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Australia
Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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Canada
Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (
i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
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Billy Talbot
Billy Talbot (born October 23, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of Crazy Horse.
Born in New York City, Talbot started his musical career singing on street corners at the age of 14. He moved to New Jersey with his family the next year, and by 17 he had moved to Los Angeles. There, he befriended Ralph Molina, Danny Whitten and Benjamin Rocco. Together they formed a Doo-wop group called Danny and the Memories. After moving the group to San Francisco, they morphed into The Psyrcle, which eventually grew to encompass Leon and George Whitsell along with Bobby Notkoff. At this point, Talbot and his bandmates renamed the group The Rockets.
In 1967, the group met Neil Young, who at the time was a member of Buffalo Springfield. This meeting saw Molina, Whitten, and Talbot join forces with Young to create Crazy Horse.
Talbot began performing solo in 1999 at small venues, supported by fans of Crazy Horse. In October 2004, Talbot struck out on his own with The Billy Talbot Band, releasing the album Alive in the Spirit World on Sanctuary Records.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bobby Brown
Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer.
Brown started his career as one of the frontmen of the pop group New Edition, from its inception as The Bricks in 1978 until his forced exit from the group in 1986 following a period of misbehavior on his part. Starting a solo career, he became a hit success with his second album, Don't Be Cruel, which spawned a number of hit singles including the co-self penned "My Prerogative", which became his signature hit. Brown had a string of top ten hits on various Billboard charts between 1986 and 1992, and is a recipient of a Grammy Award. Brown is noted as a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip-hop and R&B.
Brown was most noted in recent years as the ex-husband of pop singer Whitney Houston. Brown and Houston later gained notoriety co-starring in the reality show, Being Bobby Brown.
Brown was born in Boston as one of eight children to Herbert "Pops" and Carole Brown. Herbert was a construction worker and Carole was a schoolteacher. Brown and his family grew up in Roxbury's Orchard Park Projects. As a child, Brown got involved in petty theft including robbery later saying "I didn't wanna ask my mother or my father because they didn't have a lot of money", stating that whenever he saw something he wanted, "I'd just go to the store and take it." Brown also grew up around gangs. At ten, he was shot in the knee during a fight with a rival gang while attending a block party. Brown said his life reached a turning point at eleven after seeing one of his friends dead from multiple stab wounds at another party. Brown's brother Tommy would later say after that moment, Brown took "his career, schooling, his whole life more seriously." Brown's first taste of being onstage occurred at the age of three when one of his childhood idols, James Brown, performed in Boston.
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Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
Booker T. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1944. He was named in honor of Booker T. Washington, but unlike Washington (whose middle name was Taliaferro), Jones was only given the middle initial "T": "Booker T. Jones" is his full name.
Jones was a prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, and piano at school and serving as organist at his church. He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns; soul singer/songwriter William Bell and Earth, Wind, & Fire's Maurice White.
Jones's first entry into professional music came at age sixteen, when he played baritone saxophone on Satellite (soon to be Stax) Records' first hit, "Cause I Love You", by Rufus Thomas and Carla Thomas.
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Bruce Palmer
Bruce Palmer (September 9, 1946 – October 1, 2004) was a Canadian musician notable for playing bass guitar in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield.
Palmer was born and raised in Liverpool Nova Scotia, Canada. He started out playing in a high school band, which subsequently evolved into the very successful Robbie Lane & The Disciples, and then graduated to a local, otherwise all-black, group fronted by Billy Clarkson. Next came British invasion-inspired Jack London & The Sparrows (which after Palmer left, evolved into Steppenwolf). In early 1965, he left to join The Mynah Birds and it was here where Palmer met Neil Young. The group, fronted by future funk legend Rick James, was signed to Motown Records and did some preliminary recordings. before it was discovered that James had been AWOL from the Navy for a year. A planned single, "It's My Time" b/w "Go Ahead And Cry", was withdrawn just prior to its scheduled release by Motown. Both sides of this single were included in the 2006 box set "The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966", released in a limited edition of 6000 by Universal vanity label Hip-O-Select, marking the first time any of the 1966 Motown recordings by the Mynah Birds had seen the light of day.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time".
Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline (Drake) Holley. In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.
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Cameron Crowe
Cameron Buttboy Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.
Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and devoid of cynicism. Michael Walker in The New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation" because his first few films focused on that specific age group, first as high schoolers and then as young adults making their way in the world.
Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, where he met Geraldine Edwards, who was a student there while he was visiting mutual friends in 1975. He later based part of his Penny Lane character on her in Almost Famous after discovering that she had been going backstage to Rock and Roll concerts. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, Say Anything, and then Singles, a story of Seattle twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering on that city's burgeoning grunge music scene. Crowe landed his biggest hit, though, with Jerry Maguire. After this, he was given a green light to go ahead with a pet project, the autobiographical effort Almost Famous. Centering on a teenage music journalist on tour with an up-and-coming band, it gave insight to his life as a 15-year-old writer for Rolling Stone. Part of the dialogue was inspired by comments that were made by Bebe Buell in certain interviews. Also in late 1999, Crowe released his second book, Conversations with Billy Wilder, a question and answer session with the legendary director.
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Canadians
Canadians (singular Canadian) are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be genetic, residential, legal, historical, cultural or ethnic. For most Canadians, several (frequently all) of those types of connections exist and are the source(s) of them being considered Canadians.
Aside from the Aboriginal peoples, who according to the 2006 Canadian Census numbered 1,172,790, 3.8% of the country's total population, the majority of the population is made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. After the initial period of French and then British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-aboriginal peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continues today. Elements of Aboriginal, French, British and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by that of its linguistic, geographic and economic neighbour, the United States.
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Carrie Snodgress
Caroline "Carrie" Snodgress (October 27, 1945 – April 1, 2004) was an American actress.
Snodgress was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. She attended Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge then Northern Illinois University before leaving to pursue acting. Snodgress trained for the stage at the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago. After a number of minor TV appearances, her film debut was an uncredited appearance in Easy Rider in 1969 and a credited appearance in 1970 in Rabbit, Run opposite James Caan.
Her next film, Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress and two Golden Globe wins, as Best Actress in a Comedy or a Musical (an odd category, given the dramatic nature of the film) and New Star of the Year - Actress. She left acting soon after to live with rock musician Neil Young and care for their son Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy. She returned to acting in 1978 in The Fury.
According to Sylvester Stallone,
The first choice for Adrian (in the movie Rocky) was a girl named Carrie Snodgress, who I wanted badly because, at the time, I wanted Adrian's family to be Irish and Harvey Keitel would be the brother. She said there wasn't enough money in it (we were getting paid $360 before taxes), so I said “I'll give you my share, I truly want you.” She passed to do a part in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, which never happened for her.
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Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen and also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and member of The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. In 1998, Elliot, John Phillips, Denny Doherty, and Michelle Phillips were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their work as The Mamas & the Papas.
Ellen Cohen was born to Philip and Bess Cohen in Baltimore, Maryland, where she grew up. The family then moved to Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington, D.C.). She adopted the name "Cass" in high school—possibly, as Denny Doherty tells it, borrowing it from the actress Peggy Cass—but in any case, it was "Cass", not "Cassandra." She assumed the surname Elliot sometime later, in memory of a friend who had died.
While still attending George Washington High School, she became interested in acting and was cast in a school production of the play The Boy Friend. She left high school shortly before graduation and relocated to New York City to further her acting career, and toured in the musical The Music Man, but lost the part of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale to Barbra Streisand in 1962.
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Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.
Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally. Atkins produced records for The Browns, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.
Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Chris Hillman
Christopher "Chris" Hillman (born December 4, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) was one of the original members of The Byrds, which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby and Michael Clarke. With frequent collaborator Gram Parsons Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock, defining the genre through his work with The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and the country-rock group Desert Rose Band.
Hillman, the third of four children, spent his early years at his family's ranch home in rural northern San Diego County, approximately 110 miles (180 km) from Los Angeles. He has credited his older sister with exciting his interest in country and folk music when she returned from college during the late 1950s with folk music records by The New Lost City Ramblers and others. Hillman soon began watching many of the country-music shows on local television in southern California at the time such as Town Hall Party, The Spade Cooley Show and Cal's Corral. Hillman's mother encouraged his musical interests and bought him his first guitar; shortly thereafter he developed an interest in bluegrass, particularly the mandolin. At age 15 Hillman went to Los Angeles to see the Kentucky Colonels bluegrass band at the Ash Grove, and later convinced his family to allow him to travel by train to Berkeley for lessons from mandolinist Scott Hambly. Around this time, Hillman's father died.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle class family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he served a prison sentence for armed robbery between 1944 and 1947. On his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of blues player T-Bone Walker, he was performing in the evenings with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955, and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. With Chess he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances to his name as well as a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis-based nightclub, called Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962, Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.
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Cortez the Killer
"Cortez the Killer" is a song by Neil Young from his 1975 album, Zuma. It was recorded with Young's band Crazy Horse and ranked #39 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos and #321 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Young has stated in concert that he wrote the song while studying history in high school in Winnipeg. The song was banned in Spain under Francisco Franco, according to Young's notes for the album Decade. Young's claim is dubious, since Franco was on his death bed on Nov. 10, 1975, the date the song was released. However, this would not necessarily have affected the nature of how the Spanish Censors would have viewed such a song. Franco died on Nov. 20, 1975 after a long illness during which he was incapacitated.
The song is about Hernán Cortez, a conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain in the 16th century. "Cortez the Killer" also makes reference to the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II and other events that occurred in the Spanish conquest of the New World.
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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó (in Standard Lakota Orthography), literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited"; ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but they agree he was born between 1840 and 1845. According to a close friend, he and Crazy Horse "were both born in the same year at the same season of the year", which census records and other interviews place at about 1845.Encouraging Bear, an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to the Oglala war leader, reported that Crazy Horse was born "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year", a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count. Among the Oglala winter counts, the stealing of 100 horses is noted by Cloud Shield, and possibly by American Horse and Red Horse owner, as equivalent to the year 1840-41. Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of 1840. On the evening of his son's death, the elder Crazy Horse told Lieutenant H. R. Lemly that his son "would soon have been thirty-seven, having been born on the South Cheyenne river in the fall of 1840".
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois ( /lænˈwɑː/ lan-WAH; born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and Ron Sexsmith. Lanois is best known for his work with Brian Eno, the pair collaborating on a number of projects together and producing several platinum albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree. Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four others received nominations.
Lanois started his production career when he was 17, working in his own studio with his brother Bob Lanois in the basement of their mother's Ancaster, Ontario home, recording local artists including Simply Saucer. Later Daniel started Grant Avenue Studios in an old house he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for whom his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, as well as the Canadian children's singer Raffi.
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Danny Whitten
Daniel Ray Whitten (May 8, 1943 – November 18, 1972) was an American musician and songwriter best known for his work with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want To Talk About It", a hit for Rita Coolidge, Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl.
Whitten was born on May 8, 1943, in Columbus, Georgia. His parents split up when he was young. He and his sister, Brenda, lived with their mother, who worked long hours as a waitress. His mother remarried when he was 9 and the family moved to Canton, Ohio.
Whitten joined Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina among others in the doo-wop group Danny and the Memories. After recording an obscure single, "Can't Help Loving That Girl of Mine", core members of the group moved to San Francisco where they morphed into a folk-psychedelic rock act called The Psyrcle. Whitten played guitar, Molina drums, and Talbot played bass and piano.
By 1967, the group took on brothers George and Leon Whitsell on additional guitars and vocals, as well as violinist Bobby Notkoff, the sextet calling themselves The Rockets. They signed with independent label White Whale Records, working with producer Barry Goldberg for the group's self-titled album in mid-1968. The album sold poorly.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee; born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture." The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
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David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (who are sometimes joined by Neil Young), and CPR. Crosby has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once for his work in The Byrds and once for his work with CSN.
David Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer. He is also the younger brother of musician Ethan Crosby. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, and Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara for the rest of his elementary school and junior high. At Crane, he starred in HMS Pinafore and other musicals but was asked not to return due to lack of academic progress. He graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, completing his studies by correspondence. In 1960, his parents divorced, and his father was remarried to Betty Christie Crosby.
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David Gans
David ben Solomon (Shlomo) ben Seligman Gans (German: David ben Salomon ben Seligmann Gans; also Ganz; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; 1541, Lippstadt - 25 August 1613, Prague) was a Jewish mathematician, historian, astronomer, astrologer, and is best known for the works Tzemach David (1592) and Nechmad ve'naim.
He was born in Lippstadt, in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, where his family were moneylenders. He studied rabbinical literature in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main, then in Kraków where he studied under Moses Isserles.
Later he attended the lectures of the Maharal of Prague and of his brother, R. Sinai. They introduced philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy into the circle of their studies, and from them Gans received the impulse to devote himself to these branches of science. He lived for a time at Nordheim[disambiguation needed
] (where he studied Euclid), passed several years in his native city of Lippstadt, and then in about 1564 settled at Prague. There he came into contact with Kepler and Tycho Brahe, and took part for three consecutive days in astronomical observations at the Prague observatory. He also carried on a scientific correspondence with Johann Müller (Regiomontanus), and was charged by Tycho Brahe with the translation of the Alfonsine Tables from Hebrew into German.
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David Geffen
David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, and DGC Records in 1990. Geffen was also one of the three founders of DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
Geffen was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Geffen and Batya Volovskaya. Both were Jewish immigrants who met in British-mandated Palestine and then moved to Brooklyn.[citation needed] Geffen graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, then attended Santa Monica College (then known as Santa Monica City College) in Santa Monica, California, but soon left. He then attended night school at Brooklyn College for three semesters before again dropping out. He also briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin. His mother owned a clothing store, Chic Corsets By Geffen, in Borough Park, Brooklyn. David's older brother Mitchell Geffen was an attorney who attended UCLA Law School and later settled in Encino, California. Mitchell Geffen fathered two daughters, who are David's closest surviving relatives.
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper."
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Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. Known for his powerful vocals, he is widely considered an icon of alternative rock.
He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums by other artists. In 2007, Vedder released his first solo album as a soundtrack for the film Into the Wild (2007). His second album, Ukulele Songs, along with a live DVD titled Water on the Road, was released on 31 May 2011.
Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, son of Karen Lee Vedder and Edward Louis Severson, Jr. His parents divorced in 1965, when Vedder was one year old. His mother soon remarried a man named Peter Mueller, an attorney, and Vedder was raised believing that Mueller was his biological father. His adopted name became Edward Mueller. While living in Evanston, Vedder's family fostered seven younger children in a group home.
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Elliot Roberts
Elliot Roberts (born Elliot Rabinowitz on February 22, 1943) is an American music manager, record executive, and philanthropist, best known for helping start the careers of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
Roberts formed Lookout Management with David Geffen, and helped to create Geffen's Asylum Records in 1970, which merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records. He is most known for his career as an artist manager, performing said duties with Mitchell, Young, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Devo, Tracy Chapman, Spiritualized, Devendra Banhart, The Alarm, and others.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released many chart-topping albums and singles over the course of her career, and has won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards.
In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Gram Parsons, The Band, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Mark Knopfler, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, and Neil Young.
Emmylou Harris is the daughter of a career military family, her father, Walter Harris, was a military officer and her mother, Eugenia was a wartime military wife. Her father, a member of the Marine Corps, was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. In high school she also won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. Leaving college to pursue her musical aspirations, she moved to New York, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in the Maryland suburbs on the edge of Washington, D.C.
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Domino was French Creole and Creole was his first language. Domino was delivered at home by his midwife grandmother who was born into enslavement in 1857. Like most families in the Lower Ninth Ward, Domino's family were new arrivals from the sugar and cotton plantations. His father was a well known violinist, and Domino was inspired to play himself. He eventually learned from his Uncle, jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett. Fats released five Gold (million selling) records before 1955. Domino also had 35 Top 40 American Hits and has a music style based on traditional R&B ensembles or Bass, Piano, Electric Guitar, Drums, and Saxophone.
Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a strong back beat. "The Fat Man" sold one million copies by 1953. Fats Domino released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader. Domino finally crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That A Shame" (1955), which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with a milder cover of the song that received wider radio airplay in a racially-segregated era. Domino eventually had 37 Top 40 singles.
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Frank Sampedro
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (born February 25, 1949) is an American guitarist and member of the rock and roll band Crazy Horse, known mainly for its longtime collaboration with singer-songwriter Neil Young.
Born in West Virginia and raised in Detroit, Sampedro moved to California as soon as he was old enough to drive. Having spent the next few years playing in different bands, Sampedro joined Crazy Horse in 1975 to record Zuma, after being introduced to the band by Billy Talbot in November 1974, exactly two years after the death of original Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten.
With the addition of Sampedro on rhythm guitar, Crazy Horse developed a new, rigid sound (as opposed to the more free-form approach of the Whitten era) that served as a seminal influence in the development of grunge and noise rock while also enabling Neil Young to focus more on his lead playing. Although Crazy Horse did not work with Young for much of the 1980s, Sampedro remained an integral part of Young's circle throughout the epoch, playing on several solo albums (most notably Freedom) and tours; his proficiency in emerging computer technology allowed him to cultivate a second career with the Young organization that would blossom in the years thereafter. Crazy Horse last collaborated with Young on 2003's Greendale, which Sampedro did not play on for aesthetic reasons; however, he joined the band for their contemporaneous tour.
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French Canadian
French Canadian or Francophone Canadian (also Canadien in Canadian English or in French) generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France (Canada) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, French Canadians constitute the main French-speaking population of Canada.
During the mid-18th century, Canadian colonists born in French Canada expanded across North America and colonized various regions, cities, and towns. Today, the majority of French Canadians live across North America, including the United States and Canada. The province of Quebec has the largest population of French Canadian descent, although smaller communities of French Canadians exist throughout Canada and in the American region of New England, where between 1840 and 1930, roughly 900,000 French Canadians emigrated to the United States and New England, in particular.
Other terms for French Canadians that continue to reside in the province of Quebec, are Quebeckers or Québécois. French Canadians constitute the second largest ethnic group in Canada, after English Canadians and before Scottish Canadians and Irish Canadians.
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George H.W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.
Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed going to college, enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.
He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου); 25 June 1963) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Michael rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper", was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 100 million records worldwide as of 2010. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and made several records and achievements in the United States. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
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Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor voice and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. Nash was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of The Hollies in 2010.
Nash was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to music and to charity.
Nash holds three honorary doctorates, the latest in Music from the University of Salford (England) in 2011.
Nash was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, in 1942, his mother having been evacuated there from the Nash's hometown of Salford, Lancashire because of the Second World War. The family subsequently returned to Salford, where Graham grew up. In the early 1960s he was co-founder with schoolfriend Allan Clarke of The Hollies. Nash was a leading 'group figurehead' member of The Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop and "British Invasion" groups. Credited on the first album as 'Group Leader' and recognised as a key member of the group, plus their public spokesman, he occasionally took a lead vocal. Nash was featured vocally on 'Just One Look' in 1964, and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love" on the band's second album In The Hollies Style (1964). He then progressed to often singing featured 'bridge vocals' on Hollies recordings; 'So Lonely', 'I've Been Wrong' 1965, 'Pay You Back With Interest' 1966 etc., also by 1966 Nash was providing a few solo lead vocals on Hollies albums & then from 1967 'B' sides to singles.
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary (1998), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), The Curse of Lono (1983), and Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966).
He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is known also for his lifelong use of alcohol, LSD, mescaline, and cocaine (among other substances); his love of firearms; his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon; and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism. While suffering a bout of health problems, he committed suicide in 2005 at the age of 67.
Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons, to Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran, and Virginia Ray Davison (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), a librarian. His parents were introduced to each other by a friend from Jack's fraternity at the University of Kentucky in September 1934, and were married on November 2, 1935.
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Ian Tyson
Ian Tyson CM, AOE (born 25 September 1933) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.
Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C. A rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties, he took up the guitar while recovering from an injury he sustained in a fall. He has named fellow Canadian country artist Wilf Carter as a musical influence. He made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and played with a rock and roll band, "The Sensational Stripes." After graduation from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958, Tyson moved to Toronto, Ontario where he commenced a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Fricker. By early 1959 Tyson and Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as "Ian & Sylvia." The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married four years later. In 1969, they formed and fronted the group The Great Speckled Bird. Residing in southern Alberta, Tyson toured all over the world.
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Irish Canadian
Irish Canadians are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived, 1825 to 1970, at least half of those in the period from 1831–1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ethnic group (after the French), and comprised 24% of Canada's population. The 1931 national census counted 1,230,000 Canadians of Irish descent, half of whom lived in Ontario. About one-third were Catholic in 1931 and two-thirds Protestants.
The Irish immigrants were largely Protestant before the famine years of the 1840s, when the Catholics arrived in large numbers. However, most Catholic Irish after 1850 usually headed to the U.S., England and Australia.
The 2006 census by Statistics Canada, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,354,000 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14% of the country's total population. This was a large and significant increase of 531,495 since the 2001 census, which counted 3,823,000 respondents quoting Irish ethnicity.
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James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Taylor achieved his major breakthrough in 1970 with the #3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first #1 hit the following year with "You've Got a Friend", a recording of Carole King's classic song. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies. Following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. His commercial achievements declined slightly until a big resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s, when some of his best-selling and most-awarded albums (including Hourglass, October Road and Covers) were released.
James Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1948, where his father, Isaac M. Taylor, was a resident physician. His father was from a well-off family of Southern Scottish ancestry. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard, had studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an aspiring opera singer before the couple's marriage in 1946. James was the second of five children, the others being Alex (1947-1993), Kate (born 1949), Livingston (born 1950), and Hugh (born 1952).
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Jason Bond
Jason E. Bond is a professor of biology and director of the Biodiversity Learning Center at Auburn University. When he was an associate professor with the Department of Biology at East Carolina University, he discovered the trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. He went to undergraduate school at Western Carolina University, majoring in biology in 1993. He then went to receive his M.S. in Biology (1995) and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Systematics and Genetics (1999) from Virginia Tech.
On August 6, 2008, Bond appeared on The Colbert Report, where he named the spider Aptostichus stephencolberti after host Stephen Colbert.
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JBM
JBM, also known as Jesse Marchant, is a Canadian singer songwriter who plays acoustic guitar and sings about subjects including "personal experience and the familiarity with loss," according to Glide Magazine. His music has been compared to "Bread meets America". In 2011, he signed a recording contract with Brooklyn-based Partisan Records.
Marchant was born in Montreal. He was classically trained in guitar from the age of seven. According to one account, as a young man Marchant lived in his family's home in the Adirondack Mountains for three years, living mostly in seclusion, to realize songs that he had written earlier in Los Angeles. In 2008, he recorded songs in a church studio in Hudson, New York. Vocals were recorded in such a way as to give a "reverb-washed" sound, according to critic Brittney McKenna. In an interview he emphasized the importance of songs that must "sit right" with him and feel that they "belong together" with consistent "textural elements and colors" before being recorded:
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. He is known by the nickname "The Killer". An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis had hits in the late 1950s with songs such as "Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", "Breathless" and "High School Confidential". However, Lewis' rock 'n' roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to his young cousin. He had little success in the charts following the scandal until his popularity recovered in the late 1960s after he extended his career to country and western music with songs such as "Another Place, Another Time". More country hits soon followed over the late 1960s and through the 1970s. Lewis's successes continued throughout the decade and he embraced his rock 'n' roll past with songs such as a cover of the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" and "Rockin' My Life Away". In the 21st century Lewis continues to tour to audiences around the world and still releases new albums. One such new album, titled Last Man Standing, is his best selling to date at over a million copies sold worldwide.
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Jim Evans (artist)
Jim Evans born sometime in the 1950s, sometimes known as T.A.Z., is an American painter, printmaker, and Creative Director who was a contributing figure in the visual art movement known as underground comics. After a successful career as a comic illustrator, Jim Evans became known for his work as a painter, poster maker, and owner of the digital design group, Division 13.
Evans was born in San Diego amidst the surfing culture of southern California. After attending high school, he played in several local bands and then created comic strips for the LA Free Press and other Underground papers while working for Eric Matlen's Sawyer Press. Evans' then began to take commissions doing work in several comic books. These included Yellow Dog, and a solo effort titled The Dying Dolphin, released by the San Francisco based Print Mint, it included collaborations with Rick Griffin and Ron Cobb. Evans also drew for Slow Death Funnies, and Tales from the Tube, which was published by Surfer Magazine, and included contributions by ZAP comix artists Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Williams, and Rick Griffin.
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Jim Jarmusch
James R. "Jim" Jarmusch ( /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22, 1953) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.
The key, I think, to Jim, is that he went gray when he was 15 ... As a result, he always felt like an immigrant in the teenage world. He's been an immigrant – a benign, fascinated foreigner – ever since. And all his films are about that.
Jarmusch was born to a family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1953. His mother, of Irish and German descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B.F. Goodrich Company. She introduced the future director, the middle of three children, to the world of cinema by leaving him at a local cinema to watch matinee double features such as Attack of the Crab Monsters and Creature From the Black Lagoon while she ran errands. The first adult film he recalls having seen was the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road (starring Robert Mitchum) the violence and darkness of which left an impression on the seven-year-old Jarmusch. Another B-movie influence from his childhood was Ghoulardi, an eccentric Cleveland television show which featured horror films.
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Jimmy McDonough
Jimmy McDonough is a journalist and biographer. He is perhaps best known for his biographies of Russ Meyer, Andy Milligan and Neil Young. He is noted by critics for his remarkably exhaustive accounts and for his tendency to avoid romanticizing his subjects' lives. For this reason, he was described by The Times as "a literary Terminator". In addition to the aforementioned biographies, McDonough has authored profiles on Jimmy Scott, Gary Stewart, Hubert Selby, Jr., the Ormond family and Link Wray, among others. Over the span of his career he has written for a number of publications including: The Village Voice, Film Comment, Variety, and Juggs.
He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest where he is dividing his time between 3D photography (his hobby) and work on his new biography of Tammy Wynette.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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John Prine
John Prine (born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.
Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. Prine attended Proviso East High School, and was a member on the school's gymnastic team. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army during the Vietnam War era, serving in Germany, before beginning his musical career in Chicago.
In the late 1960s, while Prine was delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter. He became a central figure in the Chicago Folk Revival, which also included such singer-songwriters as Steve Goodman, Bonnie Koloc, Jim Post and Fred Holstein. Joined by such established musicians as Jethro Burns and Bob Gibson, Prine performed frequently at such clubs as the Earl of Old Town, the Quiet Knight, Somebody Else's Troubles, The 5th Peg, and the Bulls.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again from 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made controversial or dismissive comments about the royal family and other subjects. There has been a recent revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols. Q Magazine remarked that "somehow he's assumed the status of national treasure."
Lydon's personally crafted image and fashion style led to him being asked to become the singer of the Sex Pistols by their manager, Malcolm McLaren. With the Pistols, he penned singles including "Anarchy in the U.K.", "God Save the Queen" and "Holidays in the Sun", the content of which precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium" in Britain. The band caused nationwide uproar in much of the media, who objected to the content of Lydon’s lyrics, and their antics, which included swearing on live television, in which Steve Jones called Bill Grundy a "fucking rotter". Due to the band's appearance in the media, Lydon was largely seen as the figurehead of the punk movement in the public image although this idea was not widely supported amongst the punk movement itself. Despite the negative reaction that they provoked, they are now regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.
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Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary/concert movies.
Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box. He then moved on to directing, with three films (Caged Heat, Crazy Mama, Fighting Mad) for Corman's studio New World Pictures. After Fighting Mad, Demme directed the comedy film Handle with Care for Paramount Pictures in 1977. The film was well-reviewed by critics, but received little promotion, and performed poorly at the box office.
Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift. Intended as a prestige picture for Warner Bros. as well as a major commercial vehicle for Demme, it instead became a troubled production due to the conflicting visions of Demme and star Hawn. Demme ended up renouncing the finished product, and when the film was released in May 1984, it was generally panned by critics and neglected by moviegoers. After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense; the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild; a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia, by monologist Spaulding Gray; and the New York Mafia-by-way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made. Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."
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Ken Koblun
Ken Koblun (born May 7, 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian musician best known for his work with Neil Young, performing with Young in The Jades, The Squires, the Stardusters, and briefly with Buffalo Springfield. He replaced Comrie Smith in 3's a Crowd and played with the band from 1966 to 1967.
Koblun began his music career as the bassist for the Squires, a teen band formed by Young in the early 60's out of Earl Grey Junior High. After the band broke up, Koblun found work playing bass for various folk musicians. When Stephen Stills and Richie Furay were seeking to start a rock band in Los Angeles a few months after Koblun had taken a trip to New York City in 1965 when Young had met Furay, they couldn't find Young, but did succeed in locating Koblun, whom they convinced to come to California to join the group. He stayed for only a few days, however, before deciding to return to Canada, where he joined up with 3's a Crowd. In January 1967, a replacement was needed for Bruce Palmer, who was fighting possible deportation. Koblun only played with them for about a month, before the band decided his personality was undesirable and his bass playing not as good as they anticipated. During that time he did appear in one of the few film clips of the band, doing lip synchronization to "Sit Down I Think I Love You" on the television show Where The Action Is. Koblun did not record with the band, but Young's epic "Broken Arrow" is dedicated to Koblun in the sleeve notes of Buffalo Springfield Again.
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Kevin Chong
Kevin Chong (born 1975) is a Canadian author. Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing.
His first novel, Baroque-a-Nova, was published in Canada by Penguin in 2001, in the United States by Putnam in 2002, and in France by Ballard in 2002. The New York Times Book Review describes the book as "a readable, if slightly gray, coming-of-age novel." The Quill and Quire described the book as "compact, clear-sighted, and nervy. Chong’s grasp of suburban tackiness is laugh-out-loud awesome, right down to the ubiquitous copies of Maclean’s magazine on parental coffee tables and trick or treaters dressed as Orville Redenbacher."
His second book Neil Young Nation (2005), a non-fiction work, traces the steps of Neil Young's 1970 trip across Canada and the United States. New York Times Book Review of compared the book to "watching an endless home movie in which a not very close friend visits all the houses he grew up in." The Georgia Straight suggested that "Still looking for happiness, community, and fulfillment, Chong is a genuine seeker-and his journey is a ride worth taking."
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene, having its debut album Bleach released on the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989.
After signing with major label DGC Records, the band found breakthrough success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from its second album Nevermind (1991). Following the success of Nevermind, Nirvana was labeled "the flagship band" of Generation X, and Cobain hailed as "the spokesman of a generation". Cobain, however, was often uncomfortable and frustrated, believing his message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, with his personal issues often subject to media attention. He challenged Nirvana's audience with its final studio album In Utero (1993).
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression. He also had difficulty coping with his fame and public image, and the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death at age 27 have become a topic of public fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, has sold over 25 million albums in the U.S. alone, and over 50 million worldwide.
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music.
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he became a session musician, working as a pianist on the recordings of many notable musical artists since the 1960s. By the late 1960s, Russell diversified, becoming successful as an arranger and wrote/co-wrote songs. As a musician, he worked his way from gigs as a sideman to well known performers. By 1970 he had graduated to solo recording artist, although he never ended all his previous roles within the music industry.
Russell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 14, 2011, at a black-tie dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the mid-1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the early development of soul music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website entry on Penniman states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast. More than any other performer – save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.
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Lonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack (born Lonnie McIntosh, July 18, 1941, Dearborn County, Indiana, United States) is an American rock, blues, and country guitarist and vocalist.
In 1963 and early 1964 he recorded a succession of full-length electric guitar instrumentals that combined blues stylism with fast-picking techniques and a rock beat. The best-known of these are "Memphis", "Wham!", and "Chicken Pickin'". These instrumentals are said to have established the standard of virtuosity for a generation of rock guitarists, forming the leading edge of the "blues-rock" guitar genre. The pitch-bending tremolo arm found on some electric guitars reportedly became known as the "whammy bar" in recognition of Mack's aggressive, rapid manipulation use of the device in 1963's "Wham!".
In 1979 music historian Richard T. Pinnell called 1963's "Memphis" a "milestone of early rock guitar". In 1980 the editors of Guitar World magazine ranked "Memphis" first among rock's top five "landmark" guitar recordings. Mack is widely regarded today as a pivotal historical figure in expanding the role of the electric guitar in rock.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( /skɔrˈsɛsɛ/; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won Academy Award, Palme d'Or, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,machismo, modern crime, and violence. Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006), having been nominated a previous five times.
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Michael Heatley
Michael Heatley is the author or editor of over thirty biographies, including Backstreet Boys: The Unofficial Book, Bon Jovi: In Their Own Words and Rolf Harris: The Most Talented Man In The World. In 1995, he wrote the liner notes to Rolf's best-selling album Rolf Rules OK!
Since 1977 he has written more than a hundred music, sport and TV books.
He has written for magazines including Privileged View (for viewers of UK Gold and UK Living), 442 and Fultime (Fulham FC), Music Week, Billboard, Goldmine (US record collecting magazine), Radio Times, Daily Record and the Mail on Sunday colour supplement.
In addition, Michael runs a fanzine in honour of legendary Welsh psychedelic rock band Man called The Welsh Connection which is circulated to a small but fervent fanbase on a bi-monthly basis.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Neil young
Neil Percival Young,OC,OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young,OC,OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
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Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor.
He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday Party in the early 1980s, a band renowned for its highly gothic, challenging lyrics and violent sound influenced by free jazz, blues, and post-punk. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman that released its debut the following year. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with religion, death, love and violence.
Upon Cave's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said, “Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute."
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Nicolette Larson
Nicolette Larson (July 17, 1952 – December 16, 1997) was an American pop singer. She is perhaps best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young, as well as her 1978 cover of Young's "Lotta Love". The song, her debut single, was a Number One Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks hit and #8 pop hit that year. It was followed by four more Adult Contemporary hits, two of which were also minor pop hits.
By 1985, she shifted her focus to country music, charting six times on the Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Her only Top 40 country hit was "That's How You Know When Love's Right", a duet with Steve Wariner. She died in 1997 of cerebral edema and liver failure.
