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Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (English pronunciation: /əˈl(j)uːʃən/; possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones , forming part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula, thus marking a line between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and by one definition the easternmost; see Extreme points of the United States). Nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska and usually considered as being in the "Alaskan Bush", but at the extreme western end the small, geologically related, and remote Commander Islands are in Russia. The islands, with their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Alaska Marine Highway passes through the islands.
Physiographically, they are a distinct section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn is part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic division.
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Austral Islands
Coordinates: 23°0′S 150°0′W / 23°S 150°W / -23; -150
The Austral Islands (French: Îles Australes or Archipel des Australes) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. Geographically, they consist of two separate archipelagos, namely in the northwest the Tubuai Islands (French: Îles Tubuaï) consisting of the Îles Maria, Rimatara, Rurutu, Tubuai Island proper and Raivavae or Raevavae, and in the southeast the Bass Islands (French: Îles basses) composed of the main island of Rapa Iti and the small Marotiri. The islands of Maria and Marotiri are not suitable for sustained habitation. Several of the islands have uninhabited islets or rocks off their coastlines. Austral Islands' population is about 6,300 on almost 150 km2. The capital of the Austral Islands administrative subdivision is Tubuai.
The Austral Islands (French: Îles Australes or Archipel des Australes) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. Geographically, the Austral Islands consist of two separate archipelagos. From northwest to southeast they are:
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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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Barbados
Coordinates: 13°10′N 59°33′W / 13.167°N 59.55°W / 13.167; -59.55
Barbados (
i/bɑrˈbeɪdɒs/ or /bɑrˈbeɪdoʊs/) is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and up to 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi). It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 kilometres (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
Barbados was initially visited by the Spanish around the late 1400s to early 1500s and first appears on a Spanish map from 1511. The Spanish explorers may have plundered the island of whatever native peoples resided therein to become slaves. The Portuguese visited in 1536, but they too left it unclaimed, with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. The first English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1624. They took possession of it in the name of the British king James I. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England and it became an English and later British colony.
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Cay
A cay ( /ˈkiː/ or /ˈkeɪ/), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef), where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people. Their surrounding reef ecosystems also provide food and building materials for island inhabitants.
A cay is formed when ocean currents transport loose sediment across the surface of a reef to a depositional node, where the current slows or converges with another current, releasing its sediment load. Gradually, layers of deposited sediment build up on the reef surface (Hopley 1981, Gorlay 1998). Such nodes occur in windward or leeward areas of reef surfaces and sometimes occur around an emergent outcrop of old reef or beach rock.
The island resulting from sediment accumulation is made up almost entirely of biogenic sediment – the skeletal remains of plants and animals – from the surrounding reef ecosystems (Hopley 1982). If the accumulated sediments are predominantly sand, then the island is called a cay; if they are predominantly gravel, the island is called a motu.
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Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill.
Coney Island is possibly best known as the site of amusement parks and a major resort that reached their peak during the first half of the 20th century. It declined in popularity after World War II and endured years of neglect. In recent years, the area has seen the opening of MCU Park and has become home to the minor league baseball team the Brooklyn Cyclones.
The neighborhood of the same name is a community of 60,000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island is the westernmost part of the barrier islands of Long Island, about 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. Formerly it was an island, separated from the main part of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, which was partially tidal mudflats, but it has since been developed into a peninsula. There were plans early in the 20th century to dredge and straighten the creek as a ship canal, but they were abandoned, and the center of the creek was filled in for construction of the Belt Parkway before World War II. The western and eastern ends are now peninsulas.
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Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου) is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island. The builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level; no locks are employed. It is 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) in length and only 21.3 metres (70 ft) wide at its base, making it unpassable for most modern ships. It now has little economic importance.
The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD. Construction finally got underway in 1881 but was hampered by geological and financial problems that bankrupted the original builders. It was completed in 1893, but due to the canal's narrowness, navigational problems and periodic closures to repair landslips from its steep walls, it failed to attract the level of traffic anticipated by its operators. It is now used mainly for tourist traffic.
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Croatia
Croatia (i/kroʊˈeɪʃə/ kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska pronounced [xř̩ʋaːtskaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska listen (help·info)), is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.29 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism.
In the early 7th century the Croats arrived in area of present-day Croatia. They organised the state into two dukedoms by the 9th century. Tomislav became the first king by 925 AD, elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom. The Kingdom of Croatia retained its sovereignty for nearly two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of Kings Peter Krešimir IV and Dmitar Zvonimir. Croatia entered a personal union with Hungary in 1102. In 1527, faced with Ottoman conquest the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. In 1918, after World War I, Croatia was included in the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs that declared independence from Austria–Hungary and co-founded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Croatian state briefly existed during World War II as a fascist puppet state. After the war, Croatia became a founding member and a federal constituent of the Second Yugoslavia, a socialist state. In June 1991, Croatia declared independence, which came into effect on 8 October of the same year. The Croatian War of Independence was fought successfully during the four years following the declaration.
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Cíes Islands
The Cíes Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain), in the mouth of the Ría de Vigo. They belong to the parish of San Francisco de Afora, in the municipality of Vigo. They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park (Parque Nacional Marítimo-Terrestre das Islas Atlánticas de Galicia) created in 2002.
In February 2007 the British newspaper The Guardian chose the beach of Rodas, on the island of Monteagudo, as "the best beach in the world."
The Cíes consist of three islands, Monteagudo ("Sharp Mount" or North Island), do Faro ("Lighthouse Island", or Isla do Medio, "Middle Island") and San Martiño ("Saint Martin" or South Island).
Monteagudo is separated from the Morrazo peninsula by the North Canal while San Martiño is separated from the coast of Santoulo cape (mount Ferro) by the Freu da Porta Strait. The Do Faro island is linked to the North island by an accumulation of sand 1,200 m (3,937 ft) long known as Rodas beach, in the Eastern side of the island. During high tide the sea flows between the islands in the Western side and, blocked by the beach it fills the lagoon between the sandy area and the rocks. The highest peak is the Alto das Cíes (197 m) in Monteagudo.
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Fiji
Fijii/ˈfiːdʒiː/ (Fijian: Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Fijian: Matanitu ko Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्यFijī Gaṇarājya), is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas, France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.
The majority of Fiji's islands were formed through volcanic activity started around 150 million years ago. Today, some geothermal activity still occurs on the islands of Vanua Levu and Taveuni. Fiji has been inhabited since the second millennium BC. The country comprises an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of circa 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the population of almost 850,000. The former contains Suva, the capital and largest city. Most of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in Suva or in smaller urban centres. Viti Levu's interior is sparsely inhabited due to its terrain.
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Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain (Welsh: Prydain Fawr, Scottish Gaelic: Breatainn Mhòr, Cornish: Breten Veur) is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, the largest European island, and the largest of the British Isles. With a population of about 60.0 million people in mid-2009, it is the third most populous island in the world, after Java and Honshū. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and islets. The island of Ireland lies to its west. Politically, Great Britain may also refer to the island itself together with a number of surrounding islands which comprise the territory of England, Scotland and Wales.
All of the island is territory of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and most of the United Kingdom's territory is in Great Britain. Most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island of Great Britain, as are their respective capital cities: London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat, "Land of the Kalaallit";Danish: Grønland) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a millennium. Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island. With a population of 56,615 (January 2011 estimate) it is the least densely populated dependency or country in the world.
Greenland has been inhabited, though not continuously, by Arctic peoples via Canada for 4500–5000 years. In the 10th century, Norsemen settled on the uninhabited southern part of Greenland. In the 13th century, the Inuit arrived, and in the late 15th century the Norse colonies were abandoned. In the early 18th century, contact between Scandinavia and Greenland was re-established and Denmark established rule over Greenland.
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Hawaii
Coordinates: 21°18′41″N 157°47′47″W / 21.31139°N 157.79639°W / 21.31139; -157.79639
Hawaii (i/həˈwaɪ.iː/ or /həˈwaɪʔiː/; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi Hawaiian pronunciation: [hɐˈvɐiʔi]) is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.
Hawaii’s diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches and oceanic surrounding, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists alike. Due to its mid-Pacific location, Hawaii has many North American and Asian influences along with its own vibrant native culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.
The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the island of Hawaiʻi. The last is by far the largest and is often called "The Big Island" to avoid confusion with the state as a whole. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
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Hong Kong
Coordinates: 22°16′42″N 114°09′32″E / 22.27833°N 114.15889°E / 22.27833; 114.15889
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港) is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is known for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War (1839–42). Originally confined to Hong Kong Island, the colony's boundaries were extended in stages to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and then the New Territories in 1898. It was occupied by Japan during the Pacific War, after which the British resumed control until 1997, when China resumed sovereignty. The region espoused minimum government intervention under the ethos of positive non-interventionism during the colonial era. The time period greatly influenced the current culture of Hong Kong, often described as "East meets West", and the educational system, which used to loosely follow the system in England until reforms implemented in 2009.
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Iceland
Icelandi/ˈaɪslənd/ (Icelandic: Ísland, IPA: [ˈislant]) is a Nordic European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The country has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Reykjavík, with the surrounding areas in the southwestern region of the country being home to two-thirds of the country's population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior mainly consists of a plateau characterised by sand fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle.
According to Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in AD 874 when the chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson became the first permanent Norse settler on the island. Others had visited the island earlier and stayed over winter. Over the following centuries, Norsemen settled Iceland, bringing with them thralls (slaves) of Gaelic origin. From 1262 to 1918 Iceland was part of the Norwegian and later the Danish monarchies. Until the 20th century, the Icelandic population relied largely on fisheries and agriculture, and the country was one of the poorest and least developed in the world. Industrialisation of the fisheries and aid from the Marshall Plan brought prosperity in the years after World War II, and by the 1990s it was one of the world's wealthiest countries. In 1994, Iceland became party to the European Economic Area, which made it possible for the economy to diversify into economic and financial services.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula (or, more generally, by southern and western Asia); on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, by Antarctica). The ocean is named after the geographic location of India.
As one component of the interconnected global ocean, the Indian Ocean is delineated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20° east meridian running south from Cape Agulhas, and from the Pacific by the meridian of 146°55' east. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately 30° north in the Persian Gulf. This ocean is nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) wide at the southern tips of Africa and Australia; its area is 73,556,000 square kilometres (28,350,000 sq mi), including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] (
listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf St Vincent. Its closest point to the mainland is 13 kilometres (8 mi) off Cape Jervis, on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula in the state of South Australia. The island is 150 km (93 mi) long and between 900 m (980 yd) and 57 km (35 mi) wide, its area covering 4,405 km2 (1,701 sq mi). Its coastline is 540 kilometres (340 mi) long and highest altitude is 307 m (1,010 ft). It is separated from Yorke Peninsula to the northwest by Investigator Strait and from Cape Jervis to the northeast by Backstairs Passage.
Kangaroo Island separated from mainland Australia around 10,000 years ago, due to rising sea level after the last glacial period.
Known as Karta (island of the dead) by mainland Ramindjeri, Kartan stone tools and shell middens suggest that Aboriginal people once occupied Kangaroo Island.
Mainland Aboriginal oral history tells the story of the Backstairs Passage flooding:
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Kerguelen Islands
The Kerguelen Islands ( /ˈkɜrɡəlɛn/ or /ˈkɜrɡələn/; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen or Archipel de Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen or Archipel Kerguelen, pronounced: [kɛʁɡeˈlɛn]), also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two emerged parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau. The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district. There are no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 50 to 100 scientists, engineers and researchers.
The main island, Grande Terre, is 6,675 km2 (2,577 sq mi) in area and is surrounded by a further 300 smaller islands and islets, forming an archipelago of 7,215 km2 (2,786 sq mi). The climate is raw and chilly with frequent high winds throughout the year. While the surrounding seas are generally rough, they remain ice-free year-round. There is no airport on the islands, so all travel and transport from the outside world is conducted by ship.
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Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles (also known as the Caribbees) are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America. The Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles compose the Antilles, which are in turn part of the West Indies along with the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The islands of the Lesser Antilles are divided into three groups. The two main groups are the Windward Islands in the south and the Leeward Islands in the north. The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds blow east to west. The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward Islands.
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Line Islands
Coordinates: 0°0′S 157°0′W / 0°N 157°W / 0; -157
The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest islands chains of the world. Eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are United States territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
Those that are part of Kiribati are in the world's farthest forward time zone, UTC+14:00. The time of day is the same as in Hawaiʻi, but the date is one day ahead. The time is 26 hours ahead of some other islands in Oceania like Baker Island which uses UTC-12:00.
The United States previously claimed all the Line Islands under the Guano Islands Act. This claim was relinquished under the Treaty of Tarawa, which recognised Kiribati's sovereignty over the majority of the chain.
The group is geographically divided into three subgroups; The Northern, Central, and Southern Line Islands. The Central Line Islands are sometimes grouped with the Southern Line Islands. The table below lists the islands from North to South.
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Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City (Queens and Brooklyn), and two of which are mainly suburban (Nassau and Suffolk). The term "Long Island" often refers only to Nassau and Suffolk counties in order to differentiate them from New York City, though all four counties are on the island and part of the New York metropolitan area.
As of the 2010 census, Long Island had a population of 7,568,304, making it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory. It is also the 17th most populous island in the world, ahead of Ireland, Jamaica and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō. Its population density is 5,402 inhabitants per square mile (2,086 /km2). If it were a state, Long Island would rank 13th in population (after Virginia) and first in population density.
Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends 118 miles (190 km) eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, and has a maximum north-to-south expanse of 23 miles (37 km) between the northern Long Island Sound coast and the southern Atlantic coast. With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,629 km2), Long Island is the 11th largest island in the United States and the 148th largest island in the world — larger than the 1,214 square miles (3,140 km2) of the smallest state, Rhode Island.
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Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island (or Macca) lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica, at 54°30S, 158°57E. Politically, it is part of Tasmania, Australia since 1900 and became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978. In 1997 it became a World Heritage Site. It was a part of Esperance Municipality until 1993, when the municipality was merged with other municipalities to Huon Valley. The island is home to the entire Royal Penguin population on earth during their annual nesting season. Ecologically, it is part of the Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra ecoregion.
Since 1948 the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has maintained a permanent base, the Macquarie Island Station, on the isthmus at the northern end of the island at the foot of Wireless Hill. The population of the base, the island's only human inhabitants, usually varies from 20 to 40 people over the year.
The Australian/Briton Frederick Hasselborough discovered the uninhabited island accidentally on 11 July 1810 when looking for new sealing grounds. He claimed Macquarie Island for Britain and annexed it to the colony of New South Wales in 1810. The island took its name after Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. Hasselborough reported a wreck "of ancient design", which has given rise to speculation that the island may have been visited before by Polynesians or others.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara [republiˈkʲan madaɡasˈkʲarə̥], French: République de Madagascar) is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), as well as numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from India around 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in complete isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot in which over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. The island's diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife are threatened by human settlement.
Initial human settlement of Madagascar occurred from 350 BCE and 550 CE by Austronesian peoples arriving on outrigger canoes from Borneo who were later joined around 1000 CE by Bantu migrants crossing the Mozambique Channel. Other groups continued to settle on Madagascar over time, each one making lasting contributions to Malagasy cultural life. The Malagasy ethnic group is often divided into eighteen or more sub-groups of which the largest are the Merina of the central highlands.
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Maldives
Maldives (
i/ˈmɒldaɪvz/ or /ˈmɒldiːvz/), (Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, Dhivehi Raa'je), officially Republic of Maldives (Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, Dhivehi Raa'jeyge Jumhooriyya), also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep Islands, between Minicoy Island and Chagos Archipelago. It stands in the Laccadive Sea, about 700 kilometres (430 mi) south-west of Sri Lanka and 400 kilometres (250 mi) south-west of India. During the colonial era, the Dutch referred to the country as "Maldivische Eilanden" in their documentation, while "Maldive Islands" is the anglicised version of the local name used by the British, which later came to be written "Maldives".
The archipelago is located on top of the Chagos-Maldives-Laccadive Ridge, a vast submarine mountain range in the Indian Ocean. Maldives also form a terrestrial ecoregion together with the Chagos and the Lakshadweep. The atolls of Maldives encompass a territory spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 sq mi), making it one of the world's most geographically dispersed countries. Its population of 328,536 (2012) inhabits 200 of its 1,192 islands. Maldives' capital and largest city Malé had a population of 103,693 in 2006. It is located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll, in the Kaafu Atoll. It is also one of the Administrative divisions of the Maldives. Traditionally it was the King's Island where the ancient Maldive Royal dynasties were enthroned.
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Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands (also the Marianas; up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves") are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of fifteen volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east. They are south of Japan and north of New Guinea, and form the eastern limit of the Philippine Sea. The islands were named after Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria in the 17th century, when Spain started the colonization of the archipelago. They form the northern part of the western Pacific subregion of Micronesia, and are composed of two U.S. jurisdictions: the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and, at the southern end of the chain of islands, the territory of Guam.
The islands are part of a geologic structure known as the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system, and range in age from 5 million years old in the north to 30 million years old in the south (Guam). The island chain arises as a result of the western edge of the Pacific Plate moving westward and plunging downward below the Mariana plate, a region which is the most volcanically active convergent plate boundary on Earth. This subduction region, just east of the island chain, forms the noted Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans and lowest part of Earth's crust. In this region, according to geologic theory, water trapped in the extensive faulting of the Pacific Plate as serpentinite, is heated by the higher temperatures of depth during its subduction, and the pressure from the expanding steam results in the hydrothermal activity in the area, and the volcanic activity which formed the Mariana Islands.
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Mauritius
Coordinates: 20°12′S 57°30′E / 20.2°S 57.5°E / -20.2; 57.5
Mauritiusi/məˈrɪʃəs/ (Mauritian Creole: Moris; French: Maurice, pronounced: [mɔˈʁis]), officially the Republic of Mauritius (Mauritian Creole: Republik Moris; French: République de Maurice) is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 870 kilometres (540 mi) east of Madagascar. In addition to the island of Mauritius, the Republic includes the islands of Cargados Carajos, Rodrigues, Tromelin and the Agalega Islands. Mauritius Island is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 170 km (110 mi) to the southwest and the island of Rodrigues 570 km (350 mi) to the east. The area of Mauritius is 2040 km2; its capital city is Port Louis.
The United Kingdom took control of the islands in 1810, from France during the Napoleonic Wars, and Mauritius became independent from the UK in 1968. It is a parliamentary republic and is a member of the Southern African Development Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the African Union, La Francophonie and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Nauru
Coordinates: 0°31′38″S 166°56′12″E / 0.527288°S 166.936724°E / -0.527288; 166.936724
Nauru (Englishi/nɑːˈuːruː/ nah-OO-roo), officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 kilometres (186 mi) to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi). With just over 9,322 residents, it is the second least-populated country after Vatican City.
Settled by Micronesian and Polynesian people, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century. After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, who were bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. After the war ended, it entered into trusteeship again. Nauru gained its independence in 1968.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Nauru was a "rentier state". Nauru is a phosphate rock island, with rich deposits close to the surface, which allow for simple strip mining operations; moreover, it has some phosphate reserves which are presently (as of 2011) not economically viable for extraction. Nevertheless, this island was a major exporter of phosphate starting in 1907, when the Pacific Phosphate Company began mining there, through the formation of the British Phosphate Commission in 1919, and continuing after independence. This returned to Nauru full control of its minerals under the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, until the deposits ran out during the 1980s. For this reason, Nauru briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (i/ˈnɛðərləndz/; Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdə(r)lɑnt] or [ˈneɪ̯də(r)lɑnt] (
listen); West Frisian: Nederlân; Papiamento: Hulanda) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with some islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is a parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. The country capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague. The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces (a case of pars pro toto; see terminology of "the Netherlands").
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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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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
At 165.2 million square kilometres (64.1 million square miles) in area, this largest division of the World Ocean – and, in turn, the hydrosphere – covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined. The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific. The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,911 metres (35,797 ft).
The eastern Pacific Ocean was first sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century. Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). The ocean's current name was given by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered favourable winds as he reached the ocean and called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning "peaceful sea".
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. The capital is Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth. According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers. . (A detailed series of language maps of Papua New Guinea may be found at Ethnologue) There may be at least as many traditional societies,out of a population of about 6.2 million. It is also one of the most rural, as only 18% of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnisos; see also list of Greek place names), is a large peninsula, located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. During the late Middle Ages and the Ottoman era, the peninsula was known as the Morea (Greek: Μωρέας, colloq. Μωριάς), a name still in colloquial use.
The peninsula is divided among three regions of Greece: most of it belongs to the Peloponnese region, and parts belong to the West Greece and Attica regions.
It was here that the Greek War of Independence began; the Peloponnesians have had an almost total dominance of politics and government in Greece since then.
The Peloponnese covers an area of some 21,549.6 km² (8,320 square miles) and constitutes the southernmost part of mainland Greece. While technically it may be considered an island, since the construction of the Corinth Canal in 1893 – like other peninsulas that have been separated from their mainland by man-made bodies of waters – it is rarely, if ever, referred to as an "island". It has two land connections with the rest of Greece, a natural one at the Isthmus of Corinth, and an artificial one in the shape of the Rio-Antirio bridge (completed 2004).
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Réunion
Réunion (French: La Réunion, IPA: [la 'ʁeynjɔ̃] ( listen); previously Île Bourbon) is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.
Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France. Like the other overseas departments, Réunion is also one of the 27 regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as those situated on the European mainland.
Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, is part of the Eurozone.
Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the early sixteenth century, there is little to Réunion's recorded history. Arab traders were familiar with it by the name Dina Morgabin,. The island possibly features on a map from 1153 AD by Al Sharif el-Edrisi. The island may also have been visited by Swahili or Malay sailors.
The first European discovery of the area was made around 1507 by Portuguese explorers, but the specifics are unclear. The uninhabited island may have been first sighted by the expedition led by Don Pedro Mascarenhas, who gave his name to the island group around Réunion, the Mascarenes. Réunion itself was dubbed Santa Apolonia after a favorite saint, which suggests that the date of the Portuguese discovery may have been February 9, her saint day. Diego Lopes de Sequeira is claimed to have landed on the island in 1509.
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Sable Island
Coordinates: 43°57′00″N 59°54′57″W / 43.95°N 59.91583°W / 43.95; -59.91583
Sable Island (French: île de Sable) is a small island situated 300 kilometres (190 mi) southeast of Halifax, Canada, and about 175 kilometres (109 mi) southeast of the closest point of mainland Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean. It is a year-round home to approximately five people, with summer numbers swelled by tourists, scientists, and others. Notable for its Sable Island Ponies, the island is protected under the Canada Shipping Act, requiring permission from the Canadian Coast Guard to visit. Sable Island is part of District 13 of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia.
