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The Truth About Love Tour
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The Truth About Love Tour was the sixth concert tour by American recording artist P. nk. Sponsored by CoverGirl, and showcasing music from her studio album The Truth About Love. Shows in Melbourne, Australia were recorded and released on a concert DVD, The Truth About Love Tour, the Truth About Love Tour received widespread acclaim from music critics. Jason Bracelin from the Las Vegas Review-Journal called P. And, after watching the Truth About Love Tour, I can honestly say that few, if any, performers deliver better pop spectacles than Pink. August Brown of the Los Angeles Times opined that P. nk is, perhaps the most gifted and he believed P. nks set served as a reminder that, her best asset in performing – more than her aerialist talents or Joplin-esque power-rasp voice, is her self-awareness. Steve Appleford from Rolling Stone, who was also at the L. A. show, described the vaudeville as a, grown-up, sophisticated show, the nights best special effect was Pink herself. Craig Rosen from The Hollywood Reporter summed up the show with, P. nk launches back to the top of pop with acrobatic stunts and killer vocals. After the Houston show, Jane Howze from Culture Map Houston gave a positive review and she added, I have always said that Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay is the hardest working entertainer around, but I’m reconsidering, and now I’m giving Pink the nod. A Pink concert is a little like a Cirque du Soleil performance, there is so much happening on stage—the songs, the dancing and of course the acrobatics—it is a feast for the senses. Giving a rave review, Sean Daly of Times Pop Music Critic judged P. nk has proven and she displayed the physicality of Madonna in the way she led her troupe of dancers, and the production was on par with that of any big name pop act. Mario Tarradel of Dallas News, in his review of P. nks Dallas show, felt that and her rock-charged brand of pop-dance is radio ready, but its anchored in wit and grit. Shes got a voice with lung power and melodic grace. Shes unbelievably taut with abs of steel and an adventurous streak, shes got attitude, and no qualms about tossing a few expletives. But mostly Pink is an awesome performer and she was equal parts gymnast, singer, dancer and even drummer. It set a standard that Rihanna and Beyoncé will have to live up to, jim Farber of NY Daily News gave a rave review of the show, saying that P. nk, reaches new heights in performance that puts her talent, composure on display. Yet its to Pinks considerable credit that no matter how many bright lights, fast-moving sets or fancy dancers surrounded her, she kept her talent and character front, in the end, thats what gave the audience its ultimate high. Entertainment Weekly gave a review of P. Do you have to be a Pink fan to enjoy the tour and its a ridiculous question, you’ll be blasted by almost two hours of music and end up a Pink fan, regardless
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The Truth About Love Tour
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania
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Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located 27 miles north of Philadelphia and 80 miles southwest of New York City, as of the 2010 census, the borough population was 8,380. Doylestowns origins date to 1745 when William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is now the northwest corner of Main, the first church was erected in 1815, followed by a succession of congregations throughout the 19th century. As the population of Central and Upper Bucks County grew throughout the 18th and into the 19th century, discontent developed with the county seats location in Newtown, the county seat moved north to the more centrally located Doylestown in 1813. An outgrowth of Doylestowns new courthouse was the development of lawyers row, one positive consequence of early 19th-century investment in the new county seat was organized fire protection, which began in 1825 with the Doylestown Fire Engine Company. In 1838 the Borough of Doylestown was incorporated, an electric telegraph station was built in 1846, and in 1856 the North Pennsylvania Railroad completed a branch to Doylestown. The first gas lights were introduced in 1854, during the mid-19th century, several large tracts located east of the courthouse area were subdivided into neighborhoods. The next significant wave of development occurred after the Civil War, in 1869 Doylestown established a water works. The first telephone arrived in 1878, the same year that a new courthouse was erected. 1897 saw the first of several trolley lines connecting Doylestown with Willow Grove, Newtown, a private sewer system and treatment plant were authorized in 1903. The Borough took over and expanded service to about three-quarters of the town in 1921. In the early 20th century, Doylestown became best known to the world through the Tools of the Nation-Maker museum of the Bucks County Historical Society. Henry Chapman Mercer constructed the concrete building in 1916 to house his collection of mechanical tools and utensils. Upon his death in 1930, Mercer also left his similarly constructed home Fonthill and adjacent Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, the home was left on the condition that his housekeeper be allowed to live there for the rest of her life. She lived there and gave tours until the mid-1970s, in 1916, Doylestown Country Club was established and still operates a private golf course and caddy program. The Great Depression took its toll, as many old houses constructed a century earlier fell into disrepair. During the 1930s, the Borough also expanded its area to the north by admission of the tract known as the Doylestown Annex. In the decade following World War II, Doylestowns business community boomed, during the 1940s, streets were paved for the first time in two decades and parking meters were introduced downtown in 1948
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Bucks County Court House
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The
Fountain House, at the corner of State and Main Streets, was built in 1758 and is on the
National Register of Historic Places
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The Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society in Doylestown
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The County Theater in the
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Carey Hart
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Carey Jason Phillip Hart is an American former professional freestyle motocross competitor, motorcycle racer and current off-road truck racer. He is known for being the first motorcyclist to perform a flip on a 250cc motorcycle during a competition. He and singer Pink have been married since 2006, Hart was given his first motorcycle by his father at age 4 in hope of creating a father-son pastime. Riding quickly became Harts passion and he began competing in races at 6 years old in 1981, turning professional, Hart was among the first riders to begin competing in freestyle motocross in 1996. Hart was the first rider to publicly perform BMX trick the superman seat grab at IFMA events in 1998–99 and he was also the first person to perform the invert superman seat grab at the 1999 Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island. This trick is now known as the Hart Attack, in 1999 Hart took home the Bronze medal at the Summer Gravity Games and Gold at the Australian X Games. During the 2000 Gravity Games in Providence, Rhode Island, Hart attempted the first back flip on a 250 cc motorcycle in competition, Hart is credited with the first attempt of a back-flip as he over-rotated his flip and suffered a hard landing, displacing him off the seat. 2000 saw Hart win several FMX competitions and honors including the Silver at the Las Vegas LXD Freeride MotoX and Toyotas Trick of the Week. At the 2001 X-Games in Philadelphia, Hart attempted the backflip again for the best trick competition and his injuries included several broken bones and ribs along with a bruised tailbone. It was there he met his wife, singer Pink. In 2002, Hart again picked up the Gold medal at the Australian X-Games as well as gaining the Silver medal in the MotoX Best Trick at the Summer X Games in Los Angeles, the same year, Hart participated in the Tony Hawks Boom Boom HuckJam Tour. At the 2003 X-Games in Los Angeles, Hart successfully completed the backflip in the best trick competition picking up the Silver medal behind Mike Metzger, who landed a no-footed backflip. The same year, Hart participated in the Gumball 3000, an annual British 3, 2003s route was from San Francisco to Miami. He is also featured in the film Gumball 3000, The Movie, the biographical documentary Goodtimes With Carey Hart was also released in 2003. Hart broke both his arms and legs as well as suffering severe blood clotting during surgery, the crash took him out of competition for three years. In 2004, Hart and John Huntington opened Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company in Las Vegas, the A&E network followed Hart and the workings of the shop on the reality show Inked. Hart and Huntington Tattoo Company also launched a line based on the designs of the artists at the store. With H&Hs expansion, the line is now based on the tattoo/action sports lifestyle
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Hart in May 2010
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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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From top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a
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Philadelphia City Hall, and
Independence Hall
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An 18th century map of Philadelphia.
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians by
Benjamin West
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Benjamin Franklin, 1777
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as
the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)
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According to several sources,
MTV helped give rise to
pop stars such as
Michael Jackson and
Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.
