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Zwolle
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Zwolle is the capital city and municipality of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. It has a population around 125,000, archaeological findings indicate that the area surrounding Zwolle has been inhabited for a long time. A woodhenge that was found in the Zwolle-Zuid suburb in 1993 was dated to the Bronze Age period, during the Roman era, the area was inhabited by Salian Franks. The modern city was founded around 800 CE by Frisian merchants, the name Zwolle is derived from the word Suolle, which means hill. This refers to an incline in the landscape between the four rivers surrounding the city, IJssel, Vecht, Aa and Zwarte Water, the hill was the only piece of land that would remain dry during the frequent floodings of the rivers. Zwolle was established on that incline, a document mentions the existence of a parish church dedicated to St Michael. That church, the Grote or Sint Michaëlskerk, was renovated in the first half of the 15th century, the church contains a richly carved pulpit, the work of Adam Straes van Weilborch, some good carving and an exquisite organ. On August 31,1230, the bishop of Utrecht granted Zwolle city rights, Zwolle became a member of the Hanseatic league in 1294, and in 1361 joined the war between the Hanseatic League and Valdemar IV of Denmark. In the 1370 Treaty of Stralsund that ended the war, Zwolle was awarded a vitte, zwolles golden age came in the 15th century. Between 1402 and 1450, the citys Gross Regional Product multiplied by about six, in July 1324 and October 1361, regional noblemen set fire to Zwolle. In the 1324 fire, only nine buildings escaped the flames, Zwolle was also, with Deventer, one of the centers of the Brethren of the Common Life, a monastic movement. 5 km from Zwolle, on an eminence called the Agnietenberg, once stood the Augustinian convent in which Thomas à Kempis spent the greatest part of his life. At least as early as 1911, Zwolle had a trade by river, a large fish market. The more important industries comprised cotton manufactures, iron works, boat-building, dyeing and bleaching, tanning, rope-making, in World War II, Zwolle was single-handedly liberated from the Germans by Canadian soldier Léo Major. He was made a citizen of Zwolle in 2005 and a street is named for him. Citizens of Zwolle are colloquially known as Blauwvingers and this dates back to 1682, when the St Michaels church tower collapsed. The authorities were strapped for cash and saw no option but to sell the church bells to neighbouring city Kampen, to make sure that Kampen would not make too much profit from the deal, the local authorities asked a high price for the church bells. Kampen accepted, yet after the arrival of the bells it became clear, in revenge, Kampen paid in copper coins of four duiten
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Zwolle city centre
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Dutch Topographic map of Zwolle (city), Sept. 2014
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Map of Zwolle by
Joan Blaeu in Blaeu's "Toonneel der Steden", 1652
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
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Rock and roll
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While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s. For the purpose of differentiation, this deals with the first definition. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars, a double bass or string bass or an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music and it went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply rock music or rock. The term rock and roll now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. Encyclopædia Britannica, on the hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s. In 1934, the song Rock and Roll by the Boswell Sisters appeared in the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, in 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker started to use the term rock-and-roll to describe upbeat recordings such as Rock Me by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. By 1943, the Rock and Roll Inn in South Merchantville, in 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. The origins of rock and roll have been debated by commentators. The migration of former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers such as St. The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called race music, particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk. The 1940s saw the use of blaring horns, shouted lyrics. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll arrived at a time of technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone. It was the realization that relatively affluent white teenagers were listening to music that led to the development of what was to be defined as rock. Because the development of rock and roll was a process, no single record can be identified as unambiguously the first rock. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Sign commemorating the role of
Alan Freed and
Cleveland, Ohio in the origins of rock and roll
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Chuck Berry in 1957
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Bill Haley and his Comets performing in the 1954 Universal International film Round Up of Rhythm
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.
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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.
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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.
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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.