The expedition of Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes explored this region in 1520–1521 and were among the first Europeans to encounter the island. It is likely that he named the island Fagunda after himself, but the identification of Sable Island with Fagunda is not certain. A brief attempt at French colonization at the end of the 16th century using convicts failed. The island was inhabited sporadically by sealers, shipwreck survivors, and salvagers known as "wreckers". A life-saving station was established on Sable Island by the government of Nova Scotia in 1801 and its crew became the first permanent inhabitants of the island. Two lighthouses, one on the eastern tip and one on the western were built in 1872. Until the advent of modern ship navigation, Sable Island's two light stations were home to permanent lighthouse keepers and their families, as well as the crew members of the life-saving station. In the early 20th century, the Marconi Company established a wireless station on the island and the Canadian government similarly established a weather station. Only two people have been born on Sable Island since 1920.
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Seychelles
Seychelles (i/seɪˈʃɛlz/ say-SHELZ; French: [sɛʃɛl]), officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.
Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega and Réunion to the south, Comoros and Mayotte to the southwest. Seychelles, with an estimated population of 86,525, has the smallest population of any African state. It also has the highest Human Development Index in Africa.
Scholars assume that Austronesian seafarers, and later Maldivian and Arab traders were the first to visit the uninhabited Seychelles. Remains of Maldivian mariner presence from the 12th century were found in Silhouette Island. The earliest recorded sighting by Europeans took place in 1502 by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes and named them after himself (islands of the Admiral).
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Sicily
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia, [siˈtʃiːlja]; [sɪˈɕilja]) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana (Sicilian Autonomous Region).
Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean. It extends from the tip of the Apennine peninsula from which it is separated only by the narrow Strait of Messina, towards the North African coast. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which is at 3,320 m (10,890 ft) the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.
The earliest archeological evidence of human dwelling on the island dates from 8000 BC. At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily often changed hands, and during the early Middle Ages it was ruled in turn by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. Later on, the Kingdom of Sicily lasted between 1130 and 1816, subordinated to the crowns of Aragon, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and finally the Bourbons, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It was united with the rest of Italy in 1860, but a subsequent economic collapse led to a wave of emigration, separatism, and the emergence of the Mafia, whose criminal activities pose problems to this day. After the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region.
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Singapore
Singapore (i/ˈsɪŋəpɔər/ SI-ngə-pohr), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. Singapore is highly urbanised but almost half of the country is covered by greenery. More land is being created for development through land reclamation.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (i/ʃriː ˈlɑːŋkə/, /sriːˈlɑːŋkə/, or /sriːˈlæŋkə/;Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව, Tamil: இலங்கை), is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon ( /sɨˈlɒn/, /seɪˈlɒn/, or /siːˈlɒn/), Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the Maldives.
As a result of its location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West Asia and South East Asia. It was an important stop on the ancient Silk Road. Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country. Sri Lanka boasts a diverse range of cultures, languages and religions. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population; Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island, form the largest ethnic minority. Other communities include Moors, Burghers, Kaffirs, Malays and the aboriginal Vedda people.
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Surtsey
Surtsey (Icelandic, meaning "Surtr's island") is a volcanic island off the southern coast of Iceland. At 63°18′11″N 20°36′17″W / 63.303°N 20.6047°W / 63.303; -20.6047Coordinates: 63°18′11″N 20°36′17″W / 63.303°N 20.6047°W / 63.303; -20.6047 it is also the southernmost point of Iceland. It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 metres (426 ft) below sea level, and reached the surface on 15 November 1963. The eruption lasted until 5 June 1967, when the island reached its maximum size of 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi). Since then, wind and wave erosion have caused the island to steadily diminish in size: as of 2002, its surface area was 1.4 km2 (0.54 sq mi).
The new island was named after Surtr, a fire jötunn or giant from Norse mythology. It was intensively studied by volcanologists during its eruption, and afterwards by botanists and biologists as life forms gradually colonised the originally barren island. The undersea vents that produced Surtsey are part of the Vestmannaeyjar (Westmann Isles) submarine volcanic system, part of the fissure of the sea floor called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Vestmannaeyjar also produced the famous eruption of Eldfell on the island of Heimaey in 1973. The eruption that created Surtsey also created a few other small islands along this volcanic chain, such as Jólnir and other, unnamed peaks. Most of these eroded away fairly quickly.
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Tioman Island
Tioman Island (Malay language: Pulau Tioman) is a small island located 32 km off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the state of Pahang, and is some 39 km long and 12 km wide. It has eight main villages, the largest and most populous being Kampung Tekek in the north. The densely forested island is sparsely inhabited, and is surrounded by numerous coral reefs, making it a popular scuba diving spot. There are also a lot of resorts and chalets around the island which has duty free status.
Its beaches were depicted in the 1958 movie, South Pacific as Bali Hai. In the 1970s, TIME Magazine selected Tioman as one of the world's most beautiful islands.
Apart from its diverse marine life, the inland rainforest area, encompassing approximately 12,383 hectares, in Tioman is a strictly enforced nature reserve. There are several protected species of mammals on the island, including the Binturong, Long-tailed Macaque, Slow Loris, Black Giant Squirrel, Red Giant Flying Squirrel, Mouse deer, Brush-tailed Porcupine, and Common Palm Civet, from a total of 45 species of mammals and 138 species of birds, including the majestic Frigatebird. Moreover, Tioman has species that are endemic to its shores. The soft-shelled turtle and the Tioman walking catfish are both unique and can be seen on rainforest walks.
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Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a sovereign state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the islands are inhabited.
The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.
Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan.
Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation. In 2010, Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms paved the way for its first ever fully representative elections which resulted in the election of Noble Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō as its first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha ( /ˈtrɪstən də ˈkuːnə/) is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Saint Helena 2,430 kilometres (1,510 mi) to its north, and equatorial Ascension Island even farther removed.
Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying 2,816 kilometres (1,750 mi) from the nearest land, South Africa, and 3,360 kilometres (2,088 mi) from South America. The territory consists of the main island of Tristan da Cunha itself, which measures about 11.27 kilometres (7.0 mi) across and has an area of 98 square kilometres (37.8 sq mi), along with the uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible Island and Gough Island. It has a permanent population of 275 (2009 figures).
The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha, although rough seas prevented a landing. He named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha, which was later anglicised to Tristan da Cunha Island.
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Tuvalu
Tuvalu (i/tuːˈvɑːluː/ too-VAH-loo or /ˈtuːvəluː/ TOO-və-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls spread out from 6° to 10° south. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. Its population of 10,544 makes it the third-least populous sovereign state in the world, with only Vatican City and Nauru having fewer inhabitants. In terms of physical land size, at just 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi) Tuvalu is the fourth smallest country in the world, larger only than the Vatican City at 0.44 km2 (0.17 sq mi), Monaco at 1.98 km2 (0.76 sq mi) and Nauru at 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi).
The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesian people. In 1568 Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña sailed through the islands and is understood to have sighted Nui during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. In 1819 the island of Funafuti was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay (1812–1876). The islands came under Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century, when the Ellice Islands were declared a British protectorate by Captain Gibson, R. N. of HMS Curaçao between 9th and 16 October 1892. The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974.
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- Abominable Snow - Islands
- Don't I Love You - Islands
- Pieces Of You - Islands
- Ones - Islands
- Where There's A Will There's A Whalebone - Islands
- We Swim - Islands
- Oh Maria - Islands
- Volcanoes - Islands
- Vertigo (if It's A Crime) - Islands
- To A Bond - Islands
- This Is Not A Song - Islands
- The Arm - Islands
- Same Thing - Islands
- Rough Gem - Islands
- No You Don't - Islands
- No Crying - Islands
- Lonely Love - Islands
- Life In Jail - Islands
- Kids Don't Know Shit - Islands
- Joy - Islands
- In The Rushes - Islands
- In A Dream It Seemed Real - Islands
- I Feel Evil Creeping In - Islands
- Humans - Islands
- Eol - Islands
- Islands - Xx
- Islands - Archie Bronson Outfit
- Islands - Young The Giant
- Islands - Hey Ocean
- Islands - Hollywood Porn Stars
- Islands - The Xx
- Islands - Qed
Islands call out to me
Like the highlands that I always see
In my dreams of home
I am never alone when I am there
Islands like so many dreams
Are like canyons but off the main stream
And there’s no one there
The dreamer is always alone
And the mighty blue ocean
Keeps rolling on every shore
Like the spirit that binds us together
We are so much more than islands
Islands belong to the sea
Like the dark sands of my memory
When the morning comes
They are stepping stones to the sun
And the mighty blue ocean
Keeps rolling on every shore
Like the spirit that binds us together
I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
IF this were to go under
It's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
Islands, from the first time we saw
We could wait for this moment like rocks on the shore
You can never be closer somehow
For the moment that lasts is this moment, now
When the night’s on fire, oh will you keep the candlelight burning
Hold on to your heart’s desire
When you see one burn into the wind, another one’s turning
The truth can fly much higher
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
Islands, never been to before
And we climb so high to where the wild bird soars
There’s a new path that we’ve found just today
I was lost in the forest and you showed me the way
When the night’s on fire, oh will you keep the candlelight burning
Hold on to your heart’s desire
When you see one burn into the wind, another one’s turning
And the truth can fly much higher
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
And I need your light tonight and I need your light tonight
We are islands, but never too far, we are islands
Island in the sea
Are so much like me
They don't ever change--no emotion, no emotion
Islands on the land
Dry like desert sand
Island in the city
All alone it's such a pity
CHORUS
It's just a masquerade
Just painted laces
When will it change
Never
Islands in the seas
What's come over me
We are both surrounded by the water--empty water
Give me mystery--and the fear it brings
Anything at all to break up the monotony
CHORUS
Islands in the sea
Forever . . . forever
Islands from the first time we saw
we could wait for this moment, like rocks on the shore
we can never be closer somehow
for the moments that lasts, is this moment now
Chorus
When the nights's on fire will you keep the Candlelight Burning
Hold on to your hearts desire
When you see one bird into the wind another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher
We are Islands but never too far, we are Islands
And I need your light tonight, and I need your light tonight,
We are Islands but never too far, we are Islands
And I need your light tonight, and I need your light tonight
Islands never been to before and we climb so high
to where the wild birds soar, there's a new path that
we found just today I was lost in the forest and you
showed me the way
You tell me that you've found a better way
I tell you that it isn't fuckin sane
Everything that I wanted has broke down
They all think that I'm just a fuckin clown
Everybody's telling me I gotta move faster.....
Everybody's telling me I'm a fuckin bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky.
I tell you that the world's a scary place
You tell me we're caught up in the same race
Everybody's worried that they'll never get their share
I get left behind cause I wasn't ever there
They all think I'm mad
I want to rule the islands
And I want to rule the sea
But if you're not coming back
I will sleep eternally
And I want no heavy diamonds
And pearls crush my teeth
I just want my sailor
To sail back to me
Captain has a treasure
He says I hold the key
But old mangroves
And sweet winds blow songs
Of you and me
I want to rule the islands
And I want to rule the sea
But if you're not coming back
We were lying in bed, staring at the moon, and I was wondering if I was supposed to be in love.
But we couldn't quite decide if the moon was full, but I thought, well, tonight it's full enough.
And this morning I was casually trying to sniff my fingers on the way back home.
I could smell you and I felt like a little boy.
You tell me that you¡¯ve found a better way
And I tell you that it isn¡¯t fucking sane
Everything that I wanted has broke down
They all think that I¡¯m just a fucking clown
Everybody¡¯s telling me I gotta move faster¡
Everybody¡¯s telling me that I¡¯m a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky (Repeat 4x) Listen | Buy
I tell you that the world¡¯s a scary place
You tell me we¡¯re caught up in the same race
Everybody¡¯s worried that they¡¯ll never get their share
I get left behind ¡®cause I wasn¡¯t ever there
But everybody¡¯s telling me I gotta move faster¡
Everybody¡¯s telling me that I¡¯m a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky (Repeat 4x)
They all think I¡¯m mad
Everything I had just broke down¡
They all think I¡¯m mad
Everything I had just broke down¡
But everybody¡¯s telling me I gotta move faster¡
Everybody¡¯s telling me that I¡¯m a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky (Repeat 4x)
(VERSE 1)
(Off shore) Either sink or swim
(I saw) What kind of boat I’m in
(Much more) Although I can’t forget you
The light is growing dim
(BRIDGE 1)
Feet are falling on foreign ground
Luck in short supply
I feel like Crusoe before him found
All gone pass me by
I walk on beach, I sleep on sand
I walk in water, salty sea got a hold on me
Daylight come, be it now or never
(CHORUS 1)
Lost on some horizon
No man is an island
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(VERSE 2)
(Jackdaw) He don’t bother me
(Wild boar) He keep me company
(Panther) My only consolation
In my calamity
(BRIDGE 2)
Lady Luck or Lady Death
Must pass this shore some day
I hope she’s coming, I ain’t seen her yet
Come to take my soul away
Light my fire on the top of hill
So all the ships can see that I’m a prisoner here
And come before I disappear
(CHORUS 2)
Lost on some horizon
No man is an island
Banished here to prolong my silence
No man is an island
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
MIDDLE VERSE
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
(No man is an island)
Islands from the first time we saw
we could wait for this moment, like rocks on the shore
we can never be closer somehow
for the moments that lasts, is this moment now
Chorus
When the nights's on fire will you keep the Candlelight Burning
Hold on to your hearts desire
When you see one bird into the wind another one's turning
And the two can fly much higher
We are Islands but never too far, we are Islands
And I need your light tonight, and I need your light tonight,
We are Islands but never too far, we are Islands
And I need your light tonight, and I need your light tonight
Islands never been to before and we climb so high
to where the wild birds soar, there's a new path that
we found just today I was lost in the forest and you
showed me the way
If the clothes make the man, then the moths make the
holes
And it shows, yes it shows, by the shape the hole grows
If early man really did mate with Neanderthal
Then modern man is a mix of beastial sex
If you aint sweet to me, Ill desert you in a heartbeat
If you dont savour me, Ill salt you make you savoury
If the boy keeps on hitting his head against the dash of
the car
Will the horsefly leave his ear will the blood make it
hard
If
.
If sequencing genes brings them back to breed
Mm mm mmm mm
Will we get along with them this time?
If
.
When the sky finally falls, if youre holding me
Bones bones brittle little bones
its not the milk you seek
its the sun you need
and the sleek sleek skeleton i hold
where are the hidden folds
wheres the meat that you eat
total boy
tells me stories
sometimes they make me sorry
i need another
i need another
sugar doughnut and muffin baby
this world is going crazy
i think i'm through listening to you
bones bones brittle little bones
its not the milk you see
its just the sun you need
and the sleek sleek skeleton i hold
where are the hidden folds
where is the meat that you eat
gonna make some plans
wait and see
turn it off
turn me on
open your eyes look around you
fuck what you heard
you were lied to
sweetheart
sick body part
sickheart
sweet body part
bones bones brittle little bones
its not the milk you seek
its the sun you need
and the sleek sleek skeleton i hold
where are the hidden folds
Gone away, gone away, I miss you
All the way, will I see you again?
Sitting here, sitting here, the car is outdoors
When you come back, we'll get away
Then the alarm went off
Alarms went off, I heard it
I hope to God I don't hear gunshots
And the windowpane is closed
The way some violence sings pretty
Sirens in the distance closing in
Blending in, the casualty shrieking
Casually I headed for the highway
Sold you out, sold you out
Told them all the things that you'd done
Sold you out, sold you out
Tell me all the things that you had done
You were so devout, you were so committed to me
Then I got away
I was right outside, Going to drive away
Right from the start i was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know i wasn't breathing
Didn't know i had been bleeding
Open my door thought i was alone but
Someone was hiding
In the dark room in my home
Hey (honey?), you will remember some of it
But if you solve it
You will remember all of it
Creeper in my home
Crawled in through the window
I grabbed the kitchen knife
Couldn't stick it in
No, Creeper had his own
Shining in the moonlight
My home was very cold
And something didn't feel right
Right from the start i was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know i wasn't breathing
Didn't know i had been bleeding
open my door thought i was alone but
Someone was hiding
In the dark room in my home
Right from the start i was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know i wasn't breathing
Didn't know i had been bleeding
Open my door thought i was alone but
Someone was hiding
In the dark room in my home
Right from the start i was stabbed in the heart
Didn't know i wasn't breathing
Didn't know i had been bleeding
Open my door thought i was alone but
Someone was hiding
Wandering
Through the cold again
It's been cold outside
And it's getting cold again
Wondering
Why won't you let me in
It's been cold outside
And it's getting cold again
Someone is sleeping
Drowning out all that screaming
I miss my wife
I miss my best friend
Every night
I miss my home
I miss my own bed
And my old life
Ooh x4
I lost my love
It brought me so low
As described above
I lose desire
Into my mood swings
Into the fire
Ooh x4
I can feel my face
I can feel my face
I don't want to know where the feeling goes to some better place
I can feel my face
I can't feel my face
I don't want to know where the feeling goes to some better place
I don't want to know where the feeling goes to some better place
Ooh x4
I miss my wife
I miss my best friend
Every night
I miss my home
I miss my own bed
Passed him by a long time ago
But didnt stop to pick him up that day even though he
was late
We drove by
A year later my family moved, he moved to the same town
far away
We became friends, smoked cigs, played ball together in
all kinds of weather
We worked on our jump shot
Bucky little wing, you flew away
His name was Charles, he was my friend
We got along, but in the end
Bucky little wing, you flew away
It was tough being weak, while Bucky was strong
His daddy died in a car wreck
And I got sick of being pushed around
Standing my ground when Bucky had my back
Hiding in a bush and its okay
We started rolling with a different crew
Before I knew it we drifted to
Bucky little wing you flew away
Once some racist kids, this is what I heard, pushed him
underneath a moving truck
It swerved but got his head on accident
They ran like devils in the night
Word was he died. I didnt cry but oh, oh how I tried
Monday came and he did too, so he didnt die
Just some violet bruises and one shut eye
Cant believe that he survived, he was like a ghost
after that day
But he was just so mighty you might say
His name was Charles, he was my friend
We got along but in the end
Bucky little wing you flew away
Rack of lamb of God
We serve you instead in a bed
That's sweet to sleep forever
In outer space
Track saquatches
Through the snowy climbs of Canada
Are you an upright bear?
Are you even there?
Do you exist?
So sexy
So cold
So british
Try like hell
Explore anew in the carousel
Things don't change
Things don't change
Love everyone
As long as everyone's to blame
Space space space is the place
And the sun is fun fun fun
Severed body won't run
So take your sweet time
Frozen heads up in outer space
In a box
They crash back to earth
Crash back to earth
and they've brought
back with moon rocks
I think I spotted a yeti
Yet I didn't die
I'm not sure
Was it fur?
Was it alive?
They're coming home
But, my how the tundra has grown
Since you've been gone
Everyone's gone
Bye x 60
Rack of lamb of God
We serve you instead outta' bed
That's sweet to sleep forever
It's sweet to sleep forever
Except in outer space
Track saquatches
Through the snowy climbs of Canada
Are you an upright bear?
Are you even there?
Do you exist?
Don't I love you?
Isn't the sky gray?
Isn't the moon blue?
La dah dah dah
And don't I love you?
Until one hundred
Mmm, go unfed
Don't I love you...
And when I turned around
You had gone underground
And when I tried to coax you out
You didn't make a sound
Don't I love you?
Isn't the sky gray?
Isn't the moon blue?
Don't I love you
While my arms surround you
The capillaries of the community
are hemorrhaging on everything
They found your bones in the homes of a thousand little
gnomes
who’ve taken pieces for decoration
They'd opened up their mouths
Seemed like peaceful little mouths inside they found
a mouthful of pieces
But they wanted pieces of you, pieces of you
pieces of you, pieces of you
Somebody died here
I hear it was you
They loved the attention
they got from killing you
The capillaries of the community
are hemorrhaging on everything
The capillaries of the community
their hemorrhaging on everything
They put their fingers in your sockets
if you could hear the way they talk, its madness
uh uh uhhh
and what they got out of your pockets:
a couple coins, a key for lockin', it's sadness in your
face
But they wanted pieces of you, pieces of you
pieces of you, pieces of you
Pieces of you, made from pieces of you
Pieces of you, made from pieces of you
Little birds collapse in your arms
breaking into two
Beat a man to death with their hands
Did they regret anything?
It's a cold cold world
we swam into
It's cold cold water
In my mouth, my eyes, my ears, my nose, oh oh
Then my limbs are free like trees, let leaves leave,
leave, leave
Blue, cant move my head, my head, my head, go home, go
home
My legs cant stand, anymore
With wings, things would be far, even if they were near
Here in my head
Close my eyes and see ones Here in my head
Close my eyes and see ones Here in my head
Some voice said stand cause you can
And thats all that you have
Youre not in this alone
We all live in awkward little homes(holes?)
We all live in our heads, our legs, our toes, our eyes,
The morning I set sail on a whalebone
the gale. force winds made the sky grow
and I was far out in the ocean
when I cut the roof of my mouth on the potion
down down down went the femur
I let my backbone slide in the ether
laying low in a tropical hideout
if anyone finds out; I'll turn their lights out
subtitle: where there's a will there's a whalebone (way
to go) you'll never know
I set sail that morning and I may not come back know
lay low
in a hideout just to bust you- tro;pical
it's neurotic and exotic
with yet another broke down (bone) 'incidental
not accidental
when facts track the mental
even within movement they know, even with the solitary
movement
words get arranged for maximum deployment
words mean will
where there's a whalebone then there's a
tale gone wrong
young gang on a boat
it's the same song
same quote
nature stretches it out note by note
It'S a new state, you don't know the nomenclature, the
governor has status with
the cutting apparatus
and that is half the battle
they can't think of how to absorb us, they can't thing
of how to solve me
let's see
a cancerous mix of young pirates for kicks- signed,
seated C.(L.)(T.)G.
in congealed blood
this is all on the surreal
don't appeal to the side where the law resides
after all that, it's a separatist homicide
rappers try to cultivate carbon monoxide
you tried to get entranced by the folks that try to get
us by hap-happenstance.
busdriver: frame our press show with a whale sternum
and a dolphin femur, band breather lab tech with a
solvent
in a broken beaker, yell in boom mics and moonlight as
a coffin cleaner
then poolside I food fight with Hollywood anorexics
I'm in a crew of pallbearers and ambidextrous foosball
players
we got pool hall flair, remove all layers of industry
pretension
and augmented physical attributes
because I'm blanketed in nude doll hair
but with these styles we're shrewd on-air
so we've been annexed to an annexed isle
by the radio programmer, half - man reptile
that church of satin bible study tutor choir boy
prefers the works that are uninspired and coy
but uhh Driver's ploy is to show a lot of follow
through
wearing a monocle coming out a fiery void
collecting style in rental late fees
they never return it after the test drive
infatuated by a robots breast size
we ain't entertained by balloon animals
marooned on our tropical safe haven
everyday is a paid vacation
In the evening I arrived on a wishbone
so I wished all the stars would go home
but one was a dog with its tail drawn
it wagged (laughed) as it shed, now its long gone
I remember the flavour
but I made a choice to stay here
laying low in a tropical hide-out
same river we swim
like some sliver in skin
now we're in the river again
but it's moving
and it feels so could
maybe you will catch it, still
in the same river we swam in
more different than the same river we swam in again
breathing spores longing for
my lungs to be filled with your fungus no more
I cried as my cells divided
the feeling multiplies over time
and a boy sees me
strumming this simple song
and the boy comes close
he brings his sister along
the ecstatic unburdened youth,
they're never wrong
and the boy starts singing along
after all,
a voice, it's just a light
all the time in front of you
faceing faces placing places
changing every time you do
set off by soundless voices singing
rounded noises singing au revoir
forever
the same river we swam in
was more different than
the same river we swam in again
because it's moving
and it feels so cold
Oh Maria
Oh Maria is in the pasture
With all the people
Running past her
She said if every day's a holy day
Today must be the day of the dead
Oh Maria
Now that you're all alone
Do you remember that song?
