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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype
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Rick Rubin
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Frederick Jay Rick Rubin is a Jewish-American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin is the co-founder of Def Jam Records, with the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and Run–D. M. C. Rubin helped popularize hip hop music, in 2007, MTV called him the most important producer of the last 20 years, and the same year Rubin appeared on Times 100 Most Influential People in the World. Frederick Jay Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach and his father, Michael was a shoe wholesaler and his mother, Linda, a housewife. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the schools audiovisual department director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in playing and songwriting. Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience and these hecklers were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz. Somewhat anecdotally, this story was confirmed in an interview with music journalist Zane Lowe. Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubins father traveled from Nassau County, New York, during his senior year, Rubin founded Def Jam Records using the schools four-track recorder. He moved on to form Hose, influenced by San Franciscos Flipper, in 1982, a Hose track became Def Jams first release, a 45 rpm 7 vinyl single in a brown paper bag, and no label. The band broke up in 1984 as Rubins passion moved towards the NYC hip hop scene, having befriended Zulu Nations DJ Jazzy Jay, Rubin began to learn about hip hop production. By 1983, the two men produced Its Yours for rapper T La Rock, and released it on their independent label, Producer Arthur Baker helped to distribute the record worldwide on Bakers Streetwise Records in 1984. Jazzy Jay introduced Rubin to concert promoter/artist manager Russell Simmons in a club, Simmons and Rubin edged out Jazzy Jay and the official Def Jam record label was founded while Rubin was attending New York University in 1984. Their first record released was LL Cool Js I Need a Beat, Rubin went on to find more hip-hop acts outside The Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem including rappers from Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, which eventually led to Def Jams signing of Public Enemy. Rubin was instrumental in pointing the members of the Beastie Boys away from their roots and into rap. 1985s Rock Hard/Partys Gettin Rough/Beastie Groove EP by the Beastie Boys came out on the success of Rubins production work with breakthrough act Run–D. M. C, which previous recordings were produced by Russell Simmons and Orange Krushs musician Larry Smith. His productions were characterized by occasionally fusing rap with heavy rock, Rubin tapped Adam Dubin and Ric Menello to co-direct the music videos for the Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right and No Sleep till Brooklyn, effectively launching the bands mainstream hip hop careers. It was the idea of Rick Rubins friend Sue Cummings, an editor at Spin magazine, to have Run–D. M. C. and this 1986 production is often credited with both introducing rap hard rock to mainstream ears and revitalizing Aerosmith. In 1986, he worked with Aerosmith again on demos for their forthcoming album, in the same year, Rubin began his long musical partnership with Slayer, producing Reign in Blood, considered a classic of the heavy metal genre
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Abbey Road Studios
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Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St Johns Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, Abbey Road Studios is most notable as being the 1960s venue for innovative recording techniques adopted by the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Hollies, Badfinger and others. One of its earliest world-famous-artist clients was Paul Robeson, who recorded December 1931, towards the end of 2009, the studio came under threat of sale to property developers. However, the British Government protected the site, granting it English Heritage Grade II listed status in 2010, originally a nine-bedroom Georgian townhouse built in 1831 on the footpath leading to Kilburn Abbey, the building was later converted to flats where the most flamboyant resident was Maundy Gregory. In 1931, the Gramophone Company acquired the premises and converted it into studios, pathé filmed the opening of the studios when Sir Edward Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in recording sessions of his music. In 1934, inventor of stereo sound, Alan Blumlein, recorded Mozarts Jupiter Symphony which was conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at the studios, the neighbouring house is also owned by the studio and used to house musicians. During the mid-20th century, the studio was used by leading British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. The Gramophone Company amalgamated with Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI and it was under this name that in 1936 cellist Pablo Casals became the first to record Johann Sebastian Bachs Cello Suites No.1 &2 at the command of EMI head Fred Gaisberg. The recordings went on to spur a revolution among Bach aficionados, in 1958, Studio Two at Abbey Road became a centre for rock and roll music when Cliff Richard and the Drifters recorded Move It there, and later pop music material. The Beatles named their 1969 album Abbey Road, after the street where the studio is located, the studio was renamed Abbey Road Studios in 1970 after the Beatles album had made it famous. Iain Macmillan took the cover photograph outside the studios, with the result that the nearby zebra crossing has become a place of pilgrimage for Beatles fans. It has been a tradition for visitors to pay homage to the band by writing on the wall in front of the even though it is painted over every three months. December 2010, the crossing at Abbey Road was given a Grade II listed status. Pink Floyd recorded most of their late 1960s to mid-1970s albums here, the Shadows named their Live at Abbey Road album after the studio, with the cover spoofing the Beatles album. The chief mastering engineer at Abbey Road was Chris Vinyl Blair, in 1979, EMI commissioned the British jazz fusion band Morrissey-Mullen to record Britains first digitally recorded single record at Abbey Road Studios. From July 18 to September 11,1983, the public had an opportunity to see inside the legendary Studio Two where The Beatles made most of their records. While a new mixing console was being installed in the control room, the soundtrack to the video had a number of recordings that were not made commercially available until the release of The Beatles Anthology project over a decade later. The Red Hot Chili Peppers used a photograph of the walking across the zebra crossing naked on the front of The Abbey Road E. P. which was released in 1988
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Mercury Records
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Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records, in the UK, Mercury Record Corporation was formed in the American city of Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg and Arthur Talmadge. They were a force in jazz and blues, classical music, rock and roll. Early in the history, Mercury opened two pressing plants, one in Chicago and the other in St. Louis, Missouri. With the use of presses and providing 24-hour turnaround, they went into direct competition with major recording labels such as Columbia, Decca, Capitol. By hiring two promoters, Tiny Hill and Jimmy Hilliard, they penetrated the pop market with such as Frankie Laine, Vic Damone, Tony Fontane. Rather than rely on radio airplay, Mercury initially relied on jukeboxes to promote their music, some early Mercury recordings featured a caricature of him as its logo. In 1947 Jack Rael, a musician and publicist/manager, persuaded Mercury to let Patti Page record a song that had planned to be done by Vic Damone. The budget was too small for them to hire a second singer to provide the parts to Page. The company released a number of recordings under the Mercury label as well as its subsidiaries. In addition, they leased and purchased material by independent labels, under their own label, Mercury released a variety of recording styles from classical music to psychedelic rock. However, its subsidiaries focused on their own specialized categories of music, Mercurys jazz division had two distinct and important fathers. John Hammond brought his expertise and connections when Mercury bought Keynote Records in the late 1940s, and Mercury was the issuing company and distributor for Norman Granzs pre-Norgran/Verve recordings. Although both Hammond and Granz had departed Mercury by the mid-1950s, they established the company in the jazz world, by the early 1960s, Mercury was releasing jazz under the flagship label and was an early leader in the new stereo sound releases. Highlights of the early and mid-1960s included albums by Quincy Jones, Buddy Rich, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, in the early 1950s, Norman Granz started his own record company, Norgran, which later became Verve. In an ironic twist, both Mercury and Verve are now owned by Universal Music Group and Mercurys jazz library falls under the Verve division. Since the early 1990s, Verve has reissued many Mercury jazz titles on CD, often taking care to use original master tapes, in 1962, Mercury began marketing a line of phonographs made by Philips bearing the Mercury brand name. In July 1967, Mercury Records became the first U. S. record company to release cassette music tapes, in 1969, Mercury changed its corporate name to Mercury Record Productions Inc. while its parent Conelco became North American Philips Corp after Philips brought control of the company