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Cuby and the Blizzards
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Cuby + Blizzards – also known as Cuby & the Blizzards were a Dutch blues group, founded in 1964 by vocalist Harry Muskee, and guitarist Eelco Gelling. The spelling of the varies, with Cuby also written as QB and the ampersand also written as and or +. The spelling Cuby + Blizzards was used on the first albums, the bands first single, a blues-based track bearing similarities to The Pretty Things output, was Stumble and Fall in 1965. From the start, they were a big hit in the Netherlands, in 1967 they toured with Van Morrison, recorded an album, Praise the Blues with U. S. blues musician Eddie Boyd and scored a hit with Window of my Eyes. That year, John Mayall stayed at their farm and the year they regularly played with the king of British blues Alexis Korner. The line-up of the band changed regularly, but founders Harry Muskee, Herman Brood was the pianist from early 1967 until mid-1969 and again in 1976. Also in 1976, Gelling left to join Golden Earring, Muskee then decided to drop the name C+B and to form the Harry Muskee Band. This band recorded one album before Muskee decided to leave the music business. In 1980 he formed the Muskee Gang with a line-up of Herman Deinum and Hans la Faille, in 1996 Cuby + Blizzards re-formed without Eelco Gelling, who was replaced by Erwin Java on guitar. In 2004 they went on a tour to honor John Lee Hooker. C+B came to an end when Harry Muskee died of cancer on 26 September 2011, the band received an Edison award for their debut album Desolation. The song Window of my Eyes, was featured over the credits for the 2010 film The American
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Cuby + Blizzards performing for Dutch television in 1968
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Jan Akkerman
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Jan Akkerman is a Dutch guitarist. He first found commercial success with the band Focus, which he co-founded with Thijs van Leer. After leaving Focus, he continued as a solo artist, adding jazz fusion influences and he has also introduced baroque music into his repertoire. Akkerman was born in Amsterdam, the son of a scrap iron trader, at age five he took guitar lessons and his first single was released in 1960, when he was thirteen years old. He was a member of Johnny and his Cellar Rockers, The Hunters, Akkerman is also a highly skilled Lutenist having been greatly inspired by the English guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream. Akkerman joined the Thijs van Leer Trio in late 1969 which, continuing under the name Focus, the band explored the progressive rock genre and scored a few worldwide hits in the seventies. In 1973 Akkerman was chosen Best Guitarist in The World by the readers of the UK magazine and his standing was such that he teamed up with manufacturer Framus to produce one of the first signature guitar models. In early 1976 Akkerman left Focus and continued his solo career, the concept album Eli, recorded with Kaz Lux on vocals, won the Dutch Edison Award for best album in 1976. A brief Focus reunion with Thijs van Leer in 1985 came in the form of several concerts supported by an album which turned out to be unsuccessful, the classic Focus lineup also reunited in 1990 for the Dutch television program Goud van Oud for one last time. Akkerman continued to several albums. At the same time he was active as a musician with André Hazes. He also played alongside Alan Price, Herman Brood, Peter Banks, Phil Collins, Jack Bruce, Charlie Byrd, Ice-T, Paco De Lucia, and B. B. King. In 1991 Akkerman was also a part of the Night Of The Guitars II European tour organised by Sting, the tour featured Ronnie Montrose, Sagas Ian Crichton, Robin Trower from Procol Harum, Dave Sharman and Laurie Wisefield. In 1992 he was involved in a car accident. In the late 1990s, after an absence of nearly 20 years and he writes for the Dutch magazine GitaarPlus. In 2013, Akkerman released his latest album, North Sea Jazz
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Jan Akkerman in
Russia in 2005
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Nina Hagen
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Catharina Nina Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her vocals and is often referred to as the Godmother of Punk due to her prominence during the punk and new wave movements in the late 1970s. Born in the former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, Hagen began her career as an actress when she appeared in several German films alongside her mother Eva-Maria Hagen, around that same time, she joined the band Automobil and released the single Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen. After her stepfather Wolf Biermanns East German citizenship was withdrawn from him in 1976, shortly afterwards, she was offered a record deal from CBS Records and formed Nina Hagen Band. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1978 to a critical acclaim and was a success selling over 250,000 copies. The band released one more album Unbehagen before their break-up in 1979, in 1982, Hagen signed a new contract with CBS and released her debut solo album NunSexMonkRock, which became her first record to chart in the United States. She followed it two more albums, Fearless and Nina Hagen in Ekstasy, before her contract with CBS expired and was not renewed. In 1989, she was offered a deal from Mercury Records. She released three albums on the label, Nina Hagen, Street, and Revolution Ballroom, however, none of the albums achieved notable commercial success. Hagen made her comeback with the release of her album Return of the Mother. Besides her musical career, Hagen is also a voice-over actress and she wrote three autobiographies, Ich bin ein Berliner, Nina Hagen, Thats Why the Lady Is a Punk, and Bekenntnisse. She is also noted for her human and animal rights activism, Nina Hagen was born in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen, a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer. Her paternal grandfather died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up, she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered a prodigy by the time she was nine. When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter, Biermanns political views later influenced young Hagen. Hagen left school at age sixteen and went to Poland, where she began her career and she later returned to Germany and joined the cover band, Fritzens Dampferband, together with Achim Mentzel and others. She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the set lists during shows. From 1972 to 1973, Hagen enrolled in the performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin
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Nina Hagen at the premiere of
The Seventh Dwarf (2014)
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Hagen in 2003
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Hagen in 1980
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Lene Lovich
