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Ad-Rock
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Adam Keefe Horovitz, better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known as a member of the hip hop group the Beastie Boys and he is married to musician and feminist activist Kathleen Hanna. Horovitz was born and raised on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York and he has denied internet listings that he was born in South Orange, New Jersey. His sister is film producer Rachael Horovitz and his father is Jewish, and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Roman Catholic. Horovitz began his career with a stint in the punk rock band the Young and the Useless. In 1982, Beastie Boys guitarist John Berry quit and Horovitz replaced him and he was only 16 at the time. After Horovitz joined the band, the Beastie Boys changed their sound, the band was signed to Def Jam, and released their debut album Licensed to Ill in 1986. The album was a commercial success, and spawned six hit singles. Seven further albums followed, and by 2010 the Beastie Boys had sold 22 million records in the United States alone, in 2012, the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to his work with the Beastie Boys, Horovitz also remixes numerous tracks for artists under the alias 41 Small Stars. He plays bass in The Tender Moments, the band of New York-based cabaret performer Bridget Everett. Horovitz has also acted in motion pictures and television shows. Some of his roles include Tim Chino Doolan in Lost Angels, Sam in Roadside Prophets, Repulski in Godspeed, in the late 1980s, Horovitz was in a relationship with American actress Molly Ringwald. They met on the set of The Pick-up Artist, Horovitz was married to actress Ione Skye from 1992 to 1995. They separated in 1995 and divorced in 1999, since 1997 he has been involved with riot grrrl artist Kathleen Hanna, they married in 2006. He wore a medical alert bracelet after having a seizure in 2003. His best friend since childhood is actress Nadia Dajani, the two met at P. S
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Ad-Rock with the Beastie Boys in
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Adam Yauch
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Adam Nathaniel Yauch was an American rapper, musician, film director, and human rights activist. He was best known as a member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys. He was frequently known by his name, MCA. Yauch founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution based in New York City. As a Buddhist, he was involved in the Tibetan independence movement, born in Brooklyn, New York City, Yauch was the only child of a social worker, painter and architect. His father had raised a Catholic and his mother was Jewish. Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyns Midwood neighborhood, in high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar. Yauch formed the Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach and they played their first show—while still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth—on his 17th birthday. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out, the Beastie Boys, a hip hop trio, released their first album Licensed to Ill on Def Jam Records when Yauch was 22. Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys music videos, often under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér, in 2002, Yauch constructed a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures, Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome, I Fuckin Shot That. Although in the DVD extras for the film, the character in A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin For That #1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. In addition, Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Kelly Reichardts Wendy and Lucy, the Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010. In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock, Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness. His bandmates paid tribute to Yauch, a letter from Yauch was read to the crowd, in 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage and he became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement. He created the Milarepa Fund, an organization devoted to Tibetan independence
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Yauch in 2007
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Mike D
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Michael Louis Diamond, better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician and producer, best known as the founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Diamond raps, sings, and plays drums and he has provided remixes for Moby and Björk. A product of the arts-oriented Saint Anns School, Diamond was born in New York City to a Jewish household, in 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. By 1983, Adam Horovitz joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip hop, in 1992, Diamond founded the Beastie Boys now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper, it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea. A year after the passing of Yauch in 2012, Diamond told Rolling Stone he was excited about making new stuff again, a remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Bands Bad Dancer by Diamond and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with additional beats, programming and other curve balls, in October 2014, Diamond stated that he had been working in the studio with American rock band Portugal. He has also produced English punk outfit Slaves second studio album, Take Control, in 1993, Diamond married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis, they have two children, Davis Diamond and Skyler Diamond. With Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Pauls Boutique Check Your Head Ill Communication Hello Nasty To the 5 Boroughs The Mix-Up Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Diamonds wallpaper portfolio
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Mike D in 2007.
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop
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1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx, a venue used by Kool Herc that is often considered the birthplace of hip hop in 1973
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DJ Kool Herc, recognized as one of the earliest hip hop artists
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Grandmaster Flash
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Afrika Bambaataa (left)
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Rap rock
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Rap rock is a music genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rocks most popular subgenres include rap metal and rapcore, which include heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented influences, one of the earliest examples would be The Magnificent Seven by The Clash, which fused new wave, hip hop, and funk. AllMusic describes rap metal as having big, lurching beats and heavy, heavy riffs that occasionally, Allmusic also states that the rhythms of rap rock are rooted in that of hip hop, with more funk influences than normal hard rock. Hed PE, which punk rock with hip hop, sometimes incorporates reggae. According to Rolling Stone writer Rob Kemp, Incubus 1997 album S. C. I. E. N. C. E, links funk metal to the rap metal. Kottonmouth Kings perform a style which they refer to as psychedelic hip-hop punk rock. Kid Rock incorporates country and Southern rock influences, and is backed by a 10 piece band, while Everlast fuses blues and rock with hip hop, performing with a live band that includes a DJ. An example of rap rock is the album Collision Course, its a collaboration between the rapper Jay Z and the band Linkin Park, the lyrical themes of rap rock vary. Although many nu metal bands incorporate hip hop beats, rap rock bands are always fronted by rappers, Rock bands generally not associated with rap rock have experimented with hip hop influences, including rapping. Such bands have included Blondie, Rush, Beck and Cake, many rappers have been noted for a prominent use of samples derived from rock songs, including Eminem, Ice-T, The Fat Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Whodini, Vanilla Ice, and Esham. In 1983, KISS released the song All Hells Breakin Loose on the album Lick It Up with singer Paul Stanley rapping the verses, collaborated with Aerosmith on a remake of the latters earlier song, Walk This Way, first released in 1975. Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis employed rapping on the bands 1984 self-titled debut album as well as subsequent releases, in a 2002 interview with Penthouse, Kiedis stated We were early in creating the combination of hardcore funk with hip-hop-style vocals. We became, maybe, an inspiration to Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, beastie Boys, formerly a hardcore punk group, began working in the hip hop genre, their 1986 debut album, Licensed to Ill, largely featured a rock-based sound. The three aforementioned artists all collaborated with producer Rick Rubin, who is credited with creating the rap rock genre. In 1989, Tone-Lōcs Wild Thing off of his debut album, Public Enemys track, She Watch Channel Zero. Features Chuck D rapping over a riff from the Slayer song Angel of Death, rap rock began to enter the mainstream arena in the 1990s. American rock bands such as 311, 24-7 Spyz, Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine fused rock, simultaneously, British bands like Pop Will Eat Itself and Senser were similarly shaping the genre across Europe. The soundtrack for the 1993 film Judgment Night featured 11 collaborations between hip hop and rock musicians, urban Dance Squad mixed funk, heavy metal, hip hop and punk
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New York -based hip hop group
Beastie Boys are considered highly influential within the rap rock genre.
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Hardcore punk
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Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock, New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the music industry and anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock. Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Boston—as well as in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Hardcore has spawned the straight movement and its associated submovements, hardline. Hardcore was heavily involved with the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s and it has also influenced various music genres that have experienced widespread commercial success, including alternative rock, thrash metal, emo and metalcore. While traditional hardcore has never experienced mainstream success, some of its early pioneers have garnered appreciation over time. In 2011, Rolling Stone writer David Fricke placed Greg Ginn of Black Flag 99th place in his 100 Greatest Guitarists list, although the music genre started in English-speaking western countries, notable hardcore scenes have existed in Italy, Brazil, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. The origin of the hardcore punk is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D. O. A. may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore 81. C. Hardcore historian Steven Blush said that the term hardcore is also a reference to the sense of being fed up with the existing punk, Blush also states that the term refers to an extreme, the absolute most Punk. One definition of the genre is a form of exceptionally harsh punk rock, like the Oi. subgenre of the UK, hardcore punk can be considered an internal music reaction. According to one writer, distressed by the artificiality of much post-punk, lacking the art-school grace of post-punk, hardcore punk favor low key visual aesthetic over extravagance and breaking with original punk rock song patterns. One of the important philosophies in the scene is authenticity. The pejorative term poseur is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy. Joe Keithley, the vocalist of D. O. A. said in an interview, in the vein of earlier punk rock, most hardcore punk bands have followed the traditional singer/guitar/bass/drum format. The songwriting has more emphasis on rather than melody. Critic Steven Blush writes The Sex Pistols were still rocknroll. like the craziest version of Chuck Berry, Hardcore was a radical departure from that
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Punk fans burning a United States flag in the 1980s.
