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Viacom Media Networks
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Its sister international division is Viacom International Media Networks. The company was founded in 1984 after Warner Communications and American Express decided to divest the basic cable assets of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, renaming it as MTV Networks, Warner-Amex had originally created and owned Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and The Movie Channel. Viacom acquired 66% of the company in 1985 and then acquired the remaining interest in 1986 and it was then folded into Viacom International Inc. a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. and is no longer a distinct legal entity. Viacom Media Networks family of brands is divided into three sections, based on the type of programming and audiences they serve. All networks are simulcasted in high definition aside from the music networks. The company also owns internet properties, such as MTV News, MTV International, the company ran a virtual world system, Virtual MTV in the late 2000s. It formerly owned Neopets, Atom Entertainment, and other web properties before shutting them down or selling them to companies in the 2000s and 2010s. Viacom had a division called MTV Games, which used to publish the Rock Band and Dance Central series by Harmonix Music Systems. MTV Networks opened another game division called 345 Games in New York City, the Rock Band series and the Dance Central series will be published by other publishers. The first game published by 345 Games was Ugly Americans, Apocalypsegaddeon based on the Comedy Central TV series, recently,345 Games has announced a video game based on the popular MMA franchise, Bellator Fighting Championships. Viacom International Media Networks is a division of Viacom International and its headquarters are based in New York, London, Warsaw and Buenos Aires. It consists of 64 localized MTV channels, MTV Live HD, VH1, Nickelodeon, TMF, VIVA, Comedy Central, Game One, Nitrome Limited, Shockwave, Addicting Games, Atom Films and Xfire. S. Including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon are experiencing falls in viewership unlike other US broadcasters, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon are of most concern to investors
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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MTV Live (TV network)
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MTV Live is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. In the winter of 2005, F. Stone Roberts, Agent Ogden, Colin Oberschmidt, Sonia Taylor, and George Oliphant took residence in Vail, Colorado to launch the channel. The team produced live concerts and a weekly music show, called Uncompressed. The channels original executive producer was Morgan Hertzan, who had worked with mtvU, olympic bump skier, pro football player, Jeremy Bloom was a guest VJ during the original run in Vail. Original concerts produced at Vail Resorts included James Blunt, Jamie Cullum, Yellowcard, Train, P. O. D, Hoobastank, Goo Goo Dolls, Gary Allan, The Fray, Death Cab For Cutie, and Mat Kearney. The network officially launched on January 16,2006 as Music, at its debut, the channel had limited distribution with Verizon FiOS being the only provider to carry MHD. Two months later, Cox Communications reached an agreement to carry the channel, which was added to Cox systems in New Orleans, Tulsa, Oklahoma City. Around the same time, Comcast started carrying the channel on its systems in Boston, charter Communications began carrying the channel on its St. Louis system on July 18,2006, adding the channel to its systems in the northern Midwest in early November of that year. Time Warner Cable began carrying the channel in regions in late December 2006. In 2007, Service Electric Cable Television began to carry the channel on its systems in northeastern, on October 4,2007, DirecTV began carrying the network nationwide. The channel changed its name to Palladia on September 1,2008, initially, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Televisions was the exclusive sponsor. Currently no other details outside of the notice, along with the addition of best of episodes of the PBS/KLRU music series Austin City Limits, have been revealed. Despite the rebranding, network officials made no change in focus towards any reality programming is planned. Specials formerly broadcast on MTV Live included the HD simulcasts of the MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, CMT Music Awards, as carriage of the MTV, CMT and VH1 HD simulcast networks expanded, these programs became exclusive to their parent channels HD broadcast streams. In addition to the programs listed below, MTV Live frequently broadcasts concert footage, best of Austin City Limits CMT Crossroads Epic. Awesome. Videos Front and Center Later. Official website Vail Daily Article USA Today Article
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MTV2
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MTV2 is an American digital cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel was initially broadcast over-the-air in selected markets, where the former all-request music channel known as The Box was broadcast, the channel launched initially as a constant, commercial-free music videos, once the original MTV had started to change its direction to reality television and serial documentaries. During the 2000s, the changed as well on MTV2, music video programming has been moved gradually away from MTV. In February 2015, approximately 79,416,000 American households received MTV2, MTV2 began broadcasting as simply M2 on August 1,1996 – MTVs 15th anniversary – with Becks Where Its At being the first video to air. Upon M2s launch, the new 24-hour music video proved to be as popular with viewers as MTV hoped. M2 also broadcast live over the internet during its early years, as digital cable expanded nationwide, MTV2 continued its own inexorable growth. During M2s first year, music videos were programmed to run on a 24-hour basis without repeating, leading to reports of marathon viewing sessions at college campuses across the country. However, once it became clear M2s market growth was being thwarted by the cable companies obstinance. The most obvious change—and the most upsetting to viewers—was the decision to end M2s popular 24-hour no repeat policy, predictably, this new format was as disappointing and frustrating to M2 fans as it was to the network itself. At its launch, M2 had three VJs, Jancee Dunn, Matt Pinfield and Kris Kosach, each of whom appeared on-screen 3-5 times per hour over the course of their individual 4-6 hour host segments. To many long-time MTV viewers, Pinfield was well known for hosting the seminal MTV show 120 Minutes, while Kosach, Pinfield eventually left to host other shows on MTV, while Kosach moved on to TechTV, Dunn, ever popular, remained at the channel through 2001. This unprecedented mandate gave programmers the freedom to showcase obscure and/or emerging artists, or connections between the videos themselves, e. g. the director, common themes, visual effects, etc. In addition, record companies asked to have new artists appear on the channel in taped segments with the VJs because M2 viewers were considered tastemakers and early-adopters. Even an act as huge as the Spice Girls made their first American TV appearance on M2, as did their video for Wannabe, which was a number-one hit worldwide. Starting on January 1,2000, in honor of the millennium, while a majority of videos were played, many were skipped over. The special ended in mid-April 2000, in 1997, Viacom, MTV and MTV2s parent company, bought out the independent, viewer-requested jukebox music video channel known as The Box. Starting on January 1,2001, all households that had received The Box began to receive MTV2 in its place, MTV2 also began adding television commercials to its broadcasts, beforehand, cable or satellite providers interrupted MTV2s feed to insert their own ads. MTV2 also began to separate the types of videos it played by genre, hip-hop and soul music was played for one hour every weekday at 10 a. m. and 10 p. m
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MTV Classic (U.S. TV network)
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MTV Classic is an American television network owned by Viacom Media Networks. It was originally launched in 1998 as VH1 Smooth, an adult contemporary and it was relaunched as VH1 Classic Rock in 1999, with an emphasis on classic rock. On August 1,2016, in honor of MTVs 35th anniversary, the channel was rebranded as MTV Classic, VH1 Smooth launched on August 1,1998 as a part of the Suite digital package, delaying the original launch date of July 31,1998. The channel focused on jazz, new age, and adult contemporary music. The first music video to play on the channel was a cover of Makin Whoopee by Branford Marsalis, the channel was quickly renamed VH1 Classic in 2000. The network originally played only videos but had a varied line-up of music-themed programs and they also rebroadcast programs first shown on the main VH1 channel, including Pop-Up Video and I Love the 80s. The re-branded network would also air encores of past MTV original series such as the 2011 Beavis and Butt-head revival and Laguna Beach, The Real Orange County. The networks re-launch took place at 6,00 a. m. ET with a rebroadcast of MTVs first hour on the air, several VH1 Classic programs were retained in the existing schedule, albeit in late night. Three days leading up to January 1,2017, MTV Classic aired 24-hour block Decade-a-thons consisting of videos from the 1980s leading up to the 2000s. On January 1,2017, MTV Classic unveiled a new automated all-video schedule, list of MTV channels MTV MTV2 MTV Live VH1 Official website
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MTV Tres
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MTV Tres is an American broadcast, digital cable and satellite television network owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a division of the Viacom Media Networks subsidiary of Viacom. The channel is targeted toward bilingual Latinos and non-Latino Americans aged 12 to 34, the channel is currently headed by executive vice president and general manager Jose Tillan. As of August 2013, Tr3s is available to approximately 36 million pay television households in the United States, on August 1,1998, MTV Networks launched a 24-hour digital cable channel, MTV S. On October 1,2001, the channel was relaunched as MTV Español, focusing on music videos by Latin rock, in December 2005, Viacom acquired MásMúsica and ten of the networks affiliated stations. The sale was finalized in January 2006, MTV Tr3s unofficially launched on September 4,2006, when it became available on all cable and satellite providers that previously carried MTV Español. On September 25,2006, MTV Español and MásMúsica TeVe officially merged, the first program to air on the newly formed channel was the premiere of Mi TRL at 4,30 p. m. Eastern Time. In its beginnings, MTV Tr3ss programming schedule was significantly more repetitive than MTV Español was in its last days and these programs were repeated for most of the day, which greatly reduced the amount of freeform music videos played on the channel. As months passed, however, the became more varied and diverse. MTV Tres also ran short clips promoting the channel, which continue to air to this day, on July 12,2010, MTV Tres dropped the MTV name from its logo and name, officially rebranding as simply Tr3s. With the rebrand, the network expanded its programming to include additional acquired MTV programs, Tr3s broadcasts on an Eastern Time schedule and does not timeshift its programming for other U. S. time zones due to the lack of an additional feed for the Pacific Time Zone. As such, promos for Tr3s programs reference airtimes for both the Eastern and Pacific time zones, since 2014 Tr3s broadcasts music videos for at least 22 hours each day. Clasicos- Classic music videos Cafeina- Early morning music video mix Former Classic Co, – The program, which aired weekdays at 10,00 a. m. Eastern Time, featured a mix of videos from Latino artists of the 1980s and 1990s such as Selena, Ricky Martin, the title is most likely an English-language play on the Spanish term for classic, clásico, as the title might stand for Classic Company. The program was discontinued in early 2008, Los Hits – Based on MTVs Big Ten and Más Músicas Los Top 10, this program featured the most popular videos in rotation on MTV Tr3s. It was hosted by Carlos Santos or Denise Ramirez featuring interviews with popular artists, the program was discontinued in mid-2007. Tr3s or False – This program was a music video/text message-based game show that awarded viewers points, the program was discontinued in early 2009. Music My Guey – This program focuses on viewer requested music videos, Top 20 – Similar to Las 40 Principales from Más Música, this program is a countdown of the top 20 videos in rotation on the channel during the week. In late June 2008, the changed the shows format, most music videos are no longer played in their entirety
