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- 1962–1966
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- 4-by The Beatles
- A Bigger Bang
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- You Are So Beautiful
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- You Shook Me
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- Your Saving Grace
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Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio located at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, its present owner. It is most notable as being the venue in the 1960s for innovative recording techniques adopted by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Badfinger, and others.
Towards the end of 2009, the studio came under threat of sale to property developers, however the British Government protected the site, granting it English Heritage Grade II listed status in 2010, thereby preventing the building from subjection to major alterations.
Originally a nine-bedroom Georgian townhouse built in the 1830s on the footpath leading to Kilburn Abbey, the building was later converted to apartments where the most flamboyant resident was Maundy Gregory. The premises were acquired by the Gramophone Company in 1931 and converted into studios. Pathé filmed the opening of the studios, when Sir Edward Elgar conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in recording sessions of his music. The neighbouring house is also owned by the studio and used to house musicians. During the mid-1900s the studio was extensively used by leading British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, whose house was just around the corner from the studio building.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but as of 2011[update] operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI.
The Capitol Records Company was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of fellow songwriter and film producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs (1910–1971), owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles.
Johnny Mercer first suggested the idea of starting a record company while he was golfing with Harold Arlen and Bobby Sherwood. He told them, "I’ve got this idea of starting a record company. I get so tired of listening to the way everyone treats music. I keep feeling they’re selling out. And I don’t like the way artists are treated either. Bing Crosby isn’t the only one who can make records. I don’t know, I think it would be fun." By 1941, Mercer was not only an experienced songwriter, but a singer with a number of records to his name. Mercer next suggested starting a record company to his friend Glenn Wallichs while Mercer was visiting Wallichs' record store. Wallichs responded, "Fine, you run the record company and find the artists,' and Mercer added, "and you run the business."
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Death of John Lennon
Coordinates: 40°46′35″N 73°58′34″W / 40.776436°N 73.976006°W / 40.776436; -73.976006
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City, on Monday, 8 December 1980; Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.
Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where it was stated that nobody could have lived for more than a few minutes after sustaining such injuries. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of The Dakota. He was cremated on 10 December 1980, at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first report of his death to a national audience was announced by Howard Cosell, on ABC's Monday Night Football.
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Kaiserkeller
Kaiserkeller is a night club in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. It was opened by Bruno Koschmider on October 14, 1959. The Beatles had a contract with Kaiserkeller to play there in 1960.
A Caribbean steel band that had played at Allan Williams Jacaranda club in Liverpool took an offer to play in Hamburg. After receiving letters enthusing about Hamburg's club scene, Williams made contact with Koschmider, offering to act as a booking agent, to which Koschmider agreed. Koschmider had previously booked Derry and the Seniors after seeing them perform in London, and as they were successful in Hamburg, he asked Williams to look for additional groups.Rory Storm and The Hurricanes were Williams' first choice, but as they were committed to a season at Butlins holiday camp, they turned his offer down (as did Gerry & The Pacemakers) so Williams sent The Beatles to Hamburg instead. They were required to play six or seven hours a night, seven nights a week. The Beatles first played at Koschmider's Indra club, sleeping in small, "dirty" rooms in the Bambi Kino, and then moved (after the closure of the Indra) to the larger Kaiserkeller.
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Middlesex
Middlesex (
/ˈmɪdəlsɛks/; abbreviated Middx) is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time. The county was significantly affected by the expansion of the metropolitan area of London in both the 18th and 19th centuries, such that from 1855 the south-east was administered as part of the metropolis. When county councils were initially introduced in England in 1889 about 20% of the area of Middlesex, along with a third of its population, was transferred to the County of London, and the remainder formed a smaller county, in the north-west, under the control of Middlesex County Council.
In the interwar years urban London had further expanded, with increasing suburbanisation, improvement and expansion of public transport, and the setting up of new industries outside the inner London area. After the Second World War, the population of the County of London and inner Middlesex was in steady decline, with new population growth only experienced in the outer suburbs. After a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, almost all of the original area was incorporated into an enlarged Greater London in 1965, with small parts transferred to neighbouring Hertfordshire and Surrey. Despite the disappearance of the county council, Middlesex is still used as an area name and was retained as a postal county; which is now an optional component of postal addresses.
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North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South London. However, it is also often used in comparisons with Central London, East London and West London.
The River Thames divides Greater London into two parts. The northern part includes most of the historic central areas including the City, the East End and the West End; and the majority of the London Underground network.
This area is made up of the City of London and the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, and Westminster. This definition is used by the Boundary Commission for England. The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames includes sections on both sides of the River Thames. The boundary commission class the entire district as part of South London.
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Penny Lane
Coordinates: 53°23′13″N 2°55′10″W / 53.38694°N 2.91944°W / 53.38694; -2.91944
"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney. It was credited to Lennon–McCartney.
Recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, "Penny Lane" was released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with "Strawberry Fields Forever". Both songs were later included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP (1967). The single was the result of the record company wanting a new release after several months of no new Beatles releases.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Penny Lane" at #456 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song's title is derived from the name of a street near Lennon's house, in the band's hometown, Liverpool. McCartney and Lennon would meet at Penny Lane junction in the Mossley Hill area to catch a bus into the centre of the city. The area that surrounds its junction with Smithdown Road is also commonly called Penny Lane. At the time, in the 1960s, this was a significant bus terminus for several routes, and buses with "Penny Lane" displayed were common throughout Liverpool.
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Perivale
Coordinates: 51°32′18″N 0°19′09″W / 51.5383°N 0.3192°W / 51.5383; -0.3192
Perivale is a small suburb in the London Borough of Ealing, 10 miles (16 km) west of Charing Cross, central London. Landmarks in the suburb include the A40, a large road that connects Central London with the M40 motorway, and the large Art Deco Hoover Building, as well as St Mary's Church (C:15th century), the River Brent and Perivale Wood Local Nature Reserve run by the Selborne Society.
Until the 18th century Perivale was called Little Greenford or Greenford Parva, to distinguish it from Great Greenford.
Perivale was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex. It formed part of Greenford Urban District from 1894 to 1926, and was then absorbed by the Municipal Borough of Ealing. Before the 1930s residential building expansion, the fields of Perivale were used to grow hay for the working horses of Victorian London, a scene described in the ending of John Betjeman's poem 'Return to Ealing':
"...And a gentle gale from Perivale/blows up the hayfield scent."
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Savile Row
Savile Row (pronounced /ˌsævɪl ˈroʊ/) is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's bespoke tailoring. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers. The short street is termed the "golden mile of tailoring", where customers have included Winston Churchill, Lord Nelson, Napoleon III and Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Savile Row runs parallel to Regent Street between Conduit Street at the northern end and Vigo Street at the southern. Linking roads include Burlington Place, Clifford Street and Burlington Gardens.
Savile Row was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of the development of the Burlington Estate, and is named after Lady Dorothy Savile, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington. It originally ran from Burlington Gardens (then Vigo Lane) to Boyle Street, with houses only on the east side, but in 1937–8 it extended to Conduit Street, and in the 19th century houses were built on the west side. The original architectural plan is believed to have been drawn up by Colen Campbell, though Henry Flitcroft appears to have been the main architect of the street, under the supervision of Daniel Garrett, while Nos 1 and 22–23 Savile Row were designed by William Kent, who lived next door in No 2.Dr Livingstone was laid out in state in No 1, when it was the headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society, before being buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Scotch of St James
The Scotch of St James club was a popular meeting place for rock musicians during the mid 1960s situated at 13 Masons Yard, Westminster, London SW1.Paul McCartney frequently visited it, as well Rod Stewart, Eric Burdon, Ronnie Wood and bands like The Moody Blues and The Spencer Davis Group.
The club was where a then unknown Jimi Hendrix played his first gig in England on 24 September 1966, when he joined the house band for some blues standards. On 19 October 1966 the Jimi Hendrix Experience played their first UK gig as a private showcase at Scotch of St James.
Coordinates: 51°30′28″N 0°08′14″W / 51.5078°N 0.1371°W / 51.5078; -0.1371
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Strawberry Field
Coordinates: 53°22′49″N 2°53′2″W / 53.38028°N 2.88389°W / 53.38028; -2.88389
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, England.
The earliest reference to 'Strawberry Field' dates from 1870. In 1912 it was transferred to a wealthy merchant whose widow sold the estate to the Salvation Army in 1934. It opened on 7 July 1936. The original house was later demolished and replaced with a smaller purpose-built home for children which opened in the early 1970s. This home provided three family units, each accommodating 12 children. It closed in early January 2005 and is now a church and prayer centre. The famous gates marking its entrance were removed and replaced with replicas in May 2011.
The name of the home became world famous in 1967 with the release of The Beatles single "Strawberry Fields Forever" written by John Lennon. Lennon grew up near the home - one of his childhood treats was the garden party that took place each summer on the grounds of Strawberry Field. Lennon's Aunt Mimi recalled: 'As soon as we could hear the Salvation Army Band starting, John would jump up and down shouting "Mimi, come on. We're going to be late."' He and his childhood friends Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan often played in the wooded area behind the building, which Lennon nicknamed in the plural "Strawberry Fields."
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The Beatles in India
The Beatles visited Rishikesh in India in 1968 to attend an advanced Transcendental Meditation (TM) training session at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Amidst widespread media attention, their stay at the ashram was one of the band's most productive periods. Their adoption of the Maharishi as their guru is credited by some as changing attitudes in the West about Indian spirituality, and encouraging the study of Transcendental Meditation. The Beatles first met the Maharishi in London in August 1967 and then attended a seminar in Bangor, Wales. Although planned to be a 10-day session, their stay was cut short by the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Wanting to learn more, they kept in contact with the Maharishi and planned to attend his ashram in October, but their trip was rescheduled due to other commitments.
The Maharishi's compound was across from Rishikesh, located in the holy "Valley of the Saints" in the foothills of the Himalayas, and the home to many ashrams. The Beatles arrived there in February 1968, along with wives, girlfriends, assistants and numerous reporters, joining about 60 other TM students, including musicians Donovan, Mike Love of The Beach Boys, and flautist Paul Horn. While there, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison wrote many songs (Ringo Starr wrote one), of which eighteen were later recorded for The Beatles (White Album), two for Abbey Road, and others for solo works.
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The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is a rock and roll club in Liverpool, England. Opened on Wednesday 16 January 1957, the club had their first performance by The Beatles on 9 February 1961, and where Brian Epstein first saw The Beatles performing on 9 November 1961.
Alan Sytner opened the club having been inspired by the Jazz district in Paris, where there were a number of clubs in cellars. Sytner returned to Liverpool and wanted to open a club similar to Le Caveau in Paris. He eventually found a perfect cellar for his club — which had been used as an air raid shelter during the war — and opened it on 16 January 1957. The first act to open the club was the Merseysippi Jazz Band.
What started as a jazz club eventually became a hangout for skiffle groups. Whilst playing golf with Sytner's father, Dr. Joseph Sytner, Nigel Walley — who had left school at 15 to become an apprentice golf professional at the Lee Park Golf Club — asked Dr. Sytner if his son could book The Quarrymen at The Cavern, which was one of three jazz clubs he managed. Dr. Sytner suggested that the band should play at the golf club first, so as to assess their talent, which they did. Sytner phoned Walley a week later and offered the band an interlude spot playing skiffle between the performances of two jazz bands at The Cavern, on Wednesday, 7 August 1957.
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The Wick
The Wick is a house in Richmond, Greater London, located at the corner of Nightingale Lane and Richmond Hill in Surrey. The house was at one time owned by actor Sir John Mills who used it as his family home for many years. Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones bought the house from Mills. The house is currently owned by principal songwriter and musician Pete Townshend of The Who.
The Georgian-style house overlooks the Thames River and is near Richmond Park, the largest urban park in the United Kingdom. The house is built of plum brick and stone. It was designed by architect Robert Mylne in 1775 on the site of the Bull's Head Tavern for Lady St. Aubyn, and includes oval dining and drawing rooms, three storeys and a basement with modillion cornice and balustrading above. The porch is built with entablature and Tower of the Winds piers with a fanlight above, and a line of medallions embellishes the front of the house. It faces Richmond Hill and features a garden wall that borders Nightingale Lane, with a coach house in the garden. The back of the house features bow windows that overlook the river.
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Wigmore Street
Wigmore Street is a street in the City of Westminster, in the West End of London, England. The street runs for about 600 yards parallel and to the north of Oxford Street between Portman Square to the west and Cavendish Square to the east.
The well-known Wigmore Hall concert hall is located on north side of Wigmore Street, just to the east of the junction with Welbeck Street. Harley Street and Wimpole Street, famous for their private medical practices, are nearby and have junctions with Wigmore Street. Number 95 Wigmore Street was the location of the original offices of the Beatles' Apple Corps in 1968 prior to their move to Savile Row.
The nearest tube stations are on Oxford Street to the south: Marble Arch at the west end; Bond Street in the centre and Oxford Circus at the east end.
The corner of Wimpole and Wigmore Street features in the famous legal case about causing a "nuisance" between neighbours - Sturges v. Bridgman (1879).
Coordinates: 51°30′57″N 0°09′04″W / 51.51583°N 0.15111°W / 51.51583; -0.15111
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Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.
During the sometimes rainy weekend, thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone called it one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.
The event was captured in the 1970 documentary movie Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld. It was Roberts and Rosenman who had the finances. Lang had experience as a promoter and had already organized the largest festival on the East Coast at the time, the Miami Pop Festival, which had an estimated 100,000 people attend the two day event. Roberts and Rosenman placed the following advertisement in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal under the name of Challenge International, Ltd.: "Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions".
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Alfred Lennon
Alfred "Alf" Lennon (14 December 1912 – 1 April 1976) was the father of English musician John Lennon. He spent many years in an orphanage—with his sister, Edith—after his father died. He was known as being very witty and musical throughout his life—he sang and played the banjo—but not as being very dependable. Although always known as Alf by his family, he later released a record as Freddie Lennon, and was quoted in newspapers under that name.
He married Julia Stanley in 1938. John was their only child together, but as Alf was often away at sea during World War II, he did not see much of his child during his infancy. During this period, Julia became pregnant with another man's child. He offered to look after his wife, their child and the expected baby, but Julia rejected the idea. He had very little contact with his son until Beatlemania, when they met again, but later had only intermittent contact with each other. He died in Brighton, where he had gone to live after marrying 19-year-old Pauline Jones.
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Alistair Taylor
James Alistair Taylor (21 June 1935 in Runcorn – 9 June 2004 in Chesterfield) was the English personal assistant of Brian Epstein who accompanied him to the Cavern Club when he first saw The Beatles play on 9 November 1961. Taylor later became General Manager of Apple Corps for a short period.
Born in Runcorn, Taylor did his National Service in the Royal Air Force and worked in a series of jobs as a mover, timber importer and docker in the Liverpool Docks, before being successfully interviewed by Brian Epstein for a salesman job at North End Music Stores (NEMS). Brian liked him so much that he decided to offer him a job as his personal assistant in the shop.
Taylor said he invented the name of Raymond Jones to order Tony Sheridan’s album, which featured backing music by the Beatles, because he thought NEMS was losing sales by not stocking the disc:
Taylor's claim is in some doubt, as NEMS and Epstein communicated with a real Raymond Jones to acknowledge their debt once the Beatles became famous.
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Allan Williams
Allan Richard Williams (born 17 March 1930 in Bootle, Liverpool) is a former businessman and promoter of Welsh descent. He was the original booking agent and first manager of The Beatles. He personally took the young band to Hamburg, Germany, where they gained the vital show business experience that led to their emergence on the world stage.
In 1957 Williams leased a former watch-repair shop at 21 Slater Street, Liverpool, which he converted into a coffee bar. He named the venue the Jacaranda, after an exotic species of ornamental flowering tree, jacaranda mimosifolia. The Jac (as it became known) opened in September 1958. The Beatles were frequent customers, with John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe attending Liverpool Art College nearby, and Paul McCartney at Liverpool Institute adjacent to the college. Asking for the chance to play the club, Williams instead put them to work redecorating, with Lennon and Sutcliffe painting a mural for the Ladies room. Finally, the Beatles began playing at the Jac on occasion. Between May and August 1960, Williams secured a number of bookings for the group at other places. (Scott Wheeler: Charlie Lennon: Uncle To A Beatle. Boulder, Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2005.) One was backing a local stripper; when she discovered the Beatles were not familiar with the "Gypsy Fire Dance", they instead backed her with a rendition of the Harry Lime theme tune.
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Allen Klein
Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 – July 4, 2009) was an American businessman, talent agent and record label executive. His clients included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Allen Klein was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish immigrants from Budapest, Hungary. His father was a butcher by trade, and his mother died before his first birthday. As a teenager, he worked in several jobs while attending evening classes. He excelled at mental arithmetic, and graduated from Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey, in 1956.
He undertook bookkeeping for several people in showbusiness, and audited record companies. In 1957 he began his own business, a partnership with his wife Betty. Record industry insiders began to fear his blunt-speaking tenacity, and well-placed people began to recommend him. Klein regarded himself as a shrewd and tenacious businessman, exampled by him having a modified Bible quote on his desk, reading: "Though I walk in the shadow of the valley of evil, I have no fear, as I am the biggest bastard in the valley."
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Amory Kane
Amory Kane (born March 28, 1946) is a British-based American musician, most renowned for his work in late 1960s "swinging London", perhaps for his single "Reflections of Your Face", which was covered by artists such as P.J. Proby. He is also notable in that members of Led Zeppelin played in his band. Kane worked as a session musician in London, playing on recordings credited to bands such as The Magic Lanterns. He released two solo albums: Memories of Time Unwound, released in 1968 on MCA and Just to Be There, released in 1970 by CBS, which featured Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention on bass guitar.
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Andrew Loog Oldham
Andrew Loog Oldham (born 29 January 1944 in Paddington, London) is an English producer, talent manager, impresario and author. He was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963, and was noted for his flamboyant style.
Oldham's father Andrew Loog was a United States Army Air Force lieutenant of Dutch descent who served with the Eighth Air Force. Loog was killed in June 1943 when his B-17 bomber was shot down over the English Channel: he was buried in Belgium. Oldham's Australian mother, with maiden name Oldham, was a nurse and comptometer operator.
Oldham attended the Aylesbury School for Boys, Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire, St Marylebone Grammar School and Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire. A self-proclaimed hustler who spent teenage summers swindling tourists in French towns, Oldham's interest in the pop culture of the 1960s and the Soho coffeehouse scene led to working for Carnaby Street mod designer John Stephen and later as an assistant to then emerging fashion designer Mary Quant.
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Andy McCoy
Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962 in Pelkosenniemi, Finland), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop.
Artistically McCoy's works cover a wide range of music forms, including rock 'n' roll, punk rock, flamenco, glam punk, glam rock, blues rock and hard rock.
Antti Hulkko was born in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland to Finnish parents. At the age of 9 his family moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he grew fluent in Swedish and learned basic English language (his neighbour was half-Jamaican). At the age of 14 his family returned to Finland - this time to Helsinki. Hulkko has said that this was something of a cultural shock to him as he had started to forget the Finnish language. In Helsinki his family lived in the suburb of Vuosaari, where Antti went to Botby Högstadieskolan school.
Before Hanoi Rocks, McCoy had become well known in his home country, Finland, due to his work in the punk rock band Pelle Miljoona Oy. During this time McCoy was talking with Matti Fagerholm (better known as Michael Monroe) to start a band of their own, but because McCoy was currently in Pelle Miljoona Oy, he told Monroe to start the band without him in 1979. After McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy, he joined Monroe in Hanoi Rocks, with another former-Pelle Miljoona Oy member, Sam Yaffa. At this point, the Hanoi Rocks line-up consisted of Michael Monroe (lead vocals), Andy McCoy (lead guitar), Nasty Suicide (rhythm guitar), Sam Yaffa (bass) and Swedish Gyp Casino (drums).
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Apple scruffs
The Apple scruffs were a loosely-knit group of hardcore Beatles fans who were known for congregating outside the Apple Corps building and at the gates of Abbey Road Studios in London during the waning days of Beatlemania, in the hope of seeing or interacting with one of the band members. The phrase was also used by George Harrison as the title of a song in 1970.
In February 1968, during the recording of "Across the Universe", two Apple scruffs (Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease) who were standing outside Abbey Road Studios were invited in on the spur of the moment by Paul McCartney to perform backing vocals on the track. Their singing was not included on the first official release of the song, on the Let It Be album, but they can be heard on the version that John Lennon donated to the UK charity album No One's Gonna Change Our World, released in December 1969. (This version was subsequently released on the Past Masters compilation in 1988.)
The Beatles' song "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (Abbey Road, 1969) refers to the day that some of the Apple scruffs climbed into Paul McCartney's house through an upstairs bathroom window and raided his wardrobe for a pair of trousers, which they took turns wearing. They also stole a framed photograph, which they later returned at McCartney's request.
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Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter, a poet, and a Golden Globe winning actor. He was also half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, which split in 1970, at the height of their popularity.
Highlights of his solo music career include a top 10 hit, three top 20 hits, six top 40 hits, 14 Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones and a People's Choice Award. Through his solo and collaborative work, Garfunkel has earned six Grammys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1990, he and former musical partner Paul Simon were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Art Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, the son of housewife Rose and traveling salesman Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel on November 5, 1941. Art has two siblings; the older one named Jules and the younger one named Jerome, who was an actor in his earlier years in Dayton, Ohio, before becoming a travelling menswear salesman. He is Jewish. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Iași in Romania. His cousin on his mother's side is founder of 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, Lou Pearlman. Garfunkel attended the Forest Hills High School. According to the Across America DVD, Garfunkel's love for singing "came in the first grade. When we were lined up in size order, and after everyone else had left, I'd stay behind and enjoy the echo sound of the stairwell tiles and sing 'Unchained Melody' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone', learning to love this goose-bumps song from the tender age of five." Later, Garfunkel's father bought him a wire recorder and from then on, Garfunkel spent his afternoons singing, recording and playing it back, so he could listen for flaws and learn how to improve.
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Astrid Kirchherr
Astrid Kirchherr (born 20 May 1938), is a German photographer and artist and is well known for her association with The Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer), and her photographs of The Beatles during their Hamburg days: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best.
Kirchherr met artist Sutcliffe in the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg in 1960, where he was playing bass with The Beatles, and was later engaged to him, before his death in 1962. Although Kirchherr has taken very few photographs since 1967, her early work has been exhibited in Hamburg, Bremen, London, Liverpool, New York City, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Vienna, and at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. She has published three limited-edition books of photographs.
Astrid Kirchherr was born in 1938 in Hamburg, Germany, and is the daughter of a former executive of the German branch of the Ford Motor Company. During World War II she was evacuated to the safety of the Baltic Sea where she remembered seeing dead bodies on the shore (after the ships Cap Arcona and the SS Deutschland had been bombed and sunk), and the destruction in Hamburg when she returned.
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Aynsley Dunbar
Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer. He has worked with some of the top names in rock, including Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Whitesnake, Sammy Hagar, Michael Schenker, UFO, and Journey. Dunbar is ranked by Rolling Stone as the twenty-seventh greatest drummer of all time.
Dunbar was born in Liverpool, England. He auditioned for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix had difficulty deciding between Dunbar and Mitch Mitchell - the latter won Hendrix's coin flip.
In December 1964, Stu James and Nick Crouch formed Stu James & the Mojos, with Aynsley Dunbar, Lewis Collins (later an actor in the Professionals), this line-up continued till 1966
Dunbar led the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation which issued a number of albums. Dunbar co-wrote "Warning," recorded by Black Sabbath on their first album. The Dunbar version was recorded in 1967 for his solo release The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.
Subsequently, Dunbar founded a short-lived progressive rock band called Blue Whale, which debuted with a tour of Scandinavia in January 1970. Following the recent collapse of the original lineup of King Crimson, Dunbar unsuccessfully tried to recruit Robert Fripp as Blue Whale's guitarist. Fripp, in turn, unsuccessfully tried to recruit Dunbar as King Crimson's new drummer. Blue Whale recorded one album, which featured Paul Williams (vocals), Ivan Zagni (guitar), Roger Sutton (guitar) Tommy Eyre (from Retaliation, keys) and Peter Friedberg (bass).
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Badfinger
Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969, following the departure of Griffiths. Signed by The Beatles' Apple label in 1968 as The Iveys, they adopted the name Badfinger in 1969. The band drew comparisons to The Beatles initially, due to the similarities of their music, and the mentorship of some members of The Beatles. Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hits in 1970 and 1971: "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney), "No Matter What", "Day After Day", and "Baby Blue". The Ham/Evans-penned Badfinger song, "Without You", became a Billboard number one hit for Harry Nilsson.
In 1970, the band engaged American businessman Stan Polley to manage their commercial affairs. Over the next five years while the band recorded several albums for Apple, they toured extensively, but became embroiled in the chaos of Apple Records' dissolution. They signed to Warner Bros., but Polley's financial machinations resulted in a lawsuit by Warner Bros. over missing escrow account money. Warner's consequent withdrawal from market of the 1974 album, Wish You Were Here (seven weeks after its release), cut off the band's income and plunged them into disarray and despair. Three days before his 28th birthday, on 24 April 1975, Ham committed suicide by hanging himself, leaving a note that included damning comments about Polley.
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Bernard Fowler
Bernard Fowler is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor. He has provided backing vocals with The Rolling Stones for over 20 years on recordings and tours, and has been a featured guest vocalist on the majority of solo albums released by the members of that band. He has also been a regular featured singer on other musicians' recordings and tours. He has appeared on over 30 albums.
Fowler has toured and recorded with the bands Tackhead and Bad Dog and occasionally with Nicklebag and Little Axe. He released his first solo album in 2006, and has produced some of the albums upon which he performed.
Fowler's first recordings were for the group Total Eclipse in 1974. In the early 1980s he was a member of The New York City Peech Boys with DJ Larry Levan and keyboard player Michael De Benedictus. The group had dance hits with tracks like "Don't Make Me Wait" and "Life Is Something Special". He provided vocals for the songs "I'm The One" and "Come Down" from the Material album One Down, where he was credited as a songwriter on several tracks. Fowler guested on Herbie Hancock's classic electro-funk albums Future Shock (1983) and Sound-System (1984), as well as the 1985 albums Compact Disc by Public Image Ltd, Language Barrier by Sly & Robbie, and She's the Boss, a Mick Jagger solo effort. In 1986, he sang a song written by Paul Simon which appeared on Philip Glass's Songs from Liquid Days. In 1987 he sang backup for James Blood Ulmer on America:Do You Remember the Love?, and the next year he appeared on Bootsy Collins's What's Bootsy Doin'?. In 1988 Fowler found himself touring with Steven Seagal.
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Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as Strangers in the Night and Spanish Eyes.
He was born in Hamburg, Germany - where he received his lifelong nickname, Fips - and studied at the School of Music there. A multi-instrumentalist, he was hired by Hans Busch to play with his orchestra before serving as a bandsman in the German Navy during World War II. He later formed his own big band, toured with them, then worked as an arranger and producer, making hit records with Freddy Quinn and Ivo Robić. In 1961, he hired The Beatles to back Tony Sheridan for an album called My Bonnie. The album and its singles, released by Polydor, were the Beatles' first commercially released recordings.
Kaempfert's own first hit with his orchestra had been in 1960, with Wonderland by Night. Many of his tunes became better known as hits for other artists:
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Bill Harry
Bill Harry (born in Liverpool, England) is the creator of Mersey Beat, an important newspaper of the early 1960s, which focused on the Liverpool music scene. Harry had started various magazines and newspapers before attending the Liverpool College of Art, with fellow students John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, who both later performed with The Beatles.
Harry met his wife-to-be, Virginia, at the Jacaranda club (managed by Allan Williams, the first manager of The Beatles) and she later agreed to help him start a music newspaper. After borrowing £50, Harry released the first issue of Mersey Beat on 6 July 1961, with the first 5,000 copies selling out within a short time. Harry arranged for the future Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, to see them perform a lunchtime concert at The Cavern Club on 9 November 1961. Epstein subsequently asked Harry create a national music paper, the Music Echo, but after problems with Epstein about editorial control, he decided to become a P.R.; working for many solo artistes and groups.
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Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman (born William George Perks; 24 October 1936) is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing both records and film, and has scored music for film in movies and television.
Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child after World War II. It has been useful to him as an author who has written seven books, selling two million copies. Wyman's love of art has additionally led to his proficiency in photography and his photographs have hung in galleries around the world. Wyman's lack of funds in his early years led him to create and build his own fretless bass guitar. He became an amateur archaeologist and enjoys relic hunting; The Times published a letter about his hobby (Friday 2 March 2007). He designed and markets a patented Bill Wyman signature metal detector, which he has used to find relics in the English countryside dating back to the era of the Roman Empire. As a businessman, he owns several establishments including the famous Sticky Fingers Café, a rock & roll-themed bistro serving American cuisine first opened in 1989 in the Kensington area of London and later, two additional locations in Cambridge and Manchester, England.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. Preston became famous, first as a session musician with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and was later successful as a solo artist with such hit pop singles as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing", and a string of albums.
Alongside Tony Sheridan, Billy Preston was the only other musician to be credited on a Beatles recording after he was credited on the group's number-one hit, "Get Back", with the record title listed as The Beatles with Billy Preston. Steven Stills asked Preston if he could use Preston's phrase "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" in a song and created the legendary eponymous hit.
William Everett Preston was born on September 2, 1946 in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, the family moved to Los Angeles where Preston began playing piano while sitting on his mother Robbie's lap. Noted as a child prodigy, by the age of ten, Preston was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Andrae Crouch. At twelve, he appeared in the W.C. Handy biopic starring Nat King Cole entitled, St. Louis Blues, playing W.C. Handy at a younger age. A year prior, Preston appeared on Cole's national TV show singing the Fats Domino hit, "Blueberry Hill".
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Blondie Chaplin
Terence William 'Blondie' Chaplin is a musician from Durban, South Africa who first became known to international audiences through his brief stint in the early 1970s as a singer and guitarist for The Beach Boys. Chaplin was also listed as a co-producer, sang lead vocals with fellow South African musician Ricky Fataar (drummer) and composed, with Fataar, "Here She Comes" and "Hold On Dear Brother" on the twenty-third official Beach Boys album, Carl and the Passions - "So Tough", released in 1972. He is well known in recent years as a long term backing vocalist, percussionist and acoustic rhythm guitarist for the Rolling Stones on their tours.
Blondie Chaplin, along with drummer Ricky Fataar, joined the Beach Boys when original drummer Dennis Wilson suffered a hand injury which left him unable to play the drums for almost two years. For the Beach Boys, it was a period in which long-time member Bruce Johnston had departed the band, and one-time leader Brian Wilson's participation in the group was very limited. As a result, Chaplin and Fataar joined the Beach Boys as full-fledged members and not merely as backing musicians. Chaplin left the group in 1973 after a dispute with the Beach Boys' management; Fataar remained with the band until the following year (and has performed with Bonnie Raitt's band since the 1980s).
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bobby Keys
Robert Henry 'Bobby' Keys (born December 18, 1943, Slaton, Lubbock County, Texas, United States) is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones,The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Keys has been a touring musician since 1956.
Keys started touring at age fifteen with Bobby Vee and fellow Texan Buddy Holly. Keys is best known as being the main saxophone player for The Rolling Stones, playing on every album from 1969 until 1974, and from 1980 to present, and performing on all Stones tours since 1970. Keys has played on hundreds of recordings, including many uncredited performances such as on Dion's "The Wanderer."
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Bobby Tench
Robert Tench (born 21 September 1944), also known as Bob Tench, Bobby Tench and Bobby Gass is a British vocalist and guitarist. Originally a bass player he began singing with Gass influenced by artists such as Sam Cooke and Ray Charles. He is best known for working with Freddie KingJeff Beck and Van Morrison, also as a member of Gass, Hummingbird, Humble Pie and Streetwalkers.
At the start of his career he performed and recorded with his own band Gass and later also appeared with Gonzalez, before joining The Jeff Beck Group. He recorded with Ginger Baker before touring with Beck, Bogert & Appice as vocalist and recording sessions with Linda Lewis. Associations with Junior Marvin and the blues, rock guitarist Freddie King followed.
He signed to A&M Records and formed Hummingbird, later joining Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney in Streetwalkers as a parallel project. During this period he had brief associations with Boxer and Widowmaker, recording an album with each before working with Van Morrison. When his commitments with Morrison came to an end he moved on to work with Eric Burdon, also Axis Point, before Steve Marriott included him in a new lineup of Humble Pie.
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Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein ( /ˈɛpstaɪn/; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967), was an English music entrepreneur; best known for being the manager of The Beatles, until his death. He also managed many other musical artists, such as Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, Cilla Black, The Remo Four, and The Cyrkle. His management company was named NEMS Enterprises after his family's music stores, also called NEMS (North End Music Stores).
Epstein paid for The Beatles to record a demonstration tape in Decca's London studios, which resulted in Decca declining to sign the group to a contract. After approaching nearly all all the major recording companies and recording producers in London and being rejected, Epstein managed to secure an EMI recording contract under threat of withdrawing the sale of EMI's records at his NEMS music stores. NEMS was one of the biggest musical retail outlets in the North of England. Record producer George Martin offered a contract on behalf of EMI's small Parlophone label, only when informed of the economic threat to EMI by Epstein.
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Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969), was an English musician and a founder member of the Rolling Stones.
Jones' main instruments were the guitar and the harmonica, but he played a wide variety of other musical instruments and was a talented multi-instrumentalist. His innovative use of traditional or folk instruments, such as the sitar and marimba, was integral to the changing sound of the band.
Originally the leader of the group, Jones' fellow bandmembers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards soon overshadowed him; especially after they became a successful songwriting team. He developed a serious drug abuse problem over the years and his role in the band steadily diminished. He was asked to leave the Rolling Stones in June 1969 and guitarist Mick Taylor took his place in the group. Jones died less than a month later by drowning in the swimming pool at his home on Cotchford Farm in East Sussex.
Original Stones bassist Bill Wyman stated about Jones: "...he formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs ... Very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it - highly intelligent - and just kind of wasted it and blew it all away."
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Bruce Spizer
David "Bruce" Spizer (born July 2, 1955) is a tax attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, who is also recognized as an expert on The Beatles. He has published eight books, and is frequently quoted as an authority on the history of the band and its recordings.
Spizer was born and raised in New Orleans. He attended Isidore Newman School and then received B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from Tulane University, where he was a member of honorary societies Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. While pursuing his legal career, he also managed The Cold, a popular New Wave band in New Orleans.
