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Neil Young
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop
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Dean Stockwell
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Robert Dean Stockwell is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 70 years. In 1962 Stockwell played Edmund Tyrone in the version of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey into Night. The following year he was the guest star in the episode High Named Today for Combat and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Married to the Mob. Stockwell was born in North Hollywood, California, but was raised in New York and his elder brother was television and film actor Guy Stockwell. In 1945, Stockwell appeared in a character role in the musical movie Anchors Aweigh alongside Frank Sinatra. Some of his other roles include that of Robert Shannon in The Green Years, Gregory Pecks son in Gentlemans Agreement. Jr. in Song of the Thin Man, as an orphaned runaway longing to go to sea in Deep Waters and he also starred in the lead role of The Boy with Green Hair in 1948, and in The Secret Garden in 1949. In 1950, he appeared in a role alongside Errol Flynn in Kim. He resumed his career as an adult. In 1957, he starred as Judd Steiner in the Broadway adaptation of Compulsion, based on the Leopold and Loeb story, he played the same role in the 1959 film adaptation. In 1958, he joined Gloria Talbott and Dan Blocker as guest stars in the episode Mercyday of the NBC western series The Restless Gun, in 1960, he played coal miners son Paul Morel in the British film Sons and Lovers, alongside Trevor Howard and Wendy Hiller. In 1961, he appeared in the episode of ABCs Bus Stop series. In 1962, he appeared in an adaptation of Eugene ONeills play Long Days Journey Into Night along with Katharine Hepburn, in 1964, Stockwell guest-starred in an episode of NBCs medical drama The Eleventh Hour. Stockwell appeared in a 1969 episode of Bonanza as a down-and-out former Union soldier and he then appeared in two episodes of the mystery series Columbo. In 1973, he was the lead in a horror B-film, during the mid-1970s, he worked as a real-estate broker and designed the distinctive cover of Youngs American Stars n Bars. In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders critically acclaimed film Paris, Texas, the following year, he turned in a brief but significant role as attorney Bob Grimes in William Friedkins To Live and Die in L. A. In 1986, Stockwell made an appearance in another Lynch production, in 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony the Tiger Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 29,1992 following the success of Quantum Leap, in 1997 Stockwell co-starred with Harrison Ford and Glenn Close in the blockbuster suspense thriller Air Force One
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Russ Tamblyn
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Tamblyn who was born in Los Angeles, California, is the son of actors Sally Aileen and Eddie Tamblyn. He is the brother of Larry Tamblyn, organist for the 1960s band The Standells. Discovered at the age of ten by actor Lloyd Bridges after acting in a play and he also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show as a child. Tamblyn then portrayed the young Saul in Cecil B, deMilles 1949 version of Samson and Delilah. He played the version of John Dalls character in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. Later the same year, he had a role as Elizabeth Taylors younger brother in Father of the Bride, as well as in the sequel, released the following year. He also played a soldier in boot camp in 1953s Take the High Ground. His training as a gymnast in high school and abilities as an acrobat prepared him for his role as Gideon. He appeared with Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford in The Fastest Gun Alive, though uncredited, he served as a choreographer for Elvis Presley in 1957s Jailhouse Rock. Tamblyn portrayed Norman Page in the 1957 film of Peyton Place, Tamblyn then played Tony Baker in 1958s High School Confidential prior to his being drafted into the United States Army. His performances in film musicals have included the role in 1958s Tom Thumb and Danny. His most famous role was Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story. In 1960, he portrayed The Cherokee Kid in Cimarron and he appeared in two 1962 MGM-Cinerama movies, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and How the West Was Won. He was seen the year as Orm in The Long Ships, as Luke Sanderson in The Haunting. Tamblyn starred in the 1966 Japanese kaiju film War of the Gargantuas and he appeared in the horror film Necromancer in 1988. Tamblyn played the role in Neil Youngs 1982 Human Highway while also credited for screenplay. Tamblyn is credited as director, choreographer and actor for Neil Youngs Greendale concert tour, in 2011, he portrayed Doc in the action-thriller film Drive. The Academy Film Archive preserved First Film and Rio Reel by Tamblyn, from 1990–91, Tamblyn starred as Dr. Lawrence Jacoby on the David Lynch-created series Twin Peaks, though his scenes in the 1992 film Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me were cut
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Dennis Hopper
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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, in the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s, Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider, which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best First Work, Film critic Matthew Hays notes that, no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years, in 1970 he filmed The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by Laszlo Kovacs in Peru, and completed production in 1971. On viewing the first release print, fresh from the lab, in his room at Universal, MCA founder Jules Stein rose from his chair and said. He worked on small projects until he found new fame for his role as the American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now. He went on to helm his second directorial work Out of the Blue, for which he was honored at Cannes. His third directorial outing came about through Colors, followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in Paris Trout, Hopper found even greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. Hoppers later work included a role in the short-lived television series Crash. Hopper has an additional credit in the completed, but unreleased Orson Welles drama The Other Side of the Wind. Hopper was born Dennis Lee Hopper on May 17,1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David. After World War II, the moved to Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of 13, Hopper and his moved to San Diego. Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School and it was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Actors Studio in New York City. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hoppers interest in art and he was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. Hopper was reported to have a role in Johnny Guitar in 1954. Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant
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Devo
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Devo is an American rock band that formed in 1973, consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales, along with Alan Myers, the band had a No.14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single Whip It and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Devos music and stage shows mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the LaserDisc format, with Whip It getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV. In the late 1960s, this idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, at this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75. They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, a talented keyboardist who had been playing with the band Flossy Bobbitt, the joke about de-evolution became serious following the Kent State shootings of May 4,1970. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo, the first form of Devo was the Sextet Devo which performed at the 1973 Kent State performing arts festival. It included Casale, Lewis and Mothersbaugh, as well as Geralds brother Bob Casale on guitar and this performance was filmed and a part was included on the home video The Complete Truth About De-Evolution. Devo returned to perform in the Student Governance Center at the 1974 Creative Arts Festival with a line-up including the Casale brothers, Bob Lewis, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Jim Mothersbaugh on drums. The band continued to perform, generally as a quartet, but with a fluid line-up including Marks brothers Bob Mothersbaugh, Bob played electric guitar, and Jim provided percussion using a set of home-made electronic drums. Their first two videos, Secret Agent Man and Jocko Homo featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This line-up of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band, Bob Lewis would sometimes play guitar during this period. In concert, Devo would often perform in the guise of characters, such as Booji Boy. Live concerts from this period were often confrontational, and would remain so until 1977, a recording of an early Devo performance from 1975 with the quartet line-up appears on DEVO Live, The Mongoloid Years, ending with the promoters unplugging Devos equipment. Following Jim Mothersbaughs departure, Bob Mothersbaugh found a new drummer, Alan Myers, Casale re-recruited his brother Bob Casale, and the line-up of Devo remained the same for nearly ten years. Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution directed by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and this attracted the attention of David Bowie, who began work to get the band a recording contract with Warner Music Group. In 1977, Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway, released in 1982, the film featured the band as Nuclear garbagemen. The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many. In March 1977, Devo released their first single Mongoloid b/w Jocko Homo and this was followed by a cover of the Rolling Stones Satisfaction