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Mike Watt, formerly the bassist for the
Minutemen
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UK and US zines
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Black Flag performing live in 1984
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Def Jam Recordings
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Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused predominantly on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group. In the UK, the takes on the name Def Jam UK and is operated through Virgin EMI, while in Japan. The label distributes various record labels, including Kanye Wests GOOD Music, Ludacris Disturbing Tha Peace, Def Jam was founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University and its first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose. Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to other, according to one story. Another cites DJ Jazzy Jay as their connector, Rubin has said he met Simmons on the TV show, Graffiti Rock and recognized him then as the face of hip hop, He was five years older than me, and he was already established in the music business. And I had no experience whatsoever, the first single released with the Def Jam Recordings logo was T La Rock & Jazzy Jays Its Yours. The first releases with Def Jam Recordings catalog numbers were LL Cool Js I Need a Beat, the singles sold well, eventually leading to a distribution deal with CBS Records through Columbia Records the following year. A few years later, Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen started a label called Rush Associated Labels to handle Def Jam. RAL became the home to Nice & Smooth and EPMD after both acts were acquired due to the folding of their former label Sleeping Bag Records, other acts under the RAL umbrella included Redman, Onyx, Flatlinerz, Domino, Warren G and Jayo Felony. As the decade drew to a close, the label signed Public Enemy, Lyor Cohen became president of Def Jam/RAL in 1988, after winning a power struggle with Rubin, who would shortly thereafter leave the company to form Def American Recordings. Rubin would take Slayer with him to Def American in its initial stages, by 1992, despite recent multi-platinum selling releases from Public Enemy, and EPMD, Def Jam ran into severe financial troubles and was faced with folding. However, in 1994, PolyGram purchased Sonys 50% stake in Def Jam Recordings — subsequently bringing the label into its fold, following PolyGrams purchase, Def Jam distributed the Violator Records-signed artist Warren Gs Regulate. G Funk Era album, which went triple platinum and brought much-needed revenue to Def Jam through its distribution deal with Violator, PolyGram acquired an additional 10% in Def Jam Recordings in 1996, further strengthening its ownership of Def Jam. Shortly thereafter, Rush Associated Labels was renamed Def Jam Music Group, the label remained profitable as its veteran star LL Cool J released his successful album Mr. Smith in 1995. The label later signed Foxy Brown, whose debut album Ill Na Na became a seller in 1997. In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and merged with the MCA family of labels and it then purchased the remaining interest of Def Jam Recordings from Russell Simmons for a reported $100 million. UMG merged 14+ record labels including, Def Jam, Island Records, despite the formation of IDJMG, the Def Jam, Mercury, and Island labels continued to operate as separate imprints underneath the bigger umbrella. Lyor Cohen was appointed co-president of IDJMG, and Kevin Liles succeeded him as president of Def Jam, Def Soul also issued recordings by Musiq, Montell Jordan, Case,112, Patti LaBelle, and Christina Milian
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Def Jam Recordings
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Center of image: 1950s LP on Capitol
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Capitol logo from 1969 to 1977
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Grand Royal
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Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California-based vanity record label set up in 1992 by the Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Records after the group left Def Jam Recordings. Due to mounting debts, Grand Royal went out of business in 2001 and its assets were sold off via auction on Bid4Assets, these assets did not include any rights to Beastie Boys music. The assets and back catalog were purchased by a group of fans who in turn started GR2 Records, Grand Royal was also the name of a magazine written and published by the group. It was most famous for its article Mulling Over the Mullet in issue two, which lampooned the mullet hairstyle, List of record labels List of Grand Royal artists GR2 Records
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Mix Master Mike
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Michael Schwartz, better known by his stage name Mix Master Mike, is an American turntablist best known for his work with the Beastie Boys. Born in San Francisco, California, Mix Master Mike is of German, known as a prolific and internationally influential DJ, Mix Master Mike came to prominence upon winning the 1992 New Music Seminar/Supermen Inc. DJ Battle for World Supremacy in New York City, becoming the first West Coast DJ ever to do so. In the same year, his turntablism collective Rock Steady DJs won the DMC World DJ Championships and this success was followed by triumph in the 1993 DMC Championships, this time as part of a duo with DJ Qbert. Mix Master Mike and DJ Qbert subsequently founded the turntablist group The Invisibl Skratch Piklz with DJ Apollo, Mix Master Mikes most high-profile work has been with hip-hop group the Beastie Boys. Mix Master Mike worked with the band on Hello Nasty, To The 5 Boroughs and he also appears on the Beastie Boys single Alive, which was released in 1999 in support of The Sounds of Science retrospective anthology. In 1994, after winning three consecutive DMC World Championships, it was rumored that Mix Master Mike and Q-Bert were asked to retire from further competition and this claim is disputed by the DMC World Championship Website. After retiring from the world of competitive turntablism, Mix Master Mike, Mike has also helped fellow DJs produce their own albums, most notably, Wave Twisters, by DJ Q-bert. Mix Master Mike is known for his bass and intricate scratch routines. Mikes solo album Eye of the Cyklops won best electronic album in 2000 at the California music awards, in 1995, he was honored with The Grand Wizzard Theodore lifetime achievement award from the International Turntablist Federation. He has collaborated with such as Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Lee, Rob Zombie, Fela Kuti and Joss Stone. He remade classic Fela Kuti songs, Interlude, Gimme Shit, Mix Master Mike is often credited with inventing the Tweak Scratch. The scratch is performed by moving the back and forth while the platter motor is stopped. The inertia of the causes the sounds to slow and drop in pitch in an unusual manner. He is also known for the unusual technique of using a wah-wah pedal. Mix Master Mike is featured as a character that can be obtained through a cheat code in the 2002 snowboarding game SSX Tricky. He also contributed the song Patrol Knob to the soundtrack of the NTSC, Mix Master Mike is one of 9 artists who participated in thetruth. com’s Remix Project, in which he remixed the Sunny Side song “Tough Love”. On March 9,2010 Mix Master Mike was a guest on the Cool Tricks segment of Yo Gabba Gabba, on Dec 2nd 2010, Skullcandy and Mix Master Mike launched the official Mix Master Mike headphones, released in all major marketplaces including Apple stores, worldwide
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New York Thrash
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New York Thrash is a hardcore punk compilation album released by ROIR in 1982. The album was released in cassette format with liner notes by Tim Sommer. I Hate Music - The Mad Getaway - Kraut Shotgun - Heart Attack Social Reason - The Undead New Years Eve - Adrenalin O. D. D. Scorched Earth - False Prophets God is Dead - Heart Attack The Hell - The Mad Big Take Over - Bad Brains Beastie - Beastie Boys M. A. C. H. I. N. E, - The Stimulators * Loud Fast Rules. - The Stimulators * * - bonus tracks included on 1998 CD reissue List of punk compilation albums New York Thrash page on ROIR
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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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Polly Wog Stew
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Polly Wog Stew is a 1982 EP by the Beastie Boys, released on the Rat Cage label. This is one of the few hardcore punk songs that the continued to play in later years. Some of the lyrics, such as We, all, dressed in black were reused in the Pauls Boutique song Egg Man, the Some Old Bullshit compilation includes an alternate version taped from Tim Sommers Noise The Show radio program. Two tracks from Polly Wog Stew also appeared on the 1982 ROIR cassette compilation New York Thrash, michael Diamond - Vocals Adam Yauch - Bass John Berry - Guitar Kate Schellenbach - Drums
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Experimental hip hop
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Experimental hip hop, also known as abstract hip hop, is a genre of hip hop that employs structural elements typically considered unconventional in traditional hip hop music. Some notable experimental hip hop record labels include Definitive Jux, Anticon, Big Dada, while most experimental hip hop incorporates turntablism and is produced electronically, some artists have introduced acoustic elements to the music to facilitate it being performed live. As a relatively young musical style, hip hop during this period was about new ideas, fueled by themes of Afrocentricity and political militancy, coupled with experimental music and sampling techniques, led to great of number of stylistic innovations. Experimental hip-hop production is highly eclectic, drawing influences from a vast array musical genres, along with elements of electronic music and dub, artists drew from other styles including rock, soul, reggae, classical, and jazz. In general, experimental hip-hop production builds and expands on the sounds of early 1990s hip hop artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, one influential pioneer of experimental hip-hop production is J Dilla or Jay Dee. J Dillas approach included an innovative use of sampling as well as non-quantized drum rhythms, J Dilla also rejected the hip hop convention of Quantization—or the mathematical gridding of precise rhythms via electronic means. J Dilla was also a pioneer for eschewing quantization. and instead performed rhythms by hand on the pads of an Akai Music Production Center and this technique gives his music more of a non-mechanical natural groove or swing, as a human behind a real drum kit might play. Some producers influenced by J Dillas approach include Madlib, Flying Lotus, Karriem Riggins, while some experimental hip-hop follows the traditional use quantized rhythms, the vast majority of it does not. Other producers often cited as influences on experimental hip hop include DJ Premier, 9th Wonder, Hi-Tek, Pete Rock, Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and RZA. Left-field hip hop is a union of rap and electronica in which the emphasis is placed more on the producer than the rapper or emcee, left-field hip hop typically employs complex computerized equipment as well as incorporating live vocals and samples. Notable left-field albums include Kid Cudis Man on the Moon, cloud rap is a subgenre of experimental hip hop distinguished by ethereal, dreamlike beats, and abstract, sometimes deliberately absurd lyrics. Cloud rap producers often use unconventional samples that draw from ambient, indie, psychedelic hip hop is characterized by complex sample-based beats, often obscure material, and witty, abstract lyrics filled with unconventional far-out references. Early examples of style are some of the more sample-heavy late 1980s hip hop releases such as De la Souls 3 Feet High And Rising. A Tribe Called Quest Ab-Soul Aesop Rock Atmosphere A$AP Rocky Beastie Boys Beautiful Eulogy Big L Blu & Exile Capital Steez Chance the Rapper Childish Gambino Clams Casino clipping
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J Dilla's Donuts Album Cover
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Rap duo, The Underachievers, performing
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12-inch single
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The 12-inch single is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time compared to typical LPs. This allows for levels to be cut on the disc by the cutting engineer, which in turn gives a wider dynamic range. This record type is used in disco and dance music genres. They are played at either 33 1⁄3 or 45 rpm, 12-inch singles typically have much shorter playing time than full-length LPs, thus require fewer grooves per inch. This extra space permits a broader dynamic range or louder recording level as the grooves excursions can be greater in amplitude. Many record companies began producing 12-inch singles at 33 1⁄3 rpm, although 45 rpm gives better treble response and was used on many 12-inch singles, the gramophone records cut especially for dance-floor DJs came into existence with the advent of recorded Jamaican mento music in the 1950s. With the 1967 Jamaican invention of remix, called dub on the island, those specials became valuable items sold to allied sound system DJs, who could draw crowds with their exclusive hits. The popularity of sound engineer King Tubby, who singlehandedly invented and perfected dub remixes from as early as 1967. By then 10-inch records were used to cut those dubs, by 1971, most reggae singles issued in Jamaica included on their B-side a dub remix of the A-side, many of them first tested as exclusive dub plates on dances. Those dubs basically included drum and bass-oriented remixes used by sound system selecters, the 10-inch acetate specials would remain popular until at least the 2000s in Jamaica. Most likely, the use of exclusive dub acetates in Jamaica also led American DJs to do the same. In the United States, the 12-inch single gramophone record came into popularity with the advent of music in the 1970s after earlier market experiments. In early 1970, Cycle/Ampex Records test-marketed a 12-inch single by Buddy Fite, the experiment aimed to energize the struggling singles market, offering a new option for consumers who had stopped buying traditional singles. The record was pressed at 33 rpm, with run times to the 7-inch 45-rpm pressing of the single. Several hundred copies were available for sale for 98 cents each at two Tower Records stores. Another early 12-inch single was released in 1973 by soul/R&B musician/songwriter/producer Jerry Williams, 12-inch promotional copies of Straight From My Heart were released on his own Swamp Dogg Presents label, with distribution by Jamie/Guyden Distribution Corporation. It was manufactured by Jamie Record Co. of Philadelphia, PA, the B-side of the record is blank. The first 12-inch single made specifically for DJs was actually a 10-inch acetate used by a mix engineer in need of a Friday-night test copy for famed disco mixer Tom Moulton, the song was Ill be holding on by Al Downing
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A 12-inch gramophone record.
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Close-up shot of a 12-inch (30 cm) single showing the wide grooves.
