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Caen Hill Locks
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over 1.2 km. The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, 15 locks have unusually large sideways-extended pounds to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep hill, and was the last part of the 87 mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal. A brickyard was dug to the south of the workings to manufacture the bricks for the lock chambers and this remained in commercial use until the middle of the 20th century.
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Creamfields
Coordinates: 53°20′N 2°38′W / 53.34°N 2.63°W / 53.34; -2.63
Creamfields is a large dance music festival featuring DJs and live acts. It is held annually on the August Bank Holiday weekend in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, just outside of Liverpool where it had previously been held for a number of years. It is renowned for being headlined every year by the band Crême. The festival is run by the people behind Liverpool's famous Cream clubbing brand. Other Creamfields festivals have been held in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Andalucía (Spain), Malta, Punchestown (Ireland), Punta del Este (Uruguay), Alcala de henares (Spain), Istanbul (Turkey), Vilnius (Lithuania), Mexico City (Mexico), Moscow (Russia), Prague (Czech Republic), Lima (Peru), Santiago (Chile), Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), and Wrocław (Poland). Creamfields Lisbon (Portugal) was held for the first time in May 2007. Creamfields Australia has been held since 2010 and will be held again in 2012.
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Download Festival
The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England (which hosted Monsters of Rock between 1980 and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest). It usually takes place in June (although in 2003, the first day of the festival took place on the last day of May). The festival is owned and managed by Live Nation.
The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held in at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. Rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a two day event, expanding to three days in 2005.
The name Download was chosen for the festival for two reasons. Downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. The organizers faced pressure from the rest of the industry, with some even claiming that the Download Festival would "destroy the music industry".[citation needed] Also Download was to be a Monsters Of Rock for the 21st century and the internet would provide connectivity with its audience.
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England
i/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Glastonbury
Coordinates: 51°08′55″N 2°42′50″W / 51.1485°N 2.7140°W / 51.1485; -2.7140
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles (37 km) south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census. Glastonbury is less than 1 mile (2 km) across the River Brue from Street, which is now larger than Glastonbury.
Evidence from timber trackways such as the Sweet Track show that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue and Sharpham Park approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Glastonbury, that dates back to the Bronze Age. Centwine was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey, which dominated the town for the next 700 years. One of the most important abbeys in England, it was the site of Edmund Ironside's coronation as King of England in 1016. Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey. The Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century.
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Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
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GuilFest
Coordinates: 51°14′42″N 0°33′59″W / 51.245°N 0.56639°W / 51.245; -0.56639
GuilFest, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues is a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England each July. The festival, like the larger Glastonbury Festival, features a range of genres including rock, folk, blues, and in recent years pop. In 2006 GuilFest was awarded the title of "Best Family Festival" in the UK Festival awards.
The event was started in 1992 by Tony Scott, a Guildford businessman who is a keen festival-goer. From 1992 to 1994 it was a one day event. In 1995 it became a two day event with onsite camping and was moved to nearby Loseley Park. GuilFest returned to Stoke Park in 1996 and became a three day festival in 1997 with headliners Jethro Tull.
1998 acts included Space, Shed Seven and The Lightning Seeds, The Levellers.
1999 acts included James, The Saw Doctors and Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
2000 was Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, David Gray, Culture Club, Motörhead and Rolf Harris.
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Pylle
Coordinates: 51°08′39″N 2°33′50″W / 51.1443°N 2.5640°W / 51.1443; -2.5640
Pylle is a village and civil parish 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Shepton Mallet, and 7 miles (11.3 km) from Wells, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It has a population of 176. The parish includes the hamlet of Street on the Fosse.
The village is very close to the site of the Glastonbury Festival.
At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the tenant was Serlo de Burci from whom the manor passed by 1303 to William FitzMartin.
Pylle fell within the tithing of Pylle, the hundred of Whitstone, the registration district of Mendip, previously within Shepton Mallet until 1936.
Pylle railway station was a station on the Highbridge branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. It opened in 1862 and closed in 1966.
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.
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Radio Avalon
Radio Avalon was a pirate radio station set up at the Glastonbury Festival near Glastonbury, England in 1983. It later became a legally recognized station.
The idea of launching a radio station at the Glastonbury Festival was coined at the festival in 1982 by Lawrie Hallett and Norman McLeod. Radio Avalon was launched the next year (1983) operating from a tent and a red VW camper van. Norman McLeod and Lawrie Hallett were joined by Alan Brown, Paul Garner and others. The crew in these early years came from Wireless Workshop in Brighton, Phoenix Communications in London and Sheffield Peace Radio. The transmission equipment used was built by the members and much of the outboard equipment came from the founders' domestic hi-fi, reflecting the DIY ethic that characterised much of the Radio Avalon approach for several years. At this time, the station's programme was a very free format, with one show flowing into another depending on which crew member was available and who wanted to do a show. For several years, these pioneering broadcasts came from a tent near to Goose Hall and the signal very occasionally made it as far as Glastonbury town, a distance of 5 miles away. The presenters from midnight to daybreak were known as "The Dead Heads"—they played mainly Grateful Dead records mixed with other late night tracks. By the mid-1980s the team was joined by a number of volunteers from Ireland and in particular from Bray Local Broadcasting. A regular feature of these early broadcasts were various outside broadcasts from backstage and or from the top of Glastonbury Tor, looking down across the festival site just visible several miles away.
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Roskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe (the other five being the Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival, the Paléo Festival, Rock Werchter, and Exit Festival). It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer. In 1972, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, which has since run the festival as a non-profit organization for development and support of music, culture and humanism.
It is Denmark's first real music-oriented festival, originally for hippies but today it covers more of the mainstream youth from Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Roskilde Festival 2007 had more than 180 performing bands and gathered around 80,000 people paying for the concerts, with more than 21,000 volunteers, 5,000 media people and 3,000 artists – which means almost 110,000 people participated in the festival.
For many years it was a tradition that the campsite opened the last Sunday of June, but in 2010 the festival opened Saturday instead. The festival management argued that this would prevent earlier years problems with the fence going down before time. The early opening of the campsite, gives the festival guests plenty of time to settle down and "warm up". The festival officially starts the following Thursday at the Animal Showgrounds (in recent years simply known as the "Festival Site") and lasts for 4 days.
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Shepton Mallet
Coordinates: 51°11′33″N 2°32′45″W / 51.1925°N 2.5458°W / 51.1925; -2.5458
Shepton Mallet is a small rural town and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset in South West England. Situated approximately 18 mi (29 km) south of Bristol and 5 mi (8.0 km) east of Wells, the town is estimated to have a population of 9,700. It contains the administrative headquarters of Mendip District Council. Bowlish is a hamlet on the A371 road between Shepton Mallet and Croscombe.
The Mendip Hills lie to the north, and the River Sheppey runs through the town. Shepton Mallet lies on the route of the Fosse Way, the principal Roman road into the south west of England, and there is evidence of Roman settlement. The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings. Shepton Mallet Prison is England's oldest prison still in use.
In medieval times, the wool trade was important in the town's economy, although this declined in the 18th century to be replaced by other industries such as brewing; the town continues to be a major centre for the production of cider. Shepton Mallet is the closest town to the site of the Glastonbury Festival, the largest music festival in Europe. Also nearby is the Royal Bath and West of England Society showground which hosts the Royal Bath and West Show, and other major shows and festivals.
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Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset (i/ˈsʌmərsɛt/ or /ˈsʌmərsɨt/) in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the River Severn. Its traditional northern border is the River Avon, but the administrative boundary has crept southwards with the creation and expansion of the City of Bristol, and latterly the county of Avon and its successor unitary authorities to the north. Somerset's county town, Taunton, is in the south.
Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. There is evidence of human occupation from Palaeolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The county played a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion.
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South west England
South West England is one of the regions of England defined by the Government of the United Kingdom for statistical and other purposes. It is the largest such region in area, covering 9,200 square miles (23,828 km2) and comprising Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Five million people live there. The region includes the area often known as the West Country, and much of Wessex. The size of the region is shown by the fact that the northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall. The largest city is Bristol. Other major urban centres include Plymouth, Swindon, Gloucester, Exeter, Bath, and the South East Dorset conurbation of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.
The region includes two National Parks and four World Heritage Sites, including Stonehenge.
Traditionally, the South West of England has been well known for producing Cheddar cheese, which originated in the Somerset village of Cheddar, for Devon cream teas, Cornish pasties, and for cider. It is also well known as the home of the Eden Project, Aardman Animations, the Glastonbury Festival, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, trip hop music and also Cornwall's surfing beaches.
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe the iconic stone monument was constructed anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, as described in the chronology below. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were erected in 2400–2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC (see phase 1 below).
The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge monument. It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
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Worthy FM
Worthy FM is a local radio station broadcasting in the UK to the site of The Glastonbury Festival. It operates under a Restricted Service Licence (RSL), issued by Ofcom. It is staffed by radio professionals and volunteers.
The name Worthy FM was chosen by festival organiser Michael Eavis and is named after Worthy Farm, Eavis' farm and the home of the festival.
Coordinates: 51°09′41″N 2°35′10″W / 51.1613°N 2.5860°W / 51.1613; -2.5860
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Al Stewart
Al Stewart (born Alastair Ian Stewart, 5 September 1945) is a Scottishsinger-songwriter and folk-rock musician.
Stewart came to stardom as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s, and developed his own unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history.
He is best known for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat", the title song from the platinum album of the same name.
Though Year of the Cat and its 1978 platinum follow-up Time Passages brought Stewart his biggest worldwide commercial successes, earlier albums such as Past, Present and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his intimate brand of historical folk-rock - a style to which he has returned in recent albums.
Stewart was a key figure in a fertile era in British music and he appears throughout the musical folklore of the age. He played at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London apartment with a young Paul Simon, and hosted at the legendary Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960s.
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Amy Macdonald
Amy Macdonald (born 25 August 1987 in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish recording artist. Macdonald rose to fame in 2007 with her debut album, This Is the Life (2007) and its fourth single, "This Is the Life". The single charted at number one in six different countries worldwide, and charted inside the top ten in another eleven countries worldwide.
The success of the single achieved Macdonald success in the American music market, where she was a guest on shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2008, where she performed two singles from the album, leading her album, This Is the Life to reach ninety-two on the Billboard 200. In the European Union, This Is the Life reached number one in six European countries, including the United Kingdom, Denmark and the main European album charts. This is the Life has sold three million copies worldwide.
"Don't Tell Me That It's Over" was released in March 2010 as the lead off single from Macdonald's second studio album, A Curious Thing which was released on March 8, 2010. Five singles have since been released from A Curious Thing. The album's lead single, "Don't Tell Me That It's Over" was released worldwide on March 1, 2010 and this was followed by the release of a second single "Spark" on May 10, 2010. Further singles were released, with the third being "This Pretty Face" which was successful in European countries such as Germany, where MacDonald holds a strong fanbase. A further two singles were released, "Love Love" and "Your Time Will Come" which were both released in late 2010. Worldwide, A Curious Thing, the album has sold 1,000,000 copies worldwide.
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
In 2007 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times: once in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", once in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and once in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game".
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Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (née Beyoncé Giselle Knowles; September 4, 1981), known mononymously as Beyoncé (
/biˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003, which spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy"—and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Knowles released her second solo album, B'Day, in 2006, which spawned the top 10 singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), spawned the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo" and "Sweet Dreams". The album helped Knowles earn six Grammys in 2010, breaking the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. Knowles' fourth solo album, 4 (2011), became her fourth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 as a solo artist. This made her the third artist in history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] (
listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music", and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
Outside the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists, is managing director and a managing partner of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organised and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticised for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. On stage, Wilson provided many of the lead vocals, and often harmonized with the group in falsetto. Early during his on-stage career, Wilson primarily played bass on stage, but gradually transitioned to primarily playing piano/keyboards. Besides being the primary composer in The Beach Boys, he also functioned as the band's main producer and arranger. After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits including "Surfin' Safari", "Surfin' USA", "Shut Down", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Be True to Your School", "In My Room", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "I Get Around", "Dance Dance Dance", "Help Me Rhonda", "California Girls" and "Good Vibrations". These songs and their accompanying albums were internationally popular, making The Beach Boys one of the biggest acts of their time.
In the mid-60s Wilson used his increasingly creative ambitions to compose and produce Pet Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums of all time. At this point his music was considered to rival that of Lennon–McCartney. The intended follow up to Pet Sounds, Smile, was cancelled for various reasons, including Wilson's deteriorating mental health. Wilson's contributions to The Beach Boys diminished as the years went by, and his erratic behavior led to tensions with the band. After years of treatment and recuperation, he began a solo career in 1988 with Brian Wilson, the same year that he and The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since then he has toured for the first time in decades with a new band and released acclaimed albums such as a reworked version of Smile in 2004, for which Wilson won a Grammy Award for "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Fire)" as Best Rock Instrumental, That Lucky Old Sun, and Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Carl Cox
Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962, Barbados) is a British techno and house music DJ and producer.
Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden.[citation needed] Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s. One of the first gigs he played was in legendary promoters John Binton and Terry Onion's Squeeze my buttered Onions! club in Hackney, London Unconfirmed reports suggest he was coerced into swallowing an onion on stage, one of Terry's famous requests he gave to his acts. He was named the "Three Deck Wizard" after playing on three turntables simultaneously at the Second Summer of Love in 1988.[citation needed] He has performed at clubs such as The Eclipse, Edge, Shelly's, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Sir Henry's in Cork, Ireland and Angels and The Haçienda, as well as raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, and Amnesia House. He now spearheads two record labels, Intec Records and 23rd Century Records. He also has his own stage every year at Ultra Music Festival called Carl Cox and Friends.
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Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, Paddy on the Road (a minor release of 500, although made available again on CD through his website and at gigs in 2010) was recorded with Dominic Behan (brother of Brendan) in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.
Moore was born in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. He was originally a bank employee who wanted to express himself using traditional music. A bank strike in 1966, which lasted six months (and effectively paralysed Irish commercial life for the duration), resulted in Moore spending considerable time practising music. When the strike ended, Moore had already decided where his passion in life arose, and left the bank for good.
1972 brought his first major release, Prosperous (named after the village of Prosperous, County Kildare, where the album was recorded), which brought together the four musicians who shortly thereafter formed Planxty: Liam O'Flynn, Andy Irvine, and Dónal Lunny. For a time they called themselves "CLAD", an acronym of their names, but soon decided on Planxty.
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Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an African-American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums. Curtis Mayfield is a winner of both the Grammy Legend Award (in 1994) and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1995), and was a double inductee into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted as a member of The Impressions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and again in 1999 as a solo artist. He is also a two-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Born on June 3, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Mayfield was the son of Marion Washington and Kenneth Mayfield. Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini–Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years. Mayfield attended Wells Community Academy High School. He dropped out of high school early to become lead singer and songwriter for The Impressions, then went on to a successful solo career. Perhaps most notably, Mayfield was among the first of a new wave of mainstream African-American R&B performing artists and composers injecting social commentary into their work. This "message music" became extremely popular during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Cuban-American/Latino hip hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. It is one of the most well-known groups in West Coast rap and was critically acclaimed for their first two groundbreaking albums.
Senen Reyes (also known as Sen Dog) and Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (also known as Mellow Man Ace) are brothers who initially lived in South Gate, California. In 1971, their family had immigrated to the United States, settling in the Los Angeles neighborhood of South Gate. In 1988, the two brothers teamed up with Lawrence Muggerud (also known as DJ Muggs) and Louis Freese (also known as B-Real) to form a hip-hop group named DVX (Devastating Vocal Excellence). The band soon lost Mellow Man Ace to a solo career, and changed their name to Cypress Hill, after a street in South Gate.
After recording a demo in 1989, Cypress Hill signed a record deal with the major label, Columbia Records. Their self-titled first album was released in August 1991. The lead single was the double A-side "The Phuncky Feel One"/"How I Could Just Kill a Man" which received heavy airplay on urban and college radio. The other two singles released from the album were "Hand on the Pump" and "Latin Lingo", the latter of which combined English and Spanish lyrics. The success of these singles led to the album selling two million copies in the US alone. The group made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992.
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Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn (/ˈdeɪmən ˈælbɑrn/; born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of the Britpop band Blur. Albarn's current role is lead vocalist and songwriter of Gorillaz, whose first two studio albums had sold more than 20 million copies combined by 2007. Albarn has also led projects such as The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Monkey: Journey to the West, Mali Music and Rocket Juice & the Moon. Albarn has released multiple singles and albums which have charted at number one, both in the UK and internationally.
Albarn was voted the fourth greatest frontman of all time in a 2010 UK Poll for Q Music magazine.
Albarn was born in Whitechapel, London in 1968, and grew up with his middle-class, Quaker family in Leytonstone, later moving to Colchester. He attended the George Tomlinson Primary School, and studied piano and violin. When he was 9 years old he moved for three months to Turkey, with his parents. When he was aged 12, he became friends with Graham Coxon, a fellow pupil at Stanway School.
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( /ˈboʊ.i/ BOH-ee; born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.
Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture." The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.
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David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, FRSA (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.
Puttnam was born in Southgate, London, England, the son of Marie Beatrix, a homemaker, and Leonard Arthur Puttnam, a photographer. Educated at Minchenden Grammar School in London Puttnam had an early career in advertising (see Collett Dickenson Pearce) and as agent acting for the photographer David Bailey and Brian Duffy
He turned to film production in the late 1960s, working with Sanford Lieberson's production company Goodtimes Enterprises. His successes as a film producer include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, The Duellists (Ridley Scott's feature film debut), Chariots of Fire (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Local Hero, Memphis Belle, Meeting Venus and The Killing Fields and The Mission with Roland Joffé (which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986) mostly in association with Goldcrest.
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Dizzee Rascal
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a UK and US-based rapper, songwriter and record producer of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout", his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units.
Mills' Nigerian father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system" he attended St Pauls Way Community School.
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Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image".
Costello has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male. In 2003, Elvis Costello & the Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in St Mary's Hospital, London, the son of Lilian Alda (née Ablett, b. 1927, Liverpool) and Ross MacManus (1927–2011), a musician and bandleader. He is of Irish heritage. Costello lived in Twickenham, attending Hounslow Secondary Modern School, which is now St Mark's Catholic Secondary School, in neighbouring Hounslow. With a musically inclined father (who was a jazz trumpeter and sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra), Costello's first broadcast recording was alongside his dad in a television commercial for R. White's Lemonade (I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker). His father wrote and sang the song; Costello provided backing vocals. The advertisement won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival.
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Emily Eavis
Emily Eavis (born 1979) is co-organiser of the annual Glastonbury Festival. She is the youngest daughter of the festival's founder and organiser Michael Eavis and his second wife Jean.
Eavis was educated at Wells Cathedral School, and embarked on training as a school teacher. Following her mother's death from cancer in 1999, Eavis left her teaching studies and assisted her father in running the festival.
From 2000 onwards, she has taken an increasing role in the organisation of the Glastonbury Festival. She has worked for Oxfam helping out with their "Make Trade Fair" campaign. As part of the "Make Trade Fair" campaign she visited Haiti with Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin to publicise the negative impact of western corporations' trade practises upon coffee farmers.
Eavis and her father visited Mozambique in 2006 to witness how the funds donated by the Glastonbury Festival to WaterAid are put to use.
At the 2007 festival, Eavis curated her own stage called The Park. Acts that performed there included Kate Nash, Martha Wainwright, Africa Express and Adele. The Park returned in 2008, headlined by Dizzee Rascal, Pete Doherty, and Shlomo. In 2010 at Glastonbury Festival's 40th Birthday, notable acts performing on The Park Stage included The xx, Thom Yorke, Candi Staton, Biffy Clyro, and Empire of the Sun.
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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiɫˈbɛʁtu ʒiɫ]) or (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiu̯ˈbɛɾtʊ ʒiu̯]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including Rock music, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae.
Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, and then grew to write songs that reflected a focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.
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Gruff Rhys
Gruffydd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡrɨ̞fɨ̞ð maˈrɛdɨ̞ð ˈbowɛn ˈr̥ɨːs]; born 18 July 1970 in Haverfordwest) is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize. He won the 2011 Welsh Music Prize for his album Hotel Shampoo.
He was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen, Bethesda, Gwynedd, North Wales and was awarded a degree in art at Manchester Metropolitan University.
After playing drums for the band Emily, Gruff Rhys found fame in Wales as the front man of Ffa Coffi Pawb. Translated, the name means 'everyone's coffee beans', though if said quickly in Welsh, it can sound like 'fuck off everyone' in English and Welsh combined.
On signing to Ankstmusik, Ffa Coffi Pawb became one of the leading bands on the Welsh music scene, and released three albums - Clymhalio, Dalec Peilon and Hei Vidal!'.
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Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949, Tufnell Park, North London, England) is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.
Cornwell grew up in Tufnell Park and Kentish Town and attended William Ellis School in Highgate, where he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later a member of Fairport Convention. In the late 1960s, after earning a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Bristol University, he embarked on post-graduate research at Lund University (Sweden). Not long after his arrival he formed the band Johnny Sox.
Cornwell returned to the UK in 1974 with Johnny Sox (minus Hans Wärmling). Jet Black then joined the band. At one stage it was just Cornwell and Black, who were then joined by Jean Jacques Burnel. Hans Wärmling, on holiday from Sweden, joined the line-up towards the end of 1974. The Johnny Sox name was then dropped and the band toured under the name The Guildford Stranglers and eventually The Stranglers.
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Ian Anderson
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE (born 10 August 1947) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the leader and flautist of British rock band Jethro Tull.
Ian Anderson was born the youngest of three children. His father, James Anderson, ran the RSA Boiler Fluid Company in East Port, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Anderson spent the first part of his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was influenced by his father's big band and jazz records and the emergence of rock music, though disenchanted with the "show biz" style of early American rock and roll stars like Elvis Presley.
His family moved to Blackpool, Lancashire in 1959, where he gained a traditional education at Blackpool Grammar School. In a recent interview, Anderson stated that he was asked to leave Grammar School for refusing to submit to corporal punishment (still permitted at that time) for some serious infraction. He went on to study fine art at Blackpool College of Art from 1964 to 1966.
While a teenager, Anderson took a job as a sales assistant at Lewis' department store in Blackpool, then as a vendor on a newsstand. He later said it was reading copies of Melody Maker and the New Musical Express during his lunch breaks that gave him the inspiration to play in a band.
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Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American songwriter, musician, singer, actor, and voice actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of notable songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others.
The hit song "Soul Man", written by Hayes and Porter and first performed by "Sam & Dave", has been recognized as one of the most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also honored by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, by Rolling Stone magazine, and by the RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century.
During the late 1960s, Isaac Hayes also began recording music and he had several successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971). In addition to his work in popular music, he worked as a composer of musical scores for motion pictures.
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Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone.
Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded several notable songs throughout his career including "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running On Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father, an American serviceman, was stationed. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings: Roberta "Berbie" Browne who was born in 1946 in Nuernberg, Germany (Nuremberg) and Edward Severin Browne who was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. Browne moved to the Highland Park district of Los Angeles, California, at the age of 3 and in his teens began singing folk music in local venues like the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and currently presents his own radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music, Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service.
Cocker founded "Arabacus Pulp" (named after a tradeable commodity he saw in an economics class) at the age of 15 while he was still at The City School. After numerous line-up changes, and a shortening of the name to "Pulp", they eventually found fame in the 1990s with the success of the albums His 'n' Hers (1994) and Different Class (1995). As Pulp's front-man, part of his trademark image was his glasses, which seemed to "stay magically on his face" no matter his antics on stage, apparently this was achieved with "a huge rubber band round the back".
Pulp released two more albums (This Is Hardcore and We Love Life) to critical acclaim, though neither achieved the commercial success of Different Class. After releasing a greatest hits album, the band was on hiatus from 2003 to 2010, but returned to activity in 2011.
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Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz ( /məˈræz/; born June 23, 1977 in Mechanicsville, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, that Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008, Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of many international charts.
Mraz's international breakthrough came with the release of the single "I'm Yours" from the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. The song was on the Hot 100 for 76 weeks, beating the previous record of 69 weeks held by LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live". The song was a huge commercial success in the US, receiving a 5x platinum certification from the RIAA for sales of over five million. The song was successful internationally, topping the charts in New Zealand and Norway and peaking in the top ten of multiple international charts.
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Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as a guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace.
Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record his second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim — fully clothed — in the Wolf River, when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English rock and blues singer, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of the Beatles.
He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his #1 hit "Up Where We Belong", a duet he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
Cocker was born on 20 May 1944 at 38 Tasker Road, Crookes, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He is the youngest son of a civil servant, Harold Cocker, and Madge Cocker. According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing a childhood game called "Cowboy Joe" or from a local window cleaner named Joe.
Cocker's main musical influences growing up were Ray Charles and Lonnie Donegan. Cocker's first experience singing in public was at age 12 when his elder brother Victor invited him on stage to sing during a gig of his skiffle group. In 1960, along with three friends, Cocker formed his first group, the Cavaliers. For the group's first performance at a youth club, they were required to pay the price of admission before entering. The Cavaliers eventually broke up after a year and Cocker left school to become an apprentice gasfitter while he pursued a career in music.
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Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), best remembered by his stage name Joe Strummer, was an English musician who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the British punk rock band The Clash. His musical experience included his membership of The 101ers, Latino Rockabilly War, The Mescaleros and The Pogues, in addition to his own solo music career. Strummer's work as a musician allowed him to explore other interests, which included acting, creating film scores for television and movies, songwriting, radio broadcasting, and a position as a radio host. Strummer is one of the iconic figures of the British punk movement.
Strummer and The Clash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003. In his remembrance, Strummer's friends and family have established the Strummerville Foundation for the promotion of new music, and each year there are many festivals and both organised and spontaneous ceremonies worldwide to celebrate his memory.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
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Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan Richard Guy "Jonny" Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician and composer best known as a member of the English rock band Radiohead. Noted for his aggressive playing style, Greenwood is consistently named as one of the greatest guitarists of the modern era. Beyond his primary roles as the band's lead guitarist and keyboardist, Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and also plays viola, harmonica, glockenspiel, ondes Martenot, banjo and drums, and works with computer-generated sounds and sampling; he is also a computer programmer and writes music software used by Radiohead.
Outside his work with Radiohead, Greenwood wrote the soundtracks for the films Bodysong (2003), There Will Be Blood (2007), Norwegian Wood (2010) and We Need To Talk About Kevin (2010), and serves as composer-in-residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. He is the younger brother of Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood.
Greenwood had begun studying music and psychology at Oxford Brookes University when Radiohead, then known as On A Friday, signed a recording contract with EMI in 1991. He left the university shortly after. While Greenwood is the only member of Radiohead to have been classically trained on any instrument (he took viola lessons as a child), he is also the only band member without a university degree.
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Julien Temple
Julien Temple, Baron Temple (born 26 November 1953 in London) is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.
Temple was born into a communist family (his father Landon Temple ran Progressive Tours and was a Communist Party of Great Britain member). He is the brother of the last General Secretary of the CPGB, Nina Temple.
Temple was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, from which he was expelled, William Ellis School and King's College, Cambridge. He grew up with little interest in film until he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo when he was a student at Cambridge. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976 led to his friendship with The Sex Pistols, leading him to document many of their early gigs.
His first film was a short documentary called Sex Pistols Number 1, which set out to show the rise of the band from 1976-1977 in a series of short clips from television interviews and gigs.
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Kasabian
Kasabian are an English rock band formed in Leicester in 1997. The band original members are vocalist Tom Meighan, guitarist and backing vocalist Sergio Pizzorno, bassist Chris Edwards, The band's line-up was completed by Jay Mehler in 2006, replacing guitarist Christopher Karloff, and drummer Ian Matthews in 2004 after a string of session drummers. Kasabian have released four studio albums – Kasabian (2004), Empire (2006), West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009), and Velociraptor! (2011).
The band's music has been described as a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis. Their music has won them several awards and recognition in the media, and their live performances are generally lauded.
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Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( /ˈkaɪliː mɨˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968) — often known simply as Kylie — is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single "I Should Be So Lucky", each reached number one in the United Kingdom, and over the next two years, her first 13 singles reached the British top ten. Her debut film, The Delinquents (1989) was a box-office hit in Australia and the UK, and received generally positive reviews.
Initially presented as a "girl next door", Minogue attempted to convey a more mature style in her music and public image. Her singles were well received, but after four albums her record sales were declining, and she left Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992 to establish herself as an independent performer. Her next single, "Confide in Me", reached number one in Australia and was a hit in several European countries in 1994, and a duet with Nick Cave, "Where the Wild Roses Grow", brought Minogue a greater degree of artistic credibility. Drawing inspiration from a range of musical styles and artists, Minogue took creative control over the songwriting for her next album, Impossible Princess (1997). It failed to attract strong reviews or sales in the UK, but was successful in Australia.
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Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NAH-tə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.
Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The album's success allowed her to embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011) topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.
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Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, whose “retro” style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion himself when recording. He is known for his elaborate stage performances and music videos.
He won the Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category and most consecutive wins in one category for a male. He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, BRIT Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. On December 1, 2011, Kravitz was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He played the role of Cinna in the film The Hunger Games.
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family. He attended Roslyn Elementary School. His mother, Marsha Klinitsky, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, emigrated from Lithuania while his great-grandfather emigrated from Poland. He grew up in Westmount on the Island of Montreal. His grandfather was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial Montreal clothing store, died when Cohen was nine years old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that, "I had a very Messianic childhood." He told Richard Goldstein in 1967. "I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest." Cohen attended Westmount High School, beginning in 1948 where he was involved with the Student Council and studied music and poetry. He became especially interested in the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar, and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys. Although he initially played a regular acoustic guitar as a teenager, he soon switched to playing a classical guitar after meeting a young Spanish flamenco guitar player who taught him "a few chords and some flamenco."
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Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper (born 2 May 1985), better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist, actress and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative. Allen abandoned school and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several demo songs and, near the end of 2005, she created a profile on MySpace where she made some of her recordings public.
A contract was signed with the label Regal Recordings, as the views on MySpace rose to tens of thousands. In 2006, she began to work on completing what would be her first studio album and its first mainstream single "Smile" reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well received on the international market, selling over 2.6 million copies and brought Allen a nomination at the Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She then began hosting her own talk-show, Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three.
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades. Though the Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era. As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including sexuality and drug culture.
After his departure from the group, Reed began a solo career in 1971. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", although he subsequently lacked the mainstream commercial success its chart status seemed to indicate. Reed's work as a solo artist frustrated critics wishing for a return of the Velvet Underground. In 1975, Reed released a double album of feedback loops, Metal Machine Music, upon which he later commented, "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."
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Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian, actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television, radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows. Brigstocke also played a cameo role in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Love Actually as Mike, a radio DJ who interviews Billy Mack (played by Bill Nighy).
In childhood, Brigstocke attended St. Edmunds School in Hindhead, Surrey. In Chichester he went to Westbourne House School[citation needed] before going onto King's Bruton School in Somerset. He also attended Netherton Hall School,[citation needed] a boarding school for children, situated in Farway, Devon. He studied Drama at the University of Bristol, however he did not complete his degree.
Many of the central themes of Brigstocke's work were first addressed during his time as a student at the University of Bristol. While at Bristol he often performed in the comedy trio Club Seals, which later made the transition to TV in the series of short programmes We Are History.
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Melanie Safka
Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday", "What Have They Done To My Song Ma" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
Melanie was born and grew up in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York. Melanie made her first public singing appearance at age four on the radio show Live Like A Millionaire, performing the song "Gimme a Little Kiss". She attended Red Bank High School in Red Bank, New Jersey, graduating in 1966. After school, her parents insisted she go to college, so she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village and signed her first recording contract.
