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Dalcroze Eurhythmics
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Eurhythmics was developed in the early 20th century by Swiss musician and educator Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaches concepts of rhythm, structure, and musical expression using movement and it focuses on allowing the student to gain physical awareness and experience of music through training that takes place through all of the senses, particularly kinesthetic. Eurhythmics often introduces a concept through movement before the students learn about its visual representation. This sequence translates to heightened awareness and an association of rhythm with a physical experience for the student. Eurhythmics has wide-ranging applications and benefits and can be taught to a variety of age groups, Eurhythmics classes for all ages share a common goal – to provide the music student with a solid rhythmic foundation through movement in order to enhance musical expression and understanding. Jaques-Dalcroze was appointed Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire of Geneva in 1892, as he taught his classes, he noticed that his students deeply needed an approach to learning music that included a kinesthetic component. He believed that in order to enhance and maximize musical expression, students needed to be trained early on to listen and this coordination of mind and physical instincts formed the basis of his method. Ready to develop and employ an improved, integrated style of education at the Conservatoire. He found that students with innate abilities were rare, just as those with “perfect. Only when the muscles and motor skills were developed could they be properly equipped to interpret and understand musical ideas. ”Because of the nature of his goals in expanding music education. An objective of his was to young children in order to prepare them for musical expression in future instrumental studies. He believed exposure to music, an understanding of how to listen. Related to this was his goal to sow the seeds of musical appreciation for future generations, Jaques-Dalcroze also had an important friendship with Édouard Claparède, the renowned psychologist. In particular, their collaboration resulted in eurhythmics often employing games of change and quick reaction in order to focus attention, general Education Eurhythmics classes are often offered as an addition to general education programs, whether in preschools, grade schools, or secondary schools. For younger students, eurhythmics activities often imitate play, Games include musical storytelling, which associates different types of music with corresponding movements of the characters in a story. ”As they progress, their musical vocabulary is expanded and reinforced through movement. Vocabulary Eurhythmics classes for students in school through college and beyond can benefit from a rhythmic curriculum that explores rhythmic vocabulary. Activities such as rhythmic dictation, composition, and the performance of rhythmic canons and polyrhythms can accommodate a range of meters. In particular, vocabulary can be organized according to number of subdivisions of the pulse, Movement A key component of a rhythmic education, movement provides another way of reinforcing rhythmic concepts - kinesthetic learning serves as a supplement to visual and aural learning
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Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
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The Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually. While Rock am Ring takes place at Mendig on an old airbase, Rock im Park takes place at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg, both festivals are usually regarded as one event with a mostly identical lineup for both festivals. All artists perform one day at Mendig and another day in Nuremberg during the three-day event, there have been minor exceptions in the past years where an artist would be announced for one of the festivals only. However, after a dip in attendance for the 1988 event, in 1991, the festival returned with a new concept, as well as featuring well-known artists, event organizers present lesser known up-and-coming bands to the public. In 1993, Rock im Park took place for the first time in Vienna, for the 1994 event, Rock im Park moved to the disused Munich-Riem airport, and the following year to Munichs Olympiastadion, where it found a home for the 1995 and 1996 event. 1997 Rock im Park moved to Nurembergs Frankenstadion where it was held until the venue was unavailable in 2004 because the stadium was being renovated for the 2006 Football World Cup. Since 2004 the venue moved again to the current Zeppellinfeld, where Rock im Park was since held with the exception of the 2006 festival, the 2007 festival was used in a science experiment to test the effects of large bodies of people simultaneously jumping. The experiment data was used to calculate the result if the entire Chinese population were to jump in unison, the experiment concluded no significant results would come from the theoretical event. After 29 editions of Rock am Ring, the new owner of the Nürburgring decided that the contract wont be extended, the festival continued at another location in 2015. The 2008 festival took place on 6–8 June 2008,91 acts have been officially confirmed. Both festivals were sold out on 1 May, confirmed acts,3 Doors Down,36 Crazyfists, Against Me. Glory of Joanns MySpace profile lists them as performing at Rock am Ring, the headling acts for 2009 were Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, The Prodigy, KoЯn, Marilyn Manson, The Killers, Placebo and Billy Talent. Other bands included 2raumwohnung, Alexisonfire, All That Remains,1, Juliette Lewis, Kettcar, Kilians, Killswitch Engage, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Little Man Tate, Machine Head, Madina Lake, Madness, Mando Diao, M. I. A. The headliners for the 2011 festival were System of a Down, motörhead, The Offspring, Opeth, Periphery, Shinedown, Skrillex, Soundgarden, Tenacious D, The Subways, and Trivium. Headliners, Linkin Park, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Kings Of Leon. 1, John Newman, Karnivool, Klangkarussell Live, Kvelertak, Left Boy, Mando Diao, Marteria, Mastodon, Maximo Park, Milky Chance, Nine Inch Nails, Of Mice & Men, Opeth, Portugal. The Man, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rob Zombie, Rudimental, SDP, Sierra Kidd, Slayer, Suicide Silence, Teesy, Triggerfinger, headliners, Foo Fighters, Die Toten Hosen, Slipknot, Motionless in White. Official Rock am Ring site Official Rock im Park site Ringrocker. com Parkrocker. net Rockpalast – Rock am Ring 2007 Rock am Ring live sets audio files archive, Rockpalast broadcast
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The Prodigy performing at Rock am Ring in 2009
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Center Stage 2013, the German rapper
Cro performing
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Rock am Ring 2006 stage, Dir en grey shown
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Rock am Ring 2007 main stage, 30 Seconds to Mars
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Palace of Westminster,
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Central London skyline
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The name London may derive from the
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Synthpop
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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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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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Arista Records
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/ˈɛ. rɪ. stə/ was a major American record label. It was a wholly owned unit of Sony Music Entertainment and was handled by Bertelsmann Music Group. The company operated under the RCA Music Group until 2011, the label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records. Until its demise in 2011, it was a distributor and promoter of albums throughout the United States. Today, the labels reissues and catalogue releases are handled by RCA Records, after being fired from CBS Records, Clive Davis was hired by Columbia Pictures in June 1974 to be a consultant for the companys record and music operations. The label was named Arista after New York Citys secondary school honor society, in early 1975, most of the artists who had been signed to Bell were let go, except David Cassidy, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and the 5th Dimension. Others, such as Suzi Quatro and Hot Chocolate, were farmed out to the Bell/Arista-distributed label, several Bell acts, such as Barry Manilow, the Bay City Rollers, and Melissa Manchester moved to Arista. The British Bell label kept that name for a couple of years before changing its name to Arista, the label was immortalized in the 1978 Rockpile song They Called It Rock, in the lyric, Arista says they love you/But the kids cant dance to this. In addition to Manilow, the Kinks, and Dionne Warwick, Arista signed Aretha Franklin in 1980, the labels most significant acquisition came in 1983 when Davis signed Warwicks cousin, Whitney Houston. Houston would eventually become Aristas biggest-selling recording artist, with sales of 200 million records worldwide, Arista had an imprint label in the 1970s called Arista Novus, which focused on contemporary jazz artists. A country music division, Career Records, was merged into the Arista Nashville division in 1997, Arista Austin was used in the late 1990s as a country label. Additionally, Arista was the North American distributor of Jive Records from 1981 until 1987, during the 1990s, Arista also distributed Logic, Rowdy and Heavenly Recordings. Looking to stave off bankruptcy, Columbia Pictures sold Arista to German-based Ariola Records in 1979, after Ariola purchased General Electrics RCA Records in 1986, the combined company was renamed Bertelsmann Music Group, though Aristas U. S. releases would not note BMG until 1987. Into the 1980s, Arista continued its success, including major UK act Secret Affair, over the years it acquired Northwestside Records, deConstruction Records, First Avenue Records, and Dedicated Records in the UK. In 1989, Arista entered into a joint venture with Antonio L. A. Reid and Babyface in the creation of LaFace Records record company of TLC, in 1993, Arista also entered into a joint-venture with Sean P. Diddy Combs to form Bad Boy Records. In 1997 Arista acquired Profile Records, the home of Run-D. M. C. in 1989, Arista signed Milli Vanilli, a duo consisting of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan that was based in Germany. The label released its album, Girl You Know Its True, which was a remixed and re-edited version of All or Nothing. The album was certified platinum in the U. S. and charted five top-ten singles
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.
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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.
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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.
