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Lawrence, Massachusetts
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Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 76,377, surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast. Lawrence and Salem are the county seats of Essex County, Lawrence is part of the Merrimack Valley. Manufacturing products of the city include electronic equipment, textiles, footwear, paper products, computers, Lawrence was the residence of poet Robert Frost for his early school years, his essays and poems were first published in the Lawrence High School newspaper. Native Americans, namely the Pennacook or Pentucket tribe, had a presence in this area, evidence of farming at Den Rock Park and arrowhead manufacturing on the site of where the Wood Mill now sits have been discovered. Europeans first settled the Haverhill area in 1640, colonists from Newbury following the Merrimack River in from the coast, the area that would become Lawrence was then part of Methuen and Andover. The first settlement came in 1655 with the establishment of a blockhouse in Shawsheen Fields, the future site of the city, was purchased by a consortium of local industrialists. The group allotted fifty thousand dollars to buy land along the river to develop, in 1844, the group petitioned the legislature to act as a corporation, known as the Essex Company, which incorporated on April 16,1845. The first excavations for the Great Stone Dam to harness the Merrimack Rivers water power were done on August 1,1845, the Essex Company would sell the water power to corporations such as the Arlington Mills, as well as organize construction of mills and build to suit. Until 1847, when the legislature recognized the community as a town, it was called interchangeably the New City. The post office, built in 1846, used the designation Merrimac, incorporation as a city would come in 1853, and the name Lawrence, merely chosen as a token of respect to Abbott Lawrence, who it cannot be verified ever saw the city named after him. The work was dangerous, injuries and even death were not uncommon, working conditions in the mills were unsafe and in 1860 the Pemberton Mill collapsed, killing 145 workers. As immigrants flooded into the United States in the mid to late 19th century, Lawrence was the scene of the infamous Bread and Roses Strike, also known as the Lawrence Textile Strike, one of the more important labor actions in American history. Lawrence was a great wool-processing center until that industry declined in the 1950s, the decline left Lawrence a struggling city. The population of Lawrence declined from over 80,000 residents in 1950 to approximately 64,000 residents in 1980, like other northeastern cities suffering from the effects of post-World War II industrial decline, Lawrence has often made efforts at revitalization, some of them controversial. For example, half of the enormous Wood Mill, powered by the Great Stone Dam, the Lawrence Redevelopment Authority and city officials utilized eminent domain for a perceived public benefit, via a top down approach, to revitalize the city throughout the 1960s. There was a clash of differing ideals and perceptions of blight, growth, ultimately the discussion left out those members of the community who would be directly impacted by urban redevelopment. The historic Theater Row along Broadway was also razed, destroying ornate movie palaces of the 1920s and 1930s that entertained mill workers through the Great Depression, the citys main post office, an ornate federalist style building at the corner of Broadway and Essex Street, was razed
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Blues rock
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Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with similar to electric blues. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock, Blues rock continues to be an influence, with performances and recordings by several popular artists. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago-style blues songs, such as those by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the US, Johnny Winter, the Allman Brothers Band, and ZZ Top represented a hard rock trend. Although around this time, AllMusic commented, the lines between rock and hard rock were barely visible, there was a return to more blues-influenced styles. Groups, such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the White Stripes, brought an edgier, more diverse style into the 2000s, Blues rock bands borrow the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll. It is also played at a fast tempo, again distinguishing it from the blues. The core blues rock sound is created by the guitar, bass guitar. Often bands also included a harmonica, usually called a harp, the electric guitar is usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier or using an overdrive effect. While 1950s-era blues bands would still use the upright bass, the blues rock bands of the 1960s used the electric bass. Keyboard instruments, such as the piano and Hammond organ, are occasionally used. As with the guitar, the sound of the Hammond organ is typically amplified with a tube amplifier. Vocals also typically play a key role, although the vocals may be equal in importance or even subordinate to the guitar playing. As well, a number of rock pieces are instrumental-only. Blues-rock pieces often follow typical blues structures, such as blues, sixteen-bar blues
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Musician
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A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician, Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles. Examples of a musicians possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, composing, arranging, in the Middle Ages, instrumental musicians performed with soft ensembles inside and loud instruments outdoors. Many European musicians of this time catered to the Roman Catholic Church, providing arrangements structured around Gregorian chant structure, vocal pieces were in Latin—the language of church texts of the time—and typically were Church-polyphonic or made up of several simultaneous melodies. Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Gabrieli Thomas Tallis Claudio Monteverdi Leonardo da Vinci The Baroque period introduced heavy use of counterpoint, vocal and instrumental “color” became more important compared to the Renaissance style of music, and emphasized much of the volume, texture and pace of each piece. George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Classical music was created by musicians who lived during a time of a middle class. Many middle-class inhabitants of France at the time lived under long-time absolute monarchies, because of this, much of the music was performed in environments that were more constrained compared to the flourishing times of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This age included the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution, a revolutionary energy was also at the core of Romanticism, which quite consciously set out to transform not only the theory and practice of poetry and art, but the common perception of the world. Some major Romantic Period precepts survive, and still affect modern culture, in 20th-century music, composers and musicians rejected the emotion-dominated Romantic period, and strove to represent the world the way they perceived it. Musicians wrote to be. objective, while objects existed on their own terms, while past eras concentrated on spirituality, this new period placed emphasis on physicality and things that were concrete. The advent of recording and mass media in the 20th century caused a boom of all kinds of music—popular music, rock music, electronic music, folk music. Singer Composer Music artist Tour Manager Media related to Musicians at Wikimedia Commons
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
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Guitarist
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A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, the correctness of techniques that a guitarist acquires depends on the quality of training. Learning how to play correctly is crucial for any guitarist no matter which guitar he/she plays, the guitarist may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre, and bottleneck or steel-guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance, while music is an art form in itself, playing an instrument such as the guitar has long been a popular subject for painters. Despite perceived tendencies in mainstream music diffusion, to Rock music and electric guitar, notable guitarists arrived from other genres, Rolling Stone In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. This list included 100 guitarists whom the magazine editor David Fricke considered the best, the first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at #50 in the list. Artists who had not been included in the previous list were added, rory Gallagher, for example, was ranked in 57th place. The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is mentioned in many biographies about artists who appear in the list, despite the appearance in other magazines like Billboard, this publication by Guitar World was criticized for including no female musicians within its selection. However, Guitar World recently published a list of Eight Amazing Female Acoustic Players, including Kaki King, TIME and others Following the death of Les Paul, TIME website presented their list of 10 greatest artists in electric guitar. As in Rolling Stone magazines list, Jimi Hendrix was chosen as the greatest guitarist followed by Slash from Guns N Roses, B. B. King, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton. Gigwise. com, a music magazine, also ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist ever, followed by Jimmy Page, B. B. King, Keith Richards. There are many classical guitarists listed as notable in their respective epochs, media related to Guitarists at Wikimedia Commons