Initially signed to Columbia Records in the United States, Melanie released two singles on the label. Subsequently she signed with Buddah Records and first found chart success in Europe in 1969 with "Bobo's Party" which reached Number 1 in France. Her debut album received rave reviews from Billboard which heralded her voice as "... wise beyond her years. Her non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with."[citation needed]
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Michael Eavis
Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, CBE (born 17 October 1935), is an English dairy farmer and the founder of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place on his farm.
His family hails from Dorset and, after his great grandfather walked the family dairy herd north, settled at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset. His father was a local Methodist preacher, while his mother was a school teacher. Eavis was educated at the fee-paying Wells Cathedral School, followed by the Thames Nautical Training College after which he joined the Union-Castle Line, which comprised part of the British Merchant Navy, as a trainee Midshipman. His plan was to spend 20 years at sea, returning with a pension to subsidise the income from the farm. After his father died in 1958, Eavis returned to inherit the family farm of 150 acres (0.61 km2) and 60 cows. Michael had 3 children with his first wife Juliet,Rebecca and Jane and 2 children with Jean Patrick and Emily.
Divorcing his first wife Ruth in 1964, with whom he had three children, in 1969 Eavis and his second wife Jean Hayball visited the Bath Festival of Blues. Inspired by seeing the performance of Led Zeppelin, they hosted a free festival the following year. This developed into the Glastonbury Festival as it is known today. Jean died in 1999; since then their daughter Emily has taken a more active role in running the event. In common with his mother and his second wife, Eavis remains a regular Methodist chapel-goer. Eavis has since married his third wife, Liz.
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Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.
Moby gained attention in the early 1990s with his electronic dance music work, which dabbled in the techno and breakbeat hardcore (also known as "rave") genres. With his fifth studio album, the electronica and house-influenced Play, he gained international success. Originally released in mid-1999 to an unflattering response, it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and slowly became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and eventually selling over 10 million copies worldwide.
Moby followed the album in 2002 with 18, which was also successful, selling over 5 million copies worldwide and receiving mostly positive reviews, though some criticizing it for being too similar to Play. His next offer, 2005's mostly upbeat Hotel was a stylistic departure, incorporating more alternative rock elements than previous albums, and received mixed reviews. However, it still sold around 2 million copies worldwide. After 2008's dance-influenced Last Night (2008), he returned to the downtempo electronica of Play and 18 with 2009's mostly-ambient Wait for Me, finding higher critical acclaim and moderate sales. Moby's latest album, Destroyed., was released on May 13, 2011.
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Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an important innovator in indie music, Morrissey has been described by music magazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever," and The Independent has stated "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime."Pitchfork Media has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last twenty years."
Morrissey's lyrics have been described as "dramatic, bleak, funny vignettes about doomed relationships, lonely nightclubs, the burden of the past and the prison of the home." He is also noted for his unusual baritone vocal style (though he sometimes uses falsetto), his quiff haircut and his dynamic live performances. His forthright and often contrarian opinions have led to a number of media controversies, and he has also attracted media attention for his advocacy of vegetarianism and animal rights. Morrissey moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s.
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Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present.
As of 2001, Diamond had sold over 115 million records worldwide including 48 million in the United States alone. He is considered to be the third most successful adult contemporary artist ever on the Billboard chart behind Barbra Streisand and Elton John. His songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres.
Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Additionally, he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors. He has eight number one hit singles with "Cracklin Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Desiree", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "Love on the Rocks", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight".
Diamond continues to record and release new material and maintains an extensive touring schedule as well.
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young,OC,OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
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Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor.
He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday Party in the early 1980s, a band renowned for its highly gothic, challenging lyrics and violent sound influenced by free jazz, blues, and post-punk. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman that released its debut the following year. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with religion, death, love and violence.
Upon Cave's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said, “Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute."
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Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg, CBE, BSC (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and cinematographer. Roeg was born in London, the son of Mabel Gertrude (née Silk) and Jack Nicolas Roeg.
He started his film career by contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance in 1970. He would later direct such landmark films as Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Roeg's films are known for having scenes and images from the plot presented in a disarranged fashion, out of chronological and causal order, requiring the viewer to do the work of mentally rearranging them to comprehend the storyline. They seem, "to shatter reality into a thousand pieces" and are "unpredictable, fascinating, cryptic and liable to leave you wondering what the hell just happened. . . ."
Roeg displays a "freedom from conventional film narration," and his films often consist of an "intriguing kaleidoscopic multiplication of images."
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Nizlopi
Nizlopi ( /nɪzˈlɒpi/) were a two-piece band, from 1993–2010, with Luke Concannon on vocals, guitar, and bodhrán, and John Parker on double bass, human beatbox, and providing backing vocals. They were based in Leamington Spa, England. Prior to attending Nunthorpe Secondary School, Luke and John attended Chandlers Ridge Primary School.[citation needed] The band is named after a Hungarian girl who Luke had a crush on at school. The band have since confirmed they have split up as of 10 February 2010.
Nizlopi's most successful song is "JCB Song" and reached number one in the UK, on its second release.
Nizlopi released their first album, Half These Songs Are About You, in 2004 under FDM Records.[citation needed] It features the singles "JCB" and "Girls". In 2007 Nizlopi received an 'Impala Platinum' award recognising sales of Half These Songs Are About You in Europe. It was produced by Gavin Monaghan, also known for his work with Scott Matthews, Robert Plant, Editors, Ocean Colour Scene, The Twang and The Holloways.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, poet and guitarist.
Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.
Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised drug addictions.
Peter Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the son of Jacqueline (née Michels), who is of paternal Jewish Russian descent and Peter John Doherty, who is of Irish descent. He had a Catholic upbringing and grew up at a number of army garrisons, due to his father's work as an officer in the British Army, living at various times at garrisons in Catterick, Belfast, Wildenrath Barracks in the north west of Germany (right behind Peter Slater's house in Krefeld), Bedworth, Dorset and Larnaca, along with his mother, a nurse, and two sisters, Amy Jo and Emily. Doherty was the second of the three children. It was whilst in Dorset at the age of 11 Pete was first inspired to play guitar. He started playing in order to impress classmate Emily Baker whom he fancied. 18 years later they were reunited where the now Brighton based singer/songwriter won his support slot. He achieved 11 GCSEs, 7 of which were A* grades, at Nicholas Chamberlaine Comprehensive School in Bedworth and four passes at A Level, two at grade A. At the age of 16, he won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia organised by the British Council.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
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PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, harmonica, and most recently, the autoharp.
Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini, whose vocalist and saxophone player, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.
Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and Let England Shake (2011) respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice—eight BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. Rolling Stone awarded her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and listed Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love (1995) on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution To Music at the NME Awards.
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Ray Davies
Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies, CBE ( /ˈdeɪvɨz/ DAY-viz; born 21 June 1944) is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television.
Since the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green in Muswell Hill, North London, England. He is the seventh of eight children born to Fred and Annie Davies, including six older sisters and younger brother Dave Davies. He went to William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School (now called Fortismere School).
Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962–1963, when the Kinks developed into a professional performing band. After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition "You Really Got Me", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That.
Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album of all-time in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century.
Williams has sold over 70 million records worldwide, which ranks him among the best-selling music artists worldwide. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom and the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. He has also been honoured with seventeen BRIT Awards—more than any other artist—and seven ECHO Awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted as the "Greatest Artist of the 1990s."
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.
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Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.
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Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter and television personality.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the characters. He also began a musical career initially with the piano accordion. He wrote the famous song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport", and when performing in Canada he introduced his popular routine around his song "Jake the Peg". He often uses unusual instruments in his performances: he plays the didgeridoo, has been credited with the invention of the wobble board, a rhythmic percussion instrument, and was associated with the Stylophone, a small electronic keyboard instrument.
From the 1960s he has become a popular television personality, presenting shows including Rolf's Cartoon Club, Animal Hospital and various programmes about serious art. In late 2005 he painted an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which was the subject of a special episode of Rolf on Art.
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Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton (23 January 1878 – 25 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music.
A pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford and Walford Davies, Boughton's output included three symphonies, several concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera (which he called "Music Drama" after Wagner). His best known work was the opera The Immortal Hour. His Bethlehem (1915), based on the Coventry Nativity Play and notable for its choral arrangements of traditional Christmas carols also became very popular with choral societies worldwide.
Other operas by Boughton were: The Birth of Arthur (1913), The Round Table (1916), The Lily Maid (1934), Avalon and Galahad (1945) (all four from the Arthurian cycle of music dramas), The Moon Maiden (1919), Alkestis (1922), and The Queen of Cornwall (1924).
Through the Boughton Trust (see below), many of his major works have been recorded and are available on disc including The Immortal Hour, Bethlehem, Symphony No 1 Oliver Cromwell, Symphony No 2 Deirdre, Symphony No 3, Oboe Concerto No 1, string quartets and various chamber pieces and songs.
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Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937), is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the mid-1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century". In the US, in particular, she is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979) and is the only artist to record more than one Bond theme song. Bassey is also a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
"Born above a brothel in a docklands slum", Shirley Veronica Bassey was the sixth and last child of Eliza Jane Start and Henry Bassey in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales (now called Cardiff Bay), of paternal Nigerian and maternal English descent. Bassey's mother also had four children from previous relationships, two of whom lived in the Bassey household. Eliza had married previously, to Alfred Metcalfe, and upon her marriage to Bassey, Eliza Jane Metcalfe listed Alfred Metcalfe as her father on the marriage registry. It has thus been theorized that she never divorced Alfred, and that her marriage to Bassey was bigamous. Eliza and Henry's second child died in infancy, so Shirley was born into a household of three sisters, two half-sisters, and one brother. A year later her father was arrested and charged with having sex with a minor, was tried, imprisoned for five years, then deported. After Henry's arrest, Eliza and the children moved to the nearby steelworking district of Splott.
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Stackridge
Stackridge are a British folk, pop and progressive rock group who were at the height of their success during the early 1970s. The band's output is characterized by quirky humour and rhythmic catchy sing-along tunes.
Stackridge Lemon was formed from the remains of Grytpype Thynne by Andy Davis and James "Crun" Walter during 1969 in the Bristol/Bath area of the UK. After initial experimentation, the word Lemon was dropped from the band's name. The band played its first London gig at The Temple in Wardour Street on 6 February 1970. Stackridge were the opening and closing act at the first Glastonbury Festival between 19 September and 20 September 1970. During 1970 the band shared a communal flat as their headquarters at 32, West Mall in Clifton, Bristol, the address of which Davis and Warren later used as the title of a song which appeared on the debut album.
During 1971 Stackridge began serious gigging, although Crun left to take up bricklaying. The group (Davis,Warren,Bent,Evans,Slater) embarked on a UK tour supporting Wishbone Ash. Later in the year they signed to MCA Records and recorded their first album Stackridge, at De Lane Lea Studios, London. They toured the UK as headliners with Renaissance supporting and played their first John Peel session for the BBC, which included a version of The Beatles Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).
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Stereophonics
Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley, Wales. The band currently comprises lead vocalist and guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist and backing vocalist Richard Jones, drummer Javier Weyler, guitarist and backing vocalist, Adam Zindani and touring member Tony Kirkham (keyboards), the group having originally also included Stuart Cable on drums. Stereophonics have released seven studio albums, five of which have topped the UK Albums Chart. Their seventh, Keep Calm and Carry On, was released in November 2009 but did not make the Top 10. A successful compilation album was also released in November 2008 – Decade in the Sun charting at number two in the United Kingdom. The band is part of the Cardiff music scene.
Described as "classic UK rock delivered with whiskey vocals," the band have been summarised as possessing a sound akin to the genres of alternative rock and "British traditional rock." Stereophonics' debut album, Word Gets Around, was released in August 1997 and instantly charted at number six in the UK, aided by the singles "Local Boy in the Photograph", "More Life in a Tramps Vest" and "A Thousand Trees", all of which failed to affect the top 20. The band reached mainstream success with the release of Performance and Cocktails (and its promotional singles "The Bartender and the Thief", "Just Looking" and "Pick a Part That's New") in 1999 and have achieved a total of ten top-ten singles as well as one number-one: 2005's "Dakota". The band have also been praised for their live performances, which have landed them headlining slots at many of the UK and Ireland's most high-profile music festivals, including Reading and Leeds in 2000, Glastonbury in 2002, V festival in 2002, the Isle of Wight in 2004 and 2009, and Oxegen in 2010.
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Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English songwriter and musician whose genres include blue-eyed soul, R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other strings. A star performer for nearly 50 years, he has also done notable work as a producer.
In addition to his solo career, Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.
In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won numerous Grammy Awards in the United States.
Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy and began playing drums, guitar, and piano. He first performed with his father and older brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. Winwood was a choirboy at St John's Church Perry Barr and later admitted to having "sneaked a few plays" of the organ there. While he was still young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Kingstanding at the northern edge of the city.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.
Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.
Vega was born July 11, 1959 in Santa Monica, California. Her mother, Pat Vega, is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage. Her father, Richard Peck, is of Scottish-English-Irish origin. They divorced soon after her birth. Her stepfather, Ed Vega, also known as Edgardo Vega Yunque, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.
When Vega was two and a half, the family moved to New York City. She grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side. At the age of nine she began to write poetry; she wrote her first song at age fourteen. Later she attended New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts (now called LaGuardia High School). There she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.
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The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.
All six members were originally from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Formed under the name "The Nightlife Thugs," the group agreed on the name change to the "Boomtown Rats" after a gang that Geldof read about in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory. They became a notable band, but one whose accomplishments were overshadowed by the charity work of frontman Bob Geldof, a former journalist with the NME magazine.
The group moved to London in October 1976, and became associated with the punk rock movement. Signing a recording contract with Ensign Records, they released their debut single, "Lookin' After No. 1", in August 1977. It was the first of nine straight singles to make the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album, The Boomtown Rats, was released in September 1977, on Ensign in the UK and on Mercury Records in the United States, and featured another single, "Mary of the 4th Form".Music journalist Martin C. Strong commented, "Geldof's moody charisma helped to give the band a distinct identity".
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The Cure
The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career. Since 2010, they have been working on a fourteenth studio album.
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The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. They have sold over 25 million records worldwide. The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including two Brit Awards—winning Best British Dance Act twice, three MTV Video Music Awards, two Kerrang! Awards, five MTV Europe Music Awards, and have twice been nominated for Grammy Awards.
The group's brand of music makes use of various styles ranging from rave, hardcore techno, industrial, and breakbeat in the early 1990s to big beat and electronic rock with punk vocal elements in later times. The current members include Liam Howlett (keyboardist and composer), Keith Flint (dancer and vocalist), and Maxim (MC and vocalist). Leeroy Thornhill (dancer and very rarely a live keyboardist) was a member of the band from 1990 to 2000, as was a female dancer and vocalist called Sharky who left the group during their early period. The Prodigy first emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990s, and have since then achieved immense popularity and worldwide renown.
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Thom Yorke
Thomas "Thom" Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.
Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry; in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the 6th most powerful figure in music, and Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in popular music; in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list.
Yorke was born on 7 October 1968, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye was fixed shut; the doctors determined that the eye was paralyzed and that the condition was permanent. Yorke's parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a muscle graft. Yorke underwent five eye operations before he was six years old. Yorke's father, a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his son's birth and the family lived there until Yorke was seven. During this time Yorke had to wear a patch over his eye. He has stated that the last surgery was "botched", giving him a drooping eyelid.
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Tim Blake
Timothy 'Tim' Blake (born 6 February 1952, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Shepherd's Bush, west London), is a keyboardist, synthesist, vocalist, and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener.
They were sometimes joined on keyboards by the young prodigy Jean-Philippe Rykiel.
Blake first worked as the engineer at Marquee Studios, where Daevid Allen was recording his first solo album Bananamoon in 1971. At the end of the sessions Allen had invited Blake to come back to France to be Gong's sound mixer, but he refused. He eventually joined Gong full-time in 1973 as the band's keyboard/synthesizer player, being among the first to bring the synthesizer out of the studio and on to the stage. He appears on all 3 albums of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy; Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, and You. He left Gong in early 1975, prompting the eventual departures of almost all of the other members of the 'classic era' (with the exception of Pierre Moerlen, who continued the band under the name of Pierre Moerlen's Gong).
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926), is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter, having created works — under the name Benedetto — that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in New York City.
Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as an infantryman with the U.S. Army in the European Theatre. Afterwards, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records, and had his first number one popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several top hits such as "Rags to Riches" followed in the early 1950s. Bennett then further refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings, Bennett Sings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". His career and his personal life then suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era.
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Van Morrison
Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely viewed as among the greatest ever made.
Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day. He rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968. Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances. Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains. In 2008 he performed Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.
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Wayne Fontana
Wayne Fontana (born Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, 28 October 1945, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English pop singer.
In 1963, he formed his backing group, the Mindbenders and got a recording contract. He remained under contract to Fontana Records after parting with The Mindbenders. However, Fontana got his stage name from Elvis Presley's drummer D. J. Fontana, rather than his record label. He soldiered on alone, using musicians under the name of the Opposition. Notably, Frank Renshaw (lead guitar) (born 22 June 1943, Wythenshawe, Manchester), Bernie Burns (drums), Roy 'Rossi' Henshall (bass), Rod Gerrard (guitar, ex Herman's Hermits, and Phil Keane (drums) amongst others. Sometimes they were billed as the Mindbenders, or just as the Wayne Fontana band. Fontana's most successful solo single release was also his last, "Pamela, Pamela", which reached Number 11 in the UK Singles Chart early in 1967.
In 2005, he fought off bankruptcy, but was arrested after police were called by bailiffs who went to his home in Glossop, Derbyshire. He poured petrol on to the bonnet of a car, and set it alight with a bailiff inside. Fontana was remanded in custody on 25 May 2007 in regard to the charge. He appeared at Derby Crown Court dressed as the lady of justice, with a sword, scales, crown, cape and dark glasses, claiming "justice is blind". He dismissed his lawyers. On 10 November 2007, he was sentenced to 11 months for setting fire to the car but was released because he had already served the equivalent of the term, held under the Mental Health Act 1983. After his release he settled in Spain.
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Oasis @ Glastonbury Festival 2004 - FULL CONCERT
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Oasis performing an awesome gig, live from Glastonbury, in 2004. No infringement is intended and I do not own the copyright.
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Blur live at Glastonbury Festival 2009
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Click a time to play any song. Boys & Girls 00:42 Tracy Jacks 05:08 There's No Other Way 09:32 Jubilee 13:15 Badhead 16:15 Beetlebum 19:52 Out Of Time 26:15 Tender 29:42 Country House 39:24 Sunday Sunday 44:05 Parklife 46:56 End Of A Century 50:16 Song 2 53:11 For Tomorrow 56:14 The Universal 1:02:33
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Click a time to play any song. Boys & Girls 00:42 Tracy Jacks 05:08 There's No Other Way 09:32 Jubilee 13:15 Badhead 16:15 Beetlebum 19:52 Out Of Time 26:15 Tender 29:42 Country House 39:24 Sunday Sunday 44:05 Parklife 46:56 End Of A Century 50:16 Song 2 53:11 For Tomorrow 56:14 The Universal 1:02:33
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Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Glastonbury Festival 1995 (FULL SHOW)
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Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Glastonbury Festival Pilton, Somerset, England June 25th 1995 Japan TV Broadcast 01 No Quarter 02 Gallows Pole 03 'Presentation' 04 Since I've Been Loving You 05 The Song Remains The Same 06 Friends 07 Break On Through~ Dazed And Confused~ Calling To You 08 Four Sticks 09 In The Evening 10 Kashmir This can be downloaded in DVD format for FREE right here: bootlegtunzworld.org from: Tunz Master Dino D & P's Bootleg Tunz World
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Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Glastonbury Festival Pilton, Somerset, England June 25th 1995 Japan TV Broadcast 01 No Quarter 02 Gallows Pole 03 'Presentation' 04 Since I've Been Loving You 05 The Song Remains The Same 06 Friends 07 Break On Through~ Dazed And Confused~ Calling To You 08 Four Sticks 09 In The Evening 10 Kashmir This can be downloaded in DVD format for FREE right here: bootlegtunzworld.org from: Tunz Master Dino D & P's Bootleg Tunz World
- published: 28 Sep 2012
- views: 10629
- author: BootlegTunzWorld
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury festival.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 97:57
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Worthy Farm, Pilton,Uk 2010/06/25
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U2 - Full Concert (HD) in Live At Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:33
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011. U2 - Full Concert (HD) in Live At Glastonbury Festival 2011
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U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011. U2 - Full Concert (HD) in Live At Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 07 Mar 2012
- views: 206922
- author: MarcoHDHighQuality2
MUSE - Glastonbury Festival(2010)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 101:39
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Set List 00:16 Uprising 05:47 Supermassive Black Hole 10:07 New Born 16:39 School riff(from Nirvana): Thanks Dude! 18:22 Map of the Problematique 24:05 Guiding Light 28:27 Citizen Erased 36:13 Nishe 37:32 United States of Eurasia 42:00 Feeling Good 45:20 Undisclosed Desires 50:43 Resistance 57:20 Hysteria 1:02:58 (62:58) House of the Rising Sun 1:03:54 (63:54) Time is Running Out 1:09:08 (69:08) Starlight 1:13:20 (73:20) Stockholm Syndrome Encore 1:21:19 (81:19) Where the Streets Have No Name(feat. The Edge, U2 Cover) 1:27:30 (87:30) Plug In Baby 1:32:36 (92:36) Man With A Harmonica 1:34:40 (94:40) Knights of Cydonia * Better quality than previous vid(www.youtube.com
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Set List 00:16 Uprising 05:47 Supermassive Black Hole 10:07 New Born 16:39 School riff(from Nirvana): Thanks Dude! 18:22 Map of the Problematique 24:05 Guiding Light 28:27 Citizen Erased 36:13 Nishe 37:32 United States of Eurasia 42:00 Feeling Good 45:20 Undisclosed Desires 50:43 Resistance 57:20 Hysteria 1:02:58 (62:58) House of the Rising Sun 1:03:54 (63:54) Time is Running Out 1:09:08 (69:08) Starlight 1:13:20 (73:20) Stockholm Syndrome Encore 1:21:19 (81:19) Where the Streets Have No Name(feat. The Edge, U2 Cover) 1:27:30 (87:30) Plug In Baby 1:32:36 (92:36) Man With A Harmonica 1:34:40 (94:40) Knights of Cydonia * Better quality than previous vid(www.youtube.com
- published: 15 Jun 2011
- views: 1340400
- author: 80KH
Pulp - Common People - Glastonbury Festival Park Stage 25/06/2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:35
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
One of those performances you tell your grandchildren about. I had to wait until my granddaughter got back from The Dance Village. The next morning I was woken at 5am by a rather drunk but charming scouser who had been up at The Stone Circle at 4am. As promised Jarvis Cocker was there though it seems he didn't suffer drunks gladly. Playlist at www.youtube.com
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One of those performances you tell your grandchildren about. I had to wait until my granddaughter got back from The Dance Village. The next morning I was woken at 5am by a rather drunk but charming scouser who had been up at The Stone Circle at 4am. As promised Jarvis Cocker was there though it seems he didn't suffer drunks gladly. Playlist at www.youtube.com
- published: 27 Jun 2011
- views: 57800
- author: Alistair Burns
The Verve - (HD)(Live)(Glastonbury 2008 Festival)(Full Concert)720p
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 69:10
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
29th June 2008. Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK. SETLIST: 01 This Is Music 02 Sonnet 03 Space and Time 04 History 05 Life Is An Ocean 06 Velvet Morning 07 Rolling People 08 The Drugs Don't Work 09 Lucky Man 10 Bittersweet Symphony 11 Love is Noise Enjoy!!!!!
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29th June 2008. Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK. SETLIST: 01 This Is Music 02 Sonnet 03 Space and Time 04 History 05 Life Is An Ocean 06 Velvet Morning 07 Rolling People 08 The Drugs Don't Work 09 Lucky Man 10 Bittersweet Symphony 11 Love is Noise Enjoy!!!!!
- published: 24 Dec 2011
- views: 119690
- author: burtonCONCERTS
Slash - Glastonbury Festival 2010 (Full Concert) Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:38
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Presentación de Slash en el Glastonbury Festival 2010: 1. Ghost 0:19 2. Back From Cali 3:52 3. Nightrain 7:46 4. Rocket Queen (Part 1) 12:49
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Presentación de Slash en el Glastonbury Festival 2010: 1. Ghost 0:19 2. Back From Cali 3:52 3. Nightrain 7:46 4. Rocket Queen (Part 1) 12:49
- published: 04 Jan 2013
- views: 23
- author: AlterBeto
Snoop Dogg - Jump around (glastonbury festival) HD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Respect Big Snoop Dogg !
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Amy Winehouse (Full) Live At Glastonbury Festival 2008
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:13
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Amy Winehouse with band Live at Glastonbury Festival 2008 Saturday night 29th June 2008 Tears Dry On Their Own 00:00 Cupid 04:22 Back To Black 08:42 Wake Up Alone 13:58 Some Unholy War 18:13 Love Is A Losing Game 21:37 Hey Little Rich Girl 24:16 Message To You Rudy 28:27 You're Wondering Now 32:38 You Know I'm No Good 46:53 Me & Mr Jones 51:55 Rehab 54:40
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Amy Winehouse with band Live at Glastonbury Festival 2008 Saturday night 29th June 2008 Tears Dry On Their Own 00:00 Cupid 04:22 Back To Black 08:42 Wake Up Alone 13:58 Some Unholy War 18:13 Love Is A Losing Game 21:37 Hey Little Rich Girl 24:16 Message To You Rudy 28:27 You're Wondering Now 32:38 You Know I'm No Good 46:53 Me & Mr Jones 51:55 Rehab 54:40
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 4026195
- author: AthensBerlin
Franz Ferdinand Live At Glastonbury Festival (Full Concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 85:01
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Franz Ferdinand Live At Pilton, Somerset, England For Glastonbury Festival (26th July, 2009) Source: BBC Tracklist: 01.- The Dark Of The Matinée (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 02.- No You Girls (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 03.- Do You Want To (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 04.- Turn It On (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 05.- Michael (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 06.- Walk Away (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 07.- Bite Hard (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 08.- Take Me Out (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 09.- What She Came For (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 10.- The Fallen (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 11.- 40' (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 12.- Outsiders (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) Encore: 13.- Jacqueline (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 14.- Ulysses (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 15.- Lucid Dreams (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 16.- This Fire (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand)
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Franz Ferdinand Live At Pilton, Somerset, England For Glastonbury Festival (26th July, 2009) Source: BBC Tracklist: 01.- The Dark Of The Matinée (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 02.- No You Girls (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 03.- Do You Want To (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 04.- Turn It On (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 05.- Michael (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 06.- Walk Away (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 07.- Bite Hard (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 08.- Take Me Out (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 09.- What She Came For (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 10.- The Fallen (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) 11.- 40' (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 12.- Outsiders (From The Album: You Could Have It So Much Better) Encore: 13.- Jacqueline (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand) 14.- Ulysses (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 15.- Lucid Dreams (From The Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand) 16.- This Fire (From The Album: Franz Ferdinand)
- published: 18 Dec 2011
- views: 372285
- author: SkyPlusPro
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury Festival 2010 (Full) HD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 78:52
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury Festival 2010 (Full) HD
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Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury Festival 2010 (Full) HD
- published: 27 Jun 2012
- views: 26559
- author: Eric Yair
Morrissey @ Glastonbury Festival 2011 (Full set)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:03
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Set list: 1:12 - I Want the One I Can't Have 4:33 - First of the Gang to Die 8:15 - You Have Killed Me 11:20 - Shoplifters of the World Unite 14:27 - Everyday is Like Sunday 18:36 - There is a Light That Never Goes Out 23:33 - Alma Matters 27:58 - People are the Same Everywhere 31:41 - One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell 35:53 - Action is My Middle Name 38:47 - Satellite of Love (Lou Reed cover) 42:41 - Meat is Murder 49:31 - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris 52:08 - Irish Blood, English Heart 55:18 - This Charming Man
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Set list: 1:12 - I Want the One I Can't Have 4:33 - First of the Gang to Die 8:15 - You Have Killed Me 11:20 - Shoplifters of the World Unite 14:27 - Everyday is Like Sunday 18:36 - There is a Light That Never Goes Out 23:33 - Alma Matters 27:58 - People are the Same Everywhere 31:41 - One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell 35:53 - Action is My Middle Name 38:47 - Satellite of Love (Lou Reed cover) 42:41 - Meat is Murder 49:31 - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris 52:08 - Irish Blood, English Heart 55:18 - This Charming Man
- published: 16 Jul 2011
- views: 332036
- author: rodr1gosm1le
Jeff Buckley live at Glastonbury Festival Full Show 1995-06-24
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Jeff Buckley Live at Glastonbury Festival, 1995-06-24. An amazing show from an amazing man. Download link below! Set List: 01 - Applause 00:00 02 - Dream Brother 00:10 03 - Lover, You Should've Come Over 9:24 04 - So Real 17:15 05 - Last Goodbye 22:18 06 - What Will You Say 27:05 07 - Mojo Pin 35:10 08 - Eternal Life 41:30 09 - Kick Out The Jams 46:57 10 - Grace 50:30 Had this on my computer for a while and I saw It's not on Youtube anymore for some reason, so I decided to upload it. A Beautiful performance from a beautiful man. www.mediafire.com or www.4shared.com
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Jeff Buckley Live at Glastonbury Festival, 1995-06-24. An amazing show from an amazing man. Download link below! Set List: 01 - Applause 00:00 02 - Dream Brother 00:10 03 - Lover, You Should've Come Over 9:24 04 - So Real 17:15 05 - Last Goodbye 22:18 06 - What Will You Say 27:05 07 - Mojo Pin 35:10 08 - Eternal Life 41:30 09 - Kick Out The Jams 46:57 10 - Grace 50:30 Had this on my computer for a while and I saw It's not on Youtube anymore for some reason, so I decided to upload it. A Beautiful performance from a beautiful man. www.mediafire.com or www.4shared.com
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 12815
- author: shir4141
David Bowie: Glastonbury Festival.2000.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:19
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Date: 25th June 2000 Venue: Main Stage, Glastonbury Festival, England (Audio Upgrade.) Wild Is The Wind China Girl Changes Stay Life On Mars? Ziggy Stardust "Heroes"
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Date: 25th June 2000 Venue: Main Stage, Glastonbury Festival, England (Audio Upgrade.) Wild Is The Wind China Girl Changes Stay Life On Mars? Ziggy Stardust "Heroes"
- published: 05 Aug 2012
- views: 3088
- author: Kooks213
![Morrissey - Live at Glastonbury Festival [2011]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130108104839im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZBuTrxkff6A/default.jpg "Morrissey - Live at Glastonbury Festival [2011]")
Morrissey - Live at Glastonbury Festival [2011]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:03
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Set list: I Want the One I Can't Have First of the Gang to Die You Have Killed Me Shoplifters of the World Unite Everyday is Like Sunday There is a Light That Never Goes Out Alma Matters People are the Same Everywhere One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell Action is My Middle Name Satellite of Love Meat is Murder I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris Irish Blood, English Heart This Charming Man
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Set list: I Want the One I Can't Have First of the Gang to Die You Have Killed Me Shoplifters of the World Unite Everyday is Like Sunday There is a Light That Never Goes Out Alma Matters People are the Same Everywhere One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell Action is My Middle Name Satellite of Love Meat is Murder I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris Irish Blood, English Heart This Charming Man
- published: 08 Feb 2012
- views: 26761
- author: Luis Maia Pereira
Matt Smith - Orbital Glastonbury 2010 - Doctor Who Theme Tune (Remix)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:52
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Good song with new doctor matt smith
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Massive Attack - 6 Song Set From Glastonbury Festival 2008
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 33:58
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Recorded from the BBCi live feed on the night of 28th June 2008 at the world-renowned Glastonbury Festival. This was Massive Attack's first time playing the festival since 1997. Tracklist: All I Want (Unreleased) - 00:00-04:58 Teardrop - 04:58-10:50 Karmacoma - 10:50-16:15 Safe From Harm - 16:15-24:13 Angel - 24:13-29:20 Unfinished Sympathy - 29:20-33:57 The one other broadcast song from this performance, Marooned, can be viewed from the YouTube link below, however it is truncated, as the BBCi live feed of it was cut. www.youtube.com Visit MASSIVEATTACK.IE - massiveattack.ie
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Recorded from the BBCi live feed on the night of 28th June 2008 at the world-renowned Glastonbury Festival. This was Massive Attack's first time playing the festival since 1997. Tracklist: All I Want (Unreleased) - 00:00-04:58 Teardrop - 04:58-10:50 Karmacoma - 10:50-16:15 Safe From Harm - 16:15-24:13 Angel - 24:13-29:20 Unfinished Sympathy - 29:20-33:57 The one other broadcast song from this performance, Marooned, can be viewed from the YouTube link below, however it is truncated, as the BBCi live feed of it was cut. www.youtube.com Visit MASSIVEATTACK.IE - massiveattack.ie
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 14681
- author: madotie
Coldplay (HD) - Fix You (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:14
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Playlist: tinyurl.com Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011 Intro: What A Wonderful World www.coldplay.com http
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Playlist: tinyurl.com Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011 Intro: What A Wonderful World www.coldplay.com http
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 560309
- author: TomaLaBananas
The Joy Formidable - Live at Glastonbury (2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:42
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
FULL CONCERT (click on a time mark to go directly to a song): 01. Intro - 0:00 02. A Heavy Abacus - 0:21 03. Austere - 4:45 04. The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade - 10:50 05. Cradle - 16:43 06. Whirring - 21:04 The Joy Formidable are an alternative rock band formed in 2007 in North Wales and currently located in London, England. The band consists of Ritzy Bryan (lead vocals, guitar), Rhydian Dafydd (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Thomas (drums, percussion). Official site: www.thejoyformidable.com
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FULL CONCERT (click on a time mark to go directly to a song): 01. Intro - 0:00 02. A Heavy Abacus - 0:21 03. Austere - 4:45 04. The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade - 10:50 05. Cradle - 16:43 06. Whirring - 21:04 The Joy Formidable are an alternative rock band formed in 2007 in North Wales and currently located in London, England. The band consists of Ritzy Bryan (lead vocals, guitar), Rhydian Dafydd (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Thomas (drums, percussion). Official site: www.thejoyformidable.com
- published: 03 Jan 2012
- views: 25448
- author: Alin82
Amy Winehouse Live At Glastonbury Festival 2008 (FULL CONCERT)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:13
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
A Amy Winehouse concert. No infringement is intended and I do not own the copyright. Tracklist Tears Dry On Their Own Cupid Back To Black Wake Up Alone Some Unholy War Love Is A Losing Game Hey Little Rich Girl Message To You Rudy You're Wondering Now You Know I'm No Good Me & Mr Jones Rehab
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A Amy Winehouse concert. No infringement is intended and I do not own the copyright. Tracklist Tears Dry On Their Own Cupid Back To Black Wake Up Alone Some Unholy War Love Is A Losing Game Hey Little Rich Girl Message To You Rudy You're Wondering Now You Know I'm No Good Me & Mr Jones Rehab
- published: 11 Jan 2012
- views: 48170
- author: Daniel Rebello
Jessie J ft Shay - Price Tag - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:22
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Lucky 7 yr old girl Shay, gets picked out from the crowd to sing Price Tag with Jessie J. Saturday 25th June 2011.
