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Fleetwood Mac
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Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. The band has more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the worlds best-selling bands of all time. In 1998, selected members of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to date, the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-selling album of all time. Due to numerous changes, the only original member present in the band is drummer Mick Fleetwood. Keyboardist Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 while married to John McVie, has appeared on every album except the debut album and she left the band in 1998 but returned in 2014. Fleetwood Mac were formed in July 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Peter Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar, Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood—Peter Bs Looners and the subsequent Shotgun Express. John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band, the Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie, the fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, Fleetwood Mac. Soon after, Green contacted Fleetwood to form a new band, the pair wanted McVie on bass guitar and even named the band Fleetwood Mac as a way to entice him. However, McVie opted to keep his income with Mayall rather than take a risk with a new band. The Green, Fleetwood, Spencer, Brunning version of the band made its debut on 13 August 1967 at the Windsor Jazz, Brunning merely played at a handful of gigs with Fleetwood Mac. Within weeks of this show, John McVie agreed to join the band as permanent bassist, Fleetwood Macs first album, Fleetwood Mac, was a no-frills blues album and was released on the Blue Horizon label in February 1968. In fact there were no players on the album. The album was successful in the UK, hitting No,4, though it did not have any singles on it. The band soon released two singles Black Magic Woman and Need Your Love So Bad, the bands second album, Mr. Wonderful, was released in August 1968. Like the first it was an album, but this time they made a few changes. The album was recorded live in the studio with miked amplifiers and PA system and this method provided the ideal environment for producing this style of music, and gave it an authentically vintage sound
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The Chain
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The Chain is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their best-selling album Rumours. It was assembled, often manually by splicing tapes with a blade, at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with hired engineers Ken Caillat. Following the critical and commercial success of Rumours, The Chain has been featured on The Dance and it has attained particular fame in the United Kingdom, where the instrumental section is used as the theme tune for the BBC and Channel 4s television coverage of Formula One. According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the section of The Chain—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a match, she. Other elements were worked in from a project of Christines called Keep Me There. The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a blade to cut. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from a song from a duet with Nicks, Lola. The finished song itself has a rock structure, although it has two distinct portions, the main verse and chorus, and the outro. The song shows influences of rock, folk, and country. Rumours garnered widespread acclaim upon its release. Subsequent analysis of The Chain has also led many to cite it as one of the most evocative expressions of the fracture between various band members at the time. Buckingham and Nicks were ending their relationship at the time that John and Christine McVies marriage broke down, as did that of Fleetwood. In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD/DVD package called The Dance, the rendition of The Chain reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It has also appeared on The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac and 25 Years - The Chain. On 29 March 2009 the song re-entered the UK Chart at #94 through downloads, following confirmation from the BBC that it would be reintroduced, the BBC having regained broadcasting rights from ITV. On 20 March 2011, The Chain peaked higher at #81 in the UK chart following a campaign on Facebook to try to get the song to number 1 for the start of the 2011 Formula One season. By November 2014, the song had been certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry based on sales alone
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You Make Loving Fun
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You Make Loving Fun is a song written and sung by Christine McVie of the British-American band Fleetwood Mac. It was released as the fourth and final 45 rpm single from the bands album Rumours in 1977, its fourth top-ten hit, the song was inspired by an affair McVie had with Curry Grant. To avoid flare-ups, she told her then-husband John McVie that the song was about her dog, early tracking of the song was done, according to McVie, in the absence of Lindsey Buckingham, which allowed her the freedom to build the song on my own. The recording sessions were saturated with cocaine use, Buckingham played rhythm guitar and tracking was done with a Fender Rhodes, Nicks playing tambourine. John McVies bass was rerecorded again later, and Mick Fleetwood, the song also utilizes descending seconds in its chord progression. It has since been revived for Fleetwood Macs 2014-2015 tour when McVie rejoined the band
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Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Dreams is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their eleventh studio album Rumours. In the United States, Dreams was released as the single from Rumours on March 24,1977. A performance of Dreams on stage was used as the music video. In the US, Dreams reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, in Canada, Dreams also reached number one on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart. The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording the Rumours album, Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. John McVie was separating from his wife Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial, explained Buckingham to Blender magazine, Nicks wrote the song in early 1976 at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California. It was a room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano. I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me, I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote Dreams in about 10 minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, when Nicks played the song to the rest of the group, They werent nuts about it. Please record this song, at least try it, because the way I play things sometimes. The band recorded it the following day, only a basic track was recorded at Sausalito. Recording assistant Cris Morris remembers that all kept was the track and live vocal from Stevie – the guitars. Christine McVie described the song as having just three chords and one note in the hand and boring when Nicks played a rough version on the piano. McVie changed her mind, after Lindsey fashioned three sections out of chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that theres a thread running through the whole thing, in the United States, Dreams reached the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 18,1977, and held it for one week. On the Adult Contemporary chart, Dreams was Fleetwood Macs highest charting single during the 1970s when it reached number 11, in the United Kingdom, Dreams went to number 24, staying in the top 40 for eight weeks. It was then remixed by Todd Terry for single release and became the first big hit for The Corrs in the UK, reaching number 6 in the UK singles chart, the video also won the Best Adult Contemporary Video award from Billboard magazine in 1998
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Second Hand News
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Second Hand News is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham that was first performed by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac as the opening track of their 1977 album Rumours. Second Hand News was a frontrunner to be the track of the album throughout the recording of the Rumours. According to author Jacob Hoye, its opening lines I know theres nothing to say/Someone has taken my place set the mood for the entire album and it is one of several songs on Rumours reflecting the romantic breakup of Buckingham and bandmate Stevie Nicks. The song was inspired by the redemption Buckingham was finding in other women after the relationship with Nicks. He sings that although he doesnt trust his lover and cant live with her, Fleetwood Mac biographer Donald Brackett highlights the irony of lines such as One thing I think your should know/I aint gonna miss you when you go. Buckingham wouldnt miss Nicks, because she isnt going anywhere, they still have to record, according to Buckingham, the song incorporates Scottish and Irish folk song influences. Buckingham originally introduced the song to the band on the guitar without any lyrics, Strummer has appeared on various reissues of Rumours, including the 4 disc edition released in 2013. Buckingham initially withheld the lyrics to avoid getting into an argument with Nicks over them, the band originally played the song in a march rhythm. A Naugahyde chair was struck to create the unusual percussion sound, originally, John McVie had laid down a bass part that Ken Calliat described as melodic and flowing. However, while McVie was on vacation, Buckingham put down his own bassline, one that was very simple, Buckingham had a grand plan in his head, and he got his way. This was the start of him calling the shots. It became a ‘my way or the thing with him, which he perfected on the Tusk album. ”McVie would eventually rerecord the bass guitar part in accordance with Buckinghams instructions. During the guitar solo, the band overlaid a wordless vocal to enhance the effect, music journalist Chuck Eddy uses this as a prime example of rock musicians using vocals as a bassline. According to author Cath Carroll, Buckinghams syncopated scat singing on this part, Carroll also praises Mick Fleetwoods drumming on the chorus as being some of his best. Carroll sums up the song by stating that the acoustic guitars, pounding piano. Pitchfork critic Jessica Hopper regards Second Hand News to be perhaps the most euphoric ode to rebound chicks ever written and she describes it as being similar to the hit single Go Your Own Way in being upbeat but totally fuck you. Rolling Stone magazine critic John Swenson claimed that Second Hand News was almost as good as Go Your Own Way and he says that despite being about the breakup of his relationship, the song is anything but morose, and completely outdoes the Eagles in the kiss-off genre. Musically, he claims that the acoustic guitar rhythm carries the song to a joyful chorus
