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Music video
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A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys or marketing campaigns for food, although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by terms including illustrated song, filmed insert, promotional film, promotional clip, promotional video, song video. Music videos use a range of styles of contemporary videomaking techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation, music, combining these styles and techniques has become more popular because of the variation it presents to the audience. Many music videos interpret images and scenes from the songs lyrics, other music videos may be without a set concept, being merely a filmed version of the songs live performance. Product placement is a technique in music videos, exemplified by the appearance of the Beats Pill in numerous hip hop videos. In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B, marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song The Little Lost Child. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a form of entertainment known as the illustrated song. In 1926, with the arrival of many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts featured many bands, vocalists and dancers, early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, the Warner Brothers cartoons, even today billed as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming Warner Brothers musical films. Live action musical shorts, featuring such performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theaters. Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a short film called St. Louis Blues featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period, soundies, produced and released from 1940 to 1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos
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The Recording Academy
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The Recording Academy is a U. S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals. The Recording Academy is headquartered in Santa Monica, neil Portnow is the current president of The Academy. The Recording Academy, which began in 1957, is known for its Grammy Awards, in 1997, the Recording Academy launched The Latin Recording Academy, which produces the Latin Grammy Awards. Michael Greene was the founder and the first President of the Latin Grammys, the origin of the Academy dates back to the beginning of the 1950s Hollywood Walk of Fame project. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce asked the help of recording industry executives in compiling a list of people in the music business who should be honored by Walk of Fame stars. This was the start of the Academy and also of the Grammy Awards, the Producers and Engineers Wing is a part of the academy made up of producers, engineers, mixers, and other technically involved professionals. It is composed of almost 6,000 members, the producers and engineers wing addresses various aspects of issues facing the recording profession. They also support music and recording arts education, the P&E Wing also advocates for the use of professional usage of recording technology as well as the preservation of recordings. The members of this division make up a portion of those who vote on the Grammy Awards each year. The Grammy University Network is an organization for students who are pursuing a career in the music industry. It offers forms of networking, interactive experiences and programs, advice from music professionals. The Recording Academy supports the MusiCares Foundation, an organization which provides money. The Academy has twelve chapters in various locations in the United States, the twelve chapters are, Atlanta, Chicago, Florida, Los Angeles, Memphis, Nashville, New York City, Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Texas and Washington D. C. List of music organizations in the United States The Latin Recording Academy Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Recording Academy Producers and Engineers Wing
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Award for Video of the Year
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The Grammy Award for Video of the Year was an honor presented to recording artists at the 24th Grammy Awards in 1982 and the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for music videos. First presented in 1982 to Michael Nesmith for Elephant Parts, the award was reserved for quality video cassettes or discs in any format created specifically for the video market. In 1983, Olivia Newton-John was presented the award for Olivia Physical, beginning with the 1984 Grammy Awards, the Video of the Year award category was replaced with the categories Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album. Blondies video cassette Eat to the Beat accompanied their 1979 album of the same title, the First National Kidisc, one of the first interactive and educational videodiscs, contained activities designed for children. Features included plane flying, jokes, paper plane construction, music performance, in 1976, Nesmith produced a video for his song Rio, and later incorporated it into the montage of music and gags called Elephant Parts after starting the company Pacific Arts Video Records. In 1985, Elephant Parts was adapted into a summer series on NBC titled Michael Nesmith in Television Parts. Both Visions and The Tubes Video were directed by Russell Mulcahy, Visions consisted of artistic videos for all of the songs on Johns 1981 album The Fox. According to The Tubes official site, the now out of print video collection contained music videos primarily for tracks that appeared on their 1981 album The Completion Backward Principle, the award was presented to Newton-John in February 1983 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Video of the Year category was discontinued with the establishment of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, the Academy replaced the category with awards for Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album beginning with the 26th Grammy Awards. For the awards held in 1988 and 1989, the changed and honors were presented for the categories Best Concept Music Video
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MTV Video Music Awards
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award, the statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards, since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTVs website. The first VMA ceremony was held in 1984 at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, the ceremonies are normally held in either New York City or Los Angeles. However, the ceremonies have also hosted in Miami and Las Vegas. 1984, At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her hit Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, during the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and a garter. Cyndi Lauper spoke in Exorcist-esque gibberish to explain the VMA rules right before winning the Best Female video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, David Bowie and The Beatles were rewarded with the first ever Video Vanguard Awards for their work in pioneering the music video. 1988, At the 1988 Video Music Awards Michael Jackson appeared for the first time, a pre-recorded live performance of Bad was shown. He was also awarded the Video Vanguard Award, paula Abdul was nominated for six awards, picking up four wins. She performed a medley of her singles Straight Up, Cold Hearted. When Madonna won the Viewers Choice Award for her Like a Prayer video, the tone that the commercial sought to convey sharply contrasted with the music video. When Pepsi executives saw the video, they yanked the advertisement after only two airings, in an attempt to dissociate themselves from Madonna. She also gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit Express Yourself, the performance consisted of both a dramatic 18th-century reinterpretation of Vogue as well as her dramatically becorseted breasts. His video Thriller influenced and changed music videos into what it is like today, a conflict between Poisons Bret Michaels and C. C. DeVille culminated in a fistfight at the Video Music Awards in 1991, deVille was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen. Paul Reubens had his first public appearance following an arrest for lewd-conduct earlier that year, taking the stage in costume as Pee-wee Herman, he received a standing ovation, after which he asked the audience, Heard any good jokes lately. Prince & The New Power Generation performed their sexually charged song Gett Off on a Caligula-esque set and his trousers were parodied numerous times throughout the following year, on In Living Color & even on the next years VMAs by Howard Stern. It also marked the last TV appearance of Kiss with Eric Carr,1992, In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs Rape Me and tourettes
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Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video
