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Coldplay
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Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and keyboardist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as bassist, will Champion joined as drummer and backing vocalist, completing the performing line-up. Creative Director Phil Harvey is often referred to as the fifth member by the band. The band renamed themselves Coldplay in 1998, before recording and releasing three EPs, Safety in 1998, Brothers & Sisters as a single in 1999, the Blue Room was their first release on a major label, after signing to Parlophone. They achieved worldwide fame with the release of the single Yellow in 2000 and this was followed by their debut album Parachutes released the same year, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The bands second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, was released to acclaim and won multiple awards. Their next release, X&Y, the album worldwide in 2005, was met with mostly positive reviews upon its release. In May 2014, they released their album, Ghost Stories. In December 2015, the released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams. Coldplay have sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making one of the worlds best-selling music artists. In December 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the fourth-best artist of the 2000s, Coldplay have been an active supporter of various social and political causes, such as Oxfams Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland first met during their week at University College London in September 1996. The pair spent the rest of the university year planning a band, Guy Berryman, a classmate of Martin and Buckland, later joined the group. By 1997, the group, who had renamed themselves Starfish, Martin also had recruited his longtime school friend Phil Harvey, who was studying classics at the University of Oxford, to be the bands manager. Coldplay have since accepted Harvey as the member of the group. The bands line-up was completed when Will Champion joined to take up percussion duties, Champion had grown up playing piano, guitar, bass, and tin whistle, he quickly learned the drums. The band finally settled on the name Coldplay which was suggested by Tim Crompton, by 1997, Martin had met Classics student Tim Rice-Oxley. During a weekend in the English village Virginia Water in Surrey they asked each other to play their own songs on the piano
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Exeter
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Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England with a population of 127,300. It lies within the county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council, currently, the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district and is therefore under the administration of the County Council. The city is on the River Exe about 37 miles northeast of Plymouth and 70 miles southwest of Bristol, Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain, although there is evidence a Cornish tribe existed in Exeter before the Roman invasion. Exeter became a centre during the Middle Ages and into the Tudor times, Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century. During the late 19th century, Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, after the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now considered to be a centre for modern business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. The name Exe is a development of the Brittonic name—meaning water or, more exactly, full of fish —that also appears in the English Axe and Esk, the Welsh Usk. Exeter began as settlements on a dry ridge ending in a spur overlooking a navigable river teeming with fish, although there have been no major prehistoric finds, these advantages suggest the site was occupied early. Coins have been discovered from the Hellenistic kingdoms, suggesting the existence of a settlement trading with the Mediterranean as early as 250 BC. Such early towns had been a feature of pre-Roman Gaul as described by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries, the Romans established a 42-acre playing-card shaped fort named Isca around AD55. To distinguish the two, the Romans also referred to Exeter as Isca Dumnoniorum, Watertown of the Dumnonii, a small fort was also maintained at Topsham, a supply depot on the route between the two was excavated at St Loyes on Topsham Road in 2010. The presence of the built up an unplanned civilian community of natives. This area was excavated in the 1970s, but could not be maintained for public view owing to its proximity to the present-day cathedral, in January 2015, it was announced that Exeter Cathedral had launched a bid to restore the baths and open an underground centre for visitors. In the late 2nd century, the ditch and rampart defences around the old fortress were replaced by a bank and wall enclosing a much larger area, although most of the visible structure is older, the course of the Roman wall was used for Exeters subsequent city walls. Thus about 70% of the Roman wall remains, and most of its route can be traced on foot, the dating of the coins so far discovered, however, suggests a rapid decline, virtually none have been discovered dated after the year 380. By that time, the city was held by the Saxons, Exeter was known to the Saxons as Escanceaster. In 876, it was attacked and briefly captured by Danish Vikings, alfred the Great drove them out the next summer. Over the next few years, he elevated Exeter to one of the four burhs in Devon and these permitted the city to fend off another attack and siege by the Danes in 893. King Athelstan again strengthened the walls around 928, and at the time drove out the remaining Britons from the city
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Devon
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Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south. It is part of South West England, bounded by Cornwall to the west, Somerset to the northeast, combined as a ceremonial county, Devons area is 6,707 km2 and its population is about 1.1 million. Devon derives its name from Dumnonia, which, during the British Iron Age, Roman Britain, the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain resulted in the partial assimilation of Dumnonia into the Kingdom of Wessex during the eighth and ninth centuries. The western boundary with Cornwall was set at the River Tamar by King Æthelstan in 936, Devon was constituted as a shire of the Kingdom of England thereafter. The north and south coasts of Devon each have both cliffs and sandy shores, and the bays contain seaside resorts, fishing towns. The inland terrain is rural, generally hilly, and has a low density in comparison to many other parts of England. Dartmoor is the largest open space in southern England at 954 km2, to the north of Dartmoor are the Culm Measures and Exmoor. In the valleys and lowlands of south and east Devon the soil is fertile, drained by rivers including the Exe, the Culm, the Teign, the Dart. As well as agriculture, much of the economy of Devon is linked with tourism, in the Brittonic, Devon is known as Welsh, Dyfnaint, Breton, Devnent and Cornish, Dewnens, each meaning deep valleys. One erroneous theory is that the suffix is due to a mistake in the making of the original letters patent for the Duke of Devonshire. However, there are references to Defenascire in Anglo-Saxon texts from before 1000 AD, the term Devonshire may have originated around the 8th century, when it changed from Dumnonia to Defenascir. Kents Cavern in Torquay had produced human remains from 30–40,000 years ago, Dartmoor is thought to have been occupied by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer peoples from about 6000 BC. The Romans held the area under occupation for around 350 years. Devon became a frontier between Brittonic and Anglo-Saxon Wessex, and it was absorbed into Wessex by the mid 9th century. This suggests the Anglo-Saxon migration into Devon was limited rather than a movement of people. The border with Cornwall was set by King Æthelstan on the east bank of the River Tamar in 936 AD, the arrival of William of Orange to launch the Glorious Revolution of 1688 took place at Brixham. Devon has produced tin, copper and other metals from ancient times, Devons tin miners enjoyed a substantial degree of independence through Devons Stannary Parliament, which dates back to the 12th century. The last recorded sitting was in 1748, agriculture has been an important industry in Devon since the 19th century
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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University College London
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University College London is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is regarded as one of the worlds leading research universities. UCL also makes the claims of being the third-oldest university in England. In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a charter in the same year. UCL has its campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London. UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within there are over 100 departments, institutes. In 2015/16, UCL had around 38,300 students and 12,000 staff and had an income of £1.36 billion. UCL ranks highly in national and international league tables and its graduates rank among the most employable in the world, UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases, co-discovered hormones, invented the vacuum tube, and made several foundational advances in modern statistics. There are at least 29 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields medalists amongst UCLs alumni and current, UCL was founded on 11 February 1826 under the name London University, as an alternative to the Anglican universities of Oxford and Cambridge. London Universitys first Warden was Leonard Horner, who was the first scientist to head a British university and this suggests that while his ideas may have been influential, he himself was less so. In 1827, the Chair of Political Economy at London University was created, with John Ramsay McCulloch as the first incumbent, in 1828 the university became the first in England to offer English as a subject and the teaching of Classics and medicine began. In 1830, London University founded the London University School, which would later become University College School, in 1833, the university appointed Alexander Maconochie, Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, as the first professor of geography in the UK. In 1834, University College Hospital opened as a hospital for the universitys medical school. In 1836, London University was incorporated by charter under the name University College. The Slade School of Fine Art was founded as part of University College in 1871, in 1878, the University of London gained a supplemental charter making it the first British university to be allowed to award degrees to women. The same year, UCL admitted women to the faculties of Arts and Law and of Science, although women remained barred from the faculties of Engineering and of Medicine. Armstrong College, an institution of Newcastle University, also allowed women to enter from its foundation in 1871. Women were finally admitted to medical studies during the First World War in 1917, in 1898, Sir William Ramsay discovered the elements krypton, neon and xenon whilst professor of chemistry at UCL