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Lucky 7 yr old girl Shay, gets picked out from the crowd to sing Price Tag with Jessie J. Saturday 25th June 2011.
- published: 29 Jun 2011
- views: 142918
- author: heed1969
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Coldplay (HD) - Hurts Like Heaven (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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- published: 22 Jul 2011
- views: 91921
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Yellow (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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- published: 22 Jul 2011
- views: 118541
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - In My Place (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_In_My_Place_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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- published: 23 Jul 2011
- views: 80662
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Major Minus (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 23 Jul 2011
- views: 25645
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Lost! (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Lost!_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 62460
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - The Scientist (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_The_Scientist_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 218221
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Shiver (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Shiver_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 67107
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Violet Hill (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Violet_Hill_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 46188
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_God_Put_A_Smile_Upon_Your_Face_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 03 Aug 2011
- views: 36949
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Everything's Not Lost (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Everything's_Not_Lost_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 03 Aug 2011
- views: 65417
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Us Against the World (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Us_Against_the_World_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 121129
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Politik (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Politik_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 72592
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Viva La Vida (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 159667
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Charlie Brown (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Charlie_Brown_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 08 Aug 2011
- views: 193253
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Life Is For Living (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Life_Is_For_Living_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 09 Aug 2011
- views: 100310
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Clocks (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
http://wn.com/Coldplay_HD_Clocks_Glastonbury_2011
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 197261
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Fix You (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Intro: What A Wonderful World
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Intro: What A Wonderful World
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 560893
- author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (Glastonbury 2011)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall:
I turn the music up, I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favourite song
And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight
I turn the music up, I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart
And we saw oh this light I swear you, emerge blinking into
To tell me it's alright
As we soar walls, every siren is a symphony
And every tear's a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Oh
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
Is a is a waterfall
Every tear
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag
Oh
It was a wa wa wa wa wa-asterfall
A wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
http://www.coldplay.com
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall:
I turn the music up, I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favourite song
And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight
I turn the music up, I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart
And we saw oh this light I swear you, emerge blinking into
To tell me it's alright
As we soar walls, every siren is a symphony
And every tear's a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Oh
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
Is a is a waterfall
Every tear
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag
Oh
It was a wa wa wa wa wa-asterfall
A wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 08 Aug 2011
- views: 351257
- author: TomaLaBananas
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![[MENU] Gorillaz at Glastonbury Festival 2010](http://web.archive.org./web/20130108104839im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TQZZu83pz2k/default.jpg "[MENU] Gorillaz at Glastonbury Festival 2010")
[MENU] Gorillaz at Glastonbury Festival 2010
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:03
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Gorillaz Live Concert at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
Click on your favourite music!
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Gorillaz Live Concert at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
Click on your favourite music!
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 11201
- author: TomaLaBananas
![Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - [Intro] Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach](http://web.archive.org./web/20130108104839im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fXSU7y4aWrw/default.jpg "Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - [Intro] Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach")
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - [Intro] Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 9275
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stylo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Stylo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 17773
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - White Flag
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_White_Flag
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 4691
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Superfast Jellyfish
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Superfast_Jellyfish
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 3299
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - DARE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_DARE
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 45749
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Feel Good Inc.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Feel_Good_Inc
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 68267
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Clint Eastwood (With Snoop Dogg)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:21
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Clint_Eastwood_With_Snoop_Dogg
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 1006162
- author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - On Melancholy Hill
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
http://wn.com/Gorillaz_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_On_Melancholy_Hill
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 38088
- author: TomaLaBananas
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Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6730
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 11811
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
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Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 8824
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
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Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 819
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 48647
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 10749
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 15116
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:19
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
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Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6230
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:27
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6761
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
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- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 3949
- author: HDBeyonce1000
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U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Even Better Than The Real Thing
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
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http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Even_Better_Than_The_Real_Thing
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 11972
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - The Fly
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_The_Fly
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 9608
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Mysterious Ways
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Mysterious_Ways
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 5000
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Until The End Of The World
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Until_The_End_Of_The_World
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 7110
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - One
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_One
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 26667
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Where The Streets Have No Name
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Jerusalem"
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Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Jerusalem"
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 30700
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Will Follow
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_I_Will_Follow
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 8479
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_I_Still_Haven't_Found_What_I'm_Looking_For
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 26757
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Stay_Faraway,_So_Close!
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 19025
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Beautiful day
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Beautiful_day
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 21100
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Elevation
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Elevation
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 10921
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Get On Your Boots
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Get_On_Your_Boots
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4849
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Vertigo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Vertigo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 12174
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Sunday_Bloody_Sunday
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 11228
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Bad
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Bad
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 20223
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Pride_In_The_Name_Of_Love
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 18530
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - With Or Without You
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_With_Or_Without_You
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 29508
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Moment Of Surrender
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Yellow"
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Moment_Of_Surrender
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Yellow"
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 11782
- author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Out Of Control
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
http://wn.com/U2_Live_at_Glastonbury_HD_Out_Of_Control
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 16 Jul 2011
- views: 10041
- author: TomaLaBananas
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The Gaslight Anthem - 01 High lonesome - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_01_High_lonesome_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 02 The '59 sound - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_02_The_'59_sound_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 03 Bring it on - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_03_Bring_it_on_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 04 Wherefore art thou, Elvis? & 05 Wooderson - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:17
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_04_Wherefore_art_thou,_Elvis?_05_Wooderson_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 06 Film noir - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_06_Film_noir_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 07 Biloxi parish - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_07_Biloxi_parish_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 08 The queen of lower Chelsea - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_08_The_queen_of_lower_Chelsea_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 09 Great expectations - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_09_Great_expectations_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
The Gaslight Anthem - 10 The backseat - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://wn.com/The_Gaslight_Anthem_10_The_backseat_Glastonbury_Festival_2011
5:10
Coldplay (HD) - Hurts Like Heaven (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 22 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Hurts Like Heaven (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 22 Jul 2011
- views: 91921
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:21
Coldplay (HD) - Yellow (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 22 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Yellow (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 22 Jul 2011
- views: 118541
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:54
Coldplay (HD) - In My Place (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 23 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - In My Place (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 23 Jul 2011
- views: 80662
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:24
Coldplay (HD) - Major Minus (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 23 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Major Minus (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 23 Jul 2011
- views: 25645
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:58
Coldplay (HD) - Lost! (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 24 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Lost! (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 62460
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:54
Coldplay (HD) - The Scientist (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 24 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - The Scientist (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 218221
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:51
Coldplay (HD) - Shiver (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 29 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Shiver (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 67107
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:41
Coldplay (HD) - Violet Hill (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 29 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Violet Hill (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 46188
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:54
Coldplay (HD) - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 03 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 03 Aug 2011
- views: 36949
- author: TomaLaBananas
7:37
Coldplay (HD) - Everything's Not Lost (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 03 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Everything's Not Lost (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 03 Aug 2011
- views: 65417
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:11
Coldplay (HD) - Us Against the World (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 05 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Us Against the World (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 121129
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:07
Coldplay (HD) - Politik (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 06 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Politik (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 72592
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:04
Coldplay (HD) - Viva La Vida (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 06 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Viva La Vida (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 159667
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:17
Coldplay (HD) - Charlie Brown (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 08 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Charlie Brown (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 08 Aug 2011
- views: 193253
- author: TomaLaBananas
Vimeo results:
6:25
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Pe...
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: Lee Deaville
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Petr sets about his monotonous night shift at his local supermarket.
Shot on 5D mk II, with 135mm and 17-40mm lenses. Edited on FCP.
Glastonbury 2010, Encounters Film Festival, Exposures Festival (winner - 'Best Artists Film'), Artsfest 09, Kino 10, A Wall is a Screen, Clermont Ferrand short film marketplace, Souvenirs From Earth.
www.leedeaville.com
4:22
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available...
published: 16 May 2011
author: The Prodigy
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available from http://www.worldsonfire.tv
On CD/DVD and CD/BLU-RAY
Portraying their biggest show to date from their sold out Warrior's Dance Festival at the Milton Keynes Bowl, it includes their biggest tunes -- Omen, Firestarter, Breathe, Warrior's Dance, Smack My Bitch Up and more -- and will now be available in full to watch in the comfort of your own place. Just make sure you turn it up & annoy the neighbours!
DVD
1. intro
2. breathe
3. omen
4. colours
5. thunder
6. warrior's dance
7. firestarter
8. run with the wolves
9. weather experience
10. voodoo people
11. omen reprise
12. invaders must die
13. smack my bitch up
14. take me to the hospital
15. everybody in the place
16. their law
17. out of space
DVD EXTRA CONTENT
1. run, brixton, london
2. spitfire / mescaline, brazil
3. breathe, slane castle, ireland 4. poison, glastonbury, england
5. warning, t in the park , scotland
6. japanese film
7. voodoo, bestival and paris france
8. usa film
9. uk arena tour film
10. smack my bitch up, isle of wight to download, england
AUDIO CD
1. intro (live)
2. breathe (live)
3. omen (live)
4. colours (live)
5. thunder (live)
6. warriors dance (live)
7. firestarter (live)
8. run with the wolves (live)
9. weather experience (live)
10. voodoo people (live)
11. omen reprise (live)
12. invaders must die (live)
13. smack my bitch up (live)
14. take me to the hospital (live)
15. everybody in the place (live)
16. their law (live)
17. out of space (live)
3:54
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple...
published: 22 Jun 2010
author: Elliott
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple head to go! setup @ Glastonbury Festival.
Music - Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake remix)
1:28
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music...
published: 06 Aug 2010
author: Memo Akten
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks.
www.msavisuals.com/webcam_piano_2
Webcam Piano is an ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes. My main aim is to create an instrument that sounds conventional - and is governed by conventional musical rules established over centuries of musical and social evolution - but is performed via a highly un-conventional - yet hopefully very intuitive - approach, allowing users to get deeply involved within minutes, if not seconds of starting to play with it.
The first incarnation of Webcam Piano came about as a little experiment in 2008, as an opensource Quartz Composer patch. This was shortly followed by an opensource Java / Processing implementation and again quickly followed by an opensource C++ / openFrameworks implementation which also evolved into a large scale multi-instrument rave / installation at the Glastonbury festival.
Webcam Piano 2.0, uses much smarter algorithms to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their movements. It also offers a simple gestural interface to switch between 3 (potentially more) different musical modes and color schemes, each representing a different emotion and feel.
Webcam Piano 2.0 (along with Gold) is currently on show at the XBox Kinect Galleries in Covent Garden, London, UK (though not linked with XBox Kinect technology in any way).
Youtube results:
3:31
Coldplay (HD) - Life Is For Living (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 09 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Life Is For Living (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 09 Aug 2011
- views: 100310
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:10
Coldplay (HD) - Clocks (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 13 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Clocks (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 197261
- author: TomaLaBananas
7:14
Coldplay (HD) - Fix You (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 13 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Fix You (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Intro: What A Wonderful World
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 560893
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:33
Coldplay (HD) - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonb...
published: 08 Aug 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Coldplay (HD) - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (Glastonbury 2011)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Coldplay-Glastonbury
Coldplay live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, June 25, 2011
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall:
I turn the music up, I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favourite song
And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight
I turn the music up, I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart
And we saw oh this light I swear you, emerge blinking into
To tell me it's alright
As we soar walls, every siren is a symphony
And every tear's a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Oh
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
Is a is a waterfall
Every tear
Is a waterfall
Oh oh oh
So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag
Oh
It was a wa wa wa wa wa-asterfall
A wa wa wa wa wa-aterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall
http://www.coldplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury
- published: 08 Aug 2011
- views: 351257
- author: TomaLaBananas
2:03
[MENU] Gorillaz at Glastonbury Festival 2010
Gorillaz Live Concert at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
Click on ...
published: 25 Jun 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
[MENU] Gorillaz at Glastonbury Festival 2010
Gorillaz Live Concert at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
Click on your favourite music!
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 11201
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:57
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - [Intro] Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - [Intro] Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 9275
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:55
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stylo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stylo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 17773
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:00
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - White Flag
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - White Flag
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 4691
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:21
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Superfast Jellyfish
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Superfast Jellyfish
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 3299
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:20
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - DARE
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - DARE
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 45749
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:56
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Feel Good Inc.
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Feel Good Inc.
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 68267
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:21
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Clint Eastwood (With Snoop Dogg)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Clint Eastwood (With Snoop Dogg)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 1006162
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:56
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - On Melancholy Hill
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festi...
published: 25 Jan 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury (HD) - On Melancholy Hill
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/Gorillaz-LiveGlastonbury
Recorded Live at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, 25 June 2010.
- published: 25 Jan 2011
- views: 38088
- author: TomaLaBananas
Vimeo results:
6:25
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Pe...
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: Lee Deaville
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Petr sets about his monotonous night shift at his local supermarket.
Shot on 5D mk II, with 135mm and 17-40mm lenses. Edited on FCP.
Glastonbury 2010, Encounters Film Festival, Exposures Festival (winner - 'Best Artists Film'), Artsfest 09, Kino 10, A Wall is a Screen, Clermont Ferrand short film marketplace, Souvenirs From Earth.
www.leedeaville.com
4:22
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available...
published: 16 May 2011
author: The Prodigy
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available from http://www.worldsonfire.tv
On CD/DVD and CD/BLU-RAY
Portraying their biggest show to date from their sold out Warrior's Dance Festival at the Milton Keynes Bowl, it includes their biggest tunes -- Omen, Firestarter, Breathe, Warrior's Dance, Smack My Bitch Up and more -- and will now be available in full to watch in the comfort of your own place. Just make sure you turn it up & annoy the neighbours!
DVD
1. intro
2. breathe
3. omen
4. colours
5. thunder
6. warrior's dance
7. firestarter
8. run with the wolves
9. weather experience
10. voodoo people
11. omen reprise
12. invaders must die
13. smack my bitch up
14. take me to the hospital
15. everybody in the place
16. their law
17. out of space
DVD EXTRA CONTENT
1. run, brixton, london
2. spitfire / mescaline, brazil
3. breathe, slane castle, ireland 4. poison, glastonbury, england
5. warning, t in the park , scotland
6. japanese film
7. voodoo, bestival and paris france
8. usa film
9. uk arena tour film
10. smack my bitch up, isle of wight to download, england
AUDIO CD
1. intro (live)
2. breathe (live)
3. omen (live)
4. colours (live)
5. thunder (live)
6. warriors dance (live)
7. firestarter (live)
8. run with the wolves (live)
9. weather experience (live)
10. voodoo people (live)
11. omen reprise (live)
12. invaders must die (live)
13. smack my bitch up (live)
14. take me to the hospital (live)
15. everybody in the place (live)
16. their law (live)
17. out of space (live)
3:54
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple...
published: 22 Jun 2010
author: Elliott
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple head to go! setup @ Glastonbury Festival.
Music - Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake remix)
1:28
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music...
published: 06 Aug 2010
author: Memo Akten
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks.
www.msavisuals.com/webcam_piano_2
Webcam Piano is an ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes. My main aim is to create an instrument that sounds conventional - and is governed by conventional musical rules established over centuries of musical and social evolution - but is performed via a highly un-conventional - yet hopefully very intuitive - approach, allowing users to get deeply involved within minutes, if not seconds of starting to play with it.
The first incarnation of Webcam Piano came about as a little experiment in 2008, as an opensource Quartz Composer patch. This was shortly followed by an opensource Java / Processing implementation and again quickly followed by an opensource C++ / openFrameworks implementation which also evolved into a large scale multi-instrument rave / installation at the Glastonbury festival.
Webcam Piano 2.0, uses much smarter algorithms to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their movements. It also offers a simple gestural interface to switch between 3 (potentially more) different musical modes and color schemes, each representing a different emotion and feel.
Webcam Piano 2.0 (along with Gold) is currently on show at the XBox Kinect Galleries in Covent Garden, London, UK (though not linked with XBox Kinect technology in any way).
3:56
Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download ...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Crazy In Love" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6730
- author: HDBeyonce1000
5:48
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonb...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 11811
- author: HDBeyonce1000
6:10
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Naughty Girl & Baby Boy" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 8824
- author: HDBeyonce1000
4:06
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio ...
published: 21 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Best Thing I Never Had" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 819
- author: HDBeyonce1000
4:10
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download li...
published: 21 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "End Of Time" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 21 Mar 2012
- views: 48647
- author: HDBeyonce1000
2:47
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download l...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Sweet Dreams" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 10749
- author: HDBeyonce1000
5:16
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio D...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Why Don't You Love Me" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 15116
- author: HDBeyonce1000
7:19
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonb...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "The Beautiful Ones & Sex On Fire" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6230
- author: HDBeyonce1000
6:27
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "1+1" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 6761
- author: HDBeyonce1000
3:04
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio D...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: HDBeyonce1000
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Beyoncé performs "Run The World (Girls)" live at Glastonbury (HD 720p)
Glastonbury Audio Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?r1xon7bli8mf5
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 3949
- author: HDBeyonce1000
Vimeo results:
6:25
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Pe...
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: Lee Deaville
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Petr sets about his monotonous night shift at his local supermarket.
Shot on 5D mk II, with 135mm and 17-40mm lenses. Edited on FCP.
Glastonbury 2010, Encounters Film Festival, Exposures Festival (winner - 'Best Artists Film'), Artsfest 09, Kino 10, A Wall is a Screen, Clermont Ferrand short film marketplace, Souvenirs From Earth.
www.leedeaville.com
4:22
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available...
published: 16 May 2011
author: The Prodigy
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available from http://www.worldsonfire.tv
On CD/DVD and CD/BLU-RAY
Portraying their biggest show to date from their sold out Warrior's Dance Festival at the Milton Keynes Bowl, it includes their biggest tunes -- Omen, Firestarter, Breathe, Warrior's Dance, Smack My Bitch Up and more -- and will now be available in full to watch in the comfort of your own place. Just make sure you turn it up & annoy the neighbours!
DVD
1. intro
2. breathe
3. omen
4. colours
5. thunder
6. warrior's dance
7. firestarter
8. run with the wolves
9. weather experience
10. voodoo people
11. omen reprise
12. invaders must die
13. smack my bitch up
14. take me to the hospital
15. everybody in the place
16. their law
17. out of space
DVD EXTRA CONTENT
1. run, brixton, london
2. spitfire / mescaline, brazil
3. breathe, slane castle, ireland 4. poison, glastonbury, england
5. warning, t in the park , scotland
6. japanese film
7. voodoo, bestival and paris france
8. usa film
9. uk arena tour film
10. smack my bitch up, isle of wight to download, england
AUDIO CD
1. intro (live)
2. breathe (live)
3. omen (live)
4. colours (live)
5. thunder (live)
6. warriors dance (live)
7. firestarter (live)
8. run with the wolves (live)
9. weather experience (live)
10. voodoo people (live)
11. omen reprise (live)
12. invaders must die (live)
13. smack my bitch up (live)
14. take me to the hospital (live)
15. everybody in the place (live)
16. their law (live)
17. out of space (live)
3:54
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple...
published: 22 Jun 2010
author: Elliott
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple head to go! setup @ Glastonbury Festival.
Music - Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake remix)
1:28
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music...
published: 06 Aug 2010
author: Memo Akten
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks.
www.msavisuals.com/webcam_piano_2
Webcam Piano is an ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes. My main aim is to create an instrument that sounds conventional - and is governed by conventional musical rules established over centuries of musical and social evolution - but is performed via a highly un-conventional - yet hopefully very intuitive - approach, allowing users to get deeply involved within minutes, if not seconds of starting to play with it.
The first incarnation of Webcam Piano came about as a little experiment in 2008, as an opensource Quartz Composer patch. This was shortly followed by an opensource Java / Processing implementation and again quickly followed by an opensource C++ / openFrameworks implementation which also evolved into a large scale multi-instrument rave / installation at the Glastonbury festival.
Webcam Piano 2.0, uses much smarter algorithms to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their movements. It also offers a simple gestural interface to switch between 3 (potentially more) different musical modes and color schemes, each representing a different emotion and feel.
Webcam Piano 2.0 (along with Gold) is currently on show at the XBox Kinect Galleries in Covent Garden, London, UK (though not linked with XBox Kinect technology in any way).
3:52
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 06 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 11972
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:46
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - The Fly
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - The Fly
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 9608
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:35
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Mysterious Ways
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Mysterious Ways
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 5000
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:59
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Until The End Of The World
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Until The End Of The World
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 7110
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:20
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - One
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - One
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24th 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 26667
- author: TomaLaBananas
6:17
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Where The Streets Have No Name
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Where The Streets Have No Name
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Jerusalem"
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 30700
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:57
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Will Follow
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Will Follow
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 8479
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:35
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 26757
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:20
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 19025
- author: TomaLaBananas
6:23
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Beautiful day
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Beautiful day
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 21100
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:57
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Elevation
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Elevation
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 10921
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:00
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Get On Your Boots
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Get On Your Boots
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4849
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:28
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Vertigo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 12 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Vertigo
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 12174
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:22
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 12 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 11228
- author: TomaLaBananas
Vimeo results:
6:25
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Pe...
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: Lee Deaville
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Petr sets about his monotonous night shift at his local supermarket.
Shot on 5D mk II, with 135mm and 17-40mm lenses. Edited on FCP.
Glastonbury 2010, Encounters Film Festival, Exposures Festival (winner - 'Best Artists Film'), Artsfest 09, Kino 10, A Wall is a Screen, Clermont Ferrand short film marketplace, Souvenirs From Earth.
www.leedeaville.com
4:22
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available...
published: 16 May 2011
author: The Prodigy
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available from http://www.worldsonfire.tv
On CD/DVD and CD/BLU-RAY
Portraying their biggest show to date from their sold out Warrior's Dance Festival at the Milton Keynes Bowl, it includes their biggest tunes -- Omen, Firestarter, Breathe, Warrior's Dance, Smack My Bitch Up and more -- and will now be available in full to watch in the comfort of your own place. Just make sure you turn it up & annoy the neighbours!
DVD
1. intro
2. breathe
3. omen
4. colours
5. thunder
6. warrior's dance
7. firestarter
8. run with the wolves
9. weather experience
10. voodoo people
11. omen reprise
12. invaders must die
13. smack my bitch up
14. take me to the hospital
15. everybody in the place
16. their law
17. out of space
DVD EXTRA CONTENT
1. run, brixton, london
2. spitfire / mescaline, brazil
3. breathe, slane castle, ireland 4. poison, glastonbury, england
5. warning, t in the park , scotland
6. japanese film
7. voodoo, bestival and paris france
8. usa film
9. uk arena tour film
10. smack my bitch up, isle of wight to download, england
AUDIO CD
1. intro (live)
2. breathe (live)
3. omen (live)
4. colours (live)
5. thunder (live)
6. warriors dance (live)
7. firestarter (live)
8. run with the wolves (live)
9. weather experience (live)
10. voodoo people (live)
11. omen reprise (live)
12. invaders must die (live)
13. smack my bitch up (live)
14. take me to the hospital (live)
15. everybody in the place (live)
16. their law (live)
17. out of space (live)
3:54
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple...
published: 22 Jun 2010
author: Elliott
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple head to go! setup @ Glastonbury Festival.
Music - Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake remix)
1:28
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music...
published: 06 Aug 2010
author: Memo Akten
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks.
www.msavisuals.com/webcam_piano_2
Webcam Piano is an ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes. My main aim is to create an instrument that sounds conventional - and is governed by conventional musical rules established over centuries of musical and social evolution - but is performed via a highly un-conventional - yet hopefully very intuitive - approach, allowing users to get deeply involved within minutes, if not seconds of starting to play with it.
The first incarnation of Webcam Piano came about as a little experiment in 2008, as an opensource Quartz Composer patch. This was shortly followed by an opensource Java / Processing implementation and again quickly followed by an opensource C++ / openFrameworks implementation which also evolved into a large scale multi-instrument rave / installation at the Glastonbury festival.
Webcam Piano 2.0, uses much smarter algorithms to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their movements. It also offers a simple gestural interface to switch between 3 (potentially more) different musical modes and color schemes, each representing a different emotion and feel.
Webcam Piano 2.0 (along with Gold) is currently on show at the XBox Kinect Galleries in Covent Garden, London, UK (though not linked with XBox Kinect technology in any way).
Youtube results:
6:01
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Bad
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 14 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Bad
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 20223
- author: TomaLaBananas
3:48
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 14 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 18530
- author: TomaLaBananas
5:46
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - With Or Without You
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 14 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - With Or Without You
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 29508
- author: TomaLaBananas
8:01
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Moment Of Surrender
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festiv...
published: 14 Jul 2011
author: TomaLaBananas
U2 Live at Glastonbury (HD) - Moment Of Surrender
Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/U2-Glastonbury
U2 live performance at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England, June 24, 2011.
Intro: "Yellow"
http://www.u2.com
- published: 14 Jul 2011
- views: 11782
- author: TomaLaBananas
4:29
The Gaslight Anthem - 01 High lonesome - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 01 High lonesome - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4974
- author: xavi18fa
4:04
The Gaslight Anthem - 02 The '59 sound - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 02 The '59 sound - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 2628
- author: xavi18fa
3:30
The Gaslight Anthem - 03 Bring it on - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 03 Bring it on - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 3513
- author: xavi18fa
7:17
The Gaslight Anthem - 04 Wherefore art thou, Elvis? & 05 Wooderson - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 04 Wherefore art thou, Elvis? & 05 Wooderson - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4910
- author: xavi18fa
3:40
The Gaslight Anthem - 06 Film noir - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 06 Film noir - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 2924
- author: xavi18fa
3:39
The Gaslight Anthem - 07 Biloxi parish - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 07 Biloxi parish - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 2457
- author: xavi18fa
3:53
The Gaslight Anthem - 08 The queen of lower Chelsea - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 08 The queen of lower Chelsea - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 1151
- author: xavi18fa
3:48
The Gaslight Anthem - 09 Great expectations - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 09 Great expectations - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 2568
- author: xavi18fa
4:53
The Gaslight Anthem - 10 The backseat - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: xavi18fa
The Gaslight Anthem - 10 The backseat - Glastonbury Festival 2011
The Gaslight Anthem - Glastonbury Festival 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 1310
- author: xavi18fa
Vimeo results:
6:25
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Pe...
published: 14 Apr 2010
author: Lee Deaville
Waiting for the End of the World
Deprived of human contact, and with only an overactive imagination to keep him company, Petr sets about his monotonous night shift at his local supermarket.
Shot on 5D mk II, with 135mm and 17-40mm lenses. Edited on FCP.
Glastonbury 2010, Encounters Film Festival, Exposures Festival (winner - 'Best Artists Film'), Artsfest 09, Kino 10, A Wall is a Screen, Clermont Ferrand short film marketplace, Souvenirs From Earth.
www.leedeaville.com
4:22
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available...
published: 16 May 2011
author: The Prodigy
Firestarter from World's On Fire CD/DVD/Blu-ray
The Prodigy's first ever live album and film 'World's On Fire' is out now and is available from http://www.worldsonfire.tv
On CD/DVD and CD/BLU-RAY
Portraying their biggest show to date from their sold out Warrior's Dance Festival at the Milton Keynes Bowl, it includes their biggest tunes -- Omen, Firestarter, Breathe, Warrior's Dance, Smack My Bitch Up and more -- and will now be available in full to watch in the comfort of your own place. Just make sure you turn it up & annoy the neighbours!