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Steve Lillywhite
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Stephen Alan Lillywhite, CBE is an English record producer. He has won six Grammy Awards, including the Producer of The Year in 2006, Lillywhite was born in Surrey, England. From 1984 to 1994 he was married to Kirsty MacColl, with whom he had two sons, Jamie and Louis and he has been married to Patricia Louise Galluzzi since 29 May 2004. He was made a Commander of the Order of The British Empire in 2012 for his contributions to music, Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a recording for Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a producer, where he worked with many of the leading new wave musicians, including the guitarist Johnny Thunders for whom he produced a solo album. His first commercial success was with Siouxsie and the Banshees in August 1978, after producing their debut single and he also produced Ku Klux Klan, the first single that Steel Pulse released under Island Records in 1978. In February 1980 the Psychedelic Furs self-titled debut album was released, produced by Lillywhite and he also produced Peter Gabriels critically acclaimed third solo album Peter Gabriel, which was released in May 1980 and topped the UK album chart. It established Gabriel as one of rocks most ambitious, innovative musicians, during the recording of the album he pioneered the gated reverb drum sound which became a hallmark of Phil Collins solo career. Later in the year, Boy, the album of U2, was released, produced by Lillywhite. Lillywhites collaboration with U2 continued with the albums October and War, Lillywhite was also hired by Rush to produce their 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure but, much to their frustration, withdrew from the project to work with Simple Minds. In 1987 Lillywhite worked with the Pogues, producing Fairytale of New York and his wife, Kirsty MacColl, provided the lead female vocal for the song, which became the bands biggest hit. The single narrowly missed being the UK Christmas number one single, the song Cotton Fields, from the Pogues 1989 album Peace and Love, includes a reference to Steve Lillywhites drunken mix. During the 1990s, Lillywhite produced the platinum albums Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash. In 1991, he continued to produce Morrissey and co-produced songs from U2s Achtung Baby, working alongside Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Flood. That same year he returned to Dublin to produce Engine Alleys debut album entitled A Sonic Holiday, and Kirsty MacColl again provided additional vocals and he also produced albums by Travis and the debut by The Las. In 1996, he produced Phishs Billy Breathes, and he returned to produce Joy in 2009, lilywhite was featured as the subject for a BBC Radio 1 documentary series on record producers. In 1999, he produced the US band Gusters Lost and Gone Forever, in 2000, Lillywhite was fired from his fourth album by the Dave Matthews Band after band members cited creative differences
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Brian Eno
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Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. He is best known for his work in rock, ambient, pop. He has been described as one of musics most influential. Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at art school in the late 1960s before joining glam rock group Roxy Music as synthesizer player in 1971. He took part in frequent collaborations with such as Robert Fripp, Cluster, David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy. In subsequent decades, Eno continued to record albums, collaborate, and produce for other artists, including U2, Coldplay, Laurie Anderson, James, Grace Jones. He continues to release music, produce, and write, the unusual surname Eno, long established in Suffolk, derives from the French Huguenot surname Hennot. Maria had already had a daughter, and together William and Maria would have two children, Roger and Arlette. In school, Eno used a tape recorder as an instrument and experimented with his first, sometimes improvisational. From that collaboration, he involved in Cornelius Cardews Scratch Orchestra. The first released recording in which Eno played is the Deutsche Grammophon edition of Cardews The Great Learning, Another early recording was the Berlin Horse soundtrack, by Malcom Le Grice, a nine-minute,2 ×16 mm-double-projection, released in 1970 and presented in 1971. He then progressed to appearing on stage as a member of the group. He quit the band on completing the tour for the bands second album, For Your Pleasure, because of disagreements with lead singer Bryan Ferry. If Id walked ten yards further on the platform, or missed that train, or been in the next carriage, during his period with Roxy Music, and for his first three solo albums, he was credited on records only as Eno. Eno embarked on a career almost immediately. Between 1973 and 1977 he created four albums of electronically inflected art pop, Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, and Before and After Science. Tiger Mountain contains the galloping Third Uncle, one of Enos best-known songs and these four albums were remastered and reissued in 2004 by Virgins Astralwerks label. Due to Enos decision not to add any extra tracks of the original material, in 1972, Eno and Robert Fripp developed the Frippertronics tape delay system, a year later, the pair released the proto-ambient album
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Daniel Lanois
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Daniel Roland Lanois is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Lanois has released albums of his own work. However, he is best known for producing albums for a variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson. Lanois also collaborated with Brian Eno, most famously on producing albums for U2, including the multi-platinum The Joshua Tree. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, four other albums received Grammy nominations. Lanois wrote and performed the music for Billy Bob Thorntons film Sling Blade, later, Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of bands, including Martha. In 1981 Lanois played on and produced the album This Is The Ice Age by Martha And The Muffins, IN1985 he earned a CASBY award for his work on a Martha and the Muffins album. Lanois worked collaboratively with Brian Eno on some of Enos own projects, Eno invited him to co-produce U2s album The Unforgettable Fire. Lanois once again collaborated with U2 and Brian Eno on the bands 2009 album and he was involved in the songwriting process as well as mixing and production. Lanois early work with U2 led to him being hired to produce albums for other top-selling artists, bono recommended Lanois to Bob Dylan in the late 1980s, in 1989 Lanois produced Dylans Oh Mercy. Eight years later Dylan and Lanois worked together on Time Out of Mind which won another Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997, in his autobiographical Chronicles, Vol.1, Dylan describes in depth the contentious but rewarding working relationship he developed with Lanois. Lanois spent most of 1985 producing So, Peter Gabriels Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling album, Lanois also co-produced Gabriels platinum selling follow-up, Us. Wrecking Ball, his 1995 collaboration with Emmylou Harris, won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, in 1998, he produced and appeared on Willie Nelsons album Teatro. Lanois was working on Neil Youngs record Le Noise in June 2010 when he was hospitalized after suffering injuries in a motorcycle crash in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. Lanois production is recognizable and notable for its big and live sound, atmospheric guitars. Rolling Stone called Lanois the most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties, as well as being a producer, Lanois is also a songwriter, musician and recording artist. He has released solo albums and film scores
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Jimmy Iovine
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James Jimmy Iovine is an American record and film producer. He is best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records and chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M, in 2006, Iovine teamed with Dr. Dre to found Beats Electronics, a company which produces audio products and operated a now defunct music streaming service. The company was purchased by Apple for $3 billion in May 2014, James Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a teenager, Iovine was introduced to production after he met a songwriter who got him a job cleaning a recording studio. He began working as a professional around 1972. Since the start of his career, Iovine has been involved in the production of more than 250 albums, in the early 1970s, Iovine became a recording engineer, working with John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, among others. By 1973, Iovine was on staff at the New York studio the Record Plant and he came to prominence via his work on the 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which included her Top 40 hit Because the Night. He teamed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle, Iovine also produced Bella Donna, Making Movies for Dire Straits, and Get Close for The Pretenders. Iovine was also responsible for supervising the music used in the 1984 romance film, Sixteen Candles and 1988 comedy film, in 1990, Iovine co-founded Interscope Records, which became Interscope Geffen A&M after a merger in 1999. Iovine signed Tupac Shakur to a contract as one of the first Hip Hop acts on the Interscope label in 1991. Iovine was also responsible for providing distribution, initial funding and financial oversight for the highly successful Death Row Records hip hop label in the 1990s. In 2002, Iovine co-produced the Academy Award-winning Eminem movie,8 Mile, additionally, Iovine executive produced the 2009 LeBron James documentary, More Than A Game and 50 Cents Get Rich or Die Tryin. In 2008, Iovine teamed up with Dr. Dre to co-found Beats By Dr. Dre, due in part to the design of its headphones and an expansion into smartphones and automotive audio systems, the company has captured 40 percent market share of the headphones industry. In January 2013, Iovine announced the expansion of the Beats brand into the digital music world with Daisy. Former Topspin Media executive Ian Rogers and Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor were said to be involved, on May 28,2014, Apple Inc. announced the acquisition of Beats Electronics. Iovine was hired to assume a position at Apple where he helped in the creation of Apple Music. In 2005, Iovine made a guest appearance as himself on Dont Make Me Over, from 2011 to 2013, Iovine was a mentor on Foxs American Idol. Iovines protégés—Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez, and Candice Glover—release their music through Interscope, Iovine stopped working with the show in mid-2013
