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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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Freda Payne
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Freda Charcilia Payne is an American singer and actress. Payne is best known for career in music during the mid–1960s through the mid–1980s and her most notable record is her 1970 hit single, Band of Gold. Payne was also an actress in musicals and film, as well as the host of a TV talk show, Payne is the older sister of Scherrie Payne, a former singer with the american vocal group The Supremes. Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up listening to different jazz singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts, she began singing radio commercial jingles. In 1963, she moved to New York City and worked many different entertainers, including Quincy Jones, Pearl Bailey. The next year, her album, a jazz recording with arranger Manny Albam entitled After the Lights Go Down Low. In 1965 she toured Europe for the first time recording an album in Sweden with Don Gardner, in 1966 she released her second American album, again in the jazz style, How Do You Say I Dont Love You Anymore, for MGM Records. She also made occasional guest appearances on different television shows including The Merv Griffin Show, in 1969, her old friends back home in Detroit, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland, Jr. persuaded her to sign with their newly formed record label Invictus. During that same year, her first Invictus single, Unhooked Generation, was released, shortly thereafter, Eddie Holland offered her a song entitled Band of Gold, which he along with Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier co-wrote with Ronald Dunbar. In early 1970, the became an instant pop smash reaching #3 in the US and #1 in the UK for six consecutive weeks. Global sales were estimated at two million, an album of the same name proved to be fairly successful as well. Other Invictus singles included Deeper and Deeper, You Brought the Joy, and her other Invictus albums were Contact, The Best of Freda Payne, and her last Invictus album Reaching Out. In 1973, she left Invictus and recorded albums for ABC/Dunhill and Capitol and she recorded a duet I Wanna See You Soon with Capitol stablemates Tavares, which was a radio airplay hit in the UK in 1977. She released three albums for Capitol from 1977 to 1979, Stares And Whispers, Supernatural High. The first one features the disco hit Love Magnet produced by Frank Wilson, in 1981, she briefly hosted her own talk show Todays Black Woman, and also found work acting in different movies, Broadway and other theatre productions throughout the 1980s. In 1990, she recorded three songs for Ian Levines UK Motorcity label, another remake of Band of Gold, Memories and Souvenirs, and Only Minutes Away. She also continued her career appearing in the films, Private Obsession, Ragdoll, Nutty Professor II, The Klumps
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Band of Gold (album)
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Band of Gold was Freda Paynes third studio album and her first for Invictus Records. It was released to capitalize on the success of the track that became an instant smash on the Pop charts in the US. Other hits that came from the album included Unhooked Generation and Deeper and Deeper, the tenth track was written by Paynes younger sister, Scherrie. Cover versions include Gary Puckett and the Union Gaps hit This Girl Is a Woman Now, recorded at, Holland-Dozier-Holland Sound Studios, Inc. Horn Processed by, Syntrex Supervised by, William Weatherspoon Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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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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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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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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Lamont Dozier
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Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has co-written and produced 14 US Billboard number 1 hits and 4 number ones in the UK, along with Brian Holland, Dozier served as the teams musical arranger and producer, while Eddie Holland concentrated mainly on lyrics and vocal production. Dozier recorded a few records for various Detroit labels before the trio started working together as a writing. They first made their mark the year with Martha and The Vandellas early hits, including Come And Get These Memories, Heatwave. In 1964, Where Did Our Love Go became the first of ten number 1 pop hits which Holland–Dozier–Holland would write, after Holland–Dozier–Holland left Motown in 1968 to form the Invictus and Hot Wax labels, Dozier began recording as an artist on their labels. The most successful song was Why Cant We Be Lovers, Dozier departed from Holland–Dozier–Hollandin the mid-1970s and was replaced by new arranger-producer Harold Beatty. Dozier went on to record a number of albums as a performer in his own right, the 1977 album, Peddlin Music On The Side contained Going Back to My Roots, which was later recorded by Odyssey. The earlier Black Bach featured the country-flavored All Cried Out and he had his biggest hit with 1974s Trying to Hold On to My Woman, which reached #15 pop, #4 R&B. In 1981, he scored a beach music hit with Cool Me Out, Dozier had another number 1 hit as a songwriter in the 1980s, joining with Phil Collins to write the song Two Hearts for the movie soundtrack for Buster. Collins and Dozier also co-wrote Loco in Acapulco for The Four Tops, in 1984, Essex-born singer Alison Moyet scored a U. S. top 40 hit with the Dozier-penned Invisible. Three years later, Dozier cowrote Infidelity and Suffer with Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall for the British pop-soul bands second album, in 1989, they teamed again to write Youve Got It and Turn It Up for Simply Reds follow-up LP, A New Flame. It wasnt until 2004 that Dozier chose to revisit his catalog of Motown hits and his album Reflections Of. which he released that year, revealed Doziers new arrangements frequently providing an interesting counterpoint to the upbeat pop sound of the 1960s originals. Dozier and the Holland brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, in 2009, he worked on the music for the musical stage version of the movie First Wives Club. He is also teaching a course of music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. Lamont Dozier lives in Encino, California, with his wife of thirty-plus years and he is also related to stand-up comedian and actor John Witherspoon, of The Wayans Bros. and the Friday film series fame. Interview date June 20,2012, NAMM Oral History Library
