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Agadir ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ أڭادير‎
View over Agadir, taken from the kasbah
Coat of arms
Agadir Location in Morocco
Coordinates: 30°26′N 9°36′W / 30.433°N 9.6°W / 30.433; -9.6
Country	Morocco
Region	Souss-Massa-Draâ
Elevation	75 ft (23 m)
Population (2004)
• Total	678,596

Agadir (Berber: Agadir, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ, Moroccan Arabic: أڭادير‎) is a major city in southwest Morocco, capital of the Agadir province (MA-AGD) and the Sous-Massa-Draa economic region. A majority of its inhabitants speak Berber as a mother tongue.

Etymology[link]

The word Agadir means in Berber "wall, masoned wall enclosing a town, fortress, town".^[1]

Description[link]

Agadir has a population of 678,596 (2004; census figures for the agglomeration include the nearby cities of Inezgane and Aït Melloul). The population of the city proper is estimated at 200,000. The mild winter climate (January average midday temperature 20.5°C/69°F)^[2] and good beaches have made it a major "winter sun" destination for Northern Europeans. The mayor is Tariq Kabbaj.

The city is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean.

Agadir is an important fishing and commercial port, the first sardine port in the world, (exporting cobalt, manganese, zinc and citrus).It is also a seaside resort with a long sandy beach. Because of its large buildings, wide roads, modern hotels, and European-style cafés, Agadir is not a typical city of traditional Morocco, but it is a modern, busy and dynamic town.

Agadir is famous for its sea food and agriculture.

The city's main neighborhoods are:

Agadir seen by SPOT satellite

• Secteur Touristique
• Taddart
• Hay Adrar
• Founty
• Iligh
• Sonaba
• Ihchach
• Les Amicales
• La ville nouvelle
• Nouveau Talborjt
• Cité Suisse
• Lakhiyam
• Dakhla
• Extension Dakhla
• Al Houda
• Salam
• Riad Assalam
• Hay al Hassani
• Anza
• L'Erac (Bouargane).
• Quartier Industriel Tasila
• Tilila
• Quartier Residentiel
• Quartier Al mohammadi

It is served by the Al Massira Airport.

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History[link]

During medieval times, there was only a fishing village there, Agadir el-arba`. In 1505 the Portuguese established a trading post named Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué, under a governor. In 1541, the city came under Saadian control in the Fall of Agadir, and a stronghold was built on the top of the hill overlooking the bay, the in Kasbah. Agadir became prosperous for two centuries. But in 1731, the town was completely destroyed by an earthquake.^[3] The harbour of Agadir was then ordered to be closed when Essaouira was established further north.

In 1911, the arrival of a German gunboat (the Panther), officially to protect the local German community, triggered the Agadir Crisis between France and Germany which allowed France, in 1913, to occupy nearly the whole kingdom of Morocco.

At 15 minutes to midnight on February 29, 1960, Agadir was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake that lasted 15 seconds, burying the city and killing thousands.^[4] The death toll is estimated at 15,000. The earthquake destroyed the ancient Kasbah. On its front gate can still be read the following sentence in Arabic: "Fear God and honour thy King".

On seeing the destruction in Agadir, King Muhammad V of Morocco declared: "If Destiny decided the destruction of Agadir, its rebuilding depends of our Faith and Will." Reconstruction began in 1961, two kilometers south of the earthquake epicentre.

• Agadir Agreement
• Agadir Crisis of 1911
• 1960 Agadir earthquake

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Climate[link]

Agadir features a semiarid climate with warm summers and mild winters. Located along the Atlantic Ocean, Agadir has a very temperate climate. The daytime temperature generally stays in the 20s °C (70s °F) every day, with the winter highs typically reaching 20.7°C (70°F) in December–January (see weather-table below). The annual temperatures^[2] are very similar to Nairobi, Kenya, but with much less rainfall -about 10 inches annually- and the mid-year nights are less chilly than the Kenyan Capital.

Museums[link]

Mosque Loubnan in Agadir

• Musée de Talborjt "La Casbah"
• Musée Bert Flint
• Le Musée des Arts Berberes
• Musee Municipal de Agadir
• La Medina d'Agadir

Subdivisions[link]

The prefecture is divided administratively into the following communes:^[6]

Economy[link]

Agadir's economy relies mainly on tourism and fisheries. Agricultural activities are based around the city.^[7]

Agadir has the biggest Souk in Morocco (Souk Lhed)

Transportation[link]

Agadir is served by Al Massira Airport, located 22 kilometers from the city. With the opening of the new Casablanca–Agadir expressway in June 2010, that runs from Casablanca via Marrakech to Agadir access to the region is much improved.

For freight there is also a port, and for pleasure-craft there is a marina in Agadir.

