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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Peter Gabriel
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After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career with Solsbury Hill as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his release and is certified triple platinum in the UK. The albums most successful single, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982 and he has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single Biko and he has participated in several human rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now. Tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992, Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his influence on generations of music makers, AllMusic has described Gabriel as one of rocks most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, in March 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music. Peter Brian Gabriel was born in Chobham, Surrey and his father, Ralph Parton Gabriel, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Edith Irene, who was from a musical family, taught him to play the piano at an early age. His great-great-great-uncle, Sir Thomas Gabriel, 1st Baronet, served as Lord Mayor of London from 1866 to 1877, Gabriel attended Cable House, a private primary school in Woking, St. Andrews Prep School in Horsell, and Charterhouse School in Godalming from 1963. He played drums in his first rock bands, and Mike Rutherford commented in 1985 that Pete was—and still is, Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. The name of the band was suggested by fellow Charterhouse alumnus, the pop music impresario Jonathan King, Gabriel has said to be influenced by many different sources in his way of singing, such as Family lead singer Roger Chapman. In 1970, he played the flute on Cat Stevenss album, the concerts made extensive use of black light with the normal stage lighting subdued or off. Early Genesis concerts were hampered by a bad public address system made it difficult for audiences to understand what Gabriel was singing. According to Mike Rutherford, this drove Gabriel to find ways to impress his personality on the audience. In an episode of the 2007 British documentary series Seven Ages of Rock and it was the dress-wearing, fox-headed entity immortalised on the cover of Foxtrot. Hackett and the rest of the band had no inkling that Gabriel was going to do this and it was a success, encouraging Gabriel to continue wearing stage clothes while singing
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Peter Gabriel at the Wikipedia 10th anniversary party in London in January 2011
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Gabriel performing, August 1978
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Gabriel performing in
Giants Stadium, New Jersey, June 1986.
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Peter Gabriel at WITNESS Gala 2007
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Box, Wiltshire
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Box is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles west of Corsham and 5 miles northeast of Bath. To the east the parish includes much of Rudloe, formerly a hamlet but now an estate. Occupation here dates back at least to Roman times, the area is known for its fine stone and for centuries Box quarries were famous for their product. Today Box is perhaps known for its Brunel-designed Box railway tunnel. The settlements are on higher ground above the valley of the Bybrook river. Limestone rock is found in much of the parish, Box Ground, a hard-wearing variety of Bath stone, was extracted at quarries such as Box Mine which are now closed. As of 2015 the remaining source of Box Ground is Hartham Park quarry at Corsham, the southern boundary of the parish follows the Roman road from Silchester to Bath. The road through Box village, descending to Bathford and Bath, was turnpiked in 1761 to provide a route from Chippenham and Corsham to Bath, prehistoric settlements in the area were hilltop forts such as Bury Camp,4 miles north of present-day Box village. There is evidence in the form of numerous re-used standing stones that there may have been a circle on Kingsdown. The Romans built the Fosse Way about 2 miles to the west, near the present-day Box church is the site of a Roman country house which was excavated during the 19th century, again in 1902-3 by Harold Brakspear, and again in 1967-8. There was a rebuilding in the late 3rd or early 4th century which changed it into the largest villa in the Bath area. Room 26 appears to be a presence chamber in the manner of that at Trier. In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded 25 households at Hazelbury and six at Ditteridge, the earliest record of Box is from 1144 when Humphrey II de Bohun was a landowner. The village is shown on a 1630 map and by this time cloth weaving was an important home-based industry, the Great Western Main Line railway crosses the parish, and the Box Tunnel,1.83 miles long, was built under Box Hill. Construction took place between 1838 and 1841 with up to 4,000 men were employed, at first Box station was built close to Ashley, where the A4 crosses the line, Box Mill Lane station was built a mile closer to Box village in 1930. Both stations closed in 1965 when local services were withdrawn, local lore that the name is derived from the Box bush Buxus sempervirens is improbable. There is no supporting evidence at all, and buxus is not native to the area, there is, however, a connection with beech. Early documented forms of the name include Bocza, and Bocks, Boekes, Box, Box, Box Hill and places such as Boscombe and Le Bosc all feature extensive beech woods growing on various limestones
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Box from Quarry Hill
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View from
Box Hill with
Colerne Water Tower visible on the horizon
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Box railway station in 1963
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Bath, Somerset
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Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths. In 2011, the population was 88,859, Bath is in the valley of the River Avon,97 miles west of London and 11 miles south-east of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage Site in 1987, the city became a spa with the Latin name Aquæ Sulis c. AD60 when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century and became a religious centre, the building was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. In the 17th century, claims were made for the properties of water from the springs. Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder, and in the 18th century the city became fashionable, Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Bath Blitz in World War II, the city has software, publishing and service-oriented industries. Theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues have helped make it a centre for tourism with more than one million staying visitors and 3.8 million day visitors to the city each year. There are several museums including the Museum of Bath Architecture, Victoria Art Gallery, Museum of East Asian Art, the city has two universities, the University of Bath and Bath Spa University, with Bath College providing further education. Sporting clubs include Bath Rugby and Bath City F. C. while TeamBath is the name for all of the University of Bath sports teams. Bath became part of the county of Avon in 1974, and, the hills in the locality such as Bathampton Down saw human activity from the Mesolithic period. Several Bronze Age round barrows were opened by John Skinner in the 18th century, solsbury Hill overlooking the current city was an Iron Age hill fort, and the adjacent Bathampton Camp may also have been one. A long barrow site believed to be from the Beaker people was flattened to make way for RAF Charmy Down, messages to her scratched onto metal, known as curse tablets, have been recovered from the sacred spring by archaeologists. The tablets were written in Latin, and cursed people whom the writers felt had wronged them, for example, if a citizen had his clothes stolen at the baths, he might write a curse, naming the suspects, on a tablet to be read by the goddess. A temple was constructed in AD 60–70, and a complex was built up over the next 300 years. Engineers drove oak piles into the mud to provide a stable foundation, in the 2nd century, the spring was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted structure that housed the caldarium, tepidarium, and frigidarium. The town was given defensive walls, probably in the 3rd century. After the failure of Roman authority in the first decade of the 5th century, in March 2012 a hoard of 30,000 silver Roman coins, one of the largest discovered in Britain, was unearthed in an archaeological dig
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The
Royal Crescent in Bath
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A nineteenth century
Photochrom of the Great Bath at the
Roman Baths. The entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later construction and was not a feature of the building in Roman days.
