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Glynis Johns
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Glynis Johns is a retired British stage, television and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer, she has also appeared in USA productions. In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including Send in the Clowns, composed by Stephen Sondheim and she was nominated for an Oscar for her work in the 1960 film The Sundowners. Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Alice Maude Steele, a pianist, and Mervyn Johns and her roots are in West Wales, and she was born in Pretoria while her parents were performing on tour there. She attended Clifton High School in Bristol for a short time and her ancestors on the Johns side are recorded as living at the farm Glanmorlais Uchaf, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire in 1701. Johns made her first stage appearance in Buckies Bears as a ballerina at the Garrick Theatre in 1935. She made her debut in 1938 in the movie version of Winifred Holtbys novel South Riding. In 1944, she appeared with her father in Halfway House, in 1952, she co-starred in the movie version of Arnold Bennetts novel The Card. She was voted by British exhibitors the tenth most popular star at the box office in 1951 and 1952. She made a transition to Hollywood, appearing in Personal Affair, starring Gene Tierney. The following year, she starred in the Christmas film All Mine to Give, Johns received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1960 film The Sundowners. One of her film roles was that of Winifred Banks. She was cast in 1961 in the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama The Roaring 20s and she portrayed Kitty OMoyne, an Irish immigrant who falls overboard into the harbor as she arrives in the United States. In the 1962–1963 television season, Johns guest starred in the CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show. In the fall of 1963, she and Keith Andes starred as a couple in her eponymous CBS television series Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer. The program was cancelled after thirteen episodes, from 1988-89, she played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an Arizona retirement community, in the television sitcom Coming of Age on CBS. Johns also appeared on stage, most memorably in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheims musical A Little Night Music, the song Send in the Clowns was reportedly written with her in mind. In 1973, she won a Tony award for her role in the musical and she later appeared in London in Cause Célèbre, by Terence Rattigan. She played opposite Rex Harrison in his acting role in a Broadway revival of W. Somerset Maughams play The Circle in 1990
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Epsom
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Epsom is a market town in Surrey, England,13.6 miles south south-west of London, located between Ashtead and Ewell. The town straddles chalk downland and the upper Thanet Formation, Epsom Downs Racecourse holds The Derby, now a generic name for sports competitions in English-speaking countries. The town also gives its name to Epsom salts, extracted from mineral waters there, Epsom is the source of the Hogsmill River and includes the semi-rural Horton and Langley Vale. Epsom lies within the Copthorne Hundred used for periodic, strategic meetings of the wealthy and powerful in Anglo-Saxon England, the name of Epsom is early recorded as forms of Ebbas ham. Many Spring line settlements by springs in Anglo-Saxon England were founded at the foot of dry valleys such as here and Effingham, Bookham, Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton, Croydon, a relic from this period is a 7th-century brooch found in Epsom and now in the British Museum. Epsom appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Evesham, held by Chertsey Abbey. Its domesday assets were,11 hides,2 churches,2 mills worth 10 shillings,18 ploughs,24 acres of meadow, woodland worth 20 hogs, altogether it rendered £17 per year to its overlords. The town at the time of Domesday Book had 38 households, at various dates in the Middle Ages, manors were founded by subinfeudation at Epsom Court, Horton, Woodcote, Brettgrave and Langley Vale. Under Henry VIII and Queen Mary the manor passed to the Carew then related Darcy families and it passed via the Mynne, Buckle and Parkhurst families to Sir Charles Kemys Tynte and after his death to Sir Joseph Mawbey. By the end of the Georgian period, Epsom was known as a spa town, remnants of this are its water pump and multiple exhibits in the towns museum. There were entertainments at the Assembly Rooms, a green-buffered housing estate has now been built upon the wells in the south-west of the town. Epsom salts are named after the town, Epsom salt was originally prepared by boiling down mineral waters which sprung at Epsom. The towns market is built on the pond that existed in the Middle Ages, within the centuries-old boundaries is Epsom Downs Racecourse which features two of the five English Classic horse races, The Derby and The Oaks, which were first run in 1780 and 1779 respectively. On 4 June 1913, Emily Davison, a militant womens suffrage activist, stepped in front of King George Vs horse running in the Derby, sustaining fatal injuries. Lord Rosebery remained closely associated with the town throughout his life, leaving land to the borough, commemorated in the names of roads, Rosebery Park. A house was named after him at Epsom College, one of Britains public schools in Epsom. A bell was added in 1867, by 1902 the lions had been replaced by lanterns, and the toilet buildings added either side of the tower. The Epsom Playhouse was opened in 1984 and is run by Epsom, the Ashley Centre, a shopping mall, was built in the early 1980s and subsequently parts of the high street were pedestrianised as part of the construction of the towns one-way system
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Audio engineer
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An audio engineer works on the recording, manipulating the record using equalization and electronic effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the. technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the physical recording of any project is done by an engineer. Many audio engineers creatively use technologies to produce sound for film, radio, television, music, electronic products and computer games. Audio engineers also set up, sound check and do live sound mixing using an audio console, research and development audio engineers invent new technologies, equipment and techniques, to enhance the process and art of audio engineering. They might also be referred to as acoustic engineers, audio engineers in research and development usually possess a bachelors degree, masters degree or higher qualification in acoustics, physics, computer science or another engineering discipline. They might work in consultancy, specializing in architectural acoustics. Alternatively they might work in companies, or other industries that need audio expertise. Some positions, such as faculty require a Doctor of Philosophy, in Germany a Toningenieur is an audio engineer who designs, builds and repairs audio systems. The listed subdisciplines are based on PACS coding used by the Acoustical Society of America with some revision, audio engineers develop algorithms to allow the electronic manipulation of audio signals. These can be processed at the heart of audio production such as reverberation. Alternatively, the algorithms might carry out echo cancellation on Skype, or identify, architectural acoustics is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a room. For audio engineers, architectural acoustics can be about achieving good speech intelligibility in a stadium or enhancing the quality of music in a theatre, architectural Acoustic design is usually done by acoustic consultants. Electroacoustics is concerned with the design of headphones, microphones, loudspeakers, sound reproduction systems, examples of electroacoustic design include portable electronic devices, sound systems in architectural acoustics, surround sound in movie theater and vehicle audio. Musical acoustics is concerned with researching and describing the science of music, in audio engineering, this includes the design of electronic instruments such as synthesizers, the human voice, computer analysis of audio, music therapy, and the perception and cognition of music. Psychoacoustics is the study of how humans respond to what they hear. At the heart of audio engineering are listeners who are the final arbitrator as to whether a design is successful. The production, computer processing and perception of speech is an important part of audio engineering, ensuring speech is transmitted intelligibly, efficiently and with high quality, in rooms, through public address systems and through mobile telephone systems are important areas of study. Producer, engineer, and mixer Phil Ek has described audio engineering as the aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, the turning of pre-amp knobs
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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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The Who
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The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation for their live shows. The Who developed from a group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars. Their first single as the Who, I Cant Explain, reached the UK top ten, followed by a string of singles including My Generation, Substitute and Happy Jack. In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released the US top ten single I Can See for Miles, the groups fourth album, 1969s rock opera Tommy, included the single Pinball Wizard and was a critical and commercial success. Live appearances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, along with the live album Live at Leeds, with their success came increased pressure on lead songwriter and visionary Townshend, and the follow-up to Tommy, Lifehouse, was abandoned. Songs from the project made up 1971s Whos Next, which included the hit Wont Get Fooled Again, the group released the album Quadrophenia in 1973 as a celebration of their mod roots, and oversaw the film adaptation of Tommy in 1975. They continued to tour to large audiences before semi-retiring from live performances at the end of 1976, the release of Who Are You in 1978 was overshadowed by the death of Moon shortly after. Kenney Jones replaced Moon and the group resumed activity, releasing a film adaptation of Quadrophenia, after Townshend became weary of touring, the group split in 1982. The Who occasionally re-formed for live appearances such as Live Aid in 1985, a 25th anniversary tour in 1989 and they resumed regular touring in 1999, with drummer Zak Starkey. After Entwistles death in 2002, plans for a new album were delayed, Townshend and Daltrey continued as the Who, releasing Endless Wire in 2006, and continued to play live regularly. They are cited as an influence by rock, punk rock and mod bands. The founding members of the Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend and Entwistle became friends in their year of Acton County. Both were interested in rock, and Townshend particularly admired Cliff Richards début single, Entwistle moved to guitar, but struggled with it due to his large fingers, and moved to bass on hearing the guitar work of Duane Eddy. He was unable to afford a bass and built one at home, after Acton County, Townshend attended Ealing Art College, a move he later described as profoundly influential on the course of the Who. Daltrey, who was in the year above, had moved to Acton from Shepherds Bush and he had trouble fitting in at the school, and discovered gangs and rock and roll
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Small Faces
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Small Faces were an English rock band from East London. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and they later evolved into one of the UKs most successful psychedelic acts before disbanding in 1969. This practice has continued on all subsequent North American reissues of the album to this day, a revived version of the original Small Faces existed from 1975 to 1978. Small Faces were one of the biggest musical influences on the Britpop movement of the 1990s and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Lane and Marriott met in 1965 while Marriott was working at the J60 Music Bar in Manor Park, London. Lane came in with his father Stan to buy a guitar, struck up a conversation with Marriott, bought the bass. They recruited friends Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, who switched from guitar to the organ and they rapidly progressed from rehearsals at The Ruskin Arms public house in Manor Park, London, to ramshackle pub gigs, to semi-professional club dates. The group chose the name, Small Faces, for reasons, because of the members small physical stature and A Face was somebody special, more than just a snappy dresser. The bands early song set included R&B/soul classics such as Jump Back, James Browns Please Please Please, Smokey Robinsons Youve Really Got a Hold on Me, E too D, which appears on their first album, Small Faces, is named after the guitar chord structure. On US compilation albums the track is titled Running Wild, Marriotts unique and powerful voice attracted rising attention. Singer Elkie Brooks was struck by Marriotts vocal prowess and stage presence, impressed, King began finding them work in London and beyond. Their first out-of-town concert was at a mens club in Sheffield. Since the crowd was made up of Teddy boys and hard-drinking workers. Despondent, they walked into the mod-orientated King Mojo Club nearby and they played a set that left the local mods wanting more and started a strong buzz. During a crucial residency at Leicester Squares Cavern Club, they were supported by Sonny & Cher. The band signed a management contract with management impresario Don Arden and they released a string of high-energy mod/soul singles on the label. Their debut single was in 1965 with Whatcha Gonna Do About It, Marriott and Lane are credited with creating the instrumental to the song, borrowing the guitar riff from the Solomon Burke record Everybody Needs Somebody to Love. The lyrics were written by the Drifters band member Ian Samwell, the group failed to capitalise on the success of their first single with the follow-up which was written by Marriott/Lane, the hard-edged mod number Ive Got Mine
