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South by Southwest
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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A view of
6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas, during SXSW 2013
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The official logo for SXSW 2013
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Conan O'Brien promoting
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop at SXSW 2011
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Birmingham, England
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Birmingham is a major city and metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England lying on the River Rea, a small river that runs through Birmingham. It is the largest and most populous British city outside London, the city is in the West Midlands Built-up Area, the third most populous urban area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2,440,986 at the 2011 census. Birminghams metropolitan area is the second most populous in the UK with a population of 3.8 million and this also makes Birmingham the 8th most populous metropolitan area in Europe. By 1791 it was being hailed as the first manufacturing town in the world, perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive demolition. Today Birminghams economy is dominated by the service sector and its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121. 1bn, and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors, Birminghams sporting heritage can be felt worldwide, with the concept of the Football League and lawn tennis both originating from the city. Its most successful football club Aston Villa has won seven league titles, people from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the citys nickname of Brum. This originates from the citys name, Brummagem, which may in turn have been derived from one of the citys earlier names. There is a distinctive Brummie accent and dialect, Birminghams early history is that of a remote and marginal area. The main centres of population, power and wealth in the pre-industrial English Midlands lay in the fertile and accessible river valleys of the Trent, the Severn and the Avon. The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. Birmingham as a settlement dates from the Anglo-Saxon era, within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen. By 1327 it was the third-largest town in Warwickshire, a position it would retain for the next 200 years, by 1700 Birminghams population had increased fifteenfold and the town was the fifth-largest in England and Wales. The importance of the manufacture of goods to Birminghams economy was recognised as early as 1538. Equally significant was the emerging role as a centre for the iron merchants who organised finance, supplied raw materials. The 18th century saw this tradition of free-thinking and collaboration blossom into the phenomenon now known as the Midlands Enlightenment
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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States
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Blondie, 1976. L–R: Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri.
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Talking Heads performing in Toronto in 1978.
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Duran Duran in 1981. Top line: Nick Rhodes (keyboards), Simon Le Bon (vocals); Middle: John Taylor (bass); Bottom line: Roger Taylor (drums), Andy Taylor (guitar)
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Elvis Costello, in Massey Hall, Toronto, April 1979
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Synth-pop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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The
Prophet-5, one of the first
polyphonic synthesizers. It was widely used in 1980s synthpop, along with the
Roland Jupiter and
Yamaha DX7.
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Kraftwerk, one of the major influences on synthpop, in 1976.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008.
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Gary Numan performing in 1980
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Center of image: 1950s LP on Capitol
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45rpm Beatles single on Capitol
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Capitol logo from 1969 to 1977
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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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"Parlophon" ad from 1927, Berlin
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Early 20th century Parlophone record label of the 78rpm acoustic era
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Please Please Me by
the Beatles (side 1) – 1963. Parlophone gold and black label
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Virgin Records
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Virgin Records is a British-founded record label originally founded by English entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, today, the operations of Virgin Records America, Inc. are still active and headquartered in Hollywood, California, as it operates exclusively under the Capitol Music Group since 2007. US artists include Knox Hamilton, LTric and Rise Against, in fact the first real store was above a shoe shop at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, the name Virgin, according to Branson, arose from Tessa Watts, a colleague of his, when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin – as they were all new to business – like virgins, the original Virgin logo was designed by English artist and illustrator Roger Dean, a young naked woman in mirror image with a large long-tailed serpent and the word Virgin in Deans familiar script. A variation on the logo was used for the spin-off Caroline Records label and this was soon followed by some notable krautrock releases, including electronic breakthrough album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, and The Faust Tapes and Faust IV by Faust. The Faust Tapes album retailed for 49p and as a result allowed this relatively unknown band to reach number 12 in the album charts, other early albums include Gongs Flying Teapot, which Daevid Allen has been quoted as having never been paid for. Under the guidance of Tessa Watts, Virgins Head of Publicity, shortly afterwards, the Notting Hill record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols in the window. After modified versions of the label came the red, white and blue design introduced in 1975. The current Virgin logo was created in 1978, commissioned by Simon Draper, brian Cooke of Cooke Key Associates commissioned a graphic designer to produce a stylised signature. In 1983 Virgin purchased Charisma Records, renaming it Charisma/Virgin, then later Virgin/Charisma, before folding the label in 1986, in the process they acquired Genesis and comedy group Monty Python. The Charisma label was reactivated in the US in 1990 and enjoyed success with such as Maxi Priest, Right Said Fred,38 Special. When this Charisma label was retired in 1992, all of its artists were, as before, in 1987, Venture Records was created for new age and modern classical artists including Klaus Schulze, who had been associated with Virgin since the early 1970s. 10 Records Immortal Records Delabel Caroline Records was a label used from 1973 to 1977. The name and logo were used for some American editions of Virgin records in the 1980s and 1990s. Caroline was primarily used for independent distribution until the label was reactivated in 2013, today, Caroline Records acts as an independent label taking the place of EMI Label Services, after Virgins former parent company EMI was purchased by Universal Music Group. Front Line Records was a label for issuing Jamaican and English reggae music from 1978 to approximately 1987, a short-lived associated label, Dindisc, had Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Monochrome Set during its brief existence, after which its recordings became part of Virgins catalogue. Noo Trybe Records was a hip hop label that existed from 1994 to 1999
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Virgin logo designed by
Roger Dean for the fledgling Virgin Records label
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Classic radial sound sunburst logo, used from the 1960s to 1973, revived in late 1998; used until 2005. Still used on Japanese operations. This logo was used on
Pearl Jam 's
Vitalogy in 1994,
No Code in 1996 and
Yield in February 1998.
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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1968 and mono albums from 1964 to 1968.
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The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.
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"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first Warner Bros. single by
The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s.
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Beginning in 1968, Warner LP and single label designs became identical. From 1968 to 1970, the label was called Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records. The basic design and colour scheme of the W7 label were retained after the company name reverted to Warner Bros. Records and the "WB" shield in 1970 and remained in use until 1973.
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Arcadia (band)
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Arcadia were a new wave British group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran as a side project during a break in that bands schedule. Drummer Roger Taylor appeared in only a few photographs and in none of the music videos. The name of the band was inspired by the Nicolas Poussin painting Et in Arcadia ego. At the same time that So Red the Rose was in production, Asias third album, in production, was tentatively titled Arcadia but renamed to Astra, the group recorded just one album, the platinum-selling So Red the Rose. It peaked at #30 in the UK and #23 in the US and it also contains the single The Flame and the promo-singles Missing, El Diablo, and Keep Me in the Dark. Simon Le Bon described So Red the Rose as the most pretentious album ever made, solemn closing song Lady Ice features a long intro, largely based on samples from background music of Full Metal Jacket movies sniper scene. A video collection was released which featured music videos for the singles directed by Roger Christian, Marcelo Anciano, Russell Mulcahy. The band also recorded and released the standalone single Say the Word for the Playing for Keeps movie soundtrack, EMI re-released the album as a three disc box set in April 2010. This remastering collected all permutations and remixes of tracks released by the band, the third disc comprised the video collection on DVD, but it does not include the video for Say the Word. Arcadia continued the Duran Duran tradition of a slick image, for the Arcadia incarnation of their ever-changing band aesthetic, Le Bon, Rhodes, and Roger Taylor donned an upmarket gothic look of black tuxedos, vintage formal wear, and bow ties. The three also dyed their hair black, as seen when they performed at the 1985 Live Aid concert in Philadelphia. By the time the video for their single The Flame was made in early 1986, Rhodes had changed his colour to golden blond. The group did a variety of appearances on television. When Duran Duran released their Notorious album and toured, Election Day was included as part of the set as well as Some Like it Hot from The Power Station. Drummer Roger Taylor retired from the business for 15 years after the release of the Arcadia album. So Red The Rose Arcadia archive and fansite
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(L-R): Nick Rhodes, Simon LeBon, and Roger Taylor, 1985
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The Power Station (band)
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The Power Station was a 1980s supergroup made up of singer Robert Palmer, former Chic drummer Tony Thompson, and Duran Duran members John Taylor and Andy Taylor. Bernard Edwards, also of Chic, was involved on the side as recording producer. Edwards also replaced John Taylor on bass for the recording of the supergroups follow-up album, the band was formed in New York City late in 1984 during a break in Duran Durans schedule that became a lengthy hiatus. The Power Station was named after The Power Station recording studio where their album was conceived and recorded, on July 23, Duran Durans charity concert at Villa Park 1983 took place in aid of Mencap. Duran Duran had been known to be fans of Robert Palmer so he was invited to take part. After Duran Durans third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger, the members of the went on a planned short hiatus. One of these was the band Arcadia, which maintained the melodic and atmospheric aspects of Duran Durans previous recordings. The other was The Power Station, in which John and Andy Taylor worked with Palmer, Thompson, roger Taylor was mainly the drummer for Arcadia but also contributed percussion to The Power Station. The group began as something of a whim — it was a gathering of friends to provide backing to model. Both John and Andy Taylor were eager to branch out from the pop of Duran Duran and play some Led Zeppelin-flavoured rock. The participation of their idols from Chic lent the project a horn-inflected funk vibe that meshed surprisingly well with the crunching guitars, soon the project evolved into the idea of a revolving supergroup, a tentative name for the band was Big Brother. The original plan for the project was for the three musicians to provide musical continuity to an album full of material, with a different singer performing on each track. Those who were approached included Mick Jagger, Billy Idol, Mars Williams, and Richard Butler, the group then invited Robert Palmer to record vocals for the track Communication. When he heard that they had recorded demos for Get It On and they decided to record the entire album with Palmer. The group was signed with Capitol Records, on February 16,1985, the band performed Some Like It Hot and Get It On on Saturday Night Live. It was the time that Robert Palmer performed live with the original line-up. In March 1985, the issued the album The Power Station. It reached number 12 in the United Kingdom and number 6 on the United States album chart, the album is sometimes referred to as Power Station 33 ⅓ as the sleeve for the original vinyl record release bore that subtitle, indicating the speed of a record turntable
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The Power Station in 1985.
