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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Swedish language
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Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken natively by more than 9 million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. It is currently the largest of the North Germanic languages by number of speakers, Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well established by the beginning of the 20th century. While distinct regional varieties descended from the rural dialects still exist. The standard word order is, as in most Germanic languages, V2, Swedish morphology is similar to English, that is, words have comparatively few inflections. There are two genders, no cases, and a distinction between plural and singular. Older analyses posit the cases nominative and genitive and there are remains of distinct accusative and dative forms as well. Adjectives are compared as in English, and are inflected according to gender, number. The definiteness of nouns is marked primarily through suffixes, complemented with separate definite and indefinite articles, the prosody features both stress and in most dialects tonal qualities. The language has a large vowel inventory. Swedish is also notable for the voiceless velar fricative, a highly variable consonant phoneme. Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages, by many general criteria of mutual intelligibility, the Continental Scandinavian languages could very well be considered dialects of a common Scandinavian language. In the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had some changes. This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, the dialects of Old East Norse that were spoken in Sweden are called Runic Swedish while the dialects of Denmark are referred to as Runic Danish. The dialects are described as runic because the body of text appears in the runic alphabet. Unlike Proto-Norse, which was written with the Elder Futhark alphabet, Old Norse was written with the Younger Futhark alphabet, from 1200 onwards, the dialects in Denmark began to diverge from those of Sweden. An early change that separated Runic Danish from the dialects of Old East Norse was the change of the diphthong æi to the monophthong é. This is reflected in runic inscriptions where the older read stain, there was also a change of au as in dauðr into a long open ø as in døðr dead
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EMI
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EMI was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 and was based in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, other members of the Sony consortium include the Estate of Michael Jackson, The Blackstone Group, and Abu Dhabi–owned investment fund Mubadala Development Company. The new vertically integrated company produced sound recordings as well as recording, the companys gramophone manufacturing led to forty years of success with larger-scale electronics and electrical engineering. He was killed in 1942 whilst conducting flight trials on an experimental H2S radar set, post-war, the company resumed its involvement in making broadcasting equipment, notably providing the BBCs second television transmitter at Sutton Coldfield. It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies as well as for the BBC, the commercial television ITV companies also used them alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi. Exports of this piece of equipment were low, however, the company was also for many years an internationally respected manufacturer of photomultipliers. This part of the business was transferred to Thorn as part of Thorn-EMI, in 1958 the EMIDEC1100, the UKs first commercially available all-transistor computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, an electrical engineer at EMI. In 1973 EMI was awarded a prestigious Queens Award for Technological Innovation for what was called the EMI scanner. After brief, but brilliant, success in the imaging field, EMIs manufacturing activities were sold off to other companies. Subsequently, development and manufacturing activities were sold off to companies and work moved to other towns such as Crawley. Emihus Electronics, based in Glenrothes, Scotland, was owned 51% by Hughes Aircraft, of California, US and it manufactured integrated circuits electrolytic capacitors and, for a short period in the mid-1970s, hand-held calculators under the Gemini name. Early in its life, the Gramophone Company established subsidiary operations in a number of countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia. Over 150,000 78-rpm recordings from around the world are held in EMIs temperature-controlled archive in Hayes, in 1931, the year the company was formed, it opened the legendary recording studios at Abbey Road, London. During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, during this time EMI appointed its first A&R managers. These included George Martin, who brought the Beatles into the EMI fold. When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1931, at this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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The Change (album)