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Charly McClain
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Charlotte Denise Charly McClain is an American country music singer, best known for string of country hits during the 1980s. McClains biggest hits include Whos Cheatin Who, Sleepin with the Radio On, McClain was born March 26,1956 to Virginia Jo and Niles B. The nickname Charly would come from the friends that she played with as a child. McClain would later go on to use it when she began her career playing hotel lounges and her first experience recording was when father Niles had tuberculosis when she was eight. As she was under age to comply with hospital visiting policy and that inspired her interest in recording. She began her career at age twelve performing with her brother Mike and their band. The band would perform together for the six years. Her first TV appearance was on the local WBBJ morning show in Jackson, by the age of seventeen, she was a regular on the club circuit, and appeared at the Memphis show Mid-South Jamboree from 1973–1975. At the age of twenty, McClain signed her first recording contract with Epic Records in 1976, McClains distinct vocal sound provided an edge in recognizability—as did her attractive appearance. McClain debuted in late 1976 with her first single, Lay Down, McClains initial singles in 1976 and 1977, from her debut album Heres Charly McClain, failed to chart highly on the Country charts. McClains second album, Let Me Be Your Baby, was released in 1978. She hit countrys Top Ten for the first time in 1978 with Thats What You Do to Me, in 1979 McClain released Alone Too Long, which included the Top-20 hits When A Love Aint Right and Youre a Part of Me. The Women Get Lonely album followed in 1980, featuring the Top 10 hit Men, which peaked at No.7 in 1980, however, breakthrough success still eluded McClain. McClain hit No.1 on the Country charts in 1981 with Whos Cheatin Who and this brought McClain breakthrough success for the 1980s. In 1981, McClain scored three Top-10 hits off her Surround Me with Love album, the track, Sleepin with the Radio On. McClains albums were beginning to more successful as well. Her Whos Cheatin Who album peaked at No.28 on the Top Country Albums chart, in 1983, McClain hit No.1 with her Mickey Gilley duet Paradise Tonight. McClains and Gilleys duet partnership became so successful, they released an album the following year titled It Takes Believers
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Mickey Gilley
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Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and musician. Among his biggest hits are Room Full of Roses, Dont the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time, and he is a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, Jim Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. Gilley is a son of Arthur Fillmore Gilley and Irene Gilley in Natchez, for many years, Gilley lived in the shadow of his well-known cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, a successful rock and roll singer and musician in the 1950s and early 60s. Gilley grew up just across the Mississippi River from where Lewis grew up, Gilley, Lewis, and their cousin Jimmy Swaggart played together as children, and Lewis taught them his piano style. They sang both boogie-woogie and Gospel music, but Gilley did not become a singer until Lewis hit the top of the charts in the 1950s. Gilley then cut a few singles and played sessions in New Orleans with producer Huey Meaux and his a record Call Me Shorty on the Dot label sold well in 1958. In the 1960s, he played at clubs and bars, gaining a following at the Nesadel Club in Pasadena. Paula Records released Gilleys first album, Down the Line, in 1967 and he had a minor hit from the album called Now I Can Live Again. In 1970 Gilley opened up his first nightclub in Pasadena, Texas and it later became known as the worlds biggest honky tonk. Gilleys Club and its mechanical bull was portrayed in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and he shared Gilleys Club with Sherwood Cryer, who asked Gilley to re-open his former bar with him. The club portion of Gilleys burned in 1990, and the arena portion was razed in 2005 to make way for a school. The song was released by Astro Records that year, and then Playboy Records got a hold of the single, from then on, Gilley was signed to Playboy Records working with his long-time friend Eddie Kilroy. Room Full of Roses became the song that put Gilley on national radar, hitting the top of the Country charts that year. Room Full of Roses today remains as one of his signature songs and he had a string of top tens and No. Some of these hits were cover versions of songs, including the Bill Anderson song City Lights, George Jones Window Up Above and he remained a popular Country act for the rest of the 1970s. Other hits in the 1970s include Chains of Love, Honky Tonk Memories, Shes Pulling Me Back Again and these songs were a mix of honky tonk and countrypolitan that brought Gilley to the top of the charts in the 1970s. However, a new breed of singers were entering Country Music and these singers were Country-crossover artists that brought Country success with them onto the pop charts. These singers include Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Mandrell, in order to compete with these new breed of Country singers, Gilley had to sound like them and have that kind of country-pop success that these singers were having
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Belinda Carlisle
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Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Gos, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time. Originally beginning her career in 1977 as a member of the Los Angeles punk band the Germs, the Go-Gos would go on to sell 8 million albums in just three years. Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed, published in June 2010, was a New York Times Best Seller, on August 11,2011, as a member of the Go-Gos, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carlisle was born in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, to Harold Carlisle, a vacuum cleaner salesman, and his wife, Joanne. She was named after her mothers film, Johnny Belinda. The first of seven siblings with three brothers and three sisters, Carlisle was five years old when her father abandoned their family and her mother would later remarry to Walt Kurczeski, with whom Carlisle had a tumultuous relationship. The family moved frequently during her childhood, from Simi Valley to Reseda, at age ten, Carlisle began to express interest in music, and recalled The Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, The Stylistics, and The Animals as being early musical influences. During her teenage years, Carlisle became rebellious, By the time I hit fourteen, Id gone really wild, I ran away from home, smoked pot, dropped acid. After high school, Carlisle worked at a House of Fabrics store and she took night classes attending beauty college, but dropped out within the first year. At the age of nineteen, she left her parents home to pursue a career in music, Carlisles first venture into music was a brief stint as drummer for the punk rock band the Germs, under the name Dottie Danger. Around this time Carlisle did some back-up singing for Black Randy, soon after leaving the Germs, she co-founded the Go-Gos, with friends and fellow musicians Margot Olavarria, Elissa Bello, and Jane Wiedlin. Olavarria and Bello were soon out of the group and the new line-up included bassist-turned-guitarist Charlotte Caffey, guitarist-turned-bassist Kathy Valentine,1 album, Beauty and the Beat, which featured the hits We Got the Beat and Our Lips Are Sealed. The Go-Gos recorded two studio albums on I. R. S. Records, including 1982s Vacation, which went gold, Head over Heels, from their 1984 album Talk Show, made it to No.11. In 1984, Carlisle made a foray into acting in the movie Swing Shift starring Goldie Hawn, the Go-Gos disbanded in 1985 and Carlisle embarked on a solo career. Carlisles first solo album Belinda was released in 1986, also on I. R. S and this album was successful in North America and was certified Gold in the US and Platinum in Canada. Her summer hit Mad About You peaked at No.3 in the US, topped the Canadian Singles Chart, and charted in the top 10 in Australia. Mad About You was followed by the Motown-influenced single I Feel the Magic written by Charlotte Caffey, all three songs were included on her debut album
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Belinda (Belinda Carlisle album)
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Belinda is the first solo album by Belinda Carlisle, notable as her first recording after the break-up of new wave band The Go-Gos, for whom she was their lead singer. Released in mid-1986 it featured a hit single Mad About You which went to No.3 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 and No.1 in Canada. Some of the songs on Belinda were written by Carlisles former band-mate in the Go-Gos Charlotte Caffey while the rest were written by other songwriters, Carlisle has a single co-writing credit on one track. Band of Gold was a hit song for Freda Payne in 1970, Payne provided background vocals on the dance mixes of Carlisles version of this song, which would later appear as bonus tracks on the 2003 re-release of the album. I Need a Disguise was written by the team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg who co-wrote the song with Susanna Hoffs as it was intended for use by The Bangles. Kelly and Steinberg also co-wrote another song for Carlisle called Dancing in the City which she sang, stuff and Nonsense is a cover of Tim Finns song originally performed by his band Split Enz on their 1979 album Frenzy. The song Shot In the Dark was used as part of the Out of Bounds soundtrack, critical reception Being her first solo album it was often compared with her previous work with the Go Gos. In general the album received mixed reviews but was received by audiences. Rolling Stone wrote The problem with Belinda is that all the ingredients are there, Chart performance The album was successful in North America peaking at No.13 in the U. S. and at number 24 in Canada. The Album also entered the Australian Chart where it peaked at number 42, Belinda was certified Gold in the U. S. and Platinum in Canada, selling over one million copies worldwide
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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I.R.S. Records
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Records was an American record label founded by Miles Copeland III and Jay Boberg in 1979. I. R. S. produced some of the most popular bands of the 1980s, including R. E. M. and The Go-Gos. His brother Ian was the head of a talent agency, Frontier Booking International, while his brother Stewart played drums for The Police, a band that Copeland managed. The Polices first album was released on A&M Records in 1978 with a hit single, Roxanne, building on success with the Police, Copeland convinced Jerry Moss, co-owner of A&M, to establish the I. R. S. division in 1979. Releases were distributed by A&M until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, in 2011, EMI revived the label, as of 2012, the new label has Chiddy Bang and Foxy Shazam on its roster. In October 2013, shortly after the integration of EMI into its successor, Universal Music Group, Nashville, with Striking Matches, Marc Scibilia and Cowboy Jack Clement on its roster before being shut down once again in 2015. In 1985, Copeland brokered a deal to switch the labels distributor to MCA Records, under the agreement, A&M continued to release the labels pre-1985 catalog, much of which still can be found under the A&M banner. The last I. R. S release was All Set by the Buzzcocks, shortly after, Copeland formed Ark 21 Records. Records sponsored a monthly MTV show called I. R. S, Records Presents The Cutting Edge, hosted by Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones. The series concentrated on bands that recorded for the label, faulty Products was the UK holding company for I. R. S. Records of the UK record labels set up by Copeland and it included Illegal Records, Deptford Fun City Records and others. Faulty Products was also an American independent record label and distribution company for other indie labels between 1980 and 1982, the label released The Polices debut single, Fall Out. Deptford Fun City Records was set up by Miles Copeland in the late 1970s as an outlet for Deptford, England bands such as Alternative TV and Squeeze. No Speak, also known as No Speak Records, was set up as an imprint of I. R. S. in January 1988. It released albums by Stewart Copeland, Wishbone Ash, and William Orbit, tribal America was a label run by Rob DiStefano that was distributed by I. R. S from 1991 until IRS folded in 1996. It concentrated on music, a type of electronic dance music. DiStefano went on to found Twisted America Records, I. R. S. s roster of musicians included The Alarm, The Bangles, Berlin, Black Sabbath, Buzzcocks, J. J. E. M. Renaissance, Stan Ridgway, Skafish, The Stranglers, Fine Young Cannibals, on the Charts was a 1994 compilation album that chronicled I. R. S
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I Feel the Magic
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I Feel the Magic is the second single from Belinda Carlisles debut album as a solo singer, entitled Belinda, and released in 1986. The song, having a typical Motown 1960s pop soul feel, was a minor hit, agree Shampoo used the song in their commercials. The music video was directed by Marty Callner, Belinda Carlisle 1986 singles at BelindaVault Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Bonnie Tyler