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Faces (band)
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The Faces were an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie. The remaining Small Faces—Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones —were joined by Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart, later that summer Wood and Stewart parted ways with Beck and joined Lane, McLagan and Jones full-time. Prior to any releases by the new Faces lineup, Wood and McLagan appeared on Stewarts first solo album in 1969, the rest of the backing band on the album included drummer Micky Waller, keyboardist Keith Emerson and guitarists Martin Pugh and Martin Quittenton. With the addition of Wood and Stewart, the part of the original band name was dropped. As a compromise, in the US their debut album was credited to the Small Faces, among their most successful songs were Had Me a Real Good Time, their breakthrough UK hit Stay with Me, Cindy Incidentally and Pool Hall Richard. As Rod Stewarts solo career became more successful than that of the group, a disillusioned Ronnie Lane left the band in 1973, one reason given later for his departure was frustration over not having more opportunities to sing lead vocals. Lanes role as bassist was taken over by Tetsu Yamauchi, released just months before Lane left the band, the Faces final studio album was Ooh La La. The following year an album was released, entitled Coast to Coast, Overture and Beginners, it was criticised by reviewers for being poorly recorded. It featured selections from their late 1973 tour, the first featuring Yamauchi. They recorded a few tracks for studio album, but had lost enthusiasm and their final release as a group was the late 1974 UK Top 20 hit You Can Make Me Dance. The members have had varied post-band careers, McLagan moved to the United States, where he formed Ian McLagan & the Bump Band. Tetsu Yamauchi returned to his native Japan, where he recorded and toured as a jazz musician, there was also a Small Faces reunion in the late 1970s that resulted in two albums, and in 1981 Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott collaborated on the album The Legendary Majik Mijits. The Faces reformed for the encore of Rod Stewarts Wembley Stadium concert in 1986, Ronnie Lane, by then suffering from multiple sclerosis, was on stage to sing in his wheelchair, but was unable to play bass, Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones filled in for him. The same line-up reunited once more in 1993 when Rod Stewart was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Brit Awards, Ronnie Lane made his final concert appearance in 1992 at a Ronnie Wood show with Ian McLagan on keyboards, Lane died in 1997. In 2004 a 4-disc Faces box set entitled Five Guys Walk into a Bar. was released by Rhino Records, on 11 June 2008 Rod Stewart announced that the surviving Faces were discussing a possible reunion, envisioning making a recording and/or performing at least one or two concerts. However, on 23 January 2009, a spokesman for Rod Stewart denied there were any plans for a 2009 Faces reunion tour. This will be so special for us, staging a reunion for such a wonderful and prestigious event, sadly Ronnie Lane cant be with us, but Im sure he will be there in spirit, God bless him. Lanes ex-wife, Katy, is one of many to receive assistance from the charity, the event was held on 25 October
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Johnny Hallyday
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Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. He has been called the French Elvis and he was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan and the two were considered a golden couple for 20 years. Hallyday has completed 181 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and has more than 80 million records worldwide. Hallyday remains largely unknown outside of the Francophone world, thus earning the nickname the biggest rock star youve never heard of in English-speaking countries, nevertheless, at an international level he is still considered as the only non-Anglophone rock musician having a large international reputation. He was made Chevalier of the Légion dhonneur in 1997, Hallydays father, Léon Smet, was Belgian, his mother, Huguette Clerc, was French. Johnny was raised by Desta and Lee from a young age. Johnny was always loyal to Lee and secured him a permanent job as a producer and A&R man with his label, Philips Records until Lees retirement. Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock n roll revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and his debut single, Laisse les filles was released on the Vogue label in March 1960. His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960, in 1961 his cover of Lets Twist Again sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart and he appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix, for their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Évreux on 13 October 1966. Black-and-white footage, also from October 1966, exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler, there also is a widely published monochrome photograph of Hallyday walking somewhere in Paris in late May 1966 with Bob Dylan. At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Mick Jones and Tommy Brown as musical directors, on Je suis né dans la rue, Hallyday also hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces. Amongst their contributions are the songs Amen, Reclamation, and Regarde Pour Moi, often forgotten is Hallydays non-LP single and EP track Que Je Taime from the same sessions. By 1969 alone, his sales of records exceeded twelve million, one of Hallydays later concerts, 100% Johnny, Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers. In December 2005, Hallyday had his third single in France, Mon Plus Beau Noël. Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring, he released an album, Le Cœur dun homme. The album hit No.1 in both France and French-speaking Belgium and his next album, Ça ne finira jamais, released in 2008, another No.1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, Ça nfinira jamais, also reached No.1
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, after changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Their fourth album, which features the track Stairway to Heaven, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, Page wrote most of Led Zeppelins music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones keyboard-based compositions later became central to the catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess, in the decades that followed, the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the music artists in the history of audio recording. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and they achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as the heaviest band of all time, the biggest band of the Seventies, and unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, in 1966, London-based session guitarist Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Page soon switched from bass to guitar, creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck. Following Becks departure in October 1966, the Yardbirds, tired from constant touring and recording, Page wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars, and the Whos Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and bass, respectively. Vocalists Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott were also considered for the project, the group never formed, although Page, Beck, and Moon did record a song together in 1966, Becks Bolero, in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones. The Yardbirds played their final gig in July 1968 at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, Page and Dreja began putting a new line-up together. Pages first choice for the singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant. Plant eventually accepted the position, recommending former Band of Joy drummer John Bonham, Jones inquired about the vacant position at the suggestion of his wife after Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer. Page had known Jones since they were both musicians and agreed to let him join as the final member
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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Eagles (band)
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The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and their Greatest Hits was the best selling album of the 20th century in the U. S. They are the music act and the highest-selling American band in U. S. history. The band released their album, Eagles, in 1972. Their next album, Desperado, was successful than the first, only reaching number 41 on the charts. However, the album does contain what would go on to be two of the bands most popular tracks, Desperado and Tequila Sunrise, the band released On the Border in 1974, adding guitarist Don Felder as the fifth member midway through the recording of the album. The album generated two top 40 singles, Already Gone and their first number one, Best of My Love. Their 1975 album One of These Nights included three top 10 singles, One of These Nights, Lyin Eyes, and Take It to the Limit, guitarist and vocalist, Joe Walsh, also joined the band in 1975. The album yielded two singles, New Kid in Town and Hotel California. The Eagles disbanded in July 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over and they toured consistently and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their first full album in 28 years. The next year launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour in support of the album. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the bands documentary release, following the death of Frey in January 2016, Henley stated in several interviews that he didnt think the band would perform again. However, in March 2017 it was announced that the Eagles would be headlining two concerts in July 2017, the Eagles began in early 1971, when Linda Ronstadt and then-manager John Boylan recruited local musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band. While on the tour, Frey and Henley decided to form a band together, Frey later credited Ronstadt with suggesting Leadon for the band, and arranging for Leadon to play for her so Frey and Henley could approach him about forming a band together. They also pitched the idea to Meisner and brought him on board and these four played live together behind Ronstadt only once for a July concert at Disneyland, but all four appeared on her eponymous album. It was later proposed that J. D. Souther should join the band, the four were signed in September 1971 to Asylum Records, the new label started by David Geffen, who was introduced to Frey by Jackson Browne
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Fairport Convention
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Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and electric folk band. Formed in 1967, they are regarded as a key group in the English folk rock movement. Since 1979, they have hosted the Cropredy Festival, which is the largest such event in England. Individually and collectively the members of Fairport Convention have received awards recognising their contribution to music. As of 2017, they continue to record and tour, bassist Ashley Hutchings met guitarist Simon Nicol in North London in 1966 when they both played in the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra. They soon added a female singer, Judy Dyble, which gave them a distinctive sound among the many London bands of the period, Fairport Convention were soon playing regularly at underground venues such as UFO and The Electric Garden, which later became the Middle Earth club. After only a few months, they caught the attention of manager Joe Boyd who secured them a contract with Polydor Records, Boyd suggested they augment the line-up with another male vocalist. Singer Iain Matthews joined the band and their first album, Fairport Convention, was recorded in late 1967, at this early stage Fairport looked to North American folk and folk rock acts such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and The Byrds for material and inspiration. Fairport Convention played alongside Jefferson Airplane at the First Isle of Wight Festival,1968, after disappointing album sales they signed a new contract with Island Records. Before their next recording Judy Dyble was replaced by the band with Sandy Denny and these recordings marked the growth of much greater musicality and song-writing ability among the band. The first of these featured the Thompson-penned Meet on the Ledge, during the recording of Unhalfbricking, Matthews left after having sung on only one song, eventually to form Matthews Southern Comfort. He was not replaced, the male members covered his vocal parts. The album featured a guest appearance by Birmingham folk fiddler Dave Swarbrick on a recording of A Sailors Life and these two albums began to gain the band wider recognition. Radio DJ John Peel championed their music, playing their albums on his influential BBC shows, Peel also recorded a number of sessions which were later released as the album Heyday. They enjoyed some success when they entered the singles charts with Si Tu Dois Partir. The record just missed the top twenty, but secured the band a slot on Top of the Pops, in 1969 four members of the band, one uncredited and three with pseudonyms, featured as backing musicians on the album Love Chronicles by Scottish folk artist Al Stewart. On 12 May 1969, on the way home from a gig at Mothers, martin Lamble, aged only nineteen, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompsons girlfriend, were killed. The rest of the band suffered injuries of varying severity, however, they reconvened with Dave Mattacks taking over drumming duties and Dave Swarbrick, having made contribution to Unhalfbricking, now joined as a full member
