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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Melbourne
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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration spanning 9,900 km2, the metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of 4,641,636 as of 2016, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians. Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemens Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria, to whom Lord Melbourne was close, in 1847, during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the worlds largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government until 1927. It is a financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. It is recognised as a UNESCO City of Literature and a centre for street art, music. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport, the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australias busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo, Melbourne has an extensive transport network. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the regional train. Melbourne is also home to Australias most extensive network and has the worlds largest urban tram network. Before the arrival of settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. At the time of European settlement, it was inhabited by under 2000 hunter-gatherers from three indigenous tribes, the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong. The area was an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and it would be 30 years before another settlement was attempted. Batman selected a site on the bank of the Yarra River. Batman then returned to Launceston in Tasmania, in early August 1835 a different group of settlers, including John Pascoe Fawkner, left Launceston on the ship Enterprize
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Paris
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of 105 square kilometres and a population of 2,229,621 in 2013 within its administrative limits, the agglomeration has grown well beyond the citys administrative limits. By the 17th century, Paris was one of Europes major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, and it retains that position still today. The aire urbaine de Paris, a measure of area, spans most of the Île-de-France region and has a population of 12,405,426. It is therefore the second largest metropolitan area in the European Union after London, the Metropole of Grand Paris was created in 2016, combining the commune and its nearest suburbs into a single area for economic and environmental co-operation. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometres and has a population of 7 million persons, the Paris Region had a GDP of €624 billion in 2012, accounting for 30.0 percent of the GDP of France and ranking it as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. The city is also a rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the subway system, the Paris Métro. It is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro, notably, Paris Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in the world outside of Japan, with 262 millions passengers in 2015. In 2015, Paris received 22.2 million visitors, making it one of the top tourist destinations. The association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris, the 80, 000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros, Paris hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The name Paris is derived from its inhabitants, the Celtic Parisii tribe. Thus, though written the same, the name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as Panam in French slang. Inhabitants are known in English as Parisians and in French as Parisiens and they are also pejoratively called Parigots. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. One of the areas major north-south trade routes crossed the Seine on the île de la Cité, this place of land and water trade routes gradually became a town
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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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Cartoon Network
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Cartoon Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Time Warner through the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary. It was founded by Betty Cohen and launched on October 1,1992, the channel primarily broadcasts childrens shows, mostly animated programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It operates daily from 6,00 AM to 11,00 PM, a Spanish language audio track for select programs is accessible via second audio programing, some cable and satellite companies offer the Spanish feed as a separate channel. It is also the channel of Turner-owned Boomerang. As of January 2016, Cartoon Network is available to approximately 94.0 million pay television households in the United States, however, Turner kept much of MGMs film and television library made prior to May 1986 and formed Turner Entertainment. On October 3,1988, its cable channel Turner Network Television was launched and had gained an audience with its film library. In 1991, Turner Entertainment purchased animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions for US $320 million, on February 18,1992, Turner Broadcasting System announced its plans to launch the Cartoon Network as an outlet for Turners considerable library of animation. Initial programming on the channel consisted exclusively of reruns of classic Warner Bros. cartoons, the 1933–1957 Popeye cartoons, MGM cartoons, at first, cable providers in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D. C. and Detroit carried the channel. By the time the network launched, Cartoon Network had an 8, from its launch until 1995, the networks announcers said the networks name with the word The added before Cartoon Network, thus calling the network The Cartoon Network. By the time that the network debuted, Cartoon Network also operated a block that aired on TNT. Cartoon Network was not the first cable channel to have relied on cartoons to attract an audience, however, Turner Broadcasting System had defied conventional wisdom before by launching CNN, a channel providing 24-hour news coverage. Initially, the channel would broadcast cartoons 24 hours a day, late Night Black and White showed early black-and-white cartoons, and ToonHeads would show three shorts with a similar theme and provide trivia about the cartoons. There was also an afternoon block called High Noon Toons. The majority of the animation that was shown on Cartoon Network no longer air on a regular basis, with the exception of Tom and Jerry. A challenge for Cartoon Network was to overcome its low penetration of existing cable systems, when launched on October 1,1992, the channel was only carried by 233 cable systems. However, it benefited from package deals, New subscribers to sister channels TNT and TBS could also get access to Cartoon Network through such deals. The high ratings of Cartoon Network over the couple of years led to more cable systems including it. By the end of 1994, Cartoon Network had become the fifth most popular channel in the United States
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Gorillaz
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Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The band consists of four animated members, 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and these members are fictional and are not personas of any real life musicians involved in the project. Their fictional universe is explored through the website and music videos, as well as a number of other media. In reality, Albarn is the only permanent musical contributor, writers and critics have described their music as alternative rock, Britpop, trip hop, hip hop, electronica, indie, dub, reggae and pop. The bands 2001 debut album Gorillaz sold over seven million copies and it was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001, but the nomination was later withdrawn at the bands request. Their second studio album Demon Days went five times platinum in the UK, the band has won other awards, including one Grammy Award, two MTV Video Music Awards, an NME Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, and have been nominated for nine Brit Awards. The bands third album, Plastic Beach, was released in March 2010. Their fourth studio album called The Fall was released in December 2010 as a download for fan club members. After a five-year hiatus, Gorillaz announced their fifth studio album Humanz, musician Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett met in 1990 when guitarist Graham Coxon, a fan of Hewletts work, asked him to interview Blur, a band Albarn and Coxon had recently formed. The interview was published in Deadline magazine, home of Hewletts comic strip, Hewlett initially thought Albarn was arsey, a wanker, despite becoming acquaintances with the band, they often did not get on, especially after Hewlett began seeing Coxons ex-girlfriend Jane Olliver. Despite this, Albarn and Hewlett started sharing a flat on Westbourne Grove in London in 1997, Hewlett had recently broken up with Olliver and Albarn was at the end of his highly publicised relationship with Justine Frischmann of Elastica. The idea to create Gorillaz came about when Albarn and Hewlett were watching MTV, Hewlett said, If you watch MTV for too long, its a bit like hell – theres nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a band, something that would be a comment on that. Although not released under the Gorillaz name, Albarn has said one of the first ever Gorillaz tunes was Blurs 1997 single On Your Own. The bands first release was the EP Tomorrow Comes Today, released in 2000, the bands first single was Clint Eastwood and was released on 5 March 2001, reaching No.4 in the UK. The Phi Life Cypher version of Clint Eastwood appears on the B-side album G Sides, Later that same month, their first full-length album, the self-titled Gorillaz, was released, producing four singles, Clint Eastwood, 19-2000, Tomorrow Comes Today, and Rock the House. In June 2001, 19–2000 charted at No.6 in the UK, the end of the year brought the song 911, a collaboration between Gorillaz and hip hop group D12 and Terry Hall about the September 11 attacks. Gorillaz performed at the 2002 Brit Awards in London on 22 February, the band was nominated for four Brit Awards, including Best British Group, Best British Album and Best British Newcomer, but did not win any awards