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The Devils (band)
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The Devils is the name of an English electronic pop band, formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy. The first incarnation of Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist, John Taylor on guitar and this lineup performed live for almost a year before Duffy and Colley left the band. Duffy moved on to a career and The Lilac Time. In 1999, Duffy came across an old recording of a live Duran Duran concert from a 1979 show. Shortly afterwards, Rhodes and Duffy met by chance at a fashion show and they decided it might be fun to re-record some of those original, dark, art-school, pre-Le Bon Duran Duran songs. A few months later took to the studio, using vintage analog instruments. The band played only two times, in London, and Cologne, before both members returned to their normal careers. In early June 2008, Rhodes and Duffy were interviewed by the music journalist Pete Paphides for BBC Radio 4, Duffy also publicly stated through his website that a Devils DVD could be released later
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Dark Circles
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Chicanery
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Chicanery, an American experimental rock band, is a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo and Neil Carlill. The band is based in Los Angeles California, although band members live across the U. S, the focus of the project is to present an alternative musical form, to depict a psychotic and surreal vision of pop music. The history of Chicanery extends back to the late 1990s in London, with Duran Duran at that time, Warren Cuccurullo had founded TV Mania with Nick Rhodes, and he was searching for a lead singer for the second segment of that project. While working in his studio, Cuccurullo heard the voice of Neil Carlill, lead singer of the group Delicatessen on one of that bands music videos. Cuccurullo found Carlill through the record label, and invited him to record some music at the studio. When Cuccurullo relocated back to Los Angeles after his tenure with Duran Duran ended in 2001, after they reestablished contact, Carlill sent demos of his latest music to Cuccurullo. Four of those tracks were used in the Chicanery album, in 2005 the bulk of the tracks for the debut album were cut in Los Angeles at Red Rum Studios, and some of the music was recorded in Massachusetts. Often, tracks would be recorded at studios, sent to Simone Sello. Chicanerys debut album, Chicanery was released on May 11,2010, in December 1978, Warren Cuccurullo auditioned successfully as a guitarist for Frank Zappa. He started in Zappa’s touring band and subsequently played on fourteen of Zappa’s albums, including among others Joes Garage, Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar, and Tinseltown Rebellion. In 1980, he co-founded the new wave band Missing Persons and composed the music, Missing Persons album Spring Session M earned a gold record in 1983. Cuccurullo was also involved in making Missing Persons music videos at the time when MTV had just begun, after Missing Persons, Cuccurullo had his greatest success as guitarist for Duran Duran for fifteen years. Replacing original guitarist Andy Taylor in 1986, he performed on the albums Notorious and Big Thing, in 1995 Cuccurullo founded TV Mania, where Neil Carlill was a guest a few years later. Cuccurullo left Duran Duran in 2001 due to a reunion of the original members. Since that time, Cuccurullo has recorded solo albums including Road Rage, Machine Language and he has collaborated with musicians including Frank Sinatra, Blondie, Dweezil Zappa, Shenkar, Milton Nascimento, Wes Wehmiller, and Patrick OHearn, as well as Terry Bozzio. In addition to being a significant force in bringing albums to gold and platinum status, Cuccurullo has received numerous awards, among others, Ordinary World, for which he composed the music, received an Ivor. Neil Carlill, poet, lyricist, composer, and musician was a member of Delicatessen an indie-rock band formed in 1994 in Leicester. Signed to Big Life Records and Publishing, Delicatessen released three albums and four singles and they also recorded two sessions for the John Peel show
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Chicanery, Warren Cuccurullo and Neil Carlill
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Robert Palmer (singer)
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Robert Allen Palmer was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues. He found success both in his career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US. Palmers involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades, Palmers father was a British naval intelligence officer stationed in Malta. Palmer moved with his family from Batley to Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1949. Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys High School. His first major break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden from the band The Alan Bown Set in 1969, the vocals for the album The Alan Bown Set. Originally recorded by Roden, were re-recorded by Palmer after the success of the single, according to music journalist Paul Lester, Palmer rose from northern clubs in England to become elegant and sophisticated and the master of several styles. In 1970 Palmer joined the 12-piece jazz-rock fusion band Dada, which featured singer Elkie Brooks, the band lasted a year, after which Brooks and Palmer formed the critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, rhythm and blues group, Vinegar Joe, Palmer sang and played rhythm guitar. Signed to the Island Records label, they released three albums, Vinegar Joe, Rock n Roll Gypsies and Six Star General, before disbanding in March 1974, Island Records signed Palmer to a solo deal in 1974. Although unsuccessful in the UK, both the album and single reached the Top 100 in the US. Notably, Sailin Shoes, Palmers own Hey Julia and the Allen Toussaint–penned title track carry virtually the same rhythm, and were packaged on the album as a trilogy without a pause between them. After relocating with his wife to New York City, Palmer released Pressure Drop, named for the version of the reggae hit by Toots & the Maytals. An album infused with his interests in reggae and rock music, it was noted for its cover art of a woman on the threshold of a balcony. He toured with Little Feat to promote the album, however, with the failure of follow-up album Some People Can Do What They Like, Palmer decided to move to Nassau, Bahamas, directly across the street from Compass Point Studios. In 1978, he released Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock, the album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard chart and scored a Top 20 single with the Andy Fraser–penned Every Kinda People. The song has been covered by artists including Chaka Demus and Pliers, Randy Crawford. It reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100, Palmers next album was an artistic departure, concentrating on pure rock
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Robert Palmer performing live at Sunset Strip Roxy
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Missing Persons (band)
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Missing Persons is an American band that plays a blend of new wave and hard rock. The band was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio and they later added bassist Patrick OHearn and keyboardist Chuck Wild. Dales quirky voice and heavy makeup made the band a favorite on MTV in the early 1980s and her revealing outfits played a pivotal role in moving the culture of music videos towards that of overt sexual exhibitionism. Dale and Terry Bozzio met while working with Frank Zappa, Cuccurullo encountered the pair while contributing to the Zappa album Joes Garage. OHearn was also a member of Zappas touring band. In 1980 the band made its first record, a 4-song EP entitled Missing Persons, in Zappas brand-new Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studios, the recording was financed by Cuccurullos father. The band toured, promoted the EP, appeared in the movie Lunch Wagon, mental Hopscotch was a No.1 record on local radio station KROQ-FM, and the self-promoted EP sold 7,000 copies. Two years of work led up to a signing with Capitol Records in 1982. With label support, the re-released EP sold another 250,000 units, the visual effects used in the music video for Words were unusual for the time, making it popular on the fledgling cable TV channel MTV. After the breakup of the band, Cuccurullo had his greatest success as guitarist for Duran Duran for fifteen years, replacing original guitarist Andy Taylor in August 1986, he performed on the albums Notorious and Big Thing, and was the sole guitarist on the global tours that followed. Becoming an official member in June 1989, he appeared on the next five studio albums. He left Duran Duran in 2001 due to a reunion of the original members. Warren also recorded solo albums before leaving Duran Duran. Later he collaborated with Neil Carlill in the rock band Chicanery. Dale Bozzio scored success as a performer under the name Dale with a top 40 hit on the Billboard Dance Chart, Simon Simon. Her album Riot in English was released in 1988 on Princes Paisley Park label and her album Make Love Not War, with Cleopatra Records she released New Wave Sessions in 2007 and Missing in Action in 2014. Terry Bozzio worked in 1987 with Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck and he has played with several groups and artists as a session or tour drummer including The Knack. Most recently, Bozzio performed and recorded with Californian nu metal band Korn, in place of regular band drummer David Silveria, Patrick OHearn is a composer and performer of ambient instrumental music on his own albums, and for television and movies
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Warren Cuccurullo and Dale Bozzio performing in October 2009
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Simon Le Bon