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Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, occasional lead singer and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Raised in Burnage, Manchester with Liam, Noel began learning guitar at the age of thirteen. After a series of odd jobs in construction, he worked for local Manchester band Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988. Whilst touring with them, he learned that Liam had formed a band of his own, known as The Rain, which eventually took on the name Oasis. After Gallagher returned to England, he was invited by his brother to join Oasis as songwriter and guitarist.
Oasis' debut album, Definitely Maybe (1994), marked the beginning of the band's rise to fame as head of the Britpop movement. Oasis' second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, reached the top of the album charts in many countries and their third studio album, Be Here Now, became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history. Britpop eventually declined in popularity and Oasis' next two albums failed to revive it. However, the band's final two albums, Don't Believe the Truth (2005) and Dig Out Your Soul (2008), were hailed as its best efforts in over a decade and found renewed success. On 28 August 2009, following an altercation with Liam prior to a gig in Paris, Gallagher announced his departure from Oasis and on 23 October 2009, he confirmed he would embark on a solo career.
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Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D. recipient at Harvard University, Platnick has described thousands of species of spiders in various locales around the world, ranging from the dwarf tarantulas of North America, to the white-tailed spiders of the genus Lampona in Australia. He is also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog, a website hosted by the AMNH which tracks the arachnology literature, and attempts to maintain a comprehensive list, sorted taxonomically, of every species of spider which has been formally described. In 2007 he received the Bonnet award (see Pierre Bonnet) of the International Society of Arachnology in recognition for his work on the catalog.
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Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, Rory Block and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with her onstage as well as performing cover songs of Griffin's work, exposing many of her compositions to mainstream pop and country music audiences outside Griffin's folk music circle of fans. She was also recipient of the Americana Music Association's highest honor as "Artist of the Year" in 2007, as well as taking home the award for best album for Children Running Through. In 2011, Griffin won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album for Downtown Church.
Patty Griffin is from Old Town, Maine, United States, next to the Penobscot Native American reservation. She is primarily a guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, with a distinctive voice. The youngest child in her family with six older siblings, she bought a guitar for $50 at age 16, and sang and played, but had no inclination at the time to become a professional musician. After a short marriage which ended in 1992, Griffin began playing in Boston coffee houses, and was scouted by A&M Records, who signed Griffin on the strength of her demo tape; however A&M thought it to be overproduced, so Nile Rodgers and A&M instead released a stripped-down reworking of her demo tape, as an album called Living with Ghosts.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Ralph Molina
Ralph Molina (born June 22, 1943) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse.
Born in Puerto Rico, Molina has been a member of Crazy Horse since they were formed in 1962 as Danny & the Memories. He has remained throughout the band's many personnel changes, and has performed on all 20 releases by the band, with and without Young. Molina's style of drumming is characterized by simple, but steady beats and fills.
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Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC, OM ( /ˈbækmən/; born September 27, 1943, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s–70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan, Union and a band called Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums.
He is also a national radio personality on CBC Radio One, hosting a weekly music show called Vinyl Tap.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Karl (Charlie) Bachman and Anne (Nancy) Dobrinsky, Bachman is half-German, half-Ukrainian in ancestry. At age three he won a singing contest on CKY's King of the Saddle program and age 5 he had started studying the violin in the Royal Toronto Conservatory system. He studied violin until the age of 12 when he grew dissatisfied with the structured lessons. He found that while he couldn't read music, he could play anything if he heard it once; he referred to it as his phonographic memory.
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Richie Furay
Richie Furay (born Paul Richard Furay, May 9, 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner. His best known song (originally written during his tenure in Buffalo Springfield, but eventually performed by Poco, as well) was "Kind Woman", which he wrote for his wife, Nancy.
Before Buffalo Springfield, Furay performed with Stills in the nine-member group, the Au Go Go Singers (Roy Michaels, Rick Geiger, Jean Gurney, Michael Scott, Kathy King, Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, and Furay & Stills), the house band for the famous Cafe Au Go Go in New York.
In the late 1960s he formed the country-rock band Poco with Jim Messina and Rusty Young. This band, while influential to many future country-rock acts, experienced uneven commercial success. Furay's best known songs, "Pickin' Up The Pieces" and "Good Feelin' To Know", however, have reached classic status and appear on many country rock compilations. Furay left Poco in 1974 to form the Souther Hillman Furay Band. It was during this time that Al Perkins, the band's pedal steel guitar player, introduced Furay to Christianity. His newfound faith helped him rebuild his troubled marriage.
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Rick Danko
Richard Clare "Rick" Danko (December 29, 1942 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.
The third of four sons, Danko was born in Green's Corners, Ontario, a farming community outside of the town of Simcoe, to a musical family of Ukrainian descent.
Growing up in front of the family radio (as his future bandmates also did), he was exposed to country and R&B music at an early age. His musical heroes included Hank Williams and, later, Sam Cooke. He also drew inspiration from the music of his oldest brother, Maurice "Junior" Danko. Danko's younger brother, Terry, also became a musician. After entering the first grade in school, he performed on a 4 string tenor banjo.
Danko formed the Rick Danko Band at the age of 12 or 13, and at 14, he left school to pursue music. At 17, already a five-year music veteran, he booked himself as the opening act for Ronnie Hawkins, an American rockabilly singer whose group, The Hawks, were considered to be one of the best in Canada.[citation needed]
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Rick James
James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004), better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B. Among his well known songs are "Super Freak", "Mary Jane" and "You and I".
In addition to his music, James gained notoriety for his wild lifestyle, which led to widely publicized legal problems, and which was famously satirized by Chappelle's Show in 2004.
Rick James was born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. in Buffalo, New York. He attended Orchard Park High School and Bennett High School before dropping out at the age of 15. One of eight children, his father, an autoworker, abandoned him and his siblings when Rick was a child. His mother, a former vaudeville dancer, later reportedly ran errands for a Mafia family to make ends meet.[citation needed]
James grew up singing on street corners with fellow neighborhood boys. James' early idols included Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Temptations (particularly his uncle, Melvin Franklin). After briefly being involved in street crime, James dropped out of high school at 15 to avoid a possible draft and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. A year later, James left the Reserve after he began to miss weekend training, because it interfered with his music career.[not in citation given]
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Ronnie Van Zant
Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant (January 15, 1948 – October 20, 1977) was an American lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of the founder and vocalist of 38 Special, Donnie Van Zant, and of current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant.
He was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, to Lacy (1915–2004) and Marion (1929–2000) Van Zant. Van Zant aspired to be many things before finding his love for music. Notably, Ronnie was interested in becoming a boxer (as Muhammad Ali was one of his idols) and in playing professional baseball. Ronnie also tossed around the idea of becoming a stock-car racer. In fact, he would say that he was going to be the most famous person to come out of Jacksonville since Lee Roy Yarbrough.
Van Zant formed Skynyrd late in the summer of 1964 with friends and schoolmates Allen Collins (guitar), Gary Rossington (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass), and Bob Burns (drums). Lynyrd Skynyrd's name is a mock tribute to a gym teacher the boys had in high school, Leonard Skinner, who disapproved of male students with long hair.
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Russ Tamblyn
Russell Irving "Russ" Tamblyn (born December 30, 1934) is an American film and television actor and dancer, who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang. He is also known for appearing in such films as Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Peyton Place and The Haunting.
Tamblyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Sally Triplett and Eddie Tamblyn. He is the older brother of Larry Tamblyn, organist for the 1960s band The Standells.
Discovered at the age of ten by actor Lloyd Bridges after acting in a play, Tamblyn's first film appearance was a small non-speaking role in 1948's The Boy With Green Hair. He also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show as a child. He portrayed the young Saul in Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 version of Samson and Delilah. He played the younger version of John Dall's character in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. Later the same year, he had a minor role as Spencer Tracy's son and Elizabeth Taylor's younger brother in Father of the Bride, as well as in the following year's sequel, Father's Little Dividend, both directed by Vincente Minnelli. He was also a young soldier in boot camp in 1953's Take the High Ground. His training as a gymnast in high school and abilities as an acrobat prepared him for his breakout role as Gideon, the youngest brother, in 1954's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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Scott Young (writer)
Scott Alexander Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musicians Neil Young and Astrid Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.
Born in Cypress River, Manitoba, Young grew up in nearby Glenboro, Manitoba where his father, Percy Andrew Young, owned a drug store. His mother was Jean Ferguson Paterson. After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg, but were unable to afford to stay there. His parents separated in 1930, and Young went to live with an aunt and uncle in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan for a year before moving back to Winnipeg to live with his mother. He left high school at 16 and began working for a tobacco wholesaler.
Young began writing while in his teens, submitting stories to various publications, most of which were rejected. At the age of 18, in 1936, he was hired as a copyboy at the Winnipeg Free Press and was soon made sports reporter. He met Edna Blow "Rassy" Ragland in 1937 and the two were married in 1940.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate (1967), propelling them further into the public consciousness.
They are well known for their vocal close harmonies and were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s. Their biggest hits – including "The Sound of Silence" (1964), "I Am a Rock" (1965), "Homeward Bound" (1965), "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (1966), "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (1966), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1969), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Cecilia" (1969) – peaked at number one in several charts. They have received several Grammys and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Spanish conquest
Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Christian faith through indigenous conversions. It lasted for over four hundred years, from 1492 to 1898.
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada; and U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; and the western half of South America. In the early 19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ended Spanish colonization in America. The cultural influences, though, still remain.
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Sylvie Simmons
Sylvie Simmons is a London-born music journalist, named as a "principal player" in Paul Gorman's book on the history of the rock music press In Their Own Write (Sanctuary Publishing, 2001). A widely regarded writer and rock historian, she is one of very few women to be included among the predominantly male rock elite. She is also the author of a number of books, including biography and cult fiction.
In 1977 Simmons decamped to Los Angeles and became US correspondent for Sounds, one of the three major UK rock music weeklies of the period. She wrote a weekly column, 'Hollywood Highs', and interviewed a wide range of artists, including Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Johnny Rotten, Steely Dan, Adam Ant, Black Sabbath, The Clash and Michael Jackson.
During the '80s, when Los Angeles witnessed an upsurge in heavy metal and glam rock, Simmons wrote what are regarded as the definitive features on the movement, being the first journalist to bring then-unknown acts like Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe to international attention. (She would go on to co-author the first book on Mötley Crüe with rock writer Malcolm Dome, Lude, Crude And Rude, 1994, out of print).
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The Chantels
The Chantels (not to be confused with the reggae group The Chantells) were the second African-American girl group to have nationwide success in the United States, preceded by The Bobbettes. The group was established in the early 1950s and attended St. Anthony of Padua school in The Bronx. The original five members consisted of Arlene Smith (lead), Sonia Goring, Rene Minus, Jackie Landry Jackson and Lois Harris. They derived their name from that of a rival school, St. Frances de Chantal.
The Chantels by 1957, then in high school, had been a group for seven years. Unlike some black groups of their time, the quintet was under the influences of classical music and Latin hymns. The lead singer, Arlene Smith, had received classical training and performed at Carnegie Hall at age twelve. Smith provided the group with both lyrics and music. The girls were discovered by Richard Barrett, lead singer of The Valentines, and by summer 1957 signed to End Records, owned by George Goldner. Their first single was "He's Gone" (Pop #71) in August 1957, written by Arlene Smith. Released in December 1957, their second single, "Maybe" was a hit (#15 Billboard Hot 100; #2 R & B chart) in January 1958. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Following releases were less successful but End did release an album originally titled We Are The Chantels. The original cover had a picture of the group. The album was soon withdrawn and repackaged with a picture of two white teenagers picking out a song; the title was shortend to The Chantels.
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Thom Yorke
Thomas "Thom" Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.
Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry; in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the 6th most powerful figure in music, and Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in popular music; in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list.
Yorke was born on 7 October 1968, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye was fixed shut; the doctors determined that the eye was paralyzed and that the condition was permanent. Yorke's parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a muscle graft. Yorke underwent five eye operations before he was six years old. Yorke's father, a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his son's birth and the family lived there until Yorke was seven. During this time Yorke had to wear a patch over his eye. He has stated that the last surgery was "botched", giving him a drooping eyelid.
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Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
Moore was born in Coral Gables, Florida, but was raised in Bethel, Connecticut. Although he enrolled at Western Connecticut State University, he instead moved to New York City to join the burgeoning post-punk/no wave music scenes. At the beginning of his time in New York, he lived in an apartment below artist Dan Graham, eventually befriending him, sometimes using records from Graham's collection for mix tapes.
Once in the city, Moore was briefly a member of the hardcore punk band Even Worse, featuring future The Big Takeover editor (and future Springhouse drummer) Jack Rabid. After exiting the band, Moore and Lee Ranaldo learned experimental guitar techniques in Glenn Branca's "guitar orchestras."
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Tim Pope
Timothy Michael Pope (born 12 February 1956, Hackney, London) is a film director most famous for his music videos, having directed feature films, and for a brief pop career.
Pope grew up in the north London suburb of Enfield. Both his parents were bankers, and he has a sister, Amanda. He always knew that he wanted to make films, boasting in an interview once, "Even my dreams came with dirt on them, like my Standard-8 movies". He attended St Andrew's primary school, Cecil Road, Enfield, and then went to St Michael's boarding school in Otford, Kent, returning to north London to attend Latymer Grammar School, Haselbury Road. While still attending Latymer, he participated in the first ever Film Studies O-level and was featured in the Evening Standard as “Tim Pope, aged seventeen, who wants to be a film director”.
To achieve this aim, he began to attend Saturday morning film classes at Hornsey College of Art. Here he was able to experiment freely with cameras, spending much time photographing various happenings. His first school film was entitled Voyage, which was shot on a 16mm Bolex camera – and another equally absurd creation was the film Canine Excrement, where he is purported to have followed a dog around the then bombsites of Seven Sisters, waiting for the inevitable to happen.
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Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947, in Oakland, California) is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles.
Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group Tim, Tom & Ron at age 15. That group evolved into a surf band called the Contenders, then changed its name to the New Breed. As the New Breed they had one big radio hit, the catchy, Animals-inspired "Green Eyed Woman," released 1965. Changing its name once again to Glad, the group recorded the album Feelin' Glad in 1968.
In 1970, Schmit joined Poco, replacing founding member Randy Meisner on bass and vocals. He wrote and was lead singer on the song "Keep On Tryin'," Poco's biggest hit single to that point, peaking at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. Apart from Poco, Schmit also contributed vocals to Firefall's 1977 hit, "Just Remember I Love You."
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks is known for his roles in Philadelphia and as the title character in Forrest Gump, roles which won him two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor. Hanks is also known for his Oscar nominated roles in Big, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away.
Hanks' other acting roles include Apollo 13 as Jim Lovell, The Green Mile as Paul Edgecomb, Toy Story as Woody and Charlie Wilson's War as Charlie Wilson.
Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992), was an itinerant cook. His mother, Janet Marylyn (née Frager; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932), was a hospital worker. Hanks' mother is of Portuguese ancestry, while two of his paternal great-grandparents immigrated from Britain. Hanks's parents divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer)[citation needed], Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California.[citation needed]
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer–songwriter, composer, and record producer. As both a vocalist and a multi-instrumentalist, Reznor has led the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails beginning in 1988, and as of 2010 he and his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, are also members of the post-industrial band How to Destroy Angels alongside fellow composer Atticus Ross, with whom Reznor has scored two films. Reznor was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Reznor left Interscope Records in 2007, and is now an independent recording artist.
Reznor began creating music early in his life, and cites his Western Pennsylvania childhood as an early influence. After being involved with a number of synthesizer-based bands in the mid-80s, Reznor gained employment at Right Track Studios in Cleveland, Ohio and began creating his own music during the studio's closing hours under the moniker Nine Inch Nails. Reznor's first release as Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success, and he has since released seven major studio releases. Outside of Reznor's chief project Nine Inch Nails, he has contributed to many other artists' albums, including Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and in Spin magazine he was described as "the most vital artist in music."
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Tut Taylor
Tut Taylor (born November 20, 1923) is an American bluegrass musician.
Taylor played banjo and mandolin as a child, and began playing dobro at age 14, learning to use the instrument with a distinctive flat-picking style. Taylor was a member of The Folkswingers in the 1960s, who released three LPs; he recorded his debut solo effort in 1964. Later in the 1960s, he played with the Dixie Gentlemen and in John Hartford's Aero-Plain band.
Taylor became a local Nashville, Tennessee fixture. In 1970, he co-founded the instrument shop GTR there, soon after releasing another solo album. He also co-founded the Old Time Pickin' Parlor, a Nashville venue noted for performances of old-time music, as well as Tut Taylor's General Store.
In a March, 1992 interview, Neil Young reported having bought Hank Williams' Martin D-28 Guitar from Tut Taylor.
At the Grammy Awards of 1995, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his work on The Great Dobro Sessions with Jerry Douglas.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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karaoke
All hail the god in the TV
White noise medicating
Rape and murder, holy war, nothing phases me
And now I have the only scapegoat that I need
(A modern day alibi for a life of abuse and neglect)
HAIL
ALL HAIL
Pray to the god in the TV
Eyes wide, fixed and dilated, bleed
A myriad of rich white trash, nothing phases me
It promises just what I'm longing to be
HAIL, All hail your brand new religion
HAIL, An old American sin (all hail)
HAIL, This is the murderer of evolution
HAIL, This is no way for us to live
...Now hail the god within
HAIL
ALL HAIL
Relive a warped reality
Push the syringe in and let the hours wane
Ashen eyes, catatonic, praying on our knees
To hail the god for a legion of zombies
HAIL, All hail your brand new religion
HAIL, An old American sin (all hail)
HAIL, This is our cancer
feeding thought pollution
HAIL, This is no way for us to live
HAIL, All hail your brand new religion
HAIL, An old American sin (all hail)
HAIL, This is the murderer of evolution
HAIL, This is no way to fucking live
...Now hail the god within
HAIL
Well i'd like to tell you all about my dream, it's a place
Where strip malls abound and diversion's mere moments away
Where culture's defined by the
Ones least refined
And you'll be left behind
If you don't fit in
It's all distorted
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tat's right away
I want it right now cause my generation don't like to wait
My future's determined by
Thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion
But it's okay
Everything's backwards
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
I'm a product
Of my environment
So don't blame me, i just work here
My rights are denied by
Those least qualified
Trading profit for pride
But it's okay
Everything's backwards
In americana my way
My nightmare has come true
My nightmare has come true
Yeah, it's all coming true
America, the land of the free, the home of the braveThat’s what I thought before I toured thereYou see, I’ve got myself being seduced by the sheer americana of it allAnd I’d seen their images on televisionOf lee harvey oswald, john f. kennedy’s assassinationAnd I thought america is a violent placeAnd america is keen to trap youLike you had giant tentacles that wrapped themselves around youUntil you couldn’t move and you were trappedThe land of the free, the home of the brave, guns and the wild westHey big fat cowboy, wearing your big stetsonHey big fat cowboy, flashing your big six gunHey big fat cowboy, singing country & westernHey big fat cowboy, is this the way that the west was won? yeahI found myself in the back of a big ford thunderbirdWith a slick-looking dudeHe looked like a punk from a b-movie,The sort of punk that would piss everybody offUntil lee marvin put a bullet through his brainThe punk looked over at meKinks? what kind of a motherfuckin’ name is that? Then he reached over and picked up the car telephoneHey kid, I’ve got elvis presley’s phone number.I’ve got ann-margret’s phone number. I’ve fucked ann-margret!I knew mick avory would be impressed with this, but I was notAnd then the punk looked over at meI’ll dial elvis presley he dialed a numberHey, is that you elvis? I wanna speak to the colonel.Jump to it, you mother!And then he looked over at me in a menacing way,Reached into the glove-compartment and took out a revolverHe waved the six gun around, menacinglyYou see kid, when I deal with people, they have to treat me right,Otherwise they contend with this! a gun!Have you ever seen a gun before? I hadn’tThen he waved it around, put it back in the glove-compartmentWelcome to peoria, illinois, home of middle america,Ice-cream and apple pie, guns and the wild westAll american wise guy, why achieve that gleam in the sunHamburger and a milkshake, all american dudePopcorn and a t-bone, hot dog with a big smileAnd a bad attitude, yeah yeah yeahFlying across america on a twa, flying to californiaTo appear on television, performing our new record set me freeThe kinks were met by a union man with a contract to signAnd the kinks didn’t like signing contractsHey, are you the kinks? sign this piece of paper guys!I want you to sign this union-document so you can appear on televisionNo thanks mate, we don’t wanna sign a contractYou have to sign, otherwise you cannot appearWe don’t want to sign a piece of paper, alright!Listen kid, you sign the piece of paper.You with your red hunting jackets and your yellow frilly shirts.Sign the piece of paper!Do you wanna sign it? he looked over at daveWatcha gonna do kid? fuck off!Which is a fairly reasonable thing to say in the circumstances,But not very wise, you see, the man was a union executiveAlright. once I file my report on you guysYou’re never gonna work in america again.You’re gonna find out just how powerful it is in america!The land of ice-cream and apple pie, guns and the wild westGreat american union rules with the fist, a smile and a gunGreat american napalm lights up the sky like the sunGreat american eagle swoops down from the sky up aboveAnd I remember the images of lee harvey oswaldAppearing on tv saying he was a patsyA union man is a-framin’ the kinksWhile I thought this is the land of opportunityBut the cosa nostra are everywhereLand of ice-cream and apple pieHey big fat cowboy, wearing that big six gunHey big fat cowboy, singing country & westernHey big fat cowboy, moving that big six gunHey big fat cowboy, is this the way that the west was won? Yeah yeah yeahAnd 6 weeks later robert and grenville and larryWere sitting in their office in carnaby streetAnd the letter came from the american governmentIt was from the american federation of musicians unionA band known as the kinks,The english beat group known as the kinks,Are banned from america.Their license to perform has been revoked indefinitelyYeah, all the same fuck offIn the land of the ice-cream and apple pie, guns and the wild west
Well i'd like to tell you all about my dream, it's a place
Where strip malls abound and diversion's mere moments away
Where culture's defined by the
Ones least refined
And you'll be left behind
If you don't fit in
It's all distorted
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tat's right away
I want it right now cause my generation don't like to wait
My future's determined by
Thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion
But it's okay
Everything's backwards
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
I'm a product
Of my environment
So don't blame me, i just work here
My rights are denied by
Those least qualified
Trading profit for pride
But it's okay
Everything's backwards
In americana my way
My nightmare has come true
My nightmare has come true
I've traveled all around this country
In my time I thought I'd seen it all
But today I took a detour down a back road
Through a little town whose name I can't recall
There were old men on benches playing checkers
Children playing hop scotch on the square
And high above a statue of an unknown soldier
Old glory was waving in the air
Suddenly I realized what I'd too long forgotten
Chill rose up like mountains on my skin
Overcome with a feeling
I knew I was seeing
America all over again
[chorus]
Americana
Picture of a people proud and free
Americana
And I'll keep holding to the dream
You're still what living means to me
I knew the stop would throw me off my schedule
But I parked around behind the Five and Dime
There's something about a small town in the Summer
Like a Norman Rockwell picture back in time
Kids were courting at the Rexall soda fountain
Like we did before they built the shopping mall
I saw so many reasons why I love this country
You know some things never really change at all
As I left the two-lane road
And pulled back on that super high way
I thought of what I'd seen back in that town
And it hit me like a freight train
That a stone's throw from the fast lane
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Americana - Offspring
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The Offspring - Americana - Full Album
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- Duration: 38:29
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Over 200k, thanks punks! :) The Offspring - Americana - Full Album(1998) Enjoy! =) Genre: punk rock, pop punk, ska punk Track list: 0:00 Welcome 0:10 Have You Ever 4:06 Staring At The Sun 6:19 Pretty Fly( For A White Guy ) (# 1 Single) The Kids Aren't Alright: youtu.be (# 3 Single) 9:27 Feelings 12:19 She's Got Issues (# 4 Single) 16:08 Walla Walla 19:05 The End Of The Line 22:06 No Breaks 24:11 Why Don't You Get A Job (# 2 Single) 27:07 Americana 30:20 Pay The Man I was unable to post The Kids Aren't Alright because of breaking copyright, please sorry about that! Rare Bonus Songs! www.youtube.com
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Over 200k, thanks punks! :) The Offspring - Americana - Full Album(1998) Enjoy! =) Genre: punk rock, pop punk, ska punk Track list: 0:00 Welcome 0:10 Have You Ever 4:06 Staring At The Sun 6:19 Pretty Fly( For A White Guy ) (# 1 Single) The Kids Aren't Alright: youtu.be (# 3 Single) 9:27 Feelings 12:19 She's Got Issues (# 4 Single) 16:08 Walla Walla 19:05 The End Of The Line 22:06 No Breaks 24:11 Why Don't You Get A Job (# 2 Single) 27:07 Americana 30:20 Pay The Man I was unable to post The Kids Aren't Alright because of breaking copyright, please sorry about that! Rare Bonus Songs! www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 246500
- author: MixMini1
A detailed look at the Americana Arm Lock from Side Control with James Foster
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- Duration: 6:19
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Here Coach James Foster demonstrates a basic key lock setup from side control, as well as the keys to finishing the hold and getting the tap.
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Here Coach James Foster demonstrates a basic key lock setup from side control, as well as the keys to finishing the hold and getting the tap.
- published: 26 Nov 2011
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- author: Submissions101
Americana - Full New Album - Neil Young & Crazy Horse HQ
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- Duration: 56:57
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Sounds like 1975 Neil Young..... "Oh Susannah" "Clementine" "Tom Dula" "Gallows Pole" "Get a Job" "Travel On" "High Flyin' Bird" "Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain)" "This Land Is Your Land" "Wayfarin' Stranger" "God Save the Queen"
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Sounds like 1975 Neil Young..... "Oh Susannah" "Clementine" "Tom Dula" "Gallows Pole" "Get a Job" "Travel On" "High Flyin' Bird" "Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain)" "This Land Is Your Land" "Wayfarin' Stranger" "God Save the Queen"
- published: 08 Jun 2012
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- author: MisterPalmdale
Americana (Keylock)
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www.TrainFightWin.com This is the Americana (Keylock) from the Mount position.
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www.TrainFightWin.com This is the Americana (Keylock) from the Mount position.
- published: 13 Dec 2007
- views: 131648
- author: TechniquePrevails
Best Wedding Proposal Ever !! (The Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA)
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Best Wedding Proposal Ever !! - MOBBED at The Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA www.fox.com
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Best Wedding Proposal Ever !! - MOBBED at The Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA www.fox.com
- published: 09 Jun 2011
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- author: chectorako
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Oh Susannah
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- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
© 2012 WMG "Oh Susannah" - the first video from Neil Young & Crazy Horse's new album "Americana" - coming June 5th. Pre-order the album at neilyoung.com and get "Oh Susannah" at http
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© 2012 WMG "Oh Susannah" - the first video from Neil Young & Crazy Horse's new album "Americana" - coming June 5th. Pre-order the album at neilyoung.com and get "Oh Susannah" at http
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 611882
- author: neilyoungchannel
Gracie Insider January 2007 Technique of Month - Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
www.GracieAcademy.com Ryron and Rener Gracie From the Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy in Torrance, CA demonstrate how to effectively apply an americana from the mount. This video is brought to you by the "Gracie Insider" the official newsletter for the Gracie Family. For more information and training videos go to www.gracieacademy.com and sign up for the newsletter.
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www.GracieAcademy.com Ryron and Rener Gracie From the Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy in Torrance, CA demonstrate how to effectively apply an americana from the mount. This video is brought to you by the "Gracie Insider" the official newsletter for the Gracie Family. For more information and training videos go to www.gracieacademy.com and sign up for the newsletter.
- published: 02 Jan 2007
- views: 113442
- author: GracieAcademy
The Death Of Yugoslavia [6/6] - Pax Americana [1/5]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:50
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
The Death of Yugoslavia (Serbian, Montenegrin,Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Smrt Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Смртта на Југославија, Smrtta na Jugoslavija) is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia.
http://wn.com/The_Death_Of_Yugoslavia_6_6_Pax_Americana_1_5_
The Death of Yugoslavia (Serbian, Montenegrin,Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Smrt Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Смртта на Југославија, Smrtta na Jugoslavija) is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia.
- published: 25 Apr 2009
- views: 28891
- author: TheDeathOfYugoslavia
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for Beginners : Americana Technique From Four Point Side Control: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:31
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Learn how to execute the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Americana from four point side control move from a black belt in the free martial arts video.
http://wn.com/Brazilian_Jiu_Jitsu_for_Beginners_Americana_Technique_From_Four_Point_Side_Control_Brazilian_Jiu-Jitsu
Learn how to execute the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Americana from four point side control move from a black belt in the free martial arts video.
- published: 28 Apr 2007
- views: 39544
- author: expertvillage
Gracie Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Matrix Moves (BJJ): Americana to Arm Bar from mount, Peruvian neck tie variation, half guard sweep (brabo choke defense)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:23
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
www.JiuJitsuMatrix.com This Jiu-Jitsu Matrix move was filmed at Vacanti Jiu Jitsu in New Jersey MOVES 1) Americana to Arm Bar Variation from mount 2) Peruvian neck tie variation 3) half guard sweep off of brabo choke Phil Migliarese's Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Matrix is Sponsored by Balance Studios Gracie Brazian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Philadelphia, PA . Owners: Phil Migliarese and Ricardo Migliarese Learn how to master the armbar and americana from the mount position, a basic Gracie Brazilian jiu jitsu fighting move, in this free how-to video lesson on beginning Bralilian jiu jitsu (BJJ) technique.
http://wn.com/Gracie_Brazilian_Jiu_Jitsu_Matrix_Moves_BJJ_Americana_to_Arm_Bar_from_mount,_Peruvian_neck_tie_variation,_half_guard_sweep_brabo_choke_defense
www.JiuJitsuMatrix.com This Jiu-Jitsu Matrix move was filmed at Vacanti Jiu Jitsu in New Jersey MOVES 1) Americana to Arm Bar Variation from mount 2) Peruvian neck tie variation 3) half guard sweep off of brabo choke Phil Migliarese's Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Matrix is Sponsored by Balance Studios Gracie Brazian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Philadelphia, PA . Owners: Phil Migliarese and Ricardo Migliarese Learn how to master the armbar and americana from the mount position, a basic Gracie Brazilian jiu jitsu fighting move, in this free how-to video lesson on beginning Bralilian jiu jitsu (BJJ) technique.
- published: 11 Aug 2008
- views: 128163
- author: JiuJitsuMatrix
Moe Bandy - Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
A classic by Moe
http://wn.com/Moe_Bandy_Americana
The Offspring - Americana (Live Rock In Rio 2008)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
The Offspring - Americana - Live at Rock In Rio 2008 Lisbon, Portugal 2008.06.06 The Offspring - Live at ROCK IN RIO 08 #1 - Bad Habit www.youtube.com #2 - All I Want www.youtube.com #3 - Come Out And Play www.youtube.com #4 - Hammerhead (New Album) www.youtube.com #5 - Gone Away www.youtube.com #6 - Have You Ever www.youtube.com #7 - Staring At The Sun www.youtube.com #8 - Gotta Get Away www.youtube.com #9 - Want You Bad www.youtube.com #10 - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid www.youtube.com #11 - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) www.youtube.com #12 - Americana www.youtube.com #13 - What Happened To You? www.youtube.com #14 - The Kids Aren't Alright www.youtube.com #15 - (Can't Get My) Head Around You www.youtube.com #16 - Self Esteem www.youtube.com I Hope You Like! Don't Forget, Subscribe!! ;)
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The Offspring - Americana - Live at Rock In Rio 2008 Lisbon, Portugal 2008.06.06 The Offspring - Live at ROCK IN RIO 08 #1 - Bad Habit www.youtube.com #2 - All I Want www.youtube.com #3 - Come Out And Play www.youtube.com #4 - Hammerhead (New Album) www.youtube.com #5 - Gone Away www.youtube.com #6 - Have You Ever www.youtube.com #7 - Staring At The Sun www.youtube.com #8 - Gotta Get Away www.youtube.com #9 - Want You Bad www.youtube.com #10 - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid www.youtube.com #11 - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) www.youtube.com #12 - Americana www.youtube.com #13 - What Happened To You? www.youtube.com #14 - The Kids Aren't Alright www.youtube.com #15 - (Can't Get My) Head Around You www.youtube.com #16 - Self Esteem www.youtube.com I Hope You Like! Don't Forget, Subscribe!! ;)
- published: 12 Jun 2008
- views: 181223
- author: Joni Lourenco
Americana Armlock: The Three Most Common Errors
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:03
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
How to do the Americana Armlock correctly, by Stephan Kesting from www.grapplearts.com and http
http://wn.com/Americana_Armlock_The_Three_Most_Common_Errors
How to do the Americana Armlock correctly, by Stephan Kesting from www.grapplearts.com and http
- published: 17 Apr 2010
- views: 76123
- author: StephanKesting
Empire - Pax Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:59
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
As the winds of change blew across the Arab world, the US, the power that has long dominated the region, has been particularly absent. With all its allies crumbling one after another, what will the US do to maintain its influence in the region? And what can be expected of Israel, the country's closest ally in the region? Will the spread of democracy lead to a peaceful end to decades of autocratic rule in the Middle East or will the fear of Islamist extremism galvinise Washington's resolve to reinforce Pax Americana?
http://wn.com/Empire_Pax_Americana
As the winds of change blew across the Arab world, the US, the power that has long dominated the region, has been particularly absent. With all its allies crumbling one after another, what will the US do to maintain its influence in the region? And what can be expected of Israel, the country's closest ally in the region? Will the spread of democracy lead to a peaceful end to decades of autocratic rule in the Middle East or will the fear of Islamist extremism galvinise Washington's resolve to reinforce Pax Americana?
- published: 08 Feb 2011
- views: 10299
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Defense against the Americana (Key Lock) from Mount
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
The window of opportunity to defend against the mounted Americana is short. Here is a last ditch option when your opponent is going for the lock.
http://wn.com/Defense_against_the_Americana_Key_Lock_from_Mount
The window of opportunity to defend against the mounted Americana is short. Here is a last ditch option when your opponent is going for the lock.
