REO Speedwagon - Gypsy Woman's Passion ( L1 )

Walking all alone in the dead end, the gypsy wants us all around, yeah
I took your fare, I paid your party
There's a hell to spent above these clowns, oh hey hey

And nobody knows where we're going too far
Something for sure or we got it booted, oh hey!

Down to the tough sweet mountain, yeah
There's a psychic woman under in Old North
Do y'all wanna set this speed off, baby?
I persuade you don't I have my fill? Oh hey hey

And nobody knows where we're going too far, yeah
Something was sure or we gotta do, oh hey!
Maybe we got no direction. Said we got no place to go, no no.
She shoved all our batch end; am I just a big wad blow? Yeah yeah
Gypsy woman's passion, said I'm not gonna let you go
What'd I say, anyway, let's get on with it!

Watch out!

Now the queens they're humping back
And we made it on our train, heading south down the tracks
She comes to me however that you'll see (?)
Our only self is a gypsy need, yeah

And nobody knows where we're going too far, yeah
Something for sure or we gotta do, oh hey! Hell, fucking great!
We got no direction. Said we got no place to go, no no.
She shoved all our batch end; am I just a big wad blow? Yeah yeah
Gypsy woman's passion, said I'm not gonna let you go
What'd I say, anyway, let's take it on home, yeah!

Istoric ( 113 )

11.01.1985 - In Rio are loc un festival urias. Canta in cadrul evenimentului: Queen, Rod Stewart, AC/DC, Whitesnake, Yes si Iron Maiden.

Jethro Tull ( B17 )

The band won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, beating the favorite Metallica and their ...And Justice for All album. The award was particularly controversial as many did not consider Jethro Tull hard rock, much less heavy metal. On the advice of their manager, who told them they had no chance of winning, no one from the band attended the award ceremony. In response to the criticism they received over the award, their label, Chrysalis, took out an advertisement in a British music periodical with a picture of a flute lying amid a pile of iron re-bar and the line, "the flute is a heavy metal instrument." In response to an interview question about the controversy, Ian Anderson quipped, "Well, we do sometimes play our mandolins very loudly." In 2007, the win was named one of the ten biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly. In 1992, when Metallica finally won the Grammy in the category, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich joked, "First thing we're going to do is thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year", a play on a Grammy comment by Paul Simon some years before thanking Stevie Wonder for the same thing.

The style of Crest of a Knave (1987) has been compared to that of Dire Straits, in part because Anderson no longer seemed to have the vocal range he once possessed and preferred to use the lower registers, while Martin Barre's guitar sound apparently drifted towards Mark Knopfler's style. Two songs in particular—"Farm on the Freeway" and "Steel Monkey"—got heavy radio airplay. The album also contained the popular live song "Budapest", which depicts a backstage scene with a shy local female stagehand. Although "Budapest" was the longest song on that album (at just over ten minutes), "Mountain Men" became more famous in Europe, depicting a scene from World War II in Africa. Ian Anderson referred to the battles of El Alamein and the Falkland Islands, drawing historical parallels of the angst that women left behind by their warrior husbands might have felt:

died in the trenches at El Alamein,
died in the Falklands on TV

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Kiss ( I1 )

Alice Cooper ( b39 )

1989–1995

• Stef Burns (guitar)
• Tommy Carradonna (bass)
• Alice Cooper (vocals, harmonica)
• Sheryl Cooper (stage actor/dancer)
• Jimmy DeGrasso(drums)
• Pete Friesen (guitar)
• Vinnie Moore (guitar)
• Jonathan Mover (drums)
• Al Pitrelli (guitar)
• Joe Satriani (guitar)
• Derek Sherinian(keyboards)
• Eric Singer (drums)
• Greg Smith (bass)
• Paul Taylor (guitar)
• Steve Vai (guitar)

1996–2002

• Teddy "Zig Zag" Andreadis(keyboards)
• Reb Beach (guitar)
• T-Bone Carradona (bass)
• Alice Cooper (vocals, guitar)
• Calico Cooper (stage actor/dancer)
• Jimmy DeGrasso (drums)
• Chris Delorme (keyboard)
• Eric Dover (guitar)
• Mark Francis (guitar)
• Pete Friesen (guitar)
• Todd Jensen (bass)
• Damon Johnson (guitar)
• Nate McDonald (drums)
• Rob Nicholson (bass)
• Ryan Roxie (guitar)
• Eric Singer (drums)
• Greg Smith (bass)
• Paul Taylor (keyboards)
• Chuck Wright (bass)
• Phil X (guitar)

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The Kinks - Lola ( YT1 )

Manfred Mann's Earth Band ( B6 )

Recent years

Manfred Mann's Earth Band was revived in the early 1990s and resumed recording, covering tracks by artists as varied as Paul Weller, Robert Cray, Del Amitri, and The Lovin' Spoonful. Mann has also released solo projects including Plains Music, which was based on Native American music, and 2006, which includes collaborations with the German rapper Thomas D and tracks featuring the music of, amongst others, the Super Furry Animals. The Earth Band has had a fluctuating line-up, with Mann being the only continuous member. The current line-up includes Mann and co-founder Mick Rogers.

Most of the band's original albums have been re-released in recent years and a 4-CD set (Odds & Sods - Mis-takes & Out-takes) featuring many previously unissued versions of tracks was released in August 2005. This includes material from the unreleased (and thought to be lost) Manfred Mann Chapter III Volume 3 album and the first Earth Band album, Stepping Sideways. The fourth CD in the package includes both unreleased studio material and live performances.

December 2006 saw the release of the DVD Unearthed 1973–2005 The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. This features twenty tracks ranging from three recorded in Sweden in 1973 ("Father of Day", "Captain Bobby Stout" and "Black & Blue") to a 2005 performance of "Mighty Quinn". Also included are animations used during the band's live performances of the late 1970s and early 1980s and promo films (including two tracks from the Plains Music album).

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