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Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles Lost in France and her 1978 single Its a Heartache reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tylers biggest hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, the single from her 1983 UK chart topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tylers other major 1980s hit Holding Out for a Hero and she had success in mainland Europe during the 1990s with Dieter Bohlen, who wrote and produced her hit Bitterblue. In 2003, Tyler re-recorded Total Eclipse of the Heart with singer Kareen Antonn and their bilingual duet topped the French charts. Her latest album Rocks and Honey was released in 2013 and features the single Believe in Me which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Both Its a Heartache and Total Eclipse of the Heart are among the singles of all time. Her work has earned her three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations, among other accolades, Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen, Wales, to coal miner Glyndwr and housewife Elsie Hopkins. She grew up in a council house with three sisters and two brothers. Her siblings had varied music tastes, exposing her to such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra. Hopkins and her family were deeply religious Protestants and her first public performance took place in a chapel as a child, singing the Anglican hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful. Leaving school with no qualifications, Hopkins began working in a grocery shop. In 1969, she entered a talent contest, and after coming in second place, was inspired to pursue a career in singing. Responding to an advertisement, she found work as a backing singer for Bobby Wayne & the Dixies before forming her own soul band called Imagination. It was around this time that she changed her name to Sherene Davis in order to avoid being confused with Welsh folk singer Mary Hopkin. In 1975, Davis was spotted singing with her band in the Townsman Club, Swansea, by talent scout Roger Bell, after many months had passed, she received a phone call from RCA Records, offering her a recording contract. They also recommended that she change her name again, after compiling a list of surnames and Christian names from a newspaper, Davis found a new name in Bonnie Tyler
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Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
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Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire is the sixth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released on 3 May 1986, by Columbia Records, as the follow-up to her studio album. Three years in the making, the album was produced by Jim Steinman. Seven singles were released from the album, with Holding Out for a Hero originally being released two years ahead of the album on the Footloose soundtrack, the album features collaborations with songwriters guest artists including Desmond Child and Todd Rundgren. Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire received generally mixed reviews, the album was a commercial success, reaching number one on the Norwegian Album Charts. Tyler and Steinman had already seen success with Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman wrote four new songs for Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire, the first song to be released was Holding Out for a Hero, released in 1984 for the Footloose soundtrack. The other, Loving Yous a Dirty Job but Somebodys Gotta Do It, was released as a single with Todd Rundgren in 1986. Steinman recruited a number of songwriters for the album, including Desmond Child. Steinman told Child that he wanted a song about androgyny, the verses have to sound like Tina Turner, the B Section has to sound like The Police, U2, or Hall & Oates, and the chorus has to sound like Bruce Springsteen, he continued. Child used the guide to write If You Were a Woman. Ravishing was originally written by Steinman as a track on The Wrestling Album. Tyler also recorded Under Suspicion during the albums recording and it was written by herself, her brother Paul Hopkins, and Peter Oxendale. The song was used as the B-side to Loving Yous a Dirty Job, Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire received generally mixed reviews from music critics, with much of the criticism being aimed at music producer and hit songwriter Jim Steinman. He went on to describe the album as a bore, only crediting one of Steinmans penned songs. Paul Speelman of The Age opined that Tyler and Steinman were deeply entrenched in a rut, the fact that she manages to salvage at least a few tracks attests to her vocal fortitude. He argued that the album was a case of over-indulgence, noting the eight minute, the album did receive some positive reviews as well. Jerry Spangler of Deseret News described the album as a collection of tunes with good musical variety
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Jim Steinman
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James Richard Jim Steinman is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist and singer and his work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater and film score genres. Beginning his career in theater, Steinmans most notable work in the area includes lyrics for Whistle Down the Wind. His work includes such albums as Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II, Back into Hell, the album Bad for Good was released in his own name in 1981. Steinman was born in New York City and he graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1965 and received his bachelors degree from Amherst College in 1969. According to longtime manager David Sonenberg, Steinman had serious health problems around 2004. Responding to an interviewers asserting that his songs are tragic, Steinman says that he has never been stomped on literally, figuratively, I am stomped on every day. Anyway, that is the way I feel sometimes, ive never had my heart broken the way you are talking about. But probably because I dont allow myself to be dumped, in March 1968, Steinman contributed music for an Amherst College adaptation of Bertolt Brechts A Mans a Man. In May 1968, he directed an Amherst production of Michael McClures The Beard, over the summer of 1968, he contributed music for an adaptation of Brechts Baal by the Island Theater Workshop on Marthas Vineyard. As a senior at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Jim wrote the book, music and lyrics for The Dream Engine, a musical that was used to fulfill the requirements for an independent study course. The story of The Dream Engine, set in the distant future, is about a boy named Baal who, along with his rebel fellows. Baal is the leader of a group of wild boys called The Tribe, whose enemies are Max and Emily, the parents of the Girl. Steinman himself played Baal in the production, which was staged in April 1969. Fellow Amherst College student Barry Keating was director, several parts of songs from this show resemble parts of songs Steinman later released. For example, the turn around bright eyes from Total Eclipse of the Heart can be heard in the song called The Formation of the Tribe in Steinmans manuscript for the show. Steinman said in an interview that Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, nonetheless, Steinman worked under Papp after his years at Amherst College. In 1971, Steinman provided music for a show called Ubu
