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Alice Cooper - Reflected ( s1 )

 

"Reflected" is the first single by the rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1969 from their debut album Pretties for You.

The band also performed the song during a party scene in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970).

The single was issued twice; both on 7-inch vinyl. Its first release was on May 19, 1969, several months before the album it was originally featured on, Pretties for You, was released.

It featured a B-Side, "Living", which also appeared on the Pretties for You album.

The song was later reworked as "Elected", which appeared on their 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.

Track listing

1. "Reflected" – 3:17
2. "Living" - 3:12

Releases on Albums

• "Pretties for You"
• "School Days: The Early Recordings"
• "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper"

Personnel

• Alice Cooper – vocals, harmonica
• Glen Buxton – lead guitar
• Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar
• Neal Smith – drums

Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Pretties for You
B-side	"Living"
Released	May 19, 1969
Recorded	1968
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	3:17
Label	Straight
Songwriter(s)	Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith
Producer(s)	Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"Reflected" (1969) "Shoe Salesman" (1970)

Joan Baez ( b27 )

 

• Come from the Shadows (1972)
• Where Are You Now, My Son? (1973)
• Gracias a la Vida (1974)
• Diamonds & Rust (1975)
• Gulf Winds (1976)
• Blowin' Away (1977)
• Honest Lullaby (1979)
• Recently (1987)
• Speaking of Dreams (1989)
• Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (1989)
• Play Me Backwards (1992)
• Gone from Danger (1997)
• Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (2003)
• Day After Tomorrow (2008)
• Whistle Down the Wind (2018)

Filmography

• The March on Washington (1963)
• The March (1964)
• The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
• Dont Look Back (1967)
• Festival (1967)
• Woodstock (1970)
• Carry It On (1970)
• Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert (1970)
• Celebration at Big Sur (1971)
• Dynamite Chicken (1971)
• Earl Scruggs: The Bluegrass Legend - Family & Friends (1972)
• Sing Sing Thanksgiving (1974)
• The Making of 'Silent Running' (1974)
• A War is Over (1975)
• Banjoman (1975)
• Bob Dylan: Hard Rain TV Special (1976)
• The Memory of Justice (1976)
• Renaldo and Clara (1978)
• Sag nein (1983)
• In Our Hands (1984)

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Rainbow ( B5 )

 After the release and extensive world tour in 1977–78, Blackmore decided that he wanted to take the band in a new commercial direction away from the "sword and sorcery" theme. Dio did not agree with this change and left Rainbow.

In a 1979 interview with Sounds, Blackmore said:

"If they were good enough, they'd still be in the band. I'm not putting down the other members who were in the band, but no-one has ever left Rainbow. It's a fact. Not a confrontation just, well you didn't quite make it, you'll have to do other things.
"Ronnie is a very good singer- I still like him- but he was becoming very lackadaisical. I'm sure if he were here now he would argue the point, but the fact is, Ronnie was not contributing what he should have done, and he knows that. For the last two years I would put down the riff, the progressions, give him the basic melody and he would write the lyrics. I found that in the past year he wasn't really doing that. He was bitching about the fact that it was Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. And I'm going, look, I've tried after three years to make it just Rainbow, not my Rainbow.
"When people leave the band we don't give too many reasons because we don't want to hinder their career. But if someone's not pulling their weight then I will not put up with someone who's second rate. I'm not going to jump onstage and say 'it's alright ladies and gentlemen, I know they're not very good but they are my friends' like most bands do.
"A couple of people in the band were taking quite a few drugs and consequently were falling asleep while they were playing because they'd been partying all night. I gave them the sack. It's incredible how those people react. They say 'how dare he do that to me?' But what have they got to offer other than looking the part?"

Commercial success (1978–1984)

Graham Bonnet in 2008

Blackmore asked Ian Gillan, also formerly of Deep Purple, to replace Dio, but Gillan turned him down.

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Peter Hammill ( i1 )

 

SexPistols ( B32 )

  Critic Toby Creswell locates the primary source of inspiration somewhat differently. Noting that "[i]mage to the contrary, the Pistols were very serious about music", he argues, "the real rebel yell came from Jones' guitars: a mass wall of sound based on the most simple, retro guitar riffs. Essentially, the Sex Pistols reinforced what the garage bands of the '60s had demonstrated—you don't need technique to make rock & roll. In a time when music had been increasingly complicated and defanged, the Sex Pistols' generational shift caused a real revolution."

Although much of the Sex Pistols' energy was directed against the establishment, not all of rock's elder statesmen dismissed them. Pete Townshend of the Who said:

When you listen to the Sex Pistols, to "Anarchy in the U.K." and "Bodies" and tracks like that, what immediately strikes you is that this is actually happening. This is a bloke, with a brain on his shoulders, who is actually saying something he sincerely believes is happening in the world, saying it with real venom, and real passion. It touches you and it scares you—it makes you feel uncomfortable. It's like somebody saying, "The Germans are coming! And there's no way we're gonna stop 'em!"

Along with their abundant musical influence, the Sex Pistols' cultural reverberations are evident elsewhere. Jamie Reid's work for the band is regarded as among the most important graphic design of the 1970s and still influences the field in the 21st century. By the age of twenty-one, Sid Vicious was already a "t-shirt-selling icon".

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Mountain - Never in My Life ( L3 )

Never in my life

Could I find a girl like you
Never in my life
Could I find a girl like you
When I wake up in the morning
You make me feel so good
Bringing me the cider whiskey
Feel a bit lonely too

For the first time in my life
I finally found someone like you
For the first time in my life
I finally found someone like you
I feel like a bolt of lightning
But it feels so good
Knowin' my baby's waitin'
And of course I do
Hey hey hey

Never in my life
Could I find a girl like you
Never in my life
Could I find a girl like you
When I turned around to wake her
About the way she moves
I don't want to leave her
But I wanta love you too