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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Samantha Fox
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Samantha Karen Fox is an English dance-pop singer, songwriter, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at age 16, she began appearing as a model on Page 3 of British tabloid The Sun. During this time, she became the most popular girl of her era. She later came out as a lesbian, in 1986, she launched her pop-music career with her debut single Touch Me, which hit number one in 17 countries. In 1988, Fox received a Brit Award nomination for Best British Female Artist and she has also appeared in a number of films and reality television shows, and has occasionally worked as a television presenter. Fox was born in Mile End, East London, the eldest daughter of actress Carole Ann Wilken and she has a younger sister, Vanessa, and two half-siblings from her fathers second marriage, Frederica and Frankie. Fox comes from a family of market traders, Fox attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green and took an interest in the theatre from an early age. She first appeared on a stage at age three, and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from age 15. The next year she got her first record deal, with Lamborghini Records, in 1983, when Fox was 16, her mother submitted several photographs that she had taken of her daughter in lingerie to The Sunday People newspapers Girl of the Year amateur modelling contest. She came in out of 20,000 entrants and the photographs drew her to the attention of the newspaper The Sun. Her parents gave their consent for her to pose topless, and she signed a four-year Page 3 modelling contract with the Sun, and won its Page 3 Girl of the Year award for three consecutive years between 1984 and 1986. She is recognized today as the most popular girl of her era. In 1986, Fox retired from Page 3 modelling, at the age of 20, in 1995, aged 29, she made a one-off appearance in The Sun to promote Page 3s 25th anniversary. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the every day of that week. The following year, she appeared in the October issue of Playboy magazine, in 2008, Fox was voted the top Page 3 girl of all time. In December 2009, her latest compilation was issued, Greatest Hits, in 2012 her first 4 albums were-re-issued as double deluxe CDs by Cherry Red. In the late 1980s, Fox appeared in advertisements for Leicestershire-based car dealership network with the slogan Follow the Fox to Swithland Motors. Around the same time, she appeared in television adverts for bingo in The Sun newspaper
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Dance-pop
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Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s. It is generally up-tempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable, the genre, on the whole, tends to be producer-driven, despite some notable exceptions. Dance-pop borrowed influences from other genres, which varied by producer, artist, such include contemporary R&B, house, trance, techno, new jack swing, funk, synthpop, electropop and some forms of europop. Dance-pop is a mainstream style of music and there have been numerous pop artists. As the term started to go out of fashion by the late 1970s to early 1980s, other terms were commonly used to describe disco-based music, such as post-disco, club. Dance-pop music emerged in the 1980s as a combination of dance and pop, or post-disco, Dance-pop music was usually created, composed and produced by record producers who would then hire singers to perform the songs. In the beginning of the 80s disco was an anathema to the mainstream pop, according to prominent Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Madonna had a huge role in popularizing dance music as mainstream music, utilizing her charisma, chutzpah and sex appeal. Erlewine claimed that Madonna launched dance-pop and set the standard for the genre for the two decades. The staff of Vice magazine stated that her debut album drew the blueprint for future dance-pop, in the 1980s dance-pop was closely aligned to other up-tempo electronic genres, such as Hi-NRG. Prominent producers in the 1980s included Stock, Aitken and Waterman, during the decade, dance-pop borrowed influences from funk, new jack swing, and contemporary R&B. Other prominent dance-pop artists and groups of the 1980s included the Pet Shop Boys, Mel and Kim, Samantha Fox, Debbie Gibson, by the 1990s, dance-pop had become a major genre in popular music. Several dance-pop groups and artists emerged during the 1990s, such as the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Backstreet Boys, during the early 1990s, dance-pop borrowed influences from house music, as well as contemporary R&B and new jack swing. Additionally, also in 1998, Cher released a song called Believe which made usage of a technological innovation of the time. An audio processor and a form of pitch modification software, Auto-Tune is commonly used as a way to correct pitch, since the late 1990s, the use of Auto-Tune processing has become a common feature of dance-pop music. Celine Dion also released a dance-pop song Thats the Way It Is by the end of 1999 and it has a moderately slow tempo but an up-beat song. At the beginning of the 2000s, dance-pop music was still prominent, nonetheless, as R&B and hip hop became extremely popular from the early part of the decade onwards, dance-pop often borrowed a lot of its influences from urban music. Dance-pop stars from the 1980s and 1990s such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Janet Jackson, in Madonnas case, her album Music contained elements of Euro disco, especially the successful eponymous lead single. Britney Spears album Blackout contained influences of Euro disco, the mid-to-late 2000s saw the arrival of several new dance-pop artists, including Rihanna, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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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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Jive Records