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The Change is the sixth album by Swedish pop singer and songwriter Marie Fredriksson, and her solo debut in English. Written and recorded during two years of medication and darkness after the removal of a tumour in September 2002. This album has released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. The artwork of the album was actually sketches that were drawn by Marie Fredriksson herself in 2002 when she had cancer and she was drawing and sketching at a table in her backyard on a Friday afternoon. All songs written by Marie Fredriksson, except where noted, cD-mastering by Claes Persson at CRP Recording. Design by Kjell Andersson and Pär Wickholm, Swedish CD Swedish limited edition digipack South African CD Brazilian CD Taiwanese CD Japanese CD
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Aftonbladet
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Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid published in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. The newspaper was founded by Lars Johan Hierta in December 1830 under the name of Aftonbladet i Stockholm during the modernization of Sweden, in 1852 the paper began to use its current name, Aftonbladet, after 25 name changes. It describes itself as an independent social-democratic newspaper, but it also publishes extreme left wing columnists in its culture section. The owners of Aftonbladet are the Swedish Trade Union Confederation which bought it in the 1950s, LO sold a large of its shares in the paper to the Schibsted group. As per 15 June 2009 Schibsted bought another 41% and became the majority owner with 91%, however, LO has the right to appoint the political editor of the paper. Aftonbladet, based in Stockholm, is published in tabloid format, the paper reported news and also criticised the new Swedish king Charles XIV John. The king stopped Aftonbladet from being printed and banned it, during its existence, Aftonbladet has leant in different political directions. Initially liberal, it drifted towards conservatism under Harald Sohlman, editor in chief from 1890 to 1921, during World War I, a majority holding was sold to the German government in a secret arrangement. In 1929 the newspaper came under the control of the Kreuger family, in 1932 it backed Per Albin Hanssons new Social Democratic government. Just a few years later it realigned with the Liberal Party, heavily influenced by pro-German staff members, the newspaper supported Germany during World War II. The Kreuger era came to an end on 8 October 1956, despite interest from both the Liberal Party and the Centre Party, Torsten Kreuger sold Aftonbladet as well as Stockholms-Tidningen to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. The ownership change was first followed by a drop in circulation. In the 1960s, however, the newspaper saw its circulation surge rapidly, by the early 1990s Aftonbladet had run into economic problems, and many had begun to question the competence of the trade union movement as a media owner. On 2 May 1996, the Norwegian media group Schibsted acquired a 49.9 percent stake in the newspaper, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation kept the remaining 50.1 percent of its shares. The same year its circulation passed that of long-time tabloid rival Expressen, in 2005 Aftonbladet started a Web portal for business news as a joint venture with Svenska Dagbladet. In 1998 the circulation of Aftonbladet was 397,000 copies on weekdays and 502,000 copies on Sundays, the circulation of the paper was 402,000 copies in 2001. As of 2004 the paper was the most selling daily both in Sweden and in other Nordic countries, having a circulation of 422,000 copies and it was 429,000 copies on weekdays in 2005
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Expressen
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Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944, its symbol is a wasp, the first edition of Expressen was released on 16 November 1944. A main feature that day was an interview with the members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship Tirpitz. The editor in chief of Expressen is Thomas Mattsson, the paper is owned by the Bonnier Group. As of 2005 the paper had a stance, but it declared its independent leaning in 1995. Through mergers, the Gothenburg edition of Expressen is titled GT and the Malmö edition is titled Kvällsposten, Expressen maintains a centre-right political profile, describing its editorial position as independent liberal, while the competitor Aftonbladet is social-democratic. Ownership of Expressen is controlled by the Bonnier family, while Aftonbladet is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions, in 1998 the circulation of Expressen was 316,000 copies on weekdays and 396,000 copies on Sundays. The paper had a circulation of 334,000 copies in 2001, the 2004 circulation of the paper was 335,000 copies. It was 339,400 copies on weekdays in 2005, the 2010 circulation of the paper was 270,900 copies. In September 2016, Expressen published a column in which columnist Cecilia Hagen called political opponents rats, proceeded to ask how to get rid of them and its editorial offices are in Malmö and the editor in chief is Martin Kroon. Göteborgs-Tidningen or GT was a newspaper founded in Gothenburg in 1902. GT was owned by Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, but in 1973 acquired by Göteborgs-Posten, in 1998, Bonnier AB bought the newspaper and since then it has become a local edition of Expressen. GTs headquarters in Gothenburg and its editor in chief is Frida Boisen, list of Swedish newspapers Expressen, official website GT, official website Kvällsposten, official website
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Helsingborgs Dagblad