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Lene Lovich is an American singer, songwriter and musician of Serbian and English descent based in England. She first gained attention in 1979 with the release of her hit single Lucky Number, born in Detroit, Michigan, Lovich moved to England at the age of 13, where she met guitarist and songwriter Les Chappell, who later became her long-time music collaborator and life partner. She developed an interest in art and theater, enrolling at the Central School of Art, in 1975, she joined the band the Diversions and shortly afterwards wrote the lyrics to Cerrones single Supernature. The song was released as a single and appeared on her studio album Stateless. She released two albums, Flex and No Mans Land, on Stiff Records. In 1989, she released the album March, before her 15-year hiatus. She focused more on her family but came back in 2005 with the release of her album Shadows, in 2013, she established her own publishing label, Flex Music, and released a re-mastered version of all her previous albums in a limited edition box set. Lovich was born Lili-Marlene Premilovich in Detroit, Michigan, to an English mother, after her father had health problems, her mother took her and her three siblings to live in Hull, England. Lovich was 13 years old at the time and she met the guitarist/songwriter Les Chappell when they were teenagers, and he became her longtime collaborator and life partner. In autumn 1968, they went to London to attend art school and it was there that Lovich first tied her hair into the plaits that later became a visual trademark, though at first she did it to keep her hair out of the clay when studying sculpture. Over the following decade, Lovich attended several art schools, busked around the London Underground and she also travelled to Spain, where she visited Salvador Dalí in his home. She recorded screams for horror films, wrote lyrics for French disco star Cerrone, in 1975, Lovich joined The Diversions, a funk group that put out five singles and an album on Polydor Records, without success. In 1976 Lovich released a 7 3-track maxi-single in the UK under her own name, aimed at the Christmas market, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/The Christmas Song /Happy Christmas. In 1977, Lovich, along with recording engineer Alain Wisniak, provided lyrics for Supernature, the song, with its surreal lyrics describing a world in which nature has risen to fight against desecration and destruction by humanity, is indicative of Lovichs interest in animal rights issues. Robinson immediately proposed to release it as a single on Stiff, for which Lovich and Chappell had to write and they came up with Lucky Number, which was then released as an A-side and became a Top 3 hit in the UK Singles Chart. Lovichs musical style combined her own quirky inventions with contemporary punk rock and she then recorded the albums Flex and No-Mans-Land for Stiff over the next few years, as well as an EP titled New Toy, the title cut penned by touring band member Thomas Dolby. She also recorded vocals for Picnic Boy by The Residents as Sandy Sandwich, Lovich co-wrote with Chappell and Chris Judge Smith and performed Mata Hari, a play/musical at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, October/November 1982. During this time she was having disputes with Stiff, the success of the show and pressure from Epic, her US label, persuaded Stiff to release and promote No Mans Land
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Lovich,
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Dutch people
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The Dutch, occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, Nederlanders—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a culture and speak the Dutch language. The high degree of urbanization characteristic of Dutch society was attained at an early date. During the Republic the first series of large scale Dutch migrations outside of Europe took place, despite the small size of the Netherlands, the Dutch left behind a legacy in excess of their mere numbers. The traditional art and culture of the Dutch encompasses various forms of music, dances, architectural styles and clothing. Internationally, Dutch painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh are held in high regard, the dominant religion of the Dutch is Christianity, although in modern times the majority is no longer religious. Significant percentages of the Dutch are adherents of humanism, agnosticism, atheism or individual spirituality, as with all ethnic groups the ethnogenesis of the Dutch has been a lengthy and complex process. The text below hence focuses on the history of the Dutch ethnic group, for Dutch national history, for Dutch colonial history, see the article on the Dutch Empire. Following the end of the period in the West around 500, with large federations settling the decaying Roman Empire. In the Low Countries, this began when the Franks, themselves a union of multiple smaller tribes. Eventually, in 358, the Salian Franks, one of the three main subdivisions among the Frankish alliance settled the areas Southern lands as foederati, Roman allies in charge of border defense. On a political level, the Frankish warlords abandoned tribalism and founded a number of kingdoms, however, the population make-up of the Frankish Empire, or even early Frankish kingdoms such as Neustria and Austrasia, was not dominated by Franks. Though the Frankish leaders controlled most of Western Europe, the Franks themselves were confined to the Northwestern part of the Empire, the current Dutch-French language border has remained virtually identical ever since, and could be seen as marking the furthest pale of gallicization among the Franks. The medieval cities of the Low Countries, which experienced major growth during the 11th and 12th century, were instrumental in breaking down the already relatively loose local form of feudalism, as they became increasingly powerful, they used their economical strength to influence the politics of their nobility. While the cities were of political importance, they also formed catalysts for medieval Dutch culture. The various city guilds as well as the necessity of water boards in the Dutch delta and it is also around this time, that ethnonyms such as Diets and Nederlands emerge. This process marked a new episode in the development of the Dutch ethnic group, as now political unity started to emerge, consolidating the strengthened cultural, despite their linguistic and cultural unity, and economic similarities, there was still little sense of political unity among the Dutch people. However, the centralist policies of Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries, at first violently opposed by the cities of the Low Countries, had a profound impact and changed this
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The conversion of the Frankish king
Clovis to Christianity would have great significance in helping shape the identity of the future Dutch people.