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Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and musician of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia. Simon John Charles Le Bon was the son of John Le Bon and Ann-Marie of Huguenot descent. His mother encouraged his talent when he was six years old by entering him in a screen test for a Persil washing powder TV advert. He was a member of the church choir from a young age. Simon went to Pinner County Grammar School, the school that Elton John attended some years earlier. He also attended Nower Hill High School, the school his mother attended. He worked as a porter at Northwick Park Hospital Accident and Casualty. He appeared in a few commercials and also in several theatre productions including Tom Browns Schooldays in the West End of London. Duran Duran was founded by childhood friends John Taylor and Nick Rhodes along with singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy in 1978, the band went through a long succession of lineup changes after Duffys departure, but finally settled on a guitarist and drummer. The band had a pop sound flavoured with disco, funk and electronics, built on a solid rock rhythm section. Le Bons ex-girlfriend, Fiona Kemp, introduced him to the band in May 1980, after listening to the songs the band had already composed together, Le Bon spent some time fitting one of his poems to one of the instrumentals, and found they had a good match. The bands first album, Duran Duran, was released in 1981, three more albums followed in quick succession, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger and the live album Arena. Each album release was accompanied by heavy media promotion and a concert tour. By mid-1984, the band were ready for a break, Duran Durans only other work that year was an appearance on the 1984 Band Aid charity single, Do They Know Its Christmas. Following the departures of Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor, Le Bon, Rhodes and John Taylor continued on as Duran Duran, recording and releasing Notorious and Big Thing. The group added guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and drummer Sterling Campbell and recorded the album Liberty, Duran Duran had a resurgence in popularity in 1993 with The Wedding Album, featuring the top-10 single Ordinary World. Several months into the worldwide concert tour supporting this album, Le Bon suffered a torn vocal cord. In 1995, Duran Duran released the covers album Thank You, and Le Bon had the chance to some of his favourite artists
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Simon Le Bon in 2004
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Nick Rhodes
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Nick Rhodes is an English musician, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the new wave band Duran Duran. He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985, as well as The Devils in 2002 with Stephen Duffy the original singer of Duran Duran. In March 2013, he released the TV Mania side project with ex-Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, nicholas James Bates was the only child of well-off parents, the owners of a Birmingham toy shop. Bates attended Woodrush High School in Hollywood, Birmingham and he and John Taylor formed a band called RAF. Bates left school in 1978 at the age of sixteen, and founded Duran Duran with schoolfriends Stephen Duffy, John Taylor, and Simon Colley. He cited a dislike for being called Master Bates and chose the name Rhodes after the brand of electronic keyboard, as the band coalesced into its final line-up in 1979-80, Duran Duran started playing at a local Birmingham club called The Rum Runner. The club owners became the managers, and Rhodes began working at the club as a disc jockey. The band achieved success, and Rhodes was a driving force throughout. An unschooled musician, he experimented with the sounds his analogue synthesisers were capable of and he also popularised the Crumar Performer on the early records. Rhodes was also quick to recognise the potential of the music video, barely twenty when the band hit major stardom, he cultivated an androgynous and sometimes flamboyant image, wore heavy makeup, and changed his hair colour at whim. By the late 1990s, Rhodes had begun writing lyrics for Duran Duran and his digitally altered voice is heard on the title track to the 1997 album Medazzaland. In 2001, the five members of Duran Duran reunited to record new music. Rhodes studied production techniques while in the studio with Duran Duran, eventually helping to mix several tracks on the Rio album, in early 1983, he discovered the band Kajagoogoo and co-produced their debut single Too Shy which became a UK no.1. In 2002, Rhodes co-produced and played synthesizers in nine tracks of the album Welcome to the Monkey House by The Dandy Warhols. In 2004 he produced British-based pop group Riviera F for their debut EP International Lover, with his bandmates Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor, Rhodes formed the side project Arcadia while Duran Duran was on hiatus in 1985. The band had a moody, keyboard-heavy sound, far more atmospheric than Duran Duran, the band scored a major hit with Election Day and the bands only album, So Red the Rose, went platinum in the US but was less successful in their native UK. The band never toured and was dissolved when Duran Duran regrouped in 1986, in 1999, Rhodes reunited with Duran Durans original vocalist, Stephen Duffy, to create new music based on some of the earliest Duran music the two had written together. The result was the album Dark Circles, released under the name The Devils, also in 1999, Rhodes had a small guest appearance as a Canadian bomber pilot in South Park, Bigger, Longer & Uncut. In 2006 Rhodes and John Taylor collaborated on the compilation album Only After Dark, in 2011 Rhodes along with Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson remixed Depeche Modes Personal Jesus for the British electronic bands remix compilation Remixes 2, 81-11
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Nick Rhodes in 2012
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John Taylor (bass guitarist)
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Nigel John Taylor is an English musician and actor, who is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of the new wave band Duran Duran. Duran Duran were one of the most popular bands in the world during the 1980s due to their music videos that played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV. Taylor played with Duran Duran from its founding in 1978 until 1997 and he recorded a dozen solo releases through his company Trust The Process over the next four years, had a lead role in the movie Sugar Town, and made appearances in a half dozen other film projects. He rejoined Duran Duran for a reunion of the five members of the group in 2001 and has remained with the group since. Taylor was also a member of two supergroups, The Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders, John Taylor grew up in Hollywood, a suburb of Birmingham, England. In his early teen years, he discovered music, choosing Roxy Music as his favourite band and his first band was called Shock Treatment. In 1978, Taylor and school friend Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran with Stephen Duffy while attending the School of Foundation Studies & Experimental Workshop Birmingham Polytechnic and he stopped using the name Nigel, and has been known throughout his professional career as John Taylor. Duran Duran released their first album in 1981, and went on to success in the early 1980s. Duran Durans early music tended to prominently feature Taylors melodic bass lines, following the model of funk, contrary to popular belief, Taylor does not play bass on the Band Aid charity single Do They Know Its Christmas. The bassline on that tracks was played on an OSCar synthesiser, as Duran Duran became famous in the early 1980s, Taylors individual celebrity grew. His picture was a staple of teen magazines, and he won numerous popularity polls, including appearances on People Magazines annual list of Sexiest People. He lived a lavish lifestyle with homes in London and Paris, and owned several cars and he dated fashion models, such as Bond girl Janine Andrews and Face of the 80s Renee Simonsen. In 1985, after recording the theme to the Bond movie A View to a Kill. With the guidance of producer Bernard Edwards, they released one album, The Power Station, which produced the hit singles Some Like It Hot and the T. Rex cover song Bang a Gong. That year, Taylor also launched his first solo effort, recording the single I Do What I Do. for the soundtrack to the movie 9½ Weeks and he also wrote some instrumental music for the movies score with collaborator Jonathan Elias. Taylor recorded an amount of unreleased solo material on the side. On 24 December 1991, Taylor married 19-year-old Amanda De Cadenet and he moved from England to Los Angeles, California to help further his wifes acting career, as well as to escape constant attention from the British tabloids. Taylors marriage declined even as Duran Durans star rose with the success of 1993s Duran Duran, in late 1994, Taylor sought treatment for his substance abuse, and has remained sober since
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John Taylor performing in 2008 with Duran Duran
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Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)
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Roger Andrew Taylor is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the new wave band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards. Duran Duran have sold over 70 million records worldwide, Roger Andrew Taylor was born into a modest family and was brought up in the Shard End area of Birmingham up until the age of 11, and then a small suburban house in Castle Bromwich. His father worked in the car industry and he began drumming at around the age of 12, teaching himself by playing along with his favourite records. His first ambition was to be a goalkeeper for English football club Aston Villa and he would eventually play at Villa Park but as Duran Durans drummer for their 1983 charity concert there. Taylor has cited drummers Paul Thompson of Roxy Music, Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, before joining Duran Duran, he performed with several school and local club bands. After the band split in 1979, he joined Duran Duran, Roger became known as the quiet one & has said that he has always preferred to speak through his drums. Taylor became a star with the other members of Duran Duran as they rose to fame in the early 1980s. Taylor played drums on the bands first three albums and the live album Arena. In 1985, the band recorded the theme to the James Bond film A View to a Kill, which became their second US No.1 hit and the only Bond theme in history to do so. However, the schedule of recording and touring, coupled with the pressures of fame. His final performance with the original line-up of Duran Duran was in July 1985 at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia, Taylor and the band had each picked up two Grammy awards during this period. Prior to leaving the band, he worked with Duran Duran bandmates Simon Le Bon, the album featured Sting, David Gilmour, Herbie Hancock and Grace Jones. Taylor also contributed percussion to the other Duran Duran splinter group Power Stations song Some Like It Hot from their self-titled album and he then purchased a remote farm estate in the hills of Gloucestershire to live a quiet life away from the music world. The Sun newspaper tracked him down and devoted a page to his departure dubbing him the hermit of pop. Initially his hiatus was expected to be for a year, in 1997, Taylor regained his appetite for the music industry. He briefly formed the electro/dance band Freebass, which produced a single, Love Is Like Oxygen, the record reached the top ten of the Music Week UK Dance Chart. Taylor also produced electro house tracks with Freebass member Jake Roberts under the name Funkface, lost This Feeling and Shine were released on Taylors own label Rt Music. In 2001, Taylor rejoined Duran Duran, as all five of the Rio era members reunited to record new material and this culminated in five sold-out nights at Wembley Arena, playing Madison Square Garden again, and signing with Epic Records in New York