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Helsingborgs Dagblad, published in Helsingborg in Skåne is the largest newspaper in Swedish outside Malmö-, Göteborg- and Stockholm-district. The newspaper was founded with the name of Helsingborgs Tidning in 1867 and it began to use its current name, Helsingborgs Dagblad, in 1884. During its initial period it was a moderate publication, the paper has its headquarters in Helsingborg. In January 2001, the merged with Nordvästra Skånes Tidningar and is today published in three different local editions with separate names. In 2006, the changed its format from traditional broadsheet to tabloid following a general trend among daily newspapers. HD was named in 2012 as Swedens best newspaper, on 23 April 2014, Sydsvenskan acknowledged that they wanted to buy HD. A strong reason was reported to be that both newspapers had seen their ad revenue decrease heavily and they reached a deal in the end of May and the Swedish Competition Authority approved it around two weeks after. While Sydsvenskan has a soft paywall, it is not yet decided if HD will also have one
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Nerikes Allehanda
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Nerikes Allehanda is a daily newspaper based in Örebro, Sweden, and distributed across Örebro County. It was founded in 1843 as a paper and became a daily in 1894. The paper is owned by the media group LT Liberala Tidningar AB, the name Nerikes Allehanda is roughly translated All of Närke. Nerikes Allehanda was founded in 1843 by Otto-Joel Gumaelius and Svante Falk, Falk was the owner of the printing house and Gumaelius, a devoted liberal, became its first editor. The first edition was published on 4 March 1843 and consisted of four pages, the newspaper was only published one day per week in 120 copies. Nerikes Allehanda was transferred into a corporation in 1888, in 1894, the newspaper started to get published six days per week. It still consisted of four pages but now had a circulation of about 6,000 copies, in 1933, the lawyer Claes Ljung bought a majority of the newspapers shares. In 1944, Nerikes Allehanda merged with Nerikes Tidning and became the largest newspaper in the county with a circulation of about 31,000 copies, in 1951 it started to get distributed as a morning paper. In 1957, Nerikes Allehanda bought the newspaper Motala Tidning and in 1964 the newspaper Nora Tidning was bought as well, in 1975, the newspaper was sold from the Ljung family to the newly formed limited partnership corporation Liberala Tidningar. In 1993, the radio station Radio Rix, which is now owned to 90% by Nerikes Allehanda, was started, in 1995, the newspaper was published on the web for the first time. In 2001, the newspaper was first distributed seven days per week, in 2005, the format was changed from the classic broadsheet to tabloid. In 1998, the circulation of Nerikes Allehanda was 68,000 copies and its circulation was 65,300 copies in 2007. The paper had a circulation of 52,700 copies in 2012 and 49,800 copies in 2013, on 19 August 2007, the newspaper printed a drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a roundabout dog. In the ensuing days, demonstrations by Muslims and their supporters and they say they are offended and I regret that, because our purpose was not to offend anyone, Johansson told The Associated Press. But they are asking for an apology and a promise that I never again publish a similar image, prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expressed support for freedom of the press, as well as for religious tolerance
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Svenska Dagbladet
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Svenska Dagbladet, abbreviated SvD, is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. The first issue of Svenska Dagbladet appeared on 18 December 1884, ivar Anderson is among its former editors-in-chief who assumed the post in 1940. The paper is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as coverage of the Greater Stockholm region. Its subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden, during the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the right-wing publications in Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet is owned by Schibsted which purchased it in the late 1990s, the stated position of the editorial page is independently moderate, which means it is independent but adheres to the liberal conservatism of the Moderate Party. On the other hand, the paper is regarded as conservative. In November 2000 Svenska Dagbladet changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid, in 2005 the paper started a Web portal for business news as a joint venture with Aftonbladet. Since 1925 Svenska Dagbladet has awarded an individual sportsperson or a team the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal at the end of each year, the circulation of Svenska Dagbladet was 185,000 copies in 2003. The paper had a circulation of 187,100 copies on weekdays in 2005, among Swedish morning newspapers Svenska Dagbladet had the third largest circulation with 195,200 copies in 2007 after Dagens Nyheter and Göteborgs-Posten. In 2008 Svenska Dagbladet had a circulation of 123,383 copies, the circulation of the paper was 185,600 copies in 2011. It was 159,600 copies in 2012 and 143,400 copies in 2013, gunilla Asker, in 2009 appointed CEO of Svenska Dagbladet. Cordelia Edvardson, Jerusalem correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet from 1977 to 2006, list of Swedish newspapers Svenska Utlandstidningen Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The worlds great dailies, profiles of fifty newspapers pp 308–13 Official website of Svenska Dagbladet
