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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Barrowland Ballroom
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Barrowland Ballroom is a dance hall and music venue located in Glasgow, Scotland. The original building opened in 1934 in an area east of Glasgows city centre. The Barras street market, after which the area and the ballroom are named, the Barrowland building includes large street-level halls used for the weekend markets, with a sizeable weatherproof hall above. The front of the building is decorated with an animated neon sign. The sign is believed to be the biggest of its kind in the UK, the building was largely destroyed by fire in 1958, leading to a complete rebuild. The rebuilt ballroom opened on Christmas Eve 1960, in more recent years, the Ballroom has become a major concert venue with a capacity of around 2,100 people, known for its acoustics and its sprung dance floor. Simple Minds filmed the video for their 1983 hit single, Waterfront, oasis, U2, The Stranglers, The Clash, The Smiths, Big Country, Muse, Foo Fighters and Marillion were a number of the acts to play the hall. Adjacent to the Ballroom itself is the Barrowland Park where there is a pathway which features the names of artists who have played at the venue over the decades. Between 1968 and 1969, three women, Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald and Helen Puttock were found brutally murdered after nights at the Barrowland. All three murders were attributed to a man dubbed Bible John by police after he was referring to the Old Testament to one of his victims. Similarities between the murders led police to believe that they were the work of the same man, all three women were charmed at the Barrowland Ballroom, all were escorted home and were raped and strangled within yards of their doorstep. All three women were menstruating and their handbags were stolen, an investigation failed to find Bible John, and the murders remain unsolved. On the night of the murder of Helen Puttock, Puttocks sister Jeannie Langford was with her, Jeannie described Bible John as, 25-35 years old, reddish/fair hair, wore a blue suit and matching trousers with white shirt. Spoke very politely and was very religious, in 2007 following the murder of Angelica Kluk, speculation arose that serial killer Peter Tobin was Bible John. There are similarities between both individuals modus operandi, Tobin frequented the Barrowland regularly and moved to Brighton in late 1969 when the killings ended. The Barrowlands 2 is a part of the Barrowlands ballroom and is used both as a bar when larger shows are playing in the hall and also as a venue itself to host smaller gigs. While it occasionally plays host to smaller or acoustic gigs from more established acts, its function is to give small bands local to Glasgow a performance stage. The promoters also host an event showcasing unsigned local talent in the ballroom every year, selecting the best of the acts from the year
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Radio Clyde
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Radio Clyde is a group of four Independent Local Radio stations serving Glasgow and West Central Scotland. Radio Clyde is owned and operated by Bauer Radio, based at studios in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Radio Clyde began broadcasting as the commercial radio station in Scotland at 10. 30pm on Monday 31 December 1973. First ILR station outside London on 261 metres medium wave and 95.1 FM, the stations studios were originally located at the Anderston Centre complex within Glasgow city centre, but moved to its current site at Clydebank in 1983. The original slogan was Radio Clyde,261, all together now, Radio Clydes output was split into two distinct services on Friday 12 August 1988 with the launch of a separate Clyde FM service carrying chart music at weekends. The split became permanent on Wednesday 3 January 1990 with the AM service carrying a classic hits format, Radio Clyde was controlled by Scottish Radio Holdings until 2005, when the company was acquired by Emap. It changed hands again in 2008 when Emap sold their consumer magazines, a third service was launched on Monday 19 January 2015 as Clyde 3, carrying a locally branded version of The Hits on DAB with opt-outs for local news, traffic and advertising. Ultimately, however, Bauer Radio were unsuccessful in their bid, and, notable past presenters include Paul Coia, Ken Sykora, Richard Park, Tiger Tim Stevens, Mark Goodier, Tom Russell who presented the long running Friday Night Rock Show and Dougie Donnelly. BBC Breakfast anchor Bill Turnbull began his career in journalism at the station, Radio Clyde forms one of Bauers main radio production centres. Clyde 1 Clyde 2 Clyde 1 Clyde 2 Clyde 3
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Radio Forth
