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Belfast
Coordinates: 54°35′49″N 5°55′48″W / 54.597°N 5.930°W / 54.597; -5.930
Belfast (from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning "mouth of the shoal") is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the fourteenth largest city in the United Kingdom and second largest on the island of Ireland. It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly. The city of Belfast has a population of 267,500 and lies at the heart of the Belfast urban area, which has a population of 579,276. The Larger Urban Zone, as defined by the European Union, has a total population 641,638. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Historically, Belfast has been a centre for the Irish linen industry (earning the nickname "Linenopolis"), tobacco production, rope-making and shipbuilding: the city's main shipbuilders, Harland and Wolff, which built the well-known RMS Titanic, propelled Belfast on to the global stage in the early 20th century as the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, establishing its place as a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast, if briefly, the biggest city in Ireland at the turn of the 20th century and the city's industrial and economic success was cited by Ulster unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ireland should shun devolution and later why Ulster in particular would fight to resist it.
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Broadway musical
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.081 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2011, compared with $1.037 billion for 2010. Attendance in 2011 was 12.13 million.
New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera. In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.
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Burma
i/ˈbɜrmə/ BUR-mə, also known as Myanmar i/ˌmjɑːnˈmɑr/ MYAHN--MAR, is a country in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is bordered by India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 mi) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. At 676,578 km2 (261,227 sq mi), it is the 40th largest country in the world and the second largest country in Southeast Asia. Burma is also the 24th most populous country in the world with over 60.28 million people.
Burma is home to some of the early civilizations of Southeast Asia including the Pyu and the Mon. In the 9th century, the Burmans of the Kingdom of Nanzhao, entered the upper Irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment of the Pagan Empire in the 1050s, the Burmese language and culture slowly became dominant in the country. During this period, Theravada Buddhism gradually became the predominant religion of the country. The Pagan Empire fell due to the Mongol invasions (1277–1301), and several warring states emerged. In the second half of the 16th century, the country was reunified by the Taungoo Dynasty which for a brief period was the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia. The early 19th century Konbaung Dynasty ruled over an area that included modern Burma as well as Manipur and Assam. The country was colonized by Britain following three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824–1885).
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Dublin
Dublin (
/ˈdʌblɨn/; locally /ˈdʊbᵊlən/; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath, meaning "town of the hurdled ford", pronounced [blʲaˈklʲiə] or Áth Cliath, [aː klʲiə], occasionally Duibhlinn) is the capital and most populous city of Ireland. The English name for the city is derived from the Irish name Dubhlinn, meaning "black pool". Dublin is situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and the centre of the Dublin Region.
Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century; it was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire and the fifth largest in Europe. Dublin entered a period of stagnation following the Act of Union of 1800, but it remained the economic centre for most of the island. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, the new parliament, the Oireachtas, was located in Leinster House. Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland.
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El Salvador
El Salvador
i/ɛl ˈsælvədɔr/ (Spanish: República de El Salvador, literally 'Republic of The Savior') is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country as well as Central America. El Salvador borders the Pacific Ocean on the west, and the countries of Guatemala to the north and Honduras to the east. Its easternmost region lies on the coast of the Gulf of Fonseca, opposite Nicaragua. As of 2009, El Salvador had a population of approximately 5,744,113 people, composed predominantly of Mestizos.
The colón was the official currency of El Salvador from 1892 to 2001, when it adopted the U.S. Dollar.
In 2010 El Salvador ranked in the top 10 among Latin American countries in terms of the Human Development Index and in the top 3 in Central America (behind Costa Rica and Panama), due in part to ongoing rapid industrialization. In addition, tropical forests and overall forest cover has expanded by nearly 20 percent from the year 1992 to 2010. Making it one of the few countries experiencing reforestation.
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Fez, Morocco
Fes or Fez (Arabic: فاس Arabic pronunciation: [fɛs]) is the second largest city of Morocco, with a population of approximately 1 million (2010). It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region.
Fez, the former capital, is one of the country's four "imperial cities," the others being Rabat, Marrakech and Meknes. It comprises three distinct parts, Fes el Bali (the old, walled city), Fes-Jdid (new Fes, home of the Mellah) and the Ville Nouvelle (the French-created, newest section of Fes).
"Fas el Bali" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its medina, the larger of the two medinas of Fes, is believed to be the world's largest contiguous car-free urban area. The University of Al-Karaouine, founded in AD 859, is the oldest continuously functioning university in the world. The city has been called the "Mecca of the West" and the "Athens of Africa".
Until the Almoravid rule in the 11th century, Fes consisted of two separate cities or medinas: Madinat Fas and Al-'Aliya. The former being founded by Idris I, the latter by his son, Idris II. During Idrisid rule the capital city was known as Al-'Aliya, with the name Fas being reserved for the separate site on the other side of the river: no Idrisid coins have been found with the name Fes, only al-'Aliya and al-'Aliya Madinat Idris. It is not known whether the name al-'Aliya was ever used to refer to both medinas. It wasn't until 1070 that the two agglomerations were united and the name Fas was used for both sites.
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Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
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Howth
Howth ( /ˈhoʊθ/; from Old Norse: Hǫfuð meaning "head"; called in Irish: Binn Éadair) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is on a peninsula of the same name at the north of Dublin Bay. Originally just a small fishing village, Howth with its surrounding rural district is now a busy suburb of Dublin, with a mix of dense residential development and wild hillside, all on the peninsula of Howth Head. The only neighbouring district on land is Sutton. Howth is also home to one of the oldest occupied buildings in Ireland, Howth Castle. Through the years, Howth has been a filming location for movies such as The Last of the High Kings and Boy Eats Girl.
Howth is located on the peninsula of Howth Head, which begins around 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east-north-east of Dublin, on the north side of Dublin Bay. The village itself is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Dublin city centre (the ninth of a series of eighteenth century milestones from the Dublin General Post Office (GPO) is in the village itself), and spans most of the northern part of Howth Head, which is connected to the rest of Dublin via a narrow strip of land (or tombolo) at Sutton Cross.
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Limerick
Limerick ( /ˈlɪmrɪk/; Irish: Luimneach [ˈl̪imʲɨnʲəx]) is a city in the Mid-West or Shannon Region of Ireland. It is the fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and when taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest urban area in the Republic of Ireland, with a population of 91,454. Limerick is also the second-largest city in the province of Munster, an area that constitutes the midwest and southwest of Ireland. The city is built on several curves and islands of the River Shannon, which spreads into an estuary shortly downriver from Limerick. Road infrastructure features four main crossing points near the city centre (an additional river tunnel to the west of the three bridges opened in July 2010). Limerick is one of the constituent cities of the Cork-Limerick-Galway corridor, which has a population of 1 million.
Luimneach originally referred to the general area along the banks of the Shannon Estuary known as Loch Luimnigh. The earliest settlement in the city, Inis Sibhtonn, was the original name for King's Island during the pre-Viking and Viking eras. This island was also called Inis an Ghaill Duibh, The Dark(haired) Foreigner's Island. The name is recorded in Viking sources as Hlymrekr.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.
Memphis had a population of 662,897 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the 20th largest in the United States. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2010 population of 1,316,100. This makes Memphis the second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed only by metropolitan Nashville, which has overtaken Memphis in recent years. Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as the "Mid-South".
Because it occupies a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis is a natural location for settlement. The area was first settled by the Mississippian Culture and then by the Chickasaw Indian tribe. For 10,000 years they occupied the bluffs along the river, building a large mound on the bluff. European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua (i/ˌnɪkəˈrɑːɡwə/ nik-ə-RAH-gwə), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua [reˈpuβlika ðe nikaˈɾaɣwa] (
listen)), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's physical geography divides it into three major zones: Pacific lowlands; wet, cooler central highlands; and the Caribbean lowlands. On the Pacific side of the country are the two largest fresh water lakes in Central America—Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua. Surrounding these lakes and extending to their northwest along the rift valley of the Gulf of Fonseca are fertile lowland plains, with soil highly enriched by ash from nearby volcanoes of the central highlands. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann pronounced [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ] ( listen), Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann or Norlin Airlan) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. As of 2001, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland is largely self-governing. According to the agreement, Northern Ireland co-operates with the rest of Ireland – from which it was partitioned in 1921 — on some policy areas, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, though the Republic of Ireland "may put forward views and proposals".
Northern Ireland was for many years the site of a violent and bitter inter-communal conflict — the Troubles — which was caused by divisions between nationalists, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, and unionists, who are predominantly Protestant. Unionists want Northern Ireland to remain as a part of the United Kingdom, and generally see themselves as British, while nationalists wish for it to be politically reunited with the rest of Ireland, independent of British rule, and generally see themselves as Irish. Additionally, people from both sides of the community may describe themselves as Northern Irish. Since 1998, most of the paramilitary groups involved in the Troubles have ceased their armed campaigns.
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Oireachtas
The Oireachtas (Irish pronunciation: [ɛrʲaxt̪ˠasˠ]), sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the "national parliament" or legislature of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of:
The Houses of the Oireachtas sit in Leinster House in Dublin, an eighteenth-century ducal palace. The directly elected Dáil is by far the most powerful branch of the Oireachtas.
Dáil Éireann, the lower house, is directly elected under universal suffrage of all Irish and United Kingdom citizens who are resident and at least eighteen years of age. An election is held at least once in every five years as required by law. However the house can usually be dissolved at any time at the request of the Taoiseach (head of government). Dáil elections occur under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. The Dáil has had 166 members since 1981. The Seanad is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members selected in a number of ways. 43 senators are elected by councillors and parliamentarians, 11 are appointed by the Taoiseach, and six are elected by two university constituencies, giving a total of 60 members. The President of Ireland is directly elected once in every seven years, for a maximum of two terms. However if, as has occurred on a number of occasions, a consensus among the larger political parties can result in only a single candidate being nominated, then no actual ballot occurs.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the U.S. state of Oregon, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States. Portland is Oregon's most populous city, and the third most populous city in the Pacific Northwest region, after Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately 2,260,000 people live in the Portland metropolitan area (MSA), the 23rd most populous in the United States.
Portland was incorporated in 1851 and is the county seat of Multnomah County. The city extends west into the Cedar Mill neighborhood in Washington County and south towards Lake Oswego in Clackamas County. With a commission-based government headed by a mayor and four other commissioners, the city and region are noted for strong land-use planning and investment in light rail, supported by Metro, a distinctive regional government. Because of its public transportation networks and efficient land use planning, Portland has been referred to as one of the most environmentally friendly, or "green", cities in the world.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ or /ˈɑrlənd/; Irish: Éire, pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen)) is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. Its capital is Dublin. The population of the state was 4.59 million in 2011. It is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy, with an elected president serving as head of state. In the 1937 constitution, the name of the state is given as simply "Ireland". The Constitution of Ireland (Article 4) and the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 provides that the "Republic of Ireland" (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is "the description of the state".
Ireland is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations. A developed country with the seventh highest Human Development Index, Ireland is also highly ranked for press freedom, economic freedom and democracy and political freedom.
The modern Irish state was established in 1922 as the Irish Free State, a dominion within the British Empire, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty which brought an end to the Irish War of Independence. The partition of Ireland had already been provided for in previous British legislation in 1921 in response to opposition to Irish Home Rule or independence by Unionists, who formed a majority in the north-eastern part of the country. Six of the nine counties in the northern province of Ulster were established under that legislation as Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, with which the Irish state shares its only land border. The state is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south east, and the Irish Sea to the east.
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San Salvador
The city of San Salvador (English: "Holy Saviour") is the capital city of the Republic of El Salvador. San Salvador is a part of the San Salvador Department, one of fourteen in the nation. San Salvador is the country's largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center. As a "gamma" global city, San Salvador is one of the most important financial centers in Central America. It is located in the Salvadoran highlands, surrounded by volcanoes and prone to earthquakes, which is why the Pipil and the Spaniards called the area in which the city is located "el valle de las hamacas" (the valley of the hammocks, "salcoatitan" in Pipil language). The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was around 540,000 people (2.3million metropolitan), making it the third largest Central American city and the second largest metropolitan area. San Salvador is nicknamed "San Sivar" by Salvadorans.
Before the Spanish conquest, the Pipil peoples established their capital, Cuzcatlán, near the current location of San Salvador. Not much is known about Cuzcatlán, as it was abandoned by its inhabitants in an effort to avoid Spanish rule.
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is a musician, best known as the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's Mission: Impossible. Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
Clayton is the elder child of Brian and Jo Clayton, born on 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England. When Clayton was five years old, his family moved from Oxfordshire to Malahide, County Dublin, where Clayton's brother Sebastian was born. The Clayton family became friends with the Evans family, with their sons Dik and Dave (more commonly known as The Edge), who were both in the original group, Feedback, that spawned U2.
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Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer.
Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19. In the late 1950's Schmitt moved to Los Angeles and became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders on Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood. In the early 1960's he moved to RCA in Hollywood as a staff engineer. While at RCA he engineered albums for Henry Mancini, Cal Tjader, Al Hirt, Rosemary Clooney, Liverpool Five, The Astronauts, Sam Cooke "Bring It on Home to Me" "Cupid" "Another Saturday Night" in 1961. He also did a lot of motion-picture scoring work for Alex North and Elmer Bernstein.
In 1966 Schmitt left RCA and became an independent producer. He produced albums for Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Fisher, Glenn Yarborough, Jackson Browne and Neil Young. In the mid 70's he began spending more time engineering again, recording and mixing artists from Willy DeVille and Dr. John.
Other career highlights include engineering both Frank Sinatra Duets albums, Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company and some of Diana Krall's albums. Much of his work in the last few years has been with producer Tommy LiPuma.
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Alan Light
Alan Light is an American journalist who has been a rock critic for Rolling Stone and the editor-in-chief for both VIBE and Spin.
Light grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Cincinnati Country Day School. His mother was a top dance reviewer for the local newspaper. He graduated from Yale University in 1988, majoring in American Studies, and wrote his senior thesis on Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys. Light had been an intern at Rolling Stone during their 20th Anniversary year while still a student. He later joined the staff as a fact checker in 1989, soon becoming a Senior Writer.
In 1993, he became the founding music editor of VIBE magazine, later becoming editor in chief. In 1999 he became editor in chief for Spin. He left Spin in March 2002.
Light then got a spot as music reviewer on radio station WFUV, and serves as music correspondent on NPR show Weekend America. He has worked as consultant for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is also heavily involved in assisting homeless people with the Housing Works AIDS charity.
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Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. As of 2012, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 41 nominations, making her the most awarded living recipient, and three back of the most honoured artist, classical conductor Sir Georg Solti. She is also the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history. At the time of her first award, at the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second youngest winner ever (currently tied as third youngest).
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he celebrated his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and harshly denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. This poem is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation. The poem, which was dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, opens:
madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix...</poem> In October 1955, Ginsberg and five other unknown poets gave a free reading at an experimental art gallery in San Francisco. Ginsberg's "Howl" electrified the audience. According to fellow poet Michael McClure, it was clear "that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power support bases." In 1957, "Howl" attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial in which a San Francisco prosecutor argued it contained "filthy, vulgar, obscene, and disgusting language." The poem seemed especially outrageous in 1950s America because it depicted both heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. "Howl" reflected Ginsberg's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, adding, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
In 2007 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times: once in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", once in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and once in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game".
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Anthony DeCurtis
Anthony DeCurtis (born June 25, 1951) is an American author and music critic, who has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Relix and other publications.
DeCurtis is now a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for more than thirty years. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from Indiana University, and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a music critic for WFUV-FM, where he does on-air reviews. He is also the author of In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work (Hal Leonard Publishing Co, 2005) and Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters (Duke University Press, 1998), and editor of Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture (Duke University Press, 1992) and "Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer" (Scribner, 2009). He co-edited the third editions of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and the Rolling Stone Album Guide.
DeCurtis's essay accompanying the Eric Clapton box set Crossroads won a Grammy in the "Best Album Notes" category, and on three occasions he has won ASCAP's Deems Taylor awards for excellence in writing about music. He has appeared as a commentator on MTV, VH1, the Today Show and many other news and entertainment programs. From 2006 through June 2008 he directed and helped design the arts-and-culture curriculum at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He was an editorial consultant and the primary interviewer for "Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound," a documentary for PBS American Masters. DeCurtis has currently joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. He was also a judge for the 7th and 8th Independent Music Awards.
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Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈbɛin]; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for almost 3 decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990) and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control (2007),George Clooney's The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2012) based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.
Corbijn was born in Strijen, the Netherlands. He started his career of music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing at a cafe in Groningen (the Netherlands) around 1975. He took a lot of photos of the 'rising star' Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Because of the pictures taken by Corbijn, Brood's fame rose quickly, and as a result Corbijn's own exposure increased.
Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, U2, Prāta Vētra, David Bowie, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Clint Eastwood, Roxette and Herbert Grönemeyer, amongst others. He is famous for his work in black and white. In May 1989, he began taking pictures in color using filters: his first try was done for Siouxsie Sioux.
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Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as both an assistant, producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with Queen, The Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, Norah Jones, Richard Marx, Culture Club and Jewel. Mardin was awarded 11 Grammy Awards.
Arif Mardin was born in Istanbul into a renowned family that included statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic, military and business sectors of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His father was co-owner in a petroleum gas station chain.
Mardin grew up listening to the likes of Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. Through his sister he met jazz critic Cuneyt Sermet, who turned him onto this music and eventually became his mentor. After graduating from Istanbul University in Economics and Commerce, Mardin studied at the London School of Economics. Influenced by his sister's music records and jazz, he was also an accomplished orchestrator and arranger, but he never intended to pursue a career in music. However, he made two solo albums: Glass Onion, in 1970, and Journey, in 1975. In Journey, he was the composer and arranger, but he also played electric piano and percussion, and was accompanied by many stars of jazz (Randy and Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham and many others).
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC (Burmese:
; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany, IPA: [ʔàʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent (now former) political prisoners.
Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of Venezuela. In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that country; at the time, she was one of only four people ever to receive the honor. In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal.
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B. B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. and No. 17 in in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
King was born in a small cabin on a cotton plantation outside of Berclair, Mississippi, to Albert King and Nora Ella Farr on September 16, 1925.
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. and No. 17 in in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
King was born in a small cabin on a cotton plantation outside of Berclair, Mississippi, to Albert King and Nora Ella Farr on September 16, 1925.
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Barry Bales
Barry Turner Bales [1] (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee) is the bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Barry grew up in Colonial Heights, Tennessee outside of Kingsport, Tennessee and attended Sullivan South High School (Tennessee). Early memories of music include listening to the records of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, Bob Wills, Buck Owens and Hank Thompson from his father's extensive collection. He started experimenting with various instruments at the age of 10, starting with guitar. By age 15, Barry had found the bass and was playing regionally in various groups. Bales attended East Tennessee State University, participating in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music program, as did future Union Station members Tim Stafford and Adam Steffey. [2] It was while performing with many of these musicians that he began traveling in ever-wider musical circles, eventually landing the bass job with Union Station in 1990.
Over the years, Barry has become one of the most in-demand session players in acoustic music. He has recorded and performed with such artists as Reba McEntire, Susan Ashton, Merle Haggard, Ronnie Bowman, the Cox family, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Dan Tyminski, Patty Loveless and many others.
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Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer.
He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1983 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan and Brian Gardner, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005.
Grundman and his studio have both won numerous TEC Awards, including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.
Previously, Grundman worked at Contemporary Records and then was head of the A&M Records mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.
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Big Boi
Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André 3000 each announced plans to release a solo album. Big Boi's solo debut Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty was released in July 2010 to respectable sales and critical acclaim.
Patton was born and spent the first half of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School before moving to Atlanta with his Aunt Renne. Eventually he decided to pursue his interest in music at Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School.
He had a strong interest in hip-hop music, and met André "3000" Benjamin while attending Tri Cities High School in the early-1990s. The two eventually joined forces as OutKast and signed with LaFace Records.
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Bill Flanagan
Bill Flanagan is an American author and television executive. He was born in Rhode Island in 1955 and graduated from Brown University in 1977. His books include Written in My Soul (1986), Last of the Moe Haircuts (1986), U2 at the End of the World (1995), and the novels A&R (2000), New Bedlam (2007) and Evening's Empire (2010).
As EVP/Editorial Director of MTV Networks, Flanagan oversees the series VH1 Storytellers and CMT Crossroads. He has also worked on VH1's Legends, VH1 Archives, Hotel MTV, and many other series and specials. He was one of the producers of The Concert for New York City after the September 11 attacks and has produced, co-produced or executive produced two televised concerts from the White House, The Beatles Revolution for ABC, Elvis Lives for NBC, and VH1 specials with Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Springsteen, and Oprah Winfrey. Flanagan acts as Ombudsman of the Sundance Channel series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with.... He also appears on air as an essayist on CBS News Sunday Morning.
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side project Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Raised in Rodeo, California, Armstrong developed an interest in music at a young age, and recorded his first song at the age of five. He met Mike Dirnt while attending elementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 15 years old. The band changed its name to Green Day, and would later achieve massive commercial success. Armstrong has also pursued musical projects outside of Green Day's work, including numerous collaborations with other musicians as well as serving as the primary vocalist for the bands Pinhead Gunpowder and Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Piedmont, California, a small town surrounded by the city of Oakland, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew "Andy" Armstrong and Ollie Jackson. His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982. The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito. Armstrong and Mike Dirnt's first live performance was at Rod's Hickory Pit in 1987; their first performance under the name Green Day was in Davis, a college town approximately an hour's drive northeast of San Francisco Bay.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bobby Kimball
Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer, best known as the longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.