She woke up singing along
Words came quickly but the melody was wrong
Oh Maria is in the pasture
With all the people
Running past her
She said if every day's a holy day
Today must be the day of the dead
Oh Maria
Now that you're all alone, do you remember that song
Just think of me when you're falling asleep
In trouble with the dogs
Yapping like the trogs on that tape
Getting stepped on like a baby
Maybe slept too long
Is that so wrong?
So at sunrise we moved on
At lunch the storm had gone away
I didn't swim
But I watched the waves
While others stayed
under for over an hour
While lovers hovered around the towel
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
In trouble with the gods
We didn't always misbehave
Where the sun shone, now it's gone
Weve been waiting for so long
Now it's on.
Not that we would do ourselves in
Funny how things work out in the end
I never learned to swim
Now I'm wasted, I'm too old
Just hold on for as long as you can
I'm so afraid to die
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
The frogs, the frogs got it first
And the birds all knew it too
The worst was the worse smell on earth
Silver and snow
Silver and snow
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Dont breathe
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say
now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
big boat caught in my throat
it's the deck hand hitting the wrong notes
came to with a pain in my gut again
I cut it open wide, took out a box
inside the box there was a beat keeping time
is it a crime to pass the blame
if every time the punishments the same
life is a loose tooth leaving your mouth
so get it out get it out
dig that ditch
ditch that dirt
it's just a body now
pick me up so I can fall back down again
decending into vertigo
if it's a crime they'll hang me every time
I tried to offer up a reason why
I tried, my dear, to set things straight
I fear that I was too late to be cleared of the crime
I just missed a slap on the wrist,
a key witness to the stand
but the jury's out creeping about & I am a guilty man
and the cyst is growing into this
so I drowned in the boat I choked down
and the captain remained proud
looked down, seeing the ground getting closer to me
and now the ground is coming up my sleeves
pick me up so I can fall back down again
descending into vertigo
if it's a crime they'll hang me every time
I tried to offer up a reason why
I tried, my dear, to set things straight
I fear that I was too late to be cleared of the crime
if it's a crime, they'll hang me every time
I tried to set things straight
To a bond
Underneath a bridge between two trees
Both blowing leaves
Into that great ravine
You came swimming with me
I like how you swim
You do it with ease
Then an oar came down
Struck the water
Bad luck struck us down
Bruised, removed you
Brought you to shore
Before they came for you
Then I watched you dissapear
Dripping bloodstained footsteps smear
Don't let the bleeding stop
It's everything you got
In a body
Undergoing night surgery, enemy
Wants to cut into me
I escaped in the nick of time,
Centipede
Floats by on a leaf
I like how it floats
It does it with ease
Saw you on the ledge
Talked you down
Talked your ear off, then
We walked around
'Till you had to leave
To catch a train
At 10
Gone around the bend
But bound like chinese feet
Don't go unravelling
Travelling into the blue
Returned to look for you
Couldn't say goodbye
The porchlight in my heart
Had gone out in the dark
And flies
Had gone out in the dark
Like flies
If Penny rolls away
I will have lost everything
In many subtle ways
I already don't have anything
I hate to watch you go
Nick if you ever learn it never shows
And this is not a song
So why do I find it so hard to move on
Feels a crime to be cryin' for this long
In upper atmosphere my head comes loose
And in the free fall I can feel the blues
I hate to watch you go
Nick if you ever learn it never shows
If this is just a song
Then why do I find it so hard to move on
Breathe in deep
I want you to
That's why the arm came for you
Help you up, help you out
To help you through
That's why the arm came for you
You faded into a different shade
A completely different hue
Of a kind of blue
In a lifeless carcass
In a bad ass car crash
Hopefully you'll wake up soon
Hopefully you do
I want you to
That's why the arm came for you
That's why the arm came for you
That's why the arm came for you
Now you'll see how it feels
To live like a bee
Always searching, for what's honey
And the veins made some stains
When they burst from your legs
Your anxiety is a tapestry
Now you'll swim until it's deep
Until it feels like you're asleep
Against the sound of warning cries
Which you don't hear
I could not hear
In a lifeless carcass in a bad ass car crash
Hopefully you wake up soon
Hopefully you do
I want you to
That's why the arm came for you
That's why the arm came for you
That's why the arm came for you
Don't go to sleep, don't want you to
That's why the arm came for you
Need you to even if it's pointless to
Let your arms carry you
You're mine, you're mine
You'll always be mine
Lord knows I tried to keep you from leaving
Maybe I'll try
You're mine, you're mine
Is that why I lied
If I tell the truth
You weren't breathing
Maybe I'll try
Turned on the radio
So many songs
This one is good
But what else is on
Same thing
Same thing
Same thing
Same thing
I loved a girl
And I will never love again
There's no one in this world
I could ever love again
Same thing
Same thing
Same thing
Same thing
I can't wait to see
What becomes of me
The ease with which I sleep
The world beat you for the something nice
You worked hard, died more
You mined what you died for
Diamonds di di di di di uh
You can whistle my name
It's the mines, in Africa
That are to blame
You can Scoop out my brain
Shape it into an ear and then tell me your pain
I've been awake from the first day
Stayed awake, stayed awake
The rabbit (?) the whole moon
Longer, short road
Dig deep but don't dig too deep
When it's late you'll see the hole is empty and oh so
deadly
They want me raw and smooth like glass
They want it fast but they don't want flaws
I'm a girl's best friend
Can you cut, I can cut, 'cause I'm a rough gem
who lives in those lights in the distance?
Watered down, the rain will help you out
I had a dream, it was all a dream
don't buy dope from the man you don't know
i don't know you won't
don't get stuck in his pickup truck
in arms reach, front seat
man, you're outta luck
flush it downstream
before its found, drowned, swimming in your blood
stream
if you must, crush it up into dust
if you must cut it up then lie down
but i won't let you tell me
what i can't do
you'll try to scare me
but you're never gonna catch me
so don't you tell me how to run that race
you said don't back down in your wedding gown
don't make a sound, you never made a sound
don't chime in with your oppinion
you dont need to object, man, you're such a wreck
rush to find a pulse before
you're deep in the dirt
crushed by a cross like
jumping out of a moving train
coming down is such a pain
but i won't let you tell me
what i can't do
you'll try to scare me
but you're never gonna catch me
I walk right in
I sat right down
Listenin' to the saddest song
If I don't feel bad is there something wrong
I sympathize
I synthesized
A teardrop from my tired eyes
But I don't feel sad
And I cannot cry
And I won't cry for you
'Cause I'm not able to
She said I don't mind
Instead think of why
The chorus wept
The bridge caved in
The verses stung your perfect skin
But I don't feel like
It's touched my soul
So I climbed right in
Listenin'
I got so close you'd think I'd been
Haunted by the teary eye
But I won't cry for you
'Cause I'm not able to
She said I don't mind
Instead think of why
I heard your voice sing just one note
The sweetest sound came from your throat
I heard you cry, cry
To a lonesome lullaby, lullaby
And the only love
Is a lonely love
And now you know why
While aglow
In dulcet tones
You heard a low,
Troubled note
And though you found yourself unsettled
By the disquieting sound
It didn't get you down, it didn't get you down
Home, where you wanna be alone
With your lonely little love
And my how you have grown
Have you come into your own
Lalala lonely little hands
Of a lonely little man
Lalala lonely little hands
Of a lonely little man
The unkindness of
Raven love
Soon becomes
A hole in your heart
Where feeling should be but where everything's been torn apart
La la lala lala lonely love
Lonely little love
Lalala lonely little love
Lonely little love
Lalalalala lonely love
Lonely little love
Lalala lonely little love
I don't want no part of this lonely love
I don't want no part of this love
I don't want no part of this lonely love
you sure you want to spend your life in jail?
how you gonna spend your life in jail?
i was on my way
first break the skin, next open the wound
now force your fingers in, then here's what you do:
climb inside the vein and have some heart
you said "i want to spend my life in jail"
why do you want to spend your life in jail?
"i've lost my way"
"pour concrete on me delicately, baby
so i can live my sedimental life sedentarily". what a
life
"i could just sit here for hours and watch TV".
worthlessly
so that's why you choose to spend your life in jail?
who would choose to spend their life in jail?
you've lost your way
"blow my money on my favorite company
they can blow holes in my ozone
so pour that concrete on my clothes
i like it when my skin glows
besides there's nothing to live for"
unless you live a little more like you're going to die
(ohh!, woo!)
so what the fuck are you going to do?
they robbed your life from you
tell them you want to get it back
if you do, i've got your back
yes it's something worth defending
so throw caution to the wind
and other platitudes
that were written just for you
take a shit in their swimming pool
let them chase you if you do
finally something is happening to you
put an axe through the TV
blow up your radio
though you can't see them now
you'll hear birds singing in your soul
sneak your way past the gates in a little hard heart
shape
if you're gonna be a shark you better learn to stay
awake
(oooo, ooooo)
buh buh buh buh bow bow bow, bow bow, bow bow.
Lungs love holes
Escaping words you know
Smoke gets in your eyes
Still blowing in the wind
And we can't beat this cancer, can we?
Answer me
Kids don't know shit
Everything they've learned is wrong
Boys in the neighborhood are fit, they fight all night
long
Kids don't know it, but everything they've touched is
gone
Cause no one understands,
You can't stand under something that's all wrong
When you're facing the day
When you're wasting away
And you get lighter than your brain
And it grows tighter everyday
Love's lungs hold air to a blow a hole
Cold chest grows, fills up with smoke
At least your head is warm
Still forming ways to warm the baby, the baby's bed
Cause kids don't know shit
Everything they've learned is wrong
The girls on the block are listening in,
They sing, 'let's get strong'
Kids don't know it, but everything they've got is gone
We used it for some fuel and food
Then the rats took it from us and made a bomb
Words love holes
Getting lost in lies we know
Still believing branches weaving forests
Leaving helps them grow
Kids don't know shit
Everything we learned was wrong
Deep down we knew it,
We always knew it all along
Nebulor splendor, I'll remember those constellations
forever
A cursory person turns to me and says
There's joy to be had when you're crazy, mental, mad
You run around town with your trousers pulled down, you
can shout (rah-rah!), and laugh (ha-ha), and sing (la-la)
when you're showing your ass!
When you're crazy, mental, mad, there is joy to be had!
When you're crazy mental mad, there is joy, there is joy
to be had!
You would bang a pot on your head and pretend that you're
dead (bang motherfucker!), you can chase the folks around
and wrestle with them on the ground
You don't have to go to work!
You don't have to wear a shirt!
You don't have to be a jerk!
You don't have to eat that dirt, HEY!
When you're crazy mental mad, there is joy to be had!
When you're crazy mental mad there is joy, there is joy
barefoot, passing through
I knelt down to get a better view
of what grew there
well what grew there?
scared, heard a terrible sound
lay down played dead
that's when I heard it clearer
in the rushes a voice said:
you could walk around forever
and never notice me
a little closer in the rushes
hiding down among the reeds
a seed
I swallowed
it digested quick
but not enough to not make me sick, I lost it
it tasted like a light going off inside my mind
then suddenly I was out of harm's way
forgetting the desire to remember
trans tourist vanished
finished damaged playback
I felt myself unraveling at a racetrack
I felt myself unraveling at a racetrack
then I coughed up blood
scraped it off my tongue
sucked it off my thumb
but it was rotten
care, to care
I knelt down but you weren't there
anymore
I was pushed into a bush
in the rushes on the screen
it was all acting
can't believe it
believe that I had seen it
remembered who was in my arms
remembered when I had arms
it's like a dream
the way that it unfolded
like I'd been in the rushes without knowing
I kissed it but I must admit
I missed it now I do forget
like I'd been in the rushes without knowing
you've been forgotten
you've been forgotten
You are forgotten
it's been forgotten
Open up your door for me
And let me in
Oh, can't you see
How cold I am?
You remain there
Unabated
And you refuse to
Let me lose you
Only when I sleep I do
And sounds forming words
From the well spring of concern
While my boat in that old shun turned
On the hull I watched the city burn
In a dream
In a dream
In a dream
It seemed real
Even in the dream I cried
I'm the giveaway
I could never hide
All the sadness inside
Blue, what a funny color to
Color you
Love is hard to hold onto
Only when I sleep, I do
And sounds forming words
From the well spring of concern
While my boat in that o-cean turned
On the hull I watched the city burn
In a dream
In a dream
In a dream
in the back of my mind
I want to do bad things
I want to be unkind
when I'm in my room
I love the shadows
of my bad bones
I have thoughts I won't share
because I don't think I could bear to
face you with the lights on
I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
Oh I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
my blood is dirty and I like it
I like it that way
I could see the whole city
when I pushed you
out of my fucking way
I left the sun on your skin
so when I wore it
it would fit me
When I'm in my room
and the ceiling's feeling thin
I feel evil creeping in
I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
Oh I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
a beacon landed on the shoulders
with a bird to regurgitate good words
I told her bird is the word
little nettle stinging
numbing poison sleeping in
humming "lost the feeling of the vessel sinking"
like sleepin in
the S.O.S. was lost on me
my crew were swimming
in a turgid sea
it was me Ohooooo
it was me who committed
the felony
take my hands
I love the blame
I'll take suffering
I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
Oh I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
when I behave
nobody cares
when I behave badly
nobody dare cross me
Cross me X7
I feel evil creeping in
Creeping in
Oh I feel evil creeping in
Love bird, you flew into my window
Now in the sticky love nest sits a widow
The tree it fell on all the people
Gathered there to watch it topple
Now turn around, it's burning down
The city we live in
Should we mumble lies?
Take them by surprise?
Let them have their way with us?
Wounds be by old enemies
Broke my heart to see
Foundations ripped apart
And investments fade away
I guess we got off to a bad start
No oxygen
What is the outcome?
Hungry humans
We've got to enslave them
We'll burn those bridges
When we come to them
I'm not just their leader
I'm also one of them
The food supply has been depleted
The river's ran dry just when it was needed
The rats come out to take it over
Singing, squeaking, "We built this city"
It's hard to breathe
But we couldn't leave
Nowhere left to go
Almost everybody died
Drank the tears from those who cried
We shriveled from the sodium
And a map was found with an X on it
So we followed it there
And what did we find?
An underground design
As we entered in to our surprise
Oxygen
Rivers of playgrounds(?)
The ancients just stayed down
They never stopped moving
We stumbled towards them
But they locked all the barn doors
So we had to dig deeper
We had to dig deeper
And the deep was dark
I wanted to sleep forever
Wake up later, maybe never
We had to build a civilization
Let the planet focus on the planet's rotation
We tried, we tried
We really tried
But no one could do it
Happily(?) alive
Never learned how to survive
We were humans being useless
No oxygen
What is the outcome?
Hungry humans
We've got to enslave them
We'll burn those bridges
When we come to them
I'm not just their leader
I'm also one of them
Were freed into oblivion
No traces of civilized living eating the earth
We're fading to oblivion
A building fell on me
Crushed my will
And took my brother ooh
How could I have known
The windows would be closed
There was nowhere to leave
There was nowhere to go
The endlessness of lines
Drawn across time
Wrapped my finger to you
But you've gone beyond ooh ooh
I went back to look for you
Sifting through the living room
The living room
Fell into a hopeless nest
Misery tattooed, you
Back in, back in
You're never coming back
No matter what
The endlessness of lines
Broken like twine
Drawn across time
In a pointless line
A building fell on me
Crushed my will
And took by brother
I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
IF this were to go under
It's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
Mountains shed water, islands need sea
Take me over the river, electricity
Gold in your pockets, lose some for me
I sense them coming, electricity
Promise, promise me, return the dead
This heart burns electricity
We have a life together, we have ties to break
Our past's an island we have set to sea
Promise me, promise me, return the dead
This heart burns electricity
Mountains shed water, islands need sea
Five days
Underwater
Near your island
Off the coast
I know
Five ways
You were my lover
Incantation
Off the tide
In rhyme
Oh, what if the whole world finds you waiting
Oh, as it can so long now have
Oh, I thought you knew that I'd be coming
The way you move, a foreign groove, at night
I could never
I could never hold you
Watch it rise and where you hide your pearl
Feel the tide low where you cast those stones you wear
When no one's home, do they feel cold on your bones
All the years I miss your warmth
Have you missed my warmth?
If the sun is to set
To leave us dark with regret
I will work up the strength
To pull our earth back round again
And if the ocean should freeze
Before we've sailed all the seas
I will drop to my knees
Until Poseidon agrees
We could build an island
You and I could swim beside
Where we could ride the tides
Until we fall asleep at night
[x2]
If you get scared of the space
Between now and those days
Then I will take you away
Somewhere fear has no place
We'd make ashes of our clothes
And grow a garden out of those
And watch the water as it rose
To bring the ocean to our toes
We could build an island
You and I could swim beside
Where we could ride the tides
Until we fall asleep at night
[x2]
It's true
Distance just makes my heart grow for you
And everything I want for us to do
To build an island between me and you
Build an island between me and you
We could build an island
You and I could swim beside
And we could ride the tides
Until we fall asleep
We could build an island
You and I could swim beside
Where we could ride the tides
Until we fall asleep at night
[x2]
We could build an island
We could ride the tides
Oh, we could build an island
I can remember the day
When you were excited by me
now the bed story time is gone
what ever you think of me
I cannot give much you see
maybe that's better if you leave now
but every time I pay
then you prefer to stay
such an ironic day
I'll be dead in november
And I'll dance till december
I only want you to remember, all now
I gave my love to an island
I should have broken the silence
well there is nothing I can hide, all now
I can remember the day
when you were in love with
now the glourious times have gone
lonely as I am by now
I've just decided to by
a golden record for my own pleasure
but every time I wake up
in the black cold day
i leave my coffe way
I'll be dead in november
And I'll dance till december
i only want you to remember, all now
i gave my love to an island
i should have broken the silence
well there is nothing i can hide, all now
I'll be dead in november
And I'll dance till december
i only want you to remember, all now
i gave my love to an island
i should have broken the silence
I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
If this were to go under
That's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
[x2]
So now I'll never explore
If I walk away like I don't care
Will you magically appear
Oh to wipe away my tears
Oh the feeling in the darkness
Oh I could swear
You feel, so near
Just touch me if you're really there
Let me tell you how I feel,
I never felt a love so real.
Like an island from a cloud,
You've appeared to me somehow,
I was yours and you were mine
In another place and time
Like two islands in the sea
Separated endlessly
Now say you love me like you do,
And all the things I wanna hear,
Oh, please whisper in my ear,
If all the fates align to find you,
And show me how to understand
You're here, right now,
And I can't even touch your hand
Let me tell you how I feel,
I never felt a love so real.
Like an island from a cloud,
You've appeared to me somehow,
I was yours and you were mine
In another place and time
Like two islands in the sea
Seperated endlessly
Is there a chance for love, like I've been dreaming of,
The dream could fade away and you'd be gone,
So I'm holding oooooon.....
Let me tell you how I feel,
I never felt a love so real.
Like an island from a cloud,
You've appeared to me somehow,
I was yours and you were mine
In another place and time
Like two islands in the sea
Separated endlessly
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- In a Dream It Seemed Real
- This Is Not a Song
- Never Go Solo
- No Crying
- Hallways
- Can't Feel My Face
- Lonely Love
- Oh Maria
- Cold Again
- Don't I Love You
- Same Thing
- Switched On
- No You Don't
- Vapours
- Devout
- Disarming the Car Bomb
- Tender Torture
- Shining
- On Foreigner
- Heartbeat
- The Drums
- EOL
- Everything Is Under Control
- The Arm
- Pieces of You
- Creeper
- Red Football
- A Broken Heart
- J'aime vous voir quitter (Revised Live Version)
- The Arm
- Pieces of You
- J'aime vous voir quitter
- Abominable Snow
- Creeper
- Kids Don't Know Shit
- Life in Jail
- In the Rushes
- We Swim
- To a Bond
- I Feel Evil Creeping In
- Vertigo (If It's a Crime)
- Swans (Life After Death)
- Humans
- Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
- Rough Gem
- Tsuxiit
- Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone
- Jogging Gorgeous Summer
- Volcanoes
- If
- Ones
- Bucky Little Wing
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The xx - Islands
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
The xx in video purgatory. Directed by Saam. 'Islands' comes from their debut album, xx. Buy from the world's best record store Rough Trade: www.roughtrade.com or from Amazon: www.amazon.com or from Beggars: www.beggarsgroupusa.com or from iTunes: itunes.apple.com
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The xx in video purgatory. Directed by Saam. 'Islands' comes from their debut album, xx. Buy from the world's best record store Rough Trade: www.roughtrade.com or from Amazon: www.amazon.com or from Beggars: www.beggarsgroupusa.com or from iTunes: itunes.apple.com
Islands - "Hallways"
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- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
Distributed by WMG 2012 "Hallways" by Islands from the new album 'A Sleep & A Forgetting,' out now! Get it on CD and vinyl at www.anti.com or download on iTunes. Directed by Lex Halaby & Toben Seymour Anti Records Official Website: www.anti.com Anti Records Online Store: www.kingsroadmerch.com Anti Records Facebook: www.facebook.com Anti Records Twitter: twitter.com Anti Records Blog: www.antilabelblog.com Anti Records Tumblr: antirecords.tumblr.com
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Distributed by WMG 2012 "Hallways" by Islands from the new album 'A Sleep & A Forgetting,' out now! Get it on CD and vinyl at www.anti.com or download on iTunes. Directed by Lex Halaby & Toben Seymour Anti Records Official Website: www.anti.com Anti Records Online Store: www.kingsroadmerch.com Anti Records Facebook: www.facebook.com Anti Records Twitter: twitter.com Anti Records Blog: www.antilabelblog.com Anti Records Tumblr: antirecords.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Feb 2012
- views: 144406
- author: antirecords
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - Islands in the stream
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- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
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The Lonely Island - YOLO (feat. Adam Levine & Kendrick Lamar)
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
YOLO is available on iTunes now! smarturl.it New album coming soon... Check out the awesome band the music in YOLO is sampled from The Joy Formidable: www.youtube.com Big thanks to Love Me for the artwork: lovemewashere.com LYRICS Adam Levine: YOLO Andy: YOLO, you only live once. The battle cry of a generation. This life is a precious gift. So don't get too crazy, it's not worth the risk. Chorus Adam Levine: You know that we are still young. So don't be dumb. Don't trust anyone, cause you only live once. Verse 1 Kiv: Ugh, you only live once, thats the motto. So take a chill pill, ease off the throttle. Jorm: Never go to loud clubs cause it's bad for your ears. Your friends will all be sorry when they can't hear. Andy: And stay the hell away from drugs cause they not legal. Then bury all your money in the backyard like a beagle. Kiv: Cause you should never trust a bank They've been known to fail. And never travel by car, a bus, boat or by rail. Jorm: And don't travel by plane. And don't travel at all. Build a bomb shelter basement with titanium walls. Andy: And wear titanium suits in case pianos fall on ya. And never go in saunas cause they're crawlin' with piranhas. Kiv: And never take the stairs cause they're often unsafe. You only live once, don't let it go to waste. CHORUS Adam Levine: You know that we are still young, so hold off on the fun. Cook your meat 'til it's done, cause you only live once. Verse 2 Jorm: Yeah, and here's another piece of advice: Stay away from ...