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Rhiannon (song)
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Rhiannon is a song written by Stevie Nicks and originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac on their eponymous album in 1975, it was subsequently issued as a single the following year. Rhiannon was voted #488 in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine and its US chart peak was in June 1976, when it hit #11. It peaked at #46 in the UK singles chart for three weeks after re-release in February 1978, the song is always referred to as simply Rhiannon on Fleetwood Mac albums. The title Rhiannon was used only on single versions in some countries, live performances of the song were sometimes prefaced with Nicks saying, This is a story about a Welsh witch. During 1975–1980, Fleetwood Macs live performances of Rhiannon took on an intensity not present on the FM-radio single. The song built to a climax in which Nicks vocals were so impassioned that, as drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood said, Nicks discovered Rhiannon in the early 70s through a novel called Triad, by Mary Bartlet Leader. The novel is about a woman named Branwen, who is possessed by another woman named Rhiannon, there is mention of the Welsh legend of Rhiannon in the novel, but the characters in the novel bear little resemblance to their original Welsh namesakes. Nicks bought the novel in an airport just before a flight and thought the name was so pretty that she wanted to write something about a girl named Rhiannon. She wrote Rhiannon in 1974, three months before joining Fleetwood Mac, while living with Richard Dashut and Lindsey Buckingham in Malibu, and has claimed that it took 10 minutes to write. After writing the song, Nicks learned that Rhiannon originated from a Welsh goddess, Nicks researched the Mabinogion story and began work on a Rhiannon project, unsure of whether it would become a movie, a musical, a cartoon, or a ballet. There are several Rhiannon Songs from this project including Stay Away. Nicks wrote the Fleetwood Mac song Angel based on the Rhiannon story, waylon Jennings covered the song in his 1985 album, Turn the Page. Hardcore Punk band Zeke also covered the song in their 2000 Dirty Sanchez album, the song was recorded in 1976 by Lochiel, Glenwood, and South Carvolth Schools for The Langley Schools Music Project. Hole also sampled Rhiannon on the song Starbelly from their album Pretty on the Inside from 1991, japanese artist Superfly covered the song as a B-side of the single Ai o Komete Hanataba o, released on February 28,2008. Taylor Swift performed with Stevie Nicks at the 2010 Grammy Awards, best Coast covered the song in a live session for Sirius XMU in May 2012. Vaughan Penn and the Boomers cover this song during their days in the 1980s Lady Antebellum performed a duet with Stevie Nicks on the song Rhiannon at the 2014 ACM Awards. Singer RES covered the song on her 2013 EP Refried Mac, sticky Fingers covered the song on Like a Version. The song appeared in 2011 as a track for the music video game Rock Band 3
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Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Everywhere was released in the United Kingdom on 21 March 1988 and reached number four. It also reached number 45 in Australia, a 12 single was also issued and featured an extended dance version and dub version. Everywhere also marked the first CD single release by the band in most territories, after featuring in an advert for UK mobile phone provider 3, Everywhere re-entered the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 15 in March 2013. As a result of this success, the song was featured on the compilation album Now Thats What I Call Music. The music video of the song is a depiction of the poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. There are two versions of the video, one features the story with members of the band appearing throughout, in 2001, the British group S Club 7 sampled the backing track for their song Summertime Feeling from their album Sunshine. In 2004, a cover was released by electronic band Climax. In 2005, the song was covered by Australian group Moustache and this version is a house music version that peaked at number 19 on the Australian charts. The song was covered by Vampire Weekend. Hot Chip covers this song as a medley with their song Hold On during live performances, ida Redig,2013 SoFo Records, Under exclusive license to Universal Music AB Electric Six covered the song on their cover-album Mimicry and Memories after performing it at a string of live gigs. In 2013, Brooklyn-based new wave group Selebrities released a cover of Everywhere with vocalists Erika Spring, in 2016, Emily Patrick recorded it as a soundtrack for A Balloon for Ben, a promotional campaign for Cineplex Canada. The single was released by Fifth Kid Records on iTunes as Everywhere crediting VAPOR RMW featuring Emily Patrick, in 2016, Jamaican Reggae artist Busy Signal covered the song on the Feel Good Riddim mixed album. Everywhere Fleetwood Mac music video version on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Tusk (song)
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Tusk is a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name. The song peaked at number 8 in the US for three weeks, reached number 6 in the UK, number 5 in Canada and number 3 in Australia and it was one of the first songs to be released using a digital mixdown from an original analog source. Looking for a track for the as yet unnamed album. Producers Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat hence created a drum-driven production, in addition to normal drums, Fleetwood Mac also experimented with different found sounds on the song. Fleetwood and Buckingham played lamb chops and a Kleenex box on the track respectively, Im playing floor toms, and I overdubbed a lot of American Indian wood tribal drums. Its a whole hodgepodge of Kleenex boxes, drums, weird stuff, slapping of lamb chops, I got a big leg of lamb in there somewhere – Im hitting it with a spatula. The single was recorded together with the supporting video at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The performance was filmed for the songs music video. The Trojan marching bands part both set a record for the highest number of performing on a single and earned the marching musicians a platinum disc. Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood presented it to the Trojan band on October 4,1980 during a game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the song was also performed live during Fleetwood Macs concert in 1997 in conjunction with the USC Band. A very limited promotional 12-inch version, featuring mono and stereo versions, was released to US radio stations. Lyrically, this song refers to Buckinghams discovery of the affair between Fleetwood and Nicks. A radically different mix of the track appeared on the retrospective four-disc compilation 25 Years – The Chain in 1992. A live performance of the song recorded at Dodger Stadium with the USC Marching band was used as a music video
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Sisters of the Moon
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Sisters of the Moon is a song by British-American rock group Fleetwood Mac. It was written and performed by band-member Stevie Nicks and was released in the US as the single from the 1979 album Tusk. It peaked at No.86 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was not released in the UK, where Not That Funny had been released as a single instead. The rare single version of Sisters of the Moon is included on the compilation The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac, when performed live, the song would usually go for over 8 minutes in length, most notably the Mirage Tour version in 1982. The song was dropped after this tour, Fleetwood Mac later revived the song for their 2013 Tour. The song was played on the North American and European legs of the On with the Show tour. Mick Fleetwood – drums John McVie – bass guitar Christine McVie – keyboards Lindsey Buckingham – guitars Stevie Nicks – vocals The Great Rock Discography by Martin C. Strong, ISBN 1-84195-312-1 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Sara (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Sara is a song written by singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks by British-American pop/rock band Fleetwood Mac as a single from the 1979 Tusk double LP. The album version is 6,22 minutes and the version is 4,41 minutes. The song peaked at No.7 in the US for three weeks, No.37 in the UK for two weeks, No.11 in Australia and No.12 in Canada. Its success has led to it being included in various later best-of albums such as 2002s The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac, there are many sources of inspiration for Sara, according to Nicks. There were persistent rumors that the song is about an abortion Nicks had after getting pregnant from then boyfriend Don Henley, Henley himself has suggested this to be the meaning of the song. In a 1979 interview Nicks said “If I ever have a little girl and its a very special name to me. ”In his 2014 autobiography, Mick Fleetwood suggested that the song referred to an affair which ended his own relationship with Nicks. Fleetwood and Nicks had been involved in a relationship for some time. Although the relationship was not exclusive on either side, Fleetwood states that Nicks became upset when Fleetwood began a relationship with her best friend and this relationship effectively ended the romance between Nicks and Fleetwood. The lyrics, and he was just like a great dark wing/within the wings of a storm refer to Fleetwood being a comfort zone for Nicks following her breakup with Lindsey Buckingham. Stevie Nicks wrote the track on a piano, but it was hard for Mick Fleetwood to put a track together for it and as a result. In 1980, the year after the song was released, Stevie Nicks was sued for plagiarism by a songwriter who had submitted a song called Sara, Fleetwood Macs recording label, in 1978. Stevie Nicks defended the lawsuit by proving that she had written and recorded a version of the song in July 1978. The case was dropped and the complainant accepted that no plagiarism had occurred and it was not until the 1988 Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits compilation was released that the 6,22 version of the song became available on compact disc. There is also a known as the cleaning lady edit, so-called as Nicks is clearly heard to say at the beginning of the demo recording. This version lasts almost nine minutes and was released on the 2-disc remastered version Tusk in March 2004, on November 5,2015, a live version was released as part of a remastered Tusk. This recording features a heavier hitting drum beat from Fleetwood, the songs lyrics were suggested as evidence that Stevie Nicks was a witch. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Say You Love Me (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Say You Love Me is a song written by singer Christine McVie, for Fleetwood Macs 1975 self titled album. The song peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, and remains one of their best known songs and its success helped the groups eponymous 1975 album to sell over 8 million copies worldwide. In the UK, Say You Love Me was the single from the Fleetwood Mac album, but the first to chart. In Canada, Shirley Eikhard covered Say You Love Me and released it as a several weeks in advance of Fleetwood Mac in early June 1976. Eikhard took the song into the Canadian top 40, peaking at number 34, Fleetwood Macs version, released only a few weeks later, during Christine McVies departure, the song was performed on Fleetwood Macs Unleashed Tour with Nicks and Buckingham sharing lead vocals. McVie wrote Say You Love Me after her fifth year in the band, during the writing of this song, she was married to John McVie, bassist of Fleetwood Mac. The version used on the single differs from the album version in that Lindsey Buckingham remixed the LP version. The single mix is the one used on the compilation 25 Years - The Chain, Say You Love Me has been performed on seven of Fleetwood Macs tours since its release. In a rare occurrence, John McVie sang background vocals for the song during The Dance tour, in a Q&A session, he said that his ex-wife, Christine, convinced him to do it. Lance spent five weeks in the fall of 1976 on the American country singles chart with her version, in the fall of 1979, singer Stephanie Winslow scored the only Top 10 country hit of her career, with her cover reaching number 10 on the country charts. The Great Rock Discography, 6th Edition, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Seven Wonders (song)
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Seven Wonders is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. It was released as the single from the bands 1987 album Tango in the Night. Stevie Nicks performed the vocals on this song, which was written by Sandy Stewart. A limited edition 12-inch picture disc version was released in the UK. In 2009, Pictureplane sampled Seven Wonders in the song Goth Star from the album Dark Rift, in 2013, Classixx sampled Seven Wonders in the song Hanging Gardens from the album of the same name. The Seven Wonders, the finale of American Horror Story, Coven. This helped the song to reach #18 on the Billboard Digital Rock Songs chart with sales of 13,000, Seven Wonders supplies the title and the leitmotif for the third part of Caren Gussoffs novella Three Songs for Roxy
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Big Love (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Big Love is a song by Fleetwood Mac, that appeared on their 1987 album Tango in the Night. The song was the first single to be released from the album, reaching number 5 in the US, the single was also a hit on the American dance charts, where the song peaked at number 7. A 12-inch version featured a dance mix, with added vocals by Stevie Nicks. While the 12-inch version included You & I, Part II from the Tango in the Night album, the 7-inch version included a non-album track, You & I, Part I. A limited edition 12-inch picture disc was released in the UK, as well as a double 7-inch pack, which contained the Big Love single, and an exclusive 7-inch featuring The Chain as an A-side. Big Love was written by Lindsey Buckingham, and was going to be part of his third solo album which he began working on in 1985. The song epitomised the stylised production techniques used on the album, the sample was aired several times on Late Night with David Letterman, where Letterman told viewers they were hearing the sounds of CPR. Since Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac in 1987, the never performed Big Love live until his return in 1997. It was in 1993, on his first solo tour, that Buckingham performed a version of the song. In 1997, he performed it in the style on Fleetwood Macs live album. It also appeared on the volume of Cameron Crowes Elizabethtown film soundtrack. Buckingham continues to perform the song on Fleetwood Mac and solo tours, a cover version of Big Love appeared on Canadian electronic artist CFCFs debut album Continent. Danny Cavanagh performed a version of Big Love on In Parallel. Flesh for Lulu performed a cover of Big Love and placed it on their Cold Flame/Big Love record, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Landslide is a song written by Stevie Nicks and performed by British-American music group Fleetwood Mac. It was first featured on the bands 1975 eponymous album Fleetwood Mac, along with Rhiannon, it would be Nicks first original contribution to the band upon joining. A live version was released as a single 23 years later from the reunion album The Dance. This version reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart, Landslide was certified Gold in October 2009 for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US. According to Nielsen Soundscan, Landslide has sold 1,315,950 copies in the US as of February 2013, Nicks has said that she wrote this song while she was contemplating going back to school or continuing on professionally with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Their album Buckingham Nicks had been dropped by Polydor Records and she and she wrote the song while visiting Aspen, Colorado, sitting in someones living room looking out at the Rocky Mountains pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us. At that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways, there are currently 7 different versions commercially available featuring Nicks on vocals, Fleetwood Mac. The original recording appears on the compilation albums 25 Years – The Chain. Recorded live in London, June 27,1980, at the Wembley Arena during the Tusk Tour, Live track released as a maxi-single, which also included 3 remixes of the original 1975 recording. Performed live with the Dixie Chicks, Live in Boston Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks. Performed live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, performed live in Chicago for the PBS program Soundstage. An alternate performance from this event is included on her Live in Chicago DVD, the song is one of Fleetwood Macs most frequently performed songs on tour. Nicks has performed it on every Fleetwood Mac tour since joining the band, with the exception of the Shake the Cage tour, Nicks also regularly performs it along with Stand Back during television guest appearances. The cover went on to be one of the rock bands most-beloved tracks, as she told fans during a 1998 online chat with SonicNet, Theres nothing more pleasing to a songwriter than doing one of their songs. Also led me to being friends with Billy and the possibility that well work together, over this song, theres been this incredible connection. I believe that my poetry is meant for everyone, no matter what age. The cover was a hit, making it to the top three on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US that year and number 30 on the US Airplay charts, the song was also featured on the US version of their greatest hits album Rotten Apples. The country group Dixie Chicks then covered Landslide on their 2002 album Home and it was released September 2,2002 as the albums second single
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Never Going Back Again
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Never Going Back Again is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham that was first released by Fleetwood Mac on their eleventh studio album Rumours. It was also released as the B-side to the Top Ten single Dont Stop in the US and it was also the B-side of Dreams in the Netherlands. It has been covered by artists, including Colin Reid. Music historian George Case described Never Going Back Again as a song with bubbly SoCal philosophies about relationships. It is one of songs on Rumours that Buckingham wrote in the wake of the breakup of his relationship with fellow Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks. He recalls it being one of the last songs written for the album, Buckingham regards it as a sweet and naive song and doesnt consider the lyrics to be very deep. He has described it as a perception of things. It reflects a desire not to repeat previous mistakes, Buckingham accompanies himself on acoustic guitar played using a Travis picking technique. He has said that the part may have been inspired by Ry Cooder. Never Going Back Again is set in a 44 signature at a tempo of 88 beats per minute. Buckinghams guitar is in drop D tuning with a capo on the fourth fret, buckinghams voice spans from a C#4 to A#5. The working title for the song was Brushes because it was recorded with just Buckingham playing acoustic guitar. In the final release, the drum part was removed. According to Billboard Magazine reviewer Christopher Walsh, these represent a pleasant surprise that add to the songs emotional punch. Rolling Stone critic John Swenson describes Never Going Back Again as the prettiest thing on, stylus Magazine critic Patrick McKay regards it as one of the strongest tracks on Rumours. Spin critic Chuck Eddy described Never Going Back Again as an arty trance, cath Carroll describes the song as a melodically uncluttered song with a simple chorus and a sharp resolve that says everything in a few elegant phrases. Never Going Back Again has appeared on several Fleetwood Mac compilation albums, including 25 Years – The Chain in 1992 and it has also appeared on several live albums. Matchbox Twenty covered Never Going Back Again on Legacy, A Tribute to Fleetwood Macs Rumours, the Matchbox Twenty version is set in a minor key