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Eric Clapton
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important, Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and fourth in Gibsons Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. He was also named number five in Time magazines list of The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players in 2009, in the mid-1960s Clapton left the Yardbirds to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Furthermore, he formed rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood. For most of the 1970s Claptons output bore the influence of the style of J. J. Cale. His version of Marleys I Shot the Sheriff helped reggae reach a mass market, two of his most popular recordings were Layla, recorded with Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnsons Crossroads, recorded with Cream. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Claptons grief was expressed in the song Tears in Heaven, Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music, in 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer, Fryer shipped off to war prior to Claptons birth and then returned to Canada. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the belief that Claptons real surname is Clapp. Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently, Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder and his guitar playing was so advanced that, by the age of 16, he was getting noticed. Around this time, Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, in 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. When he was seventeen years old, Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group and he stayed with this band from January until August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a stint with Casey Jones & the Engineers. In October 1963, Clapton joined the Yardbirds, a rock and roll band
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The Clash
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The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska, for most of their recording career the Clash consisted of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky Topper Headon. Headon left the group in 1982, and internal friction led to Joness departure the following year, the group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, The Clash. Their third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979 and it was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later by Rolling Stone. In 1982 they reached new heights of success with the release of Combat Rock and their final album, Cut the Crap, was released in 1985. The Clashs politicised lyrics, musical experimentation, and rebellious attitude had a influence on rock. They became widely referred to as The Only Band That Matters, originally a promotional slogan introduced by the record label. In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Clash number 28 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Before the Clashs founding, the future members were active in different parts of the London music scene. John Graham Mellor sang and played guitar in the pub rock act the 101ers. Mick Jones played guitar in protopunk band London SS, which rehearsed for much of 1975 without ever playing a live show and recording only a single demo. London SS was managed by Bernard Rhodes, an associate of impresario Malcolm McLaren and a friend of the members of the McLaren managed band. Jones and his bandmates became friendly with Sex Pistols Glen Matlock and Steve Jones, among those who auditioned for London SS without making the cut were Paul Simonon, who tried out as a vocalist, and drummer Terry Chimes. Nicky Headon drummed with the band for a week, then quit, after London SS broke up in early 1976, Rhodes continued as Joness manager. In February, Jones saw the Sex Pistols perform for the first time, You knew straight away that was it, and it was a new scene, new values—so different from what had happened before. At the instigation of Rhodes, Jones contacted Simonon in March, soon Jones, Simonon on bass, Keith Levene on guitar and whoever we could find really to play the drums were rehearsing. Chimes was asked to audition for the new band and got the job, the band was still searching for a lead singer
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New Model Army (band)
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New Model Army are an English rock band formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980 by lead singer, guitarist and main composer Justin Sullivan, bassist Stuart Morrow and drummer Phil Tompkins. Sullivan has been the only member of the band, which has seen numerous line-up changes in its 35-year history. Their music draws on influences across the spectrum, from punk and folk to soul. Sullivan’s lyrics, which range from directly political through to spiritual and personal, have always considered as a key part of the band’s appeal. By the time began making their first records in 1983, Robert Heaton. Whilst having their roots in rock, the band have always been difficult to categorise. In 1999, when asked about this, Sullivan said Weve been labelled as punks, post-punks, Goth, metal, folk – the lot, but weve always been beyond those style confines. Following a large turnover of personnel, both permanent and as touring members, as of January 2016 New Model Army comprise Sullivan, Dean White, Michael Dean, Marshall Gill and Ceri Monger. Sullivan used the alter ego of Slade the Leveller until the mid-1980s, in February 1984, they were invited to play on popular music show The Tube, being introduced by presenter Muriel Gray as the ugliest band in rock and roll. The producers of the show however were concerned about the lyrics of Vengeance, following this performance, the bands first mini-album Vengeance reached Number 1 in the UK independent chart in early 1984, pushing The Smiths from that position. After a further single The Price also reached a high placing in the independent charts, the band then made five studio albums for EMI and one studio album for Epic, in a period of eight years. During the No Rest tour, Morrow left the band, however the band were refused work permits to enter the United States, as the US Immigration Department had said the bands work was of no artistic merit. In December 1986 the band finally got permission to tour in the US, thunder and Consolation was released in February 1989, and saw the band moving towards a more folk-rock sound, especially on the tracks including violinist Ed Alleyne-Johnson. Described as the landmark album, it reached No. At the end of the year however, Harris left the band, to be replaced by Peter Nelson Nice, 1990s Impurity, continued the folk-driven theme with Alleyne-Johnson still to the fore, and Adrian Portas joining the band on guitar. His life went in one direction and mine went in another and it was agreed that they would go their separate ways after the forthcoming album and tour. Strange Brotherhood was released in May 1998 to unsurprisingly mixed reviews and he suggested that his drum technician Michael Dean take over from him to tour the album. By this time the band had formed their own independent label, Attack Attack, a live album. & Nobody Else followed in 1999, and eighth studio album Eight in 2000
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Ethan Johns
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Ethan Thomas Robert Johns is an English record producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Although Johns is primarily a producer, mixer and engineer. He owns the record label Three Crows Music. Johns also runs Three Crows Records within Warner/Atlantic, Johns is the son of the notable record producer and engineer Glyn Johns. In 2012, he won the Brit Award for Best British Producer, Johns released his debut solo album If Not Now Then When on vinyl in November 2012, which was later released in other formats in February 2013. His second album titled The Reckoning was released in mid-2014, and was produced by Ryan Adams. and his third, Johns spent 15 years in Los Angeles as a record producer and musician, but currently lives and continues to make records in England. Johns is represented by Global Positioning Services in Santa Monica, CA
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Ryan Adams
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Ryan Adams is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, poet and painter. He is best known for his solo career, during which he has released fifteen albums. In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his solo album, Heartbreaker. The album was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize, the following year, his profile increased with the release of the UK certified-gold Gold, which included the hit single, New York, New York. During this time, Adams worked on several unreleased albums, which were consolidated into a solo release. Working at a rate, Adams released the classic rock-influenced Rock N Roll, after a planned album. As a compromise, Love Is Hell was released as two EPs and eventually released in its state in 2004. After breaking his wrist during a performance, Adams took a short-lived break, and formed The Cardinals. In 2009, following the release of Cardinology, Adams disbanded The Cardinals, the following year, however, Adams resumed performing and released his Glyn Johns-produced thirteenth studio album, Ashes & Fire, in 2011. The album peaked at No.7 on the Billboard 200, in September 2014, Adams released his fourteenth album, Ryan Adams, on his own PAX AM label, and formed a new backing band, The Shining, to support the release. In 2015, Adams released 1989 a song-for-song cover of Taylor Swifts album of the same name, the release, Prisoner, was announced in late 2016. He has written Infinity Blues, a book of poems, and Hello Sunshine, Ryan Adams was born on November 5,1974, in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He has a brother and younger sister. His childhood has been described as dysfunctional and his father left when he was five and at that time he, his mother and his brother and sister had to move in with his grandparents as they became homeless as a result of the divorce. A year later his grandmother threw them out of the house because she did not want to deal with the children any longer, after that time Ryan never lived with his grandparents again but was a frequent visitor in their home. Ryan was raised by his mother as a parent until he was 13 at which time she remarried. I became who I am now because of my grandparents and he has said his grandmother raised me like my mom, she was like a mother to me. When he was eight, Adams began writing stories and limericks on his grandmothers typewriter
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Paul McCartney
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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained fame with the rock band the Beatles, largely considered the most popular. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most celebrated of the post-war era, after the bands break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine. McCartney has been recognised as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song Yesterday, more than any other copyrighted song in history. Wings 1977 release Mull of Kintyre is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr all received The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1965, McCartney has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty. He has married three times and is the father of five children, James Paul McCartney was born on 18 June 1942 in Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary Patricia, had qualified to practise as a nurse. His father, James McCartney, was absent from his sons birth due to his work as a firefighter during World War II. Paul has one brother, Michael. Though the children were baptised in their mothers Catholic faith, their father was a former Protestant turned agnostic, McCartney attended Stockton Wood Road Primary School in Speke from 1947 until 1949, when he transferred to Joseph Williams Junior School in Belle Vale because of overcrowding at Stockton. In 1953, with three others out of ninety examinees, he passed the 11-Plus exam, meaning he could attend the Liverpool Institute. In 1954, he met schoolmate George Harrison on the bus from his home in Speke. The two quickly became friends, McCartney later admitted, I tended to talk down to him because he was a year younger. McCartneys mother Mary was a midwife and the primary wage earner, her earnings enabled them to move into 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton. She rode a bicycle to her patients, McCartney described an early memory of her leaving at about three in the morning streets, on 31 October 1956, when McCartney was fourteen, his mother died of an embolism. McCartneys loss later became a point of connection with John Lennon, whose mother, McCartneys father was a trumpet player and pianist, who had led Jim Macs Jazz Band in the 1920s. He kept a piano in the front room, encouraged his sons to be musical and advised Paul to take piano lessons
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Laura Marling