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If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)
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If You Were a Woman is a song recorded by Bonnie Tyler for her 1986 rock album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. It was written by Desmond Child and produced by Jim Steinman, Child has since stated that the song was re-written as You Give Love a Bad Name for Bon Jovi after he was dissatisfied with If You Were a Woman s chart success. Tyler re-recorded the song on her 2004 album Simply Believe, the song was successful in Europe, reaching number 6 in France and sold over 200,000 copies. The song also reached number 77 on the US Hot 100, after the success of Faster Than the Speed of Night in 1983, Tyler went on to work with Jim Steinman on a second album. Steinman recruited Desmond Child for two tracks, Steinman told Child that he wanted a song about androgyny. The verses have to sound like Tina Turner, the B Section has to sound like The Police, U2, or Hall & Oates, and the chorus has to sound like Bruce Springsteen, he continued. After he had completed his work on Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire and he co-wrote You Give Love a Bad Name with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and made the song a hit. I was sore at the company for not pushing that song. The album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire received generally positive reviews music critics. People magazine described the album as bombastic, and that most of the time the bombast is kept within tolerable limits, the song was described as a typical Bonnie Tyler ballad by Paul Speelman of The Age. He said that the song has a good, solid arrangement, upon its release, If You Were a Woman debuted at number 42 in France, rising to number 6 two months later. It was certified Silver by the SNEP with sales of over 200,000 copies in France, elsewhere in continental Europe, If You Were a Woman was a hit in Switzerland and Germany, where it peaked at number 16 and 32 respectively. The song failed to impact the UK charts, however. Across the Atlantic, the peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100. In conjunction with the release, Tyler recorded a music video for If You Were a Woman. Two versions of the video were published, the original version opens with a monologue spoken by a woman depicting Bonnie Tyler at an old age, and the second version omits this opening. Excerpts of the video are shown on a TV during Tylers 1992 music video for The Desert Is in Your Heart. In the longer version, the opens with no music, just a woman describing her work as a singer at a club that she owned in war time England
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Kimberley Locke
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Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer, songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance and pop genres, and has targeted the adult contemporary radio format, Locke gained fame with her participation in the 2003 American Idol television series in which she placed third. In 2007 she garnered attention for her participation in Celebrity Fit Club. Locke was born in Hartsville, Tennessee, to Donald and Christine Locke and she and her brother spent most of their life in Gallatin. At age five, Locke began singing in church and her parents divorced when she was eight years old. Locke grew up admiring such singers as Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle and she and childhood friends Chandra Boone, Selina Robb, and Nacole Rice formed a quartet as teens named Shadz of U, which performed at many local churches. The group later appeared on Lockes 2007 Based on a True Story album, Locke went to Gallatin High School, where she was one of sixteen members to participate in its performing group. She remained in the group throughout her school years. She was also selected twice as a member of the All-Middle State Chorus, after graduating, she began to work for a company in Nashville as an administrative assistant. Like 2007 American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle, Locke is an alumna of Belmont University in Nashville, on October 30,2002, the reality TV singing competition American Idol held auditions in Nashville, Tennessee for the shows second season. Locke successfully passed through to the round, and in December was chosen to perform on the show. She finished third, behind winner Ruben Studdard and runnerup Clay Aiken and she has since been invited back to the show to perform twice. Locke went on to sign a deal with Curb Records on September 6,2003. Her debut album, One Love, was released May 4,2004, debut single 8th World Wonder reached the top half of the Billboard Hot 100 and was successful on other charts, and entered the UK charts. Wrong and I Could followed as singles, Locke released her version of Up on the House Top in the autumn of 2005 and by the end of year, it had reached the top spot of the Adult Contemporary charts. The following year, Lockes version of Jingle Bells was released and topped the same charts, a full Christmas album entitled Christmas — only available digitally — was released on November 6,2007. Lockes second album, Based on a True Story, was released on May 1,2007, the albums original lead single, Supawoman, co-written with her producers Damon Sharpe and Mark J. Feist, was released to radio on August 7,2006. Change, was released to radio on January 15,2007, the albums next single was a cover of Freda Paynes Band of Gold, which was released to radio on August 13,2007, and became Lockes sixth solo A/C Top 10 hit
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Based on a True Story (Kimberley Locke album)