In 1997, Spizer earned a large legal fee from the settlement of a class action lawsuit, and decided to use some of the money to replace his childhood collection of Beatles LPs (which had been damaged by cockroaches) with a new set of first edition albums. Drawn into the world of Beatles collectors, he ended up writing and self-publishing The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay, about the relationship between EMI, the Beatles' U.K. record label, and Vee-Jay Records, the U.S. label that released the band's first records in the U.S. As of 2011, Spizer has written and published eight books about The Beatles. A New York Times reviewer described his books as containing "a wealth of detail about the Beatles' American recordings and their first visit to the United States, touching on everything from contracts and lawsuits to promotional materials, all richly illustrated." A New York Daily News article called his The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records "a Beatle collector's fantasy by a fanatic Beatles collector and historian."
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Bruno Koschmider
Bruno Koschmider (born 1926, Danzig (Gdańsk) - died 2000, Hamburg, Germany) was a German entrepreneur in Hamburg, Germany best known for employing The Beatles in the early 1960s. He controlled various businesses, such as the Bambi Kino, which was a porn cinema, The Indra club and The Kaiserkeller.
Allan Williams booked The Beatles (in May 1960) into Koschmider's Indra club.
The Beatles first played at the Indra club - sleeping in small, dirty rooms in the Bambi Kino - and then moved (after the closure of the Indra) to the larger Kaiserkeller In October 1960, they left Koschmider's club and worked at the "Top Ten Club", which was run by Peter Eckhorn. When Paul McCartney and Pete Best went back to the Bambi Kino to get their belongings they found it in almost total darkness. As a snub to Koschmider, they found a condom, attached it to a nail on the concrete wall of their room, and set fire to it. There was no real damage, but Koschmider reported them for attempted arson. McCartney and Best spent three hours in a local jail and were deported, as was George Harrison, for working under the legal age limit.
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Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed 13 Top 40 hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".
The former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor, she has two children, Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor and Ben Taylor, who are also musicians.
She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.
Carly Simon was born in New York City, New York. Her father, of Jewish descent, was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster), a pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann), a civil rights activist and singer, of black and German descent. In a 2004 interview with fashion designer Michael Kors for the July issue of Interview Magazine, she revealed her full ancestry as Jewish, African, Cuban, and French.
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Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice (born December 15, 1946) is an American rock drummer of Italian background and is the older brother of drummer Vinny Appice by 12 years. He received a classical music training and was influenced by the jazz drumming of Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa early on. Appice is best known for his associations with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Appice is known for his showmanship, stick tosses and twirls. He is considered one of the most accomplished showmen in rock and was the first rock drummer to organise drum clinics held at college campuses, theatres, and drum stores. He is credited with influencing drummers including: Nicko McBrain, Fast Joey Brighton, Joey Kramer, Roger Meddows-Taylor, Phil Collins, Neil Peart, Tommy Lee, Dave Lombardo, Richard Christy, David Kinkade, Ray Mehlbaum, Robb Reiner, and Eric Singer.
His best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method was first published in 1972, and has since been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method. It covers the basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms, linear rudiments and groupings, shuffle rhythms, hi-hat, and double bass drum exercises.
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Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.
His early 1970s record albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified triple platinum in the United States by the RIAA. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit single for four different artists.
Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2003 World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes professionally by the single name Yusuf. His most recent album, Roadsinger, was released on 5 May 2009.
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Charlie Watts
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts was born to Charles Watts, a lorry driver for a precursor of British Rail and his wife Lilian (née Eaves) at University College Hospital, London, and raised (along with his sister Linda) in Islington and then Kingsbury. He attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956; as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football.
Watts' parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955; he was interested in jazz, and would practice drumming along with jazz records he collected. After completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School (now the University of Westminster), which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a graphic designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios, and also played drums occasionally with local bands in coffee shops and clubs. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, Blues Incorporated. At that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korner's offer when he returned to London in February 1962.
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Chas Newby
Charles 'Chas' Newby (born 18 June 1941, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England), was temporarily the bassist for The Beatles in December 1960, following the departure of Stuart Sutcliffe. When The Beatles returned from Germany for the first time, they were short of a bass guitarist. Pete Best suggested Chas Newby. Chas had been with The Blackjacks (Pete Best's group), and was now attending university, but was on vacation and so agreed to play with The Beatles. He appeared with them for four engagements in December 1960 (December 17th, Casbah Club, Liverpool; December 24th, Grosvenor Ballroom, Liscard; December 27th, Litherland Town Hall; December 31st, Casbah Club). John Lennon asked him to go to Germany, for the Beatles' second trip, but he chose to return to university.
Chas later became a teacher of Mathematics at Droitwich Spa High School in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England.
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Chet Powers
Chester (Chet) William Powers, Jr. (October 7, 1937 – November 16, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, and a member of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. He was also known by the stage name "Dino Valenti" and, as a songwriter, as Jesse Oris Farrow. He wrote the famous 1960s song "Get Together".
Before serving in the US Air Force and playing in the coffeehouses of Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Powers had already performed as "Dino Valenti" with small rock bands in New England lounges.
In the early 1960s he performed in East Village coffee-houses such as the Cock 'n' Bull and the Cafe Wha?, often with fellow singer-songwriter Fred Neil, and occasionally with Karen Dalton, Bob Dylan, Lou Gossett, Josh White, Len Chandler, Paul Stookey and others. He influenced other performers including Richie Havens, who continues to perform some of Powers' early "train songs". Powers was prevented from acquiring a cabaret license due to an earlier arrest, a requirement that was beginning to be imposed on Village entertainers at the time.
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Chris Kimsey
Christopher Kenneth Kimsey is a record producer, mixer and musician most famous for having co-produced The Rolling Stones' Undercover and Steel Wheels albums. He was also an engineer on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers as well as 1978's Some Girls and 1980's Emotional Rescue and assisted Mick Jagger and Keith Richards closely in preparing 1981's Tattoo You.
He has also worked with Peter Frampton, Marillion, The Cult, Peter Tosh, The Psychedelic Furs, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Johnny Hallyday, Louis Bertignac, Diesel Park West, JoBoxers, Killing Joke, New Model Army, Ash, The Chieftains, Soul Asylum, Duran Duran, Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, INXS, Anti Nowhere League and Moral Code X.
He was the recording engineer for Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976.
Kimsey plays the voice of the doctor on Marillion's 1987 album Clutching at Straws.
Chris Kimsey is credited for mixing the performances of Elton John, Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard & The Shadows on the Knebworth double album in 1990.
Chris is the credited producer, mixer and engineer on the new album by British post punk band New Model Army. The album "High" was released in June 2007.
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Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell (born Charles Alfred Leavell, April 28, 1952) is an American pianist and keyboardist, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band throughout the height of their popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and later, the keyboardist for Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Leavell is a mostly self-taught musician. Inspired by seeing Ray Charles in concert (with Billy Preston in the backup band) to pursue a career in the industry, he dropped out of high school. Leavell made contacts with Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records, where he met his future wife, and relocated to Georgia.
Leavell joined the Allman Brothers in September 1972, when they decided not to recreate their dual lead guitar sound after the death of Duane Allman, who had died the previous October, but rather to use a different instrument as the second lead. Leavell's work was most prominent on the band's popular 1973 album Brothers and Sisters, and in particular on the heavily-played instrumental "Jessica". However, only one studio album, 1975's Win, Lose or Draw followed, again with Leavell's ebullient piano and keyboard work featured, but with the band in chaos, and on the brink of destruction.
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Clive Chaman
Clive Chaman was born in Trinidad and is a UK-based bass guitarist and session musician.
After appearing on Ram John Holder's 1969 London Blues album, Chaman became a member of the second Jeff Beck Group in 1971 until they disbanded in 1973 when he joined Cozy Powell's band Hammer. In 1973 he played on Now Hear This an album by Junior Marvin's band Hanson appearing alongside Bobby Tench from the second Jeff Beck Group and during this period became a member of Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. In 1974 he joined Hummingbird with keyboard player Max Middleton, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench and US drummer Bernard Purdie, amongst others. Hummingbird went on to record three albums for A&M Records. Chaman appears on recordings by UK artists including Donovan, Chris Rainbow, Murray Head, Morrissey-Mullen and Paul Kossoff.
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Cozy Powell
Colin Flooks (29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998), better known as Cozy Powell, was an English rock drummer who made his name with many major rock bands.
Cozy Powell was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, and started playing drums at age 12 in the school orchestra, thereafter playing along in his spare time to popular singles of the day. The first band he was in, called the Corals, played each week at the youth club in Cirencester. At age 15 he had already worked out an impressive drum solo. The stage name 'Cozy' was borrowed from the jazz drummer Cozy Cole.
The semi-professional circuit was next, with semi-pro outfit The Sorcerers, a vocal harmony pop band. The late nights and usual on-the-road exploits began to affect his education, and Powell left to take an office job in order to finance the purchase of his first set of Premier drums. The Sorcerers performed in the German club scene of the 1960s. By 1968 the band had returned to England, basing themselves around Birmingham. Powell struck up friendships with fellow musicians like Robert Plant and John Bonham (both at the time unknowns in Listen), future Slade vocalist Noddy Holder, bassist Dave Pegg and a young guitarist called Tony Iommi. The Sorcerers now became Youngblood, and a series of singles were released in late 1968–69. The group then linked up with the Move bassist/singer Ace Kefford to form The Ace Kefford Stand. Powell also began session work. Powell with fellow Sorcerers Dave and Dennis Ball formed Big Bertha.
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Cynthia Lennon
Cynthia Lillian Lennon (née Powell, born 10 September 1939) is the former wife of musician John Lennon, and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of twelve, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the Liverpool College of Art. Lennon also attended the college; a meeting with Powell in a calligraphy class led to their relationship.
When Lennon was performing in Hamburg with The Beatles, she rented Lennon's bedroom from his aunt and legal guardian, Mimi Smith. After she became pregnant, the Lennons were married on 23 August 1962, at the Mount Pleasant Register office in Liverpool. Starting in 1964, the Lennon family lived at Kenwood in Weybridge, where she kept house and participated with her husband in a London-based social life. In 1968, Lennon left her for Yoko Ono; the couple's divorce was legally granted on 8 November 1968.
She married Italian hotelier Roberto Bassanini in 1970, divorcing him in 1973. In 1976, she married John Twist, an engineer from Lancashire, but divorced him in 1983. After her divorce from Twist, she changed her name back to Lennon by deed poll and met Jim Christie, her partner for 17 years. She published a book of memoirs, A Twist of Lennon, in 1978, and later married Noel Charles, a night club owner, in 2002. In September 2005, she published a more intimate biography, John. Over the years she staged several auctions of memorabilia associated with her life with Lennon. In 2006, she and her son attended the Las Vegas premiere of the Cirque du Soleil production of Love, which was her first public appearance with Ono. She currently lives in Majorca, Spain.
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Cyril Davies
Cyril Davies (23 January 1932 – 7 January 1964) was one of the first British blues harmonica players and blues musician.
Born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, near London, he was the son of William Albert Davies, a labourer, and his wife Margaret Mary (née Jones). He had an elder brother named Glyn, and the family is believed to have come from Wales.
Cyril Davies began his career in the early 1950s first within Steve Lane's Southern Stompers, then in 1955 formed an acoustic skiffle and blues group with Alexis Korner. He began as a banjo and 12-string guitar player before becoming a Chicago-style blues harmonica player after hearing Little Walter. Working by day as a panel beater, he ran an unsuccessful skiffle club before meeting Korner, then Davies and Korner opened a London Rhythm and Blues club 'England's Firstest and Bestest Skiffle Club', later known as the 'London Blues and Barrelhouse Club'. Popular with other musicians, the club hosted gigs by blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Memphis Slim.
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Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones (born December 11, 1961), also known as "The Munch", is an American bass guitarist. Jones began his notable career as a session musician, where he gained the experience and confidence to play with some of the most highly regarded recording artists, in jazz, blues, and rock music. Most recently, he has been best known in his role as primary bassist for The Rolling Stones since Bill Wyman's departure in 1993.
Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a youth, his father, a drummer, supported his musical interests and initially taught his son to play the guitar. A neighbor who was a bassist convinced Darryl to switch to playing the bass instead. Jones attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. One musician that Jones first played with in his studio sessions was the nephew of noted jazz musician Miles Davis, Vince Wilburn Jr. He told Jones that Davis was looking for a new bass player, and vouched for him. Jones called Davis, who gave him his first touring gig, and for some years he was mentored by Davis, having joined his band in 1983. As a young protege, Jones played bass guitar on the Miles Davis albums Decoy (1984) and You're Under Arrest (1985). Jones has worked with jazz recording artists who include Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, Mike Stern, John Scofield, and Steps Ahead, as well as touring pop and rock artists Cher, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, Eric Clapton and Joan Armatrading.
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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 Freiberg
David Freiberg (born August 24, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He was vocalist and/or bass guitar player with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
Freiberg began his career as a coffee house folk musician. For a while he shared a house in Venice, California, with other future folk-rockers David Crosby and Paul Kantner.Janis Joplin was also one of his roommates.[citation needed] In the mid-1960s, Freiberg founded Quicksilver Messenger Service with John Cipollina.
In 1972 Freiberg joined Jefferson Airplane for the tour that promoted their final studio LP, Long John Silver and appeared on their final live album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. The remnants of the band eventually evolved into Jefferson Starship, and Freiberg remained with this group until 1984 when he quit the group following the departure of Paul Kantner.
After a two decade hiatus, Freiberg rejoined Kantner in Jefferson Starship for their 2005 tour, which was billed as "The Jefferson Family Galactic Reunion", and as of 2010 has officially rejoined the group and appears on the 2008 release Jefferson's Tree of Liberty which is the first Jefferson Starship release to feature Freiberg since 1984's Nuclear Furniture.
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Derek Taylor
Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 – 8 September 1997) was an English journalist, writer and publicist, best known for his work as press officer for The Beatles. He had started his career as a local journalist in Liverpool working for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, then becoming a North England-based writer for national British newspapers that included the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch and the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express.
Taylor was a national journalist when he was assigned to write a review of a Beatles concert. He had been expected by his editors to write a piece critical of what at that time was considered by the national press as an inconsequential teen fad. However, he was enchanted by the group and instead sang their praises. Shortly afterwards, he was invited to meet The Beatles and soon became a trusted journalist in their circle.
As The Beatles gained national attention in Britain, Taylor's editors conceived of running a column ostensibly written by a Beatle to boost circulation, to be ghostwritten by Taylor. George Harrison was the Beatle eventually decided upon. Although Taylor was initially only given the right to approve or disapprove of the content, Harrison's dissection of the first draft turned the column into an ongoing collaboration between the two, with Harrison providing the stories and Taylor providing the polish.
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Dick James
Dick James (12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986), born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick in the East End of London, was a music publisher and the founder of the DJM record label and recording studios, as well as (with Brian Epstein) The Beatles' publisher Northern Songs.
James sang with North London dance bands in his early teens, and was a regular vocalist at the Cricklewood Palais by the age of seventeen. He joined the Henry Hall band, and made first radio broadcast in 1940. Joining the Army in 1942, after World War II he continued to sing with top post-war bands, including Geraldo's. Later still, James was also a part-time member of The Stargazers, a popular early 1950s vocal group.
He was the singer of the theme songs of The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Buccaneers, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of renowned record producer George Martin.
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Dick Taylor
Richard Clifford 'Dick' Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English musician who was an early bass guitarist for The Rolling Stones. He left to become an art student at Sidcup Art College and while there formed The Pretty Things in September 1963. Taylor now lives on the Isle of Wight, England.
Taylor was born in Dartford, Kent, England. In July 1962, while he was at Sidcup Art College, The Rolling Stones was formed when Taylor, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' three piece, Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys joined Brian Jones and Ian Stewart's Rollin' Stones. Initially, Taylor played lead guitar in the band, but found himself pushed into bassist position to accommodate Jones, who quickly went on to become an accomplished slide guitarist. In November 1962, Taylor left to return to art college, and the bandmates posted an advertisement seeking another bassist. Bill Wyman responded, and succeeded him as The Rolling Stones' bassist in December 1962.
Later in 1963, Taylor formed The Pretty Things with vocalist Phil May and once again played his preferred guitar position. During a break from The Pretty Things after the release of their album, S.F. Sorrow (1968), Taylor produced Hawkwind's debut album, on which he also played guitar. His contribution to punk rock was a recording by Auntie Pus, and during the second half of the 1980s Taylor played guitar with the English post punk band The Mekons. He recorded with Andre Williams in Chicago, Illinois for George Paulus' St. George Records. The core members of The Pretty Things remain in the band to this day, and released the Balboa Island album in 2007 on the Cote Basque record label.
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Don Was
Don Was (born Don Fagenson; September 13, 1952) is an American musician, bassist and record producer.
Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School (Michigan) in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year. A journeyman musician, he grew up listening to the Detroit blues sound and the jazz music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Using the stage name "Don Was", he formed the group Was (Not Was) with school friend David Weiss (David Was). The group found commercial success in the 1980s - releasing four albums and logging several hit records. A jazz/R&B album of Hank Williams covers, "Forever's A Long, Long Time" was released in 1996, under the name Orquestra Was. In 2008, Was (Not Was) reunited for an acclaimed new album and tour.
Don Was has earned his recognition as a record producer and has recorded with an array of artists from The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Ziggy Marley, Bob Seger, Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Garth Brooks, Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Cocker, Hootie and The Blowfish, Amos Lee and Willie Nelson to Elton John, Stevie Nicks, George Clinton, Randy Newman, The Black Crowes, Carly Simon, Travis Tritt, Brian Wilson, Jackson Browne, The Barenaked Ladies, Old Crow Medicine Show, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Richie Sambora, The Presidents of the United States of America, B.B. King, Paul Westerberg, Kurt Elling, Poison, Cheb Khaled, The B-52's, Zucchero, Todd Snider, Elizabeth Cook, Jill Sobule and Solomon Burke. He has received multiple Grammy Awards including Producer of the Year in 1995. He produced several albums for Bonnie Raitt including her Nick of Time album that won the 1990 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Donovan
Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch, 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. Initially labelled as an imitator of Bob Dylan, Donovan quickly developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music (notably calypso). He has variously lived in Scotland, London, California and Ireland, and currently lives with his family in County Cork in Ireland.
Emerging from the British folk scene, Donovan shot to fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!. Initially signing with the British label Pye Records in 1965, he recorded a handful of singles and two albums in the folk music vein, but after signing a new contract with the US label Epic Records his popularity rapidly spread to the US and other countries. After extricating himself from his original management contract, he began a long and successful collaboration with Mickie Most, one of the leading British independent record producers of the era, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the US, Australia and other countries. His successful records in the 1960s included the UK hits "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" in 1965, while "Sunshine Superman" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year, and reached #2 in Britain. Donovan was the first artist to be signed to CBS/Epic Records by then-new Administrative Vice President Clive Davis, who later became head of the CBS Record empire.
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Duncan Browne
Duncan Browne (25 March 1947 — 28 May 1993) was an English singer-songwriter.
Browne attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, studying both music theory and drama. He chose to become a musician when, in 1967, he met Andrew Loog Oldham, and signed with his Immediate Records label. His debut album Give Me, Take You was issued in 1968.
His choral arrangement was used on the Tim Hardin penned "Hang On to a Dream" on the album Nice, as recorded by The Nice in 1969.
Browne's biggest hit in the UK was the song "Journey" (UK number 23), as televised on Top of the Pops in 1972. The song was included on Browne's second album Duncan Browne in 1973.
By the mid 1970s, Browne moved into electric rock mode in collaboration with Peter Godwin, forming the symphonic/glam band Metro, whose recordings were issued on Sire in the United States. Suddenly, Browne was near the cutting edge of music again, and in addition to his work with Metro he released a couple of solo albums, The Wild Places and Streets of Fire. The song "The Wild Places" was a hit single in the Netherlands. From the same period, Browne's co-composed song "Criminal World" was recorded by David Bowie on his 1983 Let's Dance album.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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Francie Schwartz
Francie Schwartz, born 1944, is an American scriptwriter and the former girlfriend, during the late 1960s, of Paul McCartney, who referred to her as "Franny". At the time, McCartney was engaged to the actress Jane Asher who broke off the engagement when she found them in bed together, although Schwartz claims otherwise. One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney's Cavendish Avenue house says that "...Paul brought this American girl home...[and a little while later]...another car turned into Cavendish Avenue – it was Jane. She'd come back...earlier than she was supposed to. Jane went into the house. A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away." Later on, Jane's mother arrived to retrieve Jane's things.
In 1968, intrigued by the Beatles' formation of the Apple Corps which she had read about in the American magazine "Rolling Stone", at the age of 23 she went to London to see if one of her scripts was of interest to what she regarded as the "non-establishment". She met the Beatles at a critical point in their development – when they were making the "White Album".
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Gary Duncan
Gary Duncan (born Gary Ray Grubb, September 4, 1946, San Diego, California) is an American musician, once guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.[citation needed]
It was in 1964 when (as Gary Cole) he joined The Brogues and met future Quicksilver Messenger Service drummer Greg Elmore. It was with The Brogues that he adopted the stage name Gary Duncan. He stayed with them until they broke up in 1965.
In late 1965 Duncan received a call from John Cippolina offering an audition for himself and fellow Brogues member Greg Elmore to join Quicksilver Messenger Service. The group played its first gig in December 1965 at The Matrix. The complex guitar interplay between Duncan and John Cippolina had a big influence on the sound of psychedelic rock.[citation needed] In early 1969, after recording two albums, Duncan left Quicksilver and as he describes it, "I left for a year and rode motorcycles and lived in New York and Los Angeles and just kind of went crazy for about a year."[citation needed]
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Geoff Emerick
Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London) is an English recording studio audio engineer, who is best known for his work with The Beatles' albums Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road. He is widely regarded as one of the best engineers in all of recording history.
Emerick first started working as an assistant engineer at EMI at the age of 15. To familiarize with his work, he was placed under the supervision of another assistant engineer, Richard Langham. On his second day of work at EMI, Richard Langham was assigned to be the assistant engineer of Norman Smith who will be doing the first recording session of the Beatles in the evening. As a new recruit, Emerick was not entitled to get over-time pay, but was lucky enough to witness the first-ever EMI recording session by the finalised line-up of The Beatles in 1962, during which the group recorded for the first time with new drummer Ringo Starr on what would eventually become their first hit single "Love Me Do". As assistant engineer, Emerick worked on numerous early recordings by the Beatles, and also helped record other artists for the label, including Judy Garland. He assisted at the EMI artist test of The Hollies.
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George Drakoulias
George Drakoulias (born 1965) is a Greek-American music producer and A&R executive at the American Recordings label. He is often considered a protege of Rick Rubin.
Drakoulias grew up in Syosset, New York and attended Syosset High School where he started his musical career with a band called Lifeline. He went to college at New York University (NYU), where he majored in music and business. There he befriended Rick Rubin, whom he met after he started dating an ex-girlfriend of Rubin's. He became one of the first hires for Rubin's Def Jam label. As an A&R man, he discovered L.L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys. After Rubin left Def Jam to move to Los Angeles and form the Def American label, which was later retitled American Recordings, Drakoulias moved with him and became a producer. Drakoulias signed The Black Crowes, The Jayhawks and The Freewheelers to American Recordings, and produced albums for all three. He has also produced albums for artists including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Maria McKee, Primal Scream and Screaming Trees. He has also produced tracks for Kula Shaker and served as a music supervisor for a number of movies, including Blades of Glory, School of Rock, Star Trek, Team America: World Police, Tropic Thunder, The Runaways, Zodiac, The Hangover, The Hangover Part II and Super 8.
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George Dunning
George Garnett Dunning (November 17, 1920 – February 15, 1979) was a Canadian film maker and animator. He is best known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles' film Yellow Submarine.
He was born in Toronto and studied in Canada at the Ontario College of Art, and soon found freelance work as an illustrator. Dunning joined the NFB of Canada in 1943, where he worked with Norman McLaren and contributed to several episodes of the Chants populaires series. From 1944 to 1947 Dunning created many original short films and developed his skills animating articulated, painted, metal cut-outs.
In 1948, he spent a year working for UNESCO in Paris under the mentorship of Czech-born animator Berthold Bartosch. Then in 1949, he and fellow NFB grad Jim McKay created one of Toronto’s first animation studios, Graphic Associates, where he produced commercials and gave Michael Snow his first job in film. In 1956 he moved to England to manage UPA’s new London office. After the office went under, he hired many of the UPA staff to work for him and his newly established production company, TVC. By 1961, TVC was producing about one hundred commercials a year. During this time Dunning also managed to make many personal short films noted for their surrealistic atmosphere and Kafkaesque themes.
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George Harrison
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
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George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926) is an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"—a title that he has described as "nonsense"—in reference to his extensive involvement on each of The Beatles' original albums. He is considered one of the greatest record producers of all time, with 30 number one hit singles in the UK and 23 number one hits in the USA.
Influenced by a range of musical styles, encompassing Cole Porter and Johnny Dankworth, he attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1947 to 1950, studying piano and oboe. Following his graduation, he worked for the BBC's classical music department, then joined EMI in 1950. Martin produced comedy and novelty records in the early 1950s, working with the likes of Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
In a career spanning over six decades, Martin has worked in music, film, television and live performance. He has also held a number of senior executive roles at media companies and contributes to a wide range of charitable causes, including his work for the Prince's Trust and the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
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George Toogood Smith
George Toogood Smith (1903 – 5 June 1955) was the maternal uncle, through marriage, of John Lennon. Smith operated his family's two dairy farms and a retail outlet with his brother, Frank Smith, in the village of Woolton, Liverpool. The farms had been in the Smith family for four generations, but after the start of World War II, they were taken over by the British Government for war work.
Smith started courting Mimi Stanley in the spring of 1932, but was thwarted by her indifference and her father's interference. After delivering milk to the hospital where she worked he gave her an ultimatum that she must marry him, "or nothing at all!" On 15 September 1939, she finally married him. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips, named after the range of hills, at 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool.
Lennon lived with Smith and his wife for the majority of his childhood, and Smith taught the young Lennon to read, read him nursery rhymes at night, and later taught Lennon how to solve crossword puzzles. He also taught him to draw and paint and bought him his first mouth organ. Smith collapsed and died on a Sunday at his home of a liver haemorrhage, aged 52, and was buried in St Peter’s Church graveyard, Woolton.
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Giles Martin
Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of Sir George Martin, famed producer of almost all of The Beatles' records.
Giles Martin grew up without much awareness of The Beatles, and was discouraged by his father from pursuing a career in music lest the inevitable comparisons should be made. Giles ignored the advice, first playing in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful band Velvet Jones, then writing jingles in college, then working in various musical capacities in the UK. In 1995, he was appointed co-music director for the television and radio music countdown show, The Great Music Experience. He worked on the Party at the Palace concert to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, for which he also produced the subsequent album and DVD.
Martin's first notable producer role came with the high-selling UK band Kula Shaker. After that, his production and mixing credits came to include Jeff Beck, Elvis Costello, INXS, and Kate Bush. In 2004 Martin produced Hayley Westenra's multi-platinum album Pure, the UK’s fastest-selling classical album of all time.
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Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns (born 15 February 1942, Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British musician, recording engineer and record producer.
He has worked with such artists as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Easybeats, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Clash, The Steve Miller Band, Small Faces, Spooky Tooth, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Blue Öyster Cult, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Midnight Oil, New Model Army, Belly, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Lane, Rod Stewart with Faces, Joan Armatrading, Buckacre, Gallagher and Lyle, Georgie Fame, Family, Helen Watson, Fairport Convention, Humble Pie and many others.
In the 1960s, while associated with the rock band The Presidents, Johns began working as a recording studio engineer at IBC Studios, Portland Place, London and was able to take the band in during weekends and try his skills at production and recording. The Presidents was his first true production work and some of the original tracks are available to hear and record at the Sound Bite Page on The President's web site www.the-presidents.org.uk. In 1969, Johns was called upon to rescue the troublesome Get Back sessions for The Beatles. Johns compiled several versions of the album, which were all rejected by the band, before the project was eventually turned over to producer Phil Spector. Spector's version became the released album, which was retitled Let It Be.
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Greg Elmore
Greg Elmore (born September 4, 1946, in the Coronado Naval Air Station, California) is an American drummer, formerly with The Brogues and the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Greg Elmore also played regularly with Terry and the Pirates (Terry Dolan, John Cipollina, etc.) from 1981-1989.
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Harry Nilsson
Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson. He is known for the hit singles "Everybody's Talkin'" (1969), "Without You" (1971), and "Coconut" (1972). Nilsson's career is also notable for the fact that he was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours.
He was awarded Grammys for two of his recordings; best male contemporary vocal in 1969 for "Everybody's Talkin'", the theme song to the Academy Award-winning movie Midnight Cowboy, and best male pop vocal in 1972 for "Without You."
Nilsson was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1941. His paternal grandparents were Swedish circus performers and dancers, especially known for their "aerial ballet" (which is the title of one of Nilsson's albums). His father, Harry Edward Nilsson, Jr., abandoned the family when young Harry was three. An autobiographical reference to this is found in the opening to Nilsson's song "1941":
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Horst Fascher
Horst Fascher (born 5 February 1936, Hamburg) is a previous German nightclub bouncer, and a friend of The Beatles during their days playing in Hamburg, Germany.
A onetime professional boxer whose career was cut short (he had unintentionally killed a sailor in a street fight), Fascher found work in clubs along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. When the Beatles (including original drummer Pete Best and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe) made their first trip to Germany in August 1960, Fascher befriended the young group, who played at the Indra Club and the Kaiserkeller.
As they rose through the ranks of bands playing the Reeperbahn (making five trips in all over the next two-and-a-half years), Fascher usually managed to be working at the same clubs, and for the same boss, as the Beatles. They visited him at home, and he in turn kept troublemakers away from the band. The only favour Fascher asked was to be able to sing with them occasionally onstage, which was granted; Eddie Cochran's music was a common choice.
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Hunter Davies
This article is about the Scottish writer. For the American writer see Hunter S. Thompson
Edward Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of many books, including the only authorised biography of The Beatles.
Davies was born in Johnstone to Scottish parents. For 4 years his family lived in Dumfries until Davies was aged 11. Davies has frequently quoted his boyhood hero as being football centre-forward, Billy Houliston, of Davies' then local team, Queen of the South.
His family moved to Carlisle when Davies was 11 and he attended the Creighton School in the city. Davies lived in Carlisle until he moved to study at university. During this time his father, who was a former RAF pay clerk, developed multiple sclerosis and had to retire on medical grounds from a civil service career. Davies joined the sixth form at Carlisle Grammar School and was awarded a place at University College, Durham to read for an Honours Degree in History, but after his first year he switched to a general arts course. He gained his first writing experience as a student, contributing to the university newspaper, Palatinate. However after completing his degree course he stayed on at Durham for another year to gain a teaching diploma.
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Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan (born Ian William Patrick McLagan, 12 May 1945, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex) is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.
In the 1960s McLagan played keyboards and sang backing vocals as a member of the Small Faces. Following stints with the Muleskinners and the Boz People, he joined the group in November 1965, replacing Jimmy Winston, and played his debut with the Small Faces at London's Lyceum Theatre on 2 November that year. In 1969, after Steve Marriott left the group and Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood joined, the band changed its name to Faces.
After the Faces split up in 1975, McLagan worked as a sideman for The Rolling Stones, both in the studio and on tour; and on various Ronnie Wood projects, including The New Barbarians. In addition, his session work has backed such artists as Chuck Berry, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Westerberg, Izzy Stradlin, Frank Black, Nikki Sudden, John Mayer and Bruce Springsteen.
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Ivan Vaughan
Ivan Vaughan (18 June 1942 - 16 August 1993) was a boyhood friend of John Lennon, and later schoolmate of Paul McCartney at the Liverpool Institute, both commencing school there in Sept. 1953. He was born on the same day as Paul McCartney in Liverpool. He played bass part-time in Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, and was responsible for introducing Lennon to Paul McCartney at a community event (the Woolton village fête) on July 6, 1957, where The Quarrymen were performing. McCartney impressed Lennon, who invited McCartney to join the band, which he did a day later. This led to the formation of Lennon and McCartney's songwriting partnership, and later of The Beatles.
Vaughan studied classics at University College, London, married in 1966 and settled down to family life with a son and daughter, and became a teacher.
Lennon and McCartney never forgot the friend who brought them together. For a time they put Vaughan on the payroll of their Apple company, in charge of a plan that never took off to set up a school with a Sixties, hippie-style education ethos. Vaughan's wife Jan, a languages teacher, was hired to sit down with Lennon and McCartney and help with the French lyrics to the 1965 song "Michelle".
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Jackie Lomax
John Richard 'Jackie' Lomax (b. 10 May 1944, Wallasey, Cheshire, England) is a British guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his association with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. He currently lives in Ojai, California, USA with his wife, Annie (previously Norma Richardson), mother of fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
In early 1962, Jackie Lomax left Dee and the Dynamites to join Merseybeat band The Undertakers. They followed the same route as The Beatles through local venues before setting out for Hamburg, Germany and finally securing a record deal. From that point onwards, they were dogged by ill-luck and lack of success. They signed with Pye Records and released four singles which only managed to place one week on the British charts between them. In 1965 they moved to America to try their luck there.
After two years in America with The Undertakers and a couple of other groups, Jackie Lomax's latest band, The Lomax Alliance, were taken back to Britain in 1967 by Brian Epstein to showcase them at the Saville Theatre in London. He arranged for a single and an album to be recorded and they signed to CBS. Epstein's untimely death ruined the plans for the band. During that period CBS released two Lomax Alliance singles and one solo Jackie Lomax single. More than enough tracks for an album were recorded but it was never released.
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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author and entrepreneur.
Asher was the middle of three children born to Richard Alan John and Margaret Asher, née Eliot, in Willesden, North West London. Her father was a broadcaster and a consultant at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the author of notable medical articles. Asher's mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[citation needed] Asher attended Queen's College in Harley Street, London and is the elder sister of Clare Asher, a radio actress and school inspector. Asher's elder brother is record producer Peter Asher,
, who was "Peter" of Peter and Gordon.
Asher was a child actress and appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment. She also had a title role in a version of Alice in Wonderland (1958) and Through the Looking-Glass for Argo Records. In 1961 she co-starred in The Greengage Summer which was released in the United States as Loss of Innocence. She also appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper. British TV appearances included three episodes (1956–1958) of the British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood and as a panelist on the BBC's Juke Box Jury.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds (Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are the other two). Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Much of Beck's recorded output has been instrumental, with a focus on innovative sound and his releases have spanned genres ranging from blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and an additional blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Although he recorded two hit albums (in 1975 and 1976) as a solo act, Beck has not established or maintained the sustained commercial success of many of his contemporaries and bandmates. Beck appears on albums by Mick Jagger, Kate Bush, Roger Waters, Donovan, Stevie Wonder, Les Paul, Zucchero, Cyndi Lauper, Brian May and ZZ Top. In 1988, he made a cameo appearance in the movie Twins.