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fames permanent home.8 billion, the Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, Cleveland was also one of the premier tour stops for most rock bands. Civic leaders in Cleveland pledged $65 million in money to fund the construction. A petition drive was signed by 600,000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, on May 5,1986, the Hall of Fame Foundation chose Cleveland as the permanent home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Sam Phillips of Sun Studios fame and many others were stunned and disappointed that it ended up in Cleveland, the hall of fame shouldve been in Memphis, certainly, wrote Peter Guralnick, author of an acclaimed two-volume Elvis Presley biography. Cleveland may also have chosen as the organizations site because the city offered the best financial package. As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, It was $65 million, Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money. During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, ultimately, the chosen location was along East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, east of Cleveland Stadium. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in designs for the site, Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was planned to stand 200 ft high. The buildings base is approximately 150,000 square feet, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 7,1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking. The museum was dedicated on September 1,1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, the following night an all-star concert was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others. In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the documents the entire history of rock and roll. Hall of Fame inductees are honored in an exhibit located in a wing that juts out over Lake Erie. Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected new inductees, the formal induction ceremony has been held in New York City 25 times, twice in Los Angeles, and four times in the Hall of Fames home in Cleveland
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Steven Tyler
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He is known as the Demon of Screamin due to his high screams and his wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics, during his high-energy performances, Tyler usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler had a drug and alcohol addiction. Tyler and bandmate Joe Perry became known as the Toxic Twins due to their drug abuse, in the wake of this success, Tyler emerged as one of the most enduring rock icons. Since the late 1980s, he has embarked on solo endeavors including guest appearances on other artists music, film and TV roles, authoring a bestselling book. Tyler is included among Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers and he was ranked third on Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Steven Victor Tallarico was born on March 26,1948, at the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the family moved to Yonkers when he was about nine years old. The son of Susan Ray, a secretary, and Victor A. Tallarico and his father was of Italian and German descent, while his mother was of Polish and English ancestry. His maternal grandfather, who was from what is present-day Poland and his paternal grandfather, Giovanni Tallarico, was from Cotronei, Calabria, Italy. Steven has one sister named Lynda. Steven attended Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York, in 1965, aged 17, Tyler spent time in Greenwich Village, New York, the highlight of which was seeing a Rolling Stones concert. Tyler states that his friends and he hung around for a while, a photo in the bands autobiography Walk This Way shows Tyler standing behind Mick Jagger outside a hotel. Before Aerosmith, Tyler wrote what would one of Aerosmiths signature songs. In 1969, Tyler attended a rock show in Sunapee, New Hampshire, where he first saw future bandmates Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton. Tyler later stated he was struck by their raw power and attitude, around 1970, Tyler, Perry, and Hamilton decided to form a band. Tyler, who had played drums in many of his previous bands, insisted that he be the frontman, Joey Kramer, an old acquaintance of Tylers from New York, was recruited to play drums. Tyler invited his friend, Ray Tabano, to play rhythm guitar. Shortly after relocating to Boston, Tylers dissatisfaction with Tabanos lack of passion and dedication prompted the band to replace Tabano with Brad Whitford
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Songwriters Hall of Fame
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It not only celebrates these established songwriters, but is also involved on the development of new songwriting talent through workshops, showcases and scholarships. There are many programs designed to teach and discover new songwriters, the Hall of Fame only existed as an online virtual collection until 2010, when it was first put on display as a physical gallery inside The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. With an under-construction basement installation at the Brill Building in New York, the Hall doesnt have a permanent place, through 2010,383 individuals had been inducted into the SHOF. The British rock band Queen was the first band to be inducted in 2003, the American singer Lady Gaga was the first artist ever to win the award. 2015 – Lady Gaga The Hal David Starlight Award honors young artists who have made an impression on the music industry. It goes to writers already inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for having established a history of outstanding creative works and he was later director of ASCAP, and a founder of the Songwriters Hall of Fame which, in 1983, named the Abe Olman Publisher Award. In his honor, the Abe Olman Scholarship is given out each year by his family in the interest of encouraging and supporting the careers of young songwriters, the Holly Prize is administered and juried by the SongHall
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Simon & Schuster
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Simon & Schuster, Inc. a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster publishes 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints, in 1924, Richard Simons aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of New York World crossword puzzles, which were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity, at the time, Simon was a piano salesman and Schuster was editor of an automotive trade magazine. They pooled US$8,000 to start a company to publish crossword puzzles, fad publishing became the business model for the new publishing house, which set out to exploit current fads and trends and publish books with commercial appeal. Instead of signing authors with a manuscript, they came up with their own ideas. In the 1930, the moved to what was known as Publishers Row on Park Avenue in Manhattan. In 1939, with Robert Fair de Graff, Simon & Schuster founded Pocket Books, in 1942, Simon & Schuster, or Essandess as it is called in the initial announcement, launched the Little Golden Books series in cooperation with the Artists and Writers Guild. Simon & Schusters partner in the venture was the Western Printing and Lithographing Company, Western Printing bought out Simon & Schusters interest in 1958. In 1944, Marshall Field III, owner of the Chicago Sun, purchased Simon & Schuster, following Fields death in 1957, his heirs sold the company back to Richard Simon and Max Schuster, while Leon Shimkin and James Jacobson acquired Pocket Books. In the 1950s and 1960s, many publishers including Simon & Schuster turned toward educational publishing due to the boom market. Pocket Books focused on paperbacks for the market instead of textbooks. By 1964 it had published over 200 titles and was expected to put out another 400 by the end of that year, Books published under the imprint included classic reprints such as Lorna Doone, Ivanhoe, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Robinson Crusoe. In 1966, Max Schuster retired and sold his half of Simon & Schuster to Leon Shimkin, Shimkin then merged Simon & Schuster with Pocket Books under the name of Simon & Schuster. Among his many bestsellers was Joseph Hellers Catch-22, in 1976, Gulf+Western headed by Charles Bluhdorn acquired S&S, which was grossing about US$50 million a year for $11 million, most of it in Gulf+Western stock. After the death of Bluhdorn in 1983, Simon & Schuster made the decision to diversify, bluhdorns successor Martin Davis told The New York Times, Society was undergoing dramatic changes, so that there was a greater need for textbooks, maps and educational information. We saw the opportunity to diversify into areas, which are more stable. In 1984, CEO Richard E. Snyder acquired Esquire Corporation, buying everything, Prentice Hall was brought into the company fold in 1985 for over $700 million and Martin Davis said that Prentice Hall became the road map for remodeling the company and a catalyst for change. This acquisition was followed by Silver Burdett in 1986, mapmaker Gousha in 1987, part of the acquisition included educational publisher Allyn & Bacon which according to Michael Korda became the nucleus of S&Ss educational and informational business
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David Ritz
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David Ritz is an American author who has written more than 50 books. Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole, Ritz’s first collaboration was Brother Ray, the autobiography of Ray Charles. Ritz has said that his intention was to write a biography until becoming intrigued by the idea of rendering the book entirely in Charles’ voice. “That’s when I discovered I had a gift for channeling voice, “That discovery changed the course of my literary life. ”He would go on to continue ghostwriting for over 40 years, in various genres. Smokey Robinson producer Jerry Wexler Etta James B. B. Messengers, Ritz collaborated with Dr. Mable John on three Christian novels, Sanctified, Stay Out of the Kitchen and Love Tornado. Divided Soul, The Life of Marvin Gaye began when Ritz met Gaye in the seventies and was published in 1985. Faith in Time, The Jazz Life of Jimmy Scott came out in 2002, respect, The Life of Aretha Franklin Death of a King, The Real Story of Martin Luther King Jr. ’s Final Year, with Tavis Smiley. He collaborated with rapper T. I. on two novels— Power and Beauty and Trouble and Triumph. Ritz has also written a number of romances under pseudonyms, Glory as David Nemeroff, Deeper Than Shame as Esther Elizabeth Pearl, the song Sexual Healing was a collaboration between Ritz, Marvin Gaye and Odell Brown, written in Ostend, Belgium, in April,1982. The single was Marvins biggest career hit, spending a record ten weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Soul Chart, “Happy Song, Soul Music in the Ghetto, ” Ritz’s first critical essay, was published in Salmagundi. 1992 Grammy, Best Album Notes for Aretha Franklins Queen Of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings 1993 Ralph J. Gleason Award for Jerry Wexler, Rhythm,1995 Ralph J. Gleason Award for Etta James, Rage to Survive. Factory 2011 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for liner notes of Nat King Cole & Friends, Riffin and he has been married to Roberta Michele Ritz since 1968. They have two children, twins Alison and Jessica, born 1974, well be here for the rest of our lives, A swingin show-biz saga, New York, Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press, p.322, ISBN 0-385-52483-8, OCLC299714497 Ritz Writes, official Web site