Robert (Bobby) Troy Kimball was born in Orange, Texas, and was raised in nearby Vinton, Louisiana, as Vinton did not have a hospital (thus, he was born across the state line). Kimball started singing as a child, dabbling on voice and piano in a musical household throughout his youth. Throughout the 1970s, Kimball performed as a vocalist in various New Orleans area bands, including The Levee Band, which would later become Le Roux after Kimball left. In 1976, Kimball joined S.S. Fools in which he was the lead vocalist as well as keyboard player. That same year, the band released their self-titled album. The band broke up during its first tour.
In 1974, Bobby Kimball left Louisiana and moved to Los Angeles where he joined 3 members from the defunct band, Three Dog Night, to form a new band called S.S. Fools. They released one album on CBS Records, but the band split up within a year and a half. About 6 months later, Kimball was asked by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, the two initial founding members of Toto, to join the five session musicians to form Toto. He submitted a self-penned audition song for the band, "You are the Flower", which was included on their debut album. Kimball performed on the first four studio albums by Toto. He was asked to leave Toto in 1984 during the sessions for Isolation due to tensions with other band members that included widespread drug abuse.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
Outside the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists, is managing director and a managing partner of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organised and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticised for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.
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Brian Gardner
Brian Gardner, also known as Brian "Big Bass" Gardner is a mastering engineer. He has worked on a number of recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk, and dance pop. He is perhaps best known for his work on hip hop albums and in particular in his collaborations with Dr. Dre.
He is currently employed at Bernie Grundman Mastering, a mastering house founded and run by Bernie Grundman.
Brian has been awarded seven Grammy nominations six of which were for Album Of The Year and one Grammy win for Album of the Year (SpeakerBox - Outkast)
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, Latin music and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. Carlos learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight. His younger brother, Jorge Santana, would also become a professional guitarist. Young Carlos was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Latinos in American rock and pop music. The family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana In La Colonia Libertad, the city on Mexico's border with California, and then San Francisco. Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School there. He graduated from Mission High in 1965. Carlos was accepted into the California State University, Northridge and Humboldt State University, but turned down both of the offers. Javier Bátiz, a famous guitarist from Tijuana, was said to have been Carlos's guitar teacher who taught him to play a different style of guitar soloing. After learning Javier Batiz's techniques, Santana would make them his own as well.
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Chester Thompson
Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American drummer and session musician.
Thompson made his name as a session drummer, going on to play in Frank Zappa's touring band (as part of the 1973–1974 lineups, which also featured percussionist Ruth Underwood and jazz keyboardist George Duke) and in Weather Report's album Black Market (1976). He played on such noted Zappa albums as Roxy & Elsewhere (Live recording 8-10.12.1973 & 8.5.1974), You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 (Live in Helsinki, Finland 22–23.9.1974, released 1988) and One Size Fits All (1975).
His longest-standing gig was with Genesis as the touring drummer (1977-2007). His relationship with the band began with the departure of frontman Peter Gabriel. Then-drummer, Phil Collins, assumed Gabriel's role in live shows, but remained behind the drum kit in the studio. Thompson became the touring drummer in 1977, playing on their tours in that year and in 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983/4, 1986/7, 1992 and the 2007 reunion Turn It On Again Tour. Chester is featured on their live albums Seconds Out (1977), Three Sides Live (1982), The Way We Walk Volume 1 (1992) & Volume 2 (1993) and Live Over Europe 2007. He chose not to be involved in the band's Calling All Stations European 1998 tour, following the band's failure to invite him to join the studio band following Phil Collins's departure.
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Chris Blackwell
Christopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is a British businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music.
Forming Island Records in Jamaica on 22 May 1959 aged 22, Blackwell was amongst the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska. Returning to Britain in 1962, he sold records from the back of his car to the Jamaican community.
Backed by Stanley Borden from RKO Entertainment, Blackwell's business and reach grew substantially, and he went on to forge the careers of Bob Marley, Grace Jones and U2 amongst many other diverse high-profile acts. He has produced many seminal albums, including Marley's Catch A Fire and Uprising.
Blackwell was born in London. Blackwell's father, Joseph, who was Irish, was related to the founder of Crosse & Blackwell, purveyors of jarred foods and relishes, and had some residual wealth. He became a Major in the Jamaican Regiment.
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Chris Carmouche
Chris Carmouche (born December 19, 1978), known as "Mouche" is a producer, recording engineer and rapper. In 2004, Carmouche won a Grammy for his work on Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
Chris was born December 19, 1978 in Church Point, LA to Robert and Elizabeth Carmouche. He was raised in Sunset, LA outside of Metro-Lafayette. Carmouche's early musical influences included Duran Duran, Big Daddy Kane, N.W.A., Michael Jackson, and Prince. Carmouche got his musical start playing classical piano in grade school, laying the foundation for his musical career as a drum major in high school marching band and playing the Ensoniq ASR-10 keyboard he received as a gift at the age of 15.
Carmouche graduated from Georgia State University in 2002 with a Bachelors Degree in music with a focus in audio engineering.
Carmouche got an internship with Stankonia Studios during his senior year of college, helping to engineer Outkast's Grammy-winning album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Carmouche stayed with Stankonia as an engineer, mixer and performer, working closely on artists’ projects such as Lil Jon, Big Boi, Usher, Beyonce, Akon, Cee-Lo Green, Nelly, Ice Cube and Chamillionaire.
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Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions.
Chris Lord-Alge gained notoriety while working at Unique Recording Studios, New York City in the 1980s for his mixing on James Brown's Gravity album, which included the hit song "Living In America", the Rocky IV soundtrack, Prince's Batman soundtrack , Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart album, Chaka Khan's Destiny album, Carly Simon's Coming Around Again album, Tina Turner's Foreign Affair album and 12" remixes of Madonna's "La Isla Bonita", the Rolling Stones' "Too Much Blood" and Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me", and "Born in the U.S.A.". While working in Japan (1995–1997),[citation needed] he worked with Tetsuya Komuro, No! Galers, Namie Amuro and hitomi. Lord-Alge has focused on mixing since the late 1990s, resulting in an extensive production discography (see below).
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Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin (2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, pianist and rhythm guitarist of the band Coldplay. He is well known by fans for his distinctive tenor voice. He is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
Chris Martin was born in Exeter, Devon and is the eldest of five children. His father, Anthony Martin, is a retired accountant, and his mother, Alison Martin, is a music teacher. Martin started his education at the pre-preparatory Hylton School and then went on to preparatory Exeter Cathedral School. It was at the prep school that Martin formed his first band, The Rocking Honkies, with Nick Repton & Iwan Gronow. Their debut performance was met with boos from the crowd. After Exeter Cathedral, Martin boarded at Sherborne School, a boys' independent school in Dorset. He also met future Coldplay manager Phil Harvey at the school. Martin continued his studies at University College London, staying at Ramsay Hall where he read Ancient World Studies and graduated with First Class honours in Greek and Latin. It is here he met future Coldplay bandmates Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman.
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Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King (born October 14, 1962) is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.
King was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. He is the son of blues musician Tabby Thomas. He has won awards including "Album of the Year" for both Grammy Award and Country Music Awards. King has sold more than 10 million records in the United States. He is featured playing the part of Tommy Johnson in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen) He is also featured in Down From the Mountain and More Music From Ray soundtracks.
King is known as the pioneer of rap/blues. He conceived the first sample based blues concept album in the early 1990s by writing and producing the first all-rap/blues album for RCA Records titled 21st Century Blues… From Da Hood.
As an entrepreneur King took control of his master recordings in the early 1990s, forming 21st Century Blues Records. He also established a publishing company, Young Blues Rebel, LLC. 21st Century Records signed the New Orleans Ninth Ward rap/blues duo the 21C-B-Boyz and the London, England based NuBlues, to 21st Century Blues Records in 2003.
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Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey on 26 February 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. She released her debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae, in February 2006, and became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. In 2007, Bailey Rae was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards, and won two MOBO Awards. In 2008, she won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for her work as a featured artist in Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters).
Bailey Rae released her second album, The Sea, on 26 January 2010, after a hiatus of almost three years. It was produced by Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou (who produced her debut album in 2006). She was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. In 2012, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance (for "Is This Love)". Bailey Rae was married to fellow musician Jason Rae from 2001 until his death in 2008, and as part of the grieving process, she channeled her emotions into her music. Her two albums have together sold over five million copies worldwide.
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Craig Street
Craig Street, born in Oakland, California, is a noted record producer.
Craig moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 11, but returned to the Bay Area for his high school years. He began playing guitar at age 14, playing in a number of Berkeley bands. In 1981 he interviewed Alan Douglas for NPR for a documentary about Jimi Hendrix he co-produced with then KPFA-FM 3rd World Director Bari Scott, and San Jose radio broadcaster Don West, and began producing shortly thereafter.
He has worked with artists such as Norah Jones, k. d. lang, Rebekka Bakken, Cassandra Wilson, Charlie Sexton, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joe Henry, John Legend, The Manhattan Transfer, Chris Whitley and others. Come Away with Me, which he produced for Norah Jones, won a Grammy for album of the year in 2002.
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Crystal Lewis
Crystal Lewis (born September 11, 1969) is an American contemporary Christian/Gospel vocalist, songwriter and author.
Lewis (b. Crystal Lynn Lewis in Corona, California) grew up singing in her father's church. In 1984, at the age of 15, Lewis auditioned for a children's musical called Hi Tops, written and produced by Ernie and Debbie Rettino, creators of Psalty, the Singing Song Book. Lewis passed the audition and was able to go into the studio and participate in the Soundtrack recording with the rest of the cast members. While working with the musical, Lewis met a member of the rockabilly band, The Lifters. After becoming friends with the members of that band, Lewis was asked to join. Soon after, the band changed its name to Wild Blue Yonder. Lewis also met her husband, Brian Ray, through her association with the band.
Wild Blue Yonder was together for two years and recorded a single full length album Wild Blue Yonder, produced by Daniel Amos frontman Terry Scott Taylor, for Frontline Records in 1986. She would also sing on D.A.'s album Fearful Symmetry in 1986, and Taylor's solo album A Briefing for the Ascent in 1987. After Wild Blue Yonder disbanded, Frontline offered Lewis a solo recording contract at the age of 17. Beyond The Charade, her first solo project, was released in 1987.
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois ( /lænˈwɑː/ lan-WAH; born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and Ron Sexsmith. Lanois is best known for his work with Brian Eno, the pair collaborating on a number of projects together and producing several platinum albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four others received nominations.
Lanois started his production career when he was 17, working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother's Ancaster, Ontario home, recording local artists including Simply Saucer. Later Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.
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David Fricke
David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music. In the 1990s, he was managing editor before stepping down.
David Fricke is a graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Before joining Rolling Stone, where he is now senior editor, he wrote for Circus and Good Times.
Fricke's interviews with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love for Rolling Stone, prior to Cobain's death, were widely cited. In one, Love spoke of an unreleased song that Cobain wrote prior to his death titled "Me and My IV", which was recorded to "Do, Re, Mi".
Fricke has appeared on the Classic Albums documentaries on the making of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Nirvana's Nevermind, Metallica's Black Album, Frank Zappa's Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation as well as Rush's Moving Pictures and 2112 albums. Fricke has also appeared on a number of Lou Reed documentaries and in the Wilco documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.
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David Hungate
David Hungate (b. August 5, 1948) is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977 to 1982. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.
Hungate played on Toto's first four records, including multiple Grammy award-winning album, Toto IV. He left the band shortly after its release for a career as a session musician in Nashville. Hungate also plays guitar and has produced and recorded with several country artists such as Chet Atkins. Currently residing in Nashville, Hungate has collaborated with both former and current members of Toto for occasional recordings and gigs over the years. He was also a primary member of AOR supergroup Mecca fronted by Joe Vana and Fergie Frederiksen, the latter also of Toto fame. In 1990 he released a solo album entitled "Souvenir" (on CBS). Jeff Porcaro played drums on some of the tracks on the album.
Hungate attended North Texas State University College of Music, where he played bass in the One O'Clock Lab Band the year that it performed at the 1970 Montreaux Jazz Festival. He is the son of the late US Congressman (and later Federal District Judge) William L Hungate.
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David Paich
David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a multi-disciplined musical contributor. His contibutions include performing as a live and studio session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records. Additionally, Paich has contributed to a host of artists with his songwriting and arrangements including working with Boz Skaggs extensively in the 1970s and Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
He is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich, having adopted many of his father's skills for his contribution to music.
A prolific writer of chart-breakers, Paich wrote or co-wrote hits such as "Hold the Line", "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", "Georgy Porgy", "Rosanna", "Got To Be Real", and "Lady Love Me (One More Time)". He also performed lead vocals on the Toto hits "Africa", "Lovers in the Night", and "Stranger in Town".
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Dik Evans
Richard "Dik" G. (also "Dick") Evans is a musician. He is the brother of David "The Edge" Evans, guitarist for rock band U2. The Evans brothers both played guitar in the initial line-up of the band, known as The Hype, sharing their homemade guitar.
Their first guitar was an old acoustic that their mother bought at a local flea market for only a few pounds. Dave Evans said in 1982 of this early experimentation, "I suppose the first link in the chain was a visit to the local jumble sale where I purchased a guitar for a pound. That was my first instrument. It was an acoustic guitar and me and my elder brother Dik both played it, plonking away, all very rudimentary stuff, open chords and all that."
The Hype had come to an agreement that there was no need for three guitarists (the Evans brothers and Bono at the time). They felt that as a unit a four-piece operated better. Together, they played one final gig, first as The Hype, then returning without Dik as U2. Dik reportedly left after a Hype gig to concentrate on academia.
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Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo (John King), famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to the film Fight Club.
The Dust Brothers started working together in 1985 at the Pomona College radio station, KSPC, hosting a weekly hip-hop show, started by Simpson in 1983, called 'The Big Beat Showcase'.
They eventually turned to DJing at parties, and 1987 began writing and producing for the Delicious Vinyl label. There they produced and sequenced tracks on Tone Lōc's album, Lōc-ed After Dark. They also produced two tracks on Young MC's debut album Stone Cold Rhymin.
Through a mutual friend, Matt Dike, the Dust Brothers were introduced to Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. Dike played some instrumental music created by the Dust Brothers for Yauch, and he recruited the Dust Brothers to make the music for the Beastie Boys' highly acclaimed sophomore album, Paul's Boutique, which was considered one of the best albums of all-time by Time Magazine in 2006.
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Elliot Scheiner
Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 24 Grammy Award nominations, 7 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award. Elliot holds an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music and is one of the only Americans to be awarded the Master of Sound honor from the Japan Audio Society.
In 2012 he received his 24th Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Surround Sound Album for Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition), which he also won, making him a 7 time Grammy Award winner.
He started as Phil Ramone's assistant at A&R Recording in New York City, and quickly advanced to an engineer. By 1973 he had begun to freelance as an engineer and producer, becoming the first person ever to work as a freelance engineer for other artists. Scheiner is considered to be among the most accomplished sound engineers and producers in his field [not identified].
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Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image".
Costello has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male. In 2003, Elvis Costello & the Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in St Mary's Hospital, London, the son of Lilian Alda (née Ablett, b. 1927, Liverpool) and Ross MacManus (1927–2011), a musician and bandleader. He is of Irish heritage. Costello lived in Twickenham, attending Hounslow Secondary Modern School, which is now St Mark's Catholic Secondary School, in neighbouring Hounslow. With a musically inclined father (who was a jazz trumpeter and sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra), Costello's first broadcast recording was alongside his dad in a television commercial for R. White's Lemonade (I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker). His father wrote and sang the song; Costello provided backing vocals. The advertisement won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released many chart-topping albums and singles over the course of her career, and has won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards.
In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Gram Parsons, The Band, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Mark Knopfler, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, and Neil Young.
Emmylou Harris is the daughter of a career military family, her father, Walter Harris, was a military officer and her mother, Eugenia was a wartime military wife. Her father, a member of the Marine Corps, was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. In high school she also won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. Leaving college to pursue her musical aspirations, she moved to New York, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in the Maryland suburbs on the edge of Washington, D.C.
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Flood (producer)
Flood is the professional pseudonym of Grammy Award-winning British post punk and alternative rock record producer and audio engineer Mark Ellis. Flood's long and varied list of work includes projects with recording acts like U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, and many others. His co-production collaborations have included projects with Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite, and longtime collaborator Alan Moulder, with whom he co-founded the Assault & Battery studio complex. In 2006, his work with U2 led to his sharing of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
Mark Ellis was born on August 16, 1960 in London, England. As a child, Ellis attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, England. He began his music career as the vocalist for the band Seven Hertz. From 1978-79 he was also the bassist for the Mod revival band The Lambrettas. During that same time, he began his professional studio career as a runner at Morgan Studios in London. Ellis also was a runner at Battery Studios in London and held apprenticeships at Marcus Studios and Trident Studios.'
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George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.
Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed going to college, enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.
He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch (/ˈɡɪliən ˈwɛltʃ/; born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms".
Welch and Rawlings have released five critically acclaimed albums. Their 1996 debut, Revival, and the 2001 release Time (The Revelator), received nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Their 2003 album, Soul Journey, introduced electric guitar, drums and a more upbeat sound to their body of work. After a gap of eight years, they released their fifth studio album, The Harrow & The Harvest, in 2011.
Welch was an associate producer and performed on two songs of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, a platinum album that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002. Welch has collaborated and recorded with distinguished musicians such as Alison Krauss, Ryan Adams, Jay Farrar, Emmylou Harris, The Decemberists, and Ani DiFranco. Welch and Rawlings perform at many music festivals.
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Guy Berryman
Guy Rupert Berryman (born 12 April 1978, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a Scottish musician and producer known as the bassist for the groups Coldplay and Apparatjik. Berryman is left-handed but plays the bass right-handed.
Berryman started an engineering degree at University College London. Soon after, he dropped out of his engineering course and switched to a seven-year architecture program at The Bartlett. He dropped out of his architecture degree after one year to focus on playing bass with Coldplay. While his bandmates were still continuing their degrees, Berryman worked as a barman in a local London pub.
During the Twisted Logic Tour for the promotion of Coldplay's third album, X&Y, Berryman took candid pictures of the band with disposable cameras and threw them to the audience.
Berryman was educated at an independent school in Scotland, The Edinburgh Academy, and Kent, at Kent College Canterbury, before attending University College London. In 2004, Berryman married Joanna, his childhood sweetheart, in a low key ceremony in the City of Westminster. They have one daughter, Nico, born on 17 September 2006. In March 2007, Coldplay's spokesman confirmed that Guy and Joanna separated after three years of marriage. They are now divorced, but see each other frequently for the wellbeing of their daughter Nico.
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Harley Allen
Harley Lee Allen (January 23, 1956 – March 30, 2011) was an American bluegrass and country singer and songwriter.
He was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of the bluegrass performer Red Allen.
Allen appeared on several 1970s albums with his brothers as The Allen Brothers. He recorded three solo albums, "Across the Blueridge Mountains" (Folkways Records 1983), "Another River" (1996) and "Live at the Bluebird" (2001).
He was most known for providing background vocals on the song "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Soundtrack. He won two Grammy Awards for that recording in 2002, in the Best Country Collaboration with Vocals and Album of the Year categories.
Allen is survived by his wife, singer Debbie Nims, and their two daughters, Katie and Maggie and son, Aaron.
Allen died of lung cancer on March 30, 2011 at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee.
The singles/songs written or co-written by Allen are, among others, performed by:
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace music synthesizers and funk music (characterized by syncopated drum beats). Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.
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Hugh Padgham
Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won many awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.
Padgham started out as a tape operator at Advision Studios, working in recording sessions for Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. From there he went to Lansdowne Studios and moved from tape-operator/assistant engineer to head engineer. In 1978, Padgham got a job at The Townhouse, where he engineered and/or produced acts including XTC, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
Padgham's previous work with Gabriel and Collins led to a long and enormously successful collaboration with Genesis in the 1980s, which produced a string of hit albums and singles including Genesis and Invisible Touch. In addition to his work with Genesis and XTC, Padgham co-produced two albums with The Police: Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, as well as Paul McCartney's Press to Play and The Human League's Hysteria.
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Jacknife Lee
Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including The Cars, U2, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, AFI, The Hives, Weezer, Vega4 and Editors.
Lee started as a guitarist for the punk band Compulsion, then pursued a solo career in the field of electronica after the band's break-up. His first solo work, the EP A Dog Named Snuggles, was released under the name Jacknife Lee in 1998 by Pussyfoot Records, a label founded by Howie B.
Lee released his first album Muy rico in 1998. His second album Punk Rock High Roller was released in 2001 by Palm Pictures. To Hell With You I'll Make My Own People was recorded as Jack Planck for the One Little Indian label. Jacknife Lee released his self titled third solo album in 2007.