DVD
1. intro
2. breathe
3. omen
4. colours
5. thunder
6. warrior's dance
7. firestarter
8. run with the wolves
9. weather experience
10. voodoo people
11. omen reprise
12. invaders must die
13. smack my bitch up
14. take me to the hospital
15. everybody in the place
16. their law
17. out of space
DVD EXTRA CONTENT
1. run, brixton, london
2. spitfire / mescaline, brazil
3. breathe, slane castle, ireland 4. poison, glastonbury, england
5. warning, t in the park , scotland
6. japanese film
7. voodoo, bestival and paris france
8. usa film
9. uk arena tour film
10. smack my bitch up, isle of wight to download, england
AUDIO CD
1. intro (live)
2. breathe (live)
3. omen (live)
4. colours (live)
5. thunder (live)
6. warriors dance (live)
7. firestarter (live)
8. run with the wolves (live)
9. weather experience (live)
10. voodoo people (live)
11. omen reprise (live)
12. invaders must die (live)
13. smack my bitch up (live)
14. take me to the hospital (live)
15. everybody in the place (live)
16. their law (live)
17. out of space (live)
3:54
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple...
published: 22 Jun 2010
author: Elliott
Glow 4 Broke
VJ Elliott Stallion - Playing around with Modul8 and some new loops, designed for a Triple head to go! setup @ Glastonbury Festival.
Music - Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake remix)
1:28
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music...
published: 06 Aug 2010
author: Memo Akten
Webcam Piano 2.0 Teaser
A short teaser for a new installation and ongoing project: Webcam Piano 2.0. All the music you hear is being created in realtime based on analysis of live camera input and gestural motion tracking, smarter and sexier than before. Written in C++ with openFrameworks.
www.msavisuals.com/webcam_piano_2
Webcam Piano is an ongoing project researching interpretation of movement into sound, primarily classical influenced (though not necessarily western), traditional sounding music as opposed to abstract electronic audio or soundscapes. My main aim is to create an instrument that sounds conventional - and is governed by conventional musical rules established over centuries of musical and social evolution - but is performed via a highly un-conventional - yet hopefully very intuitive - approach, allowing users to get deeply involved within minutes, if not seconds of starting to play with it.
The first incarnation of Webcam Piano came about as a little experiment in 2008, as an opensource Quartz Composer patch. This was shortly followed by an opensource Java / Processing implementation and again quickly followed by an opensource C++ / openFrameworks implementation which also evolved into a large scale multi-instrument rave / installation at the Glastonbury festival.
Webcam Piano 2.0, uses much smarter algorithms to try and understand motion and interpret how the person (or people) are moving and what kind of sounds they might be wanting and expecting to create with their movements. It also offers a simple gestural interface to switch between 3 (potentially more) different musical modes and color schemes, each representing a different emotion and feel.
Webcam Piano 2.0 (along with Gold) is currently on show at the XBox Kinect Galleries in Covent Garden, London, UK (though not linked with XBox Kinect technology in any way).
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
06 Jan 2013
LONDON -- They have barely 3,000 inhabitants and far more sheep than people. They are more than 8,700 miles from London. For much of the year, they are bitterly cold and wind-swept, with only open sea and ice between them and Antarctica ... But the Falkland Islands, the focus of a short war between Britain and Argentina in 1982, have been in the headlines again recently ... Their arguments suggest what has long been evident ... Ms ... Mr ... Cameron said....(size: 5.1Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
06 Jan 2013
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani military is accusing forces from neighboring India of crossing the boundary between the two sides' forces in Kashmir and attacking a Pakistani border post, killing a soldier. The military's public relations office said in a statement Sunday that another Pakistani soldier was critically wounded in the incident early Sunday. They said troops are still exchanging gunfire in the area ... All rights reserved ... Parker ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
photo: US Army / Sgt. Christopher Bonebrake
07 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Congress granted President Lyndon B. Johnson absolute powers to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression," Congress could have also included "all necessary vanities." The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which greatly escalated a foreign imperial war in Vietnam, added fuel to the bonfires of vanity....(size: 5.2Kb)
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
05 Jan 2013
Tweet. New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI). The male friend of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and left unclothed and bleeding in the street and later died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 on a private bus in New Delhi, has said that things would have gone differently if someone had stopped to help ... "It would have been a very different scenario today, had even one person come to our help that day ... (ANI)....(size: 3.8Kb)
photo: AP / Joerg Koch
07 Jan 2013
NEW YORK – In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy’s long-term problems. But, while we focus on immediate concerns, they continue to fester, and we overlook them at our peril. The most serious is global warming. While the global economy’s weak performance has led to a corresponding slowdown in the increase in carbon emissions, it amounts to only a short respite ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
Stuff
07 Jan 2013
In the summer of 1999, I decided against seeing Aerosmith headline a day of rock bands at Wembley Stadium, in favour of travelling to my first of many Glastonbury festivals ... By deciding to go to the Glastonbury festival that year, and over the next six Glastonburys I went to, I managed to see David Bowie, Radiohead, R.E.M., Manic Street Preachers, ......(size: 6.5Kb)
The Examiner
06 Jan 2013
Tweet. 0 Email. Report. Photo 1 of 9 ... Guido Harari ... His show was the biggest attraction of the event.Lou Reed's Tai Chi practice and othersLou's appearance on Glastonbury Festival and wowed 130,000 fans on June 25, 2010.Lou was invited to performed at the Velvet Revolution Celebration, organized by former Czeck President Vaclav Havel and televised nation-wide in Czeck ... More >You might also like. Chojun ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
03 Jan 2013
Highlights include Lumiere, a nocturnal winter festival of lights (Nov), and The Return of Colm Cille, a huge city-spanning event to celebrate the city’s founding father on his feast day (June 9) ... 97) Glastonbury Festival With no Diamond Jubilee or Olympic torch procession to brighten up the summer of 2013, the West Country behemoth will have a lot of cultural space to occupy....(size: 57.3Kb)
noodls
21 Dec 2012
Glastonbury Festivals Ltd) Worthy FM looking for volunteers ... Worthy FM is Glastonbury Festival's very own on site radio station. It broadcasts for just 1 week, from the Monday before the festival opens until the following Monday when the festival closes. ... These members are selected by a competition process, aiming to bring something new to the station and festival alike. ... This noodl was issued by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd....(size: 4.9Kb)
noodls
20 Dec 2012
Glastonbury Festivals Ltd). To cater for 1,000 site staff around this year's Festival, we are looking for experienced/qualified cooks, and kitchen assistants who need to be hard working, but not necessarily qualified ... They will also get a staff pass to the Festival ... This noodl was issued by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd....(size: 1.9Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
14 Dec 2012
This independent market report provides an up to date review of the sector in 2012 considering factors such as the Olympics, Glastonbury, ... Glastonbury and the Jubilee holiday. The absence of the Glastonbury Festival in 2012 had a significant impact on some sections of the leisure accommodation sector whilst the Jubilee holiday had a negligible effect....(size: 5.2Kb)
The Guardian
13 Dec 2012
'If it could happen, I’d love to,' … Keith Richards on the prospect of the Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury ... Keith Richards and Stevie Nicks would both "love" to perform at next summer's Glastonbury festival, they said this week. The musicians' comments add fuel to rumours that the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac are set to headline the 2013 festival....(size: 3.8Kb)
B&S; Online
13 Dec 2012
I have a saying on my wall; “Illuminate the positive. Eliminate the negative.” New Orleans brass band Hot 8 surely live that mantra 24/7 ... The funkiest marching band in the US, Hot 8 Brass Band wowed the UK in 2007 with the release of their debut album “Rock With The Hot 8” on Brighton- based label Tru Thoughts. It featured an audacious version of Marvin’s “Sexual Healing.” Glastonbury festival was blown away by the band ... TUBA ... TRUMPET....(size: 4.0Kb)
noodls
12 Dec 2012
Glastonbury Festivals Ltd) Trading applications close on December 14th ... Applications to trade at Glastonbury Festival 2013 close on Friday, December 14th. If you'd like to have a stall at the Festival, then please click below. CLICK HERE TO APPLY TO TRADE AT GLASTONBURY 2013 ... This noodl was issued by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd....(size: 2.0Kb)
IMDb
12 Dec 2012
Fleetwood Mac have revealed that they would love to headline Glastonbury festival ... "When we were there [in the UK] in 2011, I watched it ... - By Lewis Corner. ....(size: 0.7Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
12 Dec 2012
There can be few more qualified to offer advice on how to make it in the music industry than Sir Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger at the O2 Arena in London . By Victoria Ward ... Richards suggested that the shows could be followed by an appearance at next year’s Glastonbury festival, although he claimed to have no idea about the band’s plans for 2013 ... Music Music Reviews Classical Music Music Video Music Festivals Opera Tickets ... ....(size: 12.3Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
12 Dec 2012
There can be few more qualified to offer advice on how to make it in the music industry than Sir Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger at the O2 Arena in London . By Victoria Ward ... Richards suggested that the shows could be followed by an appearance at next year’s Glastonbury festival, although he claimed to have no idea about the band’s plans for 2013 ... Music Music Reviews Classical Music Music Video Music Festivals Opera Tickets ... ....(size: 12.4Kb)
The Guardian
10 Dec 2012
It's Monday. It's 5pm. And that's when Emily Brinnand digs through the sounds of the North. Each week she picks one band that she thinks should have you sitting up and taking notice. Number Six. Your New Antique. Heading north again, for the latest new band. Photograph. David Sillitoe ... The band ... Their ultimate dream is "to play at the legendary Glastonbury festival and go full time with the music", so we'll have to wait and see what happens ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
For the early 20th century classical music and theatre festivals, see Glastonbury Festival (1914–1925). For the most recent festival, see Glastonbury Festival 2011.
| File:Glastologo.png | |
| Location(s) | Pilton, Somerset, England |
|---|---|
| Years active | 1970-1971, 1978-1979, 1981-1987, 1989-1990, 1992-1995, 1997-2000, 2002-2005, 2007-2011, 2013- |
| Date(s) | The weekend of June that falls closest to the Summer solstice (3 days) |
| Genre | Rock, World, Electronic, Reggae, Folk, Hip Hop, Dance |
| Website | glastonburyfestivals.co.uk |
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
Leading pop and rock artists have appeared as headline acts with thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. The festival has also spawned films and albums and is reported on extensively on television and in newspapers.
The size and nature of the festival, held over three or four days in the open air, with performers, crew and paying festival goers staying in tents, caravans and motorhomes, has meant that the weather is significant. It is now attended by around 150,000 people requiring extensive infrastructure in terms of security, transport, water and electricity supply. The majority of staff are volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for good causes.
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Overview[link]
Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the early 1970s, beginning with the Isle of Wight Festival, which featured performances by The Who, amongst other artists. Afterwards, organiser Michael Eavis stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970 at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970.[1] The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.
Location[link]
The festival takes place in south west England at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle in the county of Somerset, six miles east of the town of Glastonbury, overlooked by the Glastonbury Tor in the mystical "Vale of Avalon".[2] The area has a number of legends and spiritual traditions, and is a "New Age" site of interest: ley lines are considered to converge on the Tor.[3] The nearest town to the festival site is Shepton Mallet, three miles (5 km) north east, but there continues to be interaction between the people espousing alternative lifestyles living in Glastonbury and the festival itself. The farm is situated between the A361 and A37 roads.
Map showing the location of the Glastonbury Festival within Somerset.
Worthy Farm is situated at grid reference ST 590 397 in a valley at the head of the Whitelake River, between two low limestone ridges, part of the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. On the site is a confluence of the two small streams that make the Whitelake River. In the past the site has experienced problems with flooding, though after the floods that occurred during the 1997 and 1998 festival, drainage was improved. This did not prevent flooding during the 2005 festival, but allowed the flood water to dissipate within hours.[4] The Highbridge branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway ran through the farm on an embankment, but was dismantled in 1966 and now forms a main thoroughfare across the site.[5] Another prominent feature is the high-voltage electricity line which crosses the site east-west.
In recent years the site has been organised around a restricted backstage compound, with the Pyramid stage on the north, and Other stage on the south of the compound. Attractions on the east of the site include the acoustic tent, comedy tent and circus. To the south are the green fields, which include displays of traditional and environmentally friendly crafts. In King's Meadow, the hill at the far south of the site, is a small megalith circle which, like Stonehenge, is coordinated with the summer solstice, and since 1990 represents a Stone circle.[6]
Organisation[link]
Since 1981, the festival has been organised by local farmer and site owner Michael Eavis (through his company Glastonbury Festivals Ltd). Eavis ran the festival with his wife Jean until her death in 1999, and is now assisted by his daughter Emily Eavis. Since 2002, Festival Republic (a company consisting of both Live Nation and MCD) has taken on the job of managing the logistics and security of the festival through a 40% stake in the festival management company.[7] Each year a company, joint owned by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd and Festival Republic, is created to run the festival, with profits going to the parent companies. Glastonbury Festivals Ltd donates most of their profits to charities, including donations to local charity and community groups and paying for the purchase and restoration of the Tithe Barn in Pilton.[8]
Several stages and areas are managed independently, such as The Left Field which is managed by a cooperative owned by Battersea and Wandsworth TUC,[9] Worthy FM and a field run by Greenpeace.[10] The sound systems on site have a total power of 650,000 watts, with the main stage having 250 speakers.[11] There are over 4,000 toilets, with water being supplies including two reservoirs holding 2,000,000 litres (440,000 imp gal) of water.[11]
With the exception of technical and security staff, the festival is mainly run by volunteers. Some 2000 stewards are organised by the aid charity Oxfam. In return for their work at the festival Oxfam receive a donation, which in 2005 was £200,000.[12] The bars are organised by the Workers Beer Company, sponsored by Carlsberg (previously Budweiser), who recruit teams of volunteer staff from small charities and campaign groups. In return for their help, typically around 18 hours over the festival, volunteers are paid in free entry, transport and food, while their charities receive the wages the volunteers earn over the event.
Catering, and some retail services, are provided by various small companies, typically mobile catering vans, with over 400 food stalls on site in 2010.[11] The camping retail chain Millets, and independent shops, set up makeshift outlets at the festival. Additionally charities and organisations run promotional or educational stalls, such as the Hare Krishna tent which provide free vegetarian food. Network Recycling manage refuse on the site, and in 2004 recycled 300 tonnes and composted 110 tonnes of waste from the site.[13]
Significant logistical operations take place to bring people into the festival by public transport each year. Additional festival trains are provided to Castle Cary railway station, mostly from London Paddington.[14] The station operates as a mini hub with waiting shuttle buses transferring passengers from Castle Cary to the festival site as required. This is an intensive operation on the Wednesday and Thursday each year with local bus and coach operators providing these buses over the two days. Additional extra buses normally provided by Go South Coast run from Bristol to the festival.[14] On the Monday, passengers are transferred back in just one day with additional buses provided to meet the increased requirement. National Express provide extra coaches direct to the festival site from major UK towns and much of this work is subcontracted to smaller coach operators to provide the capacity required.[15]
Accommodation[link]
Most people who stay at Glastonbury Festival will camp in a tent. There are many different camping areas, each with its own atmosphere. Limekilns and Hitchin Hill Ground are quieter camping areas, whereas Pennard Hill Ground is known to be a lively campsite. Cockmill Meadow is a family campsite and Wicket Ground was introduced in 2011 as a second family-only campsite. A disabled campsite is also available in Spring Ground. Campsite accommodation is provided in the cost of a standard entry ticket but festival-goers must bring their own tents. Tipis have been at the festival for many years. A limited number of fixed tipis are availabile for hire at the tipi field near the stone circle. Up to 6 adults can stay in each tipi and each one comes with a groundsheet and raincatcher. Internal bedding and camping equipment is not provided. Tipi Park also offers solar showers and a log-fired yurt sauna to cap off the experience. The cost of hiring a tipi in 2011 is £900, in addition to the standard entry ticket.[16]
Caravans and trailer tents are not allowed onto the festival site. However the purchase of a caravan ticket in addition to the main ticket allows access to fields just outside the boundary fence. As of 2011, the cost was £75 per caravan which allows access to the site with a towing vehicle and the caravan; the car, or other vehicle used to tow the caravan, may be parked alongside it but sleeping is only authorised in the caravan, not in the accompanying vehicle.[17] Some people choose to bring or hire a motorhome.[18]
Festival-goers can stay at local B&B accommodation but most are not within walking distance of the festival. There are several independent Glastonbury accommodation providers close to the main site, which include smaller campsites for tents, gypsy caravans, geo-domes, private cottages and more.
Lineups[link]
Main article: Glastonbury Festival line-ups
Headliners[link]
In the early years of the festival, headlining acts were determined by their popularity at the time, and where they featured on the promotional material. In the vast majority of cases, these acts would not close the Pyramid Stage in spite of their headlining status. For example, in 1984, The Smiths played a much anticipated headline set that was scheduled for 6 pm on the Saturday.[48] Many smaller acts took to the stage after the set was finished. This sits in contrast to festivals held since 1992, where the three headliners close the Pyramid Stage at around 10 pm.[49]
Only a select few acts have been awarded headlining status at Glastonbury Festival on more than one occasion. The current record is three times, held jointly by Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, The Cure and Coldplay.[24][28][29][40]
| Act | Times Headlined | Years Headlined | Also Played In |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cure | 3 | 1986, 1990, 1995[28] | |
| Van Morrison | 3 | 1982, 1987, 1989[24] | |
| Elvis Costello | 3 | 1987, 1989, 1994[29] | 1985, 2005[27] |
| Coldplay | 3 | 2002, 2005, 2011[40] | 1999, 2000[39] |
| David Bowie | 2 | 1971, 2000[20] | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 1997, 2003[41] | 1994, 2010, 2011[34] |
| Pulp | 2 | 1995, 1998[35] | 2011[49] |
| Blur | 2 | 1998, 2009[37] | 1992, 1994[26] |
| Oasis | 2 | 1995, 2004[35] | 1994[34] |
| Muse | 2 | 2004, 2010[42] | 1999, 2000[38] |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 1999, 2003[38] | |
| Peter Gabriel | 2 | 1979, 1994[22] | |
| Primal Scream | 1 | 1998[37] | 1992, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2011[32] |
Festival history[link]
A series of concerts, lectures and recitals called the Glastonbury Festivals were established with a summer school in the town of Glastonbury between 1914 and 1926 by classical composer Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), and with their location attracted a bohemian audience by the standards of the time. They featured works by then-contemporary composers, sponsored by the Clark family, as well as a wide range of traditional works, from Everyman to James Shirley's Cupid and Death.[50]
1970s[link]
The first festival at Worthy Farm was the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival, mounted by Michael Eavis on Saturday 19 September 1970, and attended by 1,500 people. The original headline acts were The Kinks and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders but these acts were replaced at short notice by Tyrannosaurus Rex, later known as T.Rex. Tickets were £1. Other billed acts of note were Quintessence, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame and Al Stewart.[51][52]
The larger Stonehenge Free Festival at the summer solstice in June the next year was the first to attract nationwide interest, and the event became an important precursor of the later Glastonbury Festivals. The Glastonbury Fayre of 1971 was instigated by Andrew Kerr and organised with help from Arabella Churchill, Thomas Crimble,[53] Bill Harkin,[54] Gilberto Gil,[55] Mark Irons, and Jytte Klamer. The 1971 festival featured the first incarnation of the "Pyramid Stage" conceived by Bill Harkin, built from scaffolding and metal sheeting.
Performers included David Bowie, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Hawkwind, Skin Alley, The Worthy Farm Windfuckers and Melanie. It was paid for by its supporters and advocates of its ideal, and embraced a mediaeval tradition of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights and spontaneous entertainment. The 1971 festival was filmed by Nicolas Roeg and David Puttnam and was released as a film called simply Glastonbury Fayre.[56]
There was a small unplanned event in 1978, when the convoy of vehicles from the Stonehenge festival was directed by police to Worthy Farm; the festival was then revived the following year (1979) by Churchill, Crimble, Kerr and Eavis, in an event for the Year of the Child, which lost money.
1980s[link]
The 1980s saw the festival become an annual fixture, barring periodic fallow years. In 1981, Michael Eavis took control of the festival for the first time, and it was organised in conjunction with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). That year a new Pyramid Stage was constructed from telegraph poles and metal sheeting (appropriately, repurposed from materials of the Ministry of Defence), a permanent structure which doubled as a hay-barn and cow-shed during the winter.[57]
In the 1980s, the children's area of the festival (which had been organised by Arabella Churchill and others) became the starting point for a new children's charity called Children's World.[58] 1981 was the first year that the festival made profits, and Eavis donated £20,000 of them to CND.[59][60] In the following years, donations were made to a number of organisations, and since the end of the Cold War the main beneficiaries have been Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, who all contribute towards the festival by providing features and volunteers, who work at the festival in exchange for free entry.[61]
Since 1983, large festivals have required licences from local authorities. This led to certain restrictions being placed on the festival, including a crowd limit and specified times during which the stages could operate. The crowd limit was initially set at 30,000 but has grown every year to over 100,000.[62]
1984 saw the stage invaded by children during The Smiths set.[63][64] Weather Report played the main stage, and Elvis Costello headlined the last night for almost three hours.[65]
In 1985, the festival grew too large for Worthy Farm, but neighbouring Cockmill Farm was purchased.[66] That year saw a wet festival with considerable rain; Worthy Farm is a dairy farm and what washed down into the low areas was a mixture of mud and liquefied cow dung. This did not prevent festival-goers from enjoying the knee-deep slurry in front of the pyramid stage.
1990s[link]
1990 saw the biggest festival yet; however, violence at the end of the festival between the security guards and new age travellers – the so-called Battle of Yeoman's Bridge — led to the organisers taking 1991 off to rethink the festival. An expanded festival returned in 1992, and this proved a great success.[67] 1992 was the first year that the new age travellers were not initially allowed onto the site free, and a sturdier fence was designed.[68] This success was carried through to 1993 which, like 1992, was another hot, dry year.
In 1994, the Pyramid Stage burned down just over a week before the festival; a temporary main stage was erected in time for the festival.[69] The 1994 festival also introduced a 150 kW wind turbine which provided some of the festival power.[70] This festival also included the setting of a new world record on 26 June when 826 people, juggling at least three objects each, kept 2,478 objects in the air.[71] This was also the year the festival was first televised by Channel 4; concentrating on the main two music stages, providing a glimpse of the festival for those who knew little of it. Channel 4 televised the festival the following year as well, which proved to be very successful.
1995 saw the attendance rise drastically due to the security fence being breached on the Friday of the festival. Estimates suggest there may have been enough fence-jumpers to double the size of the festival.[51] This aside, 1995 proved to be a highly successful year with memorable performances from Oasis, Elastica, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Jamiroquai and The Cure. This was also the first year of the festival having a dance tent to cater for the rise in popularity of dance music, following the success of Orbital's headline appearance the previous year. The dance acts of 1995 were led by Massive Attack on the Friday and Carl Cox on the Saturday.[72] The festival took a year off in 1996 to allow the land to recover and give the organisers a break. This would be a pattern which would be followed every five years until 2011, with the gap year moving to 2012. 1996 also saw the release of Glastonbury the Movie which was filmed at the 1993 and 1994 festivals.[73]
The festival returned in 1997 bigger than ever. This time there was major sponsorship from The Guardian and the BBC, who had taken over televising the event from Channel 4. This was also the year of the mud,[74] with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog.[75] However those who stayed for the festival were treated to many memorable performances, including Radiohead's headlining Pyramid Stage set on the Saturday which is said to be one of the greatest ever Glastonbury performances.[76] The live recording of Paranoid Android from this performance, as well as others such as The Day Before Yesterday's Man by The Supernaturals, were released on a BBC CD entitled Mud For It.[77]
In 1998 the festival was once again struck with severe floods and storms, again some festival goers departed early but those who stayed were treated to performances from acts such as Pulp, Robbie Williams and Blur.[78] Tony Bennett, however, overcame the messy environment in an immaculate white suit and tie.[79] 1998 was also the first year that attendance officially broke the 100,000 mark.[80]
1999 was a hot dry year, much to the relief of organisers and festival goers. Again, the festival was overcrowded due to fence-jumpers, this however would not be a major problem until the following year when the festival suffered from massive numbers of fence-jumpers. This surge increased the attendance to an estimated 250,000 people.[51] The 1999 festival is also remembered for the Manic Street Preachers requesting and being given their own backstage toilets, however it was revealed by the band that this was a joke; the "reserved" sign on the toilet was not at the authorisation of the management.[81]
2000s[link]
2000 saw a new Pyramid Stage introduced as well as new features such as The Glade and The Leftfield. The festival was headlined by Pet Shop Boys and David Bowie playing 30 years after his first appearance.[82] The Pyramid Stage also hosted an unusual event on the Saturday morning, with the wedding of two festival-goers, who had written to the organisers asking for permission to get married there, taking place and conducted by actor Keith Allen in front of a small group of friends and any other festival-goers who still happened to be awake.[83] This year also saw an estimated 250,000 people attend the festival (only 100,000 tickets were sold) due to gatecrashers. This led to public safety concerns and the local District Council refused any further licences until the problem was solved.[84] The organisers took 2001 off to devise anti-gatecrashing measures and secure the future of the festival, after the Roskilde Festival 2000 accident (though this was also a scheduled break, one which took place every five years from 1991, the year after the battle of Yeoman's Bridge, until the 2012 Olympics extended the five year sequence from the planned 2011 rest year). It was at this point that the Mean Fiddler Organisation was invited to help,[85] which was seen by some as a "sell-out" to corporate culture.[86][87]
In 2002, the festival returned after a hiatus, with the controversial Mean Fiddler now handling the logistics and security — especially installing a substantial surrounding fence (dubbed the "superfence") that reduced numbers to the levels of a decade earlier. The lower attendance led to a much more relaxed atmosphere and massively reduced crime levels compared to previous years. There were some incidents outside the fence involving frustrated individuals who arrived at the festival assuming they would be able to simply jump the fence and not pay for the music and performances, but despite this the event was hailed as a great success by the media companies that had taken an interest in the festival.[88] 2002 also saw Coldplay headline the Pyramid Stage for the first time while the show was closed by a set from Rod Stewart on the Sunday night.[89]
There were some criticisms of the 2002 festival that it lacked atmosphere, because of the reduced number of people, which reflected the smaller numbers jumping the fence.[90] The number of tickets was increased to 150,000 for 2003 which sold out within one day of going on sale,[41] in marked contrast to the two months it took to sell 140,000 in 2002. It was also the first year that tickets sold out before the full line-up was announced.[91] This was also the year Radiohead returned to headline the Pyramid Stage. Revenue raised for good causes from ticket and commercial licence sales topped £1 million, half of which went to Oxfam, Greenpeace and Water Aid.[92]
In 2004, tickets sold out within 24 hours amid much controversy over the ticket ordering process, which left potential festival goers trying for hours to connect to the overloaded telephone and internet sites.[93] The website got two million attempted connections within the first five minutes of the tickets going on sale and an average of 2,500 people on the phone lines every minute.[94] The festival was not hit by extreme weather, but high winds on the Wednesday delayed entry, and steady rain throughout Saturday turned some areas of the site to mud.[95] The festival ended with Muse headlining the Pyramid Stage on Sunday, after Oasis had headlined on Friday.[42] Franz Ferdinand and Sir Paul McCartney also performed.[42] In the British press publications appeared about the use of psychedelic drugs by festival visitors. The magazine NME pronounced that 2004 would be "the third summer of love" due to the resurgence of the "shroom" that was praised as a natural alternative to ecstasy, which was said to be declining in popularity (LSD fuelled the first summer of love in 1967; ecstasy and LSD the second in 1988).[96]
After the 2004 festival, Michael Eavis commented that 2006 would be a year off — in keeping with the previous history of taking one "fallow year" in every five to give the villagers and surrounding areas a rest from the yearly disruption. This was confirmed after the licence for 2005 was granted.[97]
In 2005 the 112,500 ticket quota sold out rapidly — in this case in 3 hours 20 minutes.[98] For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km2),[99] had over 385 live performances,[80] and was attended by around 150,000 people.[100] The Sunday headliner was originally scheduled to be Kylie Minogue, who instead pulled out in May to receive treatment for breast cancer.[101] Basement Jaxx were announced as a replacement on 6 June.[102] Both Coldplay and Basement Jaxx performed a cover of Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" during their concert.[103] 2005 saw a big increase in the number of dance music attractions, with the multiple tents of the Dance Village replacing the solitary dance tent of previous years. This new area contained the East and West dance tents, the Dance Lounge, Roots Stage, and Pussy Parlour, as well as a relocated G Stage, formerly situated in the Glade.[104] The introduction of the innovative silent disco by Emily Eavis allowed revellers to party into the early hours without disturbing the locals — a requirement of the festival's licensing.[105][106] Following the death of DJ John Peel in the autumn of 2004, the New Tent was renamed the John Peel Tent, in homage to his encouragement and love of new bands at Glastonbury.[107][108] The opening day of the 2005 festival was delayed by heavy rain and thunderstorms: Several stages, including the Acoustic Tent (and one of the bars), were struck by lightning, and the valley was hit with flash floods that left some areas of the site under more than four feet of water.[109] The severity of the weather flooded several campsites, the worst affected being the base of Pennard Hill, and seriously disrupted site services. However Mendip District Council's review of the festival called it one of the "safest ever" and gives the festival a glowing report in how it dealt with the floods.[100]
There was no festival in 2006. Instead, a documentary film directed by Julien Temple was released to make up for the lack of a festival. The film consists of specially shot footage by Temple at the festival, as well as footage sent in by fans and archive footage. Glastonbury was released in the UK on 14 April 2006.[110]
Glastonbury 2007 (20–24 June) was headlined by Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The Who on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.[44] Dame Shirley Bassey was also featured.[44] In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages[111] and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000.[112] This was the first year that "The Park" area opened. Designed by Emily Eavis, its main stage featured extra sets by several artists playing on the main stages including Pete Doherty and Gruff Rhys, whilst the BBC launched their new "Introducing" stage in the area.[44] The festival had the largest attendance since the construction of the security fence, and the largest legitimate attendance to date: ticket allocation was raised by 27,500 to 137,500, which were charged at £145 and sold out in 1 hour 45 minutes.[113] As an extra precaution against touts, purchasers had to pre-register, including submission of a passport photo which was security printed into the ticket.[114] Continued periods of rain throughout much of the festival caused muddy conditions, though without the flooding of 2005, in part due to the new £750,000 flood defences.[115] However this constant rain made the general conditions within the site worse than 2 years before and more like the mud plains of 1998. It was difficult to find anywhere to sit down that had not turned to mud and key choke points, such as the thoroughfare at the front right of the Pyramid stage, turned into a quagmire. Muddy conditions on the temporary roads on the periphery of the site led to delays for people leaving the site.[116] On 25 June, when the vast majority of festival goers were attempting to leave the festival, cars in the western car parks took over nine hours to exit the site. There was no stewarding provision in these areas, no information was disseminated regarding the delays, no organised marshalling of traffic was undertaken by the festival organisers, and no provision of drinking water was made to people stranded in their vehicles. Verbal and physical violence was witnessed between festival goers. When cars were finally allowed to leave the site the surrounding roads were found to be clear.[117] Reported crime was down from 2005 but the number of arrests were "well up", after a proactive operation of the police and security on site. There were 236 reported crimes, down from 267 in 2005; of these, 158 were drug related (183 in 2005).[118] 1,200 people required medical aid with 32 hospitalised,[119] most of which were accidents caused by the mud. There was one fatality: a West Midlands man found unconscious early on the Saturday morning died in Yeovil District Hospital of a suspected drugs overdose.[118]
On 20 December 2007, Arabella Churchill, an instrumental figure in the conception of the 1971 festival and since the 1980s area coordinator of the Theatre Field, died at St Edmund's Cottages, Bove Town, Glastonbury at the age of 58. She had suffered a short illness due to pancreatic cancer, for which she had refused chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She was a convert to Buddhism, and arrangements following her death respected her belief. Michael Eavis, paying tribute to her after her death, said "Her vitality and great sense of morality and social responsibility have given her a place in our festival history second to none".[120][121][122]
The Glastonbury Festival 2008 was held on 27, 28 and 29 June, headlined by Kings of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively,[123] with other notable acts including Neil Diamond, Shakin' Stevens, The Levellers,[124] The Johnsons and Stackridge, who opened the first festival in 1970.[125] Continuing the procedure introduced in 2007, ticket buyers had to pre-register and submit a passport photo between the 1 February and 14 March in order to buy tickets which went on sale at 9 am on Sunday 6 April.[126] Following 40,000 tickets not being sold, the pre-registration process was re-opened on 8 April.[127] Several reasons have been cited for this, including the poor weather of the previous four years[128] and the controversial choice of featuring the hip hop artist, Jay-Z, as a headlining act.[129] A day before the festival began, Michael Eavis announced that there were still around 3,000 tickets remaining, making it possible that it would be the first festival in 15 years not to sell out in advance.[130] It had also been announced that any remaining tickets would be sold from major branches of HMV.[131] This year saw the introduction of a new field adjacent to the Sacred space and Park Stage. Not named by the organisers, the festival goers themselves called it "Flagtopia" in reference to the flags located there.[132] After the huge number of tents left behind in 2007 and when one of Michael Eavis's cows died after ingesting a metal tent-peg left in the soil, the Festival devised its Love the Farm, Leave No Trace campaign which gently pushed revellers to respect the environment and clear up after themselves.[133] The Festival had always pushed a green agenda and new initiatives in 2008 included biodegradable tent pegs handed out free to all campers[134] and biotractors running on waste vegetable oil. These new efforts were rewarded with The Greener Festival Award for 2008 alongside a number of other festivals also committed to environmentally friendly music festivals.[135] The 2008 festival was reported to have cost £22 million to produce.[136][137]
The Glastonbury Festival 2009 took place between 24 and 28 June 2009. In marked contrast with previous years, the 137,500 tickets went on sale on 5 October 2008, earlier than ever before, with pre-registered customers able either to pay in full, or place a £50 reserve deposit to be paid by 1 February. Tickets for the festival sold out.[46] The full line up was released on 25 May 2009 and included headliners Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young on the Pyramid stage.[46] The Other stage was headlined by The Prodigy, Pendulum, Maxïmo Park, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand.[138] Other notable performers included Jarvis Cocker, Rolf Harris, Fairport Convention (who played at the first Glastonbury Festival), Tom Jones, Steel Pulse, Doves, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty, Hugh Cornwell, Status Quo, The Gaslight Anthem (in which Springsteen appeared on stage during their song "The '59 Sound"), Madness, Dizzee Rascal, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lily Allen, Kasabian, Florence and the Machine, Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos.[46]
2010s[link]
The Glastonbury Festival 2010 took place between 23 and 28 June. On the last night, Michael Eavis appeared on the main stage, with headline artist Stevie Wonder, to sing the chorus of the latter's Happy Birthday, marking the festival's 40th year.[139] Tickets went on sale on 4 October 2009, with the £50 deposit scheme introduced at the previous festival being continued.[140] Unlike the previous two years and more in common with earlier festivals, the tickets for the 2010 festival had sold out in less than 24 hours from being released for sale.[141] U2 were due to headline the Pyramid Stage on Friday night at Glastonbury 2010, but due to Bono sustaining a back injury they were forced to pull out. According to the media, Bono was "gutted", even having written a song especially for the festival.[142] Damon Albarn's Gorillaz were brought in to replace U2,[143] and joined Muse and Stevie Wonder for the Saturday and Sunday headline slots respectively.[144] It would be Damon Albarn's second headlining act in two years. Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood made a surprise appearance with a nine song set.[145] The weather at the festival was among some of the best ever, the festival-goers enjoyed 3 days of abundant sunshine and very warm to hot temperatures reaching close to 30 degrees on the Sunday, it was the first rain-free festival since 2002 and the hottest since the festival began.[146]
During 2010 Michael Eavis received a donation from British Waterways of timber from the old gates at Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire. This was used to construct a new bridge which was dedicated to the memory of Arabella Churchill.[147] The following year more of the redundant lock gates were used to build the Campo Pequeno amphitheatre.[148][149]
The Glastonbury Festival 2011 took place from Wednesday 22 until Sunday 26 June 2011.[150] The tickets were sold out within 4 hours of going on sale on Sunday 3 October 2010. Headline acts for 2011 were U2 on the Friday night, Coldplay on the Saturday and Beyoncé on Sunday.[151]
The festival will not be held in 2012, giving the site and organisers a "fallow year". Michael Eavis cited the shortage and likely cost of portable toilets and policing, due to the 2012 Summer Olympics, as being amongst the reasons.[152] Registration for tickets to the 2013 festival began in June 2011.[153]
Cultural references[link]
- Songs entitled Glastonbury about the festival have been written by Nizlopi,[154] The Waterboys[155] and Scouting For Girls.[156]
- Cosmic Rough Riders included "Glastonbury Revisited" on their album Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine (Poptones) in 2000.[157]
- Amy Macdonald, in her song "Let's Start a Band" referenced Glastonbury: "Give me a festival and I'll be your Glastonbury star."[158]
- Robbie Williams, in his song "The 90s", refers to his surprise appearance on stage with Oasis in 1995, which ultimately lead to him leaving Take That: "Everybody's worried 'what the fuck's wrong with Robbie? He's not answering his phone, he's not talking to me, I saw him on the telly at Glastonbury'."[159][160]
- Joe Strummer wrote the song "Coma Girl" about his experiences at Glastonbury,[161] — in a BBC interview Bruce Springsteen cited the song as inspiring him to play the 2009 festival.[162]
- U2 wrote a song titled "Glastonbury" that was supposed to première with their appearance at the festival, but an injury to Bono forced them to cancel. They instead premièred it in a concert in Turin on their 360 Tour.[163]
- Marcus Brigstocke's comic creation Giles Wemmbley Hogg had a special mock-documentary made about him going to Glastonbury as part of the Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off series.[164]
See also[link]
- Glastonbury Anthems
- Glastonbury Fayre
- Glastonbury Festival line-ups
- Glastonbury (film)
- Glastonbury the Movie
- List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
- Worthy FM (formerly Radio Avalon)
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Further reading[link]
- McKay, George (2000). Glastonbury: A Very English Fair. London: Victor Gollancz. ISBN 0-575-06807-8. http://salford.academia.edu/GeorgeMcKay/Books/169743/Glastonbury_A_Very_English_Fair.