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Madeira
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Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal. Its total population was estimated in 2011 at 267,785, the capital of Madeira is Funchal, located on the main islands south coast. The archipelago is just under 400 kilometres north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, since 1976, the archipelago has been one of the two Autonomous regions of Portugal. It includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, the region has political and administrative autonomy through the Administrative Political Statue of the Autonomous Region of Madeira provided for in the Portuguese Constitution. Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1419, the archipelago is considered to be the first territorial discovery of the exploratory period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, which extended from 1415 to 1542. Today, it is a popular resort, being visited every year by about one million tourists. The region is noted for its Madeira wine, gastronomy, historical and cultural value, its flora and fauna, landscapes which are classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and embroidery artisans. Its annual New Year celebrations feature the largest fireworks show in the world, Madeira is the second richest region of Portugal by GDP per capita, only surpassed by Lisbon. They are called the Isles of the Blessed, archeological evidence suggests that the islands may have been visited by the Vikings sometime between 900-1030. During the reign of King Edward III of England, lovers Robert Machim and they were driven off their course by a violent storm and their ship went aground along the coast of an island, that may have been Madeira. Later this legend was the basis of the naming of the city of Machico, knowledge of some Atlantic islands, such as Madeira, existed before their formal discovery and settlement, as the islands were shown on maps as early as 1339. The following year, an expedition, under the captaincy of Zarco, Vaz Teixeira. Subsequently, the new settlers observed a black cloud suspended to the southwest. Their investigation revealed it to be the island they called Madeira. The first Portuguese settlers began colonizing the islands around 1420 or 1425, grain production began to fall and the ensuing crisis forced Henry the Navigator to order other commercial crops to be planted so that the islands could be profitable. The planting of sugarcane, and later Sicilian sugar beet, allowed the introduction of the salt into Europe. These specialised plants, and their associated industrial technology, created one of the major revolutions on the islands, the expansion of sugar plantations in Madeira began in 1455, using advisers from Sicily and financed by Genoese capital. The accessibility of Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders, who were keen to bypass Venetian monopolies, by 1480 Antwerp had some seventy ships engaged in the Madeira sugar trade, with the refining and distribution concentrated in Antwerp
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University-preparatory school
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A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a type of secondary school. The term can refer to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education, in the United States, there are public, private, and charter college preparatory schools and they can be either parochial or secular. Admission is sometimes based on selection criteria, usually academic. Fewer than 1% of students enrolled in school in the United States attend an independent, private school, compared to 9% who attend parochial schools. Public and charter college prep schools are connected to a local school district. The term prep school in the U. S. is usually associated with private, elite institutions that have very selective admission criteria, prep schools can be day schools, boarding schools, or both, and may be co-educational or single-sex. Currently day schools are more common than boarding, and since the 1970s co-educational schools are more common than single-sex, unlike the public schools which are free, they charge tuition Some prep schools are affiliated with a particular religious denomination. Unlike parochial schools, independent preparatory schools are not governed by a religious organization, in most parts of Europe, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Scandinavia, there are state-funded secondary schools specializing in university-preparatory education. These go by many names depending on the country but may be called gymnasia, athenaea, unlike American prep schools then, they begin after high-school graduation. The most famous French classes préparatoires are exceptionally intensive and selective, taking only the very best students graduating from high schools, nevertheless, there exist many less prestigious classes préparatoires. As a result, 90% of the students in the scientific classes préparatoires eventually become engineers or scientists, a Gymnasium is a particular type of school in Germany and other countries in Europe, with the goal to prepare its pupils to enter a university. The γυμνάσιον of Ancient Greece was a place for physical and eventually also intellectual education of young men, the later meaning of intellectual education persisted in German and other languages, whereas in English, the older meaning of physical education was retained. The German Gymnasien are selective and competitive schools and they enroll students after completing 4th or 6th grade and prepare them for college. The vast majority of Gymnasien is public and does not charge tuition fees, article 7, Paragraph 4 of the German constitution, forbids segregation of students according to the means of their parents. Therefore, most private Gymnasien have rather low tuition fees and/or offer scholarships, every child will be able to enter the lottery, no matter how he or she performed in primary school. It is hoped that this policy will increase the number of lower, a total of zero percent was in favour of the lottery. Germanys oldest Gymnasien include Gymnasium Paulinum, Gymnasium Theodorianum and Gymnasium Carolinum, in Italy, there are several kinds of high schools, both public and private, whose curriculum has as a primary aim the preparation for university. These are called Liceo, plural Licei, the name comes from Lyceum, the Latin rendering of the Ancient Greek Λύκειον, the name of a gymnasium in Classical Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus
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Vermont Academy
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Vermont Academy is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school in Saxtons River, Vermont, in the United States serving students from 9th to 12th grade and postgraduates. Founded in 1876, Vermont Academys student body consists of boarding, the campus is 515 acres overlooking the village of Saxtons River. Vermont Academy embraces the concept of having students actively participate in a class as opposed to passive learning, the Academys athletic offerings focus on this type of experiential education. Sports include cross country, biking, and Nordic skiing, varsity, the school was founded in 1876. It originally included a school for younger boys and the school gave special attention to life in the open. In 1934, Dartmouth College president Ernest Martin Hopkins recommended a fellow Dartmouth graduate for the job of headmaster of Vermont Academy. Laurence G. Leavitt was headmaster for 25 years, during which time he doubled enrollment, retired the schools debt, off-campus activities include alpine skiing/snowboarding, an equestrian program, and Wilderness Program. The school belongs to the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and is a member of the Lakes Region League, the Academy offers theater productions, music, dance, studio art, filmmaking, and photography. The Academy campus is located on the side of the village of Saxtons River, bounded on the south by Burk Hill Road. It is more than 31 acres in size, and includes buildings dating to the period of the founding in 1876. Jones Hall, now a dormitory, was built in year, and was its only building until 1888, when Fuller Hall. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015, there are separate dormitories for boys and girls. There is space for 60 girls and 111 boys, there is a Winter Snow Park on campus for skiing, snowboarding, and jumping which was built in 2003
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Saxtons River, Vermont
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Saxtons River is an incorporated village in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 565 at the 2010 census, for over a hundred years, Saxtons River has been the home of Vermont Academy, an independent secondary school. Most of the village is a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as Saxtons River Village Historic District. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 0.5 square mile. Saxtons River was first settled in 1783, but growth was extremely slow, a meeting house was built and the village cemetery established in 1810, and the first textile mill was opened at the Middle Falls in 1815. The village bounds were determined by the town in 1820, although the village had a long history of industry, much of it had failed by the 1920s. After a period of decline in the century, older buildings. Historic buildings include, Congregational Church, now the Saxtons River Historical Society,1836,1871 Saxtons River Village Building, the population density was 1,130 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 94. 65% White,1. 6% Asian,0. 4% African American,0. 5% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 85% of the population. In the village, the population was out with 29. 3% under the age of 18,8. 4% from 18 to 24,13. 1% from 25 to 34,40. 5% from 35 to 64