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Comparethemarket.com
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Comparethemarket. com is a UK price comparison website that is part of the BGL Group. The website also offers other on-line companies the ability to provide their customers with a co-branded or white labelled comparison service. It competes with other aggregators operating in the field, such as moneysupermarket. com, USwitch, Confused. com, gocompare. com, Money. co. uk, Quotall. com. In mid-2007, comparethemarket. com struck a deal, reputedly worth £5 million, the idents were created by VCCP, a subsidiary of Chime Communications plc, which comparethemarket. com had appointed in March 2007 to manage its £20 million advertising account. In 2012, Comparethemarket. com. au launched its comparison service Australia, the company operates similarly to its UK counterpart, allowing Australian customers to compare products like health insurance, power plans, and car insurance, based on their price and features. The companys television advertisements also feature the meerkat characters Aleksandr Orlov and his Head of IT, however, these ads differ from the UK’s, with one such storyline revealing the meerkats have purchased comparethemarket. com. au. Compare the Market allows customers to compare prices on a number of products including car, home, van, life, pet, travel. Comparethemeerkat. com, a website created by the agency, does indeed allow visitors to compare meerkats. According to Nielsen Online, the number of unique visitors to comparethemarket. com increased from 218,000 in February 2008 to 1.1 million in February 2009. By July 2009 it was ranked as the third-largest price comparison website in the UK, in August 2009 an opinion piece in The Guardian newspaper accused the advert series of racism for mocking Eastern European accents. However, the Advertising Standards Authority, following a complaint by the author of the article, from 1 July 2011, any customer purchasing insurance or credit card via comparethemarket. com receives a cuddly meerkat toy. Originally customers would get sent a meerkat toy from the collection, on 12 November 2012, the website started sponsoring the long-running soap opera Coronation Street on ITV in a three-year deal, costing around £30 million. In April 2015, comparethemarket. com launched Meerkat Movies, offering customers who have purchased a qualifying product 2 for 1 cinema tickets every Tuesday or Wednesday for a whole year, existing customers were gifted the tickets for the remainder of their policy, via a Golden Envelope mailer. Meerkat Movies takes over from Orange Wednesdays and is likely to be the UKs biggest cinema promotion to date, official website Meerkat Movies BGL Group History Result and review 2009 to 2010 - p11 Peterborough News Meerkat mania was born in Peterborough Compare the Market Australian Site
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Compare the Meerkat
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Compare the Meerkat is an advertising campaign on British and Australian commercial television for comparethemarket. com, a price comparison website, part of BGL Group. The adverts feature Aleksandr Orlov, a CGI fictional anthropomorphic Russian meerkat and his family, the campaign, launched on 5 January 2009, was created by advertising agency, VCCP and production company Passion Pictures. The adverts proved popular and became a success for comparethemarket. com. A book featuring Orlov was published in 2010, and other merchandise has been created in tandem with the ongoing campaign, the campaign, designed by ad-agency VCCP, was launched on 5 January 2009, involving a TV spot, companion website and social media links. The advert featured Alexsandr Orlov, a CGI animated fictional anthropomorphic Russian meerkat, the character explains that he has launched a TV advertising campaign to make visitors aware of the difference. The companion website, comparethemeerkat. com, was created alongside the TV advert, the TV spots, and the characters, were directed by Darren Walsh at Passion Pictures. Walsh has directed all of the television and cinema commercials to date. In the adverts, Orlov is voiced by Simon Greenall, on 11 August 2009, an opinion piece in The Guardian newspaper accused the advert series of racism for mocking Eastern European accents. However, the Advertising Standards Authority, following a complaint by the author of the article, on 12 November 2012, Compare the Market began sponsoring the ITV1s long-running soap opera Coronation Street as part of a three-year deal with producers of the series. On 3 April 2015, comparethemarket. com launched Meerkat Movies and they partnered with films such as Terminator Genisys and Ant-Man. The advertisements featured the trailer, sometimes an interview between Orlov and the cast, and a comment that the movie tickets are two-for-one with Meerkat Movies. The adverts are fronted by Aleksandr Orlov, a meerkat, according to an interview with the characters designer and director, Darren Walsh at Passion Pictures, Orlov became a billionaire in the 1970s. He is described as living in Moscow, while owning a mansion in South London. The campaign has also featured characters from amongst Orlovs friends, family. Most notably Sergei, Orlovs sidekick and technician who has featured in his own adverts. In the adverts, Sergei is Orlovs IT technician, tea-maker, before working for Aleksandr, he used to be head of the principal design group for the Soviet space programme during the 1980s. He designed the Meer Space Station, and now works with Orlov, Sergei is first seen in the ad Sergei, and later guests in Jacuzzi, Art Class and all three of the Orlov Family Trilogy advertisements. Sergei has also starred in his own adverts without Orlov, the 2011 campaign focused on a fictional Russian village named Meerkovo
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The Lost Thing
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The Lost Thing is a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan that was also adapted into an Academy Award-winning animated short film. Set in the future, in dystopian Melbourne, Australia. One day, while collecting bottle tops near a beach, he discovers a creature, that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab. This creature is referred to as The Lost Thing by the narrator, Shaun realizes the creature is lost and out of place. He attempts to find its owner or otherwise its source but is not able to, pete, an opinionated friend of Shauns, explains that it may not actually belong anywhere. This book was adapted into a 15-minute animated short film in 2010, directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann and it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the film was produced by Sophie Byrne with Passion Pictures Australia and animated by two primary artists, CG lead Tom Bryant and animator and editor Leo Baker. Tom Bryant was located in Scotland, whilst Leo Baker worked from Melbourne, the film was in development for some years, but took three years of full-time production to complete between 2007-2010. Official website The Lost Thing at the Internet Movie Database
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Shaun Tan
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Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote, beside The Lost Thing, The Red Tree and The Arrival are books he has written and illustrated. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1974 and grew up in the suburbs of Perth. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards. The same book won the Childrens Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. no rhetoric, no straining for effect. As a boy, Tan spent time illustrating poems and stories and drawing dinosaurs, robots, at school he was known as a talented artist. At the age of eleven, he became a fan of The Twilight Zone television series as well as books that bore similar themes, Tan cites Ray Bradbury as a favorite at this time. These stories led to Tan writing his own short stories, of his effort at writing as a youth, Tan tells, I have a small pile of rejection letters as testament to this ambition. At the age of sixteen, Tans first illustration appeared in the Australian magazine Aurealis in 1990. Tan almost studied to become a geneticist, and enjoyed chemistry, physics, history and English while in school as well as art. During his university studies, Tan decided to move from academic studies to working as an artist, Tan continued his education at the University of Western Australia where he studied Fine Arts, English Literature and History. While this was of interest to him, there was little practical work involved, in 1995, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Initially, Tan worked in black and white because the final reproductions would be printed that way, some black and white mediums he used included pens, inks, acrylics, charcoal, scraperboard, photocopies and linocuts. Tans current colour works still begin as black and white and he uses a graphite pencil to make sketches on ordinary copy paper. The sketches are then reproduced numerous times with different versions varying with parts added or removed, sometimes scissors are used for this purpose. Tan describes himself as a worker who revises his work many times along the way. He is interested in loss and alienation, and believes that children in particular react well to issues of natural justice and he feels he is like a translator of ideas, and is happy and flattered to see his work adapted and interpreted in film and music. Tan draws from a source of inspiration and cites many influences on his work
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One Day in September