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MTVU
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MTVU is an American digital cable television network owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. Music videos played on the channel primarily consist of rock, pop punk. MTV Networks proposal for a channel targeting college students, tentatively called MTV University, CTN began as a venture that installed video jukeboxes on campuses. Seven months later, after CTN wound up in trouble and as National Lampoon had just acquired the defunct Burly Bear. In February 2008, MTV Networks discontinued VH1 Uno, a sparsely viewed Spanish language music video channel, according to its promotional materials, MTVU broadcasts exclusive content dedicated to aspects of college life, including music, news, and on-campus events. The channel was the first MTV network to all of its content online. MTVU shows include Deans List, the MTVU Awards, and MTVU Spring Break, MTVU plays a mix of music videos with an emphasis on emerging artists. Each hour, MTVU broadcasts news updates from ABC News, including international news, twice an hour, MTV News airs stories on subjects such as music downloading, and musical artists under promotion by MTVU. Additionally, MTVU airs several programs produced by and featuring college students. It has also started a networking site Meet or Delete. MTVU broadcasts its own semi-annual awards show, the mtvU Woodie Awards, the 2006 ceremony was also notable for the altercation of Elijah Wood and Scott from the music blog Stereogum with Jared Leto. The 2008 awards had a fan voting for the Best Music On Campus award. Winners at the 2008 Woodie Awards included Paramore and There for Tomorrow, winners at the 2009 Woodie Awards included Green Day, Kings of Leon, Matt & Kim, NeverShoutNever, Tech N9ne and Hotel of the Laughing Tree. Winners at the 2014 Woodie Awards include Beyoncé, Drake, Ed Sheeran, fall Out Boy will become the first inductees at Hall of Wood at the 2015 Woodie Awards. They had won the Streaming Woodie award for Grand Theft Autumn at the first ceremony in 2004, the online game Darfur is Dying was developed as part of an MTVU contest, and other Sudan genocide coverage won MTVU two Emmys, including the 2006 Governors Award. Its Half of Us initiative won a Peabody Award in 2007 for its research and dedication to fighting depression. MTVU also provides grants for student activists, giving away $1,000 a week to various student groups, MTVU currently co-sponsors the ecomagination Challenge with GE, which aims to empower college students to solve environmental problems on campuses. MTVU also sponsored the Film Your Issue competition, a designed to encourage college-age filmmakers to make short political pieces
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Censorship on MTV
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Censorship on MTV has been the subject of debate for years. MTV, the first and most popular television network in the U. S. has come under criticism for being too politically correct and sensitive. MTV altered or removed shows from the schedule and music videos were censored, moved to late-night rotation. MTV came under criticism for being too politically correct and sensitive when it came to censorship and this was most prevalent in the eventual decline of the hit show Jackass. The creators of Jackass often felt that MTVs producers did not let the show run its course due to the excessive restraints placed on the Jackass team. MTVs influence also affected its famous animated program, Beavis and Butt-head. In the wake of controversy followed a child burning down his house after allegedly watching the show. Also, Beavis tendency to flick a lighter and scream the word fire was removed from new episodes, and controversial scenes were removed from existing episodes before rebroadcast. Some of the edits were so extensive that when series creator Mike Judge compiled his Collection DVDs he found out some of those episodes may not even exist actually in their original form. The Parents Television Council has argued that much of the material on MTV is easily discernible because of the context in which it is presented. In the 1980s, parent-media watchdog groups such as the PMRC criticized MTV over certain music videos that were claimed to have explicit imagery of Satanism, MTV has developed a strict policy on refusal to air videos that may depict devil worship or anti-religious bigotry. This led MTV to ban the videos for Jesus Christ Pose by Soundgarden, usually, all racial slurs are censored on MTV music videos and programming. MTV has emphasized racial tolerance and diversity awareness for people of all races, MTV refused to air the music video Bombs by Faithless due to its anti-war message. Examples of such edits have included, In the song Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston, in Michael Jacksons single They Dont Care About Us, MTV has replaced the words Jew me and kike me with do me and strike me in the line Jew me, sue me. Kick me, kike me, dont you black or white me, jackson argued that the song used the words to describe prejudice and that it was poor judgment to select Jewish people as explanatory words. This Love by Maroon 5 had the words coming and sinking muted out due to possible sexual connotations, to deal with criticism over risque content in certain videos, MTV moved certain videos to late-night rotation in censored format. Such videos included If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher, the song Étienne by Guesch Patti was moved to late-night rotation in MTV Europe in 1987 due to a striptease scene. In 2002, MTV2 showed this video in its special Most Controversial Videos, in 2002, only MTV2 would play the Public Enemy video Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need, because it contained free Mumia in the lyrics
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Acoustic music
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Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. The retronym acoustic music appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the guitar, electric violin, electric organ. It has its origins in the music of the 1960s. The trend has also dubbed as acoustic rock in some cases. Navigating the Music Industry, Current Issues & Business Models, Music and the Modern Condition, Investigating the Boundaries
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Eric Clapton
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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important, Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and fourth in Gibsons Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. He was also named number five in Time magazines list of The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players in 2009, in the mid-1960s Clapton left the Yardbirds to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Furthermore, he formed rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood. For most of the 1970s Claptons output bore the influence of the style of J. J. Cale. His version of Marleys I Shot the Sheriff helped reggae reach a mass market, two of his most popular recordings were Layla, recorded with Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnsons Crossroads, recorded with Cream. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Claptons grief was expressed in the song Tears in Heaven, Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music, in 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer, Fryer shipped off to war prior to Claptons birth and then returned to Canada. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the belief that Claptons real surname is Clapp. Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently, Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder and his guitar playing was so advanced that, by the age of 16, he was getting noticed. Around this time, Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, in 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. When he was seventeen years old, Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group and he stayed with this band from January until August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a stint with Casey Jones & the Engineers. In October 1963, Clapton joined the Yardbirds, a rock and roll band
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Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)
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Unplugged is a 1992 album by Eric Clapton, recorded at Bray Studios, England in front of an audience for the MTV Unplugged series. Recorded in January 1992, and released in August, songs include a version of the successful 1991 single Tears in Heaven, critical reception has been mixed, though most critics feel the album is relaxed and charming. The album won three Grammy Awards in 1993 and sold 26 million copies worldwide, Clapton performed the show in front of a small audience on 16 January 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England. In addition to the album tracks, the performance included early versions of My Fathers Eyes and Circus Left Town along with Worried Life Blues. Clapton played Martin 000-42 acoustic guitars for much of the performance, critic reception has been mixed though muted, in general, reviewers report that the album, if unremarkable, is relaxed and pleasant. Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune calls the release an album for yuppies and rates it with 2.5 of 4 stars. Clapton earned three Grammy Awards for the album, including Album of the Year, Best Rock Male Vocal Performance, although Tears in Heaven also earned three Grammy Awards, it was the version from Rush that the judges awarded. In Germany the album peaked at #3 in the German Albums Chart and sold a total of 1.25 million copies, in Austria, Unplugged held itself 46 weeks in the Austrian Albums Chart and sold more than 100,000 copies in total. In Switzerland the album also reached #3 in the countrys chart, selling 60,000 copies in the first two weeks, the live album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry – a record for any British artist. In the U. S. the album peaked at number two, on 15 October 2013 the album and concert DVD were re-released, titled Unplugged, Expanded & Remastered. The album includes the original 14 tracks, remastered, as well as six additional tracks, the DVD includes a restored version of the concert, as well as over 60 minutes of unseen footage from the rehearsal. The acoustic rework of Layla was released as the single Layla, the release reached top positions in both 1992 and 1993, reaching No.1 in the RPM Canadian Top Singles chart as well as peaking at number four in the Canadian Adult Contemporary Tracks the same year. It also became popular in the US reaching No.4 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, peaking at No.9 in the Mainstream Rock chart and it also reached the top ten five of other countries. Claptons acoustic version of Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out was released as a single in Argentina only on 27 September 1992. Journalist Morten Holgersson from Norway liked the cover version noting that Clapton recorded the song more sinfully and this, recalls Holgersson, is due to the changing of Claptons finger picking and guitar playing with a pick. He therefore ended his review saying this was tactful and percussive, american music critic Will Branson also liked Ray Coopers and Chuck Leavells work on their instruments. Running on Faith was not released as a single, but reached No.15 on the Billboard Mainstream rock chart in 1993 as well as No.28 on the Adult Contemporary chart which are based on radio airplay. Tears in Heaven was not released as a single from Unplugged but from the soundtrack for the film Rush
