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Atlanta
Atlanta (, ) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Atlanta had an estimated population of about 540,900 people. Its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the country, inhabited by more than 5.4 million people. The Atlanta Combined Statistical Area has a population approaching six million, making it the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States. Like many areas in the Sun Belt, the Atlanta region has seen explosive growth since about 1976, and it added about 1.1 million residents between 2000 and 2008.
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Birmingham ( , locally ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with a population of 1,028,700 (2009 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the United Kingdom's second most populous Urban Area with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area, which includes surrounding towns to which it is closely tied through commuting, is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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Cairo
Cairo (; , literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror") is the capital of Egypt, the largest city in Africa and the Arab World, and one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life. Even before Cairo was established in the 10th century, the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in adjacent Giza.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati () is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,200 in 2009, making it the state's third-largest city. According to a 2008 Census Bureau estimate, the Cincinnati metropolitan area had a population of 2,155,137 making it the largest MSA in Ohio (surpassing Cleveland, which ranks 26th), and the 24th most populous in the United States. Residents of Cincinnati are called Cincinnatians.
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Croatia
Croatia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska ), is a country in Central Europe and Southeastern Europe at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Adriatic Sea. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. Croatia borders Slovenia to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Indonesia
Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
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Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, and by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east. The islands are collectively referred to as the Ionian Islands, and other islands include the Strophades, Sphagia, Schiza, Sapientza and Kythira. The sea is one of the most seismic areas in the world.
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Kuala Lumpur (translated as: "muddy confluence," "muddy estuary," and "muddy city"; in English; Malay , locally or even , and often abbreviated as K.L.) is the capital and largest city of Malaysia. The city proper, making up an area of , has an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2006. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million. It is the fastest growing metropolitan region in the country, in terms of population as well as economy.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Malaysia
Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
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Monaghan
Monaghan () is the county town of County Monaghan in Ireland. It's population at the 2006 census stood at 7,811 (including rural area). The town is located on the main road, the N2 road, from Dublin north to both Derry and Letterkenny.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Ontario, California
Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 170,373. It is the home of LA/Ontario International Airport and the Ontario Mills. It is also the former home of the Ontario Motor Speedway. It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home province of Ontario, Canada.
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Republic Of Ireland
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane (, ) is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, as well as the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region. The city is located on the Spokane River in Eastern Washington, 110 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian border, approximately from the Washington-Idaho border, and east of Seattle.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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TWA Flight 514
TWA Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.
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U.S.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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West Germany
West Germany () is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG () in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. This period, during which Germany and Berlin were divided, ended when communist East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the eleven states of the Federal Republic of Germany. The enlarged Federal Republic of Germany with sixteen states (known simply as "Germany") is thus the continuation of the pre-1990 Federal Republic of Germany, and not its successor.
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Xi'an
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Zagreb
Zagreb () is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is situated in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. In 2008, Zagreb's population was 804,200.
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Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
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Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the series Bewitched.
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards.
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Albert Claude
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Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Del Piero () Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born November 9, 1974 in Conegliano, Veneto) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays for Serie A club Juventus.
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Alessandro Petacchi
Alessandro Petacchi (born 3 January 1974 in La Spezia, Liguria) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for .
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Alexander Wurz
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Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Michelle Flaherty in three American Pie films and Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
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Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she landed the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Anatole Litvak
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Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, 11 May 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. (Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Hewish's graduate student, was not recognized, although she was the first to notice the stellar radio source that was later recognised as a pulsar.) He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.
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Ariel Ortega
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega (born 4 March 1974) is an Argentine football attacking midfielder, who plays for River Plate. His nickname is "El Burrito" ("The Little Donkey"), thus he is called "Burrito Ortega".
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Arturo Jauretche
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Babe Ruth
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Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna.
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Barry Watson (actor)
Michael Barrett "Barry" Watson (born April 23, 1974) is an American actor, known for his roles of Matt Camden on 7th Heaven, Brian Davis in What About Brian and Todd Deepler in Samantha Who?
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Bear Grylls
Edward Michael Grylls, nicknamed "Bear", (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Born Survivor, known as Man vs. Wild in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. He is the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, doing so at age 23. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.
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Ben Wallace
Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is an American basketball player for the Detroit Pistons. Nicknamed "Big Ben", he plays the center and power forward positions, and is listed at and . He has won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times, a record he shares with Dikembe Mutombo. Wallace was a member of the Detroit Pistons team that won the NBA championship in 2004.
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Birmingham Six
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Breckin Meyer
Breckin Erin Meyer (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and drummer.
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Brian Harvey
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Bud Abbott
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
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Carmit Bachar
Carmit Bachar (born September 4, 1974) is an American singer, dancer, model and actress. She was a member of the successful pop/R&B; group, The Pussycat Dolls and one of the main vocalists of the group, along with Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton. Bachar left the group in February 2008. She is currently recording her debut album with a debut solo single to be released early 2010.
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Carsten Ramelow
Carsten Ramelow (; born 20 March 1974) is a retired German footballer, who played as either a central defender or a defensive midfielder.
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Cass Elliott
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Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (born November 4, 1974 in Redwood City, California) is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American musician known for his work as frontman and lyricist of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta, and previously as frontman and occasional guitarist of the post-hardcore punk group At the Drive-In. Cedric has a High Tenor vocal range, spanning from the G above Low C (G2) to Soprano C (C6). He has also played drums for a number of acts, including the dub act De Facto.
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Cee Lo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1974), better known by his stage name Cee Lo Green or simply Cee Lo, is an American hip hop, funk, neo soul, and R&B; musician. He is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Goodie Mob and more recently Gnarls Barkley, and has also recorded two critically acclaimed solo LPs.
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Chad Hugo
Chad Hugo (born February 24, 1974) is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as one half of the music production and writing duo The Neptunes and as a member of the funk/rock band N.E.R.D. He is a saxophonist, pianist and guitarist. Along with his production partner Pharrell Williams, he has produced numerous number-one hit tracks.
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Charles Lindbergh
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Cheryl Cosim
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Chris Pronger
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Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. In addition to starring roles in big budget Hollywood films, he has long been heavily involved in films produced by independent producers and art houses.
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Christian de Duve
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Christopher Gorham
Christopher Gorham (born August 14, 1974) is an American actor.
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Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan, (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974).
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Costinha
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Daisuke Kishio
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Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player of Romanian descent with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is ranked second in the all-time career earnings list behind Phil Ivey and is also currently the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge.
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Danny Pino
Daniel G. "Danny" Pino (born April 15, 1974) is an American actor of Cuban descent. 2002 saw him appear in London's West End (England) in the theatre play called Up for Grabs with Madonna. In May 2003, Pino played Desi Arnaz in a CBS special on the life of Lucille Ball, . Pino was born in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1992 and from Florida International University in 1996, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
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Darius Milhaud
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David Oistrakh
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Derek Fisher
Derek Lamar Fisher (born August 9, 1974) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. His NBA career has spanned more than 14 years, during which he has won 5 NBA Championships. He currently serves as the president of the National Basketball Players Association.
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Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeter (; born June 26, 1974) is an American professional baseball player. He is a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who has played his entire career for the New York Yankees. He has served as the Yankees' team captain since 2003. Jeter's presence in the Yankees' lineup, highlighted by his hitting prowess, played an instrumental role in the team's late 1990s dynasty.
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Didier Cuche
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Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp (27 July 1882 – 25 May 1974) was an English film actor. He was also an early motion picture producer, director and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in How Green Was My Valley.
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Donald Faison
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Dragoslav Jevrić
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the only person elected Governor of California three times. Before holding these positions, Warren served as a district attorney for Alameda County, California and Attorney General of California. He is best known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending school prayer, and requiring "one-man-one vote" rules of apportionment. He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966).
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Ed Helms
Edward Paul "Ed" Helms (born January 24, 1974) is an American actor and comedian known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as Andy "Nard-Dog" Bernard on the U.S. version of the sitcom/mockumentary The Office and for his role as Dr. Stu Price in the 2009 hit comedy The Hangover.
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Ed Sullivan
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Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and TV series Spaced.
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Edward Heath
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Eric Linklater
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 - 7 November 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history.
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Ernő Rubik
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Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of roles in several low-end films, she broke into more mainstream Hollywood releases, such as 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, We Own the Night and The Spirit.
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Faust (musician)
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Franka Potente
Franka Potente (born July 22, 1974) is a German film actress. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and Opernball. After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in Blow (2001) and the female lead with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity (2002). Potente has performed leading and supporting roles in a variety of low-budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.
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Franz Jonas
Franz Josef Jonas (October 4, 1899, Vienna - April 24, 1974, Vienna) was an Austrian political figure. He served as the seventh President of Austria, between 1965 and 1974.
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Fumiko Orikasa
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Gary Hall, Jr.
For his father, also an Olympian, see Gary Hall, Sr.
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George E. Palade
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George Foreman
George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur.
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Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 1911 2 April 1974) was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.
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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life, she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."
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Georgios Grivas
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Georgy Zhukov
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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Gete Wami
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Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi (born December 17, 1974) is an American actor. His film credits include Gone in 60 Seconds, Boiler Room, Saving Private Ryan, The Mod Squad, The Gift, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Lost in Translation and more recently, Public Enemies and Avatar. He is also known for his role as Phoebe Buffay's brother Frank on the sitcom Friends. He also appeared in a music video for Crystal Ball by Keane.
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Glenn Morris
Glenn Edgar Morris (June 18, 1912 – January 31, 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936, setting new world and Olympic records.
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Gregory Helms
Gregory Shane Helms (born July 12, 1974) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he wrestled as The Hurricane and Gregory Helms. He is also known for his time with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he wrestled as "Sugar" Shane Helms.
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Gunnar Myrdal
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Gustavo Kupinski
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Hank Aaron
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934 in ) is a retired American baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned the years 1954 through 1976. Aaron is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. In 1999, editors at The Sporting News ranked Hank Aaron fifth on their list of "Greatest Baseball Players".
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Harold Wilson
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Harry Martinson
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation.
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Hicham El Guerrouj
Hicham El Guerrouj (, born September 14, 1974, Berkane) is a Moroccan former middle distance runner. He is the current holder of the 1500 metres, mile and outdoor 2000 metres world records, as well as a double Olympic gold medalist.
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Hilary Swank
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Hiroo Onoda
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Hiroyasu Shimizu
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Hrithik Roshan
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Imre Lakatos
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Ivri Lider
Ivri Lider (, born 10 February, 1974) is an Israeli pop rock singer-songwriter. He is one of the largest-selling contemporary artists in Israeli music, and has won the Male Singer of the Year honor from major Israeli national and local radio stations since entering the Israeli music scene in the late 1990s. His sales stand at over 200,000 albums.
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J Dilla
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Jack Benny
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James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount; 22 February 1974) is the stage name adopted by the Grammy Award-nominated English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire is a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk. After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two BRIT Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. The following year, he released his second album All The Lost Souls (2007). Blunt's third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble, is due to be released in November 2010.
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James J. Braddock
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Jason Arnott
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Jason Craig
Jason Craig (born June 26, 1974, Eglin Air Force Base in Niceville, FL) is an American comic book artist residing in Illinois.
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Jefferson Pérez
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Jenna Fischer
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Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli; April 9, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic star, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn."
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Jenna Leigh Green
Jenna Leigh Green (born August 22, 1974) is an American actress and singer best known for her performances as Libby Chessler on the television show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and on Broadway and on tour in the musical Wicked.
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Jennifer Nettles
Jennifer Nettles (born September 12, 1974 in Douglas, Georgia) is an American country music artist. She is known primarily for her role as lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland alongside Kristian Bush. Before Sugarland's inception, she also fronted Atlanta, Georgia-based bands called Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band. She also charted as a duet partner on the country version of rock band Bon Jovi's 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", a Number One hit on the Billboard charts.
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Jens Jeremies
Jens Jeremies (born March 5, 1974) is a retired German footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.
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Jerry O'Connell
'''Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Connell' (born February 17, 1974) is an American actor, best known for his roles in the TV series Sliders, Andrew Clements in My Secret Identity, Vern Tessio in the film Stand by Me, Charlie Carbone in Kangaroo Jack, and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama Crossing Jordan''.
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Joe Stecher
Joe Stecher (April 4, 1893 - March 29, 1974), sometimes spelled Joe Stetcher, was a professional wrestler and three-time World Heavyweight Champion. Stecher is the first wrestler to regain the original version of the World Heavyweight Championship.
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Josh Radnor
Joshua "Josh" Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor and director best known for portraying the main character Ted Mosby on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
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Juan Domingo Perón
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Jun Seba
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Kari Byron
Kari Elizabeth Byron is a San Francisco-based television host and artist, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
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Kari Traa
Kari Traa (born January 28, 1974 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finished second at the 2006 games, and finished third at the 1998 games.
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Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor (, born 25 June 1974), often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.
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Karol Kučera
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Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) known as Kate Moss, is an English model. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns. She is also notorious for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle. In 2007, she came 2nd on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $9 million in one year.
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Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn (born July 23, 1974) is an American actress known for her role on the television series Crossing Jordan.
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Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy (born 1 October 1974) is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor, drummer, dancer and television presenter. He began his career as part of Boyzone.
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Koji Murofushi
is a Japanese hammer thrower. He has been among the world elite since the 2001 World Championships, where he won the silver medal, and also he won the gold medal in Athens Olympics.
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Krisztina Egerszegi
Krisztina Egerszegi (; born 16 August 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five time Olympic champion; and one of two individuals to have ever won the same swimming event at 3 consecutive Summer Olympics.
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Lark Voorhies
Lark Voorhies (born March 25, 1974) is an American actress who rose to fame playing Lisa Turtle in Saved by the Bell, for which she was nominated for the Young Artist Award four times, winning in 1990 and 1993.
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Lars Frölander
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Laura Pausini
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). In addition, he has won a Silver Bear, a Chlotrudis Award and a Satellite Award among others, and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Leonardo Dicaprio
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach (, full name Valeria Lvovna Auerbach, ; 21 October 1973 in Chelyabinsk, Russia) is a Russian-born composer of the 21st century.
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Louis Kahn
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Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born June 7, 1974 in Chennai), is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika Hiraki).. With his win of the Australian Open Mixed Doubles in 2006, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a Career Mixed Doubles Grand Slam.
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Marcel Achard
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Marcelo Salas
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Marcus Camby
Marcus D. Camby (born March 22, 1974 in ) is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He is a former defensive player of the year during the 2006–07 NBA season, leading the league in blocked shots per game. Camby is also a two-time member of the NBA all-defensive team.
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Marianne Timmer
MedalCountry|the
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar (born March 1, 1974) is an American actor. He portrayed Zack Morris in NBC's Saved by the Bell, detective John Clark in NYPD Blue, and more recently as Jerry Kellerman in TNT's Raising the Bar.
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Marley Shelton
Marley Eve Shelton (born April 12, 1974) is an American film and television actress. Shelton began her career with supporting roles in the films Grand Canyon (1991), appeared in the film The Sandlot (1993) and appeared in Trojan War (1997), co-starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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Masashi Kishimoto
(born 8 November, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series 666 Satan and Blazer Drive. Two of his former assistants, Osamu Kajisa (Tattoo Hearts) and Yuuichi Itakura (''Hand's), have also gone on to moderate success following their work on Naruto''.
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Matt Hardy
Matthew "Matt" Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, on the SmackDown brand.
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Matthew Rhys
For the rugby player see Matthew Rees.
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Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (, born August 20, 1974) is a Russian violin master, virtuoso and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.
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Mekhi Phifer
Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me, up until season 3.
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Melanie Chisholm
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman. She is best known as one of the five members of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed "Sporty Spice". Performing as Melanie C as a solo artist, she released four albums, earned nominations for a BRIT and ECHO Awards and charted at the top of Billboard Dance Chart in the United States in late 2000.
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Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow; February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than forty-five films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), five BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, she was selected by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Michael Andersen
Michael Dahl Andersen (born January 29, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark), is a professional Danish basketball player. He is 2.13 m (7'0") in height and he plays at the position of center. He currently plays with the pro club AEK Athens BC.
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Mikael Stanne
Mikael Stanne is the vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity.
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Mirko Filipović
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Misha Collins
Misha Collins (born August 20, 1974) is an American actor and producer. He is notable for his part as Paul Bernardo in the 2006 film Karla, and currently as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural.
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Muhammad Ali
MedalCountry|
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Natasha Henstridge
Natasha T. Henstridge (born August 15, 1974) is a Canadian fashion model turned actress. Her most notable on-screen roles include Species, The Whole Nine Yards, It Had To Be You and the Canadian TV mini-series Would Be Kings, for which she won the Gemini Award for best actress. She most recently played the role of Taylor Wethersby in the TV Series Eli Stone.
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Natasja Saad
Natasja Saad (October 31, 1974 - June 24, 2007), also known as Lil T, Little T and Natasja, was a Danish rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.