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Bath Abbey
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Map of Bath by
John Speed published in 1610
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World of Music, Arts and Dance
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WOMAD is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the many forms of music, arts. WOMAD was founded in 1980 by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, with Thomas Brooman, Bob Hooton, Mark Kidel, Stephen Pritchard, Martin Elbourne, original designers Steve Byrne and Valerie Hawthorn. The first WOMAD festival was in Shepton Mallet, UK in 1982. At the suggestion of Tony Smith, the manager of Gabriel and Genesis, he, the show rescued the company and made it possible for further WOMAD events to take place. Since 1982, WOMAD Festivals have travelled all over the world, bringing artists to numerous locations, the main UK event was held at Rivermead in Reading, Berkshire from 1990 until 2006. WOMAD has always presented music that they felt to be of excellence, passion and individuality, WOMAD encourages collaboration amongst the artists they invite to perform. Adult workshops are taken by the musicians and will dance, musical instruments. Childrens workshops involve painting, circus skills, graffiti, modelling, story telling, musicians cook a choice of dish from their home country in front of an audience. The Global Market sells international food and wares, WOMAD in the UK takes place in the grounds of Charlton Park, a stately home in Wiltshire. The arena holds at least 5 main stages with a one in the Arboretum. An old fashioned steam fair, global market, childrens area, WOMAD Charlton Park falls on the last complete weekend in July. WOMAD came to Bristol Zoo in 2011, with a subsequent event in 2012, a boycott of the 2012 event was called for by the Captive Animals Protection Society
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WOMAD Charlton Park 2008
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So (album)
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So is the fifth studio album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records. After working on the soundtrack to the film Birdy, producer Daniel Lanois was invited to remain at Gabriels home during 1985 to work on his next singing project. Initial sessions for So consisted of Gabriel, Lanois and guitarist David Rhodes and it is Gabriels first non-eponymous album, So representing an anti-title that resulted from label pressure to properly market his music. Widely regarded as his best album, as well as his most accessible and it received positive reviews from critics, who praised its melodicism and fusion of genres, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Gabriel toured So on the This Way Up tour, with songs performed at human rights. So is Gabriels best-selling solo release, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It spawned five singles, Sledgehammer, Dont Give Up, Big Time, In Your Eyes, Sledgehammer achieved particular success, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and winning a record of nine MTV Video Music Awards. So was remastered in 2002, partially re-recorded for Gabriels 2012 orchestral project New Blood and it has been deemed one of the best albums of the 1980s and is listed at number 187 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Prior to recording So, Gabriel released four albums all titled Peter Gabriel. They received nicknames based on their art, which were designed by English duo Hipgnosis. His second album—Scratch —fared less well and it was not until Melt that Gabriel was considered a solo artist. His fourth album, Security —also released in German as the Deutsches Album —saw success with Gabriels music video for the eye-opening Shock the Monkey, Gabriel won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for scoring the soundtrack to the film Birdy. Since 1978, Gabriel had composed all of his music at Ashcombe House, including his studio album Peter Gabriel or Security. An inexpensive studio existed in the adjacent barn, consisting of two rooms, one where Gabriel would produce his vocals and work on lyrics, and another where the music would be assembled. When preparing for So, Gabriel considered Chics Nile Rodgers and Bill Laswell as potential producers and he eventually asked his Birdy collaborator, Daniel Lanois, to stay at Ashcombe and work with him further. Rehearsals began in May 1985 and consisted of Gabriel, Lanois, Gabriel had begun work on some songs and provided Lanois and Rhodes with chord structures, around which they built their own improvised compositions. Lanois recalled they had a starting point in that kind of scenario. Consequently, there was an atmosphere surrounding these sessions and the trio would jokingly refer to themselves as The Three Stooges
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So
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So was recorded in 1985 at Gabriel's home
Ashcombe House, an estate to the north-east of
Bath
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Gabriel performing at
A Conspiracy of Hope in New Jersey, 1986
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Ashcombe House, Somerset
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Not to be confused with the Ashcombe House in Wiltshire occupied by Madonna and Guy Ritchie. Ashcombe House at Swainswick, north-east of Bath in Somerset, England is a Gothic revival country house and it is a Grade II listed building. Ashcombe House stands on the slopes of the Lam Valley in 25 acres of grounds and it dates from the early nineteenth century, and was altered in the late nineteenth century. It started life as a lodge, and there are the remains of the former kennels in the grounds. The 19001,10,560 scale Ordnance Survey map shows the building was known at time as Ashcombe Farm. The house has a wing constructed from a converted coach house and stables. The house was on the market in 2003 for £1.6 million, images of England page on the house Photos of the house
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Ashcombe House
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Bybrook River
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The Bybrook, also known as the By Brook, is a small river in England. It is a tributary of the Bristol Avon and is some 12 miles long and its sources are the Burton Brook and the Broadmead Brook, which rise in South Gloucestershire at Tormarton and Cold Ashton respectively, and join just north of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. The river has a flow rate of 57.25 cubic feet per second as recorded at Middlehill near Box. A variety of flora and fauna is supported by the river including the endangered white-clawed crayfish, twenty watermill sites have been identified on the river but none now remain in use. The Burton Brook rises near Lower Lapdown Farm at Tormarton and runs in a direction towards the village of Burton on the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire border. The Bybrook now flows southwards towards the village of Ford, just before the village, the Danscombe Brook and another unnamed tributary join on the right bank from North Wraxall and Colerne Airfield. There is evidence of at least 20 mill sites along the Bybrook, many were seasonal, in Roman times, the mills were exclusively used for grinding corn, but by the end of the 12th century, this part of Wiltshire became an important centre for the wool trade. Mills were converted to the cleansing and thickening of wool, a known as fulling. Fulling mills were established by Sir John Fastolf in Castle Combe, along the Bybrook, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the rise in demand for paper for packaging from nearby Bristol led to many mills converting to paper making in the 18th and 19th centuries. Chapps Mill paper mill, which is associated with Slaughterford although it is in Colerne parish, Goulters Mill, also known as Littleton Mill was a corn mill mentioned in the Domesday Book. Gatcombe Mill, also known as Gadcombe Mill, was of greater significance than Goulters Mill and it was known to be a corn mill in 1887 and continued in use until the 1920s. There is no evidence of use other than to grind corn, tanners Mill, also known as Old Mill, which dates back to at least 1773, is now incorporated in the buildings of Lower Shirehill Farm. Due to inadequacy of water supply, this must have been a corn mill. Its size and age seem to be similar to Gatcombe Mill, in 1887 it was a corn mill that also housed a shoemaker and a butcher shop. Wick Mill, also known as Longs or Langs Mill and Hennars Mill, in 1704, three mills in the parish of North Wraxall paid tithes, Doncombe Mill 4s, Ford Mill 3s 4d and Hennars Mill 4s. A cloth mill in 1802, by 1829 it became a grist mill, nettleton Mill is part of the Castle Combe estate. The buildings date from the 18th century, a grist mill, its undershot wheel was replaced by a turbine during the 19th century. In the 1950s and 60s, the power was utilised at some time
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The Bybrook at
Box,
Wiltshire,
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Although Rag Mill was demolished in 1964, some equipment remained in place in 2009
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Solid State Logic
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Solid State Logic is a manufacturer of high-end mixing consoles and recording studio hardware headquartered in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Founded in 1969, SSL has since expanded to its present 15 acre science park in Oxfordshire, the company invents, designs and manufactures technology for the manipulation of sound and the production and delivery of video. SSL employs over 160 people worldwide and has offices in Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris. One of the first SSL consoles was a 4000B installed at The Townhouse Studios on Goldhawk Road in London, possibly the earliest 4000E console was at RG Jones in London, closely followed by Eden Studios and Sarm Studios. Eden had a 48-channel console with integral patch and automation using 8 floppy drives, Sarm East had a 40-channel console with remote patchbay and automation with 8 floppy drives. Both consoles had Total Recall enabling console settings to be recalled & remade with a degree of accuracy. SSL analogue and digital audio consoles are used in both pre- and post-production for film, audio, video and broadcast sound. Notably, in May 2001, Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios was refurbished with a 96-channel SSL9000 J series console, the largest SSL console in Europe. Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California, which makes extensive use of SSL consoles, was fitted out with an SSL9000 K console in its main studio in 2013. SSL also produces rackmount audio hardware for use in recording studios, in 2005, SSL was purchased by musician Peter Gabriel and broadcast entrepreneur David Engelke. The change of ownership has seen changes in strategy for the company including new product releases to address the fast-changing state of the pro-audio marketplace. There are over 3,000 SSL systems in service around the world and their equipment has been used by classical musicians and popular artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel, Whitney Houston, Blur, Jean-Michel Jarre and Sting. Rede Record, Brasil The 1970s recording scene was dominated by large format consoles feeding multi-track tape machines manufactured by such as Studer. Both the equipment and the environment they were used in were expensive to source, a series of developments have slowly eroded this position. Perhaps the first major change was the advent of music sequencer technology, prior to its introduction all synchronisation was achieved by adding SMPTE time code to analogue tape. This acted as a point so that individual tracks could be easily synchronised. With the advent of MIDI hardware, devices could be used to synchronise any MIDI device, continuing development in this area has led to computer-controlled sequencing. The development of converter technology transforming analogue signals into digital signals has spawned a variety of supporting technical developments, DSP or Digital Signal Processing technology has led both to the advent of digital mixing desks and DSP-based computer recording platforms such as Pro Tools
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SL4000G+
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SL4064G+
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Console SSL9000
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SL9064J
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Quantum of Solace
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It stars Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright and Judi Dench. In the film, Bond seeks revenge for the death of his lover, Vesper Lynd, and is assisted by Camille Montes, who is plotting revenge for the murder of her family. The trail eventually leads them to wealthy businessman Dominic Greene, a member of the Quantum organisation, producer Michael G. Wilson developed the films plot while the previous film in the series, Casino Royale, was being shot. Purvis, Wade, and Haggis contributed to the script, Craig and Forster had to write some sections themselves due to the Writers Strike, though they were not given the screenwriter credit in the final cut. The title was chosen from a 1959 short story in Ian Flemings For Your Eyes Only, location filming took place in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, and Wales, while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios. The film was marked by its frequent depictions of violence. As of September 2016, it is the fourth-highest-grossing James Bond film, without adjusting for inflation, James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Ms bodyguard, Craig Mitchell, is a double agent, he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills him, Bond and M return to London and search Mitchells flat, discovering Mitchell had a contact in Haiti, Edmund Slate. Bond learns Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, after rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. Meanwhile, the head of the CIAs South American section, Gregg Beam, Bond infiltrates Quantums meeting at the opera, identifying members of Quantums executive board, and a gunfight ensues. A Special Branch bodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines, is killed by antagonists after Bond throws him off a roof, M assumes Bond killed him, and has Bonds passports and credit cards revoked. Bond heads to Italy and convinces his old ally René Mathis to accompany him to Bolivia and they are greeted by Strawberry Fields, a consular employee who demands Bond return to the UK immediately. Bond seduces her and they attend a fundraising party Greene holds that night, at the party, Bond again rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano and they had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bonds car to frame Bond. In the ensuing struggle, Mathis and the cops are killed, the following day, Bond and Camille survey Quantums intended land acquisition by air, their plane is shot down by a Bolivian fighter aircraft. They skydive into a sinkhole, and discover Quantum is damming Bolivias supply of water to create a monopoly. Back in La Paz, Bond meets M and learns Quantum killed Fields by drowning her in crude oil, Bond meets CIA Agent Felix Leiter, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise their agreement
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British cinema poster for Quantum of Solace, designed by
Empire Design
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Marc Forster chose the Atacama Desert to represent Bond's vengefulness in the climax.