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The Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video was an honor presented to recording artists at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988 and the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 for quality performance music videos. Beginning in 1982, the Academy began to honor quality music videos with the Video of the Year category and this category was discontinued with the establishment of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 and was replaced by awards for Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album. Criteria changes for the 1988 and 1989 ceremonies resulted in the Best Performance Music Video award being presented alongside the award for Best Concept Music Video. The Academy returned to the format in 1990, though the categories are now known as Best Short Form Music Video. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences began to honor quality music videos with the Video of the Year category in 1982. The first two recipients were former member of The Monkees, Michael Nesmith for the hour-long video Elephant Parts as well as Olivia Newton-John for Olivia Physical. The Video of the Year category was discontinued with the establishment of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, the Academy replaced the category with the awards for Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album beginning with the 26th Grammy Awards. For the awards held in 1988 and 1989, the changed and honors were presented for the categories Best Concept Music Video. The Academy returned to the format in 1990, though the categories were renamed Best Music Video, Short Form and Best Music Video. In 1998, the categories were retitled Best Short Form Music Video and Best Long Form Music Video, cyndi Lauper in Paris was filmed at Zénith de Paris on March 12,1987, the final date of her world tour. Ferrins Spontaneous Inventions, directed by Bud Schaetzle, is a recording of a 1986 performance in Hollywood. Streisands video One Voice, directed by Dwight Hemion, is a piece to her 1987 live album of the same name. The concert was filmed in Streisands backyard and features appearances by Burt Bacharach, Barry Gibb, Richard Marx, Carole Bayer Sager. The award was presented to Eaton as the producer of the concert recording, glass Spider was a recording of a live two-hour concert filmed in Sydney, Australia in November 1987. The Symphony Sessions included ten compositions by Foster presented as a collage of images in performance with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Recorded over a period of five nights in Vancouver, Foster wrote, arranged, produced and played piano for the project with the assistance of Jeremy Lubbock, David Paich, and Lee Ritenour. The music video for Check It Out, a song appears on Mellencamps 1987 album The Lonesome Jubilee, was filmed live at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. The music video for U2s Where the Streets Have No Name was filmed on the roof of a Los Angeles liquor store, during the filming process, police ordered the band to stop the shoot due to fears the crowd was getting out of hand
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Genesis (band)
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Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful and long-lasting line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford, other important members were the original lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett. The band underwent many changes in style over its career, from folk music to progressive rock in the 1970s. They have sold 21.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US, after splitting with King, the group began touring professionally, signing with Charisma Records. The group were initially successful in Europe, before entering the UK charts with Foxtrot. They followed this with Selling England by the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway before Gabriel decided to leave the group, after an unsuccessful search for a replacement, Collins took over as lead singer, while the group gained popularity in the UK and the US. Following A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, Hackett left the band, reducing it to a core of Banks, Rutherford and its title track reached number one in the US. After the follow up, We Cant Dance and related tour, Banks and Rutherford recruited Ray Wilson for Calling All Stations, but a lack of success in the US led to a group hiatus. Banks, Rutherford and Collins reunited for the Turn It On Again Tour in 2007 and their discography includes fifteen studio and six live albums, six of which topped the UK chart. In 2010, Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Banks and Gabriel arrived at the school in September 1963, Rutherford in September 1964, and Phillips in April 1965. The five recorded six songs, Dont Want You Back, Try a Little Sadness, Shes Beautiful, Thats Me, Listen on Five, and Patricia, a group friend gave the tape to King who was immediately enthusiastic. Under Kings direction, the group, aged between 15 and 17, signed a recording contract with Decca Records. In response Banks and Gabriel wrote The Silent Sun, a pastiche of the Bee Gees, one of Kings favourite bands, King chose The Silent Sun as their first single, with Thats Me on the B-side, released in February 1968. It achieved some airplay on BBC Radio One and Radio Caroline, a second single, A Winters Tale/One-Eyed Hound, followed in May 1968 which also sold little. Three months later, Stewart left the group to continue with his studies and he was replaced by fellow Charterhouse pupil John Silver. King felt the group would achieve success with an album. The result, From Genesis to Revelation, was produced at Regent Sound in ten days during their schools summer break in August 1968, Phillips was particularly upset about Greenslades additions. When Decca found an American band already named Genesis, King refused to change his groups name and he reached a compromise by removing their name from the album cover, resulting in a minimalist design with the album title printed on a plain black background
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Land of Confusion
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Land of Confusion is a song by the English rock band Genesis from their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song was the track on the album and was the third track released as a single, reaching No.4 in the U. S. It also reached No.8 in the Netherlands, the music was written by the band, while the lyrics were written by guitarist Mike Rutherford. The songs video featured puppets from the 1980s UK sketch show Spitting Image, the song is widely remembered for its music video, which had heavy airplay on MTV. The video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image, the video opens with a caricatured Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, and a chimpanzee, going to bed at 16,30. Reagan, holding a bear, goes to sleep and begins to have a nightmare. The video intermittently features a line of stomping feet, illustrating an army marching through a swamp, meanwhile, the real world Reagan is shown blowing bubbles in a puddle of his own sweat. At the end of part, the chimpanzee from the prologue is shown throwing a bone in the air. Reagan is then riding the Monoclonius through the streets while wearing a cowboy hat. At the end of the video, Reagan awakens from his dream, after taking a drink, he fumbles for a button next to his bed. He intends to push the one labelled Nurse, but instead presses the one titled Nuke, Reagan then replies Man, thats one heck of a nurse. Nancy whacks him over the head with her snorkel, the video, directed by John Lloyd & Jim Yukich and produced by Jon Blair, won the short-lived Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video during the 30th Annual Grammy Awards. The video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1987. It also appears on their live albums The Way We Walk, Volume One, The Shorts, as well as on their DVDs Live at Wembley Stadium, The Way We Walk - Live in Concert and When in Rome 2007. The song was to imply the complexity of the story during the finale and this song is mentioned in American Psycho. The cover version of Land of Confusion by Disturbed is used in the end credits of Bigger, Stronger, swedish melodic death metal band In Flames covered the song for their 2003 EP Trigger. Canadian singer Nelly Furtado covered the song at on her first Spanish head-lining tour, swedish Eurodance group Alcazar adapted the chorus for their song This Is the World We Live In. Norwegian folk-pop band Katzenjammer covered the song for their album A Kiss Before You Go, a music video of the song was also filmed, it was released in CD/DVD format in May 2012
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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Alfred Matthew Weird Al Yankovic is an American singer, songwriter, parodist, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, film producer, and author. Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has more than 12 million albums, recorded more than 150 parody and original songs. His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further 11 nominations, four gold records, Weird Als first top ten Billboard album and single were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career. His latest album, Mandatory Fun, became his first number-one album during its debut week and he directed later videos himself and went on to direct for other artists including Ben Folds, Hanson, The Black Crowes, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Weird Al has stated that he may forgo traditional albums in favor of timely releases of singles, in addition to recording his albums, Weird Al wrote and starred in the film UHF and The Weird Al Show. He has also made guest appearances and voice acting roles on television shows and video web content. He has also written two books, When I Grow Up and My New Teacher and Me. Yankovic was born in Downey, California and raised in Lynwood. He is the child of Mary Elizabeth and Nick Yankovic. Mary, who was of Italian and English descent, had come to California from Kentucky, Als first accordion lesson, which sparked his career in music, was on the day before his sixth birthday. A door-to-door salesman traveling through Lynwood offered the Yankovic parents a choice of accordion or guitar lessons at a music school. Yankovic said that parents chose the accordion because they were convinced it would revolutionize rock and he continued lessons at the school for three years before continuing to learn on his own. Yankovics early accordion role models included Frankie Yankovic and Myron Floren, in the 1970s, Yankovic was a big fan of Elton John and claims Johns Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album was partly how I learned to play rock n roll on the accordion. Other sources of inspiration for his comedy come from Mad magazine, Monty Python, Yankovic began kindergarten a year earlier than most children, and he skipped second grade. My classmates seemed to think I was some kind of rocket scientist so I was labeled an early on. As his unusual schooling left him two years younger than most of his classmates, Yankovic was not interested in sports or social events at school and we started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook. Weird Al graduated in 1975 and was valedictorian of his senior class, Yankovic attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he earned a bachelors degree in architecture. Yankovic received his first exposure via southern California and syndicated radio personality Dr. Dementos radio show, saying If there hadnt been a Dr. Demento. The tapes first song, Belvedere Cruisin - about his familys Plymouth Belvedere - was played on Dementos comedy radio show, launching Yankovics career