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Ned Maddrell
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Nicholas McCarthy
Nick McCarthy (born Nicholas John Augustine McCarthy 13 December 1974) is an English musician. He is the guitarist, backing/lead vocalist, and keyboardist of the Glasgow based band Franz Ferdinand.
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Nick Drake
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Nicole Appleton
Nicole Marie Appleton-Gallagher (born 7 December 1974) is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of All Saints. She was formerly a member of Appleton along with her older sister Natalie.
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Niklas Sundin
Niklas Sundin, (born August 13, 1974 in Sweden), is the guitarist of Dark Tranquillity and Laethora. He also wrote some of the lyrics for the first three Dark Tranquillity albums (since Projector and until Fiction lead singer Mikael Stanne has written all of Dark Tranquillity's lyrics) and In Flames album The Jester Race and continued to translate In Flames vocalist Anders Friden's lyrics from Swedish to English for the next few albums while Anders worked to become more proficient in English.
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Ole Einar Bjørndalen
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Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.
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Paolo Bediones
Paolo Bediones (born March 17, 1974) is a Filipino commercial model and television host.
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Paul J. Flory
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Paul Kariya
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Penelope Heyns
Penelope ("Penny") Heyns (born 8 November 1974) is a South African swimmer, who is best known for being the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events - at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - making her South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medallist following South Africa's re-admission to the Games in 1992. Along with Australian champion, Leisel Jones, Heyns is regarded as one of the greatest breaststroke swimmers.
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Peng Dehuai
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Penélope Cruz
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People (magazine)
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on ''Adweek's'' "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.
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Percy Montgomery
Percival Colin "Percy" Montgomery (born 15 March 1974 in Walvis Bay, South West Africa, now Namibia) is a retired South African rugby union footballer. When he ended his international career in August 2008, he held the all-time records for both caps and points for South Africa's national team, also known as the Springboks.
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Peter Revson
Peter Jeffrey Revson (February 27, 1939 - March 22, 1974) was a racecar driver from United States who had successes in Formula One and the Indianapolis 500.
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Petter Solberg
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Philippe Léonard
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Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.
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Pär Lagerkvist
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Qin Shi Huang
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Rasheed Wallace
Rasheed Abdul Wallace (born September 17, 1974) is a retired American professional basketball player. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before joining the NBA.
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Ray Park
Raymond Park (born 23 August 1974) is a British actor, stuntman and martial artist, best known for his portrayal of the physical part of Darth Maul in , Toad in X-Men, Snake-Eyes in , and Edgar on Heroes.
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Rey Mysterio, Jr.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office as well as the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
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Rik Verbrugghe
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010.
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Rocky Gray
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Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host, network producer and voice actor. He is the host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a nationally syndicated Top 40 radio show that airs on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and throughout the United States and Canada on Premiere Radio Networks, and the internationally syndicated chart show American Top 40, also syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. On television, Seacrest hosts E! News, and ''American Idol.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (August 17, 1879 January 31, 1974) was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.
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Sander Westerveld
Sander Westerveld (born 23 October 1974 in Enschede) is a Dutch professional football goalkeeper. He left Sparta Rotterdam at the end of the 2007-08 Eredivise season and is currently playing for Monza.
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Santino Marella
Anthony Carelli (born March 14, 1979) is a Canadian professional wrestler of Italian descent best known as Santino Marella in World Wrestling Entertainment. He is currently wrestling on the Raw brand. His gimmick is an Italian stereotype. Since competing for WWE, he has become a two-time Intercontinental Champion.
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Satyendra Nath Bose
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Sean MacBride
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Sebastien Loeb
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Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the "Austin Powers" series of comedy films and Mitch Miller in ''That '70s Show. He also voices the characters of Chris Griffin on Family Guy, Lieutenant Gibbs in Titan Maximum, Jeff "Joker" Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series, and is one of the creators and producers of the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken, in which he also voices many characters. Green appeared in many other movies, such as Rat Race, The Italian Job, Can't Hardly Wait, as a child in Stephen King's It and as Dan in the 2004 movie Without a Paddle''.
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Shavo Odadjian
Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian (born April 22, 1974 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian-American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music video director/editor, music producer, and artist/painter. He is best known as the bassist and occasional songwriter of the Grammy Award-winning rock band, System of a Down. The band has been on hiatus since 2006, and Odadjian has since been working on a plethora of projects, namely Achozen with The RZA, and his virtual online art district/networking site, Ursession.
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Sol Campbell
Sulzeer Jeremiah "Sol" Campbell (born 18 September 1974) is an English footballer currently playing for Newcastle United. A central defender, Campbell has also played for Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Portsmouth and Notts County, as well as the English national team.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been made into many movies. He is known for novels such as Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, It, Misery, and the seven-novel series The Dark Tower, which King wrote over a period of 27 years. As of 2010, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories including Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, and ''Everything's Eventual''. Many of his stories are set in his homestate of Maine. He has collaborated with authors Peter Straub and Stewart O'Nan. Some of his novels have been also been turned into comic books, such are The Stand, The Talisman, and The Dark Tower series.
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Steve Nash
Stephen John Nash, OC, OBC (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nash, who was born in South Africa to British parents but grew up in Canada, enjoyed a successful high-school basketball career, and he was eventually given a scholarship by Santa Clara University. In his four seasons with the Broncos, the team made three NCAA Tournament appearances, and Nash was twice named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year.
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Steve-O
Steve-O (born Stephen Gilchrist Glover on June 13, 1974) is a daredevil and television personality. He is best known as one of the performers on the TV series Jackass and Wildboyz.
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Tadahito Iguchi
is a Japanese second baseman currently playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
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Takahiro Sakurai
is a voice actor who was born in Aichi. He is a member of 81 Produce; his height is 176 centimetres (5 feet, 9 inches).
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Teruo Nakamura
Private Teruo Nakamura (Japanese Nakamura Teruo) (1919-1979) was a Taiwan-born soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought for Japan in World War II and did not surrender until 1974.
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Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Thiessen (born Tiffani-Amber Thiessen; January 23, 1974) is an American actress best known for her roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210. She is also known for her role on Fastlane as Wilhelmina 'Billie' Chambers. As of 2009, she plays the role of Elizabeth Burke, in White Collar. After many years of going by her full name, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, she is now credited as simply Tiffani Thiessen.
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Tim Henman
Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is a British retired professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Having reached six Grand Slam semi-finals, won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and 4 in doubles), and been ranked number 4 in the world, Henman was one of Britain's most successful open era male tennis players. He retired after helping Great Britain defeat Croatia in a Davis Cup match played in September 2007.
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Tomi Putaansuu
Tomi Petteri Putaansuu (born 15 February 1974, Rovaniemi, Finland), better known by his stage name Mr. Lordi, is the lead vocalist in the Finnish heavy metal/hard rock band Lordi. Mr. Lordi, who has been interested in hard rock since he was a boy, is a fan of Kiss. He formed Lordi, a hard rock band. He studied film making in Tornio and, while there, created Lordi's first music video.
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Tor Arne Hetland
Tor Arne Hetland (born 12 January 1974) is a professional Norwegian cross-country skier.
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Tricia Helfer
Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian actress and former model, best known for her role as Number Six in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, her role as "Carla" on Burn Notice, Dark Blue as FBI Special Agent Alex Rice, and for hosting the first season of ''Canada's Next Top Model''.
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U Thant
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Victoria Beckham
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Victoria Silvstedt
Karin Victoria Silvstedt (born 19 September 1974) is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer and television personality.
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Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 or 1902 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
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Vladimir Fock
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok, ) (December 22, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
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Wallace Chung
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Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times and is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins for a male actor.
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Walter Lippmann
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Xi'an
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Zsófia Polgár
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The Knux - 1974 ft. Natalia Kills
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- Duration: 4:02
- Published: 05 Mar 2012
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Music video by The Knux performing 1974. (C) 2012 Interscope Records
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1) Lou Reed - Sweet Jane - live in Paris, 1974
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- Duration: 7:06
- Published: 11 Apr 2012
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Paris 1974.
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1974 Kawasaki kz400.Pt1
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- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 28 Jul 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
1974 Kawasaki kz400. Has been in storage for 20+ years. I am the 3rd owner. Has newer tiers and carburetors needed a good cleaning etc. Exhaust baffles were removed do to rust. Bike runs well for sitting for a long time.
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Hidda hiddai (1974 AD cover)
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- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 25 Jul 2012
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
This song has been one of my favorite for quite some time. It has been in my play list during my lows, at times when I felt lonely and during all those sleepless nights. So, here is my rendition to this masterpiece. 1974 AD and Adrian sir, this one is specially for you. Thank you for inspiring me. :)
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The Hollies - The air that I breathe [1974] Original Version [HQ]
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- Duration: 3:58
- Published: 28 Nov 2008
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe [1974]original LP version
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1974 Hababam Sinifi TR (Full Video)
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- Duration: 85:09
- Published: 31 Mar 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Dark Star
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- Duration: 82:24
- Published: 19 Jul 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
"Noch 20 Minuten haben Doolittle und seine Crew zu leben. Es sei denn, sie können die mit einem hochentwickelten Gehirn ausgerüstete Superbombe überreden, nicht zu detonieren..." Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Von Weltraumschiffen getragen, schießen die Menschen mit Überlichtgeschwindigkeit ins All hinaus, um neue Planeten zu bevölkern. 20 Jahre vorab bahnt die DARK STAR den Weg: Sie sprengt instabile Planeten, die für die Kolonisten zur Todesfalle werden könnten. Letzter Zielplanet: Die Bombe ist scharf, der Countdown beginnt. Doch ein Fehler im Airlock droht plötzlich zur Katastrophe zu werden. Kann die Crew das Superhirn überlisten, oder werden alle im interstellaren Universum untergehen?
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC
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- Duration: 1:35
- Published: 28 Mar 2012
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
In1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Joni Mitchell - Help Me (1974)
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 08 Sep 2011
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Studio version , lyrics , pics. jonimitchell.com Help me I think I'm falling In love again When I get that crazy feeling I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble Cause you're a rambler and a gambler And a sweet taIking ladies man And you love your lovin' But not like you love your freedom Help me I think I'm falling In love too fast It's got me hoping for the future And worrying about the past "Cause I've seen some hot hot blazes Come down to smoke and ash" We love our lovin' But not like we love our freedom Didn't it feel good We were sitting there talking Or lying there not talking Didn't it feel good You dance with the lady With the hole in her stocking Didn't it feel good Didn't it feel good Help me I think I'm falling In love with you Are you going to let me go there by myself That's such a lonely thing to do Both of us flirting around Flirting and flirting Hurting too We love our lovin' But not like we love our freedom
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Follow that Car: "Car Surveillance" 1974 pt2-2 CIA Training Film
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- Duration: 13:00
- Published: 23 Mar 2012
- Updated: 30 Jun 2012
more at quickfound.net "National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency... This film explores techniques used by surveillance teams, specifically the use of three cars to monitor the subject." This film was posted in the National Archives by the CIA, but appears to have been originally produced by British counterintelligence, Special Branch or MI5. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). Split with MKVmerge GUI (part of MKVToolNix), the same software can recombine the downloaded parts (in mp4 format): www.bunkus.org part 1: www.youtube.com en.wikipedia.org The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The service has a statutory basis in the Security Service Act 1989 and the Intelligence Services Act 1994. Its remit includes the protection of British parliamentary <b>...</b>
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Joni Mitchell - A Case of You (live 1974)
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- Duration: 4:43
- Published: 03 Oct 2011
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Joni Mitchell performs "A Case of You" live in London in April 1974.
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Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks 1974
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 21 Jan 2008
- Updated: 29 Jul 2012
Seasons in the Sun" was a worldwide hit song for Terry Jacks in 1974. It was first released in the United States and Canada early in the year, and rose to number one in America by March 2. An earlier recording appeared on The Kingston Trio's 1963 album, Time to Think. The song had also been done by English band The Fortunes in 1968, and by Pearls Before Swine in 1970/71. The song was based on "Le Moribond" ("The Dying Man"), written by Jacques Brel in 1961. Brel's song was translated into English by poet Rod McKuen and this version was first recorded by Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio, but it did not sell. The Beach Boys also recorded the song but it was never released. Terry Jacks, who had participated in the Beach Boys recording, and who had in fact introduced the song to the group, rewrote part of the lyrics to "lighten them up." Jacks' revisions tended to add a bit of ambiguity as to the nature of the storyteller's demise, allowing listeners the option to choose whether the death is from suicide over a failed life - quite possibly to escape drug addiction - or someone accepting death from natural causes, or cancer. References to a cheating wife were also removed.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Trailer 1974
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- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 10 Jan 2011
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Nothing beats the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre...cult frenzy horror that just can't be remade today. But, stay tuned for Leatherface 3D!
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The Carpenters - Live at Budokan (1974 - Concert Nights DHV 2012)
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- Duration: 67:42
- Published: 09 Jan 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
00:00 - *Prologue 04:16 - *Sound Check 08:00 - Medley A -------- Superstar -------- Rainy Days And Mondays -------- Goodbye To Love 15:43 - Top Of The World 18:33 - Help 21:57 - *Band Introduction - Richard 22:56 - Mr. Guder 26:48 - (They Long To Be) Close To You 30:13 - *Band Introduction - Karen 30:58 - Jambalya (On The Bayou) 34:26 - Yesterday Once More 37:47 - Medley B -------- Little Honda -------- The End Of The World -------- Da Doo Ron Ron -------- Leader Of The Pack -------- Johnny Angel -------- Book Of Love -------- Johnny B. Goode 50:51 - Sing 55:12 - Sometimes 58:07 - We've Only Just Begun 1:02:35 - For All We Know 1:05:17 - *Credits The Carpenters - Live at Budokan (Concert Nights DHV 2012) Nippon Budokan, Tokyo 31 May 1974 Line-Up ----------------- Karen Carpenter - vocals, drums Richard Carpenter - synthesizer, piano, vocals and The Band ----------------- Thx The Carpenters & recorders & traders ! Source of my Diamond Heart version is released DVD (only in Japan 1996). Good audio and video source. Video is recoloured and dark-light range wide. Audio source is very good (excellent dynamic range), but unbalanced (low volume of bass and middle vocal range) - now rebalanced, stereo channels is equalized, normalized full concert (various levels of original sound). For best quality, you see fullscreened HD resolution monitor from 2-3 meters in dark room. (sorry my english)
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Pink Floyd Live At Wembley November 1974 - The Dark Side Of The Moon (FULL CONCERT)
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- Duration: 55:30
- Published: 24 Sep 2011
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
This is the full perfomance of the legendary concert. Visit whypinkfloyd.com and youtube.com/pinkfloyd Search for Interstellar Factory on the web... ***FAIR USE*** This is only to spread the Pink Floyd music. No copyright infringement intended. Copyright by Pink Floyd
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Silent Night, Bloody Night
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- Duration: 81:23
- Published: 03 Mar 2012
- Updated: 23 Jul 2012
Silent Night, Bloody Night grisly murders occur at a former insane asylum on Christmas Eve!