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Cooky Puss
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Cooky Puss is the debut single by the Beastie Boys. The song is their first hip hop recording, their first release featuring band member Adam Horovitz and it was released in 1983 as a 12-inch single on Rat Cage Records. The title, title track, and lyrics are references to the Cookie Puss ice cream treat. All 4 tracks, along with the entire Polly Wog Stew EP, the title track samples Steve Martins My Real Name, from his 1978 album A Wild and Crazy Guy, as well as The Beastie Boys own Beastie Boys and Transit Cop from Polly Wog Stew. It also contains parts of various calls from the group to a local Carvel restaurant. The airline corporation British Airways used a portion of Beastie Revolution in one of their television ads and this money was then used to rent an apartment at 59 Chrystie Street in Chinatown, New York City. This apartment was used not only as a place to live, while living there, they honed their skills and transitioned from punk rock to hip hop. The apartment was remembered in 59 Chrystie Street, a song on 1989s Pauls Boutique LP, Side A Cooky Puss –3,12 Bonus Batter –2,15 Side B Beastie Revolution –5,00 Cooky Puss –3,12
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"Cooky Puss"
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Singles (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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Licensed to Ill
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Licensed to Ill is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It was released on November 15,1986 by Def Jam and it was the first rap LP to top the Billboard album chart. The full album cover, front to back, features a Boeing 727 — with Beastie Boys emblazoned on the tail — crashing head-on into the side of a mountain, appearing as an extinguished joint. The tail of the plane has the Def Jam logo and the tail number 3MTA3 which spells EATME when viewed in a mirror, the livery of the plane is based on that of American Airlines. Adam Horovitz has since apologized for the earlier title. Kerry King of Slayer made an appearance on the album playing lead guitar on No Sleep Till Brooklyn, the name of the song itself is a spoof on Motörheads No Sleep til Hammersmith album. Kings appearance on the track came about because Rick Rubin was producing both bands simultaneously, cBS/Fox Video released a video album of the five Licensed to Ill videos, plus Shes on It in 1987 to capitalize on the albums success. A laserdisc version was released in Japan. Until the 2005 release of the CD/DVD Solid Gold Hits, none of the Def Jam-era videos had been included on any subsequent Beastie Boys video compilations. The Solid Gold Hits DVD includes the videos for Fight for Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn, in 1998, the album was selected as one of The Sources 100 Best Rap Albums. It is the album by a Jewish hip-hop act to receive 5 mics from The Source. In 2003, the album was ranked number 217 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, vibe included it in Vibes 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century. … A surprisingly enduring classic. In 2002, Pitchfork Media ranked the album at #41 in its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, in 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number 16 in its list of 40 Best Albums of the 80s. Eminem said the album was one of his favorites of all time, the album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on February 2,1987, the single Brass Monkey was certified Gold for shipment of 500, 000+ sales. In 2012, in the week following Adam Yauchs death, which resulted in a surge in sales of Beastie Boys albums. The album also re-entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 18, all tracks written by Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin, except where noted. 1 by The Jimmy Castor Bunch La Di Da Di by Doug E. Omes – cover art Keene Carse – Trombone Danny Lipman – Trumpet Tony Orbach – Tenor Sax
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Licensed to Ill
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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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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Music recording sales certification
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Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory, almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials. The number of sales or shipments required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory in which the recording is released, typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country in which the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, the original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first of these was awarded by RCA Victor to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single Dont Be Cruel. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso and these sales were restricted to U. S. -based record companies and did not include exports to other countries. For albums in 1968, this would mean shipping approximately 250,000 units, the platinum certification was introduced in 1976 for the sale of one million units, album or single, with the gold certification redefined to mean sales of 500,000 units, album or single. No album was certified platinum prior to this year, for instance, the recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. In 1999, the certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. On 14 March 1958, the RIAA certified its first gold record, soundtrack was certified as the first gold album four months later. In 1976, RIAA introduced the platinum certification, first awarded to Johnnie Taylors single, Disco Lady, as music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999 and this became much less common once the majority of retail sales became paid digital downloads and digital streaming. In most countries certifications no longer apply solely to physical media, in June 2006, the RIAA also certified the ringtone downloads of songs. Streaming from on-demand services such as Rhapsody and Spotify has been included into existing digital certification in the U. S since 2013, in the U. S. and Germany video streaming services like YouTube, VEVO, and Yahoo. Music also began to be counted towards the certification, in both cases using the formula of 100 streams being equivalent to one download, other countries, such as Denmark and Spain, maintain separate awards for digital download singles and streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry was founded in 1996, and grants the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for album sales over one million within Europe, multi-platinum Europe Awards are presented for sales in subsequent multiples of one million. Eligibility is unaffected by time, and is not restricted to European-based artists, IMPALA sales awards were launched in 2005 as the first sales awards recognising that success on a pan-European basis begins well before sales reach one million. The award levels are Silver, Double Silver, Gold, Double Gold, Diamond, Platinum, below are certification thresholds for the United States and United Kingdom
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A gold record for
The Beatles '
Hey Jude
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Gold record presented to
Artie Schroeck for his arrangement on "
Can't Take My Eyes Off You ", 1967
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Boy band
Plus One displaying their gold records.
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Somali singer
Saado Ali Warsame receiving a gold record Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Check Your Head
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Check Your Head is the third studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on April 21,1992 by Capitol Records. Three years elapsed between the releases of the second studio album Pauls Boutique and Check Your Head, which was recorded at the G-Son Studios in Atwater Village in 1991. It was re-released in 2009 in a number of formats and featured 16 b-sides and rarities as well as a commentary track. The album is broken down track-by-track by Mike D, MCA, Ad-Rock, Mario Caldato Jr. Hence photographer Glen E. Friedmans idea to shoot photos with their instrument cases, supposedly, a trading card with Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. from a set of Desert Storm trading cards was the inspiration for the title. The album was their first to be fully co-produced by Mario Caldato Jr. Caldato was an engineer on Pauls Boutique and was credited as producer on that albums track Ask for Janice, the album also marks the first appearance of longtime collaborator keyboardist Money Mark. The Beastie Boys toured with the Rollins Band and Cypress Hill in early 1992 to support Check Your Head, entertainment Weeklys David Browne, on the other hand, panned the album as a muddled, clanking mess. Spin ranked Check Your Head at number four on their list of the 20 best albums of the year and it ranked fifth place on The Village Voices year-end Pazz & Jop critics poll. Spin later ranked the album number 12 on their list of the 90 greatest albums of the 1990s, Beastie Boys Ad-Rock – Vocals, guitar Mike D – Vocals, drums MCA – Vocals, bass Additional personnel Marcel Hall - Vocals on The Biz Vs. The Nuge James Bradley, Jr. – Producer, engineer Glen E. Friedman – Photography
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Check Your Head
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Ill Communication
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Ill Communication is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It was released on May 31,1994 by Grand Royal Records, co-produced by Beastie Boys and Mario C. the album is among the bands most varied releases, drawing from hip hop, punk rock, jazz and funk. Ill Communication features musical contributions from Money Mark, Eric Bobo and Amery AWOL Smith and vocal contributions from Q-Tip, the Beastie Boys were influenced by Miles Davis jazz rock albums Agharta and On the Corner while recording Ill Communication. Ill Communication became the bands second album on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. The album was supported by the single Sabotage, which was accompanied by a video directed by Spike Jonze that parodied 1970s cop shows. The albums first single Sabotage was released on January 28,1994, the albums second single Get It Together was released on March 17,1994. The albums third single Sure Shot was released on May 31,1994 and features a sample from jazz flautist Jeremy Steigs Howlin For Judy, the albums fourth single Root Down was released in 1995. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Beastie Boys Michael Diamond and Adam Yauch collaborated with Gibran Evans, son of the artist, the cover photo they chose was taken by photographer Bruce Davidson in 1964 at a Los Angeles drive-in diner called Tiny Naylor’s. Davidson had been on assignment for Esquire, though the magazine ultimately didnt publish the photos, Jim Evans also designed the hand-drawn typeface specifically for Ill Communication, and it was used throughout the promotion of the album. The album booklet features the artwork Gaia by Alex Grey, rolling Stone included Ill Communication in their Essential Recordings of the 90s. Spin ranked it number 19 in Spins list of the 20 Best Albums Of 94, Q included it in Q Magazines 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s. The Village Voice ranked it number 15 in the Village Voices 1994 Jazz & Pop Critics Poll, mojo ranked it number 54 in Mojos 100 Modern Classics. NME ranked it number three in NMEs list of the Top 50 Albums Of 1994, guitar World included Ill Communication in the Superunknown,50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list. All tracks written by Beastie Boys except where indicated, bring the Noise,20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
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Ill Communication
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Hello Nasty
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Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It was released on July 14,1998 by Capitol Records and sold 681,000 copies in its first week, the album won two awards at the 1999 Grammys, in the categories of Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Intergalactic. Hello Nasty was released on July 14,1998, four years after the previous album. Song for Junior features Miho Hatori on vocals, and Dr. Lee, Hello Nasty also marked Eric Bobos last appearance as percussionist in the band, as well as the last time the Beastie Boys worked with a co-producer. The title for the album was inspired by the receptionist of their NY based publicity firm Nasty Little Man who would answer the phone with the greeting Hello Nasty. The art cover depicts all three members wrapped in a sardine tin and getting baked in the sun. The band makes a reference to this in the song Body Movin, in which the lyrics goes, MCA, packed like sardines in a tin. Hello Nasty received mostly positive reviews upon release and she went on to summarize the record as the perfect party soundtrack by the perfect party band. They dabble in lounge-pop kitsch, make like a summit of Santana and Traffic, the melange makes for a looser, more free-spirited record than their earlier albums, the music invites you in, rather than threatening to shut you out. All tracks written by Beastie Boys except where noted
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Hello Nasty
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Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
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Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the eighth and final studio album by the American hip hop band Beastie Boys, released on April 27,2011 through Capitol Records. It was originally planned for release on September 15,2009 under the title Hot Sauce Committee, Pt.1, the release was delayed after band member Adam MCA Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. After a two-year delay, only one album has been released, the album received critical acclaim upon its release, with critics praising the energetic rapping, experimental production, and disregard for contemporary hip hop trends. It was also a commercial success, debuting at No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart. The release was supported by four singles – Lee Majors Come Again, Too Many Rappers featuring Nas, Make Some Noise, and Dont Play No Game That I Cant Win featuring Santigold. The album was known by the working title Tadlocks Glasses, which was stated to be a reference to a former bus driver named Tadlock. Presley once gave Tadlock a pair of glasses which he was proud of and it was later speculated that the Tadlocks Glasses story was simply a joke misinterpreted by the media. A large amount of material was recorded, and the plan was to release the album, now called Hot Sauce Committee, regarding the structure of the album, Yauch stated, It’s a combination of playing and sampling stuff as we’re playing, and also sampling pretty obscure records. There are a lot of songs on the record and there are a lot of short songs, a commentary track included with the Check Your Head re-release mentions that Bob Dylan would appear on the album. The first part of the album was intended to be called Hot Sauce Committee, Pt.1 and was prepared for release, with artwork revealed and a planned release date of September 15,2009. In an interview the Beastie Boys stated that the album was completed and this was delayed after Adam MCA Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. On July 20,2009, Yauch announced the cancellation of tour dates, in October 2009, Adam Yauch announced that the band had not yet decided a new release date, but was quoted saying he was hoping to release it in the first half of 2010. An email sent out on October 17,2010, from the Beastie Boys announced that Hot Sauce Committee Pt.1 would be shelved indefinitely, and Hot Sauce Committee Pt.2 would be released in 2011. An email sent the following week now clarified that Pt.2 would be released with almost exactly the same track list as was announced for Pt.1, No date is set for Part 1. Hot Sauce Committee, Pt.1 was finally released in May 2011 under the title Hot Sauce Committee Part Two with an altered track listing including a new version of Too Many Rappers. The material intended for part two may be released as Hot Sauce Committee, Pt.1 at some point in the future, according to Andrew Eastwick from Tiny Mix Tapes, Long Burn the Fire paid homage to the 1970s soul-rock band Black Merda with its fuzz-inflected guitar riffs. On April 6,2011, Make Some Noise was leaked online five days ahead of its release date and subsequently made available via their blog. It was released on time as a download and as a limited edition 7 vinyl single for Record Store Day five days later with a Passion Pit remix of the track as a b-side
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Cover of the unreleased Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1.