- McKay, George (1996). Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties, chapter 1 'The free festivals and fairs of Albion'. London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-028-0. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_x25qcM223AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=george+mckay+senseless+acts+of+beauty#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Naylor, Royston (2002). Stone Free: A Photographic Trip Through 10 Years of Glastonbury Festival. Southgate publishers. ISBN 1-85741-145-5.
- Shearlaw, John; Aubrey, Crispen (2005). Glastonbury Festival Tales. Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-189763-7.
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Coordinates: 51°08′55″N 2°42′50″W / 51.1485°N 2.7140°W / 51.1485; -2.7140
| Glastonbury | |
_from_the_tor_arp.jpg) A view of Glastonbury from the Tor |
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Glastonbury shown within Somerset |
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| Population | 8,784 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | ST501390 |
| District | Mendip |
| Shire county | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Glastonbury |
| Postcode district | BA6 |
| Dialling code | 01458 |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Wells |
| List of places: UK • England • Somerset | |
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles (37 km) south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census.[1] Glastonbury is less than 1 mile (2 km) across the River Brue from Street, which is now larger than Glastonbury.
Evidence from timber trackways such as the Sweet Track show that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue and Sharpham Park approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Glastonbury, that dates back to the Bronze Age. Centwine was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey, which dominated the town for the next 700 years. One of the most important abbeys in England, it was the site of Edmund Ironside's coronation as King of England in 1016. Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey. The Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century.
The town became a centre for commerce, which led to the construction of the market cross, Glastonbury Canal and the Glastonbury and Street railway station, the largest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and nearby is the Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.
Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community which attracts people with New Age and Neopagan beliefs, and is notable for myths and legends often related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur. In some Arthurian literature Glastonbury is identified with the legendary island of Avalon. Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury and stuck his staff into the ground, when it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn. The presence of a landscape zodiac around the town has been suggested but no evidence has been discovered. The Glastonbury Festival, held in the nearby village of Pilton, takes its name from the town.
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History[link]
Prehistory[link]
During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys and low lying ground surrounding Glastonbury so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints.[2] The Neolithic people continued to exploit the reedswamps for their natural resources and started to construct wooden trackways. These included the Sweet Track, west of Glastonbury, which is one of the oldest engineered roads known and was the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe, until the 2009 discovery of a 6,000 year-old trackway in Belmarsh Prison.[3] Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) of the timbers has enabled very precise dating of the track, showing it was built in 3807 or 3806 BC.[4] It has been claimed to be the oldest road in the world.[5] The track was discovered in the course of peat digging in 1970, and is named after its discoverer, Ray Sweet.[6] It extended across the marsh between what was then an island at Westhay, and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick, a distance close to 2,000 metres (1.2 mi). The track is one of a network of tracks that once crossed the Somerset Levels. Built in the 39th century BC,[5] during the Neolithic period, the track consisted of crossed poles of ash, oak and lime (Tilia) which were driven into the waterlogged soil to support a walkway that mainly consisted of oak planks laid end-to-end. Since the discovery of the Sweet Track, it has been determined that it was built along the route of an even earlier track, the Post Track, dating from 3838 BC and so 30 years older.[7]
Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue, on the Somerset Levels near Godney, some 3 miles (5 km) north west of Glastonbury. It covers an area of 400 feet (122 m) north to south by 300 feet (91 m) east to west,[8] and housed around 100 people in five to seven groups of houses, each for an extended family, with sheds and barns, made of hazel and willow covered with reeds, and surrounded either permanently or at certain times by a wooden palisade. The village was built in about 300 BC and occupied into the early Roman period (around 100AD) when it was abandoned, possibly due to a rise in the water level.[9] It was built on a morass on an artificial foundation of timber filled with brushwood, bracken, rubble and clay.[10]
Sharpham Park is a 300-acre (1.2 km2) historic park, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Glastonbury, which dates back to the Bronze Age.
Middle Ages[link]
The origin of the name Glastonbury is unclear but when the settlement is first recorded in the 7th and the early 8th century, it was called Glestingaburg.[11] The burg element is Anglo-Saxon and could refer either to a fortified place such as a burh or, more likely, a monastic enclosure, however the Glestinga element is obscure, and may derive from an Old English word or from a Saxon or Celtic personal name.[12][13] It may derive from a person or kindred group named Glast.[13]
William of Malmesbury in his De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie gives the Old Celtic Ineswitrin (or Ynys Witrin) as its earliest name,[13] and asserts that the founder of the town was the eponymous Glast, a descendant of Cunedda.[11]
Centwine (676–685) was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey.[14] In 1016 Edmund Ironside was crowned king at Glastonbury.[15] After his death later that year he was buried at the abbey.[16] To the southwest of the town centre is Beckery, which was once a village in its own right but is now part of the suburbs. Around the 7th and 8th centuries it was occupied by a small monastic community associated with a cemetery.[17][18]
Sharpham Park was granted by King Eadwig to the then abbot Æthelwold in 957. In 1191 Sharpham Park was conferred by the soon-to-be King John I to the Abbots of Glastonbury, who remained in possession of the park and house until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. From 1539 to 1707 the park was owned by the Duke of Somerset, Sir Edward Seymour, brother of Queen Jane; the Thynne family of Longleat, and the family of Sir Henry Gould. Edward Dyer was born here in 1543. The house is now a private residence and Grade II* listed building.[19] It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer (died 1607) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding (1707–54), and the cleric William Gould.
In the 1070s St Margaret's Chapel was built on Magdelene Street, originally as a hospital and later as almshouses for the poor. The building dates from 1444.[20] The roof of the hall is thought to have been removed after the Dissolution, and some of the building was demolished in the 1960s. It is Grade II* listed,[21] and a Scheduled ancient monument.[22] In 2010 plans were announced to restore the building.[23]
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During the Middle Ages the town largely depended on the abbey but was also a centre for the wool trade until the 18th century. A Saxon-era canal connected the abbey to the River Brue.[12] Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, was executed with two of his monks on 15 November 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries.[24]
During the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 Perkin Warbeck surrendered when he heard that Giles, Lord Daubeney's troops, loyal to Henry VII were camped at Glastonbury.[25]
Early modern[link]
In 1693 Glastonbury, Connecticut was founded and named after the English town from which some of the settlers had emigrated. It was originally called "Glistening Town" until the mid-19th century when it was changed in line with Glastonbury, England. A representation of the Glastonbury thorn is incorporated onto the town seal.[26]
The Somerset towns charter of incorporation was received in 1705.[12] Growth in the trade and economy largely depended on the drainage of the surrounding moors. The opening of the Glastonbury Canal produced an upturn in trade, and encouraged local building.[12]
The parish was part of the hundred of Glaston Twelve Hides.[27]
Modern history[link]
By the middle of the 18th century the Glastonbury Canal drainage problems and competition from the new railways caused a decline in trade, and the town's economy became depressed.[12] The canal was closed on 1 July 1854, and the lock and aqueducts on the upper section were dismantled. The railway opened on 17 August 1854.[28] The lower sections of the canal were given to the Commissioners for Sewers,[29] for use as a drainage ditch. The final section was retained to provide a wharf for the railway company, which was used until 1936, when it passed to the Commissioners of Sewers and was filled in.[28] The Central Somerset Railway merged with the Dorset Central Railway to become the Somerset and Dorset Railway.[30] The main line to Glastonbury closed in 1966.[28]
In the Northover district industrial production of sheepskins, woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes,[31] developed in conjunction with the growth of C&J Clark in Street. Clarks still has its headquarters in Street, but shoes are no longer manufactured there. Instead, in 1993, redundant factory buildings were converted to form Clarks Village, the first purpose-built factory outlet in the United Kingdom.[32]
During the 19th and 20th centuries tourism developed based on the rise of antiquarianism, the association with the abbey and mysticism of the town.[33] This was aided by accessibility via the rail and road network, which has continued to support the town's economy and led to a steady rise in resident population since 1801.[12]
Glastonbury received national media coverage in 1999 when cannabis plants were found in the town's floral displays.[34][35]
Mythology and legends[link]
Glastonbury is notable for myths and legends concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur. The legend that Joseph of Arimathea retrieved certain holy relics was introduced by the French poet Robert de Boron in his 13th-century version of the grail story, thought to have been a trilogy though only fragments of the later books survive today. The work became the inspiration for the later Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian tales.[36]
De Boron's account relates how Joseph captured Jesus' blood in a cup (the "Holy Grail") which was subsequently brought to Britain. The Vulgate Cycle reworked Boron's original tale. Joseph of Arimathea was no longer the chief character in the Grail origin: Joseph's son, Josephus, took over his role of the Grail keeper.[37] The earliest versions of the grail romance, however, do not call the grail "holy" or mention anything about blood, Joseph or Glastonbury.
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In 1191, monks at the abbey claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere to the south of the Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church, which was visited by a number of contemporary historians including Giraldus Cambrensis.[38] The remains were later moved and were lost during the Reformation. Many scholars suspect that this discovery was a pious forgery to substantiate the antiquity of Glastonbury's foundation, and increase its renown.[39]
In some Arthurian literature Glastonbury is identified with the legendary island of Avalon. An early Welsh poem links Arthur to the Tor in an account of a confrontation between Arthur and Melwas, who had kidnapped Queen Guinevere.[40] According to some versions of the Arthurian legend, Lancelot retreated to Glastonbury Abbey in penance following Arthur's death.[41]
Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury by boat over the flooded Somerset Levels. On disembarking he stuck his staff into the ground and it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn (or Holy Thorn). This is said to explain a hybrid Crataegus monogyna (hawthorn) tree that only grows within a few miles of Glastonbury, and which flowers twice annually, once in spring and again around Christmas time (depending on the weather). Each year a sprig of thorn is cut, by the local Anglican vicar and the eldest child from St John's School, and sent to the Queen.[42]
The original Holy Thorn was a centre of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages but was chopped down during the English Civil War.[43] A replacement thorn was planted in the 20th century on Wearyall hill (originally in 1951 to mark the Festival of Britain; but the thorn had to be replanted the following year as the first attempt did not take).[44] Many other examples of the thorn grow throughout Glastonbury including those in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, St Johns Church and Chalice Well.
Today Glastonbury Abbey presents itself as "traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world," which according to the legend was built at Joseph's behest to house the Holy Grail, 65 or so years after the death of Jesus.[45] The legend also says that as a child, Jesus had visited Glastonbury along with Joseph. The legend probably was encouraged during the medieval period when religious relics and pilgrimages were profitable business for abbeys. William Blake mentioned the legend in a poem that became a popular hymn, "Jerusalem" (see And did those feet in ancient time).[46]
Glastonbury zodiac[link]
Main article: Temple of the Stars
In 1934 artist Katherine Maltwood suggested a landscape zodiac, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape such as roads, streams and field boundaries, could be found situated around Glastonbury. [47] She held that the "temple" was created by Sumerians about 2700 BC. The idea of a prehistoric landscape zodiac fell into disrepute when two independent studies examined the Glastonbury Zodiac, one by Ian Burrow in 1975 [48] and the other by Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy in 1983. [49] These both used standard methods of landscape historical research. Both studies concluded that the evidence contradicted the idea of an ancient zodiac. The eye of Capricorn identified by Maltwood was a haystack. The western wing of the Aquarius phoenix was a road laid in 1782 to run around Glastonbury, and older maps dating back to the 1620s show the road had no predecessors. The Cancer boat (not a crab as in conventional western astrology) consists of a network of 18th-century drainage ditches and paths. There are some Neolithic paths preserved in the peat of the bog formerly comprising most of the area, but none of the known paths match the lines of the zodiac features. There is no support for this theory, or for the existence of the "temple" in any form, from conventional archaeologists.[50] Glastonbury is also said to be the centre of several ley lines.[51]
Governance and public services[link]
The town council is made up of 16 members,[52] and is based at the Town Hall, Magdalene Street. The town hall was built in 1818 and has a two-storey late Georgian ashlar front. It is a Grade II* listed building.[53]
Glastonbury is in the local government district of Mendip, which is part of the county of Somerset. It was previously administered by Glastonbury Municipal Borough.[54] The Mendip district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, road maintenance, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.
The town's retained fire station is operated by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service,[55] whilst police and ambulance services are provided by Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service. There are two doctors' surgeries in Glastonbury,[56] and a National Health Service community hospital operated by Somerset Primary Care Trust which opened in 2005.[57]
Glastonbury falls within the Wells constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The Member of Parliament is Tessa Munt of the Liberal Democrats.[58] It is within the South West England (European Parliament constituency), which elects six MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Glastonbury is twinned with the Greek island of Patmos,[59] and Lalibela, Ethiopia.[60]
Geography[link]
The walk up the Tor to the distinctive tower at the summit (the partially restored remains of an old church) is rewarded by vistas of the mid-Somerset area, including the Levels which are drained marshland. From there, on a dry point, 158 metres (518 ft) above sea level,[61] it is easy to appreciate how Glastonbury was once an island and, in the winter, the surrounding moors are often flooded, giving that appearance once more. It is an agricultural region typically with open fields of permanent grass, surrounded by ditches with willow trees. Access to the moors and Levels is by "droves", i.e., green lanes. The Levels and inland moors can be 6 metres (20 ft) below peak tides and have large areas of peat. The low lying areas are underlain by much older Triassic age formations of Upper Lias sand that protrude to form what would once have been islands and include Glastonbury Tor.[62][63] The lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10,000 years, following the end of the last ice age.[64]
The low lying damp ground can produce a visual effect known as a Fata Morgana. This optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are strongly bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.[65] The Italian name Fata Morgana is derived from the name of Morgan le Fay, who was alternatively known as Morgane, Morgain, Morgana and other variants. Morgan le Fay was described as a powerful sorceress and antagonist of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in the Arthurian legend.
Glastonbury is less than 1 mile (2 km) across the River Brue from the village of Street. At the time of King Arthur the Brue formed a lake just south of the hilly ground on which Glastonbury stands. This lake is one of the locations suggested by Arthurian legend as the home of the Lady of the Lake. Pomparles Bridge stood at the western end of this lake, guarding Glastonbury from the south, and it is suggested that it was here that Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the waters after King Arthur fell at the Battle of Camlann.[66] The old bridge was replaced by a reinforced concrete arch bridge in 1911.[67]
Until the 13th century, the direct route to the sea at Highbridge was prevented by gravel banks and peat near Westhay.[68] The course of the river partially encircled Glastonbury from the south, around the western side (through Beckery), and then north through the Panborough-Bleadney gap in the Wedmore-Wookey Hills, to join the River Axe just north of Bleadney. This route made it difficult for the officials of Glastonbury Abbey to transport produce from their outlying estates to the abbey, and when the valley of the River Axe was in flood it backed up to flood Glastonbury itself. Some time between 1230 and 1250 a new channel was constructed westwards into Meare Pool north of Meare, and further westwards to Mark Moor. The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project based on the Somerset Levels and Moors and managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.[69] The project commenced in January 2009 and aims to restore, recreate and reconnect habitat, ensuring that wildlife is enhanced and capable of sustaining itself in the face of climate change, while guaranteeing farmers and other landowners can continue to use their land profitably.[69] It is one of an increasing number of landscape scale conservation projects in the UK.[70][71]
The Ham Wall National Nature Reserve, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Glastonbury, is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.[72][73] This new wetland habitat has been established from out peat diggings and now consists of areas of reedbed, wet scrub, open water and peripheral grassland and woodland. Bird species living on the site include the Bearded Tit and the Bittern.[74]
The Whitelake River rises between two low limestone ridges to the north of Glastonbury, part of the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. The confluence of the two small streams that make the Whitelake River is on Worthy Farm, the site of the Glastonbury Festival, between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle.
Climate[link]
Along with the rest of South West England, Glastonbury has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country.[75] The annual mean temperature is approximately 10 °C (50.0 °F). Seasonal temperature variation is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom because of the adjacent sea temperatures. The summer months of July and August are the warmest with mean daily maxima of approximately 21 °C (69.8 °F). In winter mean minimum temperatures of 1 °C (33.8 °F) or 2 °C (35.6 °F) are common.[75] In the summer the Azores high pressure affects the south-west of England, however convective cloud sometimes forms inland, reducing the number of hours of sunshine. Annual sunshine rates are slightly less than the regional average of 1,600 hours.[75] In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton. Most the rainfall in the south-west is caused by Atlantic depressions or by convection. Most of the rainfall in autumn and winter is caused by the Atlantic depressions, which is when they are most active. In summer, a large proportion of the rainfall is caused by sun heating the ground leading to convection and to showers and thunderstorms. Average rainfall is around 700 mm (28 in). About 8–15 days of snowfall is typical. November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, and June to August have the lightest winds. The predominant wind direction is from the south-west.[75]
Economy[link]
Glastonbury is a centre for religious tourism and pilgrimage. As with many towns of similar size, the centre is not as thriving as it once was but Glastonbury supports a large number of alternative shops.
The outskirts of the town contain a DIY shop a former sheepskin and slipper factory site, once owned by Morlands, which is slowly being redeveloped. The 31-acre (13 ha) site of the old Morlands factory was scheduled for demolition and redevelopment into a new light industrial park,[76][77] although there have been some protests that the buildings should be reused rather than being demolished. As part of the redevelopment of the site a project has been established by the Glastonbury Community Development Trust to provide support for local unemployed people applying for employment, starting in self-employment and accessing work-related training.[78]
Landmarks[link]
The Tribunal was a medieval merchant's house, used as the Abbey courthouse and, during the Monmouth Rebellion trials, by Judge Jeffreys.[79] It now serves as a museum containing possessions and works of art from the Glastonbury Lake Village which were preserved in almost perfect condition in the peat after the village was abandoned. The museum is run by the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society.[80] The building also houses the tourist information centre.[81]
The octagonal Market Cross was built in 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey.[82]
The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn was built in the late 15th century to accommodate visitors to Glastonbury Abbey, which is open to visitors. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[83] The front of the 3-storey building is divided into 3 tiers of panels with traceried heads. Above these are 3 carved panels with arms of the Abbey and Edward IV.[83]
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings surrounding a 14th-century barn once belonging to Glastonbury Abbey. It was used for the storage of arable produce, particularly wheat and rye, from the abbey's home farm of approximately 524 acres (2.12 km2). Threshing and winnowing would also have been carried out in the barn, which was built from local "shelly" limestone with thick timbers supporting the stone tiling of the roof. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[84]
The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919. The natural spring has been in almost constant use for at least two thousand years. Water issues from the spring at a rate of 25,000 imperial gallons (110,000 l; 30,000 US gal) per day and has never failed, even during drought. Iron oxide deposits give the water a reddish hue, as dissolved ferrous oxide becomes oxygenated at the surface and is precipitated, providing chalybeate waters. As with the hot springs in nearby Bath, the water is believed to possess healing qualities. The well is about 9 feet (2.7 m) deep, with two underground chambers at its bottom.[85] It is often portrayed as a symbol of the female aspect of deity, with the male symbolised by Glastonbury Tor. As such, it is a popular destination for pilgrims in search of the divine feminine, including modern Pagans. The well is however popular with all faiths and in 2001 became a World Peace Garden.[86]
Transport[link]
The Glastonbury Canal ran just over 14 miles (23 km) through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel in the early 19th century,[87] but it became uneconomic with the arrival of the railway in the 1840s.[88]
Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe. Opened in 1854 as Glastonbury, and renamed in 1886, it had three platforms, two for Evercreech to Highbridge services and one for the branch service to Wells. The station had a large goods yard controlled from a signal box.[89] The site is now a timber yard for a local company. Replica level crossing gates have been placed at the entrance.[90]
The main road in the town is the A39 which passes through Glastonbury from Wells connecting the town with Street and the M5 motorway. The other roads around the town are small and run across the levels generally following the drainage ditches. Local bus services are provided by Badgerline, Nippy Bus, National Express and local community groups.[91]
Education[link]
There are several infant and primary schools in Glastonbury and the surrounding villages. Secondary education is provided by St Dunstan's Community School. As of 2009, the school had 639 students between the ages of 11 and 16 years.[92] It is named after St. Dunstan, an abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, who went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury in 960 AD. The school was built in 1958 with major building work, at a cost of £1.2 million, in 1998, adding the science block and the sports hall. It was designated as a specialist Arts College in 2004, and the £800,000 spent at this time paid for the Performing Arts studio and facilities to support students with special educational needs.[93]
Strode College in Street provides academic and vocational courses for those aged 16–18 and adult education. A tertiary institution and further education college, most of the courses it offers are A-levels or Business and Technology Education Councils (BTECs). The college also provides some university-level courses,[94] and is part of The University of Plymouth Colleges network.
Religious sites[link]
Glastonbury may have been a site of religious importance in pre-Christian times.[95] The abbey was founded by Britons, and dates to at least the early 7th century, although later medieval Christian legend claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century. This fanciful legend is intimately tied to Robert de Boron's version of the Holy Grail story and to Glastonbury's connection to King Arthur, which dates at least to the early 12th century.[96] Glastonbury fell into Saxon hands after the Battle of Peonnum in 658. King Ine of Wessex enriched the endowment of the community of monks already established at Glastonbury. He is said to have directed that a stone church be built in 712. The Abbey Church was enlarged in the 10th century by the Abbot of Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan, the central figure in the 10th-century revival of English monastic life. He instituted the Benedictine Rule at Glastonbury and built new cloisters. Dunstan became Archbishop of Canterbury in 960. In 1184, a great fire at Glastonbury destroyed the monastic buildings. Reconstruction began almost immediately and the Lady Chapel, which includes the well, was consecrated in 1186.[97]
The abbey had a violent end during the Dissolution and the buildings were progressively destroyed as their stones were removed for use in local building work. The remains of the Abbot's Kitchen (a grade I listed building.[98]) and the Lady Chapel are particularly well-preserved set in 36 acres (150,000 m2) of parkland. It is approached by the Abbey Gatehouse which was built in the mid-14th century and completely restored in 1810.[99]
The Church of St Benedict was rebuilt by Abbot Richard Beere in about 1520.[100]
The Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[101] The church is laid out in a cruciform plan with an aisled nave and a clerestorey of seven bays. The west tower has elaborate buttressing, panelling and battlements. The interior of the church includes four 15th-century tomb-chests, some 15th-century stained glass in the chancel, medieval vestments, and a domestic cupboard of about 1500 which was once at Witham Charterhouse.[102]
The United Reformed Church on the High Street was built in 1814 and altered in 1898. It stands on the site of the Ship Inn where meetings were held during the 18th century. It is Grade II listed.[103]
The Glastonbury Goddess Temple was founded in 2002 and registered as a place of worship the following year. It is self-described as the first temple of its kind to exist in Europe in over a thousand years.[104][105]
Sports[link]
The local football side is Glastonbury Town F.C.. They joined the Western Football League Division Two as Glastonbury in 1919 and won the Western Football League title three times in their history.[106] They changed their name to Glastonbury Town in 2003. For the 2010–11 season, they are members of the Somerset County Football League Premier Division.[107]
Glastonbury Cricket Club competes in the West of England Premier League, one of the ECB Premier Leagues, the highest level of recreational cricket in England and Wales.[108] The club plays at the Tor Leisure Ground, which used to stage Somerset County Cricket Club first-class fixtures.
Culture[link]
Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community where communities have grown up to include people with New Age beliefs.[109][110]
In a 1904 novel by Charles Whistler entitled A Prince of Cornwall Glastonbury in the days of Ine of Wessex is portrayed. It is also a setting in the Warlord Chronicles a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell.[111] Modern fiction has also used Glastonbury as a setting including The Age of Misrule series of books by Mark Chadbourn in which the Watchmen appear, a group selected from Anglican priests in and around Glastonbury to safeguard knowledge of a gate to the Otherworld on top of Glastonbury Tor.[112]
The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1926. The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Lawrence Buckley.[113] Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles.[114] With strong Arthurian connections and historic and prehistoric associations, Glastonbury was chosen to host the festivals.