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Marie Fredriksson
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In 2002, after fainting at home, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. During her rehabilitation she continued to make music, resulting in the album The Change and she later reunited with Gessle to record more Roxette albums, embarked on worldwide tour and continued to record as a solo artist in her native Sweden. Marie Fredriksson, who was born in Össjö, was the youngest of five children, the family later moved to the small Swedish town of Östra Ljungby. Being poor, both parents were forced to work, often leaving the children on their own, together with her siblings or neighbourhood children, Fredriksson began to play music and sing. She was often asked by her mother to perform in front of friends who were impressed by her Olivia Newton-John-like singing voice, Maries interest grew stronger in her teens as she discovered artists such as Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, and Deep Purple. At 17, Fredriksson enrolled in a college and performed in local theatre. However, she found it boring, instead longing for the thrill of an audience. As she phrased it, I wanted to perform and she became involved in theatre, and after moving to the town of Halmstad, she found herself involved in the local music scene. Joining her boyfriend Stefans band Strul, they played local gigs, after that group split, Marie and a new boyfriend, Martin Sternhuvsvud, performed as MaMas Barn. Per Gessle, the lead singer of the famous Swedish group Gyllene Tider, shared a rehearsal studio with Fredriksson. Lindbom was suitably impressed with Fredrikssons voice and offered her a contract, Lasse Lindbom asked Fredriksson to record a duet with him, Så nära nu, which lead to her joining his group The Lasse Lindbom Band. Gessle started to encourage her to start a career, but she was too nervous. Fredriksson finally accepted, and she recorded her first solo album, Het vind, Ännu doftar kärlek was the first single. Lindbom, Fredriksson, Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson started a new band called Spännande Ostar and that same year, Fredriksson and Lindbom went to the Canary Islands to write songs for Maries second solo album. They returned to Sweden for the recording, the album was released in 1986, under the name Den sjunde vågen. Den bästa dagen and Silver i din hand were released as singles, Gessle and Fredriksson had talked about working together for many years. Fredrikssons career was soaring in Sweden, but Gessle was a former member whose solo career was not doing as well. Friends and people in the industry were skeptical towards the idea of Marie collaborating with Gessle and his idea was to form a duo, singing in English, and try to have some success in Europe
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If I Were a Carpenter (song)
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If I Were a Carpenter is a song written by Tim Hardin. Hardins own recording of the piece appeared on his 1967 album Tim Hardin 2 and it was one of two songs from that release performed by Hardin at Woodstock in 1969. The song has been covered a number of times by artists, In 1966, it was a Top Ten hit for Bobby Darin. Bobby Darin also had an album If I Were A Carpenter, in 1967 Joan Baez covered it on her album Joan, initially renamed If You Were a Carpenter though later compilations reverted to the original title. In 1968, The Four Tops hit the Top 20 on both the pop and soul charts with their version and it also reached number eight in the UK charts in 1968 staying in the charts for 11 weeks. It reached number four in the Netherlands, in 1970 a duet by Johnny Cash and June Carter went to number 2 on the country chart. In 1972, a cover by Bob Seger reached number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100, the single was released from his album Smokin O. P. s. In 1979, Leif Garrett released a version of the song on his album, according to the Discogs encyclopedia the song appears on 2287 singles, lps or cds. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
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Catherine is a song written by Canadians Philippe Tatartcheff & Anna McGarrigle, first featured on Kate & Anna McGarrigles eponymous debut album, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 1976. With lyrics in Swedish by Ola Magnell as Ingen kommer undan politiken, the song was recorded by Marie Bergman on the 1977 album Närma mej, the Marie Fredriksson version was also released as a digital single on 25 July 2006. It was the single released from Marie Fredrikssons cover album Min bäste vän. A promotional single was also released, I owned the record by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and I was blown away by the way they sang it, Marie says. The Marie Fredriksson version was released as a digital single on 25 July 2006. Digital download Ingen kommer undan politiken -3,44 Swedish promotional CD Ingen kommer undan politiken -3,44 Vocals, keyboards and backing vocals, Mikael Bolyos. Produced and arranged by, Mikael Bolyos, recorded by, Mikael Bolyos at Studio Vinden, and Roger Krieg at Cosmos Studio. Mixed by, Roger Krieg at St, Eriksplan 1, mastered by, Thomas Eberget at Cutting Room. Artwork, Kjell Andersson & Pär Wickholm
