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Supertramp - Bloody Well Right ( YT2 )

 

Roxy Music ( B11 )

 The trio (augmented by session players) toured extensively until 1983, when Bryan Ferry dissolved the band, and band members devoted themselves full-time to solo careers.

Reunions (2001–2011, 2019, 2022)

Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson re-formed in 2001 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band, and toured extensively. A festival performance in Portugal and a short tour of the United States followed in 2003. Absent was Brian Eno, who criticised the motives of the band's reunion, saying, "I just don't like the idea. It leaves a bad taste". Later Eno remarked that his comment had been taken out of context. Manzanera and Thompson recorded and toured with Ferry on his 2002 album Frantic. Eno also contributed to Frantic on the track "I Thought".

During 2002, Image Entertainment, Inc., released the concert DVD Roxy Music Live at the Apollo featuring performances of 20 songs plus interviews and rehearsal footage.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the group No. 98 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Roxy Music gave a live performance at the 2005 Isle of Wight Festival on 11 June 2005, their first UK concert since the 2001–2002 world tour. On 2 July 2005, the band played "Jealous Guy", "Do the Strand", and "Love is the Drug" at the Berlin contribution to Live8; "Do the Strand" is available on the 4-disc DVD collection, and "Love Is the Drug" can be found on the Live 8 Berlin DVD.

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 01.11.1969 - The Beatles ajung nr 1 cu Abbey Road.

Dave Davies ( b1 )

 David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the English rock band the Kinks, which also featured his elder brother Ray Davies.

Davies is prolific with his innovation with the electric guitar, specifically in being one of the first to utilize electric guitar distortion and exposing the effect to the mainstream. In 2003, Davies was ranked 91st in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Early life

6 Denmark Terrace, birthplace of Dave Davies

David Russell Gordon Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Muswell Hill, North London. He was born the last of eight children, including six elder sisters and an elder brother, later bandmate Ray. As children, the Davies brothers were immersed in a world of different musical styles, from the music hall of their parents' generation, to the jazz and early rock n' roll that their older sisters listened to. The siblings developed a rivalry early on, with both brothers competing for their parents' and sisters' attention.

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Neil Young ( b51 )

 

994	Single of the Year	"Harvest Moon"	Nominated
	Album of the Year	Harvest Moon	Won
1993	Songwriter of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1991	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1990	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1989	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1986	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1982	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1981	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1980	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1979	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1975	Composer of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated

MTV Video Music Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1984	"Wonderin'"	Most Experimental Video	Nominated
1989	"This Note's for You"	Video of the Year	Won
		Viewer's Choice Award	Nominated

The Shadows ( B8 )

 The packaging of hits in Twenty Golden Greats by EMI in 1977, which led to a number one album prompted the group to re-form once more for a 'Twenty Golden Dates' tour around the UK, featuring Francis Monkman (formerly of Curved Air and soon to be in Sky) on keyboards and Alan Jones on bass guitar. Francis left after that tour and the line-up settled as Marvin, Welch and Bennett, supplemented on records and gigs by Cliff Hall (keyboards) and Alan Jones (bass). It was this line-up that reunited with Cliff Richard for two concerts at the London Palladium in March 1978. Highlights of the concert, including four solo Shadows tracks, were released the following year on the top ten charting album Thank You Very Much. On the back of this The Shadows recorded an instrumental version of "Don't cry for me Argentina" from the west end production "Evita", released as a single at the tail end of 1978. The record eventually reached number 5 in the singles chart thereby giving the group their first top ten single since the 1960s.

In 1979, their version of "Cavatina" also became a top ten hit, and they recorded ten more tracks with bassist Jones and keyboardists Dave Lawson and Alan Hawkshaw for the album String of Hits on EMI which topped the British album charts. The success of this led to EMI issuing a follow-up album with 13 old tracks (including a Marvin solo track) and one unreleased track from the 'String of Hits' sessions. These tracks came from albums released earlier in the group's career of cover versions of hit singles; this was eventually released as Another String of Hot Hits in 1980.

1980s

After 20 successful years together the Shadows parted ways with their record company EMI and the group signed a 10-year contract to Polydor Records. 

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Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash ( l1 )

Well you got the hands of a man and the face of a little boy blue-

And when you stand you're so grand there's a case just for looking at you-oo oo-oo
You're so young, you could have been the devil's son
You're so young, but like a hang up I'll be sad when you're old and you're gone

[Refrain:]
Watch Out!
You know the 48 Crash come like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash, that's the 48 Crash

You've got the kind of a mind of a juvenile Romeo-o
And you're so blind you could find that your motor ain't ready to go-o o-o
You're so young, you're a hot shot son of a gun
You're so young, but like a teenage tearaway soon you'll be torn and you'll run

[Refrain]

Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, 48 Crash (Crash)
Crash, Crash, AAAGH!