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Pseudonym
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A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their original or true name. Historically, they have taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones, actors, musicians, and other performers sometimes use stage names, for example, to mask their ethnic backgrounds. A collective name or collective pseudonym is one shared by two or more persons, for example the co-authors of a work, such as Ellery Queen, the term is derived from the Greek ψευδώνυμον, literally false name, from ψεῦδος, lie, falsehood and ὄνομα, name. A pseudonym is distinct from an allonym, which is the name of another person and this may occur when someone is ghostwriting a book or play, or in parody, or when using a front name, such as by screenwriters blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. See also pseudepigraph, for falsely attributed authorship, sometimes people change their name in such a manner that the new name becomes permanent and is used by all who know the person. This is not an alias or pseudonym, but in fact a new name, in many countries, including common law countries, a name change can be ratified by a court and become a persons new legal name. He then changed his name again to Malik El-Shabazz when he converted to Islam, likewise some Jews adopted Hebrew family names upon immigrating to Israel, dropping surnames that had been in their families for generations. The politician David Ben-Gurion, for example, was born David Grün in Poland and he adopted his Hebrew name in 1910, when he published his first article in a Zionist journal in Jerusalem. Criminals may use aliases, fictitious business names, and dummy corporations to hide their identity, a pen name, or nom de plume, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. Some female authors used male pen names, in particular in the 19th century, the Brontë family used pen names for their early work, so as not to reveal their gender and so that local residents would not know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books, anne Brontë published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published Shirley and Jane Eyre under the name Currer Bell, emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot, Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance novelists have used pen names. A few examples of male authors using female pseudonyms include Brindle Chase, Peter ODonnell and Christopher Wood. A pen name may be used if a real name is likely to be confused with the name of another writer or notable individual. Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers, in some cases, an author may become better known by his pen name than his real name
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Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
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Hey Hey, My My is a song written by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart My My, Hey Hey, it bookends Youngs successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, the song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music or to burn out. A line from the version of the song, its better to burn out than to fade away. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain. The song Hey, Hey, My, My. and the phrase of the album, rust never sleeps on which it was featured sprang from Youngs encounters with Devo. Devo was asked by Young in 1977 to participate in the creating of his film Human Highway, a scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo, who clearly want little to do with anything radio-friendly. The famous line Its better to burn out than it is to rust is often credited to Youngs friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks, some reviewers viewed Youngs career as skidding after the release of American Stars N Bars and Comes a Time. With the explosion of punk in 1977, some felt that Young. Young worried that they were right, the death of Elvis Presley that same year seemed to sound a death knell for rock, as The Clash cried, No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones in 1977. in the song 1977. From Youngs fear of becoming obsolete sprang an appreciation of the ethic. As Youngs commercial popularity waned in the 1980s, a rock movement began to embrace the artist. A collection of Neil Young covers emerged in the late eighties, when Nirvana appeared on the national stage with Nevermind, Cobain and Young took to acknowledging one another in the press. Hey Hey, My Mys most memorable influence on modern rock comes from the line Its better to burn out than to fade away, Kurt Cobains suicide note ended with the same line, shaking Young and inadvertently cementing his place as the so-called Godfather of Grunge. Its better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, if he was talking about burning out like Sid Vicious, forget it. I dont appreciate the worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or dead John Wayne, making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison—its garbage to me. I worship the people who survive—Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, theyre saying John Wayne conquered cancer—he whipped it like a man. You know, Im sorry that he died and all that—Im sorry for his family—but he didnt whip cancer, I dont want Sean worshiping John Wayne or Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious. I mean, its garbage you know, if Neil Young admires that sentiment so much, why doesnt he do it
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The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)
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The End of the World is a country and pop music hit song recorded by Skeeter Davis that enjoyed international success in the 1960s. The End of the World was written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee, Davis recorded her version on June 8,1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer. It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 on all four Billboard charts, Billboard ranked the record as the No.3 song of 1963. Daviss recording of The End of the World was played at Atkinss funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart, in 1975, American pop music duo Carpenters released a cover of The End of the World as a promotional single from their live album Live in Japan. It was recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, in 1990, British singer Sonia covered End of the World. The fifth and final single from her album, Everybody Knows, it reached number 18 in the UK. The singles B-side Cant Help the Way That I Feel also appeared on Sonias debut album and this was her final single with Stock Aitken Waterman. 7 single End of the World Cant Help the Way That I Feel CD single and 12 vinyl single End of the World Cant Help the Way That I Feel Counting Every Minute A No. In 2009 Susan Boyle remade The End of the World for her debut album, a cover version by Allison Paige peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2000. The Brazilian band Roupa Nova made a version in Portuguese, in 1997. There have been three Cantonese versions covered by three different Hong Kong singers, namely 長相思 by Pauline Chan in 1968, 含羞草 by Annabelle Lui in 1987 and 冬戀 by Danny Chan in 1988. For the Mandarin version, the first one 打不動你的心 was covered by Hong Kong veteran female singer Rebecca Pan in 1965 while the second one 後會無期 by another Hong Kong female singer G. E. M. Subsequently, there was the one titled 星夢之光, lyrics written by an SNH48 member, Wu Yanwen. Cyndi Lauper covered the song in 2016, the cover is part of the album Detour, the song was used as the opening and closing theme for the political thriller radio drama Pandemic, produced by BBC Radio 4. It was also used in the 1999 drama film Girl, Interrupted, as well as in the Stephen King/Steven Spielberg CBS TV series Under the Dome season one episode five, an abbreviated version of the song is the theme music for the TV series Granite Flats. The song was used for the title and credit sequences in the 2008 film An American Affair. The song appears on the radio in the video game Fallout 4. In episode 8 of the 2015 TV series The Man in the High Castle, the song was also used in the second part of the 2015 Japanese dark fantasy action horror film Attack on Titan
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Cigar store Indian
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The cigar store Indian or wooden Indian is an advertisement figure, in the likeness of a Native American, used to represent tobacconists. The figures are often three-dimensional wooden sculptures several feet tall – up to life-sized and they are still occasionally used for their original advertising purpose, but are more often seen as decorations or advertising collectibles, with some pieces drawing sales prices of up to $500,000. People within the Native American community often view such likenesses as a caricature or as depictions that perpetuate stereotypes, American Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans, and the depiction of native people on smoke-shop signs was almost inevitable. As early as the 17th century, European tobacconists used figures of American Indians to advertise their shops, because European carvers had never seen a Native American, these early cigar-store Indians looked more like black slaves with feathered headdresses and other fanciful, exotic features. These carvings were called Black Boys or Virginians in the trade, the cigar store Indian became less common in the 20th century for a variety of reasons. Sidewalk-obstruction laws dating as far back as 1911 were one cause, later issues included higher manufacturing costs, restrictions on tobacco advertising, and increased racial sensitivity, all of which relegated the figures to museums and antique shops. Many also were destroyed during scrap drives for metal and wood during World War I, Cigar store figures are now viewed as folk art and some models have become collectors items, drawing prices up to $500,000. Modern replicas of cigar store Indians are still made for sale, people within the Native American community often view such likenesses as offensive for several reasons. Some objections are because they are used to promote tobacco use as recreational instead of ceremonial, drawing parallels to the African-American lawn jockey. Media related to Cigar store Indian at Wikimedia Commons