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Tim Hardin
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James Timothy Tim Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. Hardin is also known for his own recording career, Hardin was born in Eugene, Oregon and attended South Eugene High School. He dropped out of school at age 18 to join the Marine Corps. Hardin is said to have discovered heroin while posted to the far east, after his discharge he moved to New York City in 1961, where he briefly attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was dismissed due to truancy and began to focus on his career by performing around Greenwich Village. After moving to Boston in 1963 he was discovered by the record producer Erik Jacobsen, in 1964 he moved back to Greenwich Village to record for his contract with Columbia. The resulting recordings were not released and Columbia terminated Hardins recording contract, after moving to Los Angeles in 1965, he met actress Susan Yardley Morss, and moved back to New York with her. He signed to the Verve Forecast label, and produced his first authorized album, Tim Hardin 1 in 1966 which contained Reason To Believe, Tim Hardin 2 was released in 1967, it contained If I Were a Carpenter. An English tour was cut short after Hardin contracted pleurisy, the liner notes indicate that the songs were recorded in 1963–1964, well prior to the release of Tim Hardin 1. In 1968, Verve released Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert and it was followed by Tim Hardin 4, another collection of blues-influenced tracks believed to date from the same period as This is Tim Hardin. In September 1968 he and Van Morrison shared a bill at the Cafe au Go Go, in 1969, Hardin again signed with Columbia and had one of his few commercial successes, as a non-LP single of Bobby Darins Simple Song of Freedom reached the US Top 50. Hardin did not tour in support of single and a heroin addiction. Also in 1969 he appeared at the Woodstock Festival where he sang his If I Were a Carpenter song solo and he recorded three albums for Columbia—Suite for Susan Moore and Damion, We Are One, One, All in One, Bird on a Wire, and Painted Head. During the following years Hardin moved between England and the U. S and his heroin addiction had taken control of his life by the time his last album, Nine, was released on GMA Records in the UK in 1973. He sold his writers rights in the late 1970s, on December 29,1980, Hardin was found on the floor of his Hollywood apartment by longtime friend Ron Daniels. He died of a heroin overdose and his remains were buried in Twin Oaks Cemetery in Turner, Oregon. Eulogy to Lenny Bruce – Nico, on her solo album, Chelsea Girl, Damon and Naomi on their album Damon. How Can We Hang on to a Dream, – Françoise Hardy on her album Françoise Hardy en Anglais, Ian & Sylvia on their album Lovin Sound
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Cornelis Vreeswijk
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Cornelis Vreeswijk was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands. He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve and he was educated as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist, but became increasingly involved in music, performing at events for students. His idiosyncratic humor and social engagement is still gaining him new fans, Cornelis Vreeswijk is often considered as one of the most influential and successful troubadours in Sweden. In 2010 a Swedish drama film, called Cornelis, was made about his life and it was directed by Amir Chamdin. Cornelis Vreeswijk explained in one of his few interviews that he had himself to sing and play in the fifties by imitating his first idols Josh White. His first album, Ballader och oförskämdheter, was a hit which immediately gained him a following among the emerging radical student generation. In this period he played with Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson. His songs Ångbåtsblues and Jubelvisa för Fiffiga Nanette are classics from these recordings and his 1965 loose translation of Allan Shermans masterpiece Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh remains beloved to Swedes as Brev från kolonien decades later, and could be said to have passed into folklore. Some of his records were blacklisted by the broadcasting company Sveriges Radio. He participated in Melodifestivalen in 1972 with Önskar du mej, så önskar jag dej and he also appeared in movies, including Svarta Palmkronor, which was filmed on location in Brazil. Spending four months in Brazil began Vreeswijks lifelong interest in Latin American music and social and political conditions, later in his career, Vreeswijk was to gain increasing fame and a wider audience both for his songs and his other work. He published several volumes of poetry in his lifetime and left a considerable legacy of poems which have been published since. He also became an important musical interpreter of the works of people, recording the songs of Carl Michael Bellman, Evert Taube. The choice of Bellman was significant, Bellmans lively, romantic, pastoral, drinking, Vreeswijk may have enjoyed the association of being something of a Bellman himself. Vreeswijks own best-known songs of the seventies and early eighties tend to be dark in tone, like Sist jag åkte jumbojet blues and Blues för Fatumeh. In 2010, Cornelis, a movie about his life, premiered in Swedish cinemas, norwegian singer Hans Erik Dyvik Husby played the role of Vreeswijk. In 1966, the Dutch broadcasting organisation VARA invited Vreeswijk to the Netherlands and he translated several of his songs into Dutch, and wrote a couple of new ones. One of his songs, De nozem en de non, was released as a single and his first Dutch album was only released in 1972, after ten successful Swedish albums