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Fat (song)
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Fat is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. It is a parody of Bad by Michael Jackson and it is Yankovics second parody of a Jackson song, the first being Eat It, a parody of Jacksons Beat It. Fat is the first song on Yankovics Even Worse album, the video won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video in 1988. Yankovic came up with the idea for Fat while watching the Bad music video, as he watched the Bad video, he imagined an obese version of himself trying to get through the turnstiles on a subway, and resolved that he would do it. When performing in concert, Yankovic wears a fat suit and a mask that makes his face appear fat. Due to undergoing laser vision correction surgery, he no longer needs to wear glasses, here is a list depicting some parody elements, The lighting in Jacksons video is much darker. Yankovic filmed his parody video with much brighter lighting, and it appears as though it was filmed in the daytime, the video begins with a non-musical black-and-white scene, as in the original, but it is much shorter. It starts at the station with a gang of obese men criticizing Al for not eating much unhealthy food lately. They try to get Al to eat a slice of pizza, a hamburger and a Ding Dong, the original video showed Jackson coming back from high school and his old street friends bugging him about going to school and becoming soft. The lines Are you fat, or what, and You aint fat, you aint nothing. Mimic lines in the original, only using the fat instead of bad. In the beginning the dancers can be seen goofing off, two of them miss a high five, while another can be seen waving and mouthing the words Hi Mom over and over again, and is pulled away from the camera by another of the dancers by his nose. As a whole the group disorganized and fidgety, as a parody of the precise choreography in Michael Jacksons video. The original video has Jackson with at least twenty dancers, the six dancers with Yankovic in the video are obese instead of skinny. They are also dressed similarly to the dancers in Bad, in order to get the dancers Yankovic simply advertised for very fat dancers in a trade journal, and his hunch that such people might exist was soon proven right. Yankovic stated in the notes for Permanent Record, Al in the Box that one of the dancers was actually a pizza delivery man who delivered pizzas to the casting office. Instead of a troupe of dancers sliding along the ground, the beginning of Fat shows Yankovic getting fatter and fatter, Yankovics black outfit is similar to Jacksons, but the buckle and zipper ornamentation is exaggerated. Yankovic does Jacksons famous crotch-grab, but with sound effects added, such as a boing
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Grammy Award for Best Music Video
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Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Video, Short Form, the award was first presented in 1984, as was a similar award for Best Long Form Music Video. From 1986 to 1997, the name was changed to Best Music Video. However, in 1988 and 1989, the criteria were changed. The awards were returned to the format in 1990. The category was called Best Short Form Music Video until 2014, Award recipients include the performers, directors, and producers associated with the winning videos. Johnny Cash, Peter Gabriel, Janet Jackson, and Michael Jackson hold the record for the most wins as a performer in this category, mark Romanek holds the record for the most wins as a director, with a total of three. Icelandic singer Björk holds the record for the most nominations as a performer without a win, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. ^ Director are only indicated if they were presented a Grammy Award. ^ Award was not presented. Music video categories presented this year included Best Concept Music Video, latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video List of Grammy Award categories List of most expensive music videos One shot Official website of the Grammy Awards
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Grammy Award for Best Music Film
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The category was preceded by the Grammy Award for Video of the Year, which was presented in 1982 and 1983, awarding long form videos in the budding music video market. The category was discontinued after 1983, the Best Music Film category is for concert/performance films or music documentaries. The eligibility rules have changed slightly over the years, music-related documentaries with a preponderance of performance-based material. While dramatic feature films and biopics are not eligible, films with fictional elements are eligible, the Best Music Film category is one of two categories in the Best Music Video/Film Field. The other one is Best Music Video, which recognises stand-alone videos of one song or performance. Artists who are the focus of nominated films may not always be eligible for a Grammy themselves, depending on the type of film, the awards were returned to the original format in 1990. Except in 1988 and 1989, the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video recipients include the artists, directors, and producers associated with the winning videos. Singers Madonna and Sting hold the record for the most wins as a performer in this category, however, in two instances, The Beatles were not recognized as individual winners. To date, three won the award twice, David Mallet, Jonas Akerlund and Bob Smeaton. The British pop rock group Eurythmics holds the record for the most nominations as a performer without a win, in 1984 and 1985, only the artists were presented with an award. In 1986 the award went to the artist and the video director, from 1987 onwards, the award has been presented to the artist, video director and video producer. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. ^ Director are only indicated if they were presented a Grammy Award. ^ Award was not presented, Music video categories presented that year included Best Concept Music Video and Best Performance Music Video
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The Monkees
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The Monkees are an American rock band originally active between 1965 and 1971, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork and British actor and singer Davy Jones. The bands music was supervised by producer Don Kirshner. Dolenz described the Monkees as initially being a TV show about an imaginary band and that wanted to be The Beatles, that was never successful. The actor-musicians, however, soon became a real band, for the first few months of their initial five-year career as The Monkees, the four actor-musicians were allowed only limited roles in the recording studio. This was due in part to the amount of required to film the television series. Nonetheless, Nesmith did compose and produce some songs from the beginning and they eventually fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the bands name. The sitcom was canceled in 1968, but the continued to record music through 1971. A revival of interest in the show came in 1986. Up until 2011 the group had reunited and toured several times, despite the sudden death of Davy Jones on February 29,2012, the surviving members reunited for a tour in November–December 2012 and again in 2013 for a 24-date tour. Nesmith was able to some time up to join them in the latter stages of the US tour. The Monkees have sold more than 75 million records worldwide and had hits, including Last Train to Clarksville, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Daydream Believer. At their peak in 1967, the band outsold the Beatles, aspiring filmmaker Bob Rafelson developed the initial idea for The Monkees in 1962, but was unsuccessful in selling the series. He had tried selling it to Revue, the division of Universal Pictures. In May 1964, while working at Screen Gems, Rafelson teamed up with Bert Schneider, whose father, Abraham Schneider, headed the Colpix Television, Rafelson and Schneider ultimately formed Raybert Productions. The Beatles film A Hard Days Night inspired Rafelson and Schneider to revive Rafelsons idea for The Monkees, as The Raybert Producers, they sold the show to Screen Gems Television on April 16,1965. Rafelson and Schneiders original idea was to cast an existing New York folk rock group, the Lovin Spoonful, however, John Sebastian had already signed the band to a record contract, which would have denied Screen Gems the right to market music from the show. Jones had previously starred as the Artful Dodger in the Broadway show Oliver, which debuted on December 17,1962, and his performance was later seen on The Ed Sullivan Show the same night as the Beatles first appearance on that show, February 9,1964
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Michael Nesmith