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Radio Forth is a group of three Independent Local Radio stations serving Lothian and Fife. Radio Forth is owned and operated by Bauer Radio, based at studios in Edinburgh, Radio Forth was launched on 22 January 1975 by current chairman Richard Findlay, whose opening speech included the words, This, for the very first time, is Radio Forth. The first presenter on air was breakfast show host Steve Hamilton, in 1990, Forth created a second station on its AM frequency. Before this, Radio Forth was broadcast as a station on both FM and AM frequencies. The FM station was renamed Radio Forth RFM and aimed at an age group. The FM station was later renamed Forth FM and then in the mid-late 90s, in 2000, both stations were relaunched as 97.3 Forth One and 1548 FORTH2. Many changes occurred at time, including new presenters and a revamped station sound. Forth 2 was redesigned as a contemporary music station while Forth One continued to play chart. Radio Forth was owned by Scottish Radio Holdings until 3 June 2005 when British media group EMAP took over, in January 2008, the companys radio business was brought out by the German-based Bauer group. Most of Radio Forths locally-produced programming airs on Forth 1, consisting of 13 hours on weekdays and 4 hours at weekends, all three stations also carry local news, sport and traffic bulletins every day. Some networked programming is produced by Radio Forth for broadcast across Scotland and northern England, alongside output from sister stations such as Radio Clyde in Clydebank, Edinburgh and District Churches’ Council for Local Broadcasting Forth One Forth 2 Official website Radio Forth in 1980
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Toby Jepson
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Toby Matthew Jepson is a singer and songwriter, and was lead vocalist and guitarist in the British rock band Little Angels between 1984 and 1994. Between 2008 and 2010, he was the singer with Scottish rock band Gun. Jepson formed Mr Thrud with his school friend Mark Plunkett in Scarborough, eventually breaking out and achieving national success, Mr Thrud became Little Angels and went on to release three albums and tour the UK throughout the early 1990s. The band had twelve Top 40 hit singles, including Too Much, Too Young and Womankind in 1993, and they toured with Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and Van Halen, and performed their own headlining tours taking in venues such as Hammersmith Apollo and The Royal Albert Hall. They were arguably one of the most successful and popular British bands of their time, when the band split in 1994, Jepson continued to write and produce music. His solo debut album was released in 1995 under the moniker Toby & The Whole Truth, Ignorance Is Bliss showed a different side to his songwriting, and he embarked on a tour to support it. This tour was cut due to illness that developed into pneumonia, and this affected sales of the album and his profile. Jepson spent a long out of the spotlight, during which time he moved to Bristol. He earned a living working as an actor on various productions and busying himself with various projects - including writing and recording. He returned to the eye in late 2001 and announced a short club tour with a new band. He toured the UK through the start of 2002, and released the Refresh EP over the Internet, a re-issue of Ignorance Is Bliss was also made available at this time. As a premium membership feature of his website, he launched the MP3 Club in which subscribers would receive exclusive recordings delivered straight to their inbox via email every month. Jepson and his continued writing and recording when they got off the road. Around this time work commenced on Twisted Rhapsodies, a collection of live material, demos. Before its release, however, Jepson announced over his website that it was likely that this was to be his final output, in November 2005, Jepsons fortunes appear to have improved considerably, and he resurfaced again to tour with Thunder. He toured twice in the UK during 2006, The first tour supporting Thunder, and this new tour premiered new songs to a fan base. In March 2007, Jepson released the first of three EPs entitled Guitar, Bass and Drums, and immediately began touring to promote them. In addition to headlining his own shows, he was a special guest to former Black Sabbath vocalist Glenn Hughes, at a date in Shepherds Bush, EP2 was released in September 2007 to rave reviews
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Gallus (album)
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Gallus is the second album from Scottish rock band Gun. Singles Higher Ground, Steal Your Fire, and Welcome to the Real World reached #48, #24, gallus itself peaked at the #14 slot on the countrys official albums chart. The releases cover shows Benny Lynch, a renowned Scottish boxer from Glasgow, he achieved international fame during his career and continued notoriety after his death in August 1946. The albums release took place when the group was a made up of vocalist Mark Rankin alongside guitarists Alex Dickson and Giuliano Gizzi, bassist Dante Gizzi. Gallus was produced by Kenny MacDonald, who had previously produced work by singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole, al Clay did the audio engineering on the album. He had previously engineered releases by such as the American groups Pixies
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Swagger (Gun album)