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Laura Beatrice Marling is a British folk singer-songwriter and musician from Eversley, Hampshire. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards, the youngest of three daughters, Marling was born in Berkshire, England, and learned guitar at an early age. I couldn’t slot myself into the age-appropriate genre, Marling attended Waverley Primary School in Finchampstead, Berkshire and received a scholarship to attend Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire. During her secondary school years she felt uneasy around other people and was afraid of death, after completing her GCSEs at 16, she joined her older sisters and settled in the outskirts of London. Marling also appeared on The Rakes track Suspicious Eyes, from the bands 2007 album Ten New Messages, Marling would later collaborate with Mystery Jets and contributed guest vocals to the 2008 single Young Love. Early in her career, Marlings band included members of the band Mumford & Sons, Dwane, Mumford. She was invited to tour with Jamie T after he attended her second-ever solo gig and she has also toured with a number of other musicians including Adam Green from the anti-folk band The Moldy Peaches. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim was released on 4 February 2008, the album, as well as subsequent singles, were released on Virgin Records. The third and final single from her album, Night Terror was released on 27 October 2008, Marlings television appearances include The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Later With Jools Holland, performing Ghosts and New Romantic respectively. In 2008, she appeared on Russell Brands Radio 2 show alongside her sister and she once chose to perform on the street after being denied entry to one of her own performances for being underage. The follow-up to Alas, I Cannot Swim, titled I Speak Because I Can, was released on 22 March 2010, produced by Ethan Johns, the album has a more mature sound and lyricism, dealing with responsibility, particularly the responsibility of womanhood. The album is preceded by the singles Goodbye England, released on iTunes in December 2009, on 28 March 2010, I Speak Because I Can entered the UK Albums Chart at Number 4. It was also nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize, in 2013, NME listed the album at 263 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Marlings third album, A Creature I Dont Know, was released on 12 September 2011, the album received positive reviews and reached number four on the UK album charts. During October 2012, Marling completed the Working Holiday Tour of the US as a solo performer. At the time, she announced that the album, later named Once I Was an Eagle, was finished and was scheduled for a February 2013 release, however. On 8 March 2013, Marling confirmed that the album would be released on 27 May 2013, the fourth albums first single Master Hunter was released on 17 April 2013, while Once I Was an Eagle entered the UK charts at number 3. Once I Was an Eagle is Marlings third album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize, the list of artists for the Prizes 2013 shortlist also included David Bowie and Savages
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Ray LaMontagne
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Raymond Ray Charles Jack LaMontagne is an American singer-songwriter. LaMontagne has released six albums, Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain, God Willin & the Creek Dont Rise, Supernova. He was born in New Hampshire and was inspired to music after hearing an album by Stephen Stills. Critics have compared LaMontagnes music to that of Otis Redding, The Band, Van Morrison, Nick Drake, LaMontagne was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1973, one of six children raised by his mother. In his early teens he lived in Morgan, Utah and was interested in drawing images of Dungeons & Dragons than in his school work. After graduating from school, LaMontagne moved to Lewiston, Maine. LaMontagne also spent a significant amount of time in Wilton, Maine, LaMontagne was inspired to quit his job and begin a career as a singer-songwriter after waking up one morning to the radio on his alarm clock playing the Stephen Stills song Treetop Flyer. LaMontagne began performing in 1999, while maintaining a job as a tutor. The album featured performances by Sara Watkins and Jennifer Stills, daughter of musician Stephen Stills, the album sold over 250,000 copies in the USA and 500,000 worldwide. During a 2005 tour, LaMontagne performed at the music festival and his song Trouble appeared in the TV series Alias and his song Jolene was heard in the credits of the 2010 film The Town. His song Hold You in My Arms was featured in the 2006 movie, in 2005, he performed at two charity events, a New York City fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and at the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam. The album peaked at #28 on the Billboard 200 album chart, the album spawned the single Three More Days. In 2006 LaMontagne performed on The Tonight Show, the song Till the Sun Turns Black was featured on the television show ER, and the songs Lesson Learned and Within You appeared on the CW drama One Tree Hill. His song Be Here Now was heard on the trailer for the movie Away From Her, in the film 27 Dresses, on the TV shows Bones, Covert Affairs and Brothers & Sisters. LaMontagne performed at KYSRs Lounge for Life charity concert on 5 October 2006 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood and he also auctioned off one of his guitars on eBay for its charity auction. Funds raised from the concert and auction went to breast cancer research, LaMontagne released his third studio album, Gossip in the Grain, on RCA Records in 2008, it debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts with 60,000 units sold. The song You Are the Best Thing was featured in the movie I Love You, Man, LaMontagne performed on Saturday Night Live in March 2009. The songs Sarah and I Still Care For You appeared on the television series House and his song Let it be Me was featured on the television series Parenthood and was included on the Parenthood soundtrack in 2010
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Kings of Leon
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Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill and Jared Followill, the bands early music was a blend of Southern rock and blues influences, but it has gradually expanded throughout the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound. Their third album, Because of the Times, also reached the one spot. After the release of Only by the Night in September 2008 the band achieved success in the United States. The singles Sex on Fire, Use Somebody, and Notion all peaked at one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album was their first Platinum-selling album in the United States, the bands fifth album, Come Around Sundown, was released on October 18,2010. Their sixth album, Mechanical Bull, was released on September 24,2013, the seventh studio album, WALLS, was released on October 14,2016. The group has 12 Grammy Award nominations, including 4 wins, the three Followill brothers grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann. Matthew and Nathan were born in Oklahoma, and Jared and Caleb were born in and around Memphis, Jared attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and reared in Mississippi. They were either home-schooled by their mother, or enrolled in parochial schools at this time. When the boys father resigned from preaching and their parents divorced in 1997, Nathan and Caleb relocated to outside Nashville and their youngest brother, Jared, who had briefly attended public school, was more influenced by the music of the Pixies and The Velvet Underground. When he and their cousin Matthew also moved to Nashville in 1999 and they named the band after their grandfather Leon, who died in January 2014. By 2002, Nathan and Caleb had received interest from a number of labels and eventually signed with RCA Records. In an interview with Billboard, however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, We dont want to be Evan, were going to buy our little brother a bass, hes a freshman in high school. Caleb will teach himself the guitar, Matthew played guitar when he was 10 and they said, All right, well come down in one month and see you guys. Later in the interview Caleb admitted to the brothers kidnapping their cousin Matthew from his hometown in Mississippi for him to join the band and they told his mother that he was only going to be staying for a week but never allowed him to return home. We locked ourselves in the basement with an ounce of marijuana and my mom would bring us food down, added Nathan. And at the end of month the label people came and we had Mollys Chambers, California Waiting, Wicker Chair
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Jimi Hendrix
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James Marshall Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music, born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and The Wind Cries Mary. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues and he favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a pedal in mainstream rock. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented, Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as a sound source. Hendrix was the recipient of several awards during his lifetime. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Jimi Hendrix was of African American descent. Both his mother Lucille and father Al were African Americans and his paternal grandmother, Zenora Nora Rose Moore, was African American and one-quarter Cherokee. On June 10,1919, Hendrix and Moore had a son they named James Allen Ross Hendrix, in 1941, Al met Lucille Jeter at a dance in Seattle, they married on March 31,1942. Al, who had been drafted by the U. S. Army to serve in World War II, Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27,1942, in Seattle, he was the first of Lucilles five children. In 1946, Johnnys parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and he spent two months locked up without trial, and while in the stockade received a telegram announcing his sons birth. During Als three-year absence, Lucille struggled to raise their son, when Al was away, Hendrix was mostly cared for by family members and friends, especially Lucilles sister Delores Hall and her friend Dorothy Harding. Al received a discharge from the U. S. Army on September 1,1945. After returning from service, Al reunited with Lucille, but his inability to find steady work left the family impoverished and they both struggled with alcohol, and often fought when intoxicated. The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home and his relationship with his brother Leon was close but precarious, with Leon in and out of foster care, they lived with an almost constant threat of fraternal separation. In addition to Leon, Hendrix had three siblings, Joseph, born in 1949, Kathy in 1950, and Pamela,1951, all of whom Al and Lucille gave up to foster care
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Eddie Kramer
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Eddie Kramer is a recording producer and engineer. Kramer has engineered and/or produced records for other artists in various genres. They include Anthrax, Joe Cocker, Loudness, Peter Frampton, John Mayall, Ten Years After, Mott the Hoople, John Sebastian, Carly Simon, Dionne Warwick, Small Faces and Whitesnake. Kramer was interviewed extensively in Jimi Hendrix, Hear My Train a Comin, Kramer was born to art and music-loving parents Sonny and Minna Kramer, active opponents of apartheid who moved from South Africa to London in the early 1960s for political reasons. At age four he began studying the piano and that instrument remained his first love, but he also dabbled with the violin and the cello. He studied classical piano at the South African College of Music, during these studies he became fascinated with jazz and rock, much to his fathers chagrin. Kramer moved to London at age 19, some six months after his parents relocating there, Kramer got his first industry job in 1962 at Advision Studios. A year later he was hired by Pye Studios, where he assisted on mobile recordings of classical works and he also assisted on Pye Studios recordings by the Kinks, the Searchers, the Undertakers, Petula Clark, and Sammy Davis Jr. In 1964 he founded KPS Studios, a mono- and two-track facility which was acquired in 1965 by Regent Sound, Regent then tasked Kramer to help build and run their new four-track studio. The Beatles had recorded Fixing a Hole there, later to be featured on their 1967 album Sgt, Kramer engineered two Beatles hit singles which appeared on Magical Mystery Tour—All You Need Is Love and Baby Youre a Rich Man. The two songs were recorded at Olympic Studios, where, in 1967, Kramer engineered albums for the Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Traffic, Kramer became a permanent part of Hendrixs creative process, collaborating on the four albums which Hendrix released before his death in 1970. In 1968 Kramer relocated to New York, primarily to continue working with Hendrix, Kramer and his crew attended the 1969 Woodstock Festival, they recorded the entire festival in a harried, sleepless, three-day binge. His first release after leaving The Impressions, in 1973 Kramer mixed Led Zeppelins Houses of the Holy. In the same year he began an association with Kiss. Earlier he had produced a demo that won their first recording contract. He eventually produced Alive II, Double Platinum, Rock and Roll Over, Love Gun, Alive III as well as member Ace Frehleys first solo album, Ace Frehley, also in 1973 he engineered the live Derek and the Dominos album In Concert. Kramer left Electric Lady Studios in 1975, working independently, he engineered the Rolling Stones Love You Live, Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti and The Song Remains the Same, and Peter Framptons Frampton Comes Alive. The biggest-selling album of 1976, a 2-disc release that sold over 14 million units, in the same year he mixed Bad Companys third album, Run with the Pack
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone, recorded in 1965, Dylans lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica, backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records and he has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Marys Hospital on May 24,1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and he has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire and his maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylans father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Robert was six, when his father had polio and the returned to his mothers hometown, Hibbing. In his early years he listened to the radio—first to blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later and he formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and their performance of Danny & the Juniors Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone. In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption Robert Zimmerman, the same year, as Elston Gunnn, he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and clapping