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Nesmiths songwriting credits include Different Drum. He is also a producer of the cult film Repo Man. In 1981, Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his television show. Nesmith was born in Houston, Texas in 1942 He is a child, his parents, Warren Audrey Nesmith and Bette Nesmith Graham. He and his moved to Dallas to be closer to her parents, sister, aunts. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from work to graphics design. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented a typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper, over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later at age 56, Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, at the age of six. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he participated in choral. He also began to write verse poetry, when he was 15 he enrolled in the Dallas Theater Center teen program, where he was featured in several plays. Without graduating from school, Nesmith enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1960. While in the Air Force, Nesmith obtained a G. E. D. and was discharged under honorable conditions in 1962 and he enrolled in San Antonio College, a community college, where he met John Kuehne and began a musical collaboration. The duo won the first San Antonio College talent award, performing a mixture of folk songs. He met another SAC student, Phyllis Ann Barbour, whom he later married, at the time, Phyllis was pregnant with their first child, Christian DuVal. Here Nesmith met, socialized, and performed many different members of the burgeoning new L. A. music scene. In October 1965, Nesmith landed the role as the wool hat-wearing, guitar player Mike in The Monkees TV series, the Monkees television series aired from 1966 until 1968 and has developed a cult following over the years. When The Monkees TV series ended in 1968, Nesmith enrolled part-time at the University of California, Los Angeles and studied American History, Michael and Phylliss second son, Jonathan, was born in February 1968. Nesmiths third son, Jason, was born in August 1968 to Nurit Wilde, in 1969, Nesmith formed the group First National Band with Kuehne, John Ware and Red Rhodes
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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group
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Olivia Physical
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Olivia Physical is a 1982 video collection featuring the singer Olivia Newton-John and various of her songs, most from the album Physical. A somewhat expanded version of the video was aired as an ABC prime-time special, Lets Get Physical, in 1983 the video received a Grammy Award as Video of the Year. Note The television version has differences from the home video version. The television version features interludes starring Olivia, introducing some music videos. The home video version doesnt, but it features the videos for Love Make Me Strong and Falling. Newton-John was one of the first artists to invest in music videos, the 1978 album Totally Hot was her first one to features videos accompanying all the singles from the album, but they were very simple, being primarily composed of Newton-John singing in the studio. The music videos of the songs of Physical are more complex, and were one of the firsts to present a plot line, but, got us out here because she liked what we had done. I got to be a different personality and play an other side of myself
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
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The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious and final competitive-award handed out at the annual MTV Video Music Awards. It was first awarded in 1984 and presented to The Cars for the video You Might Think, the only multiple winners of this award are Eminem, Rihanna, and Beyoncé. Eminem is also the most nominated artist in this category, while Rihanna is the youngest solo artist to win the award, winning at age 19. David Lee Roth, U2, and Lady Gaga are the performers to have two Video of the Year nominations in one night, with Gaga being the only to take home the award for her video Bad Romance. U2 is also the most nominated group in category, with four nominated videos. Only two artist have won Video of the Year and been honored with the Video Vanguard Award in the night, Peter Gabriel in 1987 with Sledgehammer. Rock, R&B, acid jazz, pop, and hip-hop performers are among the winners, the current holder is Beyoncé for the video Formation. Notes, † indicates Grammy Award-winning music videos, ‡ indicates Grammy Award nominated music videos. Grammy Award for Best Music Video MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video Official website
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David Bowie
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David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music, during his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the worlds best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, in the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, born in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. Space Oddity became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969, after a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single Starman and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, in 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. Heroes and Lodger followed, each reached the UK top five. He then reached his peak in 1983 with Lets Dance. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with styles, including industrial. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006, in 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar. David Robert Jones was born on 8 January 1947, in Brixton, south London and his mother, Margaret Mary Peggy, was born in Kent, and had Irish ancestry, she worked as a waitress. His father, Haywood Stenton John Jones, from Yorkshire, was an officer for the childrens charity Barnardos. The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, near the border of the south London areas of Brixton, Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child—and a defiant brawler. In 1953, Bowie moved with his family to the suburb of Bromley and his voice was considered adequate by the school choir, and he demonstrated above-average abilities in playing the recorder. Upon listening to Little Richards song Tutti Frutti, Bowie would later say, presleys impact on him was likewise emphatic, I saw a cousin of mine dance to. Hound Dog and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything and it really impressed me, the power of the music
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Day-In Day-Out
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Day-In Day-Out is a song recorded by English singer David Bowie, serving as the opening track for his seventeenth studio album, Never Let Me Down. It was issued as a single on 23 March 1987 ahead of the records release, the recording was solely written by Bowie, while production was handled by him along with David Richards. An R&B track, Day-In Day-Out criticizes the treatment of the homeless in the United States at that time, and deals with the depths a young mother has to sink to feed her child. Commercially, Day-In Day-Out was the most successful single from Never Let Me Down, Day-In Day-Out was written by Bowie at his home in Montreux, Switzerland, along with most of the rest of Never Let Me Down in mid-1986. It was recorded in the autumn of 1986 at Mountain Studios in the same city, musically, the recording is an R&B song, being reminiscent of some of the singers R&B work in the 1970s. One author said that it is an example of Bowies strength in the R&B genre, the lyrics of the song were compared by one writer to those of Dolly Partons 9 to 5, and deal with the depths a young mother has to sink to feed her child. Bowie claimed the song was selected as the single for Never Let Me Down more as a statement of energy about the album. It was released on 23 March 1987 by EMI on multiple 7 and 12 single formats, a video EP was also distributed that year. It earned a single airing on Spanish radio prior to the concerts and was never released as a stand-alone single, upon release, Day-In Day-Out received mixed reviews from music critics. Complaints about poor studio production were common, although publications did find the song to be fun and danceable. Pegg agreed, calling it one of the best tracks from the whole session. Then I put in the camera angles that I think would be interesting or different. And Julien puts in his input, I started working this way on the Ashes to Ashes video with David Mallet. It was my first real big attempt and it won awards at the time for being a new way of doing videos, Julien Temple and Bowie co-directed the video, which made the songs message explicit, showing a young couples struggle against an uncaring society. Tony Selznik taught Bowie to roller skate for the video, recalling in 2013, David came across as very humble and he was disillusioned with the music industry. I taught him to skate in a parking lot and we shot the video on Hollywood Boulevard at night, with me in a wig and leather jacket as his double for some scenes. The only bad fall involved the instructor, my wheels came off, I was bleeding everywhere, concerning the clips ban, Bowie confessed, I think its ludicrous. Got caught up in the yellow press kind of excitement because of what it looked like instead of what it said
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Kate Bush
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Catherine Kate Bush, CBE is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Babooshka, Running Up That Hill, Dont Give Up and King of the Mountain. She has released ten albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever. She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts, Bush has received widespread critical acclaim for her eclectic and idiosyncratic music as well as her theatrical performances. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades, during the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music. A diverse range of artists have claimed Bush as an influence on their work, Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, to English medical doctor Robert Bush and Hannah Daly. She was raised as a Roman Catholic in their farmhouse in East Wickham, both brothers were involved in the local folk music scene. One of the instructors, Dave Hazard, later noted in his autobiography that her dance moves seemed to owe something to karate and her familys musical influence inspired Bush to teach herself the piano at the age of 11. She also played the organ in a barn behind her parents house and she soon began writing her own tunes and eventually added lyrics to them. Bush attended St Josephs Convent Grammar School, a Catholic girls school, in Woolwich Road, Abbey Wood, south east London, during this time her family produced a demo tape with over 50 of her compositions, which was turned down by record labels. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd received the demo from Ricky Hopper, a friend of Gilmour. Impressed with what he heard, Gilmour helped the sixteen-year-old Bush get a more professional-sounding demo tape recorded that would be more saleable to the record companies, three tracks in total were recorded and paid for by Gilmour. The tape was produced by Gilmours friend Andrew Powell, who would go on to produce Bushs first two albums, and sound engineer Geoff Emerick, the tape was sent to EMI executive Terry Slater. Slater was impressed by the tape and signed her, the British record industry was reaching a point of stagnation. Progressive rock was popular and visually oriented rock performers were growing in popularity. Bush was put on retainer for two years by Bob Mercer, managing director of EMI group-repertoire division. According to Mercer he felt Bushs material was good enough to be released but felt if the album failed it would be demoralising