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Warren Cuccurullo
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Warren Bruce Cuccurullo is an American rock musician who first worked with Frank Zappa during the 1970s. He was also a member of Missing Persons in the 1980s. In 1986, Cuccurullo joined Duran Duran, becoming a term member of the band until 2001. Warren Bruce Cuccurullo is the son of Jerry and Ellen Cuccurullo and he has two brothers, Jerry and Robert and a sister, Stephanie. His Italian-American heritage has its roots in Nocera Inferiore in Campania, Italy and he grew up in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, and began playing drums and guitar as a young child. He graduated from Canarsie High School in 1974, Cuccurullo has one adopted child, Mayko Cuccurullo who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who is actually the son of Claudia Bueno. Mayko is featured in the Duran Duran video Breath After Breath, filmed in Argentina in 1993, Cuccurullo returned to the United States in 2001 and lives in Venice, California. His current focus is on musical projects having to do with film scores, in his teen years, Cuccurullo became a devoted fan of Frank Zappa and began traveling to every show within 500 miles of his Brooklyn home. During the mid-1970s, he befriended several members of Zappas band, including Terry Bozzio, over the next three years, he appeared with the band on stage at a couple of shows as well as in the 1979 Zappa film Baby Snakes. He impressed Frank Zappa by knowing the guitar parts to every Zappa song in the catalog, including the strangest sounds and most bizarre time signatures. In December 1978, at the age of 22, Cuccurullo was invited to audition as a guitarist for Zappas new road band, several shows on the early 1979 Human Jukebox European/Asian tour were recorded for Zappas live albums. After the tour, Cuccurullo returned to the studio with Zappa to work on the Joes Garage albums, for which he provided rhythm guitar, Terry Bozzios wife Dale Bozzio also contributed vocal parts to the album. Cuccurullo and Dale Bozzio began writing together, and eventually they convinced Terry Bozzio that the three of them should launch their own band. Zappa asked Cuccurullo to play on his 1988 tour, but the involvement with Duran Duran had begun by then. Cuccurullo is name-checked four times on Zappas Joes Garage, first by Mary in Catholic Girls, by Zappa in Crew Slut, in the track Sy Borg when Ike Willis sings little leather cap and trousers – they look so gay. Warren just bought some, and once again by Zappa during A Little Green Rosetta Then everybody moves to New York and goes to a party with Warren. Two years of work led to a signing with Capitol Records in 1982, the release of the album Spring Session M. The singles Mental Hopscotch, Destination Unknown, Walking in L. A. Words and they appeared at the three-day Southern California concert, the US Festival in May 1983
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Warren Cuccurullo performing in 2009
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Sterling Campbell
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Sterling Campbell, is an American rock drummer who has worked with numerous high-profile acts, including The B-52s, Duran Duran, Soul Asylum, Cyndi Lauper, Gustavo Cerati and David Bowie. When he was fourteen years old, then-drummer in David Bowies backing band, Dennis Davis, Davis invited him to come with him to see a Bowie concert, galvanizing the student to apply himself further on the drum kit. He attended high school at The High School of Music & Art from which he graduated, Campbell practiced, and composed his own songs, finding work as a session musician. Campbell rose to attention in 1986, touring with Cyndi Lauper on her True Colors World Tour. For the next ten years, he played several notable bands which drew from different genres. Campbell soon replaced Soul Asylums drummer Grant Young, and played them from 1995 to 1998. Sterling began recording with David Bowie in 1991 and later joined his band in 1992, touring with him for fourteen years, until the end of his A Reality Tour, in 2004. Campbell has worked with such as David Byrne, The B-52s, Chic, Tina Turner, Grayson Hugh. In 2007, he reunited with The B-52s and currently tours with the band, in 1999, Campbell began practicing Falun Gong, a form of meditative qigong practice whose followers are persecuted in China. He traveled to Beijing in 2002 to demonstrate against the suppression and he has since continued to advocate for human rights in China. GMS Drums Zildjian Cymbals Evans Drumheads www. sterlingcampbellmusic. com Friends of Falun Gong interview Experience Sharing – Sterling Campbell
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Birmingham
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Birmingham is a major city and metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England lying on the River Rea, a small river that runs through Birmingham. It is the largest and most populous British city outside London, the city is in the West Midlands Built-up Area, the third most populous urban area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2,440,986 at the 2011 census. Birminghams metropolitan area is the second most populous in the UK with a population of 3.8 million and this also makes Birmingham the 8th most populous metropolitan area in Europe. By 1791 it was being hailed as the first manufacturing town in the world, perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive demolition. Today Birminghams economy is dominated by the service sector and its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121. 1bn, and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors, Birminghams sporting heritage can be felt worldwide, with the concept of the Football League and lawn tennis both originating from the city. Its most successful football club Aston Villa has won seven league titles, people from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the citys nickname of Brum. This originates from the citys name, Brummagem, which may in turn have been derived from one of the citys earlier names. There is a distinctive Brummie accent and dialect, Birminghams early history is that of a remote and marginal area. The main centres of population, power and wealth in the pre-industrial English Midlands lay in the fertile and accessible river valleys of the Trent, the Severn and the Avon. The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. Birmingham as a settlement dates from the Anglo-Saxon era, within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen. By 1327 it was the third-largest town in Warwickshire, a position it would retain for the next 200 years, by 1700 Birminghams population had increased fifteenfold and the town was the fifth-largest in England and Wales. The importance of the manufacture of goods to Birminghams economy was recognised as early as 1538. Equally significant was the emerging role as a centre for the iron merchants who organised finance, supplied raw materials. The 18th century saw this tradition of free-thinking and collaboration blossom into the phenomenon now known as the Midlands Enlightenment
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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New Romanticism
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New Romanticism was a pop culture movement in the United Kingdom that began as a nightclub scene around 1979 and peaked around 1981. Ultravox were also identified as New Romantics by the press although they did not exhibit the same visual styles of the movement. Japan and Adam and the Ants were also labeled as New Romantic artists by the press, there were attempts to revive the movement from the 1990s, including the short-lived romo movement. New Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to punk, and was influenced by former glam rock stars of the 1970s such as David Bowie. In terms of style it rejected the austerity and anti-fashion stance of punk, both sexes often dressed in counter-sexual or androgynous clothing and wore cosmetics such as eyeliner and lipstick, partly derived from earlier punk fashions. This gender bending was particularly evident in such as Boy George of Culture Club. Common hairstyles included quiffs, mullets and wedges, soon after they began to gain mainstream attention, however, many New Romantic bands dropped the eclectic clothes and make-up in favour of sharp suits. However, the post-punk Adam Ant himself has denied being a New Romantic. In an October 1981 interview, vocalist David Sylvian commented Theres a period going past at the moment that may make us look as though were in fashion, in another interview, he stated I dont like to be associated with them. The attitudes are so very different, of Japans fashion sense, Sylvian said For them, fancy dress is a costume. But ours is a way of life and we look and dress this way every day. Similarly, the electronic duo Soft Cell also denied any connection to the New Romantic scene and it was just a trendy London club thing with Steve Strange. While some contemporary bands, particularly those of the 2 Tone ska revival, dealt with issues of unemployment and urban decay, New Romantics adopted an escapist, as the scene moved beyond a single club the media settled on the name New Romantics. The New Romantic movement developed almost simultaneously in London and Birmingham, in London it grew out of David Bowie and Roxy Music nights, run during 1978 in the nightclub Billys in Dean Street, London. Its patrons dressed as uniquely as they could in an attempt to draw the most attention, Steve Strange worked as the clubs doorman and Egan was the DJ at the Blitz. The club became known for its exclusive door policy and strict dress code, Strange would frequently deny potential patrons admission because he felt that they were not costumed creatively or subversively enough to blend in with those inside the club. In a highly publicised incident, Mick Jagger tried to enter the club while under the influence of alcohol, the club spawned several spin-offs and there were soon clubs elsewhere in the capital and in other major British cities, including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. While still at Billys, Strange and Egan joined Billy Currie, before forming Culture Club, Boy George and Marilyn worked as cloakroom attendants at the Blitz
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Pop star
Adam Ant, seen here in 2012, wearing New Romantic-inspired clothing reminiscent of his early 80s period:
hussar jacket,
pirate shirt and leather gloves.
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David Bowie's androgynous
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders look, which was a major influence on the movement.