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that ran on CBS from Sunday June 20,1948, to Sunday June 6,1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, in 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished No.31 in TV Guide Magazines 60 Best Series of All Time, the format was essentially the same as vaudeville, and although vaudeville had died a generation earlier, Sullivan presented many ex-vaudevillians on his show. The last original Sullivan show telecast was on March 28,1971, with guests Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass, repeats were scheduled through June 6,1971. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia. For many years, Ed Sullivan was an event each Sunday evening. In those days, we had six acts. Then, each of our acts would do a leisurely ten minutes or so, Now they do two or three minutes. And in those early days I talked too much, I look up at me talking away and I say You fool. But I just keep on talking, Ive learned how to keep my mouth shut. The show enjoyed phenomenal popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s and he was regarded as a kingmaker, and performers considered an appearance on his program as a guarantee of stardom, although this sometimes did not turn out to be the case. The shows iconic status is illustrated by the song Hymn for a Sunday Evening from the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie, in the song, a family of viewers expresses their regard for the program in worshipful tones. In September 1965, CBS started televising the program in compatible color, CBS had once backed its own color system, developed by Peter Goldmark, and resisted using RCAs compatible process until 1954. At that time, it built its first New York City color TV studio, Studio 72, in a former RKO movie theater at 2248 Broadway. One Ed Sullivan Show was broadcast on August 22,1954, from the new studio, CBS Studio 72 was demolished in 1986 and replaced by an apartment house. CBS Studio 50 was finally colorized in 1965, the 1965–66 season premiere starred the Beatles in an episode airing on September 12, which was the last episode to air in black and white. In the late 1960s, Sullivan remarked that his program was waning as the decade went on and he realized that to keep viewers, the best and brightest in entertainment had to be seen, or else the viewers were going to keep on changing the channel. Along with declining viewership, Ed Sullivan attracted a higher age for the average viewer as the seasons went on
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Tom Hamilton (musician)
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Thomas William Tom Hamilton is an American musician, best known as the bassist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He has regularly co-written songs for Aerosmith, including two of the bands biggest hits, Sweet Emotion and Janies Got a Gun, Hamilton occasionally plays guitar and sings backing vocals. Hamilton first started playing guitar when his older brother Scott taught him his first chords at age 12, Tom switched to bass when he was 14 to join a local band because they had an open space at that position. Hamilton was in a few bands with soon-to-be Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, One of the bands was simply called The Jam Band. It was at a Jam Band gig in summer 1970 at a place called The Barn in Sunapee, New Hampshire, that the Jam Band met Steven Tyler, Scott left the group shortly thereafter, being replaced by Tyler on drums. The three became a trio with Hamilton on bass, Perry on guitar, and Tyler on drums. Then Ray Tabano joined and eventually Joey Kramer joined in replacing Tyler on drums so he could focus on vocals, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford and Aerosmith was born. Thomas William Hamilton was born to George and Betty Hamilton in Colorado Springs, George and Betty now live in Vero Beach, Florida. He has a brother named Scott, an older sister named Perry. His father was in the Air Force and his mother was a housewife and he first learned to play guitar from his brother, who got his first guitar when Tom was four years old. Hamilton is the tallest member of the band at 61 and he is also the funny one of Aerosmith, always looking for chances to make jokes in interviews and also being one of the bigger talkers at interviews. According to the official website, Hamiltons favorite song by the band is The Farm. He married Terry Cohen in 1975 and they have two children, Julian and Sage, in August 2006, he announced that he was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer and completed a seven-week course of radiation and chemotherapy. He was forced to miss Aerosmiths Route of All Evil Tour, David Hull filled in for Hamilton. Hamilton had never missed an Aerosmith show. On December 20,2006, Hamilton reported on Aero Force One that he is cancer-free after a recent PET scan. Hamiltons cancer returned in 2011, and he has since been treated and is recovering well In April 2013 and he returned to the USA after contracting an infection in the chest region. David Hull, who has replaced Hamilton in other tours of Aerosmith, early in 2016, Hamilton was also announced as the new bassist for Thin Lizzy and will play with them on upcoming reunion shows
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Brad Whitford
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Bradley Ernest Brad Whitford is an American musician who is best known for serving as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He has also worked as a songwriter for the group, co-composing well-received tracks such as 1976s Last Child, Whitford graduated from Reading Memorial High School in 1970. Aerosmith would go on to be one of the most successful bands of the 1970s. However, following a string of successful albums in the late 1970s, Whitford left the band in 1981 to work on his own project with singer Derek St. Holmes. The project was dissolved after a sole self-titled album was released in 1981, Whitford briefly toured with The Joe Perry Project, featuring former Aerosmith band mate Joe Perry, before both Perry and Whitford rejoined Aerosmith in 1984. In the mid-late 1980s, all members completed drug rehabilitation, including Whitford. Whitford remains sober to this day and continues to be a force in Aerosmith. Whitford also served as a producer for a well-known Boston band, The Neighborhoods, Whitford missed the start of Aerosmiths 2009 summer tour after requiring surgery as a result of a head injury sustained while getting out of his Ferrari, joining the tour after a month. Along with fellow Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Whitford was included in the Guitar World book The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2007, in 2013 played with Buddy Guy, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on Evil Twin. Holmes Reunited for a 10 show tour, while Joe Perry is Aerosmiths better known guitarist and the bands principal songwriter with Steven Tyler, Whitford has made significant contributions to the bands repertoire over the years. Concerning his lesser role in the songwriting process, Whitford has said. I can write music with people if theyre better songwriters than I am. I really cant create a song, thats why the people that can do it are very few and far between. Im certainly not that type of a guy, more of a guitar player, more of the kind of who comes up with enough riffs and ideas to write a song. But to write lyrics and come up with a melody for it, it wont happen, said Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of the two guitarists, Joe is self-taught and his playing comes from raw emotion. Not that Brads doesnt, but his style is more schooled, street Jesus from Music from Another Dimension. Lover Alot from Music from Another Dimension, cant Stop Lovin You from Music from Another Dimension. Whitford continues to tour with vintage Fender Stratocasters and Gibson Led Paul for Aerosmith concerts as well as smaller gigs, meanwhile, Aerosmiths original heyday in the late 1970s saw both Whitford and co-guitarist Joe Perry arm themselves with aggressive-looking guitars from BC Rich
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Joey Kramer
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Joseph Michael Joey Kramer is the American drummer for the hard rock band Aerosmith. Joseph Michael Kramer was born in The Bronx, New York City and his memoir, Hit Hard, A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, was released on June 30,2009. Kramer married his girlfriend Linda in 2009 and they currently reside in Georgetown, near Austin, Texas. Kramer is credited with originating the name Aerosmith, in his memoir, Kramer revealed that he idly conceived the name Aerosmith while listening to Harry Nilssons album Aerial Ballet in 1968, two years before the band was formed. Kramer insists that there is no connection between the name Aerosmith and Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith, shortly before joining Aerosmith Kramer worked with Chubby & The Turnpikes alongside Bernie Worrell. In 2015, Kramer tweeted about how he had made into a Simpsons action figure. In June 2011, Kramer did a fan Q&A and revealed his open-mindedness to outside writers, in 2013 Kramer announced his new partnership with Comfort Foods, Inc. who now will roast, package and distribute his whole bean, organic coffee line, Rockin’ & Roastin’ Coffee. In 2015, he announced a partnership with Les Otten. The first restaurant is located in Newry, Maine at the foot of the Sunday River Ski Resort, lover Alot from Music From Another Dimension. Cant Stop Lovin You from Music From Another Dimension, closer from Music From Another Dimension. Kramer uses Zildjian cymbals and sticks, Ludwig drums and Remo heads, in 2014, he became an endorser of Pearl Drums.5 X14 Joey Kramer Signature Snare drum Current, Pearl Crystal Beat series drums Joeykramer. com Rockinandroastin. com Rockinandroastinrestaurant. com
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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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Toys in the Attic (album)