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LaFace Records
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LaFace Records was an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia that operated as a unit of Sony Music Entertainment and was historically a part of Bertelsmann Music Group from 1989 to 2004. It was most active and achieved its greatest commercial success during the 1990s and it was originally distributed by its co-creator Arista Records from 1989 through 2001, after which it was shuttered and absorbed into Arista. In 2004, the label was rebooted, and it began operating through Jive Records until both were absorbed into RCA Records in 2011, today, the labels back catalog and reissues are managed by Legacy Recordings. LaFace was formed in 1989 as a joint venture between the producing duo Antonio L. A. Reid & Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, and Arista Records, the combined nicknames of the duos successful production company inspired the name of the label. Towards the end of the decade LaFace produced fewer artists, while Babyface began to more on his own music career. The label was acquired completely by Arista and BMG in 1999, in 2001, L. A. Reid was appointed Chairman/CEO of Arista. As a result of Reids promotion, LaFace was dissolved as most of its prominent acts moved up to the main Arista label to continue to work under Reid. In 2004, after the restructuring of the BMG labels. Most of its roster had moved on to Arista returned to the company upon its reactivation. In 2011, LaFace was again shuttered, this time being absorbed into RCA Records, the following is a list of artists who have recorded for LaFace Records. L. A. Reid Babyface Daryl Simmons Kayo Dallas Austin Organized Noize List of record labels Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records
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Arista Records
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/ˈɛ. rɪ. stə/ was a major American record label. It was a wholly owned unit of Sony Music Entertainment and was handled by Bertelsmann Music Group. The company operated under the RCA Music Group until 2011, the label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records. Until its demise in 2011, it was a distributor and promoter of albums throughout the United States. Today, the labels reissues and catalogue releases are handled by RCA Records, after being fired from CBS Records, Clive Davis was hired by Columbia Pictures in June 1974 to be a consultant for the companys record and music operations. The label was named Arista after New York Citys secondary school honor society, in early 1975, most of the artists who had been signed to Bell were let go, except David Cassidy, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and the 5th Dimension. Others, such as Suzi Quatro and Hot Chocolate, were farmed out to the Bell/Arista-distributed label, several Bell acts, such as Barry Manilow, the Bay City Rollers, and Melissa Manchester moved to Arista. The British Bell label kept that name for a couple of years before changing its name to Arista, the label was immortalized in the 1978 Rockpile song They Called It Rock, in the lyric, Arista says they love you/But the kids cant dance to this. In addition to Manilow, the Kinks, and Dionne Warwick, Arista signed Aretha Franklin in 1980, the labels most significant acquisition came in 1983 when Davis signed Warwicks cousin, Whitney Houston. Houston would eventually become Aristas biggest-selling recording artist, with sales of 200 million records worldwide, Arista had an imprint label in the 1970s called Arista Novus, which focused on contemporary jazz artists. A country music division, Career Records, was merged into the Arista Nashville division in 1997, Arista Austin was used in the late 1990s as a country label. Additionally, Arista was the North American distributor of Jive Records from 1981 until 1987, during the 1990s, Arista also distributed Logic, Rowdy and Heavenly Recordings. Looking to stave off bankruptcy, Columbia Pictures sold Arista to German-based Ariola Records in 1979, after Ariola purchased General Electrics RCA Records in 1986, the combined company was renamed Bertelsmann Music Group, though Aristas U. S. releases would not note BMG until 1987. Into the 1980s, Arista continued its success, including major UK act Secret Affair, over the years it acquired Northwestside Records, deConstruction Records, First Avenue Records, and Dedicated Records in the UK. In 1989, Arista entered into a joint venture with Antonio L. A. Reid and Babyface in the creation of LaFace Records record company of TLC, in 1993, Arista also entered into a joint-venture with Sean P. Diddy Combs to form Bad Boy Records. In 1997 Arista acquired Profile Records, the home of Run-D. M. C. in 1989, Arista signed Milli Vanilli, a duo consisting of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan that was based in Germany. The label released its album, Girl You Know Its True, which was a remixed and re-edited version of All or Nothing. The album was certified platinum in the U. S. and charted five top-ten singles
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Jive Records
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Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s, jIVEs best-selling artists worldwide were the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Britney Spears. Today, the Jive brand is being used under the Sony Music France division under the name JIVE Epic France. In 1971, South African musicians Clive Calder and Ralph Simon began a publishing and it was named Zomba Records and relocated to London, England, four years later, their first client was a young Robert Mutt Lange. Zomba originally wanted to record labels, choosing instead to focus on their songwriters and producers while allowing other established labels to release the material. Later that decade, the opened offices in the US. In 1981, Zomba formed JIVE Records, whose operations began with the release of British dance and pop music such as Q-Feel, A Flock of Seagulls and its name was inspired by township JIVE, a type of music that originated in South Africa. Davis had hoped that Zombas connection with Mutt Lange would help alleviate the difficulties Arista was having finding potentially successful rock acts. By 1982, Calder was introduced to Barry Weiss, a college graduate who took Calder out to hip-hop clubs in New York City for his job interview with Zomba. He was immediately impressed, Together, they began grooming musicians for what would eventually become Whodini, after two days, the group created and recorded its hit single Magics Wand. While the group would eventually leave JIVE, the success allowed the label to focus on hip-hop artists throughout the 1980s. In 1987, JIVE cut distribution ties with Arista, effectively separating them from Daviss authority, who eschewed hip-hop. As the 1980s drew to a close, the label entered a deal with RCA Records, by the late 1990s, JIVE began signing pop acts Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Britney Spears. All three achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, becoming the three best-selling acts in the labels history, in 1991, Barry Weiss became CEO and president of JIVE Records. After two decades, he left JIVE in March 2011 for Universal Music Group, the company was later reorganized with some artists moving to a restructured Epic Records, while others stayed with JIVE as it moved under the RCA Music Group. In April 2011, it was reported that Jay-Z had outbid executives at JIVE to acquire independent record label Block Starz Music. On October 7,2011, it was announced that JIVE, along with Arista and J Records would be shut down to refresh, all artists on those labels were moved to RCA Records. JIVE Records remains active in France as JIVE Epic, serving as the label for international pop
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.
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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.
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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.
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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.
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Legacy Recordings
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Legacy Recordings is a division of Sony Music. It also handles the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector and this is not to be confused with the defunct British independent label Legacy Records. The Essential series are one-to-two disc compilations of an extensive catalog. On occasion, albums in series would have a limited edition third disc. As of 2015, several volumes in the Essential series are available on Vinyl LP. A spinoff series, Setlist, features compilations of live performances. The first several albums come in a special Eco-packet and to save paper, a PDF file is included on the disc, containing photographs, credits and this was met with criticism as the discs were easily scratched. Thus, in recent years, Playlist albums came packaged in standard, reception on the Playlist series varies between editions. See individual pages for more information, list of record labels Lawrence Cohn, previous head of Legacy Recordings This Is Jazz Official Site US Official Site UK Company Blog Podcast Site
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Primary businesses
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RIAA certification
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In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Certification is not automatic, for an award to be made, the audit is conducted against net shipments after returns, which includes albums sold directly to retailers and one-stops, direct-to-consumer sales and other outlets. Presently, an American RIAA-certified Gold record is a single or album that has sold 500,000 units, the award was launched in 1958, originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales. In 1975, the requirement of 500,000 units sold was added for Gold albums. Reflecting growth in sales, the Platinum award was added in 1976 for albums selling one million units. The Multi-Platinum award was introduced in 1984, signifying multiple Platinum levels of albums, in 1989, the sales thresholds for singles were reduced to 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum, reflecting a decrease in sales of singles. In 1992, RIAA began counting each disc in a set as one unit toward certification. Reflecting additional growth in sales, the Diamond award was instituted in 1999 for albums or singles selling ten million units. Because of these changes in criteria, the sales level associated with a particular award depends on when the award was made, Nielsen SoundScan figures are not used in RIAA certification, the RIAA system predates Nielsen SoundScan and includes sales outlets Nielsen misses. Prior to Nielsen SoundScan, RIAA certification was the only audited and this system has allowed, at times, for record labels to promote an album as Gold or Platinum simply based on large shipments. For instance, in 1978 the Sgt, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack shipped platinum but was a sales bust, with two million returns. Similarly, all four albums by the members of Kiss simultaneously shipped Platinum that same year. A similar discrepancy between shipments and sales was reported with The Lion King soundtrack, multi-disc albums are counted once for each disc within the album if it is over 100 minutes in length or is from the vinyl era. Pink Floyds The Wall and The Beatles White Album, both vinyl-era, are also counted double even though their running times are under the minimum requirement. Since 2000, the RIAA also awards Los Premios de Oro y De Platino to Latin albums which are defined by the RIAA as a type of product that features at least 51% of content in Spanish, the thresholds were 100,000 units and 200,000 units. All Spanish-language albums certified prior to 2008 were updated to match the current certification at the time, la Bomba by Bolivian group Azul Azul is the only single to receive a Latin certification based on shipments before the creation of the Latin digital singles awards in 2013. The Disco de Diamante award was introduced after the RIAA updated the thresholds for Latin certifications in December 20,2013, the Disco de Diamante is awarded to Latin albums that have been certified 10× Platinum. The thresholds were previously 1,000,000 units and 2,000,000 units, when the RIAA changed the certification standards to match retail distribution in August 2006, all Platinum and Multi-Platinum awards for a digital release were withdrawn
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A platinum award for the album
GHV2 of
Madonna.
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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There You Go
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There You Go is a song co-written and performed by American singer-songwriter Pink. It was her single from her debut album Cant Take Me Home. The song peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100. There You Go was written by Pink, Kevin Shekspere Briggs and it was also produced by Shekspere. The song is about a relationship that Pink has ended, rob Brunner compared, Briggss There You Go is remarkably similar to his hits for Destinys Child and TLC but minus the vocal interplay that gives those tunes their punch. MTV Asia wrote that song is an edgy cut that haves all that it takes to top the charts. Complex magazine named it the 11th best R&B song by a singer in 2000s. In the music video, Pinks ex-boyfriend calls her asking for a ride, Pink hops on a motorcycle and rides to the top of a parking structure overlooking her exs apartment, where she calls him on her cell. She then accelerates her motorcycle, jumps off at the last second, Pink then jumps into a car driven by a new guy, giving her ex the middle finger as they drive off. Entertainment Weekly described the video with the following, In the video for There You Go — her smash single — the piqued Pink freaks, sending a motorcycle crashing into Floyds fab bachelor pad
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"There You Go"
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Moulin Rouge!