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress, singer, comedienne and food writer. She gained early notice for her work in such as the thriller Seven. Paltrow has portrayed supporting, as well as roles, in films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shallow Hal. Since 2008, Paltrow has portrayed Pepper Potts, the lead of the Iron Man franchise in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers. She reprised the role several times throughout the series run. Paltrow has been the face of Estée Lauders Pleasures perfume since 2005 and she is also the face of American fashion brand Coach, owner of a lifestyle company, and author of two cookbooks. Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner, Paltrows father is Jewish, while her mother is from a Christian background. She was raised celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays and her brother had a traditional Bar Mitzvah when he turned 13. Her fathers Ashkenazi Jewish family immigrated from Belarus and Poland, while her mother has Pennsylvania Dutch, Paltrows younger brother is director and screenwriter Jake Paltrow. Her half-cousin is actress Katherine Moennig and she is a second cousin of former U. S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her uncle is opera singer and actor Harry Danner, Paltrow was raised in Santa Monica, where she attended Crossroads School before enrolling in the Spence School, a private girls school in New York City. Later, she studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a daughter of Talavera de la Reina, where at 15 she spent a year as an exchange student. Her film debut followed with Shout, starring John Travolta, Paltrows next roles were in the made-for-television movies Cruel Doubt and Deadly Relations. Her first plum feature film role was in the noir drama Flesh, in 1995, she played Brad Pitts wife in the hit thriller Se7en. Her performance earned her a Satellite Award nomination, also in 1995, she appeared in Moonlight and Valentino and Jefferson in Paris. In 1996, Paltrow played the character in Emma to critical acclaim, particularly in the United Kingdom. She also appeared in two thrillers, Hush, opposite Jessica Lange, and A Perfect Murder, inspired by Alfred Hitchcocks 1954 film, Dial M for Murder
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Post-Britpop
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Many bands in the post-Britpop era avoided the Britpop label while still producing music derived from it. The music of most bands was guitar based, often mixing elements of British traditional rock, particularly the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, bands from the era utilized specific elements from 1970s British rock and pop music. This, beside a greater willingness to woo the American press and fans and they have been seen as presenting the image of the rock star as an ordinary person, or boy-next-door and their increasingly melodic music was criticised for being bland or derivative. Bands that had enjoyed success during the mid-1990s, but were not really part of the Britpop scene, included The Verve. After the decline of Britpop they began to more critical. Travis, also from Glasgow, were one of the first major bands to emerge in the post-Britpop era. Although garnering some attention, they did not break through in the US. Also from Wales were Feeder, who were more influenced by American post-grunge, producing a hard rock sound that led to their breakthrough single Buck Rogers. These acts were followed by a number of bands who shared aspects of their music, including Snow Patrol, from Northern Ireland and Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves and Keane from England. However, a number of the bands of this era, particularly Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay, continued to record and enjoy commercial success into the new millennium. Bands in the era have been credited with revitalising the British rock music scene in the late 1990s and 2000s. They have also criticised for providing a homogenised and conformist version of Britpop that serves as music for TV soundtracks, shopping malls, bars
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Parlophone
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Parlophone Limited is a German-British record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the company was formed in 8 August 1923 as The Parlophone Co. Ltd. which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label. In 5 October 1926, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophones business, name, Columbia Graphophone later merged with the Gramophone Company in 31 March 1931 to become Electric & Musical Industries Limited. George Martin joined EMI in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955, Martin produced and released a mix of product including comedy recordings of the Goons, the pianist Mrs Mills, and teen idol Adam Faith. For a long time Parlophone claimed the best-selling UK single She Loves You, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, both by The Beatles. The label also achieved placement of seven singles at No.1 during 1964, Parlophone continued as a division of EMI until it was merged into the Gramophone Co. Ltd. on 1 July 1965. On 1 July 1973, the Gramophone Co. Ltd. was renamed EMI Records Limited, on 28 September 2012, regulators officially approved Universal Music Group s planned acquisition of EMI, on condition that its EMI Records Ltd. group would be divested from the combined group. EMI Records Ltd. included Parlophone and other labels to be divested and were for a time operated in a single entity known as the Parlophone Label Group. Warner Music Group later acquired Parlophone and PLG in 7 February 2013, making Parlophone their new third flagship label, alongside Warner Bros. Records, PLG was renamed as the Parlophone Records Limited group in May 2013. Parlophone is now the oldest of WMGs three flagship record labels, Parlophone was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The name Parlophon had been used for gramophones before the company began making records of their own. The labels ₤ trademark is a German L that stands for its original founder Lindström and it has coincidentally been said to resemble the British pound sign, which itself is derived from the letter L for the Ancient Roman unit of measurement Libra, which means pound in Latin. During World War I, the Transoceanic Trading Company was set up in the Netherlands to look after its overseas assets, on 8 August 1923, the British branch of Parlophone was established, led by artists and repertoire manager Oscar Preuss. Parlophone established a leasing arrangement with the co-owned United States-based record label Okeh Records. The CLPGS has published a list of Parlophone titles issued between the years of 1923 and 1956, in 1927, the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired a controlling interest in the Carl Lindström Company and in Parlophone. In 31 March 1931, Columbia Graphophone merged with the Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd, under EMI, Parlophone initially maintained its status as a jazz label. In about 1929 or 1930, the Rhythm Style Series started, besides the Okeh recordings, Parlophone also issued recordings from Columbia Records and Brunswick Records, as well as a few sessions produced at Decca Records. As time went on, the label also released speciality recordings of word and comedy recordings, including the comedy recordings of the Goons and Flanders
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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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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Jonny Buckland
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Jonathan Mark Jonny Buckland is an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Jonathan Mark Buckland was born in Islington, London and he lived there until the age of four when his family moved to Pantymwyn in Flintshire, Wales. Buckland is noted for his arrangements and use of slide. His stylistic chiming and ringing sound have led to comparisons with the playing of U2s The Edge. Buckland has guest starred on Ian McCullochs solo album Slideling and made an appearance with band mate Chris Martin in the film Shaun of the Dead. Buckland largely uses the Telecaster Thinline 72 as his electric guitar, as seen mainly in the albums Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, X&Y. Buckland uses the Fender Stratocaster for his guitar, but he has made clear that the Telecaster series is his favorite. Bucklands guitar style is based on U2s The Edges guitar sound, which consists mainly of ringing, conservative notation, various amps and distorters. Bucklands guitar-playing style has inspired other bands to adopt a similar technique, such as The Frays Joe King, The Killers, David Keuning. The Edge himself stated in an interview at Glastonbury, is an inspiration to guitar players everywhere and it makes me feel like a real rock star. Buckland is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur F. C. Bucklands brother Tim, Buckland married Chloe Evans in 2009, and the pair have a daughter, Violet, born in May,2007 and a son, Jonah, born in November,2011. Parachutes A Rush of Blood to the Head X&Y Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Mylo Xyloto Ghost Stories A Head Full of Dreams Coldplay. com Jonny Buckland at the Internet Movie Database