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![Space Is The Place [Sun Ra Film 1974]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120729013504im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NwNtxFH6IjU/0.jpg "Space Is The Place [Sun Ra Film 1974]")
Space Is The Place [Sun Ra Film 1974]
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- Duration: 81:18
- Published: 02 Jan 2012
- Updated: 26 Jul 2012
One of the best 'cult films' ever made in my opinion and one that defies description or easy genre categorisation which is perhaps why it never receives the kudos or praise it deserves. It was only after watching Space Is The Place that the music of Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra really made any real sense. Who was Sun Ra? Sun Ra was allegedly born Herman Poole Blount on May 22nd 1914 and returned to the stars on May 30th 1993. He was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, one of the earliest UFO contactees, a poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He himself said he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn. Taken from the official website by the director Jim Newman: In 1971 American producer Jim Newman appproached John Coney, a producer/director at a public television station KQED in San Francisco with a proposal for a thirty minute performance documentary on the Sun Ra Arkestra. Sun Ra immediately saw the film as an opportunity to make a statement about the conditions of black people on planet earth - and as a powerful medium for his music as a vehicle for lifting them out of their collective misery. Production began in 1972 with filming and recording the Arkestra, a spaceship landing, a visit to an Egytptian tomb and the creation of a mythic celestial planet derived from Ra's interpretation of passages from "The Book Of Urantia" (The Urantia Book a strange proto <b>...</b>
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World Cup 1974 Final - Germany 2:1 Netherlands
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 30 Dec 2007
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
0:1 Johan Neeskens (1.) (Penalty) 1:1 Paul Breitner (25.) (Penalty) 2:1 Gerd Müller (43.) The 1974 World Cup Final was the final match of the 10th FIFA World Cup, a competition to determine the best national men's football team over the previous four years. The match was contested by the Netherlands and West Germany, with the West Germans winning 2-1. The Netherlands opened the scoring via a Johan Neeskens penalty in the second minute, only for Paul Breitner to equalise with another penalty in the 25th minute before Gerd Müller scored the winning goal in the 43rd minute, claiming West Germany's second World Cup. West Germany was led by Franz Beckenbauer, while the Dutch had their star Johan Cruijff, and their Total Football system which had dazzled the competition. With just a minute gone on the clock, following a solo run, Cruijff was brought down by Uli Hoeneß in the German penalty area, and the Dutch took the lead from the ensuing penalty by Johan Neeskens before any German player had even touched the ball. West Germany struggled to recover, but they were awarded a penalty of their own in the 25th minute after Bernd Hölzenbein fell within the Dutch area. Paul Breitner took responsibility for the kick, and scored. These two penalties were the first to be awarded in a World Cup Final. West Germany now pushed for a winner, which eventually came in the 43rd minute through Gerd Müller. It turned out to be Müller's last ever goal for the West German team, as he retired from <b>...</b>
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Herbie Hancock Headhunters 1974
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- Duration: 66:28
- Published: 11 Feb 2012
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
![Santana - Santana's Greatest Hits (1974) Full Album [Not Available in Germany]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120729013504im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sovNJWCnXSI/0.jpg "Santana - Santana's Greatest Hits (1974) Full Album [Not Available in Germany]")
Santana - Santana's Greatest Hits (1974) Full Album [Not Available in Germany]
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- Duration: 34:08
- Published: 29 Apr 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
[Not Available in Germany] Santana - Santana's Greatest Hits (1974) Track Listing 01 00:00 "Evil Ways" 02 02:58 "Jingo" 03 05:45 "Hope You're Feeling Better" 04 09:56 "Samba Pa Ti" 05 14:28 "Persuasion" 06 17:02 "Black Magic Woman" 07 20:16 "Oye Como Va" 08 24:32 "Everything's Coming Our Way" 09 27:46 "Se a Cabó" 10 30:35 "Everybody's Everything" All Music Review www.allmusic.com Wiki en.wikipedia.org
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Gone In 60 Seconds (1974) Full Movie
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- Duration: 97:48
- Published: 16 Oct 2011
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Actor and Director HB Halicki makes this great action movie about an Insurance investigator named Maindrian Pace who leads double-lives with his team as unstoppable car thieves. Then a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him. All of the cars, except a 1973 Ford Mustang are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute. Detectives are waiting and pursue Pace through five cities as he desperately tries to get away. Sorry for the subtitles. DISCLAIMER Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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ABBA Waterloo Eurovision 1974 (High Quality)
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 07 Apr 2009
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
www.youtube.com for HQ VIDEO WITH STEREO SOUND. 35 years to this day (6th April 1974) ABBA won with this performance of Waterloo. Enjoy! More information on this clip can be found here - www.abbaontv.com
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Jáchyme, hod' ho do stroje! (1974)
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- Duration: 93:46
- Published: 12 Apr 2012
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1971 1972 1973 – 1974 – 1975 1976 1977 |
| 1974 by topic: |
| Subject |
| By country |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 1974 MCMLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2727 |
| Armenian calendar | 1423 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6724 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 130–131 |
| Bengali calendar | 1381 |
| Berber calendar | 2924 |
| British Regnal year | 22 Eliz. 2 – 23 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2518 |
| Burmese calendar | 1336 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7482–7483 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年十二月初九日 (4610/4670-12-9) — to —
甲寅年十一月十八日(4611/4671-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1690–1691 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1966–1967 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5734–5735 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2030–2031 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1896–1897 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5075–5076 |
| Holocene calendar | 11974 |
| Iranian calendar | 1352–1353 |
| Islamic calendar | 1393–1394 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 49 (昭和49年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4307 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 63 民國63年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2517 |
| Unix time | 126230400–157766399 |
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Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was also the 1974th year of the Common Era, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s.
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 26 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP )
February[link]
- February 1
- Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
- Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, was declared as a Federal Territory.
- February 8 – After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
- February 17 – A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49.
March[link]
- March 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a woods near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
- March 4 –
- - People magazine's first issue released. Mia Farrow is on the cover.
- - Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.[1]
- - People magazine's first issue released. Mia Farrow is on the cover.
- March 8 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- March 10 – A Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
- March 18 – End of Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- March 29 – The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is discovered at Xi'an, China.[2]
April[link]
- April 4 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth for the all-time home run record with his 714th at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
- April 6
- Swedish pop group ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.
- California Jam is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting 250,000 fans.
- April 8 – Hank Aaron became the all-time MLB home run leader with his 715th at Atlanta in front of a national television audience.
- April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona massacre took place in Israel.
- April 24 – Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel under his own name.
- April 25 – Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
May[link]
- May 4
- An all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
- The Expo '74 World's Fair opens in Spokane, Washington.
- May 17 – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: The Protestant terrorist group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), explode numerous bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, in the Republic Of Ireland. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, which is the highest number of casualties in any single day during "The Troubles".
- May 18
- Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.
- The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the second tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991).
- May 30 – NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June[link]
- June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany.
- June 26 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
July[link]
- July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
August[link]
- August 4 – A bomb explodes in an Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
- August 8 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9).
- August 9 – Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford succeeds Richard Milhous Nixon as the 38th President of the United States of America.
- August 14 – Turkey invades for the second time in Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
- August 30 – An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
September[link]
- September 8 – TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
- September 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg.
- September 13 – Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.
- September 23 – Ceefax (one of the first public service information systems) is started by the BBC.
October[link]
- October 11 – The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.[3]
- October 30 – The Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8 rounds to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier.
November[link]
- November 1 – World Tourism Organization (WTO or WToO) established.
- November 16 – The Arecibo radio telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards the M13 Great Globular Cluster. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000.
- November 21 – In Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
- November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
December[link]
- December 1 – A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
- December 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European communities' heads of state and government, commences.
- December 17 – WIPO becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
- December 24–December 25 – Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
- December 30 – Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura surrenders on the Indonesian island of Morota, 34 years after beginning service in World War II
Date unknown[link]
- Rubik's Cube puzzle invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik.[4]
Births[link]
January[link]
- January 3 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
- January 10 – Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
- January 12
- Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
- Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter (Spice Girls)
- January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
- January 18 – Gustavo Kupinski, Argentine guitarist (d. 2011)
- January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor
- January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete
- January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier
- January 29 – Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player
- January 30 – Christian Bale, British actor
February[link]
- February 7
- Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- Cheryl Cosim, Filipina journalist, news anchor and TV host
- Jun Seba, also known as Nujabes, Japanese hip-hop producer (d. 2010)
- J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, African-American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
- February 8
- Seth Green, American actor
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer (Daft Punk)
- February 10 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
- February 13 – Robbie Williams, English rock singer (Take That)
- February 14 – Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
- February 15
- Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish rock singer (Lordi)
- Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver
- February 17 – Jerry O'Connell, American Actor
- February 22 – James Blunt, English singer
- February 24 – Chad Hugo, American rock musician and producer (N*E*R*D)
- February 26 – Sebastien Loeb, French rally driver
- February 27 – Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater
March[link]
- March 1 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
- March 4
- Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
- Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
- March 5
- Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- Matt Lucas, British comedian
- Eva Mendes, American actress
- March 6 – Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler
- March 7 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
- March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
- March 17 – Paolo Bediones, Filipino commercial model, television host, journalist, newscaster, and radio announcer
- March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
- March 22 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- March 25 – Lark Voorhies, American actress and singer
- March 28 – Daisuke Kishio, Japanese seiyuu
- March 29 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
April[link]
- April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
- April 9 – Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
- April 11 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
- April 12 – Marley Shelton, American actress
- April 15
- Danny Pino, Cuban American actor
- Tim Thomas, American ice hockey goaltender
- April 17
- Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
- Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician
- April 18 – Edgar Wright, English film director
- April 20 – Tina Cousins, English singer
- April 21 – Faust, Norwegian drummer
- April 22 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born rock bassist (System of a Down)
- April 23 – Barry Waston, American actor
- April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
May[link]
- May 7 – Breckin Meyer, American actor
- May 16
- Laura Pausini, Italian singer
- Adam Richman, American actor and television personality
- May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer
- May 23 – Jewel, American singer
- May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
- May 28 – Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer
- May 30
- Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
- Cee Lo Green, American singer
June[link]
- June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
- June 7
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- Bear Grylls, British survivalist
- June 9 – Samoth, Norwegian musician
- June 13
- Steve-O, American actor
- Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
- June 22 – Donald Faison, American actor
- June 25 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- June 26 –
- Derek Jeter, American baseball player
- Jason Craig, American artist
July[link]
- July 1 – Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorean race walker
- July 2 – Rocky Gray, American musician
- July 8 – Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer
- July 12
- Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
- Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer
- July 14 – David Mitchell, British comedian and actor
- July 21 – Terry Coldwell, English singer (East 17)
- July 22 – Franka Potente, German actress
- July 23
- Kathryn Hahn, American actress
- Maurice Greene, American athlete
- Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
- Stephanie March, American actress
- July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
- July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor
- July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress
- July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress
August[link]
- August 8 – Brian Harvey, English singer (East 17)
- August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
- August 12 – Karl Stefanovic, Australian TV host
- August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
- August 14 – Christopher Gorham, American actor
- August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
- August 16
- Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic champion swimmer
- Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
- August 20
- Misha Collins, American actor
- Amy Adams, American actress
- Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
- August 22
- Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
- Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist
- August 23 – Ray Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
- August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German soccer player
September[link]
- September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
- September 6
- Tim Henman, English tennis player
- Nina Persson, Swedish singer
- September 10
- Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter
- September 12 – Jennifer Nettles, American country music artist (Sugarland)
- September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
- September 17 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- September 18
- Sol Campbell, English footballer
- Xzibit, American rapper
- September 19
- Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
- September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
- September 26 – Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
October[link]
- October 1 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone)
- October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
- October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
- October 10
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
- Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
- October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
- October 16 – Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
- October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer & pianist
- October 23 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
- October 28 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
- October 31 – Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper & reggae singer (d. 2007)
November[link]
- November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
- November 4
- Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American singer/lyricist
- Louise Nurding, English singer and former member of (Eternal)
- November 5
- Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
- Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
- November 8
- Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
- Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
- November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player
- November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
- November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
- November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player
- November 18 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
- November 27 – Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
- November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer, translator
- November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer
December[link]
- December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
- December 4 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
- December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
- December 10 – Meg White, American rock drummer (The White Stripes)
- December 11
- Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
- Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
- December 13 – Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist
- December 17 – Giovanni Ribisi, American Actor (Gone in 60 Seconds)
- December 18 – Kari Byron, American artist and television personality
- December 24
- Ryan Seacrest, American television personality
- Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
- December 27 – Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese seiyū and singer
- December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor
Date unknown[link]
- James Singer, American writer
Deaths[link]
January[link]
- January 15 – Harold D. Cooley U.S. House of Representatives
- January 27 – Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898)
- January 31
- Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
- Glenn Morris, American Olympic decathlete and actor (b. 1912)
February[link]
- February 2 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922)
- February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
- February 15 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- February 22 – Samuel Byck, American airplane hijacker and murderer (b. 1930)
March[link]
- March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
- March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- March 17 – Louis Kahn, Estonian architect (b. 1901)
- March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
- March 29 – Joe Stecher, professional wrestler (b. 1893)
April[link]
- April 2 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
- April 18
- Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
- Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
- April 19 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
- April 24
- Bud Abbott, American actor (Abbott and Costello) (b. 1895)
- Franz Jonas, Austrian president (b. 1899)
- April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
May[link]
- May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
- May 25
- Donald Crisp, English actor (b. 1882)
- Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher (b. 1901)
June[link]
- June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)
- June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general (World War II) (b. 1896)
- June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
July[link]
- July 1 – Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- July 4 – Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902)
- July 9 – Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
- July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 13 – Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- July 24 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 29
- Cass Elliott, American vocalist (b. 1941)
- Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
August[link]
- August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
- August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis) (b. 1902)
- August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)
September[link]
- September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
- September 4
- Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
- Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
- September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
October[link]
- October 4 – Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928)
- October 9 – Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (b. 1908)
- October 13 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
- October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
November[link]
- November 7 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
- November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
- November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905)
- November 21 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
- November 23
- Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial arts Master (b. 1899)
- Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American writer (b. 1920)
- November 25
- Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948)
- U Thant, Burmese diplomat and Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
- November 29
- James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)
- Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)
December[link]
- December 2 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
- December 5 – Pietro Germi, Italian film director (b. 1914)
- December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist (b. 1889)
- December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (b. 1902)
- December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
- December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
- December 26 – Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
- December 27
- Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
- Ned Maddrell, last surviving native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
- Chemistry – Paul J. Flory
- Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
- Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- Peace – Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
- Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek
References[link]
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| Natalia Kills | |
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 Natalia Kills in 2011. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Natalia Keery-Fisher |
| Also known as | Verbz, Verbalicious,[1] Natalia Noemi Cappuccini,[2] Verse, Candy Rapper, Verbal |
| Born | (1986-08-15) 15 August 1986 (age 25) Bradford, West Yorkshire, England |
| Genres | Pop, electropop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress, film director |
| Instruments | Vocals, drums, guitar |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Adventures in Music, will.i.am, Cherrytree, Interscope |
| Website | www.nataliakills.com |
Natalia Keery-Fisher[3][4] (born 15 August 1986) is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and director who performs under the stage name Natalia Kills. She released her debut album, Perfectionist, in 2011.
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Biography[link]
1986–94: Early life[link]
Kills was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to an Afro-Jamaican father and Uruguayan mother,[5] where she attended Bradford Girls' Grammar School. In addition, she studied classical drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[3] She stated in a post on her blog on social website, MySpace that she grew up flying between London and Florida, where she had relatives, resulting in a mixed American and English accent.[6]
1995–2010: Career beginnings[link]
Kills made her acting debut at age 9 in 1995 in New Voices. She had a regular role as Sima on the TV sitcom All About Me and also played Amy Franks in the BBC's long-running radio drama The Archers. She began writing songs at 14,[7] some of which were featured in films and television shows, including Bring It On 4, Sleepover, Just My Luck, and Entourage.[4] After finishing with The Archers in 2003, Kills began pursuing a music career and attributes her musical breakthrough to winning a Radio 1 MC Battle in Leeds under the name "Candy Rapper" in 2003.[3] She signed to the UK record company Adventures in Music and released her first single "Don't Play Nice" under the name Verbalicious in February 2005. Kills' told W that her childhood nickname from her mother was "Verbal" because she talked and sang a lot. She adopted the name and variations of it as her stage name at some points during her career.[8]
While writing music for films,[9] Kills posted her self-produced and written demo extended play, Wommanequin on music social website MySpace in 2007 that attracted the attention of blogger Perez Hilton in 2008, her song received 2 million plays on the website and Kills reached the top of the unsigned artists chart.[8] With offers coming in for concerts and festivals, Kills moved to Los Angeles.[9] In LA, Kills was approached by producers, A&R and labels with contracts.[9][10] A DJ introduced her to will.i.am after hearing her demo and learning that she did not have a record deal. In January 2008, will.i.am signed her to his record label, will.i.am Music Group. She did not sign right away as she had reservations about the music industry and will.i.am had to go to London a month later to convince her to record with him.[9] During this time she also co-wrote and appeared on "They Talk Shit About Me" by French recording artist M. Pokora and met underground director Guillaume Doubet, who would go on to direct many of her videos, in Paris.
[edit] 2011—: Perfectionist
Kills explained in an interview that she adopted the stage name Natalia Kills at the behest of her record company, which found "Natalia Cappuccinni" hard to pronounce.[9] She had taken on her grandmother's family name a few years prior.[6] She explained in an interview that her stage name is based on the phrase "you killed it," and represents her tendecy to be a perfectionist.[11] Kills released her debut album Perfectionist in April 2011 in Germany following a top ten placing by the first single, "Mirrors". The album was described as a concept album by Kills, chronicling the fact that perfection is attainable.[7] It features production by Jeff Bhasker and Fernando Garibay,[7] who had worked with Lady Gaga.[12] The album was accompanied by four singles, "Mirrors", "Wonderland", "Free" and "Kill My Boyfriend". The first three singles were minor hits in some European countries but failed to chart in the US or UK. Kills opened for Kelis' European All Hearts Tour, as well as supported Robyn on her Body Talk Tour in November 2010 and early 2011. She also supported Ke$ha on the UK leg of her Get Sleazy Tour. Throughout August and September 2011, Kills supported Katy Perry on her California Dreams Tour for eight dates in Europe[13] and São Paulo, Brazil. She also opened for the Black Eyed Peas over the summer of 2011 in Europe.[8][11]
Kills is featured on a Junior Caldera's single, "Lights Out (Go Crazy)", along with Far East Movement. It was released on March 13, 2012.[14] Kills also features in Tatana's single, "You Can't Get In My Head (If You Can't Get In My Bed)".
On April 4, 2012, the singer took to Twitter to announce she was back in the studio, potentially beginning work on her second studio album.