Famous people associated with the city[link]

• Abbes Kabbage (died May 1, 1984), leader of the Istiqlal Party before independence before joining the UNFP
• Abdelaziz Lahrech (died March 14, 1994), leader of the Party for Democracy and Independence
• Mohammed Khair-Eddine (1941–1995), Moroccan writer
• Aourik Abdellah, painter
• Michel Vieuchange, French aventurer and explorer, died in Agadir on his return from Smara on 30 November 1930. He was nursed by his brother, Jean Vieuchange, who published Michel's journals.
• Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

Education[link]

Universities and postgraduates schools :

• University of Agadir (IbnZohr) with many faculties and school including:
• Faculté des Sciences d'Agadir
• École supérieure de technologie d'Agadir
• Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion (ENCG)

High schools :

• Groupe scolaire Paul Gauguin Agadir
• Lycée Qualifiant Youssef Ben Tachfine
• Lycee technique al idrissi
• Lycee Al Qalam
• Lycee Al Hanane
• Lycee Francais d'Agadir
• Lycee anoual
• Lycee Zerktouni

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Beaches[link]

Agadir beach

• The most beautiful beaches in Morocco are

North of Agadir entourage Taghazout village, dozens of clean, great beach and Smaller ones along the costs agadir-essaouira: Agadir beach,Tamaounza ( 12 km), aitswal-beach, imouran(km 17), Taghazout (km 19), bouyirdn( km 20), timzguida 3lal (km 22), Aghroud (30 km), Imiouadar(27 km),Aghroud (30 km).^[8]

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Parks and gardens[link]

• Valée des oiseaux (Birds park & valley )( near the boulevard)
• Jardin Olhao
• Jardin Ibn Zaidoun

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Sister cities[link]

Agadir has five sister cities :

• Miami, United States^{[citation needed]}
• Oakland, United States^{[citation needed]}
• Olhão, Portugal^{[citation needed]}
• Nantes, France^{[citation needed]}
• Stavanger, Norway^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• Al Massira Airport

References[link]

External links[link]

• Agadir Morocco
• Agadir berbers Portal
• Agadir Live Camera

External list[link]

• MSN Map - elevation = 30m

Coordinates: 30°26′N 9°36′W / 30.433°N 9.6°W / 30.433; -9.6

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Mike Batt
Batt in 1971.
Background information
Birth name	Michael Philip Batt
Born	(1949-02-06) 6 February 1949 (age 63) Southampton, England
Genres	Pop rock, pop, classical
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician, artist, producer, arranger
Instruments	Guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Dramatico
Associated acts	Elton John, The Wombles, Steeleye Span, Justin Hayward, Bond, Katie Melua
Website	www.mikebatt.com

Michael Philip "Mike" Batt (born 6 February 1949) is a British songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. He is best known for creating The Wombles pop act, writing the chart-topping "Bright Eyes," and discovering Katie Melua.

Early life and career[link]

Born in Southampton, Batt attended Peter Symonds School, Winchester. His blog refers to his role as cadet Company Sergeant Major at the school .^[1]

Batt began his career in pop music at the age of eighteen when he answered the same advertisement as Elton John and Bernie Taupin placed by Ray Williams in the New Musical Express on behalf of Liberty Records. Batt became part of Liberty's production team, and in 1969 he took over production duties from Noel Walker, on McKenna Mendelson Mainline's first release, Stink. Walker and Batt were credited on the album only as "Liberty Staff". Also in 1969, Batt released as producer/artist a Liberty single, his cover version of The Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know". Batt subsequently became Head of A&R for Liberty.

1970s[link]

In the early 1970s, aged 23, married, with children, and having spent £11,000 recording half of a rock orchestral album that was never released, Batt was asked by the producers of a new children's television programme to write the theme music. Instead of taking his £200 fee, Batt asked for the character rights for musical production.^[2] The choice produced his first hits as a singer/songwriter/producer by The Wombles, in 1974. The collaboration produced eight hit singles^[3] and four gold albums.

Now financially successful, Batt moved on to work with various artists as a songwriter/producer, most successfully with Steeleye Span and their most successful single and album All Around My Hat in 1975.^[4] Also in 1975, at the end of the summer, he entered the UK Singles Chart with the only hit under his own name (credited alongside the New Edition) with "Summertime City", which reached number 4.^[5]

He produced the hit single "Lilac Wine" for Elkie Brooks in 1978. The song was a hit in the UK and across Europe. He wrote the song "Bright Eyes" for the animated film version of Watership Down. Recorded by Art Garfunkel, it reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.^[6] Batt also wrote the scores for Caravans (1978 film)

1980s[link]

As a singer, his solo albums included Schizophonia and Tarot Suite (both with the London Symphony Orchestra). From these albums came the European hit songs "Railway Hotel", "Lady of the Dawn" and "Ride to Agadir". A version of "Introduction (The Journey of a Fool)" from Tarot Suite was used as the theme for the Sydney, Australia radio station, Triple M, from its first broadcast in 1980 until well into the 1990s. Over the course of May 2010, this theme tune, still based on the main central riff from "Introduction (The Journey of a Fool)" was re-recorded by Slash, former Guns'n'Roses guitarist, as a new theme to mark the 30th anniversary of Triple M in Sydney. This was released to air at the end of June 2010.