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Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Over My Head is a soft rock song performed by Anglo-American music group Fleetwood Mac. The song was written by group keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie, after a six year dry spell on the US charts, it was their first single to reach the Billboard Hot 100 since Oh Well. In September 1975, Over My Head was released as the single from the LP album entitled Fleetwood Mac. It was the bands first song ever to hit status in the United States by appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Its success helped the groups eponymous 1975 album to eight million copies. The words of the song seem—though McVie has never confirmed this—to refer to her troubled marriage, the 45 RPM single version of the song—released for radio airplay—was a remixed, edited version that differed noticeably from the version on the Fleetwood Mac album. This version is distinguished by a cold start, louder guitar strums in the choruses. In addition, whereas the single version fades during its 3-bar instrumental outro and it is this remixed/edited version that is included on the compilation album The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. The single version is available as a bonus track on the 2004 remastered CD release of the Fleetwood Mac album. ISBN 1-84195-312-1 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Think About Me
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Think About Me is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in March 1980. The song was composed by Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine McVie and it, along with Not That Funny were the first Tusk singles released in their remixed form. The song peaked at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, even though Think About Me was a Top 20 hit, it was not included in the 1988 album Greatest Hits but was included in the 2002 album The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac played the song for the first time live in over 25 years for their Australian leg of the On with the Show tour in Sydney. Christine McVie introduced the song in a humorous fashion, “It was released as a single. Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers recorded a version of the song for the 2012 compilation album Just Tell Me That You Want Me. The version features backward-sounding guitars and Carl Newman on lead vocals, in 1979, Ed Harrison of Billboard called the song a more rocking, guitar punctuated tune backed with superb harmonies and complimented McVies songwriting. Steve Morse of The Boston Globe gave the single a positive review, in 2003, Rob Brunner of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review, noting that it was a must and fascinating mess, full of enough good songs, Think About Me included. In 2010, Alfred Soto of PopMatters described the song as the unlikeliest of things, a McVie rocker
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Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Gypsy is a song by the rock group Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks wrote the song originally c,1979, and the earliest demo recordings were recorded in early 1980 with Tom Moncrieff for possible inclusion on her solo debut Bella Donna. However, when Nicks friend Robin Anderson died of leukemia, the took on a new significance. Gypsy was the single release and second biggest hit from the Mirage album, following Hold Me. There are two points of inspiration behind Gypsy, as stated by Stevie Nicks, the first of which is a point of nostalgia for Nicks, her life before Fleetwood Mac. Before joining the band, Nicks lived with Lindsey Buckingham. Nicks and Buckingham were partners in both the musical and romantic sense, however, only their musical partnership has survived, Nicks met Buckingham at a high school party, where he was singing “California Dreaming” by the Mamas and the Papas. Nicks joined in with harmony, then they introduced themselves. They didnt see each other again until college, where they started a relationship and they barely got by with the income from Nicks work as a waitress and cleaning lady. They couldnt afford a bed frame, so they slept on a single mattress, Nicks says the mattress was decorated in lace, with a vase and a flower at its side. Whenever she feels her famous life getting to her, she goes back to her roots, and takes her mattress off the frame and puts it back to the floor and decorates it with some lace, and paper flowers. It takes her back to the days when she had no wealth—back to herself as a poor gypsy, some speculate the rest of this song is directed at Buckingham, assuming the lyrics depict her leaving him. Okay, In the old days, before Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey and I had no money, so we had a king-size mattress, I had old vintage coverlets on it, and even though we had no money it was still really pretty. Just that and a lamp on the floor, and that was it—there was a certain calmness about it. To this day, when Im feeling cluttered, I will take my mattress off of my bed, wherever that may be, and put it outside my bedroom, with a table. On March 25,2009 during a show in Montreal on Fleetwood Macs Unleashed Tour, to contextualize, she voiced the lyrics, So Im back, to the velvet underground. Back to the floor, that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers. Back to the gypsy that I was and those are the words, So Im back to the velvet underground—which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane
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Little Lies
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Little Lies is a song by the English/American rock band Fleetwood Mac. It was the single to be taken from their 1987 album Tango in the Night. As of 2017, it is their final top 10 hit in the US, the song was composed by the bands keyboard player and vocalist, Christine McVie and her then-husband Eddy Quintela. When released, the reached number 1 for four weeks on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. It also hit #5 on the UK Singles Chart and it continues to be played on radio stations as a classic hit of the late 80s, along with Everywhere and Seven Wonders released a year later. It was also accompanied by a video, filmed on a farm, in and around its rustic buildings. In Little Lies the singer would rather hear little lies than the truth from her lover. Fleetwood Mac was known for singing about the group members rocky relationships, a limited 12-inch picture disc was also released in the UK, and it was also the first Fleetwood Mac single to be issued on the cassette-single format. It was released January 13,2016 through RCA Records and Sony Music Entertainment, TV Land called me, Duff told People, They were like, We want you to cover a song for the promos for the second season. Yes, of course, I would love to, a preview of her rendition of the song was made available through the magazine in December 2015. Duffs recording has been described as synthpop, with influences of dance genres. Duffs genre-altering recording has received mixed reviews from critics and this cover doesn’t work for me, writes Mike Wass of Idolator, The plodding electronic production. Completely overwhelms Fleetwood Mac’s delicate Tango In The Night smash and makes the Sparks diva sound like Siris older sister. Lucas Villa of AXS TV was more complimentary, writing that Duff rises above the synths to emerge as the dance floor queen shes been since the release of her 2007 album, Dignity. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition,1996 Music video of the song at MTV. com Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Gold Dust Woman
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Gold Dust Woman is a song from the best-selling Fleetwood Mac album Rumours. It was written and sung by Stevie Nicks and released as a B-side to the Dont Stop single, the 2004 two-disc special edition release of Rumours includes two demos of Gold Dust Woman. The track was chosen as the theme song for the 1998 Warner Bros. film Practical Magic and is only available on the films soundtrack album. The take chosen for release on the 1977 Rumours album was recorded at 4 a. m. after a long night of attempts in the studio. Just before and during that final take, Stevie Nicks had wrapped her head with a scarf, veiling her senses and tapping genuine memories. Many unusual instruments were used in the recording, including an electric harpsichord with a jet phaser, to accentuate Stevies vocals, Mick broke sheets of glass. He was wearing goggles and coveralls — it was pretty funny and he just went mad, bashing glass with this big hammer. He tried to do it on cue, but it was difficult, eventually, we said, ‘Just break the glass, ’ and we fit it all in. Slant critic Barry Walsh described the song as finding Nicks at her folky best with one of her most poignant character studies and it was also featured on the soundtrack to The Crow, City of Angels and was produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars. The original 1977 song appeared in 2011 as a track for the music video game Rock Band 3. A cover done by COPILOT Music and Sound was featured in the gameplay trailer, the Penguin, GDW Lyric Interpretations Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I'm So Afraid
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Im So Afraid is a song written by Lindsey Buckingham for the British/American rock band Fleetwood Macs tenth album, Fleetwood Mac. The final track of the album, it was released as the B-side to the song Over My Head. It was a rock song, quite atypical of Fleetwood Macs songs. The song was intended for a second Buckingham Nicks album, but was used for Fleetwood Mac instead and it appeared on all live albums recorded after its release, including Live, The Dance, Fleetwood Mac, Live in Boston, and on the 2015 box set of Tusk. The live edition from The Dance was released in a form on the US and 2009 release of the greatest hits compilation album The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. The song deals with themes of fear and paranoia, the main melody bears a strong resemblance to the melody of the song This Little Babe written by Benjamin Britten, which is part of the suite A Ceremony of Carols, composed in 1942. The studio version of the song is in G natural minor, on recent tours the song has been played in D minor. Mick Fleetwood – drums John McVie – bass guitar Christine McVie – organ Lindsey Buckingham – electric guitars, acoustic guitar, lead vocals Stevie Nicks - backup vocals
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Go Your Own Way