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One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Michael Douglas provides the narration throughout the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2000, the film also features the first known filmed interview with Jamal Al-Gashey, a surviving terrorist. Al-Gashey, who is in hiding in Africa, wears a cap and sunglasses, there are various shots of the Games getting under way, and attention is given to the lax security the Germans had at the Games. The terrorists are preparing for the assault, Al-Gashey claims that he. The assault is described by Al-Gashey as well as by some of the German security staff present, footage of ABC anchor Jim McKay is interspersed, along with sound clips of Peter Jennings, to give an impression of events unfolding as they happened. The film implies that had the German government prepared better, the athletes might have been saved, former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, who was present at the airport during the final gunfight, is interviewed about his views on the failed rescue. At the end of the section, graphic photographs of the dead Israelis, after the movies release, film critic Roger Ebert penned a review recommending the movie, stating that it grips the attention and is exciting and involving. I recommend it on that basis--and also because of the new information it contains and he also stated that Macdonald brings remarkable research to the film and he relentlessly builds up a case against the way the Germans and the International Olympic Committee handled the crisis. But Ebert also criticized the style of the film, and the films tasteless conclusion, by limiting those who have seen his, Cohn shrinks the voting pool and improves his odds. Database One Day in September at the British Board of Film Classification One Day in September at the Internet Movie Database
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The Imposter (2012 film)
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The film was directed by Bart Layton. His impersonation fooled several officials in Spain and the U. S, the impersonation was eventually discovered as a result of the suspicions of a private investigator, Charles Parker, and an FBI agent, Nancy Fisher. Bourdin subsequently made a confession, and in the film he elaborates on the various stages in his impersonation. Layton said of Bourdin, He invites sympathy and he has this childlike quality about him, and he can be very charming. And at other times he can be quite repellent, because he can be remorseless, so as a filmmaker, I was asking, How can I find a way of getting the audience to experience a bit of that. Interviews Frédéric Bourdin Carey Gibson Beverly Dollarhide Bryan Gibson Codey Gibson Nancy Fisher Charlie Parker Bruce Perry, embassy Official The film has received almost universal critical acclaim and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95%. It won the Filmmakers Award at the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and it was nominated for six British Independent Film Awards, for Best Film, Best Director, Best Debut Director, Best Technical Achievement- Editing, Best Achievement in Production, and Best Documentary. It was also shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and it was nominated for two BAFTAs at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer and Best Documentary, winning the first. Peter Bradshaw, film critic for The Guardian, awarded the five stars, writing, This film is as gripping as any white-knuckle thriller. Official website The Imposter in the British Film Institutes Explore film, Database The Imposter at the Internet Movie Database
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Searching for Sugar Man
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Rodriguezs music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa although little was known about him in that country. Initially using Super 8 film to record stylised shots for the film, after three years of cutting room work the main financial backers of the film threatened to withdraw funding to finish it. He resorted to filming the remaining stylised shots on his smartphone using an app called 8mm Vintage Camera. Searching for Sugar Man was the film at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012, where it won the Special Jury Prize. It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2012, Searching for Sugar Man performed very well during its theatrical release, earning $3,696,196 at the US box office. Searching for Sugar Man has received critical acclaim. The film holds a 94% Certified Fresh rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 8/10. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a glowing review, writing I hope youre able to see this film. and yes. Critic Dargis subsequently named Searching for Sugar Man one of the 10 best films of 2012, the films narrative of a South African story about an American musician omits that Rodriguez was successful in Australia in the 1970s and toured there in 1979 and 1981. Because of this some critics have called the documentary myth-making. However, the focuses on his mysterious reputation in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man won the Best Documentary category at the 85th Academy Awards, Rodriguez declined to attend the award ceremony as he did not want to overshadow the filmmakers achievement if he came up on stage with them. Upon accepting his award, Chinn remarked on such generosity, That just about everything about that man and his story that you want to know. ”However, Malik Bendjelloul also said on stage, Thanks to one of the greatest singers ever. The film also won the Best Documentary category at the 66th British Academy Film Awards on 10 February 2013, the Directors Guild of America awarded the DGA Award for best documentary on 2 February 2013. The Writers Guild of America awarded the WGA Award for best documentary, the Producers Guild of America awarded the PGA Award for best documentary. The American Cinema Editors awarded the ACE Eddie Award for best documentary and it won the Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary at the 48th Guldbagge Awards. It won The National Board of Review in New York on 5 December 2012 and it also won Best Documentary during Critics Choice Awards – Searching for Sugar Man The film won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary of the Year Award. Searching for Sugar Man won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam held in November 2012, Searching for Sugar Man won both the Audience and the Best Music Documentary awards
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Listen to Me Marlon
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Listen to Me Marlon is a 2015 documentary film written, directed and edited by Stevan Riley about the movie star and iconic actor Marlon Brando. The Village Voice calls it a masterpiece and David Edelstein lists it as the greatest, most searching documentary of an actor ever put on film. In July 2015, Listen to Me Marlon was released theatrically in the United States, the film has also recently been nominated for a Gotham Award. Variety writes Brandos complexity is limned as well as a documentary possibly could manage, made with the full cooperation of the Brando estate, the pic is a superbly crafted collage whose soundtrack is as complexly textured as the curation and editing of visual elements. As Rolling Stone magazine summed it up, You want Brando Confidential
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Netflix
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Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail, in 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. As of 2017 the company has its headquarters in Los Gatos, Netflixs initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflixs founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business. In 2007, Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD, Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series, House of Cards. It has greatly expanded the production of film and television series since then, offering Netflix Original content through its online library of films. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series or films in 2016, in January 2017, Netflix reported having over 93 million subscribers worldwide, including more than 49 million in the United States. Netflix was founded on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph, Randolph worked as marketing director for Hastings company, Pure Atria Corporation. Randolph was a co-founder of MicroWarehouse, a mail order company. Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1997 for $700 million in what was then the richest acquisition in Silicon Valley history. Hastings, Randolphs mother and Integrity QA founder Steve Kahn invested $2.5 million in cash for Netflix. Randolph admired the fledgling e-commerce company Amazon and wanted to find a category of portable items to sell over the internet using a similar model. He and Hastings considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which were available in only a few markets in 1997, when the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, and then dropped the model in early 2000. Since that time, the company has built its reputation on the model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees. In 2000, Netflix offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $50 million, Netflix initiated an initial public offering on May 29,2002, selling 5.5 million shares of common stock at the price of US$15.00 per share. On June 14,2002, the company sold an additional 825,000 shares of stock at the same price. After incurring substantial losses during its first few years, Netflix posted its first profit during fiscal year 2003, in 2005,35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day
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Damon Albarn