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Toys in the Attic is the third studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on April 8,1975 by Columbia Records. Its first single release, Sweet Emotion, was released a month later on May 19, the album is their most commercially successful studio LP in the US, with eight million copies sold, according to the RIAA. Steven Tyler said that his idea for the album cover was a teddy bear sitting in the attic with its wrist cut. They decided, in the end, to put all of the animals in instead, the album was ranked #229 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Walk This Way and the title track are part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock. For Aerosmiths previous album, 1974s Get Your Wings, the band working with record producer Jack Douglas. In the liner notes to the 1993 reissue of Greatest Hits it was said by an member of the group that they nailed the album. At the beginning of 1975 the band started working at The Record Plant in New York City for the album that became Toys in the Attic. The sessions for Toys were produced by Douglas without Colcord - the album was engineered by Jay Messina with assistant engineers Rod OBrien, Corky Stasiak, the songs for Toys were recorded with a Spectrasonics mixing board and a 16-track tape recorder. By this point, Aerosmith had fully matured as a band, according to producer Jack Douglas, Aerosmith was a different band when we started the third album. Theyd been playing Get Your Wings on the road for a year and had better players - different. It showed in the riffs that Joe and Brad brought back from the road for the next album, Toys in the Attic was a much more sophisticated record than the other stuff theyd done. In the band memoir Walk This Way, guitarist Joe Perry concurs, When we started to make Toys in the Attic, preproduction took place in the attic at Angel Studios in Ashland, Massachusetts. Aerosmiths third album includes some of their best known songs, including Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way starts out with a two measure drum beat intro by Joey Kramer, followed by the well known guitar riff by Joe Perry. The song proceeds with the main riff made famous by Perry, the song continues with rapid fire lyrics by Steven Tyler. The song originated in December 1974 during a sound check when Aerosmith was opening for The Guess Who in Honolulu, during the sound check, Perry was fooling around with riffs and thinking about The Meters, a group guitarist Jeff Beck had turned him on to. Loving their riffy New Orleans funk, especially Cissy Strut and People Say, the guitar riff to what would become Walk This Way just came off hands. Needing a bridge, he, played another riff and went there, but I didnt want the song to have a typical, boring 1,4,5 chord progression
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Rocks (Aerosmith album)
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Rocks is the fourth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released May 3,1976. AllMusic described Rocks as having captured Aerosmith at their most raw, Rocks was ranked #176 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It has greatly influenced many hard rock and heavy metal artists, including Guns N Roses, the album was a commercial success, charting three singles on the Billboard Hot 100, two of which reached the Top 40. The album was one of the first to ship platinum when it was released, and has since gone quadruple platinum. By 1976, Aerosmith had recorded three albums, Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, and the breakthrough LP Toys in the Attic, which produced Top Ten hit Walk This Way and the popular Sweet Emotion. Although often derided by critics, the band had amassed a loyal fan following from relentless touring and they also began living the rock-and-roll lifestyle to the hilt, indulging their already considerable appetite for drugs. However, their hedonistic lifestyle did not appear to hamper them creatively, Rocks is considered by fans, critics. I had the beginnings of Last Child and Nobodys Fault, Tom had Uncle Toms Cabin that became Sick as a Dog. We had Tit for Tat. which turned into Rats in the Cellar and we cut all the basic tracks except two there. Producer Jack Douglas later insisted, Rocks was the album where Tom and Brad had a lot more input and songs. This was a big album for Aerosmith. It had to make a big statement about how loud and hard they were, how unapologetic they felt about being who they were - this brash, rude, sexual, hard-core rock band. A real bullwhip was intended to be used for the whip effects, the band members ended up cut up and hurt without making any progress. The song is notable for the slow buildup of the drum beat and guitar riff in the beginning of the song. That riff just floated right through me, Brad Whitford plays the lead guitar part. Back in the Saddle also features one of the heaviest and noticeable bass lines by Tom Hamilton, when the song is performed in concert, Steven Tyler often makes more noticeable lyrical and visible references to sex. Today, the remains a staple on classic rock radio. It is arguably one of the heaviest songs of Aerosmiths Top 40 singles, Hamilton, who had written Sweet Emotion with Tyler, collaborated with the singer again on Sick as a Dog. In 1997 the bassist explained to Guitar World, I think I came up with the part first
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FM broadcasting
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FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation technology. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, it is used worldwide to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio, FM broadcasting is capable of better sound quality than AM broadcasting, the chief competing radio broadcasting technology, so it is used for most music broadcasts. FM radio stations use the VHF frequencies, the term FM band describes the frequency band in a given country which is dedicated to FM broadcasting. Throughout the world, the FM broadcast band falls within the VHF part of the radio spectrum. Usually 87.5 to 108.0 MHz is used, or some portion thereof, with few exceptions, In the former Soviet republics, and some former Eastern Bloc countries, assigned frequencies are at intervals of 30 kHz. This band, sometimes referred to as the OIRT band, is slowly being phased out in many countries, in those countries the 87. 5–108.0 MHz band is referred to as the CCIR band. In Japan, the band 76–95 MHz is used, the frequency of an FM broadcast station is usually an exact multiple of 100 kHz. In most of South Korea, the Americas, the Philippines, in some parts of Europe, Greenland and Africa, only even multiples are used. In the UK odd or even are used, in Italy, multiples of 50 kHz are used. There are other unusual and obsolete FM broadcasting standards in countries, including 1,10,30,74,500. Random noise has a triangular spectral distribution in an FM system and this can be offset, to a limited extent, by boosting the high frequencies before transmission and reducing them by a corresponding amount in the receiver. Reducing the high frequencies in the receiver also reduces the high-frequency noise. These processes of boosting and then reducing certain frequencies are known as pre-emphasis and de-emphasis, the amount of pre-emphasis and de-emphasis used is defined by the time constant of a simple RC filter circuit. In most of the world a 50 µs time constant is used, in the Americas and South Korea,75 µs is used. This applies to both mono and stereo transmissions, for stereo, pre-emphasis is applied to the left and right channels before multiplexing. They cannot be pre-emphasized as much because it would cause excessive deviation of the FM carrier, systems more modern than FM broadcasting tend to use either programme-dependent variable pre-emphasis, e. g. dbx in the BTSC TV sound system, or none at all. Long before FM stereo transmission was considered, FM multiplexing of other types of audio level information was experimented with. Edwin Armstrong who invented FM was the first to experiment with multiplexing and these original FM multiplex subcarriers were amplitude modulated
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Dream On (Aerosmith song)
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Dream On is a power ballad by Aerosmith from their 1973 debut album, Aerosmith. Written by lead singer Steven Tyler, this song was their first major hit, the song received immediate heavy airplay too on the former WVBF, often showing up in the #1 position on The Top Five At Five in June 1973. Dream On was first played live in Mansfield, Connecticut at the Shaboo Inn, in a 2011 interview, Tyler reminisced about his father, a Juilliard-trained musician. He recalled lying beneath his dads piano as a three-year-old listening to him play classical music, thats where I got that Dream On chordage, he said. Tyler says that this was the song on the bands first album where he used his real voice. He was insecure about how his voice sounded on tape, so for the songs, he tried to sing a bit lower and sound more like soul artists. The song is famous for its building climax to showcase Tylers trademark screams. The main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2002 song Sing for the Moment by rapper Eminem on The Eminem Show that also features a solo from Joe Perry, the song is composed in the key of F minor. Side one Dream On Side two Somebody The original 1973 issue of this 45 has an edit of Dream On. Most of the intro has been edited out and the first chorus is replaced with the second chorus, the second issue from 1976 contains the album version. Dream On Dream On Walk This Way Long a concert staple, the band has also played Dream On with an orchestra on a couple of occasions. One of these performances, conducted by Michael Kamen, was performed live for MTVs 10th Anniversary, additionally, in 2006, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed the song live with the Boston Pops Orchestra at their Fourth of July spectacular. On September 19,2006, Aerosmith dedicated the song to captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser. On September 22,2007, at a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aerosmith dedicated the song to one of their fans, Monica Massaro, who had been murdered earlier that year. On May 25,2013, Tyler performed a rendition of the song live during the finale of the tenth season of American Idol. After the Boston Marathon Attacks, Tyler performed the song at the Boston Strong Concert, a coinciding video directed by Marty Callner was also created at the MTV 10th anniversary special performance with the orchestra. Bootleg Greatest Hits Classics Live I A Little South of Sanity Big Ones Young Lust, The Aerosmith Anthology O, Ultimate Aerosmith Hits Devils Got a New Disguise Music from the Original Motion Picture Last Action Hero It also appears on both of the bands box sets. The song Dream On is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and it is also ranked #173 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Same Old Song and Dance