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Aston Martin DBS V12 on display at the 2008
San Diego Comic-Con International
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The Golden Compass (film)
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The Golden Compass is a 2007 British and American fantasy and adventure film based on Northern Lights, the first novel in Philip Pullmans trilogy His Dark Materials. Written and directed by Chris Weitz, it stars Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Lee, Nicole Kidman, the project was announced in February 2002, but difficulties over the script and the selection of a director caused significant delays. At US$180 million, it was one of New Line Cinemas most expensive projects ever, the film depicts the adventures of Lyra Belacqua, an orphan living in a parallel universe on a world that looks much like our own. In Lyras world, a dogmatic ruling power called the Magisterium opposes free inquiry, poor, orphan, and Gyptian children are disappearing at the hands of a group the children call the Gobblers. When Lyra discovers that Mrs. Coulter is running the Gobblers, rescued by the Gyptians, Lyra joins them on a trip to the far north, to the land of the armored polar bears, in search of the missing children. The studio ordered significant changes late in post-production, which Weitz later called a terrible experience, although the films visual effects won both a BAFTA and an Academy Award, critical reception was mixed and revenue lower than anticipated. The story takes place in a world dominated by a powerful church called the Magisterium. Lyra Belacqua, a raised in a college in Oxford, England. Lyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding, Lyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of. The college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition, at dinner, Lyra meets Mrs. Coulter, who insists on taking Lyra north as her assistant. Before Lyra leaves, the Master of the college entrusts her with the only remaining alethiometer, the Magisterium has destroyed all the others. He instructs her to keep it secret, especially from Mrs. Coulter, at Mrs. Coulters house in a city that resembles a futuristic London, Lyra mentions dust. This puts Mrs. Coulter on edge and she warns Lyra never to mention it again, Mrs. Coulters dæmon attacks Pan, causing Lyra to give in. Lyra and Pan discover that Mrs. Coulter is head of the General Oblation Board, the Gobblers and she also discovers that her best friend Roger and her Gyptian friend Billy have been taken by the Gobblers. Lyra and Pan walk in on Mrs. Coulters dæmon attempting to steal the alethiometer, the Gobblers pursue her, but she is saved by some Gyptians. Aboard a Gyptian boat heading north to rescue their children, Lyra shows the alethiometer to a Gyptian wise elder, Farder Coram, on deck that night Serafina Pekkala, the witch queen, tells Lyra that the missing children are in a place called Bolvangar. Mrs. Coulter sends two mechanical spy flies after Lyra, one is batted away but the other is caught and sealed in a can by Farder Coram, who explains that the spy fly has a sting with a sleeping poison. Lord Asriel is captured by Samoyed tribesmen hired by Mrs. Coulter, at a northern port, Lyra is befriended by a Texan aeronaut named Lee Scoresby, who advises her to hire an armoured bear
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Theatrical poster
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Lyra (
Richards) with Pantalaimon (cat form, voiced by
Freddie Highmore) and
Mrs. Coulter (
Kidman) with her "Golden Monkey" dæmon. Scene filmed in the grand hall of
Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire, UK.
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Lyra and her dæmon" (
Richards, right, with
Highmore, as Pantalaimon) record dialogue in post-production.
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A Magisterium building damaged by Iorek Byrnison featuring
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Green Zone (film)
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Green Zone is a 2010 war thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. The storyline was conceived from a written by Brian Helgeland. The book documented life within the Green Zone in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Miller finds that the majority of the intel given to him is inaccurate. Moreover, Millers efforts to find the story about the weapons are blocked by U. S. Department of Defense official Clark Poundstone. The cast also features Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, the film was produced by Working Title Films, with financial backing from Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Relativity Media, Antena 3 Films and Dentsu. Principal photography for the project began during January 2008 in Spain, later moving to Morocco. On March 19,2003, Iraqi General Mohammed Al-Rawi flees his residence amid the bombardment of Baghdad, before leaving the compound, he passes a notebook to his aide Seyyed, instructing him to warn his officers to get to their safehouses and wait for his signal. Four weeks later, U. S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, to Millers surprise, the warehouse has not been secured, with looters making their way in and out, as soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are too few to do much. After a firefight with a sniper, Miller finds that the warehouse is empty, later, at a debriefing, Miller brings up the point that the majority of the intel given to him is inaccurate and anonymous. High-ranking officials quickly dismiss his concerns, afterward, CIA agent Martin Brown tells him that the next place he is to search was inspected by a UN team two months before and that it too has been confirmed empty. Meanwhile, U. S. Department of Defense official Clark Poundstone welcomes returning Iraqi exile politician Ahmed Zubaidi at the airport, There Poundstone is questioned by Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne. She says she needs to speak directly to Magellan, but Poundstone brushes her off, meanwhile, while checking another unpromising site, Miller is approached by an Iraqi who calls himself Freddy. Freddy tells him that he saw some Baath Party VIPs meeting in a nearby home and they include Al-Rawi and his officers and aides in Baghdad, who are discussing the current situation. Al-Rawi decides to wait for the Americans to offer him a deal, as the meeting ends, Miller and his men burst into the house. Al-Rawi narrowly escapes, but Seyyed is captured, before Miller can extract much information, Seyyed is taken away by Special Operations personnel - however, Miller keeps Al-Rawis notebook. Dayne complains to Poundstone again, but he states that the stakes are larger than her role in selling newspapers. Miller goes to Browns hotel room in the Green Zone, where he tells him what happened, Brown arranges for Miller to get into the prison where Seyyed is being interrogated. Miller is then approached by Dayne, who questions him about the reports of WMDs. Miller bluffs his way in to see Seyyed
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Theatrical release poster
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Matt Damon as Roy Miller
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Director Paul Greengrass
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Dubbing (filmmaking)
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The process usually takes place on a dub stage. After sound editors edit and prepare all necessary tracks, the mixer or mixers proceed to balance all of the elements. In the past, dubbing was practiced primarily in musicals when the actor had a singing voice. Today, dubbing enables the screening of material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the performers in the original production. Films, videos, and sometimes video games are dubbed into the local language of a foreign market. In foreign distribution, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television films, television series, cartoons, the insertion of voice actor performances for animation, such as computer-generated imagery or animated cartoons, is often referred to as ADR although it generally does not replace existing dialogue. In conventional film production, a sound mixer records dialogue during filming. During post-production, a sound editor, or ADR supervisor, reviews all of the dialogue in the film. ADR is recorded during an ADR session, which place in a specialized sound studio. The actor, usually the original actor from the set, views the scene with the original sound, over the course of multiple takes, the actor performs the lines while watching the scene, the most suitable take becomes the final version. The ADR process does not always take place in a post-production studio, the process may be recorded on location, with mobile equipment. Sometimes, a different actor than the actor on set is used during ADR. One famous example is the Star Wars character Darth Vader portrayed by David Prowse, in post-production and it provides a more precise guide for the actors, directors, and technicians, and can be used to complement the traditional ADR method. The rythmo band is projected in the studio and scrolls in perfect synchronization with the picture, Studio time is used more efficiently, since with the aid of scrolling text, picture, and audio cues, actors can read more lines per hour than with ADR alone. With ADR, actors can average 10–12 lines per hour, while rythmo band can facilitate the reading of 35-50 lines per hour, However, the preparation of a rythmo band is a time-consuming process involving a series of specialists organized in a production line. VideoDubber, a startup company from Israel, developed an automated dubbing SaaS platform that enables automated dubbing of video content to over 40 languages using digitized voices. It was the first to dub a full TV channel using this technology for a Spanish cable provider in July 2015, Media Movers, Inc. a dubbing company, has developed a piece of proprietary software that can automatically sync ADR/dubbed tracks with pre-defined algorithms. TM Systems received Emmy awards in 2002 and 2007 for their dubbing and subtitling software, Dubbing is often used to localize a foreign movie