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The
Act of Abjuration, signed on July 26, 1581, was the formal declaration of independence of the Dutch Low Countries.
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A typical November scene in the Dutch town
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LSD
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Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects. This may include altered awareness of the surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and it is used mainly as a recreational drug and for spiritual reasons. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue and it is often sold on blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. However, adverse reactions such as anxiety, paranoia. LSD is in the ergoline family, LSD is sensitive to oxygen, ultraviolet light, and chlorine, though it may last for years if it is stored away from light and moisture at low temperature. In pure form it is odorless and clear or white in color, as little as 20–30 micrograms can produce an effect. LSD was first made by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland in 1938 from ergotamine, the laboratory name for the compound was the acronym for the German Lyserg-säure-diäthylamid, followed by a sequential number, LSD-25. Hofmann discovered its properties in 1943. LSD was introduced as a medication under the trade-name Delysid for various psychiatric uses in 1947. In the 1950s, officials at the U. S, Central Intelligence Agency thought the drug might be useful for mind control and chemical warfare and tested the drug on young servicemen and students, and others without their knowledge. The subsequent recreational use by youth culture in the Western world as part of 1960s counterculture resulted in its prohibition, LSD currently has no approved uses in medicine. LSD is commonly used as a recreational drug, LSD is considered an entheogen because it can catalyze intense spiritual experiences, during which users may feel they have come into contact with a greater spiritual or cosmic order. Users sometimes report out of body experiences, in 1966, Timothy Leary established the League for Spiritual Discovery with LSD as its sacrament. LSD can cause pupil dilation, reduced appetite, and wakefulness, other physical reactions to LSD are highly variable and nonspecific, some of which may be secondary to the psychological effects of LSD. The most common immediate psychological effects of LSD are visual hallucinations and illusions, trips usually start within 20–30 minutes of taking LSD by mouth, peak three to four hours after ingestion, and last up to 12 hours. It is impossible to predict when a bad trip will occur, some users, including Albert Hofmann, report a strong metallic taste for the duration of the effects. LSD causes an animated experience of senses, emotions, memories, time. Generally beginning within 30 to 90 minutes after ingestion, the user may experience anything from subtle changes in perception to overwhelming cognitive shifts, changes in auditory and visual perception are typical
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Pink elephant blotters containing LSD
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Albert Hofmann in 2006
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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country
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Anton Corbijn in 2012
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Groningen (province)
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Groningen is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. It borders on Friesland to the west, Drenthe to the south, the German state of Niedersachsen to the east, in 2014, it had a population of 582,640 and a total area of 2,960 km2. The area was part of Frisia, the Frankish Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Dutch Republic. In the 14th century, the city of Groningen became a member of the Hanseatic League, the capital of the province and the seat of the provincial government is the city of Groningen. Since 2016, René Paas has been the Kings Commissioner in the province, a coalition of the Labour Party, Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy, Democrats 66, and ChristianUnion forms the executive branch. The province is divided into 23 municipalities, the land is mainly used for agriculture. There are sea ports in Delfzijl and Eemshaven, the Groningen gas field was discovered in 1959. The province is home to the University of Groningen and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen was originally a part of Frisia. It became a part of the Frankish Empire around 785, charlemagne assigned the Christianization of this new possession to Ludger. In the 11th century, the city of Groningen was a village in Drenthe that belonged to the Bishopric of Utrecht, during the Middle Ages, central control was remote, and the city of Groningen acted as a city-state, exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. In the 14th century, Groningen became one of the towns within the Hanseatic League, in the years after, Groningen expanded its influence. At its peak almost all of the current province Friesland was under the influence, shortly before 1498, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert III, Duke of Saxony, who could however not establish permanent control. In 1514/15 Groningen came to the Duchy of Guelders, and in 1536 as the Lordship of Groningen to the Habsburg Netherlands, in 1594, Groningen was conquered by the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, precursor state of the Netherlands, to which it belonged henceforth. During World War II, the Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany, in May 1945, another 3,000 German soldiers were captured in the Battle of Delfzijl by the 5th Canadian Division, after which all of the northern provinces were liberated. East Groningen was the scene of a particularly fierce class struggle in the 19th and 20th centuries, perhaps not coincidentally, Groningen boasts the only municipality where the Communist Party of the Netherlands has ever had a mayor. The northernmost point of the Netherlands is on Rottumerplaat at 53°33′18″N 6°28′41″E, Groningen is the 7th largest province of the Netherlands. It has an area of 2,960 km2, with 2,325 km2 of land and 635 km2 of water. About 80% of the land or 1,876 km2 is used for agriculture
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Canadian soldiers during the
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Satellite image of Groningen
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Almelo