- published: 12 Oct 2011
- views: 22148
- author: Submissions101
Soda Stereo - Persiana Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Music video by Soda Stereo performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2008 Sony Music Entertainment Argentina SA
http://wn.com/Soda_Stereo_Persiana_Americana
Music video by Soda Stereo performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2008 Sony Music Entertainment Argentina SA
- published: 30 Sep 2011
- views: 841043
- author: SodaStereoVEVO
Soda Stereo - Persiana Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:41
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Music video by Soda Stereo performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2005 BMG Ariola Argentina SA
http://wn.com/Soda_Stereo_Persiana_Americana
Music video by Soda Stereo performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2005 BMG Ariola Argentina SA
- published: 04 Feb 2012
- views: 491268
- author: SodaStereoVEVO
Americana tribute/trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
"Americana" is a film produced and directed by David Carradine. David also played the lead and performed the title music "Let me take you around". Production commenced in 1973 however it was not completed until 1983 due to financial problems and David's other acting commitments. The story line is based around a returned Vietnam veteran who seems to be on as soul searching journey by walking across America. When passing through a the bleak, backwater town of Drury, Kansas he comes across a derelict carousel and finds a mysterious personal crusade to restore it. It is interesting to note the town of Drury in real life sits in the geological center of America and the carousel rests in the middle of town, The Soldier, who is emotionally wounded by his service in Vietnam may be attempting to find personal solice by metaphorically repairing the shattered heart of his country after the Vietnam conflict by carefully tending to the collapsed and rotting carousel. This seemingly simple and kind gesture polarizes the local community who both hinder and embrace his efforts. As he is drawn into the community he is both confronted then challenged by its darker shadows that appear to offer the acceptance and gateway required to finish what he started. This is a significant work of American realist cinema however I could find very little information on the picture or a trailer for it. I have put together this tribute /trailer that hopefully captures some of the haunting undercurrent of ...
http://wn.com/Americana_tribute_trailer
"Americana" is a film produced and directed by David Carradine. David also played the lead and performed the title music "Let me take you around". Production commenced in 1973 however it was not completed until 1983 due to financial problems and David's other acting commitments. The story line is based around a returned Vietnam veteran who seems to be on as soul searching journey by walking across America. When passing through a the bleak, backwater town of Drury, Kansas he comes across a derelict carousel and finds a mysterious personal crusade to restore it. It is interesting to note the town of Drury in real life sits in the geological center of America and the carousel rests in the middle of town, The Soldier, who is emotionally wounded by his service in Vietnam may be attempting to find personal solice by metaphorically repairing the shattered heart of his country after the Vietnam conflict by carefully tending to the collapsed and rotting carousel. This seemingly simple and kind gesture polarizes the local community who both hinder and embrace his efforts. As he is drawn into the community he is both confronted then challenged by its darker shadows that appear to offer the acceptance and gateway required to finish what he started. This is a significant work of American realist cinema however I could find very little information on the picture or a trailer for it. I have put together this tribute /trailer that hopefully captures some of the haunting undercurrent of ...
- published: 22 Oct 2007
- views: 8492
- author: rodc2006
Agapornis - Persiana Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Music video by Agapornis performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2012 Agapornis
http://wn.com/Agapornis_Persiana_Americana
Music video by Agapornis performing Persiana Americana. (C) 2012 Agapornis
- published: 01 Oct 2012
- views: 367396
- author: AgapornisVEVO
The Civil Wars // Barton Hollow // Americana Awards
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Our performance of "Barton Hollow" from the Americana Honors & Awards show will be featured on ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival on PBS stations nationwide starting on Nov 19th! Check your local listings - The program also features performances from The Avett Brothers, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy, Justin Townes Earle and many more! thecivilwars.com
http://wn.com/The_Civil_Wars_Barton_Hollow_Americana_Awards
Our performance of "Barton Hollow" from the Americana Honors & Awards show will be featured on ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival on PBS stations nationwide starting on Nov 19th! Check your local listings - The program also features performances from The Avett Brothers, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy, Justin Townes Earle and many more! thecivilwars.com
- published: 15 Nov 2011
- views: 65292
- author: TheCivilWars
Americana
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:30
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
A proud tribute to who we are, where we're from and what keeps us passionate. www.wilburcurtis.com Believe in the power of the American work ethic. Curtis commercial coffee brewers and commercial tea brewers are built to last. Restaurant, hotel, and convenience store chains throughout the world have relied on Curtis coffee brewers to brew the perfect cup since 1941.
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A proud tribute to who we are, where we're from and what keeps us passionate. www.wilburcurtis.com Believe in the power of the American work ethic. Curtis commercial coffee brewers and commercial tea brewers are built to last. Restaurant, hotel, and convenience store chains throughout the world have relied on Curtis coffee brewers to brew the perfect cup since 1941.
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 5257
- author: CurtisMarketing
KOLA LOKA - No Me Da Mi Gana Americana (Video Oficial)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Cola Loka is one of the most famous new band in Cubaton / Urbano, they have created the big hit CALIENTICO 3 years ago. now this is the new SUPERMEGASINGLE, directly from Santiago De Cuba, A "Must See"!
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Cola Loka is one of the most famous new band in Cubaton / Urbano, they have created the big hit CALIENTICO 3 years ago. now this is the new SUPERMEGASINGLE, directly from Santiago De Cuba, A "Must See"!
- published: 20 Mar 2009
- views: 396922
- author: planetrecordsmiami
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Moto Americana: Deserts - Trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. Joined by a team of adventure riders including Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, this 1200 mile journey takes them through the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Trailer
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. Joined by a team of adventure riders including Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, this 1200 mile journey takes them through the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 02 Aug 2012
- views: 4927
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Introductions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' we introduce you to the team of adventure riders that accompanied Joe, Flora and Andre on their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team, which includes Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Introductions
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' we introduce you to the team of adventure riders that accompanied Joe, Flora and Andre on their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team, which includes Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 3043
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Entering Death Valley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team enters Death Valley, passing relics of mining towns and early pioneering efforts in what will be the start of their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Entering_Death_Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team enters Death Valley, passing relics of mining towns and early pioneering efforts in what will be the start of their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2191
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - The Racetrack
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Ubehebe crater and heads to the famous Racetrack playa, home to the geological phenomenon known as 'sailing stones.' The stones, which slowly move across the surface of the playa, leave a track as they go - without human or animal intervention - and have never been seen or filmed in motion.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_The_Racetrack
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Ubehebe crater and heads to the famous Racetrack playa, home to the geological phenomenon known as 'sailing stones.' The stones, which slowly move across the surface of the playa, leave a track as they go - without human or animal intervention - and have never been seen or filmed in motion.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 30 Aug 2012
- views: 13500
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Lippincott Pass
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Racetrack and heads toward the Saline Valley. Their route leads them through the famous Lippincott Pass, which offers a glimpse at the bygone era of mining, as well as some incredible views of the Saline Valley itself. From washed out sections, steep dropoffs and an ever changing surface, Lippincott Pass will keep you on your toes, but is an amazing adventure ride!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Lippincott_Pass
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Racetrack and heads toward the Saline Valley. Their route leads them through the famous Lippincott Pass, which offers a glimpse at the bygone era of mining, as well as some incredible views of the Saline Valley itself. From washed out sections, steep dropoffs and an ever changing surface, Lippincott Pass will keep you on your toes, but is an amazing adventure ride!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 27291
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Saline Valley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team travels nearly 100 miles along a sporadically maintained dirt road through the Saline Valley, a large, deep, and arid valley in the northern part of California's Mojave Desert.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Saline_Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team travels nearly 100 miles along a sporadically maintained dirt road through the Saline Valley, a large, deep, and arid valley in the northern part of California's Mojave Desert.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 13 Sep 2012
- views: 13508
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Rhyolite
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team heads to the second ghost town of their journey, Rhyolite, set against the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV.
The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners, and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Rhyloite is now a reminder of our pioneering past and enguinituy as well as a great place to ride to!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Rhyolite
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team heads to the second ghost town of their journey, Rhyolite, set against the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV.
The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners, and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Rhyloite is now a reminder of our pioneering past and enguinituy as well as a great place to ride to!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 27 Sep 2012
- views: 4203
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Leaving Death Valley
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions crew departs Stovepipe Wells and decides to spend some time exploring the 'tourist loops' of Death Valley. Riding through Furnace Creek, which sits well below sea level, the team travels to Devil's Golf Course, a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley covered in halite salt crystal formations, and then on to the Artist Palette before heading south towards Mojave. Mojave.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
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Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions crew departs Stovepipe Wells and decides to spend some time exploring the 'tourist loops' of Death Valley. Riding through Furnace Creek, which sits well below sea level, the team travels to Devil's Golf Course, a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley covered in halite salt crystal formations, and then on to the Artist Palette before heading south towards Mojave. Mojave.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 1794
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Mojave National Preserve
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team enters the Mojave National Preserve, an adventure rider's paradise with more than 1.6 million acres to explore. Riding conditions vary from hard packed dirt, to sand and volcanic lava rock. All of these roads lead to some of the most serene and untouched desert scenery in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Mojave_National_Preserve
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team enters the Mojave National Preserve, an adventure rider's paradise with more than 1.6 million acres to explore. Riding conditions vary from hard packed dirt, to sand and volcanic lava rock. All of these roads lead to some of the most serene and untouched desert scenery in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 4974
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Crossing Mojave
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team awakes to a cold morning in the Mojave National Preserve. Once the sun is up, it lights the way for one of their best riding days yet. Mojave has a great selection of roads and trails, from volcanic rock, to gravel and sand, all of which provides a unique glimpse at one of the more amazing desert regions in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Crossing_Mojave
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team awakes to a cold morning in the Mojave National Preserve. Once the sun is up, it lights the way for one of their best riding days yet. Mojave has a great selection of roads and trails, from volcanic rock, to gravel and sand, all of which provides a unique glimpse at one of the more amazing desert regions in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 876
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part One)
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- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team embarks on an off-road route between the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree. The road, which is covered in thick sand, leads the team into the volcanic hills outside of Mojave before opening up into the valley. And although the road surface is difficult, that is far from the worst of what the team will have to overcome in this episode!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Berglund's_Demise_Part_One
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team embarks on an off-road route between the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree. The road, which is covered in thick sand, leads the team into the volcanic hills outside of Mojave before opening up into the valley. And although the road surface is difficult, that is far from the worst of what the team will have to overcome in this episode!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 08 Nov 2012
- views: 2169
- author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part Two)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team has to decide how to move Bob Berglund's broken BMW R1200GS Adventure out of the middle of the Mojave National Preserve.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
http://wn.com/Moto_Americana_Deserts_Berglund's_Demise_Part_Two
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team has to decide how to move Bob Berglund's broken BMW R1200GS Adventure out of the middle of the Mojave National Preserve.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 15 Nov 2012
- views: 1136
- author: TouratechUSA
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The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
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- Duration: 0:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Yes, I am aware that the creating of this video was nearly pointless. I only made it because I am uploading every song from the album "Americana".
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The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Yes, I am aware that the creating of this video was nearly pointless. I only made it because I am uploading every song from the album "Americana".
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 17621
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Have You Ever (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Have You Ever (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Have You Ever (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 248930
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 255447
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 102670
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Red Banana or a Phone?
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The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Red Banana or a Phone?
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 566775
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Feelings (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Feelings (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Feelings (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 238565
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 244326
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Walla Walla (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Walla Walla (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Walla Walla (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 64149
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 133144
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - No Brakes (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - No Brakes (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - No Brakes (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 197452
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job? (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 109631
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Americana (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Americana (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
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The Offspring - Americana (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 261739
- author: crisp246
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
I included the "hidden track" at the end.
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The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
I included the "hidden track" at the end.
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 117308
- author: crisp246
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Guarda Municipal de Americana Motoneta Suspeita
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Perseguição
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo com Drogas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Veículo_com_Drogas
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição Carro
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Perseguição_Carro
Roubo de veículo com malote
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Ocorrencia Policial - Perseguição e Troca de Tiros
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ocorrencia policial da Guarda Municipal, roubo de veiculo e retenção de vítima com troca de tiros filmado do interior da viatura. Cenas reais.
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Ocorrencia policial da Guarda Municipal, roubo de veiculo e retenção de vítima com troca de tiros filmado do interior da viatura. Cenas reais.
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 524539
- author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Veículo Refém
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo_Veículo_Refém
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo Suspeito
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Veículo_Suspeito
Guarda Municipal de Americana Indivíduos Armados
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Indivíduos_Armados
Veículo produto de Roubo dois presos , duas Armas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Guarda Municipal de Americana Acompanhamento , Moto ,Droga
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Acompanhamento_,_Moto_,Droga
Troca de tiros louveira
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Troca de tiros louveira
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Guarda Municipal de Americana, Drogas em Motel
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana,_Drogas_em_Motel
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Caixa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo_Caixa
Guarda Municipal de Americana .TRÁFICO ,
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_TRÁFICO_,
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo
Guarda Municipal de Americana SP
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_SP
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Residência
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo_Residência
Guarda Municipal prende assaltantes de mercado
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
26 de setembro de 2008
Reportagem de Alair Junior
Imagens: ONF
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_prende_assaltantes_de_mercado
26 de setembro de 2008
Reportagem de Alair Junior
Imagens: ONF
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 5795
- author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal prende autor de vários assaltos
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- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Mogi Guaçu (SP)
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Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo /Perseguição
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Roubo_Perseguição
Guarda Municipal de Americana Furto de Veículo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Guarda_Municipal_de_Americana_Furto_de_Veículo
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Clasicos baladas americanas de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gran clasico de la balada americana del Grupo Fleetwood Mac con su tema Little Lies.....los grandiosos años 80s.
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Gran clasico de la balada americana del Grupo Fleetwood Mac con su tema Little Lies.....los grandiosos años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 99375
- author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
FREDDIE MERCURY (nombre de nacimiento: Farrokh Bomi Bulsara; en guyaratí, ;Zanzíbar, 5 de septiembre de 1946 -- Londres, 24 de noviembre de 1991) fue un cantante, compositor y músico británico de origen parsi e indio, conocido por haber sido el fundador y vocalista de la banda de rock Queen.
Como intérprete, ha sido reconocido por su poderosa voz y extravagantes puestas en escena. Como compositor musical, escribió muchos éxitos, tales como «Bohemian Rhapsody», «Killer Queen», «Somebody to Love», «Don't Stop Me Now», «Crazy Little Thing Called Love», «Barcelona» y «We Are the Champions». Además de la actividad con Queen, en los años ochenta lanzó su carrera como solista, que lo llevó a publicar dos álbumes, Mr. Bad Guy en 1985 y Barcelona en 1988, el último en colaboración con la soprano española Montserrat Caballé, el sencillo del mismo nombre, que se convirtió en la canción oficial de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992.
Murió de una bronconeumonía complicada por el SIDA el 24 de noviembre de 1991, sólo un día después de comunicar oficialmente que padecía esta última enfermedad. En 2006, la revista Time Asia lo nombró como uno de los héroes asiáticos más influyentes de los últimos sesenta años y continúa siendo votado por la gente como uno de los mejores cantantes en la historia de la música popular. En 2005, en una encuesta organizada por Blender y MTV2 fue nombrado el mejor cantante masculino de todos los tiempos. En 2009 una encuesta de la revista Classic Rock lo colocó en el primer puesto entre los mejores cantantes de rock de todos los tiempos. En 2008, la revista estadounidense Rolling Stone ha colocado en el puesto 18 en el ranking de los 100 mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos, reflejando la opinión de la editorial de la revista. mientras que Classic Rock, al año siguiente, lo clasificó como primer puesto entre las voces rock. Por su parte, Allmusic definió a Mercury como "uno de los líderes más carismáticos y dinámicos en la historia del rock". Una encuesta hecha por The Sun, que pretendía encontrar al «Máximo dios del rock», situó a Mercury en el puesto número uno. el cual nos dejo un gran legado en su musica, interpretando el tema Living On My Own
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FREDDIE MERCURY (nombre de nacimiento: Farrokh Bomi Bulsara; en guyaratí, ;Zanzíbar, 5 de septiembre de 1946 -- Londres, 24 de noviembre de 1991) fue un cantante, compositor y músico británico de origen parsi e indio, conocido por haber sido el fundador y vocalista de la banda de rock Queen.
Como intérprete, ha sido reconocido por su poderosa voz y extravagantes puestas en escena. Como compositor musical, escribió muchos éxitos, tales como «Bohemian Rhapsody», «Killer Queen», «Somebody to Love», «Don't Stop Me Now», «Crazy Little Thing Called Love», «Barcelona» y «We Are the Champions». Además de la actividad con Queen, en los años ochenta lanzó su carrera como solista, que lo llevó a publicar dos álbumes, Mr. Bad Guy en 1985 y Barcelona en 1988, el último en colaboración con la soprano española Montserrat Caballé, el sencillo del mismo nombre, que se convirtió en la canción oficial de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992.
Murió de una bronconeumonía complicada por el SIDA el 24 de noviembre de 1991, sólo un día después de comunicar oficialmente que padecía esta última enfermedad. En 2006, la revista Time Asia lo nombró como uno de los héroes asiáticos más influyentes de los últimos sesenta años y continúa siendo votado por la gente como uno de los mejores cantantes en la historia de la música popular. En 2005, en una encuesta organizada por Blender y MTV2 fue nombrado el mejor cantante masculino de todos los tiempos. En 2009 una encuesta de la revista Classic Rock lo colocó en el primer puesto entre los mejores cantantes de rock de todos los tiempos. En 2008, la revista estadounidense Rolling Stone ha colocado en el puesto 18 en el ranking de los 100 mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos, reflejando la opinión de la editorial de la revista. mientras que Classic Rock, al año siguiente, lo clasificó como primer puesto entre las voces rock. Por su parte, Allmusic definió a Mercury como "uno de los líderes más carismáticos y dinámicos en la historia del rock". Una encuesta hecha por The Sun, que pretendía encontrar al «Máximo dios del rock», situó a Mercury en el puesto número uno. el cual nos dejo un gran legado en su musica, interpretando el tema Living On My Own
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 4258
- author: MegaHonores
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gran clasico de los años 80s cantante JOHN PARR.
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Gran clasico de los años 80s cantante JOHN PARR.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 809
- author: MegaHonores
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,la version en español la interpreto el cantante mexicano Luis Miguel la cual decia en su coro......Si no supiste amar...ahora te puedes marchar.
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Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,la version en español la interpreto el cantante mexicano Luis Miguel la cual decia en su coro......Si no supiste amar...ahora te puedes marchar.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 3581
- author: MegaHonores
clasico balada americana de los 80s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasicos de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s.
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Clasicos de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1346
- author: MegaHonores
clasico de las baladas americanas de los 80s
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- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gran clasico de la balada americana de los años 80s,interpretado por el grupo Crowded House con su tema Don't Dream it's Over de su album igualmente llamado Crowded House.
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Gran clasico de la balada americana de los años 80s,interpretado por el grupo Crowded House con su tema Don't Dream it's Over de su album igualmente llamado Crowded House.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 10807
- author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gran clasico de la balada americana tema small town boy.
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Gran clasico de la balada americana tema small town boy.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1049
- author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Kilie Minogue cantante australiana interpretando una de sus baladas clasicas de los años 80s con su tema get to be certain.
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Kilie Minogue cantante australiana interpretando una de sus baladas clasicas de los años 80s con su tema get to be certain.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1581
- author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
clasicos balada americana años 80s.
http://wn.com/Clasicos_Baladas_80s
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,grupo DURAN DURAN.
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Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,grupo DURAN DURAN.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 686
- author: MegaHonores
Adam Ant.-ant rap.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasico de la musica americana de los años 80s,tema ant rap interpretado por ADAM ANT.prince charming.
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Clasico de la musica americana de los años 80s,tema ant rap interpretado por ADAM ANT.prince charming.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 246
- author: MegaHonores
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasico de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s, grupo BANANARAMA.
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Clasico de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s, grupo BANANARAMA.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1573
- author: MegaHonores
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasico Balada americana LADY IN RED,la dama de rojo Interpretada por el cantante Chris de Bourgh,gran tema romantico y nostalgico del ayer,aquella epoca en donde existia el romance.
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Clasico Balada americana LADY IN RED,la dama de rojo Interpretada por el cantante Chris de Bourgh,gran tema romantico y nostalgico del ayer,aquella epoca en donde existia el romance.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1366
- author: MegaHonores
clasico baladas 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
clasicos de la balada americana de los años 80s.
http://wn.com/clasico_baladas_80s
clasicos de la balada americana de los años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 14255
- author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Fabuloso clasico de los 80s sonido teclado,
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Clasicos Baladas de los 80s..
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Clasicos de los maravillosos años 80s.
http://wn.com/Clasicos_Baladas_de_los_80s
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
clasicos epoca de los 80s en estados unidos.
http://wn.com/Clasico_Baladas_de_los_80s
Clasicos Baladas 80s
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
clasicos de la balada americana CHER,
http://wn.com/Clasicos_Baladas_80s
80´s Lo Mejor
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Exitos 80¨S Mix
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Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 01
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_01
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 13545
- author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 02
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_02
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 7075
- author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 03
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_03
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 5624
- author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 04
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_04
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 4687
- author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 05
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_05
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 3876
- author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 06
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
http://wn.com/Convenção_Americana_de_Direitos_Humanos_06
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 3380
- author: Prova Final
1:13
Moto Americana: Deserts - Trailer
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 02 Aug 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Trailer
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. Joined by a team of adventure riders including Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, this 1200 mile journey takes them through the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 02 Aug 2012
- views: 4927
- author: TouratechUSA
4:41
Moto Americana: Deserts - Introductions
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 16 Aug 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Introductions
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States. In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' we introduce you to the team of adventure riders that accompanied Joe, Flora and Andre on their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California: Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego.
Along the way the team, which includes Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle, discovers the uniqueness of California's southern landscape, from dusty desert floors to wind swept rocky mountain passes. While they travel around the country, they also encounter fellow adventurists who assist them in exploring their local area, helping them discover some "Americana" and the history and culture that defines traveling in the USA.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 3043
- author: TouratechUSA
4:00
Moto Americana: Deserts - Entering Death Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 23 Aug 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Entering Death Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team enters Death Valley, passing relics of mining towns and early pioneering efforts in what will be the start of their 1200 mile journey across the four deserts of Southern California.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2191
- author: TouratechUSA
3:42
Moto Americana: Deserts - The Racetrack
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 30 Aug 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - The Racetrack
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Ubehebe crater and heads to the famous Racetrack playa, home to the geological phenomenon known as 'sailing stones.' The stones, which slowly move across the surface of the playa, leave a track as they go - without human or animal intervention - and have never been seen or filmed in motion.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 30 Aug 2012
- views: 13500
- author: TouratechUSA
3:30
Moto Americana: Deserts - Lippincott Pass
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 10 Sep 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Lippincott Pass
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team leaves the Racetrack and heads toward the Saline Valley. Their route leads them through the famous Lippincott Pass, which offers a glimpse at the bygone era of mining, as well as some incredible views of the Saline Valley itself. From washed out sections, steep dropoffs and an ever changing surface, Lippincott Pass will keep you on your toes, but is an amazing adventure ride!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 27291
- author: TouratechUSA
3:33
Moto Americana: Deserts - Saline Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 13 Sep 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Saline Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts,' the team travels nearly 100 miles along a sporadically maintained dirt road through the Saline Valley, a large, deep, and arid valley in the northern part of California's Mojave Desert.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 13 Sep 2012
- views: 13508
- author: TouratechUSA
3:26
Moto Americana: Deserts - Rhyolite
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 27 Sep 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Rhyolite
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team heads to the second ghost town of their journey, Rhyolite, set against the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, NV.
The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners, and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Rhyloite is now a reminder of our pioneering past and enguinituy as well as a great place to ride to!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 27 Sep 2012
- views: 4203
- author: TouratechUSA
4:32
Moto Americana: Deserts - Leaving Death Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 12 Oct 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Leaving Death Valley
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions crew departs Stovepipe Wells and decides to spend some time exploring the 'tourist loops' of Death Valley. Riding through Furnace Creek, which sits well below sea level, the team travels to Devil's Golf Course, a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley covered in halite salt crystal formations, and then on to the Artist Palette before heading south towards Mojave. Mojave.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 1794
- author: TouratechUSA
4:09
Moto Americana: Deserts - Mojave National Preserve
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 12 Oct 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Mojave National Preserve
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team enters the Mojave National Preserve, an adventure rider's paradise with more than 1.6 million acres to explore. Riding conditions vary from hard packed dirt, to sand and volcanic lava rock. All of these roads lead to some of the most serene and untouched desert scenery in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/TouratechUSA
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 4974
- author: TouratechUSA
3:20
Moto Americana: Deserts - Crossing Mojave
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 01 Nov 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Crossing Mojave
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team awakes to a cold morning in the Mojave National Preserve. Once the sun is up, it lights the way for one of their best riding days yet. Mojave has a great selection of roads and trails, from volcanic rock, to gravel and sand, all of which provides a unique glimpse at one of the more amazing desert regions in the United States.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 876
- author: TouratechUSA
4:13
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part One)
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 08 Nov 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part One)
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde team embarks on an off-road route between the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree. The road, which is covered in thick sand, leads the team into the volcanic hills outside of Mojave before opening up into the valley. And although the road surface is difficult, that is far from the worst of what the team will have to overcome in this episode!
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 08 Nov 2012
- views: 2169
- author: TouratechUSA
2:37
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part Two)
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentar...
published: 15 Nov 2012
author: TouratechUSA
Moto Americana: Deserts - Berglund's Demise (Part Two)
Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts
Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.
In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team has to decide how to move Bob Berglund's broken BMW R1200GS Adventure out of the middle of the Mojave National Preserve.
Moto Americana: Deserts is an exclusive web series available on Touratech-USA's YouTube channel: http://2rtec.us/MADplaylist
- published: 15 Nov 2012
- views: 1136
- author: TouratechUSA
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3:18
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: Joshua Herron
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge http://willroegge.com
Keep Drifting Fun.
http://keepdriftingfun.com
Music by:
The White Rabbits
http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/
12:42
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in th...
published: 22 Apr 2011
author: Whitestone Motion Pictures
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in the style of americana southern gothic folklore.
On the run after a botched robbery, Erwin, who's experienced a change in heart, tries to take advantage of a deal he's made for himself and fellow thief Thomas. Instead he calls down the agents of a malevolent supernatural force who will hunt him to the ends of the earth rather than see him escape. Starring Justin Welborn (The Signal) and Sean Bridgers (Deadwood) this film features the craftsmanship and dedication of the artisans at Whitestone Motion Pictures.
You can download the song and the soundtrack for free at www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/blood-on-my-name/
Whitestone Motion Pictures is a film company dedicated to the craft of storytelling while utilizing emerging technology with fiercely talented people.
You can watch more of our films here: www.whitestonemotionpictures.com
Watch the behind the scenes here: http://vimeo.com/23236280
You can get an even closer look by watching our 'meta-narrative' channel: http://www.youtube.com/whitestonestoryline
Contact: info@whitestonemotionpictures.com
Yes, we want to do a feature film. Yes, it'll go a little something like this.
3:41
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.ame...
published: 08 Aug 2010
author: Americana Cinema
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.americanacinemablog.com/wordpress
New York Magazine
http://nym.ag/cAHJvd
We finally want to share with the world super model Coco Rocha & artist James Conran's teaser that we did in France in early June. Coco & James was such a pleasure to work with, we hope everyone will enjoy this teaser as much as we did making it.
Venue: Chateau de Challain located outside the town of Angers in the Loire Valley
Directed by: Gilbert Le
Wedding dress by: Zac Posen
Wedding Coordinator: Cynthia Nicholson
Second Unit Director: David Christopher Lee
Edited by: Gilbert Le
Camera Operator: Duc Nguyen
Production Coordinator: Lisa Nguyen
Production Assistant: Jeaniffer Hwang
Makeup: Liz Pugh for Rimmel London
Tuxedo Courtesy of Dior
Music: My Name is Lincoln - Steve Jablonsky
13:27
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: Eddie O'KEEFE
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [at] theteenagehead.com
http://www.facebook.com/theteenagehead
http://www.twitter.com/theteenagehead
http://www.theteenagehead.com/blog
0:16
The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Yes, I am aware that the creating of th...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Welcome (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Yes, I am aware that the creating of this video was nearly pointless. I only made it because I am uploading every song from the album "Americana".
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 17621
- author: crisp246
2:17
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
Album: Americana...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 255447
- author: crisp246
3:14
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
Album: Americana...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 102670
- author: crisp246
3:01
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Red Banana or a Phone?...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
Red Banana or a Phone?
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 566775
- author: crisp246
3:49
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
Album: Americana...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
The Offspring - She's Got Issues (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 244326
- author: crisp246
3:03
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
Album: Americana...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
The Offspring - The End of the Line (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 133144
- author: crisp246
2:58
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job? (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job (Lyrics)
Album: Americana...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job? (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 109631
- author: crisp246
9:18
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
I included the "hidden track" at th...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: crisp246
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
The Offspring - Pay the Man (Lyrics)
Album: Americana
I included the "hidden track" at the end.
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 117308
- author: crisp246
Vimeo results:
3:18
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: Joshua Herron
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge http://willroegge.com
Keep Drifting Fun.
http://keepdriftingfun.com
Music by:
The White Rabbits
http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/
12:42
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in th...
published: 22 Apr 2011
author: Whitestone Motion Pictures
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in the style of americana southern gothic folklore.
On the run after a botched robbery, Erwin, who's experienced a change in heart, tries to take advantage of a deal he's made for himself and fellow thief Thomas. Instead he calls down the agents of a malevolent supernatural force who will hunt him to the ends of the earth rather than see him escape. Starring Justin Welborn (The Signal) and Sean Bridgers (Deadwood) this film features the craftsmanship and dedication of the artisans at Whitestone Motion Pictures.
You can download the song and the soundtrack for free at www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/blood-on-my-name/
Whitestone Motion Pictures is a film company dedicated to the craft of storytelling while utilizing emerging technology with fiercely talented people.
You can watch more of our films here: www.whitestonemotionpictures.com
Watch the behind the scenes here: http://vimeo.com/23236280
You can get an even closer look by watching our 'meta-narrative' channel: http://www.youtube.com/whitestonestoryline
Contact: info@whitestonemotionpictures.com
Yes, we want to do a feature film. Yes, it'll go a little something like this.
3:41
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.ame...
published: 08 Aug 2010
author: Americana Cinema
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.americanacinemablog.com/wordpress
New York Magazine
http://nym.ag/cAHJvd
We finally want to share with the world super model Coco Rocha & artist James Conran's teaser that we did in France in early June. Coco & James was such a pleasure to work with, we hope everyone will enjoy this teaser as much as we did making it.
Venue: Chateau de Challain located outside the town of Angers in the Loire Valley
Directed by: Gilbert Le
Wedding dress by: Zac Posen
Wedding Coordinator: Cynthia Nicholson
Second Unit Director: David Christopher Lee
Edited by: Gilbert Le
Camera Operator: Duc Nguyen
Production Coordinator: Lisa Nguyen
Production Assistant: Jeaniffer Hwang
Makeup: Liz Pugh for Rimmel London
Tuxedo Courtesy of Dior
Music: My Name is Lincoln - Steve Jablonsky
13:27
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: Eddie O'KEEFE
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [at] theteenagehead.com
http://www.facebook.com/theteenagehead
http://www.twitter.com/theteenagehead
http://www.theteenagehead.com/blog
2:13
Guarda Municipal de Americana Motoneta Suspeita
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Motoneta Suspeita
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 17411
- author: Mauricio gusmão
2:18
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 9447
- author: Mauricio gusmão
1:39
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 35078
- author: Mauricio gusmão
4:07
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo com Drogas
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo com Drogas
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 7229
- author: Mauricio gusmão
2:43
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição Carro
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana / Perseguição Carro
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 19307
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:01
Roubo de veículo com malote
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Roubo de veículo com malote
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 6700
- author: Mauricio gusmão
4:57
Ocorrencia Policial - Perseguição e Troca de Tiros
Ocorrencia policial da Guarda Municipal, roubo de veiculo e retenção de vítima com troca d...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Ocorrencia Policial - Perseguição e Troca de Tiros
Ocorrencia policial da Guarda Municipal, roubo de veiculo e retenção de vítima com troca de tiros filmado do interior da viatura. Cenas reais.
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 524539
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:01
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Veículo Refém
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Veículo Refém
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 4293
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:09
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo Suspeito
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Veículo Suspeito
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 14128
- author: Mauricio gusmão
2:15
Guarda Municipal de Americana Indivíduos Armados
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Indivíduos Armados
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 4442
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:01
Veículo produto de Roubo dois presos , duas Armas
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Veículo produto de Roubo dois presos , duas Armas
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 22883
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:01
Guarda Municipal de Americana Acompanhamento , Moto ,Droga
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Acompanhamento , Moto ,Droga
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 5053
- author: Mauricio gusmão
5:00
Troca de tiros louveira
Troca de tiros louveira...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Troca de tiros louveira
Troca de tiros louveira
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 7874
- author: Mauricio gusmão
1:40
Guarda Municipal de Americana, Drogas em Motel
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana, Drogas em Motel
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 5128
- author: Mauricio gusmão
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3:18
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: Joshua Herron
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge http://willroegge.com
Keep Drifting Fun.
http://keepdriftingfun.com
Music by:
The White Rabbits
http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/
12:42
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in th...
published: 22 Apr 2011
author: Whitestone Motion Pictures
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in the style of americana southern gothic folklore.
On the run after a botched robbery, Erwin, who's experienced a change in heart, tries to take advantage of a deal he's made for himself and fellow thief Thomas. Instead he calls down the agents of a malevolent supernatural force who will hunt him to the ends of the earth rather than see him escape. Starring Justin Welborn (The Signal) and Sean Bridgers (Deadwood) this film features the craftsmanship and dedication of the artisans at Whitestone Motion Pictures.