You know the 48 Crash comes like a lightning flash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
And the 48 Crash is a silk sash bash (48 Crash, 48 Crash)
48 Crash, 48 Crash
Come like a lightning flash, a lightning flash
And it's a silk sash bash, a silk sash bash
That's the 48 Crash
48 Crash [Repeat And Fade]

Renaissance ( I1 )

 

Roxy Music ( B10 )

 However, the changed cast reflected a distinct change in Roxy's musical style. Gone were the unpredictable elements of the group's sound, giving way to smoother musical arrangements. Rolling Stone panned Manifesto ("Roxy Music has not gone disco. Roxy Music has not particularly gone anywhere else either.") as well as Flesh + Blood ("such a shockingly bad Roxy Music record that it provokes a certain fascination"), while other sources praised the reunion. Melody Maker said, of Manifesto, "...reservations aside, this may be the first such return bout ever attempted with any degree of genuine success: a technical knockout against the odds."

In 1981, Roxy Music recorded the non-album single "Jealous Guy". A cover of a song written and originally recorded by John Lennon, Roxy Music recorded "Jealous Guy" as a tribute to Lennon after his 1980 death. The song topped the UK charts for two weeks in March 1981, becoming the band's only No. 1 single.

Later, with more sombre and carefully sculpted soundscapes, the band's eighth—and final—studio album, Avalon (1982), recorded at Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios, was a major commercial success and restored the group's critical reputation and contained the successful single "More Than This". The album also included several Roxy Music classics, such as "Avalon", "The Main Thing", "The Space Between", "True to Life", and "To Turn You On". 

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Neil Young ( b50 )

 

2011	"Angry World"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
		Best Rock Song	Won
	Le Noise	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2014	Psychedelic Pill	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2015	A Letter Home	Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package	Nominated

Juno Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2011	Artist of the Year	Neil Young	Won
	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Le Noise	Won
2008	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Chrome Dreams II	Nominated
2007	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Living With War	Won
2006	Adult Alternative Album of the Year	Prairie Wind	Nominated
	Jack Richardson Producer of the Year	"The Painter"	Won
	Songwriter of the Year	"The Painter", "When God Made Me", "Prairie Wind"	Nominated
2001	Best Male Artist	Neil Young	Won
	Best Roots & Traditional Album – Solo	Silver & Gold	Nominated
1997	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1996	Best Rock Album	Mirror Ball	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
1995	Songwriter of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated
	Male Vocalist of the Year	Neil Young	Won
	Entertainer of the Year	Neil Young	Nominated

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Istoric ( 311 )

 14.06.1949 - s-a nascut Jim Lea ( English musician, most notable for playing bass guitar, keyboards, piano, violin, and guitar, and singing backing ) – Slade.

The Shadows ( B7 )

 Two of the songs ("No, No Nina" and "This House Runs on Sunshine") were co-written by members of the group. The public voted for "Let Me Be the One", composed by Paul Curtis, to go to the Eurovision final in Stockholm, Sweden in 1975. There, the group came second to the Dutch entry, Teach-In's "Ding-A-Dong". Having long stepped out of Richard's shadow, this was a rare excursion into vocals for a band known for instrumentals (although they had cut vocal tracks on most albums, plus some singles 'B' sides, and had four charting vocal singles in the '60s). Welch sang lead and let the world know when, forgetting a couple of words, he turned to colleagues and said "I knew it" in range of his microphone. Author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History that they were not a popular choice to represent the UK and the viewers' postal vote was the lowest in 'Song For Europe' history.

EMI however released a compilation album in 1976, spanning 1962 to 1970: Rarities with sleeve notes by John Friesen. The first half of the album was from Marvin's solo career and the second was by the Shadows . Following the rare vocal single "It'll Be Me, Babe", written and sung by Marvin & Farrar, John Farrar amicably left the band that year, moving to the US to become the music producer for Olivia Newton-John. Among her hits, Farrar wrote "You're the One That I Want" from the film Grease which was covered by the Shadows in 1979.

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Amon Düül II ( I1 )

 

Roxy Music ( B9 )

  Jobson was reportedly not contacted for the reunion; at the time, Jobson was touring and recording with his own band, U.K. The sleeve of Manifesto indicated that the revived Roxy Music line-up consisted of Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson, along with Paul Carrack (ex-Ace, keyboards), Alan Spenner (ex-The Grease Band, bass), and Gary Tibbs (ex-Vibrators, bass); despite this all other media pointed to Roxy Music being a quartet (and a trio following the 1980 departure of Thompson), with the latter three musicians being regular collaborators of the band.