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The
Live Aid stage at the
JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in July 1985, where Duran Duran played, while Ultravox and Spandau Ballet appeared on the
Wembley stage in the UK
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Spandau Ballet
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Spandau Ballet /ˈspændaʊ ˈbæl. eɪ/ are an English band formed in London in 1979. The band were inspired by, and a part of. They became one of the most successful groups to emerge during the New Romantic era, the bands classic line-up features brothers Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp on guitars, vocalist Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble. The band have had eight UK top 10 albums, including three greatest hits compilations and an album of re-recorded material, at the height of their popularity in 1984, they received the Brit Award for technical excellence. The band split in 1990 and the members pursued solo careers, since their reformation in 2009, the band have been recognised at the Q Awards and Gary Kemps songwriting has been honoured by the Ivor Novello Awards. The band was formed in 1976 as The Cut, with Gary Kemp and Steve Norman on guitar, later saxophone and percussion. Kemp and Norman were attending Dame Alice Owens School in Islington North London, and were friends, as they shared a similar interest in music. They were joined by fellow student John Keeble, who met Norman when he stored his drum kit in the music room. They were joined by bass player Michael Ellison and by Tony Hadley, after a few months, Richard Miller replaced Ellison on bass, before Kemps younger brother Martin Kemp took over the role a couple of years later. By this time, the band had gained some live experience. Steve Dagger, a school friend of the band members, was asked by Norman. He was to be a part of the bands success. The band changed its name to The Makers in late-1976 and played as a band at the Roxy in their early years. In 1978 they became a pop band and changed the name to Gentry, under which they played a few gigs. The name also refers to Spandau Prison and the many hangings there, especially in 1945–46 of Nazi war criminals, the new Spandau Ballet, with Martin Kemp and Hadley, began performing with this name around London. Spandau Ballet was involved in a bidding war, but signed to Chrysalis Records and released To Cut a Long Story Short. Released 10 days after the band emerged from the studio, To Cut a Long Story Short became a top 5 hit in late 1980 and this was followed by further top 20 hits with The Freeze, Musclebound, and the Gold-certified debut album Journeys to Glory in 1981. The follow-up album, Diamond, also produced by Burgess, was released in 1982 and this album was certified Gold by the BPI and featured the funk-flavoured Top 3 hit Chant No.1
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Spandau Ballet in 2009
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Reunited Spandau Ballet performing at
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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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The entrance to
Earls Court in London on the evening of the
2008 BRIT Awards ceremony.
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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 Awards
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MTV Video Music Award
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award, the statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards, since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTVs website. The first VMA ceremony was held in 1984 at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, the ceremonies are normally held in either New York City or Los Angeles. However, the ceremonies have also hosted in Miami and Las Vegas. 1984, At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her hit Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, during the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and a garter. Cyndi Lauper spoke in Exorcist-esque gibberish to explain the VMA rules right before winning the Best Female video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, David Bowie and The Beatles were rewarded with the first ever Video Vanguard Awards for their work in pioneering the music video. 1988, At the 1988 Video Music Awards Michael Jackson appeared for the first time, a pre-recorded live performance of Bad was shown. He was also awarded the Video Vanguard Award, paula Abdul was nominated for six awards, picking up four wins. She performed a medley of her singles Straight Up, Cold Hearted. When Madonna won the Viewers Choice Award for her Like a Prayer video, the tone that the commercial sought to convey sharply contrasted with the music video. When Pepsi executives saw the video, they yanked the advertisement after only two airings, in an attempt to dissociate themselves from Madonna. She also gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit Express Yourself, the performance consisted of both a dramatic 18th-century reinterpretation of Vogue as well as her dramatically becorseted breasts. His video Thriller influenced and changed music videos into what it is like today, a conflict between Poisons Bret Michaels and C. C. DeVille culminated in a fistfight at the Video Music Awards in 1991, deVille was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen. Paul Reubens had his first public appearance following an arrest for lewd-conduct earlier that year, taking the stage in costume as Pee-wee Herman, he received a standing ovation, after which he asked the audience, Heard any good jokes lately. Prince & The New Power Generation performed their sexually charged song Gett Off on a Caligula-esque set and his trousers were parodied numerous times throughout the following year, on In Living Color & even on the next years VMAs by Howard Stern. It also marked the last TV appearance of Kiss with Eric Carr,1992, In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs Rape Me and tourettes
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The 1983-1984 Video of the Year "Moonman" award.
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Radio City Music Hall, site of 11 VMAs, including the
first
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Madonna has won 20 VMAs, the most for any artist.
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West taking the microphone from Swift at the
2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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6801 Hollywood Boulevard near
Dolby Theatre
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A typical Walk of Fame star in the phonograph record category. The charcoal terrazzo contrasts with the pink terrazzo star and brass surround, emblem and lettering.
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The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard, looking eastward. The Dolby Theatre is in the foreground at left. In the upper left quadrant is the famous intersection of
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
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The Clash
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The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska, for most of their recording career the Clash consisted of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky Topper Headon. Headon left the group in 1982, and internal friction led to Joness departure the following year, the group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, The Clash. Their third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979 and it was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later by Rolling Stone. In 1982 they reached new heights of success with the release of Combat Rock and their final album, Cut the Crap, was released in 1985. The Clashs politicised lyrics, musical experimentation, and rebellious attitude had a influence on rock. They became widely referred to as The Only Band That Matters, originally a promotional slogan introduced by the record label. In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Clash number 28 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Before the Clashs founding, the future members were active in different parts of the London music scene. John Graham Mellor sang and played guitar in the pub rock act the 101ers. Mick Jones played guitar in protopunk band London SS, which rehearsed for much of 1975 without ever playing a live show and recording only a single demo. London SS was managed by Bernard Rhodes, an associate of impresario Malcolm McLaren and a friend of the members of the McLaren managed band. Jones and his bandmates became friendly with Sex Pistols Glen Matlock and Steve Jones, among those who auditioned for London SS without making the cut were Paul Simonon, who tried out as a vocalist, and drummer Terry Chimes. Nicky Headon drummed with the band for a week, then quit, after London SS broke up in early 1976, Rhodes continued as Joness manager. In February, Jones saw the Sex Pistols perform for the first time, You knew straight away that was it, and it was a new scene, new values—so different from what had happened before. At the instigation of Rhodes, Jones contacted Simonon in March, soon Jones, Simonon on bass, Keith Levene on guitar and whoever we could find really to play the drums were rehearsing. Chimes was asked to audition for the new band and got the job, the band was still searching for a lead singer
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The Clash performing in
Oslo in 1980. Left to right: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon.
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The "iconic" cover of London Calling
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Graffiti commemorating Joe Strummer
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Barbarella (film)
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Barbarella is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim based on the French comic Barbarella. The film stars Jane Fonda as Barbarella, a representative of the United Earth government in the 41st century sent out to locate the scientist Durand Durand whose positronic ray could end humanity, producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the rights to adapt Barbarella into a film. Vadim took the role as director as he had been a fan of comics, Vadim attempted to cast several actors in the title role, including Virna Lisi, Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren before casting his then wife, Jane Fonda. Vadim also had his friend Terry Southern write the screenplay, this was altered during filming. The film was popular on its release in the United Kingdom. Contemporary film critics praised the visuals and cinematography, but found the films storyline to be weak after the first few scenes. Since its release, several attempts at sequels, remakes and other adaptations have been planned, in an unspecified future, Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti region. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon that Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands, Barbarella crashes on the 16th planet of Tau Ceti and is soon knocked unconscious by two mysterious girls, who take Barbarella to the wreckage of a spaceship. Inside the wreckage, she is tied up as several children emerge from the ship and they set out several dolls which have razor-sharp teeth. As the dolls begin to bite her, Barbarella faints, but is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman, while Hand takes her back to her ship, Barbarella offers to reward Mark and he suggests sex. She says that people on Earth no longer have penetrative intercourse but consume exaltation-transference pills, Hand prefers the bed, and Barbarella agrees. Hands vessel makes long loops around Barbarellas crashed vessel while the two have sex, when it comes to a stop, Barbarella is blissfully humming. After Hand has repaired her ship, Barbarella departs and promises to return, Barbarellas ship burrows through the planet and comes out next to a vast labyrinth. Upon emerging from her ship, she is knocked unconscious by a rockslide and she is found by a blind angel named Pygar, who states he is the last of the ornithanthropes and has lost the will to fly. Barbarella discovers the labyrinth is a prison for people cast out of Sogo, Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair her ship. Ping also notes that Pygar is capable of flight but merely lacks the will, after Pygar rescues her from the Black Guards, Barbarella has sex with him and he regains his will to fly. Pygar flies Barbarella to Sogo and uses the weaponry she brought with her to destroy the citys guards, Sogo is a decadent city ruled over by the Great Tyrant and powered by a liquid essence of evil called the Mathmos. Barbarella is briefly separated from Pygar, and meets a one-eyed wench who saves her from being assaulted by two of Sogos residents, Barbarella soon reunites with Pygar and the two are taken by the Concierge to meet the Great Tyrant, who was really the one-eyed wench in disguise