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Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fames permanent home.8 billion, the Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, Cleveland was also one of the premier tour stops for most rock bands. Civic leaders in Cleveland pledged $65 million in money to fund the construction. A petition drive was signed by 600,000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, on May 5,1986, the Hall of Fame Foundation chose Cleveland as the permanent home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Sam Phillips of Sun Studios fame and many others were stunned and disappointed that it ended up in Cleveland, the hall of fame shouldve been in Memphis, certainly, wrote Peter Guralnick, author of an acclaimed two-volume Elvis Presley biography. Cleveland may also have chosen as the organizations site because the city offered the best financial package. As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, It was $65 million, Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money. During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, ultimately, the chosen location was along East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, east of Cleveland Stadium. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in designs for the site, Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was planned to stand 200 ft high. The buildings base is approximately 150,000 square feet, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 7,1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking. The museum was dedicated on September 1,1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, the following night an all-star concert was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others. In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the documents the entire history of rock and roll. Hall of Fame inductees are honored in an exhibit located in a wing that juts out over Lake Erie. Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected new inductees, the formal induction ceremony has been held in New York City 25 times, twice in Los Angeles, and four times in the Hall of Fames home in Cleveland
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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The former Annex in Soho in New York City (now closed)
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (left) sits on the
Lake Erie shore next to the
Great Lakes Science Center (right) in Cleveland's
North Coast Harbor.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing
Lake Erie in the foreground
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1976. Composed of one DJ and five rappers, the use of turntablism, break-beat deejaying. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five initially built their reputation performing at parties and live shows in the mid-1970s, by the time the Sugarhill Gangs Rappers Delight was released, the group realized the potential of cutting records and signed with various labels until staying with Sugar Hill Records. Today the groups legacy continues on as Grandmasters Furious Five with only Melle Mel, the group is widely regarded as among the most influential hip hop acts. Their biggest single and acknowledged masterpiece The Message is often cited as one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time, in 2007 they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making them the first hip hop group ever to be inducted. Prior to the formation of the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash worked with the L Brothers which consisted of Mean Gene Livingston, Claudio Livingston, Flash then recruited his friend Cowboy, Melle Mel and The Kidd Creole. The trio called themselves the Three MCs who are the first emcee group as it relates to rap as we know it today and he then worked the hip hop cadence into part of his performance this evolved into the term Hip Hop that was later adopted by the industry. Melle Mel and The Kidd Creole were the first rappers to call themselves MCs, the 3 emcees worked with Flash, who went on to bring in Mr. Ness/Scorpio and Rahiem. After the formation of the Furious 5, Flash also worked with rapper Kurtis Blow doing parties in Queens. Among the first singles released were We Rap More Mellow which was falsely registered under the name The Younger Generation as the name of the group. In 1979 they released their first single on Enjoy Records, Superappin, afterwards, they switched to Sylvia Robinsons Sugar Hill Records after an agreement that they could perform over a current DJ favorite. In 1980, the group had their Sugarhill Records debut with Freedom, reaching #19 on the R&B chart, the follow-up Birthday Party went on to become a hit as well. It also marked the first time that scratching & turntablism had been recorded on a record. The song peaked at #4 in the R&B chart and #62 in the pop chart, other than Melle Mel, however, no members of the group actually appear on the record. Their debut album was also named The Message, and it went on to become a prominent achievement in the history of hip-hop, in 1983, Grandmaster Flash, who never appeared on any of the groups studio recordings, sued Sugar Hill Records for $5 million in unpaid royalties. This resulted in the single White Lines being credited to Grandmaster & Melle Mel, the song reached #47 in Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Another lawsuit was filed over certain elements of the song being stolen from Cavern by Liquid Liquid, meanwhile, Grandmaster Flash, The Kidd Creole, and Rahiem left for Elektra Records and included to the group three new members The Lord LaVon, Russell Wheeler and Larry-Love. They worked under the name Grandmaster Flash on They Said It Couldnt Be Done, The Source, the additional members The Lord La Von, Larry Love and Mr. Broadway formed the Furious Five but they could not use the name as Sugar Hill Records owned the rights
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
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The Kidd Creole
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Bad Brains
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Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D. C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk and they are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of other genres like funk, heavy metal, hip hop and soul. Bad Brains are followers of the Rastafari movement, the unique factor of the bands music was the fact that they played more complex rhythms than other hardcore punk bands, also adapting non-punk style guitar riffs and solos into their songs. Bad Brains have released nine studio albums, the band broke up and reformed several times over the years, sometimes with different singers or drummers. Since 1994, the lineup of singer H. R. guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer. In 1977, their friend Sid McCray introduced the band, who were interested in bands such as Black Sabbath, to punk rock, including the Dickies, the Dead Boys. Mind Power became obsessed with rock and changed their name to Bad Brains, after the Ramones song Bad Brain. Despite their burgeoning punk sound, the early Bad Brains, after seeing Bob Marley in concert, also delved deep into reggae music and the Rastafari movement. Sid McCray became their first singer but left in the days of the groups hardcore punk era. In 1979, Bad Brains found themselves the subject of an unofficial ban among Washington D. C. area clubs, the band subsequently relocated to New York City, where they would serve as a catalyst for that citys burgeoning hardcore scene. At first, the Brains stayed with their NYC friends in the bands The Mad and their self-titled debut album was released on Neil Coopers ROIR Records on cassette only in January 1982, followed in 1983 by Rock for Light, produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars. In 1986, Bad Brains signed with SST Records and released I Against I, H. R. provided the vocals for Sacred Love over the phone from the Lorton Reformatory while doing a bid for a cannabis charge. The title tracks video was shown on MTVs then-new 120 Minutes program, despite the success of I Against I, H. R. quit the band again, taking his brother Earl with him after spending most of 1987 touring. 1988 dates for the I Against I tour were done with Taj Singleton on vocals, in 1988, Bad Brains signed with Caroline Records, who released their fourth album Quickness the following year. Returned, rewrote the lyrics and overdubbed the vocals for Quickness replacing Taj Singletons recorded lyrics, Bad Brains were plagued by internal tensions nearly from their beginning. After the Quickness tour, H. R. and Earl left once again, soon afterwards, Bad Brains broke up yet again. In 1990, Bad Brains backed longtime friend, fan, the recording appears on the soundtrack to the film Pump Up the Volume. As bands influenced by Bad Brains enjoyed commercial success, Dr. Know was approached by Mundane Records in 1992, the former Cro-Mags drummer Mackie Jayson, and vocalist Israel Joseph I joined at this time
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Bad Brains at 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 1983
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Bad Brains performing in Baltimore in 2007
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Dead Kennedys
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Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978. The band was one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom, Dead Kennedys lyrics were usually political in nature, satirizing establishment political figures and authority in general, as well as popular culture and even the punk movement itself. During their initial incarnation between 1978 and 1986, they attracted considerable controversy for their lyrics and artwork. This culminated in an obscenity trial between 1985 and 1986, which resulted in a hung jury, the group released a total of four studio albums and one EP before disbanding in 1986. Following the bands dissolution, Biafra continued to collaborate and record other artists including D. O. A. NoMeansNo and his own bands Lard and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in 2000, Jello Biafra lost an acrimonious legal case initiated by his former Dead Kennedys band mates over songwriting credits and unpaid royalties. In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra, various singers have since been recruited for vocal duties, the original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride on bass, and Ted on drums and percussion. This lineup recorded their first demos, in early to mid July, the band recruited 6025 as a rhythm guitarist. Their first live show was on July 19,1978 at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco and they were the opening act on a bill that included DV8 and Negative Trend with The Offs headlining. Dead Kennedys played numerous shows at local venues afterwards, due to the provocative name of the band, they sometimes played under pseudonyms, including The DKs, The Sharks, The Creamsicles and The Pink Twinkies. The bands real name generated controversy,22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedys assassination. Despite mounting protests, the owner of Mabuhay declared, I cant cancel them NOW—theres a contract, not, apparently, the kind of contract some people have in mind. However, despite popular belief, the name was not meant to insult the Kennedy family,6025 left the band in March 1979 under somewhat unclear circumstances, generally considered to be musical differences. In June, the released their first single, California Über Alles, on Biafra and East Bay Rays independent label. The band followed with a poorly attended East Coast tour, being a new and fairly unknown band at the time, in early 1980, they recorded and released the single Holiday in Cambodia. In June, the recorded their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The album reached number 33 on the UK Albums Chart, on March 25,1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform California Über Allesat the Bay Area Music Awards in an effort to give the event some new wave credibility, in the words of the organizers. The day of the performance was spent practicing the song they were asked to play, Weve gotta prove that were adults now
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From left to right: Klaus Flouride, Jello Biafra, D.H. Peligro and East Bay Ray
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Dead Kennedys in Chicago at the Bottom Lounge in June 2014
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Misfits (band)
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Misfits are an American punk band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey the original consisted of Glenn Danzig, bassist Jerry Only. Danzig and Only were the only consistent members throughout the six years. Misfits disbanded in 1983 and Danzig went on to form Samhain, after a series of legal battles with Danzig, Only and Doyle regained the rights to record and perform as the Misfits. They formed a new version of the band in 1995 with singer Michale Graves and this incarnation of Misfits had a sound much more rooted in heavy metal, and released the albums American Psycho and Famous Monsters before dissolving in 2000. Jerry Only then took lead vocals and recruited former Black Flag guitarist Dez Cadena. This lineup released an album of songs entitled Project 1950. In 2005 Ramone was replaced by Robo, who had played with Black Flag in the early 1980s and had previously been Misfits drummer from 1982 to 1983. This lineup released a single titled Land of the Dead in 2009, the Misfits lineup of Only, Cadena, and drummer Eric Chupacabra Arce released a new album titled The Devils Rain in October 2011. In 2015 it was announced that Cadena would be taking a break from music after receiving a cancer diagnosis and that same year Soulflys Marc Rizzo joined the band, also playing guitar, filling in for Cadena before Caiafa would move on to become the sole guitarist for the band. The group has not announced if they will be continuing with Danzig, Misfits were formed in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by Glenn Danzig, who had previous experience performing in local bands. Naming the band after actress Marilyn Monroes final film The Misfits, Martínez later saw a bass guitar in the back of a car that was parked at his neighbors, the bass and the car was owned by Jerry Caiafa. Martínez asked Caiafa if he would play bass in his band, Caiafa had recently received a bass guitar as a Christmas gift. Caiafa was accepted despite having only practiced his instrument for two months and he and Danzig remained the only consistent members of the Misfits until the group disbanded in 1983. The trio of Danzig, Martínez, and Caiafa rehearsed for three months without a guitarist, using Danzigs electric piano to provide the songs rhythm and they recorded the bands first single, Cough/Cool, which they released through their own label Blank Records in August 1977. Caiafas surname was misspelled on the sleeve, prompting him to insist that in the future he be credited as Jerry. Jerry Only became his pseudonym for the rest of his career, the band played their first two performances at CBGB in New York City, followed by other local performances over the following two months. In a 2017 interview with Martinez, Martinez confirmed that there was no Diane DiPiazza, confirming Jerry Only was the original bassist