Influences[link]
Kills called Kate Bush and Alanis Morissette her most important musical influences, highlighting them as emotional artists who wrote honestly about their own experiences.[15] She has also gone on to cite Gwen Stefani as her hero. She also claims that Depeche Mode, Prince, Vanity 6 and Freddie Mercury inspire her live performances.[11]
Discography[link]
Main article: Natalia Kills discography
- Perfectionist (2011)
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | New Voices | Pearl | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2003 | All About Me | Sima | TV series, 22 episodes |
| Casualty | Samina Khan | TV series, 1 episode | |
| Coronation Street | Laura Mangen | TV series, 2 episodes | |
| 2004 | Doctors | Hazel Perry | TV series, 1 episode |
| Blue Murder | Anisa Khan | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 2005 | No Angels | Sujata | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2006 | Silent Witness | Kelly Wetherby | TV series, 1 episode |
| Tripping Over | Julie | TV series, 2 episodes | |
| 2007 | Cape Wrath | Kerry | TV series, 1 episode |
References[link]
- ^ "Zombies in Wonderland: The Curious Case of Natalia Kills". Vertigo Shtick. 6 April 2011. http://www.vertigoshtick.com/2011/04/zombies-in-wonderland-curious-case-of.html. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Christine Challand (26 February 2006). "The Borchester Babes". The Mail on Sunday: p. 32. "Natalia Keery-Fisher in Ambridge: Natalia, who has recently changed her stage name to Natalia Cappucini, ...."
- ^ a b c Clayton, Emma (7 April 2006). "Natalia's rapping delight". Telegraph and Argus. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/leisure/tamusic/urbanmusic/urbanfeatures/727382.Natalia_s_rapping_delight/. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Natalia Keery-Fisher". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136708/. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ Leigh Belz (1 December 2010). "Natalia Kills on Her Album Perfectionist and Lady Gaga". Teen Vogue. Condé Nast Publications. http://www.teenvogue.com/industry/blogs/music/2010/12/natalia-kills.html. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ a b "I am VERBZ van NATALIA KILLS op Myspace". Myspace.com. 2008-01-22. http://www.myspace.com/nataliacappuccini/blog/350195089. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ a b c Published Wednesday, Apr 20 2011, 15:27 BST (2011-04-20). "Natalia Kills - Music Interview". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/interviews/a315625/natalia-kills.html. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ a b c Slenske, Michael (2011-08-15). "Five Minutes With Natalia Kills: Editors' Blog". Wmagazine.com. http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/editorsblog/2011/08/15/aug-16-natalia-kills.html. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ a b c d e Hot right now: (2011-09-15). "Natalia Kills: Interview". Gigwise. http://www.gigwise.com/features/66884/Natalia-Kills-Interview. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Interview with…Natalia Kills!". MuuMuse. http://www.muumuse.com/2010/05/interview-with-natalia-kills.html/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ a b c "Natalia Kills Interview". MVRemix. http://mvremix.com/rock_blogs/2011/05/natalia-kills-interview/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Kevipod Interviews Natalia Kills". Directlyrics.com. 2011-04-18. http://www.directlyrics.com/kevipod-interviews-natalia-kills-news.html. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Ke$ha Confirms Special Guests LMFAO For 'Get Sleazy' UK Tour & Tickets - Stereoboard UK". Stereoboard.com. 13 May 2011. http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/165361/9. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ "iTunes - Music - Lights Out (Go Crazy) [feat. Natalia Kills & Far East Movement] - Single by Junior Caldera". Itunes.apple.com. 2012-03-13. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lights-out-go-crazy-feat./id507224909. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Posted by Pamela (2011-08-14). "Exclusive Interview: Natalia Kills Speaks to GTS". Girlstalkinsmack.com. http://girlstalkinsmack.com/exclusive-interview-natalia-kills-speaks-gts/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
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| Lou Reed | |
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 Lou Reed performing at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon in January 2004 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lewis Allan Reed |
| Born | (1942-03-02) March 2, 1942 (age 70) Brooklyn, New York United States |
| Genres | Rock, experimental rock, art rock, protopunk, noise music, drone music, psychedelic rock, folk rock, glam rock, blue-eyed soul, spoken word |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer, photographer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, ostrich guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards, piano, harmonica, drums, percussion |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Labels | Matador, MGM, RCA, Sire, Reprise, Warner Bros. |
| Associated acts | The Velvet Underground, John Cale, Nico, David Bowie, The Killers, Mick Ronson, Gorillaz, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Metallica. |
| Website | www.loureed.com |
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer.[1] He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades. Though the Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era.[2] As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including sexuality and drug culture.
After his departure from the group, Reed began a solo career in 1971. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", although he subsequently lacked the mainstream commercial success its chart status seemed to indicate.[3] Reed's work as a solo artist frustrated critics wishing for a return of the Velvet Underground. In 1975, Reed released a double album of feedback loops, Metal Machine Music, upon which he later commented, "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."[4]
In 2008, Reed married performance artist Laurie Anderson.[5]
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Early life[link]
Reed was born at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island.[citation needed] Contrary to some sources, his birth name was Lewis Allan Reed, not Louis Firbanks, a name that was coined as a joke by Lester Bangs in Creem magazine.[6] Having learned to play the guitar from the radio, he developed an early interest in rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and during high school played in a number of bands.[7] His first recording was as a member of a doo wop-style group called The Jades.
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In 1956, Reed received electroconvulsive therapy as a teenager intended to cure his bisexuality; he wrote about the experience in his 1974 song, "Kill Your Sons."[8] In an interview, Reed said of the experience:
"They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland County to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again."
—Lou Reed quoted in Please Kill Me (1996)[9]
Reed began attending Syracuse University in the fall of 1960, studying journalism, film directing, and creative writing. In 1961 he began hosting a late-night radio program on WAER called "Excursions On A Wobbly Rail."[7] Named after a song by pianist Cecil Taylor, the program typically featured doo wop, rhythm and blues and jazz, particularly the free jazz developed in the mid-1950s.[10] Many of Reed's guitar techniques, such as the guitar-drum roll, were inspired by jazz saxophonists, notably Ornette Coleman. Reed graduated from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences with a B.A. in June 1964.[8]
Poet Delmore Schwartz taught at Syracuse University and befriended Reed, who in 1966 dedicated the song "European Son," from the Velvet Underground's debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, to Schwartz.[11] In 1982, Reed recorded "My House" as a tribute to his late mentor. He later said that his goals as a writer were "to bring the sensitivities of the novel to rock music" or to write the Great American Novel in a record album.[12]
Career[link]
Pickwick Records[link]
In 1964, Reed moved to New York City and began working as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. In 1964, he scored a minor hit with the single "The Ostrich," a parody of popular dance songs of the time, which included lines such as "put your head on the floor and have somebody step on it." His employers felt that the song had hit potential, and arranged for a band to be assembled around Reed to promote the recording. The ad hoc group, called "The Primitives," included Welsh musician John Cale, who had recently moved to New York to study music and was playing viola in composer La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, along with Tony Conrad. Cale and Conrad were both surprised to find that for "The Ostrich," Reed tuned each string of his guitar to the same note. This technique created a drone effect similar to their experimentation in Young's avant-garde ensemble. Disappointed with Reed's performance, Cale was nevertheless impressed by Reed's early repertoire (including "Heroin"), and a partnership began to evolve.
The Velvet Underground[link]
Main article: The Velvet Underground
Reed and Cale lived together on the Lower East Side, and after inviting Reed's college acquaintances, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker, to join the group, they formed the Velvet Underground. Though internally unstable (Cale left in 1968, Reed in 1970), and without commercial success, the band has a long-standing reputation as one of the most influential bands in rock history.[13]
The group soon caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol. One of Warhol's first contributions was to integrate them into the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Warhol's associates inspired many of Reed's songs as he fell into a thriving, multifaceted artistic scene. Reed rarely gives an interview without paying homage to Warhol as a mentor. Conflict emerged when Warhol had the idea for the group to take on a chanteuse, the European former model and singer Nico. Reed and the others registered their objection by titling their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico to imply that Nico was not accepted as a member of the group. Despite his initial resistance, Reed wrote several songs for Nico to sing, and the two were briefly lovers (as were Nico and Cale later). The Velvet Underground & Nico reached No. 171 on the charts.
Today, however, it is considered one of the most influential rock albums ever recorded. Rolling Stone has it listed as the 13th most influential album of all time. Brian Eno once famously stated that although few people bought the album, most of those who did were inspired to form their own band.[14]
By the time the band recorded White Light/White Heat, Nico had quit and Warhol was fired, both against Cale's wishes. Warhol's replacement as manager, Steve Sesnick, convinced Reed to drive Cale out of the band. Morrison and Tucker were discomfited by Reed's tactics but continued with the group. Cale's replacement was Doug Yule, whom Reed would often facetiously introduce as his younger brother. The group now took on a more pop-oriented sound and acted more as a vehicle for Reed to develop his songwriting craft. The group released two albums with this line up: 1969's The Velvet Underground and 1970's Loaded. The latter included two of the group's most commercially successful songs, "Rock and Roll" and "Sweet Jane". Reed left the Velvet Underground in August 1970; the band disintegrated as core members Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker departed in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Yule continued until early 1973, and the band released one more studio album, Squeeze, under the Velvet Underground name.
After the band's move to Atlantic Records' Cotillion label, their new manager pushed Reed to change the subject matter of his songs to lighter topics in hopes of commercial success. The band's album Loaded had taken more time to record than the previous three albums together, but had not broken the band through to a wider audience. Reed briefly retired to his parents' home on Long Island.
Solo career[link]
1970s[link]
After quitting the Velvet Underground in August 1970, Reed took a job at his father's tax accounting firm as a typist, by his own account earning $40 a week. A year later, however, he signed a recording contract with RCA and recorded his first solo album in London with top session musicians including Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman, members of the progressive rock group Yes. The album, simply titled Lou Reed, contained smoothly produced, re-recorded versions of unreleased Velvet Underground songs, some of which were originally recorded by the Velvets for Loaded but shelved (see the Peel Slowly and See box set). This first solo album was overlooked by most pop music critics (although Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone called it "almost perfect") and it did not sell in significant numbers.
In December 1972, Reed released Transformer. David Bowie and Mick Ronson co-produced the album and introduced Reed to a wider popular audience (specifically in the U.K.). The hit single "Walk on the Wild Side" was an ironic yet affectionate salute to the misfits, hustlers, and transvestites who once surrounded Andy Warhol. Each of the song's five verses poignantly describes an actual person who had been a fixture at The Factory during the mid-to-late 1960s: (1) Holly Woodlawn, (2) Candy Darling, (3) "Little Joe" Dallesandro, (4) "Sugar Plum Fairy" Joe Campbell and (5) Jackie Curtis. The song's cleverly transgressive lyrics evaded radio censorship. Though the jazzy arrangement (courtesy of bassist Herbie Flowers and saxophonist Ronnie Ross) was musically somewhat atypical for Reed, it eventually became his signature song. The song came about as a result of his commission to compose a soundtrack to a theatrical adaptation of Nelson Algren's novel of the same name, though the play failed to materialize. Ronson's arrangements brought out new aspects of Reed's songs. "Perfect Day," for example, features delicate strings and soaring dynamics. It was rediscovered in the 1990s and allowed Reed to drop "Walk on the Wild Side" from his concerts.
Though Transformer would prove to be Reed's commercial and critical pinnacle, there was no small amount of resentment in Reed devoted to the shadow the record cast over the rest of his career. An argument between Bowie and Reed ended their working relationship for several years, though its subject is not known. The two reconciled some years later, and Reed performed with Bowie at the latter's 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1997. The two would not formally collaborate again until 2003's The Raven. Touring in support of Transformer posed the challenge of forming a band for the first time since joining the Velvets. Reed took the simple path of hiring an inexperienced bar band, the Tots. Their straightforward guitar sound suited the songs, and Reed spent much of 1972 and the winter of 1973 on the road with them. Though they improved over the months, criticism of their still-basic abilities ultimately led Reed to fire them mid-tour. He chose the creative young keyboardist Moogy Klingman to come up with a new five-member backing band on barely a week's notice. Thus the tour continued through the spring with a denser, bluesier and tighter sound that presaged the very successful live albums Reed would record with all different musicians in December.[15]
Reed followed Transformer with the darker Berlin, which tells the story of two junkies in love in that city. The songs variously concern domestic abuse ("Caroline Says I," "Caroline Says II"), drug addiction ("How Do You Think It Feels"), adultery and prostitution ("The Kids"), and suicide ("The Bed"). Reed's late-1973 European tour, featuring dual lead guitarists Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, mixed his Berlin material with older rockers.
After Berlin came two albums in 1974, Sally Can't Dance and a live record Rock 'n' Roll Animal, which contained performances of the Velvet Underground songs "Sweet Jane" and "Heroin". Rock 'n' Roll Animal became his biggest selling album, and its follow-up Lou Reed Live, recorded on the same occasions in December 1973, kept Reed in the public eye with strong sales after its release in early 1975.
As he had done with Berlin after Transformer, in 1975 Reed responded to commercial success with a commercial failure, a double album of electronically generated audio feedback, Metal Machine Music. Critics interpreted it as a gesture of contempt, an attempt to break his contract with RCA or to alienate his less sophisticated fans. But Reed claimed that the album was a genuine artistic effort, even suggesting that quotations of classical music could be found buried in the feedback. Lester Bangs declared it "genius," though also as psychologically disturbing. The album was reportedly returned to stores by the thousands after a few weeks.[16] Though later admitting that the liner notes' list of instruments is fictitious and intended as parody, Reed maintains that MMM was and is a serious album. He has since stated though that at the time he had taken it seriously, he was also "very stoned".[citation needed] In the 2000s it was adapted for orchestral performance by the German ensemble Zeitkratzer.
By contrast, 1975's Coney Island Baby was mainly a warm and mellow album, though for its characters Reed still drew on the underbelly of city life. At this time his lover was a transgender woman, Rachel, mentioned in the dedication of "Coney Island Baby" and appearing in the photos on the cover of Reed's 1977 "best of" album, Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed. While Rock and Roll Heart, his 1976 debut for his new record label Arista, fell short of expectations, Street Hassle (1978) was a return to form in the midst of the punk scene he had helped to inspire. But Reed was dismissive of punk and rejected any affiliation with it. "I'm too literate to be into punk rock . . . The whole CBGB's, new Max's thing that everyone's into and what's going on in London—you don't seriously think I'm responsible for what's mostly rubbish?"[17] The Bells (1979) featured jazz musician Don Cherry, and was followed the next year by Growing Up in Public with guitarist Chuck Hammer. Around this period he also appeared as a sleazy record producer in Paul Simon's film One Trick Pony. Reed also played several unannounced one-off concerts in tiny downtown Manhattan clubs with the likes of Cale, Patti Smith, and David Byrne during this period.
1980s[link]
In 1980, Reed married British designer Sylvia Morales.[18] They were divorced more than a decade later. While together, Morales inspired Reed to write several songs, particularly "Think It Over" from 1980's Growing Up in Public and "Heavenly Arms" from 1982's The Blue Mask.[citation needed] After Legendary Hearts (1983) and New Sensations (1984) fared adequately on the charts, Reed was sufficiently reestablished as a public figure to become spokesman for Honda motorcycles.
In the early 1980s, Reed asked guitarist Robert Quine to join his group. Quine appeared on Reed's The Blue Mask (1982), acclaimed as one of Reed's best albums, and Legendary Hearts (1983). The two guitarists’ played both rhythm and lead guitar. Robert Quine eventually quit the group due to tensions with Reed. However, Reed persuaded Quine to rejoin for a world tour, with which he agreed to despite his aversion to touring, for financial reasons. Quine ended his musical relationship with Reed in 1985.
On September 22, 1985, Reed performed at the first Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois. He performed "Doin' The Things That We Want To", "I Love You, Suzanne", "New Sensations" and "Walk on The Wild Side".
In 1986, he joined Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope Tour and was outspoken about New York's political issues and personalities on the 1989 album New York, commenting on crime, AIDS, Jesse Jackson, Kurt Waldheim, and Pope John Paul II.
Following Warhol's death after routine surgery in 1987, Reed again collaborated with John Cale on the biographical Songs for Drella, Warhol's nickname. The album marked an end to a 22-year estrangement from Cale. On the album, Reed sings of his love for his late friend, but also criticizes both the doctors who were unable to save Warhol's life and Warhol's would-be assassin, Valerie Solanas.
1990s[link]
In 1990, following a twenty-year hiatus, the Velvet Underground reformed for a Fondation Cartier benefit in France. Reed released his sixteenth solo record, Magic and Loss, in 1992, an album about mortality, inspired by the death of two close friends from cancer. In 1993, the Velvet Underground again reunited and toured throughout Europe, although plans for a North American tour were cancelled following another falling out between Reed and Cale. In 1994, Reed appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994, a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released. Reed performed a radically rearranged version of "Now And Then" from Psychoderelict.