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YOLO is available on iTunes now! smarturl.it New album coming soon... Check out the awesome band the music in YOLO is sampled from The Joy Formidable: www.youtube.com Big thanks to Love Me for the artwork: lovemewashere.com LYRICS Adam Levine: YOLO Andy: YOLO, you only live once. The battle cry of a generation. This life is a precious gift. So don't get too crazy, it's not worth the risk. Chorus Adam Levine: You know that we are still young. So don't be dumb. Don't trust anyone, cause you only live once. Verse 1 Kiv: Ugh, you only live once, thats the motto. So take a chill pill, ease off the throttle. Jorm: Never go to loud clubs cause it's bad for your ears. Your friends will all be sorry when they can't hear. Andy: And stay the hell away from drugs cause they not legal. Then bury all your money in the backyard like a beagle. Kiv: Cause you should never trust a bank They've been known to fail. And never travel by car, a bus, boat or by rail. Jorm: And don't travel by plane. And don't travel at all. Build a bomb shelter basement with titanium walls. Andy: And wear titanium suits in case pianos fall on ya. And never go in saunas cause they're crawlin' with piranhas. Kiv: And never take the stairs cause they're often unsafe. You only live once, don't let it go to waste. CHORUS Adam Levine: You know that we are still young, so hold off on the fun. Cook your meat 'til it's done, cause you only live once. Verse 2 Jorm: Yeah, and here's another piece of advice: Stay away from ...
- published: 27 Jan 2013
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- author: thelonelyisland
Islands - Rough Gem
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- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 06 Feb 2013
Video for Rough Gem by Islands.
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The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters)
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- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com The 2nd Single from The Lonely Island's upcoming 2nd album! Featuring Nicki Minaj and John Waters! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone As seen on Saturday Night Live (SNL Digital Short) Twitter @thelonelyisland
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Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com The 2nd Single from The Lonely Island's upcoming 2nd album! Featuring Nicki Minaj and John Waters! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone As seen on Saturday Night Live (SNL Digital Short) Twitter @thelonelyisland
- published: 30 Jan 2011
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I Just Had Sex (feat. Akon)
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! www.turtleneckandchain.com T-shirts! http The first single of The Lonely Island's 2nd album!!! Featuring Akon, Jessica Alba, Blake Lively and John McEnroe! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. Twitter: @thelonelyisland
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Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! www.turtleneckandchain.com T-shirts! http The first single of The Lonely Island's 2nd album!!! Featuring Akon, Jessica Alba, Blake Lively and John McEnroe! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. Twitter: @thelonelyisland
- published: 19 Dec 2010
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- author: thelonelyisland
ISLANDS Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Islands newest hilarious music video made by Paperrad / Wyld File's Ben Jones. Following the untimely disbandment of The Unicorns as they teetered on the brink of breaking through, Islands' debut release entitled "Return to the Sea", with its quirky sounds and refreshing, catchy melodies includes collaborations with members of Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade and is arguably Diamonds' and Tambeur's most impressive work to date. This Canadian band was Beck's backing band last year. www.islandsareforever.com and http
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Islands newest hilarious music video made by Paperrad / Wyld File's Ben Jones. Following the untimely disbandment of The Unicorns as they teetered on the brink of breaking through, Islands' debut release entitled "Return to the Sea", with its quirky sounds and refreshing, catchy melodies includes collaborations with members of Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade and is arguably Diamonds' and Tambeur's most impressive work to date. This Canadian band was Beck's backing band last year. www.islandsareforever.com and http
- published: 12 Oct 2006
- views: 227573
- author: ingecolsen
Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com
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Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com
- published: 08 May 2011
- views: 100539698
- author: thelonelyisland
Weezer - Island In The Sun (Spike Jonze Version)
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- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Music video by Weezer performing Island In The Sun. (C) 2004 Geffen Records Inc.
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Music video by Weezer performing Island In The Sun. (C) 2004 Geffen Records Inc.
- published: 17 Jun 2009
- views: 16210041
- author: WeezerVEVO
Boombox (ft. Julian Casablancas)
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
www.itunes.com The video for Boombox is here! From The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD", in stores now! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. Directed By Kiv (c) Universal Republic
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www.itunes.com The video for Boombox is here! From The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD", in stores now! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. Directed By Kiv (c) Universal Republic
- published: 14 Mar 2010
- views: 47227964
- author: thelonelyisland
Like A Boss (ft. Seth Rogen) - Uncensored Version
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
www.itunes.com The new single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD" In stores now! Featuring Seth Rogen. The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone.
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www.itunes.com The new single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD" In stores now! Featuring Seth Rogen. The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone.
- published: 05 Apr 2009
- views: 105682877
- author: thelonelyisland
Bee Gees (8/32) - Islands in the stream
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- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
1997 concert in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas
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1997 concert in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas
- published: 23 May 2008
- views: 1447751
- author: gferdinandus4
Solar Islands (TM)
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
Video of Solar Islands -- a concept by CSEM, Switzerland (www.csem.ch)
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Video of Solar Islands -- a concept by CSEM, Switzerland (www.csem.ch)
- published: 20 Mar 2008
- views: 361972
- author: hinderlingvolkart
I'm On A Boat (ft. T-Pain) - Album Version
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- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
www.itunes.com The new single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD" In stores now! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. (C) Universal Republic
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www.itunes.com The new single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD" In stores now! The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone. (C) Universal Republic
- published: 08 Feb 2009
- views: 73311651
- author: thelonelyisland
Bad Religion - "The Island" (Full Album Stream)
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- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
"The Island" by Bad Religion from the new album 'True North,' out now! Get it at www.badreligionstore.com Watch other videos from Epitaph Records here www.youtube.com www.badreligion.com www.facebook.com twitter.com -- Lyrics -- There's a world outside but I can't really make it There's a life to lead but I can't exactly fake it Yet the mood feels right But my island is sinking out of sight I made jetties so they'd catch all the sediment Removed the rocks and every impediment But the tide's rising high to wash away my island in the night The sheltering sky was to be my everlasting lullaby They said that islands were solid as bedrock Standing firm forevermore But over time even basement wastes away to the unrelenting shore There's a lonely seed waiting to be planted I've instructions but desire is wholly absent I'm just a petrel in the storm My island can't protect me anymore
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"The Island" by Bad Religion from the new album 'True North,' out now! Get it at www.badreligionstore.com Watch other videos from Epitaph Records here www.youtube.com www.badreligion.com www.facebook.com twitter.com -- Lyrics -- There's a world outside but I can't really make it There's a life to lead but I can't exactly fake it Yet the mood feels right But my island is sinking out of sight I made jetties so they'd catch all the sediment Removed the rocks and every impediment But the tide's rising high to wash away my island in the night The sheltering sky was to be my everlasting lullaby They said that islands were solid as bedrock Standing firm forevermore But over time even basement wastes away to the unrelenting shore There's a lonely seed waiting to be planted I've instructions but desire is wholly absent I'm just a petrel in the storm My island can't protect me anymore
- published: 15 Jan 2013
- views: 25062
- author: EpitaphRecords
Jizz In My Pants
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- Duration: 2:33
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Itunes.com The first single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD". In stores 02/10/2009. Video features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake. The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. (Directed by Kiv) Copyright - Universal Republic
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Itunes.com The first single from The Lonely Island's debut album "INCREDIBAD". In stores 02/10/2009. Video features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake. The Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. (Directed by Kiv) Copyright - Universal Republic
- published: 07 Dec 2008
- views: 124367966
- author: thelonelyisland
RELAXING VIDEO #2 BEST VIRGIN ISLANDS BEACHES Ocean Sounds Relaxing Sleep relax beach USVI BVI HD
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- Duration: 10:12
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
2 OF 4 ≈ www.wavesdvd.com ≈ Relax Now. Visit our Channel. 8-) Relaxation Video #2 BEST VIRGIN ISLANDS BEACHES Ocean Sounds Relaxing Nature Relax Sleep Scenes HD USVI BVI Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and Branson's Necker Island fire. Discover the best beaches from VIRGIN ISLANDS - St. John,...
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2 OF 4 ≈ www.wavesdvd.com ≈ Relax Now. Visit our Channel. 8-) Relaxation Video #2 BEST VIRGIN ISLANDS BEACHES Ocean Sounds Relaxing Nature Relax Sleep Scenes HD USVI BVI Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and Branson's Necker Island fire. Discover the best beaches from VIRGIN ISLANDS - St. John,...
- published: 27 May 2009
- views: 131391
- author: wavesdvdcom
Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde (feat. Rihanna)
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com Originally aired October 30, 2010 Footage courtesy of NBC for promotional use only.
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Buy at iTunes: goo.gl New album on sale now! turtleneckandchain.com Originally aired October 30, 2010 Footage courtesy of NBC for promotional use only.
- published: 12 May 2011
- views: 34647150
- author: thelonelyisland
MYKONOS ISLAND
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- Duration: 5:01
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
MYKONOS.THE ISLAND OF THE WINDS... FIND ME IN FACEBOOK AS "ΑΓΑΠΑΜΕ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΓΙΑΤΙ ΕΤΣΙ ΜΑΣ ΑΡΕΣΕΙ - GREECE IS BEAUTIFUL THAT'S WHY" www.facebook.com CHOCOLATE LYRICS: FRAGILE SEAMS,I OPENED UP TOO QUICK AND ALL MY DREAMS,WERE WALKING OUT I'D SLOWLY,LOST MY FIRE,WITH EVERY SINGLE MAN A RIVER CRIED,I HAD NO SENSATION,COMPLETELY NUMB,LEFT WITH NO SATISFACTION,I THOUGHT NO-ONE COULD EVER GET ME HIGH AGAIN,I SWEAR,I WAS NOT LOOKING,OH,WAITED SO LONG,I THOUGHT THE REAL THING WAS A FAKE,I THOUGHT IT WAS A TOOL TO BREAK ME DOWN,YOU PROVED ME WRONG AGAIN... IF LOVE WERE LIQUID IT WOULD DROWN ME,IN A PLACELESS PLACE WOULD FIND ME,IN A HEART SHAPE COME AROUND ME AND THEN,MELT ME SLOWLY DOWN,IF LOVE WERE HUMAN IT WOULD KNOW ME,IN A LOST SPACE COME AND SHOW ME,HOLD ME AND CONTROL ME AND THEN,MELT ME SLOWLY DOWN,LIKE CHOCOLATE... TASTES SO GOOD,MY HEART'S BEEN MENDED WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD,AN EMPTY BET AND STILL I WON THE CASH,A MAN WHO I LOVE AND WHO LOVES ME BACK,OH WAITED SO LONG FOR LOVE TO HEAL ME SO I'D FEEL IT,THOUGHT IT WASN'T BREATHING THEN YOU CAME,YOU PROVED ME WRONG AGAIN... LIKE CHOCOLATE COME HERE,ZOOM IN,CATCH THE SMILE,THERE'S NO DOUBT IT'S FROM YOU AND I'M ADDICTED TO IT NOW... JUST ONE LOOK BOY TO MELT ME DOWN,JUST ONE HEART HERE TO SAVE ME NOW,YOUR CANDY KISSES ARE SWEET I KNOW,HOLD ME TIGHT BABY DON'T LET GO.
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MYKONOS.THE ISLAND OF THE WINDS... FIND ME IN FACEBOOK AS "ΑΓΑΠΑΜΕ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΓΙΑΤΙ ΕΤΣΙ ΜΑΣ ΑΡΕΣΕΙ - GREECE IS BEAUTIFUL THAT'S WHY" www.facebook.com CHOCOLATE LYRICS: FRAGILE SEAMS,I OPENED UP TOO QUICK AND ALL MY DREAMS,WERE WALKING OUT I'D SLOWLY,LOST MY FIRE,WITH EVERY SINGLE MAN A RIVER CRIED,I HAD NO SENSATION,COMPLETELY NUMB,LEFT WITH NO SATISFACTION,I THOUGHT NO-ONE COULD EVER GET ME HIGH AGAIN,I SWEAR,I WAS NOT LOOKING,OH,WAITED SO LONG,I THOUGHT THE REAL THING WAS A FAKE,I THOUGHT IT WAS A TOOL TO BREAK ME DOWN,YOU PROVED ME WRONG AGAIN... IF LOVE WERE LIQUID IT WOULD DROWN ME,IN A PLACELESS PLACE WOULD FIND ME,IN A HEART SHAPE COME AROUND ME AND THEN,MELT ME SLOWLY DOWN,IF LOVE WERE HUMAN IT WOULD KNOW ME,IN A LOST SPACE COME AND SHOW ME,HOLD ME AND CONTROL ME AND THEN,MELT ME SLOWLY DOWN,LIKE CHOCOLATE... TASTES SO GOOD,MY HEART'S BEEN MENDED WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD,AN EMPTY BET AND STILL I WON THE CASH,A MAN WHO I LOVE AND WHO LOVES ME BACK,OH WAITED SO LONG FOR LOVE TO HEAL ME SO I'D FEEL IT,THOUGHT IT WASN'T BREATHING THEN YOU CAME,YOU PROVED ME WRONG AGAIN... LIKE CHOCOLATE COME HERE,ZOOM IN,CATCH THE SMILE,THERE'S NO DOUBT IT'S FROM YOU AND I'M ADDICTED TO IT NOW... JUST ONE LOOK BOY TO MELT ME DOWN,JUST ONE HEART HERE TO SAVE ME NOW,YOUR CANDY KISSES ARE SWEET I KNOW,HOLD ME TIGHT BABY DON'T LET GO.
- published: 06 May 2008
- views: 11910
- author: FANIS ADAM
★ Poptropica: Super Villain Island Full Walkthrough ★
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- Duration: 39:10
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Poptropica: Super Villain Island Full Walkthrough - The full walkthrough cheats for Poptropica Super Villain Island with Bonus Quest. We show you how to beat Super Villain on Poptropica! Shrinking Potion Location: 12:50 Description from Poptropica: Deep inside a top-secret prison, four of Poptropica's most infamous villains float in suspended animation. Your mission: to infiltrate their minds and extract the sources of their evil. Can you withstand a journey to the heart of darkness, or will their twisted dreams trap you forever? Written Walkthrough: poptropicacheatz.com == Music provided by Approaching Nirvana www.youtube.com
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Poptropica: Super Villain Island Full Walkthrough - The full walkthrough cheats for Poptropica Super Villain Island with Bonus Quest. We show you how to beat Super Villain on Poptropica! Shrinking Potion Location: 12:50 Description from Poptropica: Deep inside a top-secret prison, four of Poptropica's most infamous villains float in suspended animation. Your mission: to infiltrate their minds and extract the sources of their evil. Can you withstand a journey to the heart of darkness, or will their twisted dreams trap you forever? Written Walkthrough: poptropicacheatz.com == Music provided by Approaching Nirvana www.youtube.com
- published: 28 Sep 2012
- views: 568125
- author: InsidersNetwork
Jaws! HD Universal Studios Florida Amity Island POV
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- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
This is a full ride HD POV of the Jaws great white shark encounter at Amity Island in Universal Studios Florida. Jaws is a theme park attraction based upon the films of the same name. The attraction places guests aboard tour boats for what should be a leisurely tour of Amity Harbor, but instead becomes a harrowing chase between the craft and a very determined great white shark. Jaws is an expanded version of a famous scene on the long-running backlot tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, also inspired by the film, and can be found at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. A near-duplicate version of the attraction can also be found at Universal Studios Japan near Osaka. The attraction is notable for being one of the only original Universal Studios Florida attractions still in operation, the other three being ET Adventure, Universal's Horror Make-Up Show and Lucy: A Tribute.
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This is a full ride HD POV of the Jaws great white shark encounter at Amity Island in Universal Studios Florida. Jaws is a theme park attraction based upon the films of the same name. The attraction places guests aboard tour boats for what should be a leisurely tour of Amity Harbor, but instead becomes a harrowing chase between the craft and a very determined great white shark. Jaws is an expanded version of a famous scene on the long-running backlot tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, also inspired by the film, and can be found at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. A near-duplicate version of the attraction can also be found at Universal Studios Japan near Osaka. The attraction is notable for being one of the only original Universal Studios Florida attractions still in operation, the other three being ET Adventure, Universal's Horror Make-Up Show and Lucy: A Tribute.
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 1504915
- author: TheCoasterViews
★ Poptropica: Zomberry Island Full Walkthrough ★
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- Duration: 27:55
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Poptropica: Zomberry Island Full Walkthrough - The full walkthrough cheats for Poptropica Zomberry Island with Bonus Quest. We show you how to beat Zomberry Island on Poptropica! Car Key: 2:20 Subway Pass: 3:21 Light Bulb: 4:55 Move Subway Train: 5:15 Camera: 8:12 Keycard: 17:00 Description from Poptropica: One by one, the citizens of Eastman are mutating into something horrible. Now, the city is quarantined, the survivors are trapped, and ghouls prowl the streets. No one knows how the zombie outbreak began... but how it ends is up to you! The zombie threat has been contained, but more danger lurks beneath the streets of Eastman. To prevent an even greater outbreak, you'll need to venture into the sewers with only a flashlight... and your wits! Written Walkthrough: poptropicacheatz.com == Music provided by Approaching Nirvana www.youtube.com
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Poptropica: Zomberry Island Full Walkthrough - The full walkthrough cheats for Poptropica Zomberry Island with Bonus Quest. We show you how to beat Zomberry Island on Poptropica! Car Key: 2:20 Subway Pass: 3:21 Light Bulb: 4:55 Move Subway Train: 5:15 Camera: 8:12 Keycard: 17:00 Description from Poptropica: One by one, the citizens of Eastman are mutating into something horrible. Now, the city is quarantined, the survivors are trapped, and ghouls prowl the streets. No one knows how the zombie outbreak began... but how it ends is up to you! The zombie threat has been contained, but more danger lurks beneath the streets of Eastman. To prevent an even greater outbreak, you'll need to venture into the sewers with only a flashlight... and your wits! Written Walkthrough: poptropicacheatz.com == Music provided by Approaching Nirvana www.youtube.com
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 443024
- author: InsidersNetwork
photo: AP / World Vision
07 Feb 2013
Aid workers struggled to reach remote, tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday, as the death toll rose with more bodies found in wrecked homes and debris in the South Pacific island chain ... Cruz Island, in the eastern Solomons, on Wednesday ... The Solomons comprise more than 200 islands with a population of about 552,000 people....(size: 1.9Kb)
photo: US Army / Chief Warrant Officer 4 Daniel McClinton
06 Feb 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "The art of war is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin." Sun Tzu, "The Art of War," 4th Century BCE. During confirmation hearings for the next U.S. Defense Secretary, it was appalling to observe several senators haggling with Chuck Hagel over whether the surge during the disastrous U.S.-Iraqi preemptive war and military occupation was a success or not ... The U.S....(size: 6.2Kb)
photo: USAF / Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.