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Is a 2001 Australian–American pseudo-pastiche jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It tells the story of a young English poet/writer, Christian and it uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. At the 74th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Nicole Kidman and it was the first musical nominated for Best Picture in 10 years, following Disneys Beauty and the Beast. In the year 1900, a British writer named Christian, suffering from depression, as Christian narrates, the film flashes back to one year earlier upon Christians move to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the areas Bohemian movement. He soon discovers that his neighbours are a troupe of performers led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The group arrives at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his Diamond Dog Dancers perform for the audience, Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, and dances with him before retiring to her private chamber with him to discuss things confidentially, but soon learns he is just a writer. The Duke interrupts them, Christian and Satine claim they were practicing lines for Spectacular Spectacular. With Zidlers help, Toulouse and the rest of the pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil maharajah attempting to woo an Indian courtesan who loves a poor sitar player. The Duke backs the show on the condition that only he may see Satine, Satine contemplates on Christian and her longing to leave the Moulin Rouge to become a real actress. Christian goes back to Satine to convince her that they should be together, as the cabaret is converted to a theater, Christian and Satine continue seeing each other under the pretense of rehearsing Satines lines. Zidler makes excuses to the Duke, claiming that Satine has gone to confession, Zidler learns that Satine does not have long to live. Satine tells Christian that their relationship endangers the show, but he counters by writing a love song to affirm their love. As the Duke watches Christian rehearsing with Satine, Nini, a performer, points out that the play is a metaphor for Christian, Satine. Enraged, the Duke demands the ending be changed with the choosing the maharajah. At the Dukes quarters, Satine sees Christian on the streets below, the Duke attempts to rape her, but she is saved by Le Chocolat, one of the cabaret dancers. Reunited with Christian, he urges her to run away with him, the Duke tells Zidler he will have Christian killed if Satine is not his. Zidler reiterates this warning to Satine, but when she refuses to return, Zidler tells Satine that to save Christians life, she has to tell him that she will be staying with the Duke and she doesnt love him. Christian tries following her, but is denied entry to the Moulin Rouge, the night of the show, Christian sneaks into the Moulin Rouge, intending to pay Satine to return his love just as the Duke paid for her
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Lady Marmalade
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Lady Marmalade is a song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. The song is famous for its sexually suggestive chorus of Voulez-vous coucher avec moi. which translates into English as Do you want to sleep with me, the song was originally recorded in 1974 by the group Eleventh Hour. It first became a hit when covered by the American girl group Labelle. Labelle held the spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week. The song has had many cover versions over the years, in 1998, girl group All Saints released a cover of the song that peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. The 2001 version by singers Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink, soundtrack was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks. Lady Marmalade was the song to reach number one by two different musical acts in America. The song was written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, and was inspired by Crewes experiences in New Orleans, a sex worker named Lady Marmalade shows up to a man named Joe, flirts with him and takes him home. Joe drinks wine and he screams French words while she is in the, the song was first recorded by The Eleventh Hour, a disco group made up of studio musicians fronted by Nolan on vocals. It was released in 1974 as a track on the Eleventh Hours Greatest Hits LP which did not chart, Crewe showed the song to Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, and Toussaint then decided to record the song with Labelle. Labelles version of Lady Marmalade was produced by Allen Toussaint and Vicki Wickham and it was released on August 3,1974 as the first single from Nightbirds, their first album after signing with Epic Records. Patti LaBelle sang lead vocals on Lady Marmalade with backing vocals being contributed by band mates Nona Hendryx, the song is best known for the French lyric Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir. in the refrain. Although Lady Marmalade is about a prostitute, Patti LaBelle, the female vocal of the band, said. Nobody, I swear this is Gods truth, nobody told me what Id just sung a song about, steve Huey from AllMusic selected the song as one of the best tracks on Labelles 1995 compilation Lady Marmalade, The Best of Patti and Labelle. Critic Robert Christgau described it as great synthetic French-quarter raunch, Lady Marmalade is billed as the song that made Labelle one of the hottest girl groups of the 1970s. Along with the track, What Can I Do for You, Lady Marmalade peaked at number seven on the disco/dance charts. The single also charted at seventeen in the United Kingdom. Billboard ranked it as the No.22 song for 1975, Labelle performed Lady Marmalade on Soul Train on December 7,1974
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"Lady Marmalade"
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"Voulez-Vous Coucher avec Moi? (Lady Marmalade)"
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Missundaztood
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Missundaztood is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink. The albums singles received positive reviews critics and fans alike. They include the global chart-topper Get the Party Started and hit singles Dont Let Me Get Me, the albums final single was Family Portrait, a vulnerable R&B anthem that Pink wrote about her parents separation. That song became a worldwide Top 20 hit, peaking at #18 on the Hot 100, the album became Pinks biggest to date and became one of the most successful albums of the 2000s with over 15 million in worldwide sales. This album is different from Cant Take Me Home as it leads toward pop and she recruited 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album. According to Pink in VH1s Driven she left a message on Perrys answering machine after finding her number in make-up artist Billy Bs phone book, saying she wanted to write with her. She stated that the reason she wanted to work with Perry was that 4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album, who also contributed guest vocals on Lonely Girl. Other guest vocals are provided by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi on Misery, other writers that worked on the album are Scott Storch and Dallas Austin. Different subjects are touched upon on Missundaztood, in Dont Let Me Get Me she tackles teenage angst and Just like a Pill she describes her drug abuse as a teenager. Pinks father was sent to serve in the Vietnam war which made such an impression on her that she used the stories of her father in the song My Vietnam, towards the end of the song is a sonic interpolation of Jimi Hendrixs Star Spangled Banner. Family Portrait tackles divorce and its effects, according to VH1s Driven, Antonio LA Reid of LaFace Records wasnt initially content with the new music Pink was making, because she had made a name for herself with her successful R&B debut. At the 2003 Grammy Awards Missundaztood was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, Get the Party Started won in the categories Best Female Video and Best Dance Video. Many of the songs on the album contain strong language, however, the album was censored in order to avoid a Parental Advisory sticker. No uncensored studio versions of 18 Wheeler exist, but Pink performs the song uncensored while on tour, the second version released was the main album reissued, but without the enhanced CD portion. A third version, which was an edition that included a bonus DVD was released for a limited time in 2002. Both the limited edition with the bonus DVD and the enhanced CD versions have gone out of print. It was released outside the US with a track, Catch 22. Also, on current pressings of the album, the track Misery is slightly different, on current pressings, Steven Tyler sings an entire verse as opposed to a providing only few lines and background vocals
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Get the Party Started
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Get the Party Started is a song by American recording artist Pink, and was the first single from her second album titled Missundaztood. It became a hit and reached the top ten in many countries. The song was Pinks biggest-selling song at that time, the track was released on October 9,2001 to positive reviews from critics and after the release of the single it was confirmed that Pink would be releasing Missundaztood. The song was composed by former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman, Linda Perry and she said that the process of making the song was so unlike me, according to her, she was going through a weird phase during which she wanted to learn how to program drums. She programmed her first beat, picked up a bass guitar and she decided to put every wrong instrument in the song, and consequently acquired a horn sample. I was doing the music, the melody was already coming to me in what I wanted the song to be, she said. She finished the song by including in the song every catch phrase you possibly could imagine, before laughing at the realization that she had written a hit single. You create something in your bedroom or your house, and its just a fun thing that youre doing, then all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and its on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it, the song reached number four on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on December 29,2001, becoming one of Pinks biggest solo hits in the U. S. It peaked at two in the UK, where it was narrowly denied the top spot by the posthumous release of George Harrisons My Sweet Lord. Get the Party Started was certified gold in Australia, Austria, Germany, France Sweden and Switzerland, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003 in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, which it lost to Norah Joness Dont Know Why. It won the award for Favorite Song at the Kids Choice Awards of 2002, in December, the song was listed as number 81 on Rolling Stones Top Songs of the 2000s. Allmusic highlighted the song and added, This record bubbles over with imagination, jim Farber was favorable, The single Get the Party Started has the tricky synth hook of a perfect new-wave hit from the 80s. NME magazine was positive, displays the kind of clod-hopping attention-seeking on single Get The Party Started that makes you assume youre listening to a Geri Halliwell record. Jason Thompson described this song and praised, the dance inducing “Get the Party Started”, again, even this isn’t really in the mold of current dance tracks. Instead, it more like the kinds of grooves that were coming out in the early Nineties. In fact, it sounds a little like Apollo Smile who had an album out back in ‘91 or so, “Get The Party Started” also echoes the good time vibe that other hits like Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is in the Heart” had that won over many fans. This track should do just the same thing, slant Magazine called this song retro-dipped dance-pop
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"Get the Party Started"
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Just Like a Pill
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Just Like a Pill is a song by American singer Pink. It was written and produced by Dallas Austin and Pink for her studio album. The lyrics of the deal with getting out of painful relationships. The song was released worldwide as the single from Missundaztood in June 2002 and was a commercial success. It also performed internationally, becoming her second number-one single in the United Kingdom and reaching the top 10 in, amongst other countries, Ireland, France. Just Like a Pill was written by Pink and Dallas Austin, Pink said in an interview that the song shows part of who I am, referring to her documented problems with drugs. The song was well received by contemporary music critics. NME called it the third best track off her killer last album. Drowned In Sounds Robert Luckett commented that it is a fascinating record. this is a record with a edge and he also wrote it obeys the pop industrys well-dusted rules for a hit. Stylus Magazines Todd Burns, in his review of the album, compared Just Like a Pill to the singles from the album, Dont Let Me Get Me and Get the Party Started. Sound much more integrated into the work and the song works far better. The song was shortlisted by Digital Spy as a nominee for the best single of 2002, finishing third in the vote to Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way and it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. In Australia, the song was a radio single, in hopes of rising album sales. Although it was a #1 radio hit, a release never eventuated. In late June 2009, the song charted at #97 on downloads, the video for Just Like a Pill was directed by Francis Lawrence for LaFace Records. The video, shot in December 2001, is different from Pinks previous videos. Commenting on the different style of video, Pink said, This ones very dark and artsy, and I have black hair and its another part that I havent concentrated on before. In the first scene, Pink lies on the floor, in the chorus she sings in front of her band
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"Just Like a Pill"
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Pink sporting black hair with purple highlights, while holding a
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Try This
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Try This is the third studio album by recording artist Pink. It was released on November 11,2003 and it featured the singles Trouble, which earned P. nk a Grammy Award, God Is a DJ and Last to Know. Try This was certified platinum by the RIAA, despite it becoming P. nks lowest selling album, most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, whom Pink met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and Pink ended up co-writing ten songs with him in a week when Transplants were on a tour with the Foo Fighters. Eight of these appeared on Try This, which also features three songs written with Linda Perry, who co-wrote much of Missundaztood, Pinks second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, Oh My God, Try This was Pinks final studio album under Arista Records. In 2006, Pink said that she was unhappy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M. ssundaztood, I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one, she said. I was going, You want a record, fine, Ill write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin record and you can press it up and put it out. She described the campaign for the album as an awful time. I was walking out of half my interviews crying, I just felt they were putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance. The album received positive reviews from critics with an average Metacritic rating of 71. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a review and called it A hooky. Try This debuted at nine on the U. S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 147,000 copies. The album also reached the top ten on charts in the UK, Canada. As of March 2007, it had sold 719,000 copies in the U. S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, Try This re-entered the Australian album chart in June 2009. S. In 2003, Catch Me While Im Sleeping was issued as a single in the U. S. in the same period. Follow-up single God Is a DJ failed to chart on the Hot 100, a third single, Last to Know, was released exclusively in Europe and peaked at 21 in the UK. Pink embarked on the Try This Tour in Europe during 2004, Trouble was used in the films White Chicks and Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous, and God Is a DJ was featured in the film Mean Girls
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Funhouse (Pink album)
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Funhouse is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink, released by LaFace Records worldwide on October 24,2008. Funhouse has sold six million copies worldwide. Singles from the album include Sober, Please Dont Leave Me, Funhouse, I Dont Believe You, Glitter in the Air, Funhouse earned Pink three Grammy Award nominations and five MTV Video Music Award nominations. Pink has stated that album is her most vulnerable to date. Much of the subject matter alludes to the fact that Moore had recently separated from her husband. The first single, So What, opens with, I guess I just lost my husband/I dont know where he went, Please Dont Leave Me also addresses the split. The artist sums up its theme thus, Okay, I’m an asshole, in Mean, she sings, It was good in the beginning/but how did we get so mean. The song that Moore is the most proud of is Crystal Ball and she said about the track, I recorded it in one take and we didn’t mix it. It just went straight to master and it was all about a vibe and not about perfection or being polished. I just love that song and I loved recording it and she wrote the song with Billy Mann, who also aided her with the songs Stupid Girls, Dear Mr. President and Im Not Dead, among others. In Its All Your Fault, Pink blames her lover for giving her hopes of a love relationship and she proclaims in the lyrics I conjure up the thought of being gone, but I’d probably even do that wrong. In Glitter in the Air, Pink asks many questions such as, Have you ever looked fear in the face, and Have you ever hated yourself for staring at the phone. Pink admits, I still don’t have some of the answers to the questions I pose on this record, I’m still figuring it all out. The track Sober, which is the second single, was written by Pink at a party hosted at her home, where everyone was drunk or drinking except for her. She went to the beach and had a line in her head saying How do I feel so good sober, eventually it had nothing to do with alcohol but with identities. How do I feel so good with just me, without anyone to lean on, ave Mary A deals with world issues and problems. One Foot Wrong talks about a trip that went wrong. That song is also about losing control and how easy it is to lose the plot in life, originally, Pink wanted to call her album Heartbreak Is a Motherfucker, but her record label declined because of a fear that offensive language would affect sales
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So What (Pink song)
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So What is a song recorded by American singer Pink for her fifth studio album, Funhouse. The song was written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback, selected as the albums debut single, So What was first released to mainstream radios on August 25,2008, through LaFace and Zomba Label Group. The song consists of a beat and synth backing. The lyrics are based on her separation from motocross racer Carey Hart, so What received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, many praised it for its aggressive and empowering nature while others deemed it childish and bratty. The song was successful commercially, topping the charts in several countries across Europe and Oceania. In the United States, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. So What also became her highest selling single in the United States, the music video for So What was directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers. It shows Pink drinking while riding a lawnmower, sawing down a tree, streaking on a red carpet appearance, the video also features a cameo appearance from Hart. Pink performed So What on MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 on November 6,2008, the song was nominated for several awards, eventually winning the MTV Europe Music Award for the Most Addictive Track. So What was written by Pink, Shellback and Max Martin, Martin also handled the production and recording, which took place at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Al Clay also recorded the song at the House of Blues Studio - a recording studio in Los Angeles, the song was mixed at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia by Serban Ghenea. John Hanes edited the song using ProTools technology with assistance provided by Tim Roberts, the song was finally mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York City, New York. The songs lyrical content was based on her separation from her husband, so What carries an energetic vibe. The song consists of a powerful charging beat, a chorus. The song is in the key of F# minor, the initial riff is closely familiar to Deep Purples Black Night. Lyrically, the chronicles the protagonists adventures following her separation from her husband. So What was released as the first single from Pinks fifth studio album Funhouse and it was first released on August 11,2008 via digital download to certain countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. LaFace and Jive Records solicited the song to hit radio on August 25,2008
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A split screenshot showing a love heart carved on a tree with Pink's legal name and the name of her then-estranged husband. The second shows Pink cutting down the tree. The carving was saved and is now a feature in the couple's house.