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Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, Carey rose to fame with the release of Vision of Love from her eponymous debut album, the album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbias highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995–1996 with One Sweet Day, following a contentious divorce from Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and traversed towards hip hop with the release of Butterfly. In 1998, she was honored as the worlds best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards, Carey parted with Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America. In the weeks prior to the release of her film Glitter and its soundtrack in 2001. The project was received and led to a general decline in the singers career. Careys recording contract was out for $50 million by Virgin. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi, Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious, and was awarded the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, according to the RIAA, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of Touch My Body, Carey gained her 18th number-one single in the United States, in 2012, the singer was ranked second on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York, to Patricia and her mother is of Irish descent, while her father had African-American and Afro-Venezuelan ancestry. The surname Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, Patricia was an occasional opera singer and vocal coach before she met Alfred in 1960. As he began earning a living as an engineer, the couple married later that year. After their elopement, Patricias family disowned her for marrying a black man, Carey later explained that she felt neglected by her maternal family while growing up, which affected her greatly. In the years between the births of Careys older sister Alison and herself, the Carey family struggled within the community due to their ethnicity, Careys name was derived from the song They Call the Wind Maria, originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. When Carey was three, her parents divorced, after their separation, Alison moved in with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and brother Morgan, remained with their mother. Carey grew apart from her father and would stop seeing him altogether. By age four, she recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, during elementary school, she excelled in subjects that she enjoyed, such as music, art, and literature, but did not find interest in others
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MTV Unplugged (Mariah Carey EP)
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MTV Unplugged is a live EP by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released in the United States on June 2,1992 by Columbia Records. The show, titled MTV Unplugged, originally aired on MTV to help promote Careys album Emotions, however, after its success, the show was released to the public as an EP, with an accompanying VHS titled MTV Unplugged +3. Upon release, the EP garnered generally positive reviews music critics. Additionally, the EP experienced strong success in international markets, such as the Netherlands and New Zealand. MTV Unplugged peaked within the top five in the United Kingdom, Ill Be There was chosen as the lead single from the album. Globally, the song was successful, topping the charts in Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, as well as attaining the top five position in Ireland and the United Kingdom. After its success, If Its Over, a song from Careys second studio effort Emotions was released, due to its exposure on the show and EP. After the release of Careys second studio album, Emotions, critics began wondering whether Carey would finally embark on a worldwide tour, having not toured to promote her self-titled debut album. However, in hopes of putting any claims of her being a manufactured artist to rest, Carey and Walter Afanasieff decided to book an appearance on MTV Unplugged, the shows purpose was to present name artists, and feature them unplugged or stripped of studio equipment. While live, the show allowed several musicians and back up vocalists, the issues Carey faced once the show was booked was the content, she didnt know what material to present at the intimate concert. While Carey felt strongly of her soulful and powerful songs. Days prior to the taping, Carey and Afanasieff thought of adding a cover version of an older song, in order to provide something different. They chose Ill Be There, a song made popular by The Jackson 5 in 1970, Careys performance was recorded on March 16,1992 at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York. The show featured a number of musicians, back-up vocalists and just a crew of ten, directed by Larry Jordan, who previously worked with Carey on the music video for Someday. Dana Jon Chapelle was chosen as the mixer, having worked with Carey on her previous two studio albums. The show began with the song Emotions Carey entered the studio dressed in a black jacket, prior to the songs studio introduction, Carey opened the song with an impromptu gospel and a cappella number, eventually leading to the songs chorus led by David Cole. The shows rhythm section was led by Gigi Conway on the drums, Randy Jackson on bass, Vernon Black on guitar, additionally, Carey had ten background singers on stage, led by Trey Lorenz and Patrique McMillan. The next song on the set-list was If Its Over, a collaboration with Carole King, Walter Afanasieff replaced Cole on the piano, during which time a set of five male musicians were brought on stage
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Rod Stewart
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Sir Roderick David Rod Stewart, CBE is a British rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He has had six number one albums in the UK and his tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that reached the top ten. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and he was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity. In October 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player, in 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars, and in August, Stewart signed a solo contract, releasing his first single, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, in October. He maintained a career alongside a group career, releasing his debut solo album. Stewarts early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, in 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at #33 in Q Magazines list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. Roderick David Stewart was born at 507 Archway Road, Highgate, North London on 10 January 1945 and his father was Scottish and had been a master builder in Leith, Edinburgh, while Elsie was English and had grown up in Upper Holloway in North London. Married in 1928, the couple had two sons and two daughters living in Scotland, and then they moved to Highgate. Stewart came after a gap following his youngest sibling, he was born at home during World War II. The family was neither affluent nor poor, Stewart was spoiled as the youngest and he had an undistinguished record at Highgate Primary School and failed the eleven plus exam. He then attended the William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School, Muswell Hill and his father retired from the building trade at age 65, buying a newsagents shop on the Archway Road when Stewart was in his early teens, the family lived over the shop. Stewarts main hobby was railway modelling, Stewart was the most talented footballer in the family and was a strong supporter of Arsenal F. C. at the time. Combining natural athleticism with near-reckless aggression, he became captain of the football team. The family were great fans of the singer Al Jolson and would sing. Stewart collected his records and saw his films, read books about him and his introduction to rock and roll was hearing Little Richards 1956 hit The Girl Cant Help It, and seeing Bill Haley & His Comets in concert. In 1960, he joined a group with schoolfriends called the Kool Kats, playing Lonnie Donegan
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Unplugged...and Seated
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Unplugged. and Seated is a live album released by British musician Rod Stewart on 24 May 1993. It is Stewarts second live album and his first appearance on MTV Unplugged, the album was released by Warner Bros. A special collectors edition was released in March 2009 on Rhino Records and this two-disc package included the DVD of the MTV performance with 13 songs while the CD contained 17 tracks including two songs not on the original 1993 release. The album was recorded on 5 February 1993 at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, the event aired on television on 5 May of the same year. Unplugged finds Stewart reunited, for the first time in twenty years, with Ronnie Wood. Stewart performs some of the classics from his repertoire such as Tonights the Night and Maggie May, the album title comes from a joke Stewart made during the taping about Stay With Me being difficult to perform while sitting down. Six songs were taped but not included on the subsequent album release, album Review information about Unplugged…and Seated. MTV Unplugged Season 4, Episode 42, Rod Stewart, Review, Rod Stewart Unplugged and Seated Collectors Edition
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10,000 Maniacs