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Tom Paxton
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Thomas Richard Tom Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and he is noteworthy as a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions. Paxtons songs have been covered, including modern standards such as The Last Thing on My Mind, Bottle of Wine, Whose Garden Was This, The Marvelous Toy. He has performed thousands of concerts around the world, Paxtons songs can be emotionally effective and cover a wide range of topics, from the serious and profound to the lighthearted and comical. What Did You Learn in School Today, mocks the way children are often taught nationalism and a subservience to authority. Jimmy Newman is the story of a soldier and My Son John is a song about a soldier who comes back home. Beau John is a derived from the Civil Rights Movement about taking a stand against racial injustice. A Thousand Years tells the tale of Neo-Nazi uprising, and Train for Auschwitz is about the Holocaust, on the Road from Srebrenica is about Bosnian Muslims who were killed in a 1995 massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bravest is a song about the firefighters who died trying to save others on September 11,2001. Then there are Paxtons short shelf life songs, which are songs about current events. Paxton was born on October 31,1937, in Chicago, Illinois to Burt and his father was a chemist, mostly self-educated, and as his health began to fail him, the family moved to Wickenburg, Arizona. It was here that young Paxton began riding horses at the dude ranches in the area. It was also here that he was first introduced to music, discovering the music of Burl Ives. In 1948, the moved to Bristow, Oklahoma, which Paxton considers to be his hometown. Soon after, his father died from a stroke, Paxton was about fifteen when he received his first stringed instrument, a ukulele. He was given a guitar by his aunt when he was sixteen, in 1955, Paxton enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied in the drama school. It was here that he first found other enthusiasts of folk music and discovered the music of Woody Guthrie, Paxton would later note, Woody was fearless, hed take on any issue that got him stirred up. And he became one of my greatest influences, in college, he was in a group known as the Travellers, and they sang in an off-campus coffeehouse
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Mikael Wiehe
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Mikael Christian Wiehe is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was one of the most important people in the progg movement. Wiehes father was Danish and he spent the first six years of his life in Copenhagen. His father left the family when he was 5 years old, and he is a leftist folk musician, dealing with what he considers right and wrong in the society from the eyes of the proletariat, but he also writes personal, non-political songs. Wiehe was one of the singers and the leading songwriter of Hoola Bandoola Band in the 1970s. After the split of the group in 1975, he was the leader of other bands before becoming a solo artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He was a friend of Björn Afzelius, the other lead singer of Hoola Bandoola Band. They sometimes toured around Scandinavia and recorded together in the 1980s and 90s, today, Wiehe performs all around Sweden, using material from his 20-some albums. A recently published song book contains the lyrics and melodies to 220 of his songs, in 2000, he released the single Det här är ditt land, a Swedish-language adaptation of the Woody Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land which received substantial play on Swedish radio. Wiehe has also translated many of Bob Dylans songs into Swedish some were performed by Totta Näslund, on Wiehes 60th birthday, a tribute show was held in his hometown Malmö. At the end of the show, Wiehe took the stage, the concert was later broadcast on Sveriges Television with interviews and older footage of Wiehe. The ambassador of Cuba to Sweden, Ernesto Meléndez Bachs, also held a speech at the festival, in 2015 Wiehe received Jan Myrdals Lenin Prize, controversial due to its namesake Vladimir Lenin. Hoola Bandoola Band Hoola Bandoola Export Garanterat Individuell Vem Kan Man Lita På
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Tro (song)
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Tro is a ballad in Swedish, written and sung by Swedish pop singer Marie Fredriksson in the Swedish pop duo Roxette. She scored a hit with the song in 1996, when it was released as a single, the song is about belief, but the lyrics dont mention anything about religion. The song peaked at #8 on the Swedish singles chart, Tro was tested on the Sveriges Radio hitlist Svensktoppen, where it on 16 November 1996 entered the chart at #1. On 23 November 1996, it was still #1, and on 30 November 1996 the song was knocked out from Svensktoppen, Tro was also tested on the Sveriges Radios hitlist Tracks. On 26 October 1996 the song entered the list at #15, on 2 November 1996 the song peaked at #12. On 23 November 1996, the song was dropped down to #23, Swedish pop singer Shirley Clamp covered Tro on her 2006 cover album Favoriter på svenska