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Linda Ronstadt
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Linda Maria Ronstadt is an American popular music singer. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28,2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, in total, she has released over 30 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. Ronstadt charted 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles, with 21 reaching the top 40,10 in the top 10 and this success did not translate to the UK, with only her single Blue Bayou reaching the UK Top 40. Her duet with Aaron Neville, Dont Know Much, peaked at number 2 in December 1989, in addition, she has charted 36 albums,10 top-10 albums and three number 1 albums on the Billboard Pop Album Chart. Her autobiography, Simple Dreams, A Musical Memoir, was published in September 2013 and it debuted in the Top 10 on The New York Times Best Seller list. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has more than 100 million records. Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation, after completing her last live concert in late 2009, Ronstadt retired in 2011. She was diagnosed as having Parkinsons disease in December 2012, which left her unable to sing. Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, daughter to Gilbert Ronstadt, a prosperous merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co. and Ruth Mary Ronstadt. Ronstadt was raised on the familys 10-acre ranch with her siblings Peter, Michael J. the family was featured in Family Circle magazine in 1953. Lindas father came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of German, English, the familys influence on and contributions to Arizonas history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are chronicled in the library of the University of Arizona. Her mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch ancestry, was raised in Flint and she was a daughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of many patents. Copeman, with nearly 700 patents to his name, invented a form of the toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties, later, as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown. Home Grown in 1969, which has described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist. With the release of chart-topping albums such as Heart Like a Wheel, Simple Dreams and she set records as one of the top-grossing concert artists of the decade. Referred to as the First Lady of Rock and the Queen of Rock and her rock-and-roll image was as famous as her music, she appeared six times on the cover of Rolling Stone and on the covers of Newsweek and Time
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The Band
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The Band was a Canadian roots rock group, originally consisting of four Canadians—Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson —and one American, Levon Helm. The members of the Band first came together as they joined the rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkinss backing group, in 1964, they separated from Hawkins, after which they toured and released a few singles as Levon and the Hawks and the Canadian Squires. The next year, Bob Dylan hired them for his U. S. tour in 1965, because they were always the band to various frontmen, Helm said the name The Band worked well when the group came into its own. The group began performing as the Band in 1968 and went on to ten studio albums. Dylan continued to collaborate with the Band over the course of their career, the original configuration of the Band ended its touring career in 1976 with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities. This performance was immortalized in Martin Scorseses 1978 documentary The Last Waltz, the Band recommenced touring in 1983 without guitarist Robertson, who had found success with a solo career and as a Hollywood music producer. Following a 1986 show, Manuel committed suicide, Danko died of heart failure in 1999, after which the group broke up for good. Helm was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and was unable to sing for several years. He continued to perform and released several albums until he died in 2012. The group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989, in 2004 Rolling Stone ranked them No.50 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time, and in 2008 they received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, The Weight was ranked 41st on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, in 2014, the Band was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame. While most of the Hawks were eager to join Hawkinss group and he had earned a college degree, planned on a career as a music teacher, and was interested in playing rock music only as a hobby. The Hawks were in awe of his wild, full-bore organ sound, Hudson finally relented, as long as the Hawks each paid him $10 per week to be their instructor, all music theory questions were directed to Hudson. While pocketing a little cash, Hudson was also able to mollify his familys fears that his education had gone to waste. The piano–organ combination was uncommon in rock music, and for all his aggressive playing, there is a view that jazz is evil because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street, and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work, and they knew how to punch through music which would cure and make people feel good. With Hawkins, they recorded a few singles in this period, Hawkins regularly convened all-night rehearsals following long club shows, with the result that the young musicians quickly developed great technical prowess on their instruments. In late 1963, the split from Hawkins over personal differences
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Steve Miller Band
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The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals and it is best known today for a string of mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier acid rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band, shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band’s landmark contract with Capitol/EMI Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love, the bands Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. The band continued to produce more albums and in 2014 toured with the rock band Journey, in 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band was contracted to Epic Records after playing many Chicago clubs and they also appeared on Hullabaloo with the Four Tops and the Supremes. Miller left the group to go to San Francisco, where the scene was flourishing. He then formed the Steve Miller Blues Band, Harvey Kornspan, managing partner, wrote and negotiated the bands landmark contract with Capitol/EMI Records then-president Alan Livingston in 1967. Shortly after, the name was shortened to the Steve Miller Band in order to broaden its appeal. Guitarist Boz Scaggs joined the band soon after and the group performed at the Magic Mountain Festival, in February 1968, while in England, the band recorded their debut album Children of the Future at Olympic studios with Glyn Johns as engineer/producer. The album did not score among the Top 100 album chart, the second album Sailor appeared in October 1968 and climbed the Billboard chart to #24. Successes included the single Living in the USA, Brave New World featured the songs Space Cowboy and My Dark Hour. Paul Ramon played drums, bass and sang backing vocals and this was followed by Your Saving Grace and Number 5. In 1971, Miller broke his neck in a car accident, capitol Records released the album Rock Love, featuring unreleased live performances and studio material. This is one of two Steve Miller Band albums not to be released on CD, the other being Recall the Beginning. A Journey from Eden, in 1972, the double album compilation Anthology was released, containing 16 songs from the bands first five albums. The style and personnel of the band changed radically with The Joker, concentrating on straightforward rock, the title track became a #1 single and was certified platinum, reaching over one million sales. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on January 11,1974, three years later, the band returned with the album Fly Like an Eagle, which charted at #3
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Spooky Tooth
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Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active, with intermittent breakups, between 1967 and 1974. In recent years, the band has been reconstituted at various points, Spooky Tooth formed in October 1967, when Gary Wright joined the band Art and the band name was changed. Art had been renamed from The V. I. P. s, Gary Wright held a significant role from the start. He wrote the majority of the first Spooky Tooth album Its All About, crucial to Spooky Tooths sound was their instrumentation, they were one of the relatively few rock acts of the time to adopt the twin keyboard approach. 1969s Spooky Two LP was the last album release by the original lineup and it included the song Better by You, Better than Me, which was covered by Judas Priest on their 1978 release Stained Class. Ridley joined Humble Pie in 1969 and was replaced by Andy Leigh who went on to Matthews Southern Comfort with ex-Fairport Convention vocalist Ian Matthews, the experimental nature of Ceremony received mixed reviews and following its release Wright also bowed out. The core of Harrison, Grosvenor and Kellie struggled on for one album, The Last Puff. They broke up after a European tour in the autumn of 1970 that was undertaken with a lineup of Harrison, Grosvenor, Kellie, keyboardist John Hawken, however, after recording solo efforts, Harrison and Wright decided to reform Spooky Tooth in September 1972 with a different line-up. The best known member of these line-ups was Mick Jones, later in Foreigner, from February — May 1974, Mike Patto replaced Harrison for the 1974 release The Mirror. The group then again in November 1974. Grosvenor later played with Stealers Wheel and, adopting the stage name Ariel Bender and he later founded the band Widowmaker, which was active in the 1970s. In 2005, he founded The Ariel Bender Band, with which he continues to perform on occasion, Harrison, Grosvenor, Ridley and Kellie reunited at points in 1997 and 1998, which resulted in an album, Cross Purpose, released in 1999. Harrison played and recorded with The Hamburg Blues Band, releasing an album, Touch, Mike Harrison, Wright and Kellie reunited in 2004 for two concerts in Germany, resulting in a DVD release, Nomad Poets. In 2006 Harrison released his first solo album in over thirty years, in February 2008 the latest incarnation of the band, featuring Harrison, Wright and Kellie, along with guitarist Steve Farris and Shem von Shroeck, played a well-received series of European dates. On 29 May 2009 this same lineup played at Island Records 50th Anniversary at Shepherds Bush Empire before playing some June German dates, in June 2012 Mike Kellie was preparing to release his first solo album, ‘music from. The HIDDEN’
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The Easybeats
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The Easybeats were an Australian rock band which formed in Sydney, Australia, in late 1964, and disbanded at the end of 1969. The band formed at the former Villawood Migrant Hostel, later renamed the Villawood Detention Centre, the families of the band members spent their first years in Australia housed at the Villawood Migrant Hostel in the early and mid-sixties. The Easybeats began their career in late 1964 at the teen hangout, Beatle Village, located in the basement of a pub at Taylor Square on Oxford Street, in Darlinghurst. The band was inspired by the British Invasion spearheaded by the Beatles, the Easybeats quickly rose to become one of the most popular groups in the city. Real estate agent turned pop music entrepreneur Mike Vaughan took over as their manager, through his efforts, they were signed to a contract with Albert Productions, one of Australias first independent record production companies. The company was established by Ted Albert whose family owned J. Albert & Sons, Albert signed the band to a recording contract with EMIs Parlophone label. The group recorded a number of songs at the abandoned 2UW Theatre, owned by the parent company of Albert Productions, J. Albert and they chose the bluesy For My Woman as their first single. It was picked up by local radio Sydney radio and proved to be a minor hit, although For My Woman gained them some attention, the band felt they needed a more uptempo song to break through commercially. Their next single, Shes So Fine, gave them commercial success, reaching #3 on the Australian charts. Their concerts and public appearances were marked by intense fan hysteria similar to Beatlemania. The bands follow-up single, the high-energy Wedding Ring, released on 26 August, was also a hit, on 23 September 1965, the group released their first album Easy. It was one of the earliest albums of all material that was written by an Australia rock group. Most of the songs were written by the already established songwriters, vocalist Stevie Wright. For the next single, Sad and Lonely and Blue, the returned to the blues based feel of For My Woman. However, like For My Woman, it failed to make the top 10, both Wedding Ring and Sad and Lonely and Blue were included on the groups second album, Its 2 Easy, released 24 March 1966. The lead singles from album, Women and Come and See Her, put the group back in the top 10, reaching #4. The Wright-Young song-writing team also wrote songs for artists, including Step Back. In early 1966, while the group were still touring Australia, their manager, Mike Vaughan, despite an initial lack of interest, Vaughan was able to convince United Artists Records to sign the band