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Pow wow
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A pow wow is a social gathering held by many different American Indian communities. The word is derived from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning spiritual leader, a similar gathering by California Indians, usually in the fall, is called a Big Time. A modern pow wow is a type of event for American Indian people to meet and dance, sing, socialize. Pow wows may be private or public, there is generally a dancing competition, often with significant prize money awarded. Pow wows vary in length from an event, to major pow wows called for a special occasion which can be up to one week long. In popular culture, such as older Western movies, the term has also used to describe any gathering of Indians, or to refer to any type of meeting. However, such use may be viewed as cultural appropriation and disrespectful, planning for a pow wow generally begins months, perhaps even a year, in advance of the event by a group of people usually referred to as a pow wow committee. A pow wow committee consists of a number of individuals who do all the prior to the event. If a pow wow has a sponsor, such as a tribe, college, or organization, the head staff of a pow wow are the people who run the event on the day or days it actually occurs. They are generally hired by the pow wow committee several months in advance, to be chosen as part of the head staff is an honor, showing respect for the persons skills or dedication. The arena director is the person in charge during the pow wow, sometimes the arena director is referred to as the whip man, sometimes the whip man is the arena directors assistant, and many pow wows dont have a whip man. The arena director makes sure dancers are dancing during the pow wow, If there are contests the arena director is ultimately responsible for providing judges, though he often has another assistant who is the head judge. The arena director is responsible for organizing any ceremonies that may be required during the pow wow, such as when an eagle feather is dropped. One of the duties of the arena director is to ensure that the dance arena is treated with the proper respect from visitors to the pow wow. The master of ceremonies, or MC, is the voice of the pow wow and it is his job to keep the singers, dancers, and public informed as to what is happening. The MC sets the schedule of events, and maintains the drum rotation, the MC is also responsible for filling any dead air time that may occur during the pow wow, often with jokes. The MC often runs any raffles or other contests that may happen during the pow wow, the head dancers lead the other dancers in the grand entry or parade of dancers that opens a pow wow. In many cases, the dancers are also responsible for leading the dancers during songs
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
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The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. It did win in two categories, including Best Original Song for Over the Rainbow and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. However, the film was a box office disappointment on its release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget. It was MGMs most expensive production at that time, and did not completely recoup the studios investment and turn a profit until theatrical re-releases starting in 1949. The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress, designation on the registry calls for efforts to preserve it for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It is also one of the few films on UNESCOs Memory of the World Register, the Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics and public polls. It is the source of many quotes referenced in popular culture. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming, noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, the musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone, Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothys dog gets in trouble with a neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch. However, Dorothys family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her, Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy and they meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a tornado strikes. Unable to get into her familys storm cellar, she seeks safety in her bedroom, a wind-blown window sash hits her in the head, knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the twister, the farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed
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Sally Kirkland
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Sally Kirkland is an American film and television actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, Kirkland was born in New York City, New York. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland, who was an editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the metal business. Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1963, after a few uncredited and bit parts in film and television, she appeared in the underground film Coming Apart. In the 1970s, she had roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, and she won a Golden Globe Award and her performance received widespread critical praise, in a performance that Rita Kempley writing for the Washington Post deemed superb. Kirkland hosts a program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. Films in which she has appeared include EDtv, JFK, Adam and Steve, Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998, Kirkland is an ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
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David Lynch
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David Keith Lynch is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as the most important director of this era, allMovie called him the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking, while the success of his films has led to him being labelled the first popular Surrealist. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animated DumbLand and the surreal sitcom Rabbits. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He has won Frances César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the countrys top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007. Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20,1946. His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Lynchs maternal great-grandparents were Finnish, and had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century. The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald and it was here that Lynchs sister Martha was born. The family then moved to Durham, North Carolina, then Boise, Idaho, Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school. Commenting on much of his life, Lynch has remarked, Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the Boy Scouts, although he would later note that he only became so I could quit. He rose to the highest rank of Eagle Scout and it was through being an Eagle Scout that he was present with other Boy Scouts outside of the White House at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, which took place on Lynchs birthday in 1961. They had some hopes that in Europe they could train with the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka at his school. Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he stayed with his friend Toby Keeler for a while. He decided to move to the city of Philadelphia and enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after advice from Jack Fisk and it was here that he began a relationship with a fellow student, Peggy Reavey, and they were married in 1967. The following year, Peggy gave birth to their daughter Jennifer, later describing this situation, Peggy stated that definitely was a reluctant father, but a very loving one. Hey, I was pregnant when we got married, later describing living there, Lynch stated that We lived cheap, but the city was full of fear. A kid was shot to death down the street and we were robbed twice, had windows shot out and a car stolen. The house was first broken into three days after we moved in
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David Blue (musician)
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David Blue, born Stuart David Cohen, was an American folk music singer-songwriter and actor. ”Hitchhiking back east, David discovered Greenwich Village, finding it an environment where he did not have to adjust but could simply hang out. At first he got a job washing dishes in the Gaslight Cafe, allen Ginsberg used to do readings there, Jack Elliot played guitar, I ran into Bob in the kitchen. David took acting classes, wrote poetry and songs, and began performing in Village clubs, when he began singing professionally, at the urging of Dylan and others, he changed his name to Blue. Actually, I got the name from Eric Andersen and we were together one day, and I knew there were two other David Cohens in the music business, one with Country Joe and The Fish, the other a studio cat in LA. We felt that was too many, so Eric said, You’ve got such blue eyes, you should be David Blue. I called Ramblin’ Jack Eliot and Dylan because they had changed their names and Dylan thought it was funny and started singing to me, It’s all over now. Blue became a part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in New York, which included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Bob Neuwirth. Blue is best known for writing the song Outlaw Man for the Eagles, Blues original version of Outlaw Man was the lead track of his own Nice Baby and the Angel album, issued on CD, with the entire David Blue catalogue, in 2007 on Wounded Bird Records. Blue joined Dylans Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975 and appeared in Renaldo and Clara, Blue acted in other films including, The American Friend, directed by Wim Wenders, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst and Human Highway by Neil Young. Human Highway premiered in 1983 after Blues death, Blue also performed onstage in Stephen Poliakoffs play American Days at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City, in December 1980, directed by Jacques Levy. Blue died of an attack in December 1982 at the age of 41