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Based on a True Story is the second album from American Idol finalist, Kimberley Locke. She found that when she sat and talked with her collaborators about the issues she was working through, the album was poorly received by Entertainment Weekly, which commented that Locke fail to inject personality into these songs and that she is unshackled by the constraints of genre. It gave the album a C rating, however, EW readers gave it a B. Billboard magazine was more impressed by the album, referring to it as powerfully performed and perfectly presented. Only a month before the release of the album, a decision was made for Kimberley to record her versions of Fall and Band of Gold. The label was so impressed by these recordings that two songs that had previously recorded, What I Gotta Do and Hey DJ, were cut from the album
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Curb Records
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Curb Records is an independent record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963. From 1969 to 1973, Curb merged with MGM Records where Curb served as President of MGM, the Four Seasons comeback album, Who Loves You, included December 1963, which was the first single to spend more than one year on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Curbs roster past and present includes Lee Brice, LeAnn Rimes, Hank Williams, sheppard, Jim Stafford, Ray Stevens, Andreas Moss, Jonathan Thulin and Tim McGraw. In late 2002, Curb Records also acquired a stake in Word Records from then-owners Time Warner, Curb still holds partnership in Word even though Time Warners stake was sold to newly formed spin-off Warner Music Group in 2004. Four-time GMA Music Award Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant is signed to Curb Records in addition to the 5 time GMA music award winning group Selah. Mullen, Larry Norman, Jonathan Pierce, Plumb, Point of Grace, Group 1 Crew, Salvador, Jamie Slocum, Steller Kart, Jaci Velasquez and Mark Schultz. In 2006, Curb launched a rock label, Bruc Records. Straight to Hell by Neotraditional country artist Hank Williams III was the first album to be released on the new imprint, in 2011, Curb filed a lawsuit against Country singer Tim McGraw, and McGraw filed a counter lawsuit against Curb. In 2012, he stopped recording with Curb, and switched to Big Machine Records, in 2015, Jim Ed Norman was named CEO of the Curb Group, however, Mike Curb remains extremely involved as the founder and chairman of the board. Curb Records supports charitable programs through the Mike Curb Family Foundation and these historic facilities are being used by students at the various Curb supported colleges and universities for the purpose of studying music history. In October 2008 the 6,000 seat Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville, in the United Kingdom, Curb artists are eligible for the UK independent charts. In January 2006, Curb scored a top ten hit with Brian Kennedy and Peter Corrys Tribute to George Best, Curb previously had major hits in Europe with the Four Seasons, the Osmonds, LeAnn Rimes, and Soundtracks such as Coyote Ugly
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Change (Kimberley Locke song)
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Change is a single from American Idol finalist, Kimberley Locke, the first from her Based on a True Story album, after plans on promoting Supawoman as the lead single were canceled. Kimberley, with the assistance of Ty Lacy & Dennis Matkosky, American Idol alumna Kimberley Locke has scored five hits at AC radio, including No. 1s Jingle Bells last December and Up on the Housetop a year before, wisely, new single from upcoming sophomore project focuses on that core, albeit with enough of a contemporary edge to indulge her youthful profile — and perhaps drum up like support at adult top 40. At this point, pop radio appears hesitant to embrace most Idols, —Chuck Taylor Filmed in Nashville on January 9,2007, the music video was shot by award winning director Roman White. Roman has directed videos for artists as Carrie Underwood, Hootie and the Blowfish. The video debuted on February 7,2007 on AmericanIdol. com and was added into rotation on VH1 on April 14, the video follows Kimberley walking alone through the city on a cold winters night. A promotional dance remixed version of the video was produced and distributed to danceclubs
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Popular music
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Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training and it stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or folk music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of music, although since the beginning of the recording industry. Traditional music forms such as blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States, although popular music sometimes is known as pop music, the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music songs and pieces typically have easily singable melodies, in the 2000s, with songs and pieces available as digital sound files, it has become easier for music to spread from one country or region to another. Some popular music forms have become global, while others have an appeal within the culture of their origin. Through the mixture of genres, new popular music forms are created to reflect the ideals of a global culture. The examples of Africa, Indonesia and the Middle East show how Western pop music styles can blend with local traditions to create new hybrid styles. Sales of recordings or sheet music are one measure, middleton and Manuel note that this definition has problems because multiple listens or plays of the same song or piece are not counted. Manuel states that one criticism of music is that it is produced by large media conglomerates and passively consumed by the public. He claims that the listeners in the scenario would not have been able to make the choice of their favorite music, moreover, understandings of popular music have changed with time. A societys popular music reflects the ideals that are prevalent at the time it is performed or published, david Riesman states that the youth audiences of popular music fit into either a majority group or a subculture. The majority group listens to the commercially produced styles while the subcultures find a minority style to transmit their own values and this allows youth to choose what music they identify with, which gives them power as consumers to control the market of popular music. Form in popular music is most often sectional, the most common sections being verse, chorus or refrain, other common forms include thirty-two-bar form, chorus form *, and twelve-bar blues. Popular music songs are rarely composed using different music for each stanza of the lyrics, the verse and chorus are considered the primary elements. Each verse usually has the melody, but the lyrics change for most verses. The chorus usually has a phrase and a key lyrical line which is repeated
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Motown