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The Whole Story
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The Whole Story is the first compilation album by English singer Kate Bush. Released in November 1986, it was Bushs third UK number one album, the compilation went on to become her best-selling release to date, being certified four times platinum in the United Kingdom. The album includes eleven of Bushs previous singles, with an unreleased track entitled Experiment IV. A newly recorded version of Bushs debut single Wuthering Heights opens the album, a home video compilation of the same name was released simultaneously, which includes the promotional videos for each song on the album. All tracks written by Kate Bush, all tracks written by Kate Bush. Kate Bush - Keyboards, vocals, producer Ian Cooper - Cutting engineer Jon Kelly - Producer Andrew Powell - Producer
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David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, musician, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roth is best known as the original and current lead singer of hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold. After more than two decades apart, Roth re-joined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the highest grossing in the bands history, in 2012, Roth and Van Halen released the comeback album A Different Kind of Truth. Roth was born in Bloomington, Indiana and he is the son of Sibyl Roth and ophthalmologist Nathan Roth and the brother of Allison and Lisa Roth. Nathan Roth was an eye surgeon who made millions via his practice. The senior Roth was featured on the TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in 1984, Nathan owned a 14, 000-square-foot home in Pasadena, California named Rothwood as well as a chateau named Bradbury. Several members of his family were surgeons, uncles Dave and Marty, and his uncle, Manny Roth, built and owned the New York, N. Y. establishment Cafe Wha. in the early 1960s, which featured performers such as Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. At age seven, Roth got his first taste of business from the inside by hanging out at Cafe Wha. as mentioned in his book Crazy from the Heat. His uncle was one of Roths first guests on his radio show on New Yorks 92.3 Free-FM. After living in Bloomington, Indiana, and Swampscott, Massachusetts, Roth moved to Pasadena, California, while he was in his teens. He attended The Webb Schools in Claremont, California, and John Muir High School in Pasadena, then Pasadena City College where he met the Van Halen brothers, Eddie, during this period Roth worked as a hospital orderly. By the time Roth was in his teens, he was singing solo. Roth states this name was a reference to the red dye used in food at that time, including red candy balls, another Los Angeles group, Mammoth, occasionally rented the Red Ball Jets PA system. Roth was invited to join Mammoth as lead singer, in 1974, told that another act was using the name, they changed their name from Mammoth to Van Halen. Performing both original and cover songs, Van Halen eventually gained local success, becoming a feature at the Starwood Club. It was during their four-month stint there that they were first discovered, in 1976, Gene Simmons took note of the band and assisted them in producing their first demo tape. Although featuring many of the songs that would be included on their debut album
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Janet Jackson
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Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. After signing a contract with A&M Records in 1982, she became a pop icon following the release of her third studio album Control. Her collaborations with record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis incorporated elements of rhythm and blues, funk, disco, rap, and industrial beats, which led to crossover success in popular music. In 1991 Jackson signed the first of two record-breaking multimillion-dollar contracts with Virgin Records, establishing her as one of the highest paid artists in the industry. Her debut album under the label, Janet, saw her develop an image as a sex symbol as she began to explore sexuality in her work. That same year, she appeared in her first starring role in Poetic Justice. By the end of the 1990s, she was the second most successful recording artist of the decade, the release of her seventh studio album All for You coincided with a celebration of her impact on popular music as the inaugural MTV Icon. After parting ways with Virgin she released her studio album, Discipline, her first. In 2015 she partnered with BMG Rights Management to launch her own label, Rhythm Nation. Having sold over 100 million records, Jackson is one of the artists in the history of contemporary music. In 2016, Billboard placed her number seven on its list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, in December 2016, the magazine named her the second most successful dance artist of all-time. One of the worlds most awarded artists, her longevity, records and she has been cited as an inspiration among numerous performers. Janet Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, the youngest of ten children, to Katherine Esther, the Jacksons were lower-middle class and devout Jehovahs Witnesses, although Jackson would later refrain from organized religion. At a young age, her brothers began performing as The Jackson 5 in the Chicago-Gary area, in March 1969, the group signed a record deal with Motown, and soon had their first number-one hit. The family then moved to the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jackson had initially desired to become a horse racing jockey or entertainment lawyer, with plans to support herself through acting. Despite this, she was anticipated to pursue a career in entertainment, at age seven, Jackson performed at the Las Vegas Strip at the MGM Casino. A biography revealed her father, Joseph Jackson, was emotionally withdrawn and she began acting in the variety show The Jacksons in 1976. In 1977, she was selected to have a role as Penny Gordon Woods in the sitcom Good Times
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Julien Temple
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Julien Andrew Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. Temple was born in Kensington, London, the son of Landon Temple and his sister is politician Nina Temple. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, William Ellis School and he grew up with little interest in film until, when a student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo. This, along with his interest in the punk scene in London in 1976, led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols. Temples first film was a documentary called Sex Pistols Number 1. This led to Temple making The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, as band members Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious had left the band by this time, the story of the group is told from the viewpoint of their manager, Malcolm McLaren. The Great Rock And Roll Swindle tells of the rise of The Sex Pistols, apparently as manipulated by McLaren, many of the facts given by McLaren were disputed by John Lydon, who accused McLaren of using the film to attack him personally. This helped split opinion on the film as, although it was praised for attempting to capture some of the scene of the time. Controversy aside, Temple was praised for his mix of animated scenes, documentary footage and this helped launch Temple into a career making music videos, something for which he would be best known for much of his career. In 1983, Temple directed a film for the BBC Arena series called Its All True and this was followed by Temples next theatrical release, the short film Jazzin for Blue Jean featuring David Bowie which was released as a support feature to The Company of Wolves. In 1986, Temple directed the film version of Colin MacInnes book Absolute Beginners, one of the most expensive films in British history, the fate of the studios involved were dependent on the success of the film. The film was panned in the UK. As it was a musical, rather than an adaptation of the book, it was attacked for a lack of narrative. Absolute Beginners was financially unsuccessful and was responsible for the Goldcrest company going bankrupt. Temple found himself being blamed personally for the failure and he moved to the United States, where he was offered the film Earth Girls Are Easy, as well as a series of music videos for such artists as Duran Duran, Janet Jackson, Neil Young and Tom Petty. Temple returned to the UK in the late 1990s, where he continued to make films, Vigo, Passion for Life recounts the passionate relationship between French film maker Jean Vigo and his wife Lydou, who both suffered from Tuberculosis. The film was not well received, a reviewer in Sight & Sound commented that the film although absolutely faithful to the facts, is absolutely dreadful. This time the film was made with the cooperation of the surviving members of the band