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Dubbing studio
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Marillion
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Marillion /məˈrɪljən/ are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1979. They are best known for the 1985 singles Kayleigh and Lavender, Marillion have achieved a further twelve Top 40 hit singles in the UK with Hogarth, including 2004s Youre Gone, which charted at No.7 and is the biggest hit of his tenure. The band continue to tour internationally, and were ranked 38th in Classic Rocks 50 Best Live Acts of All Time in 2008, in 2016, they returned to the UK Albums Chart Top Ten for the first time in 22 years with their highest chart placing since 1987. They have sold more than 15 million albums, Marillion was formed in 1979 as Silmarillion, after J. R. R. Tolkiens book The Silmarillion, by Mick Pointer, Steve Rothery and they played their first gig at Berkhamsted Civic Centre, Hertfordshire, on 1 March 1980. Rothery, drummer Mick Pointer, and keyboardist Brian Jelliman completed this line-up, by the end of 1981, Kelly had replaced Jelliman, with Trewavas replacing Minnitt in 1982. Minnitt later formed Pride of Passion, the early works of Marillion contained Fishs poetic, fantastical and introspective lyrics melded with music to create a sound that reflected the bands influences. Marillions first recordings were two recorded in March and the summer of 1980, prior to Fish and Minnitt joining the band. Two versions of the Spring demo circulate amongst collectors, the first has four tracks, The Haunting of Gill House, Herne the Hunter, a track known as Scotts Porridge. The second version has a version of Alice in place of Scotts Porridge. All tracks are instrumental apart from Alice, with vocals by Doug Irvine, the summer demo has three tracks, Close, Lady Fantasy, and another version of Alice. Both were recorded at The Enids studio in Hertfordshire, the group attracted attention with a three-track session for the Friday Rock Show and were subsequently signed by EMI. They released their first single, Market Square Heroes, in 1982, following the single, the band released their first full-length album in 1983. The music on their album, Script for a Jesters Tear, was born out of the intensive gigging of the previous years. Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge, the album was a commercial success, peaking at number seven on the UK album chart and producing the Top 40 singles He Knows You Know and Garden Party. Although they were accused of being Genesis soundalikes, the reached the Platinum certification and has been credited with giving a second life to progressive rock. Despite the numerous problems encountered during this period, the second album, Fugazi. It improved on the placing of its predecessor by reaching the top five and produced the top 30 singles Punch and Judy
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Marillion, 2009. L-R: Ian Mosley, Pete Trewavas, Steve Hogarth, Mark Kelly, and Steve Rothery.
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Marillion with
Fish (1986)
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Marillion in 2007, left to right: Steve Rothery, Steve Hogarth, Pete Trewavas (front row), Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley (back row)
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Super Furry Animals
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Super Furry Animals are a Welsh psychedelic rock band. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce, Cian Ciaran, actor Rhys Ifans is also a former member. Super Furry Animals have recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums, plus singles, EPs. Super Furry Animals formed in Cardiff after being in various other Welsh bands, Ifans, Ieuan and Pryce had been together since the early 1990s and had toured France as a techno group. After Bunford and Ciaran joined, they wrote songs, and in 1995 signed to Ankst. The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music in the 1990s, other Welsh bands of the include the Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Stereophonics. The name of the came from T-shirts being printed by Rhys sister. She was making Super Furry Animals T-shirts for the fashion and music collective Acid Casuals, the band has also made reference to Blur, Elvis Costello, and Wynton Marsalis as major influences in their work. The earliest Super Furry Animals track commercially available is Dim Brys, Dim Chwys, recorded in 1994 for Radio Cymru, an ambient piece, however, by the time it was released, the band had already put out their debut EP on the Ankst label. The Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch EP appeared in June 1995 and has listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest-ever title for an EP. The Moog Droog EP followed in October 1995, named after the synthesiser manufacturer Robert Moog, the EPs title is also a pun on the Welsh mwg drwg, meaning wacky baccy. The lyrics on all the tracks on both EPs were in Welsh, except for God, Show Me Magic from Moog Droog. After gigging in London in late 1995, they were noticed by Creation Records boss Alan McGee at the Camden Monarch club, Creation was also home to Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub, and had recently found massive commercial success with Oasis. The band have said that having watched their gig, McGee asked them if they could sing in English rather than Welsh in future shows, in fact, by this stage they were singing in English, but McGee didnt realise because their Welsh accents were so strong. The Super Furry Animals received some criticism in the Welsh media for singing in English, but they get The Dubliners playing and they dont sing in Irish. The band have claimed that the decision to sing in English was taken in order to broaden their fanbase, the follow-up, a re-recording of God. Show Me Magic, charted at No.33 upon release in April 1996, rawer than the Moog Droog version, it clocks in at 1 min 50 secs. In May, their debut album Fuzzy Logic was released, to critical acclaim
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Left to right:
Gruff Rhys,
Guto Pryce and
Huw Bunford of the Super Furry Animals at Bridgwater Palace in September 2005.
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Performing arts
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Manic Street Preachers
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Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Wales and consisting of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore. They are often known as The Manics. After the release of their first single, Suicide Alley, Richey Edwards joined the band as co-lyricist, despite the albums failure to meet this level of success, the band carried on with their career. The group later became a trio when Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995, Bradfield, Moore and Wire went on to gain critical and commercial success. The band have released albums and three compilations, Forever Delayed, Lipstick Traces and National Treasures – The Complete Singles. The bands later albums retained a leftist politicisation and intellectual lyrical style while adopting a broader alternative rock sound, to date, they have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. Over their career the Manics have headlined several festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and they have won eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards. The Manics were also nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, Manic Street Preachers formed in 1986 at Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, South Wales. During this time, Bradfield, alongside the classically trained Sean Moore, Original bassist Flicker left the band in early 1988, reportedly because he believed that the band were moving away from their punk roots. The band continued as a three-piece, with Wire switching from guitar to bass, the Manics intended to restore revolution to rock and roll at a time when Britain was dominated by shoegaze and acid house. The NME magazine gave Suicide Alley an enthusiastic review, citing a press release by Richey Edwards, in 1990 the Manic Street Preachers signed a deal with label Damaged Goods Records for one EP. The four-track New Art Riot E. P. attracted as much media interest for its attacks on fellow musicians as for the actual music, with the help of Hall or Nothing management, the Manics signed to indie label Heavenly Records. The band recorded their first single for the label, entitled Motown Junk and their next single, You Love Us, sampled Krzysztof Pendereckis Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima as well as Iggy Pop. The video featured Nicky Wire in drag as Marilyn Monroe and contained references to the film Betty Blue. In a now legendary interview with then-NME journalist Steve Lamacq, Edwards carved the phrase 4REAL into his arm with a blade to prove their sincerity. He was taken to hospital and received seventeen stitches, as a result of their controversial behaviour, the Manics quickly became favourites of the British music press, which helped them build a rabidly dedicated following. Columbia Records of Sony Music UK signed the band shortly afterwards, the bands debut album, Generation Terrorists, was released in 1992 on the Columbia Records imprint. The liner notes contained a quote for each of the albums eighteen songs
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Manic Street Preachers in 2014. From left to right:
James Dean Bradfield,
Sean Moore and
Nicky Wire
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Manic Street Preachers in Japan circa 1993
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Edwards with 4 Real carved into his arm in a discussion with the
NME. He disappeared without a trace on February 1st, 1995.