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Live from Paris (U2 album)
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Live from Paris is a concert video and live album by Irish rock band U2. It was recorded at the concert at Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, France. The concert was released in video form on the bonus DVD in the remastered box set of The Joshua Tree. The following year, the concert was released as a music download exclusively in the iTunes Store on 21 July 2008. The missing songs are Stand by Me, Cmon Everybody, and Help
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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The Saints Are Coming
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The Saints are Coming was the third single by the Scottish punk rock band Skids, featured on their 1979 debut album, Scared to Dance. The song became an international number 1 hit when it was covered in 2006 by U2 and it was covered again in 2008 by Von Thronstahl. The single was released as part of a four-track EP, Wide Open, the song was also released on their 1979 debut album Scared to Dance. The song featured Richard Jobson singing of a man facing inclement weather and personal fears, the songs lyrics were written by Richard Jobson with music by Stuart Adamson, who later went on to form Big Country. As with the following single, Into the Valley, it is sung by fans of Dunfermline Athletic F. C. Track listing for the 1978 EP single, Wide Open, which features The Saints Are Coming, in September 2006, it was announced that U2 and Green Day were to record a cover version of the song for charitable purposes. This was the first game in the Louisiana Superdome since it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The live performance of the song was sold online to benefit Music Rising. The lyrics of all four songs were customized by singers Billie Joe Armstrong and Bono to commemorate the trials, tribulations, punctuating the 68,000 fans first season-ticket sellout of the Louisiana Superdome in its 31-year history, the New Orleans Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons 23-3. Since then, the song has played at Saints home games before they take the field. The live version of The Saints Are Coming was immediately available for download purchase at Real Rhapsody. The studio version of the song was released for download on 30 October 2006. The song also appears on the U2 compilation album U218 Singles, the song was played for the first time by U2 alone on the Pacific Leg of the Vertigo Tour in Brisbane, Australia, on 7 November 2006. The only performance of song by Green Day alone was on the 7th of August,2009 when the band performed the song in New Orleans. Billie Joe Armstrong also ad-libbed lines from the song over the solo to Green Day hit single Holiday during some performances on their 21st Century Breakdown World Tour in the summer of 2010. A music video for The Saints Are Coming, directed by Chris Milk, was released on YouTube on 27 October 2006, according to Chris Milk, this was done to make a commentary on the Katrina disaster. From the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future, the video had more than two million views on YouTube five days after its initial upload. The single earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
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Window in the Skies
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Window in the Skies is a song by rock band U2 and is one of two new songs featured on their 2006 compilation album U218 Singles. It was released on 1 January 2007 as the second single. It was recorded in September 2006 at Abbey Road Studios in London, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The song reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart and Dutch Top 40, there are two different music videos for this song. U2 released the first music video for Window in the Skies on 20 November 2006, a second version of the video was released a few weeks later. The first video, directed by Gary Koepke, is a montage that includes nearly 100 clips taken from footage from the previous 50 years of other musicians performing in concert. The only confirmed location of the video is the Corner Hotel in Richmond in Melbourne, the band is featured only very briefly in the crowds as fans. The second video, directed by Jonas Odell, is another montage, the camera flies through a surreal landscape with floating buildings and still images, mostly of the band from their U2 By U2 autobiography, morphing into each other. The song has only performed on the fifth leg of U2s Vertigo Tour. The Edge played the song on a Rickenbacker 330-12, List of Canadian number-one singles of 2001–07 List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2007 List of number-one hits of 2007
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Cover version
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A cover version can also refer to a rerecording of a song by the original artist or performers under a different record company. Originally, Billboard and other magazines that track the popularity of artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune. Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, some versions being more successful recording than the original song. Before the onset of rock n roll in the 1950s, songs were published and several records of a song might be out by singers of the day. The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylans original, became a Top 10 single in the UK in 1968 and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazines 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The term cover goes back decades when cover version originally described a version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released version. The Chicago Tribune described the term in 1952, trade jargon meaning to record a tune that looks like a hit on someone elses label. Examples of records covered include Paul Williams 1949 hit tune The Hucklebuck, both crossed over to the popular Hit Parade and had numerous hit versions. In fact, one of the objects of publishing sheet music was to have a composition performed by as many artists as possible. In previous generations, some artists made very successful careers of presenting revivals or reworkings of once-popular tunes, musicians now play what they call cover versions of songs as a tribute to the original performer or group. Using familiar material is an important method of learning music styles, until the mid-1960s most albums, or long playing records, contained a large number of evergreens or standards to present a fuller range of the artists abilities and style. Artists might also perform interpretations of a favorite artists hit tunes for the pleasure of playing a familiar song or collection of tunes. A cover band plays cover versions exclusively. Some tribute acts salute the Who, The Rolling Stones and many classic rock acts. Many tribute acts target artists who remain popular but no longer perform, many tribute bands attempt to recreate another bands music as faithfully as possible, but some such bands introduce a twist. Dread Zeppelin performs reggae versions of the Zeppelin catalog and Beatallica creates heavy metal fusions of songs by the Beatles, there are also situations in which a member of a tribute band will go on to greater success, sometimes with the original act they tribute. One notable example is Tim Ripper Owens who, once the singer of Judas Priest tribute band British Steel. Cover acts or bands are entertainers who perform a variety of crowd-pleasing cover songs for audiences who enjoy the familiarity of hit songs
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Green Day