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Left to right: Only, Arce, and Cadena in 2012
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Doyle performing with the Misfits at the
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After the departure of the other band members, bassist
Jerry Only took over as singer and recruited veteran
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Doyle joined
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Reagan Youth
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Reagan Youth is an American punk rock band formed by singer Dave Rubinstein and guitarist Paul Bakija in Queens, New York in early 1980. Part of the movement, the band members were committed political anarchists. Their name critiques fervor for then-presidential frontrunner Ronald Reagan with the Hitler Youth who pledged allegiance to the Nazi regime during World War II. Their initial career lasted until 1990, and singer Rubinstein committed suicide three years following a series of tragic events. In 2006, Bakija reformed the band with bassist Al Pike, drummer Javier Madriaga, Rubinstein and Bakija attended Forest Hills High School, the same as that of the Ramones, when they formed their band. Reagan Youth quickly gained a following and were playing the punk clubs of Manhattan. Bakijas physics teacher shaved his head at CBGBs one night and after that became associated with the band, after the band recorded a four-song demo in 1981, Bryan was replaced by Al Pike. Bonet departed soon after, after the band rehearsed with Rubinstein filling in on drums. They signed to the R Radical imprint, in 1984, prior to a significant US tour, Pike and Weissman left the group, with Pike going on to join a formative version of Glenn Danzigs group Samhain briefly around this time. They were replaced by Victor Dominicis and Rick Griffith respectively, Griffith was later replaced in 1985 by Javier Madriaga, who has also played drums in Lujuria, A. P. P. L. E. and Heart Attack. By the late 1980s the extensive touring had taken its toll on the group, despite the many shows played and the relatively large album sales for a hardcore punk band, they continually found themselves broke. When Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the split up. Despite their decision to disband, the group attracted the attention of the punk label New Red Archives. New Red Archives first re-released Youth Anthems for the New World Order with three outtakes as the Volume 1 LP. In 1990, Bakija, Madriaga, and Rubinstein recorded a final album, house of God recorded a 7-song demo, an unmixed version of which can be found online. By 1990 Rubinstein had become a user and occasional dealer. In a conflict with another dealer, he was beaten with a baseball bat. In 1993 he began dating Tiffany Bresciani, who supported both of their habits by prostitution
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Reagan Youth
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CBGB
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CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattans East Village. The club was previously a bar and before that was a dive bar. From the early 1980s onward, CBGB was known for hardcore punk, one storefront beside CBGB became the CBGB Record Canteen, a record shop and café. In the late 1980s, CBGB Record Canteen was converted into an art gallery and second performance space, on the other side, CBGB was operating a small cafe and bar in the mid-1990s, which served classic New York pizza, among other items. The club closed upon its final concert, played by Patti Smith, CBGB Radio launched on the iheartradio platform in 2010, and CBGB music festivals began in 2012. In 2013, CBGBs onetime building,315 Bowery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the National Bowery Historic District. CBGB was founded in December 1973 on the site of Kristals earlier bar, Hillys on the Bowery, initially, Kristal focused on his more profitable East Village nightspot, Hillys, which Kristal closed amid complaints from the bars neighbors. After Hillys closure, Kristal focused on the Bowery club and its full name — CBGB & OMFUG — stands for Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers. Although a gormandizer is usually a ravenous eater of food, what Kristal meant is a voracious eater of, Kristals intended theme of country, bluegrass, and blues music along with poetry readings yielded to the American movement in punk rock. A pioneer in the genre, the Ramones played their first shows at CBGB, in 1973, while the future CBGB was still Hillys, two locals—Bill Page and Rusty McKenna—convinced Kristal to let them book concerts. In February 1974, Hilly booked local band Squeeze to a residency, playing Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Squeeze was led by guitarist Mark Suall, later with CBGBs virtual house band the Revelons, which included Fred Smith of Television and JD Daugherty of the Patti Smith Group. Although these bands did not play punk rock, they helped lay its foundation, the August 1973 collapse of the Mercer Arts Center left unsigned bands little option in New York City to play original music. Mercer refugees—including Suicide, The Fast, Wayne County, and the Magic Tramps—soon played at CBGB, in 1974, on April 14, in the audience of Televisions third gig were Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, whose Patti Smith Group debuted at CBGB on February 14,1975. Other early performers included the Dina Regine Band, dennis Lepri was lead guitarist as well as the Stillettos which included Deborah Harry on vocals. The newly formed band Angel & the Snake, later renamed Blondie, mink DeVille, Talking Heads, the Shirts, the Heartbreakers, the Fleshtones and other bands soon followed. In April 1977, The Damned played the club, marking the first time a British punk band had played in America. During 1975 and 1976, Metropolis Video recorded some shows on film, starting in 1977, Metropolis Video filmmaker Pat Ivers and partner Emily Armstrong continued to record shows in a project called Advanced TV, later renamed GoNightclubbing. Ivers and Armstrongs films are available at the New York University Fales Library, CBGBs two rules were that a band must move its own equipment and play mostly original songs—that is, no cover bands—although regular bands often played one or two covers in set
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Marky Ramone of the
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Forever closed
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Day after
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New York hardcore
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New York hardcore is hardcore punk and metalcore music created in New York City, and the subculture associated with that music. New York hardcore grew out of the scene established in Washington, D. C. by bands such as Bad Brains. It was primarily a phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s, a few bands like The Mad and The Stimulators hinted at a new direction. The Stimulators featured Harley Flanagan on drums, and attracted some of what would become the NYHC scene to their shows, the Stimulators and the Mad also made friends with Washington, DCs Bad Brains, and gave the latter places to stay in town. New York City would come to play a role in the development of hardcore. An important scene finally emerged in 1981 with the emigration of the Bad Brains, roger Miret of Agnostic Front asserts that We started using the term hardcore because we wanted to separate ourselves from the druggy or artsy punk scene that was happening in New York at the time. We were rougher kids living in the streets, the early scene was documented on the 1982 New York Thrash compilation. Sam McPheeters argues that McPheeters argues that the scene was inspired and influenced by films such as Death Wish, Taxi Driver, The Warriors. Many of the mid-1980s NYHC groups were aligned with right-wing ideology, beginning with Cro-Mags, some groups also followed the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. More leftist groups associated with the scene include Born Against and Nausea
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Agnostic Front playing in Rome in 2007
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Bard College
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Bard College, founded in 1860, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, in the town of Red Hook. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District, the institution consists of a liberal arts college, a conservatory, as well as eight graduate programs offering over 20 graduate degrees in the arts and sciences. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 10,1, the college has a network of over thirty-five affiliated programs, institutes, and centers, spanning twelve cities, five states, seven countries, and four continents. Bards Annandale campus serves as an important regional cultural institution, both the CCS Hessel Museum of Contemporary Art and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts are located on campus. The college also hosts two acclaimed annual arts festivals, Bard SummerScape, and the Bard Music Festival, during much of the nineteenth century, the land now owned by Bard was mainly composed of several country estates. These estates were called Blithewood, Bartlett, Sands, Crugers Island, in 1853, John Bard and Margaret Bard purchased a part of the Blithewood estate and renamed it Annandale. John Bard was the grandson of Samuel Bard, a prominent doctor, a founder of Columbia Universitys medical school, John Bard was also the nephew of the Rev. John McVickar, a professor at Columbia University. The family had connections with the Episcopal Church and Columbia. The following year, in 1854, John and Margaret established a school on their estate in order to educate the areas children. A wood-frame cottage, known today as Bard Hall, served as a school on weekdays, in 1857, the Bards expanded the parish by building the Chapel of the Holy Innocents next to Bard Hall. During this time, John Bard remained in contact with the New York leaders of the Episcopal Church. The Church suggested that he found a theological college, with the promise of outside financial support, John Bard donated the unfinished Chapel, and the surrounding 18 acres, to the diocese in November 1858. In March 1860, St. Stephens College was founded, in 1861, construction began on the first St. Stephens College building, a stone collegiate gothic dormitory called Aspinwall. During its initial years, the college relied on wealthy benefactors, the college began taking shape within four decades. In 1866, Ludlow Hall, a building, was erected. Preston Hall was built in 1873 and used as a refectory, a set of four dormitories, collectively known as Stone Row, were completed in 1891. And in 1895, the Greek revival Hoffman Memorial Library was built, the school officially changed its name to Bard College in 1934 in honor of its founder. In the 20th century, social and cultural changes amongst New Yorks high society would bring about the demise of the great estates
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John Bard, founder of St. Stephen's College
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Seal of Bard College
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Ward Manor House now serves as a dormitory
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Tewksbury Hall, a dormitory, was completed in 1958 and dedicated in 1962
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Bolex
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Bolex is a trade mark registered October 1924 for Charles Haccius and Jacques Bogopolsky. The actual company Bolex International S. A. of Yverdon is a Swiss follow manufacturer of motion picture cameras, a first company Bol was founded by Haccius and Bogopolsky in 1925 and Bolex is derived from Bogopolsky′s name. He had previously designed cameras for Alpa of Ballaigues, in 1923 he presented the Cinégraphe Bol at the Geneva fair, a reversible apparatus for taking, printing, and projecting pictures on 35-mm. Paillard-Bolex cameras were used for nature films, documentaries and by the avant garde. While some later models are powered, the majority of those manufactured since the 1930s use a spring-wound clockwork power system. The 16 mm spring-wound Bolex is a popular introductory camera in film schools, Bolex International no longer manufactures its cameras in series, but produces 16mm and Super 16 cameras for customers on special order. Effective September 30,1930 Bogopolsky sold all assets except a few patents to Ernest Paillard & Cie which retained his services until 1935, then the H-16 camera was put on the market, the 9. 5mm version followed in 1936 and the Double-8mm version in 1938. Paillard-Bolex introduced the L-8 for the market of pocket 8mm film cameras, with the postwar boom in home movie making, Paillard-Bolex continued to develop its 8mm and 16mm ranges with the H-16 increasingly adopted by professional film makers. The company also made a range of high-end movie projectors for all amateur film making gauges. In 1952, during the era of 3D film, Bolex offered the Bolex Stereo. A number of changes was made to the H cameras in 1954, above all an entirely different claw drive together with a laterally inverted film gate. In 1956 the first H-16 reflex viewfinder model was brought out, film magazine finally allowed the H-16 to be used like professional synch-sound cameras. In 1965 Kodak introduced the Super 8mm format, Paillard Bolex were slow to introduce a Super 8 camera although they quickly modified the 18-5 Auto 8mm projector for Super 8 as the 18-5 L. At about this time the Bolex 16 Pro Camera was introduced to compete with the Arriflex 16 BL camera, nevertheless the H-16 Standard camera was made until the last days of 1969. The H-16 and H-8 standard models afford the rackover critical focusing feature that had been first introduced with the Bell & Howell Standard camera in 1912, effective January 1st,1970 Paillard sold the Bolex division to Eumig of Vienna. In 1971 Eumig rationalised the Super 8 range and Super 8 equipment production in Switzerland was discontinued, the Bolex product brand was retained while being manufactured in Eumig or Chinon factories. The H-16 cameras were made in Switzerland. In 1981 Eumig went into liquidation and Bolex was bought by a management team which set up Bolex International in 1982, today, the Bolex factory in Switzerland continues to produce new 16mm and Super 16 film cameras and also can convert Bolex H16 reflex models to Super 16mm