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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a record music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG. The ventures successor, the again-active Sony Music Entertainment, is 100% owned by the Sony Corporation of America, Sony BMG Music Entertainment began in Skem as the result of a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group completed on March 4,2004. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, financial analysts covering the merger anticipated that up to 2,000 jobs would be cut as a result, saving Sony BMG approximately $350 million annually. The companys chief executive officer is Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who succeeded Andrew Lack on February 10,2006, in the first half of 2005, the companys share of new releases in the United States declined from 33% to 26% according to Nielsen SoundScan. This, and Lacks negotiation of what called a ill-conceived deal with Bruce Springsteen led to Bertelsmann informing Sony that it would not renew Lacks contract. The company signed a content deal with the video sharing community YouTube. On August 5,2008 Sony Corporation agreed to buy Bertelsmann AGs 50 percent stake in the company for $1.2 billion to get full control. The music company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment and became a unit of Sony Corporation of America, epic Records, one of their labels, was specifically cited for using fake contests in order to hide the fact that the gifts were going to disc jockeys rather than listeners. A scandal ensued over digital rights management software produced and shipped by Sony BMG that automatically installed itself on peoples computers, the scandal and attendant controversy about the practice of software auto-installation spawned several lawsuits. Sony BMG eventually recalled all of the affected CDs, uS-CERT advised, Do not install software from sources that you do not expect to contain software, such as an audio CD. In its Top Flops of 05 issue, the enterprise newsweekly eWeek had to create a new category for the Sony BMG root-kit fiasco, peter Coffee, of eWeek Labs reported, The Sony brand name was already in trouble—it lost 16 percent of its value between 2004 and 2005. Now it has taken a blow among tech-product opinion leaders, weve never done it before, and we hope well never have occasion to do it again but, for 2005, eWeek Labs awards a Stupid Tech Trick grand prize to Sony. EWeek Vol.22, No.50 In October 2007, Sony BMG, alongside other large music firms, successfully sued Jammie Thomas. Ms. Thomas – who made US$36,000 a year – was ordered to pay US$222,000 in damages for making 24 songs available for download on the Kazaa file-sharing network. Thomas had allegedly shared 1702 files in total, the court upholding the award called it a case of willful infringement. Sony did not restrict minor childrens participation in its websites, Sony paid a $1 million fine. Sony Commercial Music Group – Official Site Sony Music Entertainment, Incorporated – Company Profile on Yahoo
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Annie Lennox
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Ann Annie Lennox, OBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times and she has also been named the Brits Champion of Champions. Lennox embarked on a career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva. To date, she has released six studio albums and a compilation album. Aside from her eight Brit Awards, she has collected four Grammy Awards. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award, the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine. In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Into the West, written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her tireless charity campaigns, on 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. Lennox performed the song Little Bird during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London on 12 August 2012, Lennox has been named The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No.22 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women in Music and she has earned the distinction of most successful female British artist in UK music history due to her commercial success since the early 1980s. As of June 2008, including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide, Annie Lennox was born on Christmas Day 1954 in Summerfield Maternity hospital, Aberdeen, the daughter of Dorothy and Thomas Allison Lennox. In the 1970s, Lennox won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London and she lived on a student grant and worked at part-time jobs for extra money. Lennox was unhappy during her time at the Royal Academy and spent her time wondering what direction she could take. Lennoxs flute teachers final report stated, Ann has not always sure of where to direct her efforts. She is very, very able, however, two years later, Lennox reported to the Academy, I have had to work as a waitress, barmaid, and shop assistant to keep me when not in musical work. She also played and sang with a few bands, such as Windsong, during the period of her course, in 2006, the academy made her an honorary Fellow. Lennox also was made a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, in 1976, Lennox was flautist with a band called Dragons Playground, leaving before they appeared on TVs New Faces
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Annie Lennox performing at the Rally for Human Rights during the
International AIDS Conference 2010 in
Vienna as part of her
SING Campaign.
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Lennox in the mid-1980s
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Lennox (far right) and
David A. Stewart (left) performing as
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Annie Lennox on stage in 2004
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David A. Stewart
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David Allan Dave Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named Dave Stewart and he won Best British Producer at the 1986,1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart was born in Sunderland, England, in 1952 and he attended Bede Grammar School for Boys, whilst still in his teens, he secured a record deal as part of folk-rock band Longdancer. Despite being signed to Elton Johns record label, The Rocket Record Company, after leaving Wearside Stewart then spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs, soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the pair had teamed up with Sunderland musician Peet Coombes, the band then developed into The Tourists who enjoyed modest success, including a hit in 1979 with a cover of the Dusty Springfield hit I Only Want to Be with You. The Tourists split up in 1980, as did Stewart and Lennox and they formed a new musical project named Eurythmics. After a string of hit singles and albums, the duo split in 1990, Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics 25th anniversary. When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released an album with his new band The Spiritual Cowboys, the song Party Town was featured in the 1990 film Flatliners. A second album followed in 1991, both albums were Gold in France, where Stewart concentrated his efforts. In 1992, Stewart collaborated with singer Terry Hall on the project Vegas, the duo released one self-titled album but this was commercially unsuccessful, though one of the singles from the album made the UK Top 40. In 1993, Stewart appeared in an Apple Inc. advertisement for the Power Macintosh in which he riffed on the word power and he also had a small cameo as a computer hacker in the 1995 film Hackers. In 1994, Stewart released an album, Greetings from the Gutter. The album was not a success, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single Heart Of Stone which reached number 36. He then released another album, Sly-Fi, first on the internet, in 1997, Stewart released an album Come Alive with the actress and singer Rhona Mitra. In 1999, he produced an album, Female Icon. In November 2002, Stewart worked with former South African president Nelson Mandela and he then began organising the 46664 campaign and series of concerts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In 2007, Stewart announced on his MySpace page that he would be playing live concerts showcasing his entire career, according to the announcement, he was to be accompanied by various guest musicians as well as a 30 piece orchestra
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Stewart live performing with
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In the Garden (Eurythmics album)
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In the Garden is the debut studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released in October 1981. Plank had previously worked with the duo whilst they were in their previous band The Tourists, two singles were released from the album in the UK, Never Gonna Cry Again and Belinda. Neither the album nor the singles achieved much success, although Never Gonna Cry Again charted at #63 in the UK singles chart. On 14 November 2005, RCA repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalog as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, the re-issue of In the Garden added the B-sides from the albums two singles, plus three tracks recorded live on the accompanying tour. On the way, they mug up on their Foxx, Bowie, and Joy Division without forgetting their own roots, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except English Summer and Caveman Head co-written by Roger Pomphrey
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In the Garden
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (album)
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Sweet Dreams is the second studio album by British new wave duo Eurythmics, released by RCA Records on 4 January 1983. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, after almost two years of initial commercial failure for Eurythmics, this album became a commercial breakthrough for the duo on both sides of the Atlantic. In the wake of success, the single Love Is a Stranger, previously a flop, was re-released. It too was accompanied by a video, which featured Lennox dressed both as a man and a woman. The album was re-released in 2005 with the rest of the Eurythmics studio catalogue, the recordings were remastered and several bonus tracks were added to each of eight albums. In this release Sweet Dreams acquired six bonus tracks, Sweet Dreams saw the duo move away from the psychedelic, guitar-tinged band-oriented sound of their 1981 debut album In the Garden, instead focusing on raw analogue synthesizers and drum machines. Whilst the synthpop genre had grown in popularity in the years, it was often associated with all-male groups and somewhat clinical. Eurythmics brought a soul music twist to the sound, which proved popular with broader audiences. Early Australian, German and US CD releases and the 2005 reissue version of this album have a longer version of This City Never Sleeps. The length of 6,41 is due to some mixed sound effects, very good, very good that total 21 seconds. This message also appears on original UK vinyl pressings, during 1982 Eurythmics recorded many tracks which ended up as B-sides of singles or as alternative versions of other songs. Tracks such as Step on the Beast, Invisible Hands, Dr. Trash, or the versions of The Walk have not been released on CD yet. However these tracks can now be heard through YouTube, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Wrap It Up by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, and Satellite of Love by Lou Reed. Annie Lennox – vocals, keyboards, synthesisers, flute David A, Sweet Dreams at Discogs Sweet Dreams at Radio3Net
