Saltdean Lido, Brighton and Hove, UK

A lido ( /ˈliːdoʊ/ LEE-doh or /ˈlaɪdoʊ/ LY-doh), in the United Kingdom and some other countries, refers to a public outdoor swimming pool and surrounding facilities, or part of a beach where people can swim, lie in the sun or participate in water sports.

On a cruise ship, outdoor pools and the surrounding facilities are referred to as the lido deck.

The term lido is an Italian word for beach and forms part of the place name of several Italian seaside towns known for their beach, e.g. Lido di Venezia, the barrier beach enclosing the Lagoon of Venice. Possibly the term found its way into English from returning English visitors to Lido di Venezia, where sea-bathing took place from the late 19th century.^[1] The word was first used for a public outdoor swimming pool in the UK in July 1935, in London.

See also[link]

Na Stírce Lido in Prague.

• History of lidos in the UK
• List of Olympic sized pools in the UK

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Smith, Janet (2006). Liquid assets: the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain. English Heritage. ISBN 0-9547445-0-0 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lidos

• Oliver Merrington's Lidos in the UK
• Lidos Yahoo Group = the Lidos History Society (UK)
• Pooling Resources - a campaigning group for reopening closed lidos and indoor pools
• Anne Jessel's Lost Lidos (UK)
• Seaside History: Lidos

Boz Scaggs
In concert in 2006
Background information
Birth name	William Royce Scaggs
Born	(1944-06-08) June 8, 1944 (age 68) Canton, Ohio, United States
Genres	Blue-eyed soul, rock, blues rock, soft rock, jazz rock
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1963–present
Labels	Columbia, Atlantic, Virgin
Associated acts	Steve Miller Band
Website	BozScaggs.com
Notable instruments
Epiphone Casino Fender Stratocaster Gibson ES335 Gibson Les Paul Gibson SG Ovation Guitar

William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.^[1] He gained fame in the 1960s as a guitarist and occasional lead singer with the Steve Miller Band and in the 1970s with several solo Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.^[2]

Early life and career[link]

Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio,^[1] the son of a traveling salesman. The family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Plano, at that time a Texas farm town just north of Dallas. He attended a Dallas private school, St. Mark's, where a schoolmate gave him the nickname "Bosley"; this was later shortened to "Boz".^[3]

After learning guitar at the age of 12, he met Steve Miller at St. Mark's. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band, The Marksmen. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison together, playing in blues bands like The Ardells and The Fabulous Knight Trains.^[1]

Leaving school, Scaggs briefly joined the burgeoning rhythm and blues scene in London. After singing in bands such as The Wigs and Mother Earth, he traveled to Sweden as a solo performer, and in 1965 recorded his solo debut album, Boz, which was not a commercial success.^[1] Scaggs also had a brief stint with the band The Other Side with Mac MacLeod and fellow American Jack Downing.

Returning to the U.S., Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums, Children of the Future and Sailor. After being spotted by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968, releasing his second album, "Boz Scaggs" in 1969.^{[citation needed]}

1970s[link]

Despite good reviews, his sole Atlantic album, Boz Scaggs, featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and session guitarist Duane Allman, performing Fenton Robinson's "Loan Me A Dime," achieved only moderate sales, as did follow-up albums on Columbia Records.^[1]

The Atlantic album (SD-8239) eventually went out of print and in 1977, it was completely remixed and reissued on Atlantic (SD-19166). This remix brought out Duane Allman's guitar in a more up-front way, which changed the original mix, drowning backing voices and keyboards (not to mention a weird volume drop at the final 30 second of "Finding Her"). This remix is the version that's currently available on CD.