In 1980 Batt released his next album, entitled Waves (including the European hit "The Winds of Change"). In the same year, he went off with his family aboard his boat, 'Braemar', ending up in Australia after two and a half years, travelling via France, The West Indies, South America, Central America, Mexico, Los Angeles, Hawaii and Fiji. At the end of that journey, he wrote for the 50th anniversary of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the musical Zero Zero.^[7]

Returning to the UK in 1983, Batt wrote and produced three more Top Ten hits, "Please Don't Fall In Love" (for Cliff Richard), "A Winter's Tale" (for David Essex, with lyrics co-written by Tim Rice) and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly" (for Alvin Stardust).In the same year, he helped write lyrics for Abbacadabra.^[2]

The album The Hunting of the Snark, based on Lewis Carroll's poem, was recorded in 1984.

Meanwhile, in the late 1980s, Batt also produced Justin Hayward's album Classic Blue and the music for The Dreamstone, ITV's fifty two part animated series, once again with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A number of stars performed for the Dreamstone soundtrack; notably Billy Connolly, Ozzy Osbourne, former British heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno (all of whom performed on "The War Song of the Urpneys"), Bonnie Tyler (who sang a duet with Batt, "Into the Sunset". It was not used on the show, but it was meant to be Dreamstone's official love song). Joe Brown performed "The Vile Brothers Mountain Band" along with Gary Glitter. Batt performed the theme song from the series "Better Than A Dream". The show was completed and finally aired in 1990.

1990s[link]

In 1995 he made a solo album for Sony Germany, Arabesque. Batt was then commissioned to write the official anthem for the inauguration of the Channel Tunnel by the Queen, entitled "When Flags Fly Together". This was performed for the Queen and President Mitterrand, along with many senior politicians, by members of the choir of the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone.

Batt composed and produced the four million-selling album, The Violin Player, with classical violinist Vanessa-Mae (EMI Classics, 1995) from which the Top Twenty single of J.S. Bach's "Toccata and Fugue" was taken.^[8]

In 1997 Batt produced an album for the soprano, Anna Maria Kaufmann, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; an original dramatic song cycle called Blame It On The Moon, from which his song, "Running With A Dream" was taken as the theme for Germany’s national football team at the World Cup in June 1998.^[2]

Also in 1998, Batt produced, arranged and conducted the album, Philharmania with the Royal Philharmonic and guest singers included Roger Daltrey, Marc Almond, Bonnie Tyler, Status Quo, Huey Lewis, Kim Wilde, Justin Hayward and others. Later the same year Batt relaunched The Wombles pop group, with two hits, "Remember You’re A Womble" (at number 13) and "The Wombling Song" (at number 27).^[3] In 2000 he collaborated with Roy Wood for a single which combined new versions of previous Christmas hits by Wizzard and The Wombles, released as "I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Merry Christmas" - UK number 22).^[3]

Later he would work on the music for the 1999 Watership Down TV series, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Art Garfunkel again performed a song for the TV soundtrack, "When You're Losing Your Way in The Rain" which was not used in the show. The song however originated from Batt's earlier album, Tarot Suite, and was originally performed by Colin Blunstone of 60's group "The Zombies". "Bright Eyes" was instead performed by the former Boyzone member Stephen Gately, although the new version was not as successful as Garfunkel's original. Other stars who were featured on the soundtrack included Cerys Matthews performing "Thank You Stars", (which would later be covered by Katie Melua on her album, Piece By Piece), Paul Carrack who performed "Winter Song" and Gary Martin provided the narration for "Frith's Blessing". Batt also performed an original song, "A View From A Hill".

2000s and current work[link]

A Conservative Party supporter, Batt was asked to write their 2001 UK General Election song "Heartland", thereby replacing Andrew Lloyd Webber as the Conservatives' official composer.^[9]

After conceiving and co-creating the all-girl string quartet Bond and producing their first single, he then created the eight piece classical crossover band, The Planets. Their album Classical Graffiti was released in February 2002 and went straight to number one in the UK classical music chart on the day of release and remained there for three months.