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Yellow (Coldplay song)
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Yellow is a song by British rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for their debut album, the songs lyrics are a reference to the bands lead singer Chris Martins unrequited love. The song was recorded in March 2000, and released in June that same year as the single from Parachutes, following Shiver. Yellow reached number four in the UK Singles Chart, giving Coldplay their first top-five single in the United Kingdom, helped by heavy rotation and usage in promotions, the song thrust the band into popularity. Yellow has since covered by various recording artists worldwide. Yellow was written in a Rockfield studio in Wales called the Quadrangle, one night after finishing recording Shiver, the band took a break and went out of the studio. Outside, there were few lights on and the stars in the sky were visible and just amazing, according to the songs co-producer and he told the band to look at the stars, which they did. Lead singer Chris Martin was inspired by the sight and the main melody, consisting of a chord pattern. At first, Martin did not take it seriously as he relayed the tune to the rest of the band in his worst Neil Young impersonation voice. Martin has said, The song had the stars and that seemed like a word you should sing in a Neil Young voice. The melody started off a lot slower, according to drummer Will Champion, not long after, despite not taking the song seriously, Martins idea worked out when he had developed the tempo of the verse. When guitarist Jonny Buckland started playing it and supplemented it with his ideas, they had created the riff, while composing the songs lyrics, Martin could not find the right words. He was thinking of a word, which he deemed a missing key word in the lyrics. He looked around the studio and saw Stephanie, a friend that happened to be present in the studio at that time, Martin later titled the song Yellow as a reference to Stephanies yellow glow. The lyrics progressed from there with the band collaborating, bassist Guy Berryman came up with the opening line Look at the stars. That night, having composed the song, the band recorded it. A much different origin of the song was told on The Howard Stern Show in November 2011, Martin applauded Stern saying I like you, Howard, so thats the first time Ive ever told anyone the truth behind Yellow. The band and Nelson produced the track, Nelson was acquainted with the bands music through the formers manager
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
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The award, reserved for songwriters, was first presented to English musician Sting in 1992. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, Songs containing prominent samples or interpolations are not eligible. Bruce Springsteen holds the records for the most wins and nominations, other winners of multiple awards include Alanis Morissette as well as the bands Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2, with two. Coldplay holds the record for the most nominations without a win, ^ The performing artist is only listed but does not receive the award. ^ Showing the name of the songwriter, the nominated song, list of Grammy Award categories Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rock Songs Official site of the Grammy Awards
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A Rush of Blood to the Head
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A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second studio album by the British alternative rock band Coldplay. Released on 26 August 2002 in the UK through the label Parlophone, Recording started after the band became popular worldwide with the release of their debut album, Parachutes, and one of its singles in particular, Yellow. The album makes use of electric guitar and piano than its predecessor. The album was available in August 2002, two months after its original planned release date. It was released on 27 August in the United States through Capitol Records, Capitol released a remastered version of the album in 2008 on a 180-gram vinyl record as part of the From the Capitol Vaults series. The album debuted and continued their huge commercial legacy, a pattern that began with Parachutes which made Coldplay one of the best-selling bands worldwide. It topped the UK Albums Chart upon its first week of release in the United Kingdom, the British Phonographic Industry has since certified the album 9× Platinum for its accumulated sales of over 2.8 million units in the UK and the album has sold 20 million copies worldwide. The album spawned the hit singles In My Place, The Scientist, god Put a Smile upon Your Face was also released, but was significantly less successful. In 2012, it was ranked number 466 on Rolling Stone Magazines 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and it was also voted the best album of all time by the listeners of BBC Radio 2 in a poll conducted in 2013. The band started recording the album in London a week after the September 11 attacks in the United States, Coldplay had never stayed in London for an extended period before and were bombarded by problems focusing on the production process. They decided to relocate to Liverpool, where they had recorded some of the songs on Parachutes, lead singer Chris Martin said that once there they became obsessed with recording. In My Place was the first song recorded for the album and it kept us going and made us think we could still write songs, following a strange period of not really knowing what we were doing three months after the success of Parachutes. The band wrote more than twenty songs for the album and some of those, including In My Place, the albums title was revealed through a post on the bands official website. During initial recording sessions in Liverpool, lead singer Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland worked alone, each Monday, they would present the song ideas that they had developed to their bandmates. With A Rush of Blood to the Head nearly completed, Martin went into the late one night. The band recognised that this version of the song, that would become Clocks, was special the first time Martin played it to them. Subsequently, many songs were discarded because they sounded like they could have been on Parachutes, Martin has claimed that it would have been uninteresting, It would have shown that were happy to sit back on what wed done, and were not. For us, it was important to progress and try to improve upon our abilities as musicians, such ambitions put the band under strain, sometimes practice sessions ended abruptly with one or more members of Coldplay threatening to quit
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Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
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Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, often referred to as simply Viva la Vida, is the fourth studio album by the British alternative rock band Coldplay, released on 12 June 2008 on Parlophone. The album was named after a Spanish phrase that translates in English as Live the life, lyrically, the album contains references to love, life, death, and war. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 2007 to April 2008 and featured production by Jon Hopkins, Rik Simpson, Markus Dravs, the album was their first to be produced by Eno. The band forced themselves to explore experimental styles, as Eno required every song on the album to sound different, the band wanted to make the album shorter than 42 minutes. Despite this, the album is longer than the length they intended, development of the album delayed the release date several times. The album cover of Viva la Vida is the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Viva la Vida was both a critical and commercial success. Five songs were released in promotion of the album, Violet Hill and Viva la Vida in May 2008, Lovers in Japan and Lost. in November 2008, Viva la Vida became the bands first song to reach number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It won Best Rock Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards and was nominated for Album of the Year. It was the best selling album of 2008, by 2011, the album had sold more than 10 million copies. Viva la Vida was re-released on 25 November 2008 in an edition containing the original album. The new baby, and the fact that Coldplay had no touring or recording schedule at the time, had fans wondering if the new album would not be released until 2010. Dispelling such reports, Ambrosia Healy, spokesperson to Capitol Records, however, Healy clarified that Coldplay was indeed enjoying a much-deserved break, and there was no timetable for the follow-up to the bands third studio album, X&Y. Work on the began in November 2006, only being interrupted by the Latin America Tour in March 2007. Ambient musician and English record producer Brian Eno produced the album, Coldplay moved to The Bakery, after finishing up their Latin American Tour, building a studio there. The songs written during their time at the studio are lyrically much more abstract, much more visual than before, additionally, Martin wanted to make a vocal transition from his trademark falsetto to a lower register. The bands drummer Will Champion said in an interview for MTV, One of the things we tried to focus on with this record is changing vocal identities. Coldplay sparked an interest at Hispanic influences after having recorded in churches and in Spanish-speaking countries such as in Mexico in North America and Spain in Europe, such as Barcelona. However, it was stressed that the influence was not in any specific sound, on their website, the band also described taking acoustic guitars and basic recording equipment to churches and experimenting with particular sounds