He was ranked 5th in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and the magazine has described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".MSNBC has called him a "guitarist's guitarist". Beck has earned wide critical praise and received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance six times and Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance once. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: as a member of The Yardbirds (1992) and as a solo artist (2009).
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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra. He was later a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys together with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. Lynne has produced recordings for artists such as The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Dave Edmunds, Del Shannon and Tom Petty. He has co-written songs with Petty and also with George Harrison, whose 1987 album Cloud Nine was co-produced by Lynne and Harrison. Among the many compositions to his credit are such well-known hits as "Livin' Thing", "Evil Woman", "Turn to Stone", "Do Ya", "Xanadu", "Strange Magic", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Telephone Line", "Shine a Little Love", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Hold On Tight", "All Over the World", and "Don't Bring Me Down".
In 2008, The Washington Times named Lynne the fourth greatest record producer in music history.
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Jim Keltner
James Lee "Jim" Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists. Keltner is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was characterized as "the leading session drummer in America" by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes.
Keltner is best known for his session work on solo recordings by three of The Beatles, working often with George Harrison, John Lennon (including Lennon solo albums, as well as albums released both by the Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono), and Ringo Starr. He and Starr were the drummers on the Concert for Bangladesh, rock music's first charity benefit, initiated by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, in August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York; he also performed at the Garden in 1972 for John Lennon's "One To One" benefit for the Willowbrook State School. Keltner later joined the 1974 George Harrison/Ravi Shankar tour, after many phone calls on the road from Harrison. His first gig on the tour was Memphis November 20, 1974.
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Jimmie Nicol
James George "Jimmie"/"Jimmy" Nicol (born 3 August 1939, 93 Silverthorne Road, Battersea, London), is a British drummer, best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a series of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964, elevating him from relative obscurity to worldwide fame and then back again in the space of a fortnight. Nicol had hoped that his association with The Beatles would greatly boost his career, but instead found that the spotlight moved away from him once Starr returned to the group. His subsequent lack of commercial success led him into bankruptcy in 1965. After then working with a number of different bands, which included a successful phase with The Spotnicks, he left the music business in 1967 to pursue a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Later in his life he became a recluse preferring not to discuss his connection to The Beatles and refusing to seek financial gain from it. He has a son, Howard, who is a BAFTA award-winning sound engineer.
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Jimmy Miller
James "Jimmy" Miller (23 March 1942 - 22 October 1994) was a Brooklyn, New York-born record producer and musician who produced dozens of albums between the mid-1960s and early 1990s, including landmark recordings for Blind Faith, Traffic, the Plasmatics, Motorhead, The World Bank and Primal Scream. He was perhaps best known for his lengthy association with the Rolling Stones, for whom he produced a string of singles and albums that all rank among the most critically and financially successful works of the band's career: Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile on Main St. (1972) and Goats Head Soup (1973).
Prior to working with the Rolling Stones, Miller rose to fame by producing successful releases for The Spencer Davis Group including their breakthrough hit "Gimme Some Lovin'" and the follow-up smash "I'm A Man," which Miller co-wrote with the band's singer-keyboardist, Steve Winwood. In addition to his production work for yet another Winwood band, Traffic, Miller also contributed the lyrics to the Traffic song "Medicated Goo." Miller produced the only album by the Clapton/Winwood supergroup Blind Faith.
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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 Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands: the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles. He has also experienced success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B. King and Dan Fogelberg.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, Walsh and his family lived in Columbus, Ohio for a number of years. His mother was a classically trained pianist. When Walsh was twelve years old the family moved to New York City. Later, Walsh moved to Montclair, New Jersey and attended Montclair High School there. While attending Kent State University, he spent time in various bands playing around the Cleveland area, including The Measles. Walsh began a lifelong hobby of amateur ("ham") radio with the callsign WB6ACU while living in New York City.
In January 1968 he replaced Glen Schwartz as lead guitarist for the James Gang, an American power trio. Walsh proved to be the band's star attraction, noted for his innovative rhythm playing and creative guitar riffs. In particular he was known for hot-wiring the pickups on his electric guitars to create his trademark "attack" sound. The James Gang had several minor hits and became an early album-oriented rock staple for the next two years, including James Gang Live at Carnegie Hall. In November, 1971 Walsh left the group and formed the group Barnstorm, although their albums credited Walsh as a solo artist. Walsh and Barnstorm released their debut, the eponymous Barnstorm in 1972. The album was a critical success, but had only moderate sales. The follow-up The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (1973) was titled under his own name (although officially a Barnstorm album) and was Walsh's commercial breakthrough. The first single "Rocky Mountain Way" received heavy airplay and reached #23 on the US Top 40 chart. In 1974 Barnstorm disbanded and Walsh continued as a solo artist.
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John Cipollina
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 - May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead and then later played with numerous other bands.
Born in Berkeley, California, in 1943, John Cipollina attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California (as did his brother, Mario Cipollina, born 1954). His mother Evelyn, and godfather José Iturbi, were concert pianists and John showed great promise as a classical pianist in his youth, but his father gave him a guitar when he was 12 and this quickly became his primary instrument.
Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing solid state and valve amplifiers as early as 1965. He is considered one of the fathers of the San Francisco psychedelic rock sound.
"I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top."
To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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Johnny Gentle
Johnny Gentle is the stage name of John Askew (born 8 December 1936). He was a British pop singer who is now best remembered for having briefly toured Scotland with the Silver Beetles - later known simply as The Beatles - as his backing group in 1960.
John Askew was born and grew up in Liverpool. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a carpenter, and, using a borrowed book for instructions, made his own guitar. He teamed up with Bobby Crawford and the pair began performing at local clubs, singing Everly Brothers songs, before Askew took a job working on a luxury ocean liner. On his return, he entered talent competitions as a solo singer, and changed his stage name, first to George Baker and then to Ricky Damone. He moved to London and worked on a building site, before winning a talent competition at the Locarno Ballroom in Streatham. He was auditioned by manager Larry Parnes, who won him a recording contract with Philips Records in 1959, and gave him the stage name Johnny Gentle.
Gentle released two singles on Philips in 1959 - the self-penned "Wendy", followed by "Milk From The Coconut" - but they did not make the charts, and nor did an EP, The Gentle Touch, combining the two singles. In early May 1960, Parnes co-promoted, with Allan Williams, a show at Liverpool Stadium starring Gene Vincent supported by local groups Cass & The Cassanovas, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and Gerry & the Pacemakers. Parnes thought it would be a good idea to use Liverpool groups as backing bands for his artists, who included Billy Fury, and held auditions on 10 May 1960. This resulted in the Silver Beetles being selected to back Gentle on a short Scottish tour.
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Johnny Hutchinson
Johnny 'Hutch' Hutchinson (born 18 July 1940 in Malta), also known as Johnny Hutch, was a Liverpudlian rock and roll drummer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the same time that The Beatles rose through the ranks of British rock bands. Hutch's group, The Big Three, were rivals of the Beatles, and his opinions of them were not the highest; one early remark he made was that the Beatles "weren't worth a carrot."
Feelings aside, Hutch sat in with them during a 1960 audition, keeping a beat until their then-drummer Tommy Moore could arrive. Mersey Beat magazine editor, Bill Harry, claimed that the vacant drummer position in The Beatles when Pete Best was dismissed was initially offered by Epstein to Johnny, who Epstein later managed. Knowing The Beatles had secured a record contract, Hutchinson turned down the job, saying, "Brian asked me to join the Beatles and I said, I wouldn’t join the Beatles for a gold clock. There’s only one group as far as I’m concerned and that’s the Big Three. The Beatles can’t make a better sound than that, and Pete Best is a very good friend of mine. I couldn’t do the dirty on him". Johnnny did play for The Beatles when Pete Best naturally never turned up on the evening of his dismissal, and two subsequent bookings, until second choice Ringo Starr could join The Beatles from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
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Julia Lennon
Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele, and bought his first acoustic guitar, even though her eldest sister strongly disapproved. She kept in almost daily contact with Lennon, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs about her, including "Julia" and "Mother." Biographer Ian MacDonald wrote that she was, "to a great extent... her son's muse."
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Julian Dawson
Julian Dawson (born 4 July 1954 in London) is a British singer–songwriter, guitarist and author. His style has been compared to Wilco and Ron Sexsmith. He is fluent in German and French. Outside his solo work, acts he has recorded with (as singer or harmonica player) include Gerry Rafferty, Glenn Tilbrook, Del Amitri, Dan Penn, Iain Matthews and his band Plainsong (band), Richard Thompson and Benny Hill. He also worked with German krautrockers Can, and BAP.
He attended two Catholic boarding schools for nine years and Art College for three years, before deciding to take up music full time and playing his first professional jobs for the US army in Germany. After a return to London, he learned his craft on the road all over Europe and the UK with various band line-ups, playing his own songs from day one and eventually landing his first record deal.
One pub-rock influenced LP was followed by two albums for Polydor, both recorded at the legendary Can Studio near Cologne with Jaki Liebezeit and guests Richard Thompson and Toots Thielemans. ‘As Real As Disneyland’ garnered album-of-month status and sold well in the German-speaking territories, setting a pattern of Dawson having more success abroad than at home that has remained a feature of his career so far.
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Jürgen Vollmer
Jürgen Vollmer, with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman (the "Exis"), befriended The Beatles during the band's time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. Vollmer was the son of a professional army officer who died during World War II. Young Vollmer was attending Hamburg's Institute of Fashion at the time he met The Beatles, who at the time included drummer Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe. Vollmer quickly became one of the group's photographers, and was responsible for the "Beatles haircut" and some of their most iconic images in their leather-clad days prior to Brian Epstein. John Lennon was particularly impressed with Vollmer's photos, and used one of his favourites on the cover of his 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. During the time Vollmer lived in the USA, he worked as a set photographer in several Hollywood film productions.
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Kaiserkeller
Kaiserkeller is a night club in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg, Germany, near the Reeperbahn. It was opened by Bruno Koschmider on October 14, 1959. The Beatles had a contract with Kaiserkeller to play there in 1960.
A Caribbean steel band that had played at Allan Williams Jacaranda club in Liverpool took an offer to play in Hamburg. After receiving letters enthusing about Hamburg's club scene, Williams made contact with Koschmider, offering to act as a booking agent, to which Koschmider agreed. Koschmider had previously booked Derry and the Seniors after seeing them perform in London, and as they were successful in Hamburg, he asked Williams to look for additional groups.Rory Storm and The Hurricanes were Williams' first choice, but as they were committed to a season at Butlins holiday camp, they turned his offer down (as did Gerry & The Pacemakers) so Williams sent The Beatles to Hamburg instead. They were required to play six or seven hours a night, seven nights a week. The Beatles first played at Koschmider's Indra club, sleeping in small, "dirty" rooms in the Bambi Kino, and then moved (after the closure of the Indra) to the larger Kaiserkeller.
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards has created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and has named him the 4th greatest guitarist of all time. Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones' lead vocalist, are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Richards' notoriety for illicit drug use stems in part from several drug busts during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Keith Richards is the only child of Bert Richards and Doris Dupree Richards. He was born at Livingston Hospital in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory worker injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion.
Richards' paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders whose family originated from Wales. His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, "Gus Dupree and his Boys", fostered Richards' interest in guitar.
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Ken Mansfield
Ken Mansfield is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, former U.S. Manager of Apple Records, a high-ranking executive for several record labels, songwriter and the author of three books.
Since the 1960s, Mansfield has been associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, Roy Orbison, Don Ho, the Imperials, Tompall Glaser, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Lou Rawls, Andy Williams, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eric Burdon, Badfinger, Ray Stevens, Jackie Lomax, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, David Cassidy, Nick Gilder, Claudine Longet and Jessi Colter. In the 1970s, he helped popularize the Outlaw movement in country music by producing Waylon Jennings' top-selling album, Are You Ready for the Country as well as the crossover hit "I’m Not Lisa" by Jessi Colter. In 2000, the former record executive-turned-producer embarked on a literary career with The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay. His follow-up, The White Book - The Beatles, the Bands, the Biz: An Insider's Look at an Era, was released in 2007. Mansfield's third book, Between Wyomings, published by Thomas Nelson, was released on June 9, 2009.
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Ken Scott
Ken Scott (born 20 April 1947 in London) is an English record producer and recording engineer.
Scott started at the age of 16 working in the tape library at Abbey Road Studios. He became a recording engineer working with such acts as The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Procol Harum.
Scott moved to Trident Studios where he worked with such artists as Elton John, Harry Nilsson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, America and with George Harrison on the 6x platinum selling album All Things Must Pass.
Scott went on to co-produce David Bowie's albums Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973) and Pin Ups (1973) before producing Supertramp, The Tubes, Dixie Dregs, Devo, Missing Persons, Kansas, Happy The Man and Level 42.
More recently Scott has recorded a number of legendary drummers for a VST instrument called EpiK Drums – A Ken Scott Collection.
Scott received a Clio award for "I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke", and two Grammy nominations.
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Ken Townsend
Ken Townsend MBE is a renowned English sound engineer who played an important role at Abbey Road Studios. He worked on several Beatles albums, such as Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1966 he invented automatic double tracking (ADT). He spent his whole working career at Abbey Road, and retired as the Chairman of the Studio Group after 42 years of service.
During the recording of Tomorrow Never Knows, Lennon complained that he had always hated doing a second take to double the sound of his vocals, so Townsend, the studio technical manager, created the world's first ADT system by taking the signal from the playback and recording heads and delaying them slightly, thereby creating two sound images and not just one. By altering the speed and frequencies he could also create other different types of effects, which The Beatles used throughout the recording of Revolver.
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Kim Milford
Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. He is best known for his acting in musicals such as The Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where he attended New Trier High School. His sister is actress Penelope Milford and brother Doug is the co-owner of Artsystems.
Milford first appeared at the stock theatre in Chicago at age 10. Age 17 he was in the original stage version of Hair on Broadway, playing Woof and Claude. In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip. Milford later performed in the first concert tour of Jesus Christ Superstar playing Jesus and Judas. He also appeared in the original American production of The Rocky Horror Show as Rocky with the Los Angeles Roxy Cast and in the Broadway production. He reprised his role in the 1980 North American Tour production. He also appeared in the plays Henry Sweet Henry (1967), Your Own Thing, Rockabye Hamlet (1975–76, Laertes), More Than You Deserve, Sunset, and All Bets Off.
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Klaus Voormann
Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German Grammy Award-winning artist, noted musician, and record producer. He designed artwork for many bands including The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro. His most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio, including their worldwide hit "Da Da Da". As a musician, Voormann is best known for being the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, and for performing as a session musician on a host of recordings, including many by former members of The Beatles.
His association with The Beatles dated back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy. Following the band's split, rumours circulated of the formation of a group named The Ladders, consisting of Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Voormann. This failed to materialise, outside of all four Ladders (plus Billy Preston) performing on the Ringo Starr track "I'm the Greatest", although Voormann did play on albums by Lennon, Harrison and Starr, and was for a time a member of the Plastic Ono Band. In the 1990s, he designed the artwork for the Beatles Anthology albums.
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Larry Parnes
Laurence Maurice "Larry" Parnes (1930 - 4 August 1989) was an English pop manager and impresario. He has been described as "the first major British rock manager... Parnes' stable encompassed most of the most successful pre-Beatles British rock singers."
Parnes was born in Willesden, London. After leaving school he began work in a clothing store, and by the age of 18 ran a women's clothing shop in Romford, Essex. He then bought a share in a bar in Romilly Street, Soho. He agreed to invest in a touring play, The House of Shame, which became both successful and notorious in 1954 after its publicist, John Kennedy, persuaded two actresses to stand outside the theatre dressed as prostitutes. In 1956, with Kennedy, he started to manage young rock and roll singer Tommy Hicks, who anglicised the name of his Swedish grandfather to become known as Tommy Steele. Steele achieved popular success, some of his songs being co-written by Parnes' friend Lionel Bart, and Parnes succeeded in presenting Steele as an "all-round entertainer".
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Lee Eastman
Lee Eastman, born Leopold Vail Epstein, (12 January 1910 - 30 July 1991) was a New York show business attorney, and art collector the son of Louis (b. Russia ~1887, imm. 1906) and Stella (Freyer) Epstein. His sisters were Emmaline and Rose. He married Louise Lindner, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune; they had four children, including John Eastman and Linda McCartney, the late wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. Eastman became McCartney's business manager shortly before the breakup of The Beatles while his son John represented McCartney during his 1970 lawsuit to legally dissolve the Beatles. He is the maternal grandfather of potter Heather McCartney, photographer Mary McCartney, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and musician/sculptor James Louis McCartney. Eastman was also the friend and longtime lawyer for and collector of the works of the Abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning.
When the Beatles' company Apple Corps was in business trouble early in 1969, Eastman and Allen Klein were both considered to take the reins of the company, and of the band's careers. John Lennon favoured Klein. Lennon said he was impressed that Klein knew Lennon's lyrics, and understood them, and that Klein was very intelligent.George Harrison and Ringo Starr chose Klein, though Lennon said in 1970 that he maneuvered Klein into Apple. McCartney wanted Eastman, but was out-voted 3-1. For a short period, Klein managed Apple and the personal careers of Lennon, Harrison, and Starr while Eastman was the corporate counsel and managed McCartney. The Klein/Eastman combination did not work, and after a contentious meeting, Eastman was out. Subsequent disagreements over decisions made by Klein and the other Beatles prompted McCartney—represented by Eastman—to sue them to dissolve the partnership, and he eventually succeeded.
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Linda McCartney
Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman.
In 1969 she married Beatle Paul McCartney and later joined McCartney's band Wings. In the same year McCartney adopted her daughter, Heather Louise, from her first marriage to John See. The McCartneys had three children together: Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. She became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997.
She wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era. McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, where the McCartneys had a ranch.
Linda Louise McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman, the second-eldest of four children, to Jewish-American parents in New York City. She had one older brother, John (10 July 1939), and two younger sisters, Laura (born 1947) and Louise Jr. (born 1950). She grew up in the wealthy Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York and graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1959. Her father was the son of Jewish-Russian immigrants. He changed his name from Leopold Vail Epstein to Lee Eastman, and was not related to George Eastman of Eastman Kodak fame. He was songwriter Jack Lawrence's attorney, and at his request in 1942, Lawrence, while in the army, wrote a song called "Linda" in honor of the one-year-old. It was published in 1946, and recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947. John Eastman later became Paul McCartney's lawyer and manager, taking over from his father, Lee Eastman.
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Lisa Fischer
Lisa Fischer (born 1958) is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 1991 with her debut album So Intense, which produced the Grammy Award winning hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". Known for her upper head notes, Fischer has been recognized as one of the most successful session vocalists of the era. She has sung back-up for a number of famous artists, including Luther Vandross, Tina Turner and The Rolling Stones.
Fischer was born in the Fort Greene neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Before pursuing a solo career, she accompanied R&B singer Luther Vandross as a backup singer on his tours & albums until his death, in addition to providing backing vocals for artists including Melba Moore and Billy Ocean. She has worked with many other famous singers, both as a session vocalist and a backup singer. Musicians she has supported include Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Teddy Pendergrass and Roberta Flack.
In 1983, under the stage name Xēna, Fischer released a freestyle single, the electro classic "On the Upside,". In 1984, a club track she recorded entitled "Only Love (Shadows)" was briefly featured in the motion picture Beat Street and was later released in 1995 as part of the Hot Productions The Best of Criminal Records compilation.
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Magic Alex
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (Greek: Αλέξης Μάρδας; born May 5, 1942, Athens, Greece), better known as Magic Alex, the name given him by The Beatles when he knew the group between 1965 and 1969, is a self-styled electronics wizard and one-time head of The Beatles' Apple Electronics.
Mardas arrived in England in 1965, exhibiting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed John Lennon with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, and said that he could build a 72-track tape machine, so was given the job of designing the new Apple Studio in Savile Row. He was involved in the hasty departure of Lennon and George Harrison from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, and Lennon's divorce of his first wife, Cynthia Lennon.
In the 1970s, the anti-terrorism industry offered bullet-proof vehicles, bugging devices and security hardware, and Mardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. King Hussein of Jordan bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to be more life-threatening than ordinary cars, as bullets easily pierced the supposed armour-plating, and the glass splintered. In 1987, Mardas was a managing director of Alcom Ltd, which specialised in electronic communications and security. He now lives in Greece.
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Mal Evans
Malcolm Frederick 'Mal' Evans (27 May 1935 – 5 January 1976) was best known as the road manager, assistant, and a friend of The Beatles.
In the early 1960s, Evans was employed as a telephone engineer, and also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club, where The Beatles performed. Manager Brian Epstein later hired Evans as their assistant road manager, in tandem with Neil Aspinall. Evans was tall and heavily-built, and Peter Brown (one of Epstein's staff) later wrote of Evans as "a kindly, but menacing-looking young man". Evans contributed to many Beatle recordings, and appeared in some of the films they made. Although The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, Evans carried on assisting the band until their 1970 break-up. From 1969 forward, Evans had also found work as a record producer (most notably with Badfinger's top 10 hit "No Matter What"), and as an occasional songwriter.
Evans was killed by police on 5 January 1976 at his home in Los Angeles. Officers were called when his girlfriend phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused and had a gun. The police believed that the air rifle Evans was holding was a rifle and shot him dead.
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Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the frontman of glam rock group T. Rex.
Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney, northeast London, the son of Phyllis Winifred (née Atkins) and Simeon Feld, a lorry driver. His father was Jewish (of Russian and Polish origin) and his mother was from a Christian background. Later moving to Wimbledon, southwest London, he fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Arthur Crudup and Chuck Berry[citation needed] and was considered a mod because of dress, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 I's in Soho.[citation needed] He appeared as an extra in an episode of the television show Orlando, dressed as a mod. At the age of nine, Bolan was given his first guitar and began a skiffle band. While at school, he played guitar in "Susie and the Hoops," a trio whose vocalist was a 12-year old Helen Shapiro. At 15, he left school "by mutual consent".[citation needed]
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Mark Lewisohn
Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English author and historian, regarded as the world's leading authority on the English rock band The Beatles.
Over the course of his career, Mark Lewisohn has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple, and has written many reference books about The Beatles. He has been referred to as the world's leading authority on the subject, renowned for his meticulous research and integrity. He is credited with discovering such facts as the precise date when John Lennon first met Paul McCartney.
In 1986, Lewisohn's book The Beatles Live! was published. This featured a complete history of all the Beatles' live performances, in a format which Lewisohn would follow for his subsequent books. After being invited by EMI to listen to all of The Beatles' original session tapes, Lewisohn wrote The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, which was published in 1987. The book was in the form of a diary, detailing every recording session The Beatles had at Abbey Road Studios chronologically. It included details such as who played on each track and how many takes were recorded in each session. The book featured an introductory interview by Paul McCartney.
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Max Middleton
David Maxwell "Max" Middleton (born 4 August 1946, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England). He is an English composer and keyboardist and was originally a docker on the Liverpool docks. Middleton is known for his work on the Fender Rhodes Electric piano, the Minimoog synthesiser and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet. He started on his professional music career by playing keyboards for Jeff Beck and is best known for his work on Beck's Blow by Blow.
After being introduced to Beck by bassist Clive Chaman during 1970, he played keyboards on the third Jeff Beck Group album Rough and Ready and the fourth Jeff Beck Group also known as "Orange album", in a line-up with Chaman, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench and drummer Cozy Powell. He went on to record Blow by Blow and Wired with Jeff Beck before moving on to record and tour with Nazareth, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, Chris Rea, Kate Bush, Annette Peacock, Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and singer-songwriter John Martyn.
Middleton worked with Beck in the Jeff Beck Group line-up with vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench, Clive Chaman and drummer Cozy Powell. He stayed with Beck as the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice began to emerge as an established act before leaving to join Tench in Hummingbird during 1976. Hummingbird released two successful albums with Middleton as keyboard player We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (1976), and Diamond Nights (1977), both produced by Ian "Sammy" Samwell. He record Blow By Blow (1975) and Wired (1976). By this time Middleton had become a sought after session musician, playing on albums such as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Nazareth's most successful album, Hair of the Dog (1975).
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.
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Mick Taylor
Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor (born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966–69) and The Rolling Stones (1969–74). Since resigning from the Rolling Stones in December 1974 Taylor began working with numerous other artists and has released solo albums. Taylor was listed in Rolling Stone magazine's 2012 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, ranked at 37th place.
Taylor was born to a working-class family in Welwyn Garden City, but was raised in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, where his father worked as a fitter for De Havilland aircraft company. He began playing guitar at age nine, learning to play from his mother's younger brother. As a teenager, he formed bands with schoolmates and started performing concerts under names such as The Juniors and the Strangers. They also appeared on television and put out a single. Part of the band was recruited for a new group called The Gods, which included Ken Hensley (later of Uriah Heep fame). In 1966, The Gods opened for Cream at the Starlite Ballroom in Wembley.
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Micky Waller
Micky Waller (6 September 1941 – 6 May 2008) was an English drummer, who played with many of the biggest names on the UK rock and blues scene, after he became a professional musician in 1960. In addition to being a member, albeit sometimes briefly, of some of the seminal bands of the 1960s, Waller played as a session musician with a host of UK and US artists.
He was born Michael Waller in 1941, in Hammersmith, London. Waller's first professional band, The Flee-Rekkers, had a #23 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1960, with their recording of "Green Jeans" produced by Joe Meek. He soon left to join a well-known band of the day, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers.
In July 1963, he joined the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars, a band with a volatile line-up, replacing the band's original drummer Carlo Little. At that time the line-up was:
Davies died on 7 January 1964, and Waller left as the band was changed by Long John Baldry to become the Hoochie Coochie Men. Waller went on to play with Marty Wilde as one of the Wildecats. While with Wilde, Waller played on two tours with Little Richard around the UK.
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Mimi Smith
Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith (née Stanley) (24 April 1903 – 6 December 1991) was the maternal aunt and parental guardian of the English musician John Lennon. Mimi was born in Liverpool, England and was the oldest of five daughters. She became a resident trainee nurse at the Woolton Convalescent Hospital, and later worked as a private secretary. On 15 September 1939, she married George Smith, who ran his family's dairy farm and a shop in Woolton; a suburb of Liverpool.
After Mimi's younger sister, Julia Lennon, separated from her husband, she and her son (Lennon) moved in with a new partner, but Mimi contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about little John sleeping in the same bed as the two adults. Julia was eventually persuaded to hand the care of Lennon over to the Smiths. Lennon lived with them for most of his childhood, and remained close to her, even though she was highly dismissive of his musical ambitions, his girlfriends, and wives.
She often told the teenage Lennon that "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it". Despite later losing touch with other family members, Lennon kept in close contact and telephoned Mimi every week until his death in 1980. Lennon bought her a bungalow in Poole, Dorset, where she lived until her death in 1991. The Smiths' house in Liverpool was later donated to the The National Trust.
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Mona Best
Mona "Mo" Best (3 January 1924 – 9 September 1988) was born in India and is best known as the mother of Pete Best (b. 24 November 1941), who was an early member of The Beatles. Mona also had two other sons, Rory (born 1945) and Vincent "Roag" Best (born 1962). It was later confirmed that Roag's father was The Beatles' associate Neil Aspinall, although he was not registered as the father on Roag's birth certificate.
After moving to Liverpool from India, the Best family claim that Mona pawned all of her jewellery in 1954, and used the money to place a 33–1 bet on a horse named "Never Say Die", and used her winnings to buy a house in 1957. Mona later opened The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the house as a venue for Rock 'n' Roll music. It was planned as a members-only club for her sons and their friends. The club was often referred to as The Casbah Club, or The Casbah.
The Quarrymen—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ken Brown—frequently played at The Casbah instead of the The Cavern Club, which had a jazz-only policy at that time. The Casbah Club cellar—with its original decoration—still exists. In 2006, the property was accorded a Grade II Heritage listing. Mona died in 1988, after a heart attack following a long illness.
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Murray the K
Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred to himself as the fifth Beatle.
Murray Kaufman came from a show business family: his mother, Jean, played piano in vaudeville and wrote music and his aunt was a character actress on the stage and in film. He was a child actor - an extra - in several 1930s Hollywood films. He attended a military boarding school, and later was inducted into the United States Army where he arranged entertainment for the troops. Following the war, he put together shows in the Catskills' "Borscht Belt", also doing warm-ups for the headline performers.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he worked in public relations and as a song plugger, helping to promote tunes like Bob Merrill's "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window." From there, he worked as a radio producer and co-host at WMCA (and briefly thereafter at WMGM), working with personalities such as Laraine Day on the late night interview program "Day At Night" and with Eva Gabor. At the same time, he was doing promotion for several baseball players, including Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, and his radio beginnings may be attributable to his connection with the New York Giants, whose manager, Leo Durocher, was the husband of Laraine Day. His work on those shows earned him his own late-night show that often featured his wife as co-host, as was popular at the time. For a while in the 1950s he was president of the National Conference of Disk Jockeys.
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Neil Aspinall
Neil Stanley Aspinall (13 October 1941 – 24 March 2008) was a British music industry executive. A school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he went on to head The Beatles' company Apple Corps.
The Beatles employed Aspinall as their road manager and personal assistant, which included driving his old Commer van to and from shows, both day and night. After Mal Evans started work for The Beatles, Aspinall was promoted to become their personal assistant, later becoming chief executive of their company, Apple Corps.
On behalf of Apple, Aspinall was involved in notable court cases against Allen Klein, EMI, and Apple Computer. He supervised the marketing of music, videos, and merchandising, as well being a director of Standby Films, which was run from his home in Twickenham, London. On 10 April 2007, Aspinall retired from Apple Corps. He died of lung cancer in New York City in 2008.
Aspinall was born in Prestatyn, North Wales, after his mother had been evacuated from the family home in Liverpool because of the air-raids on Liverpool during the Second World War, while Aspinall's father was away at sea with the Royal Navy. Aspinall and his mother returned to Liverpool later in 1942 after the bombing had subsided. Aspinall later attended West Derby School, where he passed his 11-plus exams. When he was twelve years old, Aspinall gained a place at the Liverpool Institute in Mount Street, and was in the same class as Paul McCartney for English and Art lessons.
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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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Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop and rock music releases from the 1960s through the 1990s including many notable Rolling Stones releases.
Hopkins was born in Perivale, Middlesex, England. His musical talent emerged early and he began playing piano at age three. He was initially tutored by a local piano teacher and in his teens he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. He suffered from Crohn's disease from his youth. Poor health and ongoing surgery made it difficult for him to tour. This resulted in his working primarily as a studio player for most of his career.
Hopkins' studies were interrupted in 1960 when he left school at 16 to became the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages until, two years later, he and fellow Savages Bernie Watson, Rick Brown (Fenson) and Carlo Little, joined the renowned blues harmonica player Cyril Davies, who had just left Blues Incorporated, and became the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars. Hopkins played piano on their first single, Davies' much-admired theme tune "Country Line Special". However he was forced to leave the All Stars in May 1963 for a series of operations that almost cost him his life and was bed-ridden for nineteen months in his late 'teens. During his convalescence Davies died of leukaemia and The All Stars disbanded.
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Pattie Boyd
Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model, photographer and author. She began her fashion career in 1962, and worked in London, New York, and Paris, modelling in London, New York, and Paris (for Mary Quant and others), and was photographed by David Bailey, and Terence Donovan. She appeared on the cover of Vogue and wrote for 16 Magazine.
She is the former wife of musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and claims that she was the inspiration for songs written by both musicians: Harrison's "Something", "I Need You", "For You Blue" and "Isn't It a Pity", and Clapton's "Layla", "Wonderful Tonight" and "Bell Bottom Blues".
An exhibition of photographs taken by Boyd during her relationships with Harrison and Clapton opened at the San Francisco, California San Francisco Art Exchange on February 14, 2005, titled Through the Eye of a Muse. They have been exhibited worldwide, including shows in San Francisco, Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London, and throughout the USA. Boyd's autobiography, Wonderful Today: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, was published in England on 23 August 2007 (in the U.S. as Wonderful Tonight).
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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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Pete Best
Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician, principally known as the original drummer in The Beatles. He was born in the city of Madras, which was then part of British India. After his mother moved to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), opened The Casbah Coffee Club, in the cellar of the Bests' large house in Liverpool, which became very popular, having a membership of over 1,000. The Beatles (at the time known as The Quarrymen) played some of their earliest concerts at the club. Best played there with his first band, The Black Jacks, and later with The Beatles.
Best was invited to join The Beatles on 12 August 1960, on the eve of the group's first Hamburg season of club dates. He was eventually replaced by Ringo Starr on 16 August 1962, when The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, dismissed Best under the direction of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, following The Beatles' first recording session at Abbey Road Studios. After working in a number of commercially unsuccessful groups he gave up the music industry to work as a civil servant for twenty years, before starting The Pete Best Band. He has been married for over 45 years to Kathy Best; they have two daughters and four grandchildren. Best is sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".
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Pete Sears
Peter "Pete" Sears (born 27 May 1948, Bromley, Kent) is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues. He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.
Sears played on the classic Rod Stewart albums Gasoline Alley,Every Picture Tells A Story which was listed high in Rolling Stone Magazine's top 500 best albums of all time, Never a Dull Moment, and Smiler. He also played on the hit singles Maggie May, and Reason To Believe. During this period, Sears toured the US with Long John Baldry blues band, and played with John Cipollina in Copperhead.
Sears was with Jefferson Starship from 1974 to 1987, and went on to play in the Jorma Kaukonen Trio with Kaukonen and Michael Falzarano. He also played with Kaukonen and Falzarano along with Jack Casady and Harvey Sorgen in Hot Tuna.
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Peter Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English born naturalized American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. Frampton's international breakthrough album was his live release, Frampton Comes Alive!. The album sold over 6 million copies in the United States alone and spawned several hits. Since then he has released several major albums. He has also worked with David Bowie and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, among others. Frampton is best known for such hits as "Breaking All The Rules", "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", and "I'm in You", which remain staples on classic-rock radio. He has also appeared as himself in television shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. Frampton is known for his work as a guitar player and particularly with a Talkbox and his tenor voice.
Frampton was born in Bromley, England. He attended Bromley Technical High School, at which his father, Owen Frampton, was a teacher and the head of the Art department. He first became interested in music when he was seven years old. Upon discovering his grandmother's banjolele (a banjo-shaped ukulele) in the attic, he taught himself to play, and later taught himself to play guitar and piano as well. At age eight he started taking classical music lessons.