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Almelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, Almelo received city rights in 1394. Within the city lies the castle of the Counts of Almelo. Located in the city centre is Huize Almelo, a castle that in its current form dates back to 1662, there are mosaics which decorate the walls of the tunnel close to the railway station. The city is known for its local association football club Heracles Almelo, which plays in the Eredivisie. The club uses the Polman Stadion, at the end of the 19th century textile emerged as a major employer and drew many workers to Almelo, at first from within the Netherlands. Since the 1960s workers from Spain and Turkey came to Almelo, the first mosque of the Netherlands was built in Almelo in 1976 for the Turkish population of the city. Almelo also has a number of Armenians. In the 1970s the industry dwindled and most factories were relocated to countries with cheaper labour, some factories remain in the city centre and are now in use for apartments or offices. Currently, an employer in Almelo is Urenco Nederland. This is a uranium enrichment plant which uses the gas centrifuge method and produces uranium with about five percent U-235, a bakery factory, Bolletje, PANalytical, the Twenteborg hospital and the regional court are also major employers. There is also a train every 2 hours into Germany serving cities such as Osnabrück, Hannover, Heracles Almelo, a professional football club playing in the Eredivisie is based in Almelo. Since 1983 Almelo has organised the Profronde van Almelo, a mens and womens professional road bicycle racing event
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Almelo city centre
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Topographic map of Almelo, Sept. 2014
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The Catholic St. Georgius church in Almelo
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Shpritsz
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Shpritsz is the second studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. The first, Rock & Roll Junkie, did not chart, the second, Saturday Night, charted in Europe and the United States. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached #8 on 3 June 1978 and it was certified gold in 1978, and platinum in 1980. Shpritsz was re-released on CD in 2000 by RCA/Ariola, in a 2008 poll by Muziekkrant OOR, the leading Dutch music magazine, Shpritsz was voted the fourth-best Dutch album of all time. Rock & Roll Junkie was released, but never charted, Saturday Night was released as a single, it peaked at #17 in the Dutch Top 50 on 16 September 1978, and was on the charts for eleven weeks. In the United States, Saturday Night was released as a single in 1979, and rose to #35 in the Billboard Hot 100, the single is referred to in the Billboard charts as Saturdaynight
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Recreational drug use
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Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to alter ones mental state in a way that modifies emotions, perceptions, and feelings for recreational purposes. When a substance enters the body, it brings on an intoxicating effect. Generally, people use drugs that fall into three categories, depressants, stimulants, and psychedelic drugs. In popular usage, it is considered to be a tolerated social behaviour rather than a serious medical condition such as self-medication. The substances classified as controlled and illegal drugs vary by country, in 2009 it was estimated that about 3% to 6% of people aged 15 to 65 had used illegal drugs at least once. International and domestic law enforcement agencies are perpetually occupied with interdiction efforts against illegal use, manufacture. Many researchers have explored the etiology of recreational drug use, there has not been agreement around any one single cause. Instead, experts tend to apply the biopsychosocial model, any number of these factors are likely to influence an individual’s drug use as they are not mutually exclusive. Regardless of genetics, mental health or traumatic experiences, social factors play a role in exposure to and availability of certain types of drugs. According to addiction researcher Martin A. Plant, many go through a period of self-redefinition before initiating recreational drug use. They tend to view using drugs as part of a lifestyle that involves belonging to a subculture that they associate with heightened status. Plant says, “From the users point of there are many positive reasons to become part of the milieu of drug taking. The reasons for drug use appear to have as much to do with needs for friendship, pleasure, becoming a drug taker, to many people, is a positive affirmation rather than a negative experience. ”Anthropological research has suggested that humansmay have evolved to counter-exploit plant neurotoxins. The ability to use chemicals to serve the function of endogenous neurotransmitters may have improved survival rates. A typically restrictive prehistoric diet may have emphasised the apparent benefit of consuming psychoactive drugs, severity and type of risks that come with recreational drug use vary widely with the drug in question and the amount being used. There are many factors in the environment and within the user interact with each drug differently. Overall, some studies suggest that alcohol is one of the most dangerous of all drugs, only heroin, crack cocaine. Researcher David Nutt stated that studies showing benefits for moderate alcohol consumption lacked control for the variable of what the subjects were drinking
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Unbehagen
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Unbehagen is the second studio album by Nina Hagen Band released in 1979 by CBS Records. It is the last album released by the band, before Nina Hagen decided to pursue a solo career, the band kept on performing under the name Spliff. The German title means Discomfort but it can be seen as a pun on the band name. The album produced three singles, African Reggae, Herrmann hiess er and Aufm Rummel, Herrmann hiess er deals with a drug addiction and is believed to be about Hagens ex-boyfriend Herman Brood. The accompanying music video was also released, the album also contains a German cover version, Wir leben immer. Noch, of Lene Lovichs hit single Lucky Number, the song Wenn ich ein Junge wär was recorded live in April 1979 at the Saarbrücken Congress Hall. The album was a success and was certified Gold in Germany in 1981. Nina Hagen – vocals Bernhard Potschka – guitar Reinhold Heil – keyboards Manfred Praeker – bass Herwig Mitteregger – drums, percussion Unbehagen at Allmusic Unbehagen at Discogs
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Hard and soft drugs