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Gerald Casale
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Gerald Vincent Jerry Casale is an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and music video director. Casales music career more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder and bass player of the new wave band Devo and he is one of only two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. Casale began his career in 2005 while still a member of Devo with the project Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers. The project received little promotion beyond a music video for the single Army Girls Gone Wild, Jihad Jerry performed at several shows near the end of Devos 2006 tour, performing the song Beautiful World. He has also performed occasionally with other bands, Casale has also directed music videos for other recording artists, including The Cars, Rush, A Perfect Circle, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, and Silverchair, among others. Gerald Vincent Pizzute was born on July 28,1948, in Ravenna and he was born with the last name Pizzute because his father, Bob, had legally changed his name to that of his foster parents. Four years after Geralds birth, his changed his name back to his birth name. Gerald Casale grew up in Kent, Ohio and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1966, prior to Devo, Casale had played bass guitar with The Numbers Band in his native Kent, Ohio. He caused friction in the band by suggesting that they should incorporate advertising jingles and he was forced out of the band after slipping on a monkey mask during a performance. After leaving the Numbers Band and graduation, Casale attended Kent State University, in the late 1960s, he was a self-described hippie until the May 4,1970 shootings. Being involved with Freshman orientation at the KSU Honors College, he knew two of the victims, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, and was near Krause when she was shot. Casale described that day in multiple interviews as being the day I stopped being a hippie, together with Bob Lewis, Casale used the shooting as a catalyst to develop the concept of Devolution, forming the band Devo in 1973. According to Casale, the album Oh, No and its Devos sound was inspired by reviewers alternately describing them as both fascists and clowns. Following the commercial failure of their studio album Shout, on which Casale sang the majority of the tracks. Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively unfulfilled, Alan Myers left the band, causing the band members to abandon the plans for a Shout video LP. In 1987, Devo reformed with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks to replace Myers and their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil and they released the albums Total Devo and Smooth Noodle Maps, on Enigma. Devo had an out and played two shows in 1991 before breaking up
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Different Fur
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Different Fur Studios is a recording studio located in the Mission District area of San Francisco, California, at 3470 19th Street. Since 1968, Different Fur has recorded music from a range of artists, including major Grammy. Different Fur was founded in 1968 by the music composer and keyboardist Patrick Gleeson. Its name was suggested by poet Michael McClure, while he was being recorded by Gleeson, by the early 1970s Gleeson was doing sessions with Jefferson Starship on his recently acquired 8-track recorder and Moog synthesizer. It was his expertise in early synthesizers, like the Moog, which eventually led Gleeson to collaborations with Herbie Hancock, by 1971 Gleeson was working with Hancock on his albums Crossings and Sextant. He went on to many of the synthesizers on Hancocks master work Head Hunters. Gleeson eventually sold Different Fur in 1985, however, it remains an active recording studio to this day. The studio is owned by Engineer Patrick Brown. In February 2009, the unknown and very recently signed to Fat Possum band Wavves filmed a video with bloggers yourstru. ly. The project was a three-part live filming of the band playing some of the songs off their new EP including So Bored. R. I. T. Toro Y Moi, P. O. S, Girls, Freddie Gibbs, Different Fur was featured in the SF Weekly Music section on June 15,2011. The article focuses on work done with a number of local bands and artists
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Rust Never Sleeps
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Rust Never Sleeps is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on July 2,1979, by Reprise Records, most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio. Young used the phrase rust never sleeps as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid complacency and try more progressive. The bulk of the album was recorded live at San Franciscos Boarding House and during the Neil Young/Crazy Horse tour in late 1978, audience noise is removed as much as possible, although it is clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably on the opening and closing songs. The album is acoustic and half electric, opening and closing with different versions of the same song, Hey Hey. My My, Hey Hey, Thrasher and Ride My Llama were recorded live at the Boarding House in early 1978 and all of side two was recorded during the late 1978 tour. Two songs from the album were not recorded live, Sail Away was recorded without Crazy Horse during or after the Comes a Time recording sessions, Young also released a film version of the album under the same title. Later on in 1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album Live Rust, the title is borrowed from the slogan for Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo. It is also an aphorism describing Youngs musical self-renewal to avert the threat of irrelevance, hes wiser but not wearier, Christgau wrote, victor so far over the slow burnout his title warns of. Rust Never Sleeps was voted the second best album of 1979 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, Christgau, the polls creator, ranked it second on his own list for the poll, as did fellow critic Greil Marcus. The album also won Rolling Stone magazines 1979 critics poll for Album of the Year, in a decade-end list for The Village Voice, Christgau named it the ninth best album of the 1970s. In 2003, Rust Never Sleeps was ranked number 350 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, in a retrospective review, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the acoustic and electric sides were both astounding. Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, felt that Powderfinger, Pocahontas, Thrasher, all tracks written by Neil Young except where noted. Himmel — drums on Sail Away Rust Never Sleeps at Discogs
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Crazy Horse (band)
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Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with Neil Young. They have also released six albums of their own, issued between 1971 and 2009. Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina have been the consistent members of the band. On four of Crazy Horses studio albums, Talbot and Molina serve as the section to an entirely different group of musicians. The latter two would become the members of Crazy Horse present in every incarnation of the band. In San Francisco as the Psyrcle, Sly Stone produced their 45 on Lorna and this lineup recorded the Rockets only album, a self-titled set released in 1968 on White Whale Records. With their album complete, the Rockets reconnected with Neil Young, credited to Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere includes the Top 100 pop hit Cinnamon Girl and the extended guitar workouts Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand. Crazy Horse toured with Young during the first half of 1969 and, with the addition of Jack Nitzsche on electric piano, the 1970 tour was showcased on the 2006 album Live at the Fillmore East. Young would later opine that some of the stuff, Nitzsche was in the way tonally, Crazy Horse was so good with the two guitars, bass and drums it didnt need anything else. Although Nitzsche disdained the rhythm section of Talbot and Molina, he retrospectively lauded Whitten as the black man in the band. When Young returned to his album in 1970, Crazy Horse found its participation more limited. Crazy Horse capitalized on its exposure and recorded its eponymous debut album for Reprise Records that year. Stewart would record the three times and score a hit with it on the same number of occasions—including a UK No.1 in 1977 as a double A-side with The First Cut Is the Deepest. In 1988 the song would become a hit in the UK again. Two songs from the album were covered by Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, Beggars Day appears on Nazareths Hair of the Dog, the band released two albums with different lineups in 1972, Loose and At Crooked Lake. After Whittens death and the reception accorded to both albums, Talbot and Molina were the only full-fledged members of the band. They let the Crazy Horse name go unused without retiring it altogether, in mid-1973, Young brought together a band comprising Talbot, Molina, Lofgren, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith to record Tonights the Night, the majority of which eventually saw release in 1975. It was great, Talbot would say of the coming together and it was the first time we heard the Horse since Danny Whitten died