Jacknife Lee has also remixed a variety of artists' work including a version of Run-DMC's "It's Tricky 2003", The Future Sound of London's "The Mello Hippo Disco Show" and versions of U2's "Vertigo" which was limited released onto 7", 10" and 12" vinyl, Christina Aguilera, TLC, Pink, Blur, Radiohead, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, The Raveonettes, Dirty Vegas, Kraftwerk, New Order, Aqualung and Kasabian. In 2008 he produced R.E.M.'s Accelerate, Bloc Party's Intimacy and Hadouken!. Crystal Castles worked with him for a few weeks in 2009 for their second album, after which he worked with LostAlone. In 2010 he produced R.E.M.'s latest album Collapse into Now, which was released in 2011.
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James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013. Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2012, there have been twenty two films in the Eon Productions series, with a twenty third, Skyfall, due for release on 26 October 2012. The film will star Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond: he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale, a 1967 spoof, and Never Say Never Again, a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, Thunderball.
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Jeff Porcaro
Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he shot to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied. Allmusic has characterized him as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", further stating that "It is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro."
Porcaro was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the eldest son of Los Angeles session percussionist Joe Porcaro. His brothers Steve and Mike are both still active session musicians. Porcaro was raised in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and attended Ulysses S. Grant High School.
On October 22, 1983, Porcaro married Susan Norris, a Los Angeles television newscaster. They had three sons, Christopher Joseph (born July 3, 1984), Miles Edwin Crawford (born June 12, 1986), and Nico Hendrix (born December 26, 1991).
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Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas (born Gerald Calvin Douglas, May 28, 1956 in Warren, Ohio) is an American record producer and resonator guitar player. Called "Dobro's matchless contemporary master," by The New York Times, and lauded as "my favorite musician" by John Fogerty, Douglas is one of the world’s most renowned musicians.
In addition to his thirteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1600 albums. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phish, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, and Johnny Mathis, as well as performing on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. He has been part of such notable groups as The Whites, J. D. Crowe and the New South, The Country Gentlemen, Strength in Numbers, and Elvis Costello's "Sugar Canes".
As a producer, he has overseen albums by Alison Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, Maura O'Connell, Jesse Winchester and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Along with Aly Bain, he serves as Music Director of the popular BBC Television series, "Transatlantic Sessions".
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Jimmy Iovine
James "Jimmy" Iovine (last name pronounced Eye-o-Veen; born March 11, 1953) is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.
Born in Brooklyn, Iovine began his career as a recording engineer in the mid-1970s, working with Raspberries, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. He went on to produce albums for U2 (Rattle & Hum), Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Golden Earring, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Flame (featuring Marge Raymond, Jimmy Crespo, Bob Leone, and others), and Patti Smith. Iovine established Interscope Records in 1991 with the release of Gerardo's Mo' Ritmo. It went on to become Interscope-Geffen-A&M following Universal's acquisition of PolyGram when Iovine was named co-chairman; in 2001, he became chairman.
He is credited with having given Eminem's demo tape to Dr. Dre, who signed him to his Aftermath label. In 2002, Iovine co-produced the hit Eminem movie 8 Mile and in 2004, he and Paul Rosenberg signed a first look deal with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films for their Interscope/Shady/Aftermath banner. Iovine co-produced the first film under the deal, Get Rich or Die Tryin', starring 50 Cent. In 2003, he was co-executive producer of Enrique Iglesias's album Seven. In January 2008, Iovine, Dr. Dre and Monster Cable released Beats by Dr. Dre high-performance headphones. Iovine is also an executive producer with LeBron James and Maverick Carter of the documentary More Than A Game, which was released in the fall of 2009.
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John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.
John Harford (he would change his name to Hartford later in life at the behest of Chet Atkins) was born on December 30, 1937 in New York City to parents Dr. Carl and Mary Harford. He spent his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri. There he was exposed to the influence that would shape much of his career and music—the Mississippi River. From the time he got his first job on the river, at age 16, Hartford was on, around, or singing about the river.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice. He started contributing to the Times in 1982. He currently reviews popular music in the arts section of the New York Times.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. 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. 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. 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."
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K. C. Porter
KC Porter (born June 27, 1962 Karl Cameron Porter) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys. He is best known for his production work on Carlos Santana's Supernatural, (which sold over 27 million copies worldwide and won 9 Grammy Awards) and for producing and penning some of the most popular Spanish language singles for Ricky Martin to date.
He is also known for crossing over artists such as Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, Toni Braxton, Scorpions, Mýa into the Spanish speaking market and crossing over world music artists such as Khaled, Laura Pausini, Kadim Al Sahir, and Cheng Lin into the international market.
Porter is one of the founding members of Oneness, a non-profit organization that promotes the oneness of humanity through music, the arts and education.
The path to his current success began at an early age for Porter, who was born in Southern California and resides there now, with his wife, Aimee, daughter Emma, and two adopted sons, Carlos and Wenjie.
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards has created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and has named him the 4th greatest guitarist of all time. Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones' lead vocalist, are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Richards' notoriety for illicit drug use stems in part from several drug busts during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Keith Richards is the only child of Bert Richards and Doris Dupree Richards. He was born at Livingston Hospital in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory worker injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion.
Richards' paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders whose family originated from Wales. His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, "Gus Dupree and his Boys", fostered Richards' interest in guitar.
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Larry Klein
Larry Klein (born 1956) is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell.
He began his musical career while still in his teens, as a session musician, playing bass guitar on a string of albums, most notably several by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.
Klein met Mitchell when he was hired as a bassist and sound engineer for her 1982 album Wild Things Run Fast. The two quickly became romantically attached, and were married in November 1982. He helped produce that album, as well as her next four, occasionally contributing his own musical compositions to which Mitchell would add lyrics. It was during the recording of Turbulent Indigo, in 1994, that their marriage broke apart. He has continued to be involved, in various capacities, in the production of her albums.
Since his work with Mitchell, Klein has tended to produce albums by female singer–songwriters, although he was the co-producer (with Herbie Hancock) on Hancock's Grammy-winning River: The Joni Letters.
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Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician best known as the drummer for the Irish rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to Mission: Impossible, in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
Mullen, the middle child and only son of Larry and Maureen Mullen, was born 31 October 1961 in Artane, Dublin, Ireland. Mullen began drumming in 1970, at the age of 9, under the instruction of Irish drummer Joe Bonnie and, later, Bonnie's daughter Monica. His mother died in a car accident in November 1978, two years after U2 was founded.
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family. He attended Roslyn Elementary School. His mother, Marsha Klinitsky, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, emigrated from Lithuania while his great-grandfather emigrated from Poland. He grew up in Westmount on the Island of Montreal. His grandfather was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial Montreal clothing store, died when Cohen was nine years old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that, "I had a very Messianic childhood." He told Richard Goldstein in 1967. "I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest." Cohen attended Westmount High School, beginning in 1948 where he was involved with the Student Council and studied music and poetry. He became especially interested in the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar, and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys. Although he initially played a regular acoustic guitar as a teenager, he soon switched to playing a classical guitar after meeting a young Spanish flamenco guitar player who taught him "a few chords and some flamenco."
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. 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. 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. 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."
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, and established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century. He was one of The Three Tenors and became well known for his televised concerts and media appearances. Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others.
Pavarotti began his professional career as a tenor in 1961 in Italy. That same year, he made his first international appearance in La traviata in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He sang in opera houses in addition to Italy, in the Netherlands, Vienna, London, Ankara, Budapest and Barcelona. The young tenor earned valuable experience and recognition while touring Australia at the invitation of soprano Joan Sutherland in 1965. He made his United States debut in Miami soon afterwards, also on Sutherland's recommendation. His position as a leading lyric tenor was consolidated in the years between 1966 and 1972, during which time he first appeared at Milan's La Scala and other major European houses. In 1968, he debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera as Rodolfo in Puccini's La bohème. At the Met in 1972, in the role of Tonio in Donizetti's La fille du régiment he earned the title "King of the high Cs" when he sang the aria "Ah mes amis ... pour mon âme". He gained worldwide fame for the brilliance and beauty of his tone, especially into the upper register. He was at his best in bel canto operas, pre-Aida Verdi roles and Puccini works such as La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. The late 1970s and 1980s saw Pavarotti continue to make significant appearances in the world's foremost opera houses.
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Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English DJ, musician, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.
While his debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts, his second album, Version included three top ten hits and won Ronson a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist in 2008. His third studio album, Record Collection, was released on 27 September 2010.
Ronson was born at the Wellington Hospital, St John's Wood, to writer/socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time band manager and real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson. His parents are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, with ancestors from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania, and Ronson was brought up in Conservative Judaism. Ronson's family name was originally Aaronson, but his grandfather Henry Ronson changed it to Ronson. Ronson is the nephew of property tycoon Gerald Ronson. Ronson is related to British Conservative politicians Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Brittan, as well as Odeon Cinemas founder Oscar Deutsch. Ronson has twin sisters who are two years younger than him, Charlotte Ronson, a fashion designer, and Samantha Ronson, a singer and DJ. Ronson also has five younger half-siblings. Alexander and Annabelle, through his mother's remarriage to Mick Jones as well as Henrietta, David and Joshua, through his father's remarriage to model Michele First. After his parents broke up, his mother married Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, which contributed to a childhood surrounded by music.
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Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige ( /ˈblaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional rapper and actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B.
Blige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her debut album, What's the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. With her tenth album, My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1) (2011), she had ten consecutive albums debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Blige's work has defined the course of R&B/Hip-Hop music. My Life, in particular, is considered among the greatest albums ever recorded according to Rolling Stone (279/500),Time, and Vibe. For her part in combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s and its subsequent commercial success, Blige received the World Music Awards "Legends Award". In 2007 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her its "Voice of Music" Award. ASCAP official Jeanie Weems stated that "[Blige's] music has been the voice of inspiration to women worldwide in both struggle and triumph." That same year, Time included her in its "Time 100" list, a collection of the year's 100 most influential individuals around the world. In a documentary by BET television, Mary J. Blige said that when she hears music, she sees colors. In other words she has Synesthesia.
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Matt Serletic
Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, Rob Thomas, and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with American Idol Season 7 Winner David Cook on his second studio album. He also preceded Jason Flom as chairman of Virgin Records. Most recently he has been working with Joe Cocker, writing and producing his latest album, Hard Knocks.
Serletic is the owner of Emblem Music Group and currently resides in Calabasas, California with his wife, Ramona and two children. Matt was a member of the 1999 Alternative band class of '99 as a keyboardist.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Michael Omartian
Michael Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in numerous albums, during a career that has spanned over 38 years. He is the first producer in recording history to have No. 1 records in three consecutive decades. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, including a Grammy for keyboardist of the year. He spent five years on the A&R staff of ABC/Dunhill Records, as a producer, artist and arranger. He was subsequently hired by Warner Bros. Records as a producer and A&R staff member. Michael moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1993, where he served on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy and has helped to shape the curriculum for the first Master’s Degree program in the field of Music Business at Belmont University.
Michael has produced albums for several artists including Rod Stewart, Cliff Richard, Christopher Cross, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston, the Jacksons, Trisha Yearwood, Clint Black, Donna Summer, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Peter Cetera, Benny Hester, Steve Camp, The Imperials, Amy Grant, and Steely Dan. In 1985 Michael Omartian, along with Quincy Jones, co-produced the No. 1 hit "We Are the World" by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.
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Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972) is an American musician, best known as the bassist, backing vocalist and co-founder of the American rock band Green Day. During grade school, he would constantly play "air-bass", and while pretending to pluck the strings, he made the noise, "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt". As a result, his schoolmates began to call him "Mike Dirnt".
Dirnt was born and raised in Berkeley, California. Mike's mother was a heroin addict. He was given up for adoption when he was a baby to a Native American mother. He has one sister, Myla. When he was seven, his adoptive parents got a divorce. Mike lived with his father for a while, but confrontations sent him back to his mother. He lived there on the borderline of poverty; his sister left home at the age of thirteen. "There were all sorts of things happening," says Mike. "When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my mom stayed out all night, came home the next day with a guy, and he moved in. I'd never met the guy before, and all of a sudden he's my stepdad. We didn't get along for years. Later on, when I hit high school, my mom moved away from us, and me and my stepdad got real close. He instilled a lot in me. The one thing my family did give me is blue-collar morals. But then he died when I was 17."
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism.[clarification needed] In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of the era.
Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.
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Niall Stokes
Niall Stokes (born Dublin in 1951) is the award-winning editor of the long-running fortnightly Ireland music and political magazine Hot Press based in Dublin. He has edited the magazine since 1977. He has been a longstanding champion of Irish music, most famously U2 in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. He was involved with The Music Show, an exhibition of the Irish music industry held in the RDS in October 2008. He was Chairman of the Independent Radio and Television Commission (now the BCI) between 1993 and 1998. He has written a book called Into the Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song.
He graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Alongside Neil Jordan, Stokes was a member of a band called Eyeless (which included whilst in college. He also did some freelance work before Hot Press began. He lives with his wife, Mairin Sheehy, in Dublin.
On 20 June 2002, he appeared on an episode of Rattlebag which celebrated the 25th anniversary of Hot Press. In January 2008, he attended the recording sessions of "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" in Windmill Lane Studios. He has appeared on the interactive music series The Raw Sessions.
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Olaf Tyaransen
Olaf Tyaransen (born in Dublin on 10 February 1971) is an Irish author and journalist, and is a contributing editor with Dublin's Hot Press magazine and the Evening Herald. His journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Penthouse, the Sunday Independent, and other publications.
Tyaransen was born in Dublin on 10 February 1971, to an Irish mother and English-Norwegian father. The family moved to Galway in 1977, where he attended St. Enda's College on Threadneedle Road. He contributed film reviews to the local free Galway Advertiser in 1988, and edited another local freesheet called The Word. He began writing for Dublin's Hot Press magazine in 1991; to this day he holds the position of their ‘Writer-At-Large’.
From 1994 - 1996, he managed Irish rock act, the Far Canals. The band released one album If You See K (on Hunter S. Records) before faiding into obscurity. In 2005/2006, Tyaransen lived on the Thai island of Koh Pha Ngan, contributing a Hot Press column called Temporarily Thairish.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, poet and guitarist.
Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.
Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council.
He is a leading neoconservative. As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its most hawkish advocate."Donald Rumsfeld in his interview with Fox News on February 8, 2011 said that Wolfowitz was the first to bring up Iraq after 9/11 attacks during a meeting at presidential retreat at Camp David. After serving two years, he resigned as president of the World Bank Group ending what a Reuters report called "a protracted battle over his stewardship, prompted by his involvement in a high-paying promotion for his companion."
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Peter Kurland
Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is a production sound mixer.
Kurland has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many films, such as Walk the Line, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. He won two Grammy's for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a BAFTA award and a CAS award for Walk the Line, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for Walk the Line.
In 2008 he won the CAS award for No Country for Old Men was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound as well as the BAFTA award. In 2011, he was nominated again for the Best Sound Oscar, this time for the film True Grit.
Kurland has worked on every Coen Brothers' film for the past 25 years. List of frequent Coen Brothers collaborators
He attended Peabody Demonstration (Now University School of Nashville) School in Nashville, Tennessee. He was once the fire chief at Antioch College. He has two children, Julian David Kurland, who currently attends the University of Connecticut, and Benjamin Franklin Kurland, by his wife, Shannon Dee Wood. She ran for the US Senate seat from Tennessee in 2000 against Bill Frist.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles, sometimes dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", dance pop of "Sussudio", piano-driven "Against All Odds", to the political statements of "Another Day in Paradise".
Collins's professional music career began as a drummer, originally in a band called The Real Thing with Andrea Bertorelli, who later became his first wife. Collins played drums and shared lead vocals (with Brian Chatton) in Flaming Youth which recorded one album, (Ark II). In 1970, he took over drums for Genesis, which had already recorded two albums. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer.
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Phil Joanou
Phil Joanou (born November 20, 1961 in La Cañada Flintridge, California) is an American film director. He is also well known for his work with Irish rock band U2, having directed their rockumentary/live tape Rattle and Hum, one of three videos filmed for "One", and the video for "All Because of You". Married to Ford Model Breann Nelson.
The film Entropy (1999) was Joanou's own autobiography, wherein the director played by Stephen Dorff passes through many of the incidents of Joanou's own life.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Often referred to as the King of R&B, Kelly is recognized as one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of major hit singles including "Bump n' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet". In 1998, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly".
Kelly has written, produced, and remixed songs for many artists including The Winans, The Isley Brothers, Charlie Wilson, Quincy Jones, K-Ci & JoJo, Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson, Hi-Five, Nivea, Ciara, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Gerald LeVert, Raheem DeVaughn, Ruben Studdard, Jaheim, Kelly Price, Tamia, Maxwell, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Usher, B2K, Twista, Tyrese, Jennifer Lopez, Trey Songz, and others in the U.S. and abroad.
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Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.
Ralph Edmond Stanley was born, grew up, and lives today in rural southwestern Virginia—"in a little town called McClure at a place called Big Spraddle, just up the holler" from where he moved in 1936 and has lived ever since in Dickenson County. The son of Lee and Lucy Stanley, Ralph did not grow up around a lot of music in his home. As he says, his "daddy didn't play an instrument, but sometimes he would sing church music. And I'd hear him sing songs like 'Man of Constant Sorrow,' 'Pretty Polly' and 'Omie Wise.'"
He learned to play the banjo, clawhammer style, from his mother:
He graduated from high school on May 2, 1945 and was inducted into the Army on May 16, serving "little more than a year." He immediately began performing when he got home:
After initially considering a course in "veterinary," he decided to throw in with his older guitar-playing brother, Carter, and form the Clinch Mountain Boys, in 1946. Drawing heavily on the musical traditions of the area, which included the unique minor-key singing style of the Primitive Baptist Universalist church and the sweet down-home family harmonies of the Carter Family, the Stanleys began playing on local radio stations. They first performed at Norton, Virginia's WNVA, but didn't stay long there, moving on instead to Bristol, Virginia and WCYB to start the show Farm and Fun Time where they stayed "off and on for 12 years."
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", though none of them were related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded. Little more than eight years after the breakup, the band's three founding members—lead singer Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, and bassist Dee Dee Ramone—had died.
Their only record with enough U.S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania. However, recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now cited in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone list of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only The Beatles. On March 18, 2002, the Ramones—including the three founders and drummers Tommy and Marky Ramone—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin is the founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings. With the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Run–D.M.C., Rubin helped popularize hip hop music.
Rubin has worked with artists as varied as Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Trouble, Slipknot, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mars Volta, Danzig, Dixie Chicks, Metallica, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Weezer, Linkin Park, The Cult, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Audioslave, The Avett Brothers, Adele and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In the 1990s and 2000s, he produced the "American Recordings" albums with Johnny Cash. MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years." In 2007, Rubin was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach, New York, in a Jewish family. His father was a shoe wholesaler and his mother a housewife. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the school's AV Director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in guitar playing and songwriting and helped him create a punk band called "The Pricks". Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience. These hecklers were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz. Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubin's father traveled all the way from Nassau county to Manhattan wearing his Lido Beach auxiliary police uniform as he attempted to "shut down" the show.
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Plant is regarded as one of the most significant singers in the history of rock music, and has influenced contemporaries and later singers such as Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose. In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All-Time". In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock. In 2011, a Rolling Stone readers' pick placed Plant in first place of the magazine's "Best Lead Singers of All Time".
Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire now in West Midlands) to parents Robert C. who worked as a civil engineer and Annie C. (Cain) Plant, but grew up in Kidderminster, in Worcestershire. Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age.
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Ron Block
Ronald Franklin "Ron" Block (born July 30, 1964) is an American bluegrass and alternative country musician, mainly playing the banjo and the guitar, singing, and writing gospel music.
Block was born in 1964 in Inglewood, California. He received his first guitar at 11. He first became interested in banjo at 13, after seeing Earl Scruggs play on television. His interest in guitars and singing grew after seeing The Stanley Brothers and Larry Sparks. He is best known for his participation in the Grammy Award winning band, Alison Krauss & Union Station.
For the past twenty years, Ron Block has been the spiritual touchstone of Alison Krauss and Union Station, contributing sterling musicianship on banjo, guitar, vocals, and songwriting.
Alison Krauss and Union Station have recorded 10 of Block’s songs since 1992, including There Is A Reason," "In The Palm of Your Hand," "Jesus Help Me To Stand," and "A Living Prayer, which received a 2006 Gospel Music Association Dove award. His songs have also been recorded and performed by Rhonda Vincent (“You’re In My Heart”), Randy Travis (“Which Way Will You Choose”), Dan Tyminski (“Be Assured,” “The One You Lean On,” and “It All Comes Down To You”), Michael W. Smith (“Loving You Eternally”), Rhonda Vincent (“You’re In My Heart”), the Cox Family, and the Forbes Family.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961.
He was best known for producing several albums with Simon and Garfunkel, including the Grammy-winning Bridge Over Troubled Water. He is mentioned in their 1965 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)", written by Paul Simon. He has also worked with other groups such as The Byrds, Journey (on their first album Journey), Willie Nile, Laura Nyro, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Blue Angel.
Halee was named to the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records between 1960 and 1964, when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including "Only the Lonely", "Crying", and "Oh, Pretty Woman". His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of "In Dreams" in David Lynch's Blue Velvet revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album. He died of a heart attack in December that year, at the zenith of his resurgence. His life was marred by tragedy, including the death of his first wife and his two eldest sons in separate accidents.