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Peter Meaden
Peter Alexander Edwin Meaden (11 November 1941 - 29 July 1978) was a publicist for various musicians and the first manager for The Who. He was a prominent figure in the English mod subculture of the early 1960s. He is sometimes referred to as the "Mod Father" or "Mod God", either way his influence has left a mark on the Mod subculture to this day.
Meaden was born to Stanley and Rosina Meaden (née Alexander) on 11 November 1941. He has one brother, Gerald. As a teenager, Meaden worked in a restaurant before embracing the mod subculture and establishing himself as a face (a trend-setter within the mod scene). Meaden was involved with Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, and was roommates with Mick Jagger. He was often seen around The Scene, a night club in west London. Peter was business partner to Andrew Oldham, who was for a while the Rolling Stones manager. Meaden also managed the band Arrows in the early 1970s.
After becoming manager of The Who, Meaden reinvented the band to attract a mod following, changing their name to The High Numbers. He wrote The High Numbers' first and only single, "I'm the Face"; the B-side of which was "Zoot Suit". The songs are set to the tunes of "Got Love If You Want It" by Slim Harpo and "Misery" by The Dynamics, respectively. Meaden wrote new lyrics, incorporating mod-related themes such as fashion and dancing. The single didn't become a hit, and most of the copies that sold were bought by Meaden in a chart fix. After losing control of the band, he went on to manage Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, and worked as a publicist for The Crystals, Chuck Berry and The Rolling Stones.
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Peter Shotton
Peter Shotton (born 4 August 1941), commonly referred to as Pete Shotton, is an English businessman and former musician, best known for his long friendship with John Lennon of The Beatles. He was a close childhood friend of Lennon's, and attended Dovedale Infants School and Quarry Bank Grammar School at the same time as the future Beatle. The two boys were frequently in trouble with their teachers and with their headmaster, and they came to be known at Quarry Bank as "Shennon and Lotton" or "Lotton and Shennon."
In 1957, Shotton was Lennon's bandmate in The Quarrymen, playing percussion (specifically, a washboard), until Paul McCartney joined. He was "fired" from the band when, after confiding that he really did not enjoy playing, Lennon smashed the washboard over his head at a party. However, he remained a friend and confidant – as he became friends with all of the Beatles as the group formed.
After the Beatles became famous, Lennon and George Harrison bought a supermarket on Hayling Island, and gave it to Shotton to run. Later, he served as manager of the Apple Boutique, then as the first managing director of Apple Corps.
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Phil McDonald
Philip McDonald is an English recording studio audio engineer, best known as the engineer for EMI and later for Apple during The Beatles studio years alongside with Neil Aspinall, Geoff Emerick, Mal Evans, and others. In Apple, McDonald joined as senior balance engineer. He was just 25. He was responsible at EMI for engineering work on albums by John Lennon, The Shadows, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Roy Harper and George Harrison.
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Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector on December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter.
The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits in 1960–1965. Some of his famous girl groups are The Ronettes and The Crystals. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim. He produced The Beatles' Academy Award winning album Let It Be, and the Grammy Award–winning Concert for Bangladesh by former Beatle George Harrison. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for The Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. airplay in the 20th century.
In 2009 Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life.
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Prairie Prince
Prairie Prince (born Charles Lempriere Prince, May 7, 1950, in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a rock drummer. He was a member of The Tubes and a founding member of Journey. He has also worked with Chris Isaak (on his first four albums), Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, David Byrne, XTC, Tom Waits, Paul Kantner, George Harrison, Dick Dale, Glenn Frey, Richard Marx, Bill Spooner, Neil Hamburger, John Fogerty, Nicky Hopkins, Tommy Bolin, Phil Lesh, and former Tubes and Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick.
He is also a graphic artist, designing the album cover artwork for Rundgren's 1981 album Healing and Welnick's 1998 album Missing Man Formation, amongothers. Along with his creative partner Michael Cotten, he has created numerous set designs for major artists including Billy Joel, Bette Midler, N'Sync, The Tubes, and Todd Rundgren. He also collaborated with Ross Valory, bassist for and also a founding member of Journey, on a line of kids shirts called Mouth Man Animated Hoodies where graphic designs of jaws and teeth on the sleeves form a mouth that can be manipulated when the arms are crossed.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Ray Coleman
Ray Coleman (15 June 1937 – 10 September 1996) was a British author and former Editor-in-chief of Melody Maker known for biographies of The Beatles. Besides Melody Maker, Coleman was a participant with music magazines including Disc, Black Music, and Musicians Only, and a contributor to magazines such as Billboard. An author or co-author of ten books, Coleman was near the completion of a Phil Collins biography at the time of his death. The book was completed and published in 1997.
He was the first journalist to be awarded a Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for services to British music.
Coleman wrote or co-wrote the biographies of at least a dozen famous musicians. They include the following.
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Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly is an English novelist, screenwriter and journalist.
He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for the films That'll Be the Day and the sequel Stardust, for which he won a Writers Guild of Great Britain best screenplay award, and for his many interviews with the Beatles. He was due to interview John Lennon on the day the ex-Beatle was murdered, an event he wrote about in the BBC radio play Unimaginable. In addition to the biography John Lennon 1940-1980, he wrote the introduction to The Beatles Complete songbook.
Ray Connolly was born and brought up in Lancashire and educated at the London School of Economics where he read social anthropology. After entering journalism at the Liverpool Daily Post, he then moved to the London Evening Standard where he interviewed, among others, many Sixties and Seventies rock stars. Many of his interviews with the Beatles are collected in his eBook The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive, while other interviews are collected in Stardust Memories - Talking About My Generation, which is also now available as an eBook
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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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Richard Lester
Richard Lester (born 19 January 1932) is an American film director based in Britain. Lester is notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s and his work on the Superman film series in the 1980s.
Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy, he began studies at the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 15. He started in television in 1950, working as a stage hand, floor manager, assistant director, and then to director in less than a year, because no one else was around that knew how to do the work. In 1953, Lester moved to London and began work as a director in independent television, working for the legendary low cost television producers The Danziger Brothers on episodes of Mark Saber, a half-hour detective series.
A variety show he produced caught the eye of Peter Sellers, who enlisted Lester's help in translating The Goon Show to television as The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d. It was a hit, as were two follow-up shows, A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred. Lester recalls that A Show Called Fred was "broadcast live and that's why I went into film directing where you can do a second take!"
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
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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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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
Ronnie Scott (originally Ronald Schatt) was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of sixteen. (His claim to fame being, he was taught to play by "Vera Lynn's father-in-law!") He toured with Johnny Claes, the trumpeter, from 1944 to 1945 and with Ted Heath in 1946, as well as working with Ambrose, Cab Kaye, and Tito Burns. He was involved in the short-lived musicians' co-operative Club Eleven band and club (1948–1950), with Johnny Dankworth and others, and was a member of the generation of British musicians who worked on the Cunard liner Queen Mary (intermittently 1946–c. 1950) in order to visit New York and hear the new music directly. Scott was among the earliest British musicians to be influenced in his playing style by Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians.
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Ronnie Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and a member of The Rolling Stones since 1975. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.
Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined The Birds on guitar. He then joined the mod group The Creation, but only remained with the group for a short time, and appeared on a small number of singles. Wood joined The Jeff Beck Group in 1967. They released two albums, Truth and Beck-Ola, which became moderate successes. The group split in 1969, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones in a new group, dubbed the Faces. The group, although relegated to "cult" status in the US, found great success in the UK and mainland Europe. The Faces released their debut album, First Step, in 1970. The group went on to release Long Player and A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse in 1971. Their last LP, entitled Ooh La La, was released in 1973. After the group split, Wood began several solo projects, eventually recording his first solo LP, I've Got My Own Album to Do, in 1974. The album featured former bandmate McLagan as well as former Beatle George Harrison and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, a longtime friend of Wood's. Richards soon invited Wood to join The Rolling Stones, after the departure of Mick Taylor. Wood joined in 1975, and has remained a member ever since.
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Rory Storm
Rory Storm (21 September 1939 – 28 September 1972) was an English singer and musician. Born Alan Caldwell in Liverpool, Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who were contemporaries of The Beatles in the late 1950s, and early 1960s. Ringo Starr was the drummer for The Hurricanes before joining The Beatles in August 1962.
The Hurricanes were one of the most popular acts on the Liverpool and Hamburg club scenes during their existence, although their attempt at a recording career was not successful. They released only two singles, the second one being a version of the West Side Story song "America", which was produced by The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein.
When Storm's father died, he returned from Amsterdam to Liverpool to be with his mother at Stormsville, at 54 Broadgreen Road, Broadgreen, Liverpool. On 27 September 1972, Storm developed a chest infection and could not sleep properly, so he took sleeping pills. The next day Storm and his mother were both found dead. A post mortem determined that Storm had not taken enough pills to kill himself, but it was suspected that his mother had, after finding her son's body.
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Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many musicians, including Larry Blackmon, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Randy Newman, Earl Hines, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, The Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Pops and Mavis Staples, Flaco Jiménez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Freddy Fender, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ali Farka Touré. He formed the band Little Village with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.
Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), which became a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.
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Screaming Lord Sutch
David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as "Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow", or simply "Screaming Lord Sutch", was a musician from the United Kingdom. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections.
Sutch was born at New End Hospital, Hampstead, northwest London. In the 1960s, inspired by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, he changed his artist name to "Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow", despite having no connection with the peerage. His legal name remained David Edward Sutch.
After his career as an early-'60s rock 'n' roll attraction, it became customary for the UK press to refer to him as "Screaming Lord Sutch", or simply "Lord Sutch". Early works included recordings produced by audio pioneer Joe Meek.
During the 1960s, Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Alice Cooper. Accompanied by his band, the Savages, he started by coming out of a black coffin. Other props included knives and daggers, skulls and "bodies". Sutch booked themed tours, such as 'Sutch and the Roman Empire', where Sutch and the band members would be dressed up as Roman soldiers.
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Shel Talmy
Shel Talmy (born August 11, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American record producer, songwriter, arranger best known for his work in London with The Who and The Kinks in the 1960s, with a role in many other English bands including Cat Stevens and Pentangle. Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, "My Generation" by The Who, and "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats. He also played guitar or tambourine on some of his productions.
Talmy was born in Chicago, and from an early age he was interested both in music—early rock, rhythm and blues, folk music, and country music as well as technology. At 13 Talmy appeared regularly on the popular NBC-TV television show Quiz Kids, a question-and-answer program out of Chicago. He told Chris Ambrose of Tokion Magazine, "What it did for me was that I absolutely knew that this was the business I wanted to be in."
He became a recording engineer at Conway Studios in Los Angeles for owner/engineer Phil Yeend, who trained Talmy on three-track recording equipment, and three days after starting at Conway, Talmy had his first production assignment, the record "Falling Star" by Debbie Sharon. At Conway, he worked with artists like Gary Paxton, with surf bands like The Castells and The Marketts, and R&B pioneers, Rene Hall and Bumps Blackwell.
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Sid Bernstein
Sid Bernstein (born August 12, 1918) is an American music producer and promoter. Bernstein changed the American music scene in the 1960s by bringing The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Moody Blues, The Kinks and The Beatles to America. He was the first impresario to organize rock concerts at sports stadiums.
Sid Bernstein was born in New York City in 1918. During World War II, he served in France.
Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by bringing The Beatles over to the United States from Britain. They played at Carnegie Hall after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Bernstein also booked them at Shea Stadium, a concert that Bernstein described as "inaudible." During the Beatles Shea concert, Bernstein had the phrase "The Rascals are coming!" displayed on the Shea Stadium scoreboard. "I had met the Rascals in the summer of '65; I put their name up on the scoreboard (at Shea) - 'The Rascals are coming! The Rascals are coming!' A lot of people who hadn't seen pictures of them thought they were a black group. I sensed something big about them."
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Steve Lillywhite
Stephen Lillywhite, CBE (born 1955) is an English Grammy Award winning record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited for working on over 500 records and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Simple Minds, Chris Cornell, The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Peter Gabriel, Morrissey, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pogues, Beady Eye, Blue October and Phish.
Lillywhite entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, where he worked with many of the leading new wave musicians. His first commercial success was with Siouxsie and the Banshees in August 1978, after producing their first single, "Hong Kong Garden". He also produced "Ku Klux Klan" - the first single that Steel Pulse released under Island Records in 1978.
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Stuart Sutcliffe
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a Scottish artist and musician, best known as the original bass player of The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue a career as an artist, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with coming up with the name "The Beatles", as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. As a member of the group when it was a five-piece band, Sutcliffe is one of several people sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".
When The Beatles played in Hamburg, he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. He later enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art after leaving The Beatles, and studied under future pop art artist, Eduardo Paolozzi. He earned praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to abstract expressionism. In 1962, Sutcliffe collapsed in the middle of an art class in Hamburg after complaining of head pains. German doctors performed various checks on him, but were unable to determine exactly what was causing the headaches. On 10 April 1962, he was taken to hospital, but died in the ambulance on the way.
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Tim Bogert
John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III (born August 27, 1944 Ridgefield, New Jersey) is an American musician. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School in his hometown in 1963. As a bass guitarist and vocalist he is best known for his bass solos and his work with Vanilla Fudge,Cactus and the power trio; Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Vanilla Fudge was formed along with Mark Stein, Vince Martell, and Carmine Appice. They recorded five albums during the years 1967-69, before disbanding in 1970. The band has reunited in various configurations over the years.
In 1970 Bogert formed the rock band Cactus with drummer Carmine Appice, guitarist Jim McCarty and Rusty Day, and played with guitarist Jeff Beck, after the second Jeff Beck Group had disbanded in 1972 and eventually became a member of the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice, late in 1972. As a member of the post second Jeff Beck Group, also known as Jeff Beck Group he toured Europe, Japan and US from January 1972 until January 1974. In late 1975, he played bass guitar on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary Of Rock 'n' Roll all-star album.
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Tony Barrow
Tony Barrow (born in Crosby, Merseyside, England, 1936) is an English press officer who worked with The Beatles between 1962 and 1968. He coined the phrase "The Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.
While in the late 1950s when teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were putting together their earliest group in one part of the city, Tony Barrow was presenting jazz bands and skiffle/folk groups at local dance halls and clubs across town in the north Merseyside suburb of Crosby. Educated locally at Merchant Taylors School he then studied languages at Durham University. In 1954, when he was still a 17-year-old sixth form schoolboy, he landed his first regular freelance writing job as pop/rock record reviewer for the Liverpool Echo, the largest-selling provincial evening newspaper in the UK.
At the beginning of the 1960s, while The Beatles paid their dues in the Hamburg clubs, Barrow moved from Crosby to London to work for the Decca Record Company where he wrote the liner notes that appeared on the back of LP album covers. From his new London base he continued to contribute his weekly record column to the Liverpool Echo and when Liverpool record retailer Brian Epstein signed The Beatles to a management deal at the end of 1961 he contacted Barrow for professional advice. This led to an informal arrangement whereby Barrow became The Beatles' part-time press/publicity consultant which involved promoting the launch of the new EMI band from behind a desk at rival London record company Decca. His earliest task for Epstein was to co-ordinate a media publicity campaign to surround the release of the group's first UK single, "Love Me Do", on EMI's Parlophone label in October 1962. He was paid a one-off freelance fee of around 50 US dollars to compile The Beatles' initial press kit.
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Tony Chapman
Anthony 'Tony' Chapman was a British drummer, especially active during the 1960s. He played with an early line-up of The Rolling Stones before they settled on their permanent band members. He appeared with the band in 1962, including a performance at Sidcup Art College, Bexley, which Keith Richards had attended, and was probably the drummer at the first official performance of the group, on 12 July 1962 at the Marquee Club in London.
Chapman was the person through whom Bill Wyman was enlisted to the Stones, having been in Wyman's band The Cliftons. It was Chapman who made enquiries about vacancies with the Stones and discovered they might be found at the Wetherby Arms on the King's Road, Chelsea. He and Wyman turned up for a run-through and although they had doubts about the blues style and did not like the name, agreed to join on a make-or-break basis. Another drummer, Steve Harris, also sat in for some sessions - Charlie Watts was still with Alexis Korner. After a short time Chapman felt he did not fit in with the way-out approach of the group and left to form a band called The Preachers. It was not long after Wyman joined the group that Watts took over the drums.
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Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan (born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on 21 May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk), is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as an early collaborator of The Beatles, (though the record was labelled as being with "The Beat Brothers"), one of two non-Beatles (the other being Billy Preston) to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the only non-Beatle to appear as lead singer on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.
In his early life, Sheridan was influenced by his parents' interest in classical music, and by age seven, he had learned to play the violin. He eventually came to play guitar, and in 1956, formed his first band. He showed enough talent that he soon found himself playing in London's "Two I's" club for some six months straight, but at the same time he also found himself reduced to sleeping in doorways. In 1958, at 18, he began appearing on the BBC's Oh Boy, playing electric guitar on such early Rock classics as "Blue Suede Shoes", "Glad All Over", "Mighty Mighty Man" and "Oh Boy!". Sheridan was soon viewed as a very promising guitarist and as such was employed backing a number of singers, reportedly including Gene Vincent and Conway Twitty while they were in England. Early in 1960, Sheridan performed in a package tour of the United Kingdom which also included Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. On April 17, Vincent and Cochran rebuffed his request to ride along with them to the next venue, but he thereby escaped the road accident which would leave Cochran dead and Vincent badly injured. He also played guitar for Cherry Wainer on her recording of "Happy Organ".
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ（小野 洋子）, Ono Yōko?, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music which prefigured New Wave music and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. The name "Yoko" means "ocean child". Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after and Yoko met her father when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.
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- The Boudoir Stomp
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- Edward's Thrump Up
- Blow With Ry
- Interlude a la el Hopo
- Highland Fling
- Mr Big
- Yesterday
- Goldfinger
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Jenni
- Acapulco 22
- You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
- Love Letters
- The Unlonely Bull
- Satisfaction
- Paris Bells
- The Ilejistry Pig
- Sundown in Mexico
- Waiting for the Band
- Edward
- Dolly
- Speed On
- Dreamer
- Banana Anna
- Lawyer's Lament
- Shout It Out
- Pig's Boogie
- Getting in Tune
- Monkey Man
- Shady Grove
- Crippled Inside
- We Can Be Together
- Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
- You're Breakin' My Heart
- Morning Dew
- Tore Up Over You
- Barabajagal
- Photograph
- Sunny Afternoon
- Exercising Some Control
- Revolution
- Your Saving Grace
- Let's See Action
- Angie
- Jealous Guy
- Volunteers
Born: 1944-02-24
Died: 1994-09-06
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Nicky Hopkins - Waiting For The Band
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
THE TIN MAN WAS A DREAMER NICKY HOPKINS (1944-1994)was an English pianist and organist.
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THE TIN MAN WAS A DREAMER NICKY HOPKINS (1944-1994)was an English pianist and organist.
Merrell Fankhauser Nicky Hopkins Interiew
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- Duration: 8:02
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
This interview is from Merrell's 1991 TV show "California Music". Merrell talks with legendary musician Nicky Hopkins about his early years in music.
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This interview is from Merrell's 1991 TV show "California Music". Merrell talks with legendary musician Nicky Hopkins about his early years in music.
- published: 15 Mar 2008
- views: 20069
- author: fankhauser66
Nicky Hopkins - Blues standard - "The homecoming"
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- Duration: 9:08
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Village Music 23rd Anniversary Party August 5, 1991 Sweetwater Mill Valley, California, USA Here Nicky plays a blues standard, and his own composition "The homecoming", 3 years before he passed away.
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Village Music 23rd Anniversary Party August 5, 1991 Sweetwater Mill Valley, California, USA Here Nicky plays a blues standard, and his own composition "The homecoming", 3 years before he passed away.
- published: 09 Aug 2012
- views: 1616
- author: dandelion1967
EDWARD - Nicky Hopkins (piano)
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- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass ************************************************ guacha bato
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Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass ************************************************ guacha bato
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 17773
- author: missantropica
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Midnight rambler 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 12:32
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 9255
- author: dandelion1967
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live 1969, with David Crosby and Nicky Hopkins)
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Aug 19, 1969 - the Woodstock Show). Grace Slick (vocal), Marty Balin (vocal, tambourine), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocal), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Nicky Hopkins (piano), David Crosby (tambourine, vocal).
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www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Aug 19, 1969 - the Woodstock Show). Grace Slick (vocal), Marty Balin (vocal, tambourine), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocal), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Nicky Hopkins (piano), David Crosby (tambourine, vocal).
- published: 06 Nov 2011
- views: 22336
- author: beograund
Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys and Nicky Hopkins - You Gotta Move
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- Duration: 7:27
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspot.com.ar
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from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspot.com.ar
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 3890
- author: Nick Drake
Blow With Ry - Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
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- Duration: 11:05
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
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Nicky Hopkins - Dreamer
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- Duration: 5:49
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
track 6 from "The tin man was a dreamer", 1973.
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Piano Shuffle by Nicky Hopkins
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
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Nicky Hopkins for Quicksilver Messenger Service - Spindrifter
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
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Angie - Bill Wyman Charlie Watts Nicky Hopkins
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- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Angie with no voice and guitars. "Angie" was written primarily by Keith Richards. The song is an acoustic guitar driven ballad which tells of the end of a romance. The song is noted for its poignant lyrics concerning lost love and the grieving involved. Singer Mick Jagger gives a wrenching performance for the recording, while Stones-recording regular Nicky Hopkins plays the song's distinctive piano chords
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Angie with no voice and guitars. "Angie" was written primarily by Keith Richards. The song is an acoustic guitar driven ballad which tells of the end of a romance. The song is noted for its poignant lyrics concerning lost love and the grieving involved. Singer Mick Jagger gives a wrenching performance for the recording, while Stones-recording regular Nicky Hopkins plays the song's distinctive piano chords
- published: 04 Jul 2009
- views: 17119
- author: idonthavemuchjam
Banana Anna - Nicky Hopkins (vocals, piano) HQ
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- Duration: 4:47
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
it' was a 1973, album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass BANANA ANNA - lyrics She used to sell' em and stand there on the cor-ner She made a whole lot of money on the side Well, she could really feel ' em big bananas She leamed to do the bo banana slide She bought 'em with the apples at the market She bought a bunch of green ones on the side While she was watching the green bananas ripen She leamed to do the bo banana slide Honey, honey, Let me be your partner tonight You can make it sunny, we don't need no money Please take me down tonigh, Darlin' ain't no fun in it, lord she keep me run-nin' When you throw me through your strides Well all the monkies in town were swinging Swinging like a moon in the tide Well she was a speedy Anna Banana Because they do the bo banana slide Well she walked into the room wearing yellow She had a big hat with a feather on the side She said, Honey come with me, you're the fellow I gotta teach you this banana slide Banana Anna Slips and slides across the floor Anna, Can I Come and wake you up until dawn, yeah Banana Anna Slips and slides across the floor Anna sweet Anna now can I baby Come and wake you up until dawn Now all the rocking till dawn was ringing Swinging ...
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it' was a 1973, album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass BANANA ANNA - lyrics She used to sell' em and stand there on the cor-ner She made a whole lot of money on the side Well, she could really feel ' em big bananas She leamed to do the bo banana slide She bought 'em with the apples at the market She bought a bunch of green ones on the side While she was watching the green bananas ripen She leamed to do the bo banana slide Honey, honey, Let me be your partner tonight You can make it sunny, we don't need no money Please take me down tonigh, Darlin' ain't no fun in it, lord she keep me run-nin' When you throw me through your strides Well all the monkies in town were swinging Swinging like a moon in the tide Well she was a speedy Anna Banana Because they do the bo banana slide Well she walked into the room wearing yellow She had a big hat with a feather on the side She said, Honey come with me, you're the fellow I gotta teach you this banana slide Banana Anna Slips and slides across the floor Anna, Can I Come and wake you up until dawn, yeah Banana Anna Slips and slides across the floor Anna sweet Anna now can I baby Come and wake you up until dawn Now all the rocking till dawn was ringing Swinging ...
- published: 10 Feb 2009
- views: 8100
- author: missantropica
Nicky Hopkins - Speed On
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- Duration: 4:02
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Nicky Hopkins - Speed On
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Revolution - The Spongetones with Nicky Hopkins - www.facebook.com/Spongetones
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on piano in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. Nicky played keyboards on the original Beatles recording in 1968. He also played with the Rolling Stones and many other legends.
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www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on piano in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. Nicky played keyboards on the original Beatles recording in 1968. He also played with the Rolling Stones and many other legends.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 15394
- author: Ray Henderson
Nicky Hopkins - Dolly
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- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
I'm not the author neither of the song nor of the picture. Only coupled them and wanted to share.
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I'm not the author neither of the song nor of the picture. Only coupled them and wanted to share.
- published: 21 Mar 2010
- views: 1154
- author: TheSquazzafuscus
![She's A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones (full length album version) [The Daily Vinyl music video #02]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130102053757im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jl3arNBLcHE/default.jpg "She's A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones (full length album version) [The Daily Vinyl music video #02]")
She's A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones (full length album version) [The Daily Vinyl music video #02]
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- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The Daily Vinyl video #02: "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones (full length album version - includes the intro). Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy today's feature brought to you by www.TheDailyVinyl. Don't you just miss the magic of watching that black circle spinning while your favorite song plays? Me too! That's why these videos have been created by "The Dude" at www.thedailyvinyl.com. All videos are made with the love and respect for the featured artists. Thanks to The Rolling Stones for making such amazing music! On "She's A Rainbow" the intro was recorded outside Chichester Magistrates Court. You can hear the court's PR-man who directed the journalists into their positions just before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards left the building after receiving their sentence in 1967. The single was released Dec 1967 and went to #25 in the US Many of the uploads were removed by YoutTube, but you can see more creative locations at www.TheDailyVinyl.com. For more information and to talk about your random music memories, visit www.thedailyvinyl.com.
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The Daily Vinyl video #02: "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones (full length album version - includes the intro). Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy today's feature brought to you by www.TheDailyVinyl. Don't you just miss the magic of watching that black circle spinning while your favorite song plays? Me too! That's why these videos have been created by "The Dude" at www.thedailyvinyl.com. All videos are made with the love and respect for the featured artists. Thanks to The Rolling Stones for making such amazing music! On "She's A Rainbow" the intro was recorded outside Chichester Magistrates Court. You can hear the court's PR-man who directed the journalists into their positions just before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards left the building after receiving their sentence in 1967. The single was released Dec 1967 and went to #25 in the US Many of the uploads were removed by YoutTube, but you can see more creative locations at www.TheDailyVinyl.com. For more information and to talk about your random music memories, visit www.thedailyvinyl.com.
- published: 02 Jul 2009
- views: 91581
- author: TheDailyVinyl
Dolly - Nicky Hopkins,voal.mpg
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- Duration: 4:47
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
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Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
- published: 24 Aug 2011
- views: 614
- author: hawaiicommunitymedia
Edwards Thump Up - Nicky Hopkins, Jamming With Edward.mpg
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- Duration: 7:58
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
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Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 721
- author: hawaiicommunitymedia
It Hurts Me Too - Nicky Hopkins, Jamming With Edward.mpg
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- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
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Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 1946
- author: hawaiicommunitymedia
Goldfinger - Nicky Hopkins.mpg
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
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Thissite features songs from Nicky Hopkins Mr. Session Man, A Complete Anthology: The Classic Sessions And Solo Work 1961-1994. This Anthology is a 350 song private collection. The 1961- 1980 material was provided by Nicky Hopkins and is from his personal archives, The 19881-1994 material was provided by Nicky's many friends and associates over many years.
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 442
- author: hawaiicommunitymedia
Julian Dawson - "Nicky Hopkins" - Edition Elke Heidenreich bei C.Bertelsmann
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- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Die erste Biografie über den größten Rockpianisten aller Zeiten, der mit den erfolgreichsten Rockbands spielte: Beatles, Who, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck ... Wenn man die Plattencover der großen Rockbands der 60er bis 80er Jahre studiert, taucht immer wieder ein Name auf: Nicky Hopkins. Kaum ein Sessionmusiker war so gefragt wie dieser Rockpianist, der Hits wie »Sympathy for the Devil«, »Revolution« oder »You Are so Beautiful« prägte und damit Rockgeschichte schrieb. In diesem reich bebilderten Buch kommen ua Keith Richards, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend und Rod Stewart zu Wort, denn neben den Beatles und den Rolling Stones gehörten Who, Kinks und Jeff Beck zu Nickys Hauptklienten. Zur Buch-Info: www.randomhouse.de
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Die erste Biografie über den größten Rockpianisten aller Zeiten, der mit den erfolgreichsten Rockbands spielte: Beatles, Who, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck ... Wenn man die Plattencover der großen Rockbands der 60er bis 80er Jahre studiert, taucht immer wieder ein Name auf: Nicky Hopkins. Kaum ein Sessionmusiker war so gefragt wie dieser Rockpianist, der Hits wie »Sympathy for the Devil«, »Revolution« oder »You Are so Beautiful« prägte und damit Rockgeschichte schrieb. In diesem reich bebilderten Buch kommen ua Keith Richards, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend und Rod Stewart zu Wort, denn neben den Beatles und den Rolling Stones gehörten Who, Kinks und Jeff Beck zu Nickys Hauptklienten. Zur Buch-Info: www.randomhouse.de
- published: 08 Jun 2010
- views: 2275
- author: RandomhouseOnline
Postcard from Nicky Hopkins
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- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Legendary pianoman Nicky Hopkins (Beatles, Stones, Who and about 20 million others) sent this postcard to a girlfriend while he was in Hawaii back in 1970.
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Legendary pianoman Nicky Hopkins (Beatles, Stones, Who and about 20 million others) sent this postcard to a girlfriend while he was in Hawaii back in 1970.
- published: 24 Nov 2010
- views: 713
- author: hardrock
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Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live 1969, with David Crosby and Nicky Hopkins)
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Aug 19, 1969 - the Woodstock Show). Grace Slick (vocal), Marty Balin (vocal, tambourine), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocal), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Nicky Hopkins (piano), David Crosby (tambourine, vocal).
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www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Aug 19, 1969 - the Woodstock Show). Grace Slick (vocal), Marty Balin (vocal, tambourine), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocal), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Nicky Hopkins (piano), David Crosby (tambourine, vocal).
- published: 06 Nov 2011
- views: 22336
- author: beograund
Revolution - The Spongetones with Nicky Hopkins - www.facebook.com/Spongetones
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on piano in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. Nicky played keyboards on the original Beatles recording in 1968. He also played with the Rolling Stones and many other legends.
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www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on piano in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. Nicky played keyboards on the original Beatles recording in 1968. He also played with the Rolling Stones and many other legends.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 15394
- author: Ray Henderson
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Subway (Live 1970)
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
www.beograund.com QMS in full line-up Dino Valenti, Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, Greg Elmore & Nicky Hopkins.
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www.beograund.com QMS in full line-up Dino Valenti, Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, Greg Elmore & Nicky Hopkins.
- published: 20 Jul 2008
- views: 40127
- author: beograund
Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man 1973 European Tour
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- Duration: 4:56
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor, Billy Preston - keyboards, vocals Steve Madaio - trumpet, flugelhorn Bobby Keys - saxophone (until 30 September 1973) Trevor Lawrence - saxophone Manuel Kellough - percussion (some dates) Marshall Chess - Tambourine on Street Fighting Man (some dates)
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Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor, Billy Preston - keyboards, vocals Steve Madaio - trumpet, flugelhorn Bobby Keys - saxophone (until 30 September 1973) Trevor Lawrence - saxophone Manuel Kellough - percussion (some dates) Marshall Chess - Tambourine on Street Fighting Man (some dates)
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 4570
- author: rollingstonessmugged
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - All down the line 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 21 Sep 2010
- views: 7344
- author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Rip this joint 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 31 Dec 2011
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 3522
- author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Midnight rambler 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 12:32
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 9255
- author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Love in vain 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 7:09
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 14414
- author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - You can't always get what you want 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 7:55
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 5326
- author: dandelion1967
EDWARD - Nicky Hopkins (piano)
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- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass ************************************************ guacha bato
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Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass ************************************************ guacha bato
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 17773
- author: missantropica
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Jumping Jack Flash 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
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- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
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ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 3869
- author: dandelion1967
Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder Quicksilver Messenger Service
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- Duration: 8:09
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Quicksilver Messenger Service with Nicky Hopkins performing Edward, (The Mad Shirt Grinder) in a live audio recording circa early 1970 (stereo) High quality version: www.youtube.com :) quicksilvermessengerservice.com True concert footage of Quicksilver Messenger Service remains rare, and any hardcore fan of the band will want to get the limited edition 3 DVD set "Recoil" which includes never before seen video (seen by me anyway) of Quicksilver Messenger Service live in concert! A truly bitchin' extended psychedelic version of Who Do You Love is my personal fave! Watching the duel lead guitars of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan is something to see! anyway, get "Recoil" here while it's still available www.johncipollina.comPresented under fair use for educational purposes, materials all rights reserved by the original owners. THE USE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 & 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED
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Quicksilver Messenger Service with Nicky Hopkins performing Edward, (The Mad Shirt Grinder) in a live audio recording circa early 1970 (stereo) High quality version: www.youtube.com :) quicksilvermessengerservice.com True concert footage of Quicksilver Messenger Service remains rare, and any hardcore fan of the band will want to get the limited edition 3 DVD set "Recoil" which includes never before seen video (seen by me anyway) of Quicksilver Messenger Service live in concert! A truly bitchin' extended psychedelic version of Who Do You Love is my personal fave! Watching the duel lead guitars of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan is something to see! anyway, get "Recoil" here while it's still available www.johncipollina.comPresented under fair use for educational purposes, materials all rights reserved by the original owners. THE USE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 & 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED
- published: 05 May 2008
- views: 19846
- author: aurora1957A
MERRELL FANKHAUSER & BAND & NICKY HOPKINS -'DON'T GIVE UP THE ROCK'
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
from the DVD "TIKI LOUNGE' Vol 1. available from www.gonzomultimedia.com Merrell and his band are joined by legendary keyboard player Nicky Hopkins for a live concert. Vol 1 - program 2 Merrell Fankhauser And Friends live 1991 concert featuring piano great Nicky Hopkins. "Boppin The Blues", "Got Me Runnin Spider And The Fly", "Lucille", Merrells song "Dont Give Up The Rock", "Long Tall Sally" and "Matchbox".
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from the DVD "TIKI LOUNGE' Vol 1. available from www.gonzomultimedia.com Merrell and his band are joined by legendary keyboard player Nicky Hopkins for a live concert. Vol 1 - program 2 Merrell Fankhauser And Friends live 1991 concert featuring piano great Nicky Hopkins. "Boppin The Blues", "Got Me Runnin Spider And The Fly", "Lucille", Merrells song "Dont Give Up The Rock", "Long Tall Sally" and "Matchbox".