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Mark Mothersbaugh
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Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author and visual artist. Mothersbaughs music career more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, the band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Mothersbaugh is one of the composers of Devos music and made major lyrical contributions to the bands songs. He is one of two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. He also has had a career which has included four studio albums, Muzik for Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato. In 2004, he was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his significant contributions to film, additionally, Mothersbaugh was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University in 2008. He has married twice and is the father of two adopted children, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh was born on May 18,1950, in Akron, Ohio. He is the son of Mary Margaret and Robert Mothersbaugh, Sr and he grew up with two younger brothers, Bob and Jim, and two sisters, Amy and Susan. His father appeared in early Devo films and fan events as the character General Boy and his brothers participated in the band, although Jims tenure was brief, Mothersbaugh attended Kent State University as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis. This association culminated in 1973, when the trio started to play music as Devo, following the commercial failure of their sixth studio album Shout, Warner Bros. dropped Devo. Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively unfulfilled, drummer Alan Myers left the band, causing the band members to abandon the plans for a Shout video LP. In 1987, Devo reformed with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks to replace Myers and their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil and they released the albums Total Devo and Smooth Noodle Maps, on Enigma. Devo had an out and played two shows in 1991 before breaking up. Around this time, members of Devo appeared in the film The Spirit of 76, following the split, Mark Mothersbaugh established Mutato Muzika, a commercial music production studio, along with Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale. Mothersbaugh meant to further a career as a composer, Mothersbaugh gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs, video games cartoons, and movies. In 2006, Devo worked on a project with Disney known as Devo 2.0, a band of child performers was assembled and re-recorded Devo songs. Their debut album, a two disc CD/DVD combo entitled DEV2.0, was released on March 14,2006
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Trans (album)
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Trans is the twelfth studio album by Canadian musician and singer-songwriter Neil Young, released on December 29,1982. Recorded and released during his Geffen-era in the 1980s, Trans baffled many Neil Young fans upon its initial release—a Sennheiser vocoder VSM201 features prominently in six of the nine tracks, Youngs contract guaranteed him $1 million per album, as well as total creative control over his output. From late 1980 to mid-1982, Young spent much of his waking hours carrying out a program for his young son, Ben. Work on Trans began in late 1981 as a continuation of Re-ac-tor, but then Young started playing with two new machines he had acquired, a synclavier and a vocoder. Crazy Horse guitarist Poncho Sampedro recalled, Next thing we knew, Neil stripped all our music off, overdubbed all this stuff, the vocoder, weird sequencing, and put the synth shit on it. Youngs direction was influenced by the experiments of the German band Kraftwerk. At that time he was trying to find a way to talk. Thats what Trans is all about, and thats why, on that record, you know Im saying something but you cant understand what it is. Well, thats exactly the same feeling I was getting from my son, Youngs first work for Geffen was a group of songs for an entirely different project, Island in the Sun, recorded in May 1982 in Hawaii. According to Young, it was a thing all about sailing, ancient civilisations, islands. Young recalled later, Geffen thought it was okay, but he didnt think it was good enough, Young proposed making a video to go with the album that would have clarified what the album was about. All of the people were working in a hospital. Portions of several appeared in Youngs 1982 feature-length comedy film Human Highway. American alternative rock band Sonic Youth covered the song Computer Age for the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge, all songs written by Neil Young. org review in Rolling Stone
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TV Guide
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In 1948, he printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England, five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg, who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications, but remained as a consultant for the magazine until 1963. The national TV Guides first issue was released on April 3,1953. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Balls newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr. with a photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issues headline. The magazine was published in digest size, which remained its printed format for 52 years. The launch as a magazine with local listings in April 1953 became an almost instant success, with TV Guide becoming the most read. The initial cost of issue was 15¢ per copy. In addition to subscriptions, TV Guide was sold at the counters of grocery stores nationwide. Until the 1980s, the pieces included in each issue were promoted in a television commercial. Over the decades, the shape of the TV Guide logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen, at first, the logo had various colored backgrounds until the familiar red background became the standard in the 1960s with occasional changes used for special editions. The magazine was first based in an office in downtown Philadelphia, before moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor. The color section was sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. It was under Triangles ownership of WFIL-TV that Dick Clark and American Bandstand came to popularity, most listing entries in the log included program genres after the programs title, while its running time was listed in the synopses. Originally, the majority of programs listed in the log each issue featured brief synopses, except for local and national newscasts, in addition, black-and-white ads for programs scheduled to air on broadcast stations – and later, cable channels – during prime time were included within the listings. A regular feature of the section was Close-Up, which provided expanded reviews of select programs airing each day. The advent of television would become hard on TV Guide. Channels that were listed also differed, depending on the edition, as the years went on, more cable channels were added into the listings of each edition
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Tim Burton
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Timothy Walter Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a friend of Burton since their first film together. He has also worked with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all, actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burtons former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. Both compilations were published by Steeles Publishing, as a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound. Burton studied at Burbank High School, but he was not a good student. He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching films and his future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl. After graduating from Burbank High School with Jeff Riekenberg, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, as a student at CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus. Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions animation division and he worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron. His concept art never made it into the finished films, the film was produced by Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton had befriended while working in the concept art department at Disney. The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. Having aired once in 1983 at 10,30 pm on Halloween and promptly shelved, prints of the film are difficult to locate. The short would finally go on display in 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art. It was again shown at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2012, Burtons next live-action short, Frankenweenie, was released in 1984. It tells the story of a boy who tries to revive his dog after it is run over by a car. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall, after Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the companys resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary for children to see. Pursuing then an opportunity to make a film, he was approached by Griffin Dunne to direct the black comedy film After Hours. However, after Martin Scorseses project The Last Temptation of Christ was cancelled, not long after, actor Paul Reubens saw Vincent and chose Burton to direct the cinematic spin-off of his popular character Pee-wee Herman. Pee-wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a stage show at The Groundlings
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Paul Morrissey
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Paul Morrissey is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol. Of Irish Catholic extraction, Morrissey attended Ampleforth College and Fordham University, both were practicing Catholics from ethnic backgrounds (Warhol was of Rusyn descent. Morrissey discovered and signed the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol never met one of those people before I cast them. They were not his coterie, and they were not hanging out at his gallery, ive had this all my life. His celebrityhood, which is an invention of the media, dominating my films