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Sweet Dreams is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. The song is the track of their album of the same name and was released as the fourth. The song became their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide and its music video helped to propel the song to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the first single released by Eurythmics in the US, Sweet Dreams is arguably Eurythmics signature song. Following its success, their previous single, Love Is a Stranger, was re-released, on Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue in 2003, Sweet Dreams was ranked number 356. Eurythmics have regularly performed the song in all their live sets since 1982, in 1991, the song was remixed and reissued to promote Eurythmics Greatest Hits album. It re-charted in the UK, reaching number 48, and was also a hit in dance clubs. Another remix by Steve Angello was released in France in 2006, the original recordings main instrumentation featured a sequenced analog synthesizer riff, which Stewart accidentally discovered in the studio when he played a bass track backwards. Apart from the synthesizer, the arrangement also uses a Movement Systems Drum Computer, a piano in the middle eight, Sweet Dreams was Eurythmics commercial breakthrough in the United Kingdom and all over the world. The single entered the UK chart at #63 in February 1983, Sweet Dreams was the first ever single release by Eurythmics in the United States when it was released in May 1983. The single debuted at #90 and slowly eased up the chart, by August, the single had reached number two and stayed there for four weeks, kept from the top by The Polices Every Breath You Take before Sweet Dreams took the number one spot. The music video for Sweet Dreams was directed by Chris Ashbrook and filmed in January 1983, shortly before the single, the video received heavy airplay on the then-fledgling MTV channel and is widely considered a classic clip from the early-MTV era. Stewart is shown typing on a computer, the camera cuts to Lennox and Stewart meditating on the table. Stewart is next shown playing a cello in a field, the scene then returns to the boardroom, with Lennox and Stewart lying down on the table, and a cow walking around them. Stewart is shown typing on the computer, with the cow chewing something right next to him. The scene cuts to the duo in a field, with a herd of cows, Lennox and Stewart are then seen floating in a boat, with Stewart again playing cello. The video ends with Lennox lying in bed, with the last shot being a book on a bearing a cover identical to the album. The screen then fades to black as Lennox turns off the bedside lamp, the video has 125 million views by March 11,2017
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"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
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Diva (Annie Lennox album)
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Diva is the debut solo album by the Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, released in 1992. The album entered the UK album chart at number 1 and has sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone. It was also a success in the US, where it was a top 30 hit and has been certified double platinum, Diva won Album of the Year at the 1993 Brit Awards, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards the same year. Following the informal dissolution of Eurythmics in 1990, Lennox took some away from the music industry. She commenced working on her first solo album in 1991 with producer Stephen Lipson, upon its release, the album debuted at number one in the UK Album Charts and would eventually yield five hit singles, three of which reached the Top 10. Diva was ultimately certified quadruple platinum in the UK, more than any of Eurythmics studio albums, the song Keep Young and Beautiful was included on the CD release as a bonus track. Another bonus track, Step by Step, appeared on the Mexican, the song was later recorded by Whitney Houston for the 1996 film soundtrack The Preachers Wife and subsequently became a hit single. The headdress worn by Lennox on the cover was obtained from the London-based costume company Angels. It had been used previously in the James Bond film Octopussy, in 1993 the album was included in Q magazines list of the 50 Best Albums of 1992. Rolling Stone magazine described the album as. state-of-the-art soul pop. in their review, Rolling Stone commented, State-of-the-art soul pop, Annie Lennoxs solo debut is sonically gorgeous, it also declares her aesthetic independence. Ace sessionmen polish Divas gloss, and producer Stephen Lipson operates in hyperdrive, three years after her last outing with Dave Stewart, her cohort in Eurythmics, Lennox voids any notion that he was her Svengali and she merely the MTV beauty with stunning pipes. Writing nearly all of Diva, she manages a whirlwind tour of mainstream R&B, all songs by Lennox, except where otherwise noted. Lennox simultaneously released an album for Diva, featuring promotional videos for seven of the albums tracks. The video album was directed by Sophie Muller who had worked with Lennox during her years with Eurythmics. Some months after its first release, the Diva video album was reissued as Totally Diva, the only omissions from the video album were Little Bird, and the album track Stay By Me for which no video has ever been made
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Peace (Eurythmics album)
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Peace is the ninth and final studio album by the British band Eurythmics, released in October 1999. It was the bands first album of new material in ten years, following their first performance together in eight years at a record company party in 1998, David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox began writing and recording together for the first time since 1989. The title was designed to reflect the ongoing concern with global conflict. The record was promoted with a concert on the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II, a 24-date world tour followed soon after, with all profits donated to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. The final show of the tour, on 6 December 1999 at the London Docklands Arena, was filmed and released on video, I Saved the World Today was the lead single from the album, reaching number eleven on the UK singles chart. Another single,17 Again, was released in January 2000 and it reached the UK Top 30 and topped the US dance chart. Critics were generally impressed with the record, although NME commented that it lacked the power of their previous releases, on 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalogue as Deluxe Edition Reissues. Each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks, for unknown reasons, many songs on the 2005 reissue of Peace are alternate mixes compared to the original 1999 release. The most dramatically different mix is Ive Tried Everything, which is upbeat with additional drums. Other songs with mix differences include,17 Again, I Saved the World Today, Power to the Meek, Peace Is Just a Word, all tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Something in the Air by Speedy Keen
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Ultimate Collection (Eurythmics album)
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Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits compilation album by the British pop duo Eurythmics, and was released in November 2005. This set preceded the re-issuing of all eight Eurythmics back-catalogue albums originally released by RCA Records and these re-issues include remastered tracks and bonus material. The fact that the Ultimate Collection was closely connected to these re-issues is also the reason for the omission of Sexcrime. While that song gave Eurythmics a No, unlike 1991s Greatest Hits, Ultimate Collection contains two newly recorded songs Ive Got a Life and Was It Just Another Love Affair. and all of the tracks have been remastered. Also unlike the 1991 compilation, Ultimate Collection contains no tracks from the duos 1989 album We Too Are One, One of the new songs recorded for this collection, Ive Got a Life, was released as a single. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 and spent three weeks at one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. Ultimate Collection peaked at No.5 on the UK Albums Chart and has since been certified triple Platinum by the BPI and it peaked at No.116 on the US Billboard 200. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except When Tomorrow Comes co-written by Patrick Seymour
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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
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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
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MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
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The MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist have been given out since the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. From then to 2006, the award was named Best New Artist in a Video, in 2007 its name was changed to Best New Artist, as the category underwent a format change to award the artists body of work for the full year rather than a specific video. For the 2008 ceremony, though, while the award retained its 2007 name, the category was later renamed Artist to Watch through 2013 to 2015 while still keeping the format of an award going to a certain video. Justin Bieber is the youngest artist to win this award or any Video Music Award at the age of 16, grammy Award for Best New Artist MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act
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Inaugural winner
Eurythmics
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1997 award winner
Fiona Apple
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1999 award winner
Eminem
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2002 award winner
Avril Lavigne
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Grammy Awards
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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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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
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2008 BRIT Awards ceremony.
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UK Music Hall of Fame
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The UK Music Hall of Fame was an awards ceremony to honour musicians, of any nationality, for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom. The hall of fame started in 2004 with the induction of five members and five more members selected by a public televote. In subsequent years, a panel of more than 60 journalists and music executives decided the people. The ceremony was last held in 2006, and has since been cancelled. E. M, the programme was televised in the UK. It was later shown on VH1 in the United States, without the Joy Division/New Order segments, the full version was subsequently shown on VH1 Classic. The 2006 inductees were, James Brown Led Zeppelin Rod Stewart Brian Wilson Bon Jovi Prince Dusty Springfield George Martin received an honorary membership, the band were also joined by Dean Tidey. Also present at the ceremony were Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, Tony Iommi, Wolfmother, Jimmy Page, Mark Hudson, Lemar, Trevor Nelson, Trevor Francis, Giles Martin, Dermot OLeary, and Paul Gambaccini. Prince, during his induction, invited everyone over to see him live in Las Vegas, Rod Stewart appeared live by satellite from Los Angeles in a Celtic shirt and accidentally dropped his award, before advising James Morrison to give up the fags. The event has particular significance as it turned out to be James Browns final televised recording, the 2006 Induction Ceremony took place on 14 November 2006 at Alexandra Palace, and it was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on 16 November, repeated on 18 November. It was shown on VH1 in the USA on 25 November, there were no inductees in 2007. It was announced in September 2008 that Channel 4 had axed the ceremony, partly due to lack of funding, and also because a two-year gap since the last show was too long
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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The
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Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols
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The Clash, performing in 1980
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British punks, circa 1986
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Wagga Wagga