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Damon Albarn, OBE is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the singer of the British rock band Blur as well as co-founder, vocalist, instrumentalist. After spending long periods of time touring the US, Albarns songwriting became influenced by British bands from the 1960s. The result of these came in the form of Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife. All three albums received critical acclaim while Blur gained mass popularity in the UK, aided by a Britpop rivalry with Oasis, subsequent albums such as Blur,13, Think Tank and The Magic Whip contained influences from lo-fi, electronic and hip hop music. Along with Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett, Albarn formed the virtual band Gorillaz in 1998, drawing influences from alternative rock, trip hop, hip hop, electronica, dub, reggae and pop music, the band released their self-titled debut album in 2001 to worldwide success. Although Albarn is the only permanent musical contributor, the albums feature collaborations from a range of artists. Gorillaz are cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band and he has also ventured into the world of opera with Dr Dee and Monkey, Journey to the West. In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Albarn number 18 in their list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture, in a 2010 UK poll for Q magazine Albarn was voted the fourth-greatest frontman of all time. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to music, Albarn was born on 23 March 1968, is the eldest child of artist Keith Albarn and his wife Hazel, née Dring. Their daughter Jessica, born in 1971, also went on to become an artist, Keith Albarn, originally from Nottinghamshire, was briefly the manager of Soft Machine and once a guest on BBCs Late Night Line-Up. He was head of The School of Art and Design at Colchester Institute, damons paternal grandfather Edward, an architect, had been a conscientious objector during the Second World War and was involved in a farming community in Lincolnshire, becoming a peace activist. In 2002 Edward Albarn died, Damon stated in an interview that Edward did not want to any longer. The Apollo Cumfycraft and The Tailendcharlie produced by his fathers company Keith Albarn & Partners Ltd under the trade-name of Playlearn, when Damon and Jessica were growing up, their family moved to Leytonstone, East London. The household was described as bohemian and their upbringing as liberal, Albarn agreed with his parents views, later claiming, I always thought my parents were absolutely dead right. I went against the grain in a weird way – by continually following them and his parents primarily listened to blues, Indian ragas and African music. The population of the area was predominantly white as opposed to the ethnically mixed part of London which he had used to. He described himself as not really fitting in with the politics of the place, Albarn was interested in music from an early age, attending an Osmonds concert at the age of six
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Jamie Hewlett
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Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic book artist, designer, and director. He is best known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl, brought up in Horsham, West Sussex, Jamie Hewlett was a pupil at Tanbridge House School, a local co-educational comprehensive for pupils aged 11–16 years. He contributed to the art work of a safety campaign that ended up runner-up in a national television competition. While studying at Northbrook College Worthing, Hewlett, Alan Martin and this brought him to the attention of Brett Ewins. After leaving college Hewlett and Martin were invited by Ewins to create material for a new magazine he was setting up with Steve Dillon in 1988, the magazine was called Deadline and featured a mixture of comic strips produced by British creators, and articles on music and culture. Martin and Hewlett created Tank Girl, a strip about a teenage punk girl who drove a tank and had a mutant kangaroo for a boyfriend. The strip proved popular and quickly became the most talked about part of Deadline. He also designed decor for a nightclub called The Factory in Chatsworth Road, the Factory has since been refurbished and renamed several times. By 1992, Hewlett had become a creator in the comics industry. He had worked with writer Peter Milligan on Hewligans Haircut in 2000 AD issues 700 to 707, the series was later compiled into a trade paperback. He was also involved in providing covers and art for Shade, Tank Girl was also optioned to be made into a film by MGM after being considered by, among others, Steven Spielberg. The film was released in 1995 and featured Lori Petty as Tank Girl and it was a commercial and critical failure and was criticised by fans who said it failed to capture the essence of the original strip. Hewlett had very little involvement with the film and he also drew a Tank Girl mini-series for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics written by Peter Milligan. He also opened a clothing store,49. The shop, at 49 Rowlands Road, Worthing, was managed by girlfriend Jane Oliver, originally a member of Elastica, Hewlett was still involved with British bands of the mid-1990s, including illustrating a comic strip version of Pulps song Common People. He also created the strip Get The Freebies published monthly in British fashion magazine The Face, the dynamic between the two heroes was much like that of Tank Girl and her mutant kangaroo boyfriend Booga, with the episodes from the female protagonists point of view. The strips primary function was for Jamie to vent his spleen against the media idols and trends of the day, the story often taking second place to the jokes. At this time, he had moved into a flat with Blurs Damon Albarn after Hewlett split with Oliver, and it was sharing the flat that the pair came up with the idea of Gorillaz
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2-D (character)
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Stuart 2-D Pot is a fictional character who is a musician and member of the British virtual band, Gorillaz. He provides the vocals and plays the keyboard for the band. 2-Ds voice is provided by Blur frontman Damon Albarn on Gorillaz recordings and performances, while in additional material and he was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The character 2-D sings and plays keyboard and he can play guitar, as can Murdoc, but both leave it to Noodle. In most cases, 2-Ds singing voice is lower than his warbly speaking voice. His vocal range is wide, and he has sung everything from Baritone to a falsetto Soprano. All his singing voices are provided by Damon Albarn, including the verses in the 2005 hit Feel Good Inc. 2-D apparently has had influence in the lyric-writing process. Apparently Murdoc has had Damon Albarn teach 2-D from time to time to sing better than he already could, 2-D was featured on the songs FM by Nathan Haines and Small Time Shot Away by Massive Attack
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Russel Hobbs
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Russel Hobbs is a fictional American musician, and member of the virtual band Gorillaz. He provides the drums and percussion for the band, like all the other Gorillaz band members, he was created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in 1998. Russels spoken voice is supplied by Remi Kabaka, Russel Hobbs provides the percussion for Gorillaz, and he can invoke the souls of dead rappers from the fictional hip hop canon. On the debut Gorillaz album, Russel called upon and embodied the soul of Del tha Ghost Rapper and this came about when Russel was a teenager, part of the hip hop scene. His friends were rappers, unfortunately this changed when a drive-by shooting happened, after that event, all of his friends who were killed possessed his body, making his eyes completely white, and making him amazingly skilled at playing music
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Noodle (Gorillaz)
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Noodle is a fictional Japanese musician and member of the British virtual band Gorillaz. She provides the guitar, as well as some occasional main. Like all other members of Gorillaz, she was created in 1998 by Damon Albarn. Noodle has been voiced by Japanese actress Haruka Kuroda, singer-songwriter Miho Hatori of trip-hop group Cibo Matto, taking Albarns advice, Hewlett came up with the first official Noodle, a 10-year-old Japanese girl. Later, Hewlett drew her as 13 years old, and since then, Noodle first came to the Gorillaz when they were still a trio of 2-D, Murdoc and Russel. The band was looking for a guitarist, so ran a ad looking for one. The next day a FedEx crate arrived at Kong Studios, and a little Asian girl popped out, after shredding on her guitar, she spoke a single word to the trio, and it became her nickname, Noodle. In October 2016, she became the ambassador for Jaguar Racing. Rise of the Ogre US Magazine interview with Cyborg Noodle
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Murdoc Niccals
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Murdoc Faust Niccals is a fictional English bassist for the British virtual band Gorillaz. He is voiced by Phil Cornwell and was created by Damon Albarn, Hewlett has stated that aspects of Murdocs appearance and personality were based on that of a young Keith Richards. In 2005, during Phase 2, Niccals burnt down the bands home Kong Studios and went on to go find a new home for him, after a long time of sailing in a boat, Niccals finally found a new location, Plastic Beach. He gave it the nickname Plastic Beach because it was full of trash and this is where the band would record their third album
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Gorillaz (album)
