Dire Straits

"Love Over Gold"

...is the fourth album by British rock band Dire Straits.
Due to its lengthy atmospheric instrumental passages, the album has been cited as the band's attempt at progressive rock.^[4]
"Private Investigations" was released as the lead single from the album in Europe, which reached #2 in the UK. "Industrial Disease" was, instead, the lead single in USA, only reaching #75 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983.
In 1986, Love Over Gold had sold 4.4 million copies in Europe, whereas the album had only reached gold status in the United States by that stage.^[5]
It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world on Vertigo Records outside the US and in 2000 in the United States. The remastered CD also features slightly altered cover art; the album title is rendered underneath the band name, both in larger type, rather than arranged across the top. The image of lightning is also somewhat zoomed in and made brighter, making for a more purple colour. It is the only remastered Dire Straits CD with altered cover art.
The album was the last on which drummer Pick Withers played.
"Private Dancer", a song originally planned for the album, was recorded by the band except for the vocals. Mark Knopfler decided that a female voice would be more appropriate and handed the song to Tina Turner for her comeback album of the same name.^[6]
"The Way It Always Starts", another song written during the Love Over Gold sessions, ended up on Knopfler's soundtrack to "Local Hero" with vocals sung by Gerry Rafferty.
"Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts" was cut from the album, released in the UK as a B-side, and subsequently released in the U.S. as the fourth track on the ExtendedancEPlay EP.



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Sting

"Fragile" 

...is a song composed by English musician Sting from his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun. Released as a single the following year, it placed to number 70 on the UK Singles Chart. Sung additionally in both Spanish and Portuguese under the title Fragilidad, it appeared twice more on his 1988 EP variant of the album, Nada como el sol. The Spanish version features as a b-side to I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying.

The song is a tribute to Ben Linder, an American civil engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a hydroelectric project in Nicaragua.

It was also used in many ads after the September 11th tragedy and was the opening song in Sting's ...All This Time concert, recorded that evening.

The song been covered by many international artists including Québécois singer Bruno Pelletier, Turkish bağlama artist Ahmet Koç, American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, American trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, American soul singer Isaac Hayes, Mercedes Sosa and Pedro Aznar from Argentina, Nils Landgren, Shirley Clamp, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, Jesse Cook, Stringmansassy, Holly Cole, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, 12 Girls Band in Shanghai, China, Tose Proeski during his concerts and on his 2011 album So Ljubav Ot Tose and others. It was performed during the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Tupac Shakur sampled the song for the unreleased original of When Thugz Cry.^{[citation needed]} It has scored rendition on the instrumental music side as well, trumpeter Bruce Glover covered the song from his 2005 album "Fragile."^[1] In 2006, saxophonist Michael Lington covered the song from his album "A Song for You."^[2][3] The following year, guitarist Blake Aaron covered the song from his album "Desire."^[4][5] German singer Angelzoom recorded a version for her second album "Nothing is Infinite" in 2010. She also relesaed a promotional video on YouTube^[6]. In 2011, 2Cellos covered this song, played as classical music. They are a cello duo consisting of Croatian cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser.

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Jeff Beck

"Blackbird"
You Had It Coming is the eighth studio album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in 2001 on Epic Records.

Santana

"Aqua Marine" (Pasqua, Santana)

Marathon is the tenth studio album by Santana. This marked the beginning of the group's commercial slide, in spite of having the Top 40 hit "You Know That I Love You". Alex Ligertwood, who would sing with the group throughout the '80s, joined the group for this album.



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Deep Purple

"You Keep On Moving" (Coverdale, Hughes)
Deep Purple Live at Budokan Tokyo Japan 1975

Το Come Taste the Band είναι ο τίτλος του δέκατου στούντιο δίσκου του χαρντ ροκ συγκροτήματος Deep Purple. Κυκλοφόρησε στις 10 Οκτωβρίου του 1975 από την Purple Records της EMI στην Ευρώπη και από την Warner στην Αμερική. Το Come Taste the Band ήταν ο μοναδικός δίσκος των Deep Purple που κυκλοφόρησε στη δεκαετία του