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Wagga Wagga is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River, the main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. The city is in a valley and much of the city has a problem with urban salinity. The original inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people, in 1829, Charles Sturt became the first European explorer to visit the future site of the city. The town, positioned on the site of a ford across the Murrumbidgee, was surveyed and gazetted as a village in 1849, in 1870, the town was gazetted as a municipality. During the negotiations leading to the federation of the Australian colonies, during World War I the town was the starting point for the Kangaroo recruitment march. The Great Depression and the resulting hardship saw Wagga Wagga become the centre of a movement for the Riverina region. Wagga Wagga became a town during World War II with the establishment of a military base at Kapooka and Royal Australian Air Force bases at Forest Hill. After the war, Wagga Wagga was proclaimed as a city in 1946, in 1982 the city was amalgamated with the neighbouring Kyeamba and Mitchell Shires to form the City of Wagga Wagga local government area. Wagga Wagga is at the end of the Riverina region where the slopes of the Great Dividing Range flatten. The city straddles the Murrumbidgee River, one of the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin. This location astride some of the transport routes in the nation has made Wagga Wagga an important heavy truck depot for a number of companies including Toll Holdings. Wagga Wagga is upstream from the Riverina plain in the mid-catchment range of the Murrumbidgee River in an alluvial valley confined by low bedrock hills, much of Wagga Wagga is on heavy clay soils in a large drainage basin with a small catchment discharge point. Groundwater therefore cannot leave easily, leading to Wagga Wagga having a problem with waterlogged soil and soil salination, urban salination in Wagga Wagga is now the subject of a large multi-pronged approach to prevent further salination and reclaim salt-affected areas. The main shopping street of Wagga Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end, the Wollundry Lagoon is the water focus of the city centre and has been a key element in the development and separation of the north and south parts of the city centre. Major industrial areas of Wagga Wagga include the suburb of Bomen. Thomas Mitchell, the surveyor who served under Lord Wellington named many of the streets after Peninsula War veterans, Wagga Wagga has a temperate climate with hot dry summers and cool to cold winters. Under the Köppen climate classification, the city has a subtropical climate
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Looking down Baylis Street
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Wagga Wagga, looking northwest from Willans Hill
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Wagga CBD in 1897
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Former CBC Bank
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Cologne
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Cologne is the largest city in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany. It is located within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the major European metropolitan areas, and with more than ten million inhabitants, Cologne is located on both sides of the Rhine River, less than eighty kilometres from Belgium. The citys famous Cologne Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, the University of Cologne is one of Europes oldest and largest universities. Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the first century AD as the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Cologne, the French version of the citys name, has become standard in English as well. The city functioned as the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior, during the Middle Ages it flourished on one of the most important major trade routes between east and west in Europe. Cologne was one of the members of the Hanseatic League and one of the largest cities north of the Alps in medieval. Up until World War II the city had several occupations by the French. Cologne was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany during World War II, the bombing reduced the population by 95%, mainly due to evacuation, and destroyed almost the entire city. With the intention of restoring as many buildings as possible. Cologne is a cultural centre for the Rhineland, it hosts more than thirty museums. Exhibitions range from local ancient Roman archeological sites to contemporary graphics, the Cologne Trade Fair hosts a number of trade shows such as Art Cologne, imm Cologne, Gamescom, and the Photokina. The first urban settlement on the grounds of modern-day Cologne was Oppidum Ubiorum, founded in 38 BC by the Ubii, in 50 AD, the Romans founded Colonia on the Rhine and the city became the provincial capital of Germania Inferior in 85 AD. The city was named Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in 50 AD, considerable Roman remains can be found in present-day Cologne, especially near the wharf area, where a notable discovery of a 1900-year-old Roman boat was made in late 2007. From 260 to 271 Cologne was the capital of the Gallic Empire under Postumus, Marius, in 310 under Constantine a bridge was built over the Rhine at Cologne. Roman imperial governors resided in the city and it one of the most important trade. Cologne is shown on the 4th century Peutinger Map, maternus, who was elected as bishop in 313, was the first known bishop of Cologne. The city was the capital of a Roman province until occupied by the Ripuarian Franks in 462, parts of the original Roman sewers are preserved underneath the city, with the new sewerage system having opened in 1890. Early medieval Cologne was part of Austrasia within the Frankish Empire, Cologne had been the seat of a bishop since the Roman period, under Charlemagne, in 795, bishop Hildebold was promoted to archbishop
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From top to bottom, left to right:
Hohenzollern Bridge by night,
Great St. Martin Church,
Colonius TV-tower,
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Kranhaus buildings in
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MediaPark
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Cologne around 1411
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Hängebrücke
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The devastation of Cologne, 1945
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Conny Plank
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Konrad Conny Plank was a German record producer and musician. His immense catalog of work has influenced modern studio production. As a musician, Plank is credited on albums by Guru Guru, Kraan, Cluster, Liliental and he collaborated with Dieter Moebius on five Moebius & Plank studio albums recorded between 1979 and 1986. The Moebius & Plank sound foreshadowed techno and electronica and influenced many later musicians, in the 1980s the new generation of electronic pop bands were able to realise his ideas in performance as computerised electronic instruments became readily available. He favoured sometimes harsh-sounding effects and contrasting audio spaces for each element in the mix and his best work stands in stark opposition to the smooth, evened-out sound that predominated in most commercial pop and rock at that time. Planks open, sometimes clangorous drum and percussion sounds undoubtedly had a significant influence on producers and engineers like Steve Lillywhite, Hugh Padgham and Nick Launay. Plank began producing albums and working as an engineer in the late 1960s. In 1969 he served as engineer for the first Kluster album, Klopfzeichen and his long association with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Kluster and later Cluster endured until his death. He also served as engineer for Alexander von Schlippenbachs album The Living Music, which was released in 1969, during the 1970s Conny Plank produced and/or engineered many of the most important recordings by significant German progressive/experimental music acts, including Kraftwerk, Neu. Cluster, Harmonia, Night Sun, Ash Ra Tempel, Holger Czukay and his body of work exerted a strong influence on some of the more adventurous British and American musicians and producers. In 1977, through Eno, Plank recruited Dave Hutchins from Island Studios, Hutchins undertook recording & mixing roles on many of the productions originating from the studios in the following ten years. As a musician Plank played guitar and keyboards on three Guru Guru albums, Kang Guru, Guru Guru, and Mani und Seine Freunde, the Os Mundi album 43 Minuten, and Clusters self-titled debut album. In 1978 and 1979 he added guitar and percussion to two Roedelius solo albums, Durch Die Wüste and Selbstportrait and he was a member of the short lived band Liliental, contributing guitar, keyboards, and vocals. In 1979 he went into the studio with Dieter Moebius to record the first Moebius & Plank album, Plank, via Bowie and especially Eno, in turn had a strong influence on many acts of the new wave period in the late 1970s and 1980s. Neu. s Hero is said to have been an influence on John Lydons work with his post-Sex Pistols group Public Image Limited. Plank continued to work as half of the duo Moebius & Plank and their second album, Material, was released in 1981. Their third album, the African influenced Zero Set, with Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier, was released in 1983 and these two albums were early examples of the sound which would become techno and electronica. Mayo Thompson of Red Krayola contributed vocals, mainly spoken monologues, the project was rejected by Sky Records and was not released until 1998
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Conny Plank at the Windrose studio, Hamburg.
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Psychedelic music
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Psychedelic music may also aim to enhance the experience of using these drugs. Numerous spiritual successors followed in the decades, including progressive rock, krautrock. Since the 1970s, revivals have included psychedelic funk, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic as an adjective is often misused, with many so-called acts playing in a variety of styles. Dechronicization permits the user to move outside of conventional perceptions of time. Depersonalization allows the user to lose the self and gain an awareness of undifferentiated unity, dynamization, as Leary wrote, makes everything from floors to lamps seem to bends, as familiar forms dissolve into moving, dancing structures. Music that is truly psychedelic mimics these three effects, a number of features are quintessential to psychedelic music. Exotic instrumentation, with a fondness for the sitar and tabla are common. Songs often have disjunctive song structures, key and time signature changes, surreal, whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired, lyrics are often used. There is often an emphasis on extended instrumental segments or jams. There is a strong presence, in the 1960s this especially using electronic organs, harpsichords, or the Mellotron. In the 1960s there was a use of electronic instruments such as early synthesizers. Later forms of electronic psychedelia also employed repetitive computer-generated beats, R. Veysey, they profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth. The psychedelic lifestyle had already developed in California, particularly in San Francisco, by the mid-1960s, with the first major underground LSD factory established by Owsley Stanley. There was already a culture of use among jazz and blues musicians. One of the first musical uses of the term psychedelic in the scene was by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Bellys Hesitation Blues in 1964. His nineteen-minute The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party anticipated elements of psychedelia with its nervy improvisations, similarly, folk guitarist Sandy Bulls early work incorporated elements of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic-influenced dronish modes. His 1963 album Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo explores various styles, soon musicians began to refer to the drug and attempted to recreate or reflect the experience of taking LSD in their music, just as it was reflected in psychedelic art, literature and film. This trend ran in parallel in both America and Britain and as part of the folk, folk rock and rock scenes
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Timothy Leary, a major advocate of the use of
LSD in the 1960s, photographed in 1989.
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Donovan in 1965
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Steve Winwood of
Traffic.