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S. Husky Höskulds
S. Husky Höskulds (born in Iceland) is a Grammy Award–winning audio engineer based in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Los Angeles in 1991, to study audio engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his career working with Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake as a staff engineer at The Sound Factory in the early 90’s but would quickly move on to independent projects with Michael Penn, The Wallflowers, Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits and Fantômas. Husky received Grammy Awards in 1999 for Sheryl Crow’s album "The Globe Sessions" and again in 2003, for Solomon Burke’s album "Don’t Give Up On Me" and Norah Jones’ "Come Away With Me".
Tom Waits, Mike Patton, My Brightest Diamond, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joe Henry, Fantômas, Vincent & Mr Green, The Wallflowers, Peeping Tom, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Solomon Burke, Michael Penn, Aimee Mann, The Gipsy Kings, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Laus, Yael Naim, French for Cartridge, Terra Grimard, Josh Lopez, Mavis Staples, Billy Preston, Ann Peebles, Irma Thomas, Minus, Dr Spock, Chocolate Genius, Bettye Lavette, The Wood Brothers, Skinny Puppy, Devo, Edie Brickell, Earl Harvin, Lizz Wright, Susheela Raman, Solomon Burke, Grant Lee Phillips, Turin Brakes, Ani DiFranco, Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, The Derek Trucks Band, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dave Palmer, Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet, Jennifer Terran, Vanessa Paradis, Tracy Chapman, The Holmes Brothers, Emi Meyer, Gabriel Kahane, Wouter Kellerman, David Piltch and Friends, Eliza Moore, Sverrir Bergman, Hemlock Smith, Susana Baca, Toshi Reagon, Los Lobos, Manhattan Transfer, Jubilant Sykes, Lisa Germano, Soulwax, Fiona Apple and Doyle Bramhall.
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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Hindi: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), احمد سلمان رشدی (Nastaʿlīq); /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989.
Rushdie was appointed Commandeur dans Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed him Knight Bachelor for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.
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Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or 'umbrella organization' of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Significant tensions and violence already existed in the 1970s, before the full-fledged official outbreak of the civil war—which lasted for twelve years. El Salvador's Civil War was the second longest civil war in Latin America after the Guatemalan Civil War.
The conflict ended in the early 1990s. An unknown number of people disappeared, and more than 75,000 were killed.
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Sam Bush
Sam Bush (born April 13, 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.
Sam Bush was exposed to country and bluegrass music at an early age through his father Charlie's record collection, and later by the Flatt & Scruggs television show. Buying his first mandolin at the age of 11, his musical interest was further piqued when he attended the inaugural Roanoke, VA Bluegrass Festival in 1965. As a teen Bush took first place three times in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler's Contest in Weiser, ID. He joined guitarist Wayne Stewart, his mentor and music teacher during Sam's teen years, and banjoist Alan Munde (later of Country Gazette) and the three recorded an instrumental album, Poor Richard's Almanac, in 1969. In the spring of 1970, Bush attended the Fiddlers Convention at Union Grove, NC, and was inspired by the rock-flavored progressive bluegrass of the New Deal String Band. Later that year, he moved to Louisville and joined the Bluegrass Alliance. In the fall of 1971, the band dissolved and reformed as the New Grass Revival.
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Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor ( /ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnər/; born 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O'Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U".
Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures such as her ordination as a priest despite being female with a Roman Catholic background, and her expressed strong views on organized religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse.
In addition to her nine solo albums her work includes many singles, songs for films, collaborations with many other artists, and appearances at charity fundraising concerts.
Sinéad O'Connor was born in Glenageary in County Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. She is the third of five children, sister to Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin. Joseph O'Connor is a novelist.
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Steve Lillywhite
Stephen Lillywhite, CBE (born 1955) is an English Grammy Award winning record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited for working on over 500 records and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Simple Minds, Chris Cornell, The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Peter Gabriel, Morrissey, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pogues, Beady Eye, Blue October and Phish.
Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading new wave musicians. His first commercial success was with Siouxsie and the Banshees in August 1978, after producing their first single, "Hong Kong Garden". He also produced "Ku Klux Klan" - the first single that Steel Pulse released under Island Records in 1978.
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Steve Lukather
Steven Lee "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. A prolific session musician, Lukather has recorded guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. Lukather has released six solo studio albums and is working on his seventh.
In 1976, when Lukather was nineteen years old, he was invited by his high school friends David Paich and the Porcaro brothers Steve and Jeff to join them in forming their band, Toto. He remained a member until the band split up in 2008, and has been involved in their periodic reunion tours. Lukather's reputation as a guitarist and his association with Paich and Jeff Porcaro, who also became established artists, allowed him to secure a solid flow of session work in the 1970s and 1980s. Lukather has been nominated for twelve Grammy awards, and has won five. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music and his solo work ventures into progressive rock and hard rock, many of Lukather's side-projects are focused on jazz fusion. He held a long-time collaboration with jazz guitarist Larry Carlton that produced a Grammy-winning live album, and he was a member of the jazz fusion band Los Lobotomys, a collaboration of notable session musicians.
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Steve Porcaro
Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro (born September 2, 1957, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto.
Porcaro wrote or co-wrote at least one song on each of Toto's first six albums, with the exception of Isolation. Unlike most of his bandmates, he generally did not contribute lead or even backing vocals; he considered himself a weak singer, and sang lead on two of his compositions only because he felt that the vocal styles of his bandmates, with the exception of Joseph Williams, were not appropriate for his songs. He left Toto in 1986 after the Fahrenheit album in order to pursue a more full-time songwriting and composing career. Porcaro composed the music for the song "Human Nature" from Michael Jackson's album Thriller, and also played with Gary Wright during his tour in 1977, supporting the latter's The Dream Weaver album.
However, Porcaro has continued working with Toto in various supporting capacities, assisting with keyboards, drum looping, synthesizers and arranging/composing. He has also done session musician work for many other acts, including Yes (on Union) and Jefferson Airplane (on their self-titled 1989 reunion album). He was also a member of Chris Squire's short lived band, The Chris Squire Experiment, in 1992.
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Stuart Duncan
Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician who has worked with such stars as George Strait, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire and Barbra Streisand, to name a few.. Recently Duncan joined forces with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolinist Chris Thile in The Goat Rodeo Sessions, an "ambitious and groundbreaking project that brings together four string virtuosos."
As a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 1994 and 1996, and was named the Academy of Country Music Fiddle Player of the Year for 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2004, and Specialty Instrument Player of the Year for 2006. In 2006, he toured with the Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris Roadrunning tour and is on the All The Roadrunning and Real Live Roadrunning albums. In 2008, he toured with the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss Raising Sand tour, to much acclaim. He appeared on Transatlantic Sessions Series 4 broadcast by the BBC in September/October 2009.
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Suzanne Cox
Suzanne Cox (born 19 March 1972) is an English aerobic instructor. She was formerly a gladiator in the UK television show Gladiators, in which she went by the name Vogue.
Cox was born in Hertfordshire, England on March 19, 1972. She joined a local gymnastics club at a young age and reached regional level. She also competed in athletics in county meetings in 100 metres, shot putt and long jump. At college she gained a PEA and RSA certificate in Exercise and Health Studies which qualifies her to teach aerobics and circuit training.
Cox progressed into competitive aerobics, becoming the UK Champion in 1991, '92, '93 and '94. She also competed at International and European level, becoming European Champion in 1993 and was ranked 7th in the world at the World International Championships in Las Vegas.
In 1995, Cox joined the UK version of Gladiators. Cox was a firm favourite with fans, dazzling them with a display of backflips upon entering the arena. She excelled in Hang Tough and Powerball, although she could turn her hand to any event. Her theme music was "Vogue" by Madonna.
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue. After that tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980.
Burnett has produced artists such as Roy Orbison, Lisa Marie Presley, John Mellencamp, Los Lobos, Counting Crows, Elton John & Leon Russell, Natalie Merchant and The Wallflowers as well as Tony Bennett and k.d. lang on the A Wonderful World album. Burnett won Grammy Awards for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia, and was involved with Mark Heard and Tonio K in the short-lived What? Records. He also oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line and The Big Lebowski.
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The Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter-guitarist Steve Diggle.
They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a "punk masterpiece". The widely covered "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" remains one of their best-known songs, along with "Harmony in my Head".
The name "Buzzcocks" was chosen by Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley after reading the headline "it's the buzz, cocks!" in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "cock" is Manchester slang meaning "mate" (as in friend/buddy). They thought it captured the excitement of the Sex Pistols and nascent punk scene.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.
The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.
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The Skids
Skids were an art-punk/punk rock and new wave band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, founded in 1977 by Stuart Adamson (1958–2001, guitars / backing vocals / keyboards / percussion), William Simpson (bass guitar / backing vocals), Thomas Kellichan (drums) and Richard Jobson (vocals / guitar / keyboards). Their biggest success was the single "Into the Valley", released in 1979.
They played their first gig on 19 August 1977, at the Bellville Hotel in Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Within six months they had issued the "Charles" EP on the No Bad record label, created by Sandy Muir, a Dunfermline music shop owner and then manager. The record brought them to the attention of national BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel. This led to a local support slot for The Clash. Virgin Records then signed up Skids in April 1978. The singles "Sweet Suburbia" and "The Saints Are Coming" both made commercial inroads, before "Into the Valley" reached the UK Top 10 singles chart in early 1979. The band also released their debut album Scared to Dance in 1979. It was recorded at The Townhouse Studios in London, England with production and keyboards by David Batchelor. Adamson walked out towards the end of the sessions before all the guitar overdubs were completed, but the album does showcase his unique guitar style which was later to come to prominence in the band Big Country. Session guitarist Chris Jenkins was brought in to complete it. In the meantime Adamson returned to Scotland while the recording was finished. He rejoined the band for the live concert tour promotion of the album. The record also featured the song "The Saints are Coming", it was also recorded in late 2006 as a charity single by U2 and Green Day.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register (it became The Times on 1 January 1788). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (1838), The Straits Times (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935). For distinguishing purposes it is therefore sometimes referred to, particularly in North America, as the "London Times" or "The Times of London".
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Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American director, writer, singer, and actor.
Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Kaiser Nelson, who is a noted social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and a geologist father. Nelson is Jewish. His maternal grandparents escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II, fleeing to the UK in 1938 and immigrating to the United States in 1940. His father's family had immigrated from Russia. His maternal uncle is businessman George Kaiser.
Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. He is a 1982 graduate of Holland Hall School in Tulsa, and a graduate of Brown University, where he was a Classics major as well as Senior Orator for his class of 1986. Additionally, Nelson won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in Classical Studies. He graduated from Juilliard in 1990.
Nelson's debut play, Eye of God was produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992. The Grey Zone premiered at MCC Theater in New York in 1996 where his 1998 work Anadarko was also produced.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards. Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including "River Deep, Mountain High" and the 1971 hit "Proud Mary". With the publication of her autobiography I, Tina (1986), Turner revealed severe instances of spousal abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split and subsequent 1978 divorce. After virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years following her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits beginning in 1983 with the single "Let's Stay Together" and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer.
Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film's theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero", was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.
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Tom Elmhirst
Tom Elmhirst (born 8 June 1971) is a British specialist music producer and mix engineer. He began his career at SARM studios in the early 90s at a time when digital audio was already becoming mainstream. Elmhirst’s experiences at SARM and with Trevor Horn have clearly influenced his current working methods. It shows in his strong preference for working on analogue boards, particularly the Neve VR (introduced in 1988) and combining this with cutting edge technology.
Since his 2008 Grammy success, Elmhirst has been working with a range of artists including the forthcoming tribute to Cy Coleman, a cover album of his songs featuring Fiona Apple, Nikka Costa and Madeleine Peyroux.
2008 Grammy Winner Record Of The Year Rehab Amy Winehouse
2008 Grammy Winner Best Pop Vocal Album Back To Black Amy Winehouse
2009 Grammy Nominee Record of the Year Chasing Pavements Adele
2012 Grammy Winner Record of the Year Rolling in the Deep Adele
2012 Grammy Winner Album of the Year 21 Adele
2008 The Kills Midnight Boom - Mixes
2008 Adele - 19
2007 Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
2006/2007 Lily Allen - Alright, Still
2006/2007 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
2007 Mark Ronson - Version
2006 Paolo Nutini - These Streets
2006 Hot Chip - The Warning
2005 Erasure - Nightbird
2004 Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
2004 Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
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Tom Lord-Alge
Tom Lord-Alge is a four-time Grammy Award–winning record producer and mixer. He is the youngest of Vivian Lord's five children, Mark Lord-Alge, Lisa Lord-Alge, Chris Lord-Alge, Jeff Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge. His older brother Chris Lord-Alge and the lesser known Jeff Lord-Alge are also audio engineers.
Lord-Alge helped pioneer a method of digital tape editing known as "flying" vocals[citation needed] (e.g., using a piece of the chorus to accent a different part of the song).
A prolific mix engineer, Lord-Alge has worked with Green Day, Bowling for Soup, Skillet, Black Light Burns, The Gracious Few, Switchfoot, Manic Street Preachers, Chicago, Hanson, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McLachlan, Marilyn Manson, Angels & Airwaves, Barenaked Ladies, Oasis, Sum 41, The Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, 30 Seconds to Mars, blink-182, Lights Over Paris, David Poe, Fountains of Wayne, The Fratellis, Avril Lavigne, Boys Like Girls, U2, Korn, Weezer, M2M, The Goo Goo Dolls, Level 42, Third Eye Blind, Yellowcard, Live, Elliot Minor, Hoobastank, Marianas Trench, Sevendust, All Time Low, Newsboys, Taking Back Sunday, P!nk, McFly, Coldplay, The Tea Party, The Verve Pipe. Relient K and Billy Talent.
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Toto (band)
Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1976. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams (lead vocals), David Paich (keyboards), Steve Porcaro (keyboards), Steve Lukather (guitars, vocals), Mike Porcaro (bass), and Simon Phillips (drums). Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard rock, R&B and jazz. They are regularly associated with the soft rock genre.
David Paich and Jeff Porcaro had played together as session musicians on several albums and decided to form a band. David Hungate, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro and Bobby Kimball were recruited before their first album release. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970s and 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut released in 1978. With the release of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV (1982), Toto became one of the best-selling music groups of their era. They are best known for the Top 5 hits "Hold the Line", "Rosanna", "Africa" and "Georgy Porgy". Although their popularity in the United States diminished in the 1990s and 2000s, they remained popular internationally, playing only a small number of shows in the USA. Several changes to the lineup have been made over the years. In 2008, Lukather announced his departure from the band, and the remaining band members later went their separate ways. In the summer of 2010, Toto reformed and went on a short European tour, with a new lineup, to benefit Mike Porcaro, who had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Tre Cool
Frank Edwin Wright III (born on December 9, 1972), better known as Tré Cool, is an American drummer, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for Green Day. He replaced the group's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1991. Cool has also played in The Lookouts, Samiam and the Green Day side-projects The Network and the Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Frank Edwin Wright III was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He lived in Willits, California with his father and his older sister Lori. His father was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. Wright's closest neighbor was Larry Livermore, who at the time was the singer of the punk band The Lookouts. When Wright was 12, Livermore recruited him as the drummer of The Lookouts and gave him the name of "Tre Cool", relying on both the French word "très" (meaning "very") combined with the word "cool". However, the silent "s" has been dropped in the spelling, as a play on the "third" in his name. A common misconception is that Larry Livermore gave Tre Cool his full nickname; however, he was known as Tre long before he joined The Lookouts.
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Van Morrison
Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely viewed as among the greatest ever made.
Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day. He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968. Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances. Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains. In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.
Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.
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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II ( /ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; (1914-02-05)February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century." His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
He was born to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, grandson of the inventor and founder of the Burroughs Corporation, William Seward Burroughs I, and nephew of public relations manager Ivy Lee. Burroughs began writing essays and journals in early adolescence. He left home in 1932 to attend Harvard University, studying English, and anthropology as a postgraduate, and later attending medical school in Vienna. After being turned down by the Office of Strategic Services and U.S. Navy in 1942 to serve in World War II, he dropped out and became afflicted with the drug addiction that affected him for the rest of his life, while working a variety of jobs. In 1943 while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the mutually influential foundation of what became the countercultural movement of the Beat Generation.
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Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer. Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.
Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditional Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. Use of the Dutch name, "Wim", a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm/Willem", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as "unGerman". He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine (1963–64) and philosophy (1964–65) in Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he dropped out of university studies and moved to Paris in October 1966 to become a painter. Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist, in Montparnasse. During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.
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Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean (/ˈwaɪklɪf ˈʒɑːn/; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [wajklɛf ʒã]; born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian American musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees.
On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election, although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years.
Although his birth date was widely given as October 17, 1972, papers filed for his run as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti, disclosed that he was, in fact, born in 1969. Born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the son of a Nazarene pastor, Wyclef moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine before moving again to northern New Jersey. Jean has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v. Crab. Jean graduated from Vailsburg High School in Newark, briefly attended Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts, and finished one semester at Five Towns College in New York. Jean has been a resident of Saddle River, South Orange, and North Caldwell, New Jersey. In 2009, Jean enrolled in the Berklee College of Music.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ（小野 洋子）, Ono Yōko?, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music which prefigured New Wave music and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. The name "Yoko" means "ocean child". Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after and Yoko met her father when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.
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U2 Filmography
- The 2011 Billboard Music Awards (2011)
- From the Sky Down (2011)
- Glastonbury 2011 (2011)
- Cirque du Soleil's Poetic Social Mission (2009)
- We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial (2009)
- The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (2009)
- Linear (2009)
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- The 51st Annual Grammy Awards (2009)
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- Here Is What Is (2007)
- Vertigo 2005: Live from Milan (2006)
- The 48th Annual Grammy Awards (2006)
- Live 8 (2005)
- Vertigo 2005: U2 Live from Chicago (2005)
- The Work of Director Anton Corbijn (2005)
- The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (2005)
- Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event Presented by Nokia (2005)
- Fuse 100% (2004)
- 2003 Radio Music Awards (2003)
- The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- Super Bowl XXXVI (2002)
- The 44th Annual Grammy Awards (2002)
- U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle (2002)
- MTV Video Music Awards 2001 (2001)
- America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)
- U2: Elevation 2001 Live from Boston (2001)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 2000 (2000)
- Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree (1999)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 1997 (1997)
- Especial U2 (1997)
- MTV Video Music Awards 1997 (1997)
- MTV Europe Music Awards 1995 (1995)
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994)
- Elvis: The Tribute (1994)
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"U2 concerts are categorically not fundraisers for any politicians. They are Rock concerts for U2 fans."
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"And you can dream, so dream out loud."
"lighst go down, it's dark"
"Am I bugging you? I don't mean to BUG ya."
"[Less holy but quite catchy, dig on] I'm Not Your Baby. ... Don't treat me like I'm a trick, I won't treat you like you're a prick."
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- I Fall Down (live: 1981-04-18: Harpo's, Detroit, MI, USA)
- Carry Me Home (live: 1981-06-09: Hammersmith Palais, London, England, UK)
- Gloria (live: 1981-08-16: Slane Castle, Slane, Ireland)
- Rejoice (live: 1981-08-16: Slane Castle, Slane, Ireland)
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window (live: 1981-08-31: Coasters, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- Boy - Girl (live: 1981-10-14: Kid Jensen, BBC radio, London, England, UK)
- With a Shout (Jerusalem) (live: 1981-10-14: Kid Jensen, BBC radio, London, England, UK)
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- October
- The Ocean (live, 1981-02-28: Old Grey Whistle Test, UK)
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (live, 1981-02-28: Old Grey Whistle Test, UK)
- The Dream Is Over
- Lost on a Silent Planet
- Another Time, Another Place
- City at Night
- Street Mission
- Scarlet (live, 1981-10-14: Kid Jensen, UK)
- Stories for Boys (demo, 1979: RTE Studios, Dublin, Ireland)
- Lost Highway (live, 1987-12-xx: [radio session], USA)
- People Get Ready (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- Southern Man (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- Trip Through Your Wires (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- Exit (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- In God's Country (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- Pride (In the Name of Love) (live, 1987-03-13: McCordie Hall, Belfast, Ireland)
- Twist and Shout (live, 1989-11-14: [radio session], Australia)
- All Over Now (live, 1989-11-14: [radio session], Australia)
- Trip Through Your Wires / She's a Mystery to Me (demo, 1987-11: Sun Studios, Memphis, TN, USA)
- Can't Help Falling in Love (demo, 1987-11: Sun Studios, Memphis, TN, USA)
- Zoo Station
- The Fly
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- Mysterious Ways
- Medley: One/Unchained Melody
- Until the End of the World
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
- Medley: Angel of Harlem/Dancing Queen
- Satellite of Love
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- Seconds
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Cry Elective Co.
- I Fall Down
- October
- New Year's Day
- Gloria
- Party Girl
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Twilight
- Surrender
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window
- A Day Without Me
- An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Electric Co.
- I Fall Down
- October
- New Year's Day
- Gloria
- I Will Follow
- Fire
- Celebration
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- The Ocean
- I Will Follow
- Bad
- Spring Hill Mining Disaster
- New Year's Day
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Party Girl
- With or Without You
- People Get Ready
- "40"
- Space Oddity (PA intro)
- [introduction]
- Breathe
- No Line on the Horizon
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Beautiful Day
- Elevation
- Desire
- Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
- The Auld Triangle
- One
- Until the End of the World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- MLK
- Walk On
- [Desmond Tutu speech]
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Bad
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- Touch
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time Another Place
- The Cry / The Electric Co.
