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"Mystery" is a song by alternative rock group Live, which was released as the second single from their album, Songs from Black Mountain (2006). The single was not released for commercial purchase.

On June 7, 2006, a duet version of "Mystery", the song Chris Daughtry performed with Live on the American Idol finale, was released via Live's official website. Daughtry is featured on guest vocals.

Track listings[link]

U.S. promo CD single[link]

1. "Mystery" – 3:45
2. "Mystery" (No Strings Version) – 3:45

European promo CD single[link]

1. "Mystery" – 3:45

Look up mysterious, mysteriousness, or mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mystery, mysteries, or mysterious may refer to:

Religion[link]

• Sacred mysteries, supernatural phenomena associated with a divinity or religious ideology
• Mystery play, a form of medieval European dramatic theatre dealing with religious themes

Culture[link]

Genres[link]

• Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
• Mystery film, a genre in cinema

Literature[link]

• Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub
• Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange
• Mysteries (novel) or Mysterier, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun

Film and television[link]

• Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction
• Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel
• Mystery (television), a children's television show
• "Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse

Music[link]

• Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive rock band formed in 1986
• Mysterious, a 1988 release by Shizuka Kudō
• Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), a 1984 release by Vanilla Fudge
• Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 release by Faye Wong
• Mystery, a 2006 release by Evonne Hsu
• Mystery (Yoga Lin album), a 2008 release by Yoga Lin
• "Mysterious", from the 1999 album Eye II Eye by Scorpions
• "Mysterious" (song), from the 2005 album Jentina by Jentina
• "Mystery", from the 1984 album The Last in Line by Dio
• "Mystery" (Live song), from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by alternative rock group Live
• "Mystery", from the album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One by The Olivia Tremor Control
• "Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• "Mystery", a 1984 pop song, sometimes jazz, by the a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer

People[link]

• Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik

Other[link]

• Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
• Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger

Ships[link]

• USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships

See also[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mystery

• Anomaly (disambiguation)
• Fushigi (disambiguation), Japanese for "mystery" or "secret"
• Mystère (disambiguation)
• Secret
• unsolved problem

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Look up live in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Live may refer to:

• Alive
• Living
• Life
• Live birth
• Live vaccine
• Live wire (electricity)

Arts[link]

• Live Art (art form)
• Live coding
• Live music (concert)
• Live album
• List of albums titled Live
• Live (band), an alternative rock band
• "Live", a song written by Emitt Rhodes, that was a hit for his band The Merry-Go-Round, and was later covered by The Bangles.
• Live Aid, a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985
• Live 8, a series of benefit concerts that took place in July 2005, in the G8 nations and South Africa
• Live Earth
• Live (Corneille album)
• Live (Eurythmics video)
• Live (Shania Twain DVD)
• Live (Alison Krauss & Union Station album)
• Live! (2007 film) a movie by Bill Guttentag
• Live (an album by Peatbog Faeries)
• Recorded live track

Media[link]

• Live television
• Live radio
• Live action, cinematography not produced using animation
• Live with Regis and Kelly, a syndicated American television talk show
• BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC's radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries
• CILV-FM, branded LiVE 88.5, a radio station in Ottawa, Canada

Information and Communication Technologies[link]

• Windows Live, the collective brand name for a group of Microsoft services currently under development
• Microsoft Office Live, an Internet-based software service
• Live Search, The search engine previously known as MSN from Microsoft
• Xbox Live, online gaming service for Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles
• YouTube Live, online annual live streaming event broadcasted by YouTube
• Ableton Live, a software music sequencer
• Live CD, also known as a Live Distro, Live DVD, Live OS or Live System: an operating system that can boot and run from a read-only medium (such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) instead of a hard disk drive
• Live USB, a live operating system that runs off a USB flash drive

Other uses[link]

• Live fire exercise, an exercise (often military in nature) conducted under realistic conditions, or using real ammunition

See also[link]

• List of albums titled Live
• Live! (disambiguation)
• Lives (disambiguation)

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Three singers-a trio-singing a song while accompanied on a lute played by one of the singers. Das Konzert [The Concert] (c. 1490, Lorenzo Costa).

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.

A song may be for a solo singer, a duet, trio, or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs with more than one voice to a part are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is between "art songs", "pop songs", and "folk songs". Other common methods of classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular), by style (dance, ballad, Lied, etc.), or by time of origin (Renaissance, Contemporary, etc.).

A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or, "the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio.^[1] However, the term is, "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)."^[1] The noun "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical composition suggestive of song." The OED also defines the word to mean "a poem" or "the musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates." ^[2]

Cultural types[link]

Art songs[link]

Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated. Generally they have an identified author and composer and require voice training for acceptable performance. German-speaking communities use the term art song ("Kunstlied") to distinguish so-called "serious" compositions from folk song ("Volkslied"). The lyrics are often written by a poet or lyricist and the music separately by a composer. Art songs may be more formally complicated than popular or folk songs, though many early Lieder by the likes of Franz Schubert are in simple strophic form. They are often important to national identity.

Art songs feature in many European cultures, including but not limited to: Russian (romancy), German (Lieder), Italian (canzoni), French (mélodies), Scandinavian (sånger), Portuguese (canções), Spanish (canciones). There are also highly regarded British and American art songs in the English language. Cultures outside of Europe that have a classical music tradition, such as India, may or may not feature art songs. The accompaniment of European art songs is considered as an important part of the composition.