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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are an American Southern rock/country rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. They are most widely known for their singles If You Wanna Get To Heaven in 1974, bassist Michael Supe Granda has also written a book about the band, It Shined. The band shortened the name because none of the members at the time wanted to be called Cosmic Corn Cob. The band is also affectionately referred to by its fans as The Ducks. Larry Lee was working at the New Bijou as a bartender, sunday offered the group $500 to make another demo tape at American Artists but ultimately decided to pass on offering them a contract. The band then changed their name to the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and saw the departure of Campanelli and Jones and the addition of Buddy Brayfield, anderson, though still romantically involved with Dillon, retired from the stage. The band began playing out in 1972 and 1973, on February 8,1973 they played at Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City, Missouri. Later that month, on February 21, they played a concert at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas. Two weeks after that, on March 9 and 10, they played at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis and Cowtown Ballroom again, performances from both those March shows later turned up on a CD called Archive Alive in 1997. The groups demo tape eventually caught the attention of A&M Records staff producer David Anderle, Anderle and the Eagles first producer, Glyn Johns, flew to Missouri to catch the bands aforementioned performance at Cowtown Ballroom on March 10,1973. But the band, nervous about Johns and Anderle being in the audience, later on, Paul Peterson invited the two men back to his place to hear the band give an unplugged performance by candlelight. The first record, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, was released in December 1973, the album introduced the bands unique mixture of rock, country, bluegrass and pop to the world and is still the favorite of many of the groups fans. For the second album, Itll Shine When It Shines, Johns and Anderle came to Missouri to record, during the sessions, Johns overheard Larry Lee sitting at a piano playing and singing a song about a mysterious friend of his who sometimes dealt drugs on the side. Johns loved the melody and thought it could be a hit if the lyrics were altered to be about a girl. Lee and Cash did as Johns asked and the song, Jackie Blue, became the Daredevils signature song and he also toured with them in 1975-1976. The album sold well but produced no hits. One reason why the bands began to falter might have been their reluctance to relocate to Southern California after being asked to do so by A&M co-head Jerry Moss. Another reason was their reluctance to do the constant touring that many of their contemporaries were doing back then
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Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many albums and singles over the course of her career. Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other works, a singer-songwriter. Harris is from a military family. Her father, Walter Harris, was a Marine Corps officer and her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia and she married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Instead, Hillman recommended her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to collaborate with on his first solo album, Harris toured as a member of Parsonss band, the Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the pair shone during vocal harmonies and duets. Later that year, Parsons and Harris worked on a studio album, Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 19,1973, from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Parsonss Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974, and three tracks from his sessions with Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights. One more album of recorded material from that period was packaged as Live 1973, Warner Brothers A&R representative Mary Martin introduced Harris to Canadian producer Brian Ahern, who produced her major label debut album, Pieces of the Sky, released in 1975 on Reprise Records. It also featured Bluebird Wine, a composition by a young Texas songwriter, Rodney Crowell, two singles were released, Too Far Gone, which initially charted at No. 73, and Harriss first big hit, If I Could Only Win Your Love, a duet with Herb Pedersen, executives of Warner Bros. Records told Harris they would agree to record her if she would get a hot band. Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, Burton was a renowned guitarist, starting in Ricky Nelsons band in the 1950s, and Hardin had been a member of the Crickets. Other Hot Band members were drummer John Ware, pedal steel guitarist Hank DeVito, singer-songwriter Crowell was enlisted as a rhythm guitarist and duet partner. Harriss first tour schedule originally dovetailed around Presleys, owing to Burton, the Hot Band lived up to its name, with most of the members moving on with fresh talent replacing them as they continued on to solo careers of their own. Elite Hotel, released in December 1975, established that the created by Pieces of the Sky was well-founded. Unusual for country albums at the time, which revolved around a hit single. Elite Hotel was a No.1 country album and also did well as a crossover success with the rock audience
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Midnight Oil
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Midnight Oil are an Australian rock band, who originally performed as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. While vocalist Peter Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an advertisement for a spot in Farm, and by 1975 the band was touring the east coast. By late 1976, Garrett moved to Sydney to complete his law degree, important to their development was manager Gary Morris who was able to negotiate favourable contracts with tour promoters and record companies and frustrate rock journalists. Founding bass guitarist James, forced to leave due to illness in 1980, was replaced by Peter Gifford, Gifford was himself replaced by Bones Hillman in 1987. S. L. Redneck Wonderland, The Real Thing, Capricornia and Flat Chat, Australian Top Ten singles were Power and the Passion, The Dead Heart, Beds Are Burning and Blue Sky Mine. In December 2002, Garrett announced that he would seek to further his political career, Midnight Oil won eleven Australian Recording Industry Association Awards during its career, including induction into the Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2010, their album Diesel and Dust ranked no.1 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson, in 1971, drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James, and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie were performing together. They adopted the name Farm in 1972, and played covers of Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, so Farm was only a part-time band. They played for the northern Sydney surfing community, and by 1975 the band was touring the east coast, in late 1976, Garrett moved to Sydney to complete his Law degree. Farm then became a group and so changed its name to Midnight Oil by drawing a name out of a hat, leaving behind Television, Sparta. Midnight Oil came from the Jimi Hendrix song, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, after changing its name to Midnight Oil, the group began to develop an aggressive, punk-hard rock sound for their pub rock audiences. Guitarist Martin Rotsey joined in 1977 and Midnight Oil, with their manager Gary Morris,43 on the Australian albums charts. Midnight Oils first single Run by Night followed in December, but had little chart success. The band built a fan base, initially restricted to Sydney. The Midnight Oil LP disappointed some critics as it did not capture their live performances, with undemanding playing. Their second album Head Injuries, released on Powderworks in October 1979, was produced by former Supercharge member Leszek Karski and it mixed solid guitar rock with progressive flourishes and was an improvement by highlighting the groups strengths and growth. It peaked at No.36 and by mid-1980 had achieved gold status, in April 1980 founding bass guitarist Andrew James left because of ill-health and was replaced by Peter Gifford. Further interest in Midnight Oil was generated by the popular Bird Noises EP, also produced by Karski, One of its four tracks was the surf-instrumental Wedding Cake Island named after the rock outcrop in the ocean off Sydneys Coogee Beach
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Belly (band)
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Belly is an alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1991 by former Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly. The original lineup consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Fred Abong on bass, all knew each other from high-school on Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island – the Gormans and Abong coming out of the Newport hardcore scene. Shortly after the release of Bellys first album in 1993, Abong left the group and was replaced by Gail Greenwood, Donelly disbanded the group in 1996. On February 8,2016, Belly announced a reunion with Greenwood on its official website, Donelly named the band Belly because she thought the word was both pretty and ugly. Their EP, Slow Dust, made it to one on the United Kingdom indie chart. Soon after, their single Feed the Tree made the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart and their first album, Star, two follow-up singles were released, Gepetto and Slow Dog, but neither matched the initial success of Feed the Tree. Belly was nominated for two Grammys in 1994, Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Performance for Star, the album went on to sell over 800,000 copies in the US alone and two million worldwide. On several early tour dates in Albany, NY, and the warm up tour in the UK. In early 1993, they embarked on a joint headliner tour with Radiohead, following a short warm up tour of smaller venues in the UK also in early 1993, they embarked upon a larger tour where they were supported by the Cranberries. Just after the release of Star, bassist Fred Abong left and was replaced by Gail Greenwood, Greenwood was originally a guitar player in a Boston-area metal band before being recruited to play bass in Belly. The live sound of the band evolved to accommodate her style, with its shows featuring more electric guitar than before, as a result, the groups next album, King, was more rock and roll-oriented. The album was not a success and the band was stuck between mainstream and underground acceptance. King saw its numerous singles fail to sustain any significant airplay on Modern Rock radio, the videos for Now Theyll Sleep and Super Connected received little airplay on MTV US outside of limited airings on 120 Minutes, although they were well received on MTV Europe. Belly appeared on the April 20,1995 cover of Rolling Stone magazine, the band also performed Super Connected on the Late Show with David Letterman in June that year. It was one of the bands last major U. S television appearances, in 1995, Belly was one of the support bands for R. E. M. on their world tour. Aside from touring with R. E. M, the band toured in the US with Catherine Wheel and Jewel as support acts. Both acts were emerging into the American mainstream at the time and she was also featured in the video for the song and it became popular on MTVs 120 Minutes. In 1996, Donelly broke up the band, speaking to Q, she explained the reasons behind her decision, The first couple of years of Belly were a blast
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Joe Satriani
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Joseph Joe Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, in 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani briefly toured with Deep Purple as the lead guitarist, joining shortly after the departure of Ritchie Blackmore in November 1993 and he has worked with a range of guitarists during the G3 tour, which he founded in 1995. Satriani has been the guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot since joining the band in 2008, Satriani was born in Westbury, New York, the descendant of Italian immigrants. His paternal grandparents were from Piacenza and Bobbio, while his grandparents were from Bari. He was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of Jimi Hendrix and he has been said to have heard the news during football practice, where he then announced to his coach that he was quitting to become a guitarist. In 1974, Satriani studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer, the technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satrianis playing. Satriani began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at the time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai, while he was teaching Vai, he was attending Five Towns College for studies in music. In 1978, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California to pursue a music career, soon after arriving in California, he resumed teaching. Satriani started playing in a San Francisco-based band called the Squares, in 1987, Satrianis second album Surfing with the Alien produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. The track Crushing Day was featured on the soundtrack of a film titled It Takes Two. Surfing with the Alien is his most acclaimed work, according to aggregator Acclaimed Music, in 1988 Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed. That same year he released an EP titled Dreaming #11. In 1989, Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream and it was said to be inspired by the death of his father, who died in 1989 during the recording of the album. One Big Rush featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything, the Forgotten Part II was featured on a Labatt Blue commercial in Canada in 1993. Cant Slow Down featured in a sequence in the Don Johnson starring show Nash Bridges. Joe Satriani also sang backing vocals on the self-titled Crowded House album, Satriani was a friend of Mitchell Froom. In 1992, Satriani released The Extremist, his most commercially successful album to date, radio stations across the country picked up Summer Song, which got a major boost when Sony used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players
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Ronnie Lane