- published: 12 Jun 2011
- views: 55
- author: GonzoMusicTV
John Cipollina-Terry & The Pirates w/Nicky Hopkins
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
John Cipollina, of Quicksilver Messenger Service
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John Cipollina, of Quicksilver Messenger Service
- published: 03 Mar 2007
- views: 33535
- author: Stephen Anderson
Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys and Nicky Hopkins - You Gotta Move
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- Duration: 7:27
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspot.com.ar
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from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspot.com.ar
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 3890
- author: Nick Drake
Merrell Fankhauser Nicky Hopkins - Lucille
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 21 Mar 2012
This Clip is From 1991 at a Concert in Pismo Beach Califorina with Merrell and his band Featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano and Merrells son Tim on Guitar and Vocal.Art Dougall on Drums and Frank Parades on Bass.
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This Clip is From 1991 at a Concert in Pismo Beach Califorina with Merrell and his band Featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano and Merrells son Tim on Guitar and Vocal.Art Dougall on Drums and Frank Parades on Bass.
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 3483
- author: thedrifter50s
The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (Live) - OFFICIAL
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
The Rolling Stones performing "Rip This Joint", live in Texas, June 1972. "Rip This Joint" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "Rip This Joint" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com
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The Rolling Stones performing "Rip This Joint", live in Texas, June 1972. "Rip This Joint" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "Rip This Joint" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 71257
- author: TheRollingStones
The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL
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- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The Rolling Stones performing "Sweet Virginia", live in Texas, June 1972. "Sweet Virginia" was originally featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, and has also appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Casino. This version was filmed in Texas in 1972 and features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. "Sweet Virginia" - Studio version itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com "Sweet Virginia"- Live (from Stripped) itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair - The 1973 live album from the European leg of the tour www.stonesarchivestore.com
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The Rolling Stones performing "Sweet Virginia", live in Texas, June 1972. "Sweet Virginia" was originally featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, and has also appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Casino. This version was filmed in Texas in 1972 and features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. "Sweet Virginia" - Studio version itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com "Sweet Virginia"- Live (from Stripped) itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair - The 1973 live album from the European leg of the tour www.stonesarchivestore.com
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 184831
- author: TheRollingStones
The Rolling Stones - All Down The Line (Live) - OFFICIAL
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The Rolling Stones performing "All Down The Line", live in Texas, June 1972. "All Down The Line" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "All Down The Line" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com "All Down The Line"- Live itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com
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The Rolling Stones performing "All Down The Line", live in Texas, June 1972. "All Down The Line" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "All Down The Line" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com "All Down The Line"- Live itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 85511
- author: TheRollingStones
Merrell Fankhauser -- Boppin The Blues
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 04 Jun 2012
Merrell Fankhauser, Nicky Hopkins and Roger Capps got together for this live jam for Merrell's TV show California Music 1991.
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Merrell Fankhauser, Nicky Hopkins and Roger Capps got together for this live jam for Merrell's TV show California Music 1991.
- published: 16 Oct 2006
- views: 5338
- author: manfrommu
Jefferson Airplane ~ Live at Woodstock ~ Somebody To Love ~ 1969
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
Jefferson Airplane performing Somebody To Love during the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on the Max Yasgur Farm in Bethel, NY. Recorded live on Sunday morning August 16th, 1969. Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden, Nicky Hopkins, Jack Casady.
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Jefferson Airplane performing Somebody To Love during the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on the Max Yasgur Farm in Bethel, NY. Recorded live on Sunday morning August 16th, 1969. Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden, Nicky Hopkins, Jack Casady.
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 2845
- author: Gilded Cage
Jeff Beck Group - Natural Woman (Live 1968)
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- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
JEFF BECK GROUP Sunday 3 November 1968 at GRANDE BALLROOM in Detroit's Original Rock and Roll Palace BAND: Jeff Beck - guitar Rod Stewart - vocals Nicky Hopkins - keyboards Ron Wood - bass Mickey Waller - drums SETLIST: 01 Shapes Of Things 02 You Shook Me & Let Me Love You 03 Blues De Luxe...
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JEFF BECK GROUP Sunday 3 November 1968 at GRANDE BALLROOM in Detroit's Original Rock and Roll Palace BAND: Jeff Beck - guitar Rod Stewart - vocals Nicky Hopkins - keyboards Ron Wood - bass Mickey Waller - drums SETLIST: 01 Shapes Of Things 02 You Shook Me & Let Me Love You 03 Blues De Luxe...
- published: 16 Apr 2011
- views: 941
- author: san5a89
Screaming Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends - 'Election Fever' + 'Rock The Election' - 1970 45rpm
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- Duration: 7:02
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
Never giving up his dream of being an MP, or even PM, Sutch amassed his Heavy Friends, who were Ritchie Blackmore, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, Noel Redding and John Bonham. (surely with a line-up like that, these tracks should sound better than this!)
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Never giving up his dream of being an MP, or even PM, Sutch amassed his Heavy Friends, who were Ritchie Blackmore, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, Noel Redding and John Bonham. (surely with a line-up like that, these tracks should sound better than this!)
- published: 25 Mar 2009
- views: 9387
- author: LoonPantsVinyl
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JGB 12/20/1975 Let's Spend the Night Together - Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder
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- Duration: 21:20
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Had been looking for this for a few years after it being on a mystery CD I had lost. Finally found the right one I was after... Sooo I wanna share it with yall. Enjoy :) 12/20/1975 Jerry Garcia John Kahn Nicky Hopkins Ron Tutt
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Had been looking for this for a few years after it being on a mystery CD I had lost. Finally found the right one I was after... Sooo I wanna share it with yall. Enjoy :) 12/20/1975 Jerry Garcia John Kahn Nicky Hopkins Ron Tutt
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 215
- author: themantommy09
Jerry Garcia Band - Let's Spend the Night Together - 11-1-75 - Passaic, NJ
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- Duration: 20:04
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Improbably smoking version of the Stones chestnut, featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano. From the late show at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, November 1, 1975.
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Improbably smoking version of the Stones chestnut, featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano. From the late show at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, November 1, 1975.
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 101
- author: agitatorsband
trash
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- Duration: 29:03
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Basketball Jones features an all-star band with George Harrison on guitar; Carole King on electric piano; Tom Scott on Saxophone; Billy Preston on organ; Nicky Hopkins on piano; and vocals by Ronnie Spector and Michelle Phillips. • First broadcast on 1974-02-24
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Basketball Jones features an all-star band with George Harrison on guitar; Carole King on electric piano; Tom Scott on Saxophone; Billy Preston on organ; Nicky Hopkins on piano; and vocals by Ronnie Spector and Michelle Phillips. • First broadcast on 1974-02-24
- published: 18 Sep 2012
- views: 115
- author: blurrymachine
Their Satanic Majesties Request (full album)
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- Duration: 37:17
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
2012 remix by moi side1 00:25 side2 15:53 The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- lead and backing vocals, percussion Keith Richards -- guitars, backing vocals Brian Jones -- Mellotron, percussion, organ, flute, recorder, sitar on "Gomper", electric dulcimer, saxophone, concert harp, theremin Charlie Watts -- drums, percussion, tablas Bill Wyman -- bass, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "In Another Land" Additional personnel Nicky Hopkins -- piano, harpsichord, organ, Mellotron John Paul Jones -- string arrangement on "She's a Rainbow" Eddie Kramer -- percussion Ronnie Lane -- backing vocals on "In Another Land" Steve Marriott -- backing vocals and acoustic guitar on "In Another Land" John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- vocals on "Sing This All Together" Anita Pallenberg -- backing vocals Uncredited musicians -- strings and brass
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2012 remix by moi side1 00:25 side2 15:53 The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- lead and backing vocals, percussion Keith Richards -- guitars, backing vocals Brian Jones -- Mellotron, percussion, organ, flute, recorder, sitar on "Gomper", electric dulcimer, saxophone, concert harp, theremin Charlie Watts -- drums, percussion, tablas Bill Wyman -- bass, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "In Another Land" Additional personnel Nicky Hopkins -- piano, harpsichord, organ, Mellotron John Paul Jones -- string arrangement on "She's a Rainbow" Eddie Kramer -- percussion Ronnie Lane -- backing vocals on "In Another Land" Steve Marriott -- backing vocals and acoustic guitar on "In Another Land" John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- vocals on "Sing This All Together" Anita Pallenberg -- backing vocals Uncredited musicians -- strings and brass
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 80595
- author: Mark Magnolia
Jefferson Airplane 1969 Woodstock Experience, The
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- Duration: 99:26
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
"Three Days Of Peace & Music", das war der Slogan vom 15. - 17. August 1969, beim legendären Woodstock-Festival. Aber auch politisch wurde es in Woodstock - spätestens dann, wenn Jefferson Airplane die 'Volunteers Of America' dazu aufriefen, eine Revolution anzuzetteln: »Hey now it's time for you and me ,got a revolution, got to revolution...« 00:00 Introduction 0:23) 00:23 The Other Side of This Life [Neil] (8:17) 08:40 Somebody To Love [Slick] (4:31) 13:12 3/15 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds [Balin] (5:30) 18:43 Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon [Kantner] (5:06) 23:48 Eskimo Blue Day [Kantner, Slick] (6:55) 30:42 Plastic Fantastic Lover [Balin] (4:35) 35:16 Wooden Ships [Crosby, Kantner, Stills] (21:25) 56:41 Uncle Sam Blues [Traditional] (6:12) 1:02:52 Volunteers [Balin, Kantner] (3:16) 1:06:07 The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil (Kantner] (15:29) 1:21:36 Come Back Baby [Traditional] (6:05) 1:27:40 White Rabbit [Slick] (2:27) 1:30:07 The House At Pooneil Corners [Balin, Kantner] (9:17) Grace Slick (vocals) Marty Balin (vocals) Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals) Jorma Kaukonen (guitar) Jack Casady (bass) Spencer Dryden (drums) Nicky Hopkins (piano) »Alright, friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music, believe me, it's a new dawn...« The Airplane's set is a long one, the longest in the Woodstock Experience series, clocking in at over 90 minutes, but it's enthralling throughout. Whether it's the electrified versions of the tunes from Surrealistic ...
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"Three Days Of Peace & Music", das war der Slogan vom 15. - 17. August 1969, beim legendären Woodstock-Festival. Aber auch politisch wurde es in Woodstock - spätestens dann, wenn Jefferson Airplane die 'Volunteers Of America' dazu aufriefen, eine Revolution anzuzetteln: »Hey now it's time for you and me ,got a revolution, got to revolution...« 00:00 Introduction 0:23) 00:23 The Other Side of This Life [Neil] (8:17) 08:40 Somebody To Love [Slick] (4:31) 13:12 3/15 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds [Balin] (5:30) 18:43 Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon [Kantner] (5:06) 23:48 Eskimo Blue Day [Kantner, Slick] (6:55) 30:42 Plastic Fantastic Lover [Balin] (4:35) 35:16 Wooden Ships [Crosby, Kantner, Stills] (21:25) 56:41 Uncle Sam Blues [Traditional] (6:12) 1:02:52 Volunteers [Balin, Kantner] (3:16) 1:06:07 The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil (Kantner] (15:29) 1:21:36 Come Back Baby [Traditional] (6:05) 1:27:40 White Rabbit [Slick] (2:27) 1:30:07 The House At Pooneil Corners [Balin, Kantner] (9:17) Grace Slick (vocals) Marty Balin (vocals) Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals) Jorma Kaukonen (guitar) Jack Casady (bass) Spencer Dryden (drums) Nicky Hopkins (piano) »Alright, friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music, believe me, it's a new dawn...« The Airplane's set is a long one, the longest in the Woodstock Experience series, clocking in at over 90 minutes, but it's enthralling throughout. Whether it's the electrified versions of the tunes from Surrealistic ...
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 341
- author: Grasshopper Eddie
Jeff Beck Group- Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca 12/7/68
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- Duration: 89:01
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
1. You Shook Me 2. Let Me Love You 3. The Sun Is Shining 4. Rice Pudding 5. Shapes Of Things 6. Jeff's boogie 7. Blues De Luxe 8. Ain't Superstitious 9. Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye 10. Rock My Plimsoul Jeff Beck - guitar Rod Stewart - vocals Nicky Hopkins - piano Ron Wood - bass Mickey Waller - drums
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1. You Shook Me 2. Let Me Love You 3. The Sun Is Shining 4. Rice Pudding 5. Shapes Of Things 6. Jeff's boogie 7. Blues De Luxe 8. Ain't Superstitious 9. Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye 10. Rock My Plimsoul Jeff Beck - guitar Rod Stewart - vocals Nicky Hopkins - piano Ron Wood - bass Mickey Waller - drums
- published: 05 Mar 2012
- views: 6469
- author: carlfio56
Los Rolling Stones cumplen 50 años sobre los escenarios el 12 de julio de 2012, Coloquio
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- Duration: 29:00
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
El 12 de julio de 1962 actuaban por primera vez The Rolling Stones en el Marquee de Londres. El 12 de julio de 2012 se cumplen 50 años de la formación de The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Ian Stewart, Dick Taylor, Mick Avory, Ian Stewart, Tony Chapman, Alexis Korner, Andrew Loog Oldham, Allen Klein, Jack Nitzsche, Marianne Faithfull, Bianca, Linda Keith, Anita Pallenberg, Patti Hansen, Steve Marriott, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Miller, Gram Parsons, Faces, Darryl Jones Mesa redonda-coloquio con Jordi Güell, coleccionista y fan de los Rolling Stones; Alfred Crespo, Director de la revista Ruta 66; Carlos Domínguez "Charlie", Bajista del grupo "Los Suaves", que en 1999 actuaron como teloneros de The Rolling Stones en Santiago de Compostela; y Aurelio Morata, Productor musical. Emitido por la 2 de RTVE en el programa Para todos la 2, el 15 de mayo de 2012. Visita dirtyrock.eu y Dirty Rock facebook www.facebook.com Celebrating 50 years of the Rolling Stones, Their Majesties, The Glimmer Twins July 12 2012, after they began at The Marquee in 1962. Discussion about The Rolling Stones and their fifty years on the road, Jordi Güel, Stones and Fan Collector, Alfred Crespo Ruta 66 Magazine's Director, Carlos Domínguez "Charlie" Los Suaves Bass player and Aurelio Morata Music Producer.
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El 12 de julio de 1962 actuaban por primera vez The Rolling Stones en el Marquee de Londres. El 12 de julio de 2012 se cumplen 50 años de la formación de The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Ian Stewart, Dick Taylor, Mick Avory, Ian Stewart, Tony Chapman, Alexis Korner, Andrew Loog Oldham, Allen Klein, Jack Nitzsche, Marianne Faithfull, Bianca, Linda Keith, Anita Pallenberg, Patti Hansen, Steve Marriott, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Miller, Gram Parsons, Faces, Darryl Jones Mesa redonda-coloquio con Jordi Güell, coleccionista y fan de los Rolling Stones; Alfred Crespo, Director de la revista Ruta 66; Carlos Domínguez "Charlie", Bajista del grupo "Los Suaves", que en 1999 actuaron como teloneros de The Rolling Stones en Santiago de Compostela; y Aurelio Morata, Productor musical. Emitido por la 2 de RTVE en el programa Para todos la 2, el 15 de mayo de 2012. Visita dirtyrock.eu y Dirty Rock facebook www.facebook.com Celebrating 50 years of the Rolling Stones, Their Majesties, The Glimmer Twins July 12 2012, after they began at The Marquee in 1962. Discussion about The Rolling Stones and their fifty years on the road, Jordi Güel, Stones and Fan Collector, Alfred Crespo Ruta 66 Magazine's Director, Carlos Domínguez "Charlie" Los Suaves Bass player and Aurelio Morata Music Producer.
- published: 29 May 2012
- views: 3798
- author: dirtyrockeu
![Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [Full Album]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130102053757im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T0r0J2YSzcg/default.jpg "Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [Full Album]")
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [Full Album]
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- Duration: 44:59
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Jefferson Airplane's 5th studio album for RCA Victor in it's entirety, originally release in November of 1969. (Presented here in 440 real time w/o any pitch or time alterations.) TRACK LISTING 1. We Can Be Together - 0:00 2. Good Shepherd - 5:49 3. The Farm - 10:13 4. Hey Fredrick - 13:28 5. Turn My Life Down - 22:03 6. Wooden Ships - 25:00 7. Eskimo Blue Day - 31:26 8. A Song for All Seasons - 38:05 9. Meadowlands - 41:40 10. Volunteers - 42:49 "The Bay Area band looks at a world going down the tubes. Share the laughter and become one of the volunteers of America." The album was marked with strong anti-war and pro-anarchism songs. The theme of nature, communities and ecology was also explored with the songs "The Farm" and "Eskimo Blue Day". The title track was inspired by a "Volunteers of America" garbage truck that awoke singer Marty Balin one morning. The original title of the album was intended to be Volunteers of Amerika, a corruption of Volunteers of America, an American version of the Salvation Army charity; the term being in vogue as an ironic expression of dissatisfaction with America; however the charity objected so the name was shortened to Volunteers. The album provoked even more controversy with lyrics such as "Up against the wall, motherfucker" (from the song "We Can Be Together") which appeared on the opening track and "shit" which is said several times on "Eskimo Blue Day". Musically, the album is characterized by lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's razor ...
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Jefferson Airplane's 5th studio album for RCA Victor in it's entirety, originally release in November of 1969. (Presented here in 440 real time w/o any pitch or time alterations.) TRACK LISTING 1. We Can Be Together - 0:00 2. Good Shepherd - 5:49 3. The Farm - 10:13 4. Hey Fredrick - 13:28 5. Turn My Life Down - 22:03 6. Wooden Ships - 25:00 7. Eskimo Blue Day - 31:26 8. A Song for All Seasons - 38:05 9. Meadowlands - 41:40 10. Volunteers - 42:49 "The Bay Area band looks at a world going down the tubes. Share the laughter and become one of the volunteers of America." The album was marked with strong anti-war and pro-anarchism songs. The theme of nature, communities and ecology was also explored with the songs "The Farm" and "Eskimo Blue Day". The title track was inspired by a "Volunteers of America" garbage truck that awoke singer Marty Balin one morning. The original title of the album was intended to be Volunteers of Amerika, a corruption of Volunteers of America, an American version of the Salvation Army charity; the term being in vogue as an ironic expression of dissatisfaction with America; however the charity objected so the name was shortened to Volunteers. The album provoked even more controversy with lyrics such as "Up against the wall, motherfucker" (from the song "We Can Be Together") which appeared on the opening track and "shit" which is said several times on "Eskimo Blue Day". Musically, the album is characterized by lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's razor ...
- published: 16 Feb 2012
- views: 40878
- author: guitargods2009
Frank Zappa present: GTO's - Permanent Damage (1969)
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- Duration: 31:31
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
The GTO's were a "groupie group" made up of young women familiar to musicians in the Los Angeles area. Most prominent among them was Miss Pamela who, as Pamela Des Barres, wrote the kiss-and-tell memoir I'm with the Band. Frank Zappa--Producer Lowell George--Producer (7,11) Sparky (Sparkie Parker)--Composer David Jones--Composer Miss Christine--Vocals Miss Cinderella--Vocals Miss Mercy--Vocals Miss Pamela--Vocals Miss Sandra--Vocals more about the girls right here: en.wikipedia.org + Ian Underwood--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) Don Preston--Synthesizer (9) Roy Estrada--Bass (1, 5, 14, 17) Jimmy Carl Black--Drums (1, 5, 14, 17) Frank Zappa--Tambourine (17) Nicky Hopkins--Keyboards (14) Craig Doerge--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) + Jeff Beck--Guitar (1, 14) Rod Stewart--Vocals (14) Rodney Bingenheimer--vocals (10) Lowell George (7, 11) Russ Titleman (7, 11) Ry Cooder--guitar? (11) Tracklist: 01 The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady 03:46 02 Miss Pamela &Miss; Sparky Discuss Stuffed Bras & Some of Their 02:09 03 Who's Jim Sox 00:17 04 Kansas and the BTO's 01:12 05 The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes 01:55 06 Wouldn't It Be Sad if There Were No Cones 01:10 07 Do Me in Once and I'll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I'll Know Better 02:18 08 The Moche Monster Review 01:45 09 TV Lives 01:03 10 Rodney 03:42 11 I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle 02:10 12 Miss Christine's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of 00:56 13 The Original GTO's 01:04 14 The Ghost Chained to the Past, Present ...
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The GTO's were a "groupie group" made up of young women familiar to musicians in the Los Angeles area. Most prominent among them was Miss Pamela who, as Pamela Des Barres, wrote the kiss-and-tell memoir I'm with the Band. Frank Zappa--Producer Lowell George--Producer (7,11) Sparky (Sparkie Parker)--Composer David Jones--Composer Miss Christine--Vocals Miss Cinderella--Vocals Miss Mercy--Vocals Miss Pamela--Vocals Miss Sandra--Vocals more about the girls right here: en.wikipedia.org + Ian Underwood--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) Don Preston--Synthesizer (9) Roy Estrada--Bass (1, 5, 14, 17) Jimmy Carl Black--Drums (1, 5, 14, 17) Frank Zappa--Tambourine (17) Nicky Hopkins--Keyboards (14) Craig Doerge--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) + Jeff Beck--Guitar (1, 14) Rod Stewart--Vocals (14) Rodney Bingenheimer--vocals (10) Lowell George (7, 11) Russ Titleman (7, 11) Ry Cooder--guitar? (11) Tracklist: 01 The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady 03:46 02 Miss Pamela &Miss; Sparky Discuss Stuffed Bras & Some of Their 02:09 03 Who's Jim Sox 00:17 04 Kansas and the BTO's 01:12 05 The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes 01:55 06 Wouldn't It Be Sad if There Were No Cones 01:10 07 Do Me in Once and I'll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I'll Know Better 02:18 08 The Moche Monster Review 01:45 09 TV Lives 01:03 10 Rodney 03:42 11 I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle 02:10 12 Miss Christine's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of 00:56 13 The Original GTO's 01:04 14 The Ghost Chained to the Past, Present ...
- published: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 1609
- author: DarcoEddie
Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Berkeley, CA - 10 11 75 (SBD)
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- Duration: 152:00
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Berkeley, CA 10/11/75 Soundboard Jerry Garcia: Guitar John Kahn: Bass Nicky Hopkins: Keyboards Ron Tutt: Drums --Set I-- All By Myself Catfish John (11:33) That's What Love Will Make You Do (25:00) It's Too Late (36:35) Teddy Bear's Picnic (44:21) Pig's Boogie (49:22) Crazy Arms (57:18) Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1:05:20) (I'm A) Road Runner (1:16:53) --Set II-- Let It Rock Tore Up Over You Mission In The Rain Lady Sleeps No Time Mystery Train Edward
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Berkeley, CA 10/11/75 Soundboard Jerry Garcia: Guitar John Kahn: Bass Nicky Hopkins: Keyboards Ron Tutt: Drums --Set I-- All By Myself Catfish John (11:33) That's What Love Will Make You Do (25:00) It's Too Late (36:35) Teddy Bear's Picnic (44:21) Pig's Boogie (49:22) Crazy Arms (57:18) Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1:05:20) (I'm A) Road Runner (1:16:53) --Set II-- Let It Rock Tore Up Over You Mission In The Rain Lady Sleeps No Time Mystery Train Edward
- published: 21 Jun 2012
- views: 727
- author: Whoaduderighteous
George Harrison Living in the Alternate World (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 42:52
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Alternate Takes from LITMW 1973 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) 0:00 Sue Me Sue You Blues 3:39 The Light That Has Lighted the World 8:39 Don't Let Me Wait Too Long 12:14 Who Can See It 15:19 Living in the Material World 19:14 The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord) 24:48 Be Here Now 29:26 The Day The World Gets 'Round 33:41 That Is All 36:36 Miss O'Dell 40:17
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Alternate Takes from LITMW 1973 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) 0:00 Sue Me Sue You Blues 3:39 The Light That Has Lighted the World 8:39 Don't Let Me Wait Too Long 12:14 Who Can See It 15:19 Living in the Material World 19:14 The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord) 24:48 Be Here Now 29:26 The Day The World Gets 'Round 33:41 That Is All 36:36 Miss O'Dell 40:17
- published: 03 Aug 2012
- views: 1021
- author: AI0no
McGuinnes Flint - 1971 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby
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- Duration: 35:45
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
reupload.. The start times are approximate ~ 00:00 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby (3:23) 03:23 Conversation (3:07) 06:30 When I'm Alone With You (2:41) 09:11 Fixer (3:55) 13:06 Faith And Gravy (2:44) 15:50 Klondike (2:09) 18:00 Reader To Writer (2:39) 20:39 Changes (2:44) 23:23 Friends Of Mine (2:52) 26:15 Piper Of Dreams (3:42) 29:57 Jimmy's Song (3:34) 33:31 Sparrow (2:59) In the early '70s, Capitol had both the Band and McGuinness Flint on their roster, with both bands producing the best work of their careers. Like the Band, McGuinness Flint excelled by ignoring trends in rock music and drawing on styles with deeper roots. Also like the Band, Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby is a follow-up that often surpasses their exceptional debut album. Where Dylan's former backup band was making the cover of Time magazine, though, McGuinness Flint remained largely unknown outside their native England. Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby, with solid production by Glynn Johns and the gifted Nicky Hopkins on piano, expands on the rustic tone of the band's first album. The title track is a rousing pub rock tribute to one of the band's supporters, a touching picture of life as a struggling musician. Jazz influences permeate the propulsive "Reader to Writer" and "Fixer," with its stunning trombone solo. "Klondike" is a slice of Americana that could easily pass for a Robbie Robertson composition, and the acoustic "Sparrow" is as moving as any ballad to come out of the '70s. From beginning to end, Happy ...
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reupload.. The start times are approximate ~ 00:00 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby (3:23) 03:23 Conversation (3:07) 06:30 When I'm Alone With You (2:41) 09:11 Fixer (3:55) 13:06 Faith And Gravy (2:44) 15:50 Klondike (2:09) 18:00 Reader To Writer (2:39) 20:39 Changes (2:44) 23:23 Friends Of Mine (2:52) 26:15 Piper Of Dreams (3:42) 29:57 Jimmy's Song (3:34) 33:31 Sparrow (2:59) In the early '70s, Capitol had both the Band and McGuinness Flint on their roster, with both bands producing the best work of their careers. Like the Band, McGuinness Flint excelled by ignoring trends in rock music and drawing on styles with deeper roots. Also like the Band, Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby is a follow-up that often surpasses their exceptional debut album. Where Dylan's former backup band was making the cover of Time magazine, though, McGuinness Flint remained largely unknown outside their native England. Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby, with solid production by Glynn Johns and the gifted Nicky Hopkins on piano, expands on the rustic tone of the band's first album. The title track is a rousing pub rock tribute to one of the band's supporters, a touching picture of life as a struggling musician. Jazz influences permeate the propulsive "Reader to Writer" and "Fixer," with its stunning trombone solo. "Klondike" is a slice of Americana that could easily pass for a Robbie Robertson composition, and the acoustic "Sparrow" is as moving as any ballad to come out of the '70s. From beginning to end, Happy ...
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 78
- author: Grasshopper Eddie
Steve Kimock, Bernie Worrell, Henry Kaiser + more @ Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA 7/22/12
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- Duration: 121:03
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
I finally got around to taping one of my favorite artists, Steve Kimock. Guest appearance from Henry Kaiser. Live at Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA, on 7/22/12. Top notch band with Kimock this time around, with Bernie Worrell from Parliament, and it shows with a sellout crowd in Santa Cruz on a Sunday night. Steve doesn't always open a can of whupass when he plays, but I think you'll find this version of 'Up To You' with Henry Kaiser to be easily as good as the one Kimock did with Tom Coster at the Great American Music Hall on 12/28/00, and that one is hard to beat. This one is very Dark Star-ish, transcendental. First time I saw Steve was '88 when the original Zero with John Cippolina played in Golden Gate Park with Jerry Garcia. I believe this is the only time Kimock and Garcia played together live. I didn't really know who I was seeing at the time, other than seeing Cippolina in the bands Fish and Chips and The Dinosaurs and his background, and the Fat Man of course, and kind of filed Zero in the back of my head. Later in '88 I was given a dead tape with a short first set, so as filler on side B they had 'Here Goes Nothing', Zero's first album. After it grew on me from a few listens, I decided I needed to check this band out again. They were opening for Stephen Stills at the Fillmore in March of '89, so I decided to go for it. The original band lineup at that point was Steve Kimock on guitar, Tony Saunders (Merl Saunders Son) on bass, Banana (keyboardist from the ...
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I finally got around to taping one of my favorite artists, Steve Kimock. Guest appearance from Henry Kaiser. Live at Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA, on 7/22/12. Top notch band with Kimock this time around, with Bernie Worrell from Parliament, and it shows with a sellout crowd in Santa Cruz on a Sunday night. Steve doesn't always open a can of whupass when he plays, but I think you'll find this version of 'Up To You' with Henry Kaiser to be easily as good as the one Kimock did with Tom Coster at the Great American Music Hall on 12/28/00, and that one is hard to beat. This one is very Dark Star-ish, transcendental. First time I saw Steve was '88 when the original Zero with John Cippolina played in Golden Gate Park with Jerry Garcia. I believe this is the only time Kimock and Garcia played together live. I didn't really know who I was seeing at the time, other than seeing Cippolina in the bands Fish and Chips and The Dinosaurs and his background, and the Fat Man of course, and kind of filed Zero in the back of my head. Later in '88 I was given a dead tape with a short first set, so as filler on side B they had 'Here Goes Nothing', Zero's first album. After it grew on me from a few listens, I decided I needed to check this band out again. They were opening for Stephen Stills at the Fillmore in March of '89, so I decided to go for it. The original band lineup at that point was Steve Kimock on guitar, Tony Saunders (Merl Saunders Son) on bass, Banana (keyboardist from the ...
- published: 31 Jul 2012
- views: 878
- author: phyuckyeu2
Mabuz Electro House MEGAmix vol 29
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:50
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
01. Johan K feat Sasha Wind - One more day (Dj Mikis mix) 02. John Dahlback feat Urban Cone & Lucas Nord - Embrace me (Dirty South mix) 03. Kaskade vs Nicky Romero & Tommy Trash - Empty streets solar end (Kaskade Mash Up) 04. Justin Michael feat AJ from Saint Motel - Eyes closed (original mix) 05. Kaskade vs Qulinez - Stars troll (ext mix) 06. Kourosh Tazmini feat Anda Adam - Can u feel love (ext mix) 07. Laurent Wolf - No stress (Rocos mix) 08. Laurentiu Duta feat Andreea Banica - Shining heart (ext mix) 09. Leo Rodriguez - Bara bará bere berê (Dj Tom Hopkins mix) 10. Kaira feat Kazibo - Besame (club mix) 11. Lissat & Voltaxx - Dreams 2012 (original mix) 12. Liviu Hodor feat Mona - Je t'aime (ext mix)
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01. Johan K feat Sasha Wind - One more day (Dj Mikis mix) 02. John Dahlback feat Urban Cone & Lucas Nord - Embrace me (Dirty South mix) 03. Kaskade vs Nicky Romero & Tommy Trash - Empty streets solar end (Kaskade Mash Up) 04. Justin Michael feat AJ from Saint Motel - Eyes closed (original mix) 05. Kaskade vs Qulinez - Stars troll (ext mix) 06. Kourosh Tazmini feat Anda Adam - Can u feel love (ext mix) 07. Laurent Wolf - No stress (Rocos mix) 08. Laurentiu Duta feat Andreea Banica - Shining heart (ext mix) 09. Leo Rodriguez - Bara bará bere berê (Dj Tom Hopkins mix) 10. Kaira feat Kazibo - Besame (club mix) 11. Lissat & Voltaxx - Dreams 2012 (original mix) 12. Liviu Hodor feat Mona - Je t'aime (ext mix)
- published: 09 Oct 2012
- views: 78
- author: ioana popa
Senate Session 2011-06-30 (09:29:51-10:31:19)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 61:29
- Updated: 09 Jul 2012
After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and vote on confirmation of the nomination, at approximately 2 pm
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After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and vote on confirmation of the nomination, at approximately 2 pm
- published: 01 Jul 2011
- views: 714
- author: CSPANSenate2011
Psychology Lecture Series: The Human Genome
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 83:00
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Richard Leach presents "The Human Genome: Will You Be Able To Pre-Order The Sex, Height, and Personality Of Your New Baby?" for GRCC's 2011-2012 Psychology Lecture Series.
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Richard Leach presents "The Human Genome: Will You Be Able To Pre-Order The Sex, Height, and Personality Of Your New Baby?" for GRCC's 2011-2012 Psychology Lecture Series.
- published: 16 Feb 2012
- views: 6442
- author: GRCCtv
The Invisible Man: S01E01 & 02 - Pilot ~FULL EPISODE~
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- Duration: 86:23
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
I-MAN: Season 1 Episode 1 - "Pilot" (Optional subtitles available in: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian.) (TV Series 2000--2002) "The Invisible Man" (original title) Storyline: "Darien Fawkes is a petty thief and conman who is bailed out of jail by his brother in return for undergoing an experiment that implants a "quicksilver" gland in his head that allows him to turn invisible. When his brother is killed, he ends up working for a top-secret government organization (disguised as the Department of Fish & Game) in return for a counter-agent which keeps the gland from driving him insane." Details: Country: USA Language: English Genres: Comedy | Thriller | Sci-Fi Subtitles: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian Release Date: Jun. 9, 2000 Also Known As: I-Man Rating: 7.7/10 Imdb: www.imdb.com
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I-MAN: Season 1 Episode 1 - "Pilot" (Optional subtitles available in: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian.) (TV Series 2000--2002) "The Invisible Man" (original title) Storyline: "Darien Fawkes is a petty thief and conman who is bailed out of jail by his brother in return for undergoing an experiment that implants a "quicksilver" gland in his head that allows him to turn invisible. When his brother is killed, he ends up working for a top-secret government organization (disguised as the Department of Fish & Game) in return for a counter-agent which keeps the gland from driving him insane." Details: Country: USA Language: English Genres: Comedy | Thriller | Sci-Fi Subtitles: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian Release Date: Jun. 9, 2000 Also Known As: I-Man Rating: 7.7/10 Imdb: www.imdb.com
- published: 25 Jan 2012
- views: 261839
- author: NordenTV
γαμος με τα ολα του επ 3 δημητρακης ο διγαμος μερος 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 43:01
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
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γαμος με τα ολα του επ 11 γαμος με το σοι σου μερος 3
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- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
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Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live 1969, with David Crosby and Nicky Hopkins)
www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Au...
published: 06 Nov 2011
author: beograund
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live 1969, with David Crosby and Nicky Hopkins)
www.beograund.com Jefferson Airplane performs Somebody to Love at the Dick Cavett Show (Aug 19, 1969 - the Woodstock Show). Grace Slick (vocal), Marty Balin (vocal, tambourine), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocal), Jorma Kaukonen (guitar), Jack Casady (bass), Spencer Dryden (drums), Nicky Hopkins (piano), David Crosby (tambourine, vocal).