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Drug harmfulness is the degree to which a psychoactive drug is harmful to a user. Drug harmfulness is measured in various ways, such as by addictiveness, more harmful drugs are called hard drugs and less harmful drugs are called soft drugs. The term soft drug is considered controversial by its critics as it may imply that soft drugs cause no or insignificant harm. The Dutch Opium Law contains two lists of drugs, List I and List II, that are considered to be lists of hard and soft drugs. Other countries typically have more than two categories, for example, the US has five schedules in the Controlled Substances Act, ranging from one through five. The UK has three classes in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, A, B and C, according to the legal system of the Netherlands, selected soft drugs are tolerated legally while other hard drugs are illegal. Soft drugs can be tolerated in various ways whether it be total lack of regulation or some regulation, gateway drug theory LD50 Effective dose Drug policy of the Netherlands Designer drug The Rhetoric of Drugs Responsible drug use
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In a 2011 survey, 292 clinical experts in Scotland ranked 19 common recreational drugs by personal and social harm. Harder drugs are in red and softer drugs are in yellow.
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The Kinks
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The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most important and influential bands of the era. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat and their third single, the Ray Davies-penned You Really Got Me, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States. Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the released a string of hit singles, studio albums drew good reviews. Their music was influenced by a range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk. They gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies observational writing style, in addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks record sales. In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence, the Kinks broke up in 1996, a result of the commercial failures of their last few albums and creative tension between the Davies brothers. Ray Davies and Dave Davies remained members throughout the groups 32-year run, longest-serving member Mick Avory was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984. Original bassist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1969 the band became an official five-piece when keyboardist John Gosling joined them, being replaced by Ian Gibbons in 1979, the group had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40, in the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and have gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide, among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Service to British Music. In 1990, the four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Davies brothers were born in suburban North London on Huntingdon Road, East Finchley and their parents, Frederick and Annie Davies, moved the family to 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, in the neighbouring suburb of Muswell Hill. At home they were immersed in a world of varied styles, from the music hall of their parents generation to the jazz and early rock. Both Ray and his brother Dave, younger by almost three years, learned to play guitar, and they played skiffle and rock and roll together. The brothers attended William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School, where formed a band. Their debut at a dance was well received, which encouraged the group to play at local pubs
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Original line-up in 1965. From left: Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Mick Avory.
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6 Denmark Terrace, the childhood home of the Davies brothers. The front room is where the family's frequent Saturday night parties were held.
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Publicity photo taken during a Swedish tour in 1965
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With the newly hired John Dalton in 1969. From left: Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Dalton, Mick Avory
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The Cars
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The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that was becoming popular. The Cars were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers Poll and their debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. As of 2001, the Cars have sold over 23 million albums in the United States, the band broke up in 1988, and Ocasek later discouraged talk of a reunion. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer, in 2005, Easton and Hawkes joined with Todd Rundgren to form a spin-off band, the New Cars, which performed classic Cars and Rundgren songs alongside new material. The original surviving members reunited in 2010 to record a new album, Move Like This, in 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before the Cars, members of the band performed together in different incarnations. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program. The two were in bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, Ocasek and Orr, along with lead guitarist Jas Goodkind, formed a Crosby, Stills and they released one album, Hows the Weather, on Paramount Records in 1973 that failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, the band included Greg Hawkes, who had studied at the Berklee School of Music and had played saxophone on Milkwoods album. Hawkes left to tour with Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture, Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr then performed as an acoustic duo called simply Ocasek and Orr at the Idler coffeehouse in Cambridge. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs, later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Capn Swing. Capn Swing also featured drummer Glenn Evans, later followed by Kevin Robichaud, and a bass player. Benjamin Orr was the lead vocalist and did not play an instrument, Capn Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After being rejected by record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass player and drummer. Orr took over on bass and Robichaud was replaced by David Robinson, Robinson had also played in DMZ and the Pop. Hawkes returned to play keyboards and the band became The Cars, a nine-song demo tape was recorded in early 1977 and soon Just What I Needed was getting heavy airplay on Boston radio stations WBCN and WCOZ
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The Cars, 1984. L–R: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, David Robinson, Ric Ocasek, and Elliot Easton.