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John Waters
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Waterss 1970s and early 1980s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living, Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals, Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray, which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of US$8 million in the United States market. In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann and John Samuel Waters, who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. His family were upper-middle class Roman Catholics, Waters grew up in Lutherville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. His boyhood friend and muse Glenn Milstead, later known as Divine, the film Lili inspired an interest in puppets in the seven-year-old Waters, who proceeded to stage violent versions of Punch and Judy for childrens birthday parties. Biographer Robrt L. Pela says that Waters mother believes the puppets in Lili had the greatest influence on Waters subsequent career, Waters was privately educated at the Calvert School in Baltimore. High School in Towson, Maryland, and Calvert Hall College High School in nearby Towson, in 1962, for his 16th birthday, Waters received an 8mm movie camera from his maternal grandmother, Stella Whitaker. Waters first short film was Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, according to Waters, the film was shown only once in a beatnik coffee house in Baltimore, although in later years he has included it in his traveling photography exhibit. Waters enrolled at New York University, the school, however, was not what Waters had in mind, NYU. I was there for about five minutes. I dont know what I was thinking about, I went to one class and they kept talking about Potemkin and that isnt what I wanted to talk about. I had just gone to see Olgas House of Shame and that was what I was more into. Extremely influential to his mind, Waters tells Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was The Wizard of Oz. I was always drawn to forbidden subject matter in the very, very beginning, the Wizard of Oz opened me up because it was one of the first movies I ever saw. It opened me up to villainy, to screenwriting, to costumes, I think the witch has great, great dialogue. Waters has further credited his influences as, among others, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Federico Fellini, William Castle and he has stated that he takes an equal amount of joy and influence from high-brow art films and sleazy exploitation films. In January 1966, Waters and some friends were caught smoking marijuana on the grounds of NYU, Waters returned to Baltimore, where he completed his next two short films Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup. These were followed by the feature-length films Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs, Waters films would become Divines primary star vehicles. All of Waters early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, in addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others
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Warner Music Group
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Warner Music Group is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs in excess of 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world, the company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful record labels in the world, including its flagship labels Warner Bros. WMG also owns Warner/Chappell Music, one of the worlds largest music publishers, the film company had no record label division at the time and one of its contracted actors, Tab Hunter, scored a hit song for Dot Records, which was a division of rival Paramount Pictures. In order to prevent any repetition of its actors recording for rival companies, in 1963, Warner purchased Reprise Records, which had been founded by Frank Sinatra three years earlier so that he could have more creative control over his recordings. With the Reprise acquisition, Warner gained the services of Mo Ostin, the Canadian unit was opened in 1967 as Warner Reprise Canada Ltd, now called Warner Music Canada Co. After Warner Bros. was sold to Seven Arts Productions in 1967, it purchased Atlantic Records, founded in 1947 and WMGs oldest label and this acquisition brought Neil Young into the company fold, initially as a member of Buffalo Springfield. The Geffen catalogue, now owned by Universal Music Group, represents Youngs only major recordings not under WMG ownership, in 1969, two years after being purchased by Seven Arts, the Warner Bros. -Seven Arts company was sold to the Kinney National Company. Kinney combined the operations of all of its labels. An earlier attempt by Warner Bros. Records to create a distribution arm in 1958 didnt materialize. So in 1969, Elektra Records boss Jac Holzman approached Atlantics Jerry Wexler with the idea of setting up a joint distribution network for Warner, Elektra, an experimental branch was established in Southern California as a possible prototype for an expanded operation. Atlantic, its subsidiary Atco Records, and its affiliate Stax Records paved the way for Warners rise to industry prominence, the purchase brought in Atlantics lucrative back-catalogue, which included classic recordings by Ray Charles, the Drifters, the Coasters, and many more. But the sale led to Stax leaving the Atlantic fold because the new Warner owners insisted on keeping the rights to Stax recordings and it was soon apparent in 1969 that Atlantic/Atco president Ahmet Ertegün viewed Warner/Reprise president Mike Maitland as godlike. Maitland believed that, as vice-president in charge of the Warner Bros, in retrospect Ertegün clearly feared that Maitland would ultimately have more power than him and so he moved rapidly to secure his own position and remove Maitland. Following the takeover, Warners music group briefly adopted the umbrella name Kinney Music, erteguns campaign against Maitland began in earnest that summer. Atlantic had agreed to help Warner Bros. in its efforts to establish its labels overseas, Mike Maitland complained bitterly to Kinney executive Ted Ashley, but to no avail – by this time Ertegun was poised to make his move against Maitland. As he had with Hyman, Ertegun urged Steve Ross to extend Mo Ostin and Joe Smiths contracts, in response, Ertegun broadly hinted that Maitlands days were numbered and that he, Ertegun, was about to take over the recording division. Unlike the Warner/Reprise executives, Atlantics execs the Ertegun brothers and Wexler owned stock in Kinney, on Sunday January 25, Ted Ashley went to Maitlands house to tell him he had been dismissed, and Maitland declined the offer of a job at the movie studio. One week later, Mo Ostin was named as the new President of Warner Bros, Records, with Joe Smith as his Executive Vice-President
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The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
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The Complete Truth About De-Evolution was the third home video release by new wave band Devo. It is a collection of Devos music videos from 1976 to 1990 and it was released on Laserdisc in 1993 by Voyager and on DVD by Rhino Records in 2003. MVD released a new version of the disc in 2014, the Complete Truth About De-Evolution contains almost all of Devos music video output from 1976 to 1990. The DVD does not include two notable music videos, the first is Doctor Detroit, the theme to the movie Doctor Detroit, which was removed due to protests from the Hendrix estate. The films are presented in chronological order and are interspersed with clips from a promotional film Devo made with Pioneer in the 1980s to promote the Laserdisc format. None of the material from The Men Who Make The Music is included. It is important to differentiate The Complete Truth About De-Evolution from The Truth About De-Evolution, the Truth About De-Evolution was a short film made by Devo in 1976 which included the videos for Jocko Homo and Secret Agent Man. The Complete Truth About De-Evolution is the 1993 compilation of promotional videos, track order from the Laserdisc and Rhino DVD releases. 1982-83 Thats Good 1982-83 More about Laserdiscs Are You Experienced, track order is otherwise the same. Exclusive to the MVD DVD release is a roster of bonus material. Featured are the Were All Devo Big Entertainment segments featuring Rod Rooter, Donut, promotions for The Men Who Make the Music and Devo Live 1980 DVDs are featured here also. Appears to be in the list, but it is simply the first few seconds of the video before the music starts, followed by a test card directing viewers to look for the full video online. The DVD retains the commentary track from the release, however, as Theme from Doctor Detroit was not present on laserdisc. The Rhino Records DVD released in 2000 received much criticism from fans of the band, first, because of the aforementioned omission of the video for Are U Experienced. A comment on the cover of the DVD addresses this. The current executors of the Jimi Hendrix estate were determined to prove to us the old adage - To seek permission is to seek denial, other criticisms focused on the relatively poor mastering job. For example, Rhino simply recorded the gallery segments from the Laserdisc without making them seekable galleries, furthermore, there had been many delays in the DVDs release. However, the Rhino DVD does include the rare Mongoloid, video by Bruce Conner, the Complete Truth About De-Evolution at the Internet Movie Database
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Promise of the Real