- published: 06 Nov 2011
- views: 22336
- author: beograund
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Revolution - The Spongetones with Nicky Hopkins - www.facebook.com/Spongetones
www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on pian...
published: 20 Nov 2008
author: Ray Henderson
Revolution - The Spongetones with Nicky Hopkins - www.facebook.com/Spongetones
www.myspace.com - The Spongetones play the Beatles "Revolution" with Nicky Hopkins on piano in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1985. Nicky played keyboards on the original Beatles recording in 1968. He also played with the Rolling Stones and many other legends.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 15394
- author: Ray Henderson
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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Subway (Live 1970)
www.beograund.com QMS in full line-up Dino Valenti, Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, David Fre...
published: 20 Jul 2008
author: beograund
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Subway (Live 1970)
www.beograund.com QMS in full line-up Dino Valenti, Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, Greg Elmore & Nicky Hopkins.
- published: 20 Jul 2008
- views: 40127
- author: beograund
4:56
Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man 1973 European Tour
Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor, Billy Preston - keyboards, vocals Steve...
published: 28 Jan 2011
author: rollingstonessmugged
Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man 1973 European Tour
Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor, Billy Preston - keyboards, vocals Steve Madaio - trumpet, flugelhorn Bobby Keys - saxophone (until 30 September 1973) Trevor Lawrence - saxophone Manuel Kellough - percussion (some dates) Marshall Chess - Tambourine on Street Fighting Man (some dates)
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 4570
- author: rollingstonessmugged
4:06
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - All down the line 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 21 Sep 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - All down the line 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 21 Sep 2010
- views: 7344
- author: dandelion1967
2:20
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Rip this joint 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Rip this joint 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 3522
- author: dandelion1967
12:32
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Midnight rambler 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Midnight rambler 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 9255
- author: dandelion1967
7:09
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Love in vain 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Love in vain 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 14414
- author: dandelion1967
7:55
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - You can't always get what you want 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - You can't always get what you want 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 5326
- author: dandelion1967
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EDWARD - Nicky Hopkins (piano)
Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - gu...
published: 14 Jan 2009
author: missantropica
EDWARD - Nicky Hopkins (piano)
Album : The Tin Man Was a Dreamer - 1973 Personnel: Ray Cooper - Percussion Mike Egan - guitar George Harrison - guitar Nicky (Hippie) Hopkins - vocals, keyboards Jim Horn - sax Bobby Keys - sax Jim Price - trumphet Prairie Prince - drums Chris Spedding - guitar Swamp Dogg - voice Mick Taylor - guitar Klaus Voormann - bass ************************************************ guacha bato
- published: 14 Jan 2009
- views: 17773
- author: missantropica
3:19
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Jumping Jack Flash 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARD...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: dandelion1967
ROLLING STONES with NICKY HOPKINS - Jumping Jack Flash 1972 (ISOLATED PIANO TRACK)
ISOLATED PIANO TRACK BY THE LATE GREAT NICKY HOPKINS. RECORDED LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, JULY 1972
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 3869
- author: dandelion1967
8:09
Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service with Nicky Hopkins performing Edward, (The Mad Shirt Grinder...
published: 05 May 2008
author: aurora1957A
Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service with Nicky Hopkins performing Edward, (The Mad Shirt Grinder) in a live audio recording circa early 1970 (stereo) High quality version: www.youtube.com :) quicksilvermessengerservice.com True concert footage of Quicksilver Messenger Service remains rare, and any hardcore fan of the band will want to get the limited edition 3 DVD set "Recoil" which includes never before seen video (seen by me anyway) of Quicksilver Messenger Service live in concert! A truly bitchin' extended psychedelic version of Who Do You Love is my personal fave! Watching the duel lead guitars of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan is something to see! anyway, get "Recoil" here while it's still available www.johncipollina.comPresented under fair use for educational purposes, materials all rights reserved by the original owners. THE USE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 & 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED
- published: 05 May 2008
- views: 19846
- author: aurora1957A
5:19
MERRELL FANKHAUSER & BAND & NICKY HOPKINS -'DON'T GIVE UP THE ROCK'
from the DVD "TIKI LOUNGE' Vol 1. available from www.gonzomultimedia.com Merrell and his b...
published: 12 Jun 2011
author: GonzoMusicTV
MERRELL FANKHAUSER & BAND & NICKY HOPKINS -'DON'T GIVE UP THE ROCK'
from the DVD "TIKI LOUNGE' Vol 1. available from www.gonzomultimedia.com Merrell and his band are joined by legendary keyboard player Nicky Hopkins for a live concert. Vol 1 - program 2 Merrell Fankhauser And Friends live 1991 concert featuring piano great Nicky Hopkins. "Boppin The Blues", "Got Me Runnin Spider And The Fly", "Lucille", Merrells song "Dont Give Up The Rock", "Long Tall Sally" and "Matchbox".
- published: 12 Jun 2011
- views: 55
- author: GonzoMusicTV
0:31
John Cipollina-Terry & The Pirates w/Nicky Hopkins
John Cipollina, of Quicksilver Messenger Service...
published: 03 Mar 2007
author: Stephen Anderson
John Cipollina-Terry & The Pirates w/Nicky Hopkins
John Cipollina, of Quicksilver Messenger Service
- published: 03 Mar 2007
- views: 33535
- author: Stephen Anderson
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29:30
BRISTOL'S FINEST
FIFTY FIFTY / BRISTOL IN BLOOM / SKATEBOARD CAFE present BRISTOL'S FINEST - A Bristol Scen...
published: 03 Jan 2010
author: Bristol's Finest
BRISTOL'S FINEST
FIFTY FIFTY / BRISTOL IN BLOOM / SKATEBOARD CAFE present BRISTOL'S FINEST - A Bristol Scene Video
FEATURING: KORAHN GAYLE / FLYNN TROTMAN / DAN WILEMAN / PAUL CARTER / OWEN HOPKINS / MATT WILLIAMS / TOM GIBBS / DAVE SNADDON / NICKY HOWELLS / ANDY MAKEPEACE / DYLAN HUGHES / JESS YOUNG / LOUIS MARSHALL / ZAK PITTER / JUSTIN SYDENHAM / WILL AINLEY / DANNY WAINWRIGHT / ASHLEY SKIDMORE / ASHTON LAUNCHERLEY / LAYTH SAMI / MARK PRITCHARD / PAT GARRAHY / JACK THOMPSON / CHRIS JONES / BILL SMITH / RICH SMITH / ANDY COLEMAN / LOUIS GANE / TRISTAN BONNOMET / BEN MINORS / JASON LEWER / HARRY OGILVIE / JAMES GUTHRIE / AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHERS.....
0:27
gymkhana show 2012 budapest, 2x2
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: Oli Hardy
gymkhana show 2012 budapest, 2x2
5:45
The Road to Freedom- The Way to Happiness
From the "Road To Freedom" Scientology album, circa 1986.
Track two: "The Way To Happines...
published: 10 Jul 2009
author: Hat Girl
The Road to Freedom- The Way to Happiness
From the "Road To Freedom" Scientology album, circa 1986.
Track two: "The Way To Happiness" performed by Leif Garrett, Gayle Moran, and Nicky Hopkins.
5:10
Cheech & Chong- Basketball Jones (vinyl)
Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces & Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band
From the 1973 LP: "Los Cochinos"
(Od...
published: 20 May 2011
author: JeffN727
Cheech & Chong- Basketball Jones (vinyl)
Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces & Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band
From the 1973 LP: "Los Cochinos"
(Ode SP-77019)
Some big names playing on this:
George Harrison- Guitar
Klaus Voorman- Bass
Jim Karsten- Drums
Jim Keltner- Percussions
Carole King- Electric Piano
Nicky Hopkins- Piano
Tom Scott- Saxaphone
Billy Preston- Organ
George Bohanon, Dick "Slyde" Hyde, Paul Hubinon- Horns
Cheerleaders- The Blossoms:
Darlene Love
Fanita Jones
Jean King
Michelle Phillips
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7:27
Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys and Nicky Hopkins - You Gotta Move
from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspo...
published: 25 Jul 2011
author: Nick Drake
Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys and Nicky Hopkins - You Gotta Move
from the bootleg ''Tumbling Dice'' you can download this from here: elaticomusical.blogspot.com.ar
- published: 25 Jul 2011
- views: 3890
- author: Nick Drake
5:12
Merrell Fankhauser Nicky Hopkins - Lucille
This Clip is From 1991 at a Concert in Pismo Beach Califorina with Merrell and his band Fe...
published: 07 Apr 2008
author: thedrifter50s
Merrell Fankhauser Nicky Hopkins - Lucille
This Clip is From 1991 at a Concert in Pismo Beach Califorina with Merrell and his band Featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano and Merrells son Tim on Guitar and Vocal.Art Dougall on Drums and Frank Parades on Bass.
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 3483
- author: thedrifter50s
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The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (Live) - OFFICIAL
The Rolling Stones performing "Rip This Joint", live in Texas, June 1972. "Rip This Joint"...
published: 01 Jul 2012
author: TheRollingStones
The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint (Live) - OFFICIAL
The Rolling Stones performing "Rip This Joint", live in Texas, June 1972. "Rip This Joint" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "Rip This Joint" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 71257
- author: TheRollingStones
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The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL
The Rolling Stones performing "Sweet Virginia", live in Texas, June 1972. "Sweet Virginia"...
published: 01 Jul 2012
author: TheRollingStones
The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL
The Rolling Stones performing "Sweet Virginia", live in Texas, June 1972. "Sweet Virginia" was originally featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, and has also appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Casino. This version was filmed in Texas in 1972 and features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. "Sweet Virginia" - Studio version itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com "Sweet Virginia"- Live (from Stripped) itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair - The 1973 live album from the European leg of the tour www.stonesarchivestore.com
- published: 01 Jul 2012
- views: 184831
- author: TheRollingStones
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JGB 12/20/1975 Let's Spend the Night Together - Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder
Had been looking for this for a few years after it being on a mystery CD I had lost. Final...
published: 01 May 2012
author: themantommy09
JGB 12/20/1975 Let's Spend the Night Together - Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder
Had been looking for this for a few years after it being on a mystery CD I had lost. Finally found the right one I was after... Sooo I wanna share it with yall. Enjoy :) 12/20/1975 Jerry Garcia John Kahn Nicky Hopkins Ron Tutt
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 215
- author: themantommy09
20:04
Jerry Garcia Band - Let's Spend the Night Together - 11-1-75 - Passaic, NJ
Improbably smoking version of the Stones chestnut, featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano. From ...
published: 14 Sep 2012
author: agitatorsband
Jerry Garcia Band - Let's Spend the Night Together - 11-1-75 - Passaic, NJ
Improbably smoking version of the Stones chestnut, featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano. From the late show at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, November 1, 1975.
- published: 14 Sep 2012
- views: 101
- author: agitatorsband
29:03
trash
Basketball Jones features an all-star band with George Harrison on guitar; Carole King on ...
published: 18 Sep 2012
author: blurrymachine
trash
Basketball Jones features an all-star band with George Harrison on guitar; Carole King on electric piano; Tom Scott on Saxophone; Billy Preston on organ; Nicky Hopkins on piano; and vocals by Ronnie Spector and Michelle Phillips. • First broadcast on 1974-02-24
- published: 18 Sep 2012
- views: 115
- author: blurrymachine
37:17
Their Satanic Majesties Request (full album)
2012 remix by moi side1 00:25 side2 15:53 The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- lead and backi...
published: 15 Jul 2012
author: Mark Magnolia
Their Satanic Majesties Request (full album)
2012 remix by moi side1 00:25 side2 15:53 The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger -- lead and backing vocals, percussion Keith Richards -- guitars, backing vocals Brian Jones -- Mellotron, percussion, organ, flute, recorder, sitar on "Gomper", electric dulcimer, saxophone, concert harp, theremin Charlie Watts -- drums, percussion, tablas Bill Wyman -- bass, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "In Another Land" Additional personnel Nicky Hopkins -- piano, harpsichord, organ, Mellotron John Paul Jones -- string arrangement on "She's a Rainbow" Eddie Kramer -- percussion Ronnie Lane -- backing vocals on "In Another Land" Steve Marriott -- backing vocals and acoustic guitar on "In Another Land" John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- vocals on "Sing This All Together" Anita Pallenberg -- backing vocals Uncredited musicians -- strings and brass
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 80595
- author: Mark Magnolia
99:26
Jefferson Airplane 1969 Woodstock Experience, The
"Three Days Of Peace & Music", das war der Slogan vom 15. - 17. August 1969, beim legendär...
published: 01 Dec 2012
author: Grasshopper Eddie
Jefferson Airplane 1969 Woodstock Experience, The
"Three Days Of Peace & Music", das war der Slogan vom 15. - 17. August 1969, beim legendären Woodstock-Festival. Aber auch politisch wurde es in Woodstock - spätestens dann, wenn Jefferson Airplane die 'Volunteers Of America' dazu aufriefen, eine Revolution anzuzetteln: »Hey now it's time for you and me ,got a revolution, got to revolution...« 00:00 Introduction 0:23) 00:23 The Other Side of This Life [Neil] (8:17) 08:40 Somebody To Love [Slick] (4:31) 13:12 3/15 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds [Balin] (5:30) 18:43 Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon [Kantner] (5:06) 23:48 Eskimo Blue Day [Kantner, Slick] (6:55) 30:42 Plastic Fantastic Lover [Balin] (4:35) 35:16 Wooden Ships [Crosby, Kantner, Stills] (21:25) 56:41 Uncle Sam Blues [Traditional] (6:12) 1:02:52 Volunteers [Balin, Kantner] (3:16) 1:06:07 The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil (Kantner] (15:29) 1:21:36 Come Back Baby [Traditional] (6:05) 1:27:40 White Rabbit [Slick] (2:27) 1:30:07 The House At Pooneil Corners [Balin, Kantner] (9:17) Grace Slick (vocals) Marty Balin (vocals) Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals) Jorma Kaukonen (guitar) Jack Casady (bass) Spencer Dryden (drums) Nicky Hopkins (piano) »Alright, friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music, believe me, it's a new dawn...« The Airplane's set is a long one, the longest in the Woodstock Experience series, clocking in at over 90 minutes, but it's enthralling throughout. Whether it's the electrified versions of the tunes from Surrealistic ...
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 341
- author: Grasshopper Eddie
89:01
Jeff Beck Group- Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca 12/7/68
1. You Shook Me 2. Let Me Love You 3. The Sun Is Shining 4. Rice Pudding 5. Shapes Of Thin...
published: 05 Mar 2012
author: carlfio56
Jeff Beck Group- Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca 12/7/68
1. You Shook Me 2. Let Me Love You 3. The Sun Is Shining 4. Rice Pudding 5. Shapes Of Things 6. Jeff's boogie 7. Blues De Luxe 8. Ain't Superstitious 9. Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye 10. Rock My Plimsoul Jeff Beck - guitar Rod Stewart - vocals Nicky Hopkins - piano Ron Wood - bass Mickey Waller - drums
- published: 05 Mar 2012
- views: 6469
- author: carlfio56
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Los Rolling Stones cumplen 50 años sobre los escenarios el 12 de julio de 2012, Coloquio
El 12 de julio de 1962 actuaban por primera vez The Rolling Stones en el Marquee de Londre...
published: 29 May 2012
author: dirtyrockeu
Los Rolling Stones cumplen 50 años sobre los escenarios el 12 de julio de 2012, Coloquio
El 12 de julio de 1962 actuaban por primera vez The Rolling Stones en el Marquee de Londres. El 12 de julio de 2012 se cumplen 50 años de la formación de The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Ian Stewart, Dick Taylor, Mick Avory, Ian Stewart, Tony Chapman, Alexis Korner, Andrew Loog Oldham, Allen Klein, Jack Nitzsche, Marianne Faithfull, Bianca, Linda Keith, Anita Pallenberg, Patti Hansen, Steve Marriott, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Miller, Gram Parsons, Faces, Darryl Jones Mesa redonda-coloquio con Jordi Güell, coleccionista y fan de los Rolling Stones; Alfred Crespo, Director de la revista Ruta 66; Carlos Domínguez "Charlie", Bajista del grupo "Los Suaves", que en 1999 actuaron como teloneros de The Rolling Stones en Santiago de Compostela; y Aurelio Morata, Productor musical. Emitido por la 2 de RTVE en el programa Para todos la 2, el 15 de mayo de 2012. Visita dirtyrock.eu y Dirty Rock facebook www.facebook.com Celebrating 50 years of the Rolling Stones, Their Majesties, The Glimmer Twins July 12 2012, after they began at The Marquee in 1962. Discussion about The Rolling Stones and their fifty years on the road, Jordi Güel, Stones and Fan Collector, Alfred Crespo Ruta 66 Magazine's Director, Carlos Domínguez "Charlie" Los Suaves Bass player and Aurelio Morata Music Producer.
- published: 29 May 2012
- views: 3798
- author: dirtyrockeu
44:59
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [Full Album]
Jefferson Airplane's 5th studio album for RCA Victor in it's entirety, originally release ...
published: 16 Feb 2012
author: guitargods2009
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [Full Album]
Jefferson Airplane's 5th studio album for RCA Victor in it's entirety, originally release in November of 1969. (Presented here in 440 real time w/o any pitch or time alterations.) TRACK LISTING 1. We Can Be Together - 0:00 2. Good Shepherd - 5:49 3. The Farm - 10:13 4. Hey Fredrick - 13:28 5. Turn My Life Down - 22:03 6. Wooden Ships - 25:00 7. Eskimo Blue Day - 31:26 8. A Song for All Seasons - 38:05 9. Meadowlands - 41:40 10. Volunteers - 42:49 "The Bay Area band looks at a world going down the tubes. Share the laughter and become one of the volunteers of America." The album was marked with strong anti-war and pro-anarchism songs. The theme of nature, communities and ecology was also explored with the songs "The Farm" and "Eskimo Blue Day". The title track was inspired by a "Volunteers of America" garbage truck that awoke singer Marty Balin one morning. The original title of the album was intended to be Volunteers of Amerika, a corruption of Volunteers of America, an American version of the Salvation Army charity; the term being in vogue as an ironic expression of dissatisfaction with America; however the charity objected so the name was shortened to Volunteers. The album provoked even more controversy with lyrics such as "Up against the wall, motherfucker" (from the song "We Can Be Together") which appeared on the opening track and "shit" which is said several times on "Eskimo Blue Day". Musically, the album is characterized by lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's razor ...
- published: 16 Feb 2012
- views: 40878
- author: guitargods2009
31:31
Frank Zappa present: GTO's - Permanent Damage (1969)
The GTO's were a "groupie group" made up of young women familiar to musicians in the Los A...
published: 01 Aug 2012
author: DarcoEddie
Frank Zappa present: GTO's - Permanent Damage (1969)
The GTO's were a "groupie group" made up of young women familiar to musicians in the Los Angeles area. Most prominent among them was Miss Pamela who, as Pamela Des Barres, wrote the kiss-and-tell memoir I'm with the Band. Frank Zappa--Producer Lowell George--Producer (7,11) Sparky (Sparkie Parker)--Composer David Jones--Composer Miss Christine--Vocals Miss Cinderella--Vocals Miss Mercy--Vocals Miss Pamela--Vocals Miss Sandra--Vocals more about the girls right here: en.wikipedia.org + Ian Underwood--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) Don Preston--Synthesizer (9) Roy Estrada--Bass (1, 5, 14, 17) Jimmy Carl Black--Drums (1, 5, 14, 17) Frank Zappa--Tambourine (17) Nicky Hopkins--Keyboards (14) Craig Doerge--Keyboards (1, 5, 14, 17) + Jeff Beck--Guitar (1, 14) Rod Stewart--Vocals (14) Rodney Bingenheimer--vocals (10) Lowell George (7, 11) Russ Titleman (7, 11) Ry Cooder--guitar? (11) Tracklist: 01 The Eureka Springs Garbage Lady 03:46 02 Miss Pamela &Miss; Sparky Discuss Stuffed Bras & Some of Their 02:09 03 Who's Jim Sox 00:17 04 Kansas and the BTO's 01:12 05 The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes 01:55 06 Wouldn't It Be Sad if There Were No Cones 01:10 07 Do Me in Once and I'll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I'll Know Better 02:18 08 The Moche Monster Review 01:45 09 TV Lives 01:03 10 Rodney 03:42 11 I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle 02:10 12 Miss Christine's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of 00:56 13 The Original GTO's 01:04 14 The Ghost Chained to the Past, Present ...
- published: 01 Aug 2012
- views: 1609
- author: DarcoEddie
152:00
Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Berkeley, CA - 10 11 75 (SBD)
Berkeley, CA 10/11/75 Soundboard Jerry Garcia: Guitar John Kahn: Bass Nicky Hopkins: Keybo...
published: 21 Jun 2012
author: Whoaduderighteous
Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Berkeley, CA - 10 11 75 (SBD)
Berkeley, CA 10/11/75 Soundboard Jerry Garcia: Guitar John Kahn: Bass Nicky Hopkins: Keyboards Ron Tutt: Drums --Set I-- All By Myself Catfish John (11:33) That's What Love Will Make You Do (25:00) It's Too Late (36:35) Teddy Bear's Picnic (44:21) Pig's Boogie (49:22) Crazy Arms (57:18) Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1:05:20) (I'm A) Road Runner (1:16:53) --Set II-- Let It Rock Tore Up Over You Mission In The Rain Lady Sleeps No Time Mystery Train Edward
- published: 21 Jun 2012
- views: 727
- author: Whoaduderighteous
42:52
George Harrison Living in the Alternate World (Full Album)
Alternate Takes from LITMW 1973 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) 0:00 Sue Me Sue You ...
published: 03 Aug 2012
author: AI0no
George Harrison Living in the Alternate World (Full Album)
Alternate Takes from LITMW 1973 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) 0:00 Sue Me Sue You Blues 3:39 The Light That Has Lighted the World 8:39 Don't Let Me Wait Too Long 12:14 Who Can See It 15:19 Living in the Material World 19:14 The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord) 24:48 Be Here Now 29:26 The Day The World Gets 'Round 33:41 That Is All 36:36 Miss O'Dell 40:17
- published: 03 Aug 2012
- views: 1021
- author: AI0no
35:45
McGuinnes Flint - 1971 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby
reupload.. The start times are approximate ~ 00:00 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby (3:23) 03:23...
published: 19 Nov 2012
author: Grasshopper Eddie
McGuinnes Flint - 1971 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby
reupload.. The start times are approximate ~ 00:00 Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby (3:23) 03:23 Conversation (3:07) 06:30 When I'm Alone With You (2:41) 09:11 Fixer (3:55) 13:06 Faith And Gravy (2:44) 15:50 Klondike (2:09) 18:00 Reader To Writer (2:39) 20:39 Changes (2:44) 23:23 Friends Of Mine (2:52) 26:15 Piper Of Dreams (3:42) 29:57 Jimmy's Song (3:34) 33:31 Sparrow (2:59) In the early '70s, Capitol had both the Band and McGuinness Flint on their roster, with both bands producing the best work of their careers. Like the Band, McGuinness Flint excelled by ignoring trends in rock music and drawing on styles with deeper roots. Also like the Band, Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby is a follow-up that often surpasses their exceptional debut album. Where Dylan's former backup band was making the cover of Time magazine, though, McGuinness Flint remained largely unknown outside their native England. Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby, with solid production by Glynn Johns and the gifted Nicky Hopkins on piano, expands on the rustic tone of the band's first album. The title track is a rousing pub rock tribute to one of the band's supporters, a touching picture of life as a struggling musician. Jazz influences permeate the propulsive "Reader to Writer" and "Fixer," with its stunning trombone solo. "Klondike" is a slice of Americana that could easily pass for a Robbie Robertson composition, and the acoustic "Sparrow" is as moving as any ballad to come out of the '70s. From beginning to end, Happy ...
- published: 19 Nov 2012
- views: 78
- author: Grasshopper Eddie
121:03
Steve Kimock, Bernie Worrell, Henry Kaiser + more @ Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA 7/22/12
I finally got around to taping one of my favorite artists, Steve Kimock. Guest appearance ...
published: 31 Jul 2012
author: phyuckyeu2
Steve Kimock, Bernie Worrell, Henry Kaiser + more @ Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA 7/22/12
I finally got around to taping one of my favorite artists, Steve Kimock. Guest appearance from Henry Kaiser. Live at Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz CA, on 7/22/12. Top notch band with Kimock this time around, with Bernie Worrell from Parliament, and it shows with a sellout crowd in Santa Cruz on a Sunday night. Steve doesn't always open a can of whupass when he plays, but I think you'll find this version of 'Up To You' with Henry Kaiser to be easily as good as the one Kimock did with Tom Coster at the Great American Music Hall on 12/28/00, and that one is hard to beat. This one is very Dark Star-ish, transcendental. First time I saw Steve was '88 when the original Zero with John Cippolina played in Golden Gate Park with Jerry Garcia. I believe this is the only time Kimock and Garcia played together live. I didn't really know who I was seeing at the time, other than seeing Cippolina in the bands Fish and Chips and The Dinosaurs and his background, and the Fat Man of course, and kind of filed Zero in the back of my head. Later in '88 I was given a dead tape with a short first set, so as filler on side B they had 'Here Goes Nothing', Zero's first album. After it grew on me from a few listens, I decided I needed to check this band out again. They were opening for Stephen Stills at the Fillmore in March of '89, so I decided to go for it. The original band lineup at that point was Steve Kimock on guitar, Tony Saunders (Merl Saunders Son) on bass, Banana (keyboardist from the ...
- published: 31 Jul 2012
- views: 878
- author: phyuckyeu2
57:50
Mabuz Electro House MEGAmix vol 29
01. Johan K feat Sasha Wind - One more day (Dj Mikis mix) 02. John Dahlback feat Urban Con...
published: 09 Oct 2012
author: ioana popa
Mabuz Electro House MEGAmix vol 29
01. Johan K feat Sasha Wind - One more day (Dj Mikis mix) 02. John Dahlback feat Urban Cone & Lucas Nord - Embrace me (Dirty South mix) 03. Kaskade vs Nicky Romero & Tommy Trash - Empty streets solar end (Kaskade Mash Up) 04. Justin Michael feat AJ from Saint Motel - Eyes closed (original mix) 05. Kaskade vs Qulinez - Stars troll (ext mix) 06. Kourosh Tazmini feat Anda Adam - Can u feel love (ext mix) 07. Laurent Wolf - No stress (Rocos mix) 08. Laurentiu Duta feat Andreea Banica - Shining heart (ext mix) 09. Leo Rodriguez - Bara bará bere berê (Dj Tom Hopkins mix) 10. Kaira feat Kazibo - Besame (club mix) 11. Lissat & Voltaxx - Dreams 2012 (original mix) 12. Liviu Hodor feat Mona - Je t'aime (ext mix)
- published: 09 Oct 2012
- views: 78
- author: ioana popa
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29:30
BRISTOL'S FINEST
FIFTY FIFTY / BRISTOL IN BLOOM / SKATEBOARD CAFE present BRISTOL'S FINEST - A Bristol Scen...
published: 03 Jan 2010
author: Bristol's Finest
BRISTOL'S FINEST
FIFTY FIFTY / BRISTOL IN BLOOM / SKATEBOARD CAFE present BRISTOL'S FINEST - A Bristol Scene Video
FEATURING: KORAHN GAYLE / FLYNN TROTMAN / DAN WILEMAN / PAUL CARTER / OWEN HOPKINS / MATT WILLIAMS / TOM GIBBS / DAVE SNADDON / NICKY HOWELLS / ANDY MAKEPEACE / DYLAN HUGHES / JESS YOUNG / LOUIS MARSHALL / ZAK PITTER / JUSTIN SYDENHAM / WILL AINLEY / DANNY WAINWRIGHT / ASHLEY SKIDMORE / ASHTON LAUNCHERLEY / LAYTH SAMI / MARK PRITCHARD / PAT GARRAHY / JACK THOMPSON / CHRIS JONES / BILL SMITH / RICH SMITH / ANDY COLEMAN / LOUIS GANE / TRISTAN BONNOMET / BEN MINORS / JASON LEWER / HARRY OGILVIE / JAMES GUTHRIE / AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHERS.....
0:27
gymkhana show 2012 budapest, 2x2
published: 04 Apr 2012
author: Oli Hardy
gymkhana show 2012 budapest, 2x2
5:45
The Road to Freedom- The Way to Happiness
From the "Road To Freedom" Scientology album, circa 1986.
Track two: "The Way To Happines...
published: 10 Jul 2009
author: Hat Girl
The Road to Freedom- The Way to Happiness
From the "Road To Freedom" Scientology album, circa 1986.
Track two: "The Way To Happiness" performed by Leif Garrett, Gayle Moran, and Nicky Hopkins.
5:10
Cheech & Chong- Basketball Jones (vinyl)
Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces & Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band
From the 1973 LP: "Los Cochinos"
(Od...
published: 20 May 2011
author: JeffN727
Cheech & Chong- Basketball Jones (vinyl)
Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces & Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band
From the 1973 LP: "Los Cochinos"
(Ode SP-77019)
Some big names playing on this:
George Harrison- Guitar
Klaus Voorman- Bass
Jim Karsten- Drums
Jim Keltner- Percussions
Carole King- Electric Piano
Nicky Hopkins- Piano
Tom Scott- Saxaphone
Billy Preston- Organ
George Bohanon, Dick "Slyde" Hyde, Paul Hubinon- Horns
Cheerleaders- The Blossoms:
Darlene Love
Fanita Jones
Jean King
Michelle Phillips
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61:29
Senate Session 2011-06-30 (09:29:51-10:31:19)
After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will be...
published: 01 Jul 2011
author: CSPANSenate2011
Senate Session 2011-06-30 (09:29:51-10:31:19)
After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 12 pm), Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and vote on confirmation of the nomination, at approximately 2 pm
- published: 01 Jul 2011
- views: 714
- author: CSPANSenate2011
83:00
Psychology Lecture Series: The Human Genome
Richard Leach presents "The Human Genome: Will You Be Able To Pre-Order The Sex, Height, a...
published: 16 Feb 2012
author: GRCCtv
Psychology Lecture Series: The Human Genome
Richard Leach presents "The Human Genome: Will You Be Able To Pre-Order The Sex, Height, and Personality Of Your New Baby?" for GRCC's 2011-2012 Psychology Lecture Series.