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Electropop
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Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound. The genre has seen a revival of popularity and influence since the 2000s, the media in 2009 ran articles proclaiming a new era of different electropop stars and indeed, saw a rise in popularity of several electropop artists. In the Sound of 2009 poll of 130 music experts conducted for the BBC, lady Gaga had major commercial success since 2008 with her debut album The Fame. Music writer Simon Reynolds noted that Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, the second album by British singer Lily Allen released in 2009 called Its Not Me, Its You is largely electropop as opposed to her first ska album. Other female electropop acts that emerged were Ladyhawke, Kesha, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Elly Jackson of La Roux and Perfume. The Korean pop music scene has become dominated and influenced by electropop, particularly with boy bands and girl groups such as Super Junior, SHINee, F. Male acts that have emerged included British writer and producer Taio Cruz, who charted well in the U. S. along with one-man act Owl City, who had a U. S. number-one single, DJ Kaskade, and LMFAO. Singer Michael Angelakos of the Passion Pit said in a 2009 interview that while playing electropop was not his intention, so everything weve been put on to is electronic in nature. Music Projects with Propellerhead Reason, Grooves, Beats and Styles from Trip Hop to Techno
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Kesha is considered one of the most successful American female electropop artists of the early 2010s
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Holger Czukay
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Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Czukay was born in 1938 in the Free City of Danzig, due to the turmoil of the war, Czukays primary education was limited. Czukay studied music under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966 and then worked for a while as a music teacher and this opened his ears to music by rock experimentalists such as The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. He played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group, after his departure from Can, Czukay recorded several albums. One of his trademarks was the use of shortwave radio sounds and his pioneering of sampling. He would tape-record various sounds and snippets from shortwave and incorporate them into his compositions and he also used shortwave as a live, interactive musical instrument, a method of composition he termed radio painting. Czukay also stated If you want to make something new, you shouldnt think too far beyond one certain idea, other collaborators include U. N. K. L. E, Brian Eno, Eurythmics, and German Neue Deutsche Welle band Trio. This approach changed Czukays plans for his catalogue, so that the original albums Der Osten ist Rot, Rome Remains Rome. Instead, most of the tracks are being re-made and newly organized as limited vinyl releases. A re-issue, featuring remixes of the album by both Czukay and Sylvian, was planned but has yet to be released Flux + Mutability collaboration with David Sylvian Clash collaboration with Dr
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1972 photograph by Heinrich Klaffs
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Jaki Liebezeit
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Jaki Liebezeit was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of Can. He was called one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and he was born in Dresden, Germany. In the mid-1960s, he was part of Manfred Schoofs quintet and he subsequently moved towards the new possibilities being opened by psychedelic music as a member of Can. His drumming was prominent in the sound, particularly in his much-admired contribution to the side-long Halleluhwah on Tago Mago. Liebezeit is best known for his exceptional metronome style of playing, other members of Can have suggested that he sounds as though he is half-man, Liebezeit provided drums, in the form of the distinctive Motorik beat, for Michael Rothers late-1970s solo albums. In 1980, he became a member of Phantomband, and formed drum ensembles such as Drums off Chaos, in later years, he worked with Burnt Friedman on the Secret Rhythms albums and with Schiller on the Atemlos album. The last release he worked on was the Cyclopean EP, released on 11 Feb 2013 on 12”, Cyclopean was a project that involved, other than Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt from Can alongside long time collaborators Jono Podmore and musician and producer Burnt Friedman. From Faust an album called Flut released 18 Jul 2014, Liebezeit died of pneumonia on 22 January 2017
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Jaki Liebezeit
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Clem Burke
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Clement Clem Burke is an American musician who is best known as the drummer for the band Blondie from 1975, shortly after the band formed, throughout the bands entire career. Burkes early experiences behind the drum kit began in the late 1960s and early 1970s as one of the members of Bayonnes premier cover bands, Total Environment. Burke also gained knowledge from his stint as a drummer in the famed Saint Andrew Bridgmen Drum. Recruited by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein when Blondie was first forming in 1974 and his style of playing was influenced by Hal Blaine, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, and Earl Palmer. In 1987 he stood in as drummer for the Ramones for two gigs, on August 28 in Providence, Rhode Island, and August 29 in Trenton, New Jersey, after the sudden departure of Richie Ramone. On October 8,2004, he again played under the name Elvis Ramone, when he joined Tommy Ramone, C. J. Ramone. He has recorded and played live with Wanda Jackson and Nancy Sinatra, Burke also played on the Go-Gos member Kathy Valentines solo release, Light Years in 2005. He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of Blondie. In 2007, Burke joined Slinky Vagabond with David Bowie guitarist Earl Slick, Glen Matlock, in July 2011, Burke received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire, as a result of the drumming project. In December 2011 he formed the band The International Swingers with Sex Pistols bass player Glen Matlock, guitarist James Stevenson of Generation X and singer Gary Twinn of Supernaut. About the same time he became a member of the Split Squad, participating in tours, appearances at SXSW festivals. In 2014, Burke was a member of the Empty Hearts. The bands self-titled first album was released August 5,2014, in 2015, via PledgeMusic, the band The International Swingers raised the money to record their first full-length self-titled album, The International Swingers. The album was recorded at Studio 606 in LA which is owned by the Foo Fighters and it was then mixed by Peter Walsh who has worked with Simple Minds, Pulp and most recently Scott Walker
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Clem Burke in 2009
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Blondie (band)
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Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave, Blondie broke up after the release of its sixth studio album The Hunter in 1982. The band re-formed in 1997, achieving renewed success and a one single in the United Kingdom with Maria in 1999. The group toured and performed throughout the world during the following years, Blondie has sold 40 million records worldwide and is still active. The bands tenth studio album Ghosts of Download, was released in 2014, inspired by the burgeoning new music scene at the Mercer Arts Center, Chris Stein sought to join a similar band. He joined the Stillettoes in 1973 as their guitarist and formed a relationship with one of the bands vocalists, Debbie Harry. Harry had been a member of a band, the Wind in the Willows. In July 1974, Stein and Harry parted ways with the Stillettoes and Elda Gentile, originally billed as Angel and the Snake for two shows in August 1974, they renamed themselves Blondie by October 1974. The name derived from comments made by truck drivers who catcalled Hey, by the spring of 1975, after some personnel turnover, Stein and Harry were joined by drummer Clem Burke, and bass player Gary Valentine. Blondie became regular performers at Maxs Kansas City and CBGB, in June 1975, the bands first recording came in the way of a demo produced by Alan Betrock. To fill out their sound, they recruited keyboard player Jimmy Destri in November 1975, the band signed with Private Stock Records and their debut album, Blondie, was issued in December 1976 but was initially not a commercial success. In September 1977, the bought back its contract with Private Stock. The first album was re-released on the new label in October 1977 and it also noted that Harry was the possessor of a bombshell zombies voice that can sound dreamily seductive and woodenly Mansonite within the same song. Jimmy Destri later credited the shows Molly Meldrum for their initial success, Stein asserted that X-Offender was too crazy and aggressive, while In the Flesh was not representative of any punk sensibility. Over the years, Ive thought they played both things but liked one better. In retrospect, Burke described In the Flesh as a forerunner to the power ballad, the single reached number 2 in Australia, while the album reached the Australian top twenty in November 1977, and a subsequent double-A release of X-Offender and Rip Her to Shreds reached number 81. A successful Australian tour followed in December, though it was marred by an incident in Brisbane when disappointed fans almost rioted after Harry cancelled a performance due to illness, in February 1978, Blondie released their second album, Plastic Letters. The album was recorded as a four-piece as Gary Valentine had left the band in mid 1977, Plastic Letters was promoted extensively throughout Europe and Asia by Chrysalis Records
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Blondie in 1977. L-R: Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Jimmy Destri.
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Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, and Tommy Kessler perform at the
Mountain Winery in
Saratoga, California in 2012.
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Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
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Kurt Dahlke was replaced by Chrislo Haas in 1979. Since 1981, the band has consisted of Delgado-López and Görl, D. A. F. s most famous songs are Kebab-Träume and, from the album Alles ist gut, the grimly sarcastic Der Mussolini, a pulsing dance song. The lyrics Dance the Mussolini, move your behind, clap your hands, and now the Adolf Hitler, and now the Jesus Christ, and now the Communism, caused a scandal. In interviews they claimed to not target anything or anyone specific while creating lyrics to be taken as a parody of words, sato-Sato and Der Mussolini are both examples of songs written around Delgado-Lópezs fascination with the sound of a particular word. A few months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq D. A. F, the album Alles ist gut received the German Schallplattenpreis award by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of the German recording industry. Görl described their sound on Alles is gut in Melody Maker in 1981, Most bands get a synthesizer and they want a clean normal sound. They don’t work with the power you get from a synthesizer and we want to bring together this high technique with body power so you have the past time mixed with the future. Delgado described his new style in the same interview, The singing isn’t like rock ’n’ roll or pop singing. It’s sometimes like in a Hitler speech, not a Nazi thing, but it’s in the German character, the band determined early on that they would not sing in English. As Delgado later said, It’s not only a part of image, It’s a serious matter because DAF from the very first beginning didn’t want to imitate any American pop, rock or whatever. In fact we think there is a very strong American influence in culture, television, music, so in the very first beginning one of our main content was to refuse to imitate rock ‘n’ roll, to refuse to sing in English. Our identity is not American identity, as performers and media personalities D. A. F. Visually, at least from Alles ist gut until 1st Step to Heaven, they cultivated an image of black leather, muscles, hairy chests. Gabis hairy chest made a appearance in the 2003 promotional video for Der Sheriff. Görl came to Düsseldorf in August 1978 and met Delgado as both were regulars at punk club Ratinger Hof, Görl noted, The earliest line up of DAF was Gabi and me in the basement of the Ratinger Hof. We created our basic ideas and we had a strong will as a duo. Gabi Delgado played the stylophone and I played the drums, several early Neue Deutsche Welle bands formed from this social group, and Görl and Delgado played with multiple other bands. Albums featured the original four-piece line-up and a range of styles and their first album, Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, was released in 1979 on Dahlkes Ata Tak label