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10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based multi-platinum alternative rock band, formed in 1981, that continues to perform and release music. In 2016, the band celebrated its 35th anniversary, the band was formed as Still Life in 1981 in Jamestown, New York, by Dennis Drew, Steven Gustafson, Chet Cardinale, Robert Buck and Teri Newhouse. Gustafson invited Natalie Merchant, who was 17 at the time, John Lombardo, who was in a band called The Mills and used to play occasionally with Still Life, was invited to join permanently on guitar and vocals. Newhouse and Cardinale left the band in July, and Merchant became the main singer, the band changed its name to Burn Victims and then to 10,000 Maniacs after the low-budget horror movie Two Thousand Maniacs. They performed as 10,000 Maniacs for the first time on Labor Day, September 7,1981, with a line-up of Merchant, Lombardo, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, Edborg left and Bob Bob O Matic Wachter was on drums for most of the 1981 gigs. In March 1982, with Jim Foti on drums, the recorded a EP album called Human Conflict Number Five. During this time lived in Atlanta, Georgia for a short while at the encouragement of friends who said that many gigs were available there. Discouraged by the lack of gigs, and by having to sell plasma and rake leaves to buy food. At the beginning of 1983, Jerry Augustyniak joined the band as their permanent drummer, the Maniacs met Augustyniak when they played in Buffalo, New York, where he was in a punk band called The Stains. The record was received by critics and caught the attention of respected BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel in London. One song, My Mother the War, turned out to be a hit in the United Kingdom. The band toured extensively during 1983 and 1984, and played gigs in the UK, Peter Leak, an Englishman living in New York City, became interested in the band, made contact and was made their manager. With the help of Leak and Elektra Records A & R man Howard Thompson,10,000 Maniacs signed to Elektra in November 1984. In the spring of 1985, they recorded their second album, The Wishing Chair, in London at Livingston Studios. Though the album was not a hit, its status as the bands major label debut did win it some notice. Co-founder Lombardo left the band during a rehearsal on July 14,1986, the remaining five members started recording a new album in Los Angeles, with Peter Asher as the producer. The album originally contained Peace Train and it was removed from subsequent pressings after Cat Stevens made comments implying he agreed with a death Fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. The next album,1989 Blind Mans Zoo hit No.13 and went gold, in May 1989, the British music magazine, NME reported that 10,000 Maniacs had won the songwriter category prize at the New York Music Awards
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MTV Unplugged (10,000 Maniacs album)
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MTV Unplugged is a 1993 live album by 10,000 Maniacs, recorded for the MTV Unplugged series. Between the recording and release of the album vocalist Natalie Merchant left the band to pursue a solo career, the album debuted at its #13 peak and spent 45 weeks on the charts. It was certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA, the single release Because the Night reached #11, two positions higher than Patti Smiths original version in 1978. It remains the bands biggest hit. Cassette and Compact Disc These Are Days –4,22 Eat for Two –4,12 Candy Everybody Wants –3,19 Im Not the Man –3,46 Dont Talk –5,22 Hey Jack Kerouac –3,29 Whats the Matter Here. During the Introduction to Gold Rush Brides Natalie reads a passage from Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel
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Tony Bennett
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Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto that are on permanent public display in several institutions and he is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family, Bennett began singing at an early age and he fought in the final stages of World War II as a U. S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with Because of You in 1951. Several top hits such as Rags to Riches followed in the early 1950s and he then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached a peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. His career and his personal life experienced a downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and he has won 19 Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3,1926, in Astoria, Queens, New York, to grocer John Benedetto and seamstress Anna Suraci. In 1906, John had emigrated from Podàrgoni, an eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria. Anna had been born in the U. S. shortly after her parents emigrated from the Calabria region in 1899. Other relatives came over as well as part of the migration of Italians to America. Tony grew up with a sister, Mary, and an older brother. With a father who was ailing and unable to work, the children grew up in poverty, John Sr. instilled in his son a love of art and literature and a compassion for human suffering, but died when Tony was 10 years old. The experience of growing up in the Great Depression and a distaste for the effects of the Hoover Administration would make the child a lifelong Democrat. Young Tony grew up listening to Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Judy Garland, and Bing Crosby as well as artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden. His Uncle Dick was a tap dancer in vaudeville, giving him a window into show business
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Page and Plant
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of the English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the title Page and Plant. The pair re-united in 1994 and, after recording a successful first album. They then recorded an album, followed by another world tour. They later briefly reunited in 2001, the initial plans for a reunion were made in 1993, with discussions between the two of collaborating emerging from casual small talk and then an invitation to perform on MTV Unplugged. Music producer Bill Curbishley, who had been managing Plant since the 1980s, despite failed attempts by others to reunite the pair, Curbishley was able to persuade the previously reluctant Plant into working with Page again. Robert said, Ive been approached by MTV to do an Unplugged and Id really like to do it with you and it gave us a chance to revisit some numbers and use that same picture with a very, very different frame. Plants recollection of the reunion was as follows, By that time I didnt feel like I was even a singer anymore. Then I was approached by MTV to do an Unplugged session, but I knew that I couldnt be seen to be holding the flag for the Zeppelin legacy on TV. Then mysteriously Jimmy turned up at a gig I was playing in Boston and we had this understanding again without doing or saying anything. We talked about the MTV thing and decided to see where we could take it, Led Zeppelins main songwriters reformed on 17 April 1994 as a part of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton, England. On 25 and 26 August, they taped performances in London, Wales, the performances aired on 12 October, and were so successful commercially and artistically that the two coordinated a tour which kicked off in February 1995. The Unplugged performance was released as an album in November 1994 as No Quarter, Jimmy Page, Page, It was heroic to take something like that around the world, because it was using two orchestras, one Western, one Arab orchestra, with a hurdy-gurdy. It was great going around the world to turn people on to sounds they hadnt heard and it wasnt an easy thing to do, but it was worth it. Afterwards, the two entered the studio with engineer Steve Albini to record Walking into Clarksdale, an album composed of entirely new material with more traditional rock enterprises. The album was not as successful as Unledded had been. As Page explained, There could have been a follow-up, I certainly had about a dozen numbers written for a third album. Robert heard them and said some of them were really good. In an interview he gave to Uncut magazine in 2005 Plant recounted, We had some good songs and we were still surrounded by the protective shield of who we were, and it meant we were playing big arenas around the world
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No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
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No Quarter is a live album by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 14 October 1994, the long-awaited reunion between Jimmy Page and Robert Plant occurred on a 90-minute UnLedded MTV project, recorded in Morocco, Wales, and London. It was not a reunion of Led Zeppelin, however, as former bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones was not present, in fact, Jones was not even told about the reunion by his former bandmates. He later commented that he was unhappy about Plant and Page naming the album after No Quarter, the album was #4 on debut on the Billboards Pop Albums chart. Several years later, Plant reflected on the collaboration very positively, The will, Jimmy and I went in a room and it was back. To take it as far as we did, and the tour we did – its one of the most ambitious, in July 2014, Guitar World placed No Quarter on their Superunknown,50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list. All songs by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, except where noted, for the tenth anniversary, the album was re-released with a different cover and altered track listing. Thank You was cut, City Dont Cry and Wonderful One appeared in edited versions. In addition, Yallah was retitled, and several tracks had minor alterations to their running times. The songs included on the DVD release not included on either CD release were What Is and What Should Never Be, to compensate for their absence from the Live Aid DVD release, Plant and Page donated a portion of their proceeds to the Band Aid Trust
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Nirvana (band)
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Nirvana was an American rock band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important alternative bands in history. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the suicide of Cobain, their music maintains a following and continues to influence modern rock. In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album, Bleach and they developed a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected success with Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvanas third studio album, In Utero, released to critical acclaim, featured an abrasive, less mainstream sound and challenged the groups audience. Nirvanas active career ended following the death of Cobain in 1994, but various posthumous releases have been issued since, overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobains widow Courtney Love. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, in its first year of eligibility. Cobain and Novoselic met while attending Aberdeen High, although they never connected, the pair eventually became friends while frequenting the practice space of the Melvins. Cobain wanted to form a band with Novoselic, but Novoselic did not respond for a period of time. In persuading Novoselic to form a band, Cobain gave him a tape of his project Fecal Matter. Three years after the two first met, Novoselic notified Cobain that he had listened to the Fecal Matter demo. The pair recruited Bob McFadden on drums, but after a month the project fell apart, in early 1987, Cobain and Novoselic recruited drummer Aaron Burckhard. The three practiced material from Cobains Fecal Matter tape but started writing new material soon after forming, during its initial months, the band went through a series of names, starting with Skid Row and including Pen Cap Chew, Bliss, and Ted Ed Fred. The group finally settled on Nirvana, which Cobain said was chosen because I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans. With Novoselic and Cobain having moved to Tacoma and Olympia, Washington, respectively, the pair instead practiced with Dale Crover of the Melvins, and Nirvana recorded its first demos in January 1988. In early 1988, Crover moved to San Francisco but recommended Dave Foster to the band as his replacement on drums, Cobain and Novoselic put an ad in Seattle music publication The Rocket seeking a replacement drummer, which only yielded unsatisfactory responses. Meanwhile, a friend introduced them to Chad Channing. Channing continued to jam with Cobain and Novoselic, although the drummer noted, They never actually said okay, youre in, Nirvana released its first single, a cover of Shocking Blues Love Buzz, in November 1988 on the Seattle independent record label Sub Pop
