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Guitar Backing track [A Minor] with scale chart
Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care {Music Video}
GH3: Victory Solo X (Preview)
Everything Is Sound - Jason Mraz (Full Studio Track)
Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)
Get Off - Foxy (1978)
LeAnn Rimes - Crazy 1999 Video Live Donny & Marie stereo widescreen
Best of Liquid Dubstep July 2011
John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)
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Guitar Backing track [A Minor] with scale chart/video details
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  • Published: 09 Jun 2012
  • Duration: 2:43
  • Updated: 25 Jul 2012
Author: BandBackingTracks
Make sure to subscribe for NEW backing tracks A-minor Pentatonic Scale: goo.gl This backing track can be very useful for musicians that don't have a full band. It is great for practicing you solos on: Guitar, Saxophone, Keyboard, etc.. You can also use this track for live performance events. Hit "more tracks" if you want to see ALL the backing tracks I own the copyright and world wide distribution rights to this video Tags: "bandbackingtracks"
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Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care {Music Video}/video details
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  • Published: 17 Nov 2009
  • Duration: 3:15
  • Updated: 25 Jul 2012
Author: FootyVidz99
"Handle with Care" is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Writing credits are shared by all five band members, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan. The single reached #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #21 on the UK singles chart and #3 on the ARIA Chart The song was originally intended as the B-side of Harrison's "This is Love". Harrison had not yet written a song for the B-side when an impromptu gathering of the musicians who became the Wilburys turned into an informal songwriting and jam session. Casting about for a song idea while relaxing in a garden near Bob Dylan's recording studio, Harrison was inspired when he noticed a box in Dylan's garage that was labeled "Handle with Care". The box also inspired the opening line: "been beat up and battered around." The complete song quickly followed, with different members of the gathering contributing various lines. The group moved to a recording studio and quickly laid down the basic tracks which were later polished by eventual Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne. Harrison's record company decided that the song was too good to be released as "filler." Encouraged by this response and the enjoyable experience of recording together, the group re-convened to record the first Wilburys album, which featured "Handle With Care" as the lead track.
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GH3: Victory Solo X (Preview)/video details
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  • Published: 30 Mar 2010
  • Duration: 6:47
  • Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Author: schmutz06
Track and Chart preview for Victory Solo X (Synth Death Track Pack) Uber custom song for Guitar hero, made in FL studio Duration - 6:40 High scores: - COGHWilliam 1073998 100% FC (!) - GuitarHeroAce5993 1067496 100% FC (!) - MorandiV8SH 1046888 100% FC (!) - void222x 1037497 99% - GuitarHeroPhenom 1037440 100% FC (!) - xplasticjoe 1032374 100% FC (!) - mike1SH 1025017 99% - SpunkyPlays2 1019843 98% - halofan2233 1002640 98% - Prestonxpunk 994124 100% FC (!) - gamingfreak3 988314 99% - ggamerman 942124 95% - joedamillio 941770 96% - metallicais1337 760480 92% - GTAFreakAndry 725239 92% - kaleniuk2 719315 89% - SHAuriscope 692665 90% - paulie21212121 668031 89% - skizzomorphe 656444 87% - Raylan2004 613249 89% Download for SYNTH DEATH Trackpack: www.mediafire.com (54.67 MB)
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Everything Is Sound - Jason Mraz (Full Studio Track)/video details
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  • Published: 15 Apr 2012
  • Duration: 4:50
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: Jason Mraz
Everything Is Sound - Jason Mraz Love Is A Four Letter Word - Full Track & Album No Copyright Infringement Intended
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Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)/video details
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  • Published: 25 Jul 2011
  • Duration: 5:42
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: Feeladrox6
More Track , Sessions & Dj Chart on feeladrox.com Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix) ifyou own the rights of this track, and want it removed. Please, let me know, send me a private message and I'll proceed to remove it within a few hours. It was upload only for promotional use, I'm not interested on illegal downloads. Sorry for the inconvenience, Regards Feel Adrox Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Original Mix)
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Get Off - Foxy (1978)/video details
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  • Published: 23 Aug 2010
  • Duration: 3:32
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: djbuddyloveoldschool
"Get Off" was a hit song by Miami-based Latin/disco band Foxy in 1978. Released from their LP of the same name, the song became a crossover hit. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart during the fall of that year and also peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Along with the track "Tena's Song", "Get Off" peaked at number eighteen on the disco chart. Foxy was a Latin dance/disco group formed in 1976 in Miami, Florida. The group consisted of Cuban vocalist-guitarist Ish 'Angel' Ledesma, percussionist Richard 'Richie' Puente, keyboardist Charlie Murciano, bass guitarist Arnold Paseiro and drummer Joe Galdo. Carl 'Carlo' Driggs contributed vocals/percussion and shared songwriting credits on their second album, "Get Off". Puente, who died on July 18, 2004 at age 51, was the son of the late, famous bandleader Tito Puente. Their biggest hit was "Get Off" in 1978 (written by Ledesma and Driggs), which was their only single release from the album "Get Off". Brian Avnet managed Foxy at the peak of their success and now manages the career of Josh Groban. Ledesma later formed the groups Oxo in 1983 and Company B in 1986. Driggs, in addition to his involvement and writing credits with Foxy, was the lead singer of Kracker, a group touted by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who released three albums. Driggs was also the lead singer of Paul Revere and The Raiders for over 20 years. Thischannel is dedicated to all the great 'old <b>...</b>
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LeAnn Rimes - Crazy 1999 Video Live Donny & Marie stereo widescreen/video details
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  • Published: 21 Jun 2011
  • Duration: 3:23
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: sheerfolly2
"Crazy" is a single and track from the 1999 album, "LeAnn Rimes", by LeAnn Rimes. The album was released on Rounder Records and was produced by Wilbur C. Rimes and LeAnn Rimes. The album is almost entirely a collection of covers of country music classics. The album topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and reached #8 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Canadian RPM Country Albums chart.. The only new song on the album, "Big Deal", peaked at #6 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The album is RIAA platinum certified. "Crazy" was written by Willie Nelson and originally recorded by Patsy Cline in 1961 for release on her Decca Records album "Showcase With the Jordanaires". It was a #2 country hit in 1962. Rimes' version was released on Curb Records and was produced by Wilbur C. Rimes. The single's highest chart position was #36 on the UK Singles Chart. This live performance version by Rimes is taken from her appearance on the 29 December 1999 edition of the syndicated "Donnie & Marie" television program. Lyrics Link: www.lyricsmode.com
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Best of Liquid Dubstep July 2011/video details
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  • Published: 20 Jul 2011
  • Duration: 13:21
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: goingquantum
Check the links below to support me! Especially Facebook & Twitter. ★ Download: www.mediafire.com ★ Follow Going Quantum: facebook.com twitter.com youtube.com soundcloud.com ustream.tv gplus.to ★ Tracklist Flight Facilities - Crave You (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix) Royksopp - Tricky Tricky (Mindflow Remix) Blu Mar Ten - Nobody Here (Kastle Remix) Emalkay - The World The Brookes Brothers Ft. Johnny Osbourne - In Your Eyes
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John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)/video details
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  • Published: 13 Sep 2011
  • Duration: 6:12
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: FeelAdroxTracks
More Released Tracks, Sessions & Dj Chart on feeladrox.com John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix) if you own the rights of this track, and want it removed. Please, let me know, send me a private message and I'll proceed to remove it within a few hours. It was upload only for promotional use, I'm not interested on illegal downloads. Sorry for the inconvenience, Regards Feel Adrox John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)John Dahlback feat. Erik Hassle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)
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  • Published: 29 Nov 2010
  • Duration: 4:55
  • Updated: 25 Jul 2012
Author: Derek Arellano
Problems? Tell me(Message me)! Subscribe and Rate. No Surveys. No viruses. Hey Gaiz, sorry if im not responding to you guys in the comments. Its just i dont get notified of all of them so it will be easier for me if you message me so i can help you out personally. and for a while the crack isnt working. you have to find for an updated crack or get a newer expansion pack and patch that one. (Pets, Showtime) The Sims 3 Late Night gives players all-access and lets them loose on a vibrant, active downtown scene where they'll rub elbows with celebrities at the hottest parties, hit the local bar after work, tour the scene with their Sims' band, kick back in a plush hot tub, and discover what's lurking as the lights go out and adventure begins after dark. Players will be able to take their Sims into the bustling urban setting where they'll be able to become a local celebrity, member of a music band, mixologist, director, and more. To gain entrance into the most elite clubs in town, players need to keep their attitude in check otherwise they'll be given the cold shoulder by tough bouncers or find another way onto the list. If chilling is the player's forte, their Sims can lounge at a chic club or dive bar or if they like to live on the edge, they can discover the secret of becoming a vampire. Whether embarking on a new career, painting the town red, or throwing a party on the rooftop of a penthouse, it's always up to the player to tell their unique stories with The Sims 3. What <b>...</b>
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The City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson/video details
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  • Published: 17 Aug 2007
  • Duration: 4:50
  • Updated: 24 Jul 2012
Author: nlimonge
City of New Orleans is a folk song written by Steve Goodman, describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife's family. He performed the song for Arlo Guthrie in the Quiet Knight, a bar in Chicago, and Guthrie agreed to add it to his repertoire. The song was a hit for Guthrie on his 1972 album Hobo's Lullaby, and is now more closely associated with him, although Goodman performed it until his death in 1984. The song has also been covered by Willie Nelson, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Hank Snow, and others. Willie Nelson version Steve Goodman won a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1984 for Willie Nelson's version, which was included on his 1984 album of the same name. It reached #1 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the United States[and the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. The City of New Orleans - Lyrics Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail All along the south-bound odyssey The train pulls out at Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms and fields Passin' trains that have no names And freight yards full of old black men And the grave-yards of the rusted automobiles Good morning America, how are you? Say don't you know me, I <b>...</b>
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stereophonics - dakota/video details
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  • Published: 21 Mar 2007
  • Duration: 4:06
  • Updated: 25 Jul 2012
Author: candchaoz
"Dakota" is a song by the Welsh band Stereophonics. It was the first single from their fifth studio album Language. Sex. Violence. Other? and was released on February 28, 2005. It was the first Stereophonics single to reach #1 on the UK Singles Chart or to chart on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song spent a total of 20 weeks on the UK singles chart, and it also topped the download chart, remaining on the chart for 22 weeks, half of which were spent in the top 10. The single received good reviews, James Masterton calling it the single of the year. "Dakota" was the first Stereophonics single to achieve success on alternative rock radio stations in the United States, and as such represents their American breakthrough single.[citation needed] Before "Dakota", no Stereophonics single had charted on any rock charts in the US After its release in February, the single steadily gained ground on US alternative rock radio. However, since the Stereophonics lacked a fanbase or previous popular success in America, the single was at a great disadvantage and was initially added to very few station playlists. Nevertheless, the popularity of the song and its championing by such stations as WBCN led "Dakota" slowly to gain airplay and playlist adds across the country over a period of many months. It became one of the 50 most-played songs in the US by mid-May 2005. However, the song lingered just within the top 50 for months and seemed destined to just miss the Modern Rock Tracks <b>...</b>
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- Web Design - Live Website Redesign: Estimating, Planning, and Tracking/video details
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  • Published: 18 Aug 2011
  • Duration: 1:06:37
  • Updated: 12 Mar 2012
Author: ThisWeekIn
Sponsored by Hiscox - hiscoxusa.com Jose and Aure share best practices in estimation, planning and keeping web projects on track. 0:00 Welcome to TWi Web Design with Aure Gimon, Xin Chung, & Victoria Heric 3:45 Xin Chung talks about his background 5:00 Jose talks about the benefits of having a talented producer that can provide transparency to your clients as they manage projects. 7:23 What are the differences between working as a producer within agile development and working as a producer within an agency model? 10:13 The panel discuss producer Best Practices, arguing the benefits of products like Basecamp and Google Docs. 15:20 Jose asks Victoria how she handles the fast pace of an agency environment that involves complicated scheduling and intense dependencies? 17:10 So are you all agile? 19:14 The benefits of documenting a project in case something goes sideways. 20:26 Hiscox is incredible for small business! www.hiscoxusa.com/smallbiz 22:59 Project Managers versus Producers - what's the difference? 27:01 Who should have creative input? 28:37 Jose and Aure have had both titles, what's best for the client? 30:07 Creative Technical Producers? 32:01 Game design is not web development! 33:10 The confusion around job title prefixes. 33:59 A user asks for advice around asset management. 37:26 Jose predicts Google Plus will kill Basecamp! 38:11 Jose demonstrates PB Works infrastructure 39:15 Xin talks the challenge of keeping game development in order. 40:45 To Gantt charts <b>...</b>
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Rendezvous - The Murf (Official Music Video)/video details
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  • Published: 06 Sep 2011
  • Duration: 3:40
  • Updated: 23 Jul 2012
Author: OfficialRendezvous
RENDEZVOUS new album ANOTHER ROUND PLEASE is now available on all major stores and online: store.rendezvousmusic.co.uk Amazon www.amazon.com iTunes: itunes.apple.com Also, check out RENDEZVOUS official website for more music and updates: www.rendezvousmusic.co.uk --- Featured in CBS News and inc. remixes by John Digweed & Nick Muir, Loverush UK! and Timothy Allan - The Murf is an animated story about life and the universe, is was also ranked #5 in UK's top 40 club charts! The Murf is available for download at store.rendezvousmusic.co.uk iTunes: itunes.apple.com Amazon: www.amazon.com More links and info about The Murf: www.cbsnews.com vimeo.com Rendezvous follow up the underground hit "C Sharp" with a slice of smart, leftfield electro in "The Murf". Another track from their now eagerly awaited debut album, "Another Round Please", the song follows a minimalist pulse that brings to mind the likes of Kraftwerk and Underworld. Followed up with a series of remixes, the track is expected to be a club chart success their and ties with classic house names only strengthening. Carl Cox has only recently featured the band on a 2CD compilation for Space where he included one of the two remixes he contributed to their last single. This time around, John Digweed and Nick Muir, amongst others, are taking his place with remix duties on side B. The band already have a firm fanbase across Europe, with home videos of the band recording their debut album quickly received over a million views <b>...</b>
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Make sure to subscribe for NEW backing tracks A-minor Pentatonic Scale: goo.gl This backing track can be very useful for musicians that don't have a full band. It is great for practicing you solos on: Guitar, Saxophone, Keyboard, etc.. You can also use this track for live performance events. Hit "more tracks" if you want to see ALL the backing tracks I own the copyright and world wide distribution rights to this video Tags: "bandbackingtracks"
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Trav­el­ing Wilburys - Han­dle With Care {Music Video}
"Han­dle with Care" is the first track from the Trav­el­ing Wilburys 1988 album, Tr...
pub­lished: 17 Nov 2009
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GH3: Vic­to­ry Solo X (Pre­view)
Track and Chart pre­view for Vic­to­ry Solo X (Synth Death Track Pack) Uber cus­tom song for G...
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Ev­ery­thing Is Sound - Jason Mraz (Full Stu­dio Track)
Ev­ery­thing Is Sound - Jason Mraz Love Is A Four Let­ter Word - Full Track & Album No Co...
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Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Alive (Orig­i­nal Mix)
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pub­lished: 25 Jul 2011
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Get Off - Foxy (1978)
"Get Off" was a hit song by Mi­a­mi-based Latin/disco band Foxy in 1978. Re­leased ...
pub­lished: 23 Aug 2010
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LeAnn Rimes - Crazy 1999 Video Live Donny & Marie stereo widescreen
"Crazy" is a sin­gle and track from the 1999 album, "LeAnn Rimes", by L...
pub­lished: 21 Jun 2011
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Best of Liq­uid Dub­step July 2011
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John Dahlback feat. Erik Has­sle - One Last Ride (Tommy Trash Remix)
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The City of New Or­leans - Willie Nel­son
City of New Or­leans is a folk song writ­ten by Steve Good­man, de­scrib­ing a train ride from ...
pub­lished: 17 Aug 2007
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stereo­phon­ics - dako­ta
"Dako­ta" is a song by the Welsh band Stereo­phon­ics. It was the first sin­gle from...
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Ren­dezvous - The Murf (Of­fi­cial Music Video)
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(Ma­roon 5) This Love - Sung­ha Jung
itunes.​apple.​com Sung­ha www.​sunghajung.​com ar­ranged and played 'This Love' by Maro...
pub­lished: 06 Jun 2011
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3:36
Slade ~ Run Run­away (1984)
"Run Run­away" is a hard rock song per­formed by En­glish band Slade. The song was ...
pub­lished: 25 May 2009
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Ma­roon 5 - This Love HD Of­fi­cial Video Sub­ti­t­u­la­do Español En­glish Lyrics
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pub­lished: 11 Sep 2011
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Mid­night Star - No Park­ing On The Dance Floor Of­fi­cial Video
Mid­night Star - No Park­ing On The Dance Floor © Uni­disc Music Group Fol­low on Twit­ter...
pub­lished: 20 Feb 2010
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Ce­line Dion - My Heart Will Go On (HD)
Watch in HD. Ce­line Dion - My Heart Will Go On www.​fortunecity.​com Ce­line Dion Of­fi­cial Si...
pub­lished: 03 Mar 2009
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Franz Fer­di­nand - This Fire
Franz Fer­di­nand Stu­dio album by Franz Fer­di­nand Re­leased 9 Febru­ary 2004 Record­ed 2003 Gen...
pub­lished: 31 May 2008
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Laura Jansen - Use Some­body (Armin van Bu­uren Re­work)
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pub­lished: 21 Nov 2011
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Alex Gaudi­no - 'I'm In Love (I Wanna Do It)' (Radio Edit)
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Chart-Track is a market research company that monitors music, videos and software sales in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark and was formed in 1996. In July 2008 GfK took a majority stake in the company.[1]