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Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. For much of the career, the band has been a trio with drummer Tré Cool. Guitarist Jason White, who has worked with the band as a member since 1999, was an official member from 2012 to 2016. Green Day was originally part of the scene at the DIY924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley. The bands early releases were with the independent record label Lookout, in 1994, its major label debut Dookie became a breakout success and eventually shipped over 10 million copies in the U. S. The bands rock opera, American Idiot, reignited the bands popularity with a younger generation, the bands eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released in 2009 and achieved the bands best chart performance to date. 21st Century Breakdown was followed up by a trilogy of albums called ¡Uno, ¡Dos. and ¡Tré. which were released in September, November and December 2012 respectively. The bands twelfth album, Revolution Radio was released on October 7,2016 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Green Day has sold more than 85 million records worldwide, in 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical was nominated for three Tony Awards, Best Musical, Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design, losing only the first, also in 2010, Green Day was ranked no.91 in the VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On April 18,2015, the band was inducted into the Rock, in 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt,14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children. The groups first live performance took place on October 17,1987, at Rods Hickory Pit in Vallejo, in 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt began working with former Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante. As said in the film Punks Not Dead, Armstrong cites the band Operation Ivy as an influence. In 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout, Records, saw the band play an early show and signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band recorded its debut extended play,1,000 Hours, before 1,000 Hours was released, the group dropped the name Sweet Children, according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby. The band adopted the name Green Day, due to the fondness for cannabis. Released Green Days debut studio album, 39/Smooth in early 1990, Records re-released 39/Smooth under the name 1, 039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, and added the songs from the bands first two EPs, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours. In late 1990, shortly after the bands first nationwide tour, Kiffmeyer left the East Bay area to attend Humboldt State University in Arcata, California
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Skids (band)
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Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife in 1977 by Stuart Adamson, William Simpson, Thomas Kellichan and Richard Jobson. Their biggest success was the 1979 single Into the Valley and the 1980 album The Absolute Game, in 2016 the band announced a 40th anniversary tour of the UK with their original singer Richard Jobson. Skids played their first gig on 19 August 1977 at the Bellville Hotel in Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline, within six months they had released the Charles EP on the No Bad record label, created by Sandy Muir, a Dunfermline music shop owner turned manager. The record brought them to the attention of national BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel and this led to a local gig supporting The Clash. Virgin Records then signed up Skids in April 1978, the singles Sweet Suburbia and The Saints Are Coming both made commercial inroads, before Into the Valley reached the UK Top 10 singles chart in early 1979. The band released their studio album, Scared to Dance. It was recorded at The Townhouse Studios in London, England with production, Adamson walked out towards the end of the sessions before all the guitar overdubs were completed. In the meantime, Adamson returned to Scotland when the recording was finished and he rejoined the band for the live concert tour promotion of the album. The record included The Saints Are Coming, which was covered in late 2006 as a charity single by U2. Skids enjoyed a year of chart success as Masquerade and Working for the Yankee Dollar reached the UK Top 20 singles chart. Both came from their album, also released in 1979, Days in Europa, with the records production. Nelson was the choice for the records production duties as he was not only Adamsons principal guitar hero. Nelson also played an important role in polishing Skids sound and in encouraging the development of Jobsons lyrics, just before recording of the album commenced, Kellichan left the band and was temporarily replaced on drums by Rusty Egan. Egan played on the album and later on the concert tour of the record. Keyboard player Alistair Moore also temporarily joined the band to live with them. He had been recruited to play Bill Nelsons keyboard parts from the record, in November 1979 Mike Baillie, ex-Insect Bites, was recruited as a permanent band member, taking care of the drums, backing vocals and percussion). He slowly took over from Egan, while the band was still touring Days in Europa, some of Jobsons lyrics as well as the album cover caused controversy. It showed an Olympian being crowned with laurels by an Aryan-looking woman, some, including DJ John Peel, felt that this glorified Nazi ideology and it was indeed similar to posters from the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Germany
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Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. The storm is ranked as the third most intense United States landfalling tropical cyclone. Overall, at least 1,245 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, total property damage was estimated at $108 billion, roughly four times the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in the United States. Early the following day, the new depression intensified into Tropical Storm Katrina, the cyclone headed generally westward toward Florida and strengthened into a hurricane only two hours before making landfall at Hallandale Beach and Aventura on August 25. After very briefly weakening to a storm, Katrina emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August 26. The storm caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge, severe property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as Mississippi beachfront towns, over 90 percent of these were flooded. Boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, over fifty breaches in New Orleanss hurricane surge protection were the cause of the majority of the death and destruction during Katrina on August 29,2005. Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, according to a modeling exercise conducted by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, two-thirds of the deaths in Greater New Orleans were due to levee and floodwall failure. All of the studies concluded that the USACE, the designers and builders of the levee system as mandated by the Flood Control Act of 1965, is responsible. This is mainly due to a decision to use shorter steel sheet pilings in an effort to save money, exactly ten years after Katrina, J. Many other government officials were criticized for their responses, especially New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, several agencies including the United States Coast Guard, National Hurricane Center, and National Weather Service were commended for their actions. They provided accurate hurricane weather tracking forecasts with sufficient lead time, Hurricane Katrina formed as Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas on August 23,2005, as the result of an interaction of a tropical wave and the remains of Tropical Depression Ten. It strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina on the morning of August 24, the tropical storm moved towards Florida, and became a hurricane only two hours before making landfall between Hallandale Beach and Aventura on the morning of August 25. The storm weakened over land, but it regained hurricane status about one hour after entering the Gulf of Mexico, on August 27, the storm reached Category 3 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, becoming the third major hurricane of the season. An eyewall replacement cycle disrupted the intensification, but caused the storm to nearly double in size, the storm rapidly intensified after entering the Gulf, growing from a Category 3 hurricane to a Category 5 hurricane in just nine hours. This rapid growth was due to the movement over the unusually warm waters of the Loop Current. Katrina attained Category 5 status on the morning of August 28 and reached its peak strength at 1800 UTC that day, with sustained winds of 175 mph. However, this record was broken by Hurricane Rita
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I Will Follow
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I Will Follow is a song by rock band U2. It is the track from their debut album, Boy. Lead singer Bono wrote the lyrics to I Will Follow in tribute to his mother who died when he was 14 years old, I Will Follow is the only song that U2 have performed on every tour since they released their first album. The song was U2s first music video, directed by Meiert Avis in Dublin, I Will Follow was written three weeks before U2 began recording Boy. U2 singer Bono has said that he wrote the song from his mothers perspective and his mother died following her own fathers funeral when Bono was fourteen, which the singer says plunged him into emotional turmoil for the next few years. In the recording of the song for the Boy album, its producer Steve Lillywhite plays a glockenspiel, edge has acknowledged John McGeogh as an influence on his early sound, the guitar line on this tune evokes comparison to Magazines Because Youre Frightened. I Will Follow had a single release as a live version in the Netherlands and Germany in 1982. It appeared on both the album and video collection The Best of 1980-1990, and in some countries. The song is included in the 2015 music video game Rock Band 4 as a playable track and it is the bands most frequently performed song with over 800 performances. It also appears on Vertigo 05, Live from Milan, the bonus DVD that is included with the U218 Singles compilation, U2 performed the song on the BBC2 television show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1981. The performance was released on DVD on a compilation of performances from the show. In 2005, Blender ranked the song at number 214 on its list The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, the magazine wrote, The first song on U2s first album introduced the guitar sound that would define their work. The arena-ready clarion call also established Bonos trademark lyrical earnestness, one of the reasons the song remains a fan favorite, note The Netherlands release was recorded for the Veronica TV concert series Countdown, and was reissued in Germany in 1983. The cover of the Canadian and U. S. releases feature the image as the North American release of Boy. The 1983 release was in a red sleeve with no cover artwork