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MTV Unplugged in New York
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MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by the American grunge band Nirvana. It features a performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18,1993. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and first aired on the television network MTV on December 16,1993. MTV Unplugged in New York was the first Nirvana album released following the death of Kurt Cobain, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and has become the groups most successful posthumous release, having been certified 5x platinum in the United States by 1997. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996, the performance was released on DVD in 2007. Nirvana had been in negotiations with MTV to appear on its acoustic-based show MTV Unplugged for some time and it was while touring with the Meat Puppets that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain finally accepted. The band wanted to do something different from a typical MTV Unplugged episode for its performance, the group looked at Mark Lanegans 1990 album The Winding Sheet as a source of inspiration. Among the ideas the band came up with included covering David Bowies The Man Who Sold the World. Still, the prospect of performing an acoustic show made Cobain nervous. The band dedicated two days to rehearsals, the rehearsal sessions were tense and difficult, with the band running into problems performing various songs. During the sessions, Cobain disagreed with MTV as to how the performance should be presented, producer Alex Coletti recollected that the network was unhappy with the bands choice of the Meat Puppets as guests and the dearth of hit Nirvana songs on the setlist. Upset, the day filming was set to take place. However, he appeared at the studio the following afternoon, Cobain was suffering from drug withdrawal and nervousness at the time, one observer said, There was no joking, no smiles, no fun coming from him. Therefore, everyone was more than a little worried about his performance, Nirvana taped its performance for MTV Unplugged on November 18,1993, at Sony Studios in New York City. Despite the shows premise, Cobain insisted on running his guitar through his amplifier. Coletti built a box in front of the amplifier to disguise it as a monitor wedge. Coletti said, It was Kurts security blanket and he was used to hearing this guitar through his Fender. You can hear it on The Man Who Sold The World and its an acoustic guitar, but hes obviously going through an amp
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Los Tres
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Los Tres are a Chilean rock band composed of three members, a rock/folk singer and two jazzmen. It was one of the bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La Ley. Los Tres recorded nine albums during their first period, from 1989 until 2000, starting with Los Tres, the band dissolved in 2000 and its members continued their musical careers in personal projects, during the following five years. The bands newest album is Coliumo and it was released in October 2010. During the nineties, massive commercial entertainment rose immensely in Chile, in this context appeared Los Tres whose work is based, in contrast to most rock/pop groups from this era, on the folk and popular music of Chile with added rock and jazz influences. The bands attitude was to reject commercial pop/rock and easy trends, furthermore, their music and mostly their lyrics, though not following the style, can be considered as grunge in spirit. Given this, it was against all odds for them to succeed and they quickly became very popular in universities, bars, and peñas around the southern city of Concepción. Given their ambition, to success in the Chilean mainstream, they decided to move to the capital city of Santiago. In 1988, Ángel Parra joined the band, and even though Los Tres is Spanish for the three, they decided to keep the name, in 1991, with the alternative Alerce music label, Los Tres recorded their first album, Los Tres. Despite being only a successful album with songs that mixed Rock, Jazz. The single Un Amor Violento, and its music video became very popular in Chile. The lyrics in songs of this album talk strongly about their opposition to the Pinochet coup. The second album of the band was called Se Remata el Siglo, in 1993, now signed with the Sony music label, the band achieved a much better quality LP. La Espada & la Pared was the album of the band. This album was popular and the most important of their career. Singles like Dejate Caer and La Espada & La Pared were popular in all of Latin America, thanks to the diffusion on MTV Latino and became a Gold record in 46 days. One of the songs in La Espada & La Pared was the remake of Buddy Richards cover 1960 rock tune Tu Cariño se me Va. The popularity achieved by La Espada y La Pared, was an important motivation for the MTV network and this was recorded on 14 September 1995, with the participation of the Chilean musicians and friends of the band Toño Restucci and Cuti Aste
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Chile
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Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometres of Antarctica, the arid Atacama Desert in northern Chile contains great mineral wealth, principally copper. Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands, and features a string of volcanoes and lakes, the southern coast is a labyrinth of fjords, inlets, canals, twisting peninsulas, and islands. Spain conquered and colonized Chile in the century, replacing Inca rule in northern and central Chile. After declaring its independence from Spain in 1818, Chile emerged in the 1830s as a relatively stable authoritarian republic, in the 1960s and 1970s the country experienced severe left-right political polarization and turmoil. The regime, headed by Augusto Pinochet, ended in 1990 after it lost a referendum in 1988 and was succeeded by a coalition which ruled through four presidencies until 2010. Chile is today one of South Americas most stable and prosperous nations and it leads Latin American nations in rankings of human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, state of peace, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption. It also ranks high regionally in sustainability of the state, Chile is a founding member of the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. There are various theories about the origin of the word Chile, another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua with that of the Casma Valley in Peru, where there was a town and valley named Chili. Another origin attributed to chilli is the onomatopoeic cheele-cheele—the Mapuche imitation of the warble of a locally known as trile. The Spanish conquistadors heard about this name from the Incas, ultimately, Almagro is credited with the universalization of the name Chile, after naming the Mapocho valley as such. The older spelling Chili was in use in English until at least 1900 before switching over to Chile, stone tool evidence indicates humans sporadically frequented the Monte Verde valley area as long as 18,500 years ago. About 10,000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in fertile valleys, settlement sites from very early human habitation include Monte Verde, Cueva del Milodon and the Pali Aike Craters lava tube. They fought against the Sapa Inca Tupac Yupanqui and his army, the result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river. The next Europeans to reach Chile were Diego de Almagro and his band of Spanish conquistadors, the Spanish encountered various cultures that supported themselves principally through slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting. The conquest of Chile began in earnest in 1540 and was carried out by Pedro de Valdivia, one of Francisco Pizarros lieutenants, who founded the city of Santiago on 12 February 1541. Although the Spanish did not find the gold and silver they sought, they recognized the agricultural potential of Chiles central valley
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Alice in Chains
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Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr, although widely associated with grunge music, the bands sound incorporates heavy metal elements. Since its formation, Alice in Chains has released five studio albums, the band is known for its distinctive vocal style, which often included the harmonized vocals of Staley and Cantrell. Alice in Chains rose to fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, along with other Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam. The band was one of the most successful acts of the 1990s, selling over 20 million records worldwide. In 1992 the bands album, Dirt, was released to critical acclaim and was certified quadruple platinum. Their third album, Alice in Chains, was released in 1995 and has been certified double platinum and it achieved No.1 position on the Billboard 200 chart. The band has had 14 top ten songs on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, although never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staleys substance abuse, which resulted in his death in 2002. The band reunited in 2005 for a benefit show, performing with a number of guest vocalists. They toured in 2006, with William DuVall taking over as lead vocalist full-time, the new line-up released the bands fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to Blue, in 2009. The album received gold certification by the RIAA, in 2013, the band released The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, its fifth studio album. The band has toured extensively and released videos in support of these albums. Alice in Chains is currently working on their studio album. Other members of this group at that time were guitarists Johnny Bacolas and Zoli Semanate, drummer James Bergstrom and this was prompted by a conversation that Bacolas had with a singer from another band about backstage passes. Staley met guitarist Jerry Cantrell while working with Alice N Chains at Music Bank rehearsal studios, the two struggling musicians became roommates, living in a rehearsal space they shared. Alice N Chains soon disbanded, and Staley joined a band that also required a guitarist at the time. Staley asked Cantrell to join as a sideman, Cantrell agreed on condition that Staley join Cantrells band, which at the time included drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Starr. Local promoter Randy Hauser became aware of the band at a concert, however, one day before the band was due to record at the Music Bank studio in Washington, police shut down the studio during the biggest cannabis raid in the history of the state
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Unplugged (Alice in Chains album)