The company produces the Official Irish Music Charts and collects data daily from major and independent record stores in Ireland on behalf of the Irish Recorded Music Association. In the UK the company produces the Official UK Software Charts on behalf of ELSPA and the Official Mobile game Charts. In Denmark the company produces the Official Danish Software Charts on behalf of Multi Medie Foreningen (the Trade Body for the Danish Software industry).

Key report services include: UK Leisure Software, Republic of Ireland Leisure Software, European Leisure Software (in conjunction with GfK), UK Hardware and Peripherals, Republic of Ireland Music and Video, Denmark Leisure Software, and UK Mobile Games.

References[link]

  1. ^ "About Us". Chart-Track. GfK. Archived from the original on 8 April 2012. http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/about/about/index.jsp. Retrieved 8 April 2012. 

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Jason Thomas Mraz

Jason Mraz in March 2011
Background information
Birth name Jason Thomas Mraz
Born (1977-06-23) June 23, 1977 (age 35)
Mechanicsville, Virginia, U.S.
Genres Pop rock, blue-eyed soul, alternative rock
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, mandola, banjo, ukulele, baritone ukulele
Years active 1999–present
Labels Elektra Records (2002–2005)
Atlantic Records (2005–present)
Associated acts Tristan Prettyman, Bushwalla, Jack Johnson, Colbie Calliat
Website jasonmraz.com
Notable instruments
Taylor Guitars

Jason Mraz (play /məˈræz/;[1] born June 23, 1977 in Mechanicsville, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, that Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008, Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of many international charts.

Mraz's international breakthrough came with the release of the single "I'm Yours" from the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. The song was on the Hot 100 for 76 weeks, beating the previous record of 69 weeks held by LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live". The song was a huge commercial success in the US, receiving a 5x platinum certification from the RIAA for sales of over five million.[2] The song was successful internationally, topping the charts in New Zealand and Norway and peaking in the top ten of multiple international charts.

Contents

Early life[link]

Jason Mraz was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia.[3] He is of Czech descent through his grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915.[4] His surname is Czech for "frost"[4] (Czech: mráz). His parents, Tom (Tomáš) Mraz and June, divorced when he was four years old, but he asserts that he had an idyllic childhood, saying, "My hometown of Mechanicsville was very American. There were white picket fences, a church on every street corner, low crime and virtually no drug use. It was a good place to grow up."[5] He went to Lee Davis High School[6]

Music career[link]

[edit] Live at Java Joe's (2001)

In 2001, Mraz released a live acoustic album, Live at Java Joe's, a coffee-house type place in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego where Jewel also made her debut. Here, Mraz performed with percussionist Noel "Toca" Rivera and bassist Ian Sheridan and felt at home singing and scatting through jazzy-pop songs. He would deliver rapidfire lyrics full of verbal mischief, and he would riff off the crowd like a stand-up comic.[7] The album featured Mraz's free-lancing vocal style and songs he later re-released, including "1000 Things", "You and I Both", and "Halfway Home."

The album was made available to download on iTunes on March 11, 2008, under the title Jason Mraz: Live & Acoustic 2001.

[edit] Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002–2003)

In 2002, Mraz signed a recording contract with Elektra Records. He recorded his first album with the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer producer John Alagía, and Virginia-based roots rock band the Agents Of Good Root.[8] Mraz then released his first major-label debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. The album was a relative commercial success, peaking at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 200 and at number two on the Top Heatseekers Chart. The lead single from the album, "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" was co-written by music production team The Matrix and it was Mraz's first top 20 single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 15.

Mraz's friend and former roommate Billy "Bushwalla" Galewood collaborated on the album, co-writing "Curbside Prophet" and the album's third single, and "I'll Do Anything".

[edit] Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom (2004)

In 2004, while touring, Mraz released a live album and accompanying DVD[9], Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom, a special two-disc set including an audio CD of his concert from Milwaukee's Eagles Ballroom[10] , plus a video DVD of the concert plus tons of backstage footage. Mraz performed with his touring band including drummer Adam King, percussionist Noel "Toca" Rivera and bassist Ian Sheridan and keyboardist Eric Hinojosa along with a guest appearance from Blues Traveler lead John Popper. The Eagles Ballroom (part of The Rave complex) has a capacity of only about 3,200[11] making it possible for Mraz to have significant interaction with the audience, bridging his earlier coffeeshop performances to his later much larger venue concerts.

[edit] Touring and Mr. A–Z (2003–2008)

Mraz opened for Tracy Chapman in March 2003 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In July 2005, Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette during her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour. On July 26, 2005, he released his second major-label album, Mr. A–Z, for Atlantic Records. It entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number 5.[12] In December, the album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while its producer, the prolific Steve Lillywhite, received a nomination for Producer of the Year.[13] In 2006 "Life is Wonderful" the first track of the album was featured in the Hilton Journeys Hotel commercial"

Mraz began his long-running tour in support of Mr. A–Z at the San Diego Music Awards on September 12. The tour featured several opening acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had co-written the duet "Shy That Way" in 2002.[14] Mraz and Prettyman dated, ending their relationship in 2006. They also co-wrote the song "All I Want For Christmas is Us".[citation needed] In November 2005, Mraz opened for the Rolling Stones on five dates during their 2005–2006 world tour. Also in 2005, Mraz was one of many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for The Gap entitled "Favorites". The music-themed campaign also featured other singers including Tristan Prettyman, Michelle Branch, Joss Stone, Keith Urban, Alanis Morissette, Brandon Boyd, and Michelle Williams.[15] In December 2005, Mraz released the first part of his ongoing podcast.

Jason Mraz performs at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut on May 17, 2006.
Jason Mraz at Gröna Lund In Stockholm, Sweden 2008

In March 2006, Mraz also performed for the first time at a sold-out performance in Singapore with Noel "Toca" Rivera as part of the annual Mosaic Music Festival.[citation needed] In May 2006, Mraz toured mostly small venues and music festivals in the U.S., along with a few shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The tour included a May 6, 2006 acoustic show with P.O.D., Better Than Ezra, Live, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Mraz was featured as a headlining guest of St. Louis's annual Fair St. Louis and performed a free concert at the base of the Arch on July 1, 2006. During this time, Mraz was also the opening act at several dates for Rob Thomas' Something to Be Tour.