- Things to Make and Do
- Stories for Boys
- Twilight
- I Will Follow
- Out of Control
- All Along the Watchtower
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- I Fall Down
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time, Another Place
- The Cry / The Electric Company / Things To Make And Do
- Stories for Boys
- Boy-Girl
- Out of Control
- A Day Without Me
- I Will Follow
- [radio introduction] / Gloria
- Another Time, Another Place
- I Threw a Brick
- Rejoice
- With a Shout
- The Electric Co.
- I Fall Down
- October
- I Will Follow
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Out of Control
- Twilight
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- The Ocean
- [radio outro]
- Stand by Me
- C'mon Everybody
- I Will Follow
- Trip Through Your Wires
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- MLK
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Exit
- In God's Country
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- People Get Ready
- Help
- [introduction]
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time, Another Place
- The Cry
- The Electric Co.
- I Fall Down
- Things to Make and Do
- Stories for Boys
- Boy-Girl
- Out of Control
- Twilight
- I Will Follow
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- The Ocean
- A Day Without Me
- Twilight
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- An Cat Dubh (The Black Cat) > Into the Heart
- The Electric Co.
- Things to Make and Do (instrumental)
- Stories for Boys
- Boy/Girl (spliced)
- Out of Control
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Stories for Boys
- The Speed of Life
- Cartoon World
- The King's New Clothes
- Inside Out
- Another Time Another Place
- Boy-Girl
- Out of Control
- Glad to See You Go
- [introduction]
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tock Tock
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time Another Place
- The Electric Co.
- I Will Follow
- A Day Without Me
- Out of Control
- The Ocean (live: 1981-01-28: University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK)
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (live: 1981-01-28: University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK)
- [introduction]
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- Another Time, Another Place
- The Electric Co.
- Things to Make & Do
- Twilight
- I Will Follow
- Out of Control
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Touch
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- A Day Without Me
- Twilight
- The Electric Co.
- Things to Make and Do
- Stories for Boys
- Boy Girl
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- Speed of Light
- The Magic Carpet
- Stories for Boys
- Trevor
- Another Time, Another Place
- Another Day
- The Dream Is Over
- Pete the Chop
- Cartoon World
- Jack in the Box
- Shadows and Tall Trees
- A Day Without Me
- Twilight
- Boy-Girl
- Out of Control
- Beautiful Day
- I Will Follow
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways / The Way You Make Me Feel (snippet)
- Elevation
- Until the End of the World / Anthem (snippet)
- [talking]
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me
- North Star
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- In a Little While
- Miss Sarajevo
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- Crazy Tonight (remix) / Relax (snippet) / Two Tribes (snippet)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Scarlet
- Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
- [Desmond Tutu speech] / [encore break]
- One
- Amazing Grace
- Amazing Grace (snippet) / Where the Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
- [encore break]
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- [intro]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Until the End of the World
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- With or Without You
- [outro]
- [introduction]
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Breathe
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
- Vertigo
- [introduction] (2009-03-02: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- Breathe (2009-03-02: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- Magnificent (2009-03-03: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Come on Eileen (snippet) (2009-03-04: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- Beautiful Day / Rock 'n' Roll High School (snippet) / I Remember You (snippet) (2009-03-05 or 2009-03-06: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- Get on Your Boots (2009-03-02: Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, NY, USA)
- Zoo Station
- The Fly
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- Mysterious Ways
- One
- Unchained Melody
- Until the End of the World
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
- Angel of Harlem
- Dancing Queen
- Satellite of Love
- Please
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Lemon
- Discotheque
- If You Wear That Velvet Dress
- With or Without You
- Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
- Mysterious Ways
- One
- Wake Up Dead Man
- [outro]
- [introduction]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Mysterious Ways
- Beautiful Day / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
- No Line on the Horizon
- Magnificent
- Elevation
- Your Blue Room
- New Years Day
- [band introductions] / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' on Up (snippet)
- Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (snippet) / I Want to Take You Higher (snippet)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday / People Get Ready (snippet)
- MLK
- Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
- [Desmond Tutu speech]
- One
- Amazing Grace (snippet)
- Where the Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
- [encore break]
- Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- Intro: Space Oddity (PA)
- [introduction]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways / My Sweet Lord (snippet)
- Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet)
- [talking] / [band introductions]
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me (snippet)
- Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
- No Line on the Horizon
- Elevation
- Until the End of the World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) (snippet) / Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (snippet)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday / Get Up Stand Up (snippet)
- Intro: Space Oddity (PA)
- [introduction]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Beautiful Day
- [talking]
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Stuck in a Moment
- No Line on the Horizon
- Elevation
- Your Blue Room
- Until the End of the World
- Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy (remix)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK / Walk On
- [Desmond Tutu speech]
- One / Amazing Grace
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- [space intro]
- Ultraviolet
- With or Without You
- [talking]
- Moment of Surrender
- Space Oddity
- Kingdom
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Beautiful Day / In God's Country / Fix You
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Stand by Me / Viva Las Vegas
- Stuck in a Moment
- No Line on the Horizon
- Elevation
- In a Little While
- Unknown Caller
- Until the End of the World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK
- Walk On
- [Desmund Tutu speech]
- One
- Amazing Grace
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Techno Talk (interlude)
- Ultraviolet (Baby Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- Rocket Man
- [intro]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Beautiful Day
- [band introductions]
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Stuck in a Moment
- No Line on the Horizon
- Elevation
- In a Little While
- Unknown Caller
- Until the End of the World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK
- Walk On
- [encore break]
- [Desmund Tutu speech]
- One
- Amazing Grace
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- [encore break]
- Space Child
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- Space Oddity
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- The Fly
- Mysterious Ways
- Until the End of the World
- I Will Follow
- Get on Your Boots
- [Bono speech]
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- The Wanderer
- Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
- Beautiful Day
- Elevation
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- Miss Sarajevo
- Zooropa
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Scarlet
- Walk On
- [Bishop Tutu speech]
- One
- Amazing Grace
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- [encore break]
- Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender (intro)
- Moment of Surrender
- All I Want Is You (feat. unknown blind guitar player)
- [introduction]
- Breathe
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet)
- Band Intros
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me (snippet)
- Stuck in a Moment (acoustic)
- No Line on the Horizon
- Elevation
- In a Little While
- Unknown Caller
- Until the End of the World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix) / Two Tribes (snippet)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK
- Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
- One
- Amazing Grace
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Space Ship Talk
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
- [introduction]
- Elevation
- Beautiful Day
- Until the End of the World
- New Year's Day
- I Will Follow
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
- Kite
- Angel of Harlem
- Stay (Far Away, So Close)
- Bad / 40
- Beautiful Day
- Summer Rain
- Always
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- New Year's Day
- With or Without You
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Bad
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- I Will Follow
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Sweetest Thing (the single mix)
- Desire
- When Love Comes to Town
- Space Oddity
- Return of the Stingray Guitar
- Beautiful Day
- I Will Follow
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Mysterious Ways
- Elevation
- Until the End of the World
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Bad
- Mercy
- In a Little Way
- Miss Sarajevo
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK
- Walk On
- Desmond Tutu Speech
- One
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
- With or Without You
- Happy Birthday
- Moment of Surrender
- Zoo Station
- The Fly
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- Mysterious Ways / Love to Love You Baby
- One / Unchained Melody
- Until the End of the World
- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- Bad
- All I Want Is You
- Bullet the Blue Sky
- Running to Stand Still
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Pride (In the Name of Love)
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Desire
- Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
- With or Without You
- Love Is Blindness
- [introduction]
- Elevation
- Beautiful Day
- Until the End of the World
- New Years Day
- Kite (intro)
- Kite
- New York
- I Will Follow
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- In My Life
- Stuck in a Moment
- In a Little While (intro)
- In a Little While
- [band introductions]
- Desire
- Gloria
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window
- A Day Without Me
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Surrender
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- Seconds
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- [introduction: 4th of July]
- Gloria
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window
- A Day Without Me
- An Cat Dubh
- Into the Heart
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Surrender
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- Seconds
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Seconds
- MLK
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Wire
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Electric Co
- A Sort of Homecoming
- Bad
- 4th of July
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Wire
- MLK
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Surrender
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- Seconds
- A Sort of Homecoming
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Seconds
- Surrender
- Two Hearts Beat as One
- MLK
- The Unforgettable Fire
- Wire
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Cry / The Electric Co
- A Sort of Homecoming
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U2 - With Or Without You
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- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing With Or Without You. (C) 1987 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing With Or Without You. (C) 1987 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
U2 - Beautiful Day
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Beautiful Day. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 5262327. (C) 2000 Universal-Island Records Ltd.
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Music video by U2 performing Beautiful Day. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 5262327. (C) 2000 Universal-Island Records Ltd.
- published: 23 Dec 2009
- views: 22546670
- author: U2VEVO
u2- live - with or without you
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- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
u2 live in boston 2001
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u2 live in boston 2001
- published: 08 Jan 2007
- views: 37753886
- author: Nacho Bañarez
U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Pride (In The Name Of Love). (C) 1984 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing Pride (In The Name Of Love). (C) 1984 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 9562570
- author: U2VEVO
U2 - Bloody Sunday
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:20
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
On January 30, 1972, British troops opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilians in Derry, Ireland during a civil rights march. This music video is a tribute to the 14 killed and others wounded - combining video/music of U2, video from "Bloody Sunday" (2002 movie), and photographs from that terrible day.
http://wn.com/U2_Bloody_Sunday
On January 30, 1972, British troops opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilians in Derry, Ireland during a civil rights march. This music video is a tribute to the 14 killed and others wounded - combining video/music of U2, video from "Bloody Sunday" (2002 movie), and photographs from that terrible day.
- published: 29 Sep 2006
- views: 16581936
- author: BrianBuriff
U2 Glastonbury 2011 full
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- Duration: 89:32
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
U2 playing at Glastonbury Festival 2011. I know that there is a problem with Vertigo. YES I also know that i forgot Out of Control you dont need to comment and message me. Setlist: 00:00 - Even Better Than The Real Thing 04:00 - The Fly 08:45 - Mysterious Ways 13:20 - Until The End Of The World 18:05 - One 23:45 - Where The Streets Have No Name 29:20 - I Will Follow 33:10 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 37:35 - Stay 42:52 - Beautiful Day 49:06 - Elevation 52:57 - Get On Your Boots 56:50 - Vertigo 1:01:25 - Sunday Bloody Sunday 1:05:36 - Bad 1:11:30 - Pride In The Name Of Love 1:15:48 - With or Without you 1:21:32 - Yellow/Moment of Surrender
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U2 playing at Glastonbury Festival 2011. I know that there is a problem with Vertigo. YES I also know that i forgot Out of Control you dont need to comment and message me. Setlist: 00:00 - Even Better Than The Real Thing 04:00 - The Fly 08:45 - Mysterious Ways 13:20 - Until The End Of The World 18:05 - One 23:45 - Where The Streets Have No Name 29:20 - I Will Follow 33:10 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 37:35 - Stay 42:52 - Beautiful Day 49:06 - Elevation 52:57 - Get On Your Boots 56:50 - Vertigo 1:01:25 - Sunday Bloody Sunday 1:05:36 - Bad 1:11:30 - Pride In The Name Of Love 1:15:48 - With or Without you 1:21:32 - Yellow/Moment of Surrender
- published: 10 Aug 2011
- views: 1343216
- author: Lech942
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
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- Duration: 7:13
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Where The Streets Have No Name. (C) 1987 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing Where The Streets Have No Name. (C) 1987 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 5561935
- author: U2VEVO
New Year's Day - From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition
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- Duration: 0:56
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
'I will be with you again...' New Year's Day, live from Dublin, Ireland on U2360°. One of 15 tracks on Edge's Picks, limited-edition CD with From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition. Only with a subscription to U2.com. www.u2.com
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'I will be with you again...' New Year's Day, live from Dublin, Ireland on U2360°. One of 15 tracks on Edge's Picks, limited-edition CD with From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition. Only with a subscription to U2.com. www.u2.com
- published: 27 Nov 2012
- views: 4350
- author: U2official
Mary J. Blige, U2 - One
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- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by Mary J. Blige, U2 performing One. (C) 2006 Geffen Records
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Music video by Mary J. Blige, U2 performing One. (C) 2006 Geffen Records
- published: 17 Jun 2009
- views: 25593716
- author: MaryJBligeVEVO
U2 - Electrical Storm
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Amazing cinematic experience video directed by Anton Corbijn, and uploaded whit better quality.
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Amazing cinematic experience video directed by Anton Corbijn, and uploaded whit better quality.
- published: 31 Aug 2007
- views: 7153058
- author: oscardlap
U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (From the Album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb")
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U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (From the Album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb")
- published: 06 Mar 2008
- views: 4116401
- author: mercuryrecordsuk
U2 - Sweetest Thing
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Sweetest Thing. (C) 1998 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing Sweetest Thing. (C) 1998 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
- published: 26 Jun 2009
- views: 12398124
- author: U2VEVO
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / U2
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / U2 www.universal-music.co.jp
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / U2 www.universal-music.co.jp
- published: 10 Apr 2009
- views: 2072268
- author: universalmusicjapan
U2 Live at Glastonbury 2011.avi
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- Duration: 120:26
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011
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U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 458780
- author: iluvusteve
U2 "Go Home" DVD Live Slane Castle 2001 (Full Concert)
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- Duration: 98:32
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
U2 Full Concert DVD 2001 Elevation Tour Live Slane Castle,Ireland.. September 1 2001 01// Elevation 1:06 02// Beautiful Day 5:00 03// Until the End of the World 9:24 04// New Year's Day 14:45 05// Out of Control 19:38 06// Sunday Bloody Sunday 25:27 07// Wake Up Dead Man 32:40 08// Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out of 34:43 09// Kite 40:24 10// Angel of Harlem 45:45 11// Desire 49:55 12// Staring at the Sun 53:59 13// All I Want Is You 57:48 14// Where the Streets Have No Name 1:02:29 15// Pride (In the Name of Love) 1:08:20 16// Bullet the Blue Sky 1:14:09 17// With or Without You 1:20:18 18// One 1:26:44 19// Walk On 1:31:48 Mysterious Ways! [ www.youtube.com ] of the same concert...but was published separately ^^ Enjoy & Comment!
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U2 Full Concert DVD 2001 Elevation Tour Live Slane Castle,Ireland.. September 1 2001 01// Elevation 1:06 02// Beautiful Day 5:00 03// Until the End of the World 9:24 04// New Year's Day 14:45 05// Out of Control 19:38 06// Sunday Bloody Sunday 25:27 07// Wake Up Dead Man 32:40 08// Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out of 34:43 09// Kite 40:24 10// Angel of Harlem 45:45 11// Desire 49:55 12// Staring at the Sun 53:59 13// All I Want Is You 57:48 14// Where the Streets Have No Name 1:02:29 15// Pride (In the Name of Love) 1:08:20 16// Bullet the Blue Sky 1:14:09 17// With or Without You 1:20:18 18// One 1:26:44 19// Walk On 1:31:48 Mysterious Ways! [ www.youtube.com ] of the same concert...but was published separately ^^ Enjoy & Comment!
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 75909
- author: Isaac xD
U2 - Vertigo
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Vertigo. (C) 2004 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing Vertigo. (C) 2004 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
- published: 26 Jun 2009
- views: 19687977
- author: U2VEVO
U2 Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
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- Duration: 6:04
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
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U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
- published: 11 Sep 2006
- views: 13238348
- author: Fuzz97
U2 - With or Without you - lyrics
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- Duration: 4:54
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Lyrics ^_^
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Lyrics ^_^
- published: 16 Oct 2008
- views: 13865475
- author: killingloneleyness01
Get On Your Boots - From The Ground Up: U2.Com Music Edition
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- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
'The future needs a big kiss...' Get On Your Boots live from Boston, MA on U2360°. One of 15 tracks on Edge's Picks, limited-edition CD with From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition. Only with a subscription to U2.com. www.u2.com
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'The future needs a big kiss...' Get On Your Boots live from Boston, MA on U2360°. One of 15 tracks on Edge's Picks, limited-edition CD with From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition. Only with a subscription to U2.com. www.u2.com
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 11088
- author: U2official
U2 - One - Anton Corbjin Version
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- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing One - Anton Corbjin Version. (C) 1992 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by U2 performing One - Anton Corbjin Version. (C) 1992 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 13613553
- author: U2VEVO
U2 One Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:26
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
U2 - One Vertigo Tour New Year´s Day: www.youtube.com Original of the Species: www.youtube.com
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U2 - One Vertigo Tour New Year´s Day: www.youtube.com Original of the Species: www.youtube.com
- published: 18 Apr 2006
- views: 5603216
- author: Guillermo Morales
U2 - Show completo em Glastonbury - 2011 - Full Concert
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- Duration: 89:32
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Show completo do U2
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Show completo do U2
- published: 23 Oct 2011
- views: 1103811
- author: Juhlio10
U2 - Magnificent
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- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Music video by U2 performing Magnificent. (C) 2009 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Ltd.
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Music video by U2 performing Magnificent. (C) 2009 Universal-Island Records Ltd. under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Ltd.
- published: 14 Dec 2009
- views: 10794943
- author: U2VEVO
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U2 Live at Glastonbury 2011.avi
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- Duration: 120:26
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011
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U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 457220
- author: iluvusteve
u2- live - with or without you
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- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
u2 live in boston 2001
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u2 live in boston 2001
- published: 08 Jan 2007
- views: 37722374
- author: Nacho Bañarez
U2 Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
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- Duration: 6:04
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
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U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
- published: 11 Sep 2006
- views: 13228843
- author: Fuzz97
u2 elevation tour live from boston full
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- Duration: 107:53
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Setlist 1 - Elevation 2 - Beautiful Day 3 - Until the End of the World 4 - Stuck in a Moment 5 - Kite 6 - Gone 7 - New York 8 - I Will Follow 9 - Sunday Bloody Sunday 10 - In a Little While 11 - Desire 12 - Stay 13 - Bad 14 - Where the Streets Have No Name 15 - Bullet the Blue Sky 16 - With or Without You 17 - The Fly 18 - Wake Up Dead Man 19 - Walk On
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Setlist 1 - Elevation 2 - Beautiful Day 3 - Until the End of the World 4 - Stuck in a Moment 5 - Kite 6 - Gone 7 - New York 8 - I Will Follow 9 - Sunday Bloody Sunday 10 - In a Little While 11 - Desire 12 - Stay 13 - Bad 14 - Where the Streets Have No Name 15 - Bullet the Blue Sky 16 - With or Without You 17 - The Fly 18 - Wake Up Dead Man 19 - Walk On
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 377319
- author: El Davi
![U2 Live in Dortmund 1984 [FULL CONCERT] HD](http://web.archive.org./web/20121130041138im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/94E4xKqVKi4/default.jpg "U2 Live in Dortmund 1984 [FULL CONCERT] HD")
U2 Live in Dortmund 1984 [FULL CONCERT] HD
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- Duration: 48:26
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
U2 playing live in Dortmunt in 1984, Germany. At their Unforgettable Fire tour. Setlist: 01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 02. I Will Follow 03. Sunday Bloody Sunday 04. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace (snippet) 05. MLK 06. Bad 07. October 08. New Year's Day 09. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 10. Gloria 11. 40 Info and News U2.com
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U2 playing live in Dortmunt in 1984, Germany. At their Unforgettable Fire tour. Setlist: 01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 02. I Will Follow 03. Sunday Bloody Sunday 04. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace (snippet) 05. MLK 06. Bad 07. October 08. New Year's Day 09. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 10. Gloria 11. 40 Info and News U2.com
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 114383
- author: RiseOfTheFenix
U2 All I Want is YOU LIVE Milan
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- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold You say you want Your story to remain untold But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say youll give me A highway with no one on it Treasure just to look upon it All the riches in the night You say youll give me Eyes in a moon of blindness A river in a time of dryness A harbour in the tempest But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say you want Your love to work out right To last with me through the night You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold Your story to remain untold Your love not to grow cold All the promises we break From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...
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From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold You say you want Your story to remain untold But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say youll give me A highway with no one on it Treasure just to look upon it All the riches in the night You say youll give me Eyes in a moon of blindness A river in a time of dryness A harbour in the tempest But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say you want Your love to work out right To last with me through the night You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold Your story to remain untold Your love not to grow cold All the promises we break From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...