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French theatrical poster
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Fonda as Barbarella in the Excessive Machine
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Roger Vadim
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Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman, Barbarella, Vadim was born as Roger Vadim Plemiannikov in Paris. His mother, Marie-Antoinette, was a French writer, and essayist, Vadim studied journalism and writing at the University of Paris, without graduating. At age 19, he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret, whom he met while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, Vadim was celebrated for his romances/marriages to beautiful actresses. In his mid-30s, he lived with the teenaged Catherine Deneuve, by whom he had a child, Christian Vadim and he was also involved with actress Cindy Pickett. Later, he cohabited with screenwriter Ann Biderman for several years, announcing their engagement in 1984 and he told a story about how he lost his virginity. When he was 16, he spent the summer in Normandy, out of doors that night, she introduced him to the art of love and what amazed him most was that what Hemingway had written came true--the earth moved under him. Not until somewhat later did he realize that Allied ships were bombarding the coast in preparation for the D-day invasion and he was someone in whom there was so much satisfaction to the end of his life. The films merely reflected his happiness, nathalie, his eldest child, told Fonda biographer Patricia Bosworth, Jane was the love of my fathers life. My attitude is that if this makes me a little money it will be a tiny compensation for all the money I helped those actresses make. He also wrote plays and books of fiction, including LAnge Affame. Vadim died of cancer at age 72 on February 11,2000 and he was survived by his widow, Marie-Christine Barrault, and his four children. Ex-wives Bardot, Fonda, Schneider and Stroyberg were all in attendance at his funeral and he is interred at St. Tropez Cemetery. The Naked Heart Blackmailed En Effeuillant la Marguerite/Mademoiselle Striptease And God Created Woman Sait-on jamais, sois belle et tais-toi/Be Beautiful but Shut up Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune/The Night Heaven Fell Les liaisons dangereuses/Dangerous Liaisons Blood and Roses La Bride sur le cou/Please Not Now. Manhattan The Assassinated Young Girl Rich and Famous Into the Night Roger Vadim at the Internet Movie Database Roger Vadim at Find a Grave
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Roger Vadim in 1971
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Girls on Film
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Girls on Film is the third single by Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981. The single became Duran Durans Top 10 breakthrough in the UK Singles Chart, the band personally selected the song for release following the failure of its predecessor, Careless Memories, which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. Its popularity provided a major boost to sales of the eponymous debut album, Duran Duran. The song did not chart in the United States on its initial release, the song was used as the opening theme song for the anime series Speed Grapher and the night version appeared on 2012 Square Enix video game Sleeping Dogs. The song begins with a recording of the whirring of a motor drive on a camera. Both manager Paul Berrow and photographer Andy Earl claim to have supplied the camera for the recording, the song, along with Rio, was originally omitted from the 1984 live album Arena to make room for newer and less familiar album material from 1983s Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Both tracks were included as bonus material in the 2004 CD reissue of Arena. The song fared well on the radio and the charts before the video was filmed, but the controversy that helped to keep the band in the public eye. The video was made with directing duo Godley & Creme at Shepperton Studios in July 1981 and it was filmed just weeks before MTV was launched in the United States and before anyone knew what an impact the music channel would have on the industry. The band expected the Girls on Film video to be played exclusively at nightclubs that had video screens, or on Playboy Channel. The raunchy video created an uproar, and it was banned by the BBC and heavily edited for its original run on MTV. A Video 45 for Girls on Film and Hungry Like the Wolf was released in the United States in March 1983, the VHS-format tape contains the MTV-friendly edited day version of Girls on Film, while the Betamax format contains the original uncensored night version. The Video 45 won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1984, the uncensored video was also included in the Duran Duran video album and the Greatest video collection. The edited version would later be used in the 2008 karaoke video game SingStar Pop Vol.2, simon Le Bon commented in the audio interview on the Greatest DVD collection that the scandal of the music video overshadowed the songs message of fashion model exploitation. The band performs on a stage behind a models catwalk. They straddle a shaving cream-covered post at either end and move toward the centre, sliding their crotches along the horizontal candy-striped shaft in a slow, the models proceed to have a pillow fight, which causes their breasts to become partially exposed. Upon finishing, they kiss and return to their dressing room, a petite female Sumo wrestler with her hair flared up in a tall tophawk ponytail mounts the catwalk to confront a lumbering, heavyset male Sumo wrestler. The woman is wearing a top and a mawashi loincloth
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"Girls on Film"
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The Sumo wrestling match from "Girls on Film".
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Rio (song)
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Rio is the seventh single by Duran Duran. It was first released as a single in Australia, in August 1982, the song was the fourth, final, and title single lifted from the bands album of the same name, and was edited for its release. It was issued worldwide in January 1983 and became an immediate Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart, Rio was released as the third single from the album in Australia, and debuted on the Kent Music Report top 100 singles chart dated 6 September 1982. The song did not attract much notice in the United States upon its initial global release and it is one of the bands most recognisable songs, mostly due to its famous music video, which is widely regarded as symbolic of 1980s glamour and excess. It was once rumoured that the used to achieve this was a Roland Jupiter-8. However, it has been said by Nick Rhodes to actually be a Roland Jupiter-4 using the mode on the arpeggiator with a Cmaj7 chord. Rhodes created the sound at the beginning of the song by throwing several small metal rods onto the strings of a grand piano in the studio. The recorded sound was then reversed to create the intro, the laughter on the track was that of Rhodes girlfriend at the time. The song was a favourite of Nick and John and was incorporated into Duran Duran live sets during Wicketts tenure, the tenor saxophone solo was performed by Andy Hamilton, who has also worked with Wham. and Elton John amongst others. Short segments show band members trying to out their assorted daydreams, only to be teased, tormented. The music video was shot over the course of three days in May 1982 on the island of Antigua, the yacht scenes were filmed on the bay at English Harbour, the beach scenes at Millers Beach, and the segment featuring the raft at Shirley Heights. Some close ups were filmed later on the Solent due to a processing error. Director Mulcahy originally planned a scene where the members got chased off the island by people wielding guns. He had to borrow a camera to shoot the part of Nick Rhodes playing a saxophone on a raft. Nick Rhodes was reportedly seasick during the filming, and has often said I hate boats unless theyre tied up and youre having cocktails on them. While in Antigua, the band filmed a video for the album track Night Boat. There are 13 different official mixes of Rio, many of which are edits of the album version or Kershenbaum remix with fades in various places, the B-side of the November 1982 original United Kingdom single was The Chauffeur, an acoustic version of the moody album track. The B-side of the April 1983 reissue in the United States was a remix of Hold Back The Rain
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"Rio"
38.
Melody Maker
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Melody Maker was a British weekly pop/rock/disco music newspaper, one of the worlds earliest music weeklies. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright, in 2000 it was merged into long-standing rival New Musical Express. Originally the Melody Maker concentrated on jazz, and had Max Jones, one of the leading British proselytizers for that music and it was slow to cover rock and roll and lost ground to the New Musical Express, which had begun in 1952. MM began its Melody Maker LP charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror published the first UK Albums Chart, MM had larger and more specialised advertising, soon-to-be well-known groups would advertise for musicians. It ran pages devoted to minority interests like folk and jazz, a 1968 Melody Maker poll named John Peel best radio DJ, attention which John Walters revealed may have helped Peel keep his job despite concerns at BBC Radio 1 about Peels style and record selection. Melody Maker supported glam rock and progressive rock in the 1970s, Coleman had been insistent that the paper should look like The Daily Telegraph, but Williams wanted the paper to look more contemporary. He commissioned a design, but this was rejected by Coleman. During this period Melody Maker was described as the journal. In January 1972, in a moment for rock journalism. It was during this interview that Bowie claimed, Im gay, OH YOU PRETTY THING ran the headline, and swiftly became part of pop mythology. Bowie later attributed his success to this interview, stating that, Yeah and it was that piece by Mick Watts. During his tenure at the paper, Watts also toured with and interviewed artists including Syd Barrett, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, in 1980, after a strike which had taken the paper out of publication for a period, Williams left MM. Several journalists, such as Chris Bohn and Vivien Goldman, moved to NME, Coleman left in 1981, the papers design was updated, but sales and prestige were at a low ebb through the early 1980s, with NME dominant. While MM continued to devote most space to rock and indie music, it covered techno, rap and post rock, two of the papers writers, Push and Ben Turner, went on to launch IPC Medias monthly dance music magazine Muzik. The paper printed harsh criticism of Ocean Colour Scene and Kula Shaker, in 1992, they gave a French rock band called Darlin a negative review calling them a daft punky thrash. Darlin eventually became the music duo Daft Punk. The magazine retained its large classified ads section, and remained the first call for musicians wanting to form a band, Suede formed through ads placed in the paper. In early 1997, Allan Jones left to edit Uncut and he was replaced by Mark Sutherland, formerly of NME and Smash Hits, who thus fulfilled boyhood dream and stayed on to edit the magazine for three years
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Melody Maker
39.