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. Raised in a family in small towns of northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor, Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a speaker at General Electric factories. Having been a lifelong Democrat, his views changed and he became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the Republican Party. In 1964, Reagans speech, A Time for Choosing, in support of Barry Goldwaters foundering presidential campaign, Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political, in his first term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. During his re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was Morning in America, foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran–Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an empire, and during his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Jack, a salesman and storyteller, was the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Tipperary, Reagan had one older brother, John Neil Reagan, who became an advertising executive. As a boy, Reagans father nicknamed his son Dutch, due to his fat little Dutchman-like appearance and Dutchboy haircut, Reagans family briefly lived in several towns and cities in Illinois, including Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. In 1919, they returned to Tampico and lived above the H. C, Pitney Variety Store until finally settling in Dixon. After his election as president, residing in the upstairs White House private quarters, for the time, Reagan was unusual in his opposition to racial discrimination, and recalled a time in Dixon when the local inn would not allow black people to stay there. Reagan brought them back to his house, where his mother invited them to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning, after the closure of the Pitney Store in late 1920 and the familys move to Dixon, the midwestern small universe had a lasting impression on Reagan. Reagan attended Dixon High School, where he developed interests in acting, sports and his first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park in 1927. Over a six-year period, Reagan reportedly performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard and he attended Eureka College, a Disciples-oriented liberal arts school, where he became a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, and studied economics and sociology. While involved, the Miller Center of Public Affairs described him as an indifferent student and he majored in economics and sociology, and graduated with a C grade
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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Invisible Touch
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As with their previous album, it was written entirely through group improvisations and no material developed prior to recording was used. Invisible Touch was a success and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. It remains the bands highest selling album after it was certified multi-platinum for over 1.2 million copies sold in the UK and 6 million sold in the US. Genesis became the first band and foreign act to have five top five singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, in 2007, the album was reissued with a new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mix. After wrapping up the Mama Tour in February 1984 to support their previous album Genesis, in a June 1985 interview, Collins spoke of the bands intention to start work on the next Genesis album that October. This put an end to an announcement that aired on BBC Radio 1 suggesting the three had split. The album was written, recorded, and mixed at The Farm and they were joined by audio engineer and co-producer Hugh Padgham, who had worked with the band on their previous two albums. Banks recalled they entered the studio with a sense of confidence, as with their previous album Genesis, the band approached the writing process with no previously written material, leaving them to write each track through group improvisation. Collins compared such a process as close to jazz. Banks reasoned such an approach for the album as he thought the groups best songs had been developed collectively, Collins spoke about the writing method, You never quite know whats going to happen. Its just the three of us chopping away, fine-tuning and honing down all these ideas, Banks agreed, thinking the short tracks on Invisible Touch were stronger than their last album. Recording was complete in February 1986, Invisible Touch originated as the band were working on The Last Domino, the second part of Domino. During the session Rutherford began to play a guitar riff with an added echo effect, to which Collins replied with the off-the-cuff lyric, She seems to have an invisible touch. This led to Collins writing the lyrics to the song, with his improvised line becoming its chorus hook and he wrote the lyrics based around a person who gets under ones skin which he had Known a few. You know they’re going to mess you up, but you cant resist, the songs musical structure then came to Collins mind in its complete form. Rutherford expressed a desire for the band to different musical themes for the song. Collins rates the track highly and picked it as his favourite Genesis song and he added, Its a great pop song. The basis for Tonight, Tonight, Tonight came about from Banks, similar to that of Invisible Touch, Collins then came out with the word monkey and explored it vocally which led to the songs working title to be Monkey/Zulu
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Spitting Image
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Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network, the series was cancelled in 1996, after viewing figures declined. ITV had plans for a new series in 2006, but these were scrapped after a dispute over Ant & Dec puppets used to host Best Ever Spitting Image, Martin Lambie-Nairn proposed a satirical television show featuring caricature puppets created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law. The idea for the series was rejected by many in the industry, who thought it would only be suitable for children, but the series was finally accepted for development and first broadcast in 1984. English comedy writer and National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra, was brought in as a writer, Fluck, Hendra brought in John Lloyd, producer of Not The Nine OClock News. They were joined by Jon Blair, a documentary producer and they then hired Muppet puppeteer Louise Gold. Development was funded by Clive Sinclair, the puppets, based on public figures, were designed by Fluck and Law, assisted by caricaturists that included David Stoten, Pablo Bach, Steve Bendelack and Tim Watts. The episodes included musical parodies by Philip Pope and later Steve Brown, the first episode of Spitting Image, in 1984, aired with a laugh track, apparently at the insistence of Central Television. This episode was shown to an audience before transmission. In the early years of the show, Spitting Image was filmed in the zone at London Docklands. Impressionist Steve Nallon recalls that they were able to get away with no health and safety, there were no extractor fans, it was quite Dickensian. In later series, Spitting Image was recorded at Centrals studios in Nottingham with last minute additions being recorded at the Limehouse Studios at Canary Wharf, London. Before the first episode was broadcast, the parodies of the Royal Family were cut, as a courtesy to the Duke of Edinburgh, the scenes were however all reinstated in later episodes. The series had been scheduled to have 13 episodes but was cut back to 12, rob Grant and Doug Naylor were then brought in as head writers to save the show. By 1986, under their supervision, Spitting Image had become popular, however, Grant and Naylor subsequently left to create Red Dwarf for BBC2. Spitting Image had a dispute with the Independent Broadcasting Authority in 1985. When Margaret Thatcher resigned in November 1990, her successor was John Major, the producers dressed Major, skin and all, in shades of grey. They invented an affair between him and Virginia Bottomley, the show added animated sketches from 1989 and again from 1994
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Margaret Thatcher
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She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her The Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics, as Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. A research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959, Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and she became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation, flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies and she narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in 1984. Thatcher was re-elected for a term in 1987. During this period her support for a Community Charge was widely unpopular and she resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a peerage as Baroness Thatcher which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. After a series of strokes in 2002, she was advised to withdraw from public speaking. Despite this, she managed to pre-record a eulogy to Ronald Reagan prior to his death, in 2013, she died of another stroke in London, at the age of 87. Always a controversial figure, she has described as one of the greatest and most influential politicians in British history. Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on 13 October 1925, in Grantham and her father was Alfred Roberts, originally from Northamptonshire, and her mother was Beatrice Ethel from Lincolnshire. She spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father owned two grocery shops, Prior to the Second World War, in 1938 the Roberts family gave sanctuary to a teenage Jewish girl escaping Nazi Germany. Thatcher was to describe this in her memoirs as among the significant events of her formative years, Alfred Roberts was an alderman and a Methodist local preacher, and brought up his daughter as a strict Wesleyan Methodist attending the Finkin Street Methodist Church. He came from a Liberal family but stood as an Independent and he was Mayor of Grantham in 1945–46 and lost his position as alderman in 1952 after the Labour Party won its first majority on Grantham Council in 1950. Margaret Roberts attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to Kesteven and her school reports showed hard work and continual improvement, her extracurricular activities included the piano, field hockey, poetry recitals, swimming and walking. She was head girl in 1942–43, in her upper sixth year she applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, but she was initially rejected and was offered a place only after another candidate withdrew. Her dissertation was on the structure of the antibiotic gramicidin, even while working on chemistry, she was already thinking towards law and politics