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Manic Street Preachers live in Brighton in 2004
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Kanye West
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Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Intent on pursuing a career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to widespread critical and commercial success. He went on to pursue a variety of different styles on subsequent albums Late Registration, Graduation, and 808s & Heartbreak. In 2010, he released his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to rave reviews from critics, West released his abrasive sixth album, Yeezus, to further critical praise in 2013. His seventh album, The Life of Pablo, was released in 2016, Wests outspoken views and life outside of music have received significant mainstream attention. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows, on social media and he is the founder and head of the creative content company DONDA. His 2014 marriage to television personality Kim Kardashian has also been subject to media coverage. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time, three of his albums have been included and ranked on Rolling Stones 2012 update of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. He has also included in a number of Forbes annual lists. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005 and 2015, West was born on June 8,1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, after the divorce, he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. His father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ray West was later a Christian counselor, and in 2006, opened the Good Water Store and Café in Lexington Park, Maryland with startup capital from his son. West, was a professor of English at Clark Atlanta University, West was raised in a middle-class background, attending Polaris High School in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois after living in Chicago. At the age of 10, West moved with his mother to Nanjing, China, according to his mother, West was the only foreigner in his class, but settled in well and quickly picked up the language, although he has since forgotten most of it. When asked about his grades in school, West replied, I got As. West demonstrated an affinity for the arts at an early age and his mother recalled that she first took notice of Wests passion for drawing and music when he was in the third grade. Growing up in Chicago, West became deeply involved in its hip hop scene and he started rapping in the third grade and began making musical compositions in the seventh grade, eventually selling them to other artists
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West performing at
Lollapalooza in 2011
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West performing in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 2007
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West performing in
Austin, Texas, March 2009
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West performing with
Jay-Z on their
Watch the Throne Tour in 2011
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Jay-Z
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Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as Jay Z, is an American rapper, businessman, and investor. He is one of the musicians of all time, having sold more than 100 million records. MTV ranked him the Greatest MC of all time in 2006, Rolling Stone ranked three of his albums—Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, and The Black Album —among the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2014, Forbes estimated his net worth at nearly $520 million, Jay Z co-owns the New York 40/40 Club sports bar, and is the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the president of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports and is a certified NBA, as an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with 13. He has also had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2009, he was ranked the tenth-most successful artist of the 2000s by Billboard as well as the fifth top solo male artist and fourth top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent. He was also ranked the 88th-greatest artist of all time by Rolling Stone, Jay Z married Singer-Songwriter Beyoncé in 2008. Shawn Carter was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Marcy Houses and he and his three siblings were raised by their mother, Gloria Carter after their father, Adness Reeves abandoned the family. Reeves would later meet and reconcile with Jay Z before dying from liver failure in 2003, Jay Z claims in his lyrics that in 1982, at the age of 12, he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. Along with future rapper AZ, Carter attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn until it was closed down, according to his interviews and lyrics, during this period he sold crack cocaine and was shot at three times. According to his mother, Carter used to wake up his siblings at night banging out drum patterns on the kitchen table and she bought him a boom box for his birthday, sparking his interest in music. He began freestyling and writing lyrics, known as Jazzy around the neighborhood, Carter later adopted the showbiz/stage name Jay-Z in homage to his mentor Jaz-O. He would drop the hyphen in 2013, Jay Z can be briefly heard on several of Jaz-Os early recordings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including The Originators and Hawaiian Sophie. Jay Z became embroiled in several battles with rapper LL Cool J in the early 1990s and he first became known to a wide audience on the posse cut Show and Prove on the 1994 Big Daddy Kane album Daddys Home. When I would leave the stage to go change outfits, I would bring out Jay Z and Positive K and let them freestyle until I came back to the stage. The young Jay Z appeared on a song by Big L, Da Graveyard, and on Mic Geronimos Time to Build. His first official rap single was called In My Lifetime, for which he released a music video, an unreleased music video was also produced for the B-side I Cant Get with That
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Jay Z at the Shawn Carter Foundation Carnival, 2011
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Jay Z (top) with a friend (bottom) in
Trenton, New Jersey, circa 1988
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Jay Z in 2003
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Jay Z at a concert in 2006.
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Muse (band)
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Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard, Muse released their debut album, Showbiz, in 1999, showcasing Bellamys falsetto and a melancholic alternative rock style. Their second album, Origin of Symmetry, expanded their sound, incorporating wider instrumentation and romantic classical influences, Absolution saw further classical influence, with orchestra on tracks such as Butterflies and Hurricanes, and became the first of five consecutive UK number-one albums. Black Holes and Revelations incorporated electronic and pop elements, influenced by 1980s groups such as Depeche Mode, the album brought Muse wider international success. The Resistance and The 2nd Law explored themes of government oppression and civil uprising and their seventh album, Drones, was a concept album about drone warfare and returned to a harder rock sound. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide, the members of Muse played in separate school bands during their stay at Teignmouth Community College in the early 1990s. Guitarist Matt Bellamy successfully auditioned for drummer Dominic Howards band, Carnage Mayhem and they renamed the band Gothic Plague. They asked Chris Wolstenholme – at that time the drummer for Fixed Penalty – to join as bassist, he agreed, the band was renamed Rocket Baby Dolls and adopted a goth-glam image. In 1994, Rocket Baby Dolls won a battle of the bands. Bellamy said, It was supposed to be a protest, a statement, so, when we won, it was a real shock. After that, we started taking ourselves seriously, the band quit their jobs, changed their name to Muse, and moved away from Teignmouth. The name Muse was supposedly inspired by Matthew Bellamys art teacher Samuel Theoun, the band liked that it was short and thought that it looked good on a poster. After a few years building a fanbase, Muse played their first gigs in London and they had a significant meeting with Dennis Smith, the owner of Sawmills Studio, situated in a converted water mill in Cornwall. He had seen the three boys grow up as he knew their parents, and had a company with their future manager Safta Jaffery. The meeting led to their first serious recordings and the release of the Muse EP on 11 May 1998 on Sawmills in-house Dangerous label and their second EP, the Muscle Museum EP, also produced by Reeve, was released on 11 January 1999. It reached number 3 in the singles chart and attracted the attention of British radio broadcaster Steve Lamacq. Later in 1999, Muse performed on the Emerging Artists stage at Woodstock 1999 and signed with Smith, despite the success of their second EP, British record companies were reluctant to sign Muse. After a trip to New Yorks CMJ Festival, Nanci Walker, director of A&R at Columbia Records, flew Muse to the US to showcase for Columbia Records then-Senior Vice-President of A&R, Tim Devine, as well as for American Recordings Rick Rubin
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Muse performing at
Big Day Out 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. From left to right: Howard, Bellamy, touring member
Morgan Nicholls (background), and Wolstenholme.
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Muse performing at
Roskilde Festival in Denmark, July 2000
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Chris Wolstenholme of Muse performing at the
Mod Club Theatre, Toronto in 2004. The international Absolution tour included the band's first shows in North America since 1999.