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Subsequently Lane collaborated with other musicians, leading his own bands and pursuing a solo career, while remaining close to his former bandmates. In the late 1970s he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and was supported by charity projects and financial contributions from friends, former bandmates, after suffering from the disease for 21 years, he died at 51. For his work in both Small Faces and Faces, Lane was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Lane was born in Plaistow Maternity Hospital, Plaistow, a working area in Essex, to Elsie Lane and Stanley Lane. Doctors assured Lane as a child that the disease was not necessarily inherited. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, Lane met Kenney Jones at a local pub, initially playing lead guitar, Lane quickly switched to bass. When shopping for a Harmony bass guitar, Lane visited the J60 Music Bar in Manor Park, London, where he met Steve Marriott, Lane bought his bass, and went to Marriotts house after work, where Marriott introduced him to his Motown and Stax collection. Lane and Marriott set out to form a band, recruiting friends Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, Marriott was chosen to be the frontman and singer. The Small Faces consisted of Lane on bass guitar, Marriott as guitarist and lead vocalist, Kenney Jones as drummer and they made their debut in 1965, with Ian McLagan replacing Winston in November 1965. Lane and Marriott began writing hit songs consistently, including Itchycoo Park, at least a dozen successful songs credit Lane, and the 1968 concept album Ogdens Nut Gone Flake features songs co-written by Lane with one exception. The album stayed at one on the UK Albums Chart for six weeks. The band disbanded in 1969 as Marriott left the group, the group reformed during the late 1970s but Lane did not join them. Lane formed the Faces with McLagan, Jones, Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart in 1969. Unhappy due to reviews of the album and Stewarts lack of commitment, Lane quit in 1973. He was replaced by Tetsu Yamauchi but tellingly, the group no further studio albums following Lanes departure. In 1973 Ronnie Lane moved to Fishpool Farm in the village of Hyssington, Montgomeryshire, Wales, just over the border from England, with Ronnie already beginning to feel the effects of MS, he moved back to London in the late 70s. They left in May 1974 to continue their career as a duo, after initial success he commenced a tour called The Passing Show, touring the UK as a carnival complete with tents and barkers. Viv Stanshall, from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, served briefly as ringmaster, Lane moved to Island Records and issued Ronnie Lanes Slim Chance and One for the Road
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Rod Stewart
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Sir Roderick David Rod Stewart, CBE is a British rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He has had six number one albums in the UK and his tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that reached the top ten. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and he was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity. In October 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player, in 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars, and in August, Stewart signed a solo contract, releasing his first single, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, in October. He maintained a career alongside a group career, releasing his debut solo album. Stewarts early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, in 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at #33 in Q Magazines list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. Roderick David Stewart was born at 507 Archway Road, Highgate, North London on 10 January 1945 and his father was Scottish and had been a master builder in Leith, Edinburgh, while Elsie was English and had grown up in Upper Holloway in North London. Married in 1928, the couple had two sons and two daughters living in Scotland, and then they moved to Highgate. Stewart came after a gap following his youngest sibling, he was born at home during World War II. The family was neither affluent nor poor, Stewart was spoiled as the youngest and he had an undistinguished record at Highgate Primary School and failed the eleven plus exam. He then attended the William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School, Muswell Hill and his father retired from the building trade at age 65, buying a newsagents shop on the Archway Road when Stewart was in his early teens, the family lived over the shop. Stewarts main hobby was railway modelling, Stewart was the most talented footballer in the family and was a strong supporter of Arsenal F. C. at the time. Combining natural athleticism with near-reckless aggression, he became captain of the football team. The family were great fans of the singer Al Jolson and would sing. Stewart collected his records and saw his films, read books about him and his introduction to rock and roll was hearing Little Richards 1956 hit The Girl Cant Help It, and seeing Bill Haley & His Comets in concert. In 1960, he joined a group with schoolfriends called the Kool Kats, playing Lonnie Donegan
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John Hiatt
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John Robert Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of styles on his albums, including new wave, blues. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards and has awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry. He remains one of the most respected and influential American singer-songwriters, Hiatt was working as a songwriter for Tree International, a record label in Nashville, when his song Sure As Im Sittin Here was covered by Three Dog Night. The song became a Top 40 hit, earning Hiatt a recording contract with Epic Records, since then he has released 22 studio albums, two compilation albums and one live album. His songs have been covered by a variety of artists in genres, including Aaron Neville. The Dutch singer/songwriter Ilse DeLange recorded the album Dear John with nine of his songs, Hiatt was born in 1952 to Ruth and Robert Hiatt, the sixth of seven children in a Roman Catholic family from Indianapolis. When he was nine years old, Hiatts 21-year-old brother Michael committed suicide, only two years later, his father died after a long sickness. To escape from the stress of his life, Hiatt watched IndyCar racing and listened to Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan. In his youth, Hiatt reports that he and several others stole a Ford Thunderbird and he learned to play the guitar when he was eleven, and began his musical career in Indianapolis, Indiana as a teenager. He played in a variety of clubs, most notably the Hummingbird. Hiatt played with a variety of bands, including The Four-Fifths and he moved to Nashville, Tennessee when he was 18 years old and got a job as a songwriter for the Tree-Music Publishing Company for $25 a week. Hiatt, who was unable to read or write scores, had to record all 250 songs he wrote for the company and he also began playing with the band White Duck, as one of three singer-songwriters within the group. White Duck had already recorded one album before Hiatt joined and he wrote and performed two songs on their second album, In Season, one of which was the hit Train to Birmingham. Hiatt performed live in clubs around Nashville with White Duck. Hiatt met Don Ellis of Epic Records in 1973, and received a deal, releasing his first single, We Make Spirit. That same year Hiatt wrote the song, Sure As Im Sitting Here, which was recorded by Three Dog Night, in 1974 he released Hangin Around the Observatory, which was a critical success but a commercial failure. A year later, Overcoats was released, and when it failed to sell
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Joan Armatrading
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Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. A three-time Grammy Award-nominee, Armatrading has also nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996, in a recording career spanning 40 years, Armatrading has released 18 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations. Joan Armatrading was born in 1950 in Basseterre on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and her father was a carpenter and her mother was a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham, England, while Joan was sent to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958 at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, the area is now mostly demolished and has been absorbed into the district of Hockley. Her father had played in a band in his youth, later forbidding his children from touching his guitar, at about the age of 14, Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as a piece of furniture. Shortly thereafter, her mother bought her a £3 guitar from a shop in exchange for two prams, and the younger Armatrading began teaching herself the instrument. She left school at the age of 15 to support her family, and her first job was at Rabone Chesterman and she lost the job after taking her guitar to work and playing it during tea-breaks. Armatrading first performed in a concert at Birmingham University for her brother at the age of about 16 and she only knew her own songs, but her brother asked her to perform something that would be familiar to the audience, she chose The Sound of Silence. She then performed her own songs around the area with a friend from school. In 1968, Armatrading joined a production of the stage musical Hair. There she met the lyricist Pam Nestor in 1970, and they worked together on Armatradings debut album Whatevers for Us, although Nestor was credited as co-lyricist, Cube considered Armatrading to be the more likely star material. These events produced a tension that broke up the partnership, on 28 November 1972, Armatrading appeared on the BBC Radio 1 John Peel Show performing Head Of The Table, Spend A Little Time, Child Star and Whatevers For Us. She sang and played guitar and piano. The single was withdrawn by Cube and re-released as a promotional single in the US by Armatradings new label A&M Records. In January 1974 she appeared again on the John Peel Show, in 1975, Armatrading was free to sign with A&M Records, and issued the album Back to the Night, which was promoted on tour with six-piece jazz-pop group The Movies. A major publicity relaunch in 1976 and the involvement of producer Glyn Johns propelled her next album, Joan Armatrading, into the Top 20 and spawned the Top 10 hit single Love and Affection
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Gallagher and Lyle
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Gallagher and Lyle are a Scottish musical duo, comprising singer-songwriters Bernard Joseph Benny Gallagher and Graham Hamilton Lyle. Their style consists mainly in pop, soft and folk oriented songs. Their first recognition came in 1968, when they were signed by The Beatles to write for Apple Records artists and they were founding members of the band McGuinness Flint and wrote the 1970 UK chart hit When Im Dead and Gone. In 1972 they formed the duo Gallagher and Lyle, whose fifth album Breakaway charted well and included the hit songs Heart on My Sleeve, don Williams took their song Stay Young to No.1 on the US Country charts. The duo split in 1980, but re-formed in 2010, artists who have released Gallagher and Lyle songs include Bryan Ferry, Elkie Brooks, Fairport Convention, Art Garfunkel and Joe Brown. They joined forces in 1959, initially as members of a local Largs-based band and they began writing original material for the band, while Gallagher also co-wrote Mr Heartbreaks Here Instead for Dean Ford and the Gaylords. When they were signed by Apple Records, they wrote for such as Mary Hopkin. There was a rare one-off single issued on UK Polydor 56093 in 1967, Trees b/w In The Crowd issued under the name Gallagher-Lyle and these tracks have appeared on various CD compilations of 1960s rarities. They recorded four albums, Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, Willie, the latter was issued on Mercury, a further album recorded for that label, Living On The Breadline, has never been released. The duos original version of A Heart In New York, which was to have included on that set, appeared on 1991s compilation album Heart On My Sleeve – The Very Best of Gallagher. Graham Lyle formed his own publishing company Goodsingle Publishing in 1980, chiefly to administer his own copyrights and his earliest post-Gallagher & Lyle compositions included the singles Our Love for Elkie Brooks and Listen to the Night for Climax Blues Band. He also recorded an album with Tom McGuinness, credited to the Lyle McGuinness Band, Acting on Impulse, as well as a solo portfolio album, Gallagher is a featured artist and co-owner of OnSong with Derek Wilson. Gallagher has released two albums as a solo artist – Benny Gallagher on Stage, and more recently At the Edge of the Wave, in April 2009, the two Scots attended the opening of the Largs Heritage Centre. The following year, the duo re-formed, in October 2010 the pair staged two charity concerts in Largs in aid of Haylie House, a residential care home in the town. This was followed in June 2011 by The Big Gig, a charity concert at Glasgows Barrowland nightclub, in which they performed alongside Midge Ure, Jim Diamond. In September of that year, the duo appeared at the outdoor MOARE Festival in Faversham, Kent,2012 saw Gallagher and Lyle undertake their first tour since 1979, consisting of 9 dates at 8 Scottish venues. In March 2016, Gallagher and Lyle performed together at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, in November 2016, the duo returned to The Green Hotel in Kinross for four concerts. Caledonia USA, a based on the songs of Gallagher
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Georgie Fame