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Brit Awards
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The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards. The name was originally a form of British, Britain or Britannia. In addition, an equivalent awards ceremony for music, called the Classic Brit Awards, is held each May. Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards,13 as a solo artist, the awards originated as an annual event in 1982 under the auspices of the British record industrys trade association, the BPI. In 1989 they were renamed the Brit Awards, masterCard has been the long-term sponsor of the event. The Brit Awards were broadcast live until 1989, when Samantha Fox, in subsequent years, the event was recorded and broadcast the following night. From 2007, the Brit Awards reverted to a live broadcast on British television, on 14 February on ITV. In that year, comedian Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were dropped from the ceremony, Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act, on 18 February 2009, the venue for the BRITs was once again the Earls Court, London. The Brit Awards were held at The O2 in London for the first time in 2011, the Brit Award statuette given to the winners features Britannia, the female personification of Britain. The first awards ceremony was in 1977, as The BRITish Record Industry BRITannia Awards, there have been 36 editions to date. The 2016 Brit Awards was held on 24 February 2016, the 1988 BPI Awards was the first of the ceremonies to be broadcast on live television. The BBC had previously broadcast the ceremony from 1985, with the shows from 1982 to 1984 not broadcast on television, the BBC continued to broadcast the renamed BRIT Awards, live in 1989 and pre-recorded from 1990 to 1992. ITV have broadcast the awards since 1993, pre-recorded until 2006, BBC Radio 1 has provided backstage radio coverage since 2008. In 1987 the BPI Awards ceremony was held in the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at the time there was a BBC electricians strike in effect, and the organisers decided to use a non-TV events production company, called Upfront, to manage the show. Despite the show being picketed, the event was transmitted as intended, for a while the outdoor broadcast scanner was rocked on its wheels by the protesters and they managed to shut off the power to one of the big GE video screen projectors. In 1989, the ceremony was broadcast live and presented by Fleetwood Macs Mick Fleetwood, the inexperience of the hosts, an ineffective autocue and little preparation combined to create an unprofessional show that was poorly received. The 1990 awards ceremony saw the last public appearance of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Queen appeared at the ceremony to receive the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Mercury did not make a speech, as Brian May did the talking on behalf of the other members, in 1992, dance/art band The KLF were awarded Best British Group and were booked to open the show
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Culture of the United Kingdom
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The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture, and Humanism, Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture. British literature, music, cinema, art, theatre, comedy, media, television, philosophy, architecture, the United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology, producing world-leading scientists and inventions. Sport is an important part of British culture, numerous sports originated in the country, the UK has been described as a cultural superpower, and London has been described as a world cultural capital. The Industrial Revolution, which started in the UK, had an effect on the socio-economic. These states are collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britains closest allies. In turn the empire also influenced British culture, particularly British cuisine, the cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness. First spoken in early medieval England, the English language is the de facto language of the UK. Individual countries within the UK have frameworks for the promotion of their indigenous languages, Irish and Ulster Scots enjoy limited use alongside English in Northern Ireland, mainly in publicly commissioned translations. There is also a campaign under way to recognise Scots as a language in Scotland, the Cornish language enjoys neither official recognition nor promotion by the state in Cornwall. Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the UK Government has committed to the promotion of linguistic traditions. The United Kingdom has ratified the charter for, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Scots, Cornish, British Sign Language is also a recognised language. Owing to its history, dialects and regional accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom. Some cities in close proximity have a different dialect and accent, such as Scousers from Liverpool, notable Scouse speakers include John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles while Mancunians include Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis. Received Pronunciation is the accent of standard English in the UK, brummie is the dialect of natives of Birmingham in the west midlands of England – notable Brummies include rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Lynne, and Rob Halford. Geordie is the dialect of people from Tyneside in northeast England – musicians Brian Johnson, Mark Knopfler, notable exponents of the Scottish accent include Sean Connery, comedian Billy Connolly, and The Proclaimers. The West Country accent from southwest England is identified in film as pirate speech – cartoon-like Ooh arr, talk is very similar, while famous pirates hailed from this region, including Blackbeard, West Country native Robert Newtons performance as Long John Silver in films standardised the pirate voice. The Northern Irish accent includes golfer Rory McIlroy and actor Liam Neeson, the early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. From the late 18th century, the Romantic period showed a flowering of poetry comparable with the Renaissance 200 years earlier, in Scotland the poetry of Robert Burns revived interest in Scots literature, and the Weaver Poets of Ulster were influenced by literature from Scotland
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Debrett's
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Debretts is a professional coaching company, publisher and authority on etiquette and behaviour, founded in 1769 with the publication of the first edition of The New Peerage. The name Debretts honours John Debrett, Debretts Academy was established in 2012 to provide coaching in interpersonal skills to individuals and corporations. Its courses for businesses cover topics such as speaking, networking, sales pitches, relationship management, personal presentation. Its private client courses focus on confidence-building and social competence, as well as presentation and impact, career progression. Debretts has published a range of guides on traditional British etiquette and those currently in print include Debretts A – Z of Modern Manners, Debretts Guide for The Modern Gentleman and Debretts Handbook, a revised and updated version of its Correct Form. The current editor is Charles Kidd Debretts People of Today, an annual publication, the selection of entrants is made by the editorial staff of Debretts and entries are reviewed annually to ensure accuracy and relevance. Entries include details of career, education, family, recreations, an additional feature is the correct style of address to be used when addressing correspondence to an entrant. Like its rival publication Whos Who, selection of entrants is at the Editorial Teams discretion, however, unlike Whos Who, entrants are removed if they are no longer deemed to be suitable for inclusion. Since 2014 Debretts has published an annual list of the UKs 500 most influential people across 24 sectors, in 2017 the list was published in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine. Debretts website contains information on British tradition, etiquette, dress codes and style, and the profiles of those featured in People of Today. In William Makepeace Thackerays classic novel Vanity Fair, the elderly aristocrat Sir Pitt Crawley is described as a selfish boor unworthy of his title despite his name being in Debretts, edith Whartons The Age of Innocence makes a glancing reference to ones standing in Debrett. In George Orwells Burmese Days, Mrs. Lackersteen is described as reading the Civil List, an out-of-date Debretts is a key plot element in an Elizabeth Mapp story by E. F. Benson. Debretts Peerage is mentioned in P. G. Wodehouse novels, especially the Blandings stories, in Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder mentions Sebastians family, to which Sebastian replies There are lots of us. More recently, Debretts was mentioned in John le Carrés spy novel The Tailor of Panama, Debretts New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners was a guest publication on Have I Got News for You in 1999. In the fashion sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, the character of Patsy Stone calls Debretts the Whos Who in whats left of the British aristocracy, Debretts Correct Form is mentioned by the cartoonist Giles. In the adult comic Viz, a strip called Billy Connolly has the title character, in the Sky TV Show So You Think Youre Royal, families who successfully proved heritage to the royal family were entered into Debretts. The original peerage guide is mentioned in Connie Willis novel To Say Nothing of the Dog, in the third season of Downton Abbey, the Countess of Grantham dryly comments to her husband that not everyone chooses their religion to satisfy Debretts. John Debrett was the London-born son of Jean Louys de Bret, as a boy of thirteen, John Debrett was apprenticed to a Piccadilly bookseller and publisher, Robert Davis