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Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (Pink album)
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So Far. is the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Pink. It was released on November 12,2010 by Jive Records, the album features Pinks biggest hits from all her studio albums. Its track list differs depending on region, with four new tracks, the hit singles Raise Your Glass and Fuckin Perfect peaked at number one and number two on the Hot 100 chart, respectively. In addition, Heartbreak Down achieved airplay success in some countries and this was the last material that Pink released under LaFace Records and Jive Records before both labels were folded into RCA Records. The compilations artwork was praised and its deluxe edition won the O Music Award for Best iTunes LP. In September 2010, MTV Brazil stated that Pink would be releasing a greatest hits album in the quarter of 2010. A few days later, it was reported by director Cole Walliser, who worked with Pink on her Funhouse Carnival Tour advert. On September 15, Pink was spotted at a photoshoot in LA, and according to the photographer, the album is available in both standard and deluxe editions, with a British release date set for November 15, and a US release set for the day after. On October 5, the album was announced, along with its cover artwork. Originally, Pink was against releasing a greatest hits compilation, stating that she was not inspired at all for this album, I always figured you need to be 60 or better, to have a little more past, to put one of these out. However, she changed her mind, realizing that record companies can put out compilations without your permission and concluded, I wanted it done my way, then, the less skeptical I felt about it, I started to feel a little proud. Raise Your Glass was released as the lead single in the first week of October. It was announced by Pink via her Twitter account and went to top the charts in the United States, according to Pink, the song is dedicated to those who felt they were not a part of the popular crowd. Its accompanying music video was directed by Dave Meyers, and celebrates gay marriage, animal rights and, as Pink puts it, Fuckin Perfect was released as the second single from the album. The song entered several charts before its release as a single and has so far reached number ten in Australia. In the United Kingdom, the song was released in February and it entered the UK singles chart at number 71 with the release of its host album and ultimately reached the top ten. The songs music video was filmed during a stage of Pinks pregnancy, and features actress Tina Majorino. The song peaked at number 1, Heartbreak Down was released as an airplay and promotional single only in central and eastern European countries in June 2011
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Raise Your Glass
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Raise Your Glass is a song by American singer Pink, released as the lead single of her first compilation album, Greatest Hits. The song celebrates the first decade since Pinks debut in 2000 and is dedicated to her fans who have been supporting her over the years. The song is featured in a commercial for the 2011 film Bridesmaids and in the trailers for Whats Your Number. In 2011, Raise Your Glass was ranked at thirteen on the Top 40 Year End Chart based on Mediabase. Raise Your Glass was announced as the single from Pinks then-upcoming greatest hits compilation on October 1,2010. The song follows a pop style, in much similar fashion to her previous work with producer Max Martin. Pink describes the song as a celebration for people who left out from the popular crowd. In an interview for MTV, Pink comments on the song, I dont know if its going to be huge, I had been on the road for two years and I hadnt written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs. Instead of going and becoming a cover girl, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement. and you dont have to be popular when youre a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is a thank you for the fans. The song received acclaim from music critics. After ten years of sterling service to all things pop, the champagnes on us, becky Bain from Idolator said that Pink lifts her glass to toast all the dirty little freaks in her new party track. Fraser McAlpine from BBC blog rated it 4/5 stars, saying that it has to SOUND like wild and it should probably rock, or at least claim to rock. There must be a big chorus, something which brings everyone together in a glorious celebration of Brand Pink. There should be a few silly one-liners, rampant abuse of the English language, a few extravagant claims, a strutting self-regard mixed with a giggling self-depreciation, a sneer and a smile. In the United States, Raise Your Glass recharged Pinks chart performance, becoming her tenth Top 10 hit and her third number one hit. It put Pink third on the list of artists with most Top 10 hits in the 2000s, behind Rihanna. It took the eight weeks to hit the Hot 100s apex. So What, Pinks only previous 3-million seller, reached that level in 26 weeks, as of August 2013, the single has sold 4,162,000 copies
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"Raise Your Glass"
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The Truth About Love (Pink album)
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The Truth About Love is the sixth studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on September 18,2012, by RCA Records and it features guest artists Eminem, Lily Allen, and Nate Ruess of American band Fun. The album also debuted at number-one in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, the Truth About Love was announced as Australias biggest selling album of the year. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was the seventh global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of 2.6 million copies. As of July 2014, the album has sold 2 million copies in the US, as of July 2013, Just Give Me a Reason is the second best selling song of 2013 in the US. To support the album, Pink began her Truth About Love Tour in February 2013, the tour continued through 2013 and included American, Australian and European legs and ended on January 31,2014. On October 7,2011, RCA Music Group announced that it would be disbanding Jive Records, along with Arista, with the shutdown, Pink and all other artists previously signed to the labels would release any future material through RCA Records. In 2011, Joe Riccitelli, an executive with the label, announced that Pink was preparing to enter the studio to work on her sixth studio album. On February 29,2012, Pink took to her Twitter account, on June 19,2012, Pink announced via video on Twitter that the first single from her upcoming album would be called Blow Me and that it would be released on July 9,2012. She added, I think youre going to like it, because I really like it, however, the demo version of the song leaked on July 1,2012, a week before its scheduled release. The next day, it was released via Pinks official page, on July 4,2012, Pink announced that her sixth studio album would be titled The Truth About Love. On September 6,2012, Pink performed Blow Me for the first time with Get the Party Started at the 2012 MTV Music Video Awards, on September 10,2012, Pink performed Blow Me and Who Knew on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Pink also released videos for all the albums tracks all on her official VEVO account. On September 14,2012, Pink appeared on Alan Carrs show Chatty Man, performing her first single Blow Me, on November 18,2012, Pink performed Try at the American Music Awards of 2012. Blow Me was released as the single from the album in July 2012. The song first appeared on the Australian Singles Chart on the week ending 16 July 2012, the song debuted at #8 on the New Zealand Top 40 chart. It also debuted at #13 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, in Ireland, the song debuted at #23 on the Irish Singles Chart. In the United States, the song charted at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week ending 21 July 2012, the following week, it rose to #9 and eventually peaked at #5
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
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Blow Me is a song by American recording artist and songwriter Pink, released as the lead single from her sixth studio album, The Truth About Love. The song was scheduled for a July 9 premiere but was delivered a week earlier, after a version was leaked online. Produced by Greg Kurstin, the song was acclaimed and named as classic Pink. With Blow Me, at the time Pink ranked third among women with the most top tens since 2000, behind Rihanna and Beyoncé, with twelve top ten hits in the United States. The song scored a massive jump on the Hot 100 during its second week, the music video for Blow Me features a black and white picture and was directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers who directed almost half of her careers 33 videos. It premiered on July 26,2012 on MTV and VEVO, in March 2013, Blow Me competed in Billboard Magazines online March Madness poll. The song came in third behind will. i. am and Britney Spears Scream & Shout and its success also led to its appearance as the opening song of the 44th release of the American series of Now Thats What I Call Music. On October 7,2011, RCA Music Group announced that it would be disbanding Jive Records, along with Arista, with the shutdown, Pink and all other artists previously signed to the labels, would release any future material through RCA Records. In 2011, Joe Riccitelli, an executive with the label, announced that Pink was preparing to enter the studio to work on her sixth studio album. On February 29,2012, Pink took to her Twitter account, on June 19,2012, Pink announced via a video on Twitter that the first single from her upcoming album will be called Blow Me and that it would be released on July 9,2012. She added, I think youre going to like it, because I really like it, however, the demo version of the song leaked on July 1,2012, a week before its scheduled release. The next day, it was released via Pinks official page, on July 4,2012, Pink announced that her sixth studio album will be titled The Truth About Love. One particular track, a breakup anthem in the vein of So What, seemed like it might be written. She kept coming back to Lets throw in the towel, and it was one of things where we had to say. So then I came back with Blow me … one last kiss, most of the time with Pink shes so strong writing lyrics I dont really interfere. That couldve been the only time I did that, Blow Me is an uptempo electropop and dance-pop song with influences of dance music and a duration of four minutes and 16 seconds, produced by Greg Kurstin. The song begins with electronic arrangements before evolving into pop rock. Jessica Sager commented that from the harmonies to the drums to Raise Your Glass-esque shout-along chorus to the liquor references
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"Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"
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Try (Pink song)
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Try is a song recorded by American singer Pink, which she released as the second single from her sixth album, The Truth About Love. Written and composed by Busbee and Ben West, and produced by Greg Kurstin, it is a pop ballad about taking risks with love. Try received positive reviews music critics who noted that it is one of the standout tracks on the album. The Floria Sigismondi-directed video features shots of a paint-covered Pink and her male counterpart expressing their frustrations through contemporary dance, Pink confirmed she was writing lyrics and composing music for her then untitled sixth album, which she titled The Truth About Love eventually released, in September 2012. An early version of the lead single, a song called Blow Me, was leaked online on July 1,2012. Rachel Raczka from The Boston Globe noted that Try, the single from The Truth About Love. The song was sung by GoNorthToGoSouth, a band fronted by Ben West. Originally they thought about giving the song to Kelly Clarkson then Daughtry, the song was then eventually pitched to Pink. Pinks version of the song premiered on radio on September 6,2012, Try was amongst one of five lyrics videos that Pink uploaded on September 12, along with album tracks Slut Like You, Just Give Me a Reason featuring Nate Ruess from fun. How Come Youre Not Here, and Are We All We Are, Try was written and composed by Ben West and Busbee, while production was handled by Greg Kurstin, who also produced her previous single, Blow Me. It is a pop ballad, modelled on 1980s FM Rock, built around two-volume arrangement, whereby the verses are quiet. Lyrically, it is an ode to taking risks with love and it also talks about hanging onto ones dreams and aspirations even if it means taking risks. Where there is there is gonna be a flame, sings Pink on the chorus. Where there is a flame someones bound to get burned, but just because it burns doesnt mean youre gonna die. You gotta get up and try, the song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production. Andrew Hampp of Billboard commented With a melody reminiscent of ‘Whataya Want from Me, ’ the 2009 hit she penned for Adam Lambert, josh Langhoff of PopMatters called it an ode to romantic persistence over crisp ‘Hysteria’ guitars. John Murphy of musicOMH wrote that ‘Try’ demonstrates that she has a voice that not enough people give her credit for. For want of a phrase, its a full-on power ballad, with yet more references to love going wrong