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Georgie Fame is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with such as Van Morrison. Fame is the only British pop star to have achieved three number one hits with his only Top 10 chart entries, Yeh, Yeh in 1964, Get Away in 1966 and The Ballad of Bonnie, Fame was born in Leigh, Lancashire. After taking part in a singing contest at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Pwllheli, North Wales he was offered a job there by the band leader, early British rocknroll star Rory Blackwell. Fame later recalled that Parnes had given him an ultimatum over his change of name, It was very much against my will but he said, If you dont use my name. Over the following year Fame toured the UK playing beside Wilde, Joe Brown, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Fame played piano for Billy Fury in his backing band, the Blue Flames. It was a place to play, a midnight to 6am thing on Fridays and Saturdays. They brought records with them and one of them gave me Green Onions by Booker T & the MGs, I had been playing piano up to that point but I bought a Hammond organ the next day. In August 1963 the band took a weekly Friday-night spot at The Scene on Great Windmill Street, in September 1963 the band recorded its debut album, Rhythm And Blues at the Flamingo, live at the Flamingo Club. Produced by Ian Samwell, who had played with Cliff Richard, and engineered by Glyn Johns. It failed to reach the chart but the October 1964 follow-up, Fame at Last, in 1964 Fame and the band appeared on five episodes of ITVs Ready Steady Go. The station became the pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Fame subsequently enjoyed regular chart success with singles, having three Top 10 hits, which all made one in the UK Singles Chart. His version of Yeh, Yeh, released on 14 January 1965, the following-up single, in 1965, was In The Meantime, which also charted in both UK and US. Fame made his US television debut that year on the NBC Hullabaloo series. His single Get Away, released on 21 July 1966, spent one week at No.1 on the UK chart and 11 weeks on the chart in total, the song was originally written as a jingle for a television petrol advertisement. It was later used as the tune for a quiz show on Australian television. After the song was a hit Fame disbanded his band and went solo, Fames version of the Bobby Hebb song Sunny made No.13 in the UK charts in September 1966
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Family (band)
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Family are an English rock band, active from late 1966 to October 1973, and again since 2013 for a series of live shows. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, as their sound often explored other genres, incorporating elements of such as folk, psychedelia, acid, jazz fusion and rock. The band achieved recognition in the United Kingdom through their albums, club and concert tours, the bands rotating membership throughout its relatively short existence led to a diversity in sound throughout their different albums. Family are also seen as an unjustly forgotten act, when compared with other bands from the same period and have been described as an odd band loved by a small. Although most of their recordings were issued in the US, the band never achieved any success there. Family formed in Late 1966 in Leicester, England from the members of a group that was previously known as The Farinas and later briefly The Roaring Sixties. The Farinas originally consisted of John Charlie Whitney, Tim Kirchin, Harry Ovenall, Ric Grech replaced Kirchin on bass in 1965 and Roger Chapman joined the following year on vocals. On meeting Mim Scala who they had known before, Scala asked if there was anything he could do for them. Because they were looking for material at the time, and probably a producer, Scala also introduced them to John Gilbert, who from then on took over managing the band. Thanks to Miller, Steve Winwood and other members of Traffic participated in the recording, shortly after the recording and before the release, Ovenall voiced his concern over the movement away from their black musical roots i. e. blues, R&B, soul. In fact around 1965 The Farinas had publicity cards saying Farinas Soul, the single seemed to be going towards psychedelia, emphasised by the use of a phono fiddle borrowed from an Oxford Street busker, and played by Ric Grech. His concerns also included the role of management in the band, a meeting of the band was called, during which it was suggested that Ovenalls heart was no longer in the band and as a consequence he walked away from the band. Contrary to several reports he was not asked to leave the band, Familys debut single Scene Through The Eye of a Lens/Gypsy Woman, produced by Jimmy Miller and released by Liberty Records in October 1967, was not a success. Drummer Ovenall was replaced by Rob Townsend, the band signed with the Reprise Records label and their debut album Music in a Dolls House, was recorded during early 1968. The bulk of the album was produced by former Traffic member Dave Mason, alongside Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, The Move and The Nice, Family quickly became one of the premier attractions on the burgeoning UK psychedelic/progressive underground scene. Their lifestyle and exploits during this period provided some of the inspiration for the 1969 novel, Groupie, by Jenny Fabian, Family featured in the book under the pseudonym, Relation. Music in a Dolls House was released in July 1968 and charted at No.35 in the UK to critical acclaim, now widely acknowledged as a classic of British psychedelic rock, it showcased many of the stylistic and production features that are archetypal of the genre. With the UK success of Familys first two albums, the band undertook a tour of the United States in April 1969, returning to the UK, the band performed at The Rolling Stones Hyde Park gig and the Isle of Wight Festival that summer
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Humble Pie (band)
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Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Steve Marriott, in Essex during 1969. In January 1969 Steve Marriott, having just left Small Faces, got together with Greg Ridley, Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley, originally Marriott had brought together Shirley and Ridley as a possible band for Frampton, but ended up joining them himself. They eventually chose the name Humble Pie and were signed to Andrew Loog Oldhams record label Immediate Records and their debut single, Natural Born Bugie, was released on 8. August 1969 becoming a No.4 hit in the UK Singles Chart and was followed by the album As Safe As Yesterday Is. As Safe As Yesterday Is was one of the first albums to be described by the heavy metal in a 1970 review in Rolling Stone magazine. Their second album, Town and Country released in the UK during 1969 while the band was away on its first tour of the US and this album featured a more acoustic sound and songs written by all four members. Humble Pie concerts at this time featured a set, with a radical re-working of Graham Gouldmans For Your Love as its centrepiece followed by an electric set. During 1970, Humble Pie switched to A&M Records and Dee Anthony became their manager, Anthony was focused on the US market and discarded the acoustic set, instigating a more raucous sound with Marriott as the front man. The groups first album for A&M, Humble Pie, was released later that year, a single, Big Black Dog, was released to coincide with the album and failed to chart, however the band was becoming known for popular live rock shows in the US. On July 9,1971, Humble Pie opened for Grand Funk Railroad at their historical Shea Stadium concert, an event that broke The Beatles record for fastest selling stadium concert, to that date. Also in 1971 Humble Pie released their most successful record to date Rock On as well as an album recorded at the Fillmore East in New York entitled Performance Rockin the Fillmore. The live album reached No.21 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA, I Dont Need No Doctor was a progressive rock hit in the US peaking at No.73 on the Billboard Hot 100, propelling the album up the charts. But Frampton left the band by the time the album was released, Frampton was replaced by Clem Clempson and Humble Pie moved towards a harder sound emphasising Marriotts blues and soul roots. Their first record with Clempson, Smokin, was released in 1972 and it was the bands most commercially successful record, and reached No.6 on the US charts, helped by a busy touring schedule. After the success of Smokin the bands record label A&M released Humble Pies first two Immediate albums in one album, as Lost and Found. The marketing ploy was a success and the album charted at No.37 on the Billboard 200, looking for a more authentic R&B sound, Marriott hired three female backing vocalists, The Blackberries. The trio consisted of Venetta Fields, Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews who was replaced by Billie Barnum. They had performed with Ike and Tina Turner as The Ikettes, the album peaked at No.13 in the US charts
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Led Zeppelin II
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Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969. Incorporating several elements of blues and folk music, Led Zeppelin II exhibited the bands evolving musical style of blues-derived material and it has been described as the bands heaviest album. Led Zeppelin II was a success, and was the bands first album to reach number one on charts in the UK. In 1970, the cover designer David Juniper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. On 15 November 1999, the album was certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales passing 12 million copies. Since its release, various writers and music critics have regularly cited Led Zeppelin II as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time. Led Zeppelin II was conceived during a hectic and much-travelled period of Led Zeppelins career from January through August 1969, each song was separately recorded, mixed and produced at various studios in the UK and North America. Bassist John Paul Jones recalled that We were touring a lot, Jimmy s riffs were coming fast and furious. A lot of them came from onstage especially during the long improvised section of Dazed and Confused, wed remember the good stuff and dart into a studio along the way. Some of the studios used by the band were not the most advanced. One studio in Vancouver, credited as a hut, had an 8-track set up that did not even have proper headphone facilities, the groups lead singer Robert Plant later discussed the writing and recording process, stating It was crazy really. We were writing the numbers in hotel rooms and then wed do a track in London, add the vocal in New York, overdub the harmonica in Vancouver. Thank You, The Lemon Song and Moby Dick were overdubbed during the tour, while the mixing of Whole Lotta Love, Page later stated In other words, some of the material came out of rehearsing for the next tour and getting new material together. Production was entirely credited to Jimmy Page, while it served as Led Zeppelins first album to utilise the skills. This partnership was particularly exhibited in the section of the track Whole Lotta Love. Kramer later said, The famous Whole Lotta Love mix, where everything is going bananas, is a combination of Jimmy and myself just flying around on a small console twiddling every knob known to man. In another interview, Kramer later gave credit to Page for the sound that was achieved, despite the inconsistent conditions in which it was recorded. We cut some of the tracks in some of the most bizarre studios you can imagine, but in the end it sounded bloody marvellous
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Let It Be
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Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the groups break-up. Like most of the previous releases, it was a number one album in many countries. The album was conceived as Get Back, a return to the Beatles earlier, the recording sessions began at Twickenham Film Studios in January 1969 as part of a planned documentary showing the Beatles preparing to return to live performance. A project instigated by Paul McCartney, the rehearsals were marked by ill-feeling within the band. As a condition of his return, the Beatles reconvened at their own Apple Studio, following several rejected mixes by Glyn Johns, a new version of the album was produced by Phil Spector in March–April 1970. Naked was released in 2003, a version of the album, without any of Spectors production work. By late 1968, more than two years after the Beatles gave up touring, Paul McCartney was eager for the group to live again. The sessions for that years The Beatles had seen a number of serious arguments and this would allow the group to return to their roots by playing as a true ensemble, recording some or all of the new album during a one-off live concert or full concert tour. This idea mirrored the back to basics attitude of a number of musicians at this time in reaction against the psychedelic. The concert itself would be filmed for broadcast on worldwide television, McCartney also decided to invite producer/engineer Glyn Johns to contribute to the recording. His proposed role was not clearly defined, as McCartney also wished to retain the services of George Martin. As a result, Johns was not entirely sure whether he was supposed to be producing the album or merely engineering it, as it turned out, Johns acted as engineer, while the band used Martin for advice and ideas as they worked. The other three Beatles were less enthusiastic about McCartneys proposals and they had just completed five months work on their previous album and were sceptical about the prospects of returning to live performance. George Harrison in particular was opposed to the idea of touring, having taken the strongest dislike of any in the group to the tours of the Beatlemania era. In the end, the agreed to convene for rehearsals immediately following 1 January 1969. The rehearsals and recording sessions for the album did not run smoothly, the acrimony that began during the recording of The Beatles resumed soon after the rehearsals began. The Beatles were not getting along, and Lennon and McCartney werent working together as before, All of these factors led to friction within the band