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Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s, jIVEs best-selling artists worldwide were the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Britney Spears. Today, the Jive brand is being used under the Sony Music France division under the name JIVE Epic France. In 1971, South African musicians Clive Calder and Ralph Simon began a publishing and it was named Zomba Records and relocated to London, England, four years later, their first client was a young Robert Mutt Lange. Zomba originally wanted to record labels, choosing instead to focus on their songwriters and producers while allowing other established labels to release the material. Later that decade, the opened offices in the US. In 1981, Zomba formed JIVE Records, whose operations began with the release of British dance and pop music such as Q-Feel, A Flock of Seagulls and its name was inspired by township JIVE, a type of music that originated in South Africa. Davis had hoped that Zombas connection with Mutt Lange would help alleviate the difficulties Arista was having finding potentially successful rock acts. By 1982, Calder was introduced to Barry Weiss, a college graduate who took Calder out to hip-hop clubs in New York City for his job interview with Zomba. He was immediately impressed, Together, they began grooming musicians for what would eventually become Whodini, after two days, the group created and recorded its hit single Magics Wand. While the group would eventually leave JIVE, the success allowed the label to focus on hip-hop artists throughout the 1980s. In 1987, JIVE cut distribution ties with Arista, effectively separating them from Daviss authority, who eschewed hip-hop. As the 1980s drew to a close, the label entered a deal with RCA Records, by the late 1990s, JIVE began signing pop acts Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Britney Spears. All three achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, becoming the three best-selling acts in the labels history, in 1991, Barry Weiss became CEO and president of JIVE Records. After two decades, he left JIVE in March 2011 for Universal Music Group, the company was later reorganized with some artists moving to a restructured Epic Records, while others stayed with JIVE as it moved under the RCA Music Group. In April 2011, it was reported that Jay-Z had outbid executives at JIVE to acquire independent record label Block Starz Music. On October 7,2011, it was announced that JIVE, along with Arista and J Records would be shut down to refresh, all artists on those labels were moved to RCA Records. JIVE Records remains active in France as JIVE Epic, serving as the label for international pop
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I Wanna Have Some Fun
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I Wanna Have Some Fun is the third album by Samantha Fox, released in November 1988 by Jive Records. The album is a mixture of dance pop, R&B and bubblegum, replete with drum machines. The album was produced by various producers covering the Euro-pop sound, the first single released from the album in the UK was Love House, released November 1988, it reached #32. In the United States the first single release I Wanna Have Some Fun fared even better, produced by Full-Force, it reached #8 in the US Top Ten, though when released as the third single in the UK, in June 1989, only managed #63. The second single released in the UK in January 1989, I Only Wanna Be with You, was her biggest UK hit in over a year and this was also the second single in the US where it peaked inside the Billboard top 40 at #31. Love House, on its release as the single in the US. No further singles were released from the album, although Your House Or My House was reported by the fan club to be in the running for a Canadian single release
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21st Century Fox (album)
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21st Century Fox is the fifth studio album of British model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. The eurodance-pop album was released by Ichiban Records in 1998, after a six-year hiatus, Samantha Fox returned to the studio to record her fifth album, 21st Century Fox. She had a new look and a new style in music, in fact, this album focused on the dance genre and was a big hit in clubs around Europe. The first song released was Deeper, which was unsuccessful, though receiving a lot of airplay and she released her first single, Let Me Be Free, which marked a comeback for her, charting in some European countries. The video shows Fox in the box ring with a male lover, further singles were the Latin-flavoured The Reason Is You and Perhaps. A remixed version of 21st Century Fox was released by Phantom Records as Watching You, Watching Me in 2002