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"Try"
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Just Give Me a Reason
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Just Give Me a Reason is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Pink, featuring fun. s lead singer Nate Ruess. The song was chosen as the single from Pinks sixth studio album. Jeff Bhasker assisted the artists in writing the song and is also the producer, Just Give Me a Reason is a pop ballad about the desire to hold on to a relationship even when it appears to be breaking down. It starts off with a melody played on the piano, as Pink starts to sing the first verse and chorus. Ruess then sings the verse, and the rest of the song is sung as a duet. The song ends with a solo, similar to the intro. It has a duration of four minutes and two seconds, the song received critical acclaim, with many critics deeming the song as the best track within the album. Prior to its release, the song charted in many due to strong digital sales. In the US, it became Pinks fourth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and it also became her third number-one on the Billboard Digital Songs chart after So What and Raise Your Glass. Just Give Me a Reason has sold more than 4 million digital downloads in the United States, Just Give Me a Reason has won the Billboard Mid-Year Award for Favorite Hot 100 No. The music video for Just Give Me a Reason featured Nate Ruess as well as Pinks husband, motocross racer Carey Hart, the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration in 2013. Just Give Me a Reason features Nate Ruess from the American band Fun and she asked Ruess to do it with her and got him to do the song as a duet. Pink said I was like, no, this is a story, this is a conversation this song - it needs the other perspective whether its a guy and a girl, or two girls or two guys. I think now hes very happy that he did it, I think its a beautiful song and Im really, really proud of it. Nate Ruess told MTV News, Writing the song was a different learning experience and was really fueled by the fact that Alecia is so strong and independent. At the end of the day its so hard to argue against her because what she does is always so great, the song is about the desire to hold on to a relationship even when it appears to be breaking down. Just Give Me a Reason is a pop ballad written by artists and produced by Jeff Bhasker, who was also the lead producer for Some Nights. Just Give Me a Reason starts off with a melody played on the piano, as Pink starts to sing the first verse and chorus
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American singer-songwriter
Nate Ruess co-wrote and provided vocals on "Just Give Me a Reason".
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"Just Give Me a Reason"
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Rose Ave. (album)
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Rose ave. is the debut studio album by folk music duo You+Me, consisting of Dallas Green and Alecia Moore. The album was released on October 14,2014 through RCA, all songs were written and produced by Pink and Green except No Ordinary Love, a song by English band Sade. The album debuted at number-one on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number-four on the Billboard 200, Pink and Green had considered collaborating for several years. In March 2014, their schedules allowed them to get together, the intent was to sit down and explore the possibilities, not to produce an album. They had written bits and pieces in advance, Pink booked a studio as a precaution, and the two artists spent a full week in the studio writing and recording. The record label was unaware of the efforts, the album was almost entirely recorded within the week. The artists said the lack of the usual production pressures made it a rewarding experience, according to Green this album is very personal for us. Pink said The fact that there were no expectations – I think thats what made it so freeing I just felt like I was doing it because I loved it, once the recordings were done, the artists handed the project over to the record label. The album was named after the studios location. The album was released on October 14,2014, three of the songs premiered on the duos Vevo channel prior to the albums release. The first single You and Me premiered on September 8,2014, Pink wrote Break the Cycle as a letter to her mother. The duo described their collaboration and songwriting process in two videos posted on their Vevo channel, the duos first performance was on October 9,2014, in Santa Monica, California. On October 11,2014, Pink and Green were interviewed on National Public Radio, on October 13,2014, the duo performed You and Me on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Pink took part in an interview. On October 15, videos of the duos first live performance were released on the You+Me official Vevo channel, on October 16, the duo performed You and Me on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. On October 23, the duo performed at the Los Angeles House of Blues, in Canada, the album debuted at number-one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 23,000 copies. In the United States, the album debuted at number-four on the Billboard 200, the album debuted in the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the United Kingdom. All tracks written by Dallas Green and Alecia Moore, except as noted, volaitis – engineer, mixing Tom Coyne – mastering Elliot Lee Hazel – photography Jeri Heiden – art direction, design Nick Steinhardt – art direction, design
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Rose Ave.
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Dallas Green (musician)
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Dallas Michael John Albert Green is a Canadian singer-songwriter who records under the alias City and Colour. He plays melodic acoustic and folk music and is accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians. He is also known for his contributions as the vocalist, guitarist, in 2005, he debuted his first full-length album, Sometimes, which achieved Platinum certification in 2006. City and Colour began performing in small intimate venues while Alexisonfire disappeared for some time, the name City and Colour comes from his own name, Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy putting the album out under the name Dallas Green, Green was born on September 29,1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Green was named after Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green, Green started playing piano at the age of 8 and writing music since he was around the age of 14. Regarding the songs released on his first album, Sometimes, Green said that he had been writing material for it as early as when he was 16 years old, before joining Alexisonfire, Green was in a band called Helicon Blue, producing several songs before breaking up. The three piece band also featured Marcel Lanteigne on bass and vocal, and Nicholas Osczypko on drums, Dallas began playing with Alexisonfire in late 2001. They released four albums and several EPs before disbanding in 2011 due to Dallas decision to focus on his work in City, Dallas came up with the name of the band from an episode on Discovery Channel. This specific episode was about contortionism, in this show there was a segment on a stripper who added contortionism into her show, as well as lactating and breathing fire. The womans stage name was Alexis Fire, and the segment was called Alexisonfire and he thought that this would be a cool name for a band, and that is where it all started. In 2003, Dallas appeared on Jude the Obscures album The Coldest Winter and he contributed vocals to Neverending White Lights collaborative album Act 1, Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies, released in 2005, on the song The Grace. Green provided additional vocals on the track INRihab with Every Time I Die as well as on the track Black Albino Bones with Fucked Up on their second full-length album, Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the Internet for fans to download. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of songs to make his first album. The full-length debut was released on November 1,2005 to a good reception, the cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style, Green still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time. Green indicated that his view that the best music for is sad music and he also said that he love music to sort of escape to and the idea of sad music that people could identify with. Green said of the album that, a lot of songs are written on some of the experiences Ive been through and stuff. I just write songs when I’m bummed out and I feel happier, Sometimes was re-released on Vagrant Records on January 13,2009, which was the first time the album was available in physical form in the United States
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Green performing live in Ottawa, 2011
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Green and Casey Baker performing in July 2006
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Folk music
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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century, but is applied to music older than that. Some types of music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways, as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers and it has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Starting in the century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times and this type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two, a consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions and they are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes. Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music, however, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music is. Some do not even agree that the term Folk Music should be used, Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers, the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character. Such definitions depend upon processes rather than abstract musical types, one widely used definition is simply Folk music is what the people sing. For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, Folk music was already. seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear, particularly in a community uninfluenced by art music and by commercial and printed song. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a schema comprising four types, primitive or tribal, elite or art, folk. Music in this genre is often called traditional music. Although the term is only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre
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Béla Bartók recording Slovak peasant singers in 1908
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Indians always distinguished between classical and folk music, though in the past even classical Indian music used to rely on the unwritten transmission of repertoire.
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Armenian traditional musicians
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Assyrians playing
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Davul, the typically used instruments for their folk music.