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Go Your Own Way is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in December 1976. Written and sung by Lindsey Buckingham, it was the first single from the groups 1977 album Rumours and it was the groups first major U. S. hit with male lead vocals. The song was written on a vacation in Florida in a house the band rented, by this point, the members of Fleetwood Mac were not getting along very well. Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, remembers the tense atmosphere during this time. It was rough but it was great, though the setting didnt do it justice, the band didnt hear any of these early recordings until they returned to Sausalito. Buckingham had heard Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones, Ken Caillat, remembers that Mick Fleetwood initially had a difficult time with the drums. I remember watching him guide Mick as to what he wanted – hed be so animated, like a little kid, Mick wasnt so sure he could do what Lindsey wanted, but he did a great job, and the song took off. The guitar solo was assembled in numerous takes at Criteria Studios by Ken Caillat and it was a completely compd solo, and on the 24-track its still in its original form, with all the separate guitars, and you still have to mix that way. So I drove there and did the solo, using mutes, the song is about the complicated relationship that Buckingham and fellow Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks were having. None of the members knew they were writing songs about each other until the album was released, Stevie Nicks asked Buckingham to remove the lyrics Packing up, shacking up is all you wanna do, but Buckingham refused. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Nicks gave her thoughts on the matter, I very much resented him telling the world that packing up, shacking up with different men was all I wanted to do. It was just a thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and he knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, Ill make you suffer for leaving me, although the release date for Rumours was set for February 1977, Fleetwood Mac wanted a single out by Christmas, Go Your Own Way was chosen to fulfill that role. This marketing move would prove to be very successful, before the albums release, pre-orders had reached 800,000 copies, the biggest advance sale in Warner Brothers history at the time. Mitchel Reed, a popular DJ in LA in the 70s, was underwhelmed when he first played the single on his program, after the song had finished, he said dismissively to millions of listeners, I dont know about that one. Afterwards, Buckingham contacted Reed, demanding to know what the problem was, Reed told Buckingham that he could not find the beat. Both Fleetwood and Buckingham took the blame for this issue, Buckingham attributed the problem to the acoustic guitar track that he added late into production
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Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Dont Stop is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, written by vocalist and keyboard player Christine McVie. Sung by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, and McVie, it was a taken from the bands 1977 hit album. It is one of the bands most enduring hits, peaking at No.3 on the Billboard singles chart, in the UK market, Dont Stop followed Go Your Own Way as the second single from Rumours and peaked at No.32. In the US, it was the single released. Dont Stop reflects Christine McVies feelings after her separation from Fleetwood Macs bass guitarist, John McVie, Dont Stop was just a feeling. It was used by United States presidential candidate Bill Clinton as the theme for his first campaign, upon winning the election, Clinton persuaded the then-disbanded group to reform to perform it for his inaugural ball in 1993. At the 2000 convention, he ended his speech by saying, and dont stop thinking about tomorrow. Immediately after the sentence, the song began playing over the loudspeakers. The song was played for Clintons appearances at the 2004,2008 and 2012 conventions. A live performance of the song was used as a music video, status Quo covered the song in their 1996 covers album Dont Stop. Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Nina Nesbitt released a version of Dont Stop on August 23,2013 in the United Kingdom. It is included as one of the songs in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley. It was also covered in 2010 by the cast of the TV show Glee in the episode titled Rumours, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Silver Springs (song)
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Silver Springs is a song written by Stevie Nicks and performed by Fleetwood Mac. It was originally intended for the bands 1977 album Rumours, but became a B-side to the song Go Your Own Way, written by Stevie Nicks, Silver Springs was originally intended for the album Rumours. Years after the fact, Nicks commented that the exclusion from the album marked a growing tension in the band. The tracks content reportedly came from the ending of the relationship between Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. She has said, I wrote Silver Springs about Lindsey, and we were in Maryland somewhere driving under a freeway sign that said Silver Spring, Maryland. And I loved the name … Silver Springs sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me, and, You could be my silver springs…, thats just a whole symbolic thing of what you could have been to me. In face of the space available on the LP format of the time. In a 1997 documentary on the making of Rumours, Richard Dashut, the song was, however, released in late 1976 as the B-side of the Go Your Own Way single, the Buckingham song to which it is regarded as being a response. Years later, the band went on a tour to promote the Fleetwood Mac album Behind the Mask. The song eventually appeared on the 1992 box set 25 Years – The Chain, in 1997, the song got a second life on the reunion album The Dance. During the filming of the concert that brought Nicks and Buckingham back to the fold. The band earned a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals nomination for this version from The Dance. The song was played in the finale of American Horror Story
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Songbird (Fleetwood Mac song)
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Songbird is a popular song by Fleetwood Mac. It first appeared on the 1977 album Rumours and was released as the B-side of the single Dreams and it is one of four songs written solely by Christine McVie on the album. She would frequently sing the song at concerts, Christine McVie - piano, vocals Lindsey Buckingham - acoustic guitar Eva Cassidys version was released in 1998 on her posthumous compilation album of the same name Songbird. Despite being released two years after her death from melanoma, the album reached number 1 in the UK in 2001. Songbird finally charted in the UK in September 2009 at number 56, willie Nelson covered Songbird on his own 2006 album Songbird, making it the second album to be named after the song. The album peaked at #87 on the Billboard 200, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Target Center
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Target Center is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Target Center hosts major family shows, concerts, sporting events, graduations, Target Corporation is the original and current naming rights partner of the arena. Seating over 20,000 for a concert, it contains 702 club seats and 68 suites, the center is home to the NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBAs Minnesota Lynx. The facility has hosted the LFLs Minnesota Valkyrie, the RHIs Minnesota Arctic Blast. Original Timberwolves owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner built, owned and operated the arena for five years beginning in 1990, the venue was managed by Ogden Entertainment after the city of Minneapolis purchased the arena in 1995. Glen Taylor acquired the Timberwolves in 1994 and the Lynx in 1999, in 2000, SFX took over the contract. The management was changed in May 2004 from Clear Channel to Midwest Entertainment Group, on May 2,2007 AEG Facilities assumed the management contract of Target Center. The city of Minneapolis owns the arena and AEG Facilities manages day-to-day operations, Target Center was once one of three NBA arenas with parquet floors, including TD Garden in Boston, and Amway Arena in Orlando—the floor was replaced prior to the 2008 NBA season. Target Center is the first arena to have a green roof and it was unveiled on September 15,2009. In February 2011, the Timberwolves and the city of Minneapolis introduced a $155 million proposal to remodel the Target Center. Plans included shifting the entrance to the corner of 6th Street and First Avenue. The plan was approved in 2012 by the Minnesota Legislature, as part of the bill authorized a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. On April 3,2015, the Minneapolis City Council gave the approval for renovation plans for Target Center. The total cost will be $128.9 million, which upgrade the exterior, seats, technology and loading bays. The city will contribute $74 million, glen Taylor, owner of the Timberwolves and Lynx, will pay a total of $49 million, AEG will contribute $5.9 million. As a result, the Timberwolves lease will run until 2035, in 1999, Target Center hosted the Peoples Celebration inaugural event for Gov. Jesse Ventura. The event drew 14,000 people, and included performances by Jonny Lang, Warren Zevon, the Professional Bull Riders held a Built Ford Tough Series event at Target Center during the 2003 and 2006 seasons. It hosted the 1994 NBA All-Star Game, the 1995 NCAA Womens Final Four, the Target Center held the memorable UFC championship UFC87, Seek and Destroy in August 2008, which featured the Welterweight title match where Georges St-Pierre defeated Jon Fitch
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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United Center