In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees.^[1] The album reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, and #1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", and "What Can I Say",^[1] as well as the MOR standard "We're All Alone," later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. "Lowdown" sold over one million copies in the US.^[4] A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, did not fare as well commercially as Silk Degrees.^[1]

1980s-present[link]

The 1980 album Middle Man spawned two top 20 hits, "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo," and Scaggs enjoyed two more hits in 1980-81 ("Look What You've Done to Me" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, and "Miss Sun" from a greatest hits set, both US #14 hits). But Scaggs' lengthy hiatus from the music industry (his next LP, Other Roads, would not appear until 1988) slowed down his chart career dramatically. "Heart of Mine" in 1988, from Other Roads, is Scaggs' latest Top 40 hit.^[1]

Scaggs continued to record and tour sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and for a time was semi-retired from the music industry. He opened the San Francisco nightclub, Slim's, in 1988, and remains a co-owner as of 2008.^[5]

After Other Roads, Scaggs took another hiatus and then came back with Some Change in 1994. He released Come On Home, an album of blues, and My Time, an anthology in the late 1990s. He garnered good reviews with Dig although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001, was lost in the post-9/11 melée. In May 2003, Scaggs released But Beautiful, a collection of jazz standards that debuted at #1 on the jazz chart. In 2008 he released "Speak Low" which the artist described in the liner notes as "a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored."

He tours each summer, has a loyal cadre of fans, remains popular in Japan, and released a DVD and a live CD in 2004. Other releases followed. In 2008, Scaggs undertook an expanded tour across the US.

In the summer of 2010, Scaggs began a tour with Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald. They are performing together as one band billed as The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue. The show includes classic rock, soul/R&B songs by various artists and personal repertoire songs from all three headliners.

Family[link]

Scaggs and his wife Dominique grow grapes in Napa County, California, and have produced their own wine.^[6] Scaggs' son, Austin Scaggs, is a music journalist with a column called "The Smoking Section" in Rolling Stone. Another son, Oscar, died of a heroin overdose in 1998 at the age of 21.^[7]

Discography[link]

With the Steve Miller Band[link]

Solo[link]

• While the 1969 self-titled Atlantic album failed to chart upon initial release, it peaked at #171 when reissued in 1974. Three years later the album was reissued once again, this time in a remixed form. This version, however, did not chart (#209).

Singles[link]

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References[link]

External links[link]

	Book: Boz Scaggs
Wikipedia books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or ordered in print.

• Boz Scaggs Official Website
• Boz Scaggs Official Fan Site
• Boz Scaggs Lyrics and information
• Boz Scaggs Official Yahoo Group
• Boz Scaggs Message Board
• Friends of Boz Scaggs Yahoo Group
• Boz Scaggs Last.fm Group

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Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro (born September 2, 1957, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto.^[1]

Porcaro wrote or co-wrote at least one song on each of Toto's first six albums, with the exception of Isolation. Unlike most of his bandmates, he generally did not contribute lead or even backing vocals; he considered himself a weak singer, and sang lead on two of his compositions only because he felt that the vocal styles of his bandmates, with the exception of Joseph Williams, were not appropriate for his songs.^[2] He left Toto in 1986 after the Fahrenheit album in order to pursue a more full-time songwriting and composing career. Porcaro composed the music for the song "Human Nature" from Michael Jackson's album Thriller, and also played with Gary Wright during his tour in 1977, supporting the latter's The Dream Weaver album.

However, Porcaro has continued working with Toto in various supporting capacities, assisting with keyboards, drum looping, synthesizers and arranging/composing. He has also done session musician work for many other acts, including Yes (on Union) and Jefferson Airplane (on their self-titled 1989 reunion album). He was also a member of Chris Squire's short lived band, The Chris Squire Experiment, in 1992.

His two older brothers Mike and Jeff were Toto's bass player and drummer, while his father Joe is a prolific session percussionist.

Steve Porcaro is currently working on film scores. He collaborated with his daughter Heather Porcaro on her debut album, the Heartstring Symphony - released in 2009. He composes the music for the FX television show "Justified".

He also returned to play with Toto at live performances since 2010, when they decided to reform the band and tour in Europe to support Mike Porcaro. They have scheduled some more concerts in Europe.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Homepage on Toto website
• (French) TOTO-Hydrasolation — Le site Web des Fans de TOTO
• Heather Porcaro official site - Steve Porcaro keyboards

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