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Unplugged is a live album and DVD by the American rock band Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains resurfaced on April 10,1996 to perform their first concert in two and a half years for MTV Unplugged, a program featuring all-acoustic set lists, the show first aired on MTV on May 28,1996. A live album of the performance was released in July 1996, the album has received platinum certification by the RIAA and the home video release has received gold certification by the RIAA. A full length DVD of the concert was later released in 1999. The songs Angry Chair, Frogs, and The Killer Is Me were cut from the original MTV broadcast but are included on both the CD and home video releases, the album was re-released as a CD/DVD package on September 18,2007. The performance was one of the final appearances with vocalist Layne Staley. The performance featured some of the bands highest charting singles, including Down in a Hole, Heaven Beside You, the show marked Alice in Chains first appearance as a five-piece band, adding second guitarist Scott Olson. It is often hailed as one of the most memorable editions of MTV Unplugged, with a reputation comparable to the famous editions featuring Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Eric Clapton, mike Inezs bass had the phrase Friends Dont Let Friends Get Friends Haircuts. Written on it, directed at the members of Metallica who were in the audience and had cut their hair short. Inez and drummer Sean Kinney did pay tribute to Metallica, however, before Angry Chair, Jerry Cantrell paid further tribute by playing the intro to Battery going into the Hee Haw song, Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me. This was omitted from the CD but can be found on the VHS, the band was offered to do the segment numerous times prior to the actual taping before finally accepting. Jerry Cantrell has attested to being ill during the performance as a result of food poisoning from a hot dog consumed before the gig. He has also stated that the band was considering playing the songs Love, Hate, Love and We Die Young for the set, moreover, a few songs such as Got Me Wrong and Sludge Factory had to be replayed numerous times due to error. Accordingly, the taping took approximately three hours to finish, the album initially received mixed reviews from critics. Allmusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote in his review of the album, the acoustic arrangements of the harder songs sound like novelties, and the rest sound like rehashes of their previous work, only without much energy. Sandy Masuo of Rolling Stone wrote in her review Unplugged certainly reaffirms the emotional range, but it lacks electricity in more ways than one. The concentrated catharsis in Alice in Chains music is still best heard with the amps cranked up to 11, program Start Nutshell Brother No Excuses Sludge Factory Down in a Hole Angry Chair Rooster Got Me Wrong Heaven Beside You Would. Frogs Over Now The Killer Is Me The DVD release shows another take of Sludge Factory and they then go into the formal take which was used on the CD
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Shakira
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, and record producer. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she began performing in school, demonstrating Latin American, Arabic, Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth album, Laundry Service. Its lead single, Whenever, Wherever, became the single of 2002. Shakiras eighth and ninth albums, She Wolf and Sale el Sol and her official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waka Waka, became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time. With over 1.3 billion views, it is one of the music videos on YouTube. Shakira served as a coach on the fourth and sixth seasons of the American version of The Voice in 2013 and 2014 and her tenth album, Shakira, is preceded by its lead single, Cant Remember to Forget You. She carries out well-known philanthropic activities through charity work most notably through her Pies Descalzos Foundation, in 2014, she was listed as the 58th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla and she is the only child of Nidia Ripoll Torrado and William Mebarak Chadid. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was born and her father then emigrated to Colombia at age 5. The name Shakira is Arabic, from which language it translates as grateful and it is the feminine form of the name Shakir. From her mother, she has Spanish and Italian ancestry, although both of her mothers surnames are Spanish and she was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools. She has eight older half-siblings from her fathers previous marriage, as she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father writing stories on a typewriter, and asked for one as a Christmas gift. She got that typewriter at the age of seven, and has continued writing poetry since then and these poems eventually evolved into songs. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer and she enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers at her Catholic school, but in second grade, she was rejected for the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded like a goat, at school, she was often sent out of the class because of her hyperactivity. She says she had also known as the belly dancer girl. Thats how I discovered my passion for live performance, she says, to instill gratitude in Shakira for her upbringing, her father took her to a local park to see orphans who lived there. The images stayed with her, and she said to herself, as noted below, she eventually did exactly that
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MTV Unplugged (Shakira album)
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MTV Unplugged is the first live album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released on 29 February 2000, by Columbia Records and Sony Latin. It was recorded on 12 August 1999, during her MTV Unplugged performance at the Grand Ballroom in New York City, the performance was released in 2000 as a live album, and again in 2002 as a DVD. It is rated as one of the live performances from a Latin recording artist. It was critically acclaimed by American critics and earned Shakira the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, the album sold around 5,000,000 copies worldwide. Bonus features Timeline Albums Photo Gallery Making Of
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La Ley (band)
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La Ley are a Chilean rock band formed by Andrés Bobe, Rodrigo Aboitiz, Luciano Rojas and Mauricio Claveria with Beto Cuevas. After a failed first album, Desiertos, they released Doble Opuesto, singles like Desiertos, Tejedores de Ilusión, and Prisioneros de la Piel made them stars in Chile, Argentina and Mexico, especially after the release of La Ley, their second recording. Before the release of Vértigo, Rodrigo Aboitiz left the band, in the middle of the tour, bassist Luciano Rojas left the band as well, and together with the Aboitiz formed a new group named Saiko. Their music became more rock and less experimental, and the musicians dropped their dark image, La Ley also performed on MTV Unplugged in 2001, and released an album of the performance, which went on to win a Grammy award. In 2004, they released a greatest hits compilation titled Historias e Histeria
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MTV Unplugged (La Ley album)
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In 2001, La Ley participated in MTVs Unplugged series. The album MTV Unplugged contains the recordings of the concert and is to this date the bands best selling album. After the albums success, La Ley was finally able to internationalize themselves, the album contains older songs from previous albums plus three new songs. Despite this fact, there were no songs in this album from their albums La Ley or Cara de Dios, which were their first 2 albums. com
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Lauryn Hill
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Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is best known for being a member of the Fugees and for her acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Raised mostly in South Orange, New Jersey, Hill began singing with her family during her childhood. In high school, Hill was approached by Pras Michel to start a band and they renamed themselves the Fugees and released the albums Blunted on Reality and the Grammy Award-winning The Score. Hills tumultuous romantic relationship with Jean led to the split of the band in 1997, the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill remains Hills only solo studio album. It received massive critical acclaim, showcasing a representation of life and relationships, the album debuted at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200 and has sold approximately eight million copies there. It included the singles Doo Wop, Ex-Factor, and Everything Is Everything, at the 41st Grammy Awards, the record earned her five awards, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. During this time she won numerous awards and became a common sight on the cover of magazines. Soon afterward, Hill dropped out of the eye, dissatisfied with the music industry. Her last full-length recording, the live album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, sharply divided critics and sold poorly compared to her first album, Hills subsequent activity, which includes the release of a few songs and occasional festival appearances, has been sporadic and erratic. Her behavior has sometimes caused audience dissatisfaction, a reunion with her former group did not last long and her music, as well as a series of public statements she has issued, has become critical of pop culture and societal institutions. Hill has six children, five of whom are with Rohan Marley, in 2012, she pleaded guilty to tax evasion for failure to pay federal income taxes, and in 2013, served a three-month prison sentence. Lauryn Noelle Hill was born on May 26,1975, in East Orange, New Jersey to English teacher Valerie Hill and computer and she has one older brother named Malaney. Her Baptist family moved to New York and Newark for short periods until settling in South Orange and she had a middle-class upbringing, knowing both many white Jewish families and many black ones. Future actor Zach Braff lived in the neighborhood, and she attended his Bar Mitzvah, Hill has said of her musically oriented family, there were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were surrounded in music. Her father sang in nightclubs and at weddings
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MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