In December 2006, Selections for Friends, the live, online-only album recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour, was released. Selections for Friends features Jason's favorite songs from the Schubas Tavern and Villa Montalvo shows he played in July 2006. Jason Mraz began 2007 by debuting his new single "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz entitled "Plain Jane" that he rewrote for the ABC television program Ugly Betty. The song was featured as a part of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign.[16] He has since released a song in Spanish entitled "La Nueva Belleza (The New Beauty)".[17]

In 2007, American Idol contestant Chris Richardson performed "Geek in the Pink", which subsequently garnered the song mass recognition and increased downloads at the American iTunes Store. "Geek in the Pink" peaked at No. 22 on the U.S. iTunes Store on March 10, 2007, but it was ineligible for the site's Hot 100.[citation needed] The tape-recording of bootlegs during Mraz's shows is explicitly supported by him and his management.[18] In 2007, he also provided background vocals on Mandy Moore's song "Slummin' in Paradise", of her studio album Wild Hope.

[edit] We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (2008–2009)

Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. on May 13, 2008, following the April 2008 "Music, Magic, Make Peace" Tour with Bushwalla, The Makepeace Brothers, and magician Justin Willman. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 200, giving Mraz his highest charting album to date. Following the success of its lead single, "I'm Yours", the album broke into the top ten of many international music charts and charted in the top three in Australia and the US.[19]

The first single, "I'm Yours", reached No. 1 on AAA radio charts in the US. The single was a B-side to Mr A-Z, and was made famous by recordings from his live shows. In September 2008, the song became Mraz's first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #6. As of October 14, 2008, the album has been certified Gold by the RIAA, selling in excess of 500,000 copies in the US. The song was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of multiple European charts and topping the charts in New Zealand for six weeks.[20] In 2008, Mraz launched his single "I'm Yours" at the music industry-only event titled Sunset Sessions. Exactly one year later, Jason was nominated for a Grammy on the single.

Mraz and his song "I'm Yours" were nominated for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2009 51st Grammy Awards. The album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 2009. On January 31, 2009, Mraz was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing "I'm Yours" and "Lucky", the latter with Colbie Caillat. "Lucky" peaked on the Hot 100 at 48.

With "Make It Mine" and "Lucky", Mraz won two awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, respectively, at the 2010 52nd Grammy Awards.

On June 20, 2009, Mraz was awarded the Hal David Starlight award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.[21]

[edit] Love Is a Four Letter Word (2009–present)

In early 2009, a song titled "Try Try Try" was leaked out into the Internet. The song was later released in 2010 by Michael Squire. New songs have been performed in his recent concerts, some of which have been uploaded onto YouTube. Earlier this year, Jason Mraz spent time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil working with Milton Nascimento. Mraz also recently met and worked with Willie Nelson, whose 'style' is fondly referenced in one of Mraz's early hits "Curbside Prophet."

In November 2009, Mraz posted on his MySpace page plans for a new album to be recorded starting in December, stating "In 2 weeks time I will enter the studio and begin recording the next album. Only a handful of songs are written and slated but the momentum of love is with me. Every day new verses get added on. The songs are coming together piece by piece. The process is unlike any of the other records before this. It's like I'm being gifted the album without having to do the work. I'm creating that in 6 months the project will be complete and then we'll hit the road again with new sounds and new musicians."[22]

In 2010 Mraz spent time in London, England, where he worked on songs for his new album with producer Martin Terefe and wrote with British singer-songwriter Dido.[23]

Mraz contributed vocals for The Grooveline Horns' eponymous EP on the track "Fun", a cover of the Con Funk Shun song, released March 2, 2010.[24]

In August 2010, Mraz had a Q&A interview with Spin magazine. In the interview, he stated the current possible titles for his fourth album are Peace Canoe or The Love Album.[25]

On September 13, 2010, Mraz was featured on the single "Love, Love, Love" by Hope.[26]

On September 28, 2010, Mraz announced the upcoming release of the new "Life Is Good" EP consisting of recordings from his concerts from Maine to the Life is Good Festival in Canton, Massachusetts which will include live recordings of "Coyotes" and multiple new songs, "San Disco Reggaefornia", "Up", "What Mama Say", and "The Freedom Song". The EP was released on October 5, 2010.[27] On the same tour, Mraz also showcased other new songs, such as "Thinking About You", "Love Looks Like" and "In Your Hands".

From December 26, 2010, the official website was updated with a series of images, the first seemingly a sequence of blocks separated by points to indicate a date, and the second image containing a rectangle, circle, triangle and a square, which appear to spell out the word "love." This image was also trademarked. Popular belief was that the "love" image was the beginning of a marketing campaign for a new record.

Appearing on VH1 Top 20 Countdown on March 5, 2011, Jason Mraz noted that he had 12 songs ready to go for the album but then decided they weren't good enough. In July 2011, his team's Twitter feed (@theRKOP) confirmed that his album will be released in early 2012.[28]

JasonMraz.com relaunched in July 2011 with a new design and a message informing fans that a special announcement was imminent. A few days later, it was announced that Mraz would embark on a mini-global tour in September to November 2011, with occasional full band shows, but mostly as an acoustic duo with long time performing partner and friend, Noel "Toca" Rivera. The special shows marked the ten-year anniversary of the independently released Live at Java Joe's album. Mraz played in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Berlin and Prague, and was due to make a festival appearance in Hossegor, France before the festival was cancelled.

On September 19, 2011, Jason Mraz announced via his Facebook page the release of a new single titled "The World as I See It", which is intended to be the theme of the "In Search of Incredible" campaign, accompanied by the song being embedded via YouTube.[29] On September 20, 2011, the single was released on the iTunes music store.[30]

During the fall/winter tour, many songs old and new were showcased. Towards the end of the tour, Mraz announced that 'I Never Knew You' would not be featuring on the new album, suggesting that the final tracklist has been decided on and that the album is on course for release around February 2012.

On December 8, 2011, Mraz told Jeff Benjamin of Billboard that the "album is finished" except for one track he was attempting to re-work as an acoustic version. He described the album as, "It's not a departure in the sound of the genre in any way, it's just different tones, different textures. Musically, I think people are going to like it. It's personal. It's melodic. And it's mellow. There's a couple of up-tempo tunes, but mostly the rhythm of the heartbeat kind of takes precedence on this record. Medium-tempo tunes; which I love. It feels more like the pace of life. At least, based on my life and what I've been doing."[31]

On January 20, 2012, during a performance streamed live from the Bing Bar at the Sundance Film Festival, Mraz told the audience that the album's title is Love Is a Four Letter Word. Mraz released a new single from the album, called "I Won't Give Up", and the single has peaked at No. 1 on iTunes.[when?]

During January 2012, the Dutch online retailer bol.com accidentally released a tracklisting for the forthcoming album, which has been dismissed as being incorrect. On February 28, 2012, Jason released an EP entitled Live Is A Four Letter World. The EP was recorded live in San Diego and contains four tracks (one of which had already been released).[32]

The new album was set to be released on May 8, 2012,[33] however on February 14 it was stated that the new album is set to be released in stores and at all digital retailers on April 17, 2012.[34]

Personal life[link]

Mraz was engaged to singer/songwriter and long-time close friend Tristan Prettyman.[35] On June 7, 2011, Mraz said in an interview with the Daily Beast that he and Prettyman were no longer engaged.[36]

Mraz lives a health-conscious lifestyle and enjoys eating mostly raw vegan foods.[37] He owns an avocado farm in Bonsall in Northern San Diego County. Recently, he acquired the Garden Patch Farms&Orchard in Homer Glen, for its organic strawberries.[38] Mraz is an active supporter of several charities including VH1's Save The Music Foundation, MusiCares, Free the Children, Life Rolls On, SPARC and the Human Rights Campaign.[39] He has been named the 2010 SIMA Humanitarian of the Year. He also received the Clean Water Award in 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation.[40] The same year, he also teamed up with The Nature Conservancy[41] and created a PSA using his song I'm Yours to raise awareness about the non-profit organization's efforts to protect the earth.[42] Jason performed at Farm Aid 2011 on August 13 in Kansas City. He has also advocated LGBT rights.[43]

In 2011, Mraz appeared in the Visit California promotional film[44] aimed at boosting tourism from the UK.

Discography[link]

Awards[link]

Year Nominated work Award Result
2009 "I'm Yours" Grammy Award for Song of the Year Nominated
"I'm Yours" Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Won
"We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things." Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Nominated
2010 "Make It Mine" Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Won
"Lucky" Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Won

Notes[link]

  1. ^ See inogolo:pronunciation of Jason Mraz.
  2. ^ "Marketwire.com". Marketwire.com. February 5, 2009. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Atlantic-Records-946354.html. Retrieved May 31, 2010. 
  3. ^ Seraceno, Christina. "Jason Mraz Biography". Allmusic. http://allmusic.com/artist/jason-mraz-p543198/biography. Retrieved December 27, 2010. 
  4. ^ a b Blair, Tom (November 2008). "Dialogue: Jason Mraz". San Diego Magazine. http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/media/San-Diego-Magazine/November-2008/Jason-Mraz/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1#artanc. Retrieved February 6, 2009. 
  5. ^ Thrills, Adrian (December 25, 2008). "With fans like the Rolling Stones, singer Jason Mraz won't remain a virtual unknown in the UK for long". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1101729/With-fans-like-Rolling-Stones-singer-Jason-Mraz-wont-remain-virtual-unknown-UK-long.html. Retrieved December 27, 2010. 
  6. ^ "Jason Mraz' background". San Diego Reader Artist Profile. San Diego Reader. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/jason-mraz/. Retrieved 20 May 2012. 
  7. ^ [1], International Index of Music Periodicals Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  8. ^ [2], Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  9. ^ "Released August 24, 2004". Tonight, Not Again. Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Again-Live-Eagles-Ballroom/dp/B0002IQNW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337547452&sr=8-1. Retrieved 20 May 2012. 
  10. ^ "The Rave Complex includes the Eagles Ballroom". http://www.therave.com/about_the_eagles_ballroom.asp. Retrieved 19 May 2012. 
  11. ^ "Rent the Eagles Ballroom (capacity 3,200)". http://www.myspace.com/performattheraveregional. Retrieved 19 May 2012. 
  12. ^ Zahlaway, John (August 12, 2005). "Jason Mraz books headlining fall tour". Live Daily. http://www.livedaily.com/news/Jason_Mraz_books_headlining_fall_tour-8592.html?t=1. Retrieved July 1, 2007. 
  13. ^ "Fast Facts: 48th Annual Grammy Nominees". Fox News. December 8, 2005. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178108,00.html. Retrieved July 1, 2007. 
  14. ^ Jacobs, Jay S (2005). "Tristan Prettyman Rides the Crest". http://www.popentertainment.com/tristanprettyman.htm. Retrieved July 1, 2007. 
  15. ^ "GAP Favorites Alanis Morissete, Jos Stone, Destiny's Child sing Michelle Williams and Keith Urban". July 31, 2005. http://news.softpedia.com/news/GAP-Favorites-Alanis-Morissette-Joss-Stone-Destiny-s-Child-singer-Michelle-Williams-and-Keith-Urban-5662.shtml. 
  16. ^ "Jason Mraz: The Beauty in Ugly". iTunes. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=210445555&s=143441. 
  17. ^ "Jason Mraz: La Nueva Belleza". iTunes. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=216664958&s=143441. 
  18. ^ "Jason Mraz". http://www.jasonmraz.com. 
  19. ^ "Charts – We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.". http://acharts.us/album/35677. 
  20. ^ "Charts – "I'm Yours"". http://acharts.us/song/34437. 
  21. ^ "Jason Mraz to get Hal David Starlight Award". http://www.songhall.org/news/entry/772. 
  22. ^ "Jason Mraz Myspaces Plans". http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=4818814&blogId=519608759. 
  23. ^ Graff, Gary (September 14, 2009). "Jason Mraz May Turn 'Tons of Material' Into Two New Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/news/jason-mraz-may-turn-tons-of-material-into-1004111447.story#/news/jason-mraz-may-turn-tons-of-material-into-1004111447.story. Retrieved January 28, 2011. 
  24. ^ Grooveline Horns EP. Retrieved September 14, 2010.
  25. ^ "Q&A: Jason Mraz". SPIN.com. August 19, 2010. http://www.spin.com/articles/qa-jason-mraz. Retrieved January 28, 2011. 
  26. ^ "Listen to Hope's 'Love Love Love' ft. Jason Mraz!". Atlantic Records. http://www.atlanticrecords.com/news/article/?articleId=8a0af8122af095c2012b0c952c760bb7. Retrieved January 28, 2011. 
  27. ^ "Official Site". Jason Mraz. http://jasonmraz.com/. Retrieved January 28, 2011. 
  28. ^ "RKOP Twitter Feed". July 24, 2011. http://twitter.com/#!/theRKOP/status/95204557109473280. 
  29. ^ "The World As I See It – YouTube". September 19, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjP7VTHUais. 
  30. ^ "Jason Mraz: The World As I See It". iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-world-as-i-see-it-single/id465136628. 
  31. ^ "Jason Mraz Fine-Tunes 4th Album for 2012 Release". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/news/jason-mraz-fine-tunes-4th-album-for-2012-1005624752.story. 
  32. ^ Jason Mraz Love is my four letter word. Jasonmraz.com (January 14, 2012). Retrieved on April 22, 2012.
  33. ^ "Jason Mraz sets release date for fourth studio album". Hitfix.com. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-beat-goes-on/posts/jason-mraz-sets-release-date-for-fourth-studio-album. 
  34. ^ "Jason Mraz sets release date for fourth studio album". jasonmraz.com. http://jasonmraz.com/news/2012/love-is-a-four-letter-word/. 
  35. ^ "Jason Mraz is Engaged". omg.yahoo.com. http://omg.yahoo.com/news/singer-jason-mraz-is-engaged/52985. Retrieved December 24, 2010. 
  36. ^ "Mraz and Prettyman split". dailybeast.com. June 7, 2011. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-06-07/jason-mraz-splits-from-fianc-e-tristan-prettyman-exclusive/. 
  37. ^ "Vegetarian Star". http://vegetarianstar.com/tag/jason-mraz/page/2/. 
  38. ^ "Strawberry Farms". http://chicago.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-places-to-pick-strawberries/. 
  39. ^ "2010 SIMA Humanitarian of the Year". http://www.sima.com/events/liquid-nation-ball/humanitarian-of-the-year.aspx. 
  40. ^ "Surfrider Foundation Presents Clean Water Awards". http://thecoastnews.com/view/full_story/7719830/article-Surfrider-Foundation-presents-Clean-Water-awards?instance=coast_news_special_coverage_right_column. 
  41. ^ Nature Conservancy | Protecting Nature, Preserving Life. Nature.org. Retrieved on April 22, 2012.
  42. ^ PSA Download Center. Plowsharegroup.com. Retrieved on April 22, 2012.
  43. ^ "Jason Mraz Tweets Opposition To Amendment One". Instinct Magazine. 4 May 2012. http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/jason-mraz-tweets-opposition-to-amendment-one?directory=100011. 
  44. ^ YouTube, Misconceptions - Visit California Commercial, 8 Jan 2011