- published: 13 Nov 2007
- views: 7695928
- author: puszysty
u2 go home live at slane castle
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- Duration: 98:32
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
1 Elevation 2 Beautiful Day 3 Until The End Of The World 4 New Year's Day 5 Out Of Control 6 Sunday Bloody Sunday 7 Wake Up Dead Man 8 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of 9 Kite 10 Angel Of Harlem 11 Desire 12 Staring At The Sun 13 All I Want Is You 14 Where The Streets Have No Name 15 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 16 Bullet The Blue Sky 17 With Or Without You 18 One 19 Walk On
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1 Elevation 2 Beautiful Day 3 Until The End Of The World 4 New Year's Day 5 Out Of Control 6 Sunday Bloody Sunday 7 Wake Up Dead Man 8 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of 9 Kite 10 Angel Of Harlem 11 Desire 12 Staring At The Sun 13 All I Want Is You 14 Where The Streets Have No Name 15 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 16 Bullet The Blue Sky 17 With Or Without You 18 One 19 Walk On
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 81884
- author: El Davi
U2 I Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For Live From Milan
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- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Live From Milan
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U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Live From Milan
- published: 04 May 2007
- views: 7064063
- author: Fuzz97
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
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- Duration: 12:05
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
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U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
- published: 04 Mar 2006
- views: 3205394
- author: dermoreilly
U2 Stuck In A Moment Live At Slane Castle
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- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
U2's Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of Live At Slane Castle
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U2's Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of Live At Slane Castle
- published: 19 Sep 2006
- views: 1206264
- author: Fuzz97
U2 Live 1986 TV - Exit and In Gods Country
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- Duration: 6:52
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
U2 perform raw, early versions of "Exit" and "In God's Country" for the "Old Grey Whistle Test" on 3/8/86.
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U2 perform raw, early versions of "Exit" and "In God's Country" for the "Old Grey Whistle Test" on 3/8/86.
- published: 01 Apr 2009
- views: 31478
- author: Bacardicus
U2 _ With Or Without You (Live from Slane Castle)
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- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
U2 Live from Slane Castle, Ireland
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U2 Live from Slane Castle, Ireland
- published: 29 Mar 2007
- views: 1074484
- author: khyew79
U2 Miss Sarajevo LIVE Milan
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- Duration: 6:42
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: Is there a time for keeping your distance A time to turn your eyes away Is there a time for keeping your head down For getting on with your day Is there a time for kohl and lipstick A time for curling hair Is there a time for high street shopping To find the right dress to wear Here she comes Heads turn around Here she comes To take her crown Is there a time to run for cover A time for kiss and tell Is there a time for different colours Different names you find it hard to spell Is there a time for first communion A time for East Seventeen Is there a time to turn to Mecca Is there time to be a beauty queen Here she comes Beauty plays the clown Here she comes Surreal in her crown Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il fiume Giungerai a me Oltre i confini E le terre assetate Dici che come fiume Come fiume... L'amore giungerà L'amore... E non so più pregare E nell'amore non so più sperare E quell'amore non so più aspettare [Translation of the above] You say that the river finds the way to the sea and like the river you will come to me beyond the borders and the dry lands You say that like a river like a river... the love will come the love... And i don't know how to pray anymore and in love i don't know how to hope anymore and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore [End of Translation] Is there a time for tying ribbons A time for Christmas trees Is there a time for laying tables And the night is set to freeze
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From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: Is there a time for keeping your distance A time to turn your eyes away Is there a time for keeping your head down For getting on with your day Is there a time for kohl and lipstick A time for curling hair Is there a time for high street shopping To find the right dress to wear Here she comes Heads turn around Here she comes To take her crown Is there a time to run for cover A time for kiss and tell Is there a time for different colours Different names you find it hard to spell Is there a time for first communion A time for East Seventeen Is there a time to turn to Mecca Is there time to be a beauty queen Here she comes Beauty plays the clown Here she comes Surreal in her crown Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il fiume Giungerai a me Oltre i confini E le terre assetate Dici che come fiume Come fiume... L'amore giungerà L'amore... E non so più pregare E nell'amore non so più sperare E quell'amore non so più aspettare [Translation of the above] You say that the river finds the way to the sea and like the river you will come to me beyond the borders and the dry lands You say that like a river like a river... the love will come the love... And i don't know how to pray anymore and in love i don't know how to hope anymore and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore [End of Translation] Is there a time for tying ribbons A time for Christmas trees Is there a time for laying tables And the night is set to freeze
- published: 13 Nov 2007
- views: 983868
- author: puszysty
U2 - Bad Live Aid 1985 (Best Quality)
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- Duration: 11:57
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Enjoy this classic U2 Bad in best Quality 720p @popmartour
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Enjoy this classic U2 Bad in best Quality 720p @popmartour
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 1108221
- author: popmartour
U2 Dublin 2009-07-24 Bad
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- Duration: 7:31
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Bad during their 360 degrees world tour in Dublin on July, 24th, 2009.
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www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Bad during their 360 degrees world tour in Dublin on July, 24th, 2009.
- published: 25 Jul 2009
- views: 250289
- author: U2006com
U2 - "BAD" - Live Aid 1985 - Wembley, FULL LENGTH VERSION.AVI.mp4
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- Duration: 11:57
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
FULL LENGTH VERSION, HD (720p) ! This video was sent to me by Popmartour: U2 - "Bad" - Live Aid 1985 at Wembley Stadium. My thanks and regards go to Popmartour ! How Bono pulled the stunt that catapulted the band into immortality, and almost got himself fired for it...!
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FULL LENGTH VERSION, HD (720p) ! This video was sent to me by Popmartour: U2 - "Bad" - Live Aid 1985 at Wembley Stadium. My thanks and regards go to Popmartour ! How Bono pulled the stunt that catapulted the band into immortality, and almost got himself fired for it...!
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 50246
- author: DanaFritzy
U2 Live From Chorzów Multicam - 06/08/2009
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- Duration: 136:02
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Multicam złożony z nagrań fanów wykonanych podczas koncertu U2 w Chorzowie, 6 Sierpnia 2009 roku. DVD do ściągnięcia na stronie: polandonthehorizon.pl English: polandonthehorizon.com Fanpage: fb.com/polandonthehorizon Reżyseria/Produkcja: Jędrzej Majko Remastering Audio: Piotr Otręba Track Listing: 04:03 Breathe 09:38 No Line on the Horizon 13:50 Get on Your Boots 17:55 Magnificent 23:38 Beautiful Day / Mazurek Dąbrowskiego(s) / Blackbird (s) 30:02 Elevation 33:49 New Year's Day 40:09 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (s) 47:01 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of 51:54 Edge's Birthday 53:20 Unknown Caller 59:55 The Unforgettable Fire 01:04:30 City of Blinding Lights / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (s) 01:10:00 Vertigo 01:13:59 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes (s) 01:19:28 Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (s) 01:25:27 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 01:29:08 MLK 01:31:48 Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (s) 01:37:51 Tutu's speech 01:39:42 Where The Streets Have No Name / The Whole Of The Moon (s) 01:45:08 One 01:55:17 Ultraviolet (Light My Way) 02:00:02 With or Without You 02:05:35 Moment of Surrender 02:14:06 Outro
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Multicam złożony z nagrań fanów wykonanych podczas koncertu U2 w Chorzowie, 6 Sierpnia 2009 roku. DVD do ściągnięcia na stronie: polandonthehorizon.pl English: polandonthehorizon.com Fanpage: fb.com/polandonthehorizon Reżyseria/Produkcja: Jędrzej Majko Remastering Audio: Piotr Otręba Track Listing: 04:03 Breathe 09:38 No Line on the Horizon 13:50 Get on Your Boots 17:55 Magnificent 23:38 Beautiful Day / Mazurek Dąbrowskiego(s) / Blackbird (s) 30:02 Elevation 33:49 New Year's Day 40:09 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (s) 47:01 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of 51:54 Edge's Birthday 53:20 Unknown Caller 59:55 The Unforgettable Fire 01:04:30 City of Blinding Lights / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (s) 01:10:00 Vertigo 01:13:59 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes (s) 01:19:28 Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (s) 01:25:27 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 01:29:08 MLK 01:31:48 Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (s) 01:37:51 Tutu's speech 01:39:42 Where The Streets Have No Name / The Whole Of The Moon (s) 01:45:08 One 01:55:17 Ultraviolet (Light My Way) 02:00:02 With or Without You 02:05:35 Moment of Surrender 02:14:06 Outro
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 76423
- author: U2TheJoshuaSite
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
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- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
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Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
- published: 10 Mar 2007
- views: 2698797
- author: Claudia Bueno
U2 - Please (Live)
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- Duration: 6:00
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
The Official Video for U2 performing 'Please' Live
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The Official Video for U2 performing 'Please' Live
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 232109
- author: islandrecords
U2 Live In Milan Full Concert
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- Duration: 46:42
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
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- published: 23 Mar 2012
- views: 43827
- author: Themaver123
U2 "Go Home" DVD Live Slane Castle 2001 (Full Concert)
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- Duration: 98:32
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
U2 Full Concert DVD 2001 Elevation Tour Live Slane Castle,Ireland.. September 1 2001 01// Elevation 1:06 02// Beautiful Day 5:00 03// Until the End of the World 9:24 04// New Year's Day 14:45 05// Out of Control 19:38 06// Sunday Bloody Sunday 25:27 07// Wake Up Dead Man 32:40 08// Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out of 34:43 09// Kite 40:24 10// Angel of Harlem 45:45 11// Desire 49:55 12// Staring at the Sun 53:59 13// All I Want Is You 57:48 14// Where the Streets Have No Name 1:02:29 15// Pride (In the Name of Love) 1:08:20 16// Bullet the Blue Sky 1:14:09 17// With or Without You 1:20:18 18// One 1:26:44 19// Walk On 1:31:48 Mysterious Ways! [ www.youtube.com ] of the same concert...but was published separately ^^ Enjoy & Comment!
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U2 Full Concert DVD 2001 Elevation Tour Live Slane Castle,Ireland.. September 1 2001 01// Elevation 1:06 02// Beautiful Day 5:00 03// Until the End of the World 9:24 04// New Year's Day 14:45 05// Out of Control 19:38 06// Sunday Bloody Sunday 25:27 07// Wake Up Dead Man 32:40 08// Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out of 34:43 09// Kite 40:24 10// Angel of Harlem 45:45 11// Desire 49:55 12// Staring at the Sun 53:59 13// All I Want Is You 57:48 14// Where the Streets Have No Name 1:02:29 15// Pride (In the Name of Love) 1:08:20 16// Bullet the Blue Sky 1:14:09 17// With or Without You 1:20:18 18// One 1:26:44 19// Walk On 1:31:48 Mysterious Ways! [ www.youtube.com ] of the same concert...but was published separately ^^ Enjoy & Comment!
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 73965
- author: Isaac xD
Gloria
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
This U2 performing Gloria at the Red Rocks concert, I hope you enjoy this rare video.
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This U2 performing Gloria at the Red Rocks concert, I hope you enjoy this rare video.
- published: 28 Apr 2007
- views: 236072
- author: Ghostdog357
U2 One Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:26
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
U2 - One Vertigo Tour New Year´s Day: www.youtube.com Original of the Species: www.youtube.com
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U2 - One Vertigo Tour New Year´s Day: www.youtube.com Original of the Species: www.youtube.com
- published: 18 Apr 2006
- views: 5601734
- author: Guillermo Morales
120:26
U2 Live at Glastonbury 2011.avi
U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 25 Aug 2011
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U2 Live at Glastonbury 2011.avi
U2 performing at Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 457220
- author: iluvusteve
5:29
u2- live - with or without you
u2 live in boston 2001...
published: 08 Jan 2007
author: Nacho Bañarez
u2- live - with or without you
u2 live in boston 2001
- published: 08 Jan 2007
- views: 37722374
- author: Nacho Bañarez
6:04
U2 Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle...
published: 11 Sep 2006
author: Fuzz97
U2 Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
U2's Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle
- published: 11 Sep 2006
- views: 13228843
- author: Fuzz97
107:53
u2 elevation tour live from boston full
Setlist 1 - Elevation 2 - Beautiful Day 3 - Until the End of the World 4 - Stuck in a Mome...
published: 23 Apr 2012
author: El Davi
u2 elevation tour live from boston full
Setlist 1 - Elevation 2 - Beautiful Day 3 - Until the End of the World 4 - Stuck in a Moment 5 - Kite 6 - Gone 7 - New York 8 - I Will Follow 9 - Sunday Bloody Sunday 10 - In a Little While 11 - Desire 12 - Stay 13 - Bad 14 - Where the Streets Have No Name 15 - Bullet the Blue Sky 16 - With or Without You 17 - The Fly 18 - Wake Up Dead Man 19 - Walk On
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 377319
- author: El Davi
48:26
U2 Live in Dortmund 1984 [FULL CONCERT] HD
U2 playing live in Dortmunt in 1984, Germany. At their Unforgettable Fire tour. Setlist: 0...
published: 26 Mar 2012
author: RiseOfTheFenix
U2 Live in Dortmund 1984 [FULL CONCERT] HD
U2 playing live in Dortmunt in 1984, Germany. At their Unforgettable Fire tour. Setlist: 01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 02. I Will Follow 03. Sunday Bloody Sunday 04. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace (snippet) 05. MLK 06. Bad 07. October 08. New Year's Day 09. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 10. Gloria 11. 40 Info and News U2.com
- published: 26 Mar 2012
- views: 114383
- author: RiseOfTheFenix
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U2 All I Want is YOU LIVE Milan
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold You sa...
published: 13 Nov 2007
author: puszysty
U2 All I Want is YOU LIVE Milan
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold You say you want Your story to remain untold But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say youll give me A highway with no one on it Treasure just to look upon it All the riches in the night You say youll give me Eyes in a moon of blindness A river in a time of dryness A harbour in the tempest But all the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You say you want Your love to work out right To last with me through the night You say you want Diamonds on a ring of gold Your story to remain untold Your love not to grow cold All the promises we break From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...all I want is... You...
- published: 13 Nov 2007
- views: 7695928
- author: puszysty
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u2 go home live at slane castle
1 Elevation 2 Beautiful Day 3 Until The End Of The World 4 New Year's Day 5 Out Of Control...
published: 27 Apr 2012
author: El Davi
u2 go home live at slane castle
1 Elevation 2 Beautiful Day 3 Until The End Of The World 4 New Year's Day 5 Out Of Control 6 Sunday Bloody Sunday 7 Wake Up Dead Man 8 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of 9 Kite 10 Angel Of Harlem 11 Desire 12 Staring At The Sun 13 All I Want Is You 14 Where The Streets Have No Name 15 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 16 Bullet The Blue Sky 17 With Or Without You 18 One 19 Walk On
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 81884
- author: El Davi
4:03
U2 I Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For Live From Milan
U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Live From Milan...
published: 04 May 2007
author: Fuzz97
U2 I Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For Live From Milan
U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Live From Milan
- published: 04 May 2007
- views: 7064063
- author: Fuzz97
12:05
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985...
published: 04 Mar 2006
author: dermoreilly
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
U2 BAD Live Aid 1985
- published: 04 Mar 2006
- views: 3205394
- author: dermoreilly
4:39
U2 Stuck In A Moment Live At Slane Castle
U2's Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of Live At Slane Castle...
published: 19 Sep 2006
author: Fuzz97
U2 Stuck In A Moment Live At Slane Castle
U2's Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of Live At Slane Castle
- published: 19 Sep 2006
- views: 1206264
- author: Fuzz97
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U2 Live 1986 TV - Exit and In Gods Country
U2 perform raw, early versions of "Exit" and "In God's Country" for the "Old Grey Whistle ...
published: 01 Apr 2009
author: Bacardicus
U2 Live 1986 TV - Exit and In Gods Country
U2 perform raw, early versions of "Exit" and "In God's Country" for the "Old Grey Whistle Test" on 3/8/86.
- published: 01 Apr 2009
- views: 31478
- author: Bacardicus
6:42
U2 Miss Sarajevo LIVE Milan
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: Is there a time for keeping your distance A time t...
published: 13 Nov 2007
author: puszysty
U2 Miss Sarajevo LIVE Milan
From Vertigo Tour live in Milan Lyrics: Is there a time for keeping your distance A time to turn your eyes away Is there a time for keeping your head down For getting on with your day Is there a time for kohl and lipstick A time for curling hair Is there a time for high street shopping To find the right dress to wear Here she comes Heads turn around Here she comes To take her crown Is there a time to run for cover A time for kiss and tell Is there a time for different colours Different names you find it hard to spell Is there a time for first communion A time for East Seventeen Is there a time to turn to Mecca Is there time to be a beauty queen Here she comes Beauty plays the clown Here she comes Surreal in her crown Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il fiume Giungerai a me Oltre i confini E le terre assetate Dici che come fiume Come fiume... L'amore giungerà L'amore... E non so più pregare E nell'amore non so più sperare E quell'amore non so più aspettare [Translation of the above] You say that the river finds the way to the sea and like the river you will come to me beyond the borders and the dry lands You say that like a river like a river... the love will come the love... And i don't know how to pray anymore and in love i don't know how to hope anymore and for that love i don't know how to wait anymore [End of Translation] Is there a time for tying ribbons A time for Christmas trees Is there a time for laying tables And the night is set to freeze
- published: 13 Nov 2007
- views: 983868
- author: puszysty
11:57
U2 - Bad Live Aid 1985 (Best Quality)
Enjoy this classic U2 Bad in best Quality 720p @popmartour...
published: 13 Jan 2011
author: popmartour
U2 - Bad Live Aid 1985 (Best Quality)
Enjoy this classic U2 Bad in best Quality 720p @popmartour
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 1108221
- author: popmartour
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12:13
100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N' Roll)
Alex Chadwick plays 100 famous guitar riffs in one take giving you a chronological history...
published: 04 Jun 2012
author: Chicago Music Exchange
100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N' Roll)
Alex Chadwick plays 100 famous guitar riffs in one take giving you a chronological history of rock n' roll.
See the full detailed list of all the artists, keys, and year of each song played in the 100 riffs: http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/100riffs
Alex plays a 1958 Fender Strat: http://goo.gl/g37oT
1 Mr. Sandman - Chet Atkins
2 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
3 Words of Love - Buddy Holly
4 Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
5 Rumble - Link Wray
6 Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
7 Pipeline - The Chantays
8 Miserlou - Dick Dale
9 Wipeout - Surfaris
10 Daytripper - The Beatles
11 Can't Explain - The Who
12 Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
13 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
14 Black Magic Woman - Santana
15 Helter Skelter - The Beatles
16 Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
17 Crossroads - Cream
18 Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
19 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
20 Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
21 Funk 49 - James Gang
22 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
23 Bitch - Rolling Stones
24 Layla - Derek and the Dominos
25 School's Out - Alice Cooper
26 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
27 Money - Pink Floyd
28 Jessica - Allman Brothers
29 La Grange - ZZ Top
30 20th Century Boy - T. Rex
31 Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead
32 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
33 Walk This Way - Aerosmith
34 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
35 Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
36 Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
37 Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
38 Carry on My Wayward Son - Kansas
39 Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones
40 Barracuda - Heart
41 Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen
42 Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
43 Message in a Bottle - The Police
44 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - Neil Young
45 Back in Black - AC/DC
46 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
47 Spirit of Radio - Rush
48 Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
49 Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
50 Holy Diver - Dio
51 Beat It - Michael Jackson
52 Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
53 What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths
54 Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
55 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
56 You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
57 The One I Love - REM
58 Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
59 Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
60 Sweet Child 'O Mine - Guns N' Roses
61 Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
62 Cult of Personality -Living Colour
63 Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
64 Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty
65 Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
66 Thunderstruck - AC/DC
67 Twice as Hard - Black Crowes
68 Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
69 Enter Sandman - Metallica
70 Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
71 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
72 Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
73 Even Flow - Pearl Jam
74 Outshined - Soundgarden
75 Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
76 Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
77 Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
78 Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
79 Possum Kingdom - Toadies
80 Say it Ain't So - Weezer
81 Zero - Smashing Pumpkins
82 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
83 Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
84 Smooth - Santana
85 Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
86 Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake
87 Turn a Square - The Shins
88 Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
89 Hysteria - Muse
90 I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
91 Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
92 Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
93 Reptilia - The Strokes
94 Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
95 Float On - Modest Mouse
96 Blue Orchid - White Stripes
97 Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
98 Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
99 I Got Mine - Black Keys
100 Cruel - St. Vincent
*Shot on a Nikon
1:04
Paris vs New York
Paris vs New York - A tally of two cities
Réalisé et Animé par Tony Miotto
Directed and E...
published: 16 Sep 2012
author: TonyMiotto
Paris vs New York
Paris vs New York - A tally of two cities
Réalisé et Animé par Tony Miotto
Directed and Edited by Tony Miotto
D'après le livre de Vahram Muratyan, Paris vs New York, Éditions 10I18
Based on Vahram Muratyan's book, Paris vs New York, Edition Penguin Book
Paris vs New York l'intégrale > amzn.to/U2E870
Paris versus New York: The Complete Series of Two Cities > amzn.to/QFb1TK
2:00
Ira Glass on Storytelling
UPDATE:
Thanks for all your kind words guys! It's quite overwhelming to see this shared an...
published: 06 Jun 2011
author: David Shiyang Liu
Ira Glass on Storytelling
UPDATE:
Thanks for all your kind words guys! It's quite overwhelming to see this shared and retweeted all over!
All sins typographic in nature have been amended, hopefully. Thanks for bearing with it the whole time. :)
As always, all credit due to the amazing Ira Glass.
Source audio is from this very seminal video by current.tv:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
Made in three days on Illustrator and After Effects, for Day 6 of the #30daysofcreativity.
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New York
Directed and edited by Vicente Sahuc
Music: "Numb" by U2 (zooropa album)...
published: 21 Jan 2009
author: Vicente Sahuc
New York
Directed and edited by Vicente Sahuc
Music: "Numb" by U2 (zooropa album)
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U2 Dublin 2009-07-24 Bad
www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Bad during their 360 degrees world tour in Dublin on July, ...
published: 25 Jul 2009
author: U2006com
U2 Dublin 2009-07-24 Bad
www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Bad during their 360 degrees world tour in Dublin on July, 24th, 2009.