07 Feb 2013
Updated. February 7, 2013 12.29AM. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to give Congress’ intelligence committees access to classified legal advice providing the government’s rationale for drone strikes against American citizens working with al-Qaida abroad, a senior administration official and Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday ... The unclassified memo says it is legal for the government to kill U.S ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub
06 Feb 2013
A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, triggering a small tsunami and prompting alerts across the South Pacific that were later cancelled ... A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, triggering a small tsunami that swept into isolated island communities and sparked tsunami alerts across the South Pacific that were later cancelled....(size: 8.1Kb)
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
06 Feb 2013
February 6, 2013 -- Updated 1339 GMT (2139 HKT). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) is greeted as he visits the Sayyeda Zeinab mosque in Cairo, February 5, 2013. Cairo (CNN) -- During a historic trip to Egypt, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted by a group of men who hurled shoes at him -- a major insult in the Muslim world ... Other men also threw shoes at Ahmadinejad, the Egyptian public prosecutor's office said ... 0 ... ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
Tampa Bay Online
08 Feb 2013
The confrontation was the latest of several incidents arising out of a long-standing dispute over the ownership of three small islands in the East China Sea ... Just a week ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping had expressed hopes for better relations with Japan, relations long strained by the bitter dispute over ownership of the Senkaku Islands (the Chinese call them Diaoyu)....(size: 4.2Kb)
MSNBC
08 Feb 2013
Joy Williamson led the way with 12 points for the Islanders, as six different players had at least six points in the loss ... But the Islanders bounced back with seven straight points, five by Williamson, to regain the lead at 11-10 ... The Islanders pulled ahead 26-21 on a three-point play by Knowles, but Lamar erased that with a three-point play of its own and a jumper by Minor to tie it up....(size: 3.3Kb)
BBC News
08 Feb 2013
A row over islands in the East China Sea has left ties between Japan and China severely strained. In the latest development, Japan says a Chinese frigate locked weapon-targeting radar on one of its navy ships in waters near the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China ... Continue reading the main story Japan-China disputed islands ... China-Japan islands row ... The situation around the Senkaku Islands is very dangerous....(size: 15.7Kb)
Newsday
08 Feb 2013
Islanders videos ... The Islanders didn't work hard enough Thursday night ... The Islanders have been down this road before -- way, way farther down, in fact ... And the Islanders allowed a power-play goal for a third straight game, this one on a breakaway in the second period ... Rangers 4, Islanders 1 57 m ago Notable Rangers-Islanders games 7.57 PM Penguins 4, Islanders 2 Devils 3, Islanders 0 Islanders 5, Devils 4 (OT) ....(size: 9.5Kb)
The New York Times
08 Feb 2013
Russia denied the accusation, which came on the day each year that is set aside in Japan for rallies supporting the country’s claims to an island chain near the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The islands have been controlled for decades by the Soviet Union and then Russia ... Japan is embroiled in disputes over two separate groups of islands with South Korea and China ... Islands Russia Japan International Relations....(size: 8.9Kb)
CNN
08 Feb 2013
Hong Kong (CNN) -- China on Friday denied accusations by Japan that a Chinese navy vessel had put a radar-lock on a Japanese warship near a group of disputed islands at the heart of a bitter feud between the two Asian nations ... The Japanese allegations this week have put a fresh strain on relations between Tokyo and Beijing, which remain at loggerheads over who has sovereignty over the remote, rocky islands in the East China Sea....(size: 6.6Kb)
noodls
08 Feb 2013
Tom HOWELLS Centre DeA Tigers King George V Sch Martin FIELD Fullback Valley Fort South Island Sch Alex TUNESI Lock HKFC South Island Sch Oscar KURTON Winger HKFC Australian Int Sch Andrew PURTON Lock HKFC South Island Sch Kevin FIELD Winger HKFC South Island Sch Jonathan CIMMERBECK Flanker Valley Fort French Int Sch Hugo STILES Fullback Valley ......(size: 5.7Kb)
Toronto Sun
08 Feb 2013
TOKYO - Two Russian fighter jets briefly entered Japan's air space near disputed islands and the northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, prompting Japan to scramble combat fighters and lodge a protest, Japan's Foreign Ministry said. Russia, which is currently holding military maneuvers around the disputed Kurile islands, denied any such intrusion took place....(size: 3.1Kb)
Indian Express
08 Feb 2013
A major 8.0 magnitude earthquake jolted the Solomon Islands today with small tsunami waves buffeting Pacific coastlines, leaving at least five people dead and dozens of homes damaged or destroyed ... One of the dead was a male child, three were elderly women and one an elderly man," Chris Rogers, a nurse at Lata Hospital in the Santa Cruz Islands, said....(size: 1.7Kb)
MSNBC
08 Feb 2013
(WHDH) -- Residents of Plum Island are bracing for severe beach erosion and anticipating the worst ... One road is the only way on and off Plum Island ... “We live in Plum Island, we're prepared for just about anything,” said Bob Connors, a Plum Island resident. The town says police and fire will be stationed on the island, which calms residents' nerves for ......(size: 2.0Kb)
Canberra Times
08 Feb 2013
A South Sea Islander burial site and two weeping fig trees, located on a former sugar plantation near Bundaberg, have been given heritage protection ... “A nearby dry-rubble wall along Windermere Road that was built with South Sea Island labour has already been heritage listed.". Thousands of Pacific islanders were shipped in to toil in the state's cane fields and fruit plantations between 1863 and 1904....(size: 3.0Kb)
noodls
08 Feb 2013
Judge Bernard Murphy has imposed a $50,000 penalty on a Victorian butcher, Kingsland Meatworks & Cellars Pty Ltd, after finding that it had made false or misleading representations that the meat offered for sale through its Brighton shop was from King Island, when in fact very little or none of the meat was from King Island ... to King Island....(size: 2.9Kb)
The Examiner
08 Feb 2013
“Marion Island and Macquarie Island both clearly show that the decisions made to eradicate cats were not wise and over time caused even more damage,” says Louise Holton, ACR President and T-N-R Pioneer. “Macquarie Island, in particular, was an ecological disaster.” ... In the cases of both islands, free-roaming cat populations were destroyed and the end results were not good ... Macquarie Island is between New Zealand and Antarctica....(size: 8.6Kb)
For other uses, see Island (disambiguation).
An island /ˈaɪlənd/ or isle /ˈaɪl/ is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or an island in a lake may be called an eyot /ˈaɪ.ət/ (also ait /ˈeɪt/), or holm. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago.
An island may still be described as such despite the presence of an artificial land bridge, for example Singapore and its causeway, or the various Dutch delta islands, such as IJsselmonde. Some places may even retain "island" in their names for historical reasons after being connected to a larger landmass by a wide land bridge, such as Coney Island. Conversely, when a piece of land is separated from the mainland by a man-made canal, for example the Peloponnese by the Corinth Canal, it is generally not considered an island.
There are two main types of islands: continental islands and oceanic islands. There are also artificial islands.
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Etymology[link]
The word island comes from Middle English iland, from Old English igland (from ig, similarly meaning 'island' when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch eiland ("island"), German Eiland ("small island")). However, the spelling of the word was modified in the 15th century due to an incorrect association with the etymologically unrelated Old French loanword isle, which itself comes from the Latin word insula.[1] Old English ig is actually a cognate of Latin aqua (water).[2]
Size[link]
Greenland is the world's largest island [3] with an area of over 2.1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent[4] has an area of 7.6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents,[5] or from islets.[6]
Types of islands[link]
Continental islands[link]
Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent. Examples include Greenland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America; Barbados and Trinidad off South America; Great Britain, Ireland and Sicily off Europe; Sumatra, Borneo and Java off Asia; and New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island off Australia.
A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which results when a continent is rifted. Examples are Madagascar and Socotra off Africa; New Zealand; New Caledonia; the Kerguelen Islands; and some of the Seychelles.
Another subtype is an island or bar formed by deposition of tiny rocks where a water current loses some of its carrying capacity. An example is barrier islands, which are accumulations of sand deposited by sea currents on the continental shelf. Another example is islands in river deltas or in large rivers. While some are transitory and may disappear if the volume or speed of the current changes, others are stable and long-lived. Islets are very small islands.
Oceanic islands[link]
Oceanic islands are ones that do not sit on continental shelves. The vast majority are volcanic in origin. The few oceanic islands that are not volcanic are tectonic in origin and arise where plate movements have lifted up the deep ocean floor to above the surface. Examples of this include Saint Peter and Paul Rocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Macquarie Island in the Pacific.
One type of volcanic oceanic island is found in a volcanic island arc. These islands arise from volcanoes where the subduction of one plate under another is occurring. Examples include the Mariana Islands, the Aleutian Islands and most of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. Some of the Lesser Antilles and the South Sandwich Islands are the only Atlantic Ocean examples.
Another type of volcanic oceanic island occurs where an oceanic rift reaches the surface. There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world's second largest volcanic island, and Jan Mayen — both are in the Atlantic.
A third type of volcanic oceanic island is formed over volcanic hotspots. A hotspot is more or less stationary relative to the moving tectonic plate above it, so a chain of islands results as the plate drifts. Over long periods of time, this type of island is eventually "drowned" by isostatic adjustment and eroded, becoming a seamount. Plate movement across a hot-spot produces a line of islands oriented in the direction of the plate movement. An example is the Hawaiian Islands, from Hawaii to Kure, which then extends beneath the sea surface in a more northerly direction as the Emperor Seamounts. Another chain with similar orientation is the Tuamotu Archipelago; its older, northerly trend is the Line Islands. The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu. Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean. Another hot spot in the Atlantic is the island of Surtsey, which was formed in 1963.
An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island. The reef rises to the surface of the water and forms a new island. Atolls are typically ring-shaped with a central lagoon. Examples include the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Line Islands in the Pacific.
Tropical islands[link]
See also: Formation of coral reefs
There are approximately 45,000 tropical islands on Earth.[7] Among coral tropic islands for example are Maldives, Tonga, Nauru and Polynesia.[7] Granite islands include Seychelles and Tioman.[7] The socio-economic diversity of these regions ranges from the Stone Age societies in the interior of Madagascar, Borneo or Papua New Guinea to the high-tech lifestyles of the city-islands of Singapore and Hong Kong. International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii and the Maldives, among others.
Desert islands[link]
Main article: Desert island
A desert island is an island with no people. Typically, a desert island is denoted as such because it exists in a state of being deserted, or abandoned. Note that an arid desert climate is not typically implied; one dictionary uses the phrase 'desert island' to illustrate the use of 'desert' as an adjective meaning "desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied".[8] According to another, "A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives or an undiscovered island."[9]
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- ^ Ringe, Donald A. (2006). A Linguistic History of English: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-19-928413-X.
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- ^ Brown, Mike. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming. New York: Random House Digital, 2010. ISBN 0-385-53108-7
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| Dolly Parton | |
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 Dolly Parton in a Press Conference, 2011. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dolly Rebecca Parton |
| Born | (1946-01-19) January 19, 1946 (age 66) Sevierville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genres | Country, country pop, pop, bluegrass |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, author, musician, businesswoman |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, banjo, autoharp, piano, drums, appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, pennywhistle, recorder, fiddle, bass guitar, saxophone |
| Years active | 1955[1]–present |
| Labels | Goldband (1957–59) Mercury Records (1962–64) Monument (1965–67) RCA (1967–86) CBS (1987–95) Rising Tide (1995–97) Decca (1997–98) Sugar Hill (1999–2006) Dolly Records (2007–present) |
| Associated acts | Brad Paisley, Reba McEntire, Porter Wagoner, Cat Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Shania Twain, Juice Newton, Stella Parton, The Larkins, Altan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Ricky Van Shelton, Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood |
| Website | dollypartonmusic.net |
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946[2]) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. As a songwriter, she has composed over 3,000 songs[3], the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "9 to 5" and "My Tennessee Mountain Home". As an actress, she starred in the movies 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Straight Talk, Unlikely Angel and Joyful Noise. She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time.[4] She is known as "The Queen of Country Music".[1]
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Early years[link]
She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Avie Lee Parton (née Owens; October 5, 1923 – December 5, 2003) and Robert Lee Parton (March 22, 1921 – November 12, 2000), a tobacco farmer.[5][6] Her siblings are: Willadeene Parton (born March 24, 1940), David Wilburn Parton (born March 30, 1942), Coy Denver "Denver" Parton (born August 16, 1943), Bobby Lee Parton (born February 18, 1948), Stella Mae Parton (born May 4, 1949), Cassie Nan Parton (February 12, 1951), Randel Huston "Randy" Parton (born December 15, 1953), Larry Gerald Parton (born and died July 6, 1955), Floyd and Frieda Estelle Parton (born June 1, 1957), and Rachel Ann Parton (born August 31, 1959). Her family was, as she has described them, "dirt poor".[7] She outlined her family's lack of money in a number of her early songs, notably "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)". They lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, a hamlet just north of the Greenbrier Valley, in the Locust Ridge area of the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, a predominantly Pentecostal area.
Music played an important role in her early life, and her grandfather was a Pentecostal "holy-roller" preacher.[8] When appearing in live concerts, she frequently performs spiritual songs.
Career discovery[link]
Dolly Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the Eastern Tennessee area. By age nine, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee. At thirteen, she was recording (the single "Puppy Love")[9] on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It was at the Opry, where she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go, where her heart took her, and not to care, what others thought.[10] The day after she graduated from high school in 1964, Parton moved to Nashville taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her.
Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's "Put it off Until Tomorrow" and Skeeter Davis' 1967 hit "Fuel to the Flame". She also wrote a minor chart hit for Hank Williams Jr during this period.[11] She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer,[12] earning only one national-chart single, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.
The label agreed to let Parton sing country music after her composition, "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," as recorded by Bill Phillips (and with Parton, uncredited, on harmony), went to number six on the country music charts in 1966. Her first country single, "Dumb Blonde" (one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen. The two songs anchored her first full-length album, Hello, I'm Dolly.
Marriage[link]
On May 30, 1966, she and Carl Thomas Dean were married in Ringgold, Georgia.[13] She had met Dean at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat two years earlier on her first day in Nashville. His very first words to her were: "Y'all gonna get sunburnt out there, little lady."[14]
Dean, who runs an asphalt road-surface-paving business in Nashville, has always shunned publicity and rarely accompanies her to any events. According to Parton, he has only ever seen her perform once. However, she has also commented in interviews that, although it appears they do not spend much time together, it is simply that nobody sees him. She also commented on Dean's romantic side claiming, that he will often do spontaneous things to surprise her, and sometimes even writes her poems.[15]
The couple partly raised several of Parton's younger siblings at their home in Nashville, leading her nieces and nephews to refer to her as "Aunt Granny". She has no children of her own. Parton is also the godmother of actress and singer Miley Cyrus.[16]
On May 30, 2011, they celebrated their 45th anniversary. Later, she said, "We're really proud of our marriage. It's the first for both of us. And the last."[17]
Music career[link]
1967–75: Country music success[link]
In 1967, country entertainer Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his organization, offering her a regular spot on his weekly syndicated television program The Porter Wagoner Show, as well as in his road show.
As in Her 1994 Autobiography,[18] Initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton (sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience).[citation needed] With Wagoner's assistance, however, Parton was eventually accepted. Wagoner also convinced his label, RCA Victor, to sign Parton. RCA decided to protect their investment by releasing her first single as a duet with Wagoner. That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.
Parton's first solo single for RCA, "Just Because I'm a Woman", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen. For the remainder of the decade, none of her solo efforts – even "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)", which later became a standard – were as successful as her duets with Wagoner. The duo was named Vocal Group of the Year in 1968 by the Country Music Association, but Parton's solo records were continually ignored. Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.
By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues", a gimmick that worked. The record shot to number three on the charts, followed closely, in February 1971, by her first number-one single, "Joshua." For the next two years, she had a number of solo hits – including her signature song "Coat of Many Colors" (number four in 1971) – in addition to her duets. Though she had successful singles, none of them were blockbusters until "Jolene". Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974 (it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success). Parton and Wagoner performed their last duet concert in April 1974, and she ceased appearing on his TV show in mid-1974, though they remained affiliated, with him helping to produce her records through 1975.[18] The pair continued to release duet albums, their final release being 1975's Say Forever You'll Be Mine.
In 1974, her song, "I Will Always Love You", written about her professional break from Wagoner, went to number one on the country music charts. Around the same time, Elvis Presley indicated, that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her, that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.[19] Parton refused, and that decision is credited with helping to make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years.
1976–86: Branching out into pop music[link]
From 1974 to 1980, she consistently charted in the country Top 10, with no fewer than eight singles reaching number one. Parton had her own syndicated-television variety show, Dolly! (1976–1977). During this period, many performers, including Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, Olivia Newton-John, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt, covered her songs, and her siblings Randy and Stella all received recording contracts of their own.[18]
It was also during this period, that Parton began to embark on a high-profile crossover campaign, attempting to aim her music in a more-mainstream direction and increase her visibility outside of the confines of country music. In 1976, she signed with the Los Angeles public-relations firm Katz-Gallin-Morey, working closely with Sandy Gallin, who served as her personal manager for the next twenty-five years.
With her 1976 album All I Can Do, co-produced by herself with Porter Wagoner, Parton began taking more of an active role in production, and began specifically aiming her music in a more mainstream, pop direction. Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs - the album contained covers of the pop and R&B classics "My Girl" and "Higher and Higher" – and the album's production. While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for. Though it topped the country albums charts, it stalled at No. 71 on the pop albums chart; the album's single, "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" only reached No. 87 on the Hot 100.
After New Harvest's disappointing chart performance, Parton turned to high profile pop producer Gary Klein for her next album. The result, 1977's Here You Come Again, became her first million-seller, topping the country albums chart and reaching No. 20 on the pop albums chart; the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil-penned title track topped the country singles chart, and became Parton's first top-ten single on the pop charts (reaching number three). A second single, the double A-sided single "Two Doors Down"/"It's All Wrong but It's All Right" also topped the country singles chart and crossed over to the pop top twenty. For the remainder of the 1970s and into the early 1980s, many of Parton's subsequent singles charted on both pop and country charts, simultaneously. Her albums during this period were developed specifically for pop-crossover success.
In 1978, Parton won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her Here You Come Again album. She continued to have hits with "Heartbreaker" (1978), "Baby I'm Burning" and "You're the Only One" (both 1979), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart; 1979's "Sweet Summer Lovin'" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart (though it still nonetheless reached the top ten). During this period, Parton's visibility continued to increase, with television appearances in 1977, 1978 and 1979. A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 (timed to coincide with Here You Come Again's release) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville. She also served as one of three co-hosts (along with Roy Clark and Glen Campbell) on the CBS special Fifty Years of Country Music. In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.
Parton's commercial success continued to grow during 1980, with three number-one hits in a row: the Donna Summer-written "Starting Over Again", "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You", and "9 to 5", which topped the country and pop charts in early 1981.[18]
With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.
"9 to 5", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 (1980) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit. Parton became one of the few female country singers to have a number-one single on the country and pop charts simultaneously. It also received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Parton's singles continued to appear consistently in the country Top 10: between 1981 and 1985, she had 12 Top 10 hits; half of those were number-one singles. Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of "I Will Always Love You" from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, "Islands in the Stream" (written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.[18] Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit "But You Know I Love You" and "The House of the Rising Sun" (both 1981), "Single Women", "Heartbreak Express" and "Hard Candy Christmas" (1982) and 1983's "Potential New Boyfriend", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U.S. dance charts.
She also continued to explore new business and entertainment ventures such as her Dollywood theme park, that opened in 1986 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with "Save the Last Dance for Me", "Downtown", "Tennessee Homesick Blues" (all 1984); "Real Love" (another duet with Kenny Rogers), "Don't Call It Love" (both 1985); and "Think About Love" (1986) all reaching the country-singles Top 10. ("Tennessee Homesick Blues" and "Think About Love" reached number one. "Real Love" also reached number one on the country-singles chart and also became a modest pop-crossover hit). However, RCA Records did not renew her contract after it expired that year, and she signed with Columbia Records in 1987.[18]
1987–94: Return to country roots[link]
Along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, she released the decade-in-the-making Trio (1987) to critical acclaim. The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is to Love Him", which went to number one. Trio won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 1987, she revived her television variety show, Dolly.
After a further attempt at pop success with 1987's Rainbow, Parton refocused on recording country material. White Limozeen (1989) produced two number-one hits in "Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That" and "Yellow Roses". Although it looked like Parton's career had been revived, it was actually just a brief revival before contemporary country music came in the early 1990s and moved all veteran artists out of the charts.[18]
A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, "Rockin' Years" (1991) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded "I Will Always Love You" for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992); both the single and the album were massively successful.
Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching #4 on the country albums charts, and #16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.
She recorded "The Day I Fall in Love" as a duet with James Ingram for the feature film Beethoven's 2nd (1993). The songwriters (Sager, Ingram, and Clif Mangess) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Parton and Ingram performed the song on the awards telecast.
Similar to her earlier collabrative album with Harris and Ronstadt, Parton released Honky Tonk Angels in the fall of 1993 with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette.[20] It was certified as Gold Album by the Recording Industry Association of America and helped revive both Wynette's and Lynn's careers.
Also in 1994, Parton contributed the song "You Gotta Be My Baby" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.
A live acoustic album, Heartsongs, featuring version of some of Parton's hits, as well as a number of traditional songs, was released in late 1994.
1995–present[link]
Parton's recorded output during the mid- to late-1990s remained steady, though somewhat eclectic.
Her 1995 re-recording of "I Will Always Love You" (performed as a duet with Vince Gill), from her album Something Special won the Country Music Association's Vocal Event of the Year Award for Parton and Gill.
The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and '70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell. (A number of the acts who wrote or initially popularized the songs appeared on the album). Parton's recording of Stevens' "Peace Train" was later remixed and released as a dance single, reaching Billboard's dance singles chart.
Her 1998 country-rock album Hungry Again was made up entirely of her own compositions. Though neither of the album's two singles, "(Why Don't More Women Sing) Honky Tonk Songs" and "Salt in my Tears", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.
A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II (1999), was released and its cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Parton was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.[20]
She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue (1999), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow (2001), with its cover of Collective Soul's "Shine" winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The third, Halos & Horns (2002) included a bluegrass version of the Led Zeppelin classic "Stairway to Heaven".
Parton released Those Were The Days (2005), her interpretation of hits from the folk-rock era of the late 1960s through the early 1970s. It featured such classics as John Lennon's "Imagine", Cat Stevens's "Where Do the Children Play?", Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover", and Pete Seeger's anti-war song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?".
Parton earned her second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Travelin' Thru," which she wrote specifically for the feature film Transamerica (2005). Because of the song's theme of uncritical acceptance of a transgender woman, Parton received death threats.[21] She also returned to number one on the country charts later in 2005 by lending her distinctive harmonies to the Brad Paisley ballad, "When I Get Where I'm Goin'".[20]
In September 2007, Parton released her first single from her own record company, Dolly Records, entitled, "Better Get to Livin'," which eventually peaked at number forty-eight on the Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. It was followed by the studio album, "Backwoods Barbie," which was released February 26, 2008, and reached number two on the country charts. The album's debut at number seventeen on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart has been the highest in her career.[22] Backwoods Barbie produced four additional singles, including the title track, which was written as part of her score for 9 to 5: The Musical, an adaptation of her feature film Nine to Five.
After the sudden death of Michael Jackson, whom Parton knew personally, she released a video in which she somberly told of her feelings on Jackson and his death.[23][24]
On October 27, 2009, Parton released a four-CD box set entitled "Dolly" that features 99 songs and spans most of her career.[25] She released her second live DVD and album, Live From London in October 2009, which was filmed during her sold out 2008 concerts at London's O2 Arena.[26] She is also working on a dance-oriented album, Dance with Dolly, which she hopes to release in 2010.[dated info][27]
Longtime friend Billy Ray Cyrus, singer of Brother Clyde, released their self-titled debut album on August 10, 2010. Parton is featured on "The Right Time," which she co-wrote with Cyrus and Morris Joseph Tancredi.
She said in 2010 that she would like to start recording a country-dance album in November, and that it should be set for release in 2011. On January 6, 2011, Parton announced her new album would be titled, Better Day. In February 2011, she announced that she would embark on the Better Day World Tour on July 17, 2011, with shows in northern Europe and the U.S.[28] The album's lead-off single, "Together You and I," was released on May 23, 2011, and Better Day was released on June 28, 2011.[29]
In 2011, Parton voiced the character Dolly Gnome in the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet.
On February 11, 2012, after the sudden death of Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton stated, "Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, “Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.”[30]
In concert and on tour[link]
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Parton toured extensively from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. In the 1960s and 1970s, Parton toured alongside other country musicians including Porter Wagoner, George Jones and Linda Ronstadt. Parton toured as a headline act in 1977 and 1978 for promote her albums, Here You Come Again and Heartbreaker. In 1982, she toured to support her Heartbreak Express album, but health problems resulted in the cancellation of a number of that tour's dates. From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the "Real Love Tour". She continued touring in 1986 with the "Thinkin' About Love Tour" and in 1989 for the "White Limozeen Tour". Her only tour in the 1990s was the "Eagle When She Files Tour," in 1991 and 1992. In 2002 she returned to the concert stage; she later went on the Backwoods Barbie Tour in 2008 promoting Backwoods Barbie.
Dollywood Foundation Shows[link]
From the early 1990s through 2001, her concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at Dollywood to benefit her Dollywood Foundation. The concerts normally followed a theme (similar to a Legends in Concert or, for example, a "fifties-music"-tribute concert). They have also included holiday shows during the Christmas season.