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Muse playing "
Starlight " at
Reading and Leeds Festivals on 28 August 2006
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Laura Marling
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Laura Beatrice Marling is a British folk singer-songwriter and musician from Eversley, Hampshire. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards, the youngest of three daughters, Marling was born in Berkshire, England, and learned guitar at an early age. I couldn’t slot myself into the age-appropriate genre, Marling attended Waverley Primary School in Finchampstead, Berkshire and received a scholarship to attend Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire. During her secondary school years she felt uneasy around other people and was afraid of death, after completing her GCSEs at 16, she joined her older sisters and settled in the outskirts of London. Marling also appeared on The Rakes track Suspicious Eyes, from the bands 2007 album Ten New Messages, Marling would later collaborate with Mystery Jets and contributed guest vocals to the 2008 single Young Love. Early in her career, Marlings band included members of the band Mumford & Sons, Dwane, Mumford. She was invited to tour with Jamie T after he attended her second-ever solo gig and she has also toured with a number of other musicians including Adam Green from the anti-folk band The Moldy Peaches. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim was released on 4 February 2008, the album, as well as subsequent singles, were released on Virgin Records. The third and final single from her album, Night Terror was released on 27 October 2008, Marlings television appearances include The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Later With Jools Holland, performing Ghosts and New Romantic respectively. In 2008, she appeared on Russell Brands Radio 2 show alongside her sister and she once chose to perform on the street after being denied entry to one of her own performances for being underage. The follow-up to Alas, I Cannot Swim, titled I Speak Because I Can, was released on 22 March 2010, produced by Ethan Johns, the album has a more mature sound and lyricism, dealing with responsibility, particularly the responsibility of womanhood. The album is preceded by the singles Goodbye England, released on iTunes in December 2009, on 28 March 2010, I Speak Because I Can entered the UK Albums Chart at Number 4. It was also nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize, in 2013, NME listed the album at 263 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Marlings third album, A Creature I Dont Know, was released on 12 September 2011, the album received positive reviews and reached number four on the UK album charts. During October 2012, Marling completed the Working Holiday Tour of the US as a solo performer. At the time, she announced that the album, later named Once I Was an Eagle, was finished and was scheduled for a February 2013 release, however. On 8 March 2013, Marling confirmed that the album would be released on 27 May 2013, the fourth albums first single Master Hunter was released on 17 April 2013, while Once I Was an Eagle entered the UK charts at number 3. Once I Was an Eagle is Marlings third album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize, the list of artists for the Prizes 2013 shortlist also included David Bowie and Savages
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Laura Marling performing at Sydney Opera House in February 2012.
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Laura Marling performing at
Glastonbury in 2010.
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Crowded House
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Crowded House is a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985. The founding members were New Zealander Neil Finn and Australians Paul Hester, later band members included Neil Finns brother, Tim Finn, and Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod. Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an OBE on both Neil and Tim Finn, in June 1993, for their contribution to the music of New Zealand. Founding drummer Hester left in May 1994 citing family reasons, but briefly returned for their Farewell to the World concerts in Melbourne, Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim. On 26 March 2005 Hester died by suicide, aged 46, in 2006 the group re-formed with a new drummer Matt Sherrod and released two further albums, both of which reached number one on Australias album chart. As of July 2010 the group has sold 10 million albums, in November 2016 they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Neil Finn and drummer Paul Hester were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, Neil Finn is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface. Bassist Nick Seymour is the brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors. Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the first Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, Seymour approached Finn during the after party for the Melbourne show and asked if he could audition for the new band. The Mullanes formed in Melbourne in early 1985 with Finn, Hester, Seymour and guitarist Craig Hooper and they secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album. At Capitols behest, the name was changed to Crowded House. Former Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner produced the track Cant Carry On and was asked to join the band and he toured with them in 1988, but was unable to become a full member due to family commitments. Thanks to their Split Enz connection, the newly formed Crowded House had an established Australasian fanbase and they began by playing at festivals in Australia and New Zealand and released their debut album, Crowded House, in June 1986. Capitol Records initially failed to see the potential and gave them only low-key promotion, forcing the band to play at small venues to try. The albums first single, Mean to Me, reached the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart top 30 in June and it failed to chart in the US, but moderate American airplay introduced US listeners to the group. A single, Dont Dream Its Over, was released in December 1986 and proved an international hit, New Zealand radio stations initially gave the song little support until months later when it became successful internationally. Ultimately, the reached number one on the New Zealand singles chart. It remains the groups most commercially successful song, in March 1987, the group were awarded Best New Talent, along with Song of the Year and Best Video awards for Dont Dream Its Over at the inaugural ARIA Music Awards
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Crowded House, August 2007 (L–R) Liam Finn, Matt Sherrod, Mark Hart, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour
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The band at the
Montreux Pop Festival, May 1988. L to R: Seymour, Finn, Hester.
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Multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart
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Crowded House at the Café De Kroon,
Amsterdam, June 1996. Neil Finn (left) and Mark Hart
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Take That
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Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, the original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald. The group have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom,12 of which have reached number one, internationally, the band have had 56 number one singles and 37 number one albums. They have received eight Brit Awards—winning awards for Best British Group, Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of hits across the UK. Williams rejoined Take That in 2010 for the sixth studio album. Released on 15 November of that year, it was the first album of new material to feature Take Thats original line-up since their 1995 album and it became the fastest-selling album of the 21st century and the second fastest-selling album in British history. In 2014, the recorded a seventh studio album, this time as a trio without Williams. The album, titled III, was released in November 2014 and it was preceded by the single These Days, which became the bands 12th number one single in the UK. In 2012, the band were announced by Forbes as the fifth highest-earning music stars in the world, as of 2017, Take That had sold over 45 million records worldwide. In 1989, Manchester-based Nigel Martin-Smith sought to create a British male vocal singing group modelled after New Kids on the Block, martin-Smiths vision, however, was a teen-orientated group that would appeal to more than one demographic segment of the music industry. Martin-Smith was introduced to young singer-songwriter Gary Barlow, who had been performing in clubs since the age of 15, impressed with Barlows catalogue of self-written material, Martin-Smith decided to build his new-look boy band around Barlows musical abilities. A campaign to audition young men with abilities in dancing and singing followed, at 22, Howard Donald was one of the oldest to audition, but he was chosen after he got time off work as a vehicle painter to continue the process. Prior to auditioning, Jason Orange had appeared as a breakdancer on the television programme The Hit Man. Martin-Smith also selected 18-year-old bank employee Mark Owen and finally 16-year-old Robbie Williams to round out the group, Take Thats first TV appearance was on The Hit Man and Her in 1990, where they performed Barlows self-written, unreleased song, My Kind of Girl. They later appeared a second time to perform Waiting Around, which would become the B-side for the first single, promises and Once Youve Tasted Love were also released as singles but were minor hits in the UK. Take That initially worked the same territory as their American counterparts, singing new jack R&B, urban soul, however they worked their way toward Hi-NRG dance music, while also pursuing an adult contemporary ballad direction
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Take That in June 2011
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Robbie Williams left the band in 1995
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Take That performing at the Newcastle
Metro Radio Arena in 2007
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Take That performing at the Sunderland
Stadium of Light in 2009
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Sade (band)
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Sade are an English band formed in London in 1982. Three of their members were originally from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Sade Adu is the lead singer of the eponymous band. Their music features elements of soul, R&B, jazz, soft rock, and funk. Sades debut studio album Diamond Life, was released in 1984, reaching No.2 in the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies in the UK, and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. The album was also a hit internationally, reaching No.1 in several countries, in late 1985, Sade released their second studio album Promise, which peaked at No.1 in both the UK and the US. It was certified platinum in the UK, and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and their 2000 fifth studio album, Lovers Rock, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Sades sixth studio album Soldier of Love, was released on 8 February 2010, and peaked at No.4 in the UK, in 2011, the band won their fourth Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Sades US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America, the band were ranked at No.50 on VH1s list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. The musical group Sade was formed in London in 1982, by members of a Latin soul band, Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Denman, together with Paul Anthony Cook, formed the break-away group and began to write their own material. They named the band lead singer Sade Adu, and made their debut performance in December 1982 at Ronnie Scotts Club in London in support of Pride. In May 1983 the band performed their first US show at Danceteria Club in New York City, andrew Hale joined the band in 1983, Cook left in 1984. Sade received more attention from the media and record companies than Pride had, on 18 October 1983, the band signed with Portrait Records. When singer Sade and her band of the name were establishing themselves, their record company, Epic. In February 1984, Sade released their first single, Your Love Is King, which became a Top Ten hit. A second single, When Am I Going to Make a Living barely made the Top 40 and it spent over six months in the UK Top Ten and was later certified 4x Platinum by the BPI. Diamond Life won the 1985 Brit Award for Best British Album, the band embarked on their first major UK tour, augmented by Dave Early, Martin Ditcham, Terry Bailey and Gordon Matthewman. A third single, Smooth Operator, was released from the album with a directed by Julian Temple