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Photograph
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A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic medium such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scenes visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography, the word photograph was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς, meaning light, and γραφή, meaning drawing, writing, together meaning drawing with light. The first permanent photograph, a copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based heliography process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. In 1829 Niépce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre and the two collaborated to work out a similar but more sensitive and otherwise improved process, after Niépces death in 1833, Daguerre concentrated on silver halide-based alternatives. He named this first practical process for making photographs with a camera the daguerreotype and its existence was announced to the world on 7 January 1839 but working details were not made public until 19 August. Other inventors soon made improvements which reduced the exposure time from a few minutes to a few seconds, making portrait photography truly practical. The daguerreotype had shortcomings, notably the fragility of the image surface. Each was a unique opaque positive that could only be duplicated by copying it with a camera, inventors set about working out improved processes that would be more practical. By the end of the 1850s the daguerreotype had been replaced by the expensive and more easily viewed ambrotype and tintype. The mid-1930s saw the introduction of Kodachrome and Agfacolor Neu, the first easy-to-use color films of the modern multi-layer chromogenic type, the needs of the motion picture industry generated a number of special processes and systems, perhaps the best-known being the now-obsolete three-strip Technicolor process. Non-digital photographs are produced with a chemical process. In the two-step process the film captures a negative image. To produce an image, the negative is most commonly transferred onto photographic paper. Printing the negative onto transparent film stock is used to motion picture films. Alternatively, the film is processed to invert the negative image, such positive images are usually mounted in frames, called slides. Before recent advances in photography, transparencies were widely used by professionals because of their sharpness. Most photographs published in magazines were taken on color transparency film, originally, all photographs were monochromatic or hand-painted in color
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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country
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Beautiful Day
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Beautiful Day is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the first track from their 2000 album, All That You Cant Leave Behind and it was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is U2s biggest hit to date. Like many tracks from All That You Cant Leave Behind, Beautiful Day harkens back to the groups past sound. The tone of the Edges guitar was a subject of debate amongst the band members, lead singer Bono explained that the upbeat track is about losing everything but still finding joy in what one has. The song received positive reviews, and it became their fourth single in the UK. It also reached the top of the charts in Australia, Canada, Finland, their native Ireland, Italy, Norway, the song peaked at number 21 in the United States, the bands highest position since Discothèque in 1997. In 2001, the song won three Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The group has played Beautiful Day at every one of their concerts since the songs 2001 live debut on the Elevation Tour, Beautiful Day was written in several stages, originating from a composition called Always that the band created in a small room at Hanover Quay Studio. However, they were unimpressed with it, as guitarist the Edge said, As a straight rock song. After lead vocalist Bono came up with the beautiful day lyric, the Edges backing vocals for the chorus were improvised one night with co-producer Daniel Lanois, an addition he called the key to the chorus and its new lyrics. At the same time, the band was looking for a more forward-looking sound and this led to debate amongst the band when the Edge was playing the song on his Gibson Explorer guitar with a tone used in much of their early material up to their 1983 album War. Bono was particularly resistant to the tone the Edge was playing with. As he explains, It was because we were coming up with innovative music that I felt a license to use some signature guitar sounds. The Edge believes the contrast between these more electronic qualities of the track and his vocals with Lanois benefited the song. The mixing process proved difficult, lasting two weeks, several changes were made during this period, Bono added a guitar part that played the songs chord progression to double the bass, an addition that solidified everything, according to the Edge. The Edge also changed the line in the chorus and converted a keyboard idea of Bonos into a guitar part that added a sour quality to balance the tracks positivity. Lanois described the song as one of those little gifts where you think, my god. Beautiful Day is played at a tempo of 136 beats per minute in a 4/4 time signature, the song opens with a reverberating electric piano playing over a string synthesiser, introducing the chord progression of A–Bm7–D–G–D9–A
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All That You Can't Leave Behind
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All That You Cant Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and was released on 30 October 2000 on Island Records in the United Kingdom, at the time of the albums release, U2 said on several occasions that they were reapplying for the job. The best band in the world, U2 brought back Eno and Lanois, who had produced three of the bands previous albums. The album was originally named U2000, which had been a title for their PopMart Tour. All That You Cant Leave Behind received favourable reviews from critics, the songs Beautiful Day, Walk On, Elevation, and Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of were all successful singles. The record and its songs won seven Grammy Awards, it is the album in history to have multiple tracks win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Beautiful Day in 2001. In 2003, the album was ranked number 139 on Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the supporting Elevation Tour, on which the band returned to playing arenas with a more intimate stage design, was also a critical and commercial success. Throughout the 1990s, U2 experimented with rock and electronic dance music, culminating with their 1997 album Pop. Guitarist The Edge said that with Pop, the band had taken the deconstruction of the rock n roll band format to its absolute nth degree. They reunited with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who produced their albums The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree. Although the band wanted to develop new material before beginning to record, for three weeks in late 1998, U2, Eno, and Lanois recorded demos in Hanover Quay Studios. One of the few quality ideas that stemmed from these sessions was the song Kite. Lead singer Bonos vocals inspired everyone in the studio, particularly after he had been suffering from vocal problems for the few years. U2 thought they would have a new completed in time for 1999. After the bands brief demo sessions, The Edge worked alone on song ideas before the band reunited at Hanover Quays and they recorded with the mentality of a band in a room playing together, an approach that led to the albums more stripped-down sound. Bonos involvement in the Jubilee 2000 campaign prevented him from dedicating all of his time to the recording, something Eno thought was a distraction. There was also a break in the sessions when Bono collaborated with Lanois. The band had thought they could complete the album for 1999, U2 did not want to put a deadline on completing the album after their experience with Pop, which had to be rushed to completion into order to meet the deadline set by their pre-booked PopMart Tour
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