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William Willett
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William Willett was a British builder and a tireless promoter of British Summer Time. Willett was born in Farnham, Surrey, in the United Kingdom, after some commercial experience, he entered his fathers building business, Willett Building Services. Between them they created a reputation for Willett built quality houses in parts of London. This was not the first time that the idea of adapting to daylight hours had been mooted and it was common practice in the ancient world, and Benjamin Franklins light-hearted 1784 satire resulted in resurrecting the idea. Although Franklins facetious suggestion was simply that people should get up earlier in summer, modern DST was first proposed by New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, although many publications incorrectly credit Willett. Using his own resources, in 1907 William published a pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. In it he proposed that the clocks should be advanced by 80 minutes in four incremental steps during April, the evenings would then remain light for longer, increasing daylight recreation time and also saving £2.5 million in lighting costs. He suggested that the clocks should be advanced by 20 minutes at a time at 2 am on successive Sundays in April and be retarded in September. Through vigorous campaigning, by 1908 Willett had managed to gain the support of a member of parliament, Robert Pearce, a young Winston Churchill promoted it for a time, and the idea was examined again by a parliamentary select committee in 1909 but again nothing was done. The outbreak of the First World War made the more important primarily because of the need to save coal. It was subsequently adopted in other countries. William Willett did not live to see daylight saving become law and he is commemorated in Petts Wood by a memorial sundial, set permanently to daylight saving time. The Daylight Inn in Petts Wood is named in his honour and his house in Bromley is marked with a blue plaque. He is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard, Chislehurst, although a memorial to his family stands in the churchyard at St Wulfrans Church, Ovingdean, in Brighton, media related to William Willett at Wikimedia Commons Maria Box. London, Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd, seize the Daylight, The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. The British version, focusing on the UK, is David Prerau, Saving the Daylight, Why We Put the Clocks Forward
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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)
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A preparatory school in the United Kingdom is a student selective, fee-paying independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13. They are also now used by parents in the hope of getting their child into a good state selective grammar school, boys prep schools are generally for 8- to 13-year-olds, who are prepared for the Common Entrance Examination, the key to entry into many secondary independent schools. Before the age of seven or eight, the term school is used. Girls private schools in England tend to follow the age ranges of state schools more closely than those of boys. Girls preparatory schools usually admit girls from the age of four or five, however, as more girls now go on to formerly single-sex boys schools that have become co-educational, the separation is less clear. There are 130,000 pupils in over 500 prep schools of all types and sizes, prep schools may be for boys or girls only, or may be co-educational. They may be day schools, boarding schools, weekly boarding, flexi-boarding, pre-prep schools are generally associated with prep schools, and take children from reception through to year two. Earlier provision is generally characterised as nursery or kindergarten and they are now found in all parts of the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools Independent Schools Council THE MAKING OF THEM - The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
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Sherborne School
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Sherborne School is a British independent boys school, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the member schools of the Headmasters. It has close partnerships with the girls school Sherborne Girls and shares some activities. The schools origins date back to the century, when a tradition of education in Sherborne was begun by St Aldhelm. According to legend, Alfred the Great was one of the early pupils. The school was linked with Sherborne Abbey, formerly a Benedictine house. The earliest known Master was Thomas Copeland in 1437, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edward VI re-founded the school in 1550 as King Edwards School, a free grammar school for local boys. The present-day school stands on land once belonged to the abbeys monastery. The Library, Chapel, and Headmasters rooms, which adjoin the Abbey Church, are modifications of its monastic buildings. In the Beckett Room below the library there survives Anglo-Saxon masonry, each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000. All schools involved in the agreed to make ex-gratia payments, totalling £3 million. The trust was designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying and they are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the current emir of Qatar received his education at the school obtaining his A Levels in 1997. In March 2009, it was announced that a replica of the school would be built in Doha, Qatar, with the first academic year starting in September 2009, as Sherborne is predominantly a boarding school, the house system is based on the boarding programme. Each house has around 70 boys with a mix of boarders and day pupils. Day boys are fully integrated into after-school and weekend programmes, there are eight houses, The schools cricket ground – the Upper – is usually used by the 1st XI cricket team. The ground was first used in 1870, when Sherborne School played Clifton College, the ground is also one of the venues used by Dorset for their home fixtures
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Guy Berryman
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Guy Rupert Berryman is a Scottish musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is the bass guitarist for the bands Coldplay and Apparatjik, though Berryman is left-handed, he plays the bass right-handed. Berryman started a degree at University College London. Soon after, he dropped out of his course and switched to a seven-year architecture program at The Bartlett. He dropped out of his degree after one year to focus on playing bass with Coldplay. While his bandmates were still continuing their degrees, Berryman worked as a barman in a local London pub, during the Twisted Logic Tour for the promotion of Coldplays third album, X&Y, Berryman took candid pictures of the band with disposable cameras and threw them to the audience. Berryman owned a shop called Jezebell in London, which closed down due to debt. On 7 June 2010, The Sun reported that Berryman and his brother Mark would be forming a company dealing with antiques, Guy Rupert Berryman was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, His mother is from a jewish background. In 2004, Berryman married Joanna, his sweetheart, in a low key ceremony in the City of Westminster. The couple have one daughter, Nico, born 17 September 2006, in March 2007, Coldplays spokesman confirmed that Guy and Joanna separated after three years of marriage, and later divorced. Berryman is now engaged to Dutch model Keshia Gerrits, Berryman is an avid marathon runner and likes to run in the nearest parks or around the neighbourhoods of the hotels whenever the band is touring. He also has an interest in photography, fashion and electronic gadgets and he is a fan of his local football team Raith Rovers F. C. Berryman owns a vintage retro style juke box and collects Motown and Stax 7 singles to play on it. He jokes that he knows every secondhand vinyl shop in every major U. S. city, Berryman once said to have been starstruck by James Brown in concert. According to a released by MSN UK in April 2008. In 2004, Berryman collaborated with Magne Furuholmen of a-ha, Berrymans musical hero, on his solo album Past Perfect Future Tense, in 2008, Berryman participated to the Movie Soundtheme of Umi no Shanghai. He also played the guitar on Furuholmens second album, A Dot of Black in the Blue of Your Bliss. In the same year, he started collaboration with Magne Furuholmen, Jonas Bjerre and Martin Terefe under the name of Apparatjik, working on a musical theme for the BBC2 series. The theme was made available along with tracks from various other artists on the Survival International charity album
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Will Champion