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D.A.F. (Delgado-López left, Görl right)
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Gabi Delgado-López, DAF live in 2012
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Never Gonna Cry Again
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Never Gonna Cry Again is the debut single by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released in 1981. It was taken from their debut album In the Garden, the single achieved little commercial success, peaking at #63 in the UK. The single was accompanied by a video, a medium for which Eurythmics would later receive notable acclaim. To date, the video remains commercially unavailable, though it is available on YouTube, stills from it were used for the sleeve art of the In The Garden album, and footage from it can also be seen during the song Jennifer on the Sweet Dreams video album. The sleeve design of the features an eerie picture of vocalist Annie Lennox made up to look like a gargoyle. Co-produced by respected krautrock producer Conny Plank, the track also featured two members of the krautrock band Can, the singles B-side, Le Sinistre, is an experimental piece, featuring musical arrangements similar to those used in horror film scores. A, Never Gonna Cry Again -3,02 B, Le Sinistre –2,47 Annie Lennox, vocals, keyboards/synthesizer, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Never Gonna Cry Again"
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Chalk Farm
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The land slopes upwards more steeply to the north-west and abruptly to form a knoll to the south-west which is Primrose Hill. Chalk Farm tube station is the closest underground station to all parts. This is true of much of the therefore loosely more Chalk Farm-associated upmarket western residential definition and its name was formerly Chalcot when it was a hamlet of the once vast Hornsey parish. Before the post-1791 development of Camden Town the residents of Primrose Hill, Chalk Farm equates to the northern neighbourhood of Camden Town and features many lively pubs, live music venues, and restaurants. Within immediate reach of the station is The Roundhouse, a former circular railway engine turntable shed converted to 360° arts. Chalk Farm contains Haverstock School Business & Enterprise College, Camden College of English was in Chalk Farm For over 70 years major bus routes were operated from Chalk Farm bus garage, in Harmood Street, now long gone. Today the long-established route 27 and the newer route 393 both terminate at Chalk Farm and these buses reach opposite destinations outside central London, Chiswick Business Park and Clapton respectively. Walden Books is a secondhand bookshop located just off Chalk Farm Road. Primrose Hill Camden Town Regents Park Kentish Town Maitland Park St Johns Wood Swiss Cottage, South Hampstead Chalk Farm on the north-south Northern line, the nearest London Overground station is centred 0.5 miles east, Kentish Town West
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Districts
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This Is the House
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This Is the House is a 1982 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was their single, and would be included on the bands second album Sweet Dreams. Recorded in early 1982 on their own 8-track home studio in north London, no music video was made for the single. In Australia, This Is the House was released in 1983, following the success of Sweet Dreams. The single was listed on the Kent Music Report chart as receiving significant sales reports outside the top 100, the highest ranking This Is the House achieved on this list was fifth place. On its second appearance on this list, the single charted alongside Whos That Girl. The B-side of the 7 single is entitled Home Is Where The Heart Is, the 12-inch single featured an extended remix of This Is The House, plus four live tracks. This extended mix, plus the version of Your Time Will Come, were omitted from SonyBMGs 2005 remastered releases of Eurythmics back catalogue. However, the versions of Never Gonna Cry Again, 4/4 in Leather. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"This Is The House"
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The Walk (Eurythmics song)
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The Walk is a 1982 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was the fourth single, and was included on their second album Sweet Dreams. Produced by band member David A. Stewart and Adam Williams, as with their previous three singles, it was commercially unsuccessful, though it was included on the bands platinum-selling second album Sweet Dreams in 1983. Several variations of the track have been released, the original 7 single featured The Walk and The Walk, whereas the 12 version included what would become the album version of the track. A fourth version, entitled Lets Just Close Our Eyes, was released on the 12 of the next single Love Is A Stranger. A music video was made to accompany the single, which was only the second since their formation. To date, the video has not been released commercially, though is available on YouTube, the 7 and 12 releases of the single contain several B-side tracks, none of which have been released elsewhere. They were omitted from Sony BMGs remastering of Eurythmics back catalogue in 2005, invisible Hands had been the working title for what became the groups Sweet Dreams album, but in the end the track was dropped from the album altogether. Dr. Trash was written solely by Adam Williams, thus becoming one of the few Eurythmics recordings not to be written by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart
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"The Walk"
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Love Is a Stranger
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Love Is a Stranger is the fifth single by the British rock/pop duo Eurythmics. Originally released in late 1982, the single was commercially unsuccessful, the single was re-released again in 1991, to promote Eurythmics Greatest Hits album. Originally released in November 1982 in the United Kingdom, the reached a disappointing #54 on the singles chart. Following the huge success of Sweet Dreams the following year, the song was re-released and reached #6 in April 1983, in the United States, the song was the second single from the Sweet Dreams album and it was released just as the title track reached number one. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #81 on 17 September 1983, the song was in the charts for thirteen weeks. The single release was accompanied by a music video directed by Mike Brady, in which Stewart acts as chauffeur for an androgynous Lennox. This caused minor controversy in the USA, as some mistakenly thought Lennox was a male transvestite. Video on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Love Is a Stranger"
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Cee Lo Green,
Adam Levine,
Christina Aguilera, and
Blake Shelton, on the cover of the February 1, 2012, issue of Rolling Stone
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Hugh Cornwell
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Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. Cornwell grew up in Tufnell Park and Kentish Town and attended William Ellis School in Highgate, in the late 1960s, after earning a bachelors degree in biochemistry from Bristol University, he embarked on post-graduate research at Lund University in Sweden. Not long after his arrival he formed the band Johnny Sox, Cornwell returned to the UK in 1974 with Johnny Sox. Jet Black then joined the band, at one stage it was just Cornwell and Black, who were then joined by Jean-Jacques Burnel. Hans Wärmling, on holiday from Sweden, joined the line-up towards the end of 1974, the Johnny Sox name was dropped, with the band adopting the name The Guildford Stranglers before settling on The Stranglers. Wärmling was soon replaced by Dave Greenfield, who joined in 1975 after answering an advertisement placed in the Melody Maker, Cornwell was the lead guitarist in the group and he also sang the majority of songs. By 1977 the group had secured a contract with United Artists Records, they went on to become the band to emerge from the UK punk scene, with numerous hit singles. By the time Cornwell reached his thirties the British punk scene had started to fade, and he recorded his first album away from the group, Nosferatu, in collaboration with the Captain Beefhearts Magic Bands drummer, Robert Williams, in 1979. In 1990 he decided that the band could go no further artistically and he recorded the album 10 with the band before leaving after 16 years. After leaving the Stranglers, Cornwell worked with Roger Cook and Andy West as CCW and their self-titled album was released in 1992, with five tracks co-produced by Neil Davidge. Cornwell has released solo albums including Wolf produced by Ian Ritchie, Wired, Guilty, Hi Fi, Footprints in the Desert, Mayday, In the Dock. Wired, Guilty and Hi Fi were released under different names, beyond Elysian Fields was initially released by Track Records in the UK, followed by Invisible Hands Music in the rest of the world, with expanded artwork. In 2006 a live album in two forms appeared, People Places Pieces, a triple CD box set, accompanied by a simultaneously released mass-market highlights disc, the 12-track highlights disc, Live It and Breathe It, was released in 2005 in advance of the box set. In December 2006 Cornwell toured with Blondie in the UK, three new songs were previewed, Bangin On, Please Dont Put Me On A Slow Boat To Trowbridge and Delightful Nightmare. After this tour, the stool was taken over by Chris Bell. In June 2008 Cornwell followed in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails by offering his new album Hooverdam as a download on his website. Hooverdam was recorded at Toe Rag Studios with record producer, Liam Watson, the album was accompanied by a film, Blueprint, which depicted the recording process of the album. Cornwell explained that the film was partly motivated by the quality of DVDs accompanying contemporary CD releases
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Cornwell in 2010
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Live in 2010
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Cornwell playing at
Guilfest 2011
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Mick Karn
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Andonis Michaelides, better known as Mick Karn, was a British multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter, who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock/new wave band Japan, from 1974 to 1982. Karn was born into a Greek Cypriot family, in Nicosia, Cyprus, as Andonis Michaelides and he had an older brother and sister. In late October 1961, the family emigrated to London, England, as youngsters they played music as a means of escape, playing Sylvians two-chord numbers – sometimes with Karn as the front man, sometimes with Sylvian at the fore. Guitarist Rob Dean joined the band later. Rex, and The New York Dolls and they switched to Virgin Records to record their subsequent albums Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum. Long-simmering differences among the bandmembers came to a head when Karns girlfriend, photographer Yuka Fujii, moved in with Sylvian, Karn released his first solo album, Titles, in November 1982, just as Japan had announced their split. In 1983, he collaborated with Midge Ure on the UK top 40 single After a Fashion, the duo released one album, The Waking Hour, in late 1984. In the 1990s he worked with artist David Torn, Andy Rinehart and a number of Japanese musicians, latterly, he worked as a solo artist. In the 1990s he started the Medium Productions label along with Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri, two of his fellow former Japan-members. and Debi Zornes. In 2006, the MK Music imprint was established, by Mick Karn and Debi Zornes —and beginning with 2006s Three Part Species, all releases, including the autobiography, have the MK Music logo on them. In 2001, Mick Karn began to work with Gota Yashiki, Vivian Hsu, Masahide Sakuma, in 2001, he worked with Paul Wong on his Yellow Paul Wong release. Karn left London in 2004 to live in Cyprus with his wife and son, Murphy also added that this would be the first time the two had seen each other since 1983. The project was cut short, however, as Karn had recently been diagnosed with cancer and he died on 4 January 2011. Five of the tracks they did record were released on 5 April 2012 as an EP entitled InGladAloneness, the tracks were mixed by Steve Jansen, mastered by Pieter Snaper in Istanbul and the artwork for the EP was created by Thomas Bak with a painting by Jaroslaw Kukowski. Karn was essentially a self-taught musician and his first musical instrument was bassoon, with which he attended and passed an LSSO audition. After his bassoon was stolen from him, he purchased a guitar for £5. It was then he joined up with David Batt, who played acoustic guitar, Karn was principally the bassist within Japan, but also played all the wind instruments, including the saxophone, on Tin Drum, he played the Chinese suona for the authentic oriental sound. Karns use of the bass guitar, an unusual instrument in modern popular music, produces a distinctive sound and playing style. Karn played an aluminium-neck Travis Bean bass on all Japan albums up to Gentlemen Take Polaroids, in 1981 he moved to Wal basses, purchasing two Mark I instruments, one with rare African tulipwood facings, the other a cherry solidbody