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Full Force
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Full Force is an American group of R&B singers and producers from Brooklyn, New York. Full Force produced UTFOs Roxanne Roxanne, a record that led to several answer records, the group produced Rihannas 2005 hit That La, La, La, which appears on her debut album Music Of The Sun. The Black Eyed Peas worldwide hit Dont Phunk With My Heart was also written as a collaboration between Full Force and will. i. am of the Peas. Full Force wrote and produced most of the singles from La Toya Jacksons fifth studio album La Toya, including Youre Gonna Get Rocked. You Blew, and Such a Wicked Love, as well as Patti LaBelles track I Got It Like That, Full Force provide backing vocals on two Bob Dylan songs recorded during sessions for Infidels, Death Is Not the End (released on Down in the Groove and Tell Me. Although not included on the soundtrack, Full Forces track Aint my Type of Hype was the used in the dance battle scene with Kid n Play in the 1990 film House Party. Full Forces biggest hit from the 1990s was the Backstreet Boys hit single All I Have to Give, Full Force worked with Princes ex-wife Mayte on her album Child of the Sun. However, the songs were all produced by Prince, so they remained unreleased. Full Force also contributed to the production on Blaques 2002 unreleased album, Blaque Out, in 2006 Paul Anthony had developed mantle cell lymphoma that cause him to go bald, It is mentioned on TV Ones Unsung Documentary. In addition to their production résumé, the group have released their own albums. They placed several hit singles under their own name on the US Billboard R&B chart during the half of the 1980s. Tracks such as Unselfish Lover and Temporary Love Thing received substantial airplay, All in My Mind became the groups first and only single to date to reach the R&B Top Ten in 1988. Their 1985 single Alice, I Want You Just for Me. only made the dance and R&B charts in the US, two greatest hits compilations are available, one by Thump Records and the other by Collectables. In 2007, on its Columbia release Legendary, the group has a dedicated to Oprah Winfrey titled Were Feeling You. It was inspired by the related members mothers love for Winfrey, Thump Records, a label known for its freestyle compilations, released the groups first greatest hits compilation. They appeared in the 1990 comedy film House Party and its sequel as the villains of Kid n Play. 1985, Full Force 1986, Full Force Get Busy 1 Time,1987, Guess Whos Comin to the Crib. 1995, Back Together Again 1995, Its All on My Face 1985, Krush Groove 1990, House Party 1991, House Party 21993, Whos the Man
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Just One Night (Samantha Fox album)
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Just One Night is the fourth album by British model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. For this 1991 release, she once again enlisted longtime collaborators Full Force as producers on several tracks, the album continued Samantha Foxs experimentation with early 1990s house, hip-hop, dance and freestyle music. The first single, But the Pants Stay On had some radio airplay, the albums second single, Another Woman, remixed for radio, charted moderately in some Continental European countries. The album was reissued in 2012 as a special edition by Cherry Red Records in the U. K. with additional bonus tracks
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Glenn Tipton
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Glenn Raymond Tipton is an English Grammy Award-winning guitar player and songwriter. Often noted for his playing style and classically influenced solos. Tipton was born on 25 October 1947, in Blackheath, Staffordshire, to Olive and he attended Olive Hill Primary School when he was about five years old. His brother, Gary, was a player for a local band called the Atlantics. Early on, Tipton was taught to play the piano by his mother, Tipton learned to play guitar at age 19 with his first guitar being a Hofner acoustic guitar. He would then play on a Rickenbacker until he was able to afford a Fender Stratocaster and this guitar would become his main live guitar until it was stolen at a show. Tipton soon bought a black Stratocaster and, later, a Gibson SG afterwards with money he received to replace his old guitar, both of these guitars can be seen when Judas Priest played on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. Tipton lives in the village of Romsley, Worcestershire, in the West Midlands near Birmingham, during the 1980s he also bought a property in Spain. He is or was married and has two children—Karina and Rick—born on 1981 and 1986, respectively, both of whom were featured on his solo album Baptizm of Fire Tipton and fellow guitarist K. K and this band soon broke up due to management issues. In May 1974, Tipton joined Judas Priest and this was during the recording for Rocka Rolla, so Tipton quickly added his guitar parts to the album. On Sad Wings of Destiny, Tipton showed off more of