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A Bolex H16 REX-5 spring-wound
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Carvel (restaurant)
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Carvel is an ice cream franchise owned by Focus Brands. Carvel is best known for their soft serve ice cream and ice cream cakes and it also sells a variety of novelty ice cream bars and ice cream sandwiches. Carvel was founded and run by Tom Carvel for its first 60 years, in 1929, Carvel borrowed $15 from his future wife Agnes and used it to build and begin operating an ice cream truck. Over Memorial Day weekend of 1934, Carvels truck suffered a tire in Hartsdale, New York, and Carvel started selling his custard at the site of the breakdown. Within two days Carvel had sold his stock, much of it partly melted, and realized that both a fixed location and soft frozen desserts were potentially good business ideas. In his first year there, he grossed over $3,500, by 1937 he had a custard stand at the Hartsdale site, with a freezer which allowed him to make his own frozen custard. By 1939, gross was over $6,000, the original Hartsdale store was closed on Sunday, October 5,2008. In the early 1940s, Tom Carvel traveled, selling custard at carnivals, during World War II he ran the ice cream stands at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, gaining additional expertise in refrigeration technology. He soon invented and patented his own freezer, the Custard King, Carvel decided that the best way to correct the situation was to participate in running the operations of his freezer customers, he later claimed this led him to develop the concept of franchising. The mainstays of Carvels line of ice cream cakes were 7,8,9,10 and 12 rounds, 10x14 and 12x17 sheet cakes, and the Carvelog, patricks Day, and Santa Claus or a Snow Man for Christmas. Their primary differences from products available year-round were the designs on the icing, Carvel introduced the Lil Love ice cream cake on March 30,1998. A mother presents the new cake to celebrate, all ads carry the tag line Surprise someone special tonight. In 1949, Carvel began franchising under the name Carvel Dairy Freeze, by the early 1950s, the company had 25 stores. New franchisees undertook an 18-day training program at the Carvel College of Ice Cream Knowledge, in addition Carvel provided building plans for franchises, which were initially stand-alone glass fronted stores. In 1955, Tom Carvel began to record his own radio commercials, an unsubstantiated anecdote relates that he was driving in New York City, and heard a commercial for a new Carvels store which did not mention the new stores location. Convinced he could do better, he drove to the radio station, Carvels commercials stood out and raised brand awareness primarily through their lack of sophistication. Carvel had a distinctive voice, lacking the slick sound of most professional voice-over artists. His wording was conversational, with commercials frequently ending with the words Thank You, television commercials, aired primarily in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, began in 1971
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Fudgie the Whale
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Carvel franchise,
Canton, Michigan
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British Airways
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British Airways, often shortened to BA, is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size. When measured by passengers carried, it is second-largest in the United Kingdom behind easyJet, the airline is based in Waterside near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways, after almost 13 years as a state company, British Airways was privatised in February 1987 as part of a wider privatisation plan by the Conservative government. The carrier soon expanded with the acquisition of British Caledonian in 1987, followed by Dan-Air in 1992, British Airways is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance, along with American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, and the now defunct Canadian Airlines. The alliance has since grown to become the third-largest, after SkyTeam, IAG is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the FTSE100 Index. A long-time Boeing customer, British Airways ordered 59 Airbus A320 family aircraft in August 1998, in 2007 it purchased 12 Airbus A380s and 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, marking the start of its long-haul fleet replacement. The centrepiece of the airlines fleet is the Boeing 777. British Airways is the largest operator of the Boeing 747-400, with 51 registered to the airline, on 1 September 1972 the management service functions of both BOAC and BEA were combined under the newly formed British Airways Group. British Airways was established as an airline on 31 March 1974 by the dissolution of BOAC, British Airways and Air France operated the supersonic airliner Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde, and the worlds first supersonic passenger service flew in January 1976 from London Heathrow to Bahrain. Services to the US began on 24 May 1976 with a flight to Washington Dulles airport, service to Singapore was established in co-operation with Singapore Airlines as a continuation of the flight to Bahrain. The final commercial Concorde flight was BA002 from New York JFK to London Heathrow on 24 October 2003, in 1981 the airline was instructed to prepare for privatisation by the Conservative Thatcher government. Sir John King, later Lord King, was appointed chairman, while many other large airlines struggled, King was credited with transforming British Airways into one of the most profitable air carriers in the world. The flag carrier was privatised and was floated on the London Stock Exchange in February 1987, British Airways effected the takeover of the UKs second airline, British Caledonian, in July of that same year. The formation of Richard Bransons Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984 created a competitor for BA and this campaign included allegations of poaching Virgin Atlantic customers, tampering with private files belonging to Virgin and undermining Virgins reputation in the City. As a result of the case BA management apologised unreservedly, Lord King stepped down as chairman in 1993 and was replaced by his deputy, Colin Marshall, while Bob Ayling took over as CEO. Virgin filed an action in the US that same year regarding BAs domination of the trans-Atlantic routes. In 1992 British Airways expanded through the acquisition of the financially troubled Dan-Air, British Asia Airways, a subsidiary based in Taiwan, was formed in March 1993 to operate between London and Taipei. That same month BA purchased a 25% stake in the Australian airline Qantas and, with the acquisition of Brymon Airways in May, in September 1998, British Airways, along with American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, and Canadian Airlines, formed the Oneworld airline alliance
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Hawker Siddeley Trident in transitional scheme with BEA livery but with British Airways titles
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British Airways' first
Concorde at Heathrow Airport, on 15 January 1976
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British Airways and Iberia merged in January 2011, forming the International Airlines Group, one of the world's largest airlines.
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Rick Rubin
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Frederick Jay Rick Rubin is a Jewish-American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin is the co-founder of Def Jam Records, with the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and Run–D. M. C. Rubin helped popularize hip hop music, in 2007, MTV called him the most important producer of the last 20 years, and the same year Rubin appeared on Times 100 Most Influential People in the World. Frederick Jay Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach and his father, Michael was a shoe wholesaler and his mother, Linda, a housewife. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the schools audiovisual department director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in playing and songwriting. Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience and these hecklers were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz. Somewhat anecdotally, this story was confirmed in an interview with music journalist Zane Lowe. Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubins father traveled from Nassau County, New York, during his senior year, Rubin founded Def Jam Records using the schools four-track recorder. He moved on to form Hose, influenced by San Franciscos Flipper, in 1982, a Hose track became Def Jams first release, a 45 rpm 7 vinyl single in a brown paper bag, and no label. The band broke up in 1984 as Rubins passion moved towards the NYC hip hop scene, having befriended Zulu Nations DJ Jazzy Jay, Rubin began to learn about hip hop production. By 1983, the two men produced Its Yours for rapper T La Rock, and released it on their independent label, Producer Arthur Baker helped to distribute the record worldwide on Bakers Streetwise Records in 1984. Jazzy Jay introduced Rubin to concert promoter/artist manager Russell Simmons in a club, Simmons and Rubin edged out Jazzy Jay and the official Def Jam record label was founded while Rubin was attending New York University in 1984. Their first record released was LL Cool Js I Need a Beat, Rubin went on to find more hip-hop acts outside The Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem including rappers from Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, which eventually led to Def Jams signing of Public Enemy. Rubin was instrumental in pointing the members of the Beastie Boys away from their roots and into rap. 1985s Rock Hard/Partys Gettin Rough/Beastie Groove EP by the Beastie Boys came out on the success of Rubins production work with breakthrough act Run–D. M. C, which previous recordings were produced by Russell Simmons and Orange Krushs musician Larry Smith. His productions were characterized by occasionally fusing rap with heavy rock, Rubin tapped Adam Dubin and Ric Menello to co-direct the music videos for the Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right and No Sleep till Brooklyn, effectively launching the bands mainstream hip hop careers. It was the idea of Rick Rubins friend Sue Cummings, an editor at Spin magazine, to have Run–D. M. C. and this 1986 production is often credited with both introducing rap hard rock to mainstream ears and revitalizing Aerosmith. In 1986, he worked with Aerosmith again on demos for their forthcoming album, in the same year, Rubin began his long musical partnership with Slayer, producing Reign in Blood, considered a classic of the heavy metal genre
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Rubin, September 14, 2006,
Abbey Road Studios, London, working with
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Russell Simmons
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Russell Wendell Simmons is an American entrepreneur, producer and author. The Chairman and CEO of Rush Communications, he cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture. Simmons had an estimate of $340 million in 2011. Simmons was born and raised in Queens, New York and his father is a public school administrator and his mother is a New York City park administrator. His brothers are painter Daniel Simmons, Jr. and Rev Run of Run-DMC, upon hearing Eddie Cheeba perform at Charles Gallery in Harlem in 1977, Simmons knew that hip hop would be his career. Simmons stated, Hearing Cheeba in 77 made me feel like I had just witnessed the invention of the wheel, Simmons co-founded Def Jam in 1983 with Rick Rubin who sold his share of the company for $120 million to Universal Music Group in 1996. In 1985 Russell Simmons co-produced and appeared in the film, Krush Groove, Simmons company, Rush Communications Inc. includes over ten businesses and three non-profits. In 2003, Russell Simmons co-founded RushCard, a debit card provider. Simmons met model Kimora Lee in November 1992 and they dated for four years and married on December 20,1998. On the island of Saint Barthélemy and they have two daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee. In March 2006, Simmons announced his divorce from Lee, Russell Simmons has been vegan since 1999 and advocates Ahimsa and veganism, citing animal rights along with the environmental and health benefits. Simmons is a supporter of Farm Sanctuary, a working to end cruelty to farm animals. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals awarded him the 2001 PETA Humanitarian Award, in 2004, Simmons organized thousands of protestors and Hip-Hop celebrities in front of city hall demanding change of the harsh sentencing of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Simmons became Chairman of Board of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding in 2002, in a similar vein, Simmons is a supporter of the Somaly Mam Foundation, and was honored at their 2011 gala dinner. Simmons officially endorses the second Muslim Jewish Conference 2011, together with Rabbi Marc Schneier he served as the official patron of the conference held July 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2011, he took part in the Occupy Wall Street protests, visiting the protesters at Zuccotti Park often, Simmons is also a longtime supporter for gay rights. In 2011, when the retail corporation Lowes withdrew funding from the show All-American Muslim, in 2012, Simmons supported Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinichs re-election campaign, appearing with the politician at various speaking events. In November 2013, he pledged support for New Yorks mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in recognition of his support for animal rights, in 2017, Simmons was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 23 in the list of 200 Most Influential Social-Entrepreneurs and Philanthropists Worldwide