Batt formed his own record label Dramatico in 2002, which has a small group of artists including Carla Bruni.^[2] Since 2005, Dramatico has been one of the top three UK based indie labels, based on official sales figures^{[citation needed]}. Batt is presently dedicating most of his time to guiding the career of Katie Melua, whom he discovered in 2002 while scouting for a jazz musical project on which he was working. Melua's album Call Off The Search (containing six of Batt's songs including "The Closest Thing to Crazy") was released on Dramatico in November 2003. After six weeks at number one in the UK Albums Chart, it sold six times platinum, over 1.8 million copies, in the UK and three million copies in total, making Melua the biggest selling UK female artist of 2004. Her second album, Piece by Piece (including Batt's song "Nine Million Bicycles") was released in September 2005, and to date has sold 3.5 million copies in Europe, going to number one in the UK, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and achieving top five chart positions in eight other countries.

In 2008, Batt started the year with one concert in Munich and a radio concert tour in Germany, to promote his new album, A Songwriter's Tale, a compilation album of his hits, some sung by himself and most of them newly recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Spinetti, Ray Cooper, Chris Spedding, Mitch Dalton and Tim Harries.

His band toured with Spinetti (drums), Spedding (guitar), Harries (bass), Frank Gallagher (keyboards and violins), Luis Jardim (percussion) and Florence Rawlings (vocals and background vocals). After she completed her education, Batt signed Rawlings to Dramatico. He produced her album, A Fool In Love, and wrote six of its twelve songs^[10] ("The Only Woman In The World", "Jump On The Wagon", "Wolf Man", "Hard To Get", "Can't Hold Your Hand", and "Love Can Be A Battlefield").

Discography[link]

MBO – The Mike Batt Orchestra (1970–1972)

• 1970: Batt Tracks
• 1971: Portrait of The Rolling Stones
• 1971: Portrait of Elton John
• 1971: Portrait of Simon & Garfunkel
• 1971: Portrait of Bob Dylan
• 1972: Portrait of Cat Stevens
• 1972: Portrait of George Harrison
• 1974: Portrait of Mike Batt (Sampler 1971–1972)

The Wombles (1973–1978)

• 1973: Wombling Songs
• 1974: Remember You’re A Womble
• 1974: Keep On Wombling
• 1975: Superwombling
• 1976: Womble Stories
• 1978: Wombling Free (Soundtrack)

Mike Batt (Since 1973)

• 1973: Yoga for Health
• 1973: Moog at the Movies
• 1974: Ye Olde Moog
• 1977: Schizophonia
• 1979: Tarot Suite
• 1980: Waves
• 1981: Six Days in Berlin
• 1988: Songs of Love and War
• 1995: Arabesque

Compilations / Reissues

• 1992: The Winds of Change: Mike Batt Greatest Hits
• 1999: The Ride to Agadir - Best (1977–1983)
• 2008: A Songwriter's Tale
• 2008: A Songwriter's Tale (Special Edition with DVD)
• 2009: Waves / Six Days in Berlin
• 2009: Songs of Love / Arabesque
• 2009: Schizophonia / Tarot Suite
• 2009: Zero Zero (Special Edition with DVD) (exclusive to the Mike Batt Music Cube as of 2011)
• 2009: Caravans / Watership Down Orchastrial Suite
• 2009: The Dreamstone / Rapid Eye Movement (exclusive to the Mike Batt Music Cube as of 2011)
• 2009: A Songwriter's Tale /The Orinoco Kid

Musicals

• 1982: Zero Zero (with Sydney Symphonic Orchestra)
• 1987: The Hunting of the Snark (with Friends and London Symphony Orchestra)

Soundtracks

• 1978: Wombling Free
• 1978: Caravans (with London Philharmonic Orchestra) - For the same titled film
• 1985: Dragon Dance (Theme of The Dragon)
• 1990: The Dreamstone (with Friends and London Philharmonic Orchestra) - For the same titled animated series
• 1998: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (with London Philharmonic Orchestra) - - For the same titled film
  • Known as A Merry War (in USA and New Zealand)
• 2000: Watership Down (with Friends and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) - For the same titled animated series

Mike Batt Productions[link]

• 1995: The Violin Player - Vanessa Mae
• 1998: Philharmania - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Mike Batt
• 2000: The Wombles Collection (34 track Double CD)
• 2002: The Classical Graffiti - The Planets
• 2002: Call Off the Search - Katie Melua
• 2005: After a Dream - Robert Meadmore
• 2005: Piece by Piece - Katie Melua
• 2007: Pictures - Katie Melua
• 2008: The Katie Melua Collection - Katie Melua
• 2012: Secret Symphony - Katie Melua

References[link]

Notes

Biography quoted from various sources, mostly from Batt's official website

External links[link]

• Official website
• Dramatico website
• German fan website
• Audio interview on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast
• Mike Batt discography at Discogs