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MTV Unplugged No.2.0 is a live album by American recording artist Lauryn Hill. The performance comes from her 2002 MTV Unplugged special recorded on July 21,2001 at MTV Studios in Times Square, Hill abandoned the hip hop sounds of her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in favor of folk and soul songs she performed with an acoustic guitar. The songs were interspersed with spoken interludes about her personal and artistic struggles, when MTV Unplugged No.2.0 was released, it received mediocre reviews and did not sell well. Most critics found Hills performances self-indulgent and repetitive, although some appreciated the album as a bold and it has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, having shipped one million copies in the United States. 2.0, Hill departed from the hip hop sounds of her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in favor of austerely performed acoustic soul and folk songs. She jokingly described herself as a folk singer, and according to Robert Hilburn. Rather than singing any of her previous hits, Hill debuted all new songs in a style and. MTV Unplugged No.2.0 was released to mediocre sales and it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 before quickly falling down the charts, while most critics questioned Hills discipline as an artist on the album. In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau called it one of the worst albums ever released by an artist of substance, finding the songs overlong, verbose, Christgau was also critical of Hills singing voice, calling it typically poor, and a solo guitar can barely strum. Some critics appreciated MTV Unplugged No.2.0 as a radical, Q was more enthusiastic, finding her songs beautifully sincere and performed austerely in a way that recalled the vibrant quality of Bob Marleys Redemption Song. Disc one Intro –2,28 Mr.2.0 at Discogs Official MTV Unplugged 2.0 Lyrics
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Augello Cook, known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, pianist and actress. Keys released her album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia. Keys debut album, Songs in A Minor was released in 2001, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single Fallin, the album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003, spawning successful singles You Dont Know My Name, If I Aint Got You and Diary, the duet song My Boo with Usher scored her a second number-one single in 2004. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005, later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, becoming the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. As I Am was released in 2007, producing the Hot 100 number-one single No One, selling 5 million copies worldwide, the Element of Freedom was released in 2009, becoming her first chart-topping album in the UK, and selling 4 million copies worldwide. Keys additionally collaborated with Jay Z on Empire State of Mind as her fourth number-one single, Girl on Fire was released in 2012 as her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track. Her second live album, VH1 Storytellers was released in 2013, Here was released in 2016, becoming her seventh R&B/Hip-Hop chart topping album. Keys made her first television appearance on The Cosby Show in 1985 as a four year old child and she made her film debut in Smokin Aces and later in The Nanny Diaries in 2007. Keys then had a NAACP Image Award nominated appearance in The Secret Life of Bees in 2008, Keys also made an appearance on season 2 of Empire in 2015. She is currently a coach on The Voice as of 2016, Keys has won numerous awards such as 15 Grammy Awards and 17 NAACP Image Awards. She has sold over 35 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide, considered a pop icon, Billboard magazine named her the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade and placed her number 10 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. Time named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005, Keys was born Alicia Augello Cook on January 25,1981, in the Hells Kitchen area of Manhattan, New York City. She is the child of Teresa, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook. Keys father is African American and her mother is of Italian, Scottish, Keys has expressed that she was comfortable with her multiracial heritage because she felt she was able to relate to different cultures. Her parents separated when she was two and she was raised by her mother during her formative years in Hells Kitchen. Keys has 2 younger half brothers, Clay Cook and Cole Cook, in 1985, Keys made an appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four, where she and a group of girls played the parts of Rudy Huxtables sleepover guests in the episode Slumber Party. Throughout her childhood, Keys was sent to music and dance classes by her mother and she graduated in four years as valedictorian at the age of 16
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Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)
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Unplugged is the first live album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. The album has sold one million copies in the United States. Additionally, it received four nominations for the 2006 Grammy Awards, the first single released from the album was Unbreakable, which peaked at number thirty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The second single, Every Little Bit Hurts, was released in January 2006, the video premiered on January 17 on BETs 106 & Park. The album and DVD includes songs from her multi-platinum albums Songs in A Minor, upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 65/100 from Metacritic. E. Online gave the album an A− and said of Alicia Keys, entertainment Weekly said that the album largely leaves Keys runaway careerism in the dressing room, where it belongs. Blender gave it four out of five and called it a stellar set. Q gave the four stars out of five and said it Stands as an apt reminder that she is the finest soul talent of her generation. Billboard gave it a review and said, This self-assured. Other reviews are pretty average or mixed, Rolling Stone gave it three out of five and said the album bursts with sweet soul that seems to feed off the adoring crowd. Neumu gave it four out of ten and called it Just another bloated arena show. The albums two singles, Unbreakable, reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and final single Every Little Bit Hurts, it failed to enter the US and international charts. Y
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I'll Be There (The Jackson 5 song)
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Ill Be There is a soul song written by Berry Gordy, Hal Davis, Bob West, and Willie Hutch. The song was recorded by The Jackson 5 and released by Motown Records on August 28,1970 as the first single from their Third Album on the same date. Produced by the songwriters, Ill Be There was The Jackson 5s fourth number one hit in a row, Ill Be There is also notable as the most successful single released by Motown during its Detroit era. The Mariah Carey and Trey Lorenz cover was recorded during Careys appearance on MTV Unplugged in 1992, co-produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, Ill Be There became Careys sixth number one single in the U. S. and her biggest hit elsewhere at the time. After three upbeat bubblegum soul number one singles from the Jackson 5, Motown head Berry Gordy decided to take a risk and craft a ballad for the group. For this song, he brought in songwriters Hal Davis, Willie Hutch, and Bob West, as opposed to working with the rest of The Corporation, who had crafted the first three hits. He promises that hell always be there to comfort you, Jackson 5 lead singers Michael Jackson and his older brother Jermaine share the lead vocals on this song. Michaels ad-libbed just look over your shoulders, honey is an allusion to Reach Out Ill Be There and he was instructed by Gordy to say just look over your shoulder, but the slightly flubbed line was allowed to remain in the final mix. In his autobiography Moon Walk, Michael Jackson noted that Ill Be There was the song that solidified The Jackson 5s careers and showed audiences that the group had potential beyond bubblegum pop. Said Allmusic about the song, Rarely, if ever, had one so young sung with so much authority and grace, investing this achingly tender ballad with wisdom and understanding far beyond his years. The most successful single released by the Jackson 5, Ill Be There sold 4.2 million copies in the United States. I Heard It Through the Grapevine remained Motowns biggest-selling record with sales of over seven million copies. Ill Be There was also a one hit on the Billboard Black Singles Chart for six weeks. The singles B-side was One More Chance, a song from their second album, Ill Be There was the Jackson 5s final number one Hot 100 hit as a group. For the rest of their career as an act, Jackson 5 singles would climb no higher than number 2. Michael Jackson scored numerous number one hits as a solo artist, Ill Be There was one of the songs used in the showcase for Grease, Youre the One that I Want. Andy Williams released a version in 1971 on his album, Youve Got a Friend, kings Stand by Me, then back into Shout. The song was performed in the Jackson 5 medley during all of Michaels tours, The Bad, Dangerous, the song was performed by Michael Jackson in the 2009 film Michael Jacksons This Is It
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Eagles (band)
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The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and their Greatest Hits was the best selling album of the 20th century in the U. S. They are the music act and the highest-selling American band in U. S. history. The band released their album, Eagles, in 1972. Their next album, Desperado, was successful than the first, only reaching number 41 on the charts. However, the album does contain what would go on to be two of the bands most popular tracks, Desperado and Tequila Sunrise, the band released On the Border in 1974, adding guitarist Don Felder as the fifth member midway through the recording of the album. The album generated two top 40 singles, Already Gone and their first number one, Best of My Love. Their 1975 album One of These Nights included three top 10 singles, One of These Nights, Lyin Eyes, and Take It to the Limit, guitarist and vocalist, Joe Walsh, also joined the band in 1975. The album yielded two singles, New Kid in Town and Hotel California. The Eagles disbanded in July 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over and they toured consistently and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their first full album in 28 years. The next year launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour in support of the album. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the bands documentary release, following the death of Frey in January 2016, Henley stated in several interviews that he didnt think the band would perform again. However, in March 2017 it was announced that the Eagles would be headlining two concerts in July 2017, the Eagles began in early 1971, when Linda Ronstadt and then-manager John Boylan recruited local musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band. While on the tour, Frey and Henley decided to form a band together, Frey later credited Ronstadt with suggesting Leadon for the band, and arranging for Leadon to play for her so Frey and Henley could approach him about forming a band together. They also pitched the idea to Meisner and brought him on board and these four played live together behind Ronstadt only once for a July concert at Disneyland, but all four appeared on her eponymous album. It was later proposed that J. D. Souther should join the band, the four were signed in September 1971 to Asylum Records, the new label started by David Geffen, who was introduced to Frey by Jackson Browne
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Hell Freezes Over