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Thomas Gold
File:Thomas Gold.jpg
Born (1920-05-22)May 22, 1920
Vienna, Austria
Died June 22, 2004(2004-06-22) (aged 84)
Ithaca, New York
Nationality

Austrian British

American
Fields Astrophysics, astronomy, biophysics,
cosmology, geophysics, aerospace engineering
Institutions University of Cambridge, Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
Harvard University, Cornell University
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor R. J. Pumphrey
Doctoral students Stanton J. Peale[1]
Peter Goldreich[1]
Known for Steady State theory, Abiogenic petroleum origin
Notable awards John Frederick Lewis Award (1972)
Humboldt Prize (1979)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004)[2] was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London).[2] Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.

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Early life[link]

Gold was born on May 22, 1920 in Vienna, Austria to Max Gold, a wealthy Jewish industrialist (pre-war) who ran one of Austria's largest mining and metal fabrication companies, and German former actress Josefine Martin. Following the economic downfall of the European mining industry in the late 1920s, Max Gold moved his family to Berlin, where he had taken a job as director of a metal trading company.[3] Following the start of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish campaigns in 1933, Gold and his family left Germany because of his father's heritage. The family traveled through Europe for the next few years. Gold attended boarding school at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in Zuoz, Switzerland, where he quickly proved to be a clever, competitive and physically and mentally aggressive individual.[4] Gold finished his schooling at Zuoz in 1938, and fled with his family to England after the German invasion of Austria in early 1938. Gold entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 and began studying mechanical sciences.[5] In May 1940, just as Hitler was commencing his advance in Belgium and France, Gold was sent into internment as an enemy alien by the British government. It was on the first night of internment, at an army barracks in Bury St Edmunds, that he met his future collaborator and close friend, Hermann Bondi.[6][7]

Gold spent most of his nearly 15 months of internment in a camp in Canada, after which he returned to England and reentered Cambridge University, where he abandoned his study of mechanical sciences for physics.[6] After graduating with a pass degree in June 1942, Gold worked briefly as an agricultural laborer and lumberjack in northern England before joining Bondi and Fred Hoyle on naval research into radar ground clutter near Dunsfold, Surrey. The three men would spend their off-duty hours in "intense and wide-ranging scientific discussion" on topics such as cosmology, mathematics and astrophysics.[8] Within months, Gold was placed in charge of constructing new radar systems. Gold determined how landing craft could use radar to navigate to the appropriate landing spot on D-Day and also discovered that the German navy had fitted snorkels to its U-boats, making them operable underwater while still taking in air from above the surface.[3]

Work at Cambridge[link]

Immediately after the war, Hoyle and Bondi returned to Cambridge, while Gold stayed with naval research until 1947. He then began working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory to help construct the world's largest magnetron, a device invented by two British scientists in 1940 that generated intense microwaves for radar detection. Soon after, Gold joined R. J. Pumphrey, a zoologist at the Cambridge Zoology Laboratory who had served as the deputy head of radar naval research during the war, to study the effect of resonance on the human ear. He found that the degree of resonance observed in the cochlea were not in accordance with the level of damping typical with the viscosity of the watery liquid that fills the inner ear. In 1948, Gold hypothesized that the ear operates by "regeneration", in that electromechanical action occurs when electrical energy is used to counteract the effects of damping.[9] Although Gold won a prize fellowship from Trinity College for his thesis on the regeneration and obtained a junior lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, his theory was widely ignored by ear specialists and physiologists, such as future Nobel Prize winner Georg von Békésy, who did not believe the cochlea operated under a feedback system.[10] In the 1970s, researchers discovered that Gold's hypothesis had been correct – the ear contained microscopic hair cells that operated on a feedback mechanism to generate resonance.[7][9]

Steady State theory[link]

Gold began discussing problems in physics with Hoyle and Bondi again, centering on the issues over redshift and Hubble's law. This led the three to all start questioning the Big Bang theory originally proposed by Georges Lemaître in 1931 and later pioneered by George Gamow, which suggested that the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. As recounted in a 1978 interview with physicist and historian Spencer R. Weart, Gold believed that there was reason to think that the creation of matter was "done all the time and then none of the problems about fleeting moments arise. It can be just in a steady state with the expansion taking things apart as fast as new matter comes into being and condenses into new galaxies".[11]

Two papers were published in 1948 discussing the "Steady State theory" as an alternative to the Big Bang: one by Gold and Bondi, the other by Hoyle. In their seminal paper, Gold and Bondi asserted that although the universe is expanding, it nevertheless does not change its look over time; it has no beginning and no end.[11][12] They proposed the perfect cosmological principle as the underpinning of their theory, which held that the universe is homogenous and isotropic in space and time. On the large scale, they argued that there "is nothing outstanding about any place in the universe, and that those differences which do exist are only of local significance; that seen on a large scale the universe is homogeneous."[13] However, since the universe was not characterized by a lack of evolution, distinguishing features or recognizable direction of time, they postulated that there had to be large-scale motions in the universe. They highlighted two possible types of motion: large-scale expansion and its reverse, large-scale contraction.[14] They estimated that within the expanding universe, hydrogen atoms were being created out of a vacuum at a rate of one atom per cubic meter per 109 years.[15] This creation of matter would keep the density of the universe constant as it expanded. Gold and Bondi also stated that the issues with time scale that had plagued other cosmological theories – such as the discrepancy between the age of the universe as calculated by Hubble and dating of radioactive decay in terrestrial rocks – were absent for the Steady State theory.[16]

It was only until the 1960s that major problems with the Steady State theory began to emerge, when observations apparently supported the idea that the universe was in fact changing: quasars and radio galaxies were found only at large distances (therefore existing only in the distant past), not in closer galaxies. Whereas the Big Bang theory predicted as much, Steady State predicted that such objects would be found everywhere, including close to our own galaxy, since evolution would not occur at great distances.[12] In addition, proponents of the theory predicted that in addition to hydrogen atoms, antimatter would also be produced, as with cosmic gamma ray background from the annihilation of protons and antiprotons and X-ray emitting gas from the creation of neutrons.[12]

For most cosmologists, the refutation of the steady-state theory came with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965, which was predicted by the Big Bang theory.[17] Stephen Hawking said that the fact that microwave radiation had been found, and that it was thought to be left over from the Big Bang, was "the final nail in the coffin of the steady-state theory."[18] Bondi conceded that the theory had been disproved, but Hoyle and Gold remain unconvinced for a number of years. Gold even supported Hoyle's modified Steady State theory, however, by 1998, he started to express some doubts about the theory, but maintained that despite its faults, the theory helped improve understanding regarding the origin of the universe.[7]

Accidental panspermia[link]

Gold suggested a "garbage theory" for the origin of life which was an accidental panspermia, the theory says that life on Earth might have spread from a pile of waste products accidentally dumped on Earth long ago by extraterrestrials.[19]

Astrophysics research[link]

The Arecibo Observatory, established by Cornell University and the National Science Foundation during Gold's tenure as director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.

In 1951, at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Gold proposed that the source of recent radio signals detected from space was outside the Milky Way galaxy, much to the derision of radio astronomer Martin Ryle and several mathematical cosmologists. However, a year later, a distant source was identified and Gold announced at an International Astronomical Union meeting in Rome that his theory had been proven. Ryle would later take Gold's argument as proof of extragalactic evolution, claiming that it invalidated the Steady State theory.[20]

Gold left Cambridge in 1952 to become the chief assistant to Astronomer Royal Harold Spencer Jones at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux, Sussex, England. While there, Gold attracted some controversy by suggesting that the interaction between charged particles from the Sun with the Earth's magnetic field in creating magnetic storms in the upper atmosphere was an example of a collisionless shock wave.[21] The theory was widely disputed, until American scientists in 1957 discovered that Gold's theory held up to mathematical scrutiny by conducting a simulation using a shock tube.[7]

Gold resigned from the Royal Observatory following Spencer-Jones's retirement and moved to the United States in 1956, where he served as Professor of Astronomy (1957–1958) and Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy (1958–1959) at Harvard University.[17] In early 1959, he accepted an appointment at Cornell University, which had offered him the opportunity to set up an interdisciplinary unit for radiophysics and space research, and take charge of the Department of Astronomy.[22] At the time, there was only one other faculty member in the department. Gold would serve as director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research until 1981, establishing Cornell as a leading hub of scientific research. During his tenure, Gold hired famed astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, helped establish the world's largest radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center with Harry Messel. In addition, Gold served as Assistant Vice President for Research from 1969–1971 and the John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy from 1971 until his retirement in 1986.[23][24][25]

The discovery of a pulsar with 0.033 second period in the Crab Nebula led to the acceptance of Gold's theory on pulsars.

In 1959, Gold expanded on his previous prediction of a collisionless shock wave, arguing that solar flares would eject material into magnetic clouds to produce a shock front that would result in geomagnetic storms. He also coined the term "magnetosphere" in his paper "Motions in the Magnetosphere of the Earth" to describe "the region above the ionosphere in which the magnetic field of the Earth has a dominant control over the motions of gas and fast charged particles ... [which was] known to extend out to a distance of the order of 10 Earth radii".[26] In 1960, Gold collaborated again with Fred Hoyle to show that magnetic energy fueled solar flares and that flares were triggered when opposite magnetic loops interact and release their stored energy.[27][28]

In 1968, a Cambridge radio astronomy postgraduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her doctoral adviser Antony Hewish discovered a pulsing radio source with a period of 1.33 seconds. The source – which was termed "pulsar" – emitted beams of electromagnetic radiation at a very short and consistent interval. Gold proposed that these objects were rapidly rotating neutron stars. Gold argued that due to their strong magnetic fields and high rotational speed, pulsars would emit radiation similar to a rotating beacon. Gold's conclusion was initially not well-received by the scientific community; in fact, he was refused permission to present his theory at the first international conference on pulsars. However, Gold's theory became widely accepted following the discovery of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula using the Arecibo radio telescope, opening the door for future advancements in solid-state physics and astronomy.[29] Anthony Tucker of The Guardian remarked that Gold's discovery paved the way for Stephen Hawking's groundbreaking research into black holes.[8]

Relationship with NASA[link]

Bootprint of Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon. Aldrin photographed this bootprint on July 20, 1969, as part of investigations into the soil mechanics of the lunar surface.