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United Center is an indoor sports arena located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The United Center is home to both the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League, the arena is named after its city-based corporate sponsor, United Airlines. The plan to build the arena was created by then Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz, the United Centers predecessor was the Chicago Stadium, the original Madhouse on Madison, which was demolished after the new arena opened for business on August 18,1994. The first-ever event at the United Center was the WWF event SummerSlam, due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout, the Blackhawks did not move in until January 1995. The Bulls and Blackhawks operate the United Center through the United Center Joint Venture and it covers 960,000 square feet and is located on a 46-acre parcel, west of the Chicago Loop. The arena is the largest in the United States in physical size and its exterior bears a striking resemblance to that of Chicago Stadium. It seats 19,717 for hockey,20,917 for basketball, the United Center hosts over 200 events per year and has drawn over 20 million visitors since its opening. It is known for routinely exceeding seating capacity for Bulls and Blackhawks games, United Centers acoustics were designed to amplify the noise level in order to recreate The Roar – the din of noise that made Chicago Stadium famous, especially during hockey games. During hockey season, an Allen Organ that is a replica of the old arenas famous Barton organ is used, the building is 140 feet tall, and cost $175 million to build, mainly consisting of concrete and 3,500 tons of steel. The planning had 216 luxury skyboxes, and as of the 2009–10 renovation, both the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls play here during their seasons with some of their games happening on back to back nights. With this, the floor for the Bulls games is laid across the top of the ice that the Blackhawks play on. The floor is put together like a puzzle and taken apart when the Blackhawks have a game, the arena was the Bulls home during their second run of three consecutive championships, hosting the 1996,1997, and 1998 NBA Finals. The Bulls won the 1996 and 1997 series in the game at home. It also hosted the last of World Championship Wrestlings annual Spring Stampede pay-per-view in 2000, the arena has hosted the Stanley Cup Finals three times, in 2010,2013, and 2015. The Blackhawks won the first two Stanley Cups on the ice of their opponent in the game of the series. However, they won the 2015 series against the Tampa Bay Lightning at home in the sixth game, on the weekend of March 5–6,2011, the Professional Bull Riders made their Built Ford Tough Series debut at the United Center. It was their third Chicago-area visit, having previously visited Rosemonts Allstate Arena in 2006 and 2008, the event at the United Center presented a unique scenario as instead of dirt, white crushed stone was used to cover the arena floor. The Blackhawks announced that hockey legends Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita would receive bronze statues in their honor outside of the United Center during the 2011–12 NHL season, the Illinois State High School Hockey Championships are hosted at the United Center yearly for the Blackhawk Cup
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and it is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and residency to singer-songwriter Billy Joel. The Garden opened on February 11,1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and it is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and the second-oldest arena in the National Basketball Association. MSG is the fourth-busiest music arena in the world in terms of sales, behind The O2 Arena. At a total construction cost of approximately $1.1 billion and it is part of the Pennsylvania Plaza office and retail complex. Several other operating entities related to the Garden share its name, Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States, two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the first from 1879 to 1890, and the second from 1890 to 1925. The first Garden, leased to P. T. Barnum, had no roof and was inconvenient to use during inclement weather, Madison Square Garden II was designed by noted architect Stanford White. The new building was built by a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, P. T. Barnum, Darius Mills, James Stillman and W. W. Astor. It was 200 feet by 485 feet, and the main hall and it had a 1, 200-seat theatre, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city and a roof garden cabaret. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968, groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9,1925. Designed by the theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The arena was 200 feet by 375 feet, with seating on three levels, and a capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing. Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden and it finished up in early 1969, and the site is now where One Worldwide Plaza is located. The new structure was one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of a railroad station. It was an engineering feat constructed by Robert E. McKee of El Paso, public outcry over the demolition of the Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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TD Garden
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TD Garden, often called Boston Garden and The Garden, is a multi-purpose arena in Boston. It is named after its sponsor, TD Bank, a subsidiary of Canadas Toronto-Dominion Bank and it opened in 1995 as a replacement for the original Boston Garden and has been known as Shawmut Center, FleetCenter, and TD Banknorth Garden. TD Garden is the arena for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. It is owned by Delaware North, whose CEO, Jeremy Jacobs and it is the site of the annual Beanpot college hockey tournament, and hosts the annual Hockey East Championships. It is located directly above Bostons North Station, as early as the late 1970s, the team was looking for a new arena. The team nearly moved to Salem, New Hampshire around where Rockingham Park is today and that fell through and the Bruins continued to reside in Boston Garden. In 1985, Boston Garden owner Delaware North was awarded the rights to construct a new arena by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, however, poor economic conditions delayed the project. That December, a bill approving construction of the new arena was killed in the Massachusetts Senate by Senate President William M. Bulger.5 million in linkage payments. Two weeks later, after a new series of negotiations, the two finally came to an agreement, and on February 26 the Legislature passed a bill that allowed for construction of a new sports arena. Construction began on April 29,1993, plans for the new arena stated that it would be slightly north of the old facility. The term slightly north ended up meaning there was only nine inches of space between the two buildings when construction was completed. The site for the new arena occupied 3.2 acres, ground was broken on April 29,1993. In 27 months, quick by todays standards, the arena was built and that included seven weeks of delay caused by heavy snowfall. The Shawmut Center opened on September 30,1995, when constructed to replace the aging Boston Garden, the arena was called the FleetCenter. The arena opened on September 30,1995, during the construction phase, the naming rights to the New Garden were sold to a major Boston-based regional bank, Shawmut Bank. However, just as the Shawmut Center was being completed, the New Gardens sponsor, shortly before the new arena opened, every seat, which had been stamped with the Shawmut logo, had to be replaced. Also, the color scheme for the interior had to be adjusted from Shawmuts blue-and-white to Fleets green-and-gold. The name of the arena was expected to change as a result of the April 1,2004 merger of FleetBoston Financial with Bank of America
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Newark, New Jersey
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Newark is the most populous city in the U. S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 281,944, Newark is the second largest city in the New York metropolitan area, located approximately 8 miles west of lower Manhattan. Settled in 1666 by Puritans from New Haven Colony, Newark is one of the oldest European cities in the United States and its location at the mouth of the Passaic River, has made the citys waterfront an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Today, Port Newark-Elizabeth is the container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the American East Coast. In addition, Newark Liberty International Airport was the first municipal airport in the United States. Several leading companies have their headquarters in Newark, including Prudential, PSEG, Panasonic Corporation of North America, Audible. com, IDT Corporation, the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey sits in the city as well. Local cultural venues include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Symphony Hall, The Prudential Center and the Newark Museum. Newark is divided into five wards, the East, West, South, North and Central wards. Newarks Branch Brook Park is the oldest county park in the United States and is home to the nations largest collection of cherry blossom trees, Newark was settled in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat from the New Haven Colony. It was conceived as an assembly of the faithful, though this did not last for long as new settlers came with different ideas. On October 31,1693 it was organized as a New Jersey township based on the Newark Tract, Newark was granted a Royal charter on April 27,1713. It was incorporated on February 21,1798 by the New Jersey Legislatures Township Act of 1798, during its time as a township, portions were taken to form Springfield Township, Caldwell Township, Orange Township, Bloomfield Township and Clinton Township. Newark was reincorporated as a city on April 11,1836, replacing Newark Township, the previously independent Vailsburg borough was annexed by Newark on January 1,1905. In 1926, South Orange Township changed its name to Maplewood, as a result of this, a portion of Maplewood known as Ivy Hill was re-annexed to Newarks Vailsburg. During the American Revolutionary War British troops made several raids into the town, the city has experienced revitalization since the 1990s. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had an area of 26.107 square miles. It has the third-smallest land area among the 100 most populous cities in the U. S. behind neighboring Jersey City and Hialeah, the citys altitude ranges from 0 in the east to approximately 230 feet above sea level in the western section of the city. Newark is essentially a large basin sloping towards the Passaic River, historically, Newarks high places have been its wealthier neighborhoods
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Prudential Center