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Gorillaz is the eponymous debut studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz, released on 26 March 2001 by Parlophone Records internationally and by Virgin Records in the United States. It includes the singles Clint Eastwood, 19-2000, Rock the House, the album reached number three in the UK, and was an unexpected hit in the US, hitting number 14 and selling over seven million copies worldwide by 2007. It earned the group an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band, the albums first single Clint Eastwood, is named after the famous movie actor. Years after the release of album, it was revealed that the track Starshine has an alternative version. This version is not available on any releases, but it is available on the Phi Life Cypher SoundCloud channel, Del the Funky Homosapien collaborated on two songs on the album, Clint Eastwood and Rock the House, both of which became singles and videos and achieved chart success. Del was not originally slated to collaborate on these songs, after the song went platinum he gave the plaque to his mother. As part of Russel Hobbs back-story, the character of Del was one of Russels friends that was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, in 2004, the album was packaged with 2002s Laika Come Home in a limited edition box set as part of EMIs 2CD Originals collection. Gorillaz received generally positive reviews from critics, Q listed the album as one of the best 50 albums of 2001. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Tomorrow Comes Today was released as an EP before the album was released, a video for the single was also released. Clint Eastwood was the first single from the album, debuting on 4 March 2001, the single peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. 19-2000 was the single from the album, released in June 2001. The single peaked at six on the UK Singles Chart. Rock the House was the single from the album, released in October 2001. The single peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, Tomorrow Comes Today was the fourth and final single from the album, released almost a year after the album, in February 2002. It peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart, 5/4 was repeatedly considered for a single but was edged out by 19-2000 and Rock the House. A video was considered for this, but never got past the storyboarding stage, Bonus tracks Bonus discs Sample credits New Genious contains samples of Hit or Miss, written by Odetta Gordon and performed by Bo Diddley. Man Research contains samples of In the Hall of the Mountain Queen written, Rock the House contains samples of Modesty Blaise, written and performed by John Dankworth
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Demon Days
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Albarn brought in Danger Mouse as producer. Demon Days entered the UK charts at #1 and the US charts at #6, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide. The album features the singles Feel Good Inc, DARE, Dirty Harry and Kids with Guns, and El Mañana. As with their album, the release of Demon Days. These included interactive features on the Gorillaz website, a total of four animated music videos, virtual interview sessions with the band, almost all of the visuals associated with the album were designed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett as his design company, Zombie Flesh Eaters. Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth-best album of 2005, while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list and hailed the album as a genre-busting, NME placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade. Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade, Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade, placing it at number 43. Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014, while Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, Damon Albarn was still recording Think Tank with Blur. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see, dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees, and its the size of Europe this area. And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and its sky and beautiful sand. And that will happen to us in our lifetime, Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, Lets repeat the same process, but do it better. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick, if you do it again, its no longer a gimmick, and if it works then weve proved a point. And instantly, all of us got excited, I learned so much working on the record with Damon, claimed Danger Mouse. and it was sink or swim. At the end of the day, the people working with – whether its the choir or string section or guitarist – are specialized in what they do. All you have to do is out the best thing theyre doing. That goes back to putting together a song on a computer-based program, youre looking for all the parts that are going to make something sound right. Its also being able to communicate, I had done stuff before Gorillaz – like the Pelican City stuff – where I worked with musicians, so it wasnt completely foreign to me
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Plastic Beach
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Plastic Beach is the third studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz, released on 3 March 2010 by Parlophone Records internationally and by Virgin Records in the United States. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded from June 2008 to November 2009, Plastic Beach debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, selling approximately 74,432 copies in its first week of sales. It debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 chart with 112,000 copies in its first week of sales. Plastic Beach received mostly positive reviews, and was named one of the years best albums by several critics. In the November 2007 issue of Q, when asked what his top priority for 2008 was, Damon Albarn replied Well, Im doing the next Gorillaz thing and those were presented as by The Who even though none of the members of the band were in the movies. I dont think anyone from The Who was in Quadrophenia, but its the same people working on it, thats the principle. In a July 2008 interview with The Observer he also said, thats my ideal model — Gorillaz is a group of people who gave you this, and now want to give you new stuff. Weve started work — Ive done a lot of visuals and Damons done a lot of music, I cant say much about it yet but its sort of like a film, but not with one narrative story. Theres many stories, told around a story, set to music. Originally it was a film but now we think its a film and its a thing as well. Look, its basically us doing what the fuck we want without worrying about whether its for a company or a film company or whatever. So Im not sure how itll pan out, or even if it will happen, but Damons written around 70 songs for it, and Ive got great plans for the visuals, but right now, at this moment, its still just a really good idea. Carousel was to be about the aspects of Britain. Damon Albarn got the idea for Plastic Beach while on a next to his house, I was just looking for all the plastic within the sand. On 17 September 2008, Albarn and Jamie Hewlett announced that they would be doing another Gorillaz album in an interview with CBC News, Hewlett said that from their work on Monkey, we just learned more about what we do, musically and artistically. Thats a great place to come at when we come to another Gorillaz album and it doesnt have to be animation and music. Hewlett also expressed annoyance at having to draw the band members again, but then we had a moment where we had a new angle on it. In a later interview Hewlett said, theyll be the same characters, Albarn said in September 2008 that he wanted to work with an incredibly eclectic, surprising cast of people
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The Fall (Gorillaz album)
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The Fall is the fourth studio album from British virtual band Gorillaz. The album was announced on 20 December 2010 and soon after released on 25 December 2010 as a free download on the Gorillaz website. The album features fewer guest artists than previous Gorillaz albums, collaborators include Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, the Phoner to Arizona music video, a compilation of footage and images taken from the tour and the phase was posted on YouTube on 22 December. The album was released on 18 April 2011. The entire album was recorded on group co-founder Damon Albarns iPad during the American leg of the Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour in October 2010, Albarn said of the recording, I literally made it on the road. I didnt write it before, I didnt prepare it, I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience in America. As adapted from the Gorillaz website, lacking the feel of previous offerings, the album was praised for its unique qualities and experimental nature. It did not receive the fame of previous albums but was treated as a pet project that resulted from the groups prior North American tour. The album used the iPad to create features to the tracks. Other instruments featured on the album include Korg Vocoder, Ukulele, microKORG, Omnichord, Minimoog Voyager, Melodica, Guitar, Piano, previous Gorillaz albums featured large numbers of guests. Their previous album Plastic Beach has guests on 13 of the 16 tracks with multiple guests per track, the Fall includes only four guest artists. Three of these four have worked with Damon Albarn before, Mick Jones and Bobby Womack appeared on Plastic Beach, as did Paul Simonon, who also worked on Albarn’s project The Good, the Bad & the Queen. American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams of N. E. R. D also recorded a track with Albarn while touring together, notes Additional keyboards on track 6 by Jesse Hackett. Qanun on track 12 by James R Grippo, sample credits The Parish of Space Dust contains samples of Cowboy Town by Brooks and Dunn, Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell, and Hawaiian War Chant by Spike Jones
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G Sides