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Grammy Awards
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Awards
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Brit Awards
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The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards. The name was originally a form of British, Britain or Britannia. In addition, an equivalent awards ceremony for music, called the Classic Brit Awards, is held each May. Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards,13 as a solo artist, the awards originated as an annual event in 1982 under the auspices of the British record industrys trade association, the BPI. In 1989 they were renamed the Brit Awards, masterCard has been the long-term sponsor of the event. The Brit Awards were broadcast live until 1989, when Samantha Fox, in subsequent years, the event was recorded and broadcast the following night. From 2007, the Brit Awards reverted to a live broadcast on British television, on 14 February on ITV. In that year, comedian Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were dropped from the ceremony, Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act, on 18 February 2009, the venue for the BRITs was once again the Earls Court, London. The Brit Awards were held at The O2 in London for the first time in 2011, the Brit Award statuette given to the winners features Britannia, the female personification of Britain. The first awards ceremony was in 1977, as The BRITish Record Industry BRITannia Awards, there have been 36 editions to date. The 2016 Brit Awards was held on 24 February 2016, the 1988 BPI Awards was the first of the ceremonies to be broadcast on live television. The BBC had previously broadcast the ceremony from 1985, with the shows from 1982 to 1984 not broadcast on television, the BBC continued to broadcast the renamed BRIT Awards, live in 1989 and pre-recorded from 1990 to 1992. ITV have broadcast the awards since 1993, pre-recorded until 2006, BBC Radio 1 has provided backstage radio coverage since 2008. In 1987 the BPI Awards ceremony was held in the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at the time there was a BBC electricians strike in effect, and the organisers decided to use a non-TV events production company, called Upfront, to manage the show. Despite the show being picketed, the event was transmitted as intended, for a while the outdoor broadcast scanner was rocked on its wheels by the protesters and they managed to shut off the power to one of the big GE video screen projectors. In 1989, the ceremony was broadcast live and presented by Fleetwood Macs Mick Fleetwood, the inexperience of the hosts, an ineffective autocue and little preparation combined to create an unprofessional show that was poorly received. The 1990 awards ceremony saw the last public appearance of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Queen appeared at the ceremony to receive the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Mercury did not make a speech, as Brian May did the talking on behalf of the other members, in 1992, dance/art band The KLF were awarded Best British Group and were booked to open the show
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The entrance to
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MTV Video Music Award
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award, the statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards, since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTVs website. The first VMA ceremony was held in 1984 at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, the ceremonies are normally held in either New York City or Los Angeles. However, the ceremonies have also hosted in Miami and Las Vegas. 1984, At the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna performed her hit Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, during the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and a garter. Cyndi Lauper spoke in Exorcist-esque gibberish to explain the VMA rules right before winning the Best Female video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, David Bowie and The Beatles were rewarded with the first ever Video Vanguard Awards for their work in pioneering the music video. 1988, At the 1988 Video Music Awards Michael Jackson appeared for the first time, a pre-recorded live performance of Bad was shown. He was also awarded the Video Vanguard Award, paula Abdul was nominated for six awards, picking up four wins. She performed a medley of her singles Straight Up, Cold Hearted. When Madonna won the Viewers Choice Award for her Like a Prayer video, the tone that the commercial sought to convey sharply contrasted with the music video. When Pepsi executives saw the video, they yanked the advertisement after only two airings, in an attempt to dissociate themselves from Madonna. She also gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit Express Yourself, the performance consisted of both a dramatic 18th-century reinterpretation of Vogue as well as her dramatically becorseted breasts. His video Thriller influenced and changed music videos into what it is like today, a conflict between Poisons Bret Michaels and C. C. DeVille culminated in a fistfight at the Video Music Awards in 1991, deVille was fired and replaced by Pennsylvanian guitarist Richie Kotzen. Paul Reubens had his first public appearance following an arrest for lewd-conduct earlier that year, taking the stage in costume as Pee-wee Herman, he received a standing ovation, after which he asked the audience, Heard any good jokes lately. Prince & The New Power Generation performed their sexually charged song Gett Off on a Caligula-esque set and his trousers were parodied numerous times throughout the following year, on In Living Color & even on the next years VMAs by Howard Stern. It also marked the last TV appearance of Kiss with Eric Carr,1992, In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs Rape Me and tourettes
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The 1983-1984 Video of the Year "Moonman" award.
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Radio City Music Hall, site of 11 VMAs, including the
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Madonna has won 20 VMAs, the most for any artist.
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West taking the microphone from Swift at the
2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Mainstream Top 40
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Mainstream Top 40 is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, arbitron refers to the format as contemporary hit radio. The chart debuted in Billboard Magazine in its issued date October 3,1992, both Top 40 charts measured actual monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems. Both charts were born of then-new BDS electronic monitoring technology as a more objective and this data was also used as the airplay component for Hot 100 tabulations. They returned to the print edition in the August 2,2003, songs on the chart are ranked by the total number of spins detected per week. Songs which gain plays or remain flat from the week will receive a bullet. A song will also receive a bullet if its loss in plays does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. If two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the increase in plays is placed first. Since the introduction of the chart until 2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 26 weeks on the chart, in the chart week of December 3,2005, songs below No.20 were moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart. Since the issue dated December 4,2010, songs older than 20 weeks on the chart are moved to recurrent after they drop below No.15 and this chart was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart. 12, Mariah Carey - Dreamlover, Taylor Swift - Shake It Off No,13, Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood No. 14, Lady Gaga - Born This Way, Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z - Suit & Tie No,16, Madonna - Frozen, Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me No. I. The panel is regularly updated, with stations being added or removed sometimes even weekly, as of 2011, Britney Spears holds the record for the longest span between No. 1s at 12 years, seven months and four days between her first No.1 and her latest, katy Perrys Teenage Dream is the first and only album to have 6 singles top the chart. JoJo at age 13, became the youngest solo artist to have a single on the chart with Leave. Three acts have replaced themselves at No,1, Mariah Carey, OutKast and Iggy Azalea - with Azalea being the only one to do so with her first two chart entries. com BDS Top 40/CHR chart
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Mariah Carey shares the record with Taylor Swift for the highest debut with "Dreamlover" at #12
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Taylor Swift shares the record with Mariah Carey for the highest debut with "Shake It Off" at #12
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Rihanna shares the record with
Katy Perry for the most number-one singles (with 11) and holds the record for the most top ten singles (with 24), and the most overall appearances on the chart since her debut (38).
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Katy Perry also shares the record with
Rihanna for the most number-one singles (with 11). Katy holds the record for most cumulative weeks at number one for Pop Songs.
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VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV. As of February 2015, approximately 92.6 million US households receive VH1, also frequently featured in the networks early years were videos for Motown and other 60s oldies consisting of newsreel and concert footage. It was introduced on January 1,1985 with the performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. From the start, Video Hits One was branded as a version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a rotation of urban-contemporary performers. Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus, Frankie Crocker, Scott Shannon, Jon Bauman, Bobby Rivers, later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM, a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, and Alison Steele. Rosie ODonnell later joined the outlets veejay lineup, ODonnell would also host a comedy show featuring various comedians each episode. The format left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a godsend for emcees such as Imus, in true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon Sade Adu a grape for her oval-shaped head. At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but eventually musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became the permanent host, new-Age music videos continued to play on the channel into the 1990s. They would be seen on the Sunday morning 2-hour music video block titled Sunday Brunch, once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop. For a time, even music videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons. They started out using MTVs famous Kabel typeface font for their music video credit tags and it was later replaced in 1991 by a larger font, with the year the video was made added to the lower column that identified the label on which the album was released. In 1993, the name of the director was included at the bottom of the credits. Every week, the Top 21 Video Countdown usually had a different guest host, occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting scary videos for Halloween in 1991. Long blocks of videos by a particular artist or band, theme. One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in blocks of 1980s videos from one particular year would play for an hour. There was also a short-lived hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could call a 1–900 hotline number to request their videos, also in 1991, a popular morning program was introduced called Hits News & Weather that ran from 7 AM to 9 AM ET
VH1
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Vietnam War
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It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war. As the war continued, the actions of the Viet Cong decreased as the role. U. S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, in the course of the war, the U. S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam and they viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. The U. S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and this was part the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina, U. S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. Regular U. S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965, despite the Paris Peace Accord, which was signed by all parties in January 1973, the fighting continued. In the U. S. and the Western world, a large anti-Vietnam War movement developed as part of a larger counterculture, the war changed the dynamics between the Eastern and Western Blocs, and altered North–South relations. Direct U. S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973, the capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 to 3.8 million. Some 240, 000–300,000 Cambodians,20, 000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U. S. service members died in the conflict. Various names have applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English and it has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina, this conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others. In Vietnamese, the war is known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ. It is also called Chiến tranh Việt Nam, France began its conquest of Indochina in the late 1850s, and completed pacification by 1893. The 1884 Treaty of Huế formed the basis for French colonial rule in Vietnam for the seven decades
Vietnam War
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Clockwise, from top left: U.S. combat operations in
Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defending
Saigon during the 1968
Tet Offensive, two
Douglas A-4C Skyhawks en route for airstrikes against North Vietnam after the
Gulf of Tonkin incident, ARVN recapture
Quảng Trị during the 1972
Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the
1972 Battle of Quảng Trị, burial of 300 victims of the 1968
Huế Massacre.
Vietnam War
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A Japanese naval officer surrenders his sword to a British Lieutenant in Saigon on 13 September 1945.
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The
Geneva Conference, 1954
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U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles greet President
Ngô Đình Diệm of
South Vietnam in Washington, 8 May 1957.
