements, Lovers Rock was seen as offering a more stripped-down, subtle backdrop than the bands previous work, and the albums production saw the use of modern dance beats and reggae. The reviewer from Slant Magazine also noted political themes of two of the songs, Slave Song and Immigrant, which were noted as social statements
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The album was partly recorded in London and
San Pedro de Alcántara (pictured)
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Lovers Rock Tour promotional poster.
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Sade on tour in 2011, marking their first tour in ten years.
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Lovers Live
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Lovers Live is the first live album by English band Sade, released on 5 February 2002 by Epic Records. It was recorded at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California on 20 September 2001 and at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, the CD contains thirteen tracks while the DVD contains twenty-two tracks as well as special features. Lovers Live reached number ten on the US Billboard 200 and number fifty-one on the UK Albums Chart, the album and DVD were recorded during the bands Lovers Rock Tour in September 2001. The tour ranked number thirteen on Billboards year-end tally, grossing $26,488,293 million, the tour featured India. Arie and Youssou NDour as the opening acts. Notes Slave Song contains an excerpt from African Race performed by The Abyssinians and written by Donald Manning, Neville Bernard Collins, credits adapted from the liner notes of Lovers Live. Sade Adu – vocals Andrew Hale – keyboards Stuart Matthewman – guitar, saxophone Paul S. Denman – bass Additional personnel
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Lovers Live
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Bring Me Home: Live 2011
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Bring Me Home, Live 2011 is the second live album by English band Sade, released on 22 May 2012 by RCA Records. It was filmed at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on 4 September 2011 during the bands Sade Live concert tour, the CD that accompanies the DVD release includes thirteen tracks. A deluxe bundle containing both the audio and video of the concert was released on iTunes, Bring Me Home, Live 2011 debuted at number-one on the US Top Music Videos chart. It was nominated for Best Long Form Music Video at the 2013 Grammy Awards, credits adapted from the liner notes of Bring Me Home, Live 2011
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Bring Me Home: Live 2011
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The Best of Sade
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The Best of Sade is the first greatest hits album by English band Sade. It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1994, the retrospective was digitally remastered in 2000. None of this information is listed within the packaging, notes ^a signifies a co-producer Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Best of Sade. Sade Sade – production, arrangement Sade Adu – vocals Andrew Hale – keyboards Stuart Matthewman – guitar, saxophone Paul S. Denman – bass Additional personnel
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The Best of Sade