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G Sides is a B-sides collection by Gorillaz from their first studio album session, Gorillaz and the Tomorrow Comes Today EP. The compilation was released only in Japan in December 2001. The US edition, with a different track listing, followed in February 2002. The European version, released in March 2002, features the original Japanese track listing, the Japanese and US editions are different because the songs Dracula and Left Hand Suzuki Method are included on the standard US edition of Gorillaz as bonus tracks. The Brazilian limited edition release incorporates all of the tracks both the Japanese and US versions of the album. Most versions have the cover, featuring Noodle holding a skeleton doll in her hand. On the top of the sleeve, the title is written in katakana, G Sides reached number 65 on the UK Albums Chart and number 84 on the US Billboard 200. All songs written and composed by Gorillaz, 19-2000, 19-2000, Hip Albatross and Left Hand Suzuki Method are B-sides of 19-2000. Latin Simone and 12D3 are B-sides of the Tomorrow Comes Today 2000 EP, the Sounder, Faust, Ghost Train and Rock the House are B-sides of Rock the House. Clint Eastwood and Dracula are B-sides of Clint Eastwood
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D-Sides
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D-Sides is a 2007 compilation album by the British virtual band Gorillaz. The album contains B-sides and remixes from singles and bonus tracks for the second studio album Demon Days. It was released on 19 November 2007 in the UK and on 20 November in the United States and is available in standard, the Japanese deluxe edition includes three extra tracks, plus the video for Rockit. D-Sides performed similarly to its 2002 predecessor, G Sides, reaching #63 on the UK Albums Chart, in a 2006 interview with Verbicide Magazine, band members were asked if a new remix album would be produced for Demon Days as there was for Gorillaz. They answered that it was a possibility and that involve the Spacemonkeyz again. In the same interview, they were asked if there might also be another G Sides, again, their answer was that it might be possible. In January 2007, websites began listing a March release date for a Phase 2 B-sides album, one of the websites, musictap. net, later pushed this back to 3 April. According to Gorillaz-Unofficial, the reaction of official parties behind Gorillaz is that the date is just a rumour for now. On 29 August, musictap. net reported that the B-side album would be titled D-Sides, on 18 September 2007, the official Gorillaz fansite confirmed the release of the album, as well as unveiling the album artwork and track listing. D-Sides was released on 19 November 2007 in the UK and on 20 November 2007 in the U. S, all songs written and composed by Gorillaz. 68 State, Bill Murray, Spitting Out the Demons and Murdoc Is God are b-sides of Feel Good Inc, people, Highway, Samba at 13 and DARE are b-sides of DARE. Hongkongaton and Murdoc Is God are b-sides of Dirty Harry and we Are Happy Landfill was made available as an additional downloadable track on the limited edition of Demon Days. Hong Kong was released as part of Help, a Day in the Life compilation. Rockit was first released in with a video in 2004 to announce Demon Days. Kids with Guns, Kids with Guns, El Mañana, DARE, Dirty Harry, the Swagga is found on the limited edition Demon Days DVD
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Tomorrow Comes Today
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Tomorrow Comes Today is a song from alternative rock virtual band Gorillazs self-titled debut album Gorillaz and was their first release when issued as an EP in November 2000. The first three songs from the EP ended up on their album, however, Latin Simone was heavily edited. The new version was sung by Ibrahim Ferrer, and renamed Latin Simone, the original version is sung by 2D and appears along with 12D3 on the later-released compilation album G Sides. The song itself was also the fourth and final single from that album and it peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. A demo version of the song, I Got Law was included as a track of the Japanese edition of 13 by Blur. 1 –0,30 Jump the Gut Pt, some of the drawings are animated, especially the ones featuring 2D singing. The video finishes with the four members, and 2Ds headache pills. Graffiti artwork by Banksy can be seen halfway through the video, 2D makes a reference to this in Rise of the Ogre, saying At first I wanted to be a vandal like that bloke Banksy. Several times during the course of the video, an image of a red gorilla is seen, a stylised duck head, an Easter egg in early Gorillaz videos, can be found as a tattoo on the arm of Russel. It can be right before the camera cuts away after panning across the city streets. This was Gorillaz first video, which inspired them to go for an animated look. 2D commented, its amazing how young we look in this, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Laika Come Home
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Laika Come Home is a Gorillaz remix album released in July 2002. Unlike a typical album, it is done by just one group. It contains most of the songs from the Gorillaz first album, Gorillaz, the album features Terry Hall, U Brown, Earl 16 and 2D. One single, Lil Dub Chefin, was released from the album on 22 July 2002, the limited edition was packed in digipak, featuring two hidden tracks. In 2004, the album was packaged with 2001s Gorillaz in a box set as part of EMIs 2CD Originals collection, the albums title is a reference to Laika, the Soviet space dog, and the film Lassie Come Home. The album contains mixes of every song on the album except Double Bass, Latin Simone, Rock the House. The Spacemonkeyz appear to be first referenced before the album in the Tomorrow Comes Today video, during the video, in the background, a poster can be seen with three pictures of monkeys with spacesuits and the caption Laugh now but one day well be in charge. The artwork is a piece of artwork by Banksy, the visual artist who worked with Damon Albarn for Think Tanks artwork. After the show, Murdoc was asked to sign a record he didnt recognize, after discovering the record, Gorillaz shot one or two photos with the monkeys and then they disappeared. Murdoc is still angry at them for doing the album, despite the income he gets from it. He maintains that Dr. Wurzel, his archenemy, is behind the incident, before the release of the album, the mix of Tomorrow Comes Today was released in the single of Tomorrow Comes Today in February 2002
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Phase One: Celebrity Take Down
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Phase One, Celebrity Takedown is a compilation DVD by Gorillaz, released in November 2002. The DVD compiles the videos and animatics related to the release of the bands first album, Gorillaz, the DVD came with an extra CD-ROM containing desktop wallpapers, screensavers and other such special features. The DVD itself follows a small storyline and you are a police investigator sent to check out Kong Studios due to strange goings on. The studios look in a good state, which would change dramatically for Phase Two. If you wait in a room for too long, you will get attacked and this DVD is mostly traditionally animated, while also maintaining some elements of three-dimensional animation as well. Wurzels Winnebago –6,11 Fancy Dress –0,45 Lil Dub Chefin & End Credits –4,45 Hidden Extras Jump the Gut – Noodle and Del are betting to see if 2D will jump over Russells gut. 2D is on a tricycle, speeding up with his hands firmly on the brakes, while Russell is on the ground asleep, scratching his crotch. 2D peddles up a ramp, but fails to jump over Russels stomach and wakes him up, sending Del back into Russels head. Russell stands up with money in his ear while Noodle is grabbing the money that Del dropped. Russel picks 2D up, and says to 2-D If you keep doing this, man, Ill be jumping you next time youre asleep and our Toys Have Arrived – The band is sitting before their model toys. 2D says that they are useless, saying that his head doesnt wobble like the toy, Russel grabs hold of 2Ds neck and shakes it, revealing that it does. Noodle is amazed, while Murdoc encourages him to do it again, the Game of Death – Russel and Noodle spar in a short sequence serving as an obvious homage to the movie Game of Death, with Noodle wearing Bruce Lees distinctive yellow jumpsuit. When Noodle quickly wins, it is revealed that 2D and Murdoc are using them as game characters, and Murdoc complains that the Russel character is rubbish. Then he asks 2D for a rematch, Free Tibet Campaign – In this bit, 2D is sitting in meditation with other Tibetans outside the Chinese embassy in London, in protest at the treatment of Tibetans. At the end of the bite, a message is shown and it campaigns for an end to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and for the Tibetans fundamental rights to be respected. The Eel – On orders from Russel, 2D tries to prepare an eel for dinner by hitting it with a mallet, the noise awakens Murdoc, who grabs the eel from 2D and goes to melt its face. Russel comes in asking for the eel, and Murdoc says that it feels eel, Fancy Dress – The band is taking a Halloween photo. Murdoc focuses the camera on them, and runs back to pose, Russel thinks Murdoc shouldnt go dressing up as a Nazi, because he has an appreciation for clothes
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Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades
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Phase Two, Slowboat to Hades is a compilation DVD by Gorillaz, released in October 2006. The DVD includes most of the released by Gorillaz from 2004 to 2006. DARE, Dirty Harry and El Mañana and it includes the MTV EMAs, Grammys and Brits live performances. Also included is the Gorillaz MTV Cribs episode, the Phase Two Gorillaz bites, a new Kong Studios guide, a gallery, Plus, it features a few hidden extras found in certain rooms. The DVD is bundled with a CD-ROM featuring games and wallpapers, strangely, on the DVD, Kong Studios appears to be in a bad state, with holes in walls, floors, and blood splatterings, along with litter. Unlike the previous Phase One, Celebrity Take Down, there is a floor directory, during Phase One, Celebrity Take Down, even though while he was building the band he did a deal with him. Murdoc says in the book they are pursuing an alternative studio, the DVD also includes the event of Murdocs rebirth which happened 6/6/06 on the Gorillaz official website as a hidden feature. The Phase Two Kong Studios contains less animated backgrounds, this time being completely computerised, the website took on this new view when it was reopened, though it was less damaged. Promo videos and animatics, Feel Good Inc.8 screensavers 45 wallpapers Plus hidden, the DVD was released in various countries in October and November 2006