Halos & Horns Tour[link]
Main article: Halos & Horns Tour
After a decade-long absence from touring, Parton decided to return in 2002 with the Halos & Horns Tour, an 18-city, intimate club tour to promote Halos & Horns (2002). House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. produced the tour and it sold out all its U.S. and European dates (her first[clarification needed] in two decades).
Hello, I'm Dolly Tour[link]
Main article: Hello, I'm Dolly Tour
She returned to mid-sized-stadium venues in 2004 with her 36-city, U.S. and Canadian Hello, I'm Dolly Tour, a glitzier, more-elaborate stage show than two years earlier. With nearly 140,000 tickets sold, it was the tenth-biggest country tour of the year and grossed more than $6 million.
The Vintage Tour[link]
Main article: The Vintage Tour
In late 2005, Parton completed a 40-city tour with The Vintage Tour promoting her new Those Were the Days (2005).
An Evening with Dolly Parton[link]
Main article: An Evening with Dolly Parton
Parton scheduled mini concerts in late 2006 throughout the U.S. and Canada as a gear-up to her 17-city, 21-date An Evening with Dolly Parton. Running from March 6 to April 3, 2007, this was her first world tour in many years and her first tour in the United Kingdom since 2002.[31]
The tour sold out in every European city and gained positive reviews. It grossed just over $16 million. The most-noted feature of the shows, despite Parton being 60, was that most in attendance had never seen her in concert before. This, coupled with Parton's European popularity, led to a rapturous reception whenever she took to the stage.
Backwoods Barbie Tour[link]
Main article: Backwoods Barbie Tour
In 2008, Parton went on the Backwoods Barbie Tour. It was set to begin in the U.S. (February–April 2008) to coincide with the release of Backwoods Barbie (2008), her first mainstream-country album in 17 years.[32] However, because of back problems she postponed all U.S. dates. The tour started March 28, 2008, with 13 U.S. dates,[33] followed by 17 European shows.[31][34]
She returned to the U.S. with a concert at Humphrey's By The Bay in San Diego, California, on August 1, 2008. She performed her Backwoods Barbie Tour on August 3, 2008, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California, to a sold-out crowd and standing ovations. From August 1 to November 1, she has scheduled 16 dates on both the east and west coasts of the U.S.[dated info][34]
Better Day World Tour[link]
Main article: Better Day World Tour
In 2011, Parton embarked on the Better Day World Tour to promote her 41st studio album, Better Day (2011). The tour began on July 17 and ended on December 1. With 49 shows, she visited the United States, Northern Europe, and Australia. The ticket sales were nearly 275,000 and the overall gross was $34 million, making the tour Parton's most successful. This tour was her first to visit Australia in 30 years.
Songwriting[link]
Parton is a successful songwriter, having begun by writing country-music songs with strong elements of folk music, based upon her upbringing in humble mountain surroundings, and reflecting her family's evangelical-Christian background. Her songs "Coat of Many Colors", "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become classics in the field, as have a number of others. As a songwriter, she is also regarded as one of country music's most-gifted storytellers, with many of her narrative songs based on persons and events from her childhood. On November 4, 2003, Dolly Parton was honored as a BMI Icon at the 2003 BMI Country Awards.[35] She has earned over 35 BMI Pop and Country Awards throughout her prolific songwriting career.[36] In 2001, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[37]
In a 2009 interview with CNN's Larry King Live, Parton indicated that she had written "at least 3,000" songs, having written seriously since the age of seven. Parton went on to say that she writes something every day, be it a song or an idea.[38]
Compositions in films and television and covers[link]
Parton's songwriting has been featured prominently in several films.
In addition to the title song for Nine to Five (1980), she also recorded a second version of "I Will Always Love You" for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). The second version was another number-one country hit and also managed to reach the pop charts going to number 53 in the U.S.
"I Will Always Love You" has been covered by many country artists, including Ronstadt, on Prisoner In Disguise (1975); Kenny Rogers, on Vote for Love (1996); and LeAnn Rimes, on Unchained Melody: The Early Years (1997). Whitney Houston performed it on The Bodyguard (1992) film soundtrack and her version became the best-selling hit ever both written and performed by a female vocalist, with worldwide sales of over twelve million copies. In addition, the song has been translated into Italian and performed by the Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins, a fact referred to by Dolly herself in the Birmingham (UK) concert of the 'Backwoods Barbie' Tour.
As a songwriter, Parton has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for "9 to 5" (1980) and "Travelin' Thru" (2005). "Travelin' Thru" did win as Best Original Song award at the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2005). The song was also nominated for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2005) and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (also known as the Critics' Choice Awards) for Best Song (2005).
A cover version of "Love Is Like A Butterfly", recorded by singer Clare Torry, was used as the theme music for the British TV show Butterflies.
[edit] American Idol appearance
The music-competition, reality-television show American Idol (since 2002) has weekly themes and the April 1–2, 2008, episodes' theme was "Dolly Parton Songs" with the nine then-remaining contestants each singing a Parton composition. Parton participated as a "guest mentor" to the contestants and also performed "Jesus and Gravity" (from Backwoods Barbie and released as a single in March 2008) receiving a standing ovation from the studio audience.
[edit] 9 to 5: The Musical
Main article: 9 to 5: The Musical
Parton wrote the score (and Patricia Resnick wrote the book) for 9 to 5: The Musical, a musical-theatre adaptation of Parton's feature film Nine to Five (1980). The musical ran at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, California, in Fall 2008.
It opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in New York City, on April 30, 2009, to mixed reviews.[39] The title track of her Backwoods Barbie (2008), was written for the musical's character Doralee.[40] Though her score (as well as the musical debut of actress Allison Janney) was praised, the show struggled and closed on September 6, 2009 after 24 previews and 148 performances.
Developing the musical was not an overnight process. According to a broadcast of the public-radio program Studio 360 (October 29, 2005),[41] in October 2005 Parton was in the midst of composing the songs for a Broadway musical-theatre adaptation of the film. In late June 2007, 9 to 5: the Musical was read for industry presentations. The readings starred Megan Hilty, Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, Bebe Neuwirth and Marc Kudisch.[42]
Ambassador Theatre Group announced a 2012 UK tour for Dolly Parton's 9 to 5: The Musical, commencing at Manchester Opera House, on October 12, 2012.[43]
Musician[link]
Parton plays the autoharp, banjo, drums, dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, flute, pennywhistle and piano.[44] She began composing songs at the age of four, her mother often writing down the music as she heard Parton singing around the house. Parton often describes her talent as having "the gift of rhyme".
Acting career[link]
During the mid-1970s, Parton wanted to expand her audience base. Although her first attempt, the television variety show Dolly! (1976–1977), had high ratings, it lasted only one season, with Parton requesting to be released from her contract because of the stress it was causing her vocal cords. (She later tried a second television variety show, also entitled Dolly (1987–1988); it also lasted only one season.)
Film[link]
In her first feature film Parton portrayed a secretary in a leading role with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the comedy film 9 to 5 (1980). She received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.[45][46]
Parton also wrote and recorded the biggest solo hit of her career[citation needed] with the film's title song. It received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[46] Released as a single, the song won both the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. It also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and in was placed number 78 on the "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs" list released by the American Film Institute in 2004. Parton was also named Top Female Box Office Star by the Motion Picture Herald in both 1981 and 1982.[47]
Her second film, the musical film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), co-starring Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise,[45] earned her a second nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[46]
Parton was teamed with Sylvester Stallone for the comedy film Rhinestone (1984). The film was released with high-hopes, but upon release was critically panned, and is noted for being a box-office failure.[citation needed]
She regained her success with the comedy-drama film Steel Magnolias (1989) which co-stars Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and newcomer Julia Roberts.
Parton co-starred, with James Woods, in the comedy film Straight Talk (1992); critically panned, the film met with little success at the box-office.[citation needed]
She then tried to launch a television series entitled The Dolly Show, but the project never bore fruit.[45]
Parton made a cameo appearance as herself in the comedy film The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), an adaptation of the long-running television situation comedy of the same name (1962–1971).
She appeared as an overprotective mother in the comedy film Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002), with Dave Sheridan, Cameron Richardson and Randy Quaid.
Parton made a cameo appearance in the comedy film Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, starring Sandra Bullock.
She was featured in The Book Lady (2008), a documentary film about her campaign for children's literacy.[48]
Parton had expected to repeat her television role as Hannah's godmother in the musical comedy film Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009), but the character was omitted from the final screenplay.[49]
She had a voice role in the comedy family film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), a computer-animated film with gnomes about William Shakespeare's tragedy play Romeo and Juliet (16th century).
Parton co-starred with Queen Latifah in the musical film Joyful Noise (2012), which finished filming in April 2011.[50] Parton plays a choir director's widow who joins forces with Latifah's character, a mother of two teens, to save the Pacashau, Georgia, gospel choir after the death of her husband.[51] The film was released in theaters on January 13, 2012, to mixed reviews.[citation needed]
Television[link]
In addition to her performing appearances on The Porter Wagoner Show in the 1960s and into the 1970s; her two self-titled television variety shows in the 1970s and 1980s; and on American Idol in 2008 and other guest appearances, Parton has also acted in television roles. In 1979 she received an Emmy award nomination as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Variety Program" for her guest appearance in a Cher special. During the 1980s, she starred in two popular television concert specials: 1983's Dolly in London, filmed live in London's Dominion Theatre, and Dolly & Kenny: Real Love, a 1985 concert special with Kenny Rogers, filmed during their joint concert tour. (Parton and Rogers also filmed a popular 1984 holiday special for CBS, and the two teamed up with Willie Nelson in 1989 for another concert special Something Inside So Strong.)
Parton has appeared as a frequent presenter and performer on a number of awards shows, from the 1960s through the 2010s, and she remains a popular guest on a number of talk shows.
She starred in the television movie A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986); Wild Texas Wind (1991) Unlikely Angel (1996), portraying an angel sent back to earth following a deadly car crash; and Blue Valley Songbird (1999), where her character lives through her music.
Parton has also done voice work for animation for television series, playing herself in the Alvin and the Chipmunks (episode "Urban Chipmunk", 1983) and the character Katrina Eloise "Murph" Murphy in The Magic School Bus (episode "The Family Holiday Special", 1994).
Parton has guest starred in a number of sitcoms, including a 1990 episode of Designing Women (episode "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century") as herself, the guardian movie star of Charlene's baby.[52] She also appeared in the situation comedy series Reba (episode "Reba's Rules of Real Estate") portraying a real-estate agency owner, and on The Simpsons (episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", 1999). She also appeared as herself in 2000 on the Halloween episode of Bette Midler's sitcom Bette, and episode 14 of the Fox sitcom Babes (which was produced by Sandollar Productions, Parton and Sandy Gallin's joint production company).
She also made cameo appearances on the Disney Channel as "Aunt Dolly" visiting Hannah and her family in the fellow Tennessean Miley Cyrus's series Hannah Montana (episodes "Good Golly, Miss Dolly", 2006, "I Will Always Loathe You", 2007, and "Kiss It All Goodbye", 2010). The role came about because of her real-life relationship as Cyrus's godmother. She was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actress in Comedy Series.[53]
Businesses[link]
In 1998, Nashville Business ranked her as the wealthiest country-music star.[54]
The Dollywood Company[link]
Parton invested much of her earnings into business ventures in her native East Tennessee, notably Pigeon Forge. She is a co-owner of The Dollywood Company, which operates the theme park Dollywood (a former Silver Dollar City), a dinner theatre, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, and the waterpark Dollywood's Splash Country, all in Pigeon Forge.
Dollywood is ranked as the 24th-most-popular theme park in the U.S., with about three million visitors annually.[55] The area is a thriving tourist attraction, drawing visitors from large parts of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. This region, like most areas of Appalachia, had suffered economically for decades; Parton's business investment has helped revitalize the area.
The Dixie Stampede business also has venues in Branson, Missouri, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A former Dixie Stampede location in Orlando, Florida closed in January 2008 after the business's land and building were sold to a developer.[56] Starting in June 2011, the Myrtle beach location became Pirates Voyage Fun, Feast & Adventure; Parton appeared for the opening, and the South Carolina General Assembly declared June 3, 2011, Dolly Parton Day.[57]
On January 19, 2012, Parton's 66th birthday, Gaylord Opryland along with Dolly Parton and her Dollywood Co. announced plans to open a $50 million water and snow park, a fun and family-friendly travel destination that's open each month of the year in Nashville, Tennessee.[58]
Film and television production company[link]
Parton is a co-owner of Sandollar Productions with Sandy Gallin, her former manager. A film-and-television-production company, it produced the Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature); the television series Babes (1990–1991) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003); and the feature films Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride: Part II (1995) Straight Talk (1992) (in which Parton also starred), Sabrina (1995), among other shows. In a 2009 interview singer Connie Francis revealed that Dolly had been contacting her for years in an attempt to film the singer's life story. Francis turned down Parton's offers as she was already in negotiations with singer Gloria Estefan to produce the film, a collaboration now ended.[59]
Other businesses[link]
Briefly from 1987, Parton owned Dockside Plantation, a restaurant in the upscale neighborhood of Hawaiʻi Kai in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also had a "signature line" of wigs from Revlon in the early 1990s. The best-selling style, "Dolly's Own", is still sold by Revlon, albeit under a new style name.
Philanthropic efforts[link]
Since the mid-1980s, Parton has supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her Dollywood Foundation.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library[link]
Her literacy program, "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library",[60] a part of the Dollywood Foundation, mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten. It began in Sevier County but has now been replicated in 566 counties across 36 U.S. states (as well as in Canada).[61] In December 2007 it expanded to Europe with the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham, United Kingdom, being the first British locality to receive the books. The program distributes more than 2.5 million free books to children annually.
In 2006 Parton published a cookbook Dolly's Dixie Fixin's: Love, Laughter and Lots of Good Food.[62][63] The net profits support the Dollywood Foundation.
Other philanthropy[link]
Dollywood has been noted for bringing jobs and tax revenues to a previously depressed region. She has also worked to raise money on behalf of several other causes, including the American Red Cross and a number of HIV/AIDS-related charities.
In December 2006, Parton pledged $500,000 toward a proposed $90-million hospital and cancer center to be constructed in Sevierville in the name of Dr. Robert F. Thomas, the physician who delivered her. She also announced a benefit concert to raise additional funds for the project. The concert played to about 8,000 people.[64]
In May 2009, Parton gave the commencement address at the University of Tennessee. Her speech was about her life lessons, and she encouraged the graduates to never stop dreaming.[citation needed]
Awards and honors[link]
Parton is one of the most-honored female country performers of all time. The Record Industry Association of America has certified 25 of her single or album releases as either Gold Record, Platinum Record or Multi-Platinum Record. She has had 26 songs reach number one on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 42 career top-10 country albums, a record for any artist, and 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. All inclusive sales of singles, albums, collaboration records, compilation usage, and paid digital downloads during Parton's career have reportedly topped 174 million records around the world.[65]
She has received eight Grammy Awards and a total of 45 Grammy Award nominations.[66][67] At the 2011 Grammies she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award. At the American Music Awards she has won three awards, but has received 18 nominations. At the Country Music Association, she has received 10 awards and 42 nominations. At the Academy of Country Music, she has won seven awards and 39 nominations. She is one of only six female artists (including Reba McEntire, Barbara Mandrell, Shania Twain, Loretta Lynn, and Taylor Swift), to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, Entertainer of the Year (1978). She has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and a Tony Award.
She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording in 1984, located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California; a star on the Nashville Star Walk for Grammy winners; and a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn in Sevierville. She has called that statue of herself in her hometown "the greatest honor," because it came from the people who knew her.
Parton was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1969, and in 1986 was named one of Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year. In 1986, Parton was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1999, Parton received country music's highest honor, an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Carson-Newman College (Jefferson City, Tennessee) in 1990. This was followed by induction into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2002, Parton ranked number four in CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.
She was honored in 2003 with a tribute album called Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton. The artists who recorded versions of Parton's songs included Melissa Etheridge ("I Will Always Love You"), Alison Krauss ("9 to 5"), Twain ("Coat of Many Colors"), Me'Shell NdegéOcello ("Two Doors Down"), Norah Jones ("The Grass is Blue"), and Sinéad O'Connor ("Dagger Through the Heart"); Parton herself contributed a rerecording of the title song, originally the title song for her first RCA album in 1968. Parton was awarded the Living Legend Medal by the U.S. Library of Congress on April 14, 2004, for her contributions to the cultural heritage of the United States.[68]
This was followed in 2005 with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for excellence in the arts and is presented by the U.S. President.
On December 3, 2006, Parton received the Kennedy Center Honors from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her lifetime of contributions to the arts. Other 2006 honorees included Zubin Mehta, Steven Spielberg, Smokey Robinson and Andrew Lloyd Webber. During the show, some of country music's biggest names came to show their admiration. Carrie Underwood performed Parton's hit "Islands in the Stream" with Rogers, Parton's original duet partner. Krauss performed "Jolene" and duetted "Coat of Many Colors" with Twain. McEntire and Reese Witherspoon also came to pay tribute.
On November 16, 2010, Parton accepted the Liseberg Applause Award, the theme park industry's most prestigious honor, on behalf of Dollywood theme park during a ceremony held at IAAPA Attractions Expo 2010 in Orlando.
Philanthropy-related honors[link]
In 2003, her efforts to preserve the bald eagle through the American Eagle Foundation's sanctuary at Dollywood earned her the Partnership Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Parton received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution at a ceremony in Nashville on November 8, 2007.
For her work in literacy, Parton has received various awards including:
- Association of American Publishers – AAP Honors Award (2000)
- Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (2001) (the first time the seal had been awarded to a person)
- American Association of School Administrators – Galaxy Award (2002)
- National State Teachers of the Year – Chasing Rainbows Award (2002)
- Parents as Teachers National Center – Child and Family Advocacy Award (2003)
On May 8, 2009, Parton gave the commencement speech at the commencement ceremony in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's College of Arts and Sciences.[69] During the ceremony she received an honorary degree, a doctorate of humane and musical letters, from the university. It was only the second honorary degree given by the university, and in presenting the degree, the university's chancellor, Jimmy G. Cheek, said, "Because of her career not just as a musician and entertainer, but for her role as a cultural ambassador, philanthropist and lifelong advocate for education, it is fitting that she be honored with an honorary degree from the flagship educational institution of her home state."[70]
Image[link]
Parton has turned down several offers to pose for Playboy magazine, although she did appear on the cover of Playboy's October 1978 issue wearing a Playboy bunny outfit, complete with ears (the October 1978 Playboy issue also featured Lawrence Grobel's extensive and candid interview with Parton, representing one of her earliest high profile interviews with the mainstream press). The association of breasts with Parton's public image is illustrated in the naming of Dolly the sheep after her, since the sheep was cloned from a cell taken from an adult ewe's mammary gland.[71][72] When Parton was asked whether she minded being an eponym in this way, she joked, "No, there's no such thing as baa-ad publicity."
She has had plastic surgery.[73][74] On a 2003 broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey asked what kind of cosmetic surgery Parton had undergone. Parton stated that she felt that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image, but jokingly admitted, "If I have one more facelift, I'll have a beard!" Parton has repeatedly joked about her physical image and surgeries, saying, "If I see something sagging, bagging, and dragging, I'm going to nip it, suck it and tuck it. Why should I look like an old barn yard dog if I don't have to?" and "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap." Her breasts also garnered mention of her in several songs in the 1980s and 1990s, including "Dolly Parton's Hits" by Bobby Braddock, "Talk Like Sex" by Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, "Dolly Parton's Tits" by MacLean & MacLean,"Crazy Rap" by Afroman,"Jokes on you" by Fabolous, "Lollipop Remix" by Lil Wayne ft. Kanye West, and "Make Me Proud" by Drake ft. Nicki Minaj.
Press agent Lee Solters represented Parton and has remarked that he knew her "since she was flat-chested".[75]
Discography[link]
For a complete listing of albums by Dolly Parton, see Dolly Parton albums discography.
For a complete listing of singles by Dolly Parton, see Dolly Parton singles discography.
- Studio albums
- 1967: Hello, I'm Dolly
- 1968: Just Because I'm a Woman
- 1969: In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
- 1969: My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
- 1970: The Fairest of Them All
- 1971: Golden Streets of Glory
- 1971: Joshua
- 1971: Coat of Many Colors
- 1972: Touch Your Woman
- 1972: My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner
- 1973: My Tennessee Mountain Home
- 1973: Bubbling Over
- 1974: Jolene
- 1974: Love Is Like a Butterfly
- 1975: The Bargain Store
- 1975: Dolly: The Seeker/We Used To
- 1976: All I Can Do
- 1977: New Harvest... First Gathering
- 1977: Here You Come Again
- 1978: Heartbreaker
- 1979: Great Balls of Fire
- 1980: Dolly, Dolly, Dolly
- 1980: 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
- 1982: Heartbreak Express
- 1983: Burlap & Satin
- 1984: The Great Pretender
- 1985: Real Love
- 1987: Rainbow
- 1989: White Limozeen
- 1991: Eagle When She Flies
- 1993: Slow Dancing with the Moon
- 1995: Something Special
- 1996: Treasures
- 1998: Hungry Again
- 1999: The Grass Is Blue
- 2001: Little Sparrow
- 2002: Halos & Horns
- 2003: For God and Country
- 2005: Those Were the Days
- 2008: Backwoods Barbie
- 2011: Better Day
Filmography[link]
| Motion-picture title | Release year | Role | Notes | Gross revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 to 5 | 1980 | Doralee Rhodes | nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | $107,000,000 |
| Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, TheThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | 1982 | Mona Stangley | nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | $72,000,000 |
| Rhinestone | 1984 | Jake | $32,000,000. | |
| Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Truvy Jones | $105,000,000 | |
| Straight Talk | 1992 | Shirlee Kenyon | $28,000,000 | |
| Beverly Hillbillies, TheThe Beverly Hillbillies | 1993 | Herself | cameo appearance | $113,000,000 |
| Unlikely Angel | 1996 | Ruby Dimond | $73,000,000 | |
| Frank McKlusky, C.I. | 2002 | Edith McKlusky | $18,000,000 | |
| Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | 2005 | herself | cameo appearance | $102,000,000 |
| Gnomeo and Juliet | 2011 | Dolly Gnome | voice | $195,000,000 |
| The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom | 2011 | herself | voice cameo | |
| Joyful Noise | 2012 | G.G. Sparrow | $31,000,000 (US) |
| Television program | Release year | Role | Notes | Episode title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolly and Carol in Nashville | 1979 | Trudy/herself | TV movie | |
| Lily: Sold Out | 1981 | herself | TV movie | |
| Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember | 1984 | herself | TV special | |
| Smoky Mountain Christmas, AA Smoky Mountain Christmas | 1986 | Lorna Davis | TV movie | |
| Wild Texas Wind | 1991 | Thiola "Big T" Rayfield | TV movie | |
| Heavens to Betsy | 1994 | Betsy Baxter | TV series | pilot episode, unaired |
| Mindin' My Own Business | 1994 | Catering business owner | pilot episode, unaired | |
| Unlikely Angel | 1996 | Ruby Diamond | TV movie | |
| The Magic School Bus | 1996 | Katrina Eloise "Murph" Murphy | TV series | "The Family Holiday Special" |
| Blue Valley Songbird | 1999 | Leanna Taylor | TV movie | |
| Reba | 2005 | Dolly Majors | TV series | "Reba's Rules of Real Estate" |
| Hannah Montana | 2006, 2007, 2010 | Aunt Dolly | TV series |
|
| Title | Year | Role | Notes | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porter Wagoner Show, TheThe Porter Wagoner Show | 1967–1974 | regular singer | All | |
| Dolly! | 1976–1977 | host and performer | All | |
| Cher... Special | 1978 | herself | nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program | |
| Lily Tomlin Special, TheThe Lily Tomlin Special | 1981 | herself | ||
| Alvin and the Chipmunks | 1987 !1987 | herself | one episode | |
| Dolly | 1987.5 !1987–1988 | host | 22 episodes | |
| Bob Hope's Christmas Special | 1988 | herself | ||
| Designing Women | 1990 | herself – The Guardian Movie Star | "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire 20th century: Part 1 & 2" | |
| Babes | 1991 | herself | cameo appearance | "Hello Dolly" |
| Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story | 1995 | herself | cameo appearance | |
| Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge | 1995 | herself | ||
| Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story | 1997 | herself | cameo appearance | |
| Simpsons, TheThe Simpsons | 1999 | herself | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" | |
| Jackie's Back | 1999 | herself | cameo appearance | |
| Bette | 2000 | herself | cameo appearance | "Halloween" |
| 19 Kids and Counting | 2009 | herself | cameo appearance | "Duggars Go To Dollywood" |
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- Parton, Dolly (1994). Dolly: My Life And Other Unfinished Business. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-017720-9.
- Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top Country Songs 1944–2005. Billboard/Record Research Inc.. ISBN 0-89820-165-9.
Further reading[link]
- Miller, Stephen (2008). Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton. Omnibus Press. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/978186097607|978186097607]] .
- Nash, Alanna (2002). Dolly: The Biography. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 978-0-8154-1242-7 .
- Pasternak, Judith Mahoney (1998). Dolly Parton. Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56799-557-2 .
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- Dolly Parton discography at MusicBrainz
- Works by or about Dolly Parton in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- "Dolly Parton", inductee page at countrymusichalloffame.com Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's official website
- "Dolly Parton" biography at legacyrecordings.com, Legacy Recordings's official website
- "Dolly Parton – Interview", posted November 18, 2008, at countrymusicpride.com
- "A Conversation with Singer and Actress Dolly Parton", a June 5, 2009, video interview (requires Adobe Flash) from the Charlie Rose (talk show), a PBS television program, at charlierose.com, Rose's official website
- Dolly Parton video interview from the talk show 'Parkinson' at BBC
- Reporter: Morley Safer (June 7, 2009). "Dolly Parton: The Real Queen Of All Media". 60 Minutes. CBS. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/02/60minutes/main4914137_page1.shtml.
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| Name | Parton, Dolly |
| Alternative names | Parton, Dolly Rebecca |
| Short description | Singer-songwriter, actress |
| Date of birth | January 19, 1946 |
| Place of birth | Sevierville, Tennessee, United States |
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For the baseball pitcher, see Kenny Rogers (baseball).
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| Kenny Rogers, concert, Chumash Casino Resort hall, Santa Ynez, California, September 27, 2006. Kenny Rogers, concert, Chumash Casino Resort hall, Santa Ynez, California, September 27, 2006. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kenneth Donald Rogers[1] |
| Born | (1938-08-21) August 21, 1938 (age 73) |
| Origin | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Country, country pop, rock (with The First Edition) |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actor, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Labels | Cue, Carlton, Mercury, United Artists, RCA, Reprise, Giant, Atlantic, Curb, Dreamcatcher, Capitol Nashville, WEA |
| Associated acts | The New Christy Minstrels, The First Edition, Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Dottie West, Juice Newton, Sheena Easton, Kim Carnes, Ronnie Milsap, Lionel Richie |
| Website | www.kennyrogers.com |
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers[1] (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.
Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever".[2] He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People.[3] He has received numerous such awards as the AMAs, Grammys, ACMs and CMAs, as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003.[4]
Later success includes the 2006 album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that peaked at #5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting high in the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Can't Unlove You," was also a chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, the following year he completed a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, telling BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright his favorite hit was "The Gambler". He has also acted in a variety of movies and television shows, most notably the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler and the MacShayne series as well as his appearance on The Muppet Show.[5][6]
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Personal life[link]
Rogers was born in Houston, Texas, in 1938, the fourth of seven children born to Lucille (née Hester; d. 1991), a nurse, and Edward Floyd Rogers (d. 1975), a carpenter.[7] Rogers graduated from Jefferson Davis High School in Houston.
Career[link]
Early career[link]
His career began in the mid 1950s when he recorded with a doo-wop group called The Scholars, who had some success with a single called "Poor Little Doggie." Rogers was not the lead singer of the group and after two more singles they disbanded when their leader went solo.
Now on his own, Kenneth Rogers (as he was billed then) followed the breakup with his own single, a minor solo hit called "That Crazy Feeling" (1958). After sales slowed down, Rogers joined a jazz group called The Bobby Doyle Trio, who got a lot of work in clubs thanks to a reasonable fan following and also recorded for Columbia Records. The group disbanded in 1965, and a 1966 jazzy rock single Rogers recorded for Mercury Records, called "Here's That Rainy Day" failed. Rogers also worked as a producer, writer and session musician for other performers; including country artists Mickey Gilley and Eddy Arnold. In 1966 he joined The New Christy Minstrels as a singer and double bass player.
Feeling that the Minstrels were not offering the success they wanted, Rogers and fellow members Mike Settle, Terry Williams, and Thelma Camacho left the group. They formed The First Edition in 1967 (later renamed "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition"). They chalked up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Something's Burning", "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", "Reuben James" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." In his First Edition days, Rogers had something of a hippie image, sporting long brown hair, an earring, and pink sunglasses.
When the group split in 1976, Rogers launched his solo career. Rogers soon developed a more middle of the road sound, with a somewhat rough but tuneful voiced style that sold to both pop and country audiences; to date, he has charted more than 60 top 40 hit singles (including upwards of 25 #1's) and 50 of his albums have charted. His music has also been featured in top selling movie soundtracks, such as Convoy, Urban Cowboy and The Big Lebowski.[8][9]
Solo career[link]
After leaving The First Edition in 1976, after almost a decade with the group, Rogers signed a solo deal with United Artists. Butler and Rogers began a partnership that would last four years.
Rogers first outing for his new label was Love Lifted Me. The album charted and two singles "Love Lifted Me" and "While the Feeling's Good" were minor hits. The song "Runaway Girl" was featured in the motion picture Trackdown. Later in 1976, Rogers issued his second album, the self-titled Kenny Rogers, whose first single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", was another solo hit.
The single "Lucille" (1977) was a major hit, reaching number one on the pop charts in 12 countries, selling over five million copies, and firmly establishing Rogers' post-First Edition career. On the strength of "Lucille", the album Kenny Rogers reached #1 in the Billboard Country Album Chart. More success was to follow, including the multi-million selling album The Gambler and another international Number 1 single, "Coward of the County", taken from the equally successful album, Kenny. In 1980, the Rogers/Butler partnership came to an end, though they would occasionally reunite: in 1987 on the album I Prefer the Moonlight and again in 1993 on the album If Only My Heart Had a Voice.
In the late 1970s, Rogers teamed up with close friend and country singer Dottie West for a series of albums and duets. Together the duo had three hit albums, selling out stadiums and arenas while on tour. Their hits together "Every Time Two Fools Collide", "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" and "What Are We Doin' in Love" became Country standards. Of West, Rogers stated in a 1995 TNN interview "She, more than anybody else I ever worked with, sang with such emotion that you actually believed what she sang." Rogers was with West when she died after sustaining injuries in a 1991 car accident. In 1995 he starred opposite Michele Lee in the CBS biopic Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story.[citation needed]
In 1980, his duet with Kim Carnes "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" became a major hit. Later in 1980 came his partnership with Lionel Richie who wrote and produced Rogers' #1 hit "Lady". Richie went on to write and produce Rogers' 1981 album Share Your Love, a chart topper and commercial favorite featuring hits such as "I Don't Need You" (Pop #3), "Through the Years" (Pop #13), and "Share Your Love with Me" (Pop #14). His first Christmas album was also released that same year. In 1982, Rogers released the album Love Will Turn You Around. The Love Will Turn You Around (song) reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the country and AC charts. due to its exposure as the theme song of Rogers' 1982 film Six Pack. Shortly after he started working with producer David Foster in 1983 recording the smash Bob Seger cover "We've Got Tonight", a duet with Sheena Easton.
He went on to work with the Bee Gees to record and produce his 1983 hit album Eyes That See in the Dark, featuring the title track and yet another #1 hit "Islands in the Stream", a duet with Dolly Parton. The Gibbs originally wrote the song for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style, only later to change it for the Kenny Rogers album.[10] The partnership with Bee Gees only lasted one album, which was not a surprise considering that Rogers' original intentions were to work with Barry Gibb in only one song but Barry insisted on them doing the entire album.
"Islands in the Stream", Rogers' duet with Dolly Parton, was the first single to be released from Eyes That See in the Dark in the United States, and it quickly went to #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 (it would prove to be the last country single to reach #1 on that chart until "Amazed" by Lonestar did so in 2000), as well as topping Billboard's country and adult contemporary singles charts; it was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping two million copies in the United States. Rogers would reunite with Parton in 1984 for a holiday album and TV special, Once Upon a Christmas, as well as a 1985 duet "Real Love", which also topped the U.S. country singles chart.[citation needed]
Despite the "Islands in the Stream"s success, however, RCA insisted on releasing Eyes' title track as the first UK single, and the song stalled at a disappointing #61 there, although it did stay in the top 100 for several weeks (when it was eventually released in the United States, it was more successful, charting high on the Adult Contemporary chart and making the country top 30). "Islands in the Stream" was issued as a followup single in Britain and sold well, making #7. The album itself reached #1 on the country charts on both sides of the Atlantic and enjoyed multi-million sales. "Buried Treasure," "This Woman" and "Evening Star"/"Midsummer Nights" were also all successful singles from the album.
Shortly after came the album What About Me?, a hit whose title track, a trio performance with James Ingram and Kim Carnes, was nominated for a Grammy award; the single "Crazy" (not to be confused with the Willie Nelson-penned Patsy Cline hit) topped the country charts. David Foster was to work again with Rogers in his 1985 album The Heart of the Matter, although this time Foster was playing backing music rather than producing, a role given to George Martin. This album was another success, going to #1, with the title track making to the top ten category in the singles charts.
The next few years saw Rogers scoring several top country hits on a regular basis, including "Twenty Years Ago," "Morning Desire," "Tomb of the Unknown Love", among others. On January 28, 1985 Rogers was one of the 45 artists who recorded the worldwide charity song "We Are the World" to support hunger victims in Africa. The following year he played at Giants Stadium.[citation needed]
In January 1987, Rogers co-hosted the American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. In 1988 Rogers won a grammy "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" with Ronnie Milsap — "Make No Mistake, She's Mine". In the 1990s Rogers continued to chart with singles such as "Crazy In Love", "If You Want To Find Love" and "The Greatest". His second Christmas album entitled "Christmas in America" was released in 1989 for Reprise Records. From 1991-94, Rogers hosted The Real West on A&E, and on The History Channel since 1995 (Reruns only on The History Channel). He visited Miller's during this time period. From 1992-95, Rogers co-owned and headlined Branson, Missouri's 4,000 seat Grand Palace Theatre. In 1994, Rogers released his "dream" album titled Timepiece on Atlantic Records. It consisted of 1930s/40s jazz standards; it was the type of music he performed in his early days with The Bobby Doyle Three in Houston.[citation needed]
In 1996 he released an album Vote For Love where the public requested their favorite love songs and Rogers performed the songs (several of his own hits were in there). The album was the first for the TV shopping channel QVC's record label, onQ Music. The album, sold exclusively by QVC, was a huge success and was later issued in stores under a variety of different titles. It reached #1 in the UK country charts under the title Love Songs (a title also used for various compilations) and also crossed over into the mainstream charts.
In 1999 Rogers scored with the single "The Greatest", a song about life from a child's point of view (looked at through a baseball game). The song reached the top 40 of Billboard's Country singles chart and was a Country Music Television Number One video. It was on Rogers' album She Rides Wild Horses the following year (itself a top 10 success). In 1999, Rogers also produced a song, "We've Got It All", specifically for the series finale of the ABC show Home Improvement. Not on any album, the recording sells for a high sum at auction.[citation needed]
Beyond the 1990s[link]
In the 21st century, Rogers was back at #1 for the first time in more than a decade with the 2000 single "Buy Me a Rose". In doing so, he broke a 26-year-old record held by Hank Snow (who, in April 1974, was 59 years and 11 months old when he scored with "Hello Love"). Rogers held the record until 2003, when then 70-year-old Willie Nelson became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 on the country charts with his duet with Toby Keith, "Beer for My Horses".
Although Rogers did not record new albums for a couple of years, he continued to have success in many countries with more greatest hits packages. In 2004 42 Ultimate Hits, which was the first hits collection to span his days with the First Edition to the present, reached Number 6 on the American country charts and went gold. It also featured two new songs, "My World Is Over" with Whitney Duncan and "We Are the Same". "My World Is Over" was released as a single and was a minor hit. In 2005 The Very Best of Kenny Rogers, a double album, sold well in Europe. It was the first new solo Kenny Rogers hits album to reach the United Kingdom for over a decade, despite many compilations there that were not true hits packages.
Rogers also signed with Capitol Records and had more success with the TV advertised release 21 Number Ones in January 2006. Although this CD did contain 21 chart-toppers as the title claims (recorded between 1976 and the present day), this was not a complete collection of Rogers' #1 singles, omitting such singles as "Crazy in Love" and "What About Me?"
Much of his success was during the period from 1976 to 1983, when he was signed to United Artists and later Liberty. It is very rare for an artist of Rogers' age to be signed to a major label. Capitol followed 21 Number Ones with Rogers' new studio album, Water And Bridges, in March 2006 on the Capitol Nashville Records label. The first single from the album was "I Can't Unlove You" which peaked at # 1 7 on the country charts, after spending over 6 months on the hit list, more than 50 years after he formed his first group and 38 years after his first major hit as leader of The First Edition; the song remains in recurrent airplay on some radio stations today. "I Can't Unlove You" was followed up with the second single from the album, "The Last Ten Years (Superman)", in September 2006. The third single, "Calling Me," which features Don Henley, became popular in early 2007, and was nominated for a Grammy Award at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Also in 2007, the 1977 "Kenny Rogers" album was re-issued as a double play CD, also featuring the 1979 "Kenny" album and this once again put Rogers' name into the sales charts worldwide. The following year, another compilation album ("A Love Song Collection") also charted. He currently lives in Atlanta.
As of 2011 Rogers has recorded 65 albums and sold over 190 million records.[11][12]
On August 26, 2008, Rogers released "50 Years"[13] exclusively at Cracker Barrel stores. The album includes some of Rogers' greatest hits, plus 3 new songs. The release is designed to celebrate Rogers' 50th year in the music business. However, it should be noted Rogers has been in the music business for more than 50 years including his releases with The Scholars, who recorded for a local label in Houston. 1958 was the year he signed his first recording deal with a major label. In 2007 the England national rugby union team team adopted Rogers song "The Gambler" as their unofficial 2007 Rugby World Cup anthem,[14] after hearing prop Matt Stevens playing it in the team hotel. Before the Semi-final against France and the Final against South Africa, Rogers sent video messages of support to the team in light of them choosing his song. He offered to come to England and party with the team if they won the World Cup.
In 2008 Rogers toured with his Christmas Show. He split the show up, making the first half his "best of" and the second half his Christmas songs. One such show was at Mohegan Sun Casino[15] in Uncasville, Connecticut.
In 2009 he toured the United Kingdom. In 2009, Rogers embarked on his 50th Anniversary Tour. The tour went around the United States, Britain and Ireland.
On April 10, 2010, a TV special was taped, Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years. Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie were among those set to perform with Kenny during a show celebrating his contribution to country, blues and pop music, It took place at the MGM Grand in Foxwoods. This special is set debut on March 8, 2011 on Great American Country.[dated info]
Outside music[link]
Rogers also had success as an actor. His 1982 movie Six Pack, in which he played a race-car driver, took more than $20 million at the United States box office, while made-for-TV movies such as The Gambler, Christmas in America, and Coward of the County (based on hit songs of his) topped ratings lists.
As an entrepreneur, he collaborated with former Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown, Jr. in 1991 to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. The chicken and ribs chain, which is similar to Boston Market, was famously featured in an episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld called "The Chicken Roaster". On the November 27, 1997, broadcast of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Rogers could not pick his chicken out in a taste test, claiming he preferred "greasy burgers."[citation needed]
Rogers and his restaurant were subjects of comedy from MADtv, especially the impersonation done by Will Sasso; the sketch of the faux-Rogers hosting Jackass became popular on the Internet.
Rogers put his name to the Gambler Chassis Co., a Sprint car racing manufacturer started by C. K. Spurlock in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The company used the name from Rogers hit song The Gambler. During the 1980s/90s, Gambler was one of the fastest and widely used Sprintcars with such drivers as Steve Kinser, Sammy Swindell and Doug Wolfgang driving the cars to victory in the World of Outlaws and the famous Knoxville Nationals. Gambler sprintcars were also successful in Australia with drivers such as Garry Rush and Steve Brazier using Gamblers to win multiple Australian Sprintcar Championships.
Rogers appeared in a 2004 episode of Reno 911 as himself being subjected to incompetent security provided by starstruck sheriff's deputies to comical effect.
Marriages[link]
- Wanda Miller, June 1, 1997 – present; 2 children
- Marianne Gordon, October 1, 1977 – 1993, divorced; 1 child
- Margo Anderson, October 1964 – 1976, divorced; 1 child
- Jean Rogers, October 1960 – 1963, divorced
- Janice Gordon, May 15, 1958 – April 1960, divorced; 1 child[16]
Discography[link]
Main article: Kenny Rogers discography
Awards/Honors[link]
| Year | Award | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | American Eagle Award | American Eagle Award[17] |
| 2009 | ACM Honors | Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award[18] (w/ Jerry Reed, Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr.) |
| 2007 | ASCAP Golden Note Award | ASCAP Golden Note Award[19] |
| 2007 | CMT Music Awards | Album of the Year — Water & Bridges |
| 2005 | CMT Music Awards | Favorite All Time Country Duet — "Islands In the Stream" (w/ Dolly Parton) |
| 2004 | CMT's 100 Greatest Cheating Songs | "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" — #6 |
| 2003 | International Entertainment Buyers Association | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2003 | CMT's 100 Greatest Country Songs | "The Gambler" — #26 |
| 2002 | CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music | Ranking — #19 |
| 2000 | TNN Music Awards | Career Achievement Award |
| 1999 | BBC's Greatest Country Singer | Ranking — #2 |
| 1988 | Grammy Awards | Best Duo Country Vocal Performance — "Make No Mistake She's Mine" (w/ Ronnie Milsap) |
| 1986 | USA Today | Favorite Singer of All Time |
| 1985 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Album — Eyes That See In the Dark |
| 1985 | American Music Awards | Favorite Male Country Artist |
| 1983 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Single of the Year — "Islands In the Stream" (w/ Dolly Parton) |
| 1983 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Vocal Duet — (w/ Dolly Parton) |
| 1983 | American Music Awards | Favorite Pop/Rock Country Artist |
| 1983 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Single — "Love Will Turn You Around" |
| 1983 | ASAP Awards | Favorite Single — "Islands In the Stream" (w/ Dolly Parton) |
| 1982 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Album — Greatest Hits |
| 1981 | American Music Awards | Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist |
| 1981 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Album — The Gambler |
| 1981 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Single — "Coward of the County" |
| 1980 | American Music Awards | Favorite Male Country Artist |
| 1980 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Album — The Gambler |
| 1980 | Music City News Country | Single of the Year |
| 1979 | American Music Awards | Favorite Male Country Artist |
| 1979 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country Album — 10 Years of Gold |
| 1979 | Country Music Association Awards | Male Vocalist of the Year |
| 1979 | Country Music Association Awards | Vocal Duo of the Year — (w/ Dottie West) |
| 1979 | Country Music Association Awards | Album of the Year — The Gambler |
| 1979 | Music City News Country | Male Artist of the Year |
| 1979 | Music City News Country | Single of the Year — "The Gambler" |
| 1979 | Grammy Awards | Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "The Gambler" |
| 1978 | American Music Awards | Favorite Single — "Lucille" |
| 1978 | Country Music Association Awards | Vocal Duo of the Year — (w/ Dottie West) |
| 1978 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Entertainer of the Year |
| 1978 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Male Vocalist |
| 1977 | Country Music Association Awards | Single of the Year — "Lucille" |
| 1977 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top Male Vocalist |
| 1977 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Single of the Year — "Lucille" |
| 1977 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Song of the Year — "Lucille" |
| 1977 | Grammy Awards | Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "Lucille" |
Record labels[link]
The following is a list of record labels to which Rogers signed:
- Cue (1957, with the band The Scholars and also as a solo singer)
- Carlton (1958, solo deal)
- KenLee (one single, label owned by Rogers and his brother Lelan)
- Columbia (1960s, with jazz combo, The Bobby Doyle Three)
- Reprise (1967, with The First Edition, all material recorded during this time has since been acquired by Universal Music)
- Jolly Rogers (1973, with The First Edition, label was owned by Rogers)
- United Artists (1975, solo deal)
- Liberty (1980, United Artists merged into EMI/Capitol in 1980; some pressings of albums were issued on Capitol's imprint labels, EMI, EMI America, and EMI Manhattan.)
- RCA (1983, solo deal)
- Reprise (1989, solo deal)
- Giant (1993, one solo album)
- Atlantic (1994, one solo album)
- onQ Music (1996, one solo album; onQ Music was created by the QVC Network to release exclusive albums for sale only on QVC. The first onQ release was Rogers' Vote for Love, a two-disc set that would later become available in standard retail stores.)