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – sometimes referred to as POTR – is an American rock group based in California. The band consists of Lukas Nelson, Anthony Logerfo, Corey McCormick, Lukas is the son of Willie Nelson. The band backed Canadian musician Neil Young on his studio album, The Monsanto Years. Lukas Autry Nelson moved from Paia, Hawaii to Los Angeles in 2007 to attend Loyola Marymount University, in early 2008, Lukas met drummer Anthony LoGerfo at a Neil Young concert. Shortly after, the two began playing together in Seal Beach, California. In October 2008 Lukas dropped out of college to pursue his music career full-time, Lukas called Anthony Logerfo, Tato Melgar, Merlyn Kelly, and formed Promise of the Real. The band played its first shows in the fall of 2008 selling its first EP “Live Beginnings” to pay for touring, the album contained live tracks recorded at the famed “Belly Up” venue in Solana Beach, California. In January 2009, the band began a tour opening for Willie Nelson including a five night stop at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Next was a tour with B. B. King through Wyoming, Utah, Colorado. Before the tours ended the band had all its “Live Beginnings” CDs. In April 2009 Promise of the Real released its first self-released studio recording, the EPs cover art became the basis for the band’s Peace Sign logo. Original bassist Merlyn Kelly left the band in 2009, Corey McCormick became the bands full-time bass player in 2010. McCormick had performed with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and other bands, the band released its first full-length record, “Promise of the Real, ” in December 2010. Promise of the Real was recorded in Austin, Texas at Pedernales Studios in March 2010, album engineer Steve Chadies 6-year-old daughter provided the cover art. The album also contains a booklet of paintings and illustrations created on stage by Lukas Nelsons brother, Micah, the album consists of 12 official tracks and 1 bonus track. The band pays homage to two of Lukas’s main influences, Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young - “Pali Gap/Hey Baby and “L. A. ”, the band also covers “Peaceful Solution, ” a song written by Lukass father, Willie Nelson, and his sister Amy Niccore. Willie Nelson sings back up on “Sound of Your Memory” and “Fathers, Lukas’s aunt, Bobbie Nelson, plays piano on Fathers and Mothers. Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real played more than 200 shows across the United States during 2011, promoting “Promise of the Real. ”Major festival appearances included Stagecoach, Farm Aid, Bridge School Benefit, Sturgis Buffalo Chip Campground and Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour
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Neil Young (album)
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Neil Young is the self-titled debut studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, which was his debut release as a solo artist following his departure from the band Buffalo Springfield. Released first on January 22,1969 and it was then partially remixed and re-released in November 1969. In neither case did it appear on the Billboard 200 album chart, the album was released on January 22,1969. The first release used the Haeco-CSG encoding system and this technology was intended to make stereo records compatible with mono record players, but had the unfortunate side effect of degrading the sound. Young was unhappy with the first release, the first mix was awful, he was reported as saying in Cash Box of September 6,1969. I was trying to bury my voice, because I didnt like the way it sounded, the album was therefore remixed, and re-released without Haeco-CSG processing. The words Neil Young were added to the cover after what was left of the original stock had been used up. Copies of the mix are now rare and sought-after, because many Neil Young fans believe that the remix diminished the songs. Neil Young was remastered and released on HDCD-encoded compact discs and digital download on July 14,2009 as part of the Neil Young Archives Original Release Series. It was released on vinyl in December 2009, both individually and as part of a box-set of Neils first four LPs available via his official website. This box set was limited to 1000 copies, a CD version of 3000 copies also exists, a high resolution digital Blu-ray disc is planned, although no release date has been set. Rolling Stone wrote in many ways, a reprise of that Springfield sound done a new way. In its retrospective review, AllMusic described it as an uneven, all songs written by Neil Young, except where noted. Arrangements on The Old Laughing Lady, String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill and Ive Loved Her So Long by Young, Nitzsche and Ry Cooder
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records catalogue RS6349. His first with his backing band Crazy Horse, it peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Young liked the stark contrast to the rest of the recording, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was remastered and released on HDCD-encoded compact disc and digital download on July 14,2009, as part of the Neil Young Archives Original Release Series. It was released on vinyl in December 2009, both individually and as part of a box-set of Youngs first four LPs available via his official website. A high resolution digital Blu-ray disc is planned, although there has no release date set. Upon release, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere received generally favorable reviews from critics, bruce Miroff of Rolling Stone wrote a favorable review, describing Youngs voice as perpetually mournful, without being maudlin or pathetic. It hints at a world in which sorrow underlies everything because that world is recognizable to most of us, Youngs music partially makes up for its lack of grace by its energy and its assurance. Robert Christgau rated the album a B+, stating that Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, however, later reviews have been more positive. William Ruhlmann of music database website Allmusic rated the album five out of five stars, Ruhlmann stated that released only four months after his first, was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort. He concluded that the set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since. All tracks written by Neil Young
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After the Gold Rush
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After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young and American rock band Crazy Horse. Gold Rush consists mainly of folk music, along with the rocking Southern Man. Despite a mixed reaction, it has since appeared on a number of greatest albums lists. The incorporation of Lofgren was a characteristically idiosyncratic decision by Young, the Young biography Shakey claims Young was intentionally trying to combine Crazy Horse and CSNY on this release, with members of the former band appearing alongside Stephen Stills and Reeves. The cover art is a image of Young, walking past New York University School of Law. The picture was taken by photographer Joel Bernstein and was out of focus. It was because of this he decided to mask the face by solarizing the image. The photo is cropped, the image includes Youngs friend. Songs on the album were inspired by the Dean Stockwell-Herb Bermann screenplay for the unmade film After the Gold Rush, Young had read the screenplay and asked Stockwell if he could produce the soundtrack. Tracks that Young recalls as being specifically for the film are After the Gold Rush. The script has since been lost, though has been described as sort of an end-of-the-world movie, Stockwell said of it, I was gonna write a movie that was personal, a Jungian self-discovery of the gnosis. It involved the Kabala, it involved a lot of arcane stuff, according to the Neil Young Archives, After the Gold Rush was released on September 19,1970. Critical reaction has improved with time, by 1975, Rolling Stone was referring to the album as a masterpiece, after the Gold Rush has appeared on a number of greatest albums lists. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted After the Gold Rush the 89th greatest album of all time and it was ranked 92nd in a 2005 survey held by British televisions Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, Rolling Stone named the album the 71st greatest album of all time, pitchfork Media listed it 99th on their 2004 list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2006, Time Magazine listed it as one of the All-TIME100 Albums and it was ranked third in Bob Mersereaus 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums. Its follow-up album, Harvest, was named the greatest Canadian album of all time in that book, in 2005, Chart Magazine readers placed it fifth on a poll of the best Canadian Albums. In 2002, Blender Magazine named it the 86th greatest American album, New Musical Express named it the 80th greatest album of all time in 2003
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Harvest (Neil Young album)
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Harvest is the fourth album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on February 1,1972, on Reprise Records, catalogue MS2032. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, Old Man, which peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Heart of Gold and it was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States. After the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their ways in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians and recorded a country rock record. The record was a hit, producing a US number one single in Heart of Gold. Other songs returned to some usual Young themes, Alabama was a rehash of Southern Man, and The Needle. The former song was also at least partially responsible for the creation of Lynyrd Skynyrds 1973 hit Sweet Home Alabama which mentions Neil by name. Young later wrote of Alabama in his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, I dont like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully out. Words, the last song on the album, featured a lengthy guitar workout with the band and it has a typical Neil Young structure consisting of four chords during the multiple improvised solos. The song is notable for alternating between a standard 4/4 time signature for verses and choruses and an unusual 11/8 for interludes, the albums success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that the record put me in the middle of the road, traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there, the Needle and the Damage Done was taken from a live solo performance at UCLA on 30 January 1971. The recording of the remainder of Harvest was notable for the spontaneous and serendipitous way it came together, the story is told in an article in Acoustic Guitar Magazine, which includes interviews with the producer, Elliot Mazer, among others. Young arrived in Nashville in early February 1971 to perform on a broadcast of Johnny Cash Show where Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor would also appear. Mazer had opened Quadrafonic Sound Studios in Nashville, and invited Young to dinner on Saturday,6 February, Neil admired the work of the local studio musicians known as Area Code 615 who had recorded there and was interested. Young made the decision to start recording that very evening, since many of the Area Code 615 musicians were typically working on a Saturday night in Nashville, Mazer scrambled to find drummer Kenny Buttrey, bassist Tim Drummond, and steel-guitarist Ben Keith. That night, they laid down the tracks for Old Man, Bad Fog of Loneliness