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Motown is an American record company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12,1958, the name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has also become a nickname for Detroit. Motown played an important role in the integration of popular music as an African American-owned record label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as the Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence. During the 1960s, Motown achieved spectacular success for a record company,79 records in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 record chart between 1960 and 1969. The company was sold to MCA Inc. Motown was later sold to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records successor, Universal Music Group, Motown spent much of the 2000s as a part of the Universal Music subsidiaries Universal Motown and Universal Motown Republic Group, and headquartered in New York City. From 2011 to 2014, Motown was a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group division of Universal Music. On April 1,2014, Universal Music Group announced the dissolution of Island Def Jam and it now operates out of the landmark Capitol Tower. For many decades, Motown was the highest-earning African American business in the United States, Berry Gordy got his start as a songwriter for local Detroit acts such as Jackie Wilson and the Matadors. Wilsons single Lonely Teardrops, written by Gordy, became a huge success and he realized that the more lucrative end of the business was in producing records and owning the publishing. In 1959, Billy Davis and Berry Gordys sisters Gwen and Anna started Anna Records, Davis and Gwen Gordy wanted Berry to be the company president, but Berry wanted to strike out on his own. On January 12,1959, he started Tamla Records, with a loan from his family. Gordy originally wanted to name the label Tammy Records, after the hit song popularized by Debbie Reynolds from the 1957 film Tammy, when he found the name was already in use, Berry decided on Tamla instead. Tamlas first release, in the Detroit area, was Marv Johnsons Come to Me in 1959 and its first hit was Barrett Strongs Money, which made it to number 2 on the Billboard R&B charts. Gordys first signed act was the Matadors, who changed their name to the Miracles. Their first release, Got a Job, was a record to the Silhouettes Get a Job. The Miracles first, minor hit was their single, 1959s Bad Girl, released in Detroit as the debut record on the Motown imprint
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Telma Hopkins
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Telma Louise Hopkins is an American singer and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn and she also performed on the CBS variety show Tony Orlando and Dawn from 1974 to 1976 along with Tony Orlando and Joyce Vincent Wilson. In late 1970s, Hopkins began working as actress, playing roles on sitcoms, including Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break. As lead actress, she starred on Getting By from 1993 to 1994, in later years, Hopkins was regular cast member on Half & Half, Are We There Yet. and short-lived Partners. In film, she co-starred in 1984 science fiction film Trancers and in its sequels Trancers II and Trancers III, and well as appeared in The Wood and The Love Guru. Hopkins started her career as a singer in Detroit, Michigan, singing on many of the Golden World and Motown hits and working with legendary acts like The Four Tops. She also sang back up for Isaac Hayes and can be heard famously exclaiming Shut your mouth, on Hayes hit song Theme From Shaft as well as the hip hop track Thuggish Ruggish Bone. In 1971, Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson were recruited by Tony Orlando to form the vocal group Dawn, in 1977, Tony Orlando and Dawn announced their retirement. In 1979, Hopkins made her acting debut playing Daisy in the ABC miniseries Roots, later that year, she co-starred alongside Eileen Brennan on the short-lived ABC sitcom A New Kind of Family. The following year, she was cast opposite Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in another ABC sitcom, Bosom Buddies, the series was cancelled in 1982 after two seasons. She also guest-starred on The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and The New Odd Couple during early 1980s, in 1983, Hopkins joined the cast of NBC sitcom Gimme a Break. starring Nell Carter. She played Adelaide Addy Wilson, Nells childhood friend, to series finale in 1987, in 1989, Hopkins began starring as Rachel Baines-Crawford in the ABC sitcom Family Matters. She left the series after four season as regular cast member and she left Family Matters for starring as series lead in ABC sitcom Getting By which aired from 1993 to 1994. Hopkins also has had number of supporting film roles and she played Engineer Ruth Ruthie Raines in 1984 science fiction film Trancers starring Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt, and its sequels Trancers II and Trancers III. In later years, she appeared as Richard T. Jones mother in 1999 romantic comedy film The Wood and she starred in the play JD Lawrences The Clean Up Woman in October 2008. From 2002 to 2006, Hopkins starred in the UPN sitcom Half & Half alongside Rachel True, Essence Atkins and she had the recurring roles on The Hughleys and Any Day Now. From 2010 to 2013, she co-starred alongside Terry Crews and Essence Atkins in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet, in 2014, she played Martin Lawrences mother on the FX sitcom Partners. In 2016, she was cast as Jerrika Hinton mother in the ABC comedy pilot Toast produced by ShondaLand, Hopkins was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Highland Park, Michigan
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Tony Orlando and Dawn