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Clint Eastwood (song)
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Clint Eastwood is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released as the first single from their self-titled debut album in March 2001. The song is named after the actor of the name due to its similarity to the theme music of The Good, the Bad. The song is a mix of music, dub, hip hop. The verses are rapped by Del the Funky Homosapien, portrayed as a phantom in the video. It peaked at four on the UK Singles Chart and number 57 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The single has sold 480,000 copies in the UK according to the Official Charts Company, rolling Stone ranked it number 38 on its 100 best songs of the 2000s. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 141 on its list 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years, the magazine also ranked it at number 347 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Demo versions of Clint Eastwood were originally recorded by Damon Albarn on a four-track using a drum machine, a re-recording similar to these demos were recorded into Logic for use as a backing track. The strings featured in the song are from a string machine, according to engineer, Jason Cox, Damon gave us the OK to set fire to it on stage, but we said No, you cant set fire to that. And it ended up being used on the song as well as other tracks on the album. The drums are provided by a machine and the main instrument used in the song is the melodica. Some of the releases featured an alternative version of the song which featured British hip hop group Phi Life Cypher. For some live performances of the song, alternative rappers are used, for the 2005 Demon Days tour, a version of the song featuring De La Soul and Bootie Brown, who have also appeared in Feel Good Inc. Superfast Jellyfish and Dirty Harry, was written and recorded and this version was released on the CD single of DARE. During the Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour, a version of the track, featuring British rapper Tinie Tempah, was written. During July 2010, when Tempah was unable to tour performances. Snoop Dogg also performed a rap during the groups 2010 Glastonbury performance, during the groups Asian tour dates, a fifth version of the song, featuring all new verses from Lebanese-Syrian rapper Eslam Jawaad, was performed. During Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarns 2014 solo tour for Everyday Robots, he performed the live with Dan The Automator
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19-2000
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19-2000, sometimes written 19/2000, is a song from Gorillaz self-titled debut album Gorillaz. It was also the single from the album, released in June 2001. The single peaked at #6 in the United Kingdom, and reached #1 in New Zealand, the song is notable for its chorus lyrics get the cool shoeshine. The single released was accompanied by a new version of the song, called the Soulchild Remix. Mendis was asked to remix a track off the album in the hope that it would give it crossover potential, in the same way as the Ed Case remix of Clint Eastwood had. Mendis was given a copy of all their demos and finished tracks for the album, being told to pick that you can produce, remix or whatever into a hit single. Mendis was unsure which track to choose, and only when he was told that Jamie Hewlett was already working on the video for 19-2000, the remix appears to utilise the drums from Sing a Simple Song by Sly and the Family Stone. The remix is basically a faster, more upbeat version of the song, the remix appears as a bonus track on the original version of the album, as well as being the first track on G Sides. From 2002, this replaced the original version on radio stations. Another version of the song, entitled the Gorillaz on My Mind Remix, features US rapper Redman, tina Weymouth and Miho Hatori contributed backing vocals to 19-2000, whilst Damon Albarn performed the vocals on the verses. The original version was featured on the soundtrack of the 2001 Xbox launch title Project Gotham Racing. The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland, is animated, murdoc tries to blow up the moose with a pair of missiles, but the moose sneezes right before impact, sending them back to the car, which explodes and skids along the highway on fire. The missile targeting system is a reference to the X-wing targeting system the Rebel Alliance uses in the Star Wars film series to blow up the Death Star, the members of Gorillaz appear to have black ash all over them from the blast. A stylized duck head, an Easter egg in early Gorillaz videos, there are two versions of this video, one to fit the original mix and one to fit the soulchild remix. The videos are almost identical, except for a few changes in order for the two songs to sync up with the video. On the motorway, there are signs to the Overlook Hotel, a reference to The Shining, and Camp Crystal Lake, a reference to Friday the 13th
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Rock the House (Gorillaz song)
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Rock the House is a song from Gorillaz self-titled debut album Gorillaz. It was released as the single from the album in October 2001. It peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, the song features a horn section loop sampled from Modesty Blaise, a piece by British jazz musician John Dankworth. The chorus also features a sample of How Many People, an 1980s hip-hop track by American rapper John Forté. Rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien is the only artist to provide vocals for the song, in Gorillaz, Rise of the Ogre, 2-D claims to have played some divvy panpipes for Rock the House during a track-by-track of the Gorillaz album. Murdoc is stunned by this and repeats his disbelief briefly during the section on the video, for the radio edit of the song, the line which features the words Shake your ass-crack is cut. Instead, the features the orchestral type sound, which features after the trumpet riff at the start of the song. The music video for Rock the House was directed by Jamie Hewlett and it starts with a shot of the gate of Kong Studios. The camera then follows Noodle on a tricycle through the hallways of the building and it leads past a door to a room where Gorillaz are performing. A white mist appears among them and Russel passes out, then we see the floor has turned into the ghost of Del, who rises up and throws the Gorillaz to the ground. Del is outfitted with protective gear including a helmet, in Rise of the Ogre it explains he is dressed as Mr. Freedom. Del takes a few steps when from behind him a series of spring-loaded guns shoot billiard balls at him, a series of inflatable female gorillas appear and start to do cheerleading. 2-D is dodging the balls being shot at him by doing dance moves, Murdoc then begins to divert the balls with a padded jockstrap he is wearing, hitting them away with his pelvic thrusts. He is successful a dozen times until a ball ricochets off the padded wall, the ball ricochets and hits Russel in the head, waking him up and making Del disappear. Russel looks around, noticing 2-D is unconscious, Murdoc is standing bowlegged, the final scene is a backwards shot of the first one. In this music video, like other music videos for Gorillaz, Murdoc can be seen wearing his inverted cross necklace
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911 (Gorillaz and D12 song)
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911 is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz & American hip-hop group D12 and features guest vocals from Specials member Terry Hall. The song was recorded during 2001 in West London, after D12 were left stranded in England after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, the song was recorded by Gorillaz and D12 in Damon Albarns personal studio in West London. The track came about after 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, the track came about when Damon Albarn invited the band to his studio and played them an early demo of the track. Albarn had always wanted to experiment with Middle-Eastern music, and felt that song would be perfect. D12 added additional production to the song, before laying down their verses, Terry Hall appears on the song as a vocal harmony with Albarn for the songs chorus. The video features the same visuals as Gorillaz first single Clint Eastwood and 19-2000, the track features D12 running towards the camera. Terry Hall does not appear in the music video, played live only twice, as the last song of the encore at the New York City Hammerstein Ballroom show in the US part of the Phase One tour in 2002. Shortly after the song was performed, a cartoon starring Gorillaz called Jump the Gut was played. The song was performed using Gorillaz Phase 1 rappers, Luton-based rap group, Phi Life Cypher. Terry Hall - formerly available as a download from the official Gorillaz site, also on the 12 inch vinyl promo. -911 - Gorillaz & D12 featuring, Terry Hall - available on the Bad Company OST -911 - Gorillaz & D12 featuring. Terry Hall - available on the CD promo for 911 - Written by Damon Albarn, Von Carlisle, Ondre Moore, Denaun Porter, Rufus Johnson, De Shaun Holton Performed by Gorillaz & D12 featuring
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Lil' Dub Chefin'
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Lil Dub Chefin is a single by the Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz, from the 2002 Gorillaz remix album Laika Come Home. It is a remix of the Gorillaz song M1 A1, the songs title is reference to the UK restaurant chain Little Chef. The music video features the Spacemonkeyz, on Phase One, Celebrity Take Down, the video had an alternative intro and credits. The single peaked at #73 in the UK Singles Chart
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Feel Good Inc.