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I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the albums second single in May 1987. The song was a hit, becoming the second consecutive number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 while peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart. The song originated from a demo the band recorded on which drummer Larry Mullen Jr. played a rhythm pattern. Like much of The Joshua Tree, the song was inspired by the groups interest in American music, I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For exhibits influences from gospel music and its lyrics describe spiritual yearning. Lead singer Bonos vocals are in register and lead guitarist the Edge plays a chiming arpeggio. Adding to the qualities of the song are choir-like backing vocals provided by the Edge and producers Brian Eno. I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For was critically acclaimed and received two nominations at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988, for Record of the Year and it has subsequently become one of the groups most well-known songs and has been performed on many of their concert tours. The track has appeared on several of their compilations and concert films, I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For originated from a demo variously titled The Weather Girls and Under the Weather that the band recorded during a jam session. Bassist Adam Clayton called the melody a bit of a one-note groove, while an unconvinced The Edge. However, the band liked the part played by drummer Larry Mullen Jr. Co-producer Daniel Lanois said. We always look for those beats that would qualify as a signature for the song, and that certainly was one of those. It had this thing that he does and nobody ever understands. And we just didnt want to let go of that beat, Lanois encouraged Mullen to continue developing the weird drum pattern beyond the demo. The group worked on the track at the studio they had set up at Danesmoate House in Dublin. Lanois compared the creation of the song to constructing a building, first laying down the drums as the foundation, then adding additional layers piece by piece, before finally putting in furniture. After the Edge wrote a sequence and played it on acoustic guitar with a lot of power in the strumming. During a jam session, Bono began singing a classic soul melody, at that point, he remembered a phrase he had written in a notebook that morning as a possible song title, I still havent found what Im looking for
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The Joshua Tree
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The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 on Island Records, inspired by American tour experiences, literature, and politics, U2 chose America as a theme for the record. Recording began in January 1986 in Ireland, and to foster a relaxed, creative atmosphere, Recording was completed in November 1986, additional production continued into January 1987. Throughout the sessions, U2 sought a cinematic quality for the record, one that would evoke a sense of location, in particular and they represented this in the sleeve photography depicting them in American desert landscapes. The Joshua Tree received critical acclaim, topped the charts in over 20 countries, according to Rolling Stone, the album increased the bands stature from heroes to superstars. The album won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988, the group supported the record with the Joshua Tree Tour throughout 1987. Frequently featured on lists of the greatest records, The Joshua Tree is one of the worlds best-selling albums. U2 commemorated the records 20th anniversary with a remastered re-release, and its 30th anniversary with announcements of a concert tour. In 2014, it was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the US Library of Congress, before The Joshua Tree, U2 had released four studio albums and were an internationally successful band, particularly as a live act having toured every year in the 1980s. The groups stature and the anticipation for a new album grew following their 1984 record The Unforgettable Fire, their subsequent tour. U2 began writing new material in mid-1985 following the Unforgettable Fire Tour, I saw the spoiled child of the Western world. I started thinking, They may have a desert. And thats what attracted me to the desert as a symbol of some sort, in 1985, Bono participated in Steven Van Zandts anti-apartheid Sun City project and spent time with musicians Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. When Richards and Jagger played blues, Bono was embarrassed by his lack of familiarity with the genre, Bono realised that U2 had no tradition, and he felt as if they were from outer space. This inspired him to write the blues-influenced song Silver and Gold, nascent friendships with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Richards encouraged Bono to look back to rocks roots and to focus on his skills as a songwriter and lyricist. He explained, I used to think that writing words was old-fashioned, I wrote words on the microphone. For The Joshua Tree, I felt the time had come to words that meant something. Dylan told Bono of his own debt to Irish music, while Bono further demonstrated his interest in music traditions in his duet with Irish Celtic, the group referred to this approach as working within the primary colours of rock music—guitar, bass, and drums
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Pride (In the Name of Love)
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Pride is a song by Irish rock band U2. The second track on the bands 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire, it was released as the albums lead single in September 1984. Written about Martin Luther King, Jr. the song received mixed reviews at the time. Pride appeared on the compilation The Best of 1980-1990 as the opening track, the song ranked number 388 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The melody and the chords were worked up in a November 1983 War Tour sound check in Hawaii, the guitar part is subtly varied through each verse, chorus, and melody, such that no riff is exactly repeated. The song had been intended to be based on Ronald Reagans pride in Americas military power, in subsequent years, Bono has expressed his dissatisfaction with the lyrics, which he describes, along with another Unforgettable Fire song Bad, as being left as simple sketches. In U2 by U2, Bono said, I looked at how glorious that song was and thought and its just a load of vowel sounds ganging up on a great man. It is emotionally very articulate - if you didnt speak English, the song contains the erroneous reference to Kings shooting as Early morning, April 4, when it actually occurred after 6 p. m. Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances he occasionally changes the lyric to Early evening, chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders sang backing vocals on the recording. She was married to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds at the time, Pride is in the key of B. The song follows a progression of B-E–A–F♯m and the solo is B–D–E–E. Pride reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart and #8 on the Dutch Singles Chart, the song was the bands first top 40 hit in the United States where it peaked at #33. It gained considerable US album-oriented rock radio airplay and its video was on rotation on MTV. It reached #1 in New Zealand, the first time a U2 single topped a countrys singles chart, initial critical reactions to Pride were mixed, especially in regards to the lyrics. Robert Christgau in The Village Voice complained of the moralism with the glorification of Martin Luther Kings martyrdom. Meanwhile, Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone wrote that Pride gets over only on the strength of its resounding beat and big, droning bass line, not on the nobility of its lyrics, which are unremarkable. But the 1984 Pazz & Jop poll of 240 music critics ranked Pride as the 12th best single of year, a higher ranking than the overall album. The singles ranking remained the highest of any U2 single until One achieved 8th in 1992, and in 1989, Spin named the song the 65th-greatest single in history
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The Unforgettable Fire
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The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 1 October 1984, the band wanted a different musical direction following the harder-hitting rock of their 1983 album War. They employed Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois to produce and assist in experimenting with a more ambient, the resulting change in direction was at the time the bands most dramatic. Recording began in May 1984 at Slane Castle, where the band lived, wrote, the album was completed in August 1984 at Windmill Lane Studios. It features atmospheric sounds and lyrics that lead vocalist Bono describes as sketches, two songs feature lyrical tributes to Martin Luther King Jr. The Unforgettable Fire received generally favourable reviews from critics and produced the bands biggest hit at the time, Pride, as well as the live favourite Bad, a 25th Anniversary edition of the album was released in October 2009. The title is a reference to The Unforgettable Fire—an art exhibit about the bombing of Hiroshima. The band saw the exhibit in November 1983 in Japan while on the War Tour, U2 feared that following the overt rock of their 1983 War album and War Tour, they were in danger of becoming another shrill, sloganeering arena-rock band. The success of the 1983 Under a Blood Red Sky live album, as bassist Adam Clayton recalls, We were looking for something that was a bit more serious, more arty. The band had recorded their first three albums with producer Steve Lillywhite, and rather than create the son of War, they sought experimentation, both Lillywhite and the band agreed that it was time for a change of producers and not to repeat the same formula. The band had considered using Jimmy Iovine to produce a new record, however, they found their early musical ideas for the album to be too European for an American producer. They also considered approaching Conny Plank, whose credits included Can and Kraftwerk. Guitarist The Edge had an appreciation of musician Brian Enos work. The band were fond of his work with Talking Heads. Having never worked with such as U2s, Eno was also initially reluctant. When the band played him Under a Blood Red Sky, his eyes glazed over, Eno had brought along his engineer Daniel Lanois to his meeting with U2 intending to recommend Lanois work with the band instead. Enos earlier doubts were resolved by Bonos power of persuasion and his perception of what he called U2s lyrical soul in abundance. Eno commented that the band were struggling against it as if they were frightened of being overpowered by some softness
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With or Without You