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Catholic
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The use of terms catholicism and catholicity is closely related to the use of term Catholic Church. The earliest evidence of the use of term is the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote in about 108 to Christians in Smyrna. In 380, Emperor Theodosius I limited use of the term Catholic Christian exclusively to those who followed the faith as Pope Damasus I of Rome. Numerous other early writers including Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine of Hippo further developed the use of the term catholic in relation to Christianity. In Christian theology, and specially in ecclesiology, terms Catholicism, when used with small c, terms catholicism and catholicity generally designate theological doctrine of the catholicity of the Church without denominational connotations. A common belief in Catholicism is institutional continuity with the early Christian church founded by Jesus Christ, many churches or communions of churches identify singularly or collectively as the authentic church. The Bishop of Rome was also considered to have the right to convene ecumenical councils, when the Imperial capital moved to Constantinople, Romes influence was sometimes challenged. The first great rupture in the Church followed this Council and they are often called Ancient Oriental Churches. The next major break was after the Council of Chalcedon and this Council repudiated Eutychian Monophysitism which stated that the divine nature completely subsumed the human nature in Christ. This Council declared that Christ, though one person, exhibited two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation and thus is both fully God and fully human, the next great rift within Christianity was in the 11th century. This division between the Western Church and the Eastern Church is called the East–West Schism, several eastern churches reunited, constituting some of the Eastern Catholic Churches. Liturgical and canonical practices vary between all these particular Churches constituting the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, in all these cases the beliefs and practices of Catholicism would be identical with the beliefs and practices of the Church in question. However, in Roman Catholicism, the term catholic is understood as to cover those who recognize and are in standing with the Magisterium. The sense given to the word by those who use it to distinguish their position from a Calvinistic or Puritan form of Protestantism. It is then meaningful to attempt to draw up a list of common characteristic beliefs, the Roman Catholic Church includes the 23 rites who recognize the Magisterium. Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the belief that Christ is made manifest in the elements of Holy Communion, possession of the threefold ordained ministry of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Belief that the Church is the vessel and deposit of the fullness of the teachings of Jesus and this teaching is preserved in both written scripture and in unwritten tradition, neither being independent of the other. A belief in the necessity and efficacy of sacraments, liturgical and personal use of the Sign of the Cross The use of sacred images, candles, vestments and music, and often incense and water, in worship
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Ruins of gothic Catholic church in
Liptovská Mara (
Slovakia).
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Ancient statue of
Saint Peter in the Basilica dedicated to him in the
Vatican.
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An
Italian priest during the sacrament of
Baptism
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Irish American
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Irish Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33.3 million Americans—10. 5% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau and this compares with a population of 6.4 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people identified as Scots-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. An estimated 250,000 migrated to the United States during the colonial era, only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics—English, Irish or a few Germans. Catholics numbered 40,000 or 1. 6% of the population of 2.5 million in 1775. The Scots-Irish settled mainly in the back country of the Appalachian Mountain region. Irish Americans signed the documents of the United States—the Declaration of Independence. The early Ulster immigrants and their descendants at first usually referred to simply as Irish. However, most descendants of the Scots-Irish continued to consider themselves Irish or American rather than Scots-Irish, however, beginning in the early 19th century, many Irish migrated individually to the interior for work on large-scale infrastructure projects such as canals and, later in the century, railroads. During the colonial period, Scots-Irish settled in the southern Appalachian backcountry, by the 19th century, through intermarriage with settlers of English and German ancestry, the descendants of the Scots-Irish lost their identification with Ireland. This generation of pioneers. was a generation of Americans, not of Englishmen or Germans or Scots-Irish, in 1820 Irish-born John England became the first Catholic bishop in the mainly Protestant city of Charleston, South Carolina. During the 1820s and 30s, Bishop England defended the Catholic minority against Protestant prejudices, in 1831 and 1835, he established free schools for free African American children. Inflamed by the propaganda of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a mob raided the Charleston post office in 1835, England led Charlestons Irish Volunteers to defend the school. Soon after this, however, all schools for blacks were closed in Charleston. The Irish Catholics concentrated in a few medium-sized cities, where they were visible, especially in Charleston, Savannah. After secession in 1861, the Irish Catholic community supported the Confederacy and 20,000 served in the Confederate Army, civilian leaders of the Irish and the South did embrace the Confederate national project and most became advocates of a hard-war policy. Although most began as unskilled laborers, Irish Catholics in the South achieved average or above average economic status by 1900, the large Erie Canal project was one such example where Irishmen were many of the laborers. Small but tight communities developed in growing such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York
Irish American
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Charles Carroll, signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence, was the descendant of Irish nobility in
County Tipperary. Signers
Matthew Thornton,
George Taylor and
James Smith were all born in Ireland.
Irish American
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"Leacht Cuimhneacháin na nGael",
Irish famine memorial located in
Penn's Landing,
Philadelphia
Irish American
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Gravestone in
Boston Catholic cemetery erected in memory of
County Roscommon native born shortly before the
Great Famine
Irish American
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The Orange riot of 1871 as depicted in
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The view is at
25th Street in
Manhattan looking south down
Eighth Avenue.
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German American
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The German American ethnic group consists of Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 46 million in 2014, German Americans are the largest of the groups reported by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. The group accounts for about 1⁄3 of the total ethnic German population in the world, none of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York, immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States — more than doubling the population of the country. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million immigrants, there is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry and they were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, the arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged, German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America. The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Americanized and hardly can be distinguished, traditional Oktoberfest celebrations and the German-American Day are popular festivities. There are major events in cities with German heritage including Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Antonio. The Germans included many quite distinct subgroups with differing religious and cultural values and they generally opposed womens suffrage but this was used as argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I. The first English settlers arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and he was followed in 1608 by five glassmakers and three carpenters or house builders. The first permanent German settlement in what became the United States was Germantown, Pennsylvania, large numbers of Germans migrated from the 1680s to 1760s, with Pennsylvania the favored destination. They migrated to America for a variety of reasons, often immigrants paid for their passage by selling their labor for a period of years as indentured servants. Large sections of Pennsylvania and upstate New York attracted Germans, most were Lutheran or German Reformed, many belonged to small religious sects such as the Moravians and Mennonites. German Catholics did not arrive in number until after the War of 1812, in 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of hardship, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America, the trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus
German American
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Dr. Seuss
German American
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John Jacob Astor, in an oil painting by
Gilbert Stuart, 1794, was the first of the
Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate.
German American
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A chart of the top ancestries in the US, as provided by the 2000 census.
German American
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Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior
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American Jews
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American Jews, also known as Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, either by religion, ethnicity, or nationality. The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews and their US-born descendants, Minority Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and a smaller percentage of converts to Judaism. The American Jewish community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, depending on religious definitions and varying population data, the United States is home to the largest or second largest Jewish community in the world. In 2012, the American Jewish population was estimated at between 5.5 and 8 million, depending on the definition of the term and this constitutes between 1. 7% and 2. 6% of the total U. S. population. Jews have been present in what is today the United States of America since the mid-17th century, however, they were small in number, with at most 200 to 300 having arrived by 1700. The majority were Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, until after 1720 when Ashkenazi Jews from Central, after passage of the Plantation Act of 1740, Jews were specifically permitted to become British citizens and immigrate to the colonies. Until about 1830, Charleston, South Carolina had more Jews than anywhere else in North America and they primarily became merchants and shop-owners. Jewish migration to the United States increased dramatically in the early 1880s, as a result of persecution, many Jews also emigrated from Romania. Over 2,000,000 Jews landed between the late 19th century and 1924, when the Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration, most settled in the New York metropolitan area, establishing the worlds major concentrations of Jewish population. In 1915 the circulation of the daily Yiddish newspapers was half a million in New York City alone, in addition thousands more subscribed to the numerous weekly papers and the many magazines. American Jewish writers of the time urged assimilation and integration into the wider American culture,500,000 American Jews fought in World War II, and after the war younger families joined the new trend of suburbanization. There, Jews became increasingly assimilated and demonstrated rising intermarriage, more recent waves of Jewish emigration from Russia and other regions have largely joined the mainstream American Jewish community. Americans of Jewish descent have been successful in many fields. Scholars debate whether the historical experience for Jews in the United States has been such a unique experience as to validate American exceptionalism. Korelitz shows how American Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries abandoned a racial definition of Jewishness in favor of one that embraced ethnicity. The key to understanding this transition from a racial self-definition to a cultural or ethnic one can be found in the ‘’Menorah Journal’’ between 1915 and 1925, siporin uses the family folklore of ethnic Jews to their collective history and its transformation into an historical art form. They tell us how Jews have survived being uprooted and transformed, many immigrant narratives bear a theme of the arbitrary nature of fate and the reduced state of immigrants in a new culture. By contrast, ethnic family narratives tend to show the more in charge of his life
American Jews
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David René de Rothschild
American Jews
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Betty Friedan
American Jews
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Rashida Jones
American Jews
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Joe Lieberman, he was the first Jewish Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate.