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Feel Good Inc. is a song by the British virtual band Gorillaz, featuring De La Soul. The lyrical themes of the song revolve around isolation and escapism, the song was the lead single from the bands second studio album Demon Days on 9 May 2005. The single peaked at No.2 in the United Kingdom and it also topped the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U. S. for eight consecutive weeks, a first for the band. This is the song in Damon Albarns career to reach the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked in the top 10 in 17 countries, reaching No.1 in Spain, the song was listed in Pitchfork Media and Rolling Stones Best Songs of the 2000s. The song won Best Pop Collaboration at the 2006 Grammy Awards and this song has surpassed Clint Eastwood to be Gorillazs most successful single worldwide. Popdose ranked it 26th on their list of 100 best songs of the decade, the integration of computer-generated imagery with two-dimensional animation is more seamless than in previous Gorillaz videos, creating a more textured, layered effect. At the beginning of the video, while the camera is rising up from the Feel Good Inc. tower, the main themes of the video are intellectual freedom and the medias dumbing down of mass culture. In the video, 2D yearns for the freedom to join Noodle on her floating island, the characters lying on the floor represent those who have already been dumbed down, while the band members are the ones who have awakened. 2D is trying to all the people from their half-dead state by yelling at them through his megaphone. The floating island is chased by helicopters, which closely resemble Korean War era Bell H-13s, monitoring the behaviour inside. It is unclear whether they are preventing Noodles escape or are chasing her away, back in the tower, De La Soul appear as larger-than life, seemingly omnipotent images on surrounding television screens, laughing at the Gorillaz band members. Their taunting drives 2D into a wild, hypnotic frenzy as he tries to resist the urge to be dumbed down, the repetition of Feel good represents that 2D is convincing himself that everything is OK, instead of facing the harsh truth of the situation. The music video for El Mañana is a continuation of this video, Feel Good Inc. –3,41 Spitting Out the Demons –5,10 Bill Murray –3,53 DARE –5,44 Feel Good Inc
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Dare (song)
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Dare is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, taken as the second single from their second studio album, Demon Days. The track is sung by Noodle with backing vocals from 2D and it peaked at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in September 2005, becoming the bands only UK No.1. In 2016, vocals of the song were interpolated in Frictions song Dare, the single was released on 29 August 2005. On online music stores such as iTunes, the edit of the song was released on 20 June 2005. DARE was released to airplay in the United States in mid-October, on the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number 87 on 3 January 2006, going on to reach #8 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart on 21 February 2006. Roses Gabor takes over the role of Noodle from Miho Hatori, 2D provides backing vocals, however, to blend his vocals with Noodles, his voice was toned down to be slightly covered up by Noodle. 2Ds full vocalization can be heard on the D-Sides remix album, D-Sides features a demo version of Dare entitled People. This version contains the background beat while lacking the majority of the keyboards. Unlike the final version, it is sung by 2D. The song also contains a sample of the Daft Punk song Revolution 909 towards the end, the music video for Dare included an appearance by Shaun Ryder as a giant disembodied head kept alive by machinery in Noodles wardrobe. A voice beside him growls, go back to sleep, honey, revealing the voice to belong to Murdoc and that time, it was actually dreamt by Murdoc, who also wakes up bolt upright in his own bed gasping and panting. Music video - and adds that he was asleep in his Winnebago for the whole of the shoot up until the final scene, the video was directed by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland. The video was leaked a few prior to its 17 July 2005 release on the official Gorillaz website. Some say that legal threats were made against the individuals who uploaded the video, the video was later recalled from other websites and the final scene was tweaked slightly, Murdocs Confederate Naval Jack flag was replaced with that of the Jolly Roger. This video calls back to classic horror movies, in the very beginning of the video we see Gorillaz reject false icons statue, which one may recognize as Pazuzu, the figurine from The Exorcist and son of the devil. Crows are flying around the building, in a tribute to Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds, Shaun Ryder is depicted as a Frankenstein-like monster who is brought to life as the music begins. Amongst the contraptions that are part of the support system appear to be two Atari joysticks and a Speak & Spell from the early 1980s. Ryders head being kept alive is a reference to the movie The Brain That Wouldnt Die, the tube attached to Ryders cheek switches from side to side as a tribute to the goofs commonly made in early horror movies
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Dirty Harry (song)
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This article is about the song by Gorillaz. Dirty Harry is also the name of a song by Adam, Dirty Harry is a song from British alternative rock virtual band band Gorillaz second studio album Demon Days, released as the third single from the album on 21 November 2005. The single peaked at #6 in the UK, earlier that year, the song released as a promotional single on iTunes. An early version of Dirty Harry titled I Need a Gun was included on Damon Albarns album Democrazy. On 8 December 2005 it was announced that Dirty Harry had been nominated for a Grammy under the category Urban/Alternative Performance, but was beaten by Damian Jr. Gong Marleys Welcome to Jamrock. The songs lyrics contain the line The war is over so says the speaker with the suit on. Dirty Harry is also a 1971 film directed by Don Siegel, one of Gorillazs earlier singles is the name of the actor who played this films title character, Clint Eastwood. The single cover is similar to that of the film Full Metal Jacket, the video was first released on 25 October 2005 to subscribers of the Gorillaz website mailing list. Like the video for Clint Eastwood, the video for Dirty Harry references the film of the same name, Dirty Harry is one of the few Gorillaz music videos to be filmed on-location, the others being Stylo and DoYaThing. They were going to use a computer animated desert, but it turned out simply flying the crew to the desert was cheaper and easier, the video was shot in the Swakopmund Desert in Namibia. Most of the video features shirtless 2-D and a version of the San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus stranded in the middle of a desert. The song and video feature a guest appearance by Pharcyde rapper Bootie Brown, in the end of the video, Gorillaz, the children and Bootie Brown depart the crash site in the military vehicle, which breaks down meters away. The themes in the single, as well as the themes in the album are all based on Damon Albarns observations on the state that the world is in today. The helmet which appears on the cover and the poster for the video. UK CD1 / Digital Single Dirty Harry –3,47 All Alone –3,39 UK CD2 / Digital E. P
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Stylo (song)
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Stylo is the first single from British virtual band Gorillazs third studio album Plastic Beach. The song features guest vocals from Bobby Womack and Mos Def, the single was released on 26 January 2010. Bobby Womack knew nothing about Gorillaz and was unsure about the collaboration, however, his granddaughter liked Gorillaz. Womack was told to sing whatever was on his mind during the recording of Stylo, I was in there for an hour going crazy about love and politics, getting it off my chest, said Womack. After an hour of recording, Womack, a diabetic, started to pass out and he was sat down and given a banana, before waking up minutes later. A demo form of the track, then just a beat, was premiered on the Zane Lowe show on 14 January 2009, along with Electric Shock. About a week before the premiere, Parlophone president Miles Leonard described the song as a dark. The single was leaked onto the internet on 20 January 2010, Murdoc stated on his Twitter account, A leak. Plastic Beach has sprung a leak, one of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole on my island. He later added, If anyones going to leak my single, the songs official premiere was on NME Radio that same day, shortly followed by its addition onto the Gorillaz official website. Gorillaz manager Chris Morrison said of the leak, I just think that illegal downloading and pirating could be stopped and we have to take the gloves off and say it has to be stopped. On 26 January 2010, Stylo was released for download from iTunes. When the video was released it received airplay on MTV. However, the no longer received significant airplay after failing to make the Top 100 in the UK. The song was performed on the 22 April 2010 episode of The Colbert Report by real members of the band, Stylo is a playable song in DJ Hero 2. Stylo was met with positive reviews, as well as noticed as one of the key points of the album. Danreviewer from Altsound gave the song a 69%, confessing that he never was a Gorillaz fan until now, complimenting the techno groove, rolling Stone also gave it a positive review, with 4 out of 5 stars. It mainly failed to successfully, bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 at #103