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Sade performing at the
SAP Arena in
Mannheim,
Germany on November 16, 2011
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New Order (band)
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New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980, currently comprising Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman. The band was formed in 1980 by Sumner, Morris, and Peter Hook and they added Gilbert later that year. By combining post-punk with an influence from electronic and dance music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed. The bands 1983 hit Blue Monday, the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, is one example of how their sound became increasingly uptempo, New Order were the flagship band for Manchester-based independent record label Factory Records. Their unlabelled album sleeves and non-image reflected the aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do. Throughout their career, the records were art-directed by designer Peter Saville. The group disbanded in 1993 to work on projects. In 2001, Cunningham replaced Gilbert, who took a sabbatical from the band because of family commitments, in 2007, Hook left the band over personal conflicts. After Hooks departure, Sumner, Cunningham, and Morris worked on Bad Lieutenant, the band members have been involved in several solo projects, such as Sumners Electronic and Bad Lieutenant, Hooks Monaco and Revenge and Gilbert and Morris The Other Two. In September 2015, the released their tenth studio album. Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the bands second album, Closer. The rest of the band decided soon after Curtiss death that they would carry on, prior to his death, the members of Joy Division had agreed not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave. On 29 July 1980, the unnamed trio debuted live at Manchesters Beach Club. Rob Gretton, the manager for over twenty years, is credited for having found the name New Order in an article in The Guardian entitled The Peoples New Order of Kampuchea. The band adopted this name, despite its previous use for former Stooge Ron Ashetons band The New Order, the group states that the name New Order does not draw a direct line to Nazism or Fascism. The band rehearsed with each taking turns on vocals. Sumner ultimately took the role, as he could sing when he wasnt playing his guitar and they wanted to complete the line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own. Gretton suggested Morriss girlfriend Gillian Gilbert, and she was invited to join the band in early October 1980 and her first live performance with the band occurred at The Squat in Manchester on 25 October 1980
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New Order performing at
EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia in 2012
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New Order performing in 2005
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Tom Jones (singer)
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Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE is a Welsh singer known by his stage name Tom Jones. Joness powerful voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and his performing range has included pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel. In 2008, the New York Times called Jones a musical shape shifter, who could slide from soulful rasp to pop croon, with a voice as husky as it was pretty. Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and in 2006 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music. Jones was born Thomas John Woodward, at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd, in Glamorgan and his parents were Thomas Woodward, a coal miner, and Freda Jones. His maternal grandfather, Albert Jones, was Welsh, and his grandmother, Ada Jones, was born in Pontypridd, to parents from Somerset. Jones attended Wood Road Infants School, Wood Road Junior School and he began singing at an early age, He would regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and in his school choir. Jones did not like school or sports, but gained confidence through his singing talent, at 12 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Many years later he said, I spent two years in bed recovering and it was the worst time of my life. During convalescence he could do little else but listen to music, Joness bluesy singing style developed out of the sound of American soul music. His early influences included blues and R&B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, in March 1957 Jones married his high school girlfriend, Linda Trenchard when they were expecting a child together, both aged 16. The couples son, Mark, was born in the month following their wedding, to support his young family Jones took a job working in a glove factory and was later employed in construction. Joness voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and he became the frontman in 1963 for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group. They soon gained a following and reputation in South Wales. In 1964, the group recorded several tracks with producer Joe Meek, who took them to various labels. Later that year, Decca producer Peter Sullivan saw Tommy Scott and the Senators performing in a club and directed them to manager Phil Solomon, the group continued to play gigs at dance halls and working mens clubs in South Wales. One night at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, Mills became Joness manager and took the young singer to London, and also renamed him Tom Jones, to exploit the popularity of the Academy Award-winning 1963 film. Eventually, Mills got Jones a recording contract with Decca and his first single, Chills and Fever, was released in late 1964
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Jones singing at
House of Blues,
Anaheim, California, 10 March 2009
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Jones duetting with
Janis Joplin in the television program
This Is Tom Jones in 1969
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The star commemorating Jones at the
Orpheum Theatre, Memphis
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Performing at
Hampton Court Palace in London, 2007
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Starsailor (band)
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Starsailor is an English post-Britpop band, formed in 2000. Since its formation the band has included guitarist and vocalist James Walsh, drummer Ben Byrne, bassist James Stelfox and keyboardist Barry Westhead. The band have released four albums, Love Is Here, Silence Is Easy, On the Outside and All the Plans. After the release of their most recent album, All the Plans, Starsailor announced their reunion on 23 May 2014 and began performing worldwide. Despite being known as a Wigan band, only one member of Starsailor is actually from the town, the band met whilst studying Music at the Parsons Walk Campus of Wigan and Leigh College. Bassist James Stelfox and drummer Ben Byrne had been playing together in Warrington, when their regular singer fell ill, they recruited young Chorley singer and songwriter James Walsh from a school choir. He was influenced by Jeff Buckley and his 1994 album Grace in his singing style, comparing it to Oasis Morning Glory. Album, which Walsh says sums up a moment, Grace captures every moment. The band, then named Waterface, had tried a number of guitarists before they asked long-time friend Barry Westhead to join the band in 2000 on keyboards and he had been teaching judo and playing organ for a church near his home town. His arrival has been heralded as the most significant event in the bands formation, Walsh also took up the guitar, following frustration over not finding a musician right for the group. The band started to build up a reputation, and their name changed to Starsailor after the 1970 album Starsailor by Tim Buckley, a journalist from NME saw a gig in 2000 and gave the band a glowing review. Their performance at the Glastonbury Festival added to the bands reputation, the band signed with EMI, the label that a relative of one band member worked for, in 2000. In 2008, in a re-organisation, Starsailor were moved to Virgin Records, fever, the bands first single, was released in early 2001. The song, and its two B-Sides Love Is Here and Coming Down were cut from a recording session in mid-2000. All three tracks went on to feature on Starsailors first album Love Is Here, but were re-recorded, in March 2001 the band sold out its first UK Tour, which consisted of eleven dates in England. Their second single, Good Souls, was released in April, during this period, the band were recording their debut album in Rockfield Studios, Wales. By this time, the band were already previewing many of the tracks in their concerts, most notably Poor Misguided Fool, Lullaby. An acoustic version of Alcoholic appeared on a promotional CD for NME magazine earlier in 2001, the original release date for the album was August 2001
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Starsailor live at Summercase Festival, Madrid
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In concert
Rock in Rio Lisbon 2006
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James Walsh
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Stereophonics
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Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley. The band consists of Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, Adam Zindani, Jamie Morrison, the group previously included Stuart Cable and Javier Weyler on drums. Stereophonics have released nine albums, including six UK number one albums. A successful compilation album, Decade in the Sun, was released in November 2008, described as classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals, the band have been summarised as possessing a sound akin to the genres of alternative rock and British traditional rock. The band reached success with the release of Performance and Cocktails in 1999 and have achieved a total of ten top-ten singles as well as one number one. Having sold around 10 million copies worldwide, Stereophonics are one of the most successful Welsh rock acts, upon their release of Pull the Pin, they became the eighth group to achieve five consecutive UK number one albums. The band is part of the Cardiff music scene, Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable lived on the same street in the village of Cwmaman. Jones heard Cable played drums so asked if he wanted to jam together, after some time practising in Jones dads garage, Nicholas Geek joined in on guitar. Later, Jones invited Paul Rosser and Chris Davies to play on guitar and keyboards. Cable recalls he was the one who suggested that Jones be the singer, in 1986 the band recorded a demo under the name Zephyr. When Jones went on holiday the band played a gig without him, Jones, Rosser and Davies formed their own R&B band called Silent Runner while Cable joined a glam-rock band named King Catwalk on drums. A few years later, Cable got sacked from the band and it was the first contact they had since Zephyr had broken up. Two weeks later, Jones and Cable started speaking again in the Ivy Bush and they agreed to give the band another go but Cable only wanted to play their own songs, to which Jones agreed. The duo invited Mark Everett to play for them on bass guitar, Everett went on holiday for two weeks but Jones and Cable wanted to continue rehearsing, so Jones invited long-time friend Richard Jones to fill in for Everett. Stunned by Richards appearance and bass playing, Cable convinced Kelly to keep him instead of Everett, the band decided they needed another member to play lead guitar. Simon Collier was the first guitarist brought in, but didnt stay in the band, he did, however, the band tried hiring two other guitarists, another Richard Jones and Glenn Hyde. Hyde did however play harmonica on Rooftop for the bands 2001 album Just Enough Education to Perform, after Hyde left, the band stuck as a three-piece act. Kelly, Richard and Cable began writing and performing music in working mens clubs together in 1992 as a known as Tragic Love Company
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Stereophonics performing in Hamburg, Germany on 13 September 2007. From left to right:
Adam Zindani,
Kelly Jones,
Javier Weyler and
Richard Jones.