In 1996, the Velvet Underground were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the induction ceremony, Reed performed a song entitled "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend" alongside former bandmates John Cale and Maureen Tucker, in dedication to Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison, who had died the previous August. Reed has since been nominated for the Rock Hall as a solo artist twice, in 2000 and 2001, but has not been inducted.[19]
His 1996 album, Set the Twilight Reeling, met with a lukewarm reception, but 2000's Ecstasy drew praise from most critics, including Robert Christgau. In 1996, Reed contributed songs and music to Time Rocker, an avant-garde theatrical interpretation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine staged by theater director Robert Wilson. The piece premiered in the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany, and was later also shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.[20]
In 1998, the PBS TV show American Masters aired Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' feature documentary Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart. This film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. and at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany went on to screen at over 50 festivals worldwide. In 1999, the film and Reed as its subject received a Grammy Award for best long form music video.
Since the late 1990s, Reed has been romantically linked to the musician, multi-media and performance artist Laurie Anderson, and the two have collaborated on a number of recordings together. Anderson contributed to "Call On Me" from Reed's project The Raven, to the tracks "Baton Rouge" and "Rock Minuet" from Reed's Ecstasy, and to "Hang On To Your Emotions" from Reed's Set the Twilight Reeling. Reed contributed to "In Our Sleep" from Anderson's Bright Red and to "One Beautiful Evening" from her Life on a String. They married on April 12, 2008.[21]
2000s[link]
2000 to 2003[link]
In May 2000, Reed performed before Pope John Paul II at the Great Jubilee Concert in Rome. In 2000, a new collaboration with Robert Wilson called "Poe-Try" was staged at the Thalia Theater in Germany. As with the previous collaboration "Time Rocker," "Poe-Try" was also inspired by the works of a 19th century writer: Edgar Allan Poe. Reed became interested in Poe after producer and long-time friend Hal Willner suggested he read some of Poe's text at a Halloween benefit he was curating at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.[22] For this new collaboration, Reed reworked and even rewrote some of Poe's text as well as included some new songs based on the theme explored in the texts. In 2001, Reed made a cameo appearance in the movie adaptation of Prozac Nation. On October 6, 2001, the New York Times published a Reed poem called Laurie Sadly Listening in which he reflects upon the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[23]
Incorrect reports of Reed's death were broadcast by numerous U.S. radio stations in 2001, caused by a hoax email (purporting to be from Reuters) which said he had died of a drug overdose. In 2003, he released a 2-CD set, The Raven, based on "Poe-Try." Besides Reed and his band, the album featured a wide range of actors and musicians including singers David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Antony Hegarty, saxophonist and long-time idol Ornette Coleman, and actors Elizabeth Ashley, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Amanda Plummer, Fisher Stevens and Kate Valk. The album consisted of songs written by Reed and spoken-word performances of reworked and rewritten texts of Edgar Allan Poe by the actors, set to electronic music composed by Reed. At the same time a single disc CD version of the albums, focusing on the music, was also released.
A few months after the release of The Raven, a new 2-CD Best Of-set was released, entitled NYC Man (The Ultimate Collection 1967-2003), which featured an unreleased version of the song "Who am I" and a selection of career spanning tracks that had been selected, remastered and sequenced under Reed's supervision. In April 2003, Reed embarked on a new world tour supporting both new and released material, with a band including cellist Jane Scarpantoni and singer Antony Hegarty. During some of the concerts for this tour, the band was joined by Master Ren Guangyi, Reed's personal T'ai Chi instructor, performing T'ai Chi movements to the music on stage. This tour was documented in the 2004 double-disc live album Animal Serenade, recorded live at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
In 2003, Reed released his first book of photographs, Emotions in Action. This work actually was made up out of two books, a larger A4-paper sized called Emotions and a smaller one called Actions which was laid into the hard cover of the former. After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed was released by Wampus Multimedia in 2003.
In 2003, Reed was also a judge for the third annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[24]
2004 to 2006[link]
In 2004, a Groovefinder remix of his song, "Satellite of Love" (called "Satellite of Love '04") was released. It reached No. 10 in the UK singles chart. Also in 2004, Reed contributed vocals and guitar to the track "Fistful of Love" on I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons. In 2005, Reed recorded a spoken word text on Danish rock band Kashmir's album No Balance Palace.
In January 2006, a second book of photographs, Lou Reed's New York, was released.[25] At the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, Reed performed "White Light/White Heat" with The Raconteurs. Later in the night, while co-presenting the award for Best Rock Video with Pink, he exclaimed, apparently unscripted, that "MTV should be playing more rock n' roll."
In October 2006, Reed appeared at Hal Willner's Leonard Cohen tribute show "Came So Far For Beauty" in Dublin, beside the cast of Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, Antony, Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, and others. According to the reports, he played a heavy metal version of Cohen's "The Stranger Song."[26] He also performed "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong" and two duets—"Joan of Arc", with Cohen's former back-up singer Julie Christensen, and "Memories"—in a duet with Anjani Thomas.
In December 2006, Reed played a first series of show at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, based on his 1973 Berlin song cycle. Reed was reunited on stage with guitarist Steve Hunter, who played on the original album as well as on Rock 'n' Roll Animal, as well as joined by singers Antony Hegarty and Sharon Jones, pianist Rupert Christie, a horn and string section and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. The show was being produced by Bob Ezrin, who also produced the original album, and Hal Willner. The stage was designed by painter Julian Schnabel and a film about protagonist "Caroline" directed by his daughter, Lola Schnabel, was being projected to the stage. A live recording of these concerts was also published as a film (directed by Schnabel) which was released spring 2008. The show was also played at the Sydney Festival in January 2007 and throughout Europe during June and July 2007. The album version of the concert, entitled Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse, was released in 2008.
2007 to 2009[link]
In April 2007, he released Hudson River Wind Meditations, his first record of ambient meditation music. The record was released on the Sounds True record label and contains four tracks that were said to have been composed just for himself as a guidance for T'ai Chi exercise and meditation. In May 2007, Reed performed the narration for a screening of Guy Maddin's silent film The Brand Upon the Brain. In June 2007, he performed live at the Traffic Festival 2007 in Turin, Italy, a five-day free event organized by the city.
In August 2007, Reed went into the studio with The Killers in New York City to record "Tranquilize," a duet with Brandon Flowers for The Killers' b-side/rarities album, called Sawdust. During that month, he also recorded guitar for the Lucibel Crater song "Threadbare Funeral," which appears on their full-length CD The Family Album. In October 2007, Reed gave a special performance in the Recitement song "Passengers." The album combines music with spoken word. The album was composed by Stephen Emmer and produced by Tony Visconti. Hollandcentraal was inspired by this piece of music and literature, which spawned a concept for a music video. On October 1, 2008, Reed joined Richard Barone via projected video on a spoken/sung duet of Reed's "I'll Be Your Mirror," with cellist Jane Scarpantoni, in Barone's FRONTMAN: A Musical Reading at Carnegie Hall.
On October 2 and 3, 2008, he premiered his new group, which later was named Metal Machine Trio, at REDCAT (Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, Los Angeles). The live recordings of the concerts were released under the title The Creation of the Universe. The Trio features Ulrich Krieger (saxophone) and Sarth Calhoun (electronics), and plays free improvised instrumental music inspired by Reed's 1975 album Metal Machine Music. The music ranges from ambient soundscapes to free rock to contemporary noise. The trio played further shows at New York's Gramercy Theater in April 2009, and appeared as part of Reed's band at the 2009 Lollapalooza, including a ten minute free trio improvisation.[27] At Lollapalooza, held in Chicago's Grant Park, Reed played "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat" with Metallica at Madison Square Garden as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on October 30, 2009.[28][29] Reed's recent activity in films include providing the voice of Maltazard, the villain in the forthcoming Luc Besson animated film, Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard, and playing the role of himself in Wim Wenders' movie Palermo Shooting (2008).
In 2009, Reed became an active member of the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA).[30] He was a featured performer at the JFA's annual benefit "A Great Night in Harlem" in May 2009.[31]
2010s[link]
Reed has remained active doing benefits and composing music. He has contributed vocals on the third Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, on the song "Some Kind Of Nature" and co-wrote and performed backup music for a Chen Style T'ai Chi instructional DVD.[32] He has a co-production credit on Laurie Anderson's Homeland.
Lou Reed performed a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" which is featured on the tribute album Rave On Buddy Holly.
Reed also began touring with the Metal Machine Trio, which was widely viewed as a return to his exploration of noise and sound. In 2011, heavy metal band Metallica recorded a full length collaboration with Lou Reed entitled Lulu, released November 1 in North America and October 31 everywhere else.[33] After he initially refused Susan Boyle the right to perform "Perfect Day" on an American television special ("America's Got Talent"), he subsequently agreed to direct her video rendition.[34]
In January, 2012, Reed and John Cale sued the Andy Warhol Foundation for the license to use the yellow banana image from Warhol's art for The Velvet Underground & Nico album.[35]
Reed contributed vocals to the track "Wanderlust" on Metric's 2012 album Synthetica.
Discography[link]
With the Velvet Underground[link]
For a more comprehensive list, see The Velvet Underground discography.
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As a solo artist[link]
For a more comprehensive list, see Lou Reed discography.
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Collaborations[link]
- Songs for Drella (with John Cale) (1990)
- Tranquilize (with The Killers) (2007)
- The Stone: Issue Three (with John Zorn and Laurie Anderson) (2008)
- The Creation of the Universe (with the Metal Machine Trio) (2008)
- Some Kind of Nature (with Gorillaz) (2010)
- Lulu (with Metallica) (2011)
Guest appearances[link]
- The Road from Memphis - Booker T. Jones (2011) "The Bronx"
- Synthetica - Metric (2012) "The Wanderlust"
Appearances in film[link]
- One Trick Pony (1980) as Steve Kunelian
- Get Crazy (1983) as Auden
- Permanent Record (1988) as himself
- Faraway, So Close! (1993) as himself
- Blue in the Face (1995) as "Man with Strange Glasses"
- Closure (1997) as himself
- Prozac Nation (2001) as himself
- Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse (2008)
- Palermo Shooting (2008) as himself
References[link]
- ^ Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The Stories Behind the Songs, Chris Roberts and Lou Reed, 2004, Hal Leonard, ISBN 0-634-08032-6
- ^ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000). "The Velvet Underground". Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060629091811/http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=204. Retrieved September 15, 2006.
- ^ Richie Unterberger & Greg Prato (2005). "Lou Reed Biography". http://search.mercora.com/v6/ArtistMetaData.jsp?name=Lou+Reed. Retrieved September 15, 2006.
- ^ "Lou Reed". The Guardian. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ^ "[1]". "People". Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ Lou Reed: The Stories Behind the Songs, Chris Roberts and Lou Reed, 2004, Hal Leonard, ISBN 0-634-08032-6
- ^ a b "Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel". Spectacle. episode 2. season 1. 2008. http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500328617.
- ^ a b Colin, Chris. "Lou Reed - Salon.com". Salon.com. http://dir.salon.com/people/bc/2000/05/16/reed/. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
- ^ McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Grove Press, (1996). Cf. pp.3–4
- ^ David Fricke, liner notes for the Peel Slowly and See box set (Polydor, 1995)
- ^ "Velvet Underground and Nico" (1967), album cover notes and record label.
- ^ Interview in Rolling Stone Magazine Nov/Dec 1987: Twentieth Anniversary Issue
- ^ Black, Johnny. Time Machine: Velvet Underground (1997), Mojo Magazine
- ^ BBC-Music Review
- ^ Bershaw. "Concert Summary: May 2, 1973". Wolfgangs Vault. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/lou-reed-and-moogy-klingman-band/concerts/kansas-city-memorial-hall-may-02-1973.html. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ Lou Reed interview with Anthony DeCurtis at the 92nd Street Y New York on September 18, 2006
- ^ Waiting For The Man – A Biography of Lou Reed. Jeremy Reed, 1994 Picador p.156
- ^ Sandall, Robert (February 9, 2003). "Lou Reed: Walk on the mild side". The Sunday Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article860207.ece. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
- ^ Futurerockhall.com
- ^ Pareles, Jon (November 14, 1997). "NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL REVIEW/MUSIC; Echoes of H. G. Wells, Rhythms of Lou Reed". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E5D81738F937A25752C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1.
- ^ Morning Memo: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Make it Legal
- ^ VH1.com : Lou Reed : Lou Reed's Obsession With Edgar Allan Poe Spawns The Raven – Rhapsody Music Downloads
- ^ "War Poems". Bushwatch.com. http://www.bushwatch.com/auden.htm. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ Independent Music Awards – Past Judges
- ^ Lou Reed's New York
- ^ "Came so Far For Beauty At The Point Theatre, Dublin, October 4 and 5, 2006", http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/dublin.html
- ^ Rolling Stone review of the Metal Machine Trio concert at the Gramercy in New York
- ^ "Lou Reed at Lollapalooza 2009". 2009.lollapalooza.com. http://2009.lollapalooza.com/band/lou-reed. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ "BLABBERMOUTH.NET – METALLICA With OZZY, LOU REED, RAY DAVIES At ROCK HALL Concert: More Video Footage Available". Roadrunnerrecords.com. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=129623. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ jbspins.blogspot.com. 2009-13-10. URL: http://jbspins.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-night-2009.html. Accessed: 2009-13-10. (Archived by jbspins.blogspot.com at http://jbspins.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-night-2009.html)
- ^ nydailynews.com. 2009-13-10. URL: http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jazz+Foundation+of+America. Accessed: 2009-13-10. (Archived by nydailynews.com at http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jazz+Foundation+of+America)
- ^ Lynskey, Dorian (June 26, 2010). "Gorillaz at Glastonbury 2010". The Guardian (London). Archived from the original on June 18, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5zXp38mux. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Secret Recording Project?". Metallica.com. Metallica. June 15, 2010. Archived from the original on June 18, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5zXoq0kSN. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
- ^ Sep 9, 2010, "Music Mix ew, Leah Greenblatt Tweet Lou Reed reportedly refuses song rights to Susan Boyle, makes her cry, Nov 8 2010stereogum
- ^ Bloomberg, Velvet Underground Sues Warhol Over Banana Design Don Jeffrey Jan 12, 2012
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 Joni Mitchell performing in 1983 |
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| Birth name | Roberta Joan Anderson |
| Born | (1943-11-07) November 7, 1943 (age 68) Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Folk-rock, folk-jazz/jazz, pop |
| Occupations | Musician, singer songwriter, painter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, dulcimer, ukulele, auto-harp |
| Labels | Reprise (1968–1972, 1994–2001) Asylum (1972–1981) Geffen (1982–1993) Nonesuch (2002) Hear Music (2007) |
| Associated acts | Buffy Sainte-Marie, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, James Taylor, L.A. Express, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Larry Klein, Thomas Dolby, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Glenn Frey |
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Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter.[1] Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968.[2] Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made.[3] Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."[4]
Mitchell's wide-ranging vocals and her distinctive open-tuned guitar and piano compositions grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she explored jazz, melding it with her influences in rock n roll, R&B, classical music and non-western beats. Mitchell's experimental run of jazz-inspired albums, including 1975's The Hissing of Summer Lawns and 1976's Hejira, confused many and hurt Mitchell's sales at the time, but they are acclaimed today. In the late 1970s, she began working closely with noted jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Charles Mingus, the last of whom asked her to collaborate on his final recordings.[5] In her later work Mitchell turned again toward pop, embraced electronic music, and engaged in political protest. Mitchell was also the sole record producer credited on most of her albums, including all her work in the 1970s. With roots in visual art, she designed her own album artwork throughout her career. A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell quit touring and released her 17th, and reportedly last, album of original songs in 2007. Now based in British Columbia, she describes herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance."[6]
Mitchell has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres, and her work is highly respected by critics. Allmusic said, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century,"[7] and Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever."[8] Mitchell's lyrics have been noted for their developed poetics, addressing social and environmental ideals alongside individual feelings of romantic longing, confusion, disillusion and joy.
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Early life[link]
Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, to Bill Anderson and Myrtle Anderson (née McKee). Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and Irish;[9] her father's were Norwegian and Sami.[10] Her mother was a teacher. Her father was a Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant who instructed new pilots in Fort Macleod, where the allied forces were gathering to learn to fly. During the war years, she moved with her parents to a number of bases in western Canada. After the war, her father began working as a grocer, and his work took the family to Saskatchewan, to the towns of Maidstone and North Battleford. She later sang about her small town upbringing in "Song for Sharon."