- published: 16 Feb 2012
- views: 6442
- author: GRCCtv
86:23
The Invisible Man: S01E01 & 02 - Pilot ~FULL EPISODE~
I-MAN: Season 1 Episode 1 - "Pilot" (Optional subtitles available in: Finnish, Romanian & ...
published: 25 Jan 2012
author: NordenTV
The Invisible Man: S01E01 & 02 - Pilot ~FULL EPISODE~
I-MAN: Season 1 Episode 1 - "Pilot" (Optional subtitles available in: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian.) (TV Series 2000--2002) "The Invisible Man" (original title) Storyline: "Darien Fawkes is a petty thief and conman who is bailed out of jail by his brother in return for undergoing an experiment that implants a "quicksilver" gland in his head that allows him to turn invisible. When his brother is killed, he ends up working for a top-secret government organization (disguised as the Department of Fish & Game) in return for a counter-agent which keeps the gland from driving him insane." Details: Country: USA Language: English Genres: Comedy | Thriller | Sci-Fi Subtitles: Finnish, Romanian & Croatian Release Date: Jun. 9, 2000 Also Known As: I-Man Rating: 7.7/10 Imdb: www.imdb.com
- published: 25 Jan 2012
- views: 261839
- author: NordenTV
43:01
γαμος με τα ολα του επ 3 δημητρακης ο διγαμος μερος 1
...
published: 05 Mar 2012
author: papadakidespoina1988
γαμος με τα ολα του επ 3 δημητρακης ο διγαμος μερος 1
- published: 05 Mar 2012
- views: 264
- author: papadakidespoina1988
photo: AP / New York City Police Department
30 Dec 2012
A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said ... Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge on Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. She faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... On Dec ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
30 Dec 2012
Comet Ison is likely to light up the skies in 2013. David Shukman, science editor, BBC News Continue reading the main story Related Stories. A science news preview of 2012. As the Philippines, New Jersey and Britain count the cost of ferocious flooding, expect another year in which extreme weather exacts a human toll. Partly this is because more and more of us live in harm's way on coasts and flood plains ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
photo: AP / Felicia Fonseca
01 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People ... political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes ... Escorted by the U.S....(size: 5.6Kb)
photo: AP / John MacDougall
31 Dec 2012
Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit ... In a taped interview to be broadcast later on Monday, Mrs Merkel urged Germans to be more patient ... Voters 'wary' ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)
photo: AP / Shaam News Network
30 Dec 2012
London. UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’ ... (ANI). For Zee News’s Updates, follow us on Twitter , Facebook, Google+, Pinterest. First Published ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
Skiddle
14 Dec 2012
Crawdaddy Club, Richmond Upon Thames Fri 14th December 2012. We are pleased to welcome back to The Crawdaddy Club the fabulous Blue Bishops with support from The Chairs, a youg Ealing based band. Date. Friday 14th December 2012. Venue. Crawdaddy Club ». Location ... These guys have performed with music legends such as Bill Wyman, The Kinks, The Animals, The Zombies, Nicky Hopkins and Joan Armatrading to name just a few....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Examiner
05 Dec 2012
Rating for Beggars Banquet. 4 ... The album eventually was certified platinum by the RIAA and was ranked #57 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Let's take a closer look at the band's 9th studio record ... Beggars Banquet. Photo credit. . London ... Nicky Hopkins' piano drone keeps the audience's attention in "Stray Cat Blues," another song that features Brian Jones-this time on electric guitar and mellotron ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
Seattle Post
30 Nov 2012
Number 5 was the fifth Steve Miller Band studio album within a three year period and effectively closed out what is considered the first phase of their career. It was probably not as good as their first three albums, but a little better than their fourth release ... Sidemen Charlie McCoy (harmonica), Lee Michaels (organ), Nicky Hopkins (piano), and Bobby Spicher (fiddle), all made significant contributions to various tracks....(size: 2.5Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
28 Nov 2012
NEW YORK, N.Y ... The property of an anonymous U.S. collector is being offered by Profiles in History in an online and phone auction Dec. 18 ... He writes that drummer Jim Kelnter, artist Klaus Voormann, pianist Nicky Hopkins and producer Phil Spector "all agreed so far" to join ... The collection will be exhibited Dec ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
The Independent
28 Nov 2012
The letter is estimated to bring $200,000 to $300,000 ... — and of course had YOU!!! In mind as soon as we decided." He writes that drummer Jim Kelnter, artist Klaus Voormann, pianist Nicky Hopkins and producer Phil Spector "all agreed so far" to join ... The entire collection contains 3,000 items....(size: 1.5Kb)
The Australian
28 Nov 2012
AN UPCOMING auction of over 300 historical documents includes rare letters written by Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, John Lennon and other iconic figures. The property of an anonymous American collector is being offered by Profiles in History in an online and phone auction on Dec. 18 ... He writes that drummer Jim Kelnter, artist Klaus Voormann, pianist Nicky Hopkins and producer Phil Spector "all agreed so far" to join ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
Huffington Post
28 Nov 2012
NEW YORK — An upcoming auction of over 300 historical documents includes rare letters written by Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, John Lennon and other iconic figures ... 18. Among the highlights is a two-page letter from Washington to an Anglican clergyman ... The collection will be exhibited Dec ... He writes that drummer Jim Kelnter, artist Klaus Voormann, pianist Nicky Hopkins and producer Phil Spector "all agreed so far" to join ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
Seattle Post
24 Nov 2012
Gone were the psychedelic excursions and the cohesive nature of their previous albums ... Miller was now the only guitarist and bassist Lonnie Turner, keyboardist Ben Sidran, and drummer Tim Davis were the only other musicians except for pianist Nicky Hopkins, who contributed to two tracks ... The two Hopkins tracks proved how he could influence a band ... Likewise, Hopkins takes Miller's bluesy "Feels So Glad" and moves it in a jazz direction....(size: 2.2Kb)
The Guardian
22 Nov 2012
The 2014 edition of the Rare Record Guide lists 100,000 UK vinyl releases, from mindbendingly obscure 60s psych to ultra-rare Beatles and Sex Pistols acetates. But who collects these gems?. The Quarry Men in 1957, with John Lennon in the centre. Photograph. PA ... "Top end for a record is anything from £200 to £10,000 ... The grooves were packed with psych-tinged pop, with guest appearances from the Small Faces, Nicky Hopkins and an orchestra ... ....(size: 14.5Kb)
Detroit news
15 Nov 2012
By Tom Long The Detroit News Comments. Charlie Watts, left, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood are shown in earlier times ... No kidding ... But for a fan, the new performance footage â especially from the early years â is priceless, as are taped interviews with taciturn drummer Charlie Watts and name-dropping glimpses of celebrities and musicians along the way (There's Truman Capote! That's Nicky Hopkins!) ... GRADE. B ... ....(size: 11.3Kb)
Seattle Post
06 Nov 2012
Change was in the air for The Steve Miller Band as keyboardist Jim Peterman and guitarist Boz Scaggs had departed ... As an example of the band's burgeoning popularity, Nicky Hopkins and Paul McCartney each appeared on one track ... Brave New World was very representative of the late 1960s ... "Kow Kow (Calqulator)" is an anti-war or peace song that features some of Miller's better guitar work plus pianist Hopkins filling in the gaps....(size: 2.0Kb)
Stuff
28 Oct 2012
Bass and drums; rhythm guitar in one channel, lead guitar in the other, though most of the solos drop in the centre; no long solos, most are 8 bars, one is a verse and a chorus; the singer is right up front and a few backing vocals - two tracks have some keyboards up front, an anonymous guest rolls Nicky Hopkins flavoured rhythm and boogie piano on ......(size: 2.6Kb)
Music News
17 Oct 2012
Pulling together one man's remarkable career in music, THE SINGER is a 34-song collection of songs hand-picked by the artist himself ... This two-CD retrospective will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting 15 October through Sony Commercial Music Group ... I owned the interpretation.' ... 1 ... 'I Only Have Eyes For You' with Nicky Hopkins (piano) (Breakaway, 1975) ... 'Skywriter' with Nicky Hopkins (piano) (up'til now, 1993)....(size: 4.9Kb)
| Nicky Hopkins | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nicholas Christian Hopkins |
| Born | (1944-02-24)24 February 1944 Perivale, North London, England |
| Died | 6 September 1994(1994-09-06) (aged 50) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupations | Session musician |
| Instruments | Keyboards (piano, organ, harpsichord, mellotron), melodica, accordion, vocals |
| Years active | 1960s–1985 |
| Labels | Fontana Records |
| Associated acts | Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman, The Easybeats,[1] The Who, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Jeff Beck, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane, The Kinks, Badfinger, Jerry Garcia Band, Mark-Almond Band, Sweet Thursday, Steve Miller Band, Cat Stevens, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Duncan Browne, Jackie Lomax, Screaming Lord Sutch, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, Peter Frampton, Art Garfunkel, Rod Stewart, Terry and the Pirates, Andy McCoy |
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop and rock music releases from the 1960s through the 1990s including many notable Rolling Stones releases.[2]
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Early life[link]
Hopkins was born in Perivale, Middlesex, England. His musical talent emerged early and he began playing piano at age three. He was initially tutored by a local piano teacher and in his teens he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.[3] He suffered from Crohn's disease from his youth. Poor health and ongoing surgery made it difficult for him to tour. This resulted in his working primarily as a studio player for most of his career.
Early groups and as a session musician[link]
Hopkins' studies were interrupted in 1960 when he left school at 16 to became the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages until, two years later, he and fellow Savages Bernie Watson, Rick Brown (Fenson) and Carlo Little, joined the renowned blues harmonica player Cyril Davies, who had just left Blues Incorporated, and became the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars.[3] Hopkins played piano on their first single, Davies' much-admired theme tune "Country Line Special".[4] However he was forced to leave the All Stars in May 1963 for a series of operations that almost cost him his life and was bed-ridden for nineteen months in his late 'teens. During his convalescence Davies died of leukaemia and The All Stars disbanded.[3]
Hopkins' frail health led him to concentrate on a working as a session musician instead of joining bands such as The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin.[5] He quickly became one of London's most in-demand session pianists and performed on many hit recordings from this period. He worked extensively for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Andrew Loog Oldham and performed on albums and singles by The Easybeats,[1] The Kinks, The Pretty Things, The Move and The Who.
In 1967 he joined The Jeff Beck Group, formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ronnie Wood and drummer Micky Waller,[6] playing on the LPs Truth and Beck-Ola.
The same year Hopkins recorded Beggars Banquet with The Rolling Stones (he had first worked for them on Between the Buttons). He also recorded for several San Franciscan groups, playing on albums by Jefferson Airplane (with whom he performed at the Woodstock Festival), The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Steve Miller Band. He briefly joined Quicksilver Messenger Service and also appeared with the Jerry Garcia Band.[7]
At this point he was one of Britain's best-known session players, recording with British acts of the Sixties, including The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and on the solo albums of all four members, on several Nilsson albums in the early 70s, including Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson, and with Donovan.
With the Rolling Stones[link]
Hopkins played with the Rolling Stones on their studio albums from Between the Buttons in 1967 through Emotional Rescue in 1980 and Tattoo You in 1981, including the prominent piano parts in "She's a Rainbow" (1967), "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968), "Loving Cup" (1972) and "Waiting on a Friend" (1981). During this period, Hopkins tended to be employed on the Stones' slower, ballad-type songs, with longtime Stones keyboardist Ian Stewart playing on traditional rock numbers and Billy Preston used on soul and funk-influenced tunes.
Hopkins – along with Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts – released the 1972 album entitled Jamming With Edward! which was recorded during the Stones' Let It Bleed sessions when Stones guitarist Keith Richards was not present in the studio. The "Edward" of the title was an alias of Nicky Hopkins derived from studio banter with Brian Jones and later became a song title on his outstanding performance, "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder", a song on the Quicksilver Messenger Service album Shady Grove. Hopkins also contributed to the Jamming With Edward! cover art.
Hopkins' work with the Rolling Stones is perhaps most prominent on their 1972 studio album, Exile on Main St..
Hopkins was added to the Rolling Stones live line-up on the 1971 Good-Bye Britain Tour, as well as the notorious 1972 North American Tour and the early 1973 Winter Tour of Australia and New Zealand. He started to form his own band around this time but decided against it after the Stones tour. He had planned on using Prairie Prince on drums and Pete Sears on bass. Hopkins failed to make the Stones' 1973 tour of Europe due to ill health and, aside from a guest appearance in 1978, did not play again with the Stones live on stage. He did manage to go on tour with the Jerry Garcia Band, from 5 August to 31 December 1975.[8] He continued to record with the Stones through the sessions for 1980's Emotional Rescue.
Other groups and solo albums[link]
In 1969, Nicky Hopkins joined Quicksilver Messenger Service and performed on their album Shady Grove. His presence is apparent throughout the album, particularly on the closing instrumental track "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder".
Also in 1969, Hopkins was a member of the short-lived Sweet Thursday line-up, a quintet made up of Hopkins, Alun Davies (Cat Stevens), Jon Mark, Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers. The band completed their eponymous debut album, however the project was doomed from the start. Their American record label, Tetragrammaton Records, abruptly declared bankruptcy[9][10] (by legend, the same day the album was released)[11] with promotion and a possible tour never happening.
File:Hopkins Davies Mark Burns Odgers.jpg
Sweet Thursday; left to right: Hopkins, Alun Davies, Mark, Burns, Odgers
He released his second solo album in 1973 entitled The Tin Man Was a Dreamer. Other musicians appearing on the album include George Harrison (credited as "George O'Hara"), Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, and Prairie Prince, who was later the drummer for the Tubes. Re-released on Columbia in 2004, the album is a rare opportunity to hear Hopkins sing.
His third solo album, entitled No More Changes (Mercury SRM 11028), was released in 1975. Appearing on the album are Hopkins (lead vocals and all keyboards), David Tedstone (guitars), Michael Kennedy (guitars), Rick Wills (bass), and Eric Dillon (drums and percussion), with back-up vocals from Kathi McDonald, Lea Santo-Robertie, Doug Duffey and Dolly. A fourth album, Long Journey Home, has remained unreleased. He also released three soundtrack albums in Japan between 1992 and 1993, The Fugitive, Patio and Namiki Family (Toshiba EMI TOCT-6640, TOCT-6841, and TOCT-6914).
Later life[link]
Hopkins lived in Mill Valley, California, for several years. During this time he worked with several local bands and continued to record in San Francisco. One of his complaints throughout his career was that he did not receive royalties from any of his recording sessions, because of his status at the time as merely a "hired hand", as opposed to pop stars with agents. Only Quicksilver Messenger Service through its manager Ron Polte and its members gave Hopkins an ownership stake.[citation needed] Towards the end of his life he worked as a composer and orchestrator of film scores, with considerable success in Japan.
As a session player, Hopkins was a quick study. The Kinks' song "Session Man" from Face to Face is said to be dedicated to (and features) Hopkins.[citation needed] Ray Davies wrote a memorial piece that appeared in the New York Times after Hopkins' death.[5]
Death[link]
Hopkins died at the age of 50 in Nashville, Tennessee, from complications resulting from intestinal surgery presumably related to his life-long battle with Crohn's Disease. At the time of his death, he was working on his autobiography with Ray Coleman. He is survived by his wife, Moira.[citation needed] Songwriter and musician Julian Dawson collaborated with Hopkins on one recording, the pianist's last, in spring 1994, a few months before his death in September. After Ray Coleman's death, the connection led to Dawson working on a definitive biography of Nicky Hopkins, first published by Random House, Inc. in German in 2010, followed in 2011 by the English language version with the title And On Piano...Nicky Hopkins (a hardback in the UK via Desert Hearts, and a paperback in North America via Backstage Books/Plus One Press).
Selected performances[link]
- The Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy (1965), Sunny Afternoon (1966), Face to Face (1966), "Mister Pleasant" (1967), "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" (1968)
- The Who, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (1965),[12] My Generation album (1965), "The Song Is Over" (1971), "Getting In Tune" (1971), "We're Not Gonna Take It [movie remix]" (1975), "They Are All in Love" (1975), "Slip Kid" (1975), "How Many Friends" (1975)
- Jeff Beck, "Blues De Luxe", "Morning Dew" (1967), Truth (1967), and Hokpkins' own self-penned "Girl From Mill Valley", on Beck-Ola. (1969)
- Cat Stevens, "Matthew and Son" (1967), Matthew and Son (1967)
- The Easybeats, "Heaven & Hell", and a un-released album titled "Good Times" (1967)[1]
- Marc Bolan, "Jasper C. Debussy" (1966-7, released 1974)
- The Rolling Stones, "In Another Land" (1967), "We Love You" (1967) She's a Rainbow" (1967), "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968), "Street Fighting Man" (1968), "Gimme Shelter" (1969), "Monkey Man" (1969), "Sway" (1971), "Tumbling Dice" and many others on the Exile on Main St. album (1972), "Angie" (1973), "Time Waits for No One" (1974), "Fool to Cry" (1976), "Waiting on a Friend" (recorded 1972, released 1981)
- Jackie Lomax, "Sour Milk Sea" (1968)
- The Beatles, "Revolution" (single version) (1968)
- The Move, "Hey Grandma", "Mist on a Monday Morning", "Wild Tiger Woman" (all 1968)
- Donovan, "Barabajagal" (1969)
- Jamming With Edward (jam session with Ry Cooder and some members of The Rolling Stones (recorded 1969, released 1972)
- Quicksilver Messenger Service, "Shady Grove", "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder", "Spindrifter"
- Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers" (1969), "Wooden Ships" (1969), "Eskimo Blue Day" (1969), "Hey Fredrick" (1969), whole Woodstock set
- Steve Miller Band "Kow Kow", "Baby's House (which Hopkins co-wrote with Miller)".
- John Lennon, "Jealous Guy" (1971), "How Do You Sleep?" (1971), "Oh My Love" (1971), "Oh Yoko!" (1971), "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (1971), Walls and Bridges album (1974)
- Paul McCartney, "That Day Is Done" from Flowers in the Dirt (1989)
- Ringo Starr, "Photograph" (1973), "You're Sixteen" (1973), "Step Lightly" (1973), "You and Me (Babe)" (1973), "No No Song" (1974)
- George Harrison, "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" (1973),[13] Living in the Material World album (1973)
- Peter Frampton, "Waterfall" and "Sail Away" (1974)
- Joe Cocker, "You Are So Beautiful" (1974)
- Jerry Garcia Band, Let It Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 2 (1975)
- L. Ron Hubbard, "The Mining Song" (1982), "The Banker" (1982)
- Dogs D'Amour, "Hurricane", "Trail of Tears", and "Princes Valium" from the Errol Flynn/King Of The Thieves album (1989)
- The Jayhawks, "Two Angels" and "Martin's Song"[14] on the Hollywood Town Hall album (1992)
- Joe Walsh, "Guilty of the Crime" from the A Future To This Life album (1994), the soundtrack from the Robocop television series
- Gene Clark (various recordings)
- Brewer & Shipley
- P.J. Proby, Reflections of Your Face (Amory Kane) from "Three Week Hero" (1969)
- Additional Amory Kane works
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| Date of birth | 24 February 1944 |
| Place of birth | Perivale, North London, England |
| Date of death | 6 September 1994 |
| Place of death | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
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Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b 23 December 1943, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Merrell & the Exiles, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. In addition, 12 songs recorded by Merrell & the Exiles were later released under the group name Fapardokly, even though that group never actually existed.
After moving to San Luis Obispo, California in his teens, he began playing guitar, and got his first break playing in movie theaters and talent shows. In 1960, after one of these shows, he joined a local band called The Impacts as lead guitarist. Their Ventures-influenced sound developed a strong following at the start of the surfing scene. In 1962 they recorded an album which was later released, without the band's knowledge, by Del-Fi Records, and which included a tune "Wipe Out" which Fankhauser suggests later provided the (uncredited) basis of the hit by the Surfaris, although his view is contested [1]
Fankhauser left the band and moved to inland Lancaster, California. There he met Jeff Cotton (later of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band), and in 1964 they formed The Exiles. The band - which also included John "Drumbo" French - had some regional success with songs including "Can't We Get Along", but then broke up. Fankhauser moved back to the coast, formed a new band, Merrell and the Xiles, and had a minor hit with "Tomorrow's Girl" in 1967. An album followed which included old Exiles songs and newer psych folk material. For the album the band was credited as Fapardokly, taking its name from the surnames of the original members - Fankhauser, Dan Parrish (bass), Bill Dodd (guitar) and Dick Lee (drums). Despite its later cult acclaim, the album was not a success. Fankhauser and Dodd then formed another, more overtly psychedelic, band with Jack Jordan (bass) and Larry Meyers (drums), naming it HMS Bounty. They won a recording deal with Uni Records, and their self-titled album was released in 1968, followed by the single "Tampa Run". However, success was again thwarted, by personal and record company problems, and the band split up.
Reuniting with Jeff Cotton in 1970, Fankhauser then formed the group MU. In 1971 their first album was released and became a radio hit. Increasingly fascinated by legends of the lost continent of Mu, Fankhauser then relocated to the Hawaiian island of Maui in Feb. 1973. Material for a second MU album was recorded on Maui in 1974, but not released until the 1980s on the two LPs "The Last Album" (Appaloosa, Italy 1981) and "Children Of The Rainbow" (Blue Form, US 1985). Mu disbanded in 1975. Fankhauser recorded a solo album, "Maui", issued in 1976, before returning to California in the late '70s. All his 1970s recordings have been reissued repeatedly in the CD format.
Fankhauser continued to record, occasionally with friends including John Cipollina and more recently Ed Cassidy of Spirit, as well as producing new surf albums credited to The Impacts. Fankhauser has also produced radio and TV shows.
External links[link]
- Official Fankhauser website
- Biography at www.musicianguide.com
- Official Fankhauser Myspace website
- Official Fankhauser Myspace Fan website
- Official Fankhauser Myspace Fan website
- Official Fankhauser Company Myspace website
- Fan site
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| David Crosby | |
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 Crosby playing Occupy Wall Street, November 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Van Cortlandt Crosby |
| Born | (1941-08-14) August 14, 1941 (age 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk rock, rock |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Labels | Atlantic, A&M, Rhino |
| Associated acts | The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, CPR |
| Website | www.crosbycpr.com |
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (who are sometimes joined by Neil Young), and CPR. Crosby has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once for his work in The Byrds and once for his work with CSN.
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Musical career[link]
Early years[link]
David Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer. He is also the younger brother of musician Ethan Crosby. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, and Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara for the rest of his elementary school and junior high.[1] At Crane, he starred in HMS Pinafore and other musicals but was asked not to return due to lack of academic progress. He graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, completing his studies by correspondence. In 1960, his parents divorced, and his father was remarried to Betty Christie Crosby.
Crosby also attended Santa Barbara City College.[1] Originally, he was a drama student, but dropped out to pursue a career in music. He moved toward the same Greenwich Village scene (as a member of the Les Baxter's Balladeers) Bob Dylan participated in, and even shared a mentor of Bob Dylan's in a local scene favorite Fred Neil. With the help of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby cut his first solo session in 1963.
The Byrds[link]
Main article: The Byrds
Crosby joined Jim McGuinn (who later changed his name to Roger) and Gene Clark, who were then named the Jet Set (although there is no evidence that they ever performed under that name). They were augmented by drummer Michael Clarke, at which point Crosby attempted, unsuccessfully, to play bass. Late in 1964, Chris Hillman joined as bassist, and Crosby relieved Gene Clark of rhythm guitar duties. Through connections that Jim Dickson (The Byrds' manager) had with Bob Dylan's publisher, the band obtained a demo acetate disc of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and recorded a cover version of the song, featuring McGuinn's 12 string guitar as well as McGuinn, Crosby and Clark's vocal harmonizing.[2] The song turned into a massive hit, soaring to #1 in the charts in the U.S. and the U.K. during 1965.[2] While Roger McGuinn originated The Byrds' trademark 12 string guitar sound (which he in turn took from George Harrison on "A Hard Day's Night"), Crosby was responsible for the soaring harmonies and often unusual phrasing on their songs.
In 1966, Gene Clark, who then was the band's primary songwriter, left the group due to stress. This placed all the group's songwriting responsibilities in the hands of McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman.[3] Crosby took the opportunity to hone his craft, and soon blossomed into a prolific and talented songwriter. His early Byrds efforts included the classic 1966 hit "Eight Miles High" (to which he contributed one line, while Clark and McGuinn wrote the rest), and its flip side "Why", co-written with McGuinn, which showed Crosby at his hard-edged best.
Crosby is widely credited with popularizing the song "Hey Joe", after he picked it up from Dino Valente.[citation needed] He taught the song to Bryan MacLean and Arthur Lee of Love, who then taught it to members of The Leaves. Since he felt responsible for having popularized the song, Crosby convinced the other members of The Byrds to cover it on Fifth Dimension. By Younger Than Yesterday, The Byrds' album of 1967, Crosby clearly began to find his trademark style.
Friction between Crosby and the other Byrds came to a head in mid-1967. Tensions were high after the famous Monterey Pop Festival in June, when Crosby's on-stage political diatribes between songs elicited rancor from McGuinn and Hillman. The next night he further annoyed his bandmates when, at the invitation of Stephen Stills, he substituted for an absent Neil Young during Buffalo Springfield’s set. The internal conflict boiled over during recording of The Notorious Byrd Brothers album in August and September. Differences over song selections led to arguments, with Crosby being particularly adamant that the band should record only original material. McGuinn and Hillman dismissed Crosby in mid-September, after he refused to participate in the recording session of the Goffin and King song "Goin' Back". Crosby's controversial menage-a-trois ode "Triad", recorded by the band before his dismissal, was left off the album. Jefferson Airplane recorded "Triad" and released it on their album Crown of Creation in 1968. David Crosby sang a solo acoustic version on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1971 double live album Four Way Street. The Byrds' version appeared decades later on the 1988 Never Before release and is now available on the CD re-release of The Notorious Byrd Brothers.
In 1973 Crosby reunited with the original Byrds for the album Byrds, with Crosby acting as the record's producer. The album charted well (at #20, their best album showing since their second album) but was generally not perceived to be a critical success, and marked the final artistic collaboration of the original band.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young[link]
Main article: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Around the time of Crosby's firing, he met a recently unemployed Stephen Stills at a party at the home of (Mama) Cass Elliot in California in March 1968, and the two started meeting informally together and jamming. They were soon joined by Graham Nash, who left his commercially successful group The Hollies to play with Crosby and Stills. Their appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 constituted their second live performance ever.
Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash of 1969 was an immediate hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving key airplay on the new FM radio format, in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing entire albums at once.
The songs he wrote while with CSN include "Guinnevere", "Almost Cut My Hair," "Long Time Gone," and "Delta". He also co-wrote "Wooden Ships" with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Stephen Stills.
In 1969, Neil Young joined the group, and with him they recorded the album Déjà Vu, which went to number 1 on the charts. That same year, Crosby's longtime girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in a car accident only days after Hinton, Crosby, and fellow girlfriend Debbie Donovan moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Crosby was devastated, and he began abusing drugs much more severely than he had before. Nevertheless, he still managed to contribute "Almost Cut My Hair" and the title track "Déjà Vu". After the release of the double live album Four Way Street, the group went on a temporary hiatus to focus on their respective solo careers.
In December 1969, David appeared with CSNY at the Altamont Free Concert, increasing his visibility after also having performed at Monterey Pop and Woodstock. At the beginning of the new decade, he briefly joined with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead, billed as "David and the Dorks," and making a live recording at the Matrix on December 15, 1970.
CSNY reunited in 1973 at the Winterland in San Francisco. This served as a prelude to their highly successful stadium tour in the summer of 1974. Prior to the tour, the foursome attempted to record a new album entitled Human Highway. The recording session, which took place at Neil Young's ranch, was very unpleasant, and marked by constant bickering. The bickering eventually became too much, and the album was cancelled.
In rehearsals for the 1974 tour, CSNY recorded a then-unreleased David Crosby song, "Little Blind Fish." A different version of the song would appear on the second CPR album more than two decades later.
The 1974 tour was also full of constant bickering, though they managed to finish it without interruption. A greatest hits compilation entitled So Far was released during 1974 to capitalize on the foursome's reunion tour.
In 1976, as separate duos, Crosby & Nash and Stills & Young were both working on respective albums and contemplated retooling their work to produce a CSNY album. This attempt ended bitterly as Stills and Young deleted Crosby and Nash's vocals from their album Long May You Run.
CSNY would not perform together again as a foursome until Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, and then performed only sporadically in the 1980s and '90s (mainly at the annual Bridge School Benefit organized by Young's wife Pegi). Without Young, however, Crosby, Stills & Nash has performed much more consistently since its reformation in 1977. The trio toured in support of their 1977 and 1982 albums CSN and Daylight Again and then, starting in the late-eighties, has toured regularly year after year. And while the group has continued to perform live to the present day, since 1982 it has released only four albums of new material: American Dream (1988, with Young), Live It Up (1990), After The Storm (1994), and Looking Forward (1999, with Young). In addition Crosby & Nash released the self-titled album Crosby & Nash in 2004.
Fullscale CSNY tours took place in 2000, 2002 and 2006.
Crosby, Stills and Nash appeared together on a 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, and "Neil Young" joined them during the musical performance at the end of the episode. However, eventually, it became clear that it was only Stephen Colbert impersonating Young as the group sang Teach Your Children.
Solo career[link]
In 1971, Crosby released his first solo album If I Could Only Remember My Name, featuring contributions by Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, and members of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Santana. Panned on release by Rolling Stone, it has been reappraised amid the emergence of the freak folk and New Weird America movements and remains in print.
As a duo Crosby and Graham Nash have released four studio albums and two live albums including Another Stoney Evening, which features the duo in a 1971 acoustic performance with no supporting band. Some Crosby songs recorded by the various permutations of CSN in the 1970s include "Where Will I Be?", "Carry Me", "Bittersweet", "Low Down Payment", "Homeward Through the Haze", "Time After Time", "Foolish Man", and "In My Dreams". During the mid-70s, Crosby and Nash enjoyed lucrative careers as session musicians, with both performers (as a duo and respectively) contributing harmonies and background vocals to albums by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne (whom Crosby had initially championed as an emerging performer), Dave Mason, Rick Roberts, James Taylor (most notably "Lighthouse" and "Mexico"), Art Garfunkel, J.D. Souther, Carole King, Elton John, and Gary Wright.
Renewing his ties to the San Francisco milieu that had abetted so well on his solo album, Crosby sang back up vocals on several Paul Kantner and Grace Slick albums between 1971 and 1974 and the Hot Tuna album Burgers in 1972. He also participated in composer Ned Lagin’s proto-ambient project Seastones along with members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship.[4]
Crosby worked with Phil Collins occasionally from the late 1980s to the early 1990s; he sang backup to Collins in "Another Day in Paradise" and, on his own 1993 song, "Hero", from his album Thousand Roads, he had Collins singing backup. In 1999, he appeared on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, singing a duet of the title track with Lucinda Williams.
In 2006 Crosby worked with David Gilmour on his third solo album On an Island along with Nash. The album was released in March 2006 and reached #1 quickly on the UK charts. Both Crosby and Nash also performed live with Gilmour in his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in May 2006 and toured together in the USA, which can be seen on Gilmour's 2007 DVD Remember That Night.
CPR[link]
In 1996, Crosby formed CPR or Crosby, Pevar & Raymond with session guitarist Jeff Pevar, and pianist James Raymond, Crosby's son. The group released two studio albums and two live albums before disbanding in 2004.
The first song that Crosby and Raymond co-wrote, "Morrison", was performed live for the first time in January 1997. The song recalled Crosby's feelings about the portrayal of Jim Morrison in the movie The Doors. The success of the 1997 tour spawned a record project, Live at Cuesta College, which was released in March 1998.
After the disbandment in 2004, Raymond continues to perform with Crosby as part of the touring bands for Crosby & Nash and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Jeff Pevar sometimes tours with the re-formed Jefferson Starship.
Other activities[link]
Acting career[link]
During the early 1990s, he appeared as a guest star in several episodes of The John Larroquette Show, where he played the part of John Hemingway's AA sponsor. He appeared on an episode of Roseanne as the singer-husband of one of Roseanne's co-workers, played by Bonnie Bramlett. He sang the Danny Sheridan composition "Roll On Down" on that episode. He was on an episode of Ellen called "Ellen Unplugged," where he was helping out at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp. He also appeared as a pirate in the 1991 film Hook, as a '70s Hippie in the 1991 film Backdraft, and as a bartender in the 1992 feature film, Thunderheart.
Crosby has also voiced himself on two episodes of The Simpsons, "Marge in Chains" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".
Medical issues[link]
Crosby was the recipient of a highly-publicized liver transplant in 1995, which was paid for by Phil Collins.[5] News of his transplant created some controversy because of his celebrity status and his past issues with drug and alcohol addiction.[6][7][8]
Crosby suffers from obesity, has type 2 diabetes and is being treated with insulin to manage this disease.
At a concert in October 2008, Crosby, looking quite thinner than in recent years, announced to the audience that he'd recently shed 55 pounds.[citation needed]
Drugs charges and prison time[link]
In 1982, after appearing in criminal courts facing several drugs and weapons charges, Crosby spent 9 months in Texas prisons. The drug charges stemmed from charges related to possession of heroin and cocaine.
In 1985, David Crosby, on probation for drunken driving, was arrested for hit-and-run driving and possession of a concealed pistol and drug paraphernalia. Crosby was arrested after driving into a fence in a Marin County suburb and officers found a .45-caliber pistol and cocaine in his car.
One of his famous stories is that while being interviewed, after being arrested, the reporter asked him: "Why did you have a gun?" Crosby responded, "John Lennon, man" and replied the same to each subsequent question.
On March 7, 2004, he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, illegal possession of a hunting knife, illegal possession of ammunition and illegal possession of about 1 ounce of marijuana. Crosby left said items behind in his hotel room. "Authorities said a hotel employee searched the suitcase for identification and found about an ounce of marijuana, rolling papers, two knives and a .45-caliber pistol. Mr. Crosby was arrested when he returned to the hotel to pick up his bag." After spending 12 hours in jail, he was released on $3500 bail. On July 4, 2004, he pleaded guilty to "attempted criminal possession of a weapon," was fined $5,000 and given no jail time. "Prosecutors did not seek a more severe penalty on the weapons charge because the pistol was registered in California and was stowed safely in his luggage when it was found. A charge of "unlawful possession of marijuana" was dismissed. "Mr. Crosby was discharged by the court on condition that he pay his fine and not get arrested again."[9]
Family[link]
Crosby is currently married to Jan Dance but has had a number of prior long-term relationships, including with Christine Hinton, Debbie Donovan and Joni Mitchell.
Two of Crosby's children were placed for adoption: a son, James Raymond, in 1962 and a daughter, Erika Keller, in 1966. He has been reunited with both of them as adults. Since 1997 Raymond has performed with Crosby on stage and in the studio, as a member of CPR and as part of the touring bands for Crosby & Nash and Crosby, Stills & Nash. In addition, Crosby has two other children: a daughter, Donovan Crosby, with former girlfriend Debbie Donovan and a son, Django Crosby, who was conceived with wife Jan Dance after extensive fertility treatments while Crosby's liver was failing.
In January 2000, Melissa Etheridge announced that Crosby was the biological father of two children Julie Cypher gave birth to by means of artificial insemination. At the time, Etheridge and Cypher were in a relationship.[10][11]
Crosby's brother Ethan, who taught him to play guitar and started his musical career with him, committed suicide in late 1997 or early 1998. The date is unknown because Ethan left a note not to search for his body and let him return to the earth. His body was found months later in May 1998.[citation needed]
Discography[link]
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References[link]
- ^ a b Zimmer, Dave and Diltz, Henry. (1984). Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (First edition). St. Martin's Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-312-17660-0.
- ^ a b Rogan, J. (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited. Rogan House. ISBN 0-9529540-1-X.
- ^ "The Artist". Chris Hillman. 1944-12-04. http://www.chrishillman.com/artist.html. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
- ^ Zimmer, Dave and Diltz, Henry. (1984). Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (First edition). St. Martin's Press. p. 179. ISBN 0-312-17660-0.
- ^ "Phil Collins' Last Stand: Why the pop star wants to call it quits". RollingStone.com. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304?page=2. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ "David Crosby Biography". Crosby CPR. http://crosbycpr.com/biography.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Teach Your Pop Stars Well". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/12/13/crosby/index_np.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "David Crosby Liver Transplant Sparks Vigorous Debate on Fairness of Allocation System". HighBeam Research. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-45170089.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ "David Crosby's A Daddy". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-11-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20091107193215/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/melissaetheridge/articles/story/8856161/david_crosbys_a_daddy. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher Discuss Family Matters". CNN: The Larry King Show. 2000-01-20. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/20/lkl.00.html. Retrieved 2011-08-11. "Julie Cypher has given birth to two children. Bailey is a girl. She's 3 years old. Beckett is the boy. He's 1-year-old. The father, by sperm donation, was David Crosby, the star of Crosby, Stills, Gnash [sic] and Young. He's with us in Cleveland. Melissa Etheridge and Julie are partners."
- ^ a b "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
Notes[link]
- Crosby, David (2005). Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81406-4.
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- David Crosby at the Internet Movie Database
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- Crosby-Nash
- CSN official site
- CSNY official site
- 4WaySite - CSNY fan-site
- Booknotes interview with Crosby on Stand and Be Counted: Making Music, Making History, May 28, 2000.
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| Birth name | Michael Kevin Taylor |
| Also known as | Little Mick |
| Born | (1949-01-17) 17 January 1949 (age 63) Welwyn Garden City, England United Kingdom |
| Genres | Rock, blues rock, hard rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, percussion |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Labels | Columbia, Decca, Rolling Stones, Atlantic, EMI, Virgin, CBS, Maze Records |
| Associated acts | John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966-69), The Rolling Stones (1969-74) |
| Website | Mick Taylor.net |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson Les Paul Gibson SG Fender Stratocaster Fender Telecaster |
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Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor (born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966–69) and The Rolling Stones (1969–74). Since resigning from the Rolling Stones in December 1974 Taylor began working with numerous other artists and has released solo albums. Taylor was listed in Rolling Stone magazine's 2012 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, ranked at 37th place.[1]
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Biography[link]
Early career[link]
Taylor was born to a working-class family in Welwyn Garden City, but was raised in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, where his father worked as a fitter for De Havilland aircraft company.[2] He began playing guitar at age nine, learning to play from his mother's younger brother. As a teenager, he formed bands with schoolmates and started performing concerts under names such as The Juniors and the Strangers. They also appeared on television and put out a single.[3] Part of the band was recruited for a new group called The Gods, which included Ken Hensley (later of Uriah Heep fame). In 1966, The Gods opened for Cream at the Starlite Ballroom in Wembley.