his work on songs like Tyrant, Dreamer Deceiver. Tipton also presented his own songwriting on the songs Prelude, Epitaph and he frequently played keyboards on the early albums, although those were no longer featured on any songs after Hell Bent For Leather. Although Tipton wrote the lyrics for The Ripper, Epitaph, and Prelude shortly after joining Judas Priest, from then onward, Halford and Tipton would be the bands principle songwriters with occasional contributions from Downing. The year 1980s British Steel was Judas Priests commercial breakthrough and this album combined the bands trademark heavy metal sound with pop-style song structures and hooks. United and Breaking the Law were some of Judas Priests first guitar-driven songs not to include any solo sections. Judas Priest quickly shot to rock superstar status during the 80s with their albums Point of Entry, Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith, Turbo, Ram It Down, Rob Halford would leave Judas Priest in 1992 and the band would separate. Judas Priest would later return with Tim Ripper Owens in 1997 and this new version of the band recorded the albums Jugulator and Demolition. Both of these albums experimented with new sounds that distinguished them from the records with Halford, around this time, Tipton released his first solo album, Baptizm of Fire in 1997
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Judas Priest
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Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. The band has sold close to 50 million albums to date, MTV ranked them the second greatest metal band of all time. In 1989, they were named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on the song Better By You. The bands membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, the current line-up consists of Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The bands best-selling album is 1982s Screaming for Vengeance with their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, guitarist K. K. Downing, and drummer Dave Holland. Their influence, while mainly Halfords operatic vocal style and the guitar sound of Downing. Their image of leather, spikes, and other articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s. The Guardian referred to British Steel as the record that defines heavy metal, an earlier band with a different line-up had been formed in the West Midlands area in 1969 by Al Atkins, Bruno Stapenhill, John Partridge, and John Perry. Perry was killed in a car accident, according to Al Atkins. Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylans song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, the band played their first gig on 25 November 1969 at The George Hotel in Walsall and then toured Scotland in December 1969 and January 1970. The group disbanded in April 1970 after their last gig on 20 April at The Youth Centre in Cannock, the line-up that took over the name of Judas Priest included lead guitarist Kenny K. K. Downing, bassist Ian Skull Hill and drummer John Ellis. The band was founded in October 1970 in Birmingham and they agreed to join with Atkins, who suggested using his old bands name, and rehearsed at Atkins mother-in-laws house in Stone Cross. The reformed group played their first gig on 16 March 1971 at St Johns Hall, with Downing as acting leader, the band moved away from their original blues influences to play hard rock. The quartet played around Birmingham and the areas with various drummers until 1974, sometimes opening for bands such as Budgie, Thin Lizzy. Eventually, financial difficulties and problems with their management, Tony Iommis company, IMA, led to the departure of Allan Atkins, at the time, Ian Hill was dating a Walsall woman who suggested her brother, Rob Halford, as the bands singer. Halford joined them, bringing drummer John Hinch from his previous band and this line-up toured the UK, often supporting Budgie, and even headlining some shows in Norway and Germany. Before the band entered the studio to record their first album, the two guitarists worked together to adapt the existing material and Tipton also received credits as a songwriter. In August 1974, the released their debut single Rocka Rolla
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More, More, More
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More, More, More is a song written by Gregg Diamond and recorded by American disco artist Andrea True, who performed under the name Andrea True Connection. It was released in February 1976, and became her signature track, in the U. S. it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at number three on the Cashbox chart in July of that year. In Canada, it was a number-one hit, the song has been covered a number of times since by artists including Samantha Fox, Bananarama, Rachel Stevens and Dannii Minogue. In 1999 Canadian band Len sampled the break in More, More, More. The song has also used in television promotional advertisements, such as for American television series Sex. The title hook line is used as a jingle by Canadian supermarket chain Save-On-Foods, the song was originally recorded in Jamaica where True, a porn star, had been appearing in a television commercial. An attempted coup prevented her from leaving the country with her wages from the commercial, resourcefully, True called on Gregg Diamond to come