- Magnatone (1996, solo deal)
- Dreamcatcher (1998, solo deal; Dreamcatcher was owned and run by Rogers and Jim Mazza for the purpose of releasing Rogers albums and certain reissues of Rogers' catalog. Other artists such as Marshall Dyllon and Randy Dorman were released on Dreamcatcher Records, also. The label closed in 2004)
- Capitol Nashville (2004, solo deal)
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ a b per A&E Biography special
- ^ Gambler & Kenny are on About.com's poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever"
- ^ voted 1986 "Favorite Singer of All-Time" by readers of USA Today and People
- ^ CMT.com: Rogers Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- ^ IMDb.com: Kenny Rogers
- ^ IMDb.com: "The Muppet Show" Episode #4.10 (1979)
- ^ "Kenny Rogers Biography". Filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Kenny-Rogers.html. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ "The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Lebowski-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B000001EYO. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ "Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Cowboy-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B000002H4B/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1336598742&sr=1-1. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ Johnny Walker interview with Robin and Barry Gibb BBC Radio 2 30 August 2010 17:00
- ^ Malachowski, David (2010-12-09). "Kenny Rogers plays Christmas music and his own hits". Times Union. http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Kenny-Rogers-plays-Christmas-music-and-his-own-868545.php. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ Iain Shedden (2010-12-31). "Country's singalong king Kenny Rogers swings in". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/countrys-singalong-king-kenny-rogers-swings-in/story-e6frg8n6-1225978936492. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ "Kenny Rogers Q&A — Celebrates New Project with Old Classics. AOL Music Canada". Music.aol.ca. 2009-03-24. http://music.aol.ca/article/kenny-rogers-celebrates-new-project-of-old-classics/336423. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ Britten, Nick (2007-10-10). "The Telegraph". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565734/Kenny-the-Gambler-Rogers-backs-England.html. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ "Mohegan Sun Casino". Newsroom.mohegansun.com. 2008-12-11. http://newsroom.mohegansun.com/2008/12/11/the-best-entertainers-are-heading-to-mohegan-this-holiday-season.html. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ Kenny Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "National Music Council". Musiccouncil.org. http://www.musiccouncil.org/american-eagle-awards. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ September 23, 2009; Written by Edward Morris (2009-09-23). "CMT News". Cmt.com. http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1622170/acm-bestows-pioneer-status-to-kenny-rogers-randy-travis-jerry-reed-hank-williams-jr.jhtml. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
- ^ "ASCAP". ASCAP. 2007-09-18. https://www.ascap.com/press/2007/091807_cma.html. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
External links[link]
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Book: Kenny Rogers |
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- Kenny Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website
- Delafont.com profile
- Allmusic.com profile
- CMT.com profile
- Kenny Rogers' Classic Weekend 1988
- Goldsmith, Thomas. (1998). "Kenny Rogers". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 455–6.
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| Alternative names | Kenneth Donald Rogers; Kenneth Ray Rogers |
| Short description | American singer-songwriter, musician, businessman |
| Date of birth | 1938-08-21 |
| Place of birth | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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This article is about the musician. For the former Bush Administration aide, see Adam Levine (press aide).
| Adam Levine | |
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 Levine during a press conference in Singapore in 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Adam Noah Levine |
| Born | (1979-03-18) March 18, 1979 (age 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative rock, funk rock, pop rock, soul, rhythm and blues |
| Occupations | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, piano |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | A&M Octone |
| Associated acts | Maroon 5, Kara's Flowers, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Natasha Bedingfield, Ying Yang Twins, Alicia Keys, K'naan, Rihanna, Slash, Gym Class Heroes, Christina Aguilera |
| Website | www.maroon5.com |
Adam Noah Levine[1] (born March 18, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the front man and guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice.
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Early life[link]
Levine was born in Los Angeles to Fred and Patsy (née Noah) Levine. His uncle is journalist and author Timothy Noah.[2] He has a brother, Michael, and a sister, Julia.[3] When he was six years old, he made the winning shot of his local YMCA championship basketball game (on a team his father coached) with no time left on the clock. He has said that the incident changed his life and gave him the confidence to be successful.[4][5]
Levine attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts Camp (Hancock, NY) with best friend Jesse Carmichael, guitar player of the band known at that time as Kara's Flowers. He graduated from Brentwood School in 1997.
Levine has Jewish ancestry on both sides of his family (his father and maternal grandfather were Jewish), and considers himself Jewish, though according to The Jewish Chronicle, who interviewed Levine, he "has rejected formal religious practice for a more generalized, spiritual way of life". He chose not to have a Bar Mitzvah as a child.[6]
Original band Kara's Flowers[link]
Having met at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, the band released their first album titled The Fourth World in 1997 as high school seniors. That same year the band appeared on an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. The album had little success, and its only single, "Soap Disco", failed commercially. Disappointed with the results of their album, the band members went their separate ways.[7]
Levine and Carmichael left Los Angeles for New York. This was the first time the two Los Angeles natives were exposed to a completely different music scene, a cultural awakening for the young men.[8] On MTV News, in 2002, Levine said, "That's when I started waking up to the whole hip hop, R&B thing. We had friends named Chaos and shit. It was not Brentwood High."[9]
Maroon 5 and mainstream success[link]
During this time, Levine worked a two-week stint as a waiter at Johnny Rockets.[10] After dropping out of Five Towns College, Levine and Jesse reunited with Mickey and Ryan, but added former Square guitarist, James Valentine in 2001. Renaming the band Maroon 5, Levine and his friends began to compile all of their newfound musical influences into their music. While Levine was working as a writer's assistant on the television show "Judging Amy," he spent time writing the lyrics about his ex-girlfriend, Jane. Those lyrics became the album "Songs About Jane."[10]
Other work[link]
Levine has collaborated with various musical acts. In 2005, Levine was featured on the Ying Yang Twins song "Live Again". He appeared on Kanye West's Late Registration album, on the third single, "Heard 'Em Say".[11] He is also featured in the song "Wild Horses" on Alicia Keys' third album Alicia Keys: MTV Unplugged. Over the next year, he co-wrote the track "Say It Again" on Natasha Bedingfield's album N.B.. He also performed the background vocals on this song. Most recently, Levine offered his vocals on Gym Class Heroes' newest album in the song "Stereo Hearts".
Levine has made four notable comic appearances on television. During 2007, he appeared on the 33rd season premiere of Saturday Night Live in an SNL Digital Short called Iran So Far with Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen and Jake Gyllenhaal. Levine played himself while singing a humorous bridge to a "love song" for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2008, he appeared on Comedy Central's "Night Of Too Many Stars". Levine also had a cameo on Jimmy Kimmel Live for the night of stars and endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.
In October 2008, Levine collaborated with First Act to create the First Act 222 Guitar, fashioned to Levine's specifications. The guitar was made available for purchase at Target retail stores.[12]
Levine has stated in various interviews that he does not plan on continuing in Maroon 5 forever, and may stop after the tour for Maroon 5's third album.[13][14] In 2009, he recorded "Gotten", a song for Slash's first solo album Slash released in April 2010. "Gotten" was premiered at amazon.com on March 29, 2010.[15] Levine is also featured as a singer for his band's song "She Will be Loved" in the music rhythm game Band Hero. In February 2010, he was among approximately 80 musicians who sang on the charity-single remake of "We Are the World" called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti".[citation needed]
Levine is one of the contestant judges and coach mentors on the singing TV show, The Voice.[16] The winner of the first season, Javier Colon, was on Levine's team. Levine also returned as a coach for Season 2 of The Voice. His team consisted of Mathai (singer), Pip (singer), Tony Lucca, Katrina Parker, Karla Davis, and Kim Yarbrough. Levine will appear in the second season of American Horror Story.[17]
Personal life[link]
Levine's ex-girlfriend Jane is the inspiration behind the name of the band's debut album Songs About Jane. In a 2004 interview, he claimed that she had not contacted him despite the success of the album.[18]
In September 2010, Levine said on the Howard Stern Show he had been dating Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit and Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna seriously for about eight months. The couple met when Maroon 5 performed at the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas.[19] In April 2012, Levine and Vyalitsyna announced that they had split.[20]
Levine stripped naked for testicular cancer awareness for a centerfold in Cosmopolitan UK's February 2011 issue.[21]
During Levine's teenage years, he was medically diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In 2011, he launched an educational campaign to raise awareness of ADHD, titled "Own It".[22]
Levine, whose brother is openly gay, is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights.[23] In 2011, he made a video[24] on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project. In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8".[23]
Discography[link]
See also: Maroon 5 discography
As a featured artist[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
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| US [25] |
US Pop [25] |
AUS [26] |
CAN [25] |
GER [25] |
IRL [27] |
NL [28] |
NZ [29] |
SWE [30] |
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| "Heard 'Em Say" (Kanye West featuring Adam Levine) |
2005 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 19 | 95 | 23 | 67 | 15 | – | 22 | Late Registration | |
| "Say It Again" (Natasha Bedingfield featuring Adam Levine) |
2007 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | N.B. / Pocketful of Sunshine | |
| "Bang Bang" (K'naan featuring Adam Levine) |
2008 | – | – | – | 71 | – | – | – | – | – | 105 | Troubadour | |
| "Stereo Hearts" (Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine) |
2011 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | – | 4 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 3 | The Papercut Chronicles II | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or receive certification. | |||||||||||||
Other charted songs[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
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| US [25] |
CAN [25] |
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| "Man in the Mirror (Michael Jackson Cover)" (Javier Colon with Adam Levine) |
2011 | 45 | 66 | non-album song |
Guest appearances[link]
| Title | Year | Album | Artist(s) |
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| "Live Again" | 2005 | U.nited S.tate of A.tlanta | Ying Yang Twins |
| "Wild Horses" | Unplugged | Alicia Keys | |
| "Bang Bang" | 2009 | Troubadour | K'naan |
| "Gotten" | 2010 | Slash | Slash |
Further reading[link]
- Kimpel, Dan (2006), How They Made It: True Stories of How Music's Biggest Stars Went from Start to Stardom!. Location unknown:Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-634-07642-6
References[link]
- ^ Patterson, Sylvia (August 26, 2007). "Maroon 5: They will be loved". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667504/Maroon-5-They-will-be-loved.html.
- ^ Noah, Timothy (January 20, 2009). "Inaugorophobia, Part 2". Slate.com. Archived from the original on January 24, 2011. http://www.slate.com/id/2209249/. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Levin-Epstein, Amy (date unknown), "Big Shot". MSN, courtesy of Best Life. (accessed January 16, 2009)
- ^ Rodman, Sarah (October 23, 2007). "Levine balances silliness and soul". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-10-23/news/maroon5_1_band-maroon-5-levine. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ^ Lester, Paul (February 11, 2011). "Interview: Adam Levine". The Jewish Chronicle Online. http://www.thejc.com/arts/music/45058/interview-adam-levine. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
- ^ Rosen, Craig (June 4, 2005), "MAROON 5". Billboard. 117 (23):
- ^ Kimpel, 2006, p88
- ^ Newt Briggs (2004). "Off the Charts: Maroon 5" lasvegasmercury.com (accessed February 27, 2007)
- ^ a b Smith, RJ (June 2007), "Dear Superstar: Adam Levine". Blender. (accessed January 16, 2009)
- ^ Moss, Corey (December 19, 2005), "Move Over, Justin: Adam Levine Is Hip-Hop's New Favorite White Boy". MTV.com (accessed January 18, 2009)
- ^ (October 9, 2008), "Adam Lvine Interview: First Act 222 Guitar". YouTube.com (accessed January 18, 2009)
- ^ Paton, Maureen (August 2, 2008), "In a taxi with...Adam Levine". Mail Online. (accessed January 16, 2009)
- ^ Greene, Andy (June 28, 2007), "Maroon 5: Back on Top". Rolling Stone. (1029):16
- ^ "Gotten" premiered at amazon.com, March 29, 2010. Amazon.com (1965-07-23). Retrieved on October 30, 2011.
- ^ Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine Named Coaches of ‘The Voice' – 2011-02-28 19:51:51|Broadcasting & Cable. Broadcastingcable.com. Retrieved October 30, 2011.
- ^ "Adam Levine Confirms American Horror Story Role". E! Online. April 2, 2012. http://uk.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/adam_levine_confirms_american_horror/305721.
- ^ Rubin, Courtney (April 19, 2004), "MAROON 5 SOUNDS OFF". People. 61(15):45
- ^ The Howard Stern Show for September 22, 2010. "An update to Adam's sex resume"
- ^ "Adam Levine and Anne V Split". Peopledate=April 2, 2012. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20583733,00.html. Retrieved April, 2012.
- ^ Zakarin, Jordan (January 6, 2010). "Adam Levine Nude: Maroon 5 Singer Gets Naked For Cancer In Cosmo UK". Entertainment (The Huffington Post). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/adam-levine-nude-marron-5-singer-gets-naked-for-cancer-in-cosmo-uk_n_805399.html. Retrieved January 8, 2010.
- ^ "Maroon 5 Lead Singer Adam Levine Raises Awareness of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Adults and Adults With "Own It"". PR Newswire. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/maroon-5-lead-singer-adam-levine-raises-awareness-of-attention-deficithyperactivity-disorder-in-young-adults-and-adults-with-own-it-124182579.html. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "Adam Levine And Maroon 5 Boycotting Mexican Restaurant For Anti-Gay Marriage Stance". January 25, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/adam-levine-maroon-boycott-restaurant-gay-marriage_n_1232252.html. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ "Adam Levine (Maroon 5) – It Gets Better". July 11, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1R8cqLJkks.
- ^ a b c d e f "German Singles Chart: Adam Levine". acharts.com. http://acharts.us/performer/adam_levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ "Australian Singles Chart: Adam Levine". australian-charts.com. http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=adam+levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ "Irish Singles Chart: Adam Levine". irish-charts.com. http://irish-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=adam+levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ "Dutch Singles Chart: Adam Levine". dutchcharts.nl. http://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=adam+levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ "New Zealand Singles Chart: Adam Levine". charts.org.nz. http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=adam+levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ "Sweden Singles Chart: Adam Levine". swedishcharts.com. http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=adam+levine. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ Chart positions for UK charting singles:
- "Chart Stats – Kanye West". Chart Stats. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=54. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- "Bang Bang on UK Singles Chart". zobbel.de. http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK2010. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
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- "y’know – interviews with the famous". C.B.Liddell. February 10, 2008. http://yknow-interviews.blogspot.com/2008/02/adam-levine-maroon-5.html.
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| Date of birth | March 18, 1979 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Kendrick Lamar | |
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| Birth name | Kendrick Lamar Duckworth |
| Also known as | K. Dot |
| Born | (1987-06-17) June 17, 1987 (age 25) |
| Origin | Compton, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper, songwriter |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope |
| Associated acts | Black Hippy, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, J. Cole, Dr. Dre |
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth[1] (born June 17, 1987), simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope. He first gained major attention after the release of his 2010 mixtape Overly Dedicated. In 2011, his album Section.80, released exclusively through iTunes, instantly ranked as one of the top digital hip hop releases of the year.[2] Lamar has amassed a large internet following, is a member of hip hop collective Black Hippy, along with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, and has worked with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Wiz Khalifa, Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes and Tech N9ne among other popular artists.[3]
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Biography[link]
1987-2009: Early life and career beginnings[link]
Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton, California, a community southeast of Los Angeles city limits, to parents from Chicago, Illinois.[4] At the age of eight, in 1995, Lamar witnessed his idols, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre film the music video for their hit single "California Love," a very significant moment in Lamar's life.[5] In 2003 at the young age of sixteen, Lamar released his first mixtape, Youngest Head Nigga In Charge under the name K. Dot.[6] The mixtape was able to garner enough attention for Lamar to get a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based independent record label.[6] He then released a twenty-six track mixtape two years later titled Training Day.[7] More recognition came Lamar's way after a video of a Charles Hamilton show surfaced, where Hamilton goes in the crowd and battles rappers at attendance. Lamar didn't hesitate and began rapping a verse over Milkbone's "Keep It Real", that would later appear on a track titled "West Coast Wu-Tang".[5] In 2008 Lamar made a cameo appearance on Jay Rock's "All My Life (In the Ghetto)" music video. After receiving a co-sign from Lil Wayne, he released his third mixtape in 2009 titled C4, heavily themed around Tha Carter III LP.[8] Soon after, he decided to drop his stage name K. Dot and go by his real name. This resulted in him releasing a self-titled EP; the Kendrick Lamar EP in late 2009.[9]
[edit] 2010–2011: Overly Dedicated and Section.80
In 2010 he toured with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock on The Independent Grind tour.[6] On September 23, 2010 he released O(verly) D(edicated) a highly acclaimed mixtape that included a song titled "Ignorance is Bliss" in which he glorifies gangsta rap and street crime but ends each verse with "ignorance is bliss" giving the message "we know not what we do".[10][11] It was that song specifically that made hip hop producer Dr. Dre want to work with Lamar.[12] This led to him working with Dre and Snoop Dogg on Dre's Detox album and him considering signing to Aftermath Entertainment.[6][13] In January 2011 Lamar said his debut album was 90% finished.[6]
In early 2011 Lamar was featured on XXL Magazine's 2011 Freshman cover along with CyHi the Prynce, Meek Mill, Mac Miller, Yelawolf, Lil B, Big K.R.I.T. and Diggy Simmons among others.[14] On July 2, 2011, Lamar released his third solo project Section.80 to critical acclaim. It features guest appearances from GLC, Colin Munroe, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and includes production from longtime collaborator Sounwave, Wyldfyer, Terrace Martin, J. Cole and more. On the topic of whether Section.80 would be an album or a mixtape Lamar said "I treat every project like it’s an album anyway. It’s not gonna be nothing leftover. I never do nothing like that. These are my leftover songs y’all can have ‘em, nah. I’m gonna put my best out. My best effort. I’m tryna look for an album in 2012". The first single for Section.80 was the J. Cole produced track "HiiiPower", of which the concept was to further explain the HiiiPower movement. Section.80 went on to sell over 10,000 copies in its first week[15] without any television or radio coverage and received many very positive reviews. In the second half of 2011, Lamar appeared on Game's The R.E.D. Album, Tech N9ne's All 6's and 7's, 9th Wonder's The Wonder Years and Drake's Take Care.
In August 2011, while onstage with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Game, at the West Los Angeles concert, the three of them crowned him the "New King of the West Coast"[16]
[edit] 2012–present: Good Kid in a Mad City
On February 15, 2012, a song titled "Cartoons & Cereal" featuring Gunplay of Triple C's was leaked.[17] Lamar revealed later that the track was for his upcoming album and he was planning to shoot a video for it.[18]
In March 2012, MTV announced that Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent record label Lamar is signed to, have closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, marking the end of his career as an independent artist. Under the new deal, Kendrick Lamar’s projects, including his upcoming debut studio album Good Kid in a Mad City will be jointly released via Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope, while releases from the rest of Black Hippy will be distributed via Top Dawg and Interscope.[19]
Lamar premiered "The Recipe", his debut single and the lead single from Good Kid in a Mad City, at Power 106 on April 2, 2012. The track was released for digital download the following day. The song was produced by Scoop DeVille and features Dr. Dre.[citation needed]
It was announced on May 14, 2012, that Lamar is working on a collaborative album with J. Cole. In an interview with Bootleg Kev, Cole stated that "I just started working with Kendrick the other day. We got it in, finally, again. We got maybe four or five [songs] together."
Personal life[link]
In high school, Centennial in Compton, Lamar was a good student.[4] Lamar said that he has seen relatives who have died in his dreams for years. Tupac Shakur is also his favorite rapper, and influences not only his music, but his day-to-day lifestyle as well. In terms of subject matter, Kendrick Lamar has often been compared to Tupac Shakur. [6][20][21] He revealed that his favorite and most influential rappers are Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Jay-Z and his label-mate Eminem.
Discography[link]
Main article: Kendrick Lamar discography
- Section.80 (2011)
- Good Kid in a Mad City (2012)
References[link]
- ^ "Black Hippy: A View from the Center « The FADER". Thefader.com. 2012-02-20. http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/20/black-hippy-a-view-from-the-center/3/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Cool, Just Be (2011). "KENDRICK LAMAR: Releases Section.80 on iTunes > Biography". laxpaperboys. http://www.laxpaperboys.com/2011/07/kendrick-lamar-releases-section80-in.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q form quasi-supergroup Black Hippy | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times. Latimesblogs.latimes.com (2010-08-17). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ a b Born and raised in Compton, Kendrick Lamar Hides a Poet's Soul Behind "Pussy & Patron" – Page 1 – Music – Los Angeles. LA Weekly (2011-01-20). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ a b (2011-08-31) Kendrick Lamar: Origins Of Excellence Pt. 3. YouTube. Retrieved on 2011-09-12.
- ^ a b c d e f Graham, Nadine. (2011-01-06) Kendrick Lamar: The West Coast Got Somethin' To Say | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Ozone Magazine » Issue #84 Patiently Waiting » Issue #84 – Patiently Waiting: Kendrick Lamar. Ozonemag.com (2010-06-23). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Kendrick Lamar C4 Mixtape DatPiff (2009-01-30) DatPiff Retrieved on 2011-07-08
- ^ Bring It Back: Kendrick Lamar EP [2009. 2dopeboyz (2010-09-14). Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Hanna, Mitchell. (2010-09-27) Mixtape Release Dates: Kendrick Lamar, K-Os, Terrace Martin, Sheek Louch | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Double G News Network: GGN Ep. 2 - Special Super Hard Hitting Interview with Kendrick Lamar. Youtube. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
- ^ Jacobs, Allen. (2010-12-17) Dr. Dre Says In 2011, He's Focusing On West Coast Hip Hop – Kendrick Lamar, Slim da Mobster | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales. HipHop DX. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Paine, Jake. (2010-12-25) Kendrick Lamar Reacts To Dr. Dre's Cosign, Considering Aftermath | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales.Kendrick Lamar Says J. Cole Collabo Mixtape is Gonna “Shock The World”. Xxlmag.Com. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ The 2011 XXL Freshmen. Xxlmag.Com. Retrieved on 2011-05-03.
- ^ Hip Hop Album Sales The Week Ending 07-03-2011 HipHopDX (2011-07-03) Retrieved on 2011-07-08
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar f. Gunplay - Cartoon & Cereal | New Hip Hop Music & All The New Rap Songs 2011". HipHop DX. 2012-02-14. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/singles/id.19035/title.kendrick-lamar-f-gunplay-cartoon-cereal. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Studio Life: Kendrick Lamar talks Club Paradise Tour & "Cartoons & Cereal"". YouTube. 2012-02-27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLznVTQI5Q&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ Nadeska Alexis (March 8, 2012). "Kendrick Lamar, Black Hippy Ink Deals With Interscope And Aftermath". MTV. http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/03/08/kendrick-lamar-signs-with-interscope-aftermath/. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar defines HiiiPower & having a vision of 2pac". YouTube. 2011-07-13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGS25RXaDE. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Kendrick Lamar 'HiiiPOWER' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0hay4Qw54. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
External links[link]
- Kendrick Lamar on Twitter
- kedricklamar.com Official Site
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| Name | Lamar, Kendrick |
| Alternative names | K.Dot |
| Short description | Recording artist |
| Date of birth | June 17, 1987 |
| Place of birth | Compton, California |
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