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On the Beach (Neil Young album)
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On the Beach is the fifth studio album by Neil Young, released in 1974. It was unavailable on disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version on August 19,2003 as part of his Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. The despair of Tonights the Night, communicated through intentional underproduction and lyrical pessimism, gives way to a more polished album that is still pessimistic but to a lesser degree. Much like Tonights the Night, On the Beach was not a success at the time of its release but over time attained a high regard from fans. The album was recorded in a manner, with Young utilizing a variety of session musicians. He also would opt for rough, monitor mixes of songs rather than a polished sound. Throughout the recording of the album, Young and his fellow musicians consumed a homemade concoction dubbed Honey Slides and this may account for the mellow mood of the album, particularly the second half of the LP. Young has said of it Good album, one side of it particularly—the side with Ambulance Blues, Motion Pictures and On the Beach—its out there. For about two decades, rarity made an out of On the Beach. The title was deleted from vinyl in the early 1980s and only available on cassette - the old slide-out case style. Along with three other mid-period Young albums, it had withheld from re-release until 2003. The reasons remain murky but there is evidence that Young himself didnt want the album out on CD, variously citing fidelity problems. Beginning in 2000, over 5,000 fans signed a petition calling for the release of the album on CD. Pitchfork Media listed it #65 on their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1970s, in 2007, On the Beach was placed at #40 in Bob Mersereaus book The Top 100 Canadian Albums. Walk On, the opener, has Young combining his cynical outlook with a touch of closure. Young throws in a remake of his Harvest era See the Sky About to Rain and this track had also been released a year earlier on the Byrds eponymous album. The album also includes the high-strung Revolution Blues, inspired by Charles Manson, for the Turnstiles is a country-folk hybrid featuring Youngs banjo and a caterwauling harmony vocal from Ben Keith, while playing Dobro. Also of note is Vampire Blues, an attack on the oil industry, the melody unintentionally quotes Bert Janschs Needle of Death
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Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)
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Tonights the Night is the sixth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released in 1975 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS2221. It was recorded in 1973, its delayed for two years. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200, in 2003, the album was ranked number 331 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Tonights the Night is an expression of grief. Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and Youngs friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The title track mentions Berry by name, while Whittens guitar and vocal work highlight Come on Baby Lets Go Downtown, the latter was recorded live in 1970. The song would appear, unedited, on a live album from the same concerts, Live at the Fillmore East. Fans have long speculated that a version of Tonights the Night exists. At home a couple of weeks earlier he had come across the original tape, I want to tell you, it is a handful. There is no relief in it at all and it does not release you for one second. Its like some guy having you by the throat from the first note, Neil came in during this conversation, which was in his living room. When David stopped Neil said, Youve got that original, ive never been able to find it. Well bring it out someday, that original, the band assembled for the album was known as the Santa Monica Flyers consisting of Young, Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. One track as stated above was taken from recordings of a tour with Crazy Horse. Included with the original vinyl releases of Tonights the Night is a cryptic message written by Young. On the front of the insert is a letter to a character called Waterface, no explanation is given to this persons identity, although in Shakey, Neil Youngs Biography, Young says that Waterface is the person writing the letter. When I read the letter, Im Waterface and its just a stupid thing—a suicide note without the suicide. The back of the insert has some text superimposed over the credits to Youngs On the Beach album, when unfolded, a whole side of the insert features a lengthy article printed entirely in Dutch
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Zuma (album)
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Zuma is the seventh studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records in 1975. Co-credited to Crazy Horse, it includes Cortez the Killer, one of Youngs best-known songs and it peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified a gold record by the RIAA. The death of guitarist and bandmate Danny Whitten from an overdose in 1972 affected Young greatly. This line-up first appeared on album, and has remained stable to the present day. Zuma was the first album released after the famed Ditch Trilogy, comprising the albums Time Fades Away, and On the Beach, Young wrote most of the songs in Zuma during his time living on Sea Level Drive in Malibu, California. The melody and lyrics of Dont Cry No Tears are partially derived from I Wonder, Young has claimed during a show in 1996 that hed also written Cortez the Killer in high school while suffering Montezumas Revenge. The song ends with a fade out because the original cut stopped abruptly due to a surge. Youngs reaction to hearing of this was, I never liked that verse anyway, lou Reed once told an interviewer that he felt Young had become a great guitarist during this period, specifically citing Danger Bird as an example. All tracks written by Neil Young
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American Stars 'n Bars
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American Stars n Bars is the eighth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records in 1977. Compiled from recording sessions scattered over a 29-month period, it includes Like a Hurricane, one of Youngs best-known songs and it peaked at #21 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified a gold record by the RIAA. In the summer of 1976, Young rekindled his partnership with Stephen Stills, resulting in a tour ended abruptly. He then embarked on his tour of the year with Crazy Horse. Homegrown and Star of Bethlehem had initially slated for his unreleased LP Homegrown. Both of those songs, along with Like a Hurricane, Hold Back the Tears and Will to Love, had also been slated for yet another unreleased Young album project, Chrome Dreams. Seven of the nine tracks feature his backing band Crazy Horse. Songs from the April 1977 sessions are all in a country-styled vein, the album cover was designed by actor Dean Stockwell, who had also written the screenplay that inspired After the Gold Rush. It features Connie Moskos, girlfriend of producer David Briggs, drooping with a bottle of Canadian whisky in her hand, initially receiving favorable reviews, the album was described as a sampler. of Youngs various styles, even a hodgepodge. According to William Ruhlmann, in a review for Allmusic, Neil Young made a point of listing the dates of the songs on American Stars n Bars. They revealed that the songs had been cut at four different sessions dating back to 1974, will to Love is a particularly spooky and ambitious piece, extending the romantic metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream across seven minutes. The albums centerpiece however, is Like a Hurricane, one of Youngs classic hard rock songs and guitar workouts, all songs written by Neil Young, except where noted
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Hawks & Doves
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Hawks & Doves is the tenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The record peaked at #30 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in December 1980 in the US and it is also one of Youngs shortest albums, its running time just under half an hour. It was unavailable on disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version on August 19,2003 as part of the Neil Young Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. Side one, the side, includes Little Wing and The Old Homestead. As with many of Youngs releases, critical reaction at the time was mixed, the album was released on Monday, November 3,1980, the day before the 1980 United States presidential election. All songs written by Neil Young. org