down to Jamaica to write and record the song with her. Buddah Records originally released the only to discos in the winter of 1975. The popularity of More, More, More was immense, widespread listener interest convinced Buddah to release the single commercially in the spring. The song rose to four on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was a disco hit peaking at number two. Overseas, the peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart. More, More, More was covered by English group Bananarama for their album Please Yourself and it was produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman of Stock Aitken Waterman fame. Their version retained the disco feel of the original and also incorporated elements of ABBA-like production, sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, Stock and Waterman added a second verse to their version of the song. The music video featured them performing the song and dancing in a club with several male dancers backing them up. Bananaramas single version climbed to number twenty-four in the UK singles chart and it was their last single to be released by London Records, their label since 1983. The duo would not see another single-release in the UK until Move in My Direction in 2005, the song was taken from her debut album Funky Dory and was her final release from that album. The song was featured in a campaign for Sky Sports football coverage for the 2004-05 season
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Love to Love You Baby (song)
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Love to Love You Baby is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her second album of the same name. It became one of the first disco hits to be released in an extended form, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Summers only selection on this list. By 1975, Summer had been living in Germany for eight years and had participated in musical theatre shows. She had also released an album in the Netherlands entitled Lady of the Night, written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced by Bellotte and she was still a complete unknown in her home country when she suggested the lyric Love to Love You Baby to Moroder in 1975. He turned the lyric into a disco song and asked Summer to record it. The full lyrics were somewhat explicit, and at first, Summer said she would record it as a demo to give to someone else. However, Summers erotic moans and groans impressed Moroder so much that he persuaded her to release it as her own song, and Love to Love You became a moderate hit in the Netherlands. In an interview in 1976, Summer responded to a number of questions that she claimed shed been asked about the process of recording the song, Everyones asking, yes, I was alone in the studio. Yes, well, actually I had my hand on my knee, yes, on my handsome boyfriend Peter. A tape of the song was sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in the U. S. impressed with the track, Bogart continued to play it over and over all night. He later contacted Moroder and suggested that he make the track longer - possibly as long as 20 minutes, however, Summer again had reservations, she wasnt sure of all of the lyrics. Nevertheless, she imagined herself as a playing the part of someone in sexual ecstasy. The studio lights were dimmed so that Summer was more or less in complete darkness as she lay on the floor, the final recording lasted over 16 minutes, and according to the BBC, contained 23 orgasms. By that point, the song was renamed Love to Love You Baby and it took up the entire first side of the album of the same name, and was also released as a 12 single. Edited versions were found on 7 vinyl. Originally released in November 1975, the became an international disco smash. In the UK, upon release in January 1976, the song reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart in spite of the BBCs initial refusal to promote it and they also refused to play it. As a result of the success of the song, Summer would be named the first lady of love, Casablanca Records became responsible for the distribution of Summers work in the U. S. and later in other parts of the world
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Samantha Fox (album)
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Samantha Fox is the second full-length album from British model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. It was released by Jive in July 1987 and charted in the United Kingdom at number twenty-two, United States at fifty-one, Canada at forty, Australia at eighty-six, after her first album went gold, Samantha returned to the studio to record her self-titled album. She enlisted help from producers and music group Full Force, who were helping Lisa Lisa at that time and this album combines rock with freestyle and pop. She had hits with Naughty Girls, Nothings Gonna Stop Me Now, a version of the Rolling Stones Satisfaction, I Promise You, True Devotion, her first ballad song. I Promise You 3,54 Naughty Girls 5,10 True Devotion 4,37 Side 2. Nothings Gonna Stop Me Now 3,43 If Music Be the Food of Love 4,49 That Sensation 4,19 Dream City 4,55 The Best is Yet to Come 4,50 European Compact Discs Bonus Track
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Angel with an Attitude