Three singles were issued from Manifesto, including the major UK hits "Angel Eyes" (UK No. 4), and "Dance Away" (UK No. 2). Both these tracks are significantly different from the album versions, as "Dance Away" was remixed for single release, and "Angel Eyes" was entirely re-recorded.

After the tour and before the recording of the next album, Flesh + Blood (1980), Thompson broke his thumb in a motorcycle mishap and took a leave from the band. Soon afterward he left permanently, due to musical differences with Ferry.

At this point, Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera became the only permanent members of Roxy Music, and were supplemented by a variety of session players over the next few years including Tibbs, Spenner, Carrack, drummer Andy Newmark and guitarist Neil Hubbard. The trio's 1980 album Flesh + Blood became a huge commercial success in their homeland, as the album went to No. 1 on the UK charts, and spun off three UK hits: "Oh Yeah" (UK No. 5), "Over You" (UK No. 5), and "Same Old Scene" (UK No. 12).

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Free - All Right Now ( S1.2 )

 

Year-end charts

Chart (1970)	Rank
Canada	42
UK	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	27
U.S. Cash Box	38

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)	Gold	400,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Free

• Paul Rodgers – vocals
• Paul Kossoff – guitar
• Andy Fraser – bass guitar, piano
• Simon Kirke – drums

Neil Young ( b49 )

 

Grammy Awards

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1990	Freedom	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
1991	"Rockin' in the Free World"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
1994	"Harvest Moon"	Record of the Year	Nominated
		Song of the Year	Nominated
	"My Back Pages"	Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
1995	"Philadelphia"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	Sleeps with Angels	Best Rock Album	Nominated
1996	"Peace and Love"	Best Male Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	"Downtown"	Best Rock Song	Nominated
	Mirror Ball	Best Rock Album	Nominated
		Best Recording Package	Nominated
1997	Broken Arrow	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2006	"The Painter"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	Prairie Wind	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2007	"Lookin' for a Leader"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
		Best Rock Song	Nominated
	Living with War	Best Rock Album	Nominated
2009	"No Hidden Path"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
2010	"Fork in the Road"	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	Nominated
	The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972	Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package	Won
	Neil Young	MusiCares Person of the Year	Won

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Free - All Right Now ( S1.1 )

 He sat down and wrote it right there in the dressing room. It couldn’t have taken more than ten minutes." Fraser has agreed largely with this history.

Chart history

Weekly charts Chart (1970) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) 44 Italy (FIMI) 56 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 6 Canada RPM Top Singles 4 Denmark (Tracklisten) 1 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 10 France (SNEP) 4 Germany (Official German Charts) 5 Ireland (IRMA) 5 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 9 Netherlands (Single Top 100) 8 Norway (VG-lista) 9 Sweden (Radio Sweden) 1 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 4 UK Singles (OCC) 2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 3 continuare

The Shadows ( B6 )

  Their film and stage roles allowed the group to develop as songwriters. They wrote only a few songs for the earliest film, 1961's The Young Ones, but by Finders Keepers in 1966 almost the entire soundtrack was credited to Marvin-Welch-Bennett-Rostill. In 1967, the Shadows used Olivia Newton-John on the track "The Day I Met Marie" on their album From Hank Bruce Brian and John.

In October 1968, Marvin and Welch decided to disband the group following a concert at the London Palladium. In the event, only Welch left, but the Shadows had disbanded by the end of the year.

1970s

The group began 1970 by appearing on the BBC's review of the '60s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, performing "Apache" and backing Richard on "Bachelor Boy", broadcast across Europe and BBC1, on 31 December 1969. This was followed by Marvin and a reconstituted Shadows becoming resident guests on Richard's debut TV series for the BBC, It's Cliff Richard!

The group were chosen by BBC Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton to perform the Song for Europe in the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. The Shadows recorded six songs, seen each week on a weekly television show It's Lulu, on BBC1 and hosted by Lulu, a former Eurovision winner. The group taped all six performances in the TV studio before the series itself began, with the video cut into the weekly show. For the presentation of the songs on week seven and the announcement of the result on week eight, the pre-recorded performances were run again.

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Free - All Right Now ( S1 )

 

"All Right Now" is a song by English rock band Free. It originally appeared on the band's third studio album Fire and Water (1970), which Free recorded on the Island Records label, formed by Chris Blackwell. Released as the album's second single, "All Right Now" hit number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In July 1973, the song was re-released, reaching number 15 on the UK chart. In 1991, a Bob Clearmountain remix of the song was released, reaching number 8 on the UK chart.