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Prudential Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the central business district of Newark, New Jersey, United States. It was designed by HOK Sport, with the exterior designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, opened in 2007, it is the home of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League and the Seton Hall Pirates mens basketball team from Seton Hall University. The arena seats 16,514 patrons for hockey and 18,711 for basketball, in December 2013, the arena ranked third nationally and ninth internationally for self-reported annual revenue. According to the Devils organization, the Prudential Center has played an important role in the revitalization of downtown Newark, for years, the New Jersey Devils had been rumored to be at least considering relocation. Even when the won the Stanley Cup in 1995, it was amidst rumors that the franchise would move to Nashville. A project to build a new 18,000 seat arena in Newark first received funding from Newarks city council in 2002, when the team was owned by Puck Holdings, a subsidiary of YankeeNets. In 2004, former Lehman Brothers executive Jeffrey Vanderbeek bought the team from Puck Holdings and he also stated that he believed the arena would take downtown Newark to a whole new level. After legal battles over both eminent domain and the financial participation in the arena project, the final deal was approved by council in October 2004. A seven-acre site for the arena in downtown Newark was selected, bordered by Edison Place on the north, Lafayette Street on the south, Mulberry Street on the east, the arena was designed by HOK Sport, with the exterior designed by Morris Adjmi Architects. Initial designs were released in early 2005 and referred to the arena as Newark Arena, groundbreaking began on October 3,2005 and a workforce of 2,725 union workers was employed to construct the arena. Financial issues, though, threatened to halt the deal, on January 24,2006, the Devils averted having the project canceled by submitting a guarantee in writing that the team would contribute $100 million to the arena, one day before their deadline. Though construction was underway, in late summer 2006, Cory Booker. The Devils paid for the remainder of the cost, thus, no new direct taxpayer funding was required for the construction of the arena. Some taxpayer dollars, however, were spent on infrastructure improvements and these improvements were necessary for both the new arena and proposed private development surrounding the arena. Prudential Financial purchased the rights to the arena in January 2007 for $105.3 million over 20 years. Prudential has chosen to call the arena the Prudential Center, even though this is also the name of numerous office complexes around the country, most notably in Boston. The arena had been referred to as Newark Arena prior to the deal, construction on the arena was completed in October 2007. The estimated final cost of the construction is $380 million
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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough
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PPG Paints Arena
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Construction was completed on August 1,2010, and the arena opened in time for the 2010–11 NHL season. It replaced the Penguins former arena, Civic Arena, which was completed in 1961, a ceremonial ground-breaking was held on August 14,2008. The arena is the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold-certified arena in both the NHL and AFL. Soon after the arena opened in 2010 it was named Best New Major Concert Venue in the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards, the arena was originally named Consol Energy Center after Consol Energy purchased the naming rights in December 2008. The current name comes from Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries, who purchased naming rights in October 2016, the Lemieux Group explored options to build a replacement for Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the oldest arena in the NHL, since its purchase of the Penguins in 1999. In an attempt not to use public funding, the Penguins filed for a license under the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. The Penguins were granted the license, though the decision of which company would receive approval was the Gaming Control Boards decision. The Lemieux Group reached an agreement with Isle of Capri Casinos, other casinos, including Majestic Star Casino and Forest City Enterprises, also agreed to partially contribute to the arenas funding. The casino experienced financial difficulty, which could have led to taxpayers financing the entire project, however, on August 14,2008 the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board selected Neil Bluhm to take ownership of the casinos, which pulled the casinos out of risk of bankruptcy. The arenas funding plan was agreed upon by Penguins owner Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell on March 13,2007, after much negotiation. During negotiations, the Penguins explored moving the franchise to Kansas City or Las Vegas, Lemieux later stated that relocating the franchise was never a possibility, but instead it was a negotiation tactic to help the team get funding for the arena from both state and local officials. The arena was scheduled to open for the 2009–10 NHL season, however. The arena was expected to cost approximately $290 million, but rose to $321 million due to increased cost of steel, the Penguins agreed to pay $3.8 million per year toward construction, with an additional $400,000 per year toward capital improvements. After $31 million cost rise, the Penguins pledged an additional $15.5 million, while the State and Sports and Exhibition Authority split the difference. In September 2009, the State contributed an additional $5.08 million from the Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development, more than a dozen buildings were razed in order to create room for the new arena. On April 8,2008, Populous presented design renderings to the Pittsburgh City Planning Commission, local architect Rob Pfaffmann went so far as to say, If I put a Home Depot sign on that, it looks like a Home Depot. Populous returned on May 6 with new plans, which were approved by the City Planning Commission. The Penguins have contacted the Pittsburgh Technology Council, which includes 1,400 businesses, the arenas capacity will be 18,087 for hockey, in honor of Sidney Crosbys number 87, and 19,000 for basketball games
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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)
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The Wells Fargo Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the arena of the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. The arena lies at the southwest corner of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, which includes Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park and it is owned by Comcast Spectacor, which also owns the Flyers, and is operated by its arena-management subsidiary, Global Spectrum. Since 2010, naming rights have been held by financial services company Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo center has hosted two political conventions, hosting the 2000 Republican National Convention and 2016 Democratic National Convention. In addition, the arena is a venue for concerts. Before its construction, the arena was tentatively called Spectrum II. However, the contract has gone through multiple hands due to bank mergers, first by First Union Bank in 1998, Wachovia in 2003. Installation of the new Wells Fargo Center branding began on July 27,2010, with the removal of the Wachovia Center signage, work was completed in September 2010. The 76ers then signed a sponsorship agreement with Firstrust Bank as their official banking sponsor. The Wells Fargo Center officially seats 20,318 for NBA and NCAA basketball and 19,541 for NHL hockey, with additional standing-room admissions available in luxury and club-box suites, the total paid capacity increases. The Wells Fargo Center has 126 luxury suites,1,880 club-box seats, in addition, the offices, studios, and production facilities of NBC Sports affiliate Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia are all located in the facility. On August 1,2006, Comcast Spectacor announced it would install a new scoreboard to replace the original one made by Daktronics. The new scoreboard, manufactured by ANC Sports, is similar to other scoreboards in new NBA & NHL arenas, an additional linear LED display lining the entire arena was also installed between the suite and mezzanine levels. The PA announcer at the Wells Fargo Center for Flyers games is Lou Nolan, who moved with the team from the Spectrum, matt Cord is the PA announcer for 76ers games. Jim Bachman is the PA announcer for Villanova basketball games, kevin Casey handled PA duties for the Philadelphia Wings during their tenure. The arena has a seating capacity of 21,000 seated. On August 13,1996, a concert by Ray Charles was the first event at the Wells Fargo Center. Each spectator was given a commemorative key acknowledging they helped open the arena, the inaugural concert, on September 2,1996, featured Oasis, with The Manic Street Preachers and The Screaming Trees, before an estimated crowd of 12,000
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Air Canada Centre
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The Air Canada Centre is a multi-purpose indoor sporting arena located on Bay Street in the South Core district of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association, the area was previously home to the Toronto Phantoms of the Arena Football League during their brief existence. The arena is known as the ACC or the Hangar. In 2008, the ACC was the fifth busiest arena in the world, the Air Canada Centre is connected to Union Station and the underground pedestrian PATH system, providing access to public transportation. There are also 13,000 parking spaces, the Air Canada Centre has, from its initial design to completion, revolutionized many concepts included in new arenas and stadiums built since then. The Air Canada Centre also hosts events, such as concerts, political conventions. Construction of the Air Canada Centre was started by the Toronto Raptors, under its ownership group headed by Canadian businessman John Bitove. Groundbreaking took place in March 1997, MLSE subsequently ordered major modifications to the original design, which was basketball-specific, to make the arena become more suitable for hockey. Originally planned to cost $217 million, MLSE increased the budget to $265 million after taking control, the Raptors were twice fined a million dollars by the NBA for missing deadlines to begin construction of their new arena. Due to financial difficulties, the ownership was returned to Canada Post in 1993. The Toronto Raptors purchased the building from Canada Post the next year, the original building is protected under the Ontario Heritage Act. A 15-storey tower on Bay Street stands at 55 metres and provides connections in the atrium to Union Station, Bay Street, the Air Canada Centre is connected to the underground PATH network. Air Canada purchased naming rights to the arena for $30 million over 20 years since opening, in 2003, MLSE completed a $5 million upgrade of the arena, including a new LED signage system. During the summer of 2015, a $10 million upgrade of the arena was carried out, the old scoreboard was later installed at Ricoh Coliseum. Maple Leaf Square is jointly owned by MLSE, Cadillac Fairview, the two-year, $48 million renovation of the ACC added a new atrium that includes a High-Definition broadcast studio for Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada and GolTV Canada. The outside wall of the features a 30-by-50-foot video screen overlooking the plaza. During NHL and NBA playoff runs, the square attracts thousands of Leafs and Raptors fans, respectively, a section of the square is designated Ford Fan Zone at Maple Leaf Square, with naming rights given to the Ford Motor Company of Canada. During Raptors playoff runs, the square has acquired the nickname Jurassic Park, the first Maple Leafs home game took place on February 20,1999, versus the Montreal Canadiens, won by the Leafs 3–2 on an overtime goal by Steve Thomas