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Tony Orlando and Dawn is an American pop music group that was popular in the 1970s. Their signature hits include Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on 3 April 1944. After almost a decade of singing and with only three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the singer for the studio group Wind. He stopped singing entirely, and by 1970 he was a demo singer. He began publishing music for April-Blackwood Music, a division of Columbia Records, then Orlando received Candida, a song that other producers and singers had turned down. Originally, Orlando was not able to lend his name to the song, as he was working for April-Blackwood, the background singers on the track were Sharon Greane, Linda November, Jay Siegel, and Toni Wine, who co-wrote the song. Phil Margo played drums on the session, and the arranger was Norman Bergen. After the single hit No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the ensemble then recorded the follow-up song Knock Three Times, which topped the Hot 100 on 23 January -6 February 1971. Bell Records was desperate to have an act to promote Dawns records. Orlando asked former Motown/Stax backing vocalists Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson to become Dawn, the threesome then went on the road after Candida and Knock Three Times. After a tour of Europe, Hopkins and Vincent assumed background vocal duties in the studio as well and they were joined in the studio by Vincents sister Pamela Vincent, who in addition to singing, arranged all the backing vocals. Prior touring commitments with Aretha Franklin prevented Vincent from appearing with Dawn on tour, the first single with their voices in the background was Runaway/Happy Together in 1972. The group released another single in 1973, and it became their next No.1 single — Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. In terms of sales, this single was the most successful in the groups career, the groups next single, Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose, went to No. CBS gave the group a television variety show from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, the show was in the same vein as its predecessor and became a Top 20 hit. In 1975 a remake of the Sam Cooke song Cupid became the groups last Top 40 single on the Hot 100, Sing reached No.7 on the Adult Contemporary Chart in 1977. The group went their separate ways later that year and would have one more single. Orlando is still a popular performer on tour regularly with the Lefty Brothers
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Scherrie Payne
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Scherrie Ann Payne is an American singer. Payne is best known as the singer of R&B/Soul vocal group The Supremes from 1973 until 1977. Because of her voice and petite stature, Payne is sometimes referred to as the little lady with the big voice. Payne is the sister of singer Freda Payne. Payne continues to perform, both as an act and as a part of the Former Ladies of the Supremes. Prior to her tenure with The Supremes, Payne was the singer for the group The Glass House. Other members included Ty Hunter, Pearl Jones, and Larry Mitchell, in an ironic twist of fate, Want Ads was originally recorded by Glass House with Scherrie on lead vocals. The Payne sisters together made a new version, but did not like the song, unfortunately, The Glass House did not meet this same success. The group saw their biggest hit in 1969 with the Payne-led track Crumbs Off The Table which managed the Billboard top 10, between the years of 1970 and 1972, The Glass House released two albums and nine singles, including Scherries solo track V. I. P. However, they never really repeated the success of their first single release and they quietly disbanded in 1972, after the release of their album Thanks, I Needed That. When she arrived, original Supreme Mary Wilson and 1960s Supreme Cindy Birdsong were the two members of the group. Payne contributed powerful vocals and attitude to the group, with Birdsong, Payne gained recognition for her vocals in Hes My Man taken from the album The Supremes. An accomplished songwriter, Payne was never able to write any material for The Supremes. While each of these disco gems landed in the Billboard Dance Top Ten, they did not perform as well on the pop and R&B charts. The single Im Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking was a #3 hit on the Disco charts, rose in the Billboard Top 40 to #25 on the R&B chart, and #40 on the Pop chart. The final three Supremes officially disbanded in 1977 with a concert in London, with Supremes founding member Mary Wilson announcing that she would embark on a solo career. Motown decided to officially retire The Supremes, so Payne and Greene recorded an album together on the Motown label, Partners, under the name Scherrie, the album received mixed reviews and the two decided to part in order to embark on solo projects. Prior to the release of Partners, Payne released a single for Motown called Fly b/w When I Look at Your Face in late 1977
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Ray Parker Jr.
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Ray Erskine Parker Jr. is an American musician-guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer and actor. Parker is known for writing and performing the song to the movie Ghostbusters, for his solo music, and for performing with his band, Raydio. Parker was born in Detroit to Venolia Parker and Ray Parker Sr and he has two siblings, his brother Opelton and his sister Barbara. Parker attended Angel Elementary School where music teacher, Afred T Kirby inspired him to be a musician at age 6 playing the clarinet, Parker attended Cass Tech High School in the 10th grade. Parker is a 1971 graduate of Detroits Northwestern High School and he was raised in the Dexter-Grand Boulevard neighborhood on its West Side. Parker attended college at Lawrence Institute of Technology, Parker gained recognition during the late 1960s as a member of Bohannon s house band at the legendary 20 Grand nightclub. This Detroit hotspot often featured Tamla/Motown acts, one of which, through the Bohannon relationship at 16 he recorded and cowrote his first songs with Marvin Gaye. Parker was later enlisted by Lamont Dozier to appear on his first two albums for ABC Records, in 1972, Parker was a guest guitarist on Stevie Wonders funk song Maybe Your Baby from Wonders album Talking Book. He also was the lead guitarist for Stevie Wonder when Wonder served as the act on the Rolling Stones 1972 tour. In 1973, he became a sideman in Barry Whites The Love Unlimited Orchestra, before creating Raydio, an R&B group, in 1977, with Vincent Bohnam, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael. Parker appeared briefly in the 1974 film Uptown Saturday Night as a player in the church picnic scene. His first bona fide hit as a writer was You Got the Love, co-written with Chaka Khan, the single hit #1 on the R&B charts and #11 on the pop charts in December 1974. According to a mention, in 1976 he worked as rhythmic guitarist for Lucio Battistis album Io tu noi tutti, translated as Me you. Parker endorses and plays Mérida Guitars, Raydio scored their first big hit, Jack and Jill, from their self-titled album in 1978 with Arista Records. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, earning a gold single. Their follow-up song, You Cant Change That, was released in 1979 from the Rock On album, the song was another Top 10 hit, peaking at #9 on the Billboard chart during the summer and also selling a million copies. In 1980, the became known as Ray Parker Jr. The group released two albums, Two Places at the Same Time in 1980 and A Woman Needs Love in 1981 both gold albums
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