You can download the song and the soundtrack for free at www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/blood-on-my-name/
Whitestone Motion Pictures is a film company dedicated to the craft of storytelling while utilizing emerging technology with fiercely talented people.
You can watch more of our films here: www.whitestonemotionpictures.com
Watch the behind the scenes here: http://vimeo.com/23236280
You can get an even closer look by watching our 'meta-narrative' channel: http://www.youtube.com/whitestonestoryline
Contact: info@whitestonemotionpictures.com
Yes, we want to do a feature film. Yes, it'll go a little something like this.
3:41
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.ame...
published: 08 Aug 2010
author: Americana Cinema
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.americanacinemablog.com/wordpress
New York Magazine
http://nym.ag/cAHJvd
We finally want to share with the world super model Coco Rocha & artist James Conran's teaser that we did in France in early June. Coco & James was such a pleasure to work with, we hope everyone will enjoy this teaser as much as we did making it.
Venue: Chateau de Challain located outside the town of Angers in the Loire Valley
Directed by: Gilbert Le
Wedding dress by: Zac Posen
Wedding Coordinator: Cynthia Nicholson
Second Unit Director: David Christopher Lee
Edited by: Gilbert Le
Camera Operator: Duc Nguyen
Production Coordinator: Lisa Nguyen
Production Assistant: Jeaniffer Hwang
Makeup: Liz Pugh for Rimmel London
Tuxedo Courtesy of Dior
Music: My Name is Lincoln - Steve Jablonsky
13:27
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: Eddie O'KEEFE
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [at] theteenagehead.com
http://www.facebook.com/theteenagehead
http://www.twitter.com/theteenagehead
http://www.theteenagehead.com/blog
Youtube results:
5:02
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Caixa
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo Caixa
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 4823
- author: Mauricio gusmão
1:13
Guarda Municipal de Americana .TRÁFICO ,
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana .TRÁFICO ,
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 3283
- author: Mauricio gusmão
1:17
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana Roubo
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 2849
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:01
Guarda Municipal de Americana SP
...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: Mauricio gusmão
Guarda Municipal de Americana SP
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 4946
- author: Mauricio gusmão
3:45
Clasicos baladas americanas de los 80s.
Gran clasico de la balada americana del Grupo Fleetwood Mac con su tema Little Lies.....l...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos baladas americanas de los 80s.
Gran clasico de la balada americana del Grupo Fleetwood Mac con su tema Little Lies.....los grandiosos años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 99375
- author: MegaHonores
3:15
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
FREDDIE MERCURY (nombre de nacimiento: Farrokh Bomi Bulsara; en guyaratí, ;Zanzíbar, 5 de ...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
FREDDIE MERCURY (nombre de nacimiento: Farrokh Bomi Bulsara; en guyaratí, ;Zanzíbar, 5 de septiembre de 1946 -- Londres, 24 de noviembre de 1991) fue un cantante, compositor y músico británico de origen parsi e indio, conocido por haber sido el fundador y vocalista de la banda de rock Queen.
Como intérprete, ha sido reconocido por su poderosa voz y extravagantes puestas en escena. Como compositor musical, escribió muchos éxitos, tales como «Bohemian Rhapsody», «Killer Queen», «Somebody to Love», «Don't Stop Me Now», «Crazy Little Thing Called Love», «Barcelona» y «We Are the Champions». Además de la actividad con Queen, en los años ochenta lanzó su carrera como solista, que lo llevó a publicar dos álbumes, Mr. Bad Guy en 1985 y Barcelona en 1988, el último en colaboración con la soprano española Montserrat Caballé, el sencillo del mismo nombre, que se convirtió en la canción oficial de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992.
Murió de una bronconeumonía complicada por el SIDA el 24 de noviembre de 1991, sólo un día después de comunicar oficialmente que padecía esta última enfermedad. En 2006, la revista Time Asia lo nombró como uno de los héroes asiáticos más influyentes de los últimos sesenta años y continúa siendo votado por la gente como uno de los mejores cantantes en la historia de la música popular. En 2005, en una encuesta organizada por Blender y MTV2 fue nombrado el mejor cantante masculino de todos los tiempos. En 2009 una encuesta de la revista Classic Rock lo colocó en el primer puesto entre los mejores cantantes de rock de todos los tiempos. En 2008, la revista estadounidense Rolling Stone ha colocado en el puesto 18 en el ranking de los 100 mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos, reflejando la opinión de la editorial de la revista. mientras que Classic Rock, al año siguiente, lo clasificó como primer puesto entre las voces rock. Por su parte, Allmusic definió a Mercury como "uno de los líderes más carismáticos y dinámicos en la historia del rock". Una encuesta hecha por The Sun, que pretendía encontrar al «Máximo dios del rock», situó a Mercury en el puesto número uno. el cual nos dejo un gran legado en su musica, interpretando el tema Living On My Own
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 4258
- author: MegaHonores
4:08
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
Gran clasico de los años 80s cantante JOHN PARR....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
Gran clasico de los años 80s cantante JOHN PARR.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 809
- author: MegaHonores
3:34
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,la version en español la interpreto el cantante mexic...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasico de la balada americana de los 80s
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,la version en español la interpreto el cantante mexicano Luis Miguel la cual decia en su coro......Si no supiste amar...ahora te puedes marchar.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 3581
- author: MegaHonores
3:57
clasico balada americana de los 80s
Clasicos de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasico balada americana de los 80s
Clasicos de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1346
- author: MegaHonores
3:56
clasico de las baladas americanas de los 80s
Gran clasico de la balada americana de los años 80s,interpretado por el grupo Crowded Hous...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasico de las baladas americanas de los 80s
Gran clasico de la balada americana de los años 80s,interpretado por el grupo Crowded House con su tema Don't Dream it's Over de su album igualmente llamado Crowded House.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 10807
- author: MegaHonores
5:00
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
Gran clasico de la balada americana tema small town boy....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s
Gran clasico de la balada americana tema small town boy.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1049
- author: MegaHonores
3:05
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Kilie Minogue cantante australiana interpretando una de sus baladas clasicas de los años 8...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Kilie Minogue cantante australiana interpretando una de sus baladas clasicas de los años 80s con su tema get to be certain.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1581
- author: MegaHonores
4:09
Clasicos Baladas 80s.
clasicos balada americana años 80s....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas 80s.
clasicos balada americana años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 367
- author: MegaHonores
6:16
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,grupo DURAN DURAN....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
Clasico de los maravillosos años 80s,grupo DURAN DURAN.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 686
- author: MegaHonores
3:20
Adam Ant.-ant rap.
Clasico de la musica americana de los años 80s,tema ant rap interpretado por ADAM ANT.prin...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Adam Ant.-ant rap.
Clasico de la musica americana de los años 80s,tema ant rap interpretado por ADAM ANT.prince charming.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 246
- author: MegaHonores
3:39
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Clasico de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s, grupo BANANARAMA....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Clasico de la balada americana de los maravillosos años 80s, grupo BANANARAMA.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1573
- author: MegaHonores
3:57
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Clasico Balada americana LADY IN RED,la dama de rojo Interpretada por el cantante Chris de...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos de la balada americana de los 80s.
Clasico Balada americana LADY IN RED,la dama de rojo Interpretada por el cantante Chris de Bourgh,gran tema romantico y nostalgico del ayer,aquella epoca en donde existia el romance.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1366
- author: MegaHonores
4:12
clasico baladas 80s.
clasicos de la balada americana de los años 80s....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
clasico baladas 80s.
clasicos de la balada americana de los años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 14255
- author: MegaHonores
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3:18
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: Joshua Herron
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge http://willroegge.com
Keep Drifting Fun.
http://keepdriftingfun.com
Music by:
The White Rabbits
http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/
12:42
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in th...
published: 22 Apr 2011
author: Whitestone Motion Pictures
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in the style of americana southern gothic folklore.
On the run after a botched robbery, Erwin, who's experienced a change in heart, tries to take advantage of a deal he's made for himself and fellow thief Thomas. Instead he calls down the agents of a malevolent supernatural force who will hunt him to the ends of the earth rather than see him escape. Starring Justin Welborn (The Signal) and Sean Bridgers (Deadwood) this film features the craftsmanship and dedication of the artisans at Whitestone Motion Pictures.
You can download the song and the soundtrack for free at www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/blood-on-my-name/
Whitestone Motion Pictures is a film company dedicated to the craft of storytelling while utilizing emerging technology with fiercely talented people.
You can watch more of our films here: www.whitestonemotionpictures.com
Watch the behind the scenes here: http://vimeo.com/23236280
You can get an even closer look by watching our 'meta-narrative' channel: http://www.youtube.com/whitestonestoryline
Contact: info@whitestonemotionpictures.com
Yes, we want to do a feature film. Yes, it'll go a little something like this.
3:41
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.ame...
published: 08 Aug 2010
author: Americana Cinema
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.americanacinemablog.com/wordpress
New York Magazine
http://nym.ag/cAHJvd
We finally want to share with the world super model Coco Rocha & artist James Conran's teaser that we did in France in early June. Coco & James was such a pleasure to work with, we hope everyone will enjoy this teaser as much as we did making it.
Venue: Chateau de Challain located outside the town of Angers in the Loire Valley
Directed by: Gilbert Le
Wedding dress by: Zac Posen
Wedding Coordinator: Cynthia Nicholson
Second Unit Director: David Christopher Lee
Edited by: Gilbert Le
Camera Operator: Duc Nguyen
Production Coordinator: Lisa Nguyen
Production Assistant: Jeaniffer Hwang
Makeup: Liz Pugh for Rimmel London
Tuxedo Courtesy of Dior
Music: My Name is Lincoln - Steve Jablonsky
13:27
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: Eddie O'KEEFE
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
eddie.okeefe [at] theteenagehead.com
http://www.facebook.com/theteenagehead
http://www.twitter.com/theteenagehead
http://www.theteenagehead.com/blog
Youtube results:
3:22
Clasicos Baladas de los 80s.
Fabuloso clasico de los 80s sonido teclado,...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas de los 80s.
Fabuloso clasico de los 80s sonido teclado,
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 505
- author: MegaHonores
4:44
Clasicos Baladas de los 80s..
Clasicos de los maravillosos años 80s....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas de los 80s..
Clasicos de los maravillosos años 80s.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 301
- author: MegaHonores
2:34
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
clasicos epoca de los 80s en estados unidos....
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasico Baladas de los 80s.
clasicos epoca de los 80s en estados unidos.
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 464
- author: MegaHonores
3:55
Clasicos Baladas 80s
clasicos de la balada americana CHER,...
published: 27 Nov 2011
author: MegaHonores
Clasicos Baladas 80s
clasicos de la balada americana CHER,
- published: 27 Nov 2011
- views: 1568
- author: MegaHonores
10:01
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 01
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 01
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 13545
- author: Prova Final
10:00
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 02
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 02
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 7075
- author: Prova Final
10:00
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 03
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 03
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 5624
- author: Prova Final
10:00
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 04
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 04
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 4687
- author: Prova Final
10:00
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 05
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 05
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 3876
- author: Prova Final
2:47
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 06
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.c...
published: 27 May 2011
author: Prova Final
Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos 06
Direitos Humanos - Convenção Americana de Direitos Humanos
- http://prova-final.blogspot.com/
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 3380
- author: Prova Final
Vimeo results:
3:18
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge...
published: 15 Feb 2010
author: Joshua Herron
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
Drift Mechanik's Keep Drifting Fun
By
Joshua Herron http://joshuaherron.com
& Will Roegge http://willroegge.com
Keep Drifting Fun.
http://keepdriftingfun.com
Music by:
The White Rabbits
http://whiterabbitsmusic.com/
12:42
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in th...
published: 22 Apr 2011
author: Whitestone Motion Pictures
Blood On My Name
Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Blood On My Name, a short film musical narrative in the style of americana southern gothic folklore.
On the run after a botched robbery, Erwin, who's experienced a change in heart, tries to take advantage of a deal he's made for himself and fellow thief Thomas. Instead he calls down the agents of a malevolent supernatural force who will hunt him to the ends of the earth rather than see him escape. Starring Justin Welborn (The Signal) and Sean Bridgers (Deadwood) this film features the craftsmanship and dedication of the artisans at Whitestone Motion Pictures.
You can download the song and the soundtrack for free at www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/Films/blood-on-my-name/
Whitestone Motion Pictures is a film company dedicated to the craft of storytelling while utilizing emerging technology with fiercely talented people.
You can watch more of our films here: www.whitestonemotionpictures.com
Watch the behind the scenes here: http://vimeo.com/23236280
You can get an even closer look by watching our 'meta-narrative' channel: http://www.youtube.com/whitestonestoryline
Contact: info@whitestonemotionpictures.com
Yes, we want to do a feature film. Yes, it'll go a little something like this.
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Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.ame...
published: 08 Aug 2010
author: Americana Cinema
Coco + James // Teaser
Also featured on Coco Rocha's blog: http://ohsococo.blogspot.com
Americana Cinema www.americanacinemablog.com/wordpress
New York Magazine
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We finally want to share with the world super model Coco Rocha & artist James Conran's teaser that we did in France in early June. Coco & James was such a pleasure to work with, we hope everyone will enjoy this teaser as much as we did making it.
Venue: Chateau de Challain located outside the town of Angers in the Loire Valley
Directed by: Gilbert Le
Wedding dress by: Zac Posen
Wedding Coordinator: Cynthia Nicholson
Second Unit Director: David Christopher Lee
Edited by: Gilbert Le
Camera Operator: Duc Nguyen
Production Coordinator: Lisa Nguyen
Production Assistant: Jeaniffer Hwang
Makeup: Liz Pugh for Rimmel London
Tuxedo Courtesy of Dior
Music: My Name is Lincoln - Steve Jablonsky
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The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
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published: 25 Jan 2011
author: Eddie O'KEEFE
The GHOSTS
Girls, Boys, Rock 'n' Roll, Sex, Guns, Leather, Summer, Humidity, Suburbia.
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photo: AP / Manu Brabo
13 Dec 2012
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Syrian rebels behind the kidnapping of Ukrainian journalist Ankhar Kochneva have released a video threatening more attacks on Russians and Ukrainians, as a deadline for her execution approaches on Thursday. Kochneva, a 40-year-old Ukrainian citizen, was abducted in October by Syrian rebels as she traveled to the city of Homs, and has been held there by them since, they claim ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
11 Dec 2012
The death toll brought about by typhoon “Pablo” continued to rise with 714 persons confirmed dead by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) yesterday while those missing ballooned to 890 as massive search, retrieval and relief operations continue in the typhoon-ravaged areas in Mindanao ... 4 ... They were subsequently brought to Caraga Regional Hospital ... (NHMFC) (P100,000) ... With AFP ....(size: 5.4Kb)
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man
13 Dec 2012
The head of the internet giant Google has defiantly defended his company’s tax avoidance strategy claiming he was “proud” of the steps it had taken to cut its tax bill which were just “capitalism”. In an interview in New York Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, confirmed the company had no intention of paying more to the UK exchequer ... “I am very proud of the structure that we set up ... ” ....(size: 3.7Kb)
photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
12 Dec 2012
MOSCOW. Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denounced opponents who receive financial assistance from abroad and vowed that the country would not allow democracy to be imposed from the outside. Putin said in his first annual state-of-the-nation address since he returned to the Kremlin for a third term that it should be illegal for anyone who receives money from abroad to be a politician in Russia ... ....(size: 3.9Kb)
photo: AP / KCNA
14 Dec 2012
North Koreans have gathered in Pyongyang for a mass rally to celebrate Wednesday's long-range rocket launch. State television showed huge crowds cheering to mark the launch, which has been condemned by many nations as a banned test of missile technology. South Korea, meanwhile, says it has retrieved debris from the rocket and will study it to assess its technology. The first stage of the rocket fell west of the Korean peninsula ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
New Straits/Business Times
14 Dec 2012
"We are also introducing four different types of pasta on the menu, scallop Americana, spicy tuna, creamy salmon and also vongelo ole with prices ranging from RM11.50 to RM20.50. "We think that scallop Americana and also spicy tuna will definitely stand out more than any other pasta," said Lee. Scallop Americana is cooked using chilli flakes and scallops sauteed in capsicum and a hint of black pepper....(size: 3.4Kb)
Chicago Tribune
14 Dec 2012
In the rush to woo shoppers, merchants this year are upping the ante ... With a dozen family members and friends on her holiday list, "I have to get started now or I'm going to end up running through the malls on Christmas Eve," said the Los Angeles accountant, who was hunting at the Americana at Brand shopping center ... At the Americana at Brand, Stella Yu of Glendale had just begun searching for gifts for her family and close friends ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)
The Examiner
14 Dec 2012
The #1 World Music Artist on the Boston Reverbnation charts is Dan Fallon ... When asked about the chart topping news, Dan states "I'm just very fortunate ... The Steve Katsos Show allowed me to pick up thousands of fans all over the world including Ireland and Australia ... Come February I'm releasing an album titled Songs from the Phonograph, which has several poetry-infused Americana, Folk and Indie tunes ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
Skiddle
14 Dec 2012
Half Moon, London Fri 14th December 2012. Quite simply 3 of the best bands around - check them out now as this gig will sell out!. Date. Friday 14th December 2012. Venue. Half Moon ». Location. London ». Doors. 8.00pm til 11.00pm (last entry 11.00pm) ... .... Their unique stamp on folk music draws from elements of Americana, Blues and Indie and is over-scored by soaring four-part harmonies ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
The Examiner
14 Dec 2012
Langhorne Slim & the Law – The Way We Move. A modern day troubadour, Langhorne Slim has perfected the art of storytelling which is what makes his music so damn good. With a voice that seems to crack in all the right places, an emotionally urgent delivery and a band that delivers music that is just as much Americana as it is soul, his music has always been a favorite of critics, fellow musicians and a devout fan base ... Chris Martin ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
noodls
14 Dec 2012
(Source. University of Wyoming) Contact Us. University Public Relations - Institutional Communications. Chad Baldwin. Room 137, Bureau of Mines Building. Laramie, WY 82071. Phone. (307) 766-2929. Fax. 766-6729 Fax. Email. cbaldwin@uwyo.edu ... 21 ... "Harry Krug ... The Harper's Weekly Illustrations" includes a selection of prints from the art museum's permanent collection by Winslow Homer, who was best known for his images of Americana....(size: 4.0Kb)
Houston Press
14 Dec 2012
I've long said that Houston doesn't have enough cool rooftop spaces, especially close to downtown. That's finally changing with the opening of two fun new spots... The first opened several weeks ago at the Houston Pavilions ... Now called Frank's Americana Revival & White Star Bar, the restaurant "embraces classic dishes from regions across the country, while lending an eye toward the cuisines of the future," according to its website ... Ball....(size: 3.5Kb)
CounterPunch
14 Dec 2012
The question for me was—who are the “real” monkeys? Just as I had wondered earlier who were the “real” Americans being addressed by this movie, I now realized that I was the outsider, the “fake” American, the “monkey in the middle” of all that is good, pure, unadulterated , machismo-inflected patriotic Pax Americana....(size: 12.9Kb)
Reuters
14 Dec 2012
"Downtown Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes told Reuters. "We're up against the big boys now, but the whole thing is very flattering and exciting.". He added ... "The Globes tend to like the glamorous and sophisticated dramas with big city settings and they tend to shy away from gritty, rural Americana dramas...about sweaty guys with guns instead of charming men in suits, like 'The Newsroom' and 'Boardwalk Empire,'" Hibberd said....(size: 4.2Kb)
CounterPunch
14 Dec 2012
As they put it, “The ‘unipolar moment’ is over and Pax Americana — the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945 — is fast winding down.” They say, optimistically, that the US is likely to remain “first among equals” at least into 2030 “because of its preeminence across a range of power dimensions and ......(size: 6.0Kb)
Signon San Diego
13 Dec 2012
When ... $25 ... “What’s more Americana than a Cherpumple?” he said about the dessert he invented. Phoenix, a favorite personality on public radio and the late-night talk show circuit, has made a career celebrating kitschy Americana, from its Jell-O molds to its extra-large station wagons and everything in between ... When Charles Phoenix wants to experience Americana in San Diego, he heads straight to the Chicken Pie Shop on El Cajon Boulevard ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
Business Wire
13 Dec 2012
First Grammy Award Nomination for the Group . NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THE AVETT BROTHERS cap off a phenomenal year with their very first Grammy Award nomination for The Carpenter in the category of "Best Americana Album" at the 2013 Grammy Awards ... About this honor, the band enthusiastically tweeted, "What an incredible honor to be nominated!" ... ... Contacts ... Republic Records ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)
Lexington Herald-Leader
13 Dec 2012
Since amicably splitting from Drive-By Truckers in 2007 after a six-year stay, he has established his own name as an expert songsmith who meshes the sounds and lyrical inspirations of his Alabama heritage with a strong country/Americana sensibility ... In September, Alabama Pines was named song of the year at the Americana Music Association's Honors & Awards ceremony in Nashville....(size: 3.5Kb)
For other uses, see Americana (disambiguation).
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Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States.[1][2] Many kinds of material fall within the definition of Americana: paintings, prints and drawings; license plates or entire vehicles, household objects, tools and weapons; plaques and statues, and so on. Patriotism and nostalgia play a defining role in the subject. The things involved need not be old, but need to have the appropriate associations. The term may be used to describe the theme of a museum or collection,[3][4] or of goods for sale.
The term can be used to describe studies of American culture - especially studies based in other countries.[5] Americana music loosely encompasses American folk music and related genres.
See also[link]
- American Studies
- American Studies in Britain
- Culture of the United States
- Ethos
- Canadiana – a similar concept in Canada
- Australiana – a similar concept in Australia
- Kiwiana – a similar concept in New Zealand
- Rhodesiana – a similar concept in Rhodesia
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This article is about the musician. For other persons named Neil Young, see Neil Young (disambiguation).
| Neil Young | |
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 Young performing in Oslo, Norway, in 2009. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Neil Percival Young |
| Also known as | Bernard Shakey,[1] Phil Perspective, Shakey Deal, Clyde Coil, Ol' Neil, Joe Canuck, Joe Yankee,[1] Marc Lynch,[1] Pinecone Young[2] |
| Born | (1945-11-12) November 12, 1945 (age 66) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Origin | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genres | Rock, folk rock, country rock, experimental rock, hard rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer, director, screenwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano, keyboards, banjo, ukulele |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Labels | Reprise, Motown, Geffen |
| Associated acts | The Squires, The Mynah Birds, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crazy Horse, The Stray Gators, The Stills-Young Band, The Ducks, Northern Lights, Pearl Jam, Booker T. Jones, Leon Russell, Elton John |
| Website | neilyoung.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| "Old Black" Martin D-45 "Hank" Gretsch White Falcon |
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Neil Percival Young,[3] OC,[4] OM[5] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.[6]
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles.[6] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers".[7] He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.[8]
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics[9][10][11] and signature alto or high tenor singing voice.[12][13] Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".[14]
Young has directed (or co-directed) a number of films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He is currently working on a documentary about electric car technology, tentatively titled Linc/Volt. The project involves a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to hybrid technology, which Young plans to drive to Washington, D.C. as an environmentalist example to lawmakers there.[15]
Young is an outspoken advocate for environmental issues and the welfare of small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid. In 1986, Young helped found The Bridge School,[16] an educational organization for children with severe verbal and physical disabilities, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his wife Pegi Young (née Morton). Young has three children: sons Zeke (born during his relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress) and Ben, who were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and daughter Amber Jean who, like Young himself, has epilepsy. Young lives on his ranch in La Honda, California. Although he has lived in northern California since the 1970s and sings as frequently about U.S. themes and subjects as he does about his native country, he retains Canadian citizenship, having no desire to relinquish it.[17] On July 14, 2006, Young was awarded the Order of Manitoba,[5] and on December 30, 2009, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[4]
Life and career[link]
Early years (1945–1966)[link]
Neil Percival Young was born in Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, at 6:45 am on 12 November 1945. His father, Scott Alexander Young (1918–2005), was a journalist and sportswriter who would later rise to prominence in Canada for his work.[18] His mother, Edna Blow Ragland "Rassy" Young (1918–1990), was of American, French, and Irish ancestry, and a "member of the Daughters of the American Revolution".[19] They married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with their first son, Robert 'Bob' Young, being born in 1942.
Shortly after Neil's birth in 1945, the family decided to move to the rural town of Omemee, Ontario, which Neil would later fondly describe as a "sleepy little place".[20] Omemee later established the Youngtown Museum in tribute to Young.[21] Young was diagnosed with diabetes as a child,[22] and also suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario.[23] This was in fact the same epidemic in which singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, then aged nine, also contracted the virus.[24]
Following his recovery, the Young family went on holiday to Florida in the United States in 1952, and upon returning to Canada soon decided to move away from Omemee and into the city of Toronto, before relocating to Pickering, which was just east of Toronto, and then again to north Toronto soon afterward. It was during this period that Young began to take an interest in popular music that he heard on the radio, and also began to rear chickens in order to sell their eggs.[25]
When Neil was twelve, his father, who had been having a number of extra-marital affairs, left his mother, and she subsequently asked for, and received, a divorce some years later, in 1960. Due to the breakup of the family, Neil went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba, while his brother Bob stayed with his father in Toronto.[26]
"Neil bopped down Yonge Street. Very thin, very tall, with a greased-back D.A. on the sides but a crew cut on top. He had a transistor radio, white bucks, a nice sweater, black pants. Very slick-lookin' guy."
—Comrie Smith, Young's teenage friend[27]
During the mid-fifties, at around the age of ten or eleven, Young was drawn to a variety of musical genres including rock and roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop. He would listen to pop music broadcast on the CHUM radio station via his transistor radio.[28] Young has stated in interviews that growing up he idolized Elvis Presley and strived to be just like him, later referencing him in a number of his lyrics.[29] Other early musical influences included Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, The Chantels, The Monotones, Ronnie Self, The Fleetwoods, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Gogi Grant.[30] He first began to play music himself on a plastic ukulele, before, as he would later relate, going on to "a better ukulele to a banjo ukulele to a baritone ukulele – everything but a guitar."[31]
Neil and his mother settled into the working class area of Fort Rouge, Winnipeg where the shy, dry-humoured youth enrolled at Earl Grey Junior High School. It was there that he formed his first band, The Jades, and met Ken Koblun, later to join him in The Squires. While attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, he played in several instrumental rock bands. Young's first stable band was called The Squires, with Ken Koblun, Jeff Wuckert and Bill Edmondson on drums, who had a local hit called "The Sultan." Young dropped out of high school[32] and also played in Fort William (now part of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario), where they recorded a series of demos produced by a local producer named Ray Dee, whom Young called "the original Briggs."[33] While there, Young first encountered Stephen Stills. In the 2006 film Heart of Gold, Young relates how he used to spend time as a teenager at Falcon Lake, Manitoba, where he would endlessly plug coins into the jukebox to hear Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds".
After leaving the Squires, Neil worked folk clubs in Winnipeg, where he first met Joni Mitchell.[34] Mitchell recalls Young as having been highly influenced by Bob Dylan at the time.[35] Here he wrote some of his earliest and most enduring folk songs such as "Sugar Mountain", about lost youth. Mitchell wrote "The Circle Game" in response.[36] Winnipeg band The Guess Who (Randy Bachman being their lead guitarist) had a Top 40 Canadian hit with Young's "Flying on the Ground is Wrong", which was Young's first major hit as a songwriter.
In 1965 Young toured Canada as a solo artist. In 1966, while in Toronto, he joined the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds. The band managed to secure a record deal with the Motown label, but as their first album was being recorded, James was arrested for being AWOL from the Naval Reserve.[37] After the Mynah Birds disbanded, Young and bass player Bruce Palmer relocated to Los Angeles. Young admitted in a 2009 interview that he was in the United States illegally until receiving a green card in 1970.[38]
Buffalo Springfield (1966–1968)[link]
Main article: Buffalo Springfield
Once they reached Los Angeles, Young and Palmer met up with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, and Dewey Martin to form Buffalo Springfield. A mixture of folk, country, psychedelia, and rock, lent a hard edge by the twin lead guitars of Stills and Young, made Buffalo Springfield a critical success, and their first record Buffalo Springfield (1966) sold well after Stills' topical song "For What It's Worth" became a hit, aided by Young's melodic harmonics played on electric guitar.
Distrust of their management, as well as the arrest and deportation of Palmer, exacerbated the already strained relations among the group members and led to Buffalo Springfield's demise. A second album, Buffalo Springfield Again, was released in late 1967, but two of Young’s three contributions were solo tracks recorded apart from the rest of the group.
In many ways, these three songs on Buffalo Springfield Again, "Mr. Soul", "Expecting To Fly", and "Broken Arrow", are harbingers of much of Young's later work in that, although they all share deeply personal, almost idiosyncratic lyrics, they also present three very different musical approaches to the arrangement of what is essentially an original folk song. "Mr Soul" is the only Young song of the three that all five members of the group performed together. In contrast, "Broken Arrow" was confessional folk-rock of a kind that would characterize much of the music that emerged from the singer-songwriter movement. Young’s experimental production intersperses each verse with snippets of sound from other sources, including opening the song with a sound bite of Dewey Martin singing "Mr. Soul" and closing it with the thumping of a heartbeat. "Expecting to Fly" was a lushly produced ballad similar to the baroque pop of the mid-1960s, featured a string arrangement that Young's co-producer for the track, Jack Nitzsche, would dub "symphonic pop."
In May 1968, the band split up for good, but in order to fulfill a contractual obligation, a final album Last Time Around was released, primarily from recordings made earlier that year. Young contributed the songs "On the Way Home" and "I Am a Child", singing lead on the latter. In 1997, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Young did not appear at the ceremony. The three surviving members, Furay, Stills and Young, appeared together as Buffalo Springfield at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit on 23–24 October 2010 and are planning a reunion tour for early 2012.
Going solo, Crazy Horse & CSNY (1968–1970)[link]
- Main articles: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Crazy Horse
After the breakup of Buffalo Springfield, Young signed a solo deal with Reprise Records, home of his colleague and friend Joni Mitchell, with whom he shared a manager, Elliot Roberts, who manages Young to this day. Young and Roberts immediately began work on Young's first solo record, Neil Young (November 1968), which received mixed reviews. In a 1970 interview,[39] Young deprecated the album as being "overdubbed rather than played," and the quest for music that expresses the spontaneity of the moment has long been a feature of his career. Nevertheless, the album contains some songs that remain a staple of his live shows, most notably "The Loner".
For his next album, Young recruited three musicians from a band called The Rockets: Danny Whitten on guitar, Billy Talbot on bass guitar, and Ralph Molina on drums. These three took the name Crazy Horse (after the historical figure of the same name), and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (May 1969), is credited to "Neil Young with Crazy Horse." Recorded in just two weeks, the album opens with one of Young's most familiar songs, "Cinnamon Girl," and is dominated by two more, "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down by the River," that feature lengthy jams showcasing Young's idiosyncratic guitar soloing accompanied sympathetically by Crazy Horse. Young reportedly wrote all three songs on the same day, while nursing a high fever of 103 °F (39 °C) in bed.[40]
Shortly after the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Young reunited with Stephen Stills by joining Crosby, Stills, & Nash, who had already released one album as a trio. Young was originally offered a position as a sideman, but agreed to join only if he received full membership, and the group – winners of the 1969 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award – was renamed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.[41] The quartet debuted in Chicago on August 16, 1969, and later performed at the famous Woodstock Festival, during which Young skipped the acoustic set and refused to be filmed during the electric set, even telling the cameramen: "One of you fuckin' guys comes near me and I'm gonna fuckin' hit you with my guitar".[42] During the making of their first album, Déjà Vu, the musicians frequently argued, particularly Young and Stills, who both fought for control. Stills continued throughout their lifelong relationship to criticize Young, saying that he "wanted to play folk music in a rock band".[43] Despite the tension, Young's tenure with CSN&Y coincided with the band's most creative and successful period, and greatly contributed to his subsequent success as a solo artist.
"Ohio" was written following the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970, and was a staple of anti-war rallies in the 1970s. The song was quickly recorded by CSNY and immediately released as a single, even though CSNY's "Teach Your Children" was still climbing the singles charts. In the late 1970s and for much of the 1980s, Young refrained from performing "Ohio" live, as he considered the song to be dated. In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Young revived the song in concert, often dedicating it to the Chinese students who were killed in the massacre. Crosby, Stills & Nash, as a trio, also returned the song to their live repertoire around the same time, even though Young had provided the lead vocals on the original recording.
[edit] After the Gold Rush, acoustic tour and Harvest (1970-1972)
Later in the year, Young released his third solo album, After the Gold Rush (1970), which featured, among others, a young Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills, and CSNY bassist Greg Reeves. Young also recorded some tracks with Crazy Horse, but dismissed them early in the sessions. The eventual recording was less amplified than Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, with a wider range of sounds. Young's newfound fame with CSNY made the album his commercial breakthrough as a solo artist, and it contains some of his best known work, including "Tell Me Why" and "Don't Let It Bring You Down," the country-influenced singles "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance," and the title track, played on piano, with dream-like lyrics that ran a gamut of subjects from drugs and interpersonal relationships to environmental concerns. Young’s bitter condemnation of racism in the heavy blues rock song "Southern Man" (along with a later song entitled "Alabama") was also controversial with southerners in an era of desegregation, prompting Lynyrd Skynyrd to decry Young by name in the lyrics to their hit "Sweet Home Alabama". However, Young said he was a fan of Skynyrd's music, and the band's front man Ronnie Van Zant was later photographed wearing a Tonight's the Night T-shirt on the cover of an album.
In the autumn of 1970, Young began a solo acoustic tour of North America, during which he played a variety of his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY songs on guitar and piano, along with material from his solo albums and a number of new songs. Some songs premiered by Young on the tour, like "Journey through the Past", would never find a home on a studio album, while other songs, like "See the Sky About to Rain", would only be released in coming years. With CSNY splitting up and Crazy Horse having signed their own record deal, Young's tour, now entitled "Journey Through the Past", continued into early 1971, and its focus shifted more to newer songs he had been writing; he famously remarked that having written so many, he could not think of anything to do but play them. Many gigs were sold out, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and a pair of acclaimed hometown shows at Toronto's Massey Hall, which were taped for a planned live album. The show became legendary among Young fans, and the recordings were officially released nearly 40 years later as an official bootleg in Young's Archive series.