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Mick Karn, London, November 1982
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Japan in Toronto, 24 November 1979
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Green Gartside
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Green Gartside is a Welsh musician, and the frontman of the band Scritti Politti. Gartside has also worked with Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Shabba Ranks, Mos Def, Kylie Minogue, Robyn Hitchcock, Manic Street Preachers, Gartside was born in Cardiff, Wales, to a Cup-a-soup salesman dad and a hairdresser/secretary/whatever mum. His childhood was not always happy, with the family having to move every 12 months or so because of his fathers job and he ended up living all over, from Bridgend to Newport to Ystrad Mynach. His father died while he was a child, after which his mother married a solicitor from Newport named Gordon Gartside. Gartside recalls The Green bit came about because I didn’t like the fact there were two other Pauls in my class and I wanted something different. So I just chose something random after listening to a Captain Beefheart album where all the musicians were named odd things like Zoot Horn Rollo, I thought having a made-up name was well cool”. Gartside attended Croesyceiliog Grammar School in Cwmbran, at 14 he formed a branch of the Young Communist League. He later studied art at Newport Art College. It was here that he formed a band called Heads of the Valleys, in the mid-1970s, Gartside moved to Leeds to study art at Leeds Polytechnic. It was there that he formed the post-punk band Scritti Politti in 1977, with school friend Nial Jinks and university friend Tom Morley. After Gartside and Morley had left college, they moved to London, however, subsequent Scritti Politti albums featured Gartside with different personnel, with Gartside being the only constant member of the group. In 1988 Scritti Polittis album Provision was a UK Top 10 success, though it produced one UK Top 20 hit single. After releasing a couple of singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B. E. F. Gartside became disillusioned with the industry and retired to south Wales for more than seven years. Unless you’re some sort of weird ego maniac it’s not healthy to spend that amount of talking about yourself. So to go straight from that into making our next record was a mistake, I just remember hailing a cab one day and coming to in bed surrounded by doctors. Gartside lived alone in a cottage in Usk, spending his time listening to hip hop, playing darts. He returned to music-making in the late 1990s, releasing a new album, Anomie & Bonhomie, in 2006, another new album was released, the stripped-down White Bread, Black Beer which returned to the more experimental era of the bands history
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Green Gartside, 2006
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Scritti Politti
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Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, by Welsh Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Green Gartside. He is the member of the band to have remained throughout the groups history. The groups most successful album, 1985s Cupid & Psyche 85, the bands 1988 album Provision was a UK Top 10 success, though it only produced one UK Top 20 hit single, Oh Patti. After releasing two singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B. E. F. Gartside became disillusioned with the industry and retired to south Wales for more than seven years. Gartside returned to music in the late 1990s, releasing a new album, Anomie & Bonhomie, in 2005, Rough Trade released the compilation Early, which collected the bands first releases. In 2006, Gartside released the stripped-down White Bread, Black Beer which returned to the experimental era of the bands history. In the mid-1970s, Green Gartside was studying art at Leeds College of Art. Scritti Politti originally consisted of Gartside as the lead vocalist, Jinks as bass player, Morley as drummer, Gartside and Jinks had gone to school together in south Wales, and Gartside met Morley at Leeds Polytechnic. For their first public performance in 1976, supporting local Leeds punk group SOS, upon finishing their studies the group relocated to Londons Camden Town around 1977, where they lived in a squat. The name Scritti Politti was chosen as a homage to the Italian Marxist writer, the correct spelling in Italian to refer to Political Writings would have produced Scritti Politici. Gartside changed it to Scritti Politti as he thought it sounded more rock and roll, alongside other groups of what has been termed the DIY ethic or movement, Scritti Politti released a DIY record titled Skank Bloc Bologna on their own St. Pancras label in 1978. Scritti Politti released two EPs in 1979 with singles Bibbly-O-Tek, Doubt Beat, OPEC/Immac and Hegemony, Gartside then slimmed the band down to a three piece. Scritti Politti began planning their debut album in 1979, but the recording had to be delayed when Green collapsed after a gig supporting Gang of Four in Brighton in early 1980. Originally believed to be an attack, the cause of his collapse was eventually diagnosed as a panic attack, brought on by his chronic stage fright. Returning home to south Wales at his parents insistence for a nine-month convalescence period, Green had plenty of time to think about the direction the band, Green came to the conclusion that you dont have to be lobotomised in order to make pop music. Its a real passion to make it and that pop music didnt mean selling out punks principles or dumbing down. There are a lot people who arent happy to make pap
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Scritti Politti live at Paradiso, 2006
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Performing in 2006
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Touch (Eurythmics album)
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Touch is the third studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released on 14 November 1983. The album was the duos first UK number-one album, and also reached the top 10 in the US and it has since been certified Platinum in both the UK and the US. The album was listed in Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, by the time Touch was released, Eurythmics had achieved international success with their hit single Sweet Dreams and their album of the same name. Preceded by the hit single Whos That Girl, Touch was recorded and mixed in only about three weeks at Eurythmics own London studio facility, The Church. A remix album, Touch Dance, was released in 1984, Touch was also the first album to be released simultaneously on record and on the then-new CD format in the United States. The album features the singles Whos That Girl, right by Your Side and Here Comes the Rain Again. On 14 November 2005, SonyBMG repackaged and released Eurythmics back catalog as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues, each of their eight studio albums original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes. In 2012, the album was ranked number 492 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and it had originally appeared at #500 on the 2003 version of the list. Slant Magazine listed the album at #47 on its list of Best Albums of the 1980s. All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except Fame by David Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon and ABC by David A. Stewart, Timothy Wheater, Nadine Masseron
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Touch
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Bananarama
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Bananarama are a British female pop music vocal group formed in London in 1979 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. Their success on pop and dance charts have earned them a listing in The Guinness Book of Records as the all-female group with the most chart entries in the world. The groups 10 UK Top 10 hits include It Aint What You Do, Really Saying Something, Shy Boy, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, Cruel Summer, Robert De Niros Waiting. and Love in the First Degree. In 1986, they had a US number one with another of their UK Top 10 hits, in total, they had 11 singles reach the US Billboard Hot 100, including two more in the top 10, with Cruel Summer and I Heard a Rumour. They are associated with the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US, in 1988, Love in the First Degree earned them a Brit Award nomination for Best British Single, while their fourth album Wow. topped the Australian ARIA albums chart. Their 1988 music video for the groups hit cover of The Supremes 1971 smash single Nathan Jones earned them another Brit Award nomination. Following Faheys departure from the group in 1988, Jacquie OSullivan joined the group for three years and they had UK Top 10 hits with I Want You Back and Help. In addition to their success, the band is also known for their vocal style. Since 1992, Woodward and Dallin have continued Bananarama as a duo, with hits including Movin On and they returned to the UK Top 20 for the first time since 1991 with the 2005 single Move in My Direction. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 28 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart, in December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked them the 94th most successful dance artist of all-time. The pair became a trio when Dallin met Fahey while studying journalism in London. They became friends because they dressed more radically than the other students. In 1981, Bananaramas members were living above the room that was used by former Sex Pistols members Steve Jones. With their help, Bananarama recorded their first demo Aie a Mwana, the demo was heard at Demon Records, who consequently offered Bananarama their first deal. The song was a hit and Bananarama were signed by Decca. Bananaramas only previous experience in a studio at the time was as background vocalists on the Department S B-side, Solid Gold Easy Action. During this early period Bananarama were approached by Malcolm McLaren, who offered to manage the group, Bananarama passed on both the material and McLaren as their manager. UK fashion magazine The Face featured an article on Bananarama after the release of their first single
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Bananarama live in Audley End, Essex, UK, 28 July 2007. L–R: Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin
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Jay Aston
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Jay Hilda Aston is an English singer and occasional songwriter. She was a member of the British pop group Bucks Fizz and she was the youngest member of the groups original line-up, being just 19 when they won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. While Aston was a member, the group had 12 of their 13 UK top 40 hit singles, since 2009, she has performed alongside fellow original Bucks Fizz members Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan. The group used to perform under the name The Original Bucks Fizz and they are now known as Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston, formerly of Bucks Fizz. Aston was born in Purley, Surrey, and came from a theatrical/circus family and her father was a comedian, her mother a former dancer before she became her husbands straight man. Her brother, Lance, had performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with the band Prima Donna. Aston herself trained as a dancer, singer and actress at the Italia Conti School of Speech and Drama, Aston was one of the four original members of Bucks Fizz when they were formed in 1981 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest that year. They won with Making Your Mind Up and the song went to one in many countries. Astons interest in fashion and design came into use while with the group as she designed many of the groups stage outfits. In 1983, she performed the vocal to the song When We Were Young. Aston became known for her love of physical exercise and released an album in early 1984 called Shape Up. This activity however also led to her becoming the victim of an attack while out jogging and she fought off the attacker and recovered well from the incident, which became the subject of newspaper coverage. In December 1984, while on tour, Bucks Fizz were involved in a accident in which Aston. By this time, tensions within the group had risen to the point that Aston was eager to leave, however, the following year, she left the group in acrimonious circumstances. The groups management company took Aston to court under the terms of her contract, forced to sell her house, the early 1990s saw Aston living in a small bedsit in Croydon on Housing benefits. Her brother had married Shakespears Sister star Marcella Detroit who encouraged her to new songs. In 1993 Aston released a single Naked Phoenix and recorded an album of songs and this same year she contributed a song to the controversial Michael Winner film, Dirty Weekend. By 1995 she was living with her parents but was writing and recording music