The art song of the period in which they originally flowered is often a duet in which the vocalist and accompanist share in interpretive importance. The pieces were most often written to be performed in a home or salon setting, although today the works enjoy popularity as concert pieces. The emergence of poetry during this era was much of what inspired the creation of these pieces by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert and other composers. These composers set poems in their native language. Many works were inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Another method would be to write new music for each stanza to create a unique form; this was through-composed form known in German as durchkomponiert. A combination of both of these techniques in a single setting was called a modified strophic form. Often romantic art songs sharing similar elements were grouped as a song cycle.^[3]

Folk songs[link]

Folk songs are songs of often anonymous origin (or are public domain) that are transmitted orally. They are frequently a major aspect of national or cultural identity. Art songs often approach the status of folk songs when people forget who the author was. Folk songs are also frequently transmitted non-orally (that is, as sheet music), especially in the modern era. Folk songs exist in almost every culture.

Popular songs[link]

Modern popular songs are typically distributed as recordings and are played on the radio, though all other mass media that have audio capabilities are involved. Their relative popularity is inferred from commercially significant sales of recordings, ratings of stations and networks that play them, and ticket sales for concerts by the recording artists. A popular song can become a modern folk song when members of the public who learn to sing it from the recorded version teach their version to others. Popular songs may be called pop songs for short, although pop songs or pop music may instead be considered a more commercially popular genre of popular music as a whole.

See also[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Song

• Air (music)
• Animal song: bird song, whale song, zoomusicology
• Aria
• Ballad
• Canticle
• Category:Musical forms
• Hymn
• Instrumental
• Lied
• Madrigal (music)
• Song structure (popular music)
• Vocal music
• Theme song
• Poem and song
• Singing

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Marcello Sorce Keller (1984), "The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: a Short History", Folklore, XCV, no. 1, 100- 104.

Rick Parfitt OBE
Background information
Birth name	Richard John Parfitt
Born	(1948-10-12) 12 October 1948 (age 63) Woking, Surrey, England
Genres	Hard rock, rock and roll, boogie rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1960s–present
Associated acts	Status Quo
Website	www.statusquo.co.uk
Notable instruments
Fender Telecaster

Richard John Parfitt, OBE (born 12 October 1948) is best known for being a singer and the rhythm guitarist in the English rock band Status Quo.

Career[link]

Born in Woking, Surrey, Parfitt attended Goldsworth School, Woking and first met band member Francis Rossi in 1965 in Butlin's Minehead whilst he was playing as Ricky Harrison in a musical trio called 'The Highlights'.^{[citation needed]} Rossi was playing with the Spectres (forerunner of Status Quo) at the time and Parfitt was sufficiently impressed to approach him with a view to working together. Nothing came of the meeting until 1967 when Parfitt joined Rossi, Alan Lancaster, John Coghlan and Roy Lynes to form the classic Quo lineup.

Parfitt has been a continuous member of the group, and has penned some of their greatest hits, sometimes in collaboration with the group's keyboard player Andy Bown, among them "Whatever You Want", "Again and Again", and "Rain". He recorded a solo album in 1985, but it was never released. Among musicians on the record were bassist John Edwards and drummer Jeff Rich, formerly with the Climax Blues Band and Judie Tzuke. He has earned the nickname 'The WOMORR' (The Wild Old Man of Rock 'n' Roll). Parfitt is known for his trademark white Fender Telecaster – a 1965 model.

In 2006, Parfitt released his invention, the "guitar facelift"^[1] which has the backing of guitar manufacturer Fender.

On 16 June 2007, the presenters of the British children's television show, Tiswas, reunited for a special one-off show. Parfitt performed with the rest of Status Quo on the show (all of whom were constantly plagued by the show's trademark practical jokes during their performance), and presenter Chris Tarrant alleged that during a broadcast of the show in the early 1980s, Parfitt was smoking cannabis on live children's television.

On 15 September 2007, Parfitt and Rossi appeared on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, earning £50,000 for charity.

In December 2009, Parfitt teamed up with Rolf Harris for the single "Christmas in the Sun". This follows on from the 2008 Status Quo hit "It's Christmas Time", which Parfitt wrote with current songwriting partner Wayne Morris.^[2]

Musical equipment[link]

One of Parfitt's guitars is a white 1965 Fender Telecaster. In addition he also plays a Gibson SG tuned to an Open E, a 1981 Zemaitis tuned to a B, a Schecter, a Fender Esquire, and a Chet Atkins acoustic guitar. For amplification, Parfitt uses Marshall JCM800 or JCM900 amplifiers with 4x12 cabinets combined with VOX AC30 amplifiers and a Roland GP8 signal processor.^[3]

Personal life[link]

Parfitt had a relationship with his childhood sweetheart Patty after meeting her in 1968. After the pair split up, Parfitt married Marietta Boeker, and the pair had a son, Richard (born 1978). They had also a baby girl Heidi Marie Elizabeth Parfitt who drowned in the family pool at the age of 2. Parfitt and Marietta then divorced, and he married Patty – the pair had a son, Harry (born 1989). However, they also divorced, before Parfitt reunited with Patty in 2000. The couple lived in a £1 million mansion in Teddington, but after paying out more than £3 million in divorce settlements, Parfitt vowed in 2005 that he would never marry again. However, in August 2006, after meeting 46 year old fitness instructor Lyndsay Whitburn, the pair married in a £40 ceremony in Gibraltar.^[4][5] On 26 May 2008, Lyndsay gave birth to twins - a boy named Tommy Oswald Parfitt, and a girl named Lily Rose Parfitt.^[6]

Parfitt had a quadruple heart bypass in 1997. In December 2005 he underwent tests for suspected throat cancer, but just before Christmas that year, the tests found the growths to be benign.

Parfitt was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours 2010.^[7][8]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Status Quo official site
• Guitar Facelift