- published: 25 Jul 2009
- views: 250289
- author: U2006com
11:57
U2 - "BAD" - Live Aid 1985 - Wembley, FULL LENGTH VERSION.AVI.mp4
FULL LENGTH VERSION, HD (720p) ! This video was sent to me by Popmartour: U2 - "Bad" - Liv...
published: 13 Jan 2011
author: DanaFritzy
U2 - "BAD" - Live Aid 1985 - Wembley, FULL LENGTH VERSION.AVI.mp4
FULL LENGTH VERSION, HD (720p) ! This video was sent to me by Popmartour: U2 - "Bad" - Live Aid 1985 at Wembley Stadium. My thanks and regards go to Popmartour ! How Bono pulled the stunt that catapulted the band into immortality, and almost got himself fired for it...!
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 50246
- author: DanaFritzy
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U2 Live From Chorzów Multicam - 06/08/2009
Multicam złożony z nagrań fanów wykonanych podczas koncertu U2 w Chorzowie, 6 Sierpnia 200...
published: 06 Aug 2011
author: U2TheJoshuaSite
U2 Live From Chorzów Multicam - 06/08/2009
Multicam złożony z nagrań fanów wykonanych podczas koncertu U2 w Chorzowie, 6 Sierpnia 2009 roku. DVD do ściągnięcia na stronie: polandonthehorizon.pl English: polandonthehorizon.com Fanpage: fb.com/polandonthehorizon Reżyseria/Produkcja: Jędrzej Majko Remastering Audio: Piotr Otręba Track Listing: 04:03 Breathe 09:38 No Line on the Horizon 13:50 Get on Your Boots 17:55 Magnificent 23:38 Beautiful Day / Mazurek Dąbrowskiego(s) / Blackbird (s) 30:02 Elevation 33:49 New Year's Day 40:09 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (s) 47:01 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of 51:54 Edge's Birthday 53:20 Unknown Caller 59:55 The Unforgettable Fire 01:04:30 City of Blinding Lights / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (s) 01:10:00 Vertigo 01:13:59 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes (s) 01:19:28 Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (s) 01:25:27 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 01:29:08 MLK 01:31:48 Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (s) 01:37:51 Tutu's speech 01:39:42 Where The Streets Have No Name / The Whole Of The Moon (s) 01:45:08 One 01:55:17 Ultraviolet (Light My Way) 02:00:02 With or Without You 02:05:35 Moment of Surrender 02:14:06 Outro
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 76423
- author: U2TheJoshuaSite
4:03
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006...
published: 10 Mar 2007
author: Claudia Bueno
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
Mary J. Blige feat. U2 - One (Live Grammy Awards 2006
- published: 10 Mar 2007
- views: 2698797
- author: Claudia Bueno
photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein
29 Nov 2012
Just before she leapt from her roof into the streets of Kabul, Farima thought of the wedding that would never happen and the man she would never marry. Her fiance would be pleased to see her die, she later recalled thinking. It would offer relief to them both. Farima, 17, had resisted her engagement to Zabiullah since it was ordained by her grandfather when she was 9 ... He ran outside. His daughter's torso was contorted ... Her skin was pallid....(size: 12.8Kb)
photo: AP / Sepahnews
27 Nov 2012
WASHINGTON -- The drone wars are here. While President Obama ponders new legal and moral guidelines to govern America's growing use of armed robot aircraft, the world outside the White House is engaged in a revolutionary frenzy of building, arming and flying killer drones ... More than 50 countries operate surveillance drones and, increasingly, are fitting them with weapons. The U.S ... spy drone was shot down last December ... On Oct ... 988 miles ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)
photo: UN / Jan Golinski
27 Nov 2012
Doha conference is warned that climate models do not yet take account of methane in thawing permafrost. Frozen ground in Siberia. Permafrost covers nearly a quarter of the northern hemisphere. Photograph. Francis Latreille/Corbis. The United Nations sounded a stark warning on the threat to the climate from methane in the thawing permafrost as governments met for the second day of climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
27 Nov 2012
M23 rebels controlling the eastern city of Goma in the DR Congo have said they are not about to withdraw as demanded by regional leaders. The rebels said on Tuesday there were still in charge of Goma, just hours after General Aronda Nyakairima, the head of the Ugandan military, was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that their leader, Sultani Makenga, had told him he would pull out of Goma and Sake ... 276 Source. ... Share ... News ... ;">....(size: 17.7Kb)
photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong
29 Nov 2012
A Thai court has postponed the start of the terrorism trial of 24 "Red Shirt" protest leaders by one month. Thursday's delay comes in reaction to the illness of one of the defendants in the case, which followed 2010 demonstrations in Bangkok that drew up to 100,000 protesters. "The court will only allow this one postponement," the judge said, as hundreds of police stood guard outside the court. Among the accused are five lawmakers ... AFP ... ....(size: 19.0Kb)
Starpulse
30 Nov 2012
The Hollywood Reporter
30 Nov 2012
share. The hip-hop mogul earned a reported $110 million thanks largely to selling a 51 percent stake in his Beats headphone company. Dr ... Beats by Dr. Dre Announces Partnership With Trent Reznor, Hints at Mog's Future. FX Inks Script Development Deal for Dr. Dre Drama Pilot ... Dre takes the annual money crown from U2, who topped last year's list with $195 million earned, thanks to their record-shattering 360 tour ... 1 ... U2 ($78 million) ... Dre U2....(size: 5.4Kb)
The Examiner
30 Nov 2012
He's hot and talented and normally surrounded by thousands, so it drew attention on Nov ... Tiesto will meet and greet fans at 6 p.m. on Dec ... DJ/Producer Tiesto ... 27, Tiesto released an exclusive compilation album, DANCE (RED), SAVE LIVES, featuring Calvin Harris, Avicii and Diplo, and an exclusive collaboration between Tiësto and Bono on U2's "Pride" as a way to mobilize the global community of dance music fans in the fight against AIDS ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
30 Nov 2012
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You may be singing "Call Me Maybe" or dancing "Gangnam Style" to this year's music, but it was veteran hip-hop artist Dr. Dre who topped Forbes' list of the 25 highest-paid musicians in 2012, released on Thursday ... The list's top 10 was dominated by veteran musicians, with Pink Floyd's bassist and singer Roger Waters coming in at No ... 3 with $80 million. Last year's highest-paid musicians U2 landed at No ... 18 and No ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
LA Daily News
30 Nov 2012
By John Moore, Special to The Denver Postdailynews.com. Posted. 11/29/2012 05.10.09 PM PST. November 30, 2012 1.21 AM GMTUpdated. 11/29/2012 05.19.34 PM PST ... 28, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo). When Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released Nov ... Mission accomplished ... 1 ... jackets ... Jackson's contemporaries included the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Elvis Costello, Roxy Music, Queen, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby and Peter Gabriel ... ....(size: 7.6Kb)
Huffington Post
29 Nov 2012
Another year, another crop of musicians making bank. Forbes has released its list of highest-paid musicians, led this year not by a popstar or rock band, but a doctor ... Others leading the pack. Roger Waters (a founding member of Pink Floyd) with $88 million, Elton John with $80 million, U2 with $78 million and Take That with $69 million ... 7 with $58 million ... U2 had topped the list since 2009 but fell two slots ... Also. Jay-Z + Beyonce = U2 ... 80k....(size: 4.8Kb)
Jam Entertainment
29 Nov 2012
Celebrity Café
29 Nov 2012
Stereogum
29 Nov 2012
All this talk about how musicians arenât making any money? Itâs nonsense! Oh sure, your Grizzly Bears and David Lowerys may be barely scraping by, but that doesnât mean everyone has had to sell off the place in the Hamptons just because of Spotifyâs crummy royalty rates ... Dr ... After that, perennial titans of industry Roger Waters, Elton John, and U2 grabbed slots 2 â 4, respectively ... 01 Dr ... 04 U2 â $78 million ... TweetTags. Dr ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
Digital Spy
29 Nov 2012
Dr Dre has topped Forbes magazine's latest music rich list ... Roger Waters is at two ($88m), Elton John is at three ($80m), U2 are at four ($78m) and Take That complete the top 5 with earnings of $69m ... Forbes's top 25 highest-paid music stars of 2012 are as follows.. 1. Dr Dre - $110 Million. 2 ... 3 ... 4. U2 - $78 Million. 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... Dr Dre, Roger waters, Elton John, U2, Take That, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Lady GaGa, Music....(size: 9.5Kb)
Digital Spy
29 Nov 2012
Dr Dre has topped Forbes magazine's latest music rich list ... British pop band Take That appear surprisingly high on the global list, completing the top 5 with earnings of $69m. Roger Waters is at two ($88m), Elton John is at three ($80m), U2 are at four ($78m) ... 1. Dr Dre - $110 Million. 2 ... 3 ... 4. U2 - $78 Million. 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 8 ... Dr Dre, Roger waters, Elton John, U2, Take That, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Lady GaGa, Music ... ....(size: 9.6Kb)
IMDb
29 Nov 2012
Another year, another crop of musicians making bank ... Roger Waters (a founding member of Pink Floyd) with $88 million, Elton John with $80 million, U2 with $78 million and Take That with $69 million ... �. - The Huffington Post. ....(size: 1.0Kb)
The Examiner
29 Nov 2012
Being a legend is great. Having a pair of headphones completely new and unique pay off as well. So does a hologram of one of the most prolific artists ever ... Stay tuned... Dre took the title away from U2 who was last year's biggest earners (they dropped to number 4 at $78 million) ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
This article is about the band. For other uses, see U2 (disambiguation).
| U2 | |
|---|---|
 U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005, from left to right: The Edge; Larry Mullen, Jr. (drumming), Bono, and Adam Clayton |
|
| Background information | |
| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres | Rock, alternative rock, post-punk |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Labels | Mercury, Interscope, Island |
| Associated acts | Passengers |
| Website | u2.com |
| Members | |
| Bono The Edge Adam Clayton Larry Mullen, Jr. |
|
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion). U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music. Throughout the group's musical pursuits, they have maintained a sound built on melodic instrumentals, highlighted by The Edge's timbrally varied guitar sounds and Bono's expressive vocals. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes and sociopolitical concerns.
U2 formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, they became a top international act. They were more successful as live performers than they were at selling records, until their breakthrough 1987 album The Joshua Tree,[1] which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the band's stature "from heroes to superstars".[2] Reacting to musical stagnation and late-1980s criticism of their earnest image and musical direction, the group reinvented themselves with their 1991 hit album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour. U2 integrated dance, industrial, and alternative rock influences into their sound and performances, and embraced a more ironic and self-deprecating image. Similar experimentation continued for the remainder of the 1990s with mixed levels of success. U2 regained critical and commercial favour after their 2000 record All That You Can't Leave Behind. On it and the group's subsequent releases, they adopted a more conventional sound while maintaining influences from their earlier musical explorations.
U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the all-time best-selling music artists, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and in 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[3] Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, and The Edge's Music Rising.
History[link]
See also: Timeline of U2
Formation and early years (1976–79)[link]
File:U2-teenagers.jpg
U2 in 1980. Shown from left to right: Clayton, Mullen, Bono, The Edge.
The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976.[4] Larry Mullen, Jr., then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the school's notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Setting up in his kitchen, Mullen was on drums, with Paul Hewson (Bono) on lead vocals; David Evans (The Edge) and his older brother Dik Evans on guitar; Adam Clayton, a friend of the Evans brothers on bass guitar; and initially Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin, two other friends of Mullen.[5] Mullen later described it as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." Soon after, the group settled on the name "Feedback" because it was one of the few technical terms they knew.[6] Martin did not return after the first practice, and McCormick left the group within a few weeks. Most of the group's initial material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forté.[7] Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as The Jam, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, and The Sex Pistols. The popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful.[8]
"We couldn't believe it. I was completely shocked. We weren't of an age to go out partying as such but I don't think anyone slept that night.... Really, it was just a great affirmation to win that competition, even though I've no idea how good we were or what the competition was really like. But to win at that point was incredibly important for morale and everyone's belief in the whole project."
—The Edge, on winning the CBS competition[9]
In March 1977, the band changed their name to The Hype.[10] Dik Evans, who was older and by this time at college, was becoming the odd man out. The rest of the band was leaning towards the idea of a four-piece ensemble and he was "phased out" in March 1978. During a farewell concert in the Presbyterian Church Hall in Howth, which featured The Hype playing covers, Dik ceremonially walked offstage. The remaining four band members completed the concert playing original material as "U2".[11] Steve Averill, a punk rock musician (with The Radiators) and family friend of Clayton's, had suggested six potential names from which the band chose "U2" for its ambiguity and open-ended interpretations, and because it was the name that they disliked the least.[12]
On Saint Patrick's Day in 1978, U2 won a talent show in Limerick, Ireland. The prize consisted of £500 and studio time to record a demo which would be heard by CBS Ireland, a record label. This win was an important milestone and affirmation for the fledgling band.[11] U2 recorded their first demo tape at Keystone Studios in Dublin in May 1978.[13] Hot Press magazine was influential in shaping the band's future; in May, Paul McGuinness, who had earlier been introduced to the band by the publication's journalist Bill Graham, agreed to be U2's manager.[14] The group's first release, an Ireland-only EP entitled Three, was released in September 1979 and was their first Irish chart success.[15] In December 1979, U2 performed in London for their first shows outside Ireland, although they were unable to gain much attention from audiences or critics.[16] In February 1980, their second single "Another Day" was released on the CBS label, but again only for the Irish market.[17]
[edit] Boy, October, and War (1980–83)
Island Records signed U2 in March 1980, and in May the band released "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" as their first international single.[18] The band's debut album, Boy, followed in October. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, it received generally positive reviews.[19] Although Bono's unfocused lyrics seemed improvised, they expressed a common theme: the dreams and frustrations of adolescence.[20] The album included the band's first United States hit single, "I Will Follow". Boy's release was followed by the Boy Tour, U2's first tour of continental Europe and the United States.[21] Despite being unpolished, these early live performances demonstrated U2's potential, as critics noted that Bono was a "charismatic" and "passionate" showman.[22]
The band's second album, October, was released in 1981 and contained overtly spiritual themes. During the album's recording sessions, Bono and The Edge considered quitting the band due to perceived spiritual conflicts.[23] Bono, The Edge, and Mullen had joined a Christian group in Dublin called the "Shalom Fellowship", which led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the rock and roll lifestyle.[24] Bono and The Edge took time off between tours and decided to leave Shalom in favour of continuing with the band. Recording was further complicated with the theft of a briefcase containing lyrics for several working songs from backstage during the band's performance at a nightclub in Portland, Oregon.[25] The album received mixed reviews and limited radio play. Low sales outside the UK put pressure on their contract with Island and focused the band on improvement.[26]
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Resolving their doubts of the October period, U2 released War in 1983.[27] A record where the band "turned pacifism itself into a crusade",[28] War's sincerity and "rugged" guitar was intentionally at odds with the "cooler" synthpop of the time.[29] The album included the politically charged "Sunday Bloody Sunday", where Bono had lyrically tried to contrast the events of Bloody Sunday with Easter Sunday.[30] Rolling Stone magazine wrote that the song showed the band was capable of deep and meaningful songwriting. War was U2's first album to feature the photography of Anton Corbijn, who remains U2's principal photographer and has had a major influence on their vision and public image.[31] U2's first commercial success, War debuted at number one in the UK, and its first single, "New Year's Day", was the band's first hit outside Ireland or the UK.[32]
On the subsequent War Tour, the band performed sold-out concerts in mainland Europe and the US. The sight of Bono waving a white flag during performances of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" became the tour's iconic image.[33] U2 recorded the Under a Blood Red Sky live album on this tour, as well as the Live at Red Rocks concert film, both of which received extensive play on the radio and MTV, expanding the band's audience and showcasing their prowess as a live act.[34] Their record deal with Island Records was coming to an end, and in 1984 the band signed a more lucrative extension. They negotiated the return of their copyrights (so that they owned the rights to their own songs), an increase in their royalty rate, and a general improvement in terms, at the expense of a larger initial payment.[35]
[edit] The Unforgettable Fire and Live Aid (1984–85)
"We knew the world was ready to receive the heirs to The Who. All we had to do was to keep doing what we were doing and we would become the biggest band since Led Zeppelin, without a doubt. But something just didn't feel right. We felt we had more dimension than just the next big anything, we had something unique to offer."
The Unforgettable Fire was released in 1984. Ambient and abstract, it was at the time the band's most marked change in direction.[37] The band feared that following the overt rock of the War album and tour, they were in danger of becoming another "shrill", "sloganeering arena-rock band".[38] Thus, experimentation was sought,[39] as Adam Clayton recalls, "We were looking for something that was a bit more serious, more arty."[36] The Edge admired the ambient and "weird works" of Brian Eno, who, along with his engineer Daniel Lanois, eventually agreed to produce the record.[40]
The Unforgettable Fire has a rich and orchestrated sound. Under Lanois' direction, Mullen's drumming became looser, funkier, and more subtle and Clayton's bass became more subliminal; the rhythm section no longer intruded, but flowed in support of the songs.[41] Complementing the sonic atmospherics, the album's lyrics are open to many interpretations, providing what the band called a "very visual feel".[37] Due to a tight recording schedule, however, Bono felt songs like "Bad" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)" were incomplete "sketches".[42] "Pride (In the Name of Love)", about Martin Luther King, Jr., was the album's first single and became the band's biggest hit to that point, including being their first to enter the US top 40.[43]
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"The Unforgettable Fire" has a rich, symphonic sound built from ambient instrumentation, a driving rhythm, and a lyrical "sketch".[44]
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Much of The Unforgettable Fire Tour moved into indoor arenas as U2 began to win their long battle to build their audience.[45] The complex textures of the new studio-recorded tracks, such as "The Unforgettable Fire" and "Bad", were problematic to translate to live performances.[37] One solution was programmed sequencers, which the band had previously been reluctant to use, but are now used in the majority of the band's performances.[37] Songs on the album had been criticised as being "unfinished", "fuzzy", and "unfocused", but were better received by critics when played on stage.[46]
U2 participated in the Live Aid concert for Ethiopian famine relief at Wembley Stadium in July 1985.[47] U2's performance in front of 82,000 fans was a pivotal point in the band's career.[48] During a 14-minute performance of the song "Bad", Bono leapt down off the stage to embrace and dance with a fan, showing a television audience of millions the personal connection that Bono could make with audiences.[49] In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine called U2 the "Band of the '80s", saying that "for a growing number of rock-and-roll fans, U2 have become the band that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters".[35]
[edit] The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum (1986–89)
"The wild beauty, cultural richness, spiritual vacancy and ferocious violence of America are explored to compelling effect in virtually every aspect of The Joshua Tree—in the title and the cover art, the blues and country borrowings evident in the music ... Indeed, Bono says that 'dismantling the mythology of America' is an important part of The Joshua Tree's artistic objective."
Realising that "U2 had no tradition" and that their knowledge of music from before their childhood was limited, the group delved into American and Irish roots music.[51] Friendships with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Keith Richards motivated the band to explore blues, folk, and gospel music and focused Bono on his skills as a songwriter and lyricist.[52] For their fifth album, The Joshua Tree,[53] the band wanted to build on The Unforgettable Fire's textures, but instead of out-of-focus experimentation, they sought a harder-hitting sound that used the limitation of strict song structures.[54] U2 interrupted their 1986 album sessions to serve as a headline act on Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope tour. Rather than being a distraction, the tour added extra intensity and focus to their new material.[55] In 1986, Bono travelled to San Salvador and Nicaragua and saw first-hand the distress of peasants bullied in internal conflicts that were subject to American political intervention. The experience became a central influence on the new music.[56]
The Joshua Tree was released in March 1987. The album juxtaposes antipathy towards America against the group's deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedom, and ideals.[58] The band wanted music with a sense of location and a "cinematic" quality, and the record's music and lyrics draw on imagery created by American writers whose works the band had been reading.[59] The Joshua Tree became the fastest-selling album in British chart history, and topped the Billboard 200 in the United States for nine consecutive weeks.[60] The first two singles, "With or Without You"[38] and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", quickly became the group's first number-one hits in the US. They became the fourth rock band to be featured on the cover of Time magazine,[61] which declared U2 "Rock's Hottest Ticket".[62] The album won U2 their first two Grammy Awards,[63] and it brought the band a new level of success. Many publications, including Rolling Stone, have cited it as one of rock's greatest.[64] The Joshua Tree Tour was the first tour on which the band played shows in stadiums, alongside smaller arena shows.[65]
The documentary Rattle and Hum featured footage recorded from The Joshua Tree Tour, and the accompanying double album of the same name included nine studio tracks and six live U2 performances. Released in October 1988, the album and film were intended as a tribute to American music,[66] and included recordings at Sun Studios in Memphis and performances with Bob Dylan and B. B. King. Rattle and Hum performed modestly at the box office and received mixed reviews from both film and music critics;[67] one Rolling Stone editor spoke of the album's "excitement", another described it as "bombastic and misguided".[68] The film's director, Phil Joanou, described it as "an overly pretentious look at U2".[69] Most of the album's new material was played on 1989's Lovetown Tour, which visited Australia, Japan and Europe, because the band wanted to avoid the American backlash. In addition, they had grown dissatisfied with their live performances; Mullen recalled that "We were the biggest, but we weren't the best".[70] With a sense of musical stagnation, Bono said to fans on one of the last dates of the tour that it was "the end of something for U2" and that they had to "go away and [...] just dream it all up again".[71]
[edit] Achtung Baby, Zoo TV, and Zooropa (1990–93)
"Buzzwords on this record were trashy, throwaway, dark, sexy, and industrial (all good) and earnest, polite, sweet, righteous, rockist and linear (all bad). It was good if a song took you on a journey or made you think your hifi was broken, bad if it reminded you of recording studios or U2..."