Near the end of his tour, Young performed one of the new acoustic songs on the Johnny Cash on Campus TV show. "The Needle and the Damage Done", a somber lament on the pain caused by heroin addiction, had been inspired in part by the heavy heroin use of Crazy Horse member Danny Whitten, who eventually died of an overdose.[44][45] While in Nashville for the Cash taping, Young made a sudden connection with a new group of country-music session musicians, whom he christened The Stray Gators, and began playing with them; Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor also began to work with the group. Against the advice of his producer David Briggs, he scrapped plans for the imminent release of the live acoustic recording and quickly recorded much of his new material with the Stray Gators in Nashville, later adding two recordings made with an orchestra in London. The result was Young's fourth album, Harvest (1972), which would prove to be a massive hit. The only remnant left of the original concept was the album's live acoustic performance of the harrowing "Needle."
Young's more settled personal life was reflected in the rest of the Harvest album's mellow, pastoral tone. After his success with CSNY, Young had been able to purchase a ranch in rural Northern California (where he has lived since), writing the song "Old Man" in honor of the land's longtime caretaker, Louis Avila. On September 8, 1972, the actress Carrie Snodgress, with whom he had been living, gave birth to Neil Young's first child. (The boy, Zeke, was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy.) Young fell in love with Snodgress after seeing her in a movie, Diary of a Mad Housewife; Young wrote about this experience in the song "A Man Needs a Maid". Originally, for example in his Massey Hall concert, Young had played a fragment of another new song, "Heart of Gold," as part of "A Man Needs a Maid," but eventually, he separated the songs. "Heart of Gold," now played on guitar and harmonica, was released as the first single from Harvest, became a US number one single and remains the only No. 1 hit in his long career. "Old Man" was also immensely popular.
The album's recording had been almost accidental. Its mainstream success caught Young off guard, and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. In the Decade compilation, Young chose to include his greatest hits from the period, but his handwritten liner notes famously described "Heart of Gold" as the song that "put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore, so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there."
The "Ditch" Trilogy and personal struggles (1972–1974)[link]
Although a new tour had been planned to follow up on the success of Harvest, it became apparent during rehearsals that Danny Whitten could not function due to drug abuse. On November 18, 1972, shortly after he was fired from the tour preparations, Whitten was found dead of an overdose. Young described the incident to Rolling Stone’s Cameron Crowe in 1975:[46] "[We] were rehearsing with him and he just couldn't cut it. He couldn't remember anything. He was too out of it. Too far gone. I had to tell him to go back to L.A. 'It's not happening, man. You're not together enough.' He just said, 'I've got nowhere else to go, man. How am I gonna tell my friends?' And he split. That night the coroner called me from L.A. and told me he'd OD'd. That blew my mind. I loved Danny. I felt responsible. And from there, I had to go right out on this huge tour of huge arenas. I was very nervous and ... insecure."
On the tour, Young struggled with his voice and with the constantly changing band lineups, and called David Crosby and Graham Nash to help perform some of the music. The album assembled in the aftermath of this incident, Time Fades Away (1973), has often been described by Young as "[his] least favorite record," and it is one of only two of Young’s early recordings that has yet to be officially re-released on CD (the other being the soundtrack album Journey Through the Past). Nevertheless, Young and his band tried several new musical approaches in this period. Time Fades Away, for instance, was recorded live, although it was an album of new material, an approach Young would repeat with more success later on. Time was the first of three consecutive commercial failures which would later become known collectively to fans as the "Ditch Trilogy", as contrasted with the more middle-of-the-road pop of Harvest. These subsequent albums were seen as more challenging expressions of Young's inner conflicts on achieving success, expressing both the specific struggles of his friends and himself, and the decaying idealism of his generation in America at the time.
In the second half of 1973, Young formed The Santa Monica Flyers, with Crazy Horse's rhythm section augmented by Nils Lofgren on guitar. Deeply affected by the drug-induced deaths of Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, Young recorded an album specifically inspired by the incidents, Tonight's the Night. The album's dark tone and rawness led Reprise to delay and Young had to pressure them for two years before they would release it.[47] While his record company delayed the release, Young recorded another album, On the Beach (1974), which presented a more melodic, acoustic sound at times, including a recording of the older song "See the Sky About to Rain", but dealt with similarly dark themes such as the collapse of 1960s folk ideals, the downside of success and the underbelly of the Californian lifestyle. Like Time Fades Away, it sold poorly but eventually became a critical favorite, presenting some of Young's most original work. A review of the 2003 re-release on CD of On the Beach described the music as "mesmerizing, harrowing, lucid, and bleary".[48]
After completing On the Beach, Young reunited with Harvest producer Elliot Mazer to record another acoustic album, Homegrown. Most of the songs were written after Young's breakup with Carrie Snodgress, and thus the tone of the album was somewhat dark. Though Homegrown was reportedly entirely complete, Young decided, not for the first or last time in his career, to drop it and release something else instead, in this case, Tonight's the Night, at the suggestion of Band bassist Rick Danko.[49] Young further explained his move by saying: "It was a little too personal ... it scared me".[49] Most of the songs from Homegrown were later incorporated into other Young albums, but the original album never surfaced. Tonight's the Night, when finally released in 1975, sold poorly, as had the previous albums of the "ditch" trilogy, and received mixed reviews at the time, but is now regarded as a landmark album. In Young's own opinion, it was the closest he ever came to art.[50]
[edit] Reunions, retrospectives and Rust Never Sleeps (1975–1979)
Young reformed Crazy Horse with Frank Sampedro on guitar as his backup band for his eighth album, Zuma (1975). Many of the songs are overtly concerned with failed relationships, and even the epic "Cortez the Killer", a retelling of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from the viewpoint of the Aztecs, may also be heard as an allegory of love lost. The song's deeply emotional lyrics and searing guitar solos made it one of Young's most enduring songs in concert over the next several decades. Zuma's closing track, "Through My Sails," was the only released fragment from aborted sessions with Crosby, Stills and Nash for another group album. The following year, Young reunited with Stephen Stills for the album Long May You Run (1976), credited to The Stills-Young Band; the follow-up tour was ended midway through by Young, who sent Stills a telegram that read: "Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach, Neil."[51]
In 1976, Young performed with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and numerous other rock musicians in the high profile all-star concert The Last Waltz, the final performance by The Band. The release of Martin Scorsese's movie of the concert was delayed while Scorsese unwillingly re-edited it to obscure the lump of cocaine that was clearly visible hanging from Young's nose during his performance of "Helpless."[52] American Stars 'N Bars (1977) contained two songs originally recorded for the Homegrown album, "Homegrown" and "Star of Bethlehem," as well as newer material, including the future concert staple "Like a Hurricane". Performers on the record included Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Young protégé Nicolette Larson along with Crazy Horse. In 1977, Young also released the compilation Decade, a personally selected set of songs spanning every aspect of his work, including a handful of previously unreleased songs. The record's sequencing, unusually for the time, resembled a live setlist and included less commercial album favorites alongside Young's greatest radio hits.
Comes a Time (1978), Young's first entirely new solo recording since the mid 1970s, also featured Nicolette Larson and Crazy Horse and became Young's most commercially accessible album in quite some time, marked by a return to Young's folk roots, including a cover of Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds," a song Young associated with his childhood in Canada. In 1978 much of the filming was done for Young's film Human Highway, which took its name from one of the album's songs. Over four years Young would spend US$3,000,000 of his own money on production. This also marked the beginning of his brief collaboration with the post-punk band Devo, whose members appeared in the film.[53]
Young set out in 1978 on the lengthy "Rust Never Sleeps" tour, in which he played a wealth of new material. Each concert was divided into a solo acoustic set and an electric set with Crazy Horse. The electric sets, more furiously distorted than Young's work in the past, were later seen as a response to punk rock. One new song, "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", was a centerpiece of the new material, and Young played it in both acoustic and electric renditions. Its blunt, but cryptic, lyrics have been among Young's most widely quoted ever since, addressing fame, commerce and rock n' roll, which according to Young's opening lines, "can never die." Young also compared the rise of Johnny Rotten with that of the recently deceased "King" Elvis Presley, who himself had once been disparaged as a dangerous influence only to later become an icon. Rotten returned the favour by playing one of Young's records on a London radio show, an early sign of Young's eventual embrace by a number of punk-influenced alternative musicians.
Young's two accompanying albums Rust Never Sleeps (new material, culled from live recordings, but featuring studio overdubs) and Live Rust (a mixture of old and new, and a genuine concert recording) captured the two sides of the concerts, with solo acoustic songs on side A, and fierce, uptempo, electric songs on side B. A movie version of the concerts, also called Rust Never Sleeps (1979), was directed by Young under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Young worked with rock artist Jim Evans to create the poster art for the film, using the "Star Wars" Jawas as a theme. Young's work since Harvest had alternated between being rejected by mass audiences and being seen as backward-looking by critics, sometimes both at once, and now he was suddenly viewed as relevant by a new generation, who began to discover his earlier work. Readers and critics of Rolling Stone voted him Artist of the Year for 1979 (along with The Who), selected Rust Never Sleeps as Album Of The Year, and voted him Male Vocalist of the Year as well. The Village Voice named Rust Never Sleeps as the year's winner in the Pazz & Jop Poll, a survey of nationwide critics, and honored Young as the Artist of the Decade.
Experimental years (1980–1988)[link]
The 1980s were often difficult times for Young, both personally and professionally. At the start of the decade, distracted by domestic medical concerns relating to his second disabled son, Ben, Young had little time to spend on writing and recording.[54] After providing the incidental music to a 1980 biopic of Hunter S. Thompson entitled Where the Buffalo Roam, Young released Hawks & Doves, a short record pieced together from sessions going back to 1974.[54] 1981's Re-ac-tor, an electric album recorded with Crazy Horse, also included material from the 1970s.[55] Young did not tour in support of either album; in total, he played only one show, a set at the 1980 Bread and Roses Festival in Berkeley,[56] between the end of his 1978 tour with Crazy Horse and the start of his tour with the Trans Band in mid-1982.
"The 80s were really good. The 80s were like, artistically, very strong for me, because I knew no boundaries and was experimenting with everything that I could come across, sometimes with great success, sometimes with terrible results, but nonetheless I was able to do this, and I was able to realize that I wasn’t in a box, and I wanted to establish that."
—Neil Young[57]
The 1982 album Trans, which incorporated vocoders, synthesizers, and electronic beats, was Young's first for new label Geffen Records (distributed at the time by Warner Bros. Records, whose parent Warner Music Group owns most of Young's solo and band catalog) and represented a distinct stylistic departure. Young later revealed that an inspiration for the album was the theme of technology and communication with his son Ben, who has severe cerebral palsy and cannot speak.[58] An extensive tour preceded the release of the album, and was documented by the video Neil Young in Berlin, which saw release in 1986. MTV played the video for "Sample and Hold" in light rotation. The entire song contained "robot vocals" by Neil and Nils Lofgren of the E-Street Band.
Young's next album, 1983's Everybody's Rockin', included several rockabilly covers and clocked in at less than twenty-five minutes in length. Young was backed by the Shocking Pinks for the supporting U.S. tour. Trans had already drawn the ire of label head David Geffen for its lack of commercial appeal, and with Everybody's Rockin' following only seven months later, Geffen Records sued Young for making music "unrepresentative" of himself.[59] The album was also notable as the first for which Young made commercial music videos – Tim Pope directed the videos for "Wonderin'" and "Cry, Cry, Cry". Also premiered in 1983, though little seen, was the eclectic full-length comedy film Human Highway, co-directed and co-written by Young, and starring Young, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper and members of Devo.
1984 was the first year without a Neil Young album since the start of Young's musical career with Buffalo Springfield in 1966. Young's lack of productivity was largely due to the ongoing legal battle with Geffen, although he was also frustrated that the label had rejected his 1982 country album Old Ways.[60] It was also the year when Young's third child, his second with wife Pegi, was born: his daughter Amber Jean, a child who was later diagnosed with inherited epilepsy. Young spent most of 1984 and all of 1985 touring for Old Ways with his country band, the International Harvesters. The album was finally released in an altered form midway through 1985. Young also appeared at that year's Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, collaborating with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the quartet's first performance for a paying audience in over ten years.
Young's last two albums for Geffen were more conventional in genre, although they incorporated production techniques like synthesizers and echoing drums that were previously uncommon in Young's music. Young recorded 1986's Landing on Water without Crazy Horse, but reunited with the band for the subsequent year-long tour and final Geffen album, Life, which emerged in 1987. Young's album sales dwindled steadily throughout the eighties; today Life remains his all-time-least successful studio album, with an estimated four hundred thousand sales worldwide.[61]
Switching back to his old label Reprise Records, Young continued to tour relentlessly, assembling a new blues band called The Bluenotes in mid-1987 (a legal dispute with musician Harold Melvin forced the eventual rechristening of the band as Ten Men Working midway through the tour). The addition of a brass section provided a new jazzier sound, and the title track of 1988's This Note's For You became Young's first hit single of the decade. Accompanied by a video that parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising, and Michael Jackson, the song was initially unofficially banned by MTV for mentioning the brand names of some of their sponsors. Young wrote an open letter, "What does the M in MTV stand for: music or money?" Despite this, the video was eventually named best video of the year by the network in 1989.[62] By comparison, the major music cable network of Young's home nation, Muchmusic, ran the video immediately.
Young reunited with Crosby, Stills and Nash to record the 1988 album American Dream and play two benefit concerts late in the year, but the group did not embark upon a full tour. The album was only the second-ever studio record for the quartet.
Return to prominence (1989–1999)[link]
Young's 1989 single "Rockin' in the Free World", which hit #2 on the U.S. mainstream-rock charts, and accompanying album, Freedom, rocketed him back into the popular consciousness after a decade of sometimes-difficult genre experiments. The album's lyrics were often overtly political; "Rockin' in the Free World" deals with homelessness, terrorism, and environmental degradation, implicitly criticizing the government policies of President George H.W. Bush.[63]
The use of heavy feedback and distortion on several Freedom tracks was reminiscent of the Rust Never Sleeps album, and foreshadowed the imminent rise of grunge. The rising stars of the genre, including Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, frequently cited Young as a major influence, contributing to his popular revival. A tribute album called The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young was released in 1989, featuring covers by alternative and grunge acts including Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Soul Asylum, Dinosaur Jr, and the Pixies.
Young's 1990 album Ragged Glory, recorded with Crazy Horse in a barn on his Northern California ranch, continued this distortion-heavy aesthetic. Young toured for the album with Orange County, California country-punk band Social Distortion and alternative rock pioneers Sonic Youth as support, much to the consternation of many of his old fans.[64] Weld, a two-disc live album documenting the tour, was released in 1991.[64] Sonic Youth's influence was most evident on Arc, a 35-minute collage of feedback and distortion spliced together at the suggestion of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and originally packaged with some versions of Weld.[64]
1992's Harvest Moon marked an abrupt return to the country and folk-rock stylings of Harvest and reunited him with some of the musicians from that album, including singers Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. The title track was a minor hit and the record was well received by critics, winning the Juno Award for Album of the Year in 1994. Young also contributed to Randy Bachman's nostalgic 1992 tune "Prairie Town," and garnered a 1993 Academy Award nomination for his song "Philadelphia", from the soundtrack of the Jonathan Demme movie of the same name. An MTV Unplugged performance and album emerged in 1993. Later that year, Young collaborated with Booker T. and the M.G.s for a summer tour of Europe and North America. Some European shows ended with a rendition of "Rockin' in the Free World" played with Pearl Jam, foreshadowing their eventual full-scale collaboration two years later.
In 1994 Young again collaborated with Crazy Horse for Sleeps with Angels, a record whose dark, sombre mood was influenced by Kurt Cobain's death earlier that year: the title track in particular dealt with Cobain's life and death, without mentioning him by name. Cobain had quoted Young's lyric "It's better to burn out than fade away" (a line from "My My, Hey Hey") in his suicide note. Young had reportedly made repeated attempts to contact Cobain prior to his death.[65] Still enamored with the grunge scene, Young reconnected with Pearl Jam in 1995 for the live-in-the-studio album Mirror Ball and a tour of Europe with the band and producer Brendan O'Brien backing Young. 1995 also marked Young's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he was inducted by Eddie Vedder.
- "Young has consistently demonstrated the unbridled passion of an artist who understands that self-renewal is the only way to avoid burning out. For this reason, he has remained one of the most significant artists of the rock and roll era." – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website.[66]
Young's next collaborative partner was filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who asked Young to compose a soundtrack to his 1995 black and white western film Dead Man. Young's instrumental soundtrack was improvised while he watched the film alone in a studio. The death of longtime mentor, friend, and producer David Briggs in late 1995 prompted Young to reconnect with Crazy Horse the following year for the album and tour Broken Arrow. A Jarmusch-directed concert film and live album of the tour, Year of the Horse, emerged in 1997. From 1996–97 Young and Crazy Horse toured extensively throughout Europe and North America, including a stint as part of the H.O.R.D.E. Festival's sixth annual tour.
In 1998, Young renewed his collaboration with the rock band Phish, sharing the stage at the annual Farm Aid concert and then at Young's Bridge School Benefit, where he joined headliners Phish for renditions of "Helpless" and "I Shall Be Released."[67] Phish declined Young's later invitation to be his backing band on his 1999 North American tour.
The decade ended with the release in late 1999 of Looking Forward, another reunion with Crosby, Stills and Nash. The subsequent tour of the United States and Canada with the reformed super quartet earned US$42.1 million, making it the eighth largest grossing tour of 2000.
Renewed activism and brush with death (2000s)[link]
Neil Young continued to release new material at a rapid pace through the first decade of the new millennium. The studio album Silver & Gold and live album Road Rock Vol. 1 were released in 2000 and were both accompanied by live concert films. His 2001 single "Let's Roll" was a tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks, and the effective action taken by the passengers and crew on Flight 93 in particular.[68] At the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" benefit concert for the victims of the attacks, Young performed John Lennon's "Imagine" and accompanied Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready on "Long Road", a Pearl Jam song that was written with Young during the Mirrorball sessions. "Let's Roll" was included on 2002's Are You Passionate?, an album mostly composed of mellow love songs dedicated to Young's wife, Pegi, backed by Booker T & the MGs.
In 2003, Young released Greendale, a concept album recorded with Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. The songs loosely revolved around the murder of a police officer in a small town in California and its effects on the town's inhabitants.[69] Under the pseudonym "Bernard Shakey", Young directed an accompanying film of the same name, featuring actors lip-synching to the music from the album. He toured extensively with the Greendale material throughout 2003 and 2004, first with a solo, acoustic version in Europe, then with a full-cast stage show in North America, Japan, and Australia. Young began using biodiesel on the 2004 Greendale tour, powering his trucks and tour buses with the fuel. "Our Greendale tour is now ozone friendly," he said. "I plan to continue to use this government approved and regulated fuel exclusively from now on to prove that it is possible to deliver the goods anywhere in North America without using foreign oil, while being environmentally responsible."[70] Young spent the latter portion of 2004 giving a series of intimate acoustic concerts in various cities with his wife, who is a trained vocalist and guitar player.
In March 2005, while working on the Prairie Wind album in Nashville, Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He was treated successfully with a minimally invasive neuroradiological procedure, performed in a New York hospital on March 29,[71] but two days afterwards he passed out on a New York street from bleeding from the femoral artery, which surgeons had used to access the aneurysm.[72] The complication forced Young to cancel his scheduled appearance at the Juno Awards telecast in Winnipeg, but within months he was back on stage, appearing at the close of the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, on July 2. During the performance, he debuted a new song, a soft hymn called "When God Made Me". Young's brush with death influenced Prairie Wind's themes of retrospection and mortality.[73] The album's live premiere in Nashville was immortalized by filmmaker Jonathan Demme in the 2006 film Neil Young: Heart of Gold.
Young's renewed activism manifested itself in the 2006 album Living With War, which like the much earlier song "Ohio," was recorded and released in less than a month as a direct result of current events.[74] In early 2006, three years after the US invasion of Iraq, the sectarian war and casualties there were escalating. While doing errands on a visit to his daughter, Young had seen a newspaper photo of wounded US veterans on a transport plane to Germany, and noticing that the same paper devoted little actual coverage to the story, he was unable to get the image out of his head, realizing the suffering caused to families by the war had not truly registered to him and most Americans who were not directly affected by it. Young broke down crying, and immediately got his guitar out and began to write multiple songs at once. Within a few days he had completed work and assembled a band. He later said he had restrained himself for a long time from writing any protest songs, waiting for someone younger, with a different perspective, but no one seemed to be saying anything.
Most of the album's songs rebuked the Bush administration's policy of war by examining its human costs to soldiers, their loved ones, and civilians, but Young also included a few songs on other themes, and an outright protest titled, "Let's Impeach the President",[75] in which he stated that Bush had lied to lead the country into war. Young's lyrics in another song named Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who had not declared any intention to run for president at the time and was widely unexpected to be able to win either the Democratic Party nomination or a general election, as potentially a replacement for Bush. That summer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited for the supporting "Freedom Of Speech Tour '06", in which they played Young's new protest songs alongside the group's older material, meeting with both enthusiasm and anger from different fans, some of whom were supportive of Bush politically. CSNY Déjà Vu, a concert film of the tour directed by Young himself, was released in 2008, along with an accompanying live album.
While Young had never been a stranger to eco-friendly lyrics, themes of environmentalist spirituality and activism became increasingly prominent in his work throughout the 1990s and 2000s, especially on Greendale[76] and Living With War.[77] The trend continued on 2007's Chrome Dreams II, with lyrics exploring Young's personal eco-spirituality.[78] Also in 2007, Young accepted an invitation to participate in Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, contributing his version of "Walking to New Orleans".
In 2008, Young revealed his latest project, the production of a hybrid-engine 1959 Lincoln called Lincvolt.[79] A new album loosely based on the Lincvolt project, Fork in the Road, was released on April 7, 2009.[80] The album, partly composed of love songs to the car, also commented on the economic crisis, with one narrator attacking the Wall Street bailouts enacted in late 2008. Unfortunately, the car caught fire in November 2010, in a California warehouse, and along the way it burned an estimated US$850,000 worth of Young's rock and roll memorabilia collection. Initial reports suggest the fire might have been triggered by an error in the vehicle's plug-in charging system. Young blamed the fire on human error and said he and his team were committed to rebuilding the car. "The wall charging system was not completely tested and had never been left unattended. A mistake was made. It was not the fault of the car", he said.
A Jonathan Demme concert film from a 2007 concert at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, called the Neil Young Trunk Show premiered on March 21, 2009, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. It was featured at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2009 and was released in the US on March 19, 2010[81] to critical acclaim.[82][83][84]
Young's most recent album appearance was on the album Potato Hole, released on April 21, 2009 by Memphis organ player Booker T. Jones, of Booker T. & the MGs fame. Young plays guitar on nine of the album's ten instrumental tracks, alongside Drive-By Truckers, who already had three guitar players, giving some songs on the album a total of five guitar tracks. Jones contributed guitars on a couple of tracks.
Young continues to tour extensively. In 2009, he headlined the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England,[85] at Hard Rock Calling in London (where he was joined onstage by Paul McCartney for a rendition of "A Day in the Life") and, after years of unsuccessful booking attempts, the Isle of Wight Festival[86] in addition to performances at the Big Day Out festival in New Zealand and Australia and the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona.
New performances (2010s)[link]
On January 22, 2010, Young performed "Long May You Run" on the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. On the same night, he and Dave Matthews performed the Hank Williams song "Alone and Forsaken", for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief charity telethon, in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Young also performed "Long May You Run" at the closing ceremony of the 2010 Olympic winter games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In May 2010, it was revealed Young had begun working on a new studio album produced by Daniel Lanois. This was announced by David Crosby, who said that the album "will be a very heartfelt record. I expect it will be a very special record."[87] On May 18, 2010, Young embarked upon a North American solo tour to promote his then upcoming album, Le Noise, playing a mix of older songs and new material. Although billed as a solo acoustic tour, Young also played some songs on electric guitars, including Old Black.[88] Young continued his Twisted Road tour with a short East Coast venture during spring 2011. Young also contributed vocals to the Elton John–Leon Russell album The Union, singing the second stanza on the track "Gone to Shiloh" and providing backing vocals.
In September 2011, Jonathan Demme's third documentary film on the singer songwriter, Neil Young Journeys, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[89] Like Demme's earlier work with Young, most of the film consists of a simply filmed live performance, in this case, Young's homecoming show in May 2011 at Toronto's Massey Hall, four decades after he first played at the iconic venue. Playing old songs, as well as new ones from Le Noise, Young performs solo on both electric and acoustic instruments. His performance is a counterpoint to Demme's footage of Young's return to Omemee, Ontario, the small town near Toronto where he grew up, which has now become physically unrecognizable, though he vividly recalls events from his childhood there.
Young currently lives near[90] La Honda, California, on his Broken Arrow Ranch, named after one of his early Buffalo Springfield songs.[91] The original 140-acre (0.57 km2) parcel was purchased in 1970 for US$350,000 cash[92] and has grown to thousands of acres.[93][94][95]
On January 22, 2012, the Master Class at Slamdance Festival featured Coffee with Neil Young & Jonathan Demme for their new film Journeys. A report from the event by Bob & Kim C. revealed that Neil Young has been recording with Crazy Horse. One album is complete and they are working on another.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed a full-on grunge version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" for Paul McCartney's MusiCares Person of the Year dinner on February 10, 2012, in Hollywood.[96]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse released the album Americana . Its release is scheduled for June 5, 2012.This will be Young's first collaboration with Crazy Horse since the Greendale album and tour in 2003 and 2004. The record is a tribute to national anthems that jumps from "This Land Is Your Land" to "Clementine" [97]
Archives project[link]
Main article: Neil Young Archives
As far back as 1988, Young spoke in interviews of his efforts to compile his unreleased material and to remaster his existing catalog. The collection was eventually titled the Neil Young Archives Series. The first installment, entitled The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972, was originally planned for a 2007 release but was delayed, and released on June 2, 2009.
Three performances from the Performance Series of the archives were released individually before The Archives Vol. 1. Live at the Fillmore East, a selection of songs from a 1970 gig with Crazy Horse, was released in 2006. Live at Massey Hall 1971, a solo acoustic set from Toronto's Massey Hall, saw release in 2007. Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968, an early solo performance and, chronologically, the first disc in the performance series, emerged late in 2008.
In an interview in 2008, Neil Young discussed Toast, an album originally recorded with Crazy Horse in San Francisco in 2000 but never released.[98] The album will be part of the Special Edition Series of the Archives. No release date currently exists for Toast. The album A Treasure, with live tracks from 1985 sessions with the International Harvesters, during a time when he was being sued by Geffen Records, was released in June 2011.
On July 14, 2009, Young's first four solo albums were reissued as remastered HDCD discs and digital downloads as discs 1–4 of the Original Release Series of the Archives.
Awards and recognitions[link]
- 2011 Juno Awards Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year, and Allan Waters Humanitarian Award
- 2011 Grammy Awards Best Rock Song "Angry World" – Neil Young, songwriter
- 2010 Grammy Awards Best Art Direction On A Boxed/Special Limited Edition Package "Archives Volume One 1963-1973" – Neil Young, Gary Burden, Jenice Heo
- Canadian Music Hall of Fame, 1982
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. First in 1995 for his solo work, with an induction speech given by Eddie Vedder, and again in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
As one of the original founders of Farm Aid, he remains an active member of the board of directors. For one weekend each October, in Mountain View, California, he and his wife host the Bridge School Concerts, which have been drawing international talent and sell-out crowds for nearly two decades with some of the biggest names in rock having performed at the event including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, The Who, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Tom Waits, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, R.E.M, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, The Smashing Pumpkins, Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews. The concerts are a benefit for the Bridge School, which develops and uses advanced technologies to aid in the instruction of children with disabilities. Young's involvement stems at least partially from the fact that both of his sons have cerebral palsy and his daughter, like Young himself, has epilepsy.
Young was nominated for an Oscar in 1994 for his song "Philadelphia" from the film Philadelphia. Bruce Springsteen won the award for his song "Streets of Philadelphia" from the same film. In his acceptance speech, Springsteen said that "the award really deserved to be shared by the other nominee's song." That same night, Tom Hanks accepted the Oscar for Best Actor and gave credit for his inspiration to the song "Philadelphia".
He was part owner of Lionel, LLC, a company that makes toy trains and model railroad accessories.[99] In 2008 Lionel emerged from bankruptcy and his shares of the company were wiped out. At this time his status with Lionel is unknown, according to Lionel CEO Jerry Calabrese he is still a consultant for Lionel. He was instrumental in the design of the Lionel Legacy control system for model trains[99] and it is believed he will continue to develop the system. Young has been named as co-inventor on seven U.S. Patents related to model trains.[100]
Young has twice received honorary doctorates. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1992, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from San Francisco State University in 2006. The latter honour was shared with his wife Pegi for their creation of the Bridge School. In 2006, Young was given Manitoba's highest civilian honour, when he was appointed to the Order of Manitoba. In 2009, he was then given Canada's highest civilian honour, when he was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Rolling Stone magazine in 2000, ranked Young thirty-fourth in its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time,[101] and in 2003, included five of his albums in its list of 500 greatest albums of all time.[102] In 2000, Young was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[103] In 2006, Paste magazine compiled a "Greatest Living Songwriters" list; Young was ranked second behind Bob Dylan. (While Young and Dylan have occasionally played together in concert, they have never collaborated on a song together, or played on each others' records). He ranked thirty-ninth on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock that same year. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained that while Young has "avoided sticking to one style for very long, the unifying factors throughout Young’s peripatetic musical journey have been his unmistakable voice, his raw and expressive guitar playing, and his consummate songwriting skill."[7]
Young's political outspokenness and social awareness influenced artists such as Blind Melon, Phish, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. Young is referred to as "the Godfather of Grunge" because of the influence he had on Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder and the entire grunge movement. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam inducted Young into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, citing him as a huge influence. Young is cited as being a significant influence on experimental rock artists Sonic Youth, Jesse Marchant,[104] and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Yorke recounted of first hearing Young after sending a demo tape into a magazine when he was 16, who favourably compared his singing voice to Young's. Unaware of Young at that time, he bought After the Gold Rush, and "immediately fell in love" with his work, calling it "extraordinary".[105] Dave Matthews lists Neil Young as one of his favorite and most inspirational songwriters and covers his songs on occasion. The British Indie band The Bluetones named their number one debut album after the song "Expecting to Fly" (written by Young when still with Buffalo Springfield) and have covered the song while touring. Young also inspired Oasis singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher, with Gallagher covering "My My, Hey Hey (Into the Black)" on the live album Familiar to Millions.
The Australian rock group Powderfinger named themselves after Young's song "Powderfinger" from Rust Never Sleeps. The members of the Constantines have occasionally played Neil Young tribute shows under the name Horsey Craze.[106] While in Winnipeg on November 2, 2008 during the Canadian leg of his tour, Bob Dylan visited Young's former home in River Heights, where Young spent his teenage years. Dylan was interested in seeing the room where some of Young's first songs were composed.
Jason Bond, an East Carolina University biologist, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider in 2007 and named it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after Young,[107] his favorite singer.[108]
In 2001, Young was awarded the Spirit of Liberty award from the civil liberties group People for the American Way. Young was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year on January 29, 2010, two nights prior to the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. He was also nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "Fork In The Road" and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for "Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963–1972)". Young won the latter Grammy Award. In 2010, he was ranked #26 in Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.[109]
Juno Awards[link]
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Artist of the Year | Neil Young | Won |
| Adult Alternative Album of the Year | Le Noise | Won | |
| 2008 | Adult Alternative Album of the Year | Chrome Dreams II | Nominated |
| 2007 | Adult Alternative Album of the Year | Living With War | Won |
| 2006 | Adult Alternative Album of the Year | Prairie Wind | Nominated |
| Jack Richardson Producer of the Year | "The Painter" | Won | |
| Songwriter of the Year | "The Painter", "When God Made Me", "Prairie Wind" | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Best Male Artist | Neil Young | Won |
| Best Roots & Traditional Album – Solo | Silver & Gold | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Rock Album | Mirror Ball | Nominated |
| Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Songwriter of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Won | |
| Entertainer of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Single of the Year | "Harvest Moon" | Nominated |
| Album of the Year | Harvest Moon | Won | |
| 1993 | Songwriter of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated | |
| 1991 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1990 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1989 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1986 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1982 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1981 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1980 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1979 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
| 1975 | Composer of the Year | Neil Young | Nominated |
Instruments[link]
Guitars[link]
In 2003, Rolling Stone listed Young as eighty-third in its ranking of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (although in a more recent version of the list, he has been moved up to seventeenth place), describing him as a "restless experimenter...who transform[s] the most obvious music into something revelatory."[110] Young is a collector of second-hand guitars, but in recording and performing, he frequently uses just a few instruments, as is explained by his longtime guitar technician Larry Cragg in the film Neil Young: Heart of Gold. They include:
- 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop. Nicknamed "Old Black", this is Young's primary electric guitar and is featured on Rust Never Sleeps and other albums. Old Black got its name from an amateur paintjob applied to the originally gold body of the instrument, sometime before Neil acquired the guitar in the late 1960s. In 1972, a mini humbucker pickup from a Gibson Firebird was installed in the lead/treble position. This pickup, severely microphonic, is considered a crucial component of Neil's sound. A Bigsby vibrato tailpiece was installed as early as 1969, and can be heard during the opening of "Cowgirl in the Sand" from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
- Martin D-45. His primary steel-string acoustic guitar, used to write "Old Man" and many other songs. It was one of four instruments bought by Stephen Stills for himself and his band-mates in CSNY in order to celebrate their first full concert at the Greek Theater in 1969.