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Angel with an Attitude is the sixth studio album released by British recording artist Samantha Fox. Angel with an Attitude was Foxs first studio album in seven years, Fox wrote Angel With An Attitude after a trying court case with her father, Patrick Fox, who had embezzled over £1 million from her accounts. Fox describes the track as one of the deepest songs she ever wrote. Foxs new manager, Myra Stratton, encouraged her take a break from music during which time Fox wrote the rest of the album, gaining inspiration from her. In the course of working on her autobiography, Fox realized that she had crossed an important chapter in her life, according to Fox the lyrics show my weakness, joy, moments of total euphoria, but also sadness. These words simply flowed from my heart, the songs reflect her despondency over past troubles as well as her ambition to overcome. The work was a progression from her earlier, less serious recordings as Fox sought to apply her experiences as a woman to the album. As a result, she says, this comes the closest to reflecting who she really is. Fox describes the album as a blend of rock with electronic sounds and she recorded it in Montreal for Canadian label La Chapelle. To promote the album, Fox filmed a video for title track in Montreal. The clip features Fox dressed as an angel in a church, the video debuted on Canadian music channel MusiMax. The album includes a track called Time, a UK garage song produced by EEDB that features The Flirtations. This number was released without Foxs vocals in 2003. The album was released on CD in Australia & New Zealand in 2007 with a remix of Foxs 1986 hit Touch Me added as another bonus and this version became available to download internationally in February 2009. On 28 January 2009 Fox digitally released a collection of five remixes from the album
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Greatest Hits (2009 Samantha Fox album)
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Greatest Hits is a 2009 album by British singer Samantha Fox. The album is a compilation of songs by recording artist Samantha Fox, further research by Cox and his Prolific Media Group team unearthed more unreleased recordings held within the BMG archives, some of which were released for the first time on this album. The collection is available in single and double disc formats. The standard edition consists of Disc 1, while the edition features an additional disc of previously rare. It also features the Marc Mysterio single Tomorrow, on which Fox provides guest vocals, Samantha Fox /Groove Stage Touch Me 09 Sleazesisters Club Mix Official website
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Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
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Touch Me was the first hit for British singer Samantha Fox. It was released in 1986 from her first album Touch Me, the single was a worldwide hit, peaking at number four in the United States, number three in her native UK, and topping the Australian and Canadian charts. In Canada, the single stayed for seven weeks at number one, the single stayed at the top of Swedens music chart for eight weeks, succeeded by Foxs second single Do Ya Do Ya. The song, recorded at Battery Studios, London, is about her searching for a man, the video featured her performing to a packed crowd wearing ripped denim jeans. During the song she pulls a young man from the crowd, a stand-out scene from the video is the close-up shot of Fox as she is heard moaning in a sexual manner. S. Parts of the song were sampled by the KLF in their single All You Need Is Love in 1987, günther – Touch Me featuring Samantha Fox the video shown on YouTube
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Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)
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Do Ya Do Ya was the second single from British singer Samantha Foxs 1986 debut album Touch Me. The hard rock song was Foxs second consecutive one in Sweden. It was also a top ten hit in the UK, Switzerland, the lyrics taunt the listener with lines such as Are you strong enough. And I could get you underneath my thumb, Fox performed the song on a 1986 episode of Top of the Pops, and to this day remains a recurring feature of her live repertoire. The music video begins with Samantha Fox emerging from a limousine in a ruffled shirt and her valet looking on, Fox performs the number with her band while pulling several pranks on them. The clip featured members of Hanoi Rocks, Nasty Suicide, Timo Timppa Kaltio, Terry Chimes and Dave Tregunna as Foxs band
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Hold On Tight (Samantha Fox song)
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Hold On Tight was the third single from British singer Samantha Foxs 1986 debut album Touch Me. Hold On Tight is a classically styled rock and roll song, the late 1980s saw a renewed interest in retro-1950s pop culture, in part spurred on by the film Back to the Future. Hold On Tights electric guitar and backbeat serve to evoke a 1950s rock, the music video reflects the songs rockabilly sensibilities by showing Samantha Fox in a diner sporting a ponytail, midriff-baring shirt, denim hot pants, and cowgirl boots. Soon after putting her song on the diners jukebox she headed outside, as she sings Hold On Tight Fox danced with greasers and youths in letterman jackets and poodle skirts, typical of 1950s fashion. Vinyl,7 UK Hold On Tight Its Only Love Vinyl,12, Picture Disc UK Hold On Tight Hold On Tight Touch Me Its Only Love