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Simmons at the 2012
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of
Mansome
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Luscious Jackson
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Luscious Jackson is an alternative rock group formed in 1991. The bands name was inspired by now-retired American basketball player Lucious Jackson, the original band consisted of Jill Cunniff, Gabby Glaser, and Vivian Trimble. Drummer Kate Schellenbach joined the band midway through recording of their debut EP In Search of Manny, with the exception of a few non-LP cover songs, the band wrote all of their own material, the majority penned by vocalists Cunniff and/or Glaser. Between 1993 and 2000, they released one EP, three full-length LPs, and ten singles on the Beastie Boys Grand Royal label and their biggest hit—and only Billboard Hot 100 entry—is Naked Eye. Other notable singles include Here, Daughters Of The Kaos, Citysong, Under Your Skin, keyboardist Vivian Trimble left the group in 1998, and in 2000 the group announced their breakup, after releasing one album as a trio. February 2007 saw the release of Luscious Jacksons Greatest Hits compilation, in 2011 the group announced they had re-united and they were planning to make new music. In 1991, Jill Cunniff and Gabby Glaser created the first Luscious Jackson demo with tip money from their restaurant jobs and their first live performance was opening for Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill at the now-defunct Building in lower New York City. The Beastie Boys asked Luscious Jackson to be the first band on their Grand Royal label, former Beastie Boys band member Kate Schellenbach soon joined the band on drums, and Vivian Trimble took keyboard and backing vocal duties. Three tracks from the original Luscious Jackson demo and four new songs were released in 1992 as the In Search of Manny EP, Let Yourself Get Down and Daughters Of The Kaos were issued as promotional singles. A video was filmed for the ISOM track Daughters of the Kaos. The album spawned three hits with CitySong, Deep Shag and Here, the latter featured in the Alicia Silverstone film Clueless. In addition, all three singles had music videos which could be seen on MTV, the years 1994 and 1995 brought continued success for the band. They took part in the Lollapalooza tour and were the musical guest on television shows including Saturday Night Live, Viva Variety. They were also featured in a segment on MTVs House of Style with Cindy Crawford. The band performed Angel, Satellite, Pele Merengue, and Here at Little Petes first junior high dance, while on tour in 1995, Trimble and Cunniff recorded a collection of mellow, acoustic driven songs under the name Kostars titled Klassics With A K. The album was released in 1996 and featured contributions by Schellenbach and Glaser as well as Gene and Dean Ween of Ween and was produced by Josephine Wiggs, the time between 1996 and 1997 was Luscious Jacksons most commercially successful period. While promoting the release of their second full-length album Fever In Fever Out, two follow up singles were released, Under Your Skin and Why Do I Lie. which was featured in the Gus Van Sant film Good Will Hunting. During this time, Luscious Jacksons Nice Duds fan club received a 10-track CD album of demos
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Rock Hard
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Rock Hard is a single by the Beastie Boys, released by Def Jam Records on 12 in 1984. The song, and the songs on the 12, feature the bands first major label rap effort. The track contains samples from the AC/DC song Back in Black, later, when the group planned to include the out-of-print song on their 1999 compilation, Beastie Boys Anthology, The Sounds of Science, AC/DC refused to allow the sample to be used. Mike D spoke to AC/DCs Malcolm Young personally on the phone when their lawyers refused to clear the sample and they were just like, Nothing against you guys, but we just dont endorse sampling. Ad-Rock then added So we told them that we dont endorse people playing guitars, the cover design is also famous for now being the official Def Jam records logo for vinyl releases, to this day, vinyl singles released by Def Jam have this design. Long removed from print, it was considered a collectors item until Def Jam reissued the single in Europe in 2007. Sample credits Rock Hard contains samples of Back in Black by AC/DC Beastie Groove contains a sample of Black Dog by Led Zeppelin Illegal Art Exhibition Compilation CD, magazine sponsored a project/exhibit entitled Illegal Art. As a part of the project, an album was compiled of songs which sampled audio without permission, including Rock Hard
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"Rock Hard"
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John Lydon
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John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the singer of the late 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978. He is also the singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993. Lydons rebellious image and fashion style led to him being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, with the Sex Pistols, he penned singles including Anarchy in the U. K. God Save the Queen, and Holidays in the Sun, the content of which precipitated what one called the last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium in Britain. The band caused an uproar in much of the media. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music. In subsequent years, Lydon has hosted shows in the UK, US. In 2005, he released an album, The Best of British £1 Notes. A prominent figure in British popular culture for four decades, Q Magazine remarked that somehow hes assumed the status of national treasure, in 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. John Joseph Lydon was born in London on 31 January 1956 and his parents, Eileen Lydia and John Christopher Lydon, were working-class emigrants from Ireland who moved into a two-room Victorian flat in Benwell Road, in the Holloway area of north London. The flat is adjacent to the Emirates Stadium, the current home of Premier League football club Arsenal F. C. of which Lydon has been a fan since the age of four. At the time, the area was impoverished, with a high crime rate. John, the eldest of four brothers, had to look after his siblings due to his mothers regular illnesses, as a child, he lived on the edge of an industrial estate and would often play with friends in the factories when they were closed. It was more like yelling, shouting, throwing stones, maybe the reality was coloured by my youth. Id sit there in a load of poo all day long. At age seven he contracted meningitis and spent a year in St Anns Hospital in Haringey. The meningitis was also responsible for giving him what he would describe as the Lydon stare
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Lydon performing with
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Lydon performing with the Sex Pistols in 1977
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John Lydon in 2008
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Public Image Ltd.
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Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon, guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker. The groups personnel has changed frequently over the years, Lydon has been the sole constant member, following the breakup of the Sex Pistols, Lydon was eager to pursue a more experimental project and formed PiL in 1978. Later that year, the group released its debut First Issue, featuring an abrasive, bass-heavy sound and drawing on elements of dub, noise, and progressive rock. Their second album Metal Box pushed their sound further into the avant-garde, by 1984, both Levene and Wobble had departed, and the group came under the direction of Lydon, who released a number of subsequent albums, including This Is What You Want. After a late 1990s hiatus, Lydon reformed the group and has released further albums. Branson also flew American band Devo to Jamaica, aiming to install Lydon as lead singer in the band, upon returning to England, Lydon approached Jah Wobble about forming a band together. The pair had been friends since the early 1970s when they attended the school in Hackney. Lydon and Wobble had previously played together during the final days of the Sex Pistols. Both had similarly broad musical tastes, and were fans of reggae. Lydon assumed, much as he had with Sid Vicious, that Wobble would learn to play guitar as he went. Wobble would prove to be a natural talent, Lydon also approached guitarist Keith Levene, with whom he had toured in mid-1976, while Levene was a member of the Clash. Lydon and Levene had both considered themselves outsiders even within their own bands, Jim Walker, a Canadian student newly arrived in the UK, was recruited on drums, after answering an ad placed in Melody Maker. PiL began rehearsing together in May 1978, although the band was still unnamed, in July 1978, Lydon officially named the band Public Image, after the Muriel Spark novel The Public Image. PiL debuted in October 1978 with Public Image, a song written while Lydon was still a member of the Sex Pistols, the single was well received and reached number 9 on the UK charts, and it also performed well on import in the US. The photography for the album was shot by Dennis Morris who also created the iconic PiL logo, in preparing their debut album, Public Image, First Issue, the band spent their recording budget well before the record was completed. As a result, the album comprised eight tracks of varying sound quality, half of which were written. Wobble had also beaten up producer Bill Prices assistant engineer, inciting Price to ban the group from their preferred Wessex Studios, the album was considered ground-breaking on its release in December 1978. Grounded in heavy dub reggae, Wobbles bass tone was called impossibly deep by contemporary reviews, levenes sharp guitar sound, played on an aluminium Veleno guitar, inspired most notably The Edge of U2 according to the guitarist
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PiL performing in 2011.
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A PiL promotional poster, 1980.
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PiL Badge
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PiL performing in 2009
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The Virgin Tour
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The Virgin Tour was the debut concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna. The tour supported her first two albums, Madonna and Like a Virgin. Although initially planned for an audience, the tour was restricted to the United States. Warner decided to send Madonna on tour after Like a Virgin became a success, after an official announcement on March 15,1985, Madonna and her team began production plans. She wanted the tour to be a reflection of her own self, Beastie Boys were signed as the opening act, while record producer Patrick Leonard was the music director. At first I said, The girl in the underwear, but then I met her and she was just this vicious thing. You know, right in your face with, This is what I need, whaddo I know about a band. The stage was triangular and included ramps around it, with lighting arrangements hanging about 30 feet above, four giant screens lined three sides of the stages outer perimeter. The set list consisted of songs from Madonna and Like a Virgin, Madonna was backed by two dancers as she moved energetically across the stage. The show ended with her in a dress, performing Like a Virgin. The tour received a reception from critics, but was a commercial success. As soon as it was announced, tickets were sold everywhere, Macys New York department store was flooded with buyers, who bought tour merchandise ranging from shirts and sunglasses to crucifix earrings and fingerless gloves. On its end, the tour was reported to have grossed over $5 million, the tour was recorded and released on VHS, as Madonna Live, The Virgin Tour, which received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. With the commencement of the Virgin Tour, a wide-ranging audience—especially young women—thronged to attend and this frenzy regarding Madonna gave rise to a new term called Madonna wannabe—a word that was ultimately officially recognized by the Websters Dictionary in May 1991. The Virgin Tour was officially announced on March 15,1985, following the success of the Like a Virgin album, the record label wanted to milk-in the success of the album by sending Madonna on a worldwide tour. However, the tour was restricted within United States and Canada and it did not visit Europe, Asia or other continents. Early on there were plans to schedule dates in Britain and Japan due to Madonnas large fan bases in countries, however the final schedule did not reflect the idea. In the end several more U. S. dates were added, Madonna was quite nervous to perform in front of a huge audience, and singing with a live band for the first time
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The
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Promotional poster for the tour
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Madonna wearing a
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Madonna, at the center, seen with her band members from the tour. Her clothing style inspired women who emulated it.