- Martin D-28. Nicknamed "Hank" after its previous owner, Hank Williams. Hank Williams, Jr., had traded it for some shotguns; it went through a succession of other owners until it was located by Young's longtime friend Grant Boatwright. The guitar was purchased by Young from Tut Taylor. Young has toured with it for over 30 years. A story about the guitar and the song it inspired, "This Old Guitar," can be seen about 50 minutes into the film Neil Young: Heart of Gold. It is Young's primary guitar for Prairie Wind.
- Vintage Martin D-18: Young used an old D-18 throughout his early days performing in coffee houses in Canada and on some early Buffalo Springfield work, before he received the D-45 from Stills. It can also be seen on unreleased footage from the Woodstock documentary, particularly on an exceptional acoustic duet of the Buffalo Springfield track "Mr. Soul" with Stills. The guitar has often been used to carry "dropped standard tuning" (DGCFAD) which Young often uses in concert. This allowed him to perform songs such as "Ambulance Blues" and "Don't let it Bring You Down" live without having to tune all 6 strings onstage.
Other notable (or odd) instruments played by Young include:
- Taylor 855 12-string, used in the first half of Rust Never Sleeps.
- 1927 Gibson Mastertone, a six-string banjo tuned like a guitar, used on many recordings and played by James Taylor on "Old Man."
- Gretsch 6120 (Chet Atkins model). Before Young bought Old Black, this was his primary electric guitar during his Buffalo Springfield days.
- Gretsch White Falcon. Young purchased a late 1950s model near the end of the Buffalo Springfield era; in 1969 he bought a stereo version of the same vintage guitar from Stephen Stills, and this instrument is featured prominently during Young's early 1970s period, and can be heard on tracks like "Ohio," "Southern Man," "Alabama," "Words (Between the Lines of Age)," and "L.A.". It was Young's primary electric guitar during the Harvest era, since Young's deteriorating back condition (eventually fixed with surgery) made playing the much heavier Les Paul difficult.[111] This particular White Falcon is the stereo 6137, in which the signal from the three bass strings is separated from the signal from the three treble strings. Young typically plays this guitar in this stereo mode, sending the separate signals to two different amps, a Fender Deluxe and either a Fender Tremolux or a low-powered Tweed Fender Twin. The separation of the signals is most prominently heard on the Harvest song "Words."
- Gibson Flying V, on the Time Fades Away tour.
- Fender Broadcaster, on the Tonight's the Night album and tour.
Reed organ[link]
Young owns an Estey reed organ, serial number 167272, dating from 1885, which he frequently plays in concert and which was recently restored. The instrument and its restoration are documented in The Reed Society Quarterly (30.1: 6ff); a photograph of the instrument is on the cover.
Amplification[link]
Young uses various vintage Fender Tweed Deluxe amplifiers. His preferred amplifier for electric guitar is the Fender Deluxe, specifically a Tweed-era model from 1959. He purchased his first vintage Deluxe in 1967 for US$50 from the drummer of Crazy Horse, Ralph Molina, and has since acquired nearly 450 different examples, all from the same era, but he maintains that it is the original model that sounds superior and is crucial to his trademark sound.
The Tweed Deluxe is almost always used in conjunction with a late-1950s Magnatone 280 (similar to the amplifier used by Lonnie Mack and Buddy Holly). The Magnatone and the Deluxe are paired together in a most unusual manner: the external speaker jack from the Deluxe sends the amped signal through a volume potentiometer and directly into the input of the Magnatone. The Magnatone is notable for its true pitch-bending vibrato capabilities, which can be heard as an electric piano amplifier on "See the Sky About to Rain". A notable and unique accessory to Young's Deluxe is the Whizzer, a device created specifically for Young, which physically changes the amplifier's settings to pre-set combinations. This device is connected to footswitches operable by Young onstage in the manner of an effects pedal.[112]
Discography[link]
Main article: Neil Young discography
- See also the discographies for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
See also[link]
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- ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2002) p. 37
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- ^ "It's Young's distinctive, chunky rhythm guitar sound which defines the songs here [on Living with War]." Brinn, David (2006-05-30). "Disc Reviews". Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148482072145&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ "30 years on, Neil Young remains one of the most distinctive voices of his, or any other, generation." Surkamp, David (1992-09-15). "Internal Fire From Neil Young Lights The Stage". St. Louis Post-Dispatch: p. 4D.
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- ^ McDonough 2002. p. 55-68.
- ^ McDonough 2002. p. 60.
- ^ McDonough 2002. p. 50-51.
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- ^ McDonough 2002. p. 58-59.
- ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2002) p. 103
- ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2002) p. 105
- ^ McDonough, Jimmy (2002) p. 96
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| 200px A 1934 sketch of Crazy Horse made by a Mormon missionary after interviewing Crazy Horse's sister. She said it was accurate.[1] |
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| Tribe | Oglala Lakota |
| Born | ca. 1840 |
| Died | September 5, 1877 Fort Robinson |
| Native name | Tȟašúŋke Witkó; birth name, Cha-O-Ha ("In the Wilderness" or "Among the Trees") |
| Nickname(s) | Curly, Light Hair |
| Known for | Leader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| Spouse(s) | Black Buffalo Woman, Black Shawl, Nellie Larrabee (Laravie) |
| Children | They Are Afraid of Her |
| Parents | Crazy Horse (the elder), also known as Waglula (Worm), Rattling Blanket Woman (born 1814). |
| Relatives | Brother, Little Hawk. Cousin, Touch the Clouds. Grandparents, Black Buffalo and White Cow (also called Iron Cane). Uncles, Spotted Tail, Lone Horn. Aunts, Good Looking Woman, Looks At It (later called They Are Afraid of Her), Father's wives, Iron Between Horns, Kills Enemy, and Red Leggins |
Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó (in Standard Lakota Orthography[2]), literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited";[3] ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
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Early life[link]
Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but they agree he was born between 1840 and 1845. According to a close friend, he and Crazy Horse "were both born in the same year at the same season of the year", which census records and other interviews place at about 1845.[4] Encouraging Bear, an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to the Oglala war leader, reported that Crazy Horse was born "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year", a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count.[5] Among the Oglala winter counts, the stealing of 100 horses is noted by Cloud Shield, and possibly by American Horse and Red Horse owner, as equivalent to the year 1840-41.[6] Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of 1840.[7] On the evening of his son's death, the elder Crazy Horse told Lieutenant H. R. Lemly that his son "would soon have been thirty-seven, having been born on the South Cheyenne river in the fall of 1840".[8]
Crazy Horse was named at birth Cha-O-Ha ("In the Wilderness" or "Among the Trees", meaning he was one with nature.) His mother's nickname for him was "Curly" or "Light Hair"; his light curly hair resembled that of his mother.[7]
Family[link]
Crazy Horse was born to parents from two tribes of the Lakota division of the Sioux, his father was an Oglala and his mother was a Miniconjou. His father, born in 1810, was also named Crazy Horse. One account said that after the son had reached maturity and shown his strength, his father gave him his name and took a new one, Waglula (Worm). (Another version of how the son Crazy Horse acquired his name was that he took it after having a vision.) His mother was Rattling Blanket Woman (born 1814). Crazy Horse's cousin (son of Lone Horn) was Touch the Clouds. He saved his life at least once and was with Crazy Horse when he died.[7]
Rattling Blanket Woman was the daughter of Black Buffalo and White Cow (also known as Iron Cane). Her older siblings were Lone Horn (born 1790–1795, died 1875) and Good Looking Woman (born 1810). Her younger sister was named Looks At It (born 1815), later given the name They Are Afraid of Her. The historian George Hyde wrote that Rattling Blanket Woman was Miniconjou and the sister of Spotted Tail, who became a Brulé head chief.[9]
In the summer of 1844, "Waglula" (Worm) went on a buffalo hunt. He came across a Minneconjou Lakota village under attack by Crow warriors. He led his small party of warriors to the village and rescued it. Corn, the head man of the village, had lost his wife in the raid. In gratitude he gave Waglula his two eldest daughters as wives: Iron Between Horns (age 18) and Kills Enemy (age 17). Corn's youngest daughter, Red Leggins, who was 15 at the time, requested to go with her sisters; all became Waglula's wives.[7]
Genealogy[link]
According to Frederick Hoxie's Encyclopedia of North American Indians(1996), Crazy Horse was the third in his male line to bear the name of Crazy Horse, which in Oglala is Tasunke Witko. Tasunke Witko III (1840–77) was the son of Rattling Blanket Woman and Tasunke Witko II. The love of his life was Black Buffalo Woman, whom he courted, but she married another man named No Water. At one point, Crazy Horse persuaded Black Buffalo Woman to run away with him. No Water borrowed a pistol and ran after his wife. When he found her with Crazy Horse, he fired at him, gravely injuring him in the face and leaving a noticeable scar. Crazy Horse was married two times: first to Black Shawl, and second to Nellie Larrabee (Laravie). Nellie Larrabee was assigned to spy on Crazy Horse for the military, so the "marriage" is suspect. Only Black Shawl bore him any children: a daughter named They Are Afraid of Her, who died at age three.
Visions[link]
Crazy Horse lived in the Lakota camp with his younger brother, High Horse (son of Iron Between Horns and Waglula[7]) and a cousin Little Hawk. (Little Hawk was the nephew of his maternal step-grandfather, Corn.[7]) The camp was entered by Lt. Grattan and 28 other US troopers, who intended to arrest a Minniconjou man for having stolen a cow. A conflict known as the Grattan massacre ensued and the Sioux killed the US Army forces.[10]
After having witnessed the death of the Lakota leader Conquering Bear, Crazy Horse began to get trance visions. His father Waglula took him to what today is Sylvan Lake, South Dakota, where they both sat to do a hemblecha (vision quest).[10] A red-tailed hawk led them to their respective spots in the hills; as the trees are tall in the Black Hills, they could not always see where they were going. Crazy Horse sat between two humps at the top of a hill north and to the east of the lake.[10] Waglula sat south of Harney Peak but north of his son.
Crazy Horse's vision first took him to the South, where in Lakota spirituality one goes upon death. He was brought back and was taken to the West in the direction of the wakiyans (thunder beings). He was given a medicine bundle to protect him for life. One of his animal protectors would be the white owl which, according to Lakota spirituality, would give extended life. He was also shown his "face paint" for battle, to consist of a yellow lightning bolt down the left side of his face, and white powder. He would wet this and put marks over his vulnerable areas; when dried, the marks looked like hailstones. His face paint was similar to that of his father, who used a red lightning strike down the right side of his face and three red hailstones on his forehead. Crazy Horse put no makeup on his forehead and did not wear a war bonnet. He was given a sacred song that is still sung by the Oglala people today. Lastly, he was told he would be a protector of his people.[10]
Black Elk, a contemporary and cousin of Crazy Horse, told about the vision in Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, from talks with John G. Neihardt.
When I was a man, my father told me something about that vision. Of course he did not know all of it; but he said that Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world. He was on his horse in that world, and the horse and himself on it and the trees and the grass and the stones and everything were made of spirit, and nothing was hard, and everything seemed to float. His horse was standing still there, and yet it danced around like a horse made only of shadow, and that is how he got his name, which does not mean that his horse was crazy or wild, but that in his vision it danced around in that queer way.It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt. Until he was killed at the Soldiers' Town on White River, he was wounded only twice, once by accident and both times by some one of his own people when he was not expecting trouble and was not thinking; never by an enemy.
Crazy Horse received a black stone from a medicine man named Horn Chips to protect his horse, a black-and-white "paint horse" which he named Inyan (rock or stone). He placed the stone behind the horse's ear, so that the medicine from his vision quest and Horn Chips would combine; he and his horse would be one in battle.[10]
Title of "Shirt Wearer"[link]
Through the late 1850s and early 1860s, Crazy Horse's reputation as a warrior grew, as did his fame among the Lakota. The Lakota told accounts of him in their oral histories. His first kill was a Shoshone raider who had killed a Lakota woman washing buffalo meat along the Powder River.[10] Crazy Horse fought in numerous battles between the Lakota and their traditional enemies, the Crow, Shoshone, Pawnee, Blackfeet, and Arikara, among Plains tribes.
In 1864, after the Third Colorado Cavalry decimated Northern Cheyenne in the Sand Creek Massacre, Lakota Oglala and Minneconjou bands allied with them against the US military. Crazy Horse was present at the Battle of Red Buttes and the subsequent Platte River Bridge Station Battle in July 1865.[10] Because of his fighting ability, in 1865 Crazy Horse was named a Ogle Tanka Un (Shirt Wearer, or war leader) by the tribe.
Battle of the Hundred in the Hand (Fetterman Massacre)[link]
On December 21, 1866, Crazy Horse and six other warriors, both Lakota and Cheyenne, decoyed Capt. William Fetterman's 53 infantrymen and 27 cavalry troopers under Lt. Grummond into an ambush. They had been sent out from Fort Phil Kearny to follow up on an earlier attack on a wood train. Crazy Horse lured Fetterman's infantry up a hill. Grummond's cavalry followed the other six decoys along Peno Head Ridge and down toward Peno Creek, where several Cheyenne women taunted the soldiers. Meanwhile, Cheyenne leader Little Wolf and his warriors, who had been hiding on the opposite side of Peno Head Ridge, blocked the return route to the fort. The Lakota warriors swept over the hill and attacked the infantry. Additional Cheyenne and Lakota hiding in the buckbrush along Peno Creek effectively surrounded the soldiers. Seeing that they were surrounded, Grummond headed his cavalry back to Fetterman.
The combined warrior forces of nearly 1,000 killed all the US soldiers, in what became known as the Fetterman Massacre.[11][12][13] It was the Army's worst defeat on the Great Plains up to that time.[10] The Lakota and Cheyenne call it the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand.[14]
Wagon Box Fight[link]
On August 2, 1867, Crazy Horse participated in the Wagon Box Fight, also near Fort Phil Kearny. Lakota forces numbering between 1000 and 2000 attacked a wood-cutting crew near the fort. Most of the soldiers fled to a circle of wagon boxes without wheels, using them for cover as they fired at the Lakota. The Lakota took substantial losses, as the soldiers were firing new breech-loading rifles. These could fire ten times a minute compared to the old muzzle-loading rate of three times a minute. The Lakota charged after the soldiers fired, expecting the delay of their older muskets before being able to fire again. The soldiers suffered only five killed and two wounded, while the Lakota suffered between 50 and 120 casualties. Many Lakota were buried in the hills surrounding Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming.[10]
Controversy over Black Buffalo Woman[link]
In the fall of 1867, Crazy Horse invited Black Buffalo Woman to accompany him on a buffalo hunt in the Slim Buttes area of present-day northwestern South Dakota. She was the wife of No Water, who had a reputation for drinking too much.[7] It was Lakota custom to allow a woman to divorce her husband at any time. She did so by moving in with relatives or with another man, or by placing the husband's belongings outside their lodge. Although some compensation might be required to smooth over hurt feelings, the rejected husband was expected to accept his wife's decision. No Water was away from camp when Crazy Horse and Black Buffalo Woman left for the buffalo hunt.
No Water tracked down Crazy Horse and Black Buffalo Woman in the Slim Buttes area. When he found them in a tipi, he called Crazy Horse's name from outside. When Crazy Horse answered, No Water stuck a pistol into the tipi and aimed for Crazy Horse. Touch the Clouds, Crazy Horse's first cousin and son of Lone Horn, was sitting in the tipi nearest the entry. He knocked the pistol upward as No Water fired, deflecting the bullet to Crazy Horse's upper jaw. No Water left, with Crazy Horse's relatives in hot pursuit. No Water ran his horse until it died and continued on foot until he reached the safety of his own village.[10]
Several elders convinced Crazy Horse and No Water that no more blood should be shed. As compensation for the shooting, No Water gave Crazy Horse three horses. Because Crazy Horse was with a married man's wife, he was stripped of his title as Shirt Wearer (leader).[7]
Black Shawl and Nellie Larrabee[link]
Crazy Horse married Black Shawl, a member of the Oglala Lakota and relative of Spotted Tail. The elders sent her to heal Crazy Horse after his altercation with No Water. Crazy Horse and Black Shawl Woman were married in 1871. Black Shawl gave birth to Crazy Horse's only child, a daughter named They Are Afraid Of Her, who died in 1873. Black Shawl outlived Crazy Horse. She died in 1927 during the influenza outbreaks of the 1920s.[15]
"Red Cloud also arranged to send a young woman to live in Crazy Horse's lodge. Garnett described (Nellie Larrabee) as "a half-blood, not of the best frontier variety, an invidious and evil woman." [16] Nellie, also referred to as Chi-Chi and Brown Eyes Woman, was the daughter of a French trader and a Cheyenne woman. William Garnett's first-hand account of Crazy Horse's surrender alludes to Nellie as the "half blood woman" who caused Crazy Horse to fall into a "domestic trap which insensibly led him by gradual steps to his destruction". [17]
Great Sioux War of 1876–77[link]
On June 17, 1876, Crazy Horse led a combined group of approximately 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in a surprise attack against brevetted Brigadier General George Crook's force of 1,000 cavalry and infantry, and allied 300 Crow and Shoshone warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud. The battle, although not substantial in terms of human losses, delayed Crook's joining with the 7th Cavalry under George A. Custer. It contributed to Custer’s subsequent defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
A week later at 3:00 p.m. on June 25, 1876, Custer's 7th Cavalry attacked a large encampment of Cheyenne and Lakota bands along the Little Bighorn River, marking the beginning of his last battle. Crazy Horse's actions during the battle are unknown.
Hunkpapa warriors led by Chief Gall led the main body of the attack. Crazy Horse's tactical and leadership role in the battle remains ambiguous. While some historians think that Crazy Horse led a flanking assault, ensuring the death of Custer and his men, the only proven fact is that Crazy Horse was a major participant in the battle. His personal courage was attested to by several eye-witness Indian accounts. Water Man, one of only five Arapaho warriors who fought, said that Crazy Horse "was the bravest man I ever saw. He rode closest to the soldiers, yelling to his warriors. All the soldiers were shooting at him, but he was never hit."[18] Sioux battle participant, Little Soldier, said, "The greatest fighter in the whole battle was Crazy Horse."[19]
On September 10, 1876, Captain Anson Mills and two battalions of the Third Cavalry captured a Miniconjou village of 36 lodges in the Battle of Slim Buttes, South Dakota.[20] Crazy Horse and his followers attempted to rescue the camp and its headman, (Old Man) American Horse. They were unsuccessful. The soldiers killed American Horse and much of his family after they holed up in a cave for several hours.
On January 8, 1877, Crazy Horse's warriors fought their last major battle at Wolf Mountain, against the US Cavalry in the Montana Territory. His people struggled through the winter, weakened by hunger and the long cold. Crazy Horse decided to surrender with his band to protect them, and went to Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
Surrender and death[link]
Crazy Horse and other northern Oglala leaders arrived at the Red Cloud Agency, located near Fort Robinson, Nebraska, on May 5, 1877. Together with He Dog, Little Big Man, Iron Crow and others, they met in a solemn ceremony with First Lieutenant William P. Clark as the first step in their formal surrender.
For the next four months, Crazy Horse resided in his village near the Red Cloud Agency. The attention that Crazy Horse received from the Army drew the jealousy of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, two Lakota who had long before come to the agencies and adopted the white ways. Rumors of Crazy Horse's desire to slip away and return to the old ways of life started to spread at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. In August 1877, officers at Camp Robinson received word that the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph had broken out of their reservation in Idaho and were fleeing north through Montana toward Canada. When asked by Lieutenant Clark to join the Army against the Nez Perce, Crazy Horse and the Miniconjou leader Touch the Clouds objected, saying that they had promised to remain at peace when they surrendered. According to one version of events, Crazy Horse finally agreed, saying that he would fight "till all the Nez Perce were killed". But his words were apparently misinterpreted by a half-Tahitian scout, Frank Grouard (not be confused with Fred Gerard, another U.S. Cavalry scout during the summer of 1876), who reported that Crazy Horse had said that he would "go north and fight until not a white man is left". When he was challenged over his interpretation, Grouard left the council.[21] Another interpreter, William Garnett, was brought in but quickly noted the growing tension.
With the growing trouble at the Red Cloud Agency, General George Crook was ordered to stop at Fort Robinson. A council of the Oglala leadership was called, then canceled, when Crook was incorrectly informed that Crazy Horse had said the previous evening that he intended to kill the general during the proceedings. Crook ordered Crazy Horse's arrest and then departed, leaving the military action to the post commander at Fort Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel Luther P. Bradley. Additional troops were brought in from Fort Laramie. On the morning of September 4, 1877, two columns moved against Crazy Horse's village, only to find that it had scattered during the night. Crazy Horse fled to the nearby Spotted Tail Agency with his sick wife (who had become ill with tuberculosis). After meeting with military officials at the adjacent military post of Camp Sheridan, Crazy Horse agreed to return to Fort Robinson with Lieutenant Jesse M. Lee, the Indian agent at Spotted Tail.
On the morning of September 5, 1877, Crazy Horse and Lieutenant Lee, accompanied by Touch the Clouds as well as a number of Indian scouts, departed for Fort Robinson. Arriving that evening outside the adjutant's office, Lieutenant Lee was informed that he was to turn Crazy Horse over to the Officer of the Day. Lee protested and hurried to Bradley's quarters to debate the issue, but without success. Bradley had received orders that Crazy Horse was to be arrested and taken under the cover of darkness to Division Headquarters. Lee turned the Oglala war chief over to Captain James Kennington, in charge of the post guard, who accompanied Crazy Horse to the post guardhouse. Once inside, Crazy Horse struggled with the guard and Little Big Man and attempted to escape. Just outside the door, Crazy Horse was stabbed with a bayonet by one of the members of the guard. He was taken to the adjutant's office, where he was tended by the assistant post surgeon at the post, Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, and died late that night.
The following morning, Crazy Horse's body was turned over to his elderly parents; they took it to Camp Sheridan and placed it on a burial scaffold. The following month, when the Spotted Tail Agency was moved to the Missouri River, Crazy Horse's parents moved the remains to an undisclosed location. There are at least four possible locations as noted on a state highway memorial near Wounded Knee, South Dakota.[22] His final resting place remains unknown.
Controversy over his death[link]
Dr. McGillycuddy, who treated Crazy Horse after he was stabbed, wrote that Crazy Horse "died about midnight". According to military records, he died before midnight, making it September 5, 1877.
John Gregory Bourke's memoir of his service in the Indian wars, On the Border with Crook, describes a different account of Crazy Horse's death. He based his account on an interview with Crazy Horse's relative and rival, Little Big Man, who was present at Crazy Horse's arrest and wounding. The interview took place over a year after Crazy Horse's death. Little Big Man said that, as Crazy Horse was being escorted to the guardhouse, he suddenly pulled two knives from under his blanket and held one in each hand. One knife was reportedly fashioned from an army bayonet. Little Big Man, standing behind him, seized Crazy Horse by both elbows, pulling his arms up behind him. As Crazy Horse struggled, Little Big Man lost his grip on one elbow, and Crazy Horse drove his own knife deep into his own lower back. The guard stabbed Crazy Horse with his bayonet in the back. The chief fell and surrendered to the guards.
When Bourke asked about the popular account of the guard bayoneting Crazy Horse first, Little Big Man said that the guard had thrust with his bayonet, but that Crazy Horse's struggles resulted in the guard's thrust missing entirely and lodging his bayonet into the frame of the guardhouse door. Little Big Man said that in the hours immediately following Crazy Horse's wounding, the camp commander had suggested the story of the guard's being responsible to hide Little Big Man's role in the death of Crazy Horse and avoid any inter-clan reprisals.
Little Big Man's account is questionable; it is the only one of 17 eyewitness sources from Lakota, US Army, and "mixed-blood" individuals, that fails to attribute Crazy Horse's death to a soldier at the guardhouse. The author Thomas Powers cites various witnesses who said Crazy Horse was fatally wounded when his back was pierced by a guard's bayonet.[23]
The identity of the soldier responsible for the bayoneting of Crazy Horse is also debatable. Only one eyewitness account actually identifies the soldier as Private William Gentles. Historian Walter M. Camp circulated copies of this account to individuals who had been present who questioned the identity of the soldier and provided two additional names. To this day, the identification remains questionable.[24]
Photograph controversy[link]
Most sources question whether Crazy Horse was ever photographed. Dr. McGillycuddy doubted any photograph of the war leader had been taken. In 1908, Walter Camp wrote to the agent for the Pine Ridge Reservation inquiring about a portrait. "I have never seen a photo of Crazy Horse," Agent Brennan replied, "nor am I able to find any one among our Sioux here who remembers having seen a picture of him. Crazy Horse had left the hostiles but a short time before he was killed and it's more than likely he never had a picture taken of himself."[25]
In 1956, a small tintype portrait purportedly of Crazy Horse was published by J. W. Vaughn in his book With Crook at the Rosebud. The photograph had belonged to the family of the scout, Baptiste "Little Bat" Garnier. Two decades later, the portrait was published with further details about how the photograph was produced at Fort Robinson, though the editor of the book "remained unconvinced of the authenticity of the photograph".[26]
Recently, the original tintype was on exhibit at the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana. The museum says that it is the only authentic portrait of Crazy Horse. Historians continue to dispute the identification.[27][28]
Experts argue that the tintype was taken a decade or two after 1877. The evidence includes the individual's attire (such as the length of the hair pipe breastplate and the ascot tie). In addition, no other photograph with the same painted backdrop has been found. Several photographers passed through Fort Robinson and the Red Cloud Agency in 1877—including James H. Hamilton, Charles Howard, David Rodocker and possibly Daniel S. Mitchell—but none used the backdrop that appears in the tintype. After the death of Crazy Horse, Private Charles Howard produced at least two images of the famed war leader's alleged scaffold grave, located near Camp Sheridan, Nebraska.[29][30]
The image of Crazy Horse at the top of this page was made in 1934 by a forensic artist from a description given by Crazy Horse's sister. This drawing belongs to Crazy Horse's family, and has been publicly shown only once, on the PBS program History Detectives.
Crazy Horse Memorial and memorial highways[link]
Crazy Horse is commemorated by the incomplete Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota near the town of Berne—a monument carved into a mountain, in the tradition of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial (on which Korczak Ziółkowski had worked with Gutzon Borglum). The sculpture was begun by Ziółkowski in 1948. When completed, it will be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high.
Crazy Horse has also been honored by having two highways named the Crazy Horse Memorial Highway. In South Dakota, the SDDOT designated US-16/US-385 between Custer and Hill City, which passes by the Crazy Horse Memorial. In November 2010, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman approved designating US-20 from Hay Springs to Fort Robinson in honor of Crazy Horse, capping a year-long effort by citizens of Chadron. The designation may extend east another 100 miles through Cherry County to Valentine.[31]
Notes[link]
- ^ History Detectives (2009). PBS.org
- ^ Lakota Language Consortium (2008). New Lakota Dictionary
- ^ Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names in the United States. Normandy: University of Oklahoma Press, p. 125
- ^ He Dog interview, July 7, 1930, in: Eleanor H. Hinman (ed.), "Oglala Sources on the Life of Crazy Horse", Nebraska History 57 (Spring 1976) p. 9.
- ^ Chips Interview, February 14, 1907, in: Richard E. Jensen (ed.), The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005) p. 273.
- ^ Cloud Shield count, in: Garrick Mallery, Pictographs of the North American Indians, 4th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1886) p. 140. Richard G. Hardorff, "Stole-One-Hundred-Horses Winter: The Year the Oglala Crazy Horse was Born", Research Review, vol. 1 no. 1 (June 1987) pp. 44–47.
- ^ a b c d e f g h The Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse and His Family Part One: Creation, Spirituality, and the Family Tree, DVD William Matson and Mark Frethem, Producers.(Reelcontact.com Productions, 2006).
- ^ Lemly, "The Death of Crazy Horse", New York Sun, September 14, 1877.
- ^ Hyde, George (1974). Spotted Tail's Folk: A History of the Brulé Sioux. Civilization of the American Indian. 57 (2 ed.). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-8061-1380-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j The Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse and His Family Part Two: Defending the Homeland Prior to the 1868 Treaty, DVD William Matson and Mark Frethem, Producers. Reelcontact.com Productions, 2007.
- ^ "Fetterman Massacre". Encyclopædia Britannica-Online.
- ^ "Fetterman Massacre"
- ^ Wild West Tech: "Native American Tech", 2004, The History Channel, broadcast January 9, 2008.
- ^ . Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse, Penguin Books 2004.
- ^ "The William Garnett Interview", in The Surrender and Death of Crazy Horse: A Source Book, Ed. Richard G Hardoff, 1998. p. 43
- ^ "Crazy Horse and Custer" by Stephen Ambrose. "The Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun Narrative.". The Surrender and Death of Crazy Horse: A Source Book, Ed. Richard G. Hardoff, 1998. p. 126
- ^ "The William Garnett Interview", The Surrender and Death of Crazy Horse: A Source Book, Ed. Richard G. Hardoff, 1998. p. 26
- ^ "Water Man's Story of the Battle: An Arapahoe's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn", As told to Col. Tim McCoy in 1920, reprinted from The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custerania, written and compiled by Colonel W.A. Graham, Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Co., 1953, pp. 109 - 111, accessed 30 December 2010
- ^ Sioux warrior Little Soldier's account
- ^ Richard G. Hardoff (ed.). Lakota Recollections, University of Nebraska Press, 1997, p.30 n.16.
- ^ DeBarthe, Joe. Account by Frank Grouard of Crazy Horse, Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard, University of Oklahoma Press, 1958, p.53–54; at Astonisher.com.
- ^ Crazy Horse Memorial
- ^ Powers, Thomas (2010). The Killing of Crazy Horse. New York: Knopf. pp. 415–416. ISBN 978-0-375-41446-6.
- ^ "Crazy Horse: Who Really Wielded the Bayonet that Killed The Oglala Leader?", Greasy Grass, May 12, 1996, pp. 2–10.
- ^ Brennan to Camp, undated (probably December 1908), Camp Collection, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
- ^ Friswold, Carroll. The Killing of Crazy Horse, Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1976; reprinted Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
- ^ Buecker, Tom. "The Search for the Elusive (and Improbable) Photo of Famous Oglala Chief", Greasy Grass May 14, 1998.
- ^ Heriard, Jack. "Debating Crazy Horse: Is this the photo of the famous Oglala?", Whispering Wind Magazine, vol. 34 no. 3 (2004) pp. 16–23.
- ^ Dickson, Ephriam D. III. "Crazy Horse's Grave: A Photograph by Private Charles Howard, 1877", Little Big Horn Associates Newsletter vol. XL no. 1 (February 2006) pp. 4–5.
- ^ Dickson, Ephriam D. III. "Capturing the Lakota Spirit: Photographers at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies", Nebraska History, vol. 88 no. 1 & 2 (Spring–Summer 2007) pp. 2–25.
- ^ Rempp, Kerri (November 17, 2010). "Nebraska highway to be named for Lakota leader". Rapid City Journal. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_67ad4e6e-f264-11df-9d09-001cc4c002e0.html. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
Further reading[link]
- Ambrose, Stephen E. Crazy Horse and Custer: The epic clash of two great warriors at the Little Bighorn. 1975.
- Bray, Kingsley M. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. 2006. ISBN 0-8061-3785-1
- Clark, Robert. The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse: Three Eyewitness Views by the Indian, Chief He Dog the Indian White, William Garnett the White Doctor, Valentine McGillycuddy. 1988. ISBN 0-8032-6330-9
- Marshall, Joseph M. III. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. 2004.
- Guttmacher, Peter and David W. Baird. Ed. Crazy Horse: Sioux War Chief. New York Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1994. 0-120. ISBN 0-7910-1712-5
- McMurtry, Larry. Crazy Horse (Penguin Lives). Puffin Books. 1999. ISBN 0-670-88234-8
- Pinn, Lionel Little Eagle. Greengrass Pipe Dancers. 2000. ISBN 0-87961-250-9
- Sandoz, Mari. Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas, a biography. 1942. ISBN 0-8032-9211-2
- "Debating Crazy Horse: Is this the Famous Oglala". Whispering Wind magazine, Vol 34 #3, 2004. A discussion on the improbability of the Garryowen photo being that of Crazy Horse (the same photo shown here). The clothing, the studio setting all date the photo 1890–1910.
- The Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse and His Family Part One: Creation, Spirituality, and the Family Tree. DVD. William Matson and Mark Frethem, producers. Documentary based on over 100 hours of footage shot of family oral history detailed interviews and all Crazy Horse sites. Family had final approval on end product. Reelcontact.com, 2006.
- The Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse and His Family Part Two: Defending the Homeland Prior to the 1868 Treaty'. DVD William Matson and Mark Frethem, Producers. Reel Contact Productions, 2007.
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- William Bordeaux's Crazy Horse sketch at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library
- Complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger
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| Name | Horse, Crazy |
| Alternative names | Tashunca-uitco |
| Short description | Oglala (Lakota) Sioux Indian Chief |
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| Date of death | Sep. 5, 1877 |
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| Moe Bandy | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.[1] |
| Born | (1944-02-12) February 12, 1944 (age 68)[1] Meridian, Mississippi, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | country singer |
| Instruments | singing, guitar |
| Years active | 1964 to present. |
| Labels | Sweetsong Nashville |
| Associated acts | Joe Stampley, Becky Hobbs, Judy Bailey |
| Website | www.moebandy.com |
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr., known professionally as Moe Bandy, (born February 12, 1944 ) is a country music singer. He was most popular during the 1970s, when he had several hit songs, both alone and with his singing partner Joe Stampley.
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Early life and recordings[link]
Marion Bandy was born and grew up in Meridian, Mississippi, the home-town of the country singer Jimmie Rodgers. He later stated: "My grandfather worked on the railroads with Jimmie Rodgers. He was the boss of the railway yard in Meridian and Jimmie Rodgers worked for him. He said that he played his guitar all the time between work."[citation needed]
He was was nicknamed Moe by his father when he was a child. The Bandy family moved to San Antonio, Texas when Moe was six. His mother played piano and sang. Bandy was taught to play the guitar by his father who had a country band called the Mission City Playboys, but made little use of the ability until he was in his teens. His father's wish that Moe also play the fiddle never materialized.[citation needed]
He made some appearances with the Mission City Playboys, but generally during his high school years, he showed little interest in music and a great deal of interest in rodeos. He tried bronco-busting and bull-riding and by the time he was 16, both he and his brother Mike were competing in rodeos all over Texas.