From the 1950s, Gold served as a consultant to NASA and held positions on several national space committees, including the President's Science Advisory Committee, as the United States tried to develop its space program. At the time, scientists were engaged in a heated debate over the physical properties of the moon's surface. In 1955, he predicted that the Moon was covered by a layer of fine rock powder stemming from "the ceaseless bombardment of its surface by Solar System debris".[22] This led to the dust being jokingly referred to as "Gold's dust".[30] Gold initially suggested that astronauts would sink into the dust, but upon later analysis of impact craters and electrostatic fields, he determined that the astronauts' boots would sink only three centimeters into the Moon's surface. In any case, NASA sent an unmanned Surveyor to analyze the conditions on the surface of the Moon. Gold was ridiculed by fellow scientists, not only for his hypothesis, but for the approach he took in communicating NASA's concerns to the American public; in particular, some experts were infuriated with his usage of the term "moon dust" in reference to lunar regolith.[31] When the Apollo 11 crew landed on the Moon in 1969 and brought back the first samples of lunar rocks, researchers found that lunar soil was in fact powdery. Gold said the findings were consistent with his hypothesis, noting that "in one area as they walked along, they sank in between five and eight inches". However, Gold received little credit for his correct prediction, and was even criticized for his original prediction of a deep layer of lunar dust.[22] Gold had also contributed to the Apollo 11 mission by designing the stereo camera used on the Moon.[22]

In the 1970s and 1980s, Gold was a vocal critic of NASA's Space Shuttle program, deriding claims that the agency could fly 50 missions a year or that it could have low budget costs. NASA officials warned Gold that if he testified his concerns before Congress, his research proposals would lose their support from NASA. Gold ignored the warning and testified before a Congressional committee headed by Senator Walter Mondale. In a letter to NASA administrator James C. Fletcher, George Low wrote that "Gold should realize that being funded by the Government and NASA is a privilege, and that it would make little sense for us to fund him as long as his views are what they are now".[32] Gold recalled the aftermath of his testimony in a 1983 interview with astronomy historian David H. DeVorkin:

I had a very hard time with NASA, year after year. I got some more money, but eventually it fizzled out, after three years or so after this event. My applications, which previously each year had always gone through very smoothly, were turned down. I would then have to go to Washington, discuss it with them. and I then would get a certain fraction of it resurrected. For several years running this happened, and then eventually it fizzled permanently, and I've not tried to get any money out of NASA since.
...
I was certainly regarded as persona non grata with NASA after that. I had a very hard time. Shortly after that Noel Hinners became the Space Science administrator, and he used to joke about it and say, "Oh. Tommy's got to come to his annual pilgrimage to Washington," and regarded it as very funny, but then he'd always give me some money. But always clearly as a persona non grata.[33]

Origins of petroleum[link]

Gold first became interested in the origins of petroleum in the 1950s, postulating a theory on the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. Gold engaged in thorough discussion on the matter with Fred Hoyle, who even included a chapter on "Gold's Pore Theory" in his 1955 book Frontiers in Astronomy.[24][34] In the late 1970s, just as the United States faced another major energy crisis, Gold resurrected his work on petroleum. In 1977, a research submarine near the Galapagos Islands discovered a number of thriving ecosystems down on the ocean floor, living alongside hydrothermal vents. Later expeditions found that these vents were host to a number of organisms, including giant tube worms and albino crabs, that survived off of heat-loving chemosynthetic microbes. The discovery of life near this adverse environment led Gold to reconsider the established interpretation of biogenic petroleum formation. Gold believed that "biology is just a branch of thermodynamics" and that the history of life is just a "a gradual systematic development toward more efficient ways of degrading energy".[35]

He began his investigation by studying how earthquakes facilitated the migration of methane gas from the deep Earth to the surface.[36] He speculated that a large enough earthquake would fracture the ground, thus opening up an "escape route" for gas. Gold believed that this would explain the number of unusual phenomena associated with earthquakes, such as fires, flares, Earthquake lights and gas emissions. With his colleague Steven Soter, Gold constructed a map of the world depicting major oil-producing regions and areas with historical seismic activity. Several oil-rich regions, such as Alaska, Texas, the Caribbean, Mexico, Venezuela, the Persian Gulf, the Urals, Siberia, and Southeast Asia, were found to be lying on major earthquake belts. Gold and Soter suggested that these belts may explain the upward migration of gases through the ground, and subsequently, the production of oil and gas fields.[36][37]

Gold theorized that since petroleum and its component hydrocarbons were present across the entire universe, there was no reason to believe "that on Earth they must be biological in origin".[35] Gold proposed that fossil fuels were trapped inside the core of the Earth in randomized molecular form nearly 4.5 billion years ago. Over time, the extreme heat of the core "sweated" the rocks that contained these molecules, pushing them up through the porous layers of the Earth. As they move up toward the surface, the hydrocarbons fueled the development of large microbial colonies, which served as the basis for life on Earth. The migrating fossil fuels collect biological remnants before becoming trapped in deep underground reservoirs.[35] Soon after Gold started publishing his theories, researchers discovered a number of ecosystems functioning under "conditions of heat and pressure once thought impossible to sustain life". In addition, Gold discovered that the location of major oil-producing regions in the Middle East and southeast Asia was defined by large scale patterns in surface geology and topography, such as deep fault lines. He also pointed to the abundance of helium in oil and gas reserves as evidence for "a deep source of the hydrocarbons".[36] Moreover, a few oil reserves thought to have been exhausted were suddenly generating vast amounts of crude oil[citation needed]. From this, Gold proposed that the Earth may possess a virtually endless supply – suggesting as much as "at least 500 million years' worth of gas" – of fossil fuels.[38][39]

Drilling in Siljan[link]

Sweden's Lake Siljan is a large lake created from an eroded impact crater that was formed by a meteorite impact about 370 million years ago. It was at this lake that Gold proposed as the most likely place to test the hypothesis on the origin of petroleum because it was one of the few places in the world where the granite basement was cracked sufficiently to allow oil to seep up from the mantle.

Gold began testing his theory in 1986 when, with the backing of a group of investors, Vattenfall and the Gas Research Institute, he commenced efforts to drill a deep borehole – named Gravberg-1 – into the earth near Lake Siljan in search of abiogenic gas in the mantle. The region was the site of a large meteor crater, which would have "opened channels deep enough for the methane to migrate upward" and formed deposits in caprock just a few miles beneath the surface.[40] He estimated that the fractures near Lake Siljan reached down nearly 40 kilometres (25 mi) into the earth.[41]

In 1987, approximately 900 barrels (140 m3) of drilling lubricant disappeared nearly 20,000 feet (6,100 m) into the ground, leading Gold to believe that the lubricant had fallen into a methane reservoir.[42] Soon after, the team brought up nearly 100 liters of black oily sludge to the surface. Gold claimed that the sludge contained both oil and remnants of archaebacteria. He argued that "it suggests there is an enormous sphere of life, of biology, at deeper levels in the ground than we have had any knowledge of previously" and that this evidence would "destroy the orthodox argument that since oil contains biological molecules, oil reserves must have derived from biological material". The announcement of Gold's findings were met with mixed reactions, ranging from "furious incredulity" to "deep skepticism".[43] Geochemist Geoffrey P. Glasby speculated that the sludge could have been formed from the Fischer–Tropsch process, a catalyzed chemical reaction in which synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is converted into liquid hydrocarbons.[44] Critics also dismissed Gold's archaebacteria finding, stating that "since micro-organisms cannot survive at such depth, the bacteria prove that the well has been contaminated from the surface".[45] Geochemist Paul Philp analyzed the sludge and concluded that he could not differentiate between the samples of sludge and oil seep found in sedimentary shale rocks near the surface. He reasoned that oil had migrated from the shale down to the granite deep in the ground.[46] Gold disputed Philp's finding, believing that the oil and gas could have just as easily migrated up to the surface: "They would have it that the oil and gas we found down there was from the five feet of sediments on the top – had seeped all the way down six kilometres down into the granite. I mean, such complete absurdity: you can imagine sitting there with five feet of soil and six kilometres underneath of dense granitic rock, and that methane produced up there has crawled all the way down in preference to water. Absolute nonsense."[45]

In light of the controversy surrounding the sludge and possible drill contamination, Gold abandoned the project at Gravberg-1, calling it a "complete fiasco", and redesigned the experiment by replacing his oil-based drilling lubricant with a water-based one.[47]

The drill hit oil in the spring of 1989, but only collected about 80 barrels (13 m3). Gold stated, "It was not coming up at a rate at which you could sell it, but it showed there was oil down there." The drill then ran into technical problems and was stopped at a depth of 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi). The hole was closed, but a second hole was opened for drilling closer to the "center of the impact ring where there was even less sedimentary rock". By October 1991, the drill hit oil 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) into the ground, but many skeptics remained unconvinced of the site's prospects.[41][48] One skeptic, Christer Akerman, the chief geologist of the Geological Survey of Sweden, remarked, "[t]here is every reason to stay calm and await the analysis of what they have found. The point is also that they will have to find commercially viable amounts, and it may be a long time before we know if they do."[49] Geologist John R. Castaño concluded that there was insufficient evidence of the mantle as the hydrocarbon source and that it was unlikely that the Siljan site could be utilized as a commercial gas field.[50] Some skeptics countered Gold's claims by suggesting that the oil found was actually contamination from the drilling.[30]

The Deep Hot Biosphere[link]

Gold modified his hypothesis and presented it in a 1992 paper "The Deep Hot Biosphere" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,[51] Gold suggested that coal and crude oil deposits have their origins in natural gas flows which feed bacteria living at extreme depths under the surface of the Earth; in other words, oil and coal are produced through tectonic forces, rather than from the decomposition of fossils. At the beginning of the paper, Gold also referred to hydrothermal vents that pump bacteria from the depth of the Earth towards the ocean floor in support of his views.

Gold also published a book of the same title in 1999, which expanded on the arguments in his 1992 paper and included speculations on the origin of life.[52] He has been accused of stealing the abiogenic theory outright from Soviet geologists who first published it in the 1950s.[53] Although he later credited Soviet research, it is claimed that he first published a paper on the abiogenic theory in 1979 without citing any of the Soviet literature on the subject.[54] Gold's defenders maintain[citation needed] that these charges are unfounded: they say that, after first formulating his views on petroleum in 1979, he began finding the papers by Soviet geologists and had them translated. He was both disappointed (that his ideas were not original) and delighted (because such independent formulation of these ideas added weight to the hypothesis). They insist that he always credited the Soviet work once he knew about it.[citation needed]

According to Gold and the Soviet geologists who originated the abiogenic theory, bacteria feeding on the oil accounts for the presence of biological debris in hydrocarbon fuels, obviating the need to resort to a biogenic theory for the origin of the latter. The flows of underground hydrocarbons may also explain oddities in the concentration of other mineral deposits.

In short, Gold said about origin of natural hydrocarbons (petroleum and natural gas): Hydrocarbons are not biology reworked by geology (as traditional view would hold), but rather geology reworked by biology

Academic legacy[link]

Carl Sagan, hired by Gold after Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard University in 1968.