In Maidstone, a "two-block, one church, one hotel town," Joni's family lived without indoor plumbing and running water. Many of the other residents were First Nations people. Canadians of European origin such as Joni's grandfather had only begun to settle there in recent decades. The town was along the old railway, and the line ran right behind her bedroom. She used to "sit up in bed each morning to watch the one train that always passed daily." Joni said, "The weird thing is that years later my parents met the conductor of that train at a party. He said: 'All I remember of your town is a house with Christmas decorations and a kid that used to wave at me.'"[11] Joni loved spending time outdoors. She also said, "My mother raised me on words... Where other parents would quote from the Bible, she would quote from Shakespeare. She was a romantic woman. She encouraged me in all those old-fashioned things. I kept pressed-flower scrap books."[12]
Joni's father was an amateur musician who loved swing records and played trumpet in marching bands, and Joni would join in town parades with her father's band and other children. Many of her childhood friends were taking music lessons, and she would tag along to their performances, where she developed her first musical obsessions: Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Chopin and Beethoven. Much later, the first LP she saved up to buy was Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.[10] Mitchell briefly studied classical piano between the ages of six and seven. She said, "I wanted to play... I wanted to do what I do now, which is to lay my hand on it and to memorize what comes off of it and to create with it. But my music teacher told me I played by ear which was a sin, you know, and that I would never be able to read these pieces because I memorized things... I didn't fall into the norm for that system, so I dropped that."[13]
At the age of eight, Joni contracted polio during a 1951 Canadian epidemic, the same one in which singer Neil Young, then aged five and living in Ontario, also contracted the virus.[14] It was the last major epidemic in North America before Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was successfully tested. Bedridden for weeks in hospital, Joni became aware that she would have to move across the hall and live in an iron lung for the remainder of her life if her condition worsened. As she later described, it was during her time in hospital that winter that she first became interested in singing. She told the story later:
"They said I might not walk again, and that I would not be able to go home for Christmas. I wouldn't go for it. So I started to sing Christmas carols and I used to sing them real loud... The boy in the bed next to me, you know, used to complain. And I discovered I was a ham."[15]
Before she suffered polio, Mitchell had been interested in the arts, but she had been more athletic herself than artistic. Once she recovered, she realized she would no longer be able to compete with the fastest swimmers or runners, and as a compensation she became interested in dancing. At the age of nine she also began smoking, a lifelong habit. Mitchell's smoking has been the subject of criticism from journalists, who blame it for changes in her voice in later decades of her life, but Mitchell has denied the connection, expressing no regret for what she calls "my terrible habits."[16]
When Mitchell was eleven years old, her family settled in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which she considers her hometown. Mitchell had always been inspired by the beauty of the Canadian frontier, but she had developed into "a bad student" frustrated by the educational outlook in the provincial towns where she grew up, and school in Saskatoon did not inspire her either. Mitchell's initially dedicated note-taking in class would be replaced by a mess of drawings in her notebooks by year's end, and her report cards would say, "Joan does not relate well." She said, "The way I saw the educational system from an early age was that it taught you what to think, not how to think. There was no liberty, really, for free thinking. You were being trained to fit into a society where free thinking was a nuisance. I liked some of my teachers very much, but I had no interest in their subjects. So I would appease them—I think they perceived that I was not a dummy, although my report card didn't look like it. I would line the math room with ink drawings and portraits of the mathematicians. I did a tree of life for my biology teacher. I was always staying late at the school, down on my knees painting something."[15]
Mitchell was drawn to art, but "growing up just at the time before arts were included as a part of education... at that time I was kind of a freak."[17] In seventh grade, she had "one radical teacher... a reverer of spirit... He criticized my habit of copying pictures. No one else did. They praised me as a prodigy for my technique. 'You like to paint?' he asked. I nodded. 'If you can paint with a brush you can paint with words.' He drew out my poetry. He was a great disciplinarian in his own punk style. We loved him... I wrote an epic poem in class - I labored to impress him. I got it back circled in red with 'cliché, cliche.' 'White as newly fallen snow' - 'cliche'; 'high upon a silver shadowed hill' - 'cliche.' At the bottom he said, 'Write about what you know, it's more interesting.'"[13] Mitchell talked about "going out after the rain and gathering tadpoles in an empty mayonnaise jar," and he suggested she put her experience in writing.[18] Mitchell's debut album included a dedication to the teacher, "Mr. Kratzman, who taught me to love words."[19]
Mitchell wrote poetry as well. She said, "I was good in composition, but I wasn't good in the dissection of English... I wasn't scholastically good in it because I didn't like to break it down and analyze it in that manner, and I liked to speak in slang."[13] Mitchell said, "I finally flunked out in the twelfth grade. I went back later and picked up the subjects that I lost." She said, "My identity, since it wasn't through the grade system, was that I was a good dancer and an artist... I made a lot of my own clothes. I worked in ladies' wear and I modeled. I had access to sample clothes that were too fashionable for our community... I would go hang out on the streets dressed to the T... I hung out downtown with the Ukrainians and the Indians... When I went back to my own neighborhood, I found that I had a provocative image. They thought I was loose because I always liked rowdies... But there also came a stage when my friends who were juvenile delinquents suddenly became criminals. They could go into very dull jobs or they could go into crime. Crime is very romantic in your youth. I suddenly thought, 'Here's where the romance ends. I don't see myself in jail...'"[15]
Mitchell loved rock and roll. She said, "When I was in my teens, rock 'n' roll was only on the radio from 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock- after school- and two hours on Saturdays. If you didn't have a record player and you just HAD to hear those sounds, you went where there was a jukebox... I hung around two cafés that had jukeboxes. The AM Café was close to my house, and the CM Café was on the other side of town and I was forbidden to go there. They were owned by two Chinese guys- Artie Mack and Charlie Mack. You could loiter in the booths and you could smoke there."[20] As a teenager in the late 1950s, she said, "I loved to dance. That was my thing. I instigated a Wednesday night dance 'cause I could hardly make it to the weekends. For dancing, I loved Chuck Berry. Ray Charles. 'What I'd Say.' I liked Elvis Presley. I liked the Everly Brothers. But then this thing happened. Rock & roll went through a really dumb vanilla period. And during that period, folk music came in to fill the hole. At that point I had friends who'd have parties and sit around and sing Kingston Trio songs. That's when I started to sing again. That's why I bought an instrument. To sing at those parties."[15]
Mitchell bought herself a ukulele in 1957. She had wanted a guitar, but her mother, with rural roots herself, strongly opposed the idea because of the "hillbilly" image that she connected with the guitar.[21] Before rock n roll, the guitar in rural Canada had been mainly used in country and western music and was still widely associated with that genre. Mitchell eventually was able to get a guitar, but she continued to play baritone ukulele well into the early 1960s. She initially taught herself how to play guitar out of a Pete Seeger songbook, but she never finished the book. Joni's left hand had been weakened by polio, and some fingerings were difficult or impossible for her to execute. As she added new folk songs to her repertoire, she began to devise dozens of alternate tunings that allowed her to play each song. Later this improvised approach would be "a tool to break free of standard approaches to harmony and structure" in her own songwriting.
Joni started singing with her friends at bonfires in the "northern lakes, up around Waskesiu Lake" in the early 1960s. Eventually she got a few gigs in coffeehouses in Saskatoon. Joni's first paid performance was on October 31, 1962, at a local club that featured folk and jazz performers.[22] She was 18, and her record collection at the time ran from American folk revivalists whose LPs were helping to expand her repertoire of traditional songs, to her more personal favorites like Edith Piaf and Miles Davis. Joni and her friends were interested in jazz. Though she never performed jazz herself in those days, she and her friends sought out gigs by jazz musicians. Mitchell said, "My jazz background began with one of the early Lambert, Hendricks and Ross albums... The Hottest New Sound in Jazz. It was hard to find in Canada, so I saved up and bought it at a bootleg price. I considered that album to be my Beatles. I learned every song off of it, and I don't think there is another album anywhere - including my own - on which I know every note and word of every song."[23]
As Joni finished up high school at Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon, playing music was a way to make some extra money, but she never intended to make a career of it. She wanted to paint, and she left home to attend the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. At art school, Joni Anderson excelled academically for the first time in her life.[13] However, she struggled with the sense she was a poorer artist than her grades indicated. She said, "I found that I was an honor student at art school for the same reason that I was a bad student - an equal and opposite reason - because I had developed a lot of technical ability... I found that I seemed to be marked for my technical ability so that in free classes where I was really uninspired, my marks remained the same standard. Whereas people who were great in free class, who were original and loose who didn't have the chops in a technical class, would receive a mark that was pretty similar to their technical ability. So I became pretty disillusioned."[13]
Mitchell was also coming to realize that her art was out of step with trends at the time, a movement to nearly total abstraction. Influenced by post-impressionists Van Gogh and Gaugin and by Picasso's work, she was still interested in painting landscapes and people, representing real things she saw. Figurative artists like herself were being directed to advertising and commercial art, which didn't at all appeal to her.[13] At art school, to support herself, Joni kept gigging as a folk musician on weekends, playing at her college and at a local hotel. After a year, at age 19, she dropped out of school and kept playing. Mitchell took a $15-a-week job in a Calgary coffee house, "singing long tragic songs in a minor key." She played at The Depression! for three months in the autumn of 1963. She also sang at hootenannies and even made appearances on some local TV and radio shows in Calgary.[22]
Mitchell's parents valued education very highly, having been raised during the Great Depression, and her decision to abandon her art studies was unpopular with her family, causing friction when she returned home to see them in Saskatchewan. In the summer of 1964 at the age of 20, she told her mother that she intended to be a folk singer in Toronto, and she left Western Canada for the first time in her life, heading east for Ontario. On the three-day train ride there, Joni wrote her first song, called "Day After Day." She also stopped at the Mariposa Folk Festival to see Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Saskatchewan-born Cree folk singer who had inspired her. A year later, Joni too would play Mariposa, her first gig for a major audience, and years later, Sainte-Marie herself would cover her.
Career[link]
1964–1969: Folk breakthrough[link]
Ontario[link]
Toronto's Yorkville when Joni arrived was a rougher, Bohemian neighbourhood north of the downtown area. Home to a busy coffeehouse circuit second only to New York's Greenwich Village in North America, Yorkville attracted the most seasoned folk singers on the continent, and Joni Anderson struggled to find work there without the right connections. Lacking the $200 needed for musicians' union fees, she managed a few gigs at The Half Beat and The Village Corner, but mostly played non-union gigs "in church basements and YMCA meeting halls." Rejected from major folk clubs, she resorted to busking,[22] while she "worked in the women's wear section of a downtown department store to pay the rent." Without a lot of name recognition, Joni also began to realize each city's folk scene tended to accord veteran performers the exclusive right to play their signature songs- despite not having written the songs- which Mitchell found insular, contrary to the egalitarian ideal of folk music. She found her best traditional material was already other singers' property and would no longer pass muster. She said, "You'd come into a town and you'd be told, you can't sing that, you can't sing that." She resolved to write her own originals.
In the autumn of 1964, Joni discovered that she was pregnant by her Calgary ex-boyfriend Brad MacMath. She later wrote, "[he] left me three months pregnant in an attic room with no money and winter coming on and only a fireplace for heat. The spindles of the banister were gap-toothed- fuel for last winter's occupants."[20] At the time, the pill was legally unavailable in Canada, as was abortion, yet there was a strong social stigma against women giving birth out of wedlock. In Toronto, she could at least do so quietly, without alarming her relatives back home. In February 1965 she gave birth to a baby girl. Unable to provide for the baby, she gave her daughter, Kelly Dale Anderson, up for adoption. The experience remained private for most of her career, but she made allusions to it in several songs, most notably in "Little Green," which she performed in the 1960s but eventually recorded for the 1971 album Blue. At the time, the veiled lyrics were not widely understood – a review described them as impenetrable.[citation needed]
In "Chinese Cafe", from the 1982 album Wild Things Run Fast, Mitchell sang, "Your kids are coming up straight / My child's a stranger / I bore her / But I could not raise her." These lyrics did not receive wide attention at the time. The existence of Mitchell's adopted daughter was not publicly known until 1993, when a roommate from Mitchell's art school days in the 1960s sold the story about the adoption to a tabloid magazine.[24][25] By that time, Mitchell's daughter, renamed Kilauren Gibb, had already begun a search for her biological parents. Mitchell and her daughter met in 1997.[26] After the reunion, Mitchell said that she lost interest in songwriting, and she would later identify her daughter's birth and her inability to take care of her as the moment when her songwriting inspiration had really begun. When she was unable to express herself to the person she wanted to talk to, she became attuned to the whole world and she began to write personally.
A few weeks after the birth of her daughter in 1965, Joni Anderson was gigging again around Yorkville, beginning to sing more of her original material for the first time, written with her unique open tunings. In March and April she found work at the Penny Farthing, a folk club in Toronto. There she met Chuck Mitchell, an American folk-singer from Michigan. Chuck was immediately attracted to Joni and impressed by her performance, and he told her that he could get her steady work in the coffeehouses he knew in the United States. In one interview, Joni marries Chuck only 36 hours after they meet, but it is unclear if they were ever married in Toronto. Sometime in late April, Joni left Canada for the first time in her life, going with Chuck to the US, where the two began playing music together.[22] Joni, 21 years old, married Chuck in an official ceremony in his hometown in June 1965 and took his surname. Joni Mitchell said, "We had no money. I made my wedding dress... I walked down the aisle brandishing my daisies."[27]
Michigan[link]
In the summer of 1965, Chuck Mitchell took Joni with him to the United States. While living in Detroit, Chuck and Joni were regular performers at area coffee houses as well as The Alcove bar near Wayne State University and the "Rathskeller" a restaurant on the campus of the University of Detroit. Oscar Brand featured her several times on his CBC television program Let's Sing Out in 1965 and 1966, broadening her exposure. The marriage and partnership of Joni and Chuck Mitchell dissolved in early 1967, and Joni moved to New York City to pursue her musical dreams as a solo artist. She played venues up and down the East Coast, including Philadelphia, Boston, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She performed frequently in coffeehouses and folk clubs and, by this time creating her own material, became well known for her unique songwriting and her innovative guitar style.
New York[link]
Folk singer Tom Rush had met Mitchell in Toronto and was impressed with her songwriting ability. He took "Urge For Going" to popular folk act Judy Collins but she was not interested in the song at the time, so Rush recorded it himself. Country singer George Hamilton IV heard Rush performing it and recorded a hit country version. Other artists who recorded Mitchell songs in the early years were Buffy Sainte-Marie ("The Circle Game"), Dave Van Ronk ("Both Sides Now"), and eventually Judy Collins ("Both Sides Now", a top ten hit, and "Michael From Mountains", both included on her 1967 album Wildflowers). Collins also covered "Chelsea Morning", a recording which again eclipsed Mitchell's own commercial success early on.
California[link]
While she was playing one night in "The Gaslight South",[28] a club in Coconut Grove, Florida, David Crosby walked in and was immediately struck by her ability and her appeal as an artist. He took her back to Los Angeles, where he set about introducing her and her music to his friends. Crosby convinced a record company to agree to let Mitchell record a solo acoustic album without all the folk-rock overdubs that were in vogue at the time, and his clout earned him a producer's credit in March 1968, when Reprise Records released her debut album, alternately known as Joni Mitchell or Song to a Seagull.
Mitchell continued touring steadily to promote the LP. The tour helped create eager anticipation for Mitchell's second LP, Clouds, which was released in April 1969. It finally contained Mitchell's own versions of some of her songs already recorded and performed by other artists: "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", and "Tin Angel." The covers of both LPs, including a self-portrait on Clouds, were designed and painted by Mitchell, a marriage of her art and music which she would continue throughout her career.
1970–1974: Mainstream success[link]
In March 1970 Clouds won Joni Mitchell her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The following month, Reprise released her third album, Ladies of the Canyon. Mitchell's sound was already beginning to expand beyond the confines of acoustic folk music and toward pop and rock, with more overdubs, percussion, and backing vocals, and for the first time, many songs composed on piano, which would become a hallmark of Mitchell's style in her most popular era. Her own version of "Woodstock", slower and darker than the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover, was performed on a Wurlitzer electric piano. The album also included the already-familiar song "The Circle Game" and the environmental anthem "Big Yellow Taxi", with its now-famous line, "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
Ladies of the Canyon was an instant smash on FM radio and sold briskly through the summer and fall, eventually becoming Mitchell's first gold album (selling over a half million copies). Mitchell made a decision to stop touring for a year and just write and paint, yet she was still voted "Top Female Performer" for 1970 by Melody Maker, the UK's leading pop music magazine. On the April 1971 release of James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon album, Joni Mitchell is credited with backup vocals – along with Carole King – on the track "You've Got A Friend". The songs she wrote during the months she took off for travel and life experience would appear on her next album, Blue, released in June 1971. Of Blue and in comparing Joni Mitchell's talent to his own, David Crosby said, "By the time she did Blue she was past me and rushing toward the horizon" (A 65th Birthday Tribute to Joni Mitchell, 2008).[29]
Blue was an almost instant critical and commercial success, peaking in the top 20 in the Billboard Album Charts in September and also hitting the British Top 3. Lushly produced "Carey" was the single at the time, but musically, other parts of Blue departed further from the sounds of Ladies of the Canyon in favor of simpler, rhythmic acoustic parts allowing a focus on Mitchell's voice and emotions ("All I Want", "A Case of You"), while others such as "Blue", "River" and "The Last Time I Saw Richard" were sung to her rolling piano accompaniment. In its lyrics, the album was regarded as an inspired culmination of her early work, with depressed assessments of the world around her serving as counterpoint to exuberant expressions of romantic love (for example, in "California"). Mitchell later remarked, "At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong."[15]
Mitchell made the decision to return to the live stage after the great success of Blue, and she presented many new songs on tour which would appear on her next album. Her fifth album, For the Roses, was released in October 1972 and immediately zoomed up the charts. She followed with the single, "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio", which peaked at #25 in the Billboard Charts in February 1973, becoming her first bonafide hit single. The album was critically acclaimed and earned her success on her own terms, though it was somewhat overshadowed by the success of Blue and by Mitchell's next album.