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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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Crazy from the Heat
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Crazy from the Heat is a 1985 EP by David Lee Roth. His debut solo release, it was issued while Roth was still the lead singer for Van Halen, all four songs on the EP are cover versions. Roths version of the Beach Boys hit California Girls peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song Easy Street is originally by The Edgar Winter Group, and Coconut Grove is a cover of a tune by The Lovin Spoonful. The medley of Just a Gigolo and I Aint Got Nobody is also based on Louis Primas 1956 medley of the two songs, according to albums liner notes, the cover picture of Roth was shot in the Seychelle Islands. In 1997, using the title, Roth published Crazy from the Heat. The last lyric in the chorus of the song Goin Crazy from Roths 1986 album Eat Em, Crazy from the Heat is certified platinum by the RIAA, having sold over one million in the US
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Eat 'Em and Smile
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Eat Em and Smile is the debut full-length solo album by original Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth, released on July 7,1986. On Eat Em and Smile, Roth returned to a rock sound, comparable with that of early Van Halen, albeit featuring eclectic forays into lounge, jazz. Indeed, many of the reviews of Eat Em and Smile compared it directly with Van Halens synth-heavy 5150, the extensive North American Eat Em and Smile Tour ran from mid-1986 through early 1987. In a nod to his hit solo EP, Roth included two songs on Eat Em And Smile, Thats Life and Im Easy. Roth also included a cover of the 60s garage band classic, two of the albums original songs, however, became its biggest hits. Yankee Rose, a tribute to the Statue of Liberty, became an MTV and radio hit. The would-be theme to Roths then-planned movie, Goin Crazy. also became an MTV staple while hovering near the middle of Billboards Hot 100 during the autumn of 1986. A version of Kids in Action, originally by Kim Mitchell, was recorded for this album. However, due to constraints, the song was not included on the release. Billy Sheehan was briefly a member of Max Webster, according to Kim Mitchell, there were no hard feelings and he went on and did really well. I was shaking on the phone, this was right after Roth left Van Halen, then at the last minute it got bumped off the record for Tobacco Road, they thought they needed a cover. See theres those darn covers again, there is no known studio version of Roths cover available to the public. This is the first of two Roth albums to feature the duo of Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan on guitar and bass respectively, throughout the album the two would often sync complicated bass lines together with the lead guitar parts, as on tracks such as Shyboy and Elephant Gun. The album brought Steve Vai into the eye as a contender with Edward Van Halen. This album features some of Steve Vais most prominent guitar work, sonrisa salvaje is the Spanish version of Eat Em and Smile. Roth re-cut all his vocals with the help of a Spanish tutor in the studio and he changed around some of the racier lyrics, so as not to offend the more conservative Spanish-speaking population. According to Sheehan, the album wasnt well-received, with many considering it gringo Spanish. Any future Spanish-version ideas were dropped, sonrisa salvaje was originally released on vinyl and cassette, but deleted almost immediately, a CD version did not appear until 2007
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Music recording sales certification
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Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory, almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials. The number of sales or shipments required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory in which the recording is released, typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country in which the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, the original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first of these was awarded by RCA Victor to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single Dont Be Cruel. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso and these sales were restricted to U. S. -based record companies and did not include exports to other countries. For albums in 1968, this would mean shipping approximately 250,000 units, the platinum certification was introduced in 1976 for the sale of one million units, album or single, with the gold certification redefined to mean sales of 500,000 units, album or single. No album was certified platinum prior to this year, for instance, the recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. In 1999, the certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. On 14 March 1958, the RIAA certified its first gold record, soundtrack was certified as the first gold album four months later. In 1976, RIAA introduced the platinum certification, first awarded to Johnnie Taylors single, Disco Lady, as music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999 and this became much less common once the majority of retail sales became paid digital downloads and digital streaming. In most countries certifications no longer apply solely to physical media, in June 2006, the RIAA also certified the ringtone downloads of songs. Streaming from on-demand services such as Rhapsody and Spotify has been included into existing digital certification in the U. S since 2013, in the U. S. and Germany video streaming services like YouTube, VEVO, and Yahoo. Music also began to be counted towards the certification, in both cases using the formula of 100 streams being equivalent to one download, other countries, such as Denmark and Spain, maintain separate awards for digital download singles and streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry was founded in 1996, and grants the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for album sales over one million within Europe, multi-platinum Europe Awards are presented for sales in subsequent multiples of one million. Eligibility is unaffected by time, and is not restricted to European-based artists, IMPALA sales awards were launched in 2005 as the first sales awards recognising that success on a pan-European basis begins well before sales reach one million. The award levels are Silver, Double Silver, Gold, Double Gold, Diamond, Platinum, below are certification thresholds for the United States and United Kingdom
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Control (Janet Jackson album)
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Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on February 4,1986, by A&M Records. The album became Jacksons commercial breakthrough and enabled her to transition into the music market, with Control becoming one of the foremost albums of the 1980s. The album has been praised by critics as both an artistic feat and as a testament of self-actualization. It has also regarded as a template upon which numerous female artists have modeled their careers. Music videos created to promote the singles showcased her dancing ability, the album went on to receive several accolades, including a nomination for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and winning Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for Jam and Lewis in 1987. It has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. In March 2017, Billboard ranked the album as the 4th most successful R&B album of all-time by a female and 16th most successful R&B album of all-time overall. Joseph Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson family of musicians, was known for managing the careers of all nine of his children, most notably, Best known as a television actress, she was initially reluctant to begin a recording career. She said, I was coming off of a TV show that I absolutely hated doing, I wanted to go to college. But I did it for my father, and elaborated that she was often in conflict with her producers. Amidst her professional struggles, she rebelled against her familys wishes by marrying James DeBarge of the recording group DeBarge in 1984. The Jacksons disapproved of the relationship, citing DeBarges immaturity and substance abuse, Jackson left her husband in January 1985 and was granted an annulment later that year. Jackson subsequently fired her father as her manager and employed John McClain, then A&M Records senior vice president of artists and repertoire and general manager. Joseph Jackson resented John McClain for what he saw as an attempt to steal his daughters career out from under him, stating. The problem comes, though, when others come in behind you, the wheels have already been set for Janet Jackson. Anyone who jumps on now will be getting a free ride, McClain responded by saying Im not trying to pimp Janet Jackson or steal her away from her father. He subsequently introduced her to the duo of James Jimmy Jam Harris III and Terry Lewis, former Prince associates. Jam commented in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, We wanted to do an album that would be in black home in America
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Tony Banks (musician)