New Romantic
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New Romanticism was a pop culture movement in the United Kingdom that began as a nightclub scene around 1979 and peaked around 1981. Ultravox were also identified as New Romantics by the press although they did not exhibit the same visual styles of the movement. Japan and Adam and the Ants were also labeled as New Romantic artists by the press, there were attempts to revive the movement from the 1990s, including the short-lived romo movement. New Romanticism can be seen as a reaction to punk, and was influenced by former glam rock stars of the 1970s such as David Bowie. In terms of style it rejected the austerity and anti-fashion stance of punk, both sexes often dressed in counter-sexual or androgynous clothing and wore cosmetics such as eyeliner and lipstick, partly derived from earlier punk fashions. This gender bending was particularly evident in such as Boy George of Culture Club. Common hairstyles included quiffs, mullets and wedges, soon after they began to gain mainstream attention, however, many New Romantic bands dropped the eclectic clothes and make-up in favour of sharp suits. However, the post-punk Adam Ant himself has denied being a New Romantic. In an October 1981 interview, vocalist David Sylvian commented Theres a period going past at the moment that may make us look as though were in fashion, in another interview, he stated I dont like to be associated with them. The attitudes are so very different, of Japans fashion sense, Sylvian said For them, fancy dress is a costume. But ours is a way of life and we look and dress this way every day. Similarly, the electronic duo Soft Cell also denied any connection to the New Romantic scene and it was just a trendy London club thing with Steve Strange. While some contemporary bands, particularly those of the 2 Tone ska revival, dealt with issues of unemployment and urban decay, New Romantics adopted an escapist, as the scene moved beyond a single club the media settled on the name New Romantics. The New Romantic movement developed almost simultaneously in London and Birmingham, in London it grew out of David Bowie and Roxy Music nights, run during 1978 in the nightclub Billys in Dean Street, London. Its patrons dressed as uniquely as they could in an attempt to draw the most attention, Steve Strange worked as the clubs doorman and Egan was the DJ at the Blitz. The club became known for its exclusive door policy and strict dress code, Strange would frequently deny potential patrons admission because he felt that they were not costumed creatively or subversively enough to blend in with those inside the club. In a highly publicised incident, Mick Jagger tried to enter the club while under the influence of alcohol, the club spawned several spin-offs and there were soon clubs elsewhere in the capital and in other major British cities, including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. While still at Billys, Strange and Egan joined Billy Currie, before forming Culture Club, Boy George and Marilyn worked as cloakroom attendants at the Blitz
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Pop star
Adam Ant, seen here in 2012, wearing New Romantic-inspired clothing reminiscent of his early 80s period:
hussar jacket,
pirate shirt and leather gloves.
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David Bowie's androgynous
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders look, which was a major influence on the movement.
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The
Live Aid stage at the
JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in July 1985, where Duran Duran played, while Ultravox and Spandau Ballet appeared on the
Wembley stage in the UK
40.
Japan (band)
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Japan were an English music group formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn. Japan achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, releasing nine UK Top 40 hits, including the 1982 Top 10 hit Ghosts, the band split in 1982, just as they were beginning to experience significant commercial success in the UK and abroad. Its members went on to other musical projects, though they reformed briefly in the early 1990s under the name Rain Tree Crow. The band began as a group of friends in 1974, Brothers David Sylvian and Steve Jansen, keyboardist Richard Barbieri and bassist Mick Karn studied at the same school, Catford Boys, Brownhill Road, South London. As youngsters they played Sylvians two-chord numbers mainly as a means of escape, sometimes with Karn as the front man, the band, who were initially nameless, opted to call themselves Japan just before their first live gig in the mid-1970s. But did find favor among Japanese audiences, the first song they recorded with Hansa, in 1977, was State Line. The band débuted with the 1978 album Adolescent Sex and followed up with their album, Obscure Alternatives. Both albums, produced by Ray Singer, sold well in Japan and the Netherlands and they also gained some popularity in Canada. However, in their native UK, those albums failed to garner public attention, the band was managed by Simon Napier-Bell who has also managed The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, London and Wham. In 1979, the band worked with the successful Euro disco producer Giorgio Moroder. The track was a significant change in style from their earlier guitar-laden recordings, moving them away from their glam rock roots. The electronic style continued on their album, Quiet Life. After leaving Hansa-Ariola, the signed with Virgin Records who released their last studio albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids. The band had always worn make-up since their inception in the mid 1970s at the end of the glam rock era. In an October 1981 interview, Sylvian commented Theres a period going past at the moment that may make us look as though were in fashion, in another interview, he stated I dont like to be associated with them. The attitudes are so very different, of Japans fashion sense, Sylvian said For them, fancy dress is a costume. But ours is a way of life and we look and dress this way every day. Regardless, it had an effect on the bands record sales in the UK
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Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, David Sylvian and Rich Barbieri, with
Masami Tsuchiya (L to R)
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Japan in
Toronto, 24 November 1979
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ABC (band)
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ABC are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Martin Fry, keyboardist and guitarist Mark White, saxophonist Stephen Singleton, ABC developed from an earlier band, Vice Versa, and established themselves as part of the New Romantic movement, with Fry being famed for his gold lamé suit. Their 1982 debut album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK number-one and they achieved ten UK, the band, now essentially singer Fry solo, continue to tour and released their ninth studio album, The Lexicon of Love II, in 2016. ABC has its roots in the band Vice Versa, a Sheffield band formed in 1977 by synthesizer-players Stephen Singleton and their debut gig was as the support to Wire at the Outlook club in Sheffield. They founded their own label, Neutron Records, releasing the EP Music 4, Martin Fry, who wrote the fanzine Modern Drugs, interviewed Vice Versa and shortly afterwards they asked him to join as synthesizer player. Fry accepted and by late 1980 the band had evolved into ABC, the last performance as Vice Versa was at the Futurama 2 Festival in Leeds in September 1980, from there on it was as ABC, with Singleton playing saxophone and White playing guitars and keyboards. In the new year they were joined by Mark Lickley on bass, the bands first single, Tears Are Not Enough, made the UK Top 20 in 1981. Soon afterwards, Robinson left the band and was replaced by David Palmer, in 1982, the band released their debut studio album The Lexicon of Love, which reached number-one on the UK Albums Chart. The band had three Top 10 hits during 1982, the singles Poison Arrow, The Look of Love, several high-concept music videos were made, including the long-form spy pastiche Mantrap. The remaining members found it difficult to follow-up on the success of their debut and their second album, Beauty Stab, was released in November 1983, produced by Gary Langan who was the engineer on The Lexicon of Love. It performed poorly in comparison to its predecessor, peaking at No.12, the first single from the album, That Was Then but This Is Now, briefly appeared in the UK Top 20, followed by a Top 40 showing for SOS. The band eschewed remixes for the project and so the 12 single for That Was Then, Singleton left the band shortly after the release of Beauty Stab as a result of Fry and Whites reluctance to spend much time touring the bands material. Fry and White then enlisted the services of Fiona Russell Powell and this line-up recorded the album How to Be a. The bands chart success dwindled further in the UK with this album, but they did score their first US Top 10 hit with Be Near Me, the album also featured the singles Millionaire, Vanity Kills and Ocean Blue. Inspiration for the cartoons of the band members was taken from a photo shoot by David Levine whose work featured on many of the sleeves for singles released from this album. Keith LeBlanc from Tackhead programmed much of the work for the album. After a hiatus, during which Fry was being treated for Hodgkins lymphoma, he and White reconvened ABC as a duo, the album returned them to the UK Top 10 for the first time in five years, peaking at No.7. It featured When Smokey Sings, a tribute to Smokey Robinson, the album also spawned The Night You Murdered Love and King Without a Crown as singles
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ABC in 2008
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EMI Records
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The label was later launched worldwide. Records Ltd. legal entity was created in 1957 as the record manufacturing and it oversaw EMIs various labels, including The Gramophone Co. Ltd. Columbia Graphophone Company, and Parlophone Co. Ltd, in July 1965, the standalone EMI Record companies were extracted from E. M. I. Records Ltd. and folded into The Gramophone Company Ltd, on 1 July 1973, The Gramophone Co. Ltd. was renamed EMI Records Ltd. Records Ltd. was wound down and its activities were absorbed into EMI Records Ltd, earlier, on 1 January 1973, all of The Gramophone Company Ltd. pop labels had been rebranded as EMI. EMI Records then signed new acts that became global successes, Kraftwerk, Renaissance, Queen, Olivia Newton-John, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, Sheena Easton, Pink Floyd, in 1997, EMI Records American division was folded into Virgin Records. In 2010, EMI Records opened a music division, EMI Records Nashville, which includes on its roster Troy Olsen, Alan Jackson, Kelleigh Bannen. EMI Records Nashville is a label to the Capitol Nashville unit of Universal Music Group. EMI Christian Music Group was renamed Capitol Christian Music Group, EMI Classics was sold to Warner Music Group on February 2013. After EU regulatory approval, EMI Classics was absorbed into Warner Classics on July 2013, abbey Road Studios List of record labels
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EMI Records
43.