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Nationwide Arena
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Nationwide Arena is a large multi-purpose arena, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Since completion in 2000, the arena has served as the home of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League, in May 2012, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman made a pitch to the NBA requesting an expansion or relocated team be moved to Nationwide Arena. The venue is named for the original majority owner, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Nationwides real estate development affiliate, Nationwide Realty Investors, financed and developed the project—making it one of very few privately financed arenas in the nation. On March 30,2012, arena owners Nationwide Insurance and the Dispatch Publishing Group sold the facility to the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority, in addition, the Ohio Department of Development agreed to a 10-year, $10 million loan to the FCCFA to assist with the facilities purchase. If the Blue Jackets meet annual roster payroll requirement, $500,000 of this loan per year will be forgiven. Nationwide Insurance will also pay the Blue Jackets $28 million to retain the arenas naming rights until 2022 as well as $58 million to purchase 30% ownership stake in the franchise. The Blue Jackets, in turn, agreed to remain in the city until 2039 or pay $36 million in damages and this arrangement made Nationwide Arena a sister venue to OSUs on-campus arena, Value City Arena. The university started booking acts in May 2010 and assumed day to day control of the arena on July 1,2010, the arena is of a brick design and serves as the center of an entertainment district located about one-half of a mile north of the Ohio State Capitol. Seating capacity is approximately 18,500 for hockey,17,171 for arena football,19,500 for basketball, the area surrounding Nationwide Arena, called the Arena District, houses bars, clubs and a movie theater. The Columbus Clippers, a AAA baseball team in the International League, Columbus uses the arena as a drawing point for the city with the other establishments feeding off of the foot traffic. The Lifestyle Communities Pavilion concert venue, and Arena Grand Theatre adjacent to the Nationwide Arena property, on March 16,2002, 14-year-old Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a deflected puck during the Blue Jackets game against the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena. She died two days later, becoming the only NHL fan to be killed in a game-related accident, as a result of her death, the NHL mandated safety netting in all its arenas. Nationwide Arena was built near the site of the former Ohio Penitentiary, the arena itself is built over the prisons former parking lot. The arenas parking lot and an apartment complex are built where the prison formerly stood, on October 7,2000, the arena hosted the Columbus Blue Jackets first game against the Chicago Blackhawks. Bruce Gardiner scored the franchises first goal in the first period, the PBRs Built Ford Tough Series bull riding tour has held an event every year at Nationwide Arena since 2000. It was the last event of the BFTS regular season between 2000 and 2007. On June 12,2004, the hosted the WWE pay-per-view Bad Blood The arena hosted first and second round games of the 2004,2007,2012
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Indianapolis
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Indianapolis, is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. It is in the East North Central region of the Midwestern United States, with an estimated population of 853,173 in 2015, Indianapolis is the second most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and 14th largest in the U. S. The city is the economic and cultural center of the Indianapolis metropolitan area, home to 2 million people and its combined statistical area ranks 26th, with 2.4 million inhabitants. Indianapolis covers 372 square miles, making it the 16th largest city by area in the U. S. The city grew beyond the Mile Square, as completion of the National Road and advent of the railroad solidified the position as a manufacturing. Indianapolis is within a single-day drive of 70 percent of the nations population, Indianapolis has developed niche markets in amateur sports and auto racing. The city is perhaps best known for hosting the worlds largest single-day sporting event. The city is notable as headquarters for the American Legion and home to a significant collection of monuments dedicated to veterans and war dead, the most in the U. S. outside of Washington, D. C. Since the 1970 city-county consolidation, known as Unigov, local government administration has operated under the direction of an elected 25-member city-county council, Indianapolis is considered a high sufficiency global city. In 1816, the year Indiana gained statehood, the U. S. Congress donated four sections of land to establish a permanent seat of state government. Two years later, under the Treaty of St. Marys and this tract of land, which was called the New Purchase, included the site selected for the new state capital in 1820. The availability of new lands for purchase in central Indiana attracted settlers. Although many of these first European and American setters were Protestants, few African Americans lived in central Indiana before 1840. The first European Americans to permanently settle in the area that became Indianapolis were either the McCormick or Pogue families, on January 11,1820, the Indiana General Assembly authorized a committee to select a site in central Indiana for the new state capital. The state legislature approved the site, adopting the name Indianapolis on January 6,1821, in April, Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham were appointed to survey and design a town plan for the new settlement. Indianapolis became a seat of county government on December 31,1821, a combined county and town government continued until 1832, when Indianapolis incorporated as a town. Indianapolis became an incorporated city effective March 30,1847, Samuel Henderson, the citys first mayor, led the new city government, which included a seven-member city council. In 1853, voters approved a new city charter provided for an elected mayor
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Bankers Life Fieldhouse
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Bankers Life Fieldhouse is an indoor arena located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It is the home of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association, the Fieldhouse also hosts college basketball games, indoor concerts, and ice hockey. The arena opened in November 1999 as Conseco Fieldhouse to replace Market Square Arena, the naming rights to the venue were sold to Conseco, a financial services organization based in nearby Carmel, Indiana. In May 2010, the company renamed itself as CNO Financial Group, in December 2011, CNO Financial Group changed the name of the Fieldhouse to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, after one of its subsidiaries, Bankers Life and Casualty. Unlike other multipurpose arenas, the arena was designed primarily for basketball, nevertheless, the arena can accommodate an NHL-sized rink, but the seating capacity would be reduced to 12,300 for ice hockey, as the seating arrangement is asymmetrical. Many of the seats on one end of the arena have obstructed views, the first NBA game held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse was on November 6,1999 when the Indiana Pacers played their regular-season home opener against the Boston Celtics. Later that same season, the Pacers made it to the 2000 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers, games 3,4, and 5 of that championship series were held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, but the Pacers ended up losing that seasons title 4 games to 2. In 2009, Bankers Life Fieldhouse was the site for the 2009 WNBA Finals, the Indiana Fever took on the Phoenix Mercury for games three and four of that series, but ended up losing the series. Three years later, the Fever hosted the 2012 WNBA Finals for games 3 &4, Bankers Life Fieldhouse is a host venue for many different events besides home games for the Pacers and Fever. In 2008, the tournament was moved to Bankers Life Fieldhouse exclusively for five years, the arena is also a frequent site of the Big Ten Womens Basketball Tournament. 2012 will mark the 12th time in 13 years that the tournament has been held at the Fieldhouse, Bankers Life Fieldhouse will again be the site for both mens and womens events in 2014 and 2016. The 2011 NCAA Womens Final Four was also held at the Fieldhouse on April 3, for basketball, the venue seats 17,923. Additionally, the Indiana Firebirds of the Arena Football League played at the Fieldhouse from 2001 to 2004, the venue also hosted select games for the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League. The Professional Bull Riders brought its Built Ford Tough Series bull riding tour to the Fieldhouse for the first time in January 2011 and it was their second visit to Indianapolis, they first visited Indianapolis during the 2004 season when they held a BFTS event at the RCA Dome. On September 14,2011, Katy Perry performed at the arena as a part of her California Dreams Tour, on July 14,2013, Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, played a sold-out show as part of his Out There. On July 20,2016 Coldplay performed at the arena as a part of A Head Full of Dreams Tour, the Lumineers are scheduled to perform as part of their Cleopatra World Tour Continues on March 10,2017. Ariana Grande is set to perform for her Dangerous Woman Tour on March 11,2017, WWE has hosted many shows such as Raw and SmackDown. WCW has hosted the PPV event Sin and it also hosted many PPV events such as The Great American Bash, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Clash of Champions