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Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (Samantha Fox song)
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Nothings Gonna Stop Me Now is a pop song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman. It was released as the first single from Samantha’s eponymous second album, Samantha Fox, the single became Samanthas third and final top ten single in the United Kingdom, peaking at #8 in June. In the United States, the single was released in the fall of 1987 and it was a Top 10 hit in Continental Europe. It also reached #22 in Australia, in 2009, Fox re-recorded the song with British producers Pete Hammond, Nathan Thomas, and Carl M Cox. It was supposed to feature on her 2009 Greatest Hits album, the first evidence of its existence was a short clip on the website, www. prolificmedia. co. uk. The 2009 version has subsequently been discovered in its entirety at www. soundcloud. com, in 2010 the song was covered by German television celebrity Daniela Katzenberger. The music video was filmed in Marbella, Spain, Samantha Fox is shown using several forms of locomotion including a Sunseeker XPS34 motorboat, a horse, an Alfa Romeo Spider, a Cessna Skymaster, and a BMX bike
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I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)
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I Surrender is a pop/dance rock song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written by Jon Astrop, Karen Moline and Mark Shreeve. It was produced by Jon Astrop, the song was released as the second single from Samantha’s second album, Samantha Fox, in the third quarter of 1987. Although failing to match the success of its predecessor, it was still a hit, the single peaked at number twenty-five in United Kingdom and charted in most European countries inside the top thirty. However, in the Netherlands, it missed the top forty, the single was not released in the United States
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Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
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Naughty Girls is a song by Samantha Fox that appeared on her second album and was released as a single in 1988. The song was a collaboration between Fox and hip-hop group Full Force and it describes how a naughty girl has unexpectedly fallen in love. The Baltimore Sun described it as not so much a song as a T-shirt with a rhythm section, in the US, Naughty Girls peaked at #3 on June 4,1988. It was ranked as the 50th most popular song of that year and it was also a top ten hit in New Zealand, Finland and Canada. The Full Force Naughty House Mix contains a sample of Boney Ms late 70s song Ma Baker, the singles music video features Fox with pink hair and a leather jacket in front of a graffiti-covered building. She is surrounded by street toughs who join Fox in a dance routine, the members of Full Force are shown providing backing vocals. It is also the title of a 1983 Adult XXX movie starring Rachel Ashley, Hyapatia Lee, Honey Wilder, the music video is featured in the 39th Beavis and Butt-head episode named Tornado
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Love House
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Love House is a pop–dance song performed by British singer Samantha Fox and written by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. It was produced by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland and it was released as the first European single from Samantha’s third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, in the third quarter of 1988. In The United States it was released as the albums third, Love House was one of the first acid house singles to appear on mainstream charts. In 2009, reflecting on the rave era Fox stated, Of course and it actually happened in London at the end of the 80’s and acid house parties were held in disused warehouses that were taken over for one night only. Among the samples used is a vocable from Just That Type of Girl by Madame X, the Black Pyramid Mix was produced by dance music pioneer Kevin Saunderson. The Orlando Sentinel praised the song saying, Rob and Ferdi Bolland twiddle the knobs to grand effect on Love House, dallas Morning News, however, dismissed the track as computerized schlock and pseudofunk. The single peaked at number thirty-two in the United Kingdom, in the United States, it failed to reach the 100 on the Billboard Singles Chart, However, it charted on the Billboard Dance Club Chart at #14. The singles music video was avant-garde in concept, with Fox shown in various outfits including a kimono, foxs exuberant performance is contrasted with eerie characters and effects, creating a sense of foreboding
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I Only Want to Be with You