The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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The "Fab Four" Beatles lineup in 1964 Top: Lennon, McCartney Bottom: Harrison, Starr
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Abbey Road Studios main entrance
The Beatles
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McCartney, Harrison, Swedish pop singer
Lill-Babs and Lennon on the set of the Swedish television show Drop-In, 30 October 1963
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The Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964
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Sampling (music)
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In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, by the late 1960s, the use of tape loop sampling influenced the development of minimalist music and the production of psychedelic rock and jazz fusion. Hip hop music was the first popular music based on the art of sampling – being born from 1970s DJs who experimented with manipulating vinyl on two turntables and an audio mixer. Historically, sampling was most often done with a sampler — a specialized piece of hardware — but today, however, vinyl emulation software may also be used, and turntablists continue to sample using traditional methods. Often samples consist of one part of a song, such as a rhythm break, for instance, hip hop music developed from DJs looping the breaks from songs to enable continuous dancing. Samples can also consist of words and phrases, including those in non-musical media such as movies, TV shows. Sampling does not necessarily mean using pre-existing recordings, a number of composers and musicians have constructed pieces or songs by sampling field recordings they made themselves, and others have sampled their own original recordings. The use of sampling is controversial legally and musically, in the 1970s, when hip hop was confined to local dance parties, it was unnecessary to obtain copyright clearance in order to sample recorded music at these parties. Aside from legal issues, sampling has been championed and criticized. Hip-hop DJs today take different approaches to sampling, with critical of its obvious use. Some critics, particularly those with a rockist outlook, have expressed the belief all sampling is lacking in creativity, while others say sampling has been innovative and revolutionary. Those whose own work has been sampled have also voiced a variety of opinions about the practice. Once recorded, samples can be edited, played back, or looped, types of samples include, The drums and percussion parts of many modern recordings are really a variety of short samples of beats strung together. Many libraries of such beats exist and are licensed so that the user incorporating the samples can distribute their recording without paying royalties, such libraries can be loaded into samplers. Though percussion is an application of looping, many kinds of samples can be looped. A piece of music may have an ostinato which is created by sampling a phrase played on any kind of instrument, there is software which specializes in creating loops. Whereas loops are usually a phrase played on a musical instrument, Music workstations and samplers use samples of musical instruments as the basis of their own sounds, and are capable of playing a sample back at any pitch. Many modern synthesizers and drum machines also use samples as the basis of their sounds, most such samples are created in professional recording studios using world-class instruments played by accomplished musicians
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DJ Premier looking for samples he can use
Sampling (music)
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Girl Talk Producing Sample-Based Music Live
45.
Gramophone record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Edison wax cylinder phonograph c. 1899
Gramophone record
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Emil Berliner with disc record gramophone
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Hungarian Pathé record, 90 to 100 rpm
46.
A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
A-side and B-side
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Victor 17929A and 17929B.
A-side and B-side
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Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran
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Night Versions, The Essential Duran Duran is a compilation album of remixes by Duran Duran. From the very beginning of their career, the band had dubbed the extended remixes of their songs night versions. Unlike many of their contemporaries, Duran Duran didnt just extend the intro or loop the bridge section of a song to pad out a track for a 12-inch single. As Allmusic explained, According to Nick Rhodes liner notes, they recorded extended versions of their singles to be used in night clubs. Rather than have the tapes cut and taped into remixes, Duran Duran went back into the studio. Similar to other releases in Capitols Essential range, this disc was available for only six months from the time of release. This may account for the inflated value of the disc, considering all the material. It has given influence not only in title but also to its concept to the album Nite Versions by Soulwax. CD One, Planet Earth –6,16 Girls on Film –5,27 My Own Way –6,34 Hungry Like the Wolf –5,14 Rio –6,42 New Religion –5,14 Hold Back the Rain –7,00 Is There Something I Should Know. –6,40 Union of the Snake –6,23 The Reflex –6,34 The Wild Boys –8,00 CD Two, New Moon on Monday –6,00
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Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran
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Adam and the Ants
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Adam and the Ants were an English new wave band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group, which lasted from 1977 to 1982, existed in two incarnations, both fronted by Adam Ant, the second incarnation of Adam and the Ants featured guitarist Marco Pirroni and drummer-producer Chris Hughes and was noted for its use of Burundi drums. It lasted from February 1980 to March 1982 and achieved commercial success in the UK. After witnessing this, Adam quit the band with the intention of forming his own, tentatively called The B-Sides, they practised regularly over the following months but, lacking a drummer, never managed to play a gig. Meanwhile, Adam Ant had befriended some influential figures in the burgeoning London punk scene, most notably Jordan, the Ants eventually formed in early 1977 consisting of Lester Square, Andy Warren and Paul Flannagan. Lester Square left to finish his course at an art school and to later form The Monochrome Set just days after The Ants played their first gig on 5 May 1977, mark Ryan replaced him on guitar and played the first formal gigs. Shortly after this, the group adopted the longer Adam and the Ants bandname, the band made their radio debut on the John Peel show with a session recorded on 23 January 1978, including the song Lou featuring the groups manager Jordan guesting on lead vocals. The following day, Adam and the Ants re-recorded Deutscher Girls for the Jubilee soundtrack album, touring extensively around the UK, often with Siouxsie and the Banshees, they proved to be unpopular with much of the British music press who disliked their fetishistic lyrics and imagery. In response, the group formed a strong – at times ideological – rapport with amateur punk fanzines such as Ripped And Torn which gave them more favourable coverage. The band built up a cult following but struggled to find overground success or even a record deal until 1978 when they were signed to Decca. By this time, Adam and the Ants had been through several changes before eventually settling on the stable line-up of Adam Ant, Matthew Ashman, Andy Warren. Many of these and other recordings and demos would eventually surface as bootleg recordings. They also recorded a further two John Peel Sessions in July 1978 and March 1979 and all three sessions were released in 2001 on The Complete Radio 1 Sessions, do It rejected the new songs and Ashman returned to the band shortly thereafter. Late 1979 saw the release of Dirk Wears White Sox, the album was somewhat dark, with post-punk riffs and some vestiges of glam rock, as well as attempts to fuse this sound with funk and soul. Lyrically it addressed subjects such as fetishism, historical figures like Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy and Cleopatra as well as art history, particularly the Futurism movement. It gained a cult following rather than success, leading a frustrated Adam to hire Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the Sex Pistols. During February–April 1980, a new version of Adam and the Ants was formed with Marco Pirroni, Kevin Mooney, Pirroni would become an influential member of the group, co-writing all of their new songs with Adam Ant. The label released the single under the shorter title Cartrouble in March 1980, the following month, the by-then recruited full band recorded the single Kings of the Wild Frontier for prospective record companies
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The line-up for Adam and the Ants in 1981.
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Vivienne Westwood
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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. She is an example of a modern day female impressario, Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLarens boutique in the Kings Road, which became famous as SEX. It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, dominated by McLarens band and she was deeply inspired by the shock-value of punk—seeing if one could put a spoke in the system. At the time of Viviennes birth, her father was employed as a storekeeper in an aircraft factory, in 1958, her family moved to Harrow, London. She studied silver-smithing at Harrow School of Art, but left after one term, saying later, after taking up a job in a factory and studying at a teacher-training college, she became a primary school teacher. During this period, she created her own jewellery, which she sold at a stall on Portobello Road, while she continued teaching and simultaneously making jewelry, this led to her discovering design when she met Malcom McLaren who became a major inspiration to her designs in Punk Fashion. In 1962, she met Derek Westwood, a Hoover factory apprentice and they married on 21 July 1962, Westwood made her own wedding dress. In 1963, she gave birth to a son, Benjamin Westwood, when she met Malcolm McLaren, it meant the end of Westwoods marriage to Derek. Westwood and McLaren moved to a flat in Clapham. Westwood continued to teach until 1971 when McLaren opened a boutique at 430 Kings Road called Let It Rock and now Worlds End, Westwood created clothes which McLaren conceived, drawing inspiration from bikers, fetishists and prostitutes. During this period, McLaren became manager of the band, the Sex Pistols. In 1967, while living in Clapham, Westwood and McLaren had a son, Westwood was one of the architects of the punk fashion phenomenon of the 1970s, saying I was messianic about punk, seeing if one could put a spoke in the system in some way. Essential design elements include the adoption of elements of Scottish design such as tartan fabric. Use of these elements make the overall effect of her designs more shocking. Westwood was the designer who often let her clothes speak for themselves, as independent designs and this idea that she uses her clothing as a statement of her own is a motif consistent throughout her time as a designer. Although this is also a factor as to why she was ridiculed as a designer, it was such a proclamation to his. This idea partially was attributed to her past collaborations with Gary Ness, McLaren and Westwoods first fashion collection to be shown to press and potential international buyers was Pirate. After the partnership with McLaren was dissolved, Westwood showed one more collection featuring the Worlds End label, from 1985-87, Westwood took inspiration from the ballet Petrushka to design the mini-crini, an abbreviated version of the Victorian crinoline
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Westwood in 2014
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The 'Mini-Crini,' 1985-87
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Academic dress of
King's College London in different colours, designed and presented by Vivienne Westwood in 2008.
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