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Jay Aston in 2009
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Cheryl Baker
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Cheryl Baker is an English television presenter and singer. She best known for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, the group had 20 singles reach the UK top 60 between 1981 and 1988, including three number one hits with Making Your Mind Up, The Land of Make Believe and My Camera Never Lies. Baker left the group in 1993 and she had previously represented the UK at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the band Co-Co. In 2004, she began performing alongside Shelley Preston and fellow original Bucks Fizz member Mike Nolan as The Original Bucks Fizz, Preston was replaced by original Bucks Fizz member Jay Aston in 2009. Due to a dispute in 2011, the group now call themselves Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston. Cheryl Baker was born in Bethnal Green, London, after leaving school and a series of secretarial jobs, she began her professional singing career with the band Co-Co. The group entered A Song for Europe in 1976 with the song Wake Up and they came second, being beaten by Brotherhood of Man by two points. The group continued to perform together and in 1978, they entered A Song for Europe again with The Bad Old Days and this time they won and went on to perform for the UK in Paris. The song managed 11th place - the lowest placing by a UK entry up to that point, the song became a hit single, reaching 13 in the UK Singles Chart. On the back of this, the released their first album as well as further singles. None of these found any success, in 1980, the group tried for Eurovision one more time. Now under a new name, The Main Event, their song Gonna Do My Best came last in A Song for Europe and soon afterwards, joined by Mike Nolan, Bobby G and Jay Aston, Baker performed the song at the contest and won. On 4 April 1981, Baker represented the UK again at the Eurovision Song Contest, the song went on to win by a margin of four points and Bucks Fizz were catapulted into overnight stardom. By winning the contest, Baker became only the singer to represent the UK twice, following in the footsteps of Ronnie Carroll. This feat, however, was matched once again the following year, by Sally Ann Triplett. When Bucks Fizz went on to win the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up, Making Your Mind Up became a No.1 hit in many countries, including the UK and began a run of success for the group for the next five years. Baker along with the group toured the world and gained many hit singles and albums, Bucks Fizz became established as one of the biggest groups of the 1980s. On 11 December 1984 Baker was involved in a crash, while on tour with the group
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Baker in 2013
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Cheryl Baker in 1983
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Bucks Fizz (band)
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Bucks Fizz are a British pop group that achieved success in the 1980s, most notably for winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up. The group was formed in January 1981 specifically for the contest and comprised four vocalists, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and they achieved instant attention with the dance routine which accompanied the song, involving a skirt-rip. They also had UK Top 10 hits with Now Those Days Are Gone, If You Cant Stand the Heat, When We Were Young and their worldwide record sales have exceeded 15 million. The line-up of the group has changed a number of times over the years, in late 1980, Nichola Martin and Andy Hill sought to create a new group to enter their song Making Your Mind Up in the Eurovision Song Contest. The first member to be recruited was Mike Nolan, who was known to Martin, together, they recorded a demo of the song and entered it for inclusion in A Song for Europe – the preliminary heats for the contest. Realising that a name was needed for the artists, Martin quickly decided on Bucks Fizz. In January, Martin contacted Cheryl Baker to join them, as he remembered her from the 1978 Eurovision group, concurrent to this, Martin was holding auditions for another male vocalist and female vocalist, should Baker turn down the position. At the end of auditions, Martin had found a male singer, Stephen Fischer and female. Fischer then became unavailable as he was starring in a musical at the time and Martin hired another auditionee, the four members met for the first time on 11 January 1981. An associate of Martins, Jill Shirley agreed to manage the group, the routine itself was choreographed by Chrissie Wickham, a former member of dance troupe, Hot Gossip, although Martin, Baker and Aston have all since laid claim to the skirt-rip idea. On 11 March, A Song for Europe took place with the unknown Bucks Fizz competing against well-known act Liquid Gold, as well as Hill and Martins own group, Making Your Mind Up became an easy winner and the group recorded the song with Hill as producer. Later in the month it was released as a single and entered the charts at No.24, by the time the contest was staged, the single had risen to No.2. On 4 April, Bucks Fizz represented United Kingdom in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, although they were favourites to win, the song faced stiff competition and after a vocally unsound rendition, the early votes were poor. Halfway through the process, Bucks Fizz took the lead. Ultimately, Bucks Fizz won the contest by a margin of four points, Making Your Mind Up became a major hit around the continent, reaching No.1 in the UK as well as eight other countries. It charted highly in other such as Australia, eventually selling four million copies worldwide. A follow-up single was recorded amid promotional tours and the image was revamped. In May, the single Piece of the Action was released, the song boasted a contemporary pop sound and high production values, in contrast to the rocknroll style of Making Your Mind Up
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On stage in 1983
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The Original Bucks Fizz at
Wembley in 2004
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Kiki Dee
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Pauline Matthews, better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English singer born in Little Horton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. Known for her blue-eyed soul vocals, she was the first female singer from the UK to sign with Motowns Tamla Records. In 1993 she performed another duet with Elton John for his Duets album, a version of Cole Porters True Love. During her career, she has released 40 singles, three EPs and 12 albums, Kiki Dee began singing with a local band in Bradford in the early 1960s. Her recording career began as a session singer and she sang backing vocals for Dusty Springfield, among others, and was well regarded by other singers but did not achieve solo success in the UK for many years. In 1963 Dee released her first single Early Night, and recorded her debut album I’m Kiki Dee, which included a series of Phil Spector style tracks and covers for Fontana Records. Her 1966 release Why Dont I Run Away From You was a big hit on Radio London and Radio Caroline and her 1968 release On a Magic Carpet Ride, which was originally a B-side, has remained popular with the Northern Soul circuit. Much of her recorded work for Fontana Records was released on 24 January 2011. Songwriter Mitch Murray created her name and penned her first single. In the United States she became the first white British artist to be signed by Motown, releasing her first Motown single in 1970. In the days before BBC Radio 1, Dee was a performer of cover versions on BBC Radio. She also appeared in an episode of The Benny Hill Show in January 1971, performing the Blood, Sweat and Tears hit. Nevertheless, it was only after she signed with Elton Johns label named The Rocket Record Company that she became a name in the UK. Her first major hits were Amoureuse and Ive Got the Music in Me. Her biggest hit came in 1976 when she replaced an ailing Dusty Springfield for the recording of a duet with John, the single reached No.1 in both the UK and US, remaining at the top for six weeks in the UK. After a quiet period in the late 1970s, Dee launched a comeback in 1981, releasing one of her biggest hits, Star and this later became the theme music to the BBC1 programme Opportunity Knocks between 1987 and 1990. Also in 1981, Dee joined forces again with Elton John, recording a cover of the Four Tops song Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever which was written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Stevie Wonder. Both of these were included on her album Perfect Timing, which became a modest hit on the album chart, in 1983, she supplied backing vocals to Elton Johns album Too Low for Zero
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Kiki Dee (right) performing at London's
Royal Albert Hall, October 2009, in aid of the
PRS for Music (formerly the Performing Right Society) for Music Members' Benevolent Fund.
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Kiki Dee in 1974
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Marilyn (singer)
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Peter Robinson, better known as Marilyn, is a British/Jamaican pop singer and songwriter. He is most well known for his 1983 hit Calling Your Name, Robinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica. At age 5, he moved with his mother to Borehamwood and he left school at 15, and has stated that he was bullied at school for being feminine, and that he self-harmed. As a boy, Robinson loved Marilyn Monroes image, and Marilyn became his school nickname, while the name originated from homophobic bullies at school, Robinson decided to appropriate it to his advantage. As a teenager, he was a regular nightclub-goer and wanted to look different and he became part of the British New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s club scene and was popularised in the early 1980s. During this time, Robinson met Boy George, and the pair would share a squat together. It was shown as the film to Alien in British cinemas. Also in 1979, he appeared in the first segment of director Derek Jarmans 12-minute short film Broken English, there, he worked as a personal assistant to daytime soap star Terry Lester, and teamed up with songwriter and pop entrepreneur Paul Caplin who became his manager. After Marilyns friend Boy George had made an impact with Culture Club. In 1983, following an appearance in the promo video for Eurythmics hit single. Robinson signed his own recording contract as Marilyn with Phonogram Records, Marilyns first chart success came in late 1983 with his debut single Calling Your Name which reached the Top 5 in the UK and Australia, and number 1 in Japan. He had two further minor UK Top 40 hits in 1984 with Cry and Be Free and You Dont Love Me, in March 1984, Marilyn flew to Australia for a 10-day promotional tour and was besieged by fans who were waiting to greet him at Melbourne Airport. Film footage of his arrival was broadcast on that television news. While in Australia, he was attacked and kicked in the face by a member of the public at the Exchange Hotel, in late 1984, Marilyn took part in the Band Aid charity single Do They Know Its Christmas along with various other pop stars of the era. In early 1985, now facing financial difficulties and being forced to give up his London home, Phonogram Records dispatched him to Detroit, Michigan, to work with producer Don Was. While in America he cut his long blonde hair short and ceased wearing make-up. After spending a week recording new material with Was, Marilyn was scheduled to live for the first time at New Yorks famed Area nightclub. The performance was intended to be filmed for use in the video for his new single, Baby U Left Me
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Marilyn in
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Right by Your Side
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Right by Your Side is a song by the British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, the track was released as the second single in the UK from Eurythmics third album Touch. Right by Your Side became the fourth consecutive Eurythmics single to hit the Top 10 of the UK singles chart during 1983 and it also climbed to number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Right by Your Side"
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