Throughout his academic career, Gold received a number of honors and distinctions. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (1948), the Royal Society (1964),[2] the American Geophysical Union (1962), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974), and the American Astronautical Society, a member of the American Philosophical Society (1972), the United States National Academy of Sciences (1974) and the International Academy of Astronautics, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1986).[55] In addition, he served as President of the New York Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1986.[23] Gold won the John Frederick Lewis Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 1972 for his paper "The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence"[56] and the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1979.[55] In 1985, Gold won the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, an award whose recipients include Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, Martin Ryle, Edwin Hubble, James Van Allen, Fritz Zwicky, Hannes Alfvén and Albert Einstein.[57] Gold did not have a doctorate, but received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cambridge University in 1969.[58]

Astrophysicists Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge remarked that Gold "was one of the outstanding physicists of his time" and that his "versatility was unmatched".[59] In his foreword to Gold's book The Deep Hot Biosphere, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson stated, "Gold's theories are always original, always important, usually controversial – and usually right."[60] He has been accused of plagiarism numerous times, however, by Russian scientists as well as American ones, and even a Canadian, with substantial evidence.[54][61] In particular, in the area of petroleum geology, it seems that many in the Western hemisphere are under the impression that the theory of abiotic formation of petroleum, right or wrong, was originated or developed substantially by him, as evidenced by the foreword above, since he often did not properly credit his sources in this area of research (including this book).[61][62][63]

In the journal Nature, Hermann Bondi wrote "Tommy Gold will long be remembered as a singular scientist who stepped into any field where he thought an option was being overlooked. He was also unusual in working mainly theoretically, but using little mathematics, relying instead on his profound intuitive understanding of physics."[22] Stanley F. Dermott wrote "Tommy was a handsome, charming and generous man and a loyal colleague who formed many long-lasting friendships. A witty and articulate speaker, he was regarded by some as a scientific maverick who delighted in controversy. In reality, he was an iconoclast whose strength was in penetrating analysis of the assumptions on which some of our most important theories are based.[64] Anthony Tucker of The Guardian said, "Throughout his life he would dive into new territory to open up problems unseen by others – in biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, or geophysics. Controversy followed him everywhere. Possessing profound scientific intuition and open-minded rigour, he usually ended up challenging the cherished assumptions of others and, to the discomfiture of the scientific establishment, often found them wanting. His stature and influence were international."[8] Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould labeled Gold as "one of America's most iconoclastic scientists".[35] Gold has been derided by geologists, such as Harmon Craig and John Hunt,[35] who are strongly opposed to Gold's abiogenic petroleum theory. Others had even started campaigns to prevent Gold from publishing his findings.[35]

Personal life[link]

Gold married his first wife, Merle Eleanor Tuberg, an American astrophysicist who had worked with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, in 1947. He had three daughters with her – Linda, Lucy, and Tanya. After divorcing her, Gold married Carvel Lee Beyer in 1972.[3][7][8] With her, he had a daughter Lauren.

Thomas Gold died at the age of 84 from complications due to heart disease at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York. He was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Ithaca.[23] At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, four daughters, and six grandchildren.[30]

See also[link]

Selected publications[link]

Notes[link]

  1. ^ a b "Milestones". Science 305 (5680): 39b–. 2004. DOI:10.1126/science.305.5680.39b.  edit.
  2. ^ a b c Bondi, H. (2006). "Thomas Gold. 22 May 1920 -- 22 June 2004: Elected FRS 1964". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 52: 117. DOI:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0009.  edit
  3. ^ a b c Mitton 2004.
  4. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 3.
  5. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, pp. 3–4.
  6. ^ a b Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 4.
  7. ^ a b c d e The Telegraph 2004.
  8. ^ a b c d Tucker 2004.
  9. ^ a b Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 5.
  10. ^ Hall, James W. (2000), Handbook of otoacoustic emissions, San Diego: Singular/Thomson Learning, p. 546, ISBN 1-56593-873-9 .
  11. ^ a b Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 6.
  12. ^ a b c Silk, Joseph (September 5, 1994), Fundamental Issues in Cosmology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/Essays/cosprinc.html, retrieved June 17, 2009 .
  13. ^ Bondi & Gold 1948, pp. 253–254.
  14. ^ Bondi & Gold 1948, p. 255.
  15. ^ Bondi & Gold 1948, p. 256.
  16. ^ Bondi & Gold 1948, p. 262.
  17. ^ a b Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 7.
  18. ^ Hawking, Stephen (2003), "Sixty years in a nutshell", in Gibbons, G. W.; Shellard, E. Paul S.; Rankin, Stuart J., The future of theoretical physics and cosmology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 109, ISBN 0-521-82081-2 .
  19. ^ Gold, T. "Cosmic Garbage," Air Force and Space Digest, 65 (May 1960).
  20. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, pp. 6–7.
  21. ^ Wilford 1980.
  22. ^ a b c d e Bondi 2004.
  23. ^ a b c Pearce 2004.
  24. ^ a b Dermott 2004, p. 1674.
  25. ^ Bondi 2004b.
  26. ^ Gold 1959, p. 1219.
  27. ^ Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics: Chronology and Glossary with Data Tables, New York: Springer, p. 77, ISBN 0-387-30734-6 .
  28. ^ Lang, Kenneth R. (2008), The Sun from Space (2nd ed.), New York: Springer, p. 326, ISBN 3-540-76952-8 .
  29. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, pp. 9–10.
  30. ^ a b c Bernstein 2004.
  31. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 8.
  32. ^ Burbidge & Burbidge 2006, p. 9.
  33. ^ Oral History Transcript — Thomas Gold, American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives, http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/28197.html, retrieved June 19, 2009 .
  34. ^ Gold 1999, p. 53.
  35. ^ a b c d e f Ringle 1999.
  36. ^ a b c Glasby 2006, p. 89.
  37. ^ Gold & Soter 1980.
  38. ^ "Earth's "limitless" oil and gas reservoirs are a myth, says study", AFP, April 3, 2002 .
  39. ^ Vielvoye, Roger (February 5, 1979), "Gold's gas theory", Oil & Gas Journal: p. 30 .
  40. ^ Sullivan, Walter (July 6, 1986), "Swedish Search for Methane Tests Radical Theory of Fuels", The New York Times .
  41. ^ a b Shiry, John (May 30, 1991), "Gold Drills For Gas In 'The Basement': Weird science?", Financial Post .
  42. ^ Sullivan, Walter (March 22, 1987), "Natural Gas Well Is Believed Found", The New York Times .
  43. ^ Hodgkinson, Neville (June 12, 1988), "Sludge at core of earth boosts deep oil theory", The Sunday Times .
  44. ^ Glasby 2006, p. 90.
  45. ^ a b Cole 1996, p. 748.
  46. ^ Aldhous, Peter (1991), "Black Gold Causes a Stir", Nature 353 (593): 55, Bibcode 1991Natur.353..593A, DOI:10.1038/353593a0, ISSN 0028-0836 .
  47. ^ Cole 1996, p. 747.
  48. ^ Haliechuk, Rick (February 14, 1992), "Scientist says our bedrock contains vast oil reserves", Toronto Star .
  49. ^ "Swedish-U.S. team believes it has proof of non-fossil oil, gas", Reuters, October 16, 1991 .
  50. ^ Castaño, John R. (1993), "Prospects for commercial abiogenic gas production: Implications from the Siljan Ring area, Sweden.", U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper (1570): 133–154 .
  51. ^ Gold 1992.
  52. ^ Thomas Gold, 1999, The Deep Hot Biosphere, Springer, ISBN 0-387-95253-5
  53. ^ http://www.gasresources.net/Plagiarism(Overview).htm
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LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes in October 2009
Background information
Birth name Margaret LeAnn Rimes
Also known as LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes Sheremet
LeAnn Rimes Cibrian
Born (1982-08-28) August 28, 1982 (age 29)
Jackson, Mississippi
Origin Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Genres Country, pop
Occupations Singer, songwriter, actress, author
Years active 1991–present
Labels Curb
Associated acts Eddie Cibrian, Ronan Keating, Brian McFadden, Marc Broussard, Elton John, Bon Jovi, Hal Ketchum, Reba McEntire
Website www.leannrimesworld.com

Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982), best known as LeAnn Rimes, is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Bill Mack song "Blue" when she was 13 to become the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.[1]

Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996 with her debut album, Blue, which reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified multiplatinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's eponymous leadoff single, "Blue," was originally intended to be recorded by Patsy Cline in the early 1960s. It became a Top 10 hit and Rimes gained national acclaim for her similarity to Cline's vocal style. When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.[1][2]

Rimes has won many awards, including two Grammys, three ACMs, a CMA, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award.[3] She has also released ten studio albums and three compilation albums and two greatest hits albums, one released in the US and the other released internationally, through her record label of 13 years, Asylum-Curb, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 37 million records worldwide, with 20.3 million album sales in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[4] Billboard ranked her 17th artist of the 1990-00 decade.[5] Rimes has also written four books, two novels and two children's books.

Contents

Early life[link]

Margaret LeAnn Rimes was born in Star, Mississippi. She is the only child of Belinda Butler Rimes and Wilbur Rimes. The family relocated to Garland, Texas when she was six years old. She was singing by the age of two, was enrolled in vocal and dance training, and by the age of five was performing at local talent shows.[6][7] Rimes initially began her career in musical theatre, performing in a Dallas, Texas production of A Christmas Carol, and almost landed the lead part in the Broadway production of Annie. However, after appearing on the network television competition show — and clearly charming host Ed McMahon in addition to the more important fact of being a one-week champion on — Star Search, Rimes decided to pursue a career in country music. Following her national television appearance, Rimes made a number of appearances on Johnnie High's Country Music Revue in Arlington, Texas, which garnered the attention of national talent scouts.[7]

By the age of nine, Rimes was already an experienced singer. She toured nationally with her father and also regularly performed a cappella renditions of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremonies of the Dallas Cowboys football games. In order to bring his daughter more national attention, Wilbur Rimes began recording his daughter under the independent label Nor Va Jak when she turned eleven. She released three albums under the label between 1992 and 1996.[7]

Rimes was discovered by Dallas disc jockey and record promoter Bill Mack. Mack was impressed by Rimes' vocal ability, and over the following three years, he made various attempts to bring Rimes to a mainstream level. The center of Mack's plan to bring her success was his self-penned composition, "Blue," which he had originally sung and released in 1958 as his own single for Starday Records.[8][9] His song did not become popular, and Mack claimed he intended "Blue" to be re-recorded and made a hit record by Patsy Cline, but she had been killed in a plane crash before ever recording the composition.[10] By 1995, Mack was able to gain Rimes a contract with Curb Records, after record executives heard Rimes sing "Blue."

Music career[link]

[edit] 1996: Blue

After signing with Curb, Rimes re-recorded a new version of "Blue" that was to be released on her debut studio album on the label. In 1996, the new version of "Blue" was released as a single, peaking at Number 10 on the Billboard Country Chart.[11] While Curb was releasing "Blue," a claim was also sent out that Mack had been waiting over 30 years to find the perfect artist to record "Blue." However, the story was later found to be an exaggeration, as it was discovered that "Blue" had already been recorded by at least three different artists. Mack himself in 1958 and Kenny Roberts in the 1960s both released the song on Starday Records. In 1993, Australian country artist Kathryn Pitt released her own version as a single from her album "Look Out" in her native country. The story, though, was continually spread throughout the national press, adding to the idea that Rimes was the successor to Patsy Cline's legacy.[6] Rimes's album Blue was also released in 1996, and sold 123,000 copies in its first week, which was the highest figure in SoundScan history up to that point. The album peaked at Number 1 on the Top Country Albums and debuted at Number 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, eventually selling a total of four million copies in the United States and 8 million copies worldwide.[2][6][12] Allmusic considered the album to be "delightful" and that it could "help inspire other young teens."[13] Rimes followed up the single with several charting country singles from her 1996 album, starting with "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)", which reached Number 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1996. She also released a duet single with Eddy Arnold from the album, a remake of his 1955 hit "The Cattle Call".[1][11] The album's other hits included the Top 5 "The Light in Your Eyes" and the minor hit "Hurt Me."

With the album's success, Rimes received many major industry awards. In 1997, she won the Country Music Association's "Horizon Award," becoming the youngest person to ever be nominated and win a Country Music Association award. The following year she was awarded Grammy Awards, one for Best New Artist and another for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Blue". She is the youngest person to win a Grammy, at 14 years old. She was also the first Country music artist to win the Best New Artist.[6]

1997–2001: Pop crossover and worldwide success[link]

LeAnn Rimes performing a free concert for the airmen at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on September 23, 2004.