Career success[link]
In 1962, tired of the bruises and fractured bones, he began to pursue a career in country music. He assembled a band that he called Moe And The Mavericks and found work playing small beer joints, honky-tonks and clubs over a wide area around San Antonio, Texas. When he was young he tried to sound like Hank Williams and George Jones - "I even had my hair cut short like his".[citation needed]
Although work was plentiful, the pay was poor and during the day he worked for his father as a sheet metal worker. This was to last for the next 12 years, during which time he made a few recordings for various small labels. In 1964, he had his first single, "Lonely Lady", on the Satin label, but it made little impression. He did manage to get his band a residency on a local television program called Country Corner and in this capacity, he provided backing for several touring stars.
In 1973, he went solo when record producer Ray Baker, who had listened to Bandy's demos the previous year, suggested that he come to Nashville. Bandy obtained a loan and recorded a song called "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today". Initially released on Footprint Records with a limited pressing of 500 copies, it soon came to the attention of the Atlanta-based GRC label. In March 1974, it entered the US country charts, eventually peaking at number 17. Other minor hits followed, including "It Was Always So Easy To Find An Unhappy Woman (Till I Started Looking For Mine)" and "Don't Anyone Make Love At Home Anymore".
In 1975, a song written by his friend Lefty Frizzell and Whitey Shaffer gave him a number seven country hit, firmly establishing his reputation. "Bandy The Rodeo Clown" was to become not only one of his own favorites but also one of his most popular recordings. (Shaffer was greatly amused by the way Bandy pronounced woman as "woh-min", and began to send him songs with the "woh-min" in them.)[citation needed]
Bandy sang in a simple style that extracted the utmost from his songs of lost love, sadness and life. Although by no means a Hank Williams sound-alike, his method of putting across his honky tonk songs shows a distinct influence from Williams. He met with immediate success at Columbia Records with Paul Craft's "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" and quickly added further hits, including "Here I Am Drunk Again".
From 1977 through 1979, he was a country chart regular with singles such as "I'm Sorry For You, My Friend" (the song Williams had written for their mutual friend Lefty Frizzell), "Cowboys Ain't Supposed To Cry", "That's What Makes The Jukebox Play" and a duet with Janie Fricke, "It's A Cheating Situation".
In 1979, he achieved his first solo number one with "I Cheated Me Right Out of You".
Duets[link]
That same year, in 1979, Bandy joined forces with Joe Stampley and recorded a tongue in cheek novelty single: "Just Good Ol' Boys". The song went on to top the country charts, and it led to a continuation of the partnership over the following years. The duo, commonly known as "Moe and Joe", had more novelty hits between 1979 and 1985, including "Holding The Bag", "Tell Ole I Ain't Here" and "Hey Joe (Hey Moe)". In 1984, they ran into copyright problems with their parody of the then-current Boy George/Culture Club phenomenon: "Where's The Dress" used the introduction from Culture Club's hit "Karma Chameleon".
During the 1980s, Bandy maintained a steady line of solo successes, including "Yesterday Once More", "Rodeo Romeo", "She's Not Really Cheatin' (She's Just Gettin' Even)" and "Till I'm Too Old To Die Young", and several others.
Bandy also registered duet successes with Judy Bailey ("Following The Feeling") and Becky Hobbs ("Let's Get Over Them Together"). Over the years, he maintained a touring schedule estimated at 250 to 300 days a year, and appeared on numerous network television shows. In later years, he cut back considerably on his schedule. He was never a regular Grand Ole Opry member, but has made guest appearances from time to time.
Later life[link]
Bandy summed up his music when he said, "I really think my songs are about life. There's cheating, drinking and divorcing going on everywhere and that's what hardcore country music is all about." He added: "If I'd done all the things I sing about, I'd be dead."[citation needed]
Critics reviewing some of his later recordings wrote that it was strange that, when more artists were actually recording his type of music, some of his recordings were spoiled by string and or choir arrangements, and advised that an immediate return to his roots was necessary. Bandy opened his popular Americana Theatre in Branson, Missouri in 1991. He performs frequently in Branson, Missouri.
Moe, along with his brother, Mike Bandy, a six time NFR bull riding qualifier, were inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2007.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | CAN Country | |||
| 1974 | I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today | 11 | — | GRC |
| It Was Always So Easy | 9 | — | ||
| 1975 | Bandy the Rodeo Clown | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | Hank Williams You Wrote My Life | 13 | — | Columbia |
| Here I Am Drunk Again | 17 | — | ||
| 1977 | I'm Sorry for You My Friend | 18 | — | |
| The Best | 18 | — | ||
| Cowboys Ain't Supposed to Cry | 22 | — | ||
| 1978 | Soft Lights and Hard Country Music | 34 | 5 | |
| Love Is What Life's All About | 33 | — | ||
| 1979 | It's a Cheating Situation | 19 | 13 | |
| One of a Kind | 44 | — | ||
| 1980 | The Champ | 57 | 6 | |
| Following the Feeling | 44 | — | ||
| 1981 | Rodeo Romeo | 48 | — | |
| Encore | — | — | ||
| 1982 | She's Not Really Cheatin' (She's Just Gettin' Even) | 19 | — | |
| Salutes the American Cowboy | — | — | Warwick | |
| I Still Love You in the Same Ol' Way | — | — | Columbia | |
| Greatest Hits | 49 | — | ||
| 1983 | Sings Songs of Hank Williams | — | — | |
| Devoted to Your Memory | 41 | — | ||
| 1984 | Motel Matches | 45 | — | |
| 1985 | Keepin' It Country | — | — | |
| Barroom Roses | — | — | ||
| 1987 | You Haven't Heard the Last of Me | 10 | — | MCA |
| 1988 | No Regrets | 28 | — | Curb |
| 1989 | Many Mansions | 48 | — | |
| 1990 | Greatest Hits | — | — | |
| 1993 | Live in Branson, MO USA | — | — | Laserlight |
| 1995 | Picture in a Frame | — | — | Intersound |
| Gospel Favorites | — | — | ||
| 1996 | A Cowboy Christmas | — | — | |
| 1997 | Act Naturally | — | — | |
| 2005 | Too Old to Die Young | — | — | Pegasus |
Albums with Joe Stampley[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | |||
| 1979 | Just Good Ol' Boys | 11 | — | Columbia |
| 1981 | Hey Joe! Hey Moe! | 23 | 170 | |
| 1982 | Greatest Hits | — | — | |
| 1984 | Alive and Well | 21 | — | |
| 1985 | Live from Bad Bob's, Memphis | — | — | |
| 1999 | The Best | — | — | Intersound |
| 2000 | Live at Billy Bob's Texas | — | — | Smith |
Singles[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | CAN Country | |||
| 1974 | "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today" | 17 | — | I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs |
| "Honky Tonk Amnesia" | 24 | 48 | ||
| "It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman)" | 7 | 7 | It Was Always So Easy | |
| 1975 | "Don't Anyone Make Love at Home Anymore" | 13 | 24 | |
| "Bandy the Rodeo Clown" | 7 | 4 | Bandy the Rodeo Clown | |
| "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" | 2 | 3 | Hank Williams You Wrote My Life | |
| 1976 | "The Biggest Airport in the World" | 27 | 22 | |
| "Here I Am Drunk Again" | 11 | 13 | Here I Am Drunk Again | |
| "She Took More Than Her Share" | 11 | — | ||
| 1977 | "I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" | 9 | 9 | I'm Sorry for You My Friend |
| "Cowboys Ain't Supposed to Cry" | 13 | 33 | Cowboys Ain't Supposed to Cry | |
| "She Just Loved the Cheatin' Out of Me" | 11 | 2 | ||
| 1978 | "Soft Lights and Hard Country Music" | 13 | 15 | Soft Lights and Hard Country Music |
| "That's What Makes the Juke Box Play" | 11 | 10 | ||
| "Two Lonely People" | 7 | 4 | Love Is What Life's All About | |
| 1979 | "It's a Cheating Situation" (w/ Janie Fricke) | 2 | 1 | It's a Cheating Situation |
| "Barstool Mountain" | 9 | 21 | ||
| "I Cheated Me Right Out of You" | 1 | 1 | One of a Kind | |
| 1980 | "One of a Kind" | 13 | — | |
| "The Champ" | 22 | 14 | The Champ | |
| "Yesterday Once More" | 10 | 6 | ||
| "Following the Feeling" (w/ Judy Bailey) | 10 | — | Following the Feeling | |
| 1981 | "My Woman Loves the Devil Out of Me" | 15 | 25 | |
| "Rodeo Romeo" | 10 | 12 | Rodeo Romeo | |
| 1982 | "Someday Soon" | 21 | 36 | |
| "She's Not Really Cheatin' (She's Just Gettin' Even)" | 4 | 2 | She's Not Really Cheatin' (She's Just Gettin' Even) |
|
| "Only If There Is Another You" | 12 | 42 | ||
| 1983 | "I Still Love You in the Same Ol' Way" | 19 | — | I Still Love You in the Same Ol' Way |
| "Let's Get Over Them Together" (w/ Becky Hobbs) | 10 | 27 | Devoted to Your Memory | |
| "You're Gonna Lose Her Like That" | 34 | 38 | ||
| 1984 | "It Took a Lot of Drinkin' (To Get That Woman Over Me)" | 31 | — | Motel Matches |
| "Woman Your Love" | 12 | 12 | ||
| 1985 | "Barroom Roses" | 45 | 34 | Barroom Roses |
| 1986 | "One Man Band" | 42 | 43 | You Haven't Heard the Last of Me |
| 1987 | "Till I'm Too Old to Die Young" | 6 | 10 | |
| "You Haven't Heard the Last of Me" | 11 | — | ||
| 1988 | "Americana" | 8 | — | No Regrets |
| "Ashes in the Wind" | 47 | 61 | ||
| "I Just Can't Say No to You" | 21 | * | ||
| 1989 | "Many Mansions" | 34 | * | Many Mansions |
| "Brotherly Love" | 53 | * | ||
| "This Night Won't Last Forever" | 49 | * | ||
Singles with Joe Stampley[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | CAN Country | |||
| 1979 | "Just Good Ol' Boys" | 1 | 8 | Just Good Ol' Boys |
| "Holding the Bag" | 7 | 7 | ||
| 1980 | "Tell Ole I Ain't Here, He Better Get on Home" | 11 | 15 | |
| 1981 | "Hey Joe (Hey Moe)" | 10 | 8 | Hey Joe! Hey Moe! |
| "Honky Tonk Queen" | 12 | 11 | ||
| 1984 | "Where's the Dress" | 8 | 8 | Alive and Well |
| "The Boy's Night Out" | 36 | 24 | ||
| 1985 | "Daddy's Honky Tonk" | 48 | 45 | |
| "Still on a Roll" | 58 | — | ||
References[link]
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits, p.36. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6
External links[link]
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bandy, Moe |
| Alternative names | Bandy, Marion Franklin, Jr. (birth name) |
| Short description | American country singer |
| Date of birth | February 12, 1944 |
| Place of birth | Meridian, Mississippi, United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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Not to be confused with The Stooges.
For the 2012 Farrelly brothers film, see The Three Stooges (film).
| The Three Stooges | |
|---|---|
 The Three Stooges in 1938's Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb. L to R: Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine |
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| Also known as | "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen" "Ted Healy and His Stooges" "Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls" |
| Genre | Slapstick comedy |
| Format | Short subject Feature film |
| Created by | Ted Healy |
| Starring | Moe Howard Curly Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Joe Besser Joe DeRita |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| External links | |
| threestooges.net | |
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical farce and extreme slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Moe, Larry, and Curly" or "Moe, Larry, and Shemp," among other lineups. They started as "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen" which comprised Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard. This original trio did one feature film entitled Soup to Nuts after which Shemp left the group to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by his brother Curly Howard. This incarnation of the team was the first to be known on film as The Three Stooges.
Shemp rejoined the group after Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1946, reinstating the original line-up until November 1955, when Shemp died of a heart attack. In order to complete four Shemp-era shorts, film actor Joe Palma was used as a temporary body double to Shemp, before Joe Besser became the long-term replacement as the third Stooge. Ultimately, Joe DeRita (nicknamed "Curly Joe") replaced Joe Besser by 1958. The act regained momentum throughout the 1960s as popular kiddie fare until Larry Fine's paralyzing stroke in January 1970 effectively marked the end of the act proper. Moe tried, unsuccessfully, one final time to revive the Stooges with longtime supporting actor Emil Sitka filling in for Larry. Larry ultimately succumbed to a series of additional strokes in January 1975, followed by Moe, who died of lung cancer in May 1975.
History[link]
Ted Healy and his stooges[link]
The Three Stooges started in 1925 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called 'Ted Healy and His Stooges' (a.k.a. 'Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen', 'Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls' and 'Ted Healy and His Racketeers'—the moniker 'Three Stooges' was never used during their tenure with Healy). In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep "interrupting" him. Healy would respond by verbally and physically abusing his stooges. Brothers Moe and Shemp were joined later that year by violinist-comedian Larry Fine, and Fred Sanborn joined the group as well.[1]
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The original Three Stooges in their film debut, Soup to Nuts. Shemp Howard (far left) was the original third Stooge before his youngest brother Curly Howard assumed the role.
In 1930, Ted Healy and His Stooges (including Sanborn) appeared in their first Hollywood feature film, Soup to Nuts, released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was not a critical success, but the Stooges' performances were singled out as memorable, leading Fox to offer the trio a contract minus Healy. This enraged the prickly Healy, who told studio executives that the Stooges were his employees. The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theatre circuit. Healy attempted to stop the new act with legal action, claiming they were using his copyrighted material. There are accounts of Healy threatening to bomb theaters if Howard, Fine and Howard ever performed there, which worried Shemp so much that he almost left the act; reportedly, only a pay raise kept him on board.[2] Healy tried to save his act by hiring replacement stooges, but they were inexperienced and not as well-received as their predecessors.[2] In 1932, with Moe now acting as business manager, Healy reached a new agreement with his former Stooges, and they were booked in a production of Jacob J. Shubert's The Passing Show of 1932. During rehearsals, Healy received a more lucrative offer and found a loophole in his contract allowing him to leave the production.[2] Shemp, fed up with Healy's abrasiveness,[2] decided to quit the act and found work almost immediately, in Vitaphone movie comedies produced in Brooklyn, New York.[1]
With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges (Moe and Larry) needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard. Healy reportedly took one look at Jerry, who had long chestnut red locks and a handlebar mustache, and remarked that he did not look like he was funny.[2] Jerry left the room and returned a few moments later with his head shaved (though his mustache remained for a time), and then quipped "Boy, do I look girly." Healy heard "Curly," and the name stuck.[1] (There are varying accounts as to how the Curly character actually came about.)
In 1933, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) signed Healy and his Stooges to a movie contract. They appeared in feature films and short subjects, either together, individually, or with various combinations of actors. The trio was featured in a series of musical comedy shorts, beginning with Nertsery Rhymes. The short was one of a few shorts to be made with an early two-strip Technicolor process, including one featuring Curly without Healy or the other Stooges, Roast Beef and Movies (1934). The shorts themselves were built around recycled film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, such as Children of Pleasure, Lord Byron of Broadway, and the unfinished March of Time (all 1930), which had been filmed in early Technicolor. Soon, additional shorts followed (sans the experimental Technicolor), including Beer and Pretzels (1933), Plane Nuts (1933), and The Big Idea (1934).[1]
Healy and company also appeared in several MGM feature films as comic relief, such as Turn Back the Clock (1933), Meet the Baron (1933), Dancing Lady (1933), Fugitive Lovers (1934), and Hollywood Party (1934). Healy and the Stooges also appeared together in Myrt and Marge for Universal Pictures.[1]
In 1934, the team's contract with MGM expired, and the Stooges parted professional company with Healy. According to Moe Howard's autobiography,[3] the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness. Their final film with Healy was MGM's 1934 film, Hollywood Party. Both Healy and the Stooges went on to separate successes, with Healy dying under mysterious circumstances in 1937.[1]
The Columbia years[link]
Moe, Larry and Curly[link]
In 1934, the trio – now officially christened "The Three Stooges" – signed on to appear in two-reel comedy short subjects for Columbia Pictures. In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option;[3] in the Ted Okuda–Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $1,000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $7,500 per film (equal to $130,299 today), to be divided among the trio.[4]
Within their first year at Columbia, the Stooges became wildly popular. Realizing this, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn used the Stooges as leverage, as the demand for their films was so great that Columbia eventually refused to supply exhibitors with the trio's shorts unless they also agreed to book some of the studio's mediocre B movies. Cohn also saw to it that the Stooges remained ignorant of their popularity. During their 23 years spent at Columbia, the Stooges were never completely aware of their amazing drawing power at the box office. As their contracts with the studio included an open option that had to be renewed every year, Cohn would tell the boys that the short subjects were in decline, which was not a complete fabrication (Cohn's yearly mantra was "the market for comedy shorts is dying out, fellas.") Thinking their days were numbered, the Stooges would sweat it out each and every year, with Cohn renewing their contract for another year at the eleventh hour. This cruel deception kept the insecure Stooges unaware of their true value, resulting in them having second thoughts about asking for a better contract without a yearly option. Cohn's scare tactics worked for all 23 years the Stooges were at Columbia; the team never once asked for — nor were they ever given — a salary increase. It was not until after they stopped making the shorts in December 1957 did Moe learn of Cohn's underhanded tactics, what a valuable commodity the Stooges had been for the ailing studio, and how many millions more the act could have earned.[4]
The Stooges were required to churn out up to eight short films per year within a 40-week period; for the remaining 12 or so weeks, they were free to pursue other employment. Usually, the Stooges would either spend this time with their families or tour the country promoting their live act.[5] The Stooges appeared in 190 film shorts and five features while at Columbia. Del Lord directed more than three dozen Stooge films; Jules White directed dozens more, and his brother Jack White directed several under the pseudonym "Preston Black". Silent film star Charley Chase also shared directorial responsibilities with Lord and White, with more than pleasing results.[4]
The Stooge films made between 1935–1941 captured the team at the peak, according to film historians Ted Okuda and Edward Watz, authors of The Columbia Comedy Shorts. Nearly every film produced became a classic in its own right. 1935's Hoi Polloi utilized the classic premise of a stuffy professor waging a bet that he can transform the uncultured trio into refined gentlemen; the plotline worked so well that it was reused twice, as Half-Wits Holiday and Pies and Guys. Three Little Beers featured the team employed at a brewery who then run amuck on a local golf course to win prize money. 1936's Disorder in the Court is considered a quintessential entry in the series, featuring the team as star witnesses to a murder trial. 1938's Violent is the Word for Curly was a quality Chase-directed short that featured the musical interlude, "Swingin' the Alphabet". In the 1940 film A Plumbing We Will Go, the trio were cast as inadvertent plumbers who nearly destroy a socialite's mansion, causing water to exit every appliance in the home.[4] Other entries of the era, like Uncivil Warriors, A Pain in the Pullman, False Alarms, Grips, Grunts and Groans, The Sitter Downers, Dizzy Doctors, Tassels in the Air, We Want Our Mummy, Nutty but Nice, An Ache in Every Stake and In the Sweet Pie and Pie are considered among the team's finest work.[4]
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The Stooges during their prime years with Curly Howard on board, as seen in this promotional photo from Wee Wee Monsieur
With the onset of World War II, the Stooges released several entries that poked fun at the rising Axis powers. You Nazty Spy! and its sequel I'll Never Heil Again burlesqued Hitler and the Nazis at a time when America was still neutral and resolutely isolationist. Moe is cast as "Moe Hailstone", an Adolf Hitler-like character, with Curly playing a Hermann Göring character (replete with medals), and Larry a Ribbentrop-type ambassador. Though revered by Stooge fans, as well as the Stooges themselves (Moe, Larry and director Jules White considered You Nazty Spy! their best film),[6] the efforts indulged in a deliberately formless, non-sequitur style of verbal humor that was not the Stooges' forte, according to Okuda and Watz. Other wartime entries, like They Stooge to Conga, Higher Than a Kite, Back From the Front, Gents Without Cents and the controversial The Yoke's on Me have their moments, but taken in bulk, the wartime films are decidedly substandard.[4] No Dough Boys ranks as the best of these farces. The team, made up as Japanese soldiers for a photo shoot, is mistaken for genuine saboteurs by a Nazi ringleader (Vernon Dent). The highlight of the film features the Stooges engaging in nonsensical gymnastics (the real spies are renowned acrobats) for a skeptical group of enemy agents.[4]
The Stooges made occasional guest appearances in feature films, though generally they stuck to short subjects. Columbia offered theater owners an entire program of two-reel comedies (15 to 25 titles annually) featuring such stars as Buster Keaton, Andy Clyde, Charley Chase, and Hugh Herbert, but the Three Stooges shorts were the most popular of all.[2]
The World War II era also brought on rising production costs that resulted in a reduced number of elaborate gags and outdoor sequences, Del Lord's stock and trade; as such, the quality of the teams' films (particularly those directed by Lord) began to slip after 1942. According to Okuda and Watz, entries like Loco Boy Makes Good, What's the Matador?, Sock-A-Bye Baby, I Can Hardly Wait and A Gem of a Jam are considered to be less quality work than previous efforts, and in a different class than their earlier films.[4] The 1943 film Spook Louder, a remake of Mack Sennett's The Great Pie Mystery, is often cited as their worst film. The story of a phantom pie-thrower (later revealed to be the detective on the case) is repetitious and relying on the same jokes, which many Stooge fans consider to be far less humorous than their past work.[4] Three Smart Saps, a film considered to be an improvement, features a reworking of a routine from Harold Lloyd's The Freshman, in which Curly's loosely basted suit begins to come apart at the seams while he is on the dance floor.[4]
Film critics and stooge fans alike have cited Curly as the most popular member of the team.[2] His childlike mannerisms and natural comedic charm (he had no previous acting experience) made him a hit with audiences, particularly children and women (the latter usually finding the trio's humor juvenile and uncouth). The fact that Curly had to shave his head for the act led him to feel unappealing to women. To mask his insecurities, Curly ate and drank excessively and caroused whenever the Stooges made personal appearances, which was approximately seven months out of the year. His weight ballooned in the 1940s, and his blood pressure was dangerously high.[1] His wild lifestyle and constant drinking eventually caught up with him in 1945, and his performances suffered. In his last dozen shorts (ranging from 1945's If a Body Meets a Body through 1947's Half-Wits Holiday), he was seriously ill, struggling to get through even the most basic scenes.[2]
It was during the final day of filming Half-Wits Holiday on May 6, 1946, that Curly suffered a debilitating stroke on the set, ending his 14-year career. Curly's health necessitated a temporary retirement from the act, and while the Stooges hoped for a full recovery, Curly never starred in a film again, except for one brief cameo appearance in the third film after Shemp returned to the trio, Hold That Lion! It was the only film that contained all four of the original Stooges (the three Howard brothers and Larry) on screen simultaneously; Jules White recalled Curly visiting the set one day, and White had him do this bit for fun. (Curly's cameo appearance was recycled in the 1953 remake Booty and the Beast.)[3] In 1949, Curly was supposed to play a cameo role in the Stooge comedy Malice in the Palace, but he was physically unable to perform. His chef role was played by Larry.[1]
Shemp returns[link]
Moe Howard turned to his older brother Shemp Howard to take Curly's place. Shemp, however, was hesitant to rejoin the Stooges, as he had a successful solo career at the time of Curly's untimely illness. However, he realized that Moe and Larry's careers would be finished without the Stooge act. Shemp wanted some kind of assurance that his rejoining was indeed temporary, and that he could leave the Stooges once Curly recovered. Curly remained gravely ill after 1950, dying of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by additional strokes on January 18, 1952.[1]
Shemp appeared with the Stooges in 76 more shorts and a quickie Western comedy feature titled Gold Raiders.
During this period, Moe, Larry, and Shemp made a pilot for a Three Stooges television show called Jerks of All Trades in 1949. The series was never picked up, although the pilot is currently in the public domain and is available on home video, as is an early television appearance from around the same time on a vaudeville-style comedy series, Camel Comedy Caravan, originally broadcast live on CBS-TV on March 11, 1950, and starring Ed Wynn. Also available commercially is a kinescope of Moe, Larry, and Shemp's appearance on The Frank Sinatra Show, broadcast live over CBS-TV on January 1, 1952. Frank Sinatra was reportedly a big fan of the Stooges and slapstick comedy in general. On this broadcast, the Stooges are joined by one of their longtime stock-company members, Vernon Dent, who plays "Mr. Mortimer", a party-goer who requests a drink. The Stooges oblige with disastrous results.[1]
Columbia's short-subject division downsized in 1952. Producer Hugh McCollum was discharged and director Edward Bernds resigned out of loyalty to McCollum, leaving only Jules White to both produce and direct the Stooges' remaining Columbia comedies. Almost overnight, the quality of the Stooge shorts declined. Production was significantly faster, with the former four-day filming schedules now tightened to two or three days. In another cost-cutting measure, White would create a "new" Stooge short by borrowing footage from old ones, setting it in a slightly different storyline, and filming a few new scenes often with the same actors in the same costumes. White was initially very subtle when recycling older footage: he would reuse only a single sequence of old film, re-edited so cleverly that it was not easy to detect. The later shorts were cheaper and the recycling more obvious, with as much as 75% of the running time consisting of old footage. White came to rely so much on older material that he could film the "new" shorts in a single day. Plus, any new footage filmed in order to link older material suffered from White's wooden directing and his penchant for telling his actors how to act. Shemp in particular disliked working with White.[4]
Three years after Curly's death, Shemp died of a sudden heart attack at age 60 on November 22, 1955. Recycled footage of Shemp, combined with new footage utilizing Columbia supporting player Joe Palma as Shemp's double (only filmed from the back), were used to complete the last four films originally planned with Shemp: Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers, and Commotion on the Ocean.[1]
Main article: Fake Shemp
Joe Besser replaces Shemp[link]
Joe Besser replaced Shemp in 1956, appearing in 16 shorts. Besser, noting how one side of Larry Fine's face seemed "calloused",[7] had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit too hard (though this restriction was later lifted). Besser was the only "third" Stooge that dared to hit Moe back in retaliation and get away with it; Larry Fine was also known to hit Moe on occasion, but always with serious repercussions. "I usually played the kind of character who would hit others back," Besser recalled.[8]
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Larry and Joe Besser, as "The Original Two-Man Quartet," serenade Moe in the 1957 short Guns a Poppin!.
At that time, the Stooge films began to resemble sitcoms. Sitcoms, though, were now available for free. Television was the new popular medium, and by the time Besser joined the act, the Stooges were generally considered throwbacks to an obsolete era. The Besser films have long been considered the worst of the Stooge films. Though Besser was a very funny comedian (he was very popular on The Abbott and Costello Show), his whining mannerisms ("Not so harrrrd!") did not quite jell with the roughneck Stooge humor. However, Besser was not solely to blame for the lackluster quality of these final entries: the scripts were tired rehashes of earlier efforts (7 of the 16 films were remakes) and Moe and Larry's performances lacked energy. Both comedians were growing older, and could no longer perform pratfalls and physical comedy as they once had.[4]
The final Stooge films had few bright moments, according to Okuda and Watz: Hoofs and Goofs, A Merry Mix Up, Rusty Romeos and Oil's Well That Ends Well are amusing, while the musical Sweet and Hot (long detested by fans) deserves some credit for straying from the norm. Muscle Up a Little Closer most resembled the sitcoms of the era, while Pies and Guys was a scene-for-scene remake of both Hoi Polloi and Half-Wits Holiday. The space craze also took hold of the American public at the time, resulting in three entries focusing on space travel: Space Ship Sappy, Outer Space Jitters and Flying Saucer Daffy.[4]
The inevitable occurred soon enough. Columbia was the last studio still producing shorts, and the market for such films had all but dried up. As a result, the studio opted not to renew the Stooges' contract when it expired in late December 1957. The final comedy produced was Flying Saucer Daffy, filmed on December 19–20, 1957.[5] Several days later, the Stooges were unceremoniously fired from Columbia Pictures after 24 years of making low-budget shorts. Joan Howard Maurer, daughter of Moe, wrote the following in 1982:
The boys' careers had suddenly come to an end. They were at Columbia one day and gone the next—no 'Thank yous,' no farewell party for their 24 years of dedication and service and the dollars their comedies had reaped for the studio. Moe Howard recalled that a few weeks after their exit from Columbia, he drove to the studio to say goodbye to several studio executives when he was stopped by a guard at the gate (obviously, not a Stooges fan) and, since he did not have the current year's studio pass, was refused entry. For the moment, it was a crushing blow.[1]
Although the Stooges were no longer working for Columbia, the studio had enough completed films on the shelf to keep releasing new comedies for another 18 months, and not in the order they were produced. The final Stooge release, Sappy Bull Fighters, did not reach theaters until June 4, 1959. With no active contract in place, Moe and Larry discussed plans for a personal appearance tour; meanwhile, Besser's wife had a minor heart attack, and he preferred to stay local, leading him to withdraw from the act. For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Stooges hit a dead end.[1]
The comeback: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe[link]
Seeing the success of how television, in its early years, allowed movie studios to unload a backlog of short films thought unmarketable, the Stooge films seemed perfect for the burgeoning genre. ABC television had even expressed interest as far back as 1949, purchasing exclusive rights to 30 of the trio's shorts.[9] However, the success of television revivals for such names as Laurel and Hardy, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry and the Our Gang series in the late 1950s led Columbia to cash in again on the Stooges. In January 1958, Columbia's television subsidiary Screen Gems offered a package consisting of 78 Stooge shorts (mainly from the Curly era), which were well received.[10] Almost immediately, an additional 40 shorts hit the market, and by 1959, all 190 Stooge shorts were airing regularly. Due to the massive quantity of Stooge product available for broadcast, the films were broadcast Monday through Friday, leading to heavy exposure aimed squarely at children. This led parents to watch alongside of their offspring, and before long, Howard and Fine found themselves in high demand.[4] Moe quickly signed movie and burlesque comic Joe DeRita for the "third Stooge" role; DeRita adopted first a crew cut and then a completely shaven hairstyle and became "Curly Joe" because of his resemblance to the original Curly Howard (also to make it easier to distinguish him from Joe Besser, the earlier Stooge called Joe).
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The Three Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita filling the role of the third stooge. From the 1961 feature film Snow White and the Three Stooges.
This Three Stooges lineup went on to make a series of popular full-length films from 1959 to 1965, most notably Have Rocket, Will Travel, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules and The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze. The films were aimed at the kiddie-matinee market, and most were farce outings in the Stooge tradition, with the exception of Snow White and the Three Stooges, a children's fantasy in Technicolor. They also appeared as firemen (the role that helped make them famous in Soup to Nuts) in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Throughout the 1960s, The Three Stooges were one of the most popular and highest-paid live acts in America.[8]
The Stooges also tried their hand at another weekly television series in 1960 titled The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Filmed in color and with a laugh track, the first episode, "Home Cooking," featured the boys rehearsing for a new television show. Like Jerks of All Trades, the pilot did not sell. However, Norman Maurer was able to reuse the footage (reprocessed in black and white) for the first 20 minutes of the feature film The Three Stooges in Orbit.[1]
The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges, which features a series of 156 animated cartoons produced for television. The Stooges appeared in live-action color footage, which preceded and followed each animated adventure in which they voiced their respective characters.[1]
Final years[link]
In 1969, the Three Stooges filmed a pilot episode for a new TV series entitled Kook's Tour, a combination travelogue-sitcom that had the "retired" Stooges traveling around the world, with the episodes filmed on location.[1]
On January 9, 1970, during production of the pilot, Larry suffered a paralyzing stroke, ending his acting career, as well as plans for the television series.[1]
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A proposed incarnation of the Three Stooges. A promotional picture taken after Larry Fine's death in 1975 features a very ill Moe Howard (who died shortly thereafter) flanked by Curly Joe DeRita to the left and Emil Sitka to the right.
Plans were in the works for longtime foil Emil Sitka to replace Larry as the "Middle Stooge" in 1971, but nothing ever came of that idea other than the proposed publicity still reproduced here.[1] Three years later, just before Christmas of 1974, Larry Fine suffered yet another stroke at the age of 72 and four weeks later, suffered a more massive one. Slipping into a coma, he died a week later of a stroke-induced cerebral hemorrhage on January 24, 1975.[1]
Devastated by his friend's death, Moe nevertheless decided that the Three Stooges should continue. Several movie ideas were considered, one of which according to critic and movie historian Leonard Maltin, (who also uncovered a pre-production photo) was entitled Blazing Stewardesses. Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.[3]
However, Blazing Stewardesses, the last film idea that the Three Stooges had ever seriously considered, was eventually made, starring the last of the surviving Ritz Brothers comedy troupe and released to moderate acclaim later that year.[1]
Joe DeRita continued to perform live into the mid-1970s with Mousie Garner and Frank Mitchell as "The New Three Stooges" enjoying recognition well into old age, before retiring by 1979.
Of the remaining "original-replacement" Stooges, Joe Besser died of heart failure on March 1, 1988, followed by Joe DeRita of pneumonia on July 3, 1993.