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Same Old Song and Dance is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry and it was released on March 19,1974 as the lead single of their second studio album, Get Your Wings. It has remained a staple on most rock stations and in the bands setlist. The song was built around a riff that Joe Perry came up with while sitting on his amp, Steven Tyler quickly came up with the lyrics. The songs lyrics are sung in sync with the riff in the song. Additionally, the song is known for its rhythm and the dueling guitars by Perry and Brad Whitford. Dick Wagner plays the solo on the Get Your Wings recording. The song has remained a fan favorite and a staple in the live shows. The band often does an extended jam during the live in concert. This extended jam at the end of a song is used as a showcase for bassist Tom Hamilton, Steven Tyler is also known to do his trademark scat singing during these jams. Same Old Song and Dance has been featured on numerous Aerosmith compilations including Greatest Hits, Pandoras Box, O, ultimate Aerosmith Hits, and Greatest Hits 1973–1988. It is also referenced in the Twisted Sister song What You Dont Know off their album Under the Blade, the song is a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock as a Master Track. Jack Russell, Jeff Skunk Baxter, Jeff Pilson, Bobby Blotzer and Edgar Winter covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song, additional guitars were by the albums producers Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet
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Sweet Emotion
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Sweet Emotion is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released by Columbia Records in April 1975 on the album Toys in the Attic and was released as a single a month later on May 19. The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for the remainder of the 1970s, the song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton, produced by Jack Douglas and recorded at the Record Plant. Sweet Emotion was released as a single on May 19,1975, the day it hit #36 on the U. S. chart, July 19,1975, Aerosmith was booked at a gig in New York Citys Central Park, called the Schaefer Music Festival. The re-released version went on to hit #6, the highest chart performance in the 1970s for the band, Sweet Emotion remains successful in the modern day, having sold over three million digital downloads. Many Aerosmith fans believe that Steven Tyler wrote all of the lyrics to the song about the tension, Tyler himself has said that only some of the lyrics were inspired by Perrys wife. The introduction builds with the use of a box by Perry. Eventually Tyler joins in, singing in unison with Perrys talk box, the actual talk box device used was called The Bag and was made by Kustom Electronics. The now discontinued device had used earlier by guitarists including Jeff Beck. The song kicks into a rocking rhythm with dueling guitars. The chorus of the consists of a repeating guitar riff followed by a mirror of the sweet emotion intro. On the 1980 compilation album Aerosmiths Greatest Hits, Sweet Emotion appears in edited form, the bass and talk box introduction is deleted, and the track begins with the chorus that precedes the first verse. The guitar solo at the end of the song was also excised, and the track concludes with the chorus and this same edit was used for the original single release of the song, which was quickly replaced in subsequent pressings with the album version from Toys in the Attic. Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Devils Got a New Disguise, Live, bootleg, Classics Live I, A Little South of Sanity, Greatest Hits 1973–1988 and Rockin the Joint. It is often included on greatest song lists or greatest rock song lists, the song is featured as part of a medley in one of the limo trains on The Rock n Roller Coaster, Starrin Aerosmith at Disneys Hollywood Studios in Orlando Florida. The differences from the original are that the drums are mixed louder, with reverb. A new music video was filmed and released in support of the single, the re-released version reached #36 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #74 in the United Kingdom. The remixed version was issued on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Armageddon. The video for the version is based on a phone sex conversation
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Walk This Way
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Walk This Way is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was released as the second single from the 1975 album Toys in the Attic. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, on their 1986 album Raising Hell. This cover was a touchstone for the new subgenre of rap rock, or the melding of rock. It became a hit and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap – Single in 1987. The song starts out with a two measure drum beat intro by Joey Kramer, followed by the well known guitar riff by Joe Perry, the song proceeds with the main riff made famous by Perry and Brad Whitford on guitar with Tom Hamilton on bass. The song continues with rapid fire lyrics by Steven Tyler, in December 1974, Aerosmith opened for The Guess Who in Honolulu. During the sound check, guitarist Joe Perry was fooling around with riffs and thinking about The Meters, loving their riffy New Orleans funk, especially Cissy Strut and People Say, he asked the drummer to lay down something flat with a groove on the drums. The guitar riff to what would become Walk This Way just came off hands, needing a bridge, he played another riff and went there. But I didnt want the song to have a typical, boring 1,4,5 chord progression, after playing the first riff in the key of C, I shifted to E before returning to C for the verse and chorus. By the end of the check, I had the basics of a song. When bandmate Steven Tyler heard Perry playing that riff he ran out and sat behind the drums, Tyler scatted nonsensical words initially to feel where the lyrics should go before adding them later. When the group was halfway through recording Toys in the Attic in early 1975 at Record Plant in New York City and they had written three or four songs for the album, having to write the rest in the studio. They decided to give the song Perry had come up with in Hawaii a try, deciding to take a break from recording, band members and producer Jack went down to Times Square to see Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein. Returning to the studio, they were laughing about Marty Feldman telling Gene Wilder to follow him in the film, saying walk this way, douglas suggested this as a title for their song. At the hotel that night Tyler wrote lyrics for the song and he says, I must have been stoned. All the blood drained out of my face, but no one believed me and they thought I never got around to writing them
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Back in the Saddle
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Back in the Saddle is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and it is the first song on Aerosmiths pinnacle hard rock album Rocks released in 1976. The song was released as the single from the album in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, the songs main riff was written by Joe Perry on a Fender Bass VI, which gives the song its distinctive growl. Brad Whitford plays the guitar part. Back in the Saddle also features one of the heaviest and noticeable bass lines by Tom Hamilton, a real bullwhip was intended to be used for the whip effects and hours were spent trying to get it to crack. The band members ended up cut up and hurt without making any progress, eventually, the band decided the whip effects would be created by whirling a 30-foot cord from the studio, then by firing a cap gun to create the crack of the whip. When the song is performed in concert, Tyler often makes more noticeable lyrical and visible references to sex. Although the lyrics, by Tyler, were written with the idea of cowboys and sex. Today, the remains a staple on classic rock radio. It is arguably one of the heaviest songs of Aerosmiths Top 40 singles, the saddle Tyler refers to in the song is metaphorical to several sexual positions. Sebastian Bach covered the song on his 2007 solo album Angel Down as a duet with Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose, Mark Slaughter, Albert Lee, Rudy Sarzo and Frankie Banali covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. Additional guitars were by the producers, Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet. Provided theme music for the NFL season kick-off in 2003 and it can be heard in the film License to Drive starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman while they attend a party. A remake of song, filmed in Las Vegas, served as ESPNs theme music for NASCAR in 2007. Was used as music for the late Canadian professional wrestler. It was also used as music for Prime Time Brian Lee during his reign as Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion. Is used in the film Shanghai Noon as background music, the specific scene finds the movies protagonists escaping the hangmans gallows
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Last Child
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Last Child is a song performed by American rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Brad Whitford and it was released as the first single from the bands album Rocks in 1976. The song peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of many in a string of hit singles for the band in the mid-1970s, the song is one of the most famous co-contributions of Brad Whitford to the band. Live, he plays a variation of the solo as heard on the original recording. The song opens like a song, with the slow, careful playing of the guitar. Long after its release, Last Child continues to see regular airplay on radio stations and is regularly rotated into Aerosmiths concert setlist. In concert, it is often Whitfords feature spot, in which Tyler gives him an introduction with something like Brad Whitford, or What do you got up your sleeve. Whitford often does a bit of an intro before playing the opening notes to the song. During his appearance as a guest on That Metal Show in 2012, Whitford stated that he actually wrote, Last Child has also been re-released on numerous Aerosmith compilations including Aerosmiths Greatest Hits, O, Yeah. Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, and Devils Got a New Disguise as well as numerous live collections including Live, bootleg, Classics Live II, and A Little South of Sanity. The song is one of Aerosmiths most funk-based tracks, modeled after the band The Meters, mickey Thomas, Earl Slick, Nathan East and Steve Ferrone covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. A cover version of this appears in the game Guitar Hero II. The cover is based on the version from A Little South of Sanity. A cover version is a track in the setlist of Guitar Hero II
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Toxic Twins