The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970, is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. Although it is named for Glastonbury, it is held at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the town of Glastonbury.[115] The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km2), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages[116] and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000.[117] The festival has spawned a range of other work including the 1972 film Glastonbury Fayre[118] and album, 1996 film Glastonbury the Movie[119] and the 2005 DVD Glastonbury Anthems.[120]
The Children's World charity grew out of the festival and is based in the town. It is known internationally (as Children's World International). It was set up by Arabella Churchill in 1981 to provide drama participation and creative play and to work creatively in educational settings, providing social and emotional benefits for all children, particularly those with special needs.[121] Children's World International is the sister charity of Children's World and was started in 1999 to work with children in the Balkans, in conjunction with Balkan Sunflowers and Save the Children. They also run the Glastonbury Children's Festival each August.[122]
Glastonbury is one of the venues for the annual West Country Carnival.[123]
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Glastonbury has been the birthplace or home to many notable people. Peter King, 1st Baron King was the recorder of Glastonbury in 1705.[124] Thomas Bramwell Welch the discoverer of the pasteurisation process to prevent the fermentation of grape juice was born in Glastonbury in 1825.[125] The judge John Creighton represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1775.[126] The fossil collector Thomas Hawkins lived in the town during the 19th century.[127]
The religious connections and mythology of the town have also attracted several authors. The occultist and writer Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth) lived and is buried in Glastonbury.[128] Her old house is now home to the writer and historian Geoffrey Ashe, who is known for his works on local legends. Frederick Bligh Bond, archaeologist and writer.[129] Eckhart Tolle, a German-born writer, public speaker, and spiritual teacher lived in Glastonbury during the 1980s.[130] Eileen Caddy was at a sanctuary in Glastonbury when she first claimed to have heard the "voice of God" while meditating. Her subsequent instructions from the "voice" directed her to take on Sheena Govan has her spiritual teacher,[131][132][133][134] and became a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community. Sally Morningstar, a Wiccan High Priestess and the author of at least twenty-six books on magic, astrology, Ayurveda, Wicca, divination and spirituality teaches Hedge Witchcraft and Natural Magic in Glastonbury,[135] and lives in Somerset.
Popular entertainment and literature is also represented amongst the population. Rutland Boughton moved from Birmingham to Glastonbury in 1911 and established the country's first national annual summer school of music.[136] Gary Stringer, lead singer of Reef, was a local along with other members of the band,[137] as are the band Flipron.[138] The juggler Haggis McLeod and his late wife, Arabella Churchill, one of the founders of the Glastonbury Festival, lived in the town.[139] The author and dramatist Nell Leyshon and she has set much of her work in the local area.[140] Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town.[141] Michael Aldridge, a character actor who appeared as Seymour in the television series Last of the Summer Wine, was born in Glastonbury.[142] The conductor Charles Hazlewood lives locally and hosts the "Play the Field" music festival on his farm nearby.[143] Bill Bunbury moved on from Glastonbury to become a writer, radio broadcaster, and producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[144]
Athletes and sports players have also been resident. Cricketers born in the town include Cyril Baily in 1880,[145] George Burrough in 1907,[146] and Eustace Bisgood in 1878.[147] The footballer Peter Spiring was born in Glastonbury in 1950.[148]
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| Jimmy Page | |
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 Jimmy Page onstage in Chicago in 1977 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Patrick Page |
| Born | (1944-01-09) 9 January 1944 (age 68) Heston, Middlesex, England |
| Genres | Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock, rock and roll, folk rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, theremin, bass guitar, banjo, harmonica, dobro, sitar, keyboards, tambourine, tambura, hurdy gurdy, pedal steel guitar, synthesizer, vocals, guitar synthesizer, lap steel guitar, slide guitar |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Labels | Swan Song, Atlantic, Geffen, Fontana, Mercury |
| Associated acts | The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Honeydrippers, The Firm, Coverdale and Page, Page and Plant, Herman's Hermits, XYZ, Joe Cocker, The Edge, Jack White, Donovan, The Black Crowes |
| Website | Official website |
| Notable instruments | |
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page is viewed by critics, fans and fellow musicians alike as one of the most influential and important guitarists and songwriters in rock music.[3][4][5] Rolling Stone magazine has described him as "the pontiff of power riffing & probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown."[6] In 2010, Jimmy Page was ranked No.2 in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time"[7] and, in 2007, No.4 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes".[8] Page was ranked third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011.[9] He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of The Yardbirds (1992),[10] and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).[11]
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Early years[link]
Jimmy Page was born to James Patrick Page and Patricia Elizabeth Page (née Gaffikin)[12][13] in the West London suburb of Heston, which today forms part of the London Borough of Hounslow. His father was an industrial personnel manager and his mother was a doctor's secretary. In 1952 they moved to Feltham, and later again to Miles Road, Epsom in Surrey, which is where Page came across his first guitar. "I don't know whether [the guitar] was left behind by the people [in the house] before [us], or whether it was a friend of the family's — nobody seemed to know why it was there."[14] First playing the instrument at the age of twelve years,[15] he took a few lessons in nearby Kingston, but was largely self-taught:
When I grew up there weren't many other guitarists ... There was one other guitarist in my school who actually showed me the first chords that I learned, and I went on from there. I was bored so I taught myself the guitar from listening to records. So obviously it was a very personal thing.[16]
Among Page's early influences were rockabilly guitarists Scotty Moore and James Burton, who both played on recordings made by Elvis Presley. Hearing the Elvis Presley song "Baby Let's Play House" is cited by Page as being his inspiration to take up playing the guitar.[17] Although he appears on BBC1 in 1957 with another guitar, Page states that his first guitar was a second-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso, which was later replaced by a Telecaster.[17][18]
Page's musical tastes included skiffle (a popular English music genre of the time) and acoustic folk playing, particularly that of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, and the blues sounds of Elmore James, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Freddie King and Hubert Sumlin.[19] "Basically, that was the start: a mixture between rock and blues."[17]
At the age of 13, Page appeared on Huw Wheldon's All Your Own talent quest programme in a skiffle quartet, one performance of which aired on BBC TV in 1957. The group played "Mama Don't Want To Skiffle Anymore" and another very American-flavoured song, "In Them Ol' Cottonfields Back Home". When asked by Wheldon what he wanted to do after schooling, Page said, "I want to do biological research" to find a cure for "cancer, if it isn't discovered by then".
In an interview with Guitar Player magazine, Page stated that "there was a lot of busking in the early days, but as they say, I had to come to grips with it, and it was a good schooling."[17] Page would take a guitar to school each day and have it confiscated and handed back to him at 4:00 pm[20] Although he had an interview for a job as a laboratory assistant, he ultimately chose to leave Danetree Secondary School, West Ewell, to pursue music instead.[20]
Initially, Page had difficulty finding other musicians with whom he could play on a regular basis. "It wasn't as though there was an abundance. I used to play in many groups... anyone who could get a gig together, really."[18] Following stints backing recitals by Beat poet Royston Ellis at the Mermaid Theatre between 1960–61,[21] and singer Red E. Lewis, he was asked by singer Neil Christian to join his band, The Crusaders, after Christian had seen a fifteen-year-old Page playing in a local hall.[18] Page toured with Christian for approximately two years and later played on several of his records, including the November 1962 single, "The Road to Love".
During his stint with Christian, Page fell seriously ill with glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) and couldn't continue touring.[18] While recovering, he decided to put his musical career on hold and concentrate on his other love, painting, and enrolled at Sutton Art College in Surrey.[5] As he explained in 1975:
[I was] travelling around all the time in a bus. I did that for two years after I left school, to the point where I was starting to get really good bread. But I was getting ill. So I went back to art college. And that was a total change in direction. That's why I say it's possible to do. As dedicated as I was to playing the guitar, I knew doing it that way was doing me in forever. Every two months I had glandular fever. So for the next 18 months I was living on ten dollars a week and getting my strength up. But I was still playing.[15]
Session musician[link]
While still a student, Page would often perform on stage at The Marquee with bands such as Cyril Davies' All Stars, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and with guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. He was spotted one night by John Gibb of Brian Howard & The Silhouettes, who asked him to help record a number of singles for Columbia Graphophone Company, including "The Worrying Kind". Mike Leander of Decca Records first offered Page regular studio work. His first session for the label was the recording "Diamonds" by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, which went to Number 1 on the singles chart in early 1963.[18]
After brief stints with Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, Mike Hurst and the Method, and Mickey Finn and the Blue Men, Page committed himself to full-time session work. As a session guitarist he was known as 'Little Jim' so there was no confusion with other noted British session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan. Page was mainly called in to sessions as "insurance" in instances when a replacement or second guitarist was required by the recording artist. "It was usually myself and a drummer", he explained, "though they never mention the drummer these days, just me ... Anyone needing a guitarist either went to Big Jim [Sullivan] or myself."[18] He has also stated that "In the initial stages they just said, play what you want, cos at that time I couldn't read music or anything."[22]
Page was the favoured session guitarist of producer Shel Talmy. As a result, he secured session work on songs for The Who and The Kinks.[23] Page is credited with playing acoustic twelve string guitar on two tracks on The Kinks' debut album "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain"[24] and possibly on the b-side "I Gotta Move".[25] He played six-string rhythm guitar on the sessions for The Who's first single "I Can't Explain"[22] (although Pete Townshend was reluctant to allow Page's contribution on the final recording, Page also played lead guitar on the B-side "Bald Headed Woman").[26] Page's studio output in 1964 included Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By", The Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road", The Rolling Stones' "Heart of Stone" (released on Metamorphosis), Van Morrison & Them's "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Here Comes the Night", Dave Berry's "The Crying Game" and "My Baby Left Me", Brenda Lee's "Is It True," and Petula Clark's "Downtown".
In 1965 Page was hired by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as house producer and A&R man for the newly formed Immediate Records label, which also allowed him to play on and/or produce tracks by John Mayall, Nico, Chris Farlowe, Twice as Much and Eric Clapton. Page also formed a brief songwriting partnership with then romantic interest, Jackie DeShannon. He also composed and recorded songs for the John Williams[27] album The Maureeny Wishful Album with Big Jim Sullivan. Page worked as session musician on Donovan Leitch's Sunshine Superman (1966) and the Johnny Hallyday albums Jeune Homme (1968) and Je Suis Né Dans La Rue (1969), the Al Stewart album Love Chronicles (1969), and played guitar on five tracks of Joe Cocker's debut album, With a Little Help from My Friends. Over the years since 1970 Page has played lead guitar on 10 Roy Harper tracks, comprising 81 minutes of music.
When questioned about which songs he played on, especially ones where there exists some controversy as to what his exact role was, Page often points out that it is hard to remember exactly what he did given the enormous number of sessions he was playing at the time.[22][23] In a radio interview he explained that "I was doing three sessions a day, fifteen sessions a week. Sometimes I would be playing with a group, sometimes I could be doing film music, it could be a folk session ... I was able to fit all these different roles."[16]
Although Page recorded with many notable musicians, many of these early tracks are only available as bootleg recordings, several of which were released by the Led Zeppelin fan club in the late 1970s. One of the rarest of these is the early jam session featuring Jimmy Page and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards covering Robert Johnson's "Little Queen of Spades". Several early tracks with Page were compiled on the twin album release, Jimmy Page: Session Man.
Page decided to leave studio work when the increasing influence of Stax Records on popular music led to the greater incorporation of brass and orchestral arrangements into recordings at the expense of guitars.[17] However, he has stated that his time as a session player served as extremely good schooling for his development as a musician:
My session work was invaluable. At one point I was playing at least three sessions a day, six days a week! And I rarely ever knew in advance what I was going to be playing. But I learned things even on my worst sessions – and believe me, I played on some horrendous things. I finally called it quits after I started getting calls to do Muzak. I decided I couldn't live that life any more; it was getting too silly. I guess it was destiny that a week after I quit doing sessions Paul Samwell-Smith left The Yardbirds, and I was able to take his place. But being a session musician was good fun in the beginning – the studio discipline was great. They'd just count the song off, and you couldn't make any mistakes.[19]
The Yardbirds[link]
Main article: The Yardbirds
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The Yardbirds, 1966. Clockwise from left: Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja.
In late 1964, Page was approached about the possibility of replacing Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds, but he declined the offer out of loyalty to his friend.[18] In February 1965 Clapton quit the Yardbirds, and Page was formally offered Clapton's spot, but because he was unwilling to give up his lucrative career as a session musician, and because he was still worried about his health under touring conditions, he suggested his friend, Jeff Beck.[28] On 16 May 1966, drummer Keith Moon, bass player John Paul Jones, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, Jeff Beck and Page recorded "Beck's Bolero" in London's IBC Studios. The experience gave Page an idea to form a new supergroup featuring Beck, along with The Who's John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums.[18] However, the lack of a quality vocalist and contractual problems prevented the project from getting off the ground. During this time, Moon suggested the name "Lead Zeppelin" for the first time, after Entwistle commented that the proceedings would take to the air like a lead balloon.
Within weeks, Page attended a Yardbirds concert at Oxford. After the show he went backstage where Paul Samwell-Smith announced that he was leaving the group.[17] Page offered to replace Samwell-Smith and this was accepted by the group. He initially played electric bass with the Yardbirds before finally switching to twin lead guitar with Beck when Chris Dreja moved to bass. The musical potential of the line-up was scuttled, however, by interpersonal conflicts caused by constant touring and a lack of commercial success, although they released one single, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago". (While Page and Jeff Beck played together in The Yardbirds, the trio of Page, Beck and Clapton never played in the original group at the same time. The three guitarists did appear on stage together at the ARMS charity concerts in 1983.)
After Beck's departure, the Yardbirds remained a quartet. They recorded one album with Page on lead guitar, Little Games. The album received indifferent reviews and was not a commercial success, peaking at only number 80 on the Billboard Music Charts. Though their studio sound was fairly commercial at the time, the band's live performances were just the opposite, becoming heavier and more experimental. These concerts featured musical aspects that Page would later perfect with Led Zeppelin, most notably performances of "Dazed and Confused".
After the departure of Keith Relf and Jim McCarty in 1968, Page reconfigured the group with a new line-up to fulfil unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia. As he said:
Once [the other Yardbirds] decided not to continue, then I was going to continue. And shift the whole thing up a notch ... The whole thing was putting a group together and actually being able to play together. There were a lot of virtuoso musicians around at the time who didn't gel as a band. That was the key: to find a band that was going to fire on all cylinders.[29]
To this end, Page recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham, and he was also contacted by John Paul Jones who asked to join.[30] During the Scandinavian tour the new group appeared as "The New Yardbirds", but soon recalled the old joke by Keith Moon and John Entwistle. Page stuck with that name to use for his new band. Peter Grant changed it to "Led Zeppelin", to avoid a mispronunciation of "Leed Zeppelin."[31]
Led Zeppelin[link]
Main article: Led Zeppelin
Page has explained that he had a very specific idea in mind as to what he wanted Led Zeppelin to be, from the very beginning:
I had a lot of ideas from my days with The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin. In addition to those ideas, I wanted to add acoustic textures. Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses – a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music.[19]
Post-Led Zeppelin career[link]
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham at Page's home, The Old Mill House at Clewer in Berkshire. Page refused to touch a guitar out of sadness for the loss of his friend Bonham,[22][32] but made a return to the stage at a Jeff Beck show in March 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon.[33] Also in 1981 Page joined with Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White to form a supergroup called XYZ (for ex-Yes-Zeppelin). They rehearsed several times, but the project was shelved. Demos of these sessions have turned up on bootleg and they reveal that some of the material emerged on later projects, notably The Firm's "Fortune Hunter" and Yes songs "Mind Drive" and "Can You Imagine?". Page would later join Yes on stage in 1984 at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, playing "I'm Down".
In 1982 Page collaborated with director Michael Winner to record the Death Wish II soundtrack. This, and several subsequent Page recordings including Death Wish III soundtrack (1985), were recorded and produced at his own recording studio, The Sol in Cookham, which he had purchased from Gus Dudgeon in the early 1980s.
In 1983 Page appeared with the A.R.M.S. (Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis) charity series of concerts which honoured Small Faces bass player Ronnie Lane, who suffered from the disease. For the first shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Page's set consisted of songs from the Death Wish II soundtrack (with Steve Winwood on vocals) and an instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven". A four-city tour of the United States followed, with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company replacing Winwood as vocalist. During the US tour, Page and Rodgers also performed "Midnight Moonlight" which would later be recorded for The Firm's first album. All of the shows featured an on stage jam of "Layla" that reunited Page with Yardbirds guitarists Beck and Eric Clapton. According to the book Hammer of the Gods, it was reportedly around this time that Page told friends that he'd just given up heroin after seven years of use. On 13 December 1983, Page joined Robert Plant on-stage for one encore at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
Page next linked up with Roy Harper for the 1984 album (Whatever Happened to Jugula?) and occasional concerts, performing a predominantly acoustic set at folk festivals under various guises such as the MacGregors, and Themselves. Also in 1984 Page recorded with former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant as The Honeydrippers on the albumThe Honeydrippers: Volume 1, and with John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Scream for Help.
Page subsequently collaborated with Paul Rodgers to record two albums under the name The Firm. The first album, released in 1985, was the self-titled The Firm. Popular songs included "Radioactive" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed". The album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard pop albums chart and went gold in the US. It was followed by Mean Business in 1986. The band toured in support of both albums, but soon split up.
Various other projects followed, such as session work for Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and The Rolling Stones (on their 1986 single "One Hit (to the Body)"). In 1986, Page reunited temporarily with his ex-Yardbirds band members to play on several tracks of the Box of Frogs album Strange Land.[34] Page released a solo album entitled Outrider in 1988 which featured contributions from Robert Plant, with Page contributing in turn to Plant's solo album Now and Zen, which was released the same year. Page also embarked on a collaboration with David Coverdale in 1993 entitled Coverdale Page.
Throughout these years Page also reunited with the other former members of Led Zeppelin to perform live on a few occasions, most notably in 1985 for the Live Aid concert with both Phil Collins and Tony Thompson filling drum duties. However, the band members considered this performance to be sub-standard, with Page having been let down by a poorly tuned Les Paul.[35] Page, Plant and Jones, as well as John Bonham's son Jason, performed at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show on 14 May 1988, closing the 12-hour show.[35] In 1990, a Knebworth concert to aid the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the British School for Performing Arts and Technology saw Plant unexpectedly joined by Page to perform "Misty Mountain Hop", "Wearing and Tearing" and "Rock and Roll". Page also performed with the band's former members at various private family functions.
In 1994, Page reunited with Plant for the penultimate performance in MTV's "Unplugged" series. The 90-minute special, dubbed Unledded, premiered to the highest ratings in MTV's history. In October of the same year, the session was released as the CD No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded, and in 2004 as the DVD No Quarter Unledded. Following a highly successful mid-90s tour to support No Quarter, Page and Plant recorded 1998's Walking into Clarksdale.
Since 1990, Page has been heavily involved in remastering the entire Led Zeppelin back catalogue and is currently participating in various charity concerts and charity work, particularly the Action for Brazil's Children Trust (ABC Trust), founded by his wife Jimena Gomez-Paratcha in 1998. In the same year, Page played guitar for rap singer/producer Puff Daddy's song "Come with Me", which heavily samples Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and was included in the soundtrack of Godzilla. The two later performed the song on Saturday Night Live.
In October 1999, Page teamed up with The Black Crowes for a two-night performance of material from the Led Zeppelin catalogue and old blues and rock standards. The concert was recorded and released as a double live album, Live at the Greek in 2000. In 2001 he made an appearance on stage with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and Wes Scantlin of Puddle of Mudd at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards in Frankfurt, where they performed a version of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You".[36]
In 2005, Page was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his Brazilian charity work for Task Brazil and Action For Brazil's Children's Trust,[37] made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro later that year, and was awarded a Grammy award.[38]
In November 2006, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. The television broadcasting of the event consisted of an introduction to the band by various famous admirers (including Roger Taylor, Slash, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jack White and Tony Iommi), a presentation of an award to Jimmy Page, and then a short speech by the guitarist. After this, rock group Wolfmother played a tribute to Led Zeppelin, playing the song "Communication Breakdown".[39][40]
In 2006, Page attended the induction of Led Zeppelin to the UK Music Hall of Fame. During an interview for the BBC for said event, he expressed plans to record new material in 2007, saying "It's an album that I really need to get out of my system... there's a good album in there and it's ready to come out" and "Also there will be some Zeppelin things on the horizon".[41]
On 10 December 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, as well as John Bonham's son, Jason Bonham played a charity concert at the O2 Arena London.
For the 2008 Olympics, Jimmy Page, David Beckham and Leona Lewis represented Britain during the closing ceremonies on 24 August 2008. Beckham rode a double-decker bus into the stadium, and Page and Lewis performed "Whole Lotta Love".[42]
In 2008 Page co-produced a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim entitled It Might Get Loud. The film examines the history of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and styles of Page, The Edge, and Jack White. The film premiered on 5 September 2008 at the Toronto Film Festival.[43] Page also participated in the 3 part BBC documentary London Calling: The making of the Olympic handover ceremony on 4 March 2009.[44] On 4 April 2009, Page inducted Jeff Beck into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[45] Page has announced his 2010 solo tour while talking to the Sky News on 16 December 2009.[46][47]
On 7 June 2008, Page and John Paul Jones appeared with the Foo Fighters to close out the band's concert at Wembley Stadium, performing "Rock and Roll" and "Ramble On."
In January 2010, Jimmy Page announced he is publishing an autobiography through Genesis Publications, in a hand-crafted, limited edition of 2,500 copies.[48] Page has also been honoured with a first-ever Global Peace Award by the United Nations' Pathways to Peace organisation after confirming reports that he would be among the headliners at a planned Show of Peace Concert in Beijing, China on 10 October 2010.[49][50]
On 3 June 2011, Jimmy Page played with Donovan "Mellow Yellow" and "Sunshine Superman" twice, live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert was filmed. Page made an unannounced appearance with The Black Crowes at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on 13 July 2011. He also played alongside Roy Harper at Harper's 70th birthday celebratory concert, in London's Royal Festival Hall on 13 July 2011.
In November 2011, Conservative MP Louise Mensch launched a campaign to have Page knighted for his contributions to the music industry.[51]
Legacy and influence[link]
"Along with a highly original and well-rounded guitar style, influenced by blues, country and international folk music, Jimmy Page has the grand distinction of being one of the most respected and influential songwriters in the history of rock music."
—Real Rock Guitar: A Classic Rock Bible of the '60s and '70s.[52]
Page's past experiences both in the studio and with the Yardbirds were very influential in contributing to the success of Led Zeppelin in the 1970s. As a producer, composer, and guitarist he helped make Led Zeppelin a prototype for countless future rock bands, and was one of the major driving forces behind the rock sound of that era, influencing a host of other guitarists.[53] Allmusic states that "just about every rock guitarist from the late '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin".[5] For example, Dictators bassist Andy Shernoff states that Jimmy Page's sped up, downstroke guitar riff in "Communication Breakdown", an influential song that contained elements of protopunk,[54][55] was an inspiration for The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone's downstroke guitar style.[56] Ramone, who has described Page as "probably the greatest guitarist who ever lived",[57] stated in the documentary "Ramones:The True Story" that he improved at his down-stroke picking style by playing the song over and over again for the bulk of his early career.[58] Brian May of Queen, who was also influenced by Page,[59] has said "I don't think anyone has epitomised riff writing better than Jimmy Page – he's one of the great brains of rock music".[60] Tom Scholz of Boston was heavily influenced by Jimmy Page and credits the dual guitar harmonies in Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times" as the inspiration for Boston's distinctive sound.[61] Page's guitar solo from the song "Heartbreaker" has been credited by Eddie Van Halen as being the inspiration for his two-hand tapping technique after he had seen Led Zeppelin perform in 1971.[62] Similarly, Steve Vai has also commented about the song in a September 1998 Guitar World interview: "This one [Heartbreaker] had the biggest impact on me as a youth. It was defiant, bold, and edgier than hell. It really is the definitive rock guitar solo."[63]
Many other rock guitarists were also influenced by Jimmy Page, such as Ace Frehley,[64] Joe Satriani,[65] John Frusciante,[66] James Hetfield,[67] Kirk Hammett,[68] Zakk Wylde,[69] Yngwie Malmsteen,[70] Tony Iommi,[71] Joe Perry,[72] Richie Sambora,[73] Angus Young,[74] Slash,[75] Dave Mustaine,[76] Mike McCready,[77] Jerry Cantrell,[78] Stone Gossard,[79] Mick Mars,[80] Paul Stanley,[81] Alex Lifeson,[82] and Dan Hawkins.[83]
Page has been described by Uncut as the "rock's greatest and most mysterious guitar hero".[84] According to msnbc.com Jimmy Page "played some of the most fundamental and memorable guitar in rock history—from the heaviest crunch to the most delicate acoustic finger picking."[85] Page's solo in the famous epic "Stairway to Heaven" has been voted by readers of Guitar World[86] and Total Guitar as the greatest guitar solo of all time, and he was named 'Guitarist of the Year' five times during the 1970s in Creem magazine's annual reader poll. Guitar World wrote: "Truly a guitar god, Jimmy Page is one of the most captivating soloists the rock world has ever known."[87] In 1996 Mojo Magazine ranked him number 7 on their list of "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time".[88] In 2002 he was voted the second greatest guitarist of all time in a Total Guitar magazine reader poll.[89] In 2007, Classic Rock Magazine ranked him No. 4 on their list of the "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes".[90] Gigwise.com, an online music magazine, ranked Page No. 2 on their list of the "50 greatest guitarists ever" in 2008.[91] In August 2009, Time Magazine ranked him the 6th greatest electric-guitar player of all time.[92] In 2010, Jimmy Page was ranked No. 2 on Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".[7] In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine named him number three on their list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all time".[9]
David Fricke, a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, described Jimmy Page in 1988 as "probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown."[6] Roger Daltrey of The Who has been a longtime fan of Page[93] and expressed his desire to form a supergroup with Page in 2010 saying: "I’d love to do something, I’d love to do an album with Jimmy Page."[94] Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has described Jimmy Page as "one of the best guitar players I've ever known."[95][96] Jimmy Page was the first inductee onto the British Walk of Fame in August 2004.[97] Page was awarded "Living Legend Award" at Classic Rock Magazine Roll of Honour 2007.[98] In June 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey for his services to the music industry.[99][100] Page was inducted into Mojo Hall Of Fame at the magazine's award ceremony on 11 June 2010.[101]
In August 2010, Auburn University graduate student Justin Havird named a new species of fish "Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini" after Led Zeppelin, because the fish's pectoral fin reminded him of the double-neck guitar used by Jimmy Page.[102][103]
Equipment and recording techniques[link]
Guitars[link]
For the recording of most of Led Zeppelin material from Led Zeppelin's second album onwards, Page used a Gibson Les Paul guitar (sold to him by Joe Walsh) with Marshall amplification. A Harmony Sovereign H-1260 was used in-studio on Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin IV and on-stage from 5 March 1971 to 28 June 1972. During the studio sessions for Led Zeppelin, and later for recording the guitar solo in "Stairway to Heaven", he used a Fender Telecaster (a gift from Jeff Beck).[104] He also used a Danelectro 3021, tuned to DADGAD, most notably on live performances of "Kashmir".
Page also plays his guitar with a cello bow,[105][106][107][108] as on the live versions of the songs "Dazed and Confused" and "How Many More Times". This was a technique he developed during his session days.[23] On MTV's Led Zeppelin Rockumentary, Page said that he obtained the idea of playing the guitar with a bow from David McCallum, Sr. who was also a session musician. Page used his Fender Telecaster and later his Gibson Les Paul for his bow solos.[citation needed]
Notable guitars[link]
- 1959 Fender Telecaster (given to Page by Jeff Beck and repainted with a psychedelic dragon design by Page) played with the Yardbirds. Used to record the first Led Zeppelin album and used on the early tours during 1968–1969. In 1971, it was used for recording the "Stairway to Heaven" solo.
- 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (No. 1) (Given as a gift to Page by Joe Walsh) modified with a shaved neck. This guitar was also used by Gibson as the model for the company's second run of Page signature models in 2004. Produced by Gibson and aged by luthier Tom Murphy, this second generation of Page tribute models was limited to 25 guitars signed by Page himself; and only 150 guitars in total for the aged model issue.[109][110]
- 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (No. 2) with a shaved down neck to match the profile on his No.1; He added four push/pull pots to coil split the humbuckers as well as phase and series switches which were added under the pick guard after the break-up of Led Zeppelin.
- 1991 English luthier Roger Giffin built a guitar for Page based loosely on Page's #2. Giffin's work was later copied for Gibson's original run of Jimmy Page Signature model Les Pauls in the mid-1990s.[109][111][112]
- 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 (used for playing "Stairway to Heaven", "The Song Remains the Same", "The Rain Song", "Celebration Day" during live concerts and the Knebworth, "Tangerine" at the 1975 Earls Court shows, and "Sick Again" throughout the 1977 North American tour)
- 1959 Danelectro 59-DC (tuned to DADGAD and used live for "White Summer", "Black Mountain Side", "Kashmir" and "Midnight Moonlight" with The Firm).
- Danelectro 3021 (tuned to open G and used on the Outrider tour for "In My Time Of Dying". This one has a smaller pickguard, as opposed to the large "seal" pickguard on his first Danelectro.
- 1967 Vox 12-String used during the recording for the Yardbirds Little Games album and for on-stage appearances.
- 1960 Black Gibson Les Paul Custom (with Bigsby Tremolo) – stolen in 1970. An ad was placed by Page for the return of this highly modified instrument but the guitar was never recovered. In 2008 the Gibson Custom Shop produced a limited run of 25 re-creations of the guitar, each with a Bigsby Tremolo and a new custom 6-way toggle switch.[113]
- Because the guitar was too heavy, one of Jimmy Page's Les Paul Custom Black Beauty guitars is now owned by Dan Hawkins of The Darkness.[114]
- 1969 Gibson Les Paul Standard (seen in "The Song Remains The Same" during the theremin/solo section of "Whole Lotta Love" and for "Kashmir" at the O2 reunion concert. This guitar was later fitted with a Parsons-White B-string bender and used extensively by Page from the mid-to-late 1980s onward, including the Outrider tour, and the Page/Plant "Unledded" special on MTV.
- 1964 Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster (Used during recording sessions for In Through the Out Door at Earls Court 1975 and in 1979 at Knebworth for In the Evening).
- 1966 Cream Fender Telecaster (Used on Physical Graffiti and on All My Love during the Tour Over Europe 1980).
- 1953 Brown Fender Telecaster featuring a Parsons and White B-string bender, and neck salvaged from the "Dragon Telecaster". Seen primarily during the 1980s The Firm and Outrider era. Also used at Knebworth in 1979, notably on "Ten Years Gone" and "Hot Dog".
- 1965 Fender Electric XII (12-String) used to record Thank You and Stairway to Heaven.
- 1972 Martin D28 used to record acoustic songs after Led Zeppelin IV, used live at Earls Court 1975
- In 1994 Andy Manson was commissioned to make another triple neck guitar for Page. It was used during the Unledded performances with Robert Plant. [115]
Strings[link]
- Ernie Ball Super Slinky electric guitar strings .009s-.042s[116]
Signature models[link]
Gibson released Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul which was discontinued in 1999, then released another version in 2004, which has also been discontinued. The 2004 version included 25 guitars signed by Page, 150 aged by a former Gibson employee (an acknowledged ageing 'master'), and 840 'unlimited' production guitars. The Jimmy Page Signature EDS-1275 has been produced by Gibson. Recently, Gibson reproduced Page's 1960 Les Paul Black Beauty, the one stolen from him in 1970, with modern modifications. This guitar was sold in 2008 with a run of 25, again signed by Page, plus an additional 500 unsigned guitars.
In December 2009, Gibson released the 'Jimmy Page "Number Two" Les Paul'.[117] This is a re-creation of Page's famous number 2 Les Paul used by him since about 1974 until present. The model includes the same pick-up switching setup as devised by Page, shaved-down neck profile, Burstbucker pick-up at neck and 'Pagebucker' at the bridge. A total of 325 were made in three finishes: 25 Aged by Gibson's Tom Murphy, signed and played by Page ($26,000), 100 aged ($16,000) and 200 with VOS finish ($12,000).