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William Will Champion is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Coldplay, as a youth, Champions musical influences included Tom Waits, Nick Cave and traditional Irish folk music. He learned to play piano and violin when he was 8 and he also has experience on the bass, and tin whistle. Before he joined Coldplay, Champion performed in a band called Fat Hamster, Champion attended primary school at Portswood Primary School, secondary school at Cantell Maths and Computing College, and college at Peter Symonds College. As a youngster he played cricket for Chandlers Ford CC along with his older brother. English comedian Ricky Gervais is Champions former boss, Champion was the last of the four band members to join the ensemble on 31 July 1997. He took up the position as drummer with no prior experience, in 1999, lead singer Chris Martin sacked Champion, but the band asked him to return soon after. In Coldplay, Champion is often regarded as the rationality of the band and they say of him, Will does have a very sensible head on his shoulders and when it comes to making band decisions hes really good at putting valid points across and keeping everyone focused. He frequently has the casting vote and his decision can sometimes override the consensus, as Chris Martin has said in multiple interviews, We are all just working for Will Champion. While all the four members have sung backing vocals, Champion has been the most frequent, during the Viva la Vida Tour, Champion sang and performed an acoustic version of the song Death Will Never Conquer. A version of the song was included on Coldplays live album LeftRightLeftRightLeft and he has also performed lead vocals on a live version of Til Kingdom Come and the Life in Technicolor II b-side The Goldrush. In the autumn of 2004, Champion and Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman guested on A-ha keyboardist Magne Furuholmens first solo album Past Perfect Future Tense. Champion made a appearance in the The Rains of Castamere, an episode of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Champions mother, Sara, a Doctor of Prehistoric Archaeology, died from cancer in 2000, the album Parachutes was dedicated to her. Champion was the first Coldplay member to marry, He married Marianne Dark who was previously a teacher, the first child of the couple, a girl named Ava, was born on 28 April 2006. On 7 May 2008, Marianne gave birth to fraternal twins Juno, Champion is a lifelong fan of Southampton F. C. and has had a season ticket for many years. Champion currently uses a Yamaha drum kit with Zildjian cymbals, in the music video for Christmas Lights, he uses a Slingerland drumkit and Ludwig Supraphonic Snare 14x6.5 inches. For sticks, Champion looks to Pro-Marks American Hickory 5A stick with a wooden tip, Parachutes A Rush of Blood to the Head X&Y Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Mylo Xyloto Ghost Stories A Head Full of Dreams Roach, Martin
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Parachutes (album)
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Parachutes is the debut studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 10 July 2000 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, the album was produced by the band and British record producer Ken Nelson, except for one track, High Speed, which was produced by Chris Allison. Parachutes has spawned the hit singles Shiver, Yellow, Trouble, the album was a commercial success, and was met with positive reviews. Upon release, the album reached number one in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200. It won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002, Parachutes is also the 19th best-selling album of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, and won the Best British Album award at the 2001 Brit Awards. As of 2011, it has sold around 8.5 million copies worldwide, the band began production on Parachutes in late 1999, after producing & releasing the The Blue Room EP with British record producer Chris Allison. Allison was asked to assist with production, and the musical direction. Production started with the track High Speed, which was part of the EP and was later re-released as a part of Parachutes. I thought High Speed was a good marriage between the classic rock sound and the new sound that was developing out of it, something that was more atmospheric. Seven tracks in all were recorded during the sessions at Orinoco studios in London, the band then took a lengthy break to compose more tracks for Parachutes. A few months later, it was arranged that Allison and the meet at a rehearsal room to finally begin production on the bands debut album. They started up playing in the room and they really werent together at all. And I was very honest with them, I just sort of said Look this simply isnt good enough, a couple of months later, British record producer Ken Nelson was chosen, producing all but one song on Parachutes. He was introduced to Coldplay by his manager Pete Byrne, Nelson has claimed that, as soon as he heard vocalist Chris Martins voice on the song Bigger Stronger, he realised that he was something special. Nelson was offered the job while Coldplay were performing in Liverpool with English indie rock band Gomez, Coldplay initially planned to record Parachutes in the space of two weeks. However, tours and other live performances caused the recording to spread out between September 1999 and May 2000. The band began work on the album at Rockfield Studios in Wales, Matrix Studios, the band worked in three studio rooms at Parr Street, and tracked much of the album in one of these rooms—the project studio which producer Ken Nelson describes as basically a demo room
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X&Y
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X&Y is the third studio album by British rock band Coldplay. Released on 6 June 2005 worldwide by the record label Parlophone, X&Y was produced by Coldplay, the albums cover art is a combination of colours and blocks, which is a representation of the Baudot code. The album contains tracks and an additional hidden track, Til Kingdom Come. It is omitted from the listing on the album sleeve. It was originally planned for American country star Johnny Cash to record it with lead singer Chris Martin, but Cash died before he was able to do so. The song Talk appeared in the listing, although after it leaked online in early 2005 it was thought to have been downgraded to a B-side for the albums subsequent single releases. X&Y was released after an amount of global anticipation. It was a significant commercial success, reaching the top spot of many charts worldwide, including the United Kingdom and United States, with accumulated sales of 8.3 million units in 2005 alone, X&Y was the best-selling music album released in 2005 worldwide. By 2011 the album had sold over 13 million copies worldwide, overall reaction to the album has been generally positive, though some critics cited it as being inferior to its predecessors. The album spawned the singles Speed of Sound, Fix You, Talk, The Hardest Part, What If, Coldplay announced details about X&Y in March 2004 while the album was being recorded. Their initial plans were to stay out of the eye throughout the year. Lead singer Chris Martin stated, We really feel that we have to be away for a while and we wont release anything this year. This plan was not carried out, because of the pressure their second album A Rush of Blood to the Head had induced, prior to the announcement, Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland and British record producer Ken Nelson had started recording demos while in Chicago, Illinois. The band then entered a London studio in January 2004, the band spent the entire year of 2004 producing X&Y. The band members were not satisfied with the output of their sessions with Nelson. The initial set release date was late 2004, and the band had to delay the album to January 2005, but as the new target date was approaching, the band again discarded songs, which they deemed flat and passionless. Sixty songs were written during sessions, fifty-two of which were ditched. Attempting to perfect their work, Coldplay had to step it up a few notches, the band chose Danton Supple, who mixed the bulk of A Rush of Blood to the Head, to oversee the production of X&Y
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Mylo Xyloto
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Mylo Xyloto /ˈmaɪloʊ ˈzaɪlətoʊ/ is fifth studio album by the British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was first released on 19 October 2011 by EMI, the band collaborated closely with acclaimed producer Brian Eno following their successful collaborations on Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the bands fourth studio album. Mylo Xyloto is a album and a thematic rock opera. The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour by a supremacist government, set in the world of Silencia, Silencia has been overtaken by a government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away feeders. The album follows Mylo, a silencer, a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down sparkers, people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks and he encounters Xyloto, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. Through Xyloto, Mylo discovers his abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids. Drummer Will Champion has noted that the album is a story of the falling in love and trying to escape together. Internationally, Mylo Xyloto charted at number one in 34 countries. In the United Kingdom, Mylo Xyloto became Coldplays fifth album to debut at number one, selling 208,000 units in its first week, Mylo Xyloto broke an iTunes record for digital downloads sales by selling over 500,000 digital copies in a week. The album became the third to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200. It was the UKs best-selling rock album of 2011, selling 908,000 copies, as of 2013, it has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. Mylo Xyloto received mixed to positive reviews music critics, with a score of 65/100 on Metacritic. While some found it to be overproduced, others praised its uplifting tone, Paradise and Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall received a total of three Grammy Award nominations in 2012, while the album and Charlie Brown received two further Grammy nominations in 2013. In November 2008, in an interview with All Headline News and we go into the studio with all the best laid plans then what we end up with is not what we intended. Its just exciting to wonder what will come out the speakers in a years time and we have very exciting things lined up. Its time to take our music down different directions and really explore other avenues, in one interview, Martin predicted the style of the incoming album as being less dominated by fanfare, and featuring a more stripped-down sound. In November 2008, Coldplay established a recording HQ at a bakery in Primrose Hill, North London
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Ghost Stories (Coldplay album)