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Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album is the first to be released after Eagles had re-formed following a break up. The bands lineup was that of the Long Run era, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh and it contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live in April 1994 for an MTV special. Two Top 40 singles, Get Over It and Love Will Keep Us Alive, were released from the album and it also features an acoustic version of Hotel California. It is the last album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001, the album went to No.1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. The album has sold over 9 million copies in the United States, Hell Freezes Over was also released in video form on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD. Before the album was released, the Eagles also started a tour, the album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the bands breakup in 1980, he commented that the band would play together again when Hell freezes over. Henley said in 1982 on the break-up, I just rule out the possibility of putting the Eagles back together for a Lost Youth, in 1993, an Eagles tribute album, Common Thread, The Songs of the Eagles, was recorded by several country artists. Travis Tritt, who covered Take It Easy in the album, the former Eagles band members agreed, and it would be the first time the group had appeared together in 13 years. Two months later, Frey and Henley had lunch with their management, the band members performed live for the first time in April 1994 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California for an MTV special, the recording sessions produced 11 tracks for the Hell Freezes Over album, including a new arrangement of Hotel California that features an extended acoustic guitar and percussion opening. At the beginning of the concert, Glenn Frey joked to the audience, For the record, we never broke up, the tour began in May 27 and the Hell Freezes Over album was released on November 8,1994. The album is the second live album, behind their live album in 1980. The new song Get Over It became a modest hit, and another new song, Love Will Keep Us Alive, the DVD is one of the first music releases to feature a DTS format soundtrack in addition to a PCM stereo soundtrack. The DVD also featured the song Seven Bridges Road in DTS audio only, the DVD has since been re-released with an additional Dolby Digital soundtrack. The album has also released as DTS CD in 1997. Help Me Through the Night 21.1 speaker set-up, Timothy B, schmit is on the front-left, Glenn Frey on the front-right, Don Henley on the rear-left and Joe Walsh on the rear-right. Frey, as the singer of the main melody, is also featured on the front-center channel
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Peabody Award
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Reflecting excellence in quality, rather than popularity or commercial success, the Peabody is awarded to about 25–35 winners annually from more than 1,000 entries. Because submissions are accepted from a variety of sources and styles. Each entry is evaluated on the achievement of standards it establishes within its own contexts, entries are self-selected by those making submissions, for which a US$350 fee is required. In 1938, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting. Fellow WSB employee Lessie Smithgall introduced Lambdin to John E. Drewry, of the University of Georgias Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Peabody Award was established in 1940 with the Grady College of Journalism as its permanent home. The Peabody Awards were originally only for radio, but in 1948 television awards were introduced, in the late 1990s additional categories for material distributed via the World Wide Web were added. Materials created solely for theatrical motion picture release are not eligible, the Peabody Awards judging process is unusually rigorous. Board members discuss recommended entries as well as their own selections at intensive preliminary meetings in Los Angeles and Washington, the Board convenes at the Peabody Offices on the University of Georgia campus in late March for final screenings and deliberations. Each entrant is judged on its own merit, and only unanimously selected programs receive Peabodys, there is no set number of Peabodys, the all-time record for Peabody recipients in a single year is 46 Awards in 2013. George Foster Peabody, namesake of the awards, was a successful investment banker who devoted much of his fortune to education. John E. Drewry was the first dean of the University of Georgias Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and he accepted the position of dean when it was created in 1940. That same year he helped Lambdin Kay, general manager of Atlantas WSB Radio, dr. Worth McDougald served as Director of the Peabody Awards program from 1963 until his retirement in 1991. Barry Sherman was the Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards program at the University of Georgia from 1991 until his death in 2000. Horace Newcomb held the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys in the Grady College of Journalism, jeffrey P. Jones succeeded Horace Newcomb in July 2013 as the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Each spring, Peabody organizers announce award recipients for work covering the previous year, traditionally, the winners announcements have been made via a simple press release and/or a press conference. In recent years, however, organizers have taken to television to reveal some Peabody recipients in an effort to expand the publics awareness of the awards. An April 2014 segment of CBS This Morning included an announcement of 2013 Peabody winners, in April 2015, the 2014 Peabodys were revealed over an 8-day period, with the entertainment-based recipients revealed on ABCs Good Morning America. The formal presentations of the Peabody Awards are traditionally held in late May or early June, the ceremony for 2014 recipients were held for the first time at night in a May 31,2015 award ceremony to be hosted by Fred Armisen
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Elvis (1968 TV program)
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Elvis, starring Elvis Presley, is a United States television special that aired on December 3,1968 on the NBC television network. The special is commonly referred to as the 68 Comeback Special and it was directed by Steve Binder and produced by Binder and Bones Howe. Music from the special was released before the broadcast, on the album Elvis, Presleys informal jamming in front of a small audience in the special is regarded as a forerunner of the unplugged concept, later popularized by MTV. Despite huge success in both his music and acting careers following his release from the army in 1960, Presley never toured in the United States from 1962 to 1968. Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys manager, had found it difficult to secure the usual $1,000,000 fee for a Presley film. Parker negotiated a deal with NBC for $1,250,000 to finance both a special and a film. Parker wanted the show, which was scheduled as a Christmas season broadcast and he believed the special could simply be a TV-version of the Christmas radio show Presley had contributed to the year before. Binder argued that the special was an opportunity to re-establish the singers reputation after years of formulaic movies and he and Howe hired writers to script a show with specific themes, large set designs, dance sequences and big productions of Presleys hits. However, Binder was open to any variations on this that would showcase the singers talent, the special ends with Presley appealing for world peace and tolerance with the song If I Can Dream. Other musicians included drummer Hal Blaine, pianist Don Randi, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, bass player Larry Knechtel and it was after rehearsals at Western Recorders that Binder took special note of how Presley and the other musicians would spontaneously unwind by improvising old blues and rock n roll numbers. Binder commented. and thats when I really got the idea, Wouldnt it be great if I had a camera in here, Presley is said to have been very apprehensive about the idea of performing live. His last live concert had been at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Binder offered a lot of support and reassurance to stop the singer from rejecting the idea of any live segments. He realized some songs already re-recorded or scheduled would need to be cut and he also brought in Presleys friends Alan Fortas, Lance LeGault and Charlie Hodge to encourage Presley and make him feel at ease. Two sessions took place, each two hours in length, the first on June 24 and the second on the 25th. Both took place in the surroundings of the dressing room at NBC. They were recorded by Presleys friend Joe Esposito using the singers own tape recorder, many songs were tried, including Danny Boy, Blue Moon, Thats My Desire and I Got A Woman, before the final repertoire was decided for the actual TV recording. Subsequently, at 6. 00pm, June 27, Presley took to the stage for the first time in seven years. Clad in black leather, Presley sat down and jammed with band mates for two shows, each show having a different audience, there was a one-hour break between them
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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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Let It Be (1970 film)
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Let It Be is a 1970 documentary film about the Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. The film features a rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in public. Released just after the album, it was the final original Beatles release, the film was originally planned as a television documentary which would accompany a concert broadcast. When plans for a broadcast were dropped, the became a feature film. Although the film does not dwell on the dissension within the group at the time, the film has not been officially available since the 1980s, although original and bootleg copies of home video releases still circulate. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr collectively won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for the film, the film observes the Beatles from a fly on the wall perspective, without narration, scene titles, or interviews with the main subjects. The first portion of the shows the band rehearsing on a sound stage at Twickenham Film Studios. The songs are works in progress, with discussions among the members about ways to improve them. Whatever it is that will please you, Ill do it, also appearing are Mal Evans, providing the hammer blows on Maxwells Silver Hammer, and Yoko Ono, dancing with Lennon. The Beatles are then shown arriving at Apple headquarters, where they begin the studio recording process with Harrison singing For You Blue while Lennon plays slide guitar. Starr and Harrison are shown working on the structure for Octopuss Garden and then demonstrating it for George Martin. Billy Preston accompanies the band on impromptu renditions of rock and roll covers, as well as Lennons improvised jam Dig It. Lennon is shown listening as McCartney expresses his concern about the bands inclination to stay confined to the recording studio, the Beatles conclude their studio work with complete performances of Two of Us, Let It Be, and The Long and Winding Road. For the final portion of the film, the Beatles and Preston are shown giving a concert from the studio rooftop. They perform Get Back, Dont Let Me Down, Ive Got a Feeling, One After 909, the police eventually make their way to the roof and try to bring the show to a close, as the show was disrupting businesses lunch hour nearby. This prompts some ad-libbed lyrical asides from McCartney, during the performance of Get Back, he sings, Get back. Youve been out too long, Loretta, youve been playing on the roofs again. And your mummy doesnt like that, after the stressful sessions for The Beatles wrapped up in October 1968, McCartney concluded that the group needed to return to their roots for their next project