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Fishbone
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Fishbone is an American rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, hard rock and soul. Critics have noted of the band, Fishbone was one of the most distinctive, founding members John Norwood Fisher, Angelo Moore, and Walter Kibby remain with the band as of 2016, most recently, Philip Fish Fisher and John Bigham rejoined the band. Fishbone got started in 1979 as a disparate, all-black oddball crew when the members were in high school. Their first club date was at Madame Wongs, the venue in Los Angeless Chinatown that had been a showcase for a variety of seminal punk bands in the 1980s. They were close friends with Los Angeles bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone were signed to Columbia Records in 1983 after being spotted at a club gig by Brian ONeal of the The BusBoys. Their first release was the 1985 single Party at Ground Zero, followed by a self-titled EP, in 1987, in support of their first full-length album, In Your Face, the band performed Jamaica Ska in the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon reunion movie Back to the Beach. Fishbones first major tour was as the opening act for the Beastie Boys. Fishbone was mostly considered to be a ska and funk band in their early years, the 1988 album Truth and Soul brought Fishbone wide critical acclaim. The album was highlighted by a hard rock-inspired version of Curtis Mayfields classic Freddies Dead from the film Super Fly, the music video, directed by Douglas Gayeton, became the bands first hit on MTV. That same year, the group toured with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, also that year, Fishbone and Little Richard recorded the Lead Belly song Rock Island Line for the tribute album Folkways, A Vision Shared. The band added former Miles Davis sideman John Bigham on guitar, the 1991 album The Reality of My Surroundings was a critical and commercial success, reaching #49 on the Billboard albums chart. One month before the release, the group played a performance on Saturday Night Live of Sunless Saturday. The song Everyday Sunshine also became a modest hit on radio and MTV. While the band retained their roots in funk and ska, the 1993 album Give a Monkey a Brain and Hell Swear Hes the Center of the Universe included songs with rock, punk. At the time of the release, the band began to tear apart internally. Just before Fishbone joined the 1993 Lollapalooza tour, guitarist Kendall Jones, reportedly suffering from instability, quit the band. Bassist John Norwood Fisher tracked Jones down in the belief that he needed rescue from the group, only to be charged with attempted kidnapping. A benefit concert to help with Fishers legal expenses featured Porno for Pyros, Primus, Tool, keyboardist Christopher Dowd left Fishbone in 1994 and released an album titled Puzzle in 1997 under the name The Seedy Arkhestra, with various guests including Jeff Buckley and NDea Davenport
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Fishbone performing live in 2007
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Moore, Fisher and
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Run DMC
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Run–D. M. C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell. The group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture. Run-D. M. C. is one of the most well-known hip hop acts of the 1980s who, along with LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and they were the first group in the genre to have a gold album and be nominated for a Grammy Award. Run-D. M. C. was the hip hop act to perform at Live Aid in 1985. The group was among the first to highlight the importance of the MC, in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them number 48 in their list of the greatest musical artists of all time. In 2007, Run-D. M. C. was named The Greatest Hip Hop Group of All Time by MTV. com, on April 4,2009, rapper Eminem inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Became only the second hip hop group in history to be inducted, after Grandmaster Flash, as a teenager, Simmons was recruited into hip-hop by his older brother, Russell, who was then an up-and-coming hip-hop promoter. Simmons appeared onstage as a DJ for rapper Kurtis Blow, who was managed by Russell, known as DJ Run, Son of Kurtis Blow, Simmons soon began performing with Kurtis Blow. Previously, McDaniels had been focused on athletics than music. Simmons convinced McDaniels to start rapping, and though McDaniels would not perform in public, Mizell was known for his flashy wardrobe and b-boy attitude, which led to minor legal troubles as a teen. Thereafter, he decided to pursue music fame and began entertaining in the soon after. Eventually, Simmons and McDaniels rapped in front of Mizell at the park, following Russells success managing Kurtis Blow, he helped Run record his first single, a song called Street Kid. The song went unnoticed, but despite the failure, Runs enthusiasm for hip-hop was growing. Simmons soon wanted to record time with McDaniels, but Russell refused. After they completed school and started college in 1982, Simmons and McDaniels finally convinced Russell to let them record as a duo. A year later, in 1983, Russell agreed to help record a new single and land a record deal. A name which, incidentally, the group hated at first, DMC said later, We wanted to be the Dynamic Two, the Treacherous Two — when we heard that s**t we was like, Were gonna be ruined. After signing with Profile Records, Run-D. M. C, released their first single Its Like That/Sucker MCs, in late 1983
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Run-D.M.C. in a promotional shot. From left to right:
Jam Master Jay,
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Album cover for the group's single "My Adidas"
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A
test pressing release for the single
"Faces" from the album Back from Hell
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A single from Run–D.M.C.'s final album Crown Royal
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Whodini
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Whodini is a hip hop group that was formed in 1981. The Brooklyn, New York-based trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins, co-vocalist John Fletcher, ecstasy, and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, a. k. a. Whodini was among the first hip hop groups to cultivate a high-profile national following for hip hop music and they were contemporaries of other hip hop groups such as the Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa and Warp 9. The group was managed by Russell Simmons, brother of Joseph “Run” Simmons of Run-D. M. C, the group signed with London-based independent record label Jive Records in 1982, they enjoyed a string of hits for several years, mostly charting on urban and R&B radio stations. The bulk of production on their releases was done by Larry Smith, in 1983, the group recorded the self-titled album Whodini, and its first single Haunted House of Rock was a Halloween-themed number that even today is still played in some clubs. Magics Wand also has the distinction of being one of Whodinis most-sampled songs, in 1984, the group released Escape, which included Five Minutes of Funk, The Freaks Come Out at Night, the instrumental Featuring Grand Master Dee, Big Mouth, and the relationship-driven Friends. Many of these songs were also groundbreaking in hip hop culture, the album ended up being certified for platinum-level sales by the R. I. A. A. Selling over one million albums upon its release, the instrumental version of Five Minutes of Funk was used as the theme music for WNYC TV show, Video Music Box, an influential early hip hop music video show. The vinyl album is out of print and the CD is also out of print. On May 17,2011, a version of Escape was released on CD with nine bonus tracks. In 1986, the group released Back in Black and a number of songs from the album received heavy local New York airplay, such as Funky Beat, “Fugitive” was guitar-driven funk and Last Night was introspective. Paul Kodish, drummer of Pendulum, was featured on the album, from 1982 to 1986, the group was at its most productive, they toured with the more successful bands such as Run-D. M. C. LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, and other prominent hip hop, R&B, the group was involved in the first Fresh Fest tour, which was the first hip hop tour to play large coliseums nationwide. In July 1986 they appeared at Philadelphias Spectrum Stadium in front of an audience of 18,000. They were the first Rap Act and Break Dance troop to Tour in the UK and Europe and they played all over Europe to full venues as no one had seen this kind of music before. By 1987, the group had earned its share of gold singles and they even began to sample, as a snippet of Cheryl Lynns Got to be Real is heard on the song Now That Whodinis Inside the Joint. This new school style had been similarly done almost a year previously on the selling debut albums by L. L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys, as many groups had turned to the kind of rap and rock music that crossed over easily
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Whodini, 1996
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LL Cool J
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James Todd Smith, known professionally as LL Cool J, is an American rapper, actor, author, and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is also known as one of the forefathers of pop rap and he has released 13 studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. His twelfth album Exit 13, was his last for his deal with Def Jam Recordings. His latest album, Authentic, was released in April 2013, in 2010, VH1 considered him to be in their 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time list. LL Cool J has also appeared in films, including In Too Deep, Any Given Sunday. He currently stars in a role as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna, on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS. LL Cool J is also the host of Lip Sync Battle on Spike, LL Cool J was born James Todd Smith on January 14,1968, in Bay Shore, New York, the son of Ondrea Griffeth and James Louis Smith, Jr. In an episode of Finding Your Roots, LL learned his mother was adopted by Eugene Griffith, the series genetic genealogist CeCe Moore identified LLs biological grandparents as Ethel Mae Jolly and Nathaniel Christy Lewis through analysis of his DNA. LLs biological great-uncle was hall of fame boxer, John Henry Lewis and he began rapping at age 9 and was influenced by hip-hop group The Treacherous Three. His grandfather, a jazz saxophonist, bought him $2,000 worth of equipment, Smith later discussed his childhood background and rapping, stating that By the time I got that equipment, I was already a rapper. In this neighborhood, the kids grow up in rap and its like speaking Spanish if you grow up in an all-Spanish house. I got into it when I was about 9, and since then all I wanted was to make a record and hear it on the radio. In a VH1 documentary, LL Cool J, at 14 years of age, revealed that he wanted to call himself J-Ski. Under his new name, LL Cool J, Smith was signed by Def Jam, which led to the release of his first official record. The single was a hard-hitting, streetwise b-boy song with spare beats, Smith later discussed his search for a label, stating I sent my demo to many different companies, but it was Def Jam where I found my home. That same year, Smith made his debut concert performance at Manhattan Center High School. In a later interview, LL Cool J recalled the experience, stating They pushed the lunch room tables together and me and my DJ, Cut Creator, as soon as it was over there were girls screaming and asking for autographs. Right then and there I said This is what I want to do, LLs debut single sold over 100,000 copies and helped establish both Def Jam as a label and Smith as a rapper
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LL Cool J in 2010.
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LL Cool J performing in Germany.
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LL Cool J performing in
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Krush Groove
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Krush Groove is a 1985 Warner Bros. film that was written by Ralph Farquhar and directed by Michael Schultz. This film is based on the days of Def Jam Recordings and up-and-coming record producer Russell Simmons. Russell Simmons was the films co-producer and story consultant, he also had a cameo in the film as an owner named Crocket. Russell Walker has signed all of the hottest acts to his Krush Groove record label, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow. When Run-D. M. C. has a hit record and Russell doesnt have the money to press records, at the same time, Russell and his brother Run are both competing for the heart of R&B singer-percussionist Sheila E. Also appearing in the film are LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, New Edition, The Fat Boys and some of their songs, as well as others from the likes of Chaka Khan, Debbie Harry, and the Gap Band. Members of the R&B group Full Force also make a cameo in the film as bodyguards, the following appeared as themselves, except where noted, Blair Underwood Sheila E. Run-D. M. C. Chris Rock appeared uncredited as a man standing next to phone during the fight in the club, kara Vallow appeared uncredited as a Hip Hop Dancer. Coati Mundi was seen as a shop owner. Krush Groove is based on the inception of the Def Jam Recordings label, Simmons began his career trying to get his company Rush Management up and running. However, in the movie, he is shown as already being teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to form Def Jam, in reality, the label was started by Rubin in 1984 in his college dorm at New York University. The beginning of the opens with Run-D. M. C. in the studio performing King of Rock for Simmons, Rubin. However, the group was not always involved in the Def Jam scene as shown in the movie, Run and DMC had to persuade both Simmons and their original producer and bass player, Larry Smith, to give them a chance to record a demo. With the lyrics that Smith had once bought off of Run for $100, in the movie, the group also performs its track “My Adidas” from the album Raising Hell, which was created later after the success of the label. Larry Smith was the producer of Run-D. M. C. s first two albums, despite them being credited to Rick Rubin, who produced the third album. However, in the movie, Larry Smiths role as producer is not portrayed at all, later on, the team was joined by its first popular teen sensation, LL Cool J, who plays a very small role in the movie at the age of 17. In reality, LL Cool J was discovered in Rubins apartment, while going through a box of demos, Beastie Boy Ad-Rock stumbled across LLs demo tape. With this, he produced a beat and co-wrote I Need a Beat with LL and Rubin, the song I Cant Live without My Radio was made for the movie as a way for LL Cool J to star in it
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Paul Revere (song)
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Paul Revere is a song by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released as the third single from their debut album Licensed to Ill. It was written by Adam Horovitz, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels and it was produced by Rick Rubin and the Beastie Boys. The song tells a story of how the Beastie Boys met. Adam Horovitz told how the song evolved from an incident when the Beastie Boys were waiting outside a studio for Run-D. M. C. When Joseph Simmons suddenly came running down the street screaming incoherently, when he reached the Beastie Boys, he said Heres a little story I got to tell. After much confusion, Simmons stated THATs the song, the band worked on it from there. In 2007, an artist called Kia Shine released a single called Krispy with a similar beat, Mike D remembered how the group played around with a 808 drum machine during the Ill sessions and Adam Yauch asked what the tracks would sound like if the beats were played backwards. “The reversed beat basically became ’Paul Revere. ’ Yauch saw this thing we couldn’t see — and he killed it. ”The song tells a story of how Adrock, Mike D. Adrock describes riding through the desert on a horse named Paul Revere, also the name of a horse in the musical Guys and Dolls and he runs into MCA, who asks him for a drink. When Adrock refuses, MCA pulls a gun on him and says, Adrock agrees, saying that hell go if they can get to the border because The sheriffs after me for what I did to his daughter. The two ride to a bar and sit next to Mike D, who tells them hes planning to rob the place. He then pulls out his guns and shoots them in the air, telling the people in the bar, Your cash and your jewelry is what I expect. MCA and Adrock help Mike D escape with the money and jewelry, first causing a distraction and then helping him carry the goods out, along with Two girlies. Lyrics from the song are referenced in several rap songs by other artists, cypress Hill did a cover of the song called Busted in the Hood on their album Till Death Do Us Part, with the lyrics changed to be about getting arrested for drug-dealing. The lyrics are referenced several times in the song Bad Guys Always Die on the soundtrack to the film Wild Wild West. It was covered by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as part of their History of Rap medley. A Cover was done by Zachariah and the Lobos Riders in a country styling on the album Alcoholiday A genre-bending cover was played by swing band The Asylum Street Spankers on their album Mercurial. The Disco Biscuits debuted their cover of Paul Revere on New Years Eve 2006 to open the second set and they continued to play it several times throughout 2007 and 2008
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"Paul Revere"
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