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With or Without You is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the track from their fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree. With or Without You features sustained guitar parts played by guitarist the Edge with a prototype of the Infinite Guitar, along with vocals by lead singer Bono, the song originated from a demo recorded in late 1985 that the group continued to work on throughout The Joshua Tree sessions. Ostensibly a troubled love song, the lyrics were inspired by Bonos conflicting feelings about the lives he led as a musician. Critics praised the song upon its release and it is frequently performed on the bands tours, and it has appeared on many of their compilation albums and concert films. With or Without You is U2s second most frequently covered song, in 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number 132 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In late 1985, U2 convened at a house that drummer Larry Mullen, during this time, a rough demo of With or Without You was written, with lead vocalist Bono composing the songs chord sequence. The band continued to work on the song at STS Studios, creating many permutations of the track, guitarist The Edge considered the song at that point to be awful. The track consisted of a Yamaha drum machine beat and a part played by bassist Adam Clayton using an Ibanez bass guitar with a short scale. According to Clayton, these versions of the song sounded too sentimental. The sessions for The Joshua Tree started in earnest in 1986, the group attempted to take the song in a different direction, although Bono was reluctant. Despite the work continued to put into the track, the group considered abandoning the song. Bono and his friend Gavin Friday continued to work on the song after Lanois, Bono credits Friday with rescuing the song and rearranging it, believing it could be a hit. Eno added a keyboard arpeggio, similar to the one from Bad, the songs fate was still in doubt when The Edge was sent a prototype of the Infinite Guitar by Canadian musician Michael Brook, with whom he had collaborated for the Captive soundtrack. The prototype included elaborate assembly instructions and as The Edge recollects, one wrongly placed wire and this piece of gear would have failed even the most basic of safety regulations. On subsequent tours, his guitar technician occasionally received electric shocks from the instrument when preparing it for performances. Listening to the track to With or Without You in the control room, Bono. The combination of the guitar and the track being played together impressed those listening
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Vertigo (U2 song)
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Vertigo is a song by Irish rock band U2. It won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song, the song lent its name to the bands Vertigo Tour. The song ranked number 64 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of the Decade, in the case of Vertigo, I was thinking about this awful nightclub weve all been to. Its that woozy, sick feeling of realizing that here we are, and in the middle of the club, theres this girl. I dont even know if shes beautiful, it doesnt matter but she has a cross around her neck, during the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb recording sessions, Vertigo was originally recorded as a song called Full Metal Jacket. Bono said during a webchat that the song was the mother of all rock n roll tunes, I dont know where it came from but its a remarkable guitar thing. You want to hear it - its a reason to make a record, the title was later changed to Native Son. The lyrics in this iteration are about a man who was against his country due to his lack of freedoms. The song went through different musical and lyrical arrangements. New lyrics were written and Lillywhite helped the band rearrange the song and it was at this point that the song was rewritten into Vertigo. At 3,08 long, Native Son is just a few seconds short of the run time of Vertigo, U2 performed Vertigo in a television commercial for the Apple iPod as part of a cross-marketing plan to promote both the album and Apples music products. At the beginning of the song, Bono counts off in Spanish Unos, dos, tres, in English, this translates to some, two, three, fourteen. When asked about this oddity in an interview for Rolling Stone, Bono replied there may have been some alcohol involved. Some sources have suggested that as the first words spoken on the album and this theory is supported by the fact the final track on the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album is titled Yahweh, another name for the Christian and Hebrew god. The count off was parodied by novelty singer Richard Cheese on his version of U2s Sunday Bloody Sunday on his 2005 album Aperitif for Destruction. A Spanish reply of ¡Hola. is also heard behind the Hello, hello of the refrain, upon release, Vertigo debuted at number 18 on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also debuted at one on the Hot Digital Tracks chart and, after falling to number 4. The track later moved into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and it spent 20 weeks on the chart
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How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 22 November 2004 on Island Records and Interscope Records, the album was produced by Steve Lillywhite, with additional production from Chris Thomas, Jacknife Lee, Nellee Hooper, Flood, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, and Carl Glanville. Looking for a more hard-hitting sound than that of their previous album, after nine months of work, the band had an albums worth of material ready for release, but they were not satisfied with the results. The group subsequently enlisted Lillywhite to take over as producer in Dublin in January 2004, Lillywhite, along with his assistant Lee, spent six months with the band reworking songs and encouraging better performances. U2 lead singer Bono described the album as our first rock album and its taken us twenty years or whatever it is, but this is our first rock album. Thematically, the touches on life, death, love, war, faith. The album and its singles won all nine Grammy Awards for which they were nominated, the album was also included in Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade at number 68. Lead singer Bono explained that he had to ask himself a few hard questions before carrying on recording, I wanted to check where I was to where I am. So I went back and listened to all the music made me want to be in a band, right from the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie. And what was interesting is, that was what a lot of people in bands now are listening to anyway, so in a funny way, it made us completely contemporary. Looking for a rock sound than that of All That You Cant Leave Behind, U2 began recording How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. After nine months of work, the band had a worth of material ready for release. The group subsequently enlisted Steve Lillywhite to take over as producer in Dublin in January 2004, Lillywhite, along with his assistant Jacknife Lee, spent six months with the band reworking songs and encouraging better performances. A demo version of the album was stolen while the band were having their photo taken for a magazine in France in July 2004 and it contained unfinished versions of several songs that made it onto the album. The band publicly announced that if those tracks were leaked online, several months later, tracks from the album were released online, but they were the finished products, and not the rough demos from The Edges stolen CD. The track is of less than standard audio quality, but managed to become a favorite on fan websites and it was cut from the final release, but is described by Blender Magazine as a six-and-a-half-minute outpouring of U2 at its most uninhibitedly U2-ish. The lyrics to the song can be found in the booklet for the Special Limited Edition, Adam Clayton said of Atomic Bomb, Its very much a guitar record. Vertigo, Love and Peace, City of Blinding Lights, All Because of You, all pretty up, rocky tunes
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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War (U2 album)
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War is the third studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite, and was released on 28 February 1983 on Island Records, U2 recorded the album from September–November 1982 at Windmill Lane Studios with Lillywhite producing, the groups third consecutive album made at the studio with the producer. Musically, it is also harsher than the previous releases. The album has been described as the record where the band turned pacifism itself into a crusade, War was a commercial success for the band, knocking Michael Jacksons Thriller from the top of the charts to become the bands first number-one album in the UK. It reached number 12 in the US and became their first gold-certified album there, while poorly received by British critics at the time of release, War has since gained critical acclaim. In 2012, the album was ranked number 223 on Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the group supported the album with the War Tour through the end of 1983. In August 1982, Bono and Ali honeymooned in Jamaica and it has been noted that it was not a typical honeymoon, as Bono reportedly worked on the lyrics for the upcoming album. The lyrics to New Years Day had its origins in a love song Bono wrote for his wife, the band began recording the album in September 1982 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin with producer Steve Lillywhite, their third consecutive record at the studio with the producer. The albums opener, Sunday Bloody Sunday, an ardent protest song, stems from a guitar riff, following an argument with his girlfriend, and a period of doubt in his own song-writing abilities, the Edge – feeling depressed. Channeled fear and frustration and self-loathing into a piece of music, Early versions of the song opened with the line, Dont talk to me about the rights of the IRA, UDA. After Bono had reworked the lyrics, the band recorded the song, the opening drum pattern soon developed into the songs hook. A local violinist, Steve Wickham, approached the Edge one morning at a bus stop, in the studio for only half a day, Wickhams electric violin became the final instrumental contribution to the song. During the sessions for Sunday Bloody Sunday, Lillywhite encouraged drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. to use a click track, a chance meeting with Andy Newmark – a drummer who used a click track religiously – changed Mullens mind. Mullen used the track to stay in time for other songs on the album. Mullen said of the album in a 1983 interview, I think the drumming has always been pretty simple, for War I use a click track, something I havent used before, its a way of keeping time in my headphones. When I listened to the music in time with the click track I knew I had to bring it down to the real basics, hopefully for the next LP it will be more complicated, Ill move on. I think of it as a progression for myself because I learned a lot recording this album, just about my own style. I think there is a style on War where there isnt on the previous albums