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Per Gessle
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Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider. With Fredrikssons illness in 2002, he went back to recording albums, reformed Gyllene Tider in 2004 and became a successful artist in his native Sweden. Per Gessle was a member of Gyllene Tider, in 1976. They quickly became a group in Sweden, but after their fourth album, The Heartland Café, sold poorly compared to their previous albums. We decided to put Gyllene Tider to rest, in 1982, Gessle released his first solo album, Per Gessle and after Gyllene Tider split-up his second album, Scener, quickly appeared in 1985. Gessle and Marie Fredriksson had been friends for a few years before came together as Roxette in 1986. After the success of their first hit Neverending Love, which was written by Gessle, Roxette went on to achieve four U. S. #1s and two #2s, with their albums Look Sharp. and Joyride attaining platinum status in a number of countries. After Roxettes early nineties success, Per released a compilation album in 1992, På väg. Bang. and subsequent world tour, Roxette took a break, in 1996, after a reunion and subsequent tour of Gyllene Tider, Gessle recorded his first English solo album, using Brainpool and Gyllene Tider as backing musicians. Christoffer Lundquist from Brainpool would also come to collaborate with Per on later releases, the World According to Gessle, released in 1997, produced three singles, Do You Wanna Be My Baby. Kix and I Want You to Know, the videos to all three songs were directed by Jonas Åkerlund. The World According to Gessle was re-released in 2008, with bonus material. In 1997 Hjärtats trakt – en samling was released as a best-of album, after Roxette released Have a Nice Day and Room Service to moderate success, Per continued with his solo work. The subsequent album Mazarin, was successful in Sweden, going five times platinum in 2004. His first album involving singer Helena Josefsson brought Gessle numerous awards, four Grammis awards, Best Artist, Best Male Pop Performer, Best Composer and Best Song. He also won three Rockbjörnen awards, Best Swedish Male Artist, Best Swedish Album and Best Swedish Song —, the song Här kommer alla känslorna, is Gessles most successful release in Sweden, spending two months at No. Also in 2004, saw Gessle and Gyllene Tider reunited for a 25th-anniversary celebration that included the bands first album in 20 years, Finn 5 fel. and another very successful tour in Sweden
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad
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Anni-Frid Synni, Princess Reuss of Plauen, widely known as Frida Lyngstad or by just the mononym Frida, is a Swedish pop and jazz singer. In 1996, Frida recorded an album in Swedish before retiring from music. In April 1964, aged 18 she married Ragnar Fredriksson, immediately after their divorce in 1970, Lyngstad courted eventual ABBA band member Benny Andersson, co-habiting until they officially married in 1978. The couple separated in 1980 and divorced in 1981, the prince died of lymphoma in October 1999. Lyngstad currently lives in Zermatt, Switzerland, sharing a home with her British boyfriend, Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden, Lyngstads father returned to Germany when his unit was evacuated. In early 1947, Lyngstad, her mother, and her grandmother, Arntine Lyngstad, left her birthplace. This could entail not just insults and threats, but also forced separation of infants from their parents, Lyngstad was taken by her grandmother to Sweden, where they settled in the region of Härjedalen and her grandmother took any available job. Lyngstads mother, Synni, remained in Norway and worked for a period in the south of the country, Synni joined her mother and daughter in Sweden, and the three moved to Malmköping. Synni died of kidney failure soon afterwards, aged 21, leaving Lyngstad to be raised solely by her grandmother, in June 1949, they both relocated to Torshälla, where Agny Lyngstad worked as a seamstress. Frida Lyngstad grew up in Torshälla and began attending school there in August 1952, close contact with her family in Norway continued, and Lyngstad recalls summer holidays spent with them at her birthplace. She was especially close to her Aunt Olive, who stated that she saw how lonely and subdued Frida was and, as a result. Lyngstad believed that her father, Alfred Haase, had died during the war on his way back to Germany as his ship was reported to have sunk. However, in 1977, the German teen magazine Bravo published a poster and it was seen by Lyngstads half-brother, Peter Haase, who went to his father and asked him if he had been in Ballangen during the war. A few months later, Lyngstad met Haase in Stockholm for the first time, Lyngstad stated in several interviews that her grandmother frequently sang songs to her, which resulted in her love for music. She soon showed talent at a very early age, beginning in her first years at school. On Fridays, she was asked by her teacher to sing in front of the class and soon became known in school. Although her grandmother encouraged her to sing, she never attended any of her performances and her grandmother died shortly before ABBA formed and therefore never experienced the success of the group. At the age of 13, Lyngstad got her first job as a band and schlager singer in 1958