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Swagger is the third album from the Glasgow, Scotland based rock band Gun. It features their most successful single, their cover of Word Up, done in the groups melodic hard rock style, provided a commercial boost to its parent album. Their version earned the band the Best Cover trophy at the first international MTV Europe Music Awards, the track was originally recorded by American funk group Cameo. The album produced a total of four U. K, top 40 singles between July 1994 and April 1995, Word Up. Dont Say Its Over, The Only One, and Something Worthwhile, the first track was on the official British singles chart for a total of seven weeks. Swagger has also received mixed to positive reviews from various publications such as Allmusic. The albums release took place after a change in the bands line-up, with the group becoming a quartet made up of Mark Rankin, Giuliano Gizzi, Dante Gizzi. Swagger was produced and engineered by Chris Sheldon and he had previously worked with other English, Irish, and Scottish artists such as the singer-songwriters Hugh Cornwell, Gary Numan, and Roger Waters in the 1980s and 1990s. Nina Schultz took the photographs of the group from which the cover was picked. In 2005, the album was ranked #465 in the German language book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time, an online article from the publication stated that each and every track on the album could potentially serve as a hit single. A supportive yet mixed review by music critic Tim DiGravina of Allmusic stated that the group finds it hard to settle on any one style throughout Swagger while noting the large cult following. The critic also remarked on the similarity of style in some respects to Simple Minds, mentioning how Guns then drummer, Mark Kerr, is the brother of that other groups vocalist, Jim Kerr. Guns version of Word Up. won the Best Cover trophy at the first international MTV Europe Music Awards, with that event being held on November 24,1994 at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Said event was hosted by notable singer-songwriter Tom Jones, Gun edged out Wet Wet Wets take on Love Is All Around and the Pet Shop Boys cover of Go West among other songs. Swagger reached the peak of #5 on the official British albums chart, stand in Line Find My Way Word Up. Dont Say Its Over The Only One Something Worthwhile Seems Like Im Losing You Crying Over You One Reason Vicious Heart 1994 in music Chris Sheldon production discography Gun - Official Website
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Word Up! (song)
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Word Up. is a funk and R&B song recorded by Cameo in 1986. Its frequent airing, on American dance and R&B radio, as well as its MTV music video, in the UK, it spent 10 weeks in the top 40, peaking at number 3 on September 21,1986. The song was written by band members Larry Blackmon and Tomi Jenkins, besides being a commercial success, the track also earned critical acclaim from several publications. Word Up. won Cameo the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single as well as the NME Award for Best Dance Record, like the bands previous single Single Life, Word Up. Features a reference to the notes of Ennio Morricones theme to The Good, the Bad. Word Up was a colloquialism, popular in New York City and other US urban areas, Blackmon said of the song, It just sounded good, and it was before its time. You can play “Word Up” anyplace anywhere, and someone is going to be grooving and bobbing their head and our sound was unique, as well. I haven’t heard another one like it, and we probably won’t hear another one like it in the future and it was that significant for us. In the 1990s, Word Up. was first covered by British rock band Gun, whose version carried a harder, more rock-oriented sound, taken from their album Swagger, it was released on July 1,1994, and reached number 8 in the UK singles chart. Two versions of the CD single were released in the UK, each carrying different cover art, guns version of the song was featured on the soundtrack to 1996 film Barb Wire, and was also used in the CSI, Crime Scene Investigation season one episode Who Are You. The Gun version was featured on the 2011 series of British television show Dancing on Ice. Word Up. was later covered by Mel B of the Spice Girls and it was released on June 28,1999. It peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, the single was also on the Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack and was later featured on the Japanese edition of her album Hot. Word Up. sold about 77,996 copies in the United Kingdom, Digital download EP Word Up –3,23 Sophisticated Lady –2,43 Word Up –5,31 Word Up. by American nu metal band Korn is a cover of the Cameo song. Its musical arrangements are similar to that of the version by Gun. It is the only Korn single to be sent out to Top 40 radio stations, notably receiving airplay on New York Citys Z-100, the largest Top 40 station in the US. The music video for the song, directed by Antti Jokinen, the cover was featured in Credit Where Credits Due, an episode of the television series Veronica Mars. The track is featured in the video game Lego Rock Band