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Anthony George Tony Banks is an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, primarily known for being the keyboardist and a founding member of the rock band Genesis. He is one of the two members who have been with Genesis throughout the bands entire history. In 2010, Banks was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2015, he was named Prog God at the annual Progressive Music Awards. Banks is ranked No.11 on MusicRadars greatest keyboard players of all time, Banks was one of the main composers of Genesiss music and made major lyrical contributions to the bands songs. As the bands keyboardist he used a variety of instruments, including the ARP Pro Soloist synthesiser, the Mellotron, the Yamaha CP-70, in the bands earliest years Banks would play acoustic guitar for some of the mellow and pastoral songs. Outside Genesis, Banks has pursued a career, which has included film scoring, pop songs. In 2006, the first Tony Banks biography, Man of Spells by journalist Mario Giammetti, was published in Italy, Anthony George Banks was born in East Hoathly, Sussex, England. He received classical training in piano and taught himself to play guitar and he attended Charterhouse School, where he met fellow pupil Peter Gabriel in 1963. Banks originally planned to study mathematics in higher education, after Charterhouse he began studying chemistry at Sussex University but soon switched to physics and philosophy. After a year at Sussex, he took a leave of absence to explore a career with Genesis. Banks and Gabriel, together with drummer Chris Stewart, formed a band called Garden Wall and this band merged with another called Anon, which included Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips. They recorded a set of demos which ultimately led to the formation of the band that became Genesis. In addition to playing keyboards, Banks contributed to Genesiss 12-string acoustic passages in such as The Musical Box, Entangled, The Cinema Show. Banks also was an occasional back-up vocalist and sang vocals on Shepherd. Banks achieved a sound by running all of his keyboards into a mixing board. This can clearly be heard on everything Banks plays on the Genesis Live album, Bankss earliest setup included a Hammond L-100 organ, a Hohner Pianet N and a Mellotron MkII, all of which are first heard on the Trespass album. Banks used the Pianet as both a substitute for a piano, and also as a lead instrument, with the use of a fuzz box. He would often duel with Hacketts guitar, as heard on tracks like The Musical Box, The Return of the Giant Hogweed and it was often effected with the homemade fuzz box and an MXR Phase 100 – later these pedals were inserted in the panel of the Electra Piano
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Phil Collins
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Philip David Charles Phil Collins LVO is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is best known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis, between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with artists, as well as his solo career is totalled. His most successful singles from the period include In the Air Tonight, Against All Odds, One More Night, Sussudio and Another Day in Paradise. Born and raised in West London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training and he then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins became one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the 80s and he also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. After leaving Genesis in 1996, Collins pursued various projects before a return in 2007 for the Turn It On Again Tour. In 2011, he retired to focus on his family life and he announced his return to the music industry in 2015. Collins discography includes eight albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US. He is one of two recording artists, along with Paul McCartney, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has won seven Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, west London, England, the son of Winifred M. June, an agent, and Greville Philip Austin Collins. He was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five, Later, his uncle made him a makeshift set that he used regularly. As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents and he practiced by playing with music on the television and radio. Collins studied drum rudiments as a teenager, first learning basic rudiments under Lloyd Ryan, Collins recalled, Rudiments I found very, very helpful – much more helpful than anything else because theyre used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there and he never learned to read and write conventional musical notation and instead used a system he devised himself. He later regretted this, saying, I never really came to grips with the music, I should have stuck with it. Ive always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it, for me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad
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Mike Rutherford
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Michael John Cloete Crawford Mike Rutherford is an English musician. He is a member of Genesis and one of the bands only two original members. Following Hacketts departure from Genesis in 1977, Rutherford assumed the role of lead guitarist on the bands studio albums. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, in addition to his work with Genesis, Rutherford released two solo albums in the early 1980s. Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford received his first guitar at the age of 8, and played in his first band and his father, William Francis Henry Crawford Rutherford, was a Royal Navy Captain who became a manager in industry upon his retirement from the service. At the age of 15, the two of them founded Genesis with Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel, Rutherford hated his time in public school however, and was later expelled from Charterhouse for what he describes as a number of instances of minor misconduct. Rutherfords playing style has been shaped by his unorthodox performance requirements within Genesis, though his work with bass and guitar has been praised by some critics, he has described his playing as average and said that he considers himself a songwriter first and foremost. Rutherfords bass guitar playing initially involved the use of a pick and he would also sometimes employ a relatively harsh, horn-like distortion setting to differentiate the instruments tone from the rest of the ensemble. In the mid-1970s he would begin to play bass guitar on Genesis songs. Rutherfords rhythm guitar playing was characterised by his use of electric and acoustic 12-string guitars. A distinctive sound of early Genesis recordings was Rutherfords double acoustic 12-string playing intertwined with that of Anthony Phillips or, later, Rutherford assumed lead guitar duties for Genesis in 1977. And Then There Were Three. Rutherford took over all guitarist roles for the band in the recording studio, as a lead player he has favoured long, melodic tones, bending the notes into plaintive, almost vocal lines. This results in singable solos or the creation of sonic atmospheres rather than showy displays of technical prowess, post-Hackett, he has also diversified his rhythm guitar approach beyond his initial twelve-string-based approach. Initially using a Dewtron Mister Bassman bass pedal synthesiser, he had moved onto Moog Taurus bass pedals by the 1976 Trick of the Tail Tour, sometimes Rutherfords bass pedals are used to set up a steady drone as the basis for an individual song. In concerts during the first half of the 1970s, Rutherford often played a double-necked instrument, Rickenbacker later issued double neck bass/guitar combinations with 4080/6 and 4080/12 models. However, Rutherford assigned the guitar neck to the top rather than the 4080s stock guitar on bottom. On post-1977 Genesis live shows, Rutherford would alternate parts with touring band member Daryl Stuermer, Stuermer would typically play all of Hacketts original guitar parts, but play bass guitar on most songs from the post-Hackett era. During breaks in Genesis, Rutherford recorded two albums, Smallcreeps Day and Acting Very Strange
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John Lloyd (producer)
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He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4s The Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off of QI. Lloyd was born in Dover, England and his father, H. L. Harpy Lloyd, was an Anglo-Irish captain with the Royal Navy. As a child Lloyd lived in different places, owing to his fathers job. This led him to attend school only at the age of 9½. He was educated at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hampshire, a place where he claims bullying was endemic and he read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Footlights. There he befriended Douglas Adams, with whom he shared a flat. Lloyd is the nephew of John Hardress Lloyd. Lloyd worked as a producer at the BBC between 1974 and 1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born. He also produced The Burkiss Way, Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989, where he created Not the Nine OClock News and Spitting Image. He also produced all four Blackadder series, Lloyd was originally to have been the host of BBC topical news quiz Have I Got News For You, with the programme initially intended to be called John Lloyds Newsround. A pilot episode of the show was recorded under this name in mid-1990, with Lloyd hosting alongside team captains Ian Hislop, Lloyd subsequently decided to pull out of hosting the programme full-time and the pilot episode was never broadcast. Lloyd was replaced by Angus Deayton as host and the show was renamed Have I Got News for You in time for its debut on BBC2 later that year, Lloyd is married to Sarah Lloyd and has three children. He has worked as a TV commercials director on and off since 1987 and his first new TV series for 14 years, QI, starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC Two for a run of 12 episodes. In its eighth series, which started on BBC One in September 2010, all episodes of QI have been directed by Ian Lorimer. Lloyd currently presents the radio series The Museum of Curiosity, which he co-created with producers Richard Turner, in December 2011, Lloyd appeared as part of the winning Trinity College, Cambridge, team on the Christmas University Challenge. Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting, Lloyd was also awarded an honorary degree from Southampton Solent University. In August 2014, Lloyd was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to Septembers referendum on that issue. His most recent work,1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways, a collaboration with John Mitchinson and James Harkin, was published in 2014 by Faber and Faber