In 1965 at age 16, Taylor went to see a John Mayall's Bluesbreakers performance at "The Hop" Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City. A drummer friend of the Juniors, Danny Bacon, remembers: "On the night in question, I had gone to The Hop with some guys from our band, former schoolmates and Ex-Juniors Mick Taylor and Alan Shacklock. It was after John Mayall had finished his first set without a guitarist that it became clear that for some reason Eric Clapton was not going to show up. A group of local musicians, which included myself, Robert 'Jab' Als, Herbie Sparks, and others, along with three local guitarists—Alan Shacklock, Mick Casey (formerly of the Trekkas) and Mick Taylor—were in attendance."[citation needed] Taylor himself has said after seeing that Clapton hadn't appeared, but that his guitar had already been set up on the stage, had approached John Mayall during the interval, asking if he could play with them, mentioning that he'd heard their albums and knew some of the songs. After a moment of deliberation, Mayall agreed. Taylor amended, "I wasn't thinking that this was a great opportunity.. I just really wanted to get up on stage and play the guitar."
Taylor played the second set with Mayall's band, and afterwards, they exchanged phone numbers, which proved to be pivotal in his career a few years later. Taylor had won Mayall's respect, and when he was 17, Mayall was looking for another guitarist to fill the vacancy left after Peter Green's resignation. Mayall contacted Taylor, and invited him to take Green's place.[4] Taylor made his debut with the Bluesbreakers at the Manor House, an old blues club in North London. For those in the music scene the night was an event... "Let's go and see this 17-year-old kid try and replace Eric".[5] Before he turned 18, Taylor toured and recorded the album Crusade with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. From 1966 to 1969, Taylor developed a guitar style that is blues-based with Latin and jazz influences. Later on in his career, he further developed his skills as a slide guitarist.
In 1967, Mick made the drawings for Donovan's Gift From a Flower to a Garden double LP.
The Rolling Stones[link]
Main article: The Rolling Stones
After Brian Jones was removed from the The Rolling Stones in June 1969, Mayall recommended Taylor to Mick Jagger. Taylor believed he was being called in to be a session musician at his first studio session with the Rolling Stones.[6] An impressed Jagger and Keith Richards invited Taylor back the following day to continue rehearsing and recording with the band. He overdubbed guitar on "Country Honk" "Live With Me" for the album Let It Bleed, and for the single "Honky Tonk Women" released in the UK, on 4 July 1969.[7][8] Taylor's onstage debut as a Rolling Stone, at the age of 20, was the free Hyde Park concert on 5 July 1969. An estimated quarter of a million people attended for a show that turned into a tribute to Brian Jones, who had died 3 days before the concert.
The Rolling Stones' 1971 release Sticky Fingers included "Sway" and "Moonlight Mile" which Taylor and Jagger had completed in Richards's absence. At the time Jagger stated: "We made [tracks] with just Mick Taylor, which are very good and everyone loves, where Keith wasn't there for whatever reasons ... It's me and [Mick Taylor] playing off each other - another feeling completely, because he's following my vocal lines and then extemporizing on them during the solos."[9] However, Taylor was only credited as co-author of one track "Ventilator Blues", from the album Exile on Main St. (1972).[10] Taylor was noted for his smooth lyrical touch and tone which contrasted with Richards's jagged and cutting technique.
After the 1973 European tour, Richards's drug problems had worsened and began affecting the ability of the band to function as a whole.[11] Between recording sessions, the band members were living in various countries and during this period Taylor appeared on Herbie Mann's London Underground (1974) and also appeared on Mann's album Reggae (1974).
It's Only Rock 'n Roll and departure[link]
In November 1973, while the band were to begin work on the LP It's Only Rock 'n Roll at Musicland Studios in Munich, Taylor missed some of the sessions whilst he underwent surgery for acute sinusitis.[12] Not much was achieved during the first 10 days at Musicland. Most of the actual recordings were made in January (Musicland) and April 1974 (Stargroves). When Taylor resumed work with the band, he found it difficult to get on with Richards. At one point during the Munich sessions, Richards confronted him, and said, "Oi! Taylor! You're playing too fuckin' loud. I mean, you're really good live, man, but you're fucking useless in the studio. Lay out, play later, whatever." Richards erased some of the tapes where Taylor had recorded guitar parts to some of the songs for It's Only Rock n' Roll[13] Taylor was, however, present at all the sessions in April at Stargroves, England, where the LP was finished and most of the overdubs were recorded.[citation needed]
Not long after those recording sessions, Taylor went on a six-week expedition to Brazil, travelling down the Amazon River in a boat and exploring Latin music.
Just before the release of the album in October 1974, Taylor told Nick Kent from the NME magazine about the new LP and that he had co-written "Till the Next Goodbye" and "Time Waits for No One" with Jagger.[citation needed] Kent showed Taylor the record sleeve, which revealed the absence of any songwriting credits for Taylor. In an interview with Gary James, Taylor later said: "I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason [I left the band]. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce. I never really felt, and I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.[6] In a 1997 interview with Mojo Magazine, Taylor said: "We used to fight and argue all the time. And one of the things I got angry about was that Mick had promised to give me some credit for some of the songs – and he didn't. I believed I'd contributed enough. Let's put it this way – without my contribution those songs would not have existed. There's not many but enough, things like "Sway" and "Moonlight Mile" on Sticky Fingers and a couple of others."
In December 1974, Taylor announced he was leaving the Rolling Stones. The bandmates were at a party in London when Taylor told Mick Jagger he was quitting and walked out. Taylor's decision came as a total shock to many.[14] The Rolling Stones were due to start recording a new album in Munich, and the entire band was reportedly angry at Taylor for leaving at such short notice.[15]
When interviewed by Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine in 1995, Mick Jagger stated that Taylor never explained why he had left, and surmised that "[Taylor] wanted to have a solo career. I think he found it difficult to get on with Keith." In the same interview Jagger said of Taylor's contribution to the band: "I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor Ronnie Wood plays that kind of style. It was very good for me working with him ... Mick Taylor would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed".[citation needed] Asked if he agreed with that assessment, Jagger said: "I obviously can't say if I think Mick Taylor was the best, because it sort of trashes the period the band is in now."[citation needed] Charlie Watts stated: "I think we chose the right man for the job at that time just as Ronnie was the right man for the job later on. I still think Mick is great. I haven't heard or seen him play in a few years. But certainly what came out of playing with him are musically some of the best things we've ever done".[16][page needed] Another statement, made by Keith Richards, is: "Mick Taylor is a great guitarist, but he found out the hard way that that's all he is".[17]
In an essay about the Rolling Stones, printed after Taylor's resignation, music critic Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote that "Taylor is the most accomplished technician who ever served as a Stone. A blues guitarist with a jazzman's flair for melodic invention, Taylor was never a rock and roller and never a showman."[citation needed]
Taylor has worked with his former bandmates on various occasions since leaving the Rolling Stones. In 1977 he attended London-based sessions for the John Phillips album Pay Pack & Follow, appearing on several tracks alongside Jagger (vocals), Richards (guitar) and Wood (bass) - taking notable solos on the songs "Oh Virginia" and "Zulu Warrior". A possibly apocryphal story is that after Taylor played a particularly jaw-dropping solo in the studio, Richards half-jokingly exclaimed, "That's why I never liked you, you bastard!"
On 14 December 1981 he performed with the band at their concert at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.[8] Keith Richards appeared on stage at a Mick Taylor show at the Lone Star Cafe in New York on 28 December 1986, jamming on "Key to the Highway" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"; and Taylor is featured on one track ("I Could Have Stood You Up") on Richards' 1988 album Talk is Cheap. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Mick Taylor along with the Rolling Stones in 1989.[18] Taylor also worked with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings in the early 1990s.
In addition to his contributions to Rolling Stones albums released during his tenure with the band, Taylor's guitar is also on two tracks on their 1981 release Tattoo You: "Tops" and "Waiting on a Friend", both of which were originally recorded in 1972. (Taylor is sometimes mistakenly credited as playing on "Worried About You", but the solo on that track is performed by Wayne Perkins.)[19]
Taylor's onstage presence with the Rolling Stones is preserved on the album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!, recorded over four concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Civic Center in Baltimore in November 1969; in the documentary films Stones in the Park (released on DVD in 2001), Gimme Shelter (released in 1970) and Cocksucker Blues (unreleased); and in the concert film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (shown in cinemas in 1974). Bootleg recordings from the Rolling Stones' tours from 1969 through 1973 also document Taylor's concert performances with the Rolling Stones.
In March 2010, rumours started circulating that Taylor had contributed guitar work on the upcoming Exile on Main Street special edition release. This expanded version of the original double album includes 10 outtakes/alternate versions of songs. Taylor later revealed (in an interview with a journalist from Cleveland) that he had indeed recorded new guitar overdubs for the CD, at Mick Jagger's request. On 17 April 2010 (National Record Store Day), the new Rolling Stones single 'Plundered My Soul' came out, featuring recently recorded vocals and guitars by Jagger and Taylor.
Around this time, Eagle Rock Entertainment also announced that a first official release of the concert film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones was planned for autumn 2010. Apart from a one-off cinema screening in the past, the film had previously only been available on bootleg videos and DVDs.
Post-Stones: 1975 to 1981[link]
Taylor worked on various side projects during his tenure with the Rolling Stones.
In June 1973, he joined Mike Oldfield onstage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in a performance of Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Taylor was asked to take part in this project by Richard Branson as he felt Oldfield was unknown having just been signed to Branson's fledgling label, Virgin Records. Taylor joined Oldfield once more for a BBC television broadcast in November 1973.
After his resignation from the Rolling Stones, Jack Bruce invited him to form a new band with keyboardist Carla Bley and drummer Bruce Gary. In 1975, the band began rehearsals in London with tour dates scheduled for later that year. The group toured Europe, with a sound leaning more toward jazz, including a performance at the Dutch Pinkpop festival, but disbanded the following year. A performance recorded on 1 June 1975 (which was finally released on CD in 2003 as "Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall" by The Jack Bruce Band) and another performance from the Old Grey Whistle Test seem to be the only material available from this brief collaboration.
Taylor appeared as a special guest of Little Feat at the Rainbow Theatre in London, 1977, sharing slide guitar with then-frontman Lowell George on "A Apolitical Blues": this song appears on Little Feat's critically acclaimed live album Waiting for Columbus.[20] In the summer of 1977 he collaborated with Pierre Moerlen's Gong for the album Espresso II, released in 1978. Taylor began writing new songs and recruiting musicians for a solo album and worked on projects with Miller Anderson, Alan Merrill and others. He was present at many of the recording sessions for John Phillips' prospective second solo album. The recordings for Phillips' album took place in London over a prolonged period between 1973 and 1977. This led to Taylor working with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger who were also working on the Phillips' album. Atlantic Records eventually cancelled the project but copies of the sessions(under titles "Half Stoned" and "Phillips '77") circulated among bootleg traders. The original tapes were rescued and restored and were officially released in 2002 as Pay Pack & Follow.
In 1977 Taylor signed a solo recording deal with CBS Records. By April 1978 he gave several interviews to music magazines to promote the new album which was finished, but would not be released for another year. In 1979 the album, titled Mick Taylor, was released by CBS Records. The album material mixed rock, jazz and Latin-flavoured blues musical styles. The album reached #119 on the Billboard charts in early August with a stay of five weeks on the Billboard 200.[citation needed] CBS advised Taylor to promote the album through American radio stations but was unwilling to back the guitarist for any supporting tour.[citation needed] Already frustrated with this situation, Taylor took a break from the music industry for about a year.
In 1981, he toured Europe and the United States with Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, sharing the bill with Black Sabbath. He spent most of 1982 and 1983 on the road with John Mayall, for the "Reunion Tour" with John McVie of Fleetwood Mac and Colin Allen. During this tour Bob Dylan showed up backstage at The Roxy in Los Angeles in order to meet Taylor.[citation needed]
In 1983, Taylor joined Mark Knopfler and played on Dylan's Infidels album. He also appeared on Dylan's live album, Real Live, as well as the follow-up studio album Empire Burlesque. In 1984, Dylan asked Mick Taylor to assemble an experienced rock and roll band for a European tour he signed with Bill Graham. Ian McLagan was hired to play piano and hammond organ, Greg Sutton to play bass and Colin Allen, a long time friend of Taylor, on drums. The tour lasted for four weeks at venues such as Munich's Olympic Stadium Arena and Milan's San Siro Stadium, sharing the bill with Carlos Santana and Joan Baez, who appeared on the same bill for a couple of shows (in particular in the same Milan concert).
Later career[link]
Taylor guested with the Grateful Dead on September 24, 1988 at the last show of that year's Madison Square Garden run in New York. Taylor lived in New York throughout the 1980s. He battled with addiction problems before getting back on track in the second half of the 1980s and moving to Los Angeles in 1990.[citation needed] During this time Taylor did session work and toured in Europe, America and Japan with a band including Max Middleton (formerly of the Jeff Beck Group), Shane Fontayne, and Blondie Chaplin. In 1990 his CD "Stranger In This Town" was released by Maze Records backed up by a mini-tour including the record release party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston as well as gigs at the Paradise Theater.[disambiguation needed 
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Taylor moved back to England in the mid 1990s. Taylor never seemed to feel comfortable in his role as a former Rolling Stone until he released a new album in 2000, entitled, A Stone's Throw. Playing at clubs and theatres as well as appearing at festivals has connected Taylor with an appreciative audience and fan base.
Mick began what was to be a significant series of collaborations with Carla Olson with their "Live at the Roxy" album Too Hot For Snakes; the centerpiece of which is a extended 7 minute performance of "Sway".[disambiguation needed ] It was followed by Olson's Within An Ace which featured Taylor on seven songs, he appeared on three songs from Reap The Whirlwind and then again on Olson's The Ring Of Truth, on which he plays lead guitar on nine tracks including a twelve minute version of the Jagger and Taylor song "Winter". Further work by Olson and Taylor can be heard on the Olson produced Barry Goldberg album Stoned Again. Taylor went on to appear on Percy Sledge's Blue Night (1994), along with Steve Cropper, Bobby Womack and Greg Leisz.
In 2003, Taylor reunited with John Mayall for his 70th Birthday Concert in Liverpool along with Eric Clapton. A year later, in autumn 2004, he also joined John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers for a UK theatre tour. He toured the US East Coast with the Experience Hendrix group during October 2007. The Experience Hendrix group appeared at a series of concerts which were a homage to Jimi Hendrix and his musical legacy. Taylor played with Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin and Robby Krieger.
In recent times Taylor reunited with Ronnie Wood at a benefit gig arranged by blues guitarist Stephen Dale Petit to save the 100 Club in London, on 1 December 2010. Other special guests at the show were Dick Taylor (first bassist in the Rolling Stones) and blues/jazz trombonist Chris Barber. Taylor toured the UK with Petit, appearing as his special guest, featured on a Paul Jones BBC Radio 2 session with him and guested on Petit's 2010 Classic Rock magazine Album of the Year - The Crave".[clarification needed].
For the 2010 re-release of Exile On Main Street Taylor recorded a new guitar part for the previously unreleased song, "Plundered My Soul".
He also helped to promote the Boogie For Stu album, which was recorded by Ben Waters to honour Ian Stewart (original Stones pianist and co-founder of the band), by taking part in a concert to mark the CD's official launch at the Ambassadors Theatre, London on 9 March 2011. Proceeds from the event were donated to the British Heart Foundation. Although Mick Jagger and Keith Richards didn't show up, Taylor noticeably enjoyed performing with, amongst others, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman.
Personal life[link]
Taylor has been married twice and has two daughters. Chloe (born 6 January 1971) is a daughter by his first wife Rose Millar. Taylor married Rose in 1975 after leaving the Stones, but the relationship was reportedly "on the rocks" before long[21] and resulted in divorce only a few years later.[22] His second daughter Emma was born from a short relationship with an American woman, who sang backing vocals with Taylor's band on one occasion.[23]
Taylor currently resides in Suffolk.
Awards[link]
- Inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame (with the Rolling Stones, 1989)
- Taylor's handprints have been on Hollywood's RockWalk since 6 September 1998.
- Taylor was ranked in 37th place by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2012 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[1]
Discography[link]
With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers[link]
- Crusade (Decca, 1967/LP, 1987/CD)
- Diary of a Band Volume 1 & 2 (Decca, 1968/LP)
- Bare Wires (Decca, 1968/LP, 1988/CD )
- Blues from Laurel Canyon (Decca, 1968/LP, 1989/CD)
- Primal Solos (Decca, 1969/LP)
- Back to the Roots (Decca, 1971/LP, 2001 on 2CD)
- Return Of The Bluesbreakers (AIM, 1985/LP, 1993/CD)
- The 1982 Reunion Concert (Repertoire records, 1994/CD) with John Mayall, Mick Taylor, Colin Allen and John McVie
- Wake Up Call (1993)
- Silver Tones - The Best of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (Silvertone Records, 1998)
- Along For The Ride (2001)
- Rolling With The Blues (2003) - selection of live recordings '72-'82
- Essentially John Mayall (Eagle Rock Records, 2007) 5 CD Box Set
With The Rolling Stones[link]
- Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969) (compilation)
- Taylor plays on "Honky Tonk Women"
- Let It Bleed (1969)
- Taylor plays on "Country Honk" and "Live With Me"
- Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (1970)
- Sticky Fingers (1971)
- Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (1972) (compilation)
- Exile on Main St. (1972)
- Goats Head Soup (1973)
- It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974)
- Made in the Shade (1975) (compilation of hits 1971-1974)
- Metamorphosis (1975)
- Taylor plays on "I Don't Know Why" and "Jiving Sister Fanny".
- Sucking in the Seventies (1981) (compilation of hits, album cuts and outtakes 1974-1981)
- Tattoo You (1981)
- Taylor plays on "Tops" and "Waiting on a Friend", both tracks recorded in 1972 during the Goats Head Soup sessions.
- Rewind (1971-1984) (1984) (compilation of hits 1971-1983)
- Singles Collection: The London Years. (1989) (compilation of singles 1963-1971)
- Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993) (compilation of hits 1971-1989)
- Forty Licks (2002) (compilation 1964-2002)
- Rarities 1971-2003 (2005)
- Taylor plays on "Let It Rock" (live 1971) and the 1974 b-side "Through The Lonely Nights".
- Brussels Affair (2011) 1973 live performance
Non-Rolling Stones work with Rolling Stones members:
- Pay, Pack and Follow (John Phillips, first official release by Eagle Rock Records, 2001)
- from 1973-1979 recording sessions in London aka "Half Stoned" sessions
- produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
- I've Got My Own Album to Do (Ronnie Wood solo album) (1974)
- Now Look (Ronnie Wood solo album) (July 1975)
- Talk Is Cheap (Keith Richards solo album) (1988)
With Jack Bruce[link]
- Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test (Strange Fruit, 1995). Tracks from several Whistle Test shows recorded between '75 and '81. Seven of the songs feature Taylor on guitar.
- Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall (2 CD, Polydor, 2003)
With Bob Dylan[link]
- Infidels (1983)
- Real Live (In Europe, 1984) (1984)
- Empire Burlesque (1985)
- The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 (1991)
Solo discography[link]
- Mick Taylor (1979) US #119 [5 wks on top 200]
- Stranger in This Town (1990) (Recorded Live, Produced by Mick Taylor and Phil Colella)
- Arthur's Club-Geneve 1995 (Mick Taylor & Snowy White) (Promo CD/TV Especial)
- A Stone's Throw (2000)
- Coastin' Home aka Live at the 14 Below (1995) re-issued 2002
- 14 Below (2003)
- Shadow Man (2003) [24]
With Carla Olson[link]
- Too Hot For Snakes (Live at the Roxy) (1991 live album)
- Within An Ace (1993)
- Reap The Whirlwind(1994, Virgin Records Europe)
- Special - The best of Carla Olson (1995, Virgin Records Sweden)
- The Ring of Truth (2001)
- Too Hot For Snakes plus (2008, Collectors' Choice) 2 CD set of the Roxy album plus "You Gotta Move" and a 2nd disc of 13 studio tracks 1993 - 2004 including a previously unreleased version of "Winter" and "Think I'm Goin' Mad" from the Carla-produced Barry Goldberg album Stoned Again.
Other session work[link]
- Tubular Bells Premiere Mike Oldfield (June '73) Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield) Telecast Tubular Bells Part One and Tubular Bells Part Two. Recorded at BBC Broadcasting House November 1973[25] and aired in early '74 and June '74. Available on Oldfield's Elements DVD.
- The Tin Man Was A Dreamer (Nicky Hopkins) (1973)
- "London Underground" (Herbie Mann 1974)
- Live European Tour Billy Preston - (A&M Records, 1974). Recorded with Stones Mobile Studio during the '73 tour. Preston opened up for the band with Mick Taylor on guitar.
released on CD (A& M - Japan, 2002)
- Have Blues Will Travel (Speedo Jones) (Integrity Records, 1988)
- Reggae II (Herbie Mann) (Atlantic, 1976)
- Just A Story From America (Elliott Murphy) (Columbia 1977)
- Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat) (1978) double CD released 2002
- Expresso II (Gong) (1978)
- Downwind (Pierre Moerlen's Gong) (1979) lead guitar on What you know
- Alan Merrill (Alan Merrill)'s solo album (Polydor, 1985) recorded in London in 1977
- Vinyl (Dramarama) (1991)
- Burnin' Blues (Coupe De Villes) (1992)
- Once in a Blue Moon (Gerry Groom) (1993)
- Cartwheels (Anthony Thistlethwaite) (1993)
- Hecho en Memphis (Ratones Paranoicos, Sony Music) (1993)
- Let's get stoned (The Chesterfield Kings) (Mirror Records,1994)
- Crawfish and Caviar (Anthony Thistlethwaite)
- Blue Night (Percy Sledge, Virgin Records, 1994)
- Mick & I (2001) Miyuki & Mick Taylor
- From Clarksdale to Heaven (BlueStorm, 2002) John Lee Hooker Tribute Album.
- Stoned Again (Barry Goldberg, Antone's Records, 2002)
- Meaning Of Life (Todd Sharpville) (Cathouse/Universal, 2003)
- Key To Love (Debbie Davies) (Shanachie Records, 2003)
- Shadow Man (re-release of a Sasha album from '96) (2003)
Originally released by Alpha Music in 1996, this "Mick Taylor featuring Sasha" album should have read "Sasha featuring Mick Taylor", but the company felt it would sell better under a household name. It features Mick Taylor on guitar, but is basically a Sasha Gracanin album.
- Treasure Island (Nikki Sudden) (Secretly Canadian, 2004)
- Unterwegs (Crazy Chris Kramer) (2009)
- Chicago Blues (Crazy Chris Kramer) (2010)
Music DVDs[link]
- Blues Alive video (RCA/Columbia Pictures 1983), recorded at Capitol Theatre, NJ 1982
- Jamming with the Blues Greats - DVD release from the 1983 video, featuring John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (Mick Taylor, Colin Allen, John McVie) and special guests Albert King, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Sippie Wallace (Lightyear/Image Entertainment 2005)
- The Stones in the Park Hyde Park concert video (Granada Television, 1969)
- released on DVD (VCI, 2001)
- Gimme Shelter (Maysles Films, 1970) music documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, shot at the Rolling Stones concerts at Madison Square Garden, NY on 27/28 November and Altamont, CA on 6th Dec December 1969.
- restored and released on DVD (Criterion, 2000)
- John Mayall, the Godfather of British Blues documentary about John Mayall's life and career (Eagle Rock, 2004. Region 1: 2005)
- 70th Birthday Concert (Eagle Rock, 2004. Region 1: 2005). Bluesbreakers Charity Concert (Unite for Unicef) filmed in Liverpool, July 2003. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with special guests Chris Barber, Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor.
- "Stones In Exile" 2010
- "Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones" 2010
Music DVDs - Unofficial
Filmography[link]
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) directed by Nicolas Roeg
Contributed to soundtrack. Played guitar on various songs, including "Hello Mary Lou" after developing ideas for soundtrack with John Phillips.
- The Last of the Finest (1990) directed by John Mackenzie. Assisted composer Jack Nitzsche with the moviescore
- Bad City Blues (1999) directed by Michael Stevens. After the book by Tim Willocks.
Music composers: Mick Taylor and Max Middleton
Guitar history[link]
Throughout his career, Taylor has used various guitars, but is mostly associated with the Gibson Les Paul. His first Les Paul was bought when he was still playing with The Gods (from Selmer's, London in '65). He acquired his second Les Paul in 1967, not long after joining The Bluesbreakers: Taylor came to Olympic Studios to buy a Les Paul that Keith Richards wanted to sell.[26] On the '72/'73 tours Taylor used a couple of Sunburst Les Paul guitars without a Bigsby. Other guitars include a Gibson ES-355 for the recording of Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, a Gibson SG on the 1969, 1970 and 1971 tours, and occasionally a Fender Stratocaster and a Fender Telecaster.
References[link]
- ^ a b "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Jann S. Wenner. 2012. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/mick-taylor-19691231. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ Jim Sheridan, Mick Taylor Rexamined, Part 1, by Jim Sheridan
- ^ (Nico Zentgraf, The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones: Taylor-Made Works May 1964 – August 2004, published by Stoneware Publishing, Hamburg, 2004)
- ^ Taylor, Mick; Patrick Savey, Daniel Farhi (1998). "On the road with Mick Taylor". Video for television: On the Road with Mick Taylor. France: New Morning Vision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he8OLo9HPJs. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ (Robert Greenfield, S.T.P., A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, published by Michael Joseph Ltd, 1974. Reprinted by Helter Skelter Publishing, London 1997 quote from Chapter Four, page 103)
- ^ a b James, Gary. "Gary James' Interview With Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones". http://www.classicbands.com/MickTaylorInterview.html. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Honky Tonk Women". http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOHonky.html. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ a b Zentgraf, Nico. "The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones 1962-2008". http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Sticky Fingers". http://www.timeisonourside.com/lpFingers.html. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Exile on Main Street". http://www.timeisonourside.com/lpExile.html. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ Davis, Stephen, Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of The Rolling Stones, pp. 377-378, Broadway Books, ISBN 0-7679-0312-9, 2004
- ^ Elliott, M - The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions, page 220. Cherry Red Books, 2002. ISBN 1-901447-04-9
- ^ Davis 2004, p. 387.
- ^ "Mick Taylor Biography" Allmusic, accessed 04 Sept 2007
- ^ Davis 2004, p. 391
- ^ A Life On The Road, Virgin Books 1999
- ^ Guitar World, Oct 2002, reprinted in Guitar Legends Jan 2007
- ^ "The Rolling Stones Biography". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/the-rolling-stones.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Track Talk: Tattoo You". http://www.timeisonourside.com/lpTattoo.html. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ " Waiting For Columbus tracklist and mp3 excerpts"
- ^ Tony Sanchez, Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, published by Signet Books (New American Library), New York, 1979, republished by Da Capo Press, New York, 1996
- ^ [1]"Daily Mail article heavily sensationalised by Bob Graham, who was not actually granted an interview by Taylor", 13 September 2009
- ^ Sunday Express interview by Robin Eggar, July 2001
- ^ Prato, Greg. "Shadow Man". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 2011-10-23. http://www.webcitation.org/62e8dMvJz. Retrieved 2011-10-23. "There's a bit of false advertising behind the 2003 double-disc Mick Taylor release, Shadow Man. The album in question is not a Taylor solo recording, but rather it features Taylor as a sideman, to a singer named Sasha Gracanin."
- ^ "Mike Oldfield (with Mick Taylor, Steve Hillage and members of Henry Cow, Gong and Soft Machine) - Tubular Bells (Live BBC Video 1973)". MOG. http://mog.com/Willard/blog/1252954. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
- ^ "Keith Richards 1959 Les Paul Standard". Richard Henry Guitars. http://www.richardhenryguitars.com/keith.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
External links[link]
- Mick Taylor.net
- Interview with Gary James from classicbands.com
- Interview with JAZZed Magazine. Oct 2007
- Rolling Stone Magazine article about Exile on Main Street
- UK Daily Mail article about Mick Taylor. Jan 2007
- UK Daily Mail interview with Mick Taylor 2009
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| Name | Taylor, Mick |
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| Date of birth | 17 January 1949 |
| Place of birth | Welwyn Garden City, England United Kingdom |
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| Bobby Keys | |
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 Keys performing in October 2009 Photo: Sean Birmingham |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1943-12-18) December 18, 1943 (age 68) Slaton, Texas, United States |
| Genres | Rock, jazz |
| Occupations | Session musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1950s–present |
| Associated acts | Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Warren Zevon, Joe Ely, Sheryl Crow, John Lennon, Leon Russell, Plastic Ono Band, Harry Nilsson |
Robert Henry 'Bobby' Keys (born December 18, 1943, Slaton, Lubbock County, Texas, United States) is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones,[1] The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Keys has been a touring musician since 1956.
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Keys started touring at age fifteen with Bobby Vee and fellow Texan Buddy Holly.[2][3] Keys is best known as being the main saxophone player for The Rolling Stones, playing on every album from 1969 until 1974, and from 1980 to present, and performing on all Stones tours since 1970. Keys has played on hundreds of recordings, including many uncredited performances such as on Dion's "The Wanderer."
He is known for his relationship with The Rolling Stones, both in playing (for example, the saxophone solo on the 1971 hit "Brown Sugar") and friendship with Keith Richards[4] (there is a film of him and Richards throwing a television set from the 10th floor of a hotel somewhere during the 1972 American Tour, as seen in the Stones' unreleased 1972 concert movie Cocksucker Blues). Keys met the Rolling Stones at the San Antonio Teen Fair in 1964. Keys recorded with them around 1969 on their track "Live with Me". Keys, along with the addition of Mick Taylor, made their debut on Let it Bleed. Mick Jagger and Keys, became close in the early 1970s, with Keys serving as an attendant at Jagger's wedding. Together with Jim Price on trumpet, Keys toured with the Stones in 1970, 1971 and 1972, and with Steve Madaio and Trevor Lawrence on the first half of the 1973 European Tour, at which Keys was thrown out after missing some shows, according to legend due to Keys filling a bathtub with Dom Perignon champagne and drinking most of it. Allegedly this caused a falling out with Mick Jagger, and Keys only guested on some shows of the 1975 and 1978 tours, missing the 1976 tour, and performing only two tracks on the 1981 tour, on which Ernie Watts was the main sax player. Keys returned to fully backing the Stones together with Gene Barge on the 1982 European Tour, and has toured with the Stones on all tours ever since.
He is also featured in the 1971 concert movie, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, narrating the story of his early life while driving around downtown Dallas. Other recordings made by Keys was the baritone saxophone on Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender", and on John Lennon's first American solo #1 single hit (and the only US #1 in Lennon's lifetime) "Whatever Gets You thru the Night".
From 1973-1975, Keys participated in John Lennon's Lost Weekend in Los Angeles along with Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon. Keys had played with Lennon in the Plastic Ono Band and, while in Los Angeles, he played on Lennon's albums Walls and Bridges and Rock 'n Roll. Additionally, Keys took part in the last known recording session between Paul McCartney and Lennon; A Toot and a Snore in '74.
In the late 1980s, Keys became the musical director for Ronnie Wood's Miami club, 'Woody's On the Beach.' The first week the club opened, Keys booked Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and The Crickets.
Although more commonly known as a session musician, Keys released two albums of his own in the 1970s; a self-titled instrumental album on Warner Bros. Records that featured Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Eric Clapton in 1972; and Gimme the Key on Ringo Starr's record label Ring O'Records in 1975.
Still rocking in 2011, Keys appeared on December 16 with the Athens, Georgia, band Bloodkin in their "Exile on Lumpkin Street" show at the legendary Georgia Theater (which re-opened in August 2011 in its spectacularly remodeled and enlarged space after the building was gutted by fire in June 2009); besides performing some of their own music, Bloodkin rocked out with Keys on numerous hits from three of the biggest Stones' albums on which Keys had performed, "Let It Bleed," "Sticky Fingers," and "Exile on Main Street."
Selective discography[link]
- The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, Emotional Rescue, Stripped
- Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
- John Lennon: Some Time in New York City, Walls and Bridges, Rock 'n' Roll
- Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap, Live at the Hollywood Palladium
- Ringo Starr: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna
- Ronnie Wood: 1234, Gimme Some Neck, Mahoney's Last Stand
- B.B. King: B. B. King in London
- Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand
- Carly Simon: No Secrets, Hotcakes
- Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
- Delaney, Bonnie & Friends: On Tour with Eric Clapton
- Donovan: Cosmic Wheels
- Dr. John: The Sun, Moon & Herbs
- Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton
- Faces: Long Player
- Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson, Son of Schmilsson, Pussy Cats, Duit on Mon Dei
- Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon
- Humble Pie: Rock On
- Joe Ely: Lord of the Highway
- John Hiatt: Beneath This Gruff Exterior
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle
- Keith Moon: Two Sides of the Moon
- Leo Sayer: Endless Flight
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney: A Toot and a Snore in '74
- John Lennon: Whatever Gets You thru the Night
- Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On (deluxe edition)
- Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
- Yoko Ono: Fly
- Jim Carroll: Catholic Boy
References[link]
- ^ Huey, Steve. "Biography: Bobby Keys". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p93589/biography. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "Bobby Keys Interview" - Austin Chronicle.
- ^ "Bobby Keys Biography"
- ^ Richards, Keith; Fox, James (2010). Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-85439-5.
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| Short description | American saxophone player |
| Date of birth | December 18, 1943 |
| Place of birth | Slaton, Texas, United States |
| Date of death | |
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Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop and rock music releases from the 1960s through the 1990s including many notable Rolling Stones releases.
Hopkins was born in Perivale, Middlesex, England. His musical talent emerged early and he began playing piano at age three. He was initially tutored by a local piano teacher and in his teens he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. He suffered from Crohn's disease from his youth. Poor health and ongoing surgery made it difficult for him to tour. This resulted in his working primarily as a studio player for most of his career.
Hopkins' studies were interrupted in 1960 when he left school at 16 to became the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages until, two years later, he and fellow Savages Bernie Watson, Rick Brown (Fenson) and Carlo Little, joined the renowned blues harmonica player Cyril Davies, who had just left Blues Incorporated, and became the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars. Hopkins played piano on their first single, Davies' much-admired theme tune "Country Line Special". However he was forced to leave the All Stars in May 1963 for a series of operations that almost cost him his life and was bed-ridden for nineteen months in his late 'teens. During his convalescence Davies died of leukaemia and The All Stars disbanded.