Amplifiers and effects[link]
He usually recorded in studio with a Vox AC30, Fender, and Orange amplification. The first Led Zeppelin album and the solo on "Stairway to Heaven" were played on a Fender Telecaster through a Supro amplifier.[118]
Page used a limited number of effects, including a Maestro Echoplex,[118][119][120] a Dunlop Cry Baby, an MXR Phase 90, a Vox Cry Baby Wah, a Boss CE-2 Chorus, a Yamaha CH-10Mk II Chorus, a Sola Sound Tone Bender Professional Mk II, an MXR Blue Box (distortion/octaver) and a DigiTech Whammy.[118] Page also played a theremin.[118]
Music production techniques[link]
Jimmy Page is credited for the innovations in sound recording he brought to the studio during the years he was a member of Led Zeppelin,[121][122] many of which he had initially developed as a session musician:[123]
This apprenticeship ... became a part of [learning] how things were recorded. I started to learn microphone placements and things like that, what did and what didn't work. I certainly knew what did and didn't work with drummers because they put drummers in these little sound booths that had no sound deflection at all, and the drums would just sound awful. The reality of it is the drum is a musical instrument, it relies on having a bright room and a live room ... And so bit by bit I was learning really how not to record.[16]
He developed a reputation for employing effects in new ways and trying out different methods of using microphones and amplification. During the late 1960s, most British music producers placed microphones directly in front of amplifiers and drums, resulting in the sometimes "tinny" sound of the recordings of the era. Page commented to Guitar World magazine that he felt the drum sounds of the day in particular "sounded like cardboard boxes."[121] Instead, Page was a fan of 1950s recording techniques, Sun Studios being a particular favourite. In the same Guitar World interview, Page remarked, "Recording used to be a science", and "[engineers] used to have a maxim: distance equals depth." Taking this maxim to heart, Page developed the idea of placing an additional microphone some distance from the amplifier (as much as twenty feet) and then recording the balance between the two. By adopting this technique, Page became one of the first British producers to record a band's "ambient sound" – the distance of a note's time-lag from one end of the room to the other.[124]
For the recording of several Led Zeppelin tracks, such as "Whole Lotta Love" and "You Shook Me", Page additionally utilised "reverse echo" – a technique which he claims to have invented himself while with The Yardbirds (he had originally developed the method when recording the 1967 single "Ten Little Indians").[121] This production technique involved hearing the echo before the main sound instead of after it, achieved by turning the tape over and employing the echo on a spare track, then turning the tape back over again to get the echo preceding the signal.
Page has stated that, as producer, he deliberately changed the audio engineers on Led Zeppelin albums, from Glyn Johns for the first album, to Eddie Kramer for Led Zeppelin II, to Andy Johns for Led Zeppelin III and later albums. He explained that "I consciously kept changing engineers because I didn't want people to think that they were responsible for our sound. I wanted people to know it was me."[121]
John Paul Jones acknowledged that Page's production techniques were a key component of the success of Led Zeppelin:
The backwards echo stuff [and] a lot of the microphone techniques were just inspired. Using distance-miking... and small amplifiers. Everybody thinks we go in the studio with huge walls of amplifiers, but Page doesn’t. He uses a really small amplifier and he just mikes it up really well, so that it fits into a sonic picture.[32]
In an interview that Page himself gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993, he remarked on his work as a producer:
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms... As a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape – the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.[19]
Personal life[link]
French model Charlotte Martin was Page's partner from 1970 to about 1982 or 1983. Page called her 'My Lady'.Today he calls her 'my ex-wife' too.(from Guitar World magazine November issue 2010) Together they have a daughter, Scarlet Page (born in 1971), who is a photographer.
From 1986 to 1995 Page was married to Patricia Ecker, a model and waitress. They have a son, James Patrick Page III (born April 1988). Page later married Jimena Gómez-Paratcha, whom he met in Brazil on the No Quarter tour.[125] He adopted her oldest daughter Jana (born 1994), and they have two children together: Zofia Jade (born 1997) and Ashen Josan (born 1999).[126]
In 1972 Page bought, from Richard Harris, the home which William Burges (1827–1881) designed for himself in London, The Tower House. "I had an interest going back to my teens in the pre-Raphaelite movement and the architecture of Burges", he said. "What a wonderful world to discover." The reputation of Burges rests on his extravagant designs and his contribution to the Gothic revival in architecture in the nineteenth century.[127]
From 1980 to 2004 Page owned The Mill House, Mill Lane, Windsor, which was formerly the home of actor Michael Caine. Fellow Led Zeppelin band member John Bonham died at the house in 1980.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s,[128] Page owned the Boleskine House, the former residence of occultist Aleister Crowley.[128][129] Sections of Page's fantasy sequence in the film The Song Remains the Same were filmed at night on the mountain side directly behind Boleskine House.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List, Page's assets are worth £75 million as of 2009.[130] He resides in Sonning, Berkshire in Deanery Garden, a house designed by Edwin Lutyens for the owner of Country Life magazine, William Hudson deanery Garden. Page also previously owned Plumpton Place, Sussex also owned by William Hudson with certain parts of the house also designed by Edwin Lutyens. This house features in the Zeppelin film "The Song Remains The Same" where Jimmy is seen sitting on the lawn playing a hurdy gurdy.
Recreational drug use[link]
Page has acknowledged heavy recreational drug use throughout the 1970s. In an interview with Guitar World magazine in 2003, he stated, "I can't speak for the [other members of the band], but for me drugs were an integral part of the whole thing, right from the beginning, right to the end."[131] After the band's 1973 concert tour of the United States, Page told Nick Kent, "Oh, everyone went over the top a few times. I know I did and, to be honest with you, I don't really remember much of what happened."[132]
In 1975, Page began to use heroin, a fact attributed to Richard Cole, who stated that Page (in addition to himself) was taking the drug during the recording sessions of the album Presence in that year, and that Page admitted to him shortly afterwards that he was addicted to the drug.[133]
By Led Zeppelin's 1977 tour of the United States, Page's heroin addiction was beginning to hamper his guitar playing performances.[5][124][134] By this time the guitarist had lost a noticeable amount of weight. His onstage appearance was not the only obvious change; his addiction caused Page to become so inward and isolated it altered the dynamic between him and Plant considerably.[135] During the recording sessions for In Through the Out Door in 1978, Page's diminished influence on the album (relative to bassist John Paul Jones) is partly attributed to his heroin addiction, which resulted in his absence from the studio for long periods of time.[136]
Page reportedly kicked his heroin habit in the early 1980s.[137] In a 1988 interview with Musician magazine, Page took offence when the interviewer noted that heroin had been associated with his name, and insisted "Do I look as if I'm a smack addict? Well, I'm not. Thank you very much."[138]
In an interview he gave to Q magazine in 2003, Page responded to a question as to whether he regrets getting so involved in heroin and cocaine:
I don't regret it at all because when I needed to be really focused, I was really focused. That's it. Both Presence and In Through the Out Door were only recorded in three weeks: that's really going some. You've got to be on top of it.[139]
Interest in the occult[link]
The appearance of four symbols on the jacket of Led Zeppelin's fourth album has been linked to Page's interest in the occult.[140] The four symbols represented each member of the band. Page's own so-called "Zoso" symbol originated in 'Ars Magica Arteficii' (1557) by Gerolamo Cardano, an old alchemical grimoire, where it has been identified as a sigil consisting of zodiac signs. The sigil is reproduced in "Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils" by Fred Gettings.[141][142]
During tours and performances after the release of the fourth album, Page often had the "Zoso" symbol embroidered on his clothes, along with zodiac symbols. These were visible most notably on his "Dragon Suit", which included the signs for Capricorn, Scorpio and Cancer which are Page's Sun, Ascendant, and Moon signs, respectively.
The artwork inside the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV is from a painting by William Holman Hunt, influenced by the traditional Rider/Waite Tarot card design for the card called "The Hermit".[140] Page transforms into this character during his fantasy sequence in Led Zeppelin's concert film The Song Remains the Same.
In the early 1970s Page owned an occult bookshop and publishing house, "The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers" in Kensington High Street, London, eventually closing it as the increasing success of Led Zeppelin resulted in his having insufficient time to devote to it. The company published a facsimile of English occultist's Aleister Crowley's 1904 edition of The Goetia.[143] Page has maintained a strong interest in Crowley for many years. In 1978, he explained:
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.[144]
Page was commissioned to write the soundtrack music for the film Lucifer Rising by another occultist and Crowley admirer, underground movie director Kenneth Anger. Page ultimately produced 23 minutes of music which Anger felt was insufficient because the film ran for 28 minutes and Anger wanted the film to have a full soundtrack. Anger claimed Page took three years to deliver the music, and the final product was only 23 minutes of droning. The director also slammed the guitarist in the press by calling him a "dabbler" in the occult and an addict, and being too strung out on drugs to complete the project. Page countered that he had fulfilled all his obligations, even going so far as to lend Anger his own film editing equipment to help him finish the project.[145]
Although Page collected works by Crowley, he has never described himself as a Thelemite nor was he ever initiated into the O.T.O. The Equinox Bookstore and Boleskine House were both sold off during the 1980s, as Page settled into family life and participated in charity work.
Discography[link]
See also: Led Zeppelin discography
Single[link]
- "She Just Satisfies"/"Keep Moving" (February 1965)
Albums[link]
Pre-Led Zeppelin (1963–1969)[link]
Many pre-Led Zeppelin session recordings have been released on various labels and compilation packages, including:
- Mannish Boys 1965 recordings with David Bowie (then Davy Jones) & 'The Lower 3rd' group. Page was a session guitarrist for the side A of the EP, titled 'The Manish Boys'. They just recorded two tracks, 'I Pity the Fool' and 'Take my Tip'. [146]
- Blues Anytime 1, 2, 3 series on Immediate Records featuring the Immediate All-Stars, mid 1960s
- No Introduction Necessary (1968), Recordings feat. John Paul Jones, Albert Lee, Nicky Hopkins, Clem Cattini and Keith de Groot
- Jimmy Page and Friends – Wailing Sounds (2006). Includes Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends album (1970) + six tracks from the 1968 sessions for Keith De Groot's debut album.
- Guitar Boogie (1971) Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton compilation album from the recordings on the Blues Anytime series on Immediate Records.
- Special Early Works (1972), 1965 session recordings with Sonny Boy Williamson
- Smoke and Fire (1984), session recordings with Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins
- Jimmy Page: Session Man Vol. 1 (1989)
- Jimmy Page: Session Man Vol. 2 (1990)
- Jimmy's Back Pages...The Early Years (1992)
- Jimmy Page and His Heavy Friends: Hip Young Guitar Slinger (2000, double cd)
- This Guitar Kills: More 60s Groups & Sessions – remastered by Jimmy Page (2007, the 2003 ed. is not remastered) (double cd)
- Jimmy Page and Friends (2006, double cd)
Please note that there are several duplicates amongst all these albums.
Post-Led Zeppelin[link]
Main article: Jimmy Page discography
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| Name | Page, Jimmy |
| Alternative names | Page, James Patrick |
| Short description | Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer |
| Date of birth | 9 January 1944 |
| Place of birth | Heston, Middlesex, England |
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 Plant at Birmingham's Symphony Hall (2010) |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robert Anthony Plant |
| Born | (1948-08-20) 20 August 1948 (age 63) West Bromwich, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), England |
| Genres | Rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock, folk rock, world music, country rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, harmonica, percussion, guitar, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | Atlantic, Swan Song, Es Paranza, Sanctuary, Mercury, Universal, Rounder |
| Associated acts | Band of Joy, Led Zeppelin, The Honeydrippers, Page and Plant, Strange Sensation, Alison Krauss, The New Yardbirds |
| Website | Official website |
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.[1]
With a career spanning more than 40 years, Plant is regarded as one of the most significant singers in the history of rock music, and has influenced contemporaries and later singers such as Freddie Mercury and Axl Rose.[2] In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All-Time".[3] In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.[4][5] In 2011, a Rolling Stone readers' pick placed Plant in first place of the magazine's "Best Lead Singers of All Time".[6]
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Life and career[link]
Early career[link]
Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire now in West Midlands) to parents Robert C. who worked as a civil engineer[7] and Annie C. (Cain) Plant, but grew up in Kidderminster, in Worcestershire. Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age.
When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a curtain, a bit similar to that.[8]
He left King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Stourbridge in his mid-teens and developed a strong passion for the blues, mainly through his admiration for Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and early rendition of songs in this genre.
I suppose I was quite interested in my stamp collection and Romano-British history. I was a little grammar school boy and I could hear this kind of calling through the airwaves[9]
He abandoned training as a chartered accountant after only two weeks to attend college in an effort to gain more GCE passes and to become part of the English Midlands blues scene.[10][11] "I left home at 16", he said "and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues and of other music which had weight and was worth listening to."[12]
Plant's early blues influences included Johnson, Bukka White, Skip James, Jerry Miller, and Sleepy John Estes. Plant had various jobs while pursuing his music career, one of which was working for the major British construction company Wimpey in Birmingham in 1967 laying tarmac on roads. He also worked at Woolworths in Halesowen town for a short period of time. He cut three obscure singles on CBS Records[13] and sang with a variety of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, which brought him into contact with drummer John Bonham. They both went on to play in the Band of Joy, merging blues with newer psychedelic trends. Though his early career met with no commercial success, word quickly spread about the "young man with the powerful voice".
Led Zeppelin (1968–1980)[link]
Early years[link]
In 1968, the guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a teacher training college in Birmingham— where Plant was singing in a band named Hobbstweedle.[14] Page explained:
When I auditioned him and heard him sing, I immediately thought there must be something wrong with him personality-wise or that he had to be impossible to work with, because I just could not understand why, after he told me he'd been singing for a few years already, he hadn't become a big name yet. So I had him down to my place for a little while, just to sort of check him out, and we got along great. No problems.[15]
According to Plant:
I was appearing at this college when Peter and Jimmy turned up and asked me if I'd like to join The Yardbirds. I knew The Yardbirds had done a lot of work in America – which to me meant audiences who would want to know what I might have to offer – so naturally I was very interested.[12]
Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time. Plant brought along John Bonham as drummer, and they were joined by John Paul Jones, who had previously worked with Page as a studio musician. Jones called Page on the phone before they checked out Plant, and Page hired Jones immediately.
Initially dubbed the "New Yardbirds" in 1968, the band soon came to be known as Led Zeppelin. The band's self-titled debut album hit the charts in 1969 and is widely credited as a catalyst for the heavy metal genre. Plant has commented that it is unfair for people to think of Zeppelin as heavy metal, as almost a third of their music was acoustic.[16]
In 1975, Plant and his wife Maureen (now divorced) were seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece. This significantly affected the production of Led Zeppelin's seventh album Presence for a few months while he recovered, and forced the band to cancel the remaining tour dates for the year.
In July 1977 his son Karac died aged five of a stomach infection while Plant was engaged on Led Zeppelin's concert tour of the United States. It was a devastating loss for the family. Plant retreated to his home in the Midlands and for months afterward he questioned his future.[17] Karac's death later inspired him to write the song "All My Love" in tribute, featured on Led Zeppelin's final studio LP, 1979's In Through the Out Door.
Lyrics[link]
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Plant did not begin writing song lyrics with Led Zeppelin until the making of Led Zeppelin II, in 1969. According to Jimmy Page:
The most important thing about Led Zeppelin II is that up to that point I'd contributed lyrics. Robert hadn't written before, and it took a lot of ribbing to get him into writing, which was funny. And then, on the second LP, he wrote the words of Thank You. He said, "I'd like to have a crack at this and write it for my wife."[18]
Plant's lyrics with Led Zeppelin were often mystical, philosophical and spiritual, alluding to events in classical and Norse mythology, such as "Immigrant Song", which refers to Valhalla and Viking conquests. However, the song "No Quarter" is often misunderstood to refer to the god Thor; the song actually refers to Mount Thor (which is named after the god). Another example is "The Rain Song".
Plant was also influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien, whose book series inspired lyrics in some early Led Zeppelin songs. Most notably "The Battle of Evermore", "Misty Mountain Hop", "No Quarter", "Ramble On" and "Over the Hills and Far Away" contain verses referencing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Conversely, Plant sometimes used more straightforward blues-based lyrics dealing primarily with sexual innuendo, as in "The Lemon Song", "Trampled Under Foot", and "Black Dog".
Welsh mythology also forms a basis of Plant's interest in mystical lyrics. He grew up close to the Welsh border and would often take summer trips to Snowdonia. Plant bought a Welsh sheep farm in 1973, and began taking Welsh lessons and looking into the mythology of the land (such as Black Book of Carmarthen, Book of Taliesin, etc.) Plant's first son, Karac, was named after the Welsh warrior Caratacus. The song "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is named after the 18th Century Welsh cottage Bron-Yr-Aur owned by a friend of his father; it later inspired the song "Bron-Yr-Aur". The songs "Misty Mountain Hop", "That's the Way", and early dabblings in what would become "Stairway to Heaven" were written in Wales and lyrically reflect Plant's mystical view of the land. Critic Steve Turner suggests that Plant's early and continued experiences in Wales served as the foundation for his broader interest in the mythologies he revisits in his lyrics (including those myth systems of Tolkien and the Norse).[19]
The passion for diverse musical experiences drove Plant to explore Africa, specifically Marrakesh in Morocco where he encountered Umm Kulthum.
I was intrigued by the scales, initially, and obviously the vocal work. The way she sang, the way she could hold a note, you could feel the tension, you could tell that everybody, the whole orchestra, would hold a note until she wanted to change.[20]
That musical inspiration eventually culminated in "Kashmir". Both he and Jimmy Page revisited these influences during their reunion album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded in 1994. In his solo career, Plant again tapped from these influences many times, most notably in the 2002 album, Dreamland.
Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track "Stairway to Heaven", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres. Most of the lyrics of the song were written spontaneously by Plant in 1970 at Headley Grange. While never released as a single, the song has topped charts as the greatest song of all time on various polls around the world.
Plant is also recognised for his lyrical improvisation in Led Zeppelin's live performances, often singing verses previously unheard on studio recordings. One of the most famous Led Zeppelin musical devices involves Plant's vocal mimicking of band mate Jimmy Page's guitar effects. This can be heard in the songs "How Many More Times", "Dazed and Confused", "The Lemon Song", "You Shook Me", "Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "Sick Again".
He is also known for his light-hearted, humorous, and unusual on-stage banter, often referred to as "plantations". Plant often discusses the origin and background of the songs during his shows, and sometimes provides social comment as well. He frequently talks about American blues musicians as his inspiration, mentioning artists like Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, and Willie Dixon at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert with Led Zeppelin.
Stage persona[link]
Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporary in The Who, singer Roger Daltrey (who adopted the look in the late 1960s), Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and his other fellow contemporary, Jim Morrison of The Doors.[21] With his mane of long blond hair and powerful, bare-chested appearance, Plant helped to create the "god of rock and roll" or "rock god" archetype. On stage, Plant was particularly active in live performances, often dancing, jumping, skipping, snapping his fingers, clapping, making emphatic gestures to emphasise a lyric or cymbal crash, throwing back his head, or placing his hands on his hips. As the 1960s–1970s progressed he, along with the other members of Led Zeppelin, became increasingly flamboyant on-stage and wore more elaborate, colourful clothing and jewellery.
According to Classic Rock magazine, "once [Plant] had a couple of US tours under his belt, 'Percy' Plant swiftly developed a staggering degree of bravado and swagger that irrefutably enhanced Led Zeppelin's rapidly burgeoning appeal."[12] In 1994, during his "Unledded" tour with Jimmy Page, Plant himself reflected tongue-in-cheek upon his Led Zeppelin showmanship:
I can't take my whole persona as a singer back then very seriously. It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. So I got a few moves from Elvis and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin' Wolf and threw them all together.[22]
One of the oddest awards he's received is the Rock Scene Magazine "Chest O Rama". Readers of the magazine had to decide who had the best chest in rock and Plant was the winner. When they contacted him about it, he replied: "I'm really greatly honoured although it's hard for me to be eloquent on the subject of my chest."[23]
Solo career (since 1982)[link]
As a solo artist[link]
After the break-up of Led Zeppelin in 1980 (following the death of John Bonham), Plant pursued a successful solo career beginning with Pictures at Eleven in 1982, followed by 1983's The Principle of Moments. Popular tracks from this period include "Big Log" (a Top 20 hit in 1983), "In the Mood" (1983), "Little by Little" (from 1985's Shaken 'n' Stirred), "Far Post" (originally only on the B-side of "Burning Down One Side" but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations), "Tall Cool One" (a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen) and "I Believe" (from 1993's Fate of Nations), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac. In 1984, Plant formed a short-lived all-star group with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck called The Honeydrippers, who had a No. 3 hit with a remake of the Phil Phillips' tune, "Sea of Love" and a followup hit with a cover of Roy Brown's "Rockin' at Midnight". Although Plant avoided performing Led Zeppelin songs through much of this period (he occasionally would improvise his unique Zeppelin screams into his set), his tours in 1983 (with drummer Phil Collins) and 1985 were very successful, often performing to sold-out arena-sized venues.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Plant co-wrote three solo albums with keyboardist/songwriter Phil Johnstone. Now and Zen, Manic Nirvana, and Fate of Nations (featuring Moya Brennan of Clannad). It was Johnstone who talked Plant into playing Led Zeppelin songs in his live shows, something Plant had resisted, not wanting to be forever known as "the former Led Zeppelin vocalist."
Although Led Zeppelin split in 1980, Plant and Page occasionally collaborated on various projects, including The Honeydrippers: Volume One album in 1984. In the spring 2 years later Robert performed at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986. The pair again worked together in the studio on the 1988 Page solo effort, Outrider, and in the same year Page contributed to Plant's album Now and Zen. Also, on 15 May 1988 Plant appeared with Page as a member of Led Zeppelin (and in his own right as a solo artist) at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert.
As Page and Plant (1994–1998)[link]
Page and Plant became a full-fledged performing act from 1994 through 1998, releasing the Unledded album in 1994 and following with an enormously successful tour in 1995: Fourteen years of speculation from their fans and occasional sniping between the two former members ended when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin reconvened their former musical partnership to produce No Quarter. Having long resisted offers from MTV to reform to do an Unplugged show, they finally accepted as part of a deal that also allowed them to visit Morocco to record new material. The album combines the results of both of these projects. The Led Zeppelin material features new arrangements and new instrumentation, including strings, Egyptian musicians and the haunting vocals of British-Asian star Najma Akhtar. Page and Plant recorded their only post-Zeppelin album of original material on the 1998 album, Walking into Clarksdale, an effort that was unsuccessful commercially, leading Plant to return to his solo career. A song from this album, "Please Read the Letter", was re-recorded by Plant with Alison Krauss, winning the 2009 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
With Priory of Brion (1999–2000)[link]
Starting in mid-1999, Plant performed until the end of 2000 at several small venues with his folk-rock band, named Priory of Brion.
In 1999, Plant contributed to the tribute album for Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence, who was terminally ill. The album, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album (Birdman, 1999), with the album title referring to Spence's only solo album, Oar (Columbia, 1969), contained Plant's version of Spence's "Little Hands". Plant had been an admirer of Spence and Moby Grape since the release of Moby Grape's eponymous 1967 debut album.[24]
In 2001, Plant appeared on Afro Celt Sound System's album Volume 3: Further in Time. The song "Life Begin Again" features a duet with Welsh folksinger Julie Murphy, emphasising Plant's recurring interest in Welsh culture (Murphy would also tour in support of Plant).
With The Strange Sensation (2001–2007)[link]
In 2002, with his then newly-formed band Strange Sensation, Plant released a widely acclaimed collection of mostly blues and folk remakes, Dreamland. Contrasting with this lush collection of often relatively obscure remakes, the second album with Strange Sensation, Mighty ReArranger (2005), contains new, original songs. Both have received some of the most favourable reviews of Plant's solo career and four Grammy nominations, two in 2003 and two in 2006.
As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.
From 2001 to 2007, Plant actively toured the US & Europe with The Strange Sensation. His sets typically included recent, but not only, solo material and plenty of Led Zeppelin favourites, often with new and expanded arrangements. A DVD titled Soundstage: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, featuring his Soundstage performance (filmed at the Soundstage Studios in Chicago on 16 September 2005), was released in October 2006.
On 23 June 2006, Plant was the headliner (backed by Ian Hunter's band) at the Benefit For Arthur Lee concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, a show which raised money for Lee's medical expenses from his bout with leukaemia. Plant and band performed thirteen songs – five by Arthur Lee & Love, five Led Zeppelin songs and three others including a duet with Ian Hunter. At the show, Plant told the audience of his great admiration for Arthur Lee dating back to the mid-Sixties. Lee died of his illness six weeks after the concert.
An expansive box set of his solo work, Nine Lives, was released in November 2006, which expanded all of his albums with various b-sides, demos, and live cuts. It was accompanied by a DVD. All his solo works were re-released with these extra tracks individually.
In 2007, Plant contributed two tracks to the Fats Domino tribute album Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, "It Keeps Rainin'" with the Lil' Band O' Gold and "Valley of Tears" with The Soweto Gospel Choir.
With Alison Krauss (2007–2008)[link]
From 2007–2008, Plant recorded and performed with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. A duet album, Raising Sand, was released on 23 October 2007 on Rounder Records. The album, recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles and produced by T-Bone Burnett, includes performances of lesser-known material from R&B, Blues, folk, and country songwriters including Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Gene Clark, Tom Waits, Doc Watson, Little Milton and The Everly Brothers. The song "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" from Raising Sand won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals in 2008. Raising Sand also won Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.[25] The album has been successful critically and commercially, and was certified platinum on 4 March 2008.
Plant and Krauss began an extended tour of the US and Europe in April 2008, playing music from Raising Sand and other American roots music as well as reworked Led Zeppelin tunes. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in July 2008.[26] Also in 2008, Plant performed with bluegrass musicians at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. He appeared as a surprise guest during Fairport Convention's set at the 2008 Cropredy Festival, performing Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore" with Kristina Donahue as a tribute to Sandy Denny.
On 8 February 2009, Plant and Krauss won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Country Collaboration with Vocals, and Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
In 2010, Plant realised a lifelong ambition by playing live at Molineux Stadium, home of the Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Plant performed with the amateur cover band No Rezerve.[citation needed]
With Band of Joy (2010)[link]
In July 2010, Robert Plant embarked on a twelve-date summer tour in the United States with a new group called Band of Joy (reprising the name of his very first band in the 1960s). The group includes singer Patty Griffin, singer-guitarist Buddy Miller, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Darrell Scott, bassist-vocalist Byron House, and drummer-percussionist-vocalist Marco Giovino.
After a unique show in the United States on 12 September 2010 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, another eleven-date autumn tour in Europe was announced to last from October to November 2010.[27] North America tour dates were announced 16 November 2010, with the first show being 18 January 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina.[28]
A new studio album called Band of Joy was released on 13 September 2010 on the Rounder Records label.[29]
The band played their final scheduled show together at the Big Chill Festival at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire on 7 August 2011. The show ended with Plant bidding his bandmates "a fond farewell".[30]
On 30 September 2011, Plant and Band of Joy played in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, as part of the 11th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.[31]
With Sensational Space Shifters (2012)[link]
It was first reported that Robert Plant's new vehicle, The Sensational Space Shifters, would be debuting at 2012's WOMAD festival in Wiltshire, England. An intimate warm up gig was then announced in Gloucester on 8 May to a crowd of 400. Although it was initially reported that there were 10 members of the band, along with Plant the band consists of former Strange Sensation members, Cast guitarist Liam "Skin" Tyson, Justin Adams, Billy Fuller and John Baggot along with Dave Smith, Juldeh Camara and Patty Griffin[32]. In addition to Womad and the Gloucester show, the Sensational Space Shifters are scheduled for the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi on August 10-12.[33][34][35][36][37]
Led Zeppelin-related projects and reunion rumours[link]
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Plant performed with living members of Led Zeppelin both on 13 July 1985 for Live Aid (with Phil Collins and Tony Thompson on drums) and on 15 May 1988 for Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary. At the 1988 reunion, Jason Bonham, the son of Led Zeppelin's late drummer John Bonham, played drums. Both sets featured only a few songs, performed with minimal rehearsal. Plant was unhappy with both performances, saying that "it was like sleeping with your ex-wife but not making love." At the 1990 Silver Clef Award Winners Concert at Knebworth, Plant was joined by Jimmy Page. Some of their set was released on the subsequent live album and video. In 1995, Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Plant performed at the induction show with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, performing spirited versions of "Bring It On Home", "Honeybee", and "When the Levee Breaks".
After years of reunion rumours, Led Zeppelin performed a full two-hour set on 10 December 2007 at the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert, with Jason again filling in on drums. Despite enormous public demand, Plant declined a $200 million offer to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show.[38] In interviews following the 2007 show, Plant left the door open to possible future performances with Led Zeppelin, saying that he enjoyed the reunion and felt that the show was strong musically.[39] Although Page, Jones, and Bonham have expressed the strong desire to tour as Led Zeppelin,[40] Plant has consistently opposed a full tour and has responded negatively to questions about another reunion. In a January, 2008 interview, he stated that he does not want to "tour like a bunch of bored old men following the Rolling Stones around." In a statement on his web site in late 2008, Plant stated, "I will not be touring with Led Zeppelin or anyone else for the next two years. Anyone buying Led Zeppelin tickets will be buying bogus tickets."
Personal life[link]
Robert Plant married Maureen Wilson on 9 November 1968. The couple had three children: daughter Carmen Jane (1968) (married to Charlie Jones, Plant's bass player for solo tours); and sons Karac Pendragon (1972–1977) (died of a virus; the reason Led Zeppelin's 1977 North American Tour was cut short), and Logan Romero (1979). The couple divorced in August 1983. Also, Plant has a younger son, Jesse Lee (1991), the son of Shirley Wilson, sister of Maureen.
On 14 August 2009, it was announced via the Wolverhampton Wanderers text message news service that "Rock Legend and lifelong Wolves fan Robert Plant is to become the club's third Vice President." Plant officially received the honour before kick off at the club's first match of the season against West Ham.[41] Plant was five years old when he first visited Molineux. He recalled in an interview with his local paper, the Express & Star, in August 2010: "I was five when my dad took me down for the first time and Billy Wright waved at me. Honest, he did. And that was it – I was hooked from that moment.[42]
According to The Sunday Times Rich List Plant is worth £80 million as of 2009.[43]
In late 2010 on BBC2, a documentary featured Robert Plant discussing his journey with Led Zeppelin and various projects since.