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Lithuanian Jews
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Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The term is used to cover all Orthodox Jews who follow a Lithuanian style of life and learning. The area where Lithuanian Jews lived is referred to in Yiddish as Líta, Lithuania was historically home to a large and influential Jewish community that was almost entirely eliminated during the Holocaust. Before World War II, the Lithuanian Jewish population was some 160,000, Vilnius had a Jewish community of nearly 100,000, about 45% of the citys total population. There were over 110 synagogues and 10 yeshivas in Vilnius alone, about 2,000 Jews were counted in Lithuania during the 2005 census. Quoting the research done by H. G, using different sources Holocaust researchers claim there were between 60,000 and 65,000 Jewish soldiers in Polands independent army who identified themselves as Lithuanian Jews. The Yiddish adjective ליטוויש Litvish means Lithuanian, the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak. Of the main Yiddish dialects in Europe, the Litvishe Yiddish dialect was spoken by Jews in Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia and northeaster Poland, including Suwałki, Lomza, in modern Israel Litaim is often used for all Haredi Jews who are not Hasidim. Other expressions used for this purpose are Yeshivishe and Misnagdim, both the words Litvishe and Litaim are somewhat misleading, because there are also Hasidic Jews from greater Lithuania and lots of Lithuanian Jews who are not Haredim. The term Misnagdim on the hand is somewhat outdated, because the opposition between the two groups has lost much of its relevance. Yeshivishe is also problematic because Hasidim now make use of yeshivot as much as the Litvishe Jews, the characteristically Lithuanian approach to Judaism was marked by a concentration on highly intellectual Talmud study. Lithuania became the heartland of the traditionalist opposition to Hasidism, differences between the groups grew to the extent that in popular perception Lithuanian and misnagged became virtually interchangeable terms. However, a minority of Lithuanian Jews belong to Hasidic groups, including Chabad, Slonim, Karlin. The most famous Lithuanian institution of Jewish learning was Volozhin yeshiva, twentieth century Lithuanian yeshivas include Ponevezh, Telshe, Mir, Kelm, and Slabodka, which bear the names of their Lithuanian forebears. In theoretical Talmud study, the leading Lithuanian authorities were Chaim Soloveitchik, in the 19th century, the Orthodox Ashkenazi residents of the Holy Land, broadly speaking, were divided into Hasidim and Perushim, who were Lithuanian Jews influenced by the Vilna Gaon. In reality, both the ethnic makeup and the traditions of the misnagged communities are much more diverse. Customs of Lithuanian non Hasidic Jews consist of, Wearing of tefillin during non sabbath days of the days of the festival chol hamoed. The pronunciation of the holam as ej, although not widespread and uniform among Lithuanian Jews, the shin being pronounced the same way as sin
Lithuanian Jews
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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania before 1430
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German Jews
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Jewish settlers founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community in the Early and High Middle Ages. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades, accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death led to mass slaughter of German Jews, and they fled in large numbers to Poland. The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer, and this was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews resulting in increased trade and prosperity. The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany, Entire communities, like those of Trier, Worms, Mainz, and Cologne, were murdered. The war upon the Hussite heretics became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews, the end of the 15th century was a period of religious hatred that ascribed to Jews all possible evils. The atrocities during the Khmelnytsky Uprising committed by Khmelnytskyis Cossacks drove the Polish Jews back into western Germany, with Napoleons fall in 1815, growing nationalism resulted in increasing repression. From August to October 1819, pogroms that came to be known as the Hep-Hep riots took place throughout Germany, during this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate, from the time of Moses Mendelssohn until the 20th century, the community gradually achieved emancipation, and then prospered. In January 1933, some 522,000 Jews lived in Germany, however, following the growth of Nazism and its antisemitic ideology and policies, the Jewish community was severely persecuted. Over half emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship, in 1933, persecution of the Jews became an active Nazi policy. In 1935 and 1936, the pace of persecution of the Jews increased, in 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them from exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education, and industry. The SS ordered the Night of Broken Glass to be carried out the night of November 9–10,1938, the storefronts of Jewish shops and offices were smashed and vandalized, and many synagogues were destroyed by fire. Increasing antisemitism prompted a wave of a Jewish mass emigration from Germany throughout the 1930s, only roughly 214,000 Jews were left in Germany proper on the eve of World War II. Beginning in late 1941, the community was subjected to systematic deportations to ghettos. In May 1943, Germany was declared judenrein, by the end of the war, an estimated 160,000 to 180,000 German Jews had been killed under the Nazi regime, by the Germans and their collaborators. A total of about 6 million European Jews were murdered under the direction of the Nazis, after the war, the Jewish community in Germany started to slowly grow again. Currently in Germany, denial of the Holocaust or that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust is a criminal act, violations can be punished with up to five years of prison. In 2007, the Interior Minister of Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, pointed out the policy of Germany, We will not tolerate any form of extremism, xenophobia
German Jews
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Felix Mendelssohn
German Jews
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Max Liebermann
German Jews
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Emile Berliner
German Jews
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Jews of Germany, 13th century
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Central Bucks High School West
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Central Bucks High School West is the oldest of the three high schools in the Central Bucks School District. CB West, as it is known, is located in the Borough of Doylestown. It was constructed in 1952 as the successor to Doylestown High School, CB West pulls its students from Doylestown, Chalfont, New Britain Township, Plumsteadville, Plumstead Township. Students come from Unami Middle School, Lenape Middle School, and its sister schools are Central Bucks High School East and the newer Central Bucks High School South. CB West has a partnership with the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology and this partnership allows students the opportunity to spend half of their school day in traditional classes on the main campus, and half of the day studying their chosen vocation at MBIT. After completion of the program, students are ready and able to join the workforce, a wing was added along the W. Court Street face in 1996. At the same time the cafeteria and library were significantly modified and expanded, CB West was in a continuous state of renovation from 2005-2010, when the schools library, nurses and guidance offices, front entrance, and academic classrooms were modified. The clocktower of Central Bucks West is the architectural landmark that distinguishes it from other facilities within the district. Access to the clocktower is limited as its entrance is locked a majority of the year. Classes were once held in the clocktower, but due to its limited access, directly in front of the clocktower is a courtyard where many students eat lunch, play games, and spend their study halls. Central Bucks West War Memorial Field was resurfaced with a material over the summer of 2006. War Memorial field and stadium are part of War Memorial Park, owned by the Borough of Doylestown and it seats 4,500 people and has total capacity of 10,000. It also served as the field for Central Bucks High School East until the 2015-2016 school year. During the American Civil War, the area now utilized as athletic fields had served as a drill field, archived from the original on April 9,2009. A choir from Central Bucks West performed at the White House on December 9,2000, the Central Bucks High School West Band program consists of a concert band, an audition-based symphonic band, as well a jazz ensemble. There is also a marching band. Including top 10 finishes in 1985,1986,1987,1991,1997,1998, the Bucks were also voted/declared State Champions in 1978,1980,1984 and 1985 before the PIAA state playoff system was implemented in 1988. The Lady Bucks have captured 8 PIAA state titles, the Lady Bucks won the 1981 AAA State Championship
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The Renovated Lobby of CB West
Central Bucks High School West
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Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American director, writer, and actor. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friends Birthday and its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction, a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by Entertainment Weekly, many critics, for his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch. Tarantino directed Death Proof as part of a feature with friend Robert Rodriguez. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds, which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germanys political leadership, was released in 2009 to positive reviews, after that came 2012s critically acclaimed Django Unchained, a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the film of his career so far, making over $425 million at the box office. Tarantinos films have garnered critical and commercial success. He has received industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme dOr, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005, Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him the single most influential director of his generation. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry, Tarantino was born on March 27,1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has English and Irish ancestry, Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentins mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles and she married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, in 1966, Tarantinos mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three-year-old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the part of the city. Tarantinos mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the moved to Torrance. Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied him to film screenings. Tarantinos mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge, after his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for six months to a year, before returning to California
Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Tarantino at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International.
Quentin Tarantino
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Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director
Robert Rodriguez.
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Tarantino in 2009
Quentin Tarantino
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Tarantino in Paris in January 2013, at the French premiere of
Django Unchained.
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Reservoir Dogs
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Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime thriller film that depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist. The film was the debut of writer and director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino and criminal-turned-author Edward Bunker have minor roles and it incorporates many themes that have become Tarantinos hallmarks, violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling. The film has become regarded as a classic of independent film and it was named Greatest Independent Film of all Time by Empire. Reservoir Dogs was generally received, and the cast was praised by many critics. Although it was not given much promotion upon release, the became a modest success in the United States after grossing $2.8 million against its $1.2 million budget. The film was successful in the United Kingdom, grossing nearly £6.5 million. A soundtrack was released featuring songs used in the film, which are mostly from the 1970s, eight men eat breakfast at a Los Angeles diner before carrying out a diamond heist. Six of them use aliases, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, the others are mob boss Joe Cabot and his son and underboss Nice Guy Eddie Cabot, who are responsible for planning the job. After the heist, White flees the scene with Orange. At one of Joes warehouses, White and Orange rendezvous with Pink, who believes that the job was a setup and that the police were waiting for them. White informs him that Brown is dead, Blue and Blonde are missing, Pink has hidden the diamonds nearby, he argues with White over whether or not they should get medical attention for Orange. Blonde arrives with a policeman, Marvin Nash. Some time earlier, Blonde meets with the Cabots, Blonde has completed a four-year jail sentence. To reward him for not having given Joes name to the authorities for a lighter sentence, in the present, White and Pink beat Nash for information. Eddie arrives and orders them to retrieve the diamonds and ditch the getaway vehicles, leaving Blonde in charge of Nash, Nash denies knowledge, but Blonde ignores him and resumes the torture, cutting off his ear with a straight razor. He is about to set Nash on fire, but is dead by Orange. Orange explains to Nash that he is a police officer
Reservoir Dogs
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Theatrical release poster.
Reservoir Dogs
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The film's opening sequence, a slow-motion scene playing "
Little Green Bag " by the
George Baker Selection.
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Chrissy Conway
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ZOEgirl is an American Christian teen pop and pop rock band formed in 1999. The group comprised Chrissy Conway-Katina, Alisa Childers and Kristin Swinford-Schweain and they were signed to Sparrow Records from 1999 to 2006 and released their debut single I Believe in 2000. This song and their debut album ZOEgirl helped them become Sparrows fastest selling artist of all time. With All of My Heart, the single for Life, was the groups only No.1 Christian contemporary hit radio single. By the end of 2003, over one million albums from ZOEgirl were sold, as a response to the musical trends of the time, ZOEgirl changed their format from teen pop to pop rock with the release of You Get Me in 2003. Released as the single for their third album, Different Kind of Free. It also peaked at No.2 on CHR, making it the second-highest ZOEgirl song on that chart, the groups musical change and the growing digital piracy at the time led to slower sales of ZOEgirls music. Their highly anticipated fourth and final studio album Room to Breathe earned the No.1 spot on Billboards Top Heatseekers Album charts. It was ZOEgirls least successful album in terms of US Christian radio airplay, with only About You and Scream released as singles, both songs were better received in Australia. In 2006, ZOEgirl disbanded, and Kristin and Chrissy formed the group Colman Blue with Kelly Trontell, in 2011, the group reunited for a two-hour interview on The Brian Mason Show, suggesting that they may release a lullaby album in the future. On May 24,2013, Chrissy registered the ZOEgirlMusic. com domain name with Go Daddy, the group confirmed that they have reunited to create the lullaby album, though nothing has materialized as of yet. Norman Miller, an artist manager for such as Avalon, said one day. He knew Alisa Childers since 1977, when she was two old, and decided to build the group around her. Together with Lynn Nichols, a writer and executive producer, they approached Kristin Schweain, Nichols said, She had a real writing sensitivity. Then we heard Kristin sing and play the piano and she had a pure pop voice, and it was a really interesting mix with Alisa’s more gritty style. Then we said, ‘Let’s just see what unfolds and she ultimately decided to join the girl group. They wanted a third member, so Kristin remembered that her friend had a friend in Atlanta who was playing in a band, Nichols recalls, It sounded kind of flaky, but I told Kristin to give her a call. This girl from Atlanta was Chrissy Katina, who was on the verge of signing a record deal
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ZOEgirl at the
Jump5 tour in spring 2005. From left to right: Chrissy,
Alisa, and Kristin.
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline seen from
Buckhead, the
Fox Theatre, the
Georgia State Capitol,
Centennial Olympic Park,
Millennium Gate, the
Canopy Walk, the
Georgia Aquarium,
The Phoenix statue, and the
Midtown skyline
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Marietta Street, 1864
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Atlanta in ruins during the Civil War, 1864
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In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.
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