"All Right Now" was a number 1 hit in over 20 territories and was recognised by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) in 1990 for garnering 1,000,000 plus radio plays in the U.S. by late 1989. In 2006, the BMI London awards included a Million Air award for 3 million air plays of "All Right Now" in the USA. The song also remains as a staple of classic rock radio.

Composition

According to drummer Simon Kirke, "All Right Now" was written by Free bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers in the Durham Students' Union building, Dunelm House. He said: "'All Right Now' was created after a bad gig in Durham. We finished our show and walked off the stage to the sound of our own footsteps. The applause had died before I had even left the drum riser. It was obvious that we needed a rocker to close our shows. All of a sudden the inspiration struck Fraser and he started bopping around singing 'All Right Now'. 

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The Moody Blues - The Magnificent Moodies ( D1 )

 

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Roxy Music ( B8 )

 On the first two Roxy albums, all songs were written solely by Bryan Ferry. Beginning with Stranded, Mackay and Manzanera began to co-write some material. Gradually, their songwriting and musicianship became more integrated into the band's sound, although Ferry remained the dominant songwriter; throughout their career, all but one of Roxy's singles were written either wholly or jointly by Ferry (Manzanera, Mackay and Thompson did individually write a few of the band's B-sides). Stranded was released in November 1973, and produced the top-10 single "Street Life".

The fourth album, Country Life, was released in 1974, and was the first Roxy Music album to enter the US Top 40, albeit at No. 37. Country Life was met with widespread critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone referring to it "as if Ferry ran a cabaret for psychotics, featuring chanteurs in a state of shock".^[31] Their fifth album, Siren, contained their only US top 40 hit, "Love Is the Drug". (Ferry said the song came to him while kicking the leaves during a walk through Hyde Park.)

After the concert tours in support of Siren in 1976, Roxy Music disbanded. Their live album Viva! was released in August 1976. During this time Ferry released two solo records on which Manzanera and Thompson performed, and Manzanera reunited with Eno on the critically acclaimed one-off 801 Live album.

Final albums and hiatus (1978–1983)

Roxy Music reunited during 1978 to record a new album, Manifesto, but with a reshuffled cast. 

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Neil Young ( b48 )

 Albums recorded in tribute to Young by various artists include:

• 1989 – The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, Caroline
• 1994 – Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young, Sony Music Canada, 2xCD acoustic and electric
• 1999 – This Note's for You Too!: A Tribute to Neil Young, Inbetweens Records 2xCD
• 2000 – Getting' High on Neil Young: A Bluegrass Tribute, CMH Records (same as 1998 entry)
• 2001 – Everybody Knows This Is Norway: A Norwegian Tribute to Neil Young, Switch Off Records
• 2001 – Mirrorball Songs – A Tribute to Neil Young, SALD, Japan
• 2006 – Headed for the Ditch: a Michigan Tribute to Neil Young, Lower Peninsula Records 2xLP
• 2007 – Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young, 2xCD acoustic and electric, Universal Music Canada 2xCD
• 2007 – Like A Hurricane (16-track tribute album provided with the December 2007 issue of Uncut Magazine)
• 2008 – More Barn – A Tribute to Neil Young, Slothtrop Music
• 2008 – Cinnamon Girl – Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity, American Laundromat Records 2xCD
• 2012 – Music Is Love: A Singer-Songwriter Tribute to the Music of CSNY Route 66 2xCD

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 01.11.1966 - The Doors canta prima seara dintr-o serie de 30 la Ondine Discoteque in New York.

Renaissance - The Mystic & The Muse ( L1 )

 Out of the corner of my eye I see the moon

And nine goddesses dancing
In the silver light on pillars in a fiery garden
One gently said that I must follow her

And so I left the strange and lonely life I knew
Beckoning and in a truth
And the sound of sunlight through a stormy sleep
Has led me to my Muse

High in that light ceremonial bloom
The world and its wonders revealed
Down from the mountain the Mystic appeared
His words absolute and so pure

My situation and my dreaming are all one
Hear the fanfare of the dawn
A lesson that was waiting to be learned
From the Mystic and the Muse
From the Mystic and the Muse

When stillness weaves my sleep
I lay quietly
Floating gently in a velvet sea
Feel the greatest presence I have yet to see
Feel the greatest presence I have yet to see

High in that light ceremonial bloom
The world and its wonders revealed
Down from the mountain the Mystic appeared
His words absolute and so pure

My comprehension and my dreams were all in flame
Was this all a timeless game?
Sun and Moon, colliding, crying loud and clear
Master Mystic, Goddess Muse
Master Mystic, Goddess Muse