Court and Spark, released in January 1974, would see Mitchell begin the flirtation with jazz and jazz fusion that marked her experimental period ahead, but it was also her most commercially successful recording, and among her most critically acclaimed. Court and Spark went to #1 on the Cashbox Album Charts. The LP made Joni Mitchell a widely popular act for perhaps the only time in her career, on the strength of popular tracks such as the rocker "Raised on Robbery", which was released right before Christmas 1973, and "Help Me", which was released in March of the following year, and became Mitchell's only Top 10 single when it peaked at #7 in the first week of June. "Free Man in Paris" was another hit single and staple in her catalog.
While recording Court and Spark, Mitchell had tried to make a clean break with her earlier folk sound, producing the album herself and employing jazz/pop fusion band the L.A. Express as what she called her first real backing group. In February 1974, her tour with the L.A. Express began, and they received rave notices as they traveled across the United States and Canada during the next two months. A series of shows at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheater from August 14–17 were recorded for a live album release. In November, Mitchell released a live album called Miles of Aisles, a two-record set including all but two songs from the L.A. concerts (one selection each from the Berkeley Community Center, on March 2, and the LA Music Center, on March 4, were also included in the set). The live album slowly moved up to #2, matching Court and Sparks's chart peak on Billboard. "Big Yellow Taxi", the live version, was also released as a single and did reasonably well (Mitchell would ultimately release yet another recording of "Big Yellow Taxi" in 2007).
In January 1975, Court and Spark received four nominations for Grammy Awards, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year, for which Mitchell was the only woman nominated. She won only the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
1975–1980: Jazz explorations[link]
Mitchell went into the studio in the spring of 1975 to record acoustic demos of some songs that she had written since the Court and Spark tour ended. A few months later she recorded versions of the tunes with her band. Mitchell's musical interests were now diverging from both the folk and the pop scene of the era, toward less structured, more jazz-inspired pieces, with a wider range of instruments. On "The Jungle Line", she also made an early effort at sampling a recording of African musicians, something that would become more commonplace among Western rock acts in the 1980s. Meanwhile, "In France They Kiss on Main Street" continued the lush pop sounds of Court and Spark, and efforts such as the title song and "Edith and the Kingpin" chronicled the underbelly of suburban lives in Southern California.
The new song cycle was released in November 1975 as The Hissing of Summer Lawns. The album was initially a big seller, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Album Charts, but it received mixed reviews at the time of its release.[citation needed] A common legend holds that Rolling Stone magazine declared it the "Worst Album of the Year"; in truth, it was called only the year's worst album title.[30] However, Mitchell and Rolling Stone have had a contentious relationship, beginning years earlier when the magazine featured a "tree" illustrating all of Mitchell's alleged romantic partners, primarily other musicians, which the singer said "hurt my feelings terribly at the time."[8] During 1975, Mitchell also participated in several concerts in the Rolling Thunder Revue tours featuring Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and in 1976 she performed as part of The Last Waltz by The Band. In January 1976, Mitchell received one nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, though the Grammy went to Linda Ronstadt.
In early 1976, Mitchell traveled with friends who were driving cross country to Maine. Afterwards, Mitchell drove back to California alone and composed several songs during her journey which would feature on her next album, 1976's Hejira. She stated that "This album was written mostly while I was traveling in the car. That's why there were no piano songs..."[15] Hejira was arguably Mitchell's most experimental album so far, due to her ongoing collaborations with legendary jazz virtuoso bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius on several songs including the first single, "Coyote", the atmospheric "Hejira", the disorienting, guitar-heavy "Black Crow," and the album's last song "Refuge of the Roads." The album climbed to No. 13 on the Billboard Charts, reaching gold status three weeks after release, and received airplay from album oriented FM rock stations. Yet "Coyote", backed with "Blue Motel Room", failed to chart on the Hot 100. While the album was greeted by many fans and critics as a "return to form",[citation needed] by the time she recorded it her days as a huge pop star were over. However, if Hejira "did not sell as briskly as Mitchell's earlier, more "radio friendly" albums, its stature in her catalogue has grown over the years."[31] Mitchell herself believes the album to be unique. In 2006 she said, "I suppose a lot of people could have written a lot of my other songs, but I feel the songs on Hejira could only have come from me."[31]
In the summer of 1977, Mitchell began work on new recordings, what would become her first double studio album. Close to completing her contract with Asylum Records, Mitchell felt that this album could be looser in feel than any album she'd done in the past. She invited Pastorius back, and he brought with him fellow members of jazz fusion pioneers Weather Report, including drummer Don Alias and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who had once worked closely with Miles Davis. Layered, atmospheric compositions such as "Overture / Cotton Avenue" featured more improvisatory collaboration, while "Paprika Plains" was a 16-minute epic that stretched the boundaries of pop, owing more to Mitchell's memories of childhood in Canada and her study of classical music. "Dreamland" and "The Tenth World", featuring Chaka Khan on backing vocals, were percussion dominated tracks. Other songs continued the jazz-rock-folk collisions of Hejira. Mitchell also revived "Jericho", written but never recorded years earlier (a version is found on her 1974 live album). Don Juan's Reckless Daughter was released in December 1977. The album received mixed reviews but still sold relatively well, peaking at No. 25 in the US and going gold within three months. The cover of the album created its own controversy; Mitchell was featured in several photographs on the cover, including one where she was disguised as a black man (this is a reference to a character in one song on the album).
A few months after the release of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell was contacted by jazz great Charles Mingus, who had heard the orchestrated song, "Paprika Plains", and wanted her to work with him. Mitchell began a collaboration with Mingus, who died before the project was completed in 1979. She finished the tracks (most were her own Mingus-inspired compositions, though "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a Mingus instrumental standard to which Mitchell composed lyrics) and the resulting album, Mingus, was released in June 1979, though it was poorly received in the press. Fans were confused over such a major change in Mitchell's overall sound, and though the album topped out at No. 17 on the Billboard album charts—a higher placement than Don Juan's Reckless Daughter – Mingus still fell short of gold status, making it her first album since the 1960s to not sell at least a half-million copies.
Mitchell's summer tour to promote Mingus began in August 1979 in Oklahoma City and concluded six weeks later with five shows at Los Angeles' Greek Theater, where she recorded and filmed the concerts. It was her first tour in several years, and with Pastorius, jazz guitar great Pat Metheny, and other members of her band, Mitchell also performed songs from her other jazz-inspired albums. When the tour ended she began a year of work, turning the tapes from the Los Angeles shows into a two-album set and a concert film, both to be called Shadows and Light. Her final release on Asylum Records and her second live double-album, it was released in September 1980, and made it up to No. 38 on the Billboard Charts. A single from the LP, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?", Mitchell's duet with The Persuasions (her opening act for the tour), bubbled under on Billboard, just missing the Hot 100.
1981–1993: Pop, electronics and protest[link]
For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the tracks for her next album. During this period Mitchell recorded with bassist Larry Klein, eventually marrying him in 1982. While the album was being readied for release, her friend David Geffen, founder of Asylum Records, decided to start a new label, Geffen Records. Still distributed by Warner Bros., (who controlled Asylum Records), Geffen was able to negate the remaining contractual obligations Mitchell had with Asylum and signed her to his new label. 1982's Wild Things Run Fast marked a return to pop songwriting, including "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody", which incorporated the chorus and parts of the melody of the famous Righteous Brothers hit, and "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care", a remake of the Elvis chestnut which charted higher than any Mitchell single since her '70s sales peak when it climbed to No. 47 on the charts. However, The album peaked on the Billboard Charts in its fifth week at only No. 25.
As 1983 began, Mitchell began a world tour, visiting Japan, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and then going back to the United States. A performance from the tour was videotaped and later released on home video (and later DVD) as "Refuge Of The Roads." As 1984 ended, Mitchell was writing new songs, when she had a suggestion from Geffen that perhaps an outside producer with experience in the modern technical arenas that they wanted to explore might be a worthy addition. British synth-pop performer and producer Thomas Dolby was brought on board. Of Dolby's role, Mitchell later commented: "I was reluctant when Thomas was suggested because he had been asked to produce the record [by Geffen], and would he consider coming in as just a programmer and a player? So on that level we did have some problems... He may be able to do it faster. He may be able to do it better, but the fact is that it then wouldn't really be my music."[citation needed]
The album that resulted, Dog Eat Dog, released in October 1985, turned out to be only a moderate seller, peaking at No. 63 on Billboard's Top Albums Chart, Mitchell's lowest chart position since her first album peaked at No. 189 almost eighteen years before. One of the songs on the album, "Tax Free", created controversy by lambasting "televangelists" and what she saw as a drift to the religious right in American politics. "The churches came after me", she wrote, "they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I've described as the only church in America which actually uses its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation."[32]
Mitchell continued experimenting with synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers for the recordings of her next album, 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm. She also collaborated with artists including Willie Nelson, Billy Idol, Wendy & Lisa, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, and Benjamin Orr of The Cars. The album's first official single, "My Secret Place", was in fact a duet with Gabriel, and just missed the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song "Lakota" was one of many songs on the album to take on larger political themes, in this case the deadly battle between Native American activists and the FBI on the Lakota Sioux reservation in the previous decade. Musically, several songs fit into the trend of world music popularized by Gabriel during the era. Reviews were mostly favorable towards the album, and the cameos by well-known musicians brought it considerable attention. Chalk Mark ultimately improved on the chart performance of Dog Eat Dog, peaking at No. 45.
After its release, Mitchell, who rarely performed live anymore, participated in Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990. She performed the song, "Goodbye Blue Sky" and also was one of the performers on the concerts ending song, "The Tide Is Turning" along with Waters, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Paul Carrack.
Throughout the first half of 1990, Mitchell recorded songs that would appear on her next album. She delivered the final mixes for the new album to Geffen just before Christmas, after trying nearly a hundred different sequences for the songs. The album Night Ride Home was released in March 1991. In the United States, it premiered on Billboard's Top Album charts at No. 68, moving up to No. 48 in its second week, and peaking at No. 41 in its sixth week. In the United Kingdom, the album premiered at No. 25 on the album charts. Critically, it was better received than her '80s work and seemed to signal a move closer to her acoustic beginnings, along with some references to the style of Hejira. This album was also Mitchell's first since Geffen Records was sold to MCA Inc., meaning that Night Ride Home was her first album not to be initially distributed by WEA (now Warner Music Group).
1994–2001: Resurgence and vocal development[link]
To wider audiences, the real "return to form" for Mitchell came with the 1994's Grammy-winning Turbulent Indigo. While the recording period also saw the divorce of Mitchell and bassist Larry Klein, their marriage having lasted almost 12 years, Indigo was seen as Mitchell's most accessible set of songs in years. Songs such as "Sex Kills", "Sunny Sunday", "Borderline" and "The Magdalene Laundries" mixed social commentary and guitar-focused melodies for "a startling comeback."[33] The album won two Grammy awards, including Best Pop Album, and it coincided with a much-publicized resurgence in interest in Mitchell's work by a younger generation of singer-songwriters.
In 1996, Mitchell agreed to release a greatest Hits collection when label Reprise also allowed her a second Misses album to include some of the lesser known songs from her career. Hits charted at No. 161 in the US, but made No. 6 in the UK. Mitchell also included on Hits, for the first time on an album, her first recording, a version of "Urge for Going" which preceded Song to a Seagull but was previously released only as a B-side.
Two years later, Mitchell released her final set of "original" new work before nearly a decade of other pursuits, 1998's Taming the Tiger. She promoted Tiger with a return to regular concert appearances, most notably a co-headlining tour with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. On the album, Mitchell had played a "guitar synthesizer" on most songs, and for the tour she adapted many of her old songs to this instrument, and reportedly had to re-learn all her complex tunings once again.
It was around this time that critics also began to notice a real change in Mitchell's voice, particularly on her older songs; the singer later admitted to feeling the same way, explaining that "I'd go to hit a note and there was nothing there."[34] While her more limited range and huskier vocals have sometimes been attributed to her smoking (she has been described as "one of the world's last great smokers"), Mitchell believes that the changes in her voice that became noticeable in the nineties were due to other problems, including vocal nodules, a compressed larynx, and the lingering effects of having had polio.[34] In an interview in 2004, she denied that "my terrible habits" had anything to do with her more limited range and pointed out that singers often lose the upper register when they pass fifty. In addition, she contended that in her opinion her voice became a more interesting and expressive alto range when she could no longer hit the high notes, let alone hold them like she did in her youth.[35]
The singer's next two albums featured no new songs and, Mitchell has said, were recorded to "fulfill contractual obligations",[33] but on both she attempted to make use of her new vocal range in interpreting familiar material. Both Sides, Now (2000) was an album composed mostly of covers of jazz standards, performed with an orchestra, featuring orchestral arrangements by Vince Mendoza. The album also contained remakes of "A Case of You" and the title track "Both Sides Now", two early hits transposed down to Mitchell's now dusky, soulful alto range. It received mostly strong reviews and spawned a short national tour, with Mitchell accompanied by a core band featuring Larry Klein on bass plus a local orchestra on each tour stop. Its success led to 2002's Travelogue, a collection of re-workings of her previous songs with lush orchestral accompaniments.
2002–2005: Retirement and retrospectives[link]
Mitchell stated at the time that this would be her final album. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, she voiced discontent with the current state of the music industry, describing it as a "cesspool."[8] Mitchell expressed her dislike of the record industry's dominance and her desire to control her own destiny, possibly by releasing her own music over the Internet.
During the next few years, the only albums Mitchell released were compilations of her earlier work. In 2003, Mitchell's Geffen recordings were collected in a remastered, four-disc box set, The Complete Geffen Recordings, including notes by Mitchell and three previously unreleased tracks. A series of themed compilations of songs from earlier albums were also released: The Beginning of Survival (2004), Dreamland (2004), and Songs of a Prairie Girl (2005), the last of which collected the threads of her Canadian upbringing and which she released after accepting an invitation to the Saskatchewan Centennial concert in Saskatoon. The concert, which featured a tribute to Mitchell, was also attended by Queen Elizabeth II. In Prairie Girl liner notes, she writes that the collection is "my contribution to Saskatchewan's Centennial celebrations."
In the early 1990s, Mitchell signed a deal with Random House to publish an autobiography.[36] In 1998 she told The New York Times that her memoirs were "in the works", that they would be published in as many as four volumes, and that the first line would be "I was the only black man at the party."[37] In 2005, Mitchell said that she was using a tape recorder to get her memories "down in the oral tradition."[38]
As well in the early 2000s, Mitchell worked with artist Gilles Hebert. She visited the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, where she and Giles produced a book called 'Voices'. The book received international attention and extended her fame, and the fame of Gilles Hebert.
Although Mitchell stated that she would no longer tour or give concerts, she has made occasional public appearances to speak on environmental issues.[39] Mitchell divides her time between her longtime home in Los Angeles, and the 80-acre (32 ha) property in Sechelt, British Columbia that she has owned since the early 1970s. "L.A. is my workplace", she said in 2006, "B.C. is my heartbeat."[40] According to interviews, today she focuses mainly on her visual art, which she does not sell and which she displays only on rare occasions.[41]
2006–2009: Late recordings and Morgellons advocacy[link]
In an interview with The Ottawa Citizen in October 2006, Mitchell "revealed that she was recording her first collection of new songs in nearly a decade", but gave few other details.[31] Four months later, in an interview with The New York Times, Mitchell said that the forthcoming album, titled Shine, was inspired by the war in Iraq and "something her grandson had said while listening to family fighting: 'Bad dreams are good—in the great plan.'"[42] Early media reports characterized the album as having "a minimal feel... that harks back to [Mitchell's] early work", and a focus on political and environmental issues.[34]
In February 2007, Mitchell also returned to Calgary and served as an advisor for the Alberta Ballet Company premiere of "The Fiddle and the Drum", a dance choreographed to both new and old songs. Mitchell also filmed portions of the rehearsals for a documentary that she is working on. Of the flurry of recent activity she quipped, "I've never worked so hard in my life."[42]
In summer 2007, Mitchell's official fan-run site confirmed speculation that she had signed a two-record deal with Starbucks' Hear Music label. Shine was released by the label on September 25, 2007,[43] debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, her highest chart position in the United States since the release of Hejira in 1976, over thirty years previously, and at number 36 on the United Kingdom albums chart.
On the same day, Herbie Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Mitchell's, released River: The Joni Letters, an album paying tribute to Mitchell's work. Among the album's contributors were Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen, and Mitchell herself, who contributed a vocal to the re-recording of "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" (originally on her album Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm).[44] On February 10, 2008, Hancock's recording won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It was the first time in 43 years that a jazz artist took the top prize at the annual award ceremony. In accepting the award, Hancock paid tribute to Mitchell as well as to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. At the same ceremony Mitchell won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Pop Performance for the opening track "One Week Last Summer" from her album Shine.