In 1997, Rimes released a compilation of previously recorded material under the Nor Va Jak label, Unchained Melody: The Early Years. The album mainly consisted of cover versions, ranging from Country to pop covers, including songs originally recorded by The Beatles, Whitney Houston, Bill Monroe, and Dolly Parton.[14] Rimes' version of the title track became a major country hit in early 1997 and helped increase sales for the album.[11] In September 1997, Rimes released her follow-up studio album to Blue titled You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs. The album covered classic inspirational songs, such as "Clinging to Saving a Hand" and "Amazing Grace". It also featured pop music remakes of songs such as Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" and Bette Midler's "The Rose". The album was a departure from Rimes' previous releases as it contained more Adult Contemporary-styled music than Country.[15] The album sold over four million copies in the United States, certifying 4× Multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[16] The album contained the single "How Do I Live", which became a major pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching Number 2.[11] "How Do I Live" set a new record for becoming the longest-running single in Billboard Hot 100 history, spending 69 weeks on the chart.[12] The song was originally recorded for the film Con Air, along with a version also recorded by Trisha Yearwood. Yearwood's manager at the time had told the press that Rimes' version sounded "too pop". Therefore Rimes' version received little country airplay (only reaching Number 43) and was rejected for the film. Yearwood's rendition was released to country radio shortly afterwards, peaking at Number 2 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1997, becoming the country hit instead of Rimes' version.[11][17] On October 13, 1997 she published her first novel entitled Holiday in Your Heart along with Tim Carter.[18]

Rimes released her third album for Curb in May 1998, Sittin' on Top of the World. The album leaned more progressively towards Adult Contemporary and mid-tempo pop music. It included pop material written by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster.[2] It also included a remake of Prince's "Purple Rain" and was produced by her father. The album was given mixed reviews. Allmusic gave the album two out of five stars.[19] Rolling Stone said Rimes vocal style "holds her own in the more popular style of Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, wherein a spectacular voice upstages a song, grins and goes on about her business."[20] Upon its release, Sittin' on Top of the World debuted at Number 2 on the Top Country Albums chart, and Number 3 on the Billboard 200,[21] and sold over a million copies in the United States, certifying "Platinum" in sales by the RIAA.[16] The album spawned the Number 4 Country hit "Commitment", the Top 20 Pop hit "Looking Through Your Eyes", and the Number 10 country hit "Nothin' New Under the Moon".[11]

Rimes released her fourth studio album for Curb, LeAnn Rimes, in October 1999, a collection of country standards.[22] The album covered songs mainly by Patsy Cline – which included "Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces", and "She's Got You" – that were primarily taken from her 12 Greatest Hits album. The album also covered Marty Robbins's "Don't Worry" and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee". The album included one new song, "Big Deal". The song gained many positive reviews. Allmusic called the song, "a return to her roots" and "a salute to one of her idols, Patsy Cline." The album in general received much praise. Allmusic called the album one of her "better" efforts, since they had disliked her previous releases.[23] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review and said that Rimes's voice, "dares listeners to take note of what is missing in her interpretations -- the gutsiness and gut-wrenching urgency of performers who felt what they sang."[24] The album was a major success like her previous releases, debuting at Number 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, topping the country albums chart for two weeks. In addition, it also peaked at Number 8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[25][26] The album also sold over one million copies in the United States, and was certified "Platinum" in sales by the RIAA.[16] The album's new song, "Big Deal", was the lead single off the album, and became a Top 10 country hit that year, peaking at Number 6.[11] Also in 1999, Rimes recorded a duet with Elton John for the stage musical Aida, titled "Written in the Stars".[7] The song became a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The album would spawn a second single, a cover of Cline's "Crazy" that was released outside of the United States.

In 2000, Rimes would make her full crossover into pop music. On March 8, 2000, Rimes contributed to the soundtrack from the 1999 TV movie Jesus,[11] called Jesus: Music From & Inspired by the Epic Mini Series.[27] The song, "I Need You", would be released as a single from the soundtrack on July 18, 2000.[28] "I Need You" was characterized by Allmusic as having similarities to that of Adult Contemporary and Pop music.[29] The song became a Top 10 country hit and also a major pop hit, reaching Number 11 on the Hot 100. Rimes would make her first theatrical acting debut in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly. She would also contribute four songs for the film's soundtrack on August 1, 2000.[30] Two singles were released from the Coyote Ugly soundtrack. "Can't Fight the Moonlight" was released as a single for the soundtrack on August 22, 2000 with the second single from the soundtrack, "But I Do Love You", as the B-side track.[31] By February 2002 "Can't fight the Moonlight" became a crossover Pop hit, reaching Number 11 in United States and becoming the highest selling single of 2001 in Australia. "Can't Fight the Moonlight" won Rimes a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Song from a Movie."[26]

In January 2001, Curb Records released another compilation of previously recorded material, I Need You. The album topped the Top Country Albums chart for one week, and also peaked at Number 10 on the Billboard 200.[26] I Need You did not garner praise from many critics and was mainly given negative reviews. Rolling Stone gave the album two and a half out of five stars and called the album, "synthetic-feeling."[32] Despite very little praise from critics, the album was sold well, certifying "Gold" in sales by the RIAA.[16] Rimes would later go on to publicly disown the album, which she stated was compiled together from studio outtakes her father had produced and that it was released without her knowledge or input.[33] At the time, during the litigation with her label, Rimes was asking "that Curb give Rimes the rights to all past recordings and videos, give up all publishing interests in her compositions and destroy all currently available recordings."[34]

In mid-October 2001, Curb released a compilation of patriotic and inspirational songs, titled God Bless America, in order to benefit the disaster recovery for the September 11 attacks. It included the title track, which she released as a single, as well as inspirational songs such as "The Lord's Prayer" and "The Sands of Time".[35]

[edit] 2002–04: I Need You, Twisted Angel, Greatest Hits

LeAnn Rimes performing a free concert for the airmen at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on September 23, 2004.

In February 2002 Rimes reissued the I Need You album with nine of the songs originally released on the album, an extended version of the song You Are, the song "Light the Fire Within", which she sang at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and 4 bonus remixes. Rimes would later that year release her seventh album (sixth studio album) titled Twisted Angel, which contained more adult material.[11] After battling managerial control over her career the previous year, Twisted Angel became the first album released by Rimes that was not produced by her father.[36] Instead, Rimes executive produced the album. A month following the album's release, Twisted Angel was certified "Gold" by the RIAA, her second Gold-certified album.[16] The album received mainly negative reviews by most music critics and magazines. Allmusic stated that the album could possibly "alieniate her from her original fans" and "the songwriting is a little uneven."[36] Rolling Stone gave the album two out of five stars, stating that the album sounded too "country-pop crossover."[37] The album peaked at Number 3 on the Top Country Albums chart and Number 12 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.[38] Three singles were spawned from the album between 2002 and 2003, however none of the singles were Top 40 hits on the country or pop charts. The lead single, "Life Goes On", reached the Top 40 only on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, peaking at Number 19. The second single, "Suddenly", only peaked at 43 on the US Country charts, 47 on the UK charts and 53 on the Australian charts.

The following year when Rimes turned 21, she released her first children's book entitled Jag in July[39] and she also released a Greatest Hits compilation in November.[26] The album recapped Rimes' major hits under Curb records from "Blue" in 1996, to "Life Goes on" in 2002. The album peaked at Number 3 on the Top Country Albums chart and Number 24 on the Billboard 200 in November.[40][41] Featured on the album was the song, "We Can", which was originally released as a single for the Legally Blonde 2 soundtrack in July 2003. The album would eventually be certified "Platinum" in 2007.

In 2004, Rimes released a sequel to Jag entitled Jag's New Friend in September[42] and in October she also issued her first holiday-themed album titled, What a Wonderful World.[26]

[edit] 2005–06: Return to country; This Woman

In January 2005, Rimes released her seventh studio album, This Woman, her first album of contemporary country music in many years.[6] Although the album received mixed reviews from magazines and critics, it was Rimes' best-selling album in over five years,[43] reaching Number 3 on the Billboard 200 and Number 2 on the Top Country Albums chart in 2005,[44] selling more than 100,000 copies within its first week. Rimes explained to the Chicago Sun-Times that the album helped mature her as a person, "I have 10 years of experience, so it's tough to get anything past me in this business. I've become a very strong woman because of all I've gone through, good and bad."[12] This Woman would eventually be certified "Gold" later in 2005, after selling more than 500,000 units nationwide.[26] The album's singles were Rimes's first Top 10 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart in five years. The three singles released from the album — "Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense", "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way", and "Something's Gotta Give" — all peaked within the Top 5 on the country charts between 2005 and 2006.[11] From the album, Rimes was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Something's Gotta Give". In addition, she was also nominated for an American Music Award for "Favorite Female Country Artist." In 2006, Rimes recorded a cover version of Barbara Mandrell's "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)", for a tribute album to Mandrell's career titled, She Was a Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell.[26] Rimes also would record a track for Disneyland's fiftieth anniversary celebration album titled, "Remember When."[7]

In summer 2006, Rimes released the studio album Whatever We Wanna, which was released exclusively outside of the United States and Canada. It was originally planned on being released in North America, however due to the success of This Woman, it was never released. The album spawned three singles, "And It Feels Like", a duet with Brian McFadden titled, "Everybody's Someone" and "Strong". The album leaned more towards Pop Rock and R&B music instead of country.[45]

Rimes would release one final single in the US from her album This Woman in August 2006 called "Some People" which would peak at 34 on the US country charts.

[edit] 2007–09: Family

Rimes took a two year break, and then released her next studio album in October 2007, Family. The album was a mix of country, pop, and rock music, and included a duet with Bon Jovi, "Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore".[12] Family was the first album released by Rimes in which every track was co-written by Rimes herself.[43] Rolling Stone said the songs on the album are "uneven" and rated it three and half out of five stars.[46] Allmusic gave Family four out of five stars and said that the album, "illustrates her range as a singer along with some true strength as a writer."[47] The album helped nominate Rimes for the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award in 2008.[12] The album's lead single, "Nothin' Better to Do" was released in mid 2007, and peaked at Number 14 on the Billboard Country Chart before the end of the year. The album has released two singles to date; "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine" and "What I Cannot Change."[6]

In 2008, Rimes toured with Kenny Chesney where she opened every show on his 2008 Poets and Pirates Tour, along with other artists on select dates such as Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar, Gary Allan, Big & Rich, and Luke Bryan.[48] In late 2008, Rimes was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "What I Cannot Change", the third single from the album.[citation needed]

In 2008, she recorded For Good with Delta Goodrem for the Wicked 5th Anniversary album.[49] LeAnn teamed up with Joss Stone for a CMT Crossroads special aired in fall 2007.[50]

In 2009, Rimes published What I Cannot Change along with song co-writer, Darrell Brown. It was released on April 14, 2009 and contains a bonus CD with an exclusive live performance of the song and both Brown and Rimes reading excerpts from the book.[51]

[edit] 2010—: Lady & Gentlemen and Spitfire

Despite singing new material at several live shows earlier in the year, it was announced, on May 24, 2010 by Rimes via her Twitter account, that her new studio album would be a cover album of country songs, titled Lady & Gentlemen.[52][53] The first single from the album was a cover of John Anderson's 1983 single, "Swingin'. Rimes first debuted the song at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. The single was released on June 8, 2010. On November 8, 2010, Rimes released her second single titled "Crazy Women" to radio. "Crazy Women," A re-recording of "Blue" and "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" were announced, in the same post, as the three extra tracks that Rimes went back in the studio to add to the album. A third single, "Give", debuted at #60 in July 2011. Rimes announced via her Twitter account on July 17, 2011 that the new release date for her Lady & Gentlemen album would be September 27, 2011. She also stated that her next studio album is already done and will be released next year.[54] Rimes went back into the studio in March to record fifteen more songs for her new album, Spitfire,[55] which will be released in fall 2012.[56] It is to be the last contractually-obligated album under Rimes' contract with Curb Records.[57][58] On April 4, 2012, Rimes was featured on the song, "The Choice", which was released by Soles4Souls as a charity single to help the foundation put 500,000 pairs of shoes on children who live without.[59][60]

Musicianship[link]

Vocal ability and musical stylings[link]