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Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)
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The Roxy Theatre is a famous nightclub, on the Sunset Strip, in West Hollywood, California. The Roxy is owned by Lou Adler and Adlers son, Nic, the Roxy was opened on September 23,1973, by Elmer Valentine and Lou Adler, along with original partners David Geffen, Elliot Roberts and Peter Asher. They took over the previously occupied by a strip club owned by Chuck Landis called the Largo. Neil Young and his band The Santa Monica Flyers played the Roxy for the first week it was open, paul Reubens, then a struggling comedian, introduced his Pee-wee Herman character in a raunchy revue here in 1981 that included other aspiring comics including Phil Hartman and Elayne Boosler. The small On the Rox bar above the club has hosted a variety of debauchery in its history. The bar was a hangout for John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper and Keith Moon during Lennons lost weekend in 1973-74. Jazz group The Crusaders recorded the live album Scratch at the Roxy in 1974, frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention recorded most of their Roxy and Elsewhere album during December 1973. Since 1974 various albums have included material from those shows, in 2015 a live concert video was released showing those performances. Bob Marley & The Wailers recorded Live at the Roxy on May 26,1976, the Ramones played their first California concert at the Roxy on August 11,1976. The concert scenes for their 1979 movie Rock n Roll High School were filmed at the Roxy in December 1978, Peter Gabriel played several shows at the Roxy during his first solo world tour on April 9 and 10,1977. All of these shows was broadcast by FM local radio but has never released as an official record, george Bensons Platinum live album Weekend in L. A. was culled from a three-night engagement at The Roxy from September 30 – October 2,1977. Nine songs from Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Bands Live/1975-85 album were recorded at the Roxy from shows in 1975 and 1978, the 1978 show was also broadcast on local radio station KMET. Van Morrison recorded a show in November 1978 that was released as a promo LP Live at the Roxy. The live album Welcome to the Club by the Ian Hunter Band, featuring Mick Ronson, was recorded at the Roxy during seven shows over a week in November 1979 and released the following year. Prince very first leg of his debut North American tour, Prince Tour kicked off at the Roxy on November 26,1979 English prog rock band Gentle Giant played their last gig here on June 16,1980. The soundboard recording was released as the live album The Last Steps. Warren Zevons live album, Stand in the Fire, was recorded during five shows he played at The Roxy in 1980, musician Stevie Wonder played a concert at the Roxy featuring the first ever live performances of his hits Lately and Master Blaster. Billy & The Beaters 1981 debut album was recorded live at the Roxy January 15–17,1981, in 1984, Ratt recorded the video for their hit single Back for More from the album Out of the Cellar at The Roxy
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Steve Morse live with the
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Henny Vrienten
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Henny Vrienten is a Dutch composer of TV- and film-scores. He is best known as the singer, songwriter and bassist of the popular 1980s ska pop band Doe Maar, beginning his career in the late 1960s as a member of local outfit Les Cruches, Henny spends the early 1970s writing songs for others and recording as Ruby Carmichael. He also works and tours with singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot alongside Ernst Jansz, Henny also finds time to record an album with US producer Tom Salisbury. Paul Santos and extracted single Lift Me Up Higher become a live-to-regret-experience, during his work with Boudewijn de Groot, Henny met keyboard-player Ernst Jansz and drummer Johnny Lodewijks, the latter suggested to form a reggae-band. The Rumbones toured from October 13 to November 12,1977, Henny moved on to Sammie Americas Gasphetti, recorded demos at his garage and did another tour with de Groot. Jansz offers him to join his band Doe Maar but Henny turns it down, skunk is belatedly released in March 1981,32 Jaar being the lead single and a hit. Follow-up Smoorverliefd misses the Top 40, but with the 1982-released Doris Day Doe Maar break through, initially they enjoy their newfound popularity, but six months down the line Henny starts having his doubts, What makes those teenage-girls fancy a thirtysomething. The answer is no, and the first thing he does is quit reading fanmail, in March 1983, by which time the fourth album Virus is released, Doe Maar announce a six-month publicity-ban. This completely backfires as Doe Maar-mania spirals out of control, at the annual Pinkpop festival, where they move from bottom-act to headliner, theyre targeted with apples for selling out to the teen-mags and turning the festival into a glorified childrens matinee. Although Henny refuses to give in he gets the message, was a wake-up call. Instead of embarking on a solo-tour, Henny decides to himself by writing TV and film-scores and producing for other artists. Eager to shake off his Doe Maar past he tells Music Maker magazine in 1985 You can flush Doris Day down the toilet anytime you like, rhyming for rhymings sake and stuff, and the worst thing of all is that it drew full crowd participation every night. A new solo-album is in the pipeline but held back by the release of a Best Of-album, the expected Doe Maar-revival never happened, as with Geen Ballade the album received minimal promotion. At the end of the year all Doe Maar-members reunited to support 1960s outfit CCC Inc. at their 25th anniversary concert, in the mid-1990s a new generation of Dutch-language acts emerged, Henny ended up collaborating with rap-group Osdorp Posse. In 1999, the four-piece rockband Blof spent a tour playing a Doe Maar-covers-only set. Klaar was released in April 2000 and the band gained respect from pop critics who previously criticized them off for singing in Dutch. In 2008 Henny recorded an album with contemporaries Frank Boeijen and Henk Hofstede, aardige jongens was promoted with a theatre-tour that saw them perform tracks from the album as well as individual oldies. The last show, in January 2009, ended on a note as Hofstede fell into the orchestra pit