Stung by the criticism of Rattle and Hum, the band sought to transform themselves musically.[73] Seeking inspiration on the eve of German reunification, they began work on Achtung Baby at Hansa Studios in Berlin in October 1990 with producers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.[74] The sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction and the quality of their material. While Clayton and Mullen preferred a sound similar to U2's previous work, Bono and The Edge were inspired by European industrial music and electronic dance music and advocated a change. Weeks of tension and slow progress nearly took their toll, as the group considered breaking up, but they made a breakthrough with the improvised writing of the song "One".[75] They returned to Dublin in 1991, where morale improved and the majority of the album was completed.
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In November 1991, U2 released Achtung Baby. The album represented a calculated change in musical and thematic direction for the group; the shift was one of their most dramatic since The Unforgettable Fire.[77] Sonically, the record incorporated influences from alternative rock, dance, and industrial music of the time, and the band referred to its musical departure as "four men chopping down the Joshua Tree".[78] Thematically, it was a more introspective and personal record; it was darker, yet at times more flippant than the band's previous work. Commercially and critically, it has been one of the band's most successful albums. It produced five hit singles, including "The Fly", "Mysterious Ways", and "One", and it was a crucial part of the band's early 1990s reinvention.[79] Like The Joshua Tree, many publications have cited the record as one of rock's greatest.[64]
Like Achtung Baby, the 1992–1993 Zoo TV Tour was an unequivocal break with the band's past. In contrast to the austere stage setups of previous U2 tours, Zoo TV was an elaborate multimedia event. It satirised the pervasive nature of television and its blurring of news, entertainment, and home shopping by attempting to instill "sensory overload" in its audience.[78][80][81] The stage featured large video screens that showed visual effects, random video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases.[82] Whereas U2 were known for their earnest performances in the 1980s, the group's Zoo TV performances were intentionally ironic and self-deprecating;[78] on stage, Bono performed as several over-the-top characters, including "The Fly",[83] "Mirror Ball Man", and "MacPhisto".[84] Prank phone calls were made to President Bush, the United Nations, and others. Live satellite link-ups to war-torn Sarajevo caused controversy.[85]
Quickly recorded during a break in the Zoo TV Tour in mid-1993, the Zooropa album continued many of the themes from Achtung Baby and the Zoo TV Tour. Initially intended as an EP, the band expanded Zooropa into a full-length LP album. It was an even greater departure from the style of their earlier recordings, incorporating further dance influences and other electronic effects.[86] Johnny Cash sang the lead vocals on "The Wanderer". Most of the songs were played at least once during the 1993 legs of the tour, which visited Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan; half the album's tracks became permanent fixtures in the setlist.[87] Although the commercially successful "Zooropa" won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, the band regards the album with mixed feelings, because they felt it was more of "an interlude."
[edit] Passengers, Pop, and PopMart (1994–99)
In 1995, U2 released an experimental album called Original Soundtracks 1. Brian Eno, producer of three previous U2 albums, contributed as a full partner, including writing and performing. For this reason and due to the record's highly experimental nature, the band chose to release it under the moniker "Passengers" to distinguish it from U2's conventional albums. Mullen said of the album, "There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record."[88] It was commercially unnoticed by U2 standards and it received generally poor reviews. However, the single "Miss Sarajevo" featuring Luciano Pavarotti, which Bono cites as one of his favourite U2 songs,[89] was successful.
"It's not enough to write a great lyric; it's not enough to have a good idea or a great hook, lots of things have to come together and then you have to have the ability to discipline and screen. We should give this album to a re-mixer, go back to what was originally intended..."
On 1997's Pop, U2 continued experimenting; tape loops, programming, rhythm sequencing, and sampling provided much of the album with heavy, funky dance rhythms.[91] Released in March, the album debuted at number one in 35 countries and drew mainly positive reviews.[92] Rolling Stone, for example, stated that U2 had "defied the odds and made some of the greatest music of their lives".[93] Others felt that the album was a major disappointment and sales were poor compared to previous U2 releases.[94] The band was hurried into completing the album in time for the impending pre-booked tour, and Bono admitted that the album "didn't communicate the way it was intended to".[95]
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The subsequent tour, PopMart, commenced in April 1997. Like Zoo TV, it poked fun at pop culture and was intended to send a sarcastic message to those accusing U2 of commercialism. The stage included a 100-foot (30 m) tall golden yellow arch (reminiscent of the McDonald's logo), a 150-foot (46 m) long video screen, and a 40-foot (12 m) tall mirrorball lemon. U2's "big shtick" failed, however, to satisfy many who were seemingly confused by the band's new kitsch image and elaborate sets.[96] The postponement of Pop's release date in order to complete the album meant rehearsal time for the tour was severely reduced, and performances in early shows suffered.[97] A highlight of the tour was the concert in Sarajevo where U2 were the first major group to perform there following the Bosnian War.[98] Mullen described the concert as "an experience I will never forget for the rest of my life, and if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile."[99] Bono called the show "one of the toughest and one of the sweetest nights of my life".[100] One month after the conclusion of the PopMart Tour, U2 appeared on the 200th episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, "Trash of the Titans", in which Homer Simpson disrupted the band on stage during a PopMart concert.[101]
"Reapplying for the job of the best band in the world" (2000–06)[link]
Following the relatively disappointing reception of Pop, U2 declared they were "reapplying for the job ... [of] the best band in the world",[102] and they have since pursued a more conventional rock sound mixed with the influences of their 1990s musical explorations.[103] All That You Can't Leave Behind was released in October 2000 and was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. For many of those not won over by the band's 1990s music, it was considered a return to grace;[104] Rolling Stone called it U2's "third masterpiece" alongside The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.[105] The album debuted at number one in 22 countries[106] and its worldwide hit single, "Beautiful Day" earned three Grammy Awards. The album's other three singles also won Grammy Awards.
For the Elevation Tour, U2 performed in a scaled-down setting, returning to arenas after nearly a decade of stadium productions. A heart-shaped stage and ramp permitted greater proximity to the audience. Following the 11 September attacks, the new album gained added resonance,[64][107] and in October, U2 performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Bono and The Edge later said these New York City shows were among their most memorable and emotional performances.[108] In early 2002, U2 performed during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVI,[109] which SI.com ranked as the best halftime show in Super Bowl history.[110]
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The band's next studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, was released in November 2004. The band were looking for a harder-hitting rock sound than All That You Can't Leave Behind. Thematically, Bono stated that "a lot of the songs are paeans to naiveté, a rejection of knowingness."[111] The first single, "Vertigo", was featured on an internationally aired television commercial for the Apple iPod, and a U2 iPod and an iTunes U2 box set were released as part of a promotion with Apple. The album debuted at number one in the US, where the first week's sales doubled that of All That You Can't Leave Behind and set a record for the band.[112] Claiming it as a contender as one of U2's three best albums, Bono said, "There are no weak songs. But as an album, the whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts, and it fucking annoys me."[111] The Vertigo Tour featured a setlist that varied more across dates than any U2 tour since the Lovetown Tour, and it included songs not played since the early 1980s. Like the Elevation Tour, the Vertigo Tour was a commercial success.[113] The album and its singles won Grammy Awards in all eight categories in which U2 were nominated. In 2005, Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[114] A 3-D concert film, U2 3D, filmed at nine concerts during the Latin American and Australian legs of the Vertigo Tour was released on 23 January 2008.
In August 2006, the band incorporated its publishing business in The Netherlands following the capping of Irish artists' tax exemption at €250,000.[115] The Edge stated that businesses often seek to minimise their tax burdens.[116] The move was criticised in the Irish parliament.[116][117] The band said the criticism was unfair, stating that approximately 95% of their business took place outside of Ireland, that they were taxed globally because of this, and that they were all "personal investors and employers in the country".[118] In March 2008, U2 signed a 12-year deal with Live Nation worth an estimated $100 million (£50 million),[119] which includes Live Nation controlling the band's merchandise, sponsoring, and their official website.[120]
[edit] No Line on the Horizon and U2 360° Tour (2007–present)
Recording for U2's twelfth album, No Line on the Horizon, began with producer Rick Rubin in 2006, but the sessions were short-lived and the material was shelved. In June 2007, the band began new sessions with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who contributed not only as producers, but for the first time with U2, as songwriters as well.[121] Recording continued through December 2008 in the US, the UK, Ireland, and Fez, Morocco, where the band explored North African music. Intended as a more experimental work than their previous two albums,[122] No Line on the Horizon was released in February 2009 and received generally positive reviews, including their first five-star Rolling Stone review. Critics, however, noted it was not as experimental as expected. The album debuted at number one in over 30 countries,[123] but the album's sales have been comparatively low by U2 standards and it did not contain a hit single.[124]
The group commenced the U2 360° Tour in 2009. The shows featured the largest concert stage structure ever, nicknamed "the Claw", and a 360-degree staging/audience configuration that allowed fans to surround the stage from all sides.[125] The tour visited European and North American stadiums in 2009. At year's end, Rolling Stone named U2 one of eight "Artists of the Decade".[126] The group's tours ranked them second in total concert grosses for the decade after The Rolling Stones, although U2 had a significantly higher attendance figure than the Stones. They were the only band in the top 25 touring acts of the 2000s to sell out every show they played.[127] U2 resumed the 360° Tour in 2010 with legs in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. However, their scheduled headline appearance at the Glastonbury Festival 2010 and their North American leg that year were postponed following a serious injury to Bono's back.[128][129][130] These appearances were rescheduled for 2011 after the South African and South American legs.[131] The tour concluded in July 2011 with a final gross of $736,137,344, and a total attendance of 7,268,430, both record-setting figures for a single concert tour.[132]
Musical style[link]
Instrumentation[link]
Since their inception, U2 have developed and maintained a distinctly recognisable sound, with emphasis on melodic instrumentals and expressive, larger-than-life vocals.[133] This approach is rooted partly in the early influence of record producer Steve Lillywhite at a time when the band was not known for musical proficiency.[134] The Edge has consistently used a rhythmic echo and a signature delay[135] to craft his guitar work, coupled with an Irish-influenced drone played against his syncopated melodies[136] that ultimately yields a well-defined ambient, chiming sound. Bono has nurtured his falsetto operatic voice[137] and has exhibited a notable lyrical bent towards social, political, and personal subject matter while maintaining a grandiose scale in his songwriting. In addition, The Edge has described U2 as a fundamentally live band.[136]
Despite these broad consistencies, U2 have introduced brand new elements into their musical repertoire with each new album. U2's early sound was influenced by bands such as Television and Joy Division, and has been described as containing a "sense of exhilaration" that resulted from The Edge's "radiant chords" and Bono's "ardent vocals".[138] U2's sound began with post-punk roots and minimalistic and uncomplicated instrumentals heard on Boy and October, but evolved through War to include aspects of rock anthem, funk, and dance rhythms to become more versatile and aggressive.[139] Boy and War were labelled "muscular and assertive" by Rolling Stone,[38] influenced in large part by Lillywhite's producing. The Unforgettable Fire, which began with The Edge playing more keyboards than guitars, as well as follow-up The Joshua Tree, had Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois at the production helm. With their influence, both albums achieved a "diverse texture".[38] The songs from The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum placed more emphasis on Lanois-inspired rhythm as they mixed distinct and varied styles of gospel and blues music, which stemmed from the band's burgeoning fascination with America's culture, people and places. In the 1990s, U2 reinvented themselves as they began using synthesisers, distortion, and electronic beats derived from alternative rock, industrial music, dance, and hip-hop on Achtung Baby,[140] Zooropa, and Pop.[141] The 2000s had U2 returning to a stripped-down sound, with a more traditional rhythm and less obvious use of synthesisers and effects.[142]
Lyrics and themes[link]
Social and political commentary, often embellished with Christian and spiritual imagery,[143] are a major aspect of U2's lyrical content. Songs such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Silver and Gold", and "Mothers of the Disappeared" were motivated by current events of the time. The former was written about the troubles in Northern Ireland,[144] while the latter concerns the struggle of a group of women whose children were killed or "disappeared" by the government during the Salvadoran Civil War.[145] The song "Running to Stand Still" from The Joshua Tree was inspired by the heroin addiction that was sweeping through Dublin—the lyric "I see seven towers, but I only see one way out" references the Ballymun Towers of Northern Dublin and the imagery throughout the song personifies the struggles of addiction.[146]
Bono's personal conflicts and turmoil inspired songs like "Mofo", "Tomorrow" and "Kite". An emotional yearning or pleading frequently appears as a lyrical theme,[133] in tracks such as "Yahweh",[147] "Peace on Earth", and "Please". Much of U2's songwriting and music is also motivated by contemplations of loss and anguish, coupled with hopefulness and resiliency, themes that are central to The Joshua Tree.[38] Some of these lyrical ideas have been amplified by Bono and the band's personal experiences during their youth in Ireland, as well as Bono's campaigning and activism later in his life. U2 have used tours such as Zoo TV and PopMart to caricature social trends, such as media overload and consumerism, respectively.[141]
While the band and its fans often affirm the political nature of their music, U2's lyrics and music have been criticised as apolitical because of their vagueness and "fuzzy imagery", and a lack of any specific references to actual people or characters.[148]
Influences[link]
The band cites The Who,[149] The Clash,[150] Television, Ramones,[151] The Beatles,[152] Joy Division,[153] Siouxsie and the Banshees,[154] Elvis Presley,[155] and Patti Smith[156] as influences. Van Morrison has been cited by Bono as an influence[157] and his influence on U2 is pointed out by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[158] U2 have also worked and/or had influential relationships with artists including Johnny Cash, Green Day, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Lou Reed, Luciano Pavarotti,[159] Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Wim Wenders, R.E.M., Salman Rushdie, and Anton Corbijn.
Campaigning and activism[link]
Since the early 1980s, the members of U2—as a band and individually—have collaborated with other musicians, artists, celebrities, and politicians to address issues concerning poverty, disease, and social injustice.
In 1984, Bono and Adam Clayton participated in Band Aid to raise money for the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia. This initiative produced the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which would be the first among several collaborations between U2 and Bob Geldof. In July 1985, U2 played Live Aid, a follow-up to Band Aid's efforts. Bono and his wife Ali, invited by World Vision, later visited Ethiopia where they witnessed the famine first hand. Bono would later say this laid the groundwork for his Africa campaigning and some of his songwriting.[160]
In 1986, U2 participated in the A Conspiracy of Hope tour in support of Amnesty International and in Self Aid for unemployment in Ireland. The same year, Bono and Ali Hewson also visited Nicaragua and El Salvador at the invitation of the Sanctuary movement, and saw the effects of the El Salvador Civil War. These 1986 events greatly influenced The Joshua Tree album, which was being recorded at the time.[55][161]
In 1992, the band participated in the "Stop Sellafield" concert with Greenpeace during their Zoo TV tour.[162] Events in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war inspired the song "Miss Sarajevo", which premiered at a September 1995 Pavarotti and Friends show, and which Bono and the Edge performed at War Child.[163] A promise made in 1993 was kept when the band played in Sarajevo as part of 1997's PopMart Tour.[164] In 1998, they performed in Belfast days prior to the vote on the Good Friday Agreement, bringing Northern Irish political leaders David Trimble and John Hume on stage to promote the agreement.[165] Later that year, all proceeds from the release of the "Sweetest Thing" single went towards supporting the Chernobyl Children's Project.
In 2001, the band dedicated "Walk On" to Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.[166] In late 2003, Bono and the Edge participated in the South Africa HIV/AIDS awareness 46664 series of concerts hosted by Nelson Mandela.[167] The band played 2005's Live 8 concert in London. The band and manager Paul McGuinness were awarded Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award for their work in promoting human rights.[168]
Since 2000, Bono's campaigning has included Jubilee 2000 with Bob Geldof, Muhammad Ali, and others to promote the cancellation of third world debt during the Great Jubilee. In January 2002, Bono co-founded the multinational NGO, DATA, with the aim of improving the social, political, and financial state of Africa. He continued his campaigns for debt and HIV/AIDS relief into June 2002 by making high-profile visits to Africa.[169]
Product Red, a 2006 for-profit brand seeking to raise money for the Global Fund, was founded, in part, by Bono. The ONE Campaign, originally the US counterpart of Make Poverty History, was shaped by his efforts and vision.
In late 2005, following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, The Edge helped introduce Music Rising, an initiative to raise funds for musicians who lost their instruments in the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast.[170] In 2006, U2 collaborated with punk pop band Green Day to record a remake of the song "The Saints Are Coming" by The Skids to benefit Music Rising.[171]
U2 and Bono's social activism have not been without its critics, however. Several authors and activists who publish in politically left journals such as CounterPunch have decried Bono's support of political figures such as Paul Wolfowitz,[172] as well as his "essential paternalism".[173] Other news sources have more generally questioned the efficacy of Bono's campaign to relieve debt and provide assistance to Africa.[174] Tax and development campaigners have also criticised the band's move from Ireland to the Netherlands to reduce its tax bill.[175]
Other projects[link]
The members of U2 have undertaken a number of side projects, sometimes in collaboration with some of their bandmates. In 1985, Bono recorded the song "In a Lifetime" with the Irish band Clannad. The Edge recorded a solo soundtrack album for the film Captive in 1986,[176] which included a vocal performance by Sinéad O'Connor that predates her own debut album by a year. Bono and The Edge wrote the song "She's a Mystery to Me" for Roy Orbison, which was featured on his 1989 album Mystery Girl.[177] In 1990, Bono and The Edge provided the soundtrack to Royal Shakespeare Company London stage version of A Clockwork Orange (only one track was ever released, on the b-side to "The Fly" single). That same year, Mullen co-wrote and produced a song for the Irish International soccer team in Italia '90, called "Put 'Em Under Pressure", which topped the Irish charts. Together with The Edge, Bono wrote the song "GoldenEye" for the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, which was performed by Tina Turner.[178] Clayton and Mullen reworked the title track of the movie Mission: Impossible in 1996.[179] Bono loaned his voice to "Joy" on Mick Jagger's 2001 album Goddess in the Doorway.[180] Bono also recorded a spare, nearly spoken-word version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the Tower of Song compilation in 1995. Additionally, in 1998, Bono collaborated with Kirk Franklin and Crystal Lewis (along with controversial mainstream artists R. Kelly and Mary J. Blige) for a successful gospel song called "Lean on Me".
Aside from musical collaborations, U2 have worked with several authors. American author William S. Burroughs had a guest appearance in U2's video for "Last Night on Earth" shortly before he died.[181] His poem "A Thanksgiving Prayer" was used as video footage during the band's Zoo TV Tour. Other collaborators include William Gibson and Allen Ginsberg.[182] In early 2000, the band recorded three songs for The Million Dollar Hotel movie soundtrack, including "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", which was co-written by Salman Rushdie and motivated by his book of the same name.[183]
In 2007 Bono appeared in the movie Across the Universe and performed The Beatles songs. Bono and The Edge also wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Additionally, The Edge created the theme song for Season 1 and 2 of the animated television series The Batman.[184]
Legacy[link]
Main article: List of awards received by U2
U2 have sold more than 150 million records, placing them amongst the best-selling music artists of all-time.[185] The Joshua Tree ranks as one of the best-selling albums in the US, having shipped 10 million units,[186] and it is also among the best-selling albums worldwide with sales of 25 million copies.[187] Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time",[3] while ranking Bono the 32nd greatest singer[188] and The Edge the 38th greatest guitarist.[189] In 2010, eight of U2's songs appeared on Rolling Stone's updated list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", with "One" ranking the highest at number 36.[190] Five of the group's twelve studio albums were ranked on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"—The Joshua Tree placed the highest at number 26.[64] A Q Magazine readers' poll named U2 the Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years in 2011.[191] Reflecting on the band's popularity and worldwide impact, Jeff Pollack for the The Huffington Post said, "like The Who before them, U2 wrote songs about things that were important and resonated with their audience".[192]
U2 first received Grammy Awards for The Joshua Tree in 1988, and have won 22 in total, from 34 nominations, more than any other band.[63][193] These include Best Rock Duo or Group, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rock Album. The British Phonographic Industry has awarded U2 seven BRIT Awards, five of these being for Best International Group. In Ireland, U2 have won 14 Meteor Awards since the awards began in 2001. Other awards include one AMA, four VMAs, eleven Q Awards, two Juno Awards, three NME Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in early 2005.[114] In 2006, all four members of the band received ASCAP awards for writing the songs, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and "Vertigo".[194]
Concert tours[link]
Main article: List of U2 concert tours
Discography[link]
Main articles: U2 discography and List of U2 songs
- Boy (1980)
- October (1981)
- War (1983)
- The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
- The Joshua Tree (1987)
- Rattle and Hum (1988)
- Achtung Baby (1991)
- Zooropa (1993)
- Pop (1997)
- All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
- No Line on the Horizon (2009)
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- Bibliography
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