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Ghost Stories is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Coldplay. Co-produced by the band with Paul Epworth along with returning Mylo Xyloto producers Daniel Green and Rik Simpson, the album was released by Atlantic Records in North America on 19 May 2014. The album was recorded by the band throughout 2013 and 2014 at the bands purpose-built home studios in London, England and it features guest producers Avicii, Timbaland and Madeon, and the bands frequent collaborator Jon Hopkins. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Grammy Awards, at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards it was named Top Rock Album. It is reported by media outlets that Chris Martin has said that the album was inspired by his. In 2011, Coldplay released their studio album, Mylo Xyloto. Produced by Markus Dravs, Brian Eno, Rik Simpson and Dan Green, Mylo Xyloto had also sold 8 million copies within the first year of release. Coldplays 2011 single, Paradise, became the bands second UK number-one single after 2008s Viva la Vida, Coldplays subsequent world tour in promotion of Mylo Xyloto visited North America, Europe, Australia and Africa, raising $99.7 million in revenue. Drummer Will Champion spoke to Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 2 fame, saying in response to a question about the album being more stripped-back, Yeah, theres only so far you can go without becoming pompous and a bit overblown, so well tread that line very carefully. Ghost Stories is a spiritually driven album that revolves around two major themes mentioned by lead singer Chris Martin, the album explores the idea of past actions, and the effects they can have on your future and ones capacity for Unconditional Love. To him, Ghost Stories represents a journey learning about Unconditional Love, the band took a different approach for their sixth studio album in contrast to their previous studio albums. For example, Magic was built off a bass riff originally conceived by bassist Guy Berryman in the studio, the album artwork for Ghost Stories was etched by British-based Czech etching artist Mila Fürstová. The medieval art-driven artwork, measuring 100 by 100 cm, features a pair of angel wings imposed onto a painting of an ocean under a sky at night, the angel wings themselves feature cryptic imagery of medieval-style drawings of fairly contemporary objects and concepts. A larger, digital version of the artwork is available on Coldplays official website and she described the collaboration between her and the band as a most inspiring journey and a truly humbling experience to cooperate with such talented people. There are plans for an exhibition of Fürstovás Ghost Stories artworks in the Autumn of 2014 in central London, Coldplay performed on the opening night of the televised 2014 iTunes Festival at SXSW on 11 March 2014 at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. In addition to performing Magic and Midnight, the band performed Always in My Head and Anothers Arms, the band also performed Magic in a pre-recorded segment of Sport Relief 2014, which aired on BBC One on 21 March 2014. In April 2014, Coldplay announced an international scavenger hunt for sheets containing lyrics to the nine songs on the album, the notes, handwritten by Martin, were placed in ghost story books in libraries around the world, with the band tweeting clues leading to their locations. One of the hidden envelopes also contained a special Golden Ticket, allowing its finder, the lyric sheets were found in libraries in Mexico City, Singapore, Helsinki, Barcelona, Dartford, New York City, Tauranga, Dublin and Johannesburg
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A Head Full of Dreams
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A Head Full of Dreams is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 4 December 2015 by Parlophone and Atlantic, Coldplay recorded the album from late 2014 to mid-2015, right after the completion of Ghost Stories, with a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. For various songs, Coldplay collaborated with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, Khatia Buniatishvili, the album was produced by Rik Simpson and Stargate. The album also features a sample of President Barack Obama singing Amazing Grace at Clementa C, the album received mixed reviews from critics. Commercially, it topped the UK Albums Chart, and was the runner-up in the United States, Australia, Canada, at the 2016 Brit Awards the album was nominated for British Album of the Year. It was the eighth best-selling album of 2015 with 1.9 million copies sold worldwide, as of March 2017, the album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Coldplay began working on A Head Full of Dreams in the summer of 2014 while they were promoting their sixth album Ghost Stories, the album has a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. Frontman Chris Martin hinted at the style of the album by saying that the band was trying to make something colourful and he also stated that it would be something to shuffle your feet to. On 26 September 2015, the performed at the Global Citizen Festival 2015 in New York City, playing a six-song set. The bands producer Rik Simpson confirmed that the song would be on the new album, on 21 November 2016 frontman Chris Martin announced new material to be released for 2017 via Twitter, it would be named Kaleidoscope EP. The album was produced by Rik Simpson and Norwegian duo Stargate, mixing duties were carried out predominately by Rik Simpson. It was confirmed that the band perform in locations such as India and South America – more specifically Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Colombia. They have since confirmed that pre-production on the tour has started, in February, the band featured a picture on various social media sites of a hot air balloon by Glastonbury farms main pyramid stage field, along with the date Sunday 26 June. Glastonbury organisers have since confirmed a record-breaking fourth headline appearance, having performed on the stage in 2000,2002,2005 and 2011. The bands appearance was confirmed to be Coldplays festival show of this years tour. On 7 October 2016, the band announced eighteen more shows in North America beginning in Aug 2017, on 15 November 2016, they announced shows in Asia for April 2017, visiting Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Around 30 October 2015 anonymous posters were pinned up on the London Underground showing a pattern, known as the Flower of Life. Coldplay fans claimed that the symbol resembled the design on a T-shirt worn by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin at the Global Citizen Festival in New York
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Safety (EP)
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Safety was the first public release by the British rock band Coldplay. It was recorded over a weekend during May 1998, and was intended as a demo for record companies and it was financed by the band and their manager Phil Harvey for around £1500. Everyone involved was so pleased with the product that they decided to pay for 500 copies to be manufactured for distribution around London. Only about 50 copies ever made it to stores, as they gave most of the copies away to record companies and their friends. The EP is unavailable on iTunes and therefore is such a rarity that it is known to fetch in excess of £2000 on eBay, the songs on this EP have all appeared unaltered on subsequent releases by Coldplay. Bigger Stronger and Such a Rush are featured on The Blue Room EP, the cover photo of lead singer Chris Martin was taken by John Hilton, a friend of the band
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The Blue Room (EP)
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The Blue Room is the second EP released by British rock band Coldplay, and their first release after signing with the Parlophone label in October 1999. The version of Dont Panic featured on this release is different from the one appears on the bands later debut LP. The fourth track, High Speed, also made the cut for Parachutes although it remained unchanged, the first track, Bigger Stronger, and fifth track, Such a Rush, are re-releases from the Safety EP, and are the same on both EPs. See You Soon would later become a part of Coldplays setlist during their A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour and was featured in both the DVD and CD of Coldplays Live 2003 album. See You Soon was sung live for the first time since 2003 in Bogota, only 5000 copies of the CD version were manufactured in the original pressing, along with a limited edition 12 inch vinyl release which was individually numbered on the front picture sleeve. The CD version was re-released with identical packaging in 2001, thereby making it widely available. A 2x7 vinyl version was included with The Singles 1999–2006 box set in 2007, the artwork for the album was taken from a National Geographic magazine issue in 1997. Sputnik gave a positive review, calling it One of the best EPs Ive heard. And continued its the most refined, complete and balanced effort released prior to the debut album Parachutes. All songs written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin
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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Embrace (English band)