Since her debut in 1996, Rimes' voice and vocal style have often been compared to and identified with Patsy Cline. Cline showed distinctive emotional expression in most of her material. Rimes has also used distinctive emotional expression in many of her songs, most notably her first single, "Blue", which was sung in the style of Cline. Rimes' vocal similarities to Cline had brought wide interest to the idea that Rimes was the successor to Cline's legacy, and brought her novelty appeal. Many music critics have argued that Rimes' vocals were only a reproduction of Cline's original sound, while others have disagreed.[7] Allmusic has called Rimes' vocals "rich and powerful."[6] Her vocal ability has also brought Rimes to comparisons to past teenage country stars, including 50s country star Brenda Lee and 70s country star Tanya Tucker. Rimes was also known for choosing mature material that was beyond her age range. In her first album, Rimes recorded such material as Deborah Allen's "My Baby", whose lyrics provocatively say, "my baby is a full-time lover, my baby is a full-grown man."[2] Other material such as Diane Warren's "How Do I Live" had also been considered too mature for Rimes' age and was the main reason why her version of the song was not chosen to be used in the soundtrack for the film Con Air.[17]

Influences[link]

Rimes has given credit to artists from various music genres, mainly country and pop. She has stated that Barbra Streisand, Wynonna Judd and Reba McEntire were primary influences on her career.[61] Rimes has said the main influence on her career was Patsy Cline. She has covered many of Cline's hit songs since the beginning of her career. Her 1999 self-titled album is primarily a tribute to Cline, as Rimes recorded five out of ten songs for the album that were hits for Cline years before.[23] Rimes has also stated that Judy Garland was an influence as well.[62]

Film and television[link]

After beginning to date actor Andrew Keegan in 1998, Rimes said to the press that she had some ideas about possibly getting involved in an acting career. Rimes later moved to Los Angeles, California later in the year with her mother to pursue an acting career.[12] That year Rimes played a role in the Made for television movie, Holiday in Your Heart, which is based on a book she had helped write. For participating in the film, Rimes was awarded the "Rising Star" award from the Lone Star Film & Television Awards.[22] She made her official film debut in 2001 for Coyote Ugly, providing the singing voice for Piper Perabo's character Violet Sanford[63] and making a cameo appearance towards the end of the film. In addition, she also recorded four songs for the film's soundtrack, including the Top 20 Pop hit, "Can't Fight the Moonlight."[7] In 2005 Rimes hosted the country music television competition, Nashville Star on the USA television network. However she only held the position for one season after deciding to depart from the show's cast.[43]

In early June 2007, she was chosen at the last minute to record the leading song for the soundtrack of Evan Almighty called "Ready For A Miracle" (previously recorded by Patti LaBelle). The song can be heard in the movie, during the end credits, and in the trailers of Evan Almighty.[64] Rimes played in the movie Good Intentions with her friend Elaine Hendricks which is filming near Atlanta, Georgia.[65] Rimes plays Meg Galligan in the made for TV movie, Northern Lights, based on the Nora Roberts novel of the same name. The film aired on the Lifetime network on March 12, 2009.[66]

In 2007 Rimes began hosting The Colgate Country Showdown, a nation wide televised country music talent competition, similar to that of American Idol or Nashville Star. In 2011 Rimes hosted the show for her 5th consecutive year, when the show switched sponsorship, to Texaco.[67][unreliable source?][unreliable source?]

Personal life[link]

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush listen to LeAnn Rimes perform in the East Room of the White House in a performance honoring the Dance Theatre of Harlem on February 6, 2006

Lawsuits[link]

On May 21, 2000, Rimes filed a lawsuit against her father, Wilbur Rimes, and her former manager, Lyle Walker in Dallas, Texas. Rimes claimed that her father and former manager took over seven million dollars from her in the preceding five years. Rimes also alleged that both men made unreasonable fees and took advantage of Rimes' label, Asylum-Curb, in order to acquire financial gain. Rimes sought unspecified damages because her attorney was not sure of how much money had been lost in the preceding five years. According to Rimes' lawyer, her mother hired two accountants to investigate how much was taken from Rimes's fortune, and it was estimated that the men acquired around eight million dollars in royalties.[7] In 2002, Rimes's lawsuit with her father was "settled on undisclosed terms."[12] Rimes reconciled with her father for her wedding.[68]

In November 2000, Rimes filed a second lawsuit against her label, Asylum-Curb. Rimes wanted permission to be released from the contract that was signed by her parents on Rimes' behalf when she originally signed with the label in 1995. She also wanted her label to turn over the rights of her music, video work, and publishing interests, and destroy all of her recordings that were currently available to the label at the time of the lawsuit.[34] Part of Rimes's legal battles ended in December 2001, when Asylum-Curb started a new contract with Rimes.[7]

Marriages[link]

Amid the legal battles, Rimes fell in love with backup dancer Dean Sheremet. The two had met when he was chosen to dance during Rimes's hosting of the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards. After her first date with Sheremet, Rimes told InStyle Magazine: "This is the guy I want to marry."[12] The couple married the next year, in 2002. In July 2009, the couple separated and in September 2009, Rimes announced their plans to divorce.[69][70] The divorce was finalized on June 19, 2010, exactly six months after Sheremet filed divorce documents for dissolution of marriage.[71]

Rimes is currently married to Northern Lights co-star Eddie Cibrian, with whom she had a well-publicized extramarital affair prior to the split from Sheremet.[72][73] Cibrian left his wife Brandi Glanville, the mother of his two children, for Rimes. He filed for divorce in August 2009 after eight years of marriage.[74] In June 2010, Rimes spoke for the first time about the end of her first marriage, stating, "I take responsibility for everything I've done. I hate that people got hurt...But I don't regret the outcome." [75] On December 27, 2010, it was announced via Billboard that Rimes and Cibrian were engaged.[76] The couple wed on April 22, 2011 at a private home in California.[77]

Philanthropy[link]

In 2008, she opened up about her lifelong struggle with the autoimmune disease psoriasis. She participated in a PSA to raise awareness about the disease.[78]

Rimes lent her voice to the 2008 song "Just Stand Up." The proceeds benefited Stand Up to Cancer. As a result of SU2C fundraising endeavors, the SU2C scientific advisory committee, overseen by the American Association for Cancer Research, was able to award $73.6 million towards cancer research.[79]

On December 19, 2010, she performed "The Rose," joined by The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles[80] in remembrance of the many gay teenagers who committed suicide in 2010. On her weblog she wrote on June 18, 2011: "I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often."[81]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Filmography[link]

Year Name Role Other notes
1997 Holiday in Your Heart Herself TV film
1998 Days of Our Lives Madison 1 episode
1999 Moesha Herself Season 4 episode; "Ohmigod, Fanatic"
2000 Coyote Ugly Herself cameo/singing voice: Piper Perabo
2003 American Dreams Connie Francis Season 3 episode; "Where the Boys Are"
2004 Extreme Makeover Home Edition Herself Cox Family; guest star
2006 Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes Kelly Deegan TV film
2008 Good Intentions Pam Released on DVD March 9, 2010
2009 Northern Lights Meg Galligan TV film
Released on DVD October 6, 2009
I Get That a Lot Waitress Television special (1 episode)
2010 Extreme Makeover Home Edition Herself Lighthouse School; guest star
2011 Drop Dead Diva Lana Kline Season 3 episode; "Hit and Run"
Reel Love Holly Whitman TV film
2012 Interiors, Inc Herself Season 1 episode; "HININ-102H"

Publications[link]

  • Holiday in Your Heart (1997) with Tom Carter[18]
  • Jag (2003)[39]
  • Jag's New Friend (2004)[42]
  • What I Cannot Change (2009) with Darrell Brown[51]

Awards[link]

Country Music Association awards[link]

Year Award Notes
1997 Horizon Award

Academy of Country Music awards[link]

Year Award Notes
1996 Top New Female Vocalist
Single of the Year for "Blue"
Song of the Year for "Blue" Award given to "Blue"'s songwriter, Bill Mack.
2009 Humanitarian Award

Grammy awards[link]

Year Award For
1997 Best New Artist (Won) Herself
Best Female Country Vocal Performance (Won) "Blue"
1998 Best Female Country Vocal Performance "How Do I Live"
2007 "Something´s Gotta Give"
2008 "Nothin' Better To Do"
2009 "What I Cannot Change"
2011 "Swingin'"

American music awards[link]

Year Award Notes
1997 Favorite New Artist Only American music award

CMT music awards[link]

Year Award Video
2008 Collaborative Video of the Year "'Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore" (w/ Bon Jovi)

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External links[link]

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Hootie & the Blowfish
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
1997
Succeeded by
Paula Cole

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Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle in 2010
Background information
Birth name Erik Hassle
Born (1988-08-26) 26 August 1988 (age 23)
Katrineholm, Sweden
Genres Pop
Occupations Singer, songwriter
Years active 2005-present
Labels Roxy (Sweden)
Island (UK)
Universal Republic (U.S.)
Artist Company TEN
Associated acts Ellie Goulding
Website www.erikhassle.com

Erik Hassle (born 26 August 1988 in Katrineholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter.

Contents

Biography[link]

Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional footballer. He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett.[1] He attended Rytmus, a musical secondary school in Stockholm where famous Swedish singer Robyn trained, and eventually met his manager Adis Adamsson. He signed a deal with the Swedish music company Artist Company TEN. Through TEN Erik signed to Roxy Recordings for Sweden, Island Records for Europe and Universal Republic for North America.[2]

Music career[link]

Swedish career[link]

Hassle released his first single, "Hurtful" in September 2008. It went to reach #11 in his native Sweden and peaked at #2 in Denmark. He later released his second single "Don't Bring Flowers" which peaked at #25 in Sweden, and his album Hassle which debuted at #2 and stayed in the Swedish charts for 10 weeks.[3]

International career[link]

On 23 August 2009 Hassle released "Don't Bring Flowers" his first international single. In late 2009 he embarked on touring outside of Sweden and released "Hurtful" in the UK on 2 February 2010. It debuted at #59 and fell off the charts the following week. He altered a few songs his Swedish debut album and re-released the album as Pieces in the UK. It failed to chart in the UK Albums Chart.

He has been written up as a hot new act in The Guardian and other major newspapers, and on 19 January 2010, he was awarded the prize for "Newcomer of the Year 2009" at the P3 Guld gala.

Hassle visited Lynn Grove High School and Capital City Academy playing Don't Bring Flowers, Amelia and his own cover of In for the Kill

He toured with Mika in the UK in early 2010 as the supporting act and was very well received by Mika's fans. He also supported Mika at the closing night of the iTunes Festival in June 2009.

In 19 May 2010 his single, "Hurtful" was picked as "Single of the Week" on iTunes Store, in which people could download his song free.[4]

Hassle released an extended play (EP) entitled The Hassle Sessions: Volume One consisting of cover songs, on 12 August 2010 in the United Kingdom.

In 2010, Erik Hassle featured the English version of the single "Alors on danse", from the album of the same name by Stromae. The track was made available through Spotify.

“Are You Leaving” was the first single from Erik Hassle’s mini-album Mariefred Sessions. The album was the result of a collaboration between Erik Hassle and Jocke Berg & Martin Sköld from the Swedish band Kent. Mariefred Sessions was released in Sweden on March 23, 2011.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
SWE
[5]
DEN
[6]
UK
[7]
Hassle 2
Pieces
  • Released: February 22, 2010
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: CD, digital download
16 154
Mariefred Sessions
  • Released: March 23, 2011
  • Label: Roxy
  • Formats: CD, digital download
11
We Dance
  • Released: July 4, 2012[8]
  • Label: Roxy
  • Formats: CD, digital download
"—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

Extended plays[link]

  • The Hassle Sessions: Volume One (2010)
  • Taken EP (2010)

Singles[link]

Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Album
SWE
[5]
DEN
[6]
UK
[7]
2008 "Hurtful" 11 2 59 Hassle /
Pieces
2009 "Love Me to Pieces"
"Don't Bring Flowers" 25 11
2010 "Standing Where You Left Me" 32 Taken EP
"Taken (Still in My Blood)" 55
2011 "Nothing Can Change This Love" The Hassle Sessions: Volume One
"Are You Leaving" Mariefred Sessions
"Stay Away"
2012 "Stay" We Dance
"—" denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart.

Awards[link]

  • 2010 Danish GAFFA-priset – International Newcomer of the Year
  • 2009 Swedish Grammis – Newcomer of the Year
  • 2009 Swedish P3 Guld – Newcomer of the Year

References[link]

External links[link]

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