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Clarence Clemons
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Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist, musician and actor. He was reported to be 65 tall, hence his nickname, from 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several albums and in 1985, had a hit single with Youre a Friend of Mine. As an actor Clemons featured in films, including New York, New York. He also made appearances in several TV series, including Diffrent Strokes, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids. Together with his writer friend Don Reo he published his semi-fictional autobiography told in third person, Big Man, Real Life & Tall Tales. Clemons suffered a stroke on June 12,2011, and died of complications from it on June 18, Three years following his death, Clemons, along with the rest of the E Street Band, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in Norfolk County, Virginia, Clemons was the son of Clarence Clemons, Sr. a fish market owner and he was the oldest of their three children. His grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher and, as a result, when he was nine, his father gave him an alto saxophone as a Christmas present and paid for music lessons. Clemons later switched to saxophone and played in a high school jazz band. His uncle also influenced his musical development when he bought him his first King Curtis album. Curtis, and his work with The Coasters in particular, would become an influence on Clemons. As a youth Clemons also showed potential as a football player and he played as a lineman on the same team as Art Shell and Emerson Boozer and attracted the attention of the Cleveland Browns, who offered him a trial. Clemons also tried out for the Dallas Cowboys, however, the day before, he was involved in a serious car accident which effectively ended any plans of a career in the National Football League. He would eventually be inducted into the universitys Athletics Hall of Fame on February 24,2012. He also performed with Daniel Petraitis, a New Jersey and Nashville legend and these sessions were eventually released in 2007, by Truth and Soul Records as Let Me Be Your Man. While at Maryland State College Clemons also joined his first band, The Vibratones, while still playing with this band he moved to Somerset, New Jersey, where he worked as a counselor for emotionally disturbed children at the Jamesburg Training School for Boys between 1962 and 1970. The story of how Clemons first met Bruce Springsteen has entered into E Street Band mythology, the E Street Shuffle with a monologue about how they met and the event was also immortalized in Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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E Street Band
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The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteens primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. S, Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin. The E Street Band was founded in October 1972, but it was not formally named until September 1974, Springsteen has put together other backing bands during his career, but the E Street Band has been together more or less continuously since its inception. The original lineup included Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Vini Mad Dog Lopez, the band took its name from the street in Belmar, New Jersey, where Sancious mother lived. She allowed the band to rehearse in her garage, ‘Bruce’ tourists to the area often mistakenly believe the house was on the corner of E Street and 10th Avenue, perhaps due to the song Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out about the bands beginnings. The Sancious house was at 1107 E Street with the garage squeezed between the house and the southside fence, Springsteens debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. appeared in 1972, and the bands first national tour began in October 1972. Sancious, even though he played on the album, missed that first tour and it was not until June 1973 that he began appearing regularly on stage with the band. In February 1974, Lopez was asked to resign, and was replaced by Ernest Boom Carter. A few months later, in August 1974, Sancious and Carter left to form their own jazz band called Tone. They were replaced in September 1974 by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, violinist Suki Lahav was briefly a member of the band before leaving in March 1975 to emigrate to Israel. Steven Van Zandt, who had long associated with Springsteen and had played in previous bands with him. This lineup remained stable until the early 1980s when Van Zandt left to pursue his own career and he would later rejoin the band in 1995. In June 1984 Nils Lofgren was added to replace Van Zandt, Springsteens future wife, by 2002, the band also included Soozie Tyrell. Tyrell had earlier worked with Scialfa touring with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, whether Tyrell became as full-fledged a member as the others remains unclear. When asked about the lack of mention in a release prior to the Magic Tour, Springsteen just said in response. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him
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