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Embrace are an English alternative rock band from Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire. To date they have released six albums, one singles album. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale and drummer Mike Heaton. The group have released six studio albums – The Good Will Out, Drawn from Memory, If Youve Never Been, Out of Nothing, This New Day, the band began in a small outbuilding at the bottom of a garden in Bailiff Bridge in 1990. A bass player joined the McNamara brothers, Richard playing guitar, the three of them started creating songs, with the aid of a cassette recorder, and soon a drum machine was added. An initial set of songs was written, then dropped and a set of songs written. A cassette fourtrack was used to make a demo in a house in the Hyde Park area of Leeds. After various auditions, drummer Mike Heaton joined the band, a period of consolidation of existing songs and writing of new ones followed. It proved hard to settle on a name, so gigs were performed from 1992 onwards under one-off names, Curious Orange, Christianne F, Shimmer. Eventually they settled on the name Embrace, Richard was familiar with the American band of the same name, and thought it a good name, despite it having been used already. The bass player wrote a letter to seek approval from Ian Mackaye who replied that it was alright for the English band to use the same name, the band then recorded a three track demo in a recording studio in Huddersfield, which was sold at concerts in cassette form. A video was recorded of a gig in Leeds, copies of which were offered for sale. A second spell in a Manchester recording studio yielded some rough mixes, things were progressing nicely towards a record contract. An intense period followed during in which all four members developed their song, in 1995, Steve Firth replaced the outgoing bassist. A single, All You Good Good People was released in February 1997 on Fierce Panda Records, after building a following through their EP releases, their debut album The Good Will Out was released on 8 June 1998 and went to number 1 in the UK Albums Chart. On 27 March 2000 the band released Drawn from Memory, which reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart, although the album was supported by a tour during which they were supported by then-fledgling Coldplay, its sales were relatively low. Afterwards they recorded their third studio album If Youve Never Been, the album reached number 9 in the UK chart and was once again supported by an international tour, covering Europe, the US and Australia. They were signed by Andy McDonald to his Independiente Records label and released the album Out of Nothing, the comeback single that preceded this album was Gravity, which had been written by Coldplays Chris Martin
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Gravity (Embrace song)
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Gravity is the lead single from Out of Nothing, the fourth album by English rock band Embrace. Written by Coldplay, the song was first performed live by Coldplay in 2002, ultimately, Chris Martin gave the song to Embrace. Gravity peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart and it was released on CD format and red 7 vinyl. It later became the song to the TV show Mike Bassett, Manager. The B-side, Wasted, started off as Logical Love Song and was conceived during the Drawn from Memory sessions. Gravity was re-recorded by Coldplay in late 2005 and is included as a B-side to their single Talk, the songs Too Many Times, The Shots Still Ringing, and Waterfall are featured on the B-sides compilation Dry Kids, B-Sides 1997-2005. The song was used in Series 2 Episode 7 of Gavin,7 Gravity Wasted CD1 Gravity Too Many Times CD2 Gravity The Shots Still Ringing Waterfall Gravity Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Jamelia
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Jamelia Niela Davis is a British recording artist, television presenter and actress. She has released three albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in the UK, which collectively have spawned eight UK top ten singles. In addition, Jamelia has won four MOBO Awards, a Q Award and has received nine BRIT Award nominations and her career has spanned over ten years after being signed straight out of school at 15 to a major record label. Jamelias professional music career began in 1999, when she released her single, So High, followed by a more successful single. She then released her debut studio album, Drama, in June 2000. Jamelias ten-year-successful career span has led her to becoming a judge on such as Move Like Michael Jackson in 2009. In 2010 she signed a new deal with All Around the World Productions. She was a panelist on the ITV magazine show Loose Women from 2013 until 2016, Jamelia was born in Handsworth, Birmingham to single mother Paulette Davis. Her mother is Jamaican and her father is Zimbabwean and she grew up in nearby Hockley and attended a local primary school, Brookfields Primary School and then later attended the CTC Kingshurst Academy, formerly known as the City Technology College. Jamelia was signed to Capitol Records at 15 after record producers heard recordings of her self-written a cappella songs that she had made on a karaoke machine, in late 1999, Jamelia recorded the single So High, a collaboration with fellow R&B vocalist Rosita Lynch. The single failed to chart in both the UK and mainland Europe, and did not appear on any of Jamelias subsequent albums, following the poor sales of the single, Jamelia left Capitol Records, but was quickly signed up with record company Parlophone, a branch of EMI. The singles mediocre chart success, however, led to the delay of the release of Money, Jamelias third single, Money, was released in February 2000. The single was the breakthrough in the UK, peaking at number five and spending nine weeks in the UK Top 75. Despite the success of Money, Drama did not make a major impression in the UK. The third single from the album, Call Me, reached number 11, recognition for the singers early success came in late 2000 and 2001 at the BRIT Awards. Jamelia was nominated for Best British Newcomer, Best British Video, Jamelia recorded her second studio album, Thank You, in 2002 and early 2003 following the birth of her daughter Teja in 2001. The first single lifted from Thank You was the R&B-influenced Bout, on which she collaborated with American rap star Rah Digga, it debuted at number 37 in the UK. The second single, the much poppier Superstar, became Jamelias highest peaking at the time when it peaked at three, and earned the spot of the 26th best-selling of 2003 in the UK
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See It in a Boy's Eyes
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See It in a Boys Eyes was the fourth single from British R&B singer Jamelias second album, Thank You. The song, released in the UK on 12 July 2004, became Jamelias third consecutive top five hit in the UK to date, peaking at number five, the song also became her third top forty hit in Australia, peaking at number thirty-five. The single was famous for being co-written by Coldplay singer Chris Martin, who played on the track and provided backing vocals. The songs music video, directed by W. I. Z, I was trying to be fresh so that people stay interested in me. Jamelia also commented in the interview, Its basically about a relationship where someone doesnt speak about having a problem and you can see that theyre upset. Its an irritating situation so I thought Id write about it,2 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Streets
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The Streets were an English hip hop and UK garage project from Birmingham, England, led by the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner. Fit But You Know It, Dry Your Eyes, When You Wasnt Famous, in 2001, the Locked On label, which had success with The Artful Dodger featuring Craig David, released Has It Come to This. It was a hit for The Streets, reaching number 18 on the UK charts in October 2001. For The Streets first album, Original Pirate Material, Skinner wanted to take UK garage in a new direction with material reflecting the lifestyle of clubbers in Britain, the track Lets Push Things Forward reflects the philosophy of the album. The album was successful both with critics and the general public, in the UK, the album was nominated for the Mercury Prize and was favourite with the bookmakers to win. The Streets were nominated for best album, best urban act, the NME named it as one of their top five albums of 2002. The cover image is Towering Inferno by the acclaimed photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg, subsequent singles from that album included Dont Mug Yourself, Weak Become Heroes and Lets Push Things Forward, which all reached the top forty in the UK. Many of his songs have a UK garage feel, Original Pirate Material had debuted and peaked at number twelve in the UK album charts, and did not reach any higher until his next album was released. The success of Original Pirate Material in the UK led to a US release of the album through Vice/Atlantic in late 2002, the album was named Entertainment Weeklys album of the year. The album reached number two on the Billboard electronic charts and the top 20 on the independent and Heatseeker charts in the US in 2003. In May 2004, Skinner released a new single, Fit But You Know It which became his debuting and highest single to that point, the single was later used by EA Sports as part of the soundtrack for its video game FIFA2005. Fit But You Know It is from Skinners second album, A Grand Dont Come for Free, the events depicted include losing a thousand pounds, the start of a new relationship, going on holiday, breaking up, and eventually finding the money again. The MCs remix of Fit But You Know It features formerly underground MCs such as Kano, Tinchy Stryder, Donaeo, Lady Sovereign, the album entered the UK album charts at number two, but later reached number one. Soon after its release, Skinners success grew in July 2004 with the single, Dry Your Eyes. Blinded By the Lights, the single from A Grand Dont Come for Free, entered the Top 10 in September 2004. Skinners third studio album under The Streets name, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, was released on 10 April 2006 in the United Kingdom, in the UK it entered the album chart at number one. The first single, When You Wasnt Famous, was released two weeks before the album, the song is about Skinners troubles with trying to date a famous person, following his new-found fame. It was also named Track of the Week by NME in early March 2006 and this reluctance to reveal the subject may be more than simple politeness, as some of the descriptions of the unnamed starlet in the track are potentially damaging
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