Legacy and perspective[link]
Over half a century since their last short film was released, the Three Stooges remain wildly popular with audiences. Their films have never left the television airwaves since first appearing in 1958, and they continue to delight old fans while attracting a new legion of fervent admirers. A hard-working group of working-class comedians who were never the critic's darlings, the durable act endured several personnel changes in their careers that would have permanently sidelined a less persistent act.[4] The Stooges would not have lasted as long as they did as a unit without Moe Howard's guiding hand.[1]
The Ted Okuda/Edward Watz-penned book The Columbia Comedy Shorts puts the Stooges legacy in critical perspective:
Many scholarly studies of motion picture comedy have overlooked the Three Stooges entirely—and not without valid reasoning. Aesthetically, the Stooges violated every rule that constitutes "good" comedic style. Their characters lacked the emotional depth of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Langdon; they were never as witty or subtle as Buster Keaton. They were not disciplined enough to sustain lengthy comic sequences; far too often, they were willing to suspend what little narrative structure their pictures possessed in order to insert a number of gratuitous jokes. Nearly every premise they have employed (spoofs of westerns, horror films, costume melodramas) has been done to better effect by other comedians. And yet, in spite of the overwhelming artistic odds against them, they were responsible for some of the finest comedies ever made. Their humor was the most undistilled form of low comedy; they were not great innovators, but as quick laugh practitioners, they place second to none. If public taste is any criterion, the Stooges have been the reigning kings of comedy for over fifty years.[4]
Beginning in the 1980s, the Stooges finally began to receive long-overdue critical recognition. The release of nearly all their films on DVD by 2010 has allowed critics of Joe Besser and Joe DeRita—often the recipients of significant fan backlash—to appreciate the unique style of comedy both comedians brought to the Stooges. In addition, the DVD market in particular has allowed fans to view the entire Stooge film corpus as distinct periods in their long, distinguished career instead of comparing one Stooge to the other (the Curly vs. Shemp debate continues to this day[11][12][13]).
The team appeared in 220 films. In the end, it is the durability of the 190 timeless short films the Stooges made at Columbia Pictures that acts as an enduring tribute to the comedy team. Their continued popularity worldwide has proven to even the most skeptical critics that their films—quite simply—are funny.[4] American television personality Steve Allen went on record in the mid-1980s saying "though they never achieved widespread critical acclaim, they achieved exactly what they had always intended to do: they made people laugh."[14]
Line-ups[link]
| Years | Moe | Shemp | Larry | Curly | Joe | Curly Joe |
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| 1925–1932 (7) |  Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 1932–1946 (14) | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 1946–1955 (9) | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 1956–1958 (2) | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 1958–1971 (13) | Y |
Y |
Y |
Moe Howard
Real Name: Moses Harry Horwitz
Born: (1897-06-19)June 19, 1897
Died: May 4, 1975(1975-05-04) (aged 77)
Stooge years: 1922–1975
Larry Fine
Real Name: Louis Feinberg
Born: (1902-10-05)October 5, 1902
Died: January 24, 1975(1975-01-24) (aged 72)
Stooge years: 1925–1971
Curly Howard
Real Name: Jerome Lester Horwitz
Born: (1903-10-22)October 22, 1903
Died: January 18, 1952(1952-01-18) (aged 48)
Stooge years: 1932–1946
Shemp Howard
Real Name: Samuel Horwitz
Born: (1895-03-11)March 11, 1895
Died: November 22, 1955(1955-11-22) (aged 60)
Stooge years: 1922–1932, 1946–1955
Joe Besser
Born: (1907-08-12)August 12, 1907
Died: March 1, 1988(1988-03-01) (aged 80)
Stooge years: 1956–1958
Joe DeRita ("Curly Joe")
Real Name: Joseph Wardell
Born: (1909-07-12)July 12, 1909
Died: July 3, 1993(1993-07-03) (aged 83)
Stooge years: 1958–1975
Shorts[link]
Main article: The Three Stooges filmography
The Three Stooges appeared in 220 films throughout their career. Of those 220, 190 short films were made for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959, for which the trio are best known. Their contract was extended each year from 1934 until the final one expired on December 31, 1957. The last 8 of the 16 shorts with Joe Besser were released soon afterward.
C3 Entertainment, Inc.[link]
Throughout their career, Moe acted as both their main creative force and business manager. Comedy III (C3) was formed by Moe, Larry and Joe DeRita in 1959 to manage all business and merchandise transactions for the team. C3 was basically in the background, with Moe's son-in-law Norman Maurer managing the comedy teams' film interests under Normandy Productions, and merchandising affairs under Norman Maurer Productions (NMP). Norman Maurer died of cancer in 1986.
In 1994, the heirs of Larry Fine and Joe DeRita filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Moe's family, particularly Joan Howard Maurer and her son Jeffrey, who had inherited the NMP/Normandy business. The lawsuit alleged that the Howards had cheated the DeRita and Fine families out of their share of royalties. Howard was ordered to pay $2.6 million in damages; $1.6 million was for compensatory damages to Jean DeRita, while the remaining $1 million was divided between four of Fine's grandchildren. The Fine and DeRita families were represented by California attorney Bela G. Lugosi. Jr.[15]
The resulting 1994 lawsuit led to the reestablishment of C3 as a three-way interest of Fine/[Moe]Howard/DeRita. The DeRita heirs received the proxy to the Howard share, giving them majority control on the company's management. Joe DeRita's stepsons, Robert and Earl Benjamin, became the senior management of C3, with Lugosi, Jr. serving as an executive board member for several years. The Benjamins later incorporated the company, and C3 is currently the owner of all Three Stooges trademarks and merchandising. Larry's grandson Eric Lamond is the representative of the Fines' one-third interest in the company.[16]
Since 1995, C3 has authorized and provided the services of veteran actors Jim Skousen, Alan Semok, and Dave Knight (as Moe, Larry, and Curly respectively) for numerous "personal appearances" by the Stooge characters for a variety of merchandising and promotional events. This latter day trio has also provided voices for the characters in a variety of radio spots, merchandising tie-ins, and most recently for the first new Three Stooges short in fifty years. A CGI animation by Famous Frames Mobile Interactive, a first-wave "new media" company, entitled The Grate Debate, has Moe, Larry and Curly running for President.
Television broadcasts and rights issues[link]
A handful of Three Stooges shorts first aired on television in 1949, on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. It was not until 1958 that Screen Gems packaged 78 shorts for national syndication; the package was gradually enlarged to encompass the entire library of 190 shorts. In 1959, KTTV in Los Angeles purchased the Three Stooges films for air, but by the early 1970s, rival station KTLA began airing the Stooges films, keeping them in the schedule until early 1994. The Family Channel (now ABC Family) ran the shorts as part of their Stooge TV block from February 19, 1996, to January 2, 1998. In the late 1990s, AMC had held the rights to the Three Stooges shorts, originally airing them under the Stooges Playhouse block, but replacing it in 1999 with N.Y.U.K. (New Yuk University of Knuckleheads). Featuring host Leslie Nielsen in the form of a college instructor, the block aired several shorts often grouped by a theme, such as similar schtick used in different films. Although the block was discontinued after AMC revamped their format in 2002, the network still ran Stooges shorts occasionally. The AMC run ended when Spike TV picked them up in 2004, airing them in their Stooges Slap-Happy Hour. By 2007, the network had discontinued the block. Although Spike did air Stooges shorts for a brief period of time after the block was canceled, as of late April 2008, Three Stooges has disappeared from the network's schedule entirely. The Three Stooges returned on December 31, 2009, on AMC, starting with the "Countdown with the Stooges" New Year's Eve marathon. AMC planned to put several episodes on their website in 2010.
Since the 1990s Columbia and its television division's successor, Sony Pictures Television, has preferred to license the Stooges shorts to cable networks, precluding the films from being shown on local broadcast TV. Two stations in Chicago and Boston, however, signed long-term syndication contracts with Columbia years ago and have declined to terminate them. Thus, WMEU-CA in Chicago currently airs all 190 Three Stooges shorts on Stooge-a-Palooza, hosted by Rich Koz, and WSBK-TV in Boston airs Stooge shorts and feature films. KTLA in Los Angeles dropped the shorts in 1994, but brought them back in 2007 as part of a special retro-marathon commemorating the station's 60th anniversary. Since that time, the station's original 16mm Stooges film prints have aired occasionally as part of mini-marathons on holidays. Antenna TV, a network broadcasting on the digital subchannels of local broadcast stations (owned by Tribune Broadcasting, who also owns KTLA), began airing the Stooges shorts upon the network's January 1, 2011 launch, which run in multi-hour blocks on weekends; most of the Three Stooges feature films are also broadcast on the network, through Antenna TV's distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment (whose Columbia Pictures subsidiary released most of the films).
Some of the Stooge films have been colorized by two separate companies. The first colorized DVD releases, distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, were prepared by West Wing Studios in 2004. The following year, Legend Films colorized the public domain shorts Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Disorder in the Court and Brideless Groom. Disorder in the Court and Brideless Groom also appears on two of West Wing's colorized releases. In any event, the Columbia-produced shorts (aside from the public domain films) are handled by Sony Pictures Entertainment, while the MGM Stooges shorts are owned by Warner Bros. via their Turner Entertainment division. Sony offers 21 of the shorts on their web platform Crackle, along with eleven Minisodes. Meanwhile, the rights to the Stooges' feature films rests with the studios that originally produced them (Columbia/Sony for the Columbia films, and 20th Century Fox for the Fox films).
International airings[link]
Home video release and public reception[link]
Between 1984 and 1985, RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video released a total of thirteen Three Stooges volumes on VHS, Beta and Laserdisc, each containing three shorts. These titles were later reissued on VHS by its successor, Sony Pictures Entertainment, between 1995 and 1997, with a DVD reissue between 2000 and 2004.
[edit] The Three Stooges Collection
On October 30, 2007, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released a two-disc DVD set entitled The Three Stooges Collection, Volume One: 1934–1936. The set contains shorts from the first three years the Stooges worked at Columbia Pictures, marking the first time ever that all 19 shorts were released in their original theatrical order to DVD. Additionally, every short was remastered in high definition, a first for the Stooge films. Previous DVD releases were based on themes (wartime, history, work, etc.), and sold poorly. Fans and critics alike praised Sony for finally giving the Stooges the proper DVD treatment. One critic states "the Three Stooges on DVD has been a real mix'n match hodgepodge of un-restored titles and illogical entries. This new...boxset...seems to be the first concerted effort to categorize their huge body of work chronologically with many shorts seeing the digital light for the first time."[17] Videolibrarian.com critic added "finally, the studio knuckleheads got it right! The way that the Three Stooges have been presented on home video has been a real slap in the face and poke in the eye to fans. They've been anthologized, colorized, and public domain-ed, as their shorts have been released and re-released in varying degrees of quality. Highly recommended."[18] Critic James Plath of DVDtown.com added, "Thank you, Sony, for finally giving these Columbia Pictures icons the kind of DVD retrospective that they deserve. Remastered in High Definition and presented in chronological order, these short films now give fans the chance to appreciate the development of one of the most successful comedy teams in history."[19]
The chronological series proved very successful and wildly popular, and Sony wasted little time preparing the next set for release. Volume Two: 1937–1939 was released on May 27, 2008, followed by Volume Three: 1940–1942' three months later on August 26, 2008. Demand exceeded supply, proving to Sony that they had a hit on their hands. In response, Volume Four: 1943–1945 was released on October 7, 2008, a mere two months after its predecessor.[20] The global economic crisis slowed down the release schedule after Volume Four, and Volume Five: 1946–1948 was belatedly released on March 17, 2009. Volume Five is the first in the series to feature Shemp Howard with the Stooges.[21] Volume Six: 1949–1951 was released June 16, 2009,[22] and Volume Seven: 1952–1954 was released on November 10, 2009.[23] The eighth and final volume was released on June 1, 2010, bringing the series to a close. For the first time in history, all 190 Three Stooges short subjects became available to the public, uncut and unedited.
A new 20-disc DVD boxed set entitled The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection, reported to include all 190 shorts from volumes 1-8 and additional bonus material, is scheduled to be released in June 2012.
Music[link]
- Several instrumental tunes were played over the opening credits at different times in the production of the short features. The most commonly used themes were:
- The verse portion of the Civil War era song "Listen to the Mockingbird", played in a comical way, complete with sounds of birds and such. This was first used in Pardon My Scotch, their ninth short film, in 1935. (Prior to that comedic short, the opening theme varied and was typically connected to the storyline in some fashion.)
- "Three Blind Mice", beginning in 1939 as a slow but straightforward presentation (dubbed the "sliding strings" version), often breaking into a "jazzy" style before ending. In mid-1942, another more driving version, complete with accordion was played fast all the way through.
- The Columbia short subject Woman Haters was done completely in rhyme, mostly recited (not sung), in rhythm with a Jazz-Age underscore running throughout the film, but with some key lines sung. It was sixth in a Musical Novelties short subject series, and appropriated its musical score from the first five films. The memorable "My Life, My Love, My All," was originally "At Last!" from the film Um-Pa.
- "Swinging the Alphabet" (a.k.a. B-A-bay, B-E-be, B-I-bicky-bi…) from Violent Is the Word for Curly is perhaps the best-known song performed by the Stooges on film.
- The Stooges broke into a three-part harmonized version of "Tears" ("You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are") in Horses' Collars, A Ducking They Did Go (in which the melody was sung by Bud Jamison) and Half Shot Shooters. The song, which was written by Moe, Larry, Shemp, and one-time Ted Healy Stooge Fred Sanborn, first appeared in the 1930 feature film Soup to Nuts.
- The "Lucia Sextet" (Chi mi frena in tal memento?), from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (announced by Larry as "the Sextet from Lucy"), is played on a record player and lip-synched by the Stooges in Micro-Phonies. The same melody re-appears in Squareheads of the Round Table as the tune of "Oh, Elaine, can you come out tonight?". Micro-Phonies also includes the Johann Strauss II waltz "Voices of Spring" ("Frühlingsstimmen") Op. 410. Another Strauss waltz, "The Blue Danube", is featured in Ants in the Pantry and Punch Drunks.
- The song "Fredric March" (named after the actor) was a favorite of director Jules White; it appeared in at least seven different Columbia shorts:
- Termites of 1938 – The Stooges "play" this song on a violin, flute, and string bass at a dinner party in an attempt to attract mice.
- Dutiful But Dumb – Curly is hidden inside a floor-standing radio, and plays the song on a modified harmonica.
- Three Little Twirps – Heard as background music at the circus while Moe and Curly sell tickets.
- Idle Roomers – Curly plays the song on a trombone to calm a wolf man.
- Gents Without Cents – Three girls perform acrobatics on stage while this song is playing.
- Gents in a Jam – Shemp and Moe have a problem with a radio that will not stop playing this song.
- Pardon My Backfire – The song plays on a car radio.
- The Moe–Larry–Curly Joe lineup of the Stooges recorded several musical record albums in the early 1960s. Most of their songs were adaptations of nursery rhymes. Among their more popular recordings were "Making a Record" (a surreal trip to a recording studio built around the song "Go Tell Aunt Mary"), "Three Little Fishes", "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth", "Wreck the Halls with Boughs of Holly", "Mairzy Doats" and "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas".
- In 1983, a group called the Jump 'N the Saddle Band recorded a track called "The Curly Shuffle", which featured the narrator singing about his love of the Stooges mixed with a chorus of many of Curly's catchphrases and sound effects. In the mid-1980s, the song became a popular mid-game hit for New York Mets fans in the Shea Stadium bleachers, who would dance in small groups to the tune whenever the song was played between innings. The music video, which featured clips of the classic Stooges shorts, was also included as a bonus feature on one of the 1984 VHS releases.
Feature motion pictures[link]
For a list of their 190 short films, see The Three Stooges filmography.
The Three Stooges also made appearances in many feature length movies in the course of their careers:
| Film | Year | Moe | Larry | Curly | Shemp | Joe | Curly Joe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soup to Nuts | 1930 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Turn Back the Clock | 1933 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Meet the Baron | 1933 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Dancing Lady | 1933 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Broadway to Hollywood | 1933 | Y |
Y |
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| Myrt and Marge | 1933 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Fugitive Lovers | 1934 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Hollywood Party (cameos) | 1934 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| The Captain Hates the Sea (cameos) | 1934 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Start Cheering | 1938 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Time Out for Rhythm | 1941 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| My Sister Eileen (cameos) | 1942 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Rockin' in the Rockies | 1945 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Swing Parade of 1946 | 1946 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Gold Raiders | 1951 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Have Rocket, Will Travel | 1959 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Stop! Look! and Laugh! (compilation) | 1960 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Snow White and the Three Stooges | 1961 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| The Three Stooges Meet Hercules | 1962 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| The Three Stooges in Orbit | 1962 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze | 1963 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (cameos) | 1963 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 4 for Texas (cameo) | 1963 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| The Outlaws Is Coming | 1965 | Y |
Y |
Y |
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| Kook's Tour (TV pilot) | 1970 | Y |
Y |
Y |
Joe Besser never appeared with the Stooges in a feature film.
Three feature-length Columbia releases were actually packages of older Columbia shorts. Columbia Laff Hour (introduced in 1956) was a random assortment that included the Stooges among other Columbia comedians like Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert, and Vera Vague; the content and length varied from one theater to the next. Three Stooges Fun-o-Rama (introduced in 1959) was an all-Stooges show capitalizing on their TV fame, again with shorts chosen at random for individual theaters. The Three Stooges Follies (1974) was similar to Laff Hour, with a trio of Stooge comedies augmented by Buster Keaton and Vera Vague shorts, a Batman serial chapter, and a Kate Smith musical.
Museum[link]
Gary Lassin, grandson-in-law of Larry Fine, opened the Stoogeum in 2004, in a renovated architect's office in Spring House, Pennsylvania, 25 miles (40 km) north of Philadelphia. The museum-quality exhibits fill three stories 10,000 square feet (930 m2), including an 85-seat theater.[24] Peter Seely, editor of the book Stoogeology: Essays on the Three Stooges said that the Stoogeum has "more stuff than I even imagined existed." 2,500 people visit it yearly, many during the annual Three Stooges Fan Club gathering in April.[25]
In other media[link]
Comic books[link]
Over the years, several Three Stooges comics were produced.
- St. John Publications published the first Three Stooges comics in 1949 with 2 issues, then again in 1953–54 with 7 issues.
- Dell Comics published a Three Stooges series first as one-shots in their Four Color Comics line for five issues, then gave them a numbered series for four more issues (#6–9). With #10, the title would be published by Gold Key Comics. Under Gold Key, the series lasted through issue #55 in 1972.
- Gold Key Comics then published the Little Stooges series (7 issues, 1972–74) with story and art by Norman Maurer, Moe's son-in-law. This series featured the adventures of three fictional sons of the Three Stooges, as sort of modern-day teen-age versions of the characters.
- Eclipse Comics published the Three-D Three Stooges series (3 issues, 1986–1987) which reprinted stories from the St. John Publications series.[26]
- Malibu Comics did a couple of one-shot comics, reprinting stories from the Gold Key Comics in 1989 and 1991.
- Bluewater Comics issued a biographical comic in 2011 which followed the lives and careers of the group.
Music[link]
Beginning in 1959, the Three Stooges began to appear in a series of novelty records. Their first recording was a 45 rpm single of the title song from Have Rocket, Will Travel. The trio released additional singles and LPs on the Golden and Coral labels, mixing comedy adventure albums and off-beat renditions of children's songs. Their final recording was the 1966 Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No, which incorporated the Three Stooges into the cast of the Yogi Bear cartoons.[1]
The Stooges are referenced in the video for Weird Al Yankovic's "Like a Surgeon" with a hospital PA system asked for "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
Radio[link]
Sirius XM Radio aired a special about the Stooges hosted by Tom Bergeron on Friday, July 31, 2009, at 2:00PM on the Sirius Howard 101 channel. Bergeron had conducted the interviews at the age of 17 back when he was still in high school in 1971. The television host had the tapes in storage for many years and was convinced on-air during an interview with Howard Stern to bring them in and turn it into a special.
After finding "the lost tapes," Bergeron brought them into Stern's production studio. He stated that the tapes were so old that the tapes with the Larry Fine interviews began to shred as Stern's radio engineers ran them through their cart players. They only really had the one shot, and fortunately for Three Stooges fans, the tapes were saved.
"The Lost Stooges Tapes" was hosted by Tom Bergeron, with modern commentary on the almost 40-year-old interviews that he had conducted with Larry Fine and Moe Howard. At the times of these interviews, Moe was still living at home and Larry had suffered a stroke and was living in a Senior Citizen's home.
Television[link]
In addition to the unsuccessful television series pilots Jerks of All Trades, The Three Stooges Scrapbook, and the incomplete Kook's Tour, the Stooges appeared in a show called The New Three Stooges which ran from 1965 to 1966. This series featured a mix of thirty-nine live-action segments which were used as wraparounds to 156 animated Stooges shorts. The New Three Stooges became the only regularly scheduled television show in history for the Stooges.[1] Unlike other films shorts that aired on television, like the Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye, the film shorts of the Stooges never had a regularly scheduled national television program to air in, neither on network nor syndicated. When Columbia/Screen Gems licensed the film library to television, the shorts aired in any fashion the local stations chose (examples: late-night "filler" material between the end of the late movie and the channel's sign-off time; in "marathon" sessions running shorts back-to-back for one, one-and-a-half, or two hours; etc.)
In the October 13, 1967 "Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?" episode of ABC's "World-of-Disney"-like anthology series Off to See the Wizard, the Three Stooges made a short appearance as "the three men in a tub".
Two episodes of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies aired on CBS featuring animated Stooges as guest stars: the premiere, "Ghastly Ghost Town" (September 9, 1972) and "The Ghost of the Red Baron" (November 18, 1972). There also was a short-lived animated series, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, titled The Robonic Stooges, originally seen as a featured segment on The Skatebirds (CBS, 1977–1978), featuring Moe, Larry, and Curly (voiced by Paul Winchell, Joe Baker and Frank Welker, respectively) as bionic cartoon superheroes with extendable limbs, similar to the later Inspector Gadget. The Robonic Stooges later aired as a separate half-hour series, retitled The Three Robonic Stooges (each half-hour featured two segments of The Three Robonic Stooges and one segment of Woofer And Whimper, Dog Detectives, the latter re-edited from episodes of Clue Club, an earlier Hanna-Barbera cartoon series). There are also many Stooges references in the sitcom ALF.
In the episode "Beware The Creeper" of The New Batman Adventures. the Joker retreats to his hide-out after a quick fight with Batman. He yells out for his three henchmen "Moe? Larr? Cur?" only to find that they are not there. Shortly after that, Batman comes across these three goons in a pool hall; they have distinctive accents and hair styles similar to those of Moe, Larry, and Curly. These henchmen are briefly seen throughout the rest of the season.
2000 television film[link]
In spring of 2000, longtime Stooge fan Mel Gibson executive-produced a TV film (The Three Stooges[27]) about the lives and careers of the comedians. Playing Moe was Paul Ben-Victor, Evan Handler was Larry, John Kassir was Shemp and Michael Chiklis was Curly. It was filmed in Australia and was produced for and broadcast on ABC. It was based on Michael Fleming's authorized biography of the Stooges, "The Three Stooges: From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons". Its unflattering portrayal of Ted Healy led Healy's son to give media interviews calling the film inaccurate. Additional error of fact included the hint that Moe Howard was down on his luck later in life and worked as a gofer (go fer...); someone who goes and gets stuff, at the studio, where he, his brothers and Larry had formerly worked as actors. Moe was the most careful with his money, which he invested well. He and his wife Helen owned a comfortable house in Toluca Lake in which they raised their children.
The film regularly runs on the American Movie Classics (AMC) channel.
Feature film revival[link]
Main article: The Three Stooges (film)
A film about the Three Stooges, simply titled The Three Stooges, started production on March 14, 2011 with 20th Century Fox[28] and will be directed by the Farrelly brothers. The film had been in what one critic has dubbed "development hell".[29] The Farrellys, who have wanted to make this film since 1996, said that they were not going to do a biopic or remake, but instead new Three Stooges episodes set in the present day. The plot of the episodes is an adventure that revolves around the Stooges characters.[30]
Casting players for the title characters proved difficult for the studio. Originally slated were Sean Penn to play Larry, Benicio del Toro to play Moe and Jim Carrey to play Curly. Both Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro left the project but returned while no official confirmation had been made about Jim Carrey. When del Toro was interviewed on MTV News for The Wolfman, he spoke about playing Moe. He was later asked who was going to play Larry and Curly in the film and commented that he still thought that Sean Penn and Jim Carrey were going to play them, though he added "Nothing is for sure yet."[31][32] A story in The Hollywood Reporter stated that Will Sasso would play Curly in the upcoming comedy and that Hank Azaria was the front runner to play Moe.[33] Sasso was ultimately cast as Curly; Sean Hayes of Will & Grace was cast as Larry Fine,[34] while Chris Diamantopoulos was cast as Moe.[35] Jane Lynch later joined the cast, playing a nun.[36] The film was released on April 13, 2012.
Video games[link]
Main articles: The Three Stooges (arcade game) and The Three Stooges (video game)
In 1984 Gottlieb released an arcade game featuring the Stooges trying to find three kidnapped brides. Later in 1987, game developers Cinemaware released a successful Three Stooges computer game, available for Apple IIGS, Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Based on the Stooges earning money by doing odd jobs to prevent the foreclosure of an orphanage, it incorporated audio from the original films and was popular enough to be reissued for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, as well as for PlayStation in 2004.[37]
In foreign languages[link]
In most other languages, the Three Stooges are known by their English name. However, in Chinese, the trio is known as Sānge Chòu Píjiàng (三個臭皮匠)[38] or Huóbǎo Sānrénzǔ (活寶三人組). Sānge Chòu Píjiàng, literally "Three Smelly Shoemakers", derives from a saying in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Sāngè chòu píjiàng shèngguò yīgè Zhūgě Liàng (三個臭皮匠，勝過一個諸葛亮) or "Three smelly shoemakers (are enough to) overcome one Zhuge Liang [a hero of the story]", i.e. three inferior people can overpower a superior person when they combine their strength. Huóbǎo Sānrénzǔ translates as "Trio of Buffoons".[39]
In Japanese they are known as San Baka Taishō (三ばか大将)[40] meaning "Three Idiot Generals" or "Three Baka Generals". The Japanese term baka (馬鹿, "fool" or "idiot", lit. "horse deer") is associated with the Chinese idiom zhǐlù wéimǎ (指鹿為馬; lit. "point at a deer and call it a horse", in Japanese shika o sashite uma to nasu [鹿を指して馬と為す]) meaning "deliberate misrepresentation for ulterior purposes". In Spanish they are known as Los tres chiflados[41] or, roughly, "The Three Crackpots". In French and German usage, the name of the trio is partially translated as Les Trois Stooges and Die drei Stooges respectively. In Thai, the trio is known as 3 สมุนจอมป่วน (3 Samunčhǭmpūan; IPA: [sà mun tɕɔːm pùːan]) or 3 พี่น้องจอมยุ่ง (Phīnǭngčhǭmyung; IPA: [pʰîː nɔ́ːŋ tɕɔːm jûŋ]). In Portuguese, they are known as Os Três Patetas in Brazil, and Os Três Estarolas in Portugal, being "estarola" a direct translation to "stooge", while "pateta" being more related to "goofy".
See also[link]
References[link]
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- ^ Arya Ponto. "Three Stooges Movie Not a Biopic, But New Episodes". JustPressPlay.net. http://www.justpressplay.net/articles/39/2061.html. Retrieved October 1, 2007.
- ^ Mark Shanahan; Meredith Goldstein (January 25, 2010). "In search of the proper Curly". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/01/25/rocking_this_town_for_charities. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ Krystal Clark. "Sean Penn Returns to The Three Stooges". screencrave.com. http://screencrave.com/2010-01-05/sean-penn-returns-to-the-three-stooges/. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ Brendan Bettinger. "Will Sasso Is Curly in THE THREE STOOGES; Hank Azaria and James Marsden the Frontrunners to Play Moe, and Larry will be played by Sean Hayes". collider.com. http://collider.com/will-sasso-hank-azaria-james-marsden-the-three-stooges/82652/. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ Hitfix Staff. "Former 'Will and Grace' star Sean Hayes will play Larry in 'The Three Stooges'". http://www.hitfix.com/articles/former-will-and-grace-star-sean-hayes-will-play-larry-in-the-three-stooges.
- ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2011/05/24/first-look-at-sean-hayes-chris-diamantopoulos-and-will-sasso-as-the-three-stooges/
- ^ Jane Lynch Joins The Three Stooges
- ^ Craig Harris (2002-04-10). "IGN: The Three Stooges Review". Gameboy.ign.com. http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/357/357085p1.html. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ 約翰尼•德普西恩•潘擬出演《三個臭皮匠》. (Chinese)
- ^ 活宝 entry at the Hanyu Pinyin Dictionary; 三人 entry at the Hanyu Pinyin Dictionary; 组 entry at the Hanyu Pinyin Dictionary
- ^ 「三ばか大将」にポール・ジアマッティ決定、ジム・キャリーは降板. (Japanese)
- ^ Los Tres Chiflados: unos golpes más allá (Spanish)
Further reading[link]
- Besser, Joe (with Lenburg, Jeff, and Lenburg, Greg), Not Just a Stooge (1984) Excelsior Books, Inc. (reissued 1987 as Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge) Roundtable Publications (Autobiography of Joe Besser, including anecdotes about Abbott and Costello and Olsen and Johnson)
- Bruskin, David N., Behind the Three Stooges: The White Brothers: Conversations with David N. Bruskin (1993) Directors Guild of America (In-depth interviews with producer-directors Jules White, Jack White, and Sam White)
- Comedy III Productions, Inc., Pop, You're "Poifect!": A Three Stooges Salute to Dad (2002) Andrews McMeel
- Cox, Steve and Terry, Jim, One Fine Stooge: Larry Fine's Frizzy Life in Pictures (2005) Cumberland House Publishing
- Davis, Lon and Davis, Debra (eds.), Stooges Among Us (2008) BearManor Media ISBN 1-59393-300-2
- Feinberg, Morris, Larry: The Stooge in the Middle (1984) Last Gasp of San Francisco (Biography of Larry Fine, attributed to his brother but actually ghostwritten by Bob Davis)
- Fericano, Paul, Stoogism Anthology (1977) Poor Souls Printing
- Fine, Larry (with Carone, James), Stroke of Luck (1973) Siena Publishing Co. (Larry Fine's autobiography, transcribed from interviews toward the end of his life)
- Flanagan, Bill, Last of the Moe Haircuts (1986) McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, Inc.
- Fleming, Michael, The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, from Amalgamated Morons to American Icons (2002) Broadway Publishing
- Forrester, Jeffrey, The Stoogephile Trivia Book (1982) Contemporary Books, Inc.
- Forrester, Jeffrey, The Stooge Chronicles (1981) Contemporary Books, Inc. (Comprehensive overview of the team's career; also discusses the various Ted Healy stooges)
- Forrester, Tom, with Forrester, Jeff, The Stooges' Lost Episodes (1988) Contemporary Books, Inc. (Discussion of obscure Stooges appearances, including solo films by individual Stooges)
- Forrester, Jeff, with Forrester, Tom, and Wallison, Joe, The Three Stooges: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Most Popular Comedy Team of All Time (2001) Donaldson Books
- Garner, Paul, Mousie Garner: Autobiography of a Vaudeville Stooge (1999) McFarland & Co.
- Hansen, Tom and Forrester, Jeffrey, Stoogemania: An Extravaganza of Stooge Photos, Puzzles, Trivia, Collectibles and More (1984) Contemporary Books, Inc. (Overview of Three Stooges memorabilia)
- Howard, Moe, Moe Howard and the Three Stooges (1977) Citadel Press (Moe Howard's autobiography, completed and released posthumously by his daughter)
- Koceimba, Bill, with Kaufman, Eric A., and Sack, Steve, The Three Stooges Golf Spoof and Trivia Book (1999) Gazelle, Inc.
- Kurson, Robert, The Official Three Stooges Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Knucklehead's Guide to Stoogedom, from Amalgamated Association of Morons to Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller (1999) McGraw-Hill
- Kurson, Robert, The Official Three Stooges Cookbook (1998) Contemporary Books, Inc.
- Lenburg, Jeff, with Maurer, Joan Howard, and Lenburg, Greg, The Three Stooges Scrapbook (1982, revised 1994, 2000) Citadel Press
- Longley, Maximillian, The Conservative In Spite of Himself: A Reluctant Right-Winger's Thoughts on Life, Law and the Three Stooges (2007) Monograph Publishers
- Maltin, Leonard, The Great Movie Comedians (1978) Crown Books
- Maltin, Leonard, Movie Comedy Teams (1970, revised 1985) New American Library
- Maltin, Leonard, Selected Short Subjects (first published as The Great Movie Shorts, 1972) Crown Books, (revised 1983) Da Capo Press
- McGarry, Annie, The Wacky World of the Three Stooges (1992) Crescent Books
- Maurer, Joan Howard, Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge (1985, revised 1988) Citadel Press
- Maurer, Joan Howard (ed.), The Three Stooges Book of Scripts (1984) Citadel Press
- Maurer, Joan Howard and Maurer, Norman (eds.), The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, Volume II (1987) Citadel Press
- Okuda, Ted and Watz, Edward, The Columbia Comedy Shorts (1998) McFarland & Co. (Comprehensive history of the Columbia short subject department; Stooge colleagues Edward Bernds and Emil Sitka are quoted extensively)
- Seely, Peter and Pieper, Gail W., Stoogeology: Essays on the Three Stooges (2007) McFarland & Co.
- Smith, Ronald L., The Stooge Fans' I.Q. Test (1988) Contemporary Books, Inc.
- Solomon, Jon, The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion (2000) Comedy III Productions
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- Three Stooges Online Filmography at threestooges.net
- The Three Stooges Official Website (sanctioned by C3 Entertainment, Inc. - threestooges.com)
- The Stoogeum (Three Stooges Museum) – stoogeum.com
- A Three Stooges compilation is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
- Portrait (2009) of The Three Stooges (with Shemp) by noted illustrator Drew Friedman
- Interview with Moe Howard on new success with the younger generation from the Ocala Star-Banner – February 22, 1959 accessed via Google News
- The Three Stooges (2012) at the Internet Movie Database
- Dan Barry (April 13, 2012). "Even the Three Stooges Needed Second Fiddles". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/movies/the-three-stooges-used-a-lot-of-second-fiddles.html.
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