Legacy[link]
Robert Plant is one of the most significant singers in rock music and has influenced the style of many of his contemporaries, including Geddy Lee, Ann Wilson,[44] Sammy Hagar,[45] and later rock vocalists such as Jeff Buckley and Jack White who imitated his performing style extensively. Freddie Mercury of Queen, and Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses were also influenced by Plant.[2] Encyclopædia Britannica notes "Exaggerating the vocal style and expressive palette of blues singers such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, [Robert] Plant created the sound that has defined much hard rock and heavy metal singing: a high range, an abundance of distortion, loud volume, and emotional excess".[46] Plant received the Knebworth Silver Clef Award in 1990.[47]
In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant No. 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All-Time, a list which included Rob Halford (2), Steven Tyler (3), Freddie Mercury (6), Geddy Lee (13), and Paul Stanley (18), all of whom were influenced by Plant.[3] In 2008, Rolling Stone named Plant as number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All-Time.[2] In 2009, he was voted the "greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.[4][5] Plant was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for his "services to popular music".[48][49] He was included in the Q magazine's 2009 list of "Artists Of The Century" and was ranked at number 8 in their list of "100 Greatest Singers" in 2007.[50][51] In 2009, Plant also won the Outstanding Contribution to Music prize at the Q Awards.[52] He was placed at no. 3 on SPIN's list of "The 50 Greatest Rock Frontmen of All Time".[53]
On 20 September 2010 National Public Radio (NPR) named Plant as one of the "50 Great Voices" in the world.[54]
Solo discography[link]
Main article: Robert Plant discography
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| Birth name | Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. |
| Born | (1971-10-20) October 20, 1971 (age 40) |
| Origin | Long Beach, California, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Death Row, No Limit, Priority, Star Trak, Geffen, Doggystyle |
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Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school. Shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular theme song to the film Deep Cover.
Snoop's debut album Doggystyle, was released in 1993 under Death Row Records making a debut at No.1 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B charts. Selling almost a million copies in the first week of its release, Doggystyle quickly became certified 4× platinum in 1994 and spawned several hit singles, including "What's My Name" and "Gin & Juice". In 1994, Snoop released a soundtrack on Death Row Records for the short film Murder Was The Case, starring himself. In early 1996, Snoop Dogg was cleared of charges over his bodyguard's 1993 murder of Philip Woldemariam. His second album, late 1996's Tha Doggfather, also debuted at No.1 on both charts with "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" as the lead single. The album sold only half as well, being certified double platinum in 1997.
Tha Doggfather was his last release for Death Row before he signed with No Limit Records, where he recorded his next three albums. Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told in 1998, No Limit Top Dogg in 1999 (making it his last album of the 90s), and Tha Last Meal in 2000, which was his last No Limit Records album. Snoop then signed with Priority/Capitol/EMI Records in 2002, where he released his album Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss. Then he signed with Geffen Records in 2004 for his next three albums R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, and Ego Trippin'. Malice 'n Wonderland (2009) and Doggumentary (2011), his most recent release, were on Priority.
In addition to music, Snoop Dogg has starred in motion pictures and hosted several television shows: Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood and Dogg After Dark. He also coaches a youth football league and high school football team. He has run into many legal troubles, some of which caused him to be legally banned from the UK and Australia, although the UK ban was later reversed after a long legal battle.[1] He is the cousin of Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, RBX and Lil' ½ Dead and the cousin of R&B singers Brandy and Ray J. Starting September 2009, Snoop was hired by EMI as the chairman of a reactivated Priority Records.[2]
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Early life[link]
Named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Sr. (December 10, 1948 – November 9, 1985, Los Angeles), Calvin Broadus was born October 20, 1971 at the Los Altos Hospital in Long Beach, California, the second of three sons of Beverly Broadus (née Tate; born April 27, 1951, McComb, Mississippi).[3][4][5] His father, Vernall Varnado (born December 13, 1949, Magnolia, Mississippi),[3] was a Vietnam veteran, singer, and mail carrier who was said to be frequently absent from his life.[6] Broadus' parents nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a child because of his appearance, but usually addressed him as Calvin at home.[7][8] His mother and stepfather divorced in 1975. At an early age, Broadus began singing in Golgotha Trinity Baptist Church and playing piano; when he was in sixth grade, he began rapping.[9][10] He attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and was convicted for cocaine possession, serving six months at the Wayside County Jail.[7]
As a teenager, Snoop Dogg frequently ran into trouble with the law. Snoop Dogg was a member of the Rollin' 20 Crips gang in the Eastside of Long Beach,[11][12] although he stated in 1993 that he never joined a gang.[9] Shortly after graduating from high school, he was arrested for possession of cocaine.[7] Snoop Dogg's conviction caused him to be frequently in and out of prison for the first three years after he graduated from high school. Snoop, along with his cousins Nate Dogg and Lil' ½ Dead and friend Warren G, recorded home made tapes as a group called 213, named after the Long Beach area code at the time. One of his early solo freestyles over En Vogue's "Hold On" had made it to a mixtape which was heard by influential producer Dr. Dre, who phoned to invite him to an audition. Former N.W.A member The D.O.C. taught him how to structure his lyrics and separate the thematics into verses, hooks and chorus.[13]
[edit] 1992–93: Doggystyle
When he began recording, Broadus took the stage name Snoop Doggy Dogg. Dr. Dre began working with Snoop Dogg, first on the theme song of the 1992 film Deep Cover, and then on Dr. Dre's debut solo album The Chronic with the other members of his former starting group, Tha Dogg Pound. The huge success of Snoop Dogg's debut Doggystyle was partially because of this intense exposure.[7]
To fuel the ascendance of West Coast G-funk hip hop, the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and "Gin and Juice" reached the top ten most-played songs in the United States, and the album stayed on the Billboard charts for several months.[7] Gangsta rap became the center of arguments for censorship and labeling, with Snoop Dogg often used as an example of violent and misogynistic musicians.[14] Doggystyle, much like The Chronic, featured a host of rappers signed to or affiliated with the Death Row label including Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Nate Dogg and others. Rolling Stone music critic Touré asserted that Snoop had a relatively soft vocal delivery compared to other rappers: "Snoop's vocal style is part of what distinguishes him: where many rappers scream, figuratively and literally, he speaks softly."[9]
A short film about Snoop Dogg's murder trial called Murder Was The Case, was released in 1994, along with an accompanying soundtrack. On July 6, 1995, Doggy Style Records, Inc., a record label founded by Snoop Dogg, was registered with the California Secretary of State as business entity number C1923139.[15]
[edit] 1996–97: Tha Doggfather
After Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder charges on February 20, 1996, he and the mother of his son and their kennel of 20 pit bulls moved into a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) home in the hills of Claremont, California and by August 1996 Doggy Style Records, a subsidiary of Death Row Records, signed The Gap Band's Charlie Wilson as one of the record label's first artists.[16]
However, by the time Snoop Dogg's second album, Tha Doggfather, was released in November 1996, the price of living (or sometimes just imitating) the gangsta life had become very evident. Among the many notable hip hop industry deaths and convictions were the death of Snoop Dogg's friend and labelmate 2Pac and the racketeering indictment of Death Row co-founder Suge Knight.[7] Dr. Dre had left Death Row earlier in 1996 because of a contract dispute, so Snoop Dogg co-produced Tha Doggfather with Daz Dillinger and DJ Pooh.
This album featured a distinct change of style as compared to Doggystyle, and the leadoff single, "Snoop's Upside Ya Head", featured a collaboration with Gap Band frontman Charlie Wilson. While the album sold reasonably well, it was not as successful as its predecessor. However, Tha Doggfather had a somewhat softer approach to the G-funk style. The immediate aftermath of Dr. Dre's withdrawal from Death Row Records, realizing that he was subject to an iron-clad time-based contract (i.e., that Death Row practically owned anything he produced for a number of years), Snoop Dogg refused to produce any more tracks for Suge Knight, other than the insulting "Fuck Death Row", until his contract expired.[11] In an interview with Neil Strauss in 1998, Snoop Dogg stated that though he had been given lavish gifts by his former label they had withheld royalty payments to the artist.[17]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that after Tha Doggfather, Snoop Dogg began "moving away from his gangsta roots toward a calmer lyrical aesthetic":[7] for instance, Snoop participated in the 1997 Lollapalooza concert tour, which featured mainly alternative rock music. Troy J. Augusto of Variety noticed that Snoop's set at Lollapalooza attracted "much dancing, and, strangely, even a small mosh pit" in the audience.[18]
[edit] 1998–2000: No Limit, Top Dogg and Tha Last Meal
Snoop signed with Master P's No Limit Records (distributed by Priority/EMI Records) in 1998 and debuted on the label with Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told that year. His other albums from No Limit were No Limit Top Dogg in 1999 (selling over 1,503,865 copies) and Tha Last Meal in 2000 (selling over 1,000,000).[7] In 2001, his autobiography, Tha Doggfather, was published.
[edit] 2002: Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
In 2002 he released the album Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$, on Priority/Capitol/EMI Records, selling over 1,300,000 copies. The album featured the hit singles "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "Beautiful", featuring guest vocals by Pharrell. By this stage in his career, Snoop Dogg had left behind his "gangster" image and embraced a "pimp" image.
[edit] 2004–05: R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
In 2004, Snoop signed to Geffen Records/Star Trak Entertainment both of which are distributed through Interscope Records; Star Trak is headed by producer duo The Neptunes, which produced several tracks for Snoop's 2004 release R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece. "Drop It Like It's Hot" (featuring Pharrell), the first single released from the album, was a hit and became Snoop Dogg's first single to reach number one. His third release was "Signs", featuring Justin Timberlake and Charlie Wilson, which entered the UK chart at #2. This was his highest entry ever in the UK chart. The album sold 1,724,000 copies in the U.S. alone, and most of its singles were heavily played on radio and television. Snoop Dogg joined Warren G and Nate Dogg to form the group 213 and released album The Hard Way in 2004. Debuting at No.4 on the Billboard 200 and No.1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, it included single "Groupie Luv". Together with fellow rappers Lil' Jon, Xzibit and David Banner, Snoop Dogg appeared in the music video for Korn's "Twisted Transistor".
[edit] 2006: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
Snoop Dogg's appeared on two tracks from Ice Cube's 2006 album Laugh Now, Cry Later, including the single "Go to Church", and on several tracks on Tha Dogg Pound's Cali Iz Active the same year. Also, his latest song, "Real Talk", was leaked over the Internet in the summer of 2006 and a video was later released on the Internet. "Real Talk" was a dedication to former Crips leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams and a diss to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California. Two other singles on which Snoop made a guest performance were "Keep Bouncing" by Too $hort (also with will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas) and "Gangsta Walk" by Coolio.
Snoop's 2006 album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, debuted on the Billboard 200 at No.5 and has sold over 850,000 copies. The album and the second single "That's That Shit" featuring R. Kelly were well received by critics. In the album, he collaborated in a video with E-40 and other West Coast rappers for his single "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)".
[edit] 2007–08: Ego Trippin'
In July 2007, Snoop Dogg also made history by becoming the first artist to release a track as a ringtone prior to its release as a single, which was "It's the D.O.G." On July 7, 2007, Snoop Dogg performed at the Live Earth concert, Hamburg.[19] Snoop Dogg has ventured into singing for Bollywood with his first ever rap for an Indian movie Singh Is Kinng; the title of the song is also "Singh is Kinng". He also appears in the movie as himself.[20] The album featuring the song was released on June 8, 2008 on Junglee Music Records.[21] He released his ninth studio album, Ego Trippin' (selling 400,000 copies in the U.S.), along with the first single, "Sexual Eruption". The single peaked at No.7 on the Billboard 100, featuring Snoop using autotune. The album featured production from QDT (Quik-Dogg-Teddy).
[edit] 2009–10: Malice n Wonderland and More Malice
Snoop was appointed an executive position at Priority Records. His tenth studio album, Malice n Wonderland, was released on December 8, 2009. The first single from the album, "Gangsta Luv", featuring The-Dream, peaked at No.35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at No.23 on the Billboard 200, selling 61,000 copies its first week, making it his lowest charting album. His third single, "I Wanna Rock", peaked at No.41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Snoop features on the latest Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach. The fourth single from Malice n Wonderland, titled "Pronto", featuring Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, was released on iTunes on December 1, 2009. Snoop re-released the album under the name More Malice.
[edit] 2011–12: Doggumentary
Snoop collaborated with Katy Perry on the first single from her second mainstream album, "California Gurls", which was released on May 11, 2010. Snoop can also be heard on the track "Flashing" by Dr. Dre and on Curren$y's song "Seat Change". He was also featured on a new single from Australian singer Jessica Mauboy, titled "Get 'em Girls" (released September 2010). Snoop's latest effort was backing American recording artist, Emii, on her second single entitled "Mr. Romeo" (released October 26, 2010 as a follow-up to "Magic"). Snoop also collaborated with American comedy troupe The Lonely Island in their song "Turtleneck & Chain", in their 2011 album Turtleneck & Chain.
Snoop Dogg's newest studio album is Doggumentary. The album went through several tentative titles including Doggystyle 2: Tha Doggumentary and Doggumentary Music: 0020 before being released under the final title Doggumentary during March 2011.[22] Snoop was featured on Gorillaz' latest album Plastic Beach on a track called: "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach" with the The Hypnotic Brass, he also completed another track with them entitled "Sumthing Like This Night" which does not appear on Plastic Beach, yet does appear on Doggumentary. He also appears on the latest Tech N9ne album All 6's and 7's (released June 7, 2011) on a track called "Pornographic" which also features E-40 and Krizz Kaliko.
[edit] 2012–present: Reincarnated
On February 4, 2012, Snoop Dogg announced a new documentary alongside his new upcoming studio album entitled Reincarnated.[23] Snoop Dogg is set to headline the Osheaga Festival in Montreal, Canada this summer. [24]
Other ventures[link]
Media appearances[link]
Snoop Dogg has appeared on television and in films throughout his career. In 1998, Snoop had a cameo appearance in the film Half Baked as the "Scavenger Smoker".[25] In 2000, Snoop (as "Michael J. Corleone") directed Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, a pornographic film produced by Hustler. The film, combining hip hop with x-rated material, was a huge success and won "Top Selling Release of the Year" at the 2002 AVN Awards.[26] Snoop then directed Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp in 2002 (using the nickname "Snoop Scorsese").[27]
In 2001, Snoop lent his voice to the animated show King of the Hill, in which he played a white pimp named Alabaster Jones.[28] He played a lead character in the movie The Wash with Dr. Dre. He portrayed a drug dealer in a wheelchair in the film Training Day, featuring Denzel Washington.[29] In 2001, Snoop starred in the horror film Bones, with him playing a murdered mobster who returns from the dead to exact his revenge against those who murdered him.
In 2002, Snoop hosted, starred in, and produced his own MTV sketch comedy show entitled Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. Snoop was filmed for a brief cameo appearance in the television movie It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), but his performance was omitted from the final cut of the movie.[30] On November 8, 2004, Snoop Dogg was starred in the episode "Two of a Kind" of NBC's series Las Vegas.[31]
In 2004, Snoop appeared on the Showtime series The L Word as the character "Slim Daddy". He also notably played the drug dealer-turned-informant character of Huggy Bear, in the 2004 remake film of the 1970s TV-series of the same name, Starsky & Hutch. He appeared as himself in the episode "MILF Money" of Weeds,[32] and made an appearance on the TV shows Entourage[33] and Monk,[34] for which he recorded a version of the theme, in July 2007.
Snoop founded his own production company, Snoopadelic Films, in 2005. Their debut film was Boss'n Up, a film inspired by Snoop Dogg's album R&G, starring Lil Jon and Trina.[35]
In December 2007, his reality show Snoop Dogg's Father Hood premiered on the E! channel.[36] Snoop Dogg joined the NBA's Entertainment League.[37] On March 30, 2008 he appeared at WrestleMania XXIV as a Master of Ceremonies for a tag team match between Maria and Ashley Massaro as they took on Beth Phoenix and Melina.[38]
On May 8 and May 9, 2008, Snoop appeared as himself on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, with a new opening theme recorded by the artist presented for both episodes. In the episodes, Snoop performs at the bachelorette party for character Adriana Cramer, and credits Bo Buchanan with helping him get his start in show business.[39][40] On February 24, 2010, Snoop Dogg reprised his role, performing his song "I Wanna Rock" from his new album, Malice n Wonderland, as well as once again performing a special remixed, vocal rendition of the show's opening theme.[41] In recent interviews he has explained that, as a child, One Life to Live was one of his favorite shows, and he still regards the show fondly. He has also stated that he has always been a particular fan of Robert S. Woods, who has portrayed the character of Bo Buchanan since 1979.
In 2009, Snoop Dogg appeared in Sacha Baron Cohen's film Brüno as himself performing a rap addition to the song "Dove Of Peace".[42] On October 19, 2009, Snoop Dogg was the guest host of WWE Raw.
In July 2009, Snoop revealed his desire to appear in the popular soap opera Coronation Street while touring in the UK. However ITV bosses were said to be less keen.[43]
In 2010, Snoop Dogg appeared in an episode of I Get That a Lot on CBS as a parking-lot attendant.
In June 2010, Snoop created a music video for True Blood accompanying a song he wrote for one of the main characters of the show entitled "Oh Sookie."[44][45]
In March 2011, Snoop participated in Comedy Central's Roast of Donald Trump with other comedians and media personalities.[46]
January 2, 2012, appeared on the The Price Is Right and raised $72,000 for his charity, Snoop Youth Football League.
Endorsements[link]
- St. Ides
- Snoop Dogg 40 Oz Malt liquor
- Adidas Originals
- Boost Mobile cell phone
- Chrysler 300
- Colt 45 Blast
- Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy 4G
- Orbit Gum
- AOL commercial with Jerry Stiller
- Cal Worthington's Ford dealership in Long Beach, California
- "Snoop Doggs" – foot-long hot dogs manufactured in Massachusetts, a joint venture with Platinum One Media[47]
- "Snoop Dogg Board Company (SDBC)" – skateboards and Luggage fabrication company (with Pentagon Distribution)
- "Snooperbowl" and "Snoop Youth Football league"[48]
- "Chronic Candy" – candy that tastes like marijuana (from Switzerland and is currently banned in some cities of US)
- Love Don't Live Here No More, Doggy Tales Vol.1 – love novel (co-written by David E. Talbert, published by Atria and Snoopadelic Films) ISBN 0-7432-7363-X[49]
- Tha Doggfather : The Times, Trials, And Hardcore Truths Of Snoop Dogg – autobiography (published by William Morrow) Hardcover ISBN 0-688-17158-3, Paperback ISBN 0-06-107607-4[50]
- Fear & Respect (project cancelled as of March 1, 2006) – PlayStation 2 video game (developed by Midway Games)
- "Doggy Biscuitz" – shoe brand (in partnership with Pony International)[51]
- "Snoop Dogg Clothing" – streetwear (distributed at Macy's)
- "WRFF" – unique design scooters (in cooperation with Salton, Inc.)[52]
- "Hip Hop Gaming League" – a celebrity online gaming competition (hosted by Global Gaming League)[53]
- "Snoop Dogg figures" (Vital Toys, SOTA Toys)[54]
- "Snoop Dogg Boxing" – mobile phone game (Sony Pictures Mobile)
- "Snoop Dogg Pet Accessory Line" (in conjunction with Jakks Pacific)[55]
- Snoop Dogg is a celebrity voice of a TomTom GPS navigation system.[56][57] He stated on George Lopez's talk show Lopez Tonight that he is tired of hearing directions from the same woman.
- In August 2008, Snoop Dogg announced the launch of a new streetwear line called Rich & Infamous, via a partnership with Robert Thorne Co. The line was unveiled during the Magic Tradeshow in Las Vegas.[58]
- "Hack is Wack" – Promoting Norton AntiVirus.[59]
- "Coffee Cup With A Cause" with 7 Eleven.[60]
- "Serious Pimp" clothing line.[61]
- "iFizzle" iPhone Application.[62]
- "Vybe Mobile"[63]
- "Pepsi Max" – Zero Calories[64]
Style and rap skills[link]
Kool Moe Dee ranks Snoop at No.33 in his book There's a God on the Mic, and says he has "an ultra-smooth, laidback delivery",[65] and "flavor-filled melodic rhyming".[66] Peter Shapiro describes Snoop's delivery as a "molasses drawl"[67] and Allmusic notes his "drawled, laconic rhyming" style.[7] Kool Moe Dee refers to Snoop's use of vocabulary, saying he "keeps it real simple...he simplifies it and he's effective in his simplicity".[68]
Snoop is known to freestyle some of his lyrics on the spot for some songs – in the book How to Rap, Lady of Rage says, "Snoop Dogg, when I worked with him earlier in his career, that's how created his stuff... he would freestyle, he wasn't a writer then, he was a freestyler,"[69] and The D.O.C. states, "Snoop's [rap] was a one take willy, but his shit was all freestyle. He hadn't written nothing down. He just came in and started busting. The song was "Tha Shiznit"—that was all freestyle. He started busting and when we got to the break, Dre cut the machine off, did the chorus and told Snoop to come back in. He did that throughout the record. That's when Snoop was in the zone then."
Peter Shapiro says that Snoop debuted on "Deep Cover" with a "shockingly original flow – which sounded like a Slick Rick born in South Carolina instead of South London"[70] and adds that he "showed where his style came from by covering Slick Rick's 'La Di Da Di'".[67] Referring to Snoop's flow, Kool Moe Dee calls him "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game".[66] How to Rap also notes that Snoop is known to use syncopation in his flow to give it a laidback quality,[71] as well as 'linking with rhythm' in his compound rhymes,[72] using alliteration,[73] and employing a "sparse" flow with good use of pauses.[74]
Snoop re-popularized the use of -izzle speak, particularly in the pop and hip-hop music industry.[75]
Personal life[link]
Broadus's father left the family when Broadus was three months old. Snoop married his high school sweetheart, Shante Taylor, on June 12, 1997. On May 21, 2004, he filed for divorce from Shante, citing irreconcilable differences.[76] The couple renewed their wedding vows on January 12, 2008.[77] R&B singers Brandy and Ray J are his first cousins.[78] In 2002, the rapper announced he was giving up marijuana, one of his image trademarks, for good.[79] According to his IMDb biography, Snoop is a fan of the thrash metal band Metallica[80] and performed their song "Sad But True" on the band's 2003 MTV Icon Special which is available on YouTube.[81] A DNA test read by George Lopez on Lopez Tonight revealed Snoop Dogg to be of 0% East Asian, 23% Native American, 6% European, and 71% African descent.[82]
Snoop is an avid fan of hometown teams Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Snoop is also an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan.[83] and is often seen wearing Pittsburgh Steelers apparel. Snoop has mentioned that his love for the Steelers began in the 1970s during the team's dynasty years while watching the team with his grandfather growing up in L.A.[84] In the 2005 offseason, Snoop mentioned that he wanted to be an NFL head coach, "probably for the Steelers".[85] The following year, he was in attendance for the Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XL and later in Super Bowl XLIII. He is also a fan of the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys, often wearing a No.5 jersey, and has been seen at Raiders training camps.[86] He did his own free style rap based on his similarities with Tony Romo.[87][88] He is also a fan of the USC Trojans Football team. He has also shown affection for the New England Patriots, as he has been seen performing at the Gillette Stadium and picked the Patriots as the favorite to win Super Bowl XXXIX against the Eagles.[89][90] On August 6, 2009, Snoop visited the training camp of the Baltimore Ravens at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.[91] He was invited by Ray Lewis the day after his concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
A certified football coach, Snoop Dogg has been head coach for his son's youth football teams and the John A. Rowland High School team.[92][93]
Snoop Dogg is an avid hockey fan; he sported a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey (with the name and number 'GIN AND JUICE' 94 on the back) and a jersey of the now-defunct Springfield (MA) Indians of the American Hockey League in his 1994 music video, "Gin And Juice". On the E! show, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, Snoop Dogg and his family received lessons on playing hockey from the Anaheim Ducks, then returning to the Honda Center to cheer on the Ducks against the Vancouver Canucks in the episode Snow in da Hood.[94]
In 2009, it was revealed that Snoop Dogg was a member of the Nation of Islam. On March 1, 2009, he made an appearance at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day holiday, where he praised minister Louis Farrakhan. Snoop claimed to be a member of the Nation of Islam, but he declined to give the date on which he joined. He also donated $1,000 to the organization.[95][96][97]
Snoop claimed in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine that unlike other hip hop artists who've superficially adopted the pimp persona, he was an actual professional pimp in 2003 and 2004, saying "That shit was my natural calling and once I got involved with it, it became fun. It was like shootin' layups for me. I was makin' 'em every time." He goes on to say that upon the advice of some of the other pimps he knew, he eventually gave up pimping to spend more time with his family.[98]
Legal issues[link]
Shortly after graduating from high school, he was arrested for possession of cocaine.[7]
While recording Doggystyle in August 1993, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with the death of Phillip Woldermarian, a member of a rival gang who was shot and killed by Snoop's bodyguard, McKinley Lee; Snoop was charged with murder along with Lee as he was driving the vehicle from which the shooting had commenced. Snoop and Lee were defended by Johnnie Cochran.[99] Both Snoop and Lee were acquitted; Lee was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but Snoop Dogg remained entangled in the legal battles around the case for three years.[100]
In July 1993, Snoop was stopped for a traffic violation and a firearm was found by police while conducting a search of his car. In February 1997, he pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun and was ordered to record three public service announcements, pay a $1,000 fine, and serve three years' probation.[101][102]
In May 1998, Snoop Dogg was fined and arrested for a misdemeanor of marijuana possession.[103]
In October 2001, Snoop Dogg was arrested again for a misdemeanor of marijuana possession.[103] In 2002 he pleaded no contest and was fined a total of $398.30 and received a suspended 30-day jail sentence.[104]
Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and The Game were sued for assaulting a fan on stage at a May 2005 concert at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington. The accuser, Richard Monroe, Jr., claimed he was beaten by the artists' entourage while mounting the stage.[105] He alleged that he reacted to an "open invite" to come on stage. Before he could, Snoop’s bodyguards grabbed him and he was beaten unconscious by crewmembers, including the rapper and producer Soopafly; Snoop and The Game were included in the suit for not intervening. The lawsuit focuses on a pecuniary claim of $22 million in punitive and compensatory damages, battery, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.[106] The concerned parties appeared in court in April 2009.
On April 26, 2006, Snoop Dogg and members of his entourage were arrested after being turned away from British Airways' first class lounge at Heathrow Airport. Snoop and his party were not allowed to enter the lounge because some of the entourage were flying first class, other members in economy class. After the group was escorted outside, they vandalized a duty-free shop by throwing whiskey bottles. Seven police officers were injured in the midst of the disturbance. After a night in jail, Snoop and the other men were released on bail on April 27, but he was unable to perform at the Premier Foods People's Concert in Johannesburg on the same day. As part of his bail conditions, he had to return to the police station in May. The group has been banned by British Airways for "the foreseeable future."[107][108] When Snoop Dogg appeared at a London police station on May 11, he was cautioned for affray under Section 4 of the Public Order Act for use of threatening words or behavior.[109] On May 15, the Home Office decided that Snoop Dogg should be denied entry to the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future due to the incident at Heathrow as well as his previous convictions in the United States for drugs and firearms offenses.[110][111] Snoop Dogg's visa card was rejected by local authorities on March 24, 2007 because of the Heathrow incident.[112] A concert at London's Wembley Arena on March 27 went ahead with Diddy (with whom he toured Europe) and the rest of the show. However the decision affected four more British performances in Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow[113] and Budapest (due to rescheduling).[114] As of March 2010, Snoop Dogg has been allowed back into the UK.[1]
On September 27, 2006, Snoop Dogg was detained at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California by airport security, after airport screeners found a collapsible police baton in Snoop's carry-on bag. The baton was confiscated but Snoop was allowed to board the flight. He has been charged with various weapons violations stemming from this incident. Donald Etra, Snoop's lawyer, told deputies the baton was a prop for a musical sketch. Snoop was sentenced to three years' probation and 160 hours of community service starting on September 20, 2007.[115]
Snoop Dogg was arrested again on October 26, 2006 at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California while parked in a passenger loading zone. Approached by airport security for a traffic infraction, he was found in possession of marijuana and a firearm, according to a police statement. He was transported to Burbank Police Department Jail, booked, and released on $35,000 bond. He faced firearm and drug possession charges on December 12 at Burbank Superior Court.[116]
He was again arrested on November 29, 2006, after performing on The Tonight Show, for possession of marijuana and a firearm.[117]
Snoop was arrested again on March 12, 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden after performing in a concert with P. Diddy in Stockholm's Globe Arena after he and a female companion reportedly "reeked" of marijuana. They were released four hours later after providing a urine sample. The results on urine determined whether charges would be pressed. However the rapper denied all charges.[118][119]
On April 26, 2007, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship banned him from entering the country on character grounds, citing his prior criminal convictions. He had been scheduled to appear at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards on April 29, 2007.[120] Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship lifted the ban in September 2008 and had granted him visa to tour Australia. DIAC said "In making this decision, the department weighed his criminal convictions against his previous behaviour while in Australia, recent conduct – including charity work – and any likely risk to the Australian community ... We took into account all relevant factors and, on balance, the department decided to grant the visa."[121]
Snoop Dogg's many legal issues forced San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to withdraw his plan to issue a proclamation to the rapper.[122]
Snoop Dogg was banned from Parkpop, a festival in the Netherlands on June 27, 2010, where he was scheduled to perform. The mayor and law enforcement officials asked organizers of the festival to find an artist more “open and friendly” to play the event.[123]
Snoop Dogg was arrested again on January 7, 2012 for possession of Marijuana charge after Border control agents discovered a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus. Snoop Dogg was stopped at the same Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint where country singer Willie Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession in 2010. The agents conducted a routine inspection of his tour bus at the U.S.– Mexico border checkpoint, east of El Paso, Texas and thought they smelled marijuana. Snoop Dogg was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, released and given a court date of Friday, January 20, 2012.[citation needed]
Discography[link]
Main article: Snoop Dogg discography
- Doggystyle (1993)
- Tha Doggfather (1996)
- Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998)
- No Limit Top Dogg (1999)
- Tha Last Meal (2000)
- Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss (2002)
- R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004)
- Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006)
- Ego Trippin' (2008)
- Malice n Wonderland (2009)
- Doggumentary (2011)
- Reincarnated (2012)
Filmography[link]
Main article: Snoop Dogg filmography
- 1994: Murder Was the Case (Platinum)
- 1998: Caught Up
- 1998: Half Baked (cameo appearance)
- 1998: Da Game of Life
- 1998: Hot Boyz
- 1998: Ride
- 1999: Whiteboyz
- 1999: Urban Menace
- 2000: Tha Eastsidaz
- 2000: Up in Smoke Tour
- 2001: Baby Boy
- 2001: Training Day
- 2001: King of the Hill (voice)
- 2001: Bones
- 2001: The Wash
- 2003: Malibu's Most Wanted
- 2003: Old School
- 2004: Starsky & Hutch
- 2004: Soul Plane
- 2004: Volcano High
- 2005: Boss'n Up
- 2005: Racing Stripes (voice)
- 2006: The Tenants
- 2006: Weeds: Himself
- 2006: Hood of Horror
- 2007: Arthur and the Invisibles (voice)
- 2007: Monk
- During the opening credits, he covered the title song by Randy Newman "It's a Jungle out There".
- 2007: The Boondocks
- 2008: Singh Is Kinng (as Himself)
- 2008: Snoop Dogg's Father Hood (as Himself)
- 2009: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (voice)
- 2009: Dogg After Dark: Himself
- 2009: Xavier: Renegade Angel (voice)
- 2009: Brüno (cameo appearance)
- 2009: Falling Up
- 2010: Down for Life
- 2010: One Life to Live as Calvin Broadus
- 2010: Straight Outta L.A. (as Himself)
- 2010: Freaknik: The Musical
- 2010: Malice n Wonderland as Malice
- 2010: Big Time Christmas as Himself
- 2011: 90210 (TV series) as Himself
- 2011: Roast of Donald Trump
Awards[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[124]
Further reading[link]
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- Snoop Dogg (1999). Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, and Hardcore Truths of Snoop Dogg. New York, N.Y., U.S.: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-17158-3
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