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I Only Want to Be with You is a rock and roll song written by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz, I Only Want to Be with You has also been recorded by a wide range of artists, several of whom sing the song with lyrics translated from the original English. Ryder, who would later be a member of the Breakaways, had been a member of a vocal chorale, reportedly, she and Hawker had intended that she herself would record I Only Want to Be With You. However, no arrangement for this eventuality had apparently been made by the autumn of 1963. Springfield had already recorded nine tracks, none of which was deemed the right vehicle to launch her solo career. With Ryders permission, Hawker submitted I Only Want to Be With You to Franz, jean Ryder was included in the vocal chorale on the session. In the US, Dusty Springfield was the second artist of the British Invasion, after the Beatles, to have a hit, entering the Billboard chart at number 77 in the last week of January 1964. Raymondes arrangement is unmistakable, with its relentless ticker-ticker beat and cascading drum rolls, full-on choirs and it set the production standard for Springfields later hits, such as Stay Awhile and Little by Little. Springfield also recorded the song with an almost identical arrangement in German, the song was performed by Springfield on the first-ever edition of the BBCs Top of the Pops, on 1 January 1964. The song was re-released in 1988, coinciding with its use in a soft-drink commercial and it peaked at number 83 in the UK. The Bay City Rollers recorded I Only Want to Be with You for their 1976 album Dedication recorded in June and July 1976 at Soundstage Studio in Toronto with producer Jimmy Ienner. Dedication was the first Bay City Rollers recorded under the auspices of Arista Records, Jimmy Ienner was chosen by Davis to produce the Bay City Rollers on the basis of Ienners work with the Raspberries. Issued in the UK as a single on 3 September 1976, I Only Wanna Be with You - so entitled - reached number 4 UK, affording the Bay City Rollers a tenth. Conversely in the US the Bay City Rollers remake had a Billboard Hot 100 tenure of 15 weeks while the Springfield original had maintained a Hot 100 presence for 10 weeks in total. In 1979, the song was covered by The Tourists. This was the bands first and biggest hit, the song was used on a montage of stars when Thames Television went off the air in 1992. In 1988, Samantha Fox covered the song as I Only Wanna Be with You for her album I Wanna Have Some Fun and it was released as the second single in the United States and Europe from her third studio album I Wanna Have Some Fun. The song was hit for Fox, reaching number 16 in the United Kingdom
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I Wanna Have Some Fun (song)
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I Wanna Have Some Fun is a pop–dance song performed by British singer Samantha Fox. It was written and produced by Full Force and was released as the first American single from Samantha’s third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, in the US, the single was certified gold. In Europe and Australia, it was released as the albums third, the song samples Loleatta Holloways song Love Sensation and Yazoos Situation. American drag queen, Pandora Boxx, released a cover of the song in 2012 featuring Tim Permanent
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Call Me (Blondie song)
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Call Me is a song by the American new wave band Blondie and the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo. Released in the US in early 1980 as a single, Call Me was number one for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also hit #1 in the UK and Canada, where it became their fourth, in the year-end charts of 1980 it was Billboards #1 hit, and according to Billboard magazine, was the top-selling single of the year in the United States in 1980 and RPMs #3. Call Me was the theme song of the 1980 film American Gigolo. It was at time that Moroder turned to Debbie Harry. Moroder presented Harry with an instrumental track called Man Machine. Harry was asked to write the lyrics and melody, a process that Harry states took only a few hours, Harry stated that the song is about driving, and that When I was writing it, I pictured the opening scene, driving on the coast of California. The completed song was recorded by the band, with Moroder producing. The bridge of the original English-language version also includes Harry singing Call me, my darling in Italian, the Spanish version, titled Llámame, was meant for release in Mexico and some South American countries. This version was released in the US and the UK and had its CD debut on Chrysalis/EMIs rarities compilation Blonde. In 1988, a version by Ben Liebrand taken from the Blondie remix album Once More into the Bleach was issued as a single in the UK. In 2001 the original version appeared as a bonus track on the Autoamerican album re-issue. Harry recorded a version of the song, backed by the Muppet Band. It was first broadcast in January 1981, the single was released in the United States in February 1980. It peaked at No.1 for six weeks, and was certified Gold by the RIAA. It also spent four weeks at No.2 on the US dance chart, the single was also No.1 on Billboard magazines 1980 year-end chart. The song lists at No.44 on Billboards All Time Top 100 and it was released in the UK two months later, where it became Blondies fourth UK No.1 single in little over a year. The song was played on a British Telecom advert in the 1980s
