Assembly may refer to:

Politics[link]

• Deliberative assembly, An organization comprising members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions
• Freedom of assembly, the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests
• General assembly (disambiguation), an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representatives
• House of Assembly, a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral legislature
• Legislative Assembly, the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its branches
• National Assembly, is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries
• Popular assembly, a localized citizen gathering to address issues of importance to the community
• Qahal, or assembly, an Israelite organizational structure

Industry[link]

• Assembly, the act of combining components in manufacturing
• Assembly line, a manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner

Computing[link]

• Assembly (demo party), an annual computer event in Finland
• Assembly language, a programming language providing symbolic representation of machine code
• Assembly (programming), a runtime unit of types and resources with the same version
• .NET assembly

Culture[link]

• Assembly (album), a Theatre of Tragedy album
• Assembly (bugle call), a call used to bring in a group of soldiers
• Assembly (film), a 2007 Chinese war drama
• The Assembly, a synth pop project started in 1983

Science[link]

• Sequence assembly, a process to reconstruct a long DNA sequence from numerous fragments

Education[link]

• School assembly

See also[link]

• Assembly rooms
• Congregation (disambiguation)
• Gathering (disambiguation)
• Meeting
• Muster (disambiguation)
• The General Students' Assembly (Greece)

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The Assembly were a British synthpop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England, by Vince Clarke (songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals) and Eric Radcliffe (songwriting, production).

Feargal Sharkey was hired as a guest vocalist for the A-side of the group's only single, "Never Never". Clarke and Radcliffe had planned to use a different singer on each track the group recorded,^[1] but the group disbanded after the release of "Never Never", and no other vocalists were employed by the duo.

Band history[link]

Clarke founded The Assembly shortly after disbanding Yazoo (featuring vocalist Alison Moyet), upon completion and distribution of Yazoo's 1983 album, You and Me Both.

The Assembly marked the most-involved phase of Clarke's long-term professional relationship with sound engineer Radcliffe, who had contributed significant influences to the recordings of Clarke's previous bands, Depeche Mode and Yazoo. However, the Assembly project never became a full-fledged band and resulted in only one single release, the UK hit "Never Never". It featured a sampled guitar track triggered note for note on a Fairlight CMI). The sound was augmented by session musician Clem Clempson on electric guitar.^[1]

Former Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey was hired to sing on this track. Clarke and Radcliffe had planned to use a different singer on each track the group recorded,^[1] but none were released after "Never Never".

The other track on the single, "Stop/Start," was an instrumental, featuring Clarke's signature songwriting style with syncopation that gradually became the downbeat of the musical phrase.^{[citation needed]}

Despite the commercial success of the single, The Assembly was no longer a functioning entity by the end of 1984. Clarke went on to form Erasure with vocalist and co-songwriter Andy Bell in 1985. Although Erasure worked with Radcliffe on some of their early work, they eventually began working with other producers and engineers, including Flood. Sharkey, for his part, began a successful solo career in 1984 and achieved his only UK number one single in 1985 with "A Good Heart".

"Never Never" was re-released on CD single in 1996 with four tracks, containing both the normal and extended versions of both the title song, and "Stop/Start".^[1] The music video for "Never Never", filmed at Upminster Windmill in the London Borough of Havering, was featured on the first Now That's What I Call Music! video in 1983, though it did not feature on the corresponding compilation album.

Reunion[link]

In May 2011, Sharkey appeared on stage during the Erasure set at Mute Records's Short Circuit music festival for a one-off performance of "Never, Never" with Clarke.

Discography[link]

• "Never Never" – A side "Never Never", B side "Start-Stop" (instrumental) – 1983 – Mute TINY1 – No. 4 UK^[2]

See also[link]

• The Tube (TV series)
• Casio VL-1

References[link]

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The Clutch is an American collective of songwriters responsible for a series of successful singles including Omarion's "Ice Box", Ciara's "Like a Boy", Timbaland's "The Way I Are", Britney Spears' "Radar" and Raven-Symone's "Double Dutch Bus".

History[link]

Based in Atlanta, The Clutch consists of Candice Clotiel "Gg" Nelson, Ezekiel L "(E)Zeke" Lewis, Patrick Michael "J. Que" Smith, Balewa Muhammad and Keri Lynn Hilson. Any combination of two or more of the five writers on a song is considered a track "written by The Clutch" as they rarely work as a complete fivesome. Currently the only released songs written by all members together are Keri Hilson's "Return the Favor", Bayje's "Jealous Of Your Whip", Keke Palmer's "Game Song", Bobby Valentino's "Let's Go" and Jennifer Lopez' "Wrong When You're Gone".

The Clutch promotes new record producers, including: Calvo Da Gr8 ("Like a Boy"), Bigg D ("Wrong When You're Gone"), Hit-Boy ("Forever", "Hey Young Girl"), and former O-Town member Dan Miller. The Clutch has also written songs for some of the most successful producers in R&B including Timbaland, Danja, Bryan-Michael Cox, Bloodshy & Avant and Tricky Stewart.^[1][2]

The Clutch co-produced the track "Radar", recorded by pop singer Britney Spears for her 2007 studio album "Blackout". The song also appeared on Spears' 2008 album "Circus" and was released in 2009 as a single. In addition, Teairra Mari's song "Sponsor" penned by Ezekiel Lewis and Balewa Muhammad of The Clutch will be released as a single. Also Justin Bieber's single "One Less Lonely Girl" penned by Ezekiel Lewis and Balewa Muhammad.

Discography[link]

Singles discography[link]

^C Single Release Cancelled

^P Promo Only Or Limited Release

^BU Reached Only Billboard's Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Clutch on Myspace
• The Thomas Crown Chronicles - Archive of The Clutch News
• The Clutch @ BMI
• Concrete Loop - Article on The Clutch
• All Hip Hop - Interview with J. Que & Ezekiel Lewis from The Clutch
• Thomas Crown Chronicles - Interview with Candice Nelson from The Clutch
• Monica Mania - Interview with J. Que from The Clutch
• OK! Magazine - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• DUBCNN - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• MTV.com - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• SOHH - Interview with Keri Hilson from The Clutch
• Access Atlanta - Jesse McCartney Speaks On The Clutch
• Mix Online - The Clutch referenced
• Le groupe SoulRnB.com consacré au collectif The Clutch