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Mysterious Ways (song)
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Mysterious Ways is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby and was released as the albums second single on 25 November 1991. The song reached the top ten of the charts in several countries, including the bands native Ireland. In the United States, the song topped the Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts, the song began as an improvisation called Sick Puppy, with the band only liking the bass part that bassist Adam Clayton composed. The band struggled to build a song from it, with vocalist Bono, the songs breakthrough came after guitarist the Edge began experimenting with the Korg A3 effects unit. Mysterious Ways features a beat, funky guitar hook, and conga-laden percussion, as well as mystical lyrics by Bono about romance. A music video for the song was filmed in Morocco and incorporated distorted images of Bono, Mysterious Ways made its live debut on the Zoo TV Tour in 1992, when performances were accompanied by an on-stage belly dancer. The group has continued to perform the song on subsequent tours, the band liked Claytons bassline, which originated during their recording of a cover version of Night and Day and for a while, consisted of little more than a one-note groove. However, the band had difficulties completing the remainder of the song melodically. Bono said that it was a line in search of a song. As U2 continued to struggle with the song, the atmosphere of the recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin took its toll. Producer Daniel Lanois arrived at the early one morning before the band to work on ideas he had for the song. When Bono arrived, he began singing and contributing vocal ideas, Bono and a frustrated Lanois proceeded to argue intensely for over two hours, worrying sound engineer Joe OHerlihy that a physical altercation would ensue. Bono looks back on the episode with a sense of humour and he cares about the record hes making as much and more than any band or artist hes working with. The song One, which proved to be breakthrough in the recording sessions for Achtung Baby. The Edge caught Lanois attention while toying around with chord progressions for the bridge of Mysterious Ways. Encouraged by Lanois, the Edge combined two of the progressions, inspiring the rest of the group to join him and improvise the new song One. The band made progress on Mysterious Ways after the Edge began experimenting with the Funk Wah setting on a Korg A3 guitar effects unit, Bono said it made an envelope of sound which would turn a guitar chord into the funkiest of jackhammers
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Achtung Baby
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Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 18 November 1991 on Island Records, thematically, Achtung Baby is darker, more introspective, and at times more flippant than their previous work. Seeking inspiration from German reunification, U2 began recording Achtung Baby at Berlins Hansa Studios in October 1990, the sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction and the quality of their material. After tensions and slow progress nearly prompted the group to disband, morale and productivity improved during subsequent recording sessions in Dublin, where the album was completed in 1991. To confound the publics expectations of the band and their music, U2 chose the records facetious title and colourful multi-image sleeve. Achtung Baby is one of U2s most successful records, it received reviews and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 Top Albums. Five songs were released as singles, all of which were chart successes, including One, Mysterious Ways. The album has sold 18 million copies worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1993 for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Achtung Baby has since been acclaimed by writers and music critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. The record was reissued in October 2011 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its original release, U2s high exposure and their reputation for being overly serious led to accusations of grandiosity and self-righteousness. By the bands 1989 Lovetown Tour, they had become bored with playing their greatest hits. U2 believe that audiences misunderstood the groups collaboration with blues musician B. B. King on Rattle and Hum and the Lovetown Tour, and they described it as an excursion down a dead-end street. Bono said that, in retrospect, listening to black music enabled the group to create a work such as Achtung Baby, while their experiences with folk music helped him to develop as a lyricist. Towards the end of the Lovetown Tour, Bono announced on-stage that it was the end of something for U2, following the tour, the group began, what was at the time, their longest break from public performances and album releases. Reacting to their own sense of stagnation and to their critics. They wrote God Part II from Rattle and Hum after realising they had excessively pursued nostalgia in their songwriting, the song had a more contemporary feel that Bono said was closer to Achtung Babys direction. Much of the material they wrote was experimental, and according to Bono, ideas deemed inappropriate for the play were put aside for the bands use. During this period, Bono and the Edge began increasingly writing songs together without Mullen or bassist Adam Clayton, in mid-1990, Bono reviewed material he had written in Australia on the Lovetown Tour, and the group recorded demos at STS Studios in Dublin. The demos later evolved into the songs Whos Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Until the End of the World, Even Better Than the Real Thing, and Mysterious Ways
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Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
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Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of is the second single from U2s 2000 album, All That You Cant Leave Behind. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 2002, Bono has said the song was inspired by a fictional conversation with his friend Michael Hutchence about suicide. Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of emerged while The Edge was working on a chord progression on the piano. U2s lead singer Bono wrote the song about the suicide of his close friend Michael Hutchence, the song is written in the form of an argument about suicide in which Bono tries to convince Hutchence of the acts foolishness. Bono characterized the song as a fight between friends, which he felt guilty for never having with Hutchence, as Bono said in 2005, Its a row between mates. Youre kinda trying to wake them up out of an idea, in my case its a row I didnt have while he was alive. I feel the biggest respect I could pay to him was not to write some stupid soppy song, so I wrote a tough, nasty little number. And Im sorry, but thats how it came out of me, mick Jagger and his daughter Elizabeth recorded backing vocals for the song, although these did not make the final mix. The video features a cameo in the beginning from John Madden. The main part of the shows a placekicker named Paul Hewson—Bonos real name—forced to re-live a field goal he missed that cost his team the game. The other video, directed by Kevin Godley, shows Bono being thrown out of a van several times, at the end of the video, the rest of the band helps him up. Somalian-Canadian rapper Knaan performed the live in July 2010 for iHeartRadio. Stuck in a Moment You Cant Get Out Of was released on 29 January 2001 in the UK, on 12 February 2001 in Australia, on 27 March in France, note Track 4 only available on the Australian limited edition CD. Note Track 4 only available on the Australian limited edition CD, note Released only in Japan, featuring most B-sides from both regular CD releases. Note A Canada-only release on late October 2001, also available on CD, Bono – vocals, synthesisers The Edge – vocals, guitar Adam Clayton – bass guitar Larry Mullen, Jr. Its lyrics include a reference to the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, beautiful Day - this remix was released, in a shorter version, in a promotional CD along with an issue of Q magazine. Beautiful Day and New York - this was a performance on 27 October 2000 for the American TV show and these two songs were lifted from that performance. Stay - this performance from the Elevation Tour was transmitted live for the We Know Where You Live, Live, TV special, which was later released in DVD
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