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The Toxic Twins is a nickname given to lead singer Steven Tyler and lead guitarist Joe Perry of American hard rock band Aerosmith. They were given name in the 1970s, due to their rampant use of drugs both on and off stage, which was a toxic combination that almost ended their careers. To this day, they are commonly referred to by this nickname, despite going clean. Their camaraderie can be viewed in several of the videos, such as The Making of Pump, Big Ones You Can Look At. An accomplished songwriting duo, the Toxic Twins are often referred to as the Tyler/Perry partnership in songwriting and have written over 85 songs together, in 2013, Tyler and Perry were recipients of the ASCAP Founders Award and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Often, the Toxic Twins will appear for special performances, appearances, notable times when this has happened, include, A1981 Cheap Trick concert at Boston Garden where Tyler and Perry performed with Cheap Trick. A1986 collaboration with Run D. M. C. for a remake of the Aerosmith song Walk This Way, which pushed hip hop music into the mainstream, and jumpstarted Aerosmiths career again. The recording of the remake of the song and filming of the video for Wild Thing with other rock stars, an appearance at a Bon Jovi concert in 1989 in Milton Keynes, where Tyler and Perry joined Bon Jovi for a performance of Walk This Way. An appearance at a Guns N Roses concert in 1992 in Paris where Tyler, a 1995 performance with Led Zeppelin at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. An appearance at a Stone Temple Pilots concert in 1996 in New York where Tyler, a tribute to Bob Marley, Roots, Rock, Reggae, from the album Chant Down Babylon. An appearance at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in which Tyler and Perry performed with Kid Rock, a February 2003 performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where Tyler and Perry played Slim Harpos 1957 hit Im a King Bee. This performance was captured on Antoine Fuquas documentary Lightning in a Bottle, lets Get Loud for the 2003 ESPY Awards with Chuck D, Busta Rhymes, Phife Dawg & Mc Lyte A rendition of Wild Thing for a 2004 rugby advertising. A2012 performance of their 1978 hit Chip Away the Stone with Randy Jackson, a live episode of American Idol in 2012, where Perry surprised Tyler with a guitar rendition of Happy Birthday for Tylers 64th birthday. A collaboration with Buddy Guy and Brad Whitford on Evil Twin in the album Rhythm & Blues of 2013 and their rerecording of Back in the Saddle appear legally but without their permission in the film Shanghai Noon. The two used to co-own a restaurant in Norwell, Massachusetts called Mount Blue, of which they have sold their shares. In the mid-1990s, between the albums Get a Grip and Nine Lives, Tyler and Perry and their families vacationed together in Florida, Tyler and Perry are a notable songwriting duo, and have an impressive collection of songs they have written together. Among these are, The name Toxic Twins may have inspired by one of the duos main influences, the Glimmer Twins. Mötley Crües Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee were also known as the Terror Twins, an achievement in the Xbox 360 version of the game Guitar Hero II is titled the Joe and Steven Award in tribute to the Toxic Twins
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Draw the Line (Aerosmith album)
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Draw the Line is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released December 1,1977. It was recorded in a convent near New York City. The portrait of the band was drawn by the celebrity caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, according to AllMusic, The band shies away from studio experimenting and dabbling in different styles, instead they return to simple, straight-ahead hard rock. Magazine listed the album at #37 among the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, by 1977, Aerosmith had released four studio albums, the two most recent - Toys in the Attic and Rocks - catapulting the band to stardom. However, as the band recording their next album, Draw the Line, their excessive lifestyle, combined with constant touring. Draw the Line was untogether because we werent a cohesive unit anymore and we were drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs. The plan failed miserably, however, with Tyler recalling, Drugs can be imported, hiding us away in a three-hundred room former convent was a prescription for total lunacy. Largely due to their consumption, both Tyler and Perry were not as involved in the writing and recording as they had been on previous albums. According to Perry, A lot of people had input into that record because Steven, Draw the Line, I Wanna Know Why, and Get It Up were the only things Steven and I wrote together. Tom, Joey and Steven came up with Kings and Queens, Brad and Steven wrote The Hand That Feeds, which I didnt even play on because Id stayed in bed the day they recorded it and Brad played great on it anyway. But because they were halfhearted about the record, I was too and they lyrics to Critical Mass came from a dream I had at the Cenacle. I never expected Steven to record it, but he didnt have anything else, Steven and I wrote the lyrics together, which was like pulling teeth. For his part, Tyler has maintained that it was the bands lethargy, not his, I write exactly to the music, and when the music aint coming, neither were the lyrics. However, Tyler confessed to Alan di Perna of Guitar World in April 1997, in the past, I always had to be there and hear every note that was going down - who was playing what and were they out of tune. I just didnt care anymore. Tylers condition is evident in some of his lyrics, such as the line pass me the vial, in the VH1 Behind the Music episode on the group Douglas states, People were shooting, bullets were flying. You know, they dont go together, with drummer Joey Kramer adding, I dont know if we did any of those sessions, or made any of that record, relations deteriorated further when Perry presented Bright Light Fright to the band and they didnt like it. I said, Do you want to do it or not, Perry, who has stated the song was inspired by the Sex Pistols, sang the song himself on the LP. Of the ironically titled Draw the Line, Tyler later recalled, Joe had this lick on a bass that was so definitive
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Draw the Line (song)
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Draw the Line is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and was released in 1977 as the first single from the album Draw the Line and it peaked at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was included on their album Greatest Hits, the song slows down before building to a climax showcasing Steven Tylers trademark scream. These include placing the guitar on the floor and beating it with his shirt, the song appears as a hidden track on Live. Bootleg following their cover of James Browns Mother Popcorn, on more recent tours, he has also been known to employ a theremin in an extended breakdown of the song, often imitating Jimmy Pages use of one in Led Zeppelins heyday. The band often follow with a snippet of Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love before returning into the song. The b-side of some versions of the single, Chip Away the Stone, was not on the Draw the Line album but eventually surfaced on Gems. Chip Away the Stone was written by Richie Supa and received an amount of radio airplay after the release of Gems. Many versions of the Draw the Line single also had Bright Light Fright as the B-side, thrash metal band Testament recorded a cover of Draw the Line for a greatest hits compilation of theirs, making it the second Aerosmith song they have covered, the first being Nobodys Fault. Jeff Keith, Tommy Skeoch, Tony Levin and Eric Singer covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song, a stereo remix is on Pandoras Box and the O, Yeah. Pearl Jam performed a cover of the song for the first time at their August 5,2016 show at Bostons Fenway Park
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Kings and Queens (Aerosmith song)
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Kings and Queens is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, and Jack Douglas, their producer, Douglas also played the mandolin featured in the song. The song first appeared on the album Draw the Line in December 1977 and was released as a single on February 21,1978, the song was also used as a B-side to Aerosmiths version of The Beatles Come Together, released to promote the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band film and soundtrack, Steven Tyler said of Kings and Queens in the liner notes to Pandoras Box, The song was a staple of Aerosmith concerts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and was included on the album Classics Live. This version was included on Pandoras Box. However, the band has played it since. However, the band tends to favor performing Draw the Lines other single, the title track, the song was included on the albums Aerosmiths Greatest Hits in 1980 and Greatest Hits 1973–1988 in 2004, but was considerably edited, with many of the guitar parts removed. This edited version is heard on radio, although many rock stations do play the full version. Kings and Queens is a track in the game Guitar Hero, Aerosmith and is unlocked upon beating the last song. Glenn Hughes recorded a version of the song in 2011
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Spectrum (arena)
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The Spectrum was an indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Spectrum was demolished between November 2010 and May 2011, a more than a year after the arenas final event took place on October 31,2009. Ground was broken on the arena on June 1,1966, by Jerry Wolman, the first event at the arena was the Quaker City Jazz Festival on September 30,1967, produced by Larry Magid. The NBA 76ers also moved there from Convention Hall as a major league sports tenant. Lou Scheinfeld, former President of the Spectrum, explained that the name Spectrum was selected to evoke the broad range of events to be held there. The SP for sports and South Philadelphia, E for entertainment, C for circuses, T for theatricals, R for recreation, and UM as um, what a nice building. Scheinfeld also said that a seat in the citys first superbox initially cost $1,000 a year, For every Flyers game, Sixers game, circus, you name it, the Flyers won their first ever home game in this arena by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins, 1-0. Bill Sutherland scored the arenas first goal, the 76ers moved their home games to Convention Hall and to the Palestra, but neither of those arenas had ice rinks at the time, and there were no other NHL-quality sites in the Philadelphia area. Similarly, in 1993, the Flyers played a day game against the Los Angeles Kings during a blizzard, a piece of flying debris smashed out one of the concourse windows, cancelling the game just after the first period. In the 1970s, the location on Broad Street and the reputation for fisticuffs that the Flyers had developed led to the nickname Broad Street Bullies. A plaque inside The Spectrum stated that it held the record for the fastest conversion from Hockey to Basketball. The Spectrum, along with the Met Center and The Forum, was one of the first sports arenas to have a scoreboard with a messageboard. Furthermore, the messageboards on the Spectrum scoreboard were the first dot matrix screens in pro hockey or basketball, capable of photos, animation, and replays as well as messages. This was replaced in 1986 with ArenaVision, which consisted of six 9-by-12-foot rear-projection videoscreens at the top, inside the videoscreens were General Electric projectors located 15 feet away from each screen. Two games in the inaugural Canada Cup hockey tournament were held at the Spectrum in September of that year, as the U. S. took on Czechoslovakia. Ten NHL or NBA playoff championship series were hosted at the Spectrum, the Flyers competed in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1974,1975,1976,1980,1985, and 1987. The 76ers played in the NBA Finals in 1977,1980,1982, the 1976 and 1992 NHL, and 1970 and 1976 NBA All-Star Games were also held here. The AHL Phantoms also won their first Calder Cup title on Spectrum ice before a crowd of 17,380 on June 10,1998, by defeating the Saint John Flames
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Live! Bootleg
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Bootleg is a double live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1978. While most of the performances were drawn from concerts in 1977 and 1978, the back of the CD cover includes two coffee stains over the picture of Joe Perry playing before a live audience. The record also features one of Aerosmiths first live versions of The Beatles Come Together and this album was briefly featured on the episode Prank Day of That 70s Show. In the band memoir Walk this Way, Perry recalls, I didnt want to do an album at the time because there were so many perfect live albums coming out. Double live album - standard of the industry, I felt like we had to avoid that and do a real live album like Live at Leeds or Get Yer Ya Yas Out or that old Kinks album. Barry Levine, Ron Pownall, Aaron Rapoport, Steve Smith Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard Live Bootleg at MusicBrainz
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Chip Away the Stone
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Chip Away the Stone is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by professional songwriter Richie Supa, it was released in 1978 as the single to support the bands live album Live. It also appeared on the Cal Jam II live album, despite being the recording from Live. The live version appears on Live. Bootleg was recorded in Santa Monica on April 8,1978. O. S, from their 1974 album Get Your Wings. The front and back cover of Night in the Ruts come from a photoshoot originally intended for the cover of this single. Chip Away the Stone peaked at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, the song was also included on the albums Gems in 1988, Pandoras Box in 1991, and Greatest Hits 1973–1988 in 2004. Live video is featured on Aerosmith Video Scrapbook. The song re-charted in 1988 at #13 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the 1989 single contains the original studio version of S. O. S as the B side. The song was a part of the setlist in Aerosmith concerts in 1978. Although rumored not to be played at Cal Jam II, listening to their set from that night reveals that they did in fact play Chip Away the Stone. 35 years after its release, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed this song with Randy Jackson, a music video was produced to promote the single. The video was directed by Arnold Levine, humble Pie covered the song on their 1981 album Go for the Throat. New Bomb Turks covered the song on their 2003 album Switchblade Tongues, vince Neil, Blues Saraceno, Ricky Phillips, Pat Torpey and Paul Taylor covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. Backing vocals were by David Glen Eisley, the Hot Club of Cowtown did a tongue-in-cheek country-style version on their 2002 album Ghost Train. Guns N Roses covered part of the song during their Up Close and Personal Tour
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
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Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Michael Schultz and written by Henry Edwards. The film tells the loosely constructed story of a band as they wrangle with the industry and battle evil forces bent on stealing their instruments. The film is presented in a similar to that of a rock opera. Only George Burns has spoken lines that act to clarify the plot, the films soundtrack, released as an accompanying double album, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by the Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of the albums, 1967s Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1969s Abbey Road, the film covers all of the songs from the Sgt. Pepper album with the exceptions of Within You, Without You and Lovely Rita, the production was loosely adapted from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road, a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom OHorgan, the film was produced by Robert Stigwood, founder of RSO Records, who had earlier produced Saturday Night Fever. RSO Records also released the soundtrack to the film Grease in 1978, the Beatles former producer, George Martin, served as musical director, conductor, arranger and producer of the films soundtrack album. Before the films release, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees announced and they dont exist as a band and never performed Sgt Pepper live in any case. When ours comes out, it will be, in effect, Mr. Kite, the elderly mayor of the wholesome small town of Heartland, recounts the history of Heartlands celebrated marching band, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, who brought happiness through their music, when the bandleader died in 1958, he left the bands magical musical instruments to the town, and as long as they remain in Heartland, people will live happily ever after. The City Hall contains the instruments, and is topped with a Magical Weather Vane in the shape of a marching band trumpeter that foresees good, the bandleader left his musical legacy to his handsome and good-hearted grandson, Billy Shears, who forms a successor Sgt. Peppers band with his best friends the Hendersons, billys jealous and money-hungry stepbrother, Dougie, serves as the bands manager. Heartland loves the new band, and soon record company executive B. D. invites them to Hollywood with the promise of a record deal, Billy bids farewell to his sweet hometown girlfriend, Strawberry Fields. Once in Hollywood, B. D. gets the band to sign an exploitative contract by plying them with drugs and alcohol and getting sexy singers Lucy. Lucy starts an affair with Billy, who momentarily forgets Strawberry, the band quickly succeeds with hit records and sold-out shows. Meanwhile, the villain Mr. Mustard and his henchman the Brute drive to Heartland in their computer-, without the instruments, Heartland, now under Mustards control, quickly degenerates into a hotbed of vice and urban decay
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Come Together
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Come Together is a song by the Beatles written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the track on the album Abbey Road and was also released as a single coupled with Something. The song reached the top of the charts in the United States and its gobbledygook, Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldnt come up with one, but I came up with this, Come Together, which wouldve been no good to him - you couldnt have a campaign song like that, right. It has been speculated that each verse refers cryptically to one of the Beatles and it has also been suggested that the song has only a single pariah-like protagonist and Lennon was painting another sardonic self-portrait. Lennon played rhythm guitar and sang the vocal, McCartney played bass, Harrison played lead guitar and it was produced by George Martin and recorded at the end of July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios. In the intro, Lennon says, shoot me, which is accompanied by his handclaps, the famous Beatles walrus from I Am the Walrus and Glass Onion returns in the line he got walrus gumboot, followed by he got Ono sideboard. Bluesman Muddy Waters is also mentioned in the song, Lennon replied, Dont worry, Ill do the overdubs on this. Come Together was released as the B-side of Something and as the track of Abbey Road. The single was released on 6 October 1969 in the US, was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 16 weeks, the single had less success when it was released on 31 October 1969 in the UK, only reaching No. 4, possibly due to the BBC banning the song because the mention of Coca-Cola violated the BBCs policy against product placement. Rolling Stone ranked Come Together at #202 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, along with Something, Come Together became the Beatles 18th number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, surpassing Elvis Presleys record of 17. In 1973, Come Together was the subject of a lawsuit brought against Lennon by Big Seven Music Corp. who was the publisher of Chuck Berrys You Cant Catch Me, Levy contended that it sounded similar musically to Berrys original and shared some lyrics. Before recording, Lennon and McCartney deliberately slowed the song down, after settling out of court, Lennon promised to record three other songs owned by Levy. A brief version of Ya Ya with Lennon and his son Julian was released on the album Walls and Bridges in 1974. You Cant Catch Me and another version of Ya Ya were released on Lennons 1975 album Rock n Roll, Levy again sued Lennon for breach of contract, and was eventually awarded $6,795. Lennon countersued after Levy released an album of Lennon material using tapes that were in his possession and was eventually awarded $84,912.96, the availability of separate tracks from the original Beatles multi-tracks have made fresh investigation of the Beatles personnel data possible. One of the discoveries is that on the verses of Come Together, when it came time to record it, John played the electric piano instead of Paul