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Kelly Jones
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Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson, since then, Minogue has been a recording artist and has achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the entertainment industry. Minogue has been recognised with several nicknames including Princess of Pop. She is recognised as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time by the Australian Recording Industry Association, born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Minogue has for many years worked and lived in London. She signed to PWL in 1987 and released her first studio album Kylie the next year, in 1992, she left PWL and signed with Deconstruction Records and where she created her self-titled studio album and Impossible Princess, both of which received positive reviews from critics. Returning to more mainstream dance-oriented music, Minogue signed to Parlophone and her 2001 single Cant Get You Out of My Head became one of the most successful singles during the 2000s, selling over ten million units. It is recognised as her song and was named the catchiest song ever by Yahoo. Her album Fever was a hit in countries, including the United States. In 2005, while Minogue was on her Showgirl, The Greatest Hits Tour, after treatment, she resumed the tour under the title Showgirl, The Homecoming Tour, which critics viewed as a triumph. Minogue resumed work as an actress and appeared in the films Moulin Rouge, Jack & Diane, and Holy Motors. In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the series of The Voice UK. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children books and fashion, as of 2015, Minogue has had worldwide record sales of more than 80 million. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and she was appointed OBE by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2008. She was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science degree by Anglia Ruskin University for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, in December 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 18th most successful dance artist of all-time. Kylie was born to Ronald Charles Minogue and Carol Ann Jones in Melbourne, Australia and her father is a fifth generation Australian, and has Irish ancestry, while her mother came from Maesteg, Wales. Jones had lived in Wales until age ten when her mother and father, Millie and Denis Jones, just before Kylies birth, Ron qualified as an accountant and worked through several jobs while Carol worked as a professional dancer. Kylies younger brother, Brendan, is a cameraman in Australia, while her younger sister Dannii Minogue is also a singer
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Minogue at an
amfAR event, 2015
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The music video for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) (left) was inspired by
John Everett Millais '
Ophelia (1851/52) (right).
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William Baker has cited the 1940s "
Vargas Girl " pinups of
Alberto Vargas as an influence, as demonstrated in the music video for "
Spinning Around " (2000)
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Patrick Wolf
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Patrick Wolf is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick uses a variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano. He is known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments, Wolfs styles range from electronic pop to Baroque chamber music. Patrick Wolf was born in St Thomas Hospital, South London and he attended Kings College School and Bedales School. Wolfs ongoing writing and recordings brought him to the attention of Fat Cat Records, who provided him with an Atari computer, during the recording of Lycanthropy, Wolf studied composition at Trinity College of Music for one year. Lycanthropy was released in the summer of 2003 and he also made some guest appearances as a viola player with Chicks on Speed, Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, CocoRosie, and The Hidden Cameras. The Germany-based Tomlab later released the album in America and Europe and his second album of 2005, Wind in the Wires, which was inspired by Patricks Cornish and Irish roots, was released on the same label and likewise met with critical acclaim. The single Tristan, based on the Cornish legend, Tristram of Lyonesse, received significant attention from critics and its official release on 26 February met with critical acclaim, and gained a degree of commercial success due to the relative accessibility compared to his previous works. The Magic Position was released in the United States on Low Altitude Records on 1 May 2007, a concept album on the theme of love, the majority of the album was written after the end of a long term intimate relationship. In January 2007, the first of six vodcasts was made available on iTunes, the series included live performances of old and new material and interviews. Wolf promoted the album with a tour in North America, Europe, Japan. The album was conceived as a political album. The focus then shifted to the experienced by Wolf during the tour. However, before entering the studio, he fell in love, changing the direction of the album again, so you almost become part of the record company, like a co-owner of the album. On 12 February 2009, Wolf announced that the two discs would be titled The Bachelor and The Conqueror, the Bachelors first single, Vulture, was released on 2 April 2009, on vinyl and digital download. The B-sides include new song, The Tinderbox, and remixes of the title track, the Bachelor was released on 1 June 2009, while the second single from the album, Hard Times, was released on 6 July 2009. The third and final single, Damaris, was released on 14 December 2009, in April 2010 it was announced that Wolf had signed a record deal with Hideout, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, who will release his fifth album, Lupercalia. The final title was announced via Twitter on 23 December 2010, on 4 November 2010, Wolf announced that the first single from Lupercalia was to be Time of My Life and the song was uploaded onto YouTube
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Patrick Wolf
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Placebo (band)
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Placebo are an English alternative rock band, formed in London in 1994 by singer-guitarist Brian Molko and guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal. The band were joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was replaced in 1996 by Steve Hewitt. Hewitt parted ways with the band in 2007 due to personal and musical differences and was replaced the year by Steve Forrest. Placebo are known for their androgynous image and musical content, to date, they have released seven studio albums, all of which have reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom, and have sold around 11 million records worldwide. Placebo founders Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal had both attended the American International School of Luxembourg, but they didnt meet properly until 1994 in London, England. At the time, Olsdal was taking lessons and was on his way home when he met Molko at the South Kensington tube station. Molko, observing that Olsdal had a guitar strapped to his back, on the strength of Molkos performance, Olsdal decided that they should start a band. The two formed as Ashtray Heart, named after the Captain Beefheart song of the same name, originally, the two were unable to decide on a drummer. Molko knew a drummer, Steve Hewitt, and asked him to join the band, however, Hewitt had prior commitments to local band Breed and only had time to play on occasional demos with Molko and Olsdal. Robert Schultzberg assumed the position of drummer in late 1994, Olsdal explained in an MTV interview that the bands name was chosen because of its Latin origins. When translated, it means I will please, Molko has frequently stated in interviews that the name is a rejoinder to the 1990s cliché of naming ones band after a drug. In an interview, Molko stated, Its a complex question to answer, as musicians you try to find a name for your band that represents you and you never really do, because, basically, names for bands lose their meaning after a while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, the most important thing for a name is that you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison. Placebos self-titled debut album was released on 17 June 1996, peaking at No.5 on the UK Albums Chart at the height of the Britpop era, the album spawned several successful singles, most popular being Nancy Boy. Tension with Schultzberg and the rest of the group had begun to rise in the previous year, the band initially fired him in September 1995, but he was rehired to record the first seven-inch single Bruise Pristine. After an argument in August 1996, Molko decided that it would be best for the band if Schultzberg left, the band came to an agreement that Schultzberg would leave once they had finished the promotion of Placebo. Eventually, Schultzberg did indeed leave the band in September 1996, before going on stage for their first show in the state of New York, Olsdal informed Schultzberg that he wasnt going on the tour in Germany that was following the US one. At the managers request, Schultzberg did two shows with the band in Paris after the US tour, the last of which was a performance on the French TV series Nulle part ailleurs
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From left to right:
Brian Molko,
Stefan Olsdal,
Steve Forrest,
Bologna, November 2009
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Molko and Olsdal at
Coachella Festival in April 2007.
Steve Hewitt and most of his drum kit are out of view.
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Steve Forrest in November 2009