On February 12, 2010, "Both Sides, Now" was performed at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Mitchell is currently receiving treatment for the controversial condition called "Morgellons syndrome".[45] Mitchell spoke to the Los Angeles Times on April 22, 2010 about the disease, saying, "I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space, but my health's the best it's been in a while." She described Morgellons as a "slow, unpredictable killer" but said she is determined to fight the disease. "I have a tremendous will to live: I've been through another pandemic – I'm a polio survivor, so I know how conservative the medical body can be." According to Mitchell, Morgellons is often misdiagnosed as "delusion of parasites," and sufferers of the disease are offered psychiatric treatment. Mitchell said she plans to leave the music industry to work toward giving people diagnosed with Morgellons more credibility.[46] In the same interview, Mitchell made the statement that singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, with whom she had worked closely in the past, was a fake and plagiarist. The controversial remark was widely reported by other media.[47][48] Mitchell did not explain the contention further, but it may have related to the allegations of plagiarism surrounding some lyrics on Dylan's 2006 album Modern Times.[47]
Musical legacy[link]
Guitar style[link]
While some of Mitchell's most popular songs were written on piano, almost every song she composed on the guitar uses an open, or non-standard, tuning; she has written songs in some 50 tunings, playing what she has called "Joni's weird chords." The use of alternative tunings allows guitarists to produce accompaniment with more varied and wide-ranging textures. Her right-hand picking/strumming technique has evolved over the years from an initially intricate picking style, typified by the guitar songs on her first album, to a looser and more rhythmic style, sometimes incorporating percussive "slaps."
In 1995, Mitchell's friend Fred Walecki, proprietor of Westwood Music in Los Angeles, developed a solution to alleviate her continuing frustration with using multiple alternate tunings in live settings. Walecki designed a Stratocaster-style guitar to function with the Roland VG-8 (Virtual Guitar), a system capable of configuring her numerous tunings electronically. While the guitar itself remained in standard tuning, the VG-8 encoded the pickup signals into digital signals which were then translated into the altered tunings. This allowed Mitchell to use one guitar on stage, while an off-stage tech entered the preprogrammed tuning for each song in her set.[49]
Mitchell's longtime archivist, the San Francisco-based Joel Bernstein, maintains a detailed list of all her tunings, and has assisted her in relearning the tunings for several older songs.[49][50]
Mitchell was also highly innovative harmonically in her early work (1966–72) using techniques including modality, chromaticism, and pedal points.[51]
In 2003 Rolling Stone named her the 72nd greatest guitarist of all time; she was the highest-ranked woman on the list.[52]
Influence on other artists[link]
Mitchell's work has had an influence on artists as disparate as S. J. Tucker, Led Zeppelin, Nancy Wilson, Sonic Youth, Morrissey, Courtney Love, Prince, Chaka Khan, Alanis Morissette, Björk, Counting Crows, Stevie Nicks, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, Dan Fogelberg, Janet Jackson, Maynard James Keenan, Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Madonna, Kurt Cobain, Frank Turner, Cassandra Wilson, Cat Power, George Michael, Marillion,[53] Juice Newton, Conor Oberst, The Roots, Roxette, The Sundays, Clannad, Shawn Colvin, Brooke Fraser, Anita Baker, Fiona Apple, Holly Brook, KT Tunstall, Seal, Tori Amos, Keith Green, Spank Rock, Schuyler Fisk, Kate Voegele, Regina Spektor, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Keith Jarrett, Slash, Stephin Merritt, Laura Marling, Keri Noble, Joanna Newsom, Boards of Canada,[54] James Blake, Ani DiFranco and Sarah Dawn Finer.[citation needed]
For instance, Prince's song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" on the album Sign 'O' the Times (1987), pays tribute to Mitchell, both through his evocative Mitchell-like harmonies and through the use of one of Mitchell's own techniques: as in Mitchell's song "This Flight Tonight", Prince references a song in his lyrics (Mitchell's own "Help Me") as the music begins to emulate the chords and melody of that song. Another Mitchell reference left by Prince can also be seen on the back cover of his 1981 Controversy record, where one of the headlines reads "★JONI★." His song "Raspberry Beret" also references "McGee's general store" from Mitchell's song "Paprika Plains".
Madonna has also cited Mitchell as the first female artist that really spoke to her as a teenager; "I was really, really into Joni Mitchell. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshipped her when I was in high school. Blue is amazing. I would have to say of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view."[55]
Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly of Marillion all cite Mitchell as a favorite artist.[53]
A number of artists have had success covering Mitchell's songs. Judy Collins's 1967 recording of "Both Sides Now" reached No. 8 on Billboard charts and was a breakthrough in the career of both artists (Mitchell's own recording did not see release until two years later, on her second album Clouds). This is Mitchell's most-covered song by far, with 587 versions recorded at latest count. Hole also covered "Both Sides Now" in 1990, renaming it Clouds and changing the lyrics. Pop group Neighborhood in 1970 and Amy Grant in 1995 scored hits with covers of "Big Yellow Taxi", the second most covered song in Mitchell's repertoire (with 223 covers). Recent releases of this song have been by Counting Crows in 2002 and Nena in 2007. Janet Jackson used a sample of the chorus of "Big Yellow Taxi" as the centerpiece of her 1997 hit single "Got 'Til It's Gone", which also features rapper Q-Tip saying "Joni Mitchell never lies." Rap artists Kanye West and Mac Dre have also sampled Mitchell's vocals in their music. In addition, Annie Lennox has covered "Ladies Of The Canyon" for the B-side of her 1995 hit "No More I Love You's". Mandy Moore covered "Help Me" in 2003. In 2004 singer George Michael covered her song "Edith And The Kingpin" for a radio show. "River" has been one of the most popular songs covered in recent years, with versions by Dianne Reeves (1999), James Taylor (recorded for television in 2000, and for CD release in 2004), Allison Crowe (2004), Rachael Yamagata (2004), Aimee Mann (2005), and Sarah McLachlan (2006). McLachlan also did a version of "Blue" in 1996, and Cat Power recorded a cover of "Blue" in 2008. Other Mitchell covers include the famous "Woodstock" by both Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Matthews Southern Comfort, "This Flight Tonight" by Nazareth, and well-known versions of "Woodstock" by Eva Cassidy and "A Case of You" by Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, Jane Monheit, Prince, and Diana Krall. A 40th anniversary version of "Woodstock" was released in 2009 by Nick Vernier Band featuring Ian Matthews (formerly of Matthews Southern Comfort).
Prince's version of "A Case of U" appeared on A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, a 2007 compilation released by Nonesuch Records, which also featured Björk ("The Boho Dance"), Caetano Veloso ("Dreamland"), Emmylou Harris ("The Magdalene Laundries"), Sufjan Stevens ("Free Man in Paris") and Cassandra Wilson ("For the Roses"), among others. Some of the recordings were made in the late 1990s when a project entitled A Case of Joni was developed but left incomplete. Among those who recorded tracks for the first tribute album, which remain unreleased, were Janet Jackson, Steely Dan, and Sheryl Crow. Chaka Khan recorded "Ladies Man" from Mitchell's LP Wild Things Run Fast on her 2007 CD titled Funk This.
Several other songs reference Joni Mitchell. The song "Our House" by Graham Nash refers to Nash's brief affair with Mitchell at the time that Crosby, Stills Nash and Young recorded the Déjà Vu album. Led Zeppelin's "Going to California" was said to be written about Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's infatuation with Mitchell, a claim that seems to be borne out by the fact that, in live performances, Plant often says "Joni" after the line "To find a queen without a king, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings." Jimmy Page uses a double dropped D guitar tuning similar to the alternative tunings Mitchell uses. The Sonic Youth song "Hey Joni" album is named for Mitchell. Alanis Morissette also mentions Mitchell in one of her songs, "Your House." British folk singer; Frank Turner mentions Mitchell in his song 'Sunshine State'. Fellow Canadian songwriter Ferron invokes Mitchell to open the song "Maya": "Last night I dreamed Joni Mitchell cut her hair and changed her name to Gaia. And she spoke to me in a confident air and said...'You better push the edge of Maya.'"
Also, on the 2004 album eMOTIVe by A Perfect Circle, Maynard James Keenan covered Mitchell's song Fiddle and the Drum.
Awards and honours[link]
In 1995, Mitchell received Billboard's Century Award. In 1996, she was awarded the Polar Music Prize. In 1997, Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did not attend the ceremony.
She has received eight Grammy Awards during her career, with the first coming in 1969 and the most recent in 2008. She received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, with the citation describing her as "one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era" and "a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity, imagination and integrity."[56]
In fitting tribute to Mitchell, the TNT network presented an all-star celebration at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, April 6, 2000. Many legendary performers sang Mitchell's songs, including James Taylor, Elton John, Wynonna Judd, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Krall, and Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention fame. Mitchell herself ended the evening with a rendition of "Both Sides Now" with a full 70 piece orchestra. The version was featured on the soundtrack to the hit movie, Love Actually.
Regarding her as a national treasure, Mitchell's home country Canada has bestowed a number of honours on her. She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000.[57] In 2002 she became only the third popular Canadian singer/songwriter (Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen being the other two), to be appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. She received an honorary doctorate in music from McGill University in 2004. In January 2007 she was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In June 2007 Canada Post featured Mitchell on a postage stamp.[58]
In November 2006, the album Blue was listed by TIME magazine as among the "All-Time 100 Albums."[59]
In 1999 Mitchell was listed as fifth on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Women of Rock N' Roll." In 2010, Vh1 would name her the #44 Greatest Artist of All Time.
In the 2010 film The Kids Are All Right, the character Joni is supposed to have been named after Joni Mitchell since the character Nic, Joni's mother, declares to be a fan of Mitchell.[60]
Grammy Awards[link]
| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Best Folk Performance | Clouds | Won |
| 1974 | Album of the Year | Court and Spark | Nomination |
| 1974 | Record of the Year | "Help Me" | Nomination |
| 1974 | Pop Female Vocalist | Court and Spark | Nomination |
| 1974 | Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) | "Down To You" | Won |
| 1976 | Pop Female Vocalist | The Hissing of Summer Lawns | Nomination |
| 1977 | Best Album Package | Hejira | Nomination |
| 1988 | Pop Female Vocalist | Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Pop Album | Turbulent Indigo | Won |
| 1995 | Best Album Package | Turbulent Indigo | Won |
| 2000 | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Both Sides, Now | Nomination |
| 2000 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Both Sides, Now | Won |
| 2002 | Lifetime Achievement Award | – | Won |
| 2007 | Album of the Year | River: The Joni Letters | Won* |
| 2007 | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | "One Week Last Summer" | Won |
*Although officially a Herbie Hancock release, Mitchell also received a Grammy due to her vocal contribution to the album.
Discography[link]
Main article: Joni Mitchell discography
- Studio releases
- 1968: Song to a Seagull
- 1969: Clouds
- 1970: Ladies of the Canyon
- 1971: Blue
- 1972: For the Roses
- 1974: Court and Spark
- 1975: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
- 1976: Hejira
- 1977: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
- 1979: Mingus
- 1982: Wild Things Run Fast
- 1985: Dog Eat Dog
- 1988: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
- 1991: Night Ride Home
- 1994: Turbulent Indigo
- 1998: Taming the Tiger
- 2000: Both Sides Now
- 2002: Travelogue
- 2007: Shine
See also[link]
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Further reading[link]
- Mercer, Michelle (2009), Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period, Free Press, ISBN 978-1-4165-5929-0, http://books.google.com/books/about/Will_you_take_me_as_I_am.html?id=ZHEIAQAAMAAJ
- Smith, Larry David (2004), Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the torch song tradition, Praeger, ISBN 0-275-97392-1, http://books.google.ca/books?id=OO5hQBVPoOAC&lpg=PP1&dq=Joni%20Mitchell&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true
- Whitesell, Lloyd (2008), The music of Joni Mitchell, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530757-3, http://books.google.ca/books?id=xSmJbcWcYA0C&lpg=PP1&dq=Joni%20Mitchell&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Terrence Ross "Terry" Jacks (born March 29, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist.
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Early life[link]
Jacks was born and raised in Winnipeg. The family relocated to Vancouver in the early 1960s and Jacks took up guitar in his teens and at 18 formed a band called The Chessmen with guitarist Guy Sobell. The group had four top-ten hits in Vancouver between 1964 and 1966.
The Poppy Family[link]
Following The Chessmen, Susan Pesklevits (Susan Jacks) asked Terry to accompany her on guitar and, after adding Craig McCaw, the group The Poppy Family was formed. Craig McCaw later introduced Satwant Singh to the group. Susan and Terry were married in 1967. The Poppy Family had several hits in Canada and internationally, their biggest being "Which Way You Goin' Billy?", which went to #1 in Canada and #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. The song was written and produced by Terry Jacks. Jacks earned a Gold Leaf award in 1970 for his production work while with the Poppy Family.
In the early 1970s, Terry and Susan travelled to L.A. where Terry was to work with The Beach Boys to record the song "Seasons in the Sun" but the project was never finished and the couple returned to Vancouver, making the decision to record the song themselves.
Solo and production work[link]
The couple recorded two more albums before Susan left the marriage in 1973: Susan's solo album I Thought of You Again... and Terry's solo album Seasons In The Sun. The song "Seasons in the Sun", released in late 1973 on his own record label, Goldfish Records, became the largest-selling international single by a Canadian artist at that time and earned Jacks two Juno Awards. It is Rod McKuen's 1965 adaptation of "Le moribond", a 1962 original by Belgian singer Jacques Brel; for his version, Jacks made some modifications to the lyrics. In the United States,[1] in Great Britain[2] and in Germany,[3] in these countries it was released on Bell Records, and the song went to #1 on the charts. The B-side of "Seasons In The Sun" was a song about a woman asking her butcher to put in the bone with the rest of her meat order entitled "Put the Bone In".
Jacks later released "If You Go Away" (another McKuen adaptation of a Jacques Brel song entitled "Ne Me Quitte Pas"), which reached #8 in Great Britain and #24 in Germany, and a cover of Kevin Johnson's "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)", both of which had more success in Canada but also made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.
Jacks wrote and recorded a number of other songs and went on to produce records for Valdy, Buddy Knox (unreleased), Nana Mouskouri[citation needed], Chilliwack (including "Crazy Talk") and a handful of other artists.
Film[link]
Jacks has worked in documentary film and video, producing several shorts on environmental themes including The Tragedy of Clearcutting, The Southern Chilcotin Mountains and The Warmth of Love (The Four Seasons of Sophie Thomas). The video production The Faceless Ones earned an Environmental Gold Award from the New York International Film Festival.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
In the late 1970s, Jacks married his manager Margaret (Maggi) Zittier and gradually withdrew from the music world. The couple had a daughter, Holly Michelle Jacks in 1985. Jacks became involved in the environmental movement, focusing on pulp mill pollution issues in Canada. His environmental work has earned him several awards including one from the United Nations Association of Canada and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. He lives near Vancouver today.
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- Seasons in the Sun (1974)
- Y' Don't Fight The Sea (1975)
- Pulse (1983)
- Just Like That (1987)
Singles[link]
| Year | Song | CAN | CAN AC | U.S. | UK[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | "I'm Gonna Capture You" | 16 | - | - | - |
| 1972 | "Concrete Sea" | 16 | 16 | - | - |
| 1973 | "I'm Gonna Love You Too" | 7 | - | 116 | - |
| 1974 | "Seasons in the Sun" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| "If You Go Away" | 45 | 10 | 68 | 8 | |
| 1975 | "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" | 22 | 5 | 97 | - |
| "Christina" | 9 | - | 106 | - | |
| "Holly" | 64 | - | - | - | |
| 1976 | "Y' Don't Fight the Sea" | 31 | - | - | - |
| "In My Father's Footsteps" | 59 | - | - | - | |
| 1977 | "Hey Country Girl" | 73 | 28 | - | - |
| 1981 | "Greenback Dollar" | - | 9 | - | - |
| 1983 | "You Fool Me" | - | 26 | - | - |
| 1987 | "Just Like That" | - | 17 | - | - |
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls / Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd. 1994, p. 295
- ^ Stephen Nugent, Pete Fowler, Annie Fowler: The Log Of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974. In: Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (eds.): Rock File 4. Frogmore, St Albans: Panther Books Ltd 1976, p. 203
- ^ Günter Ehnert (ed.): Hit Bilanz. Deutsche Chart Singles 1956-1980. Hamburg: Taurus Press 1990, p. 105
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 273. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
External links[link]
- Terry Jacks discography and biography
- Terry Jacks Biography and Discography on VH1
- Terry Jacks Information on Answers
- Terry Jacks Biography on AOL Music
- Terry Jacks Biography on Yahoo! Music
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| Name | Jacks, Terry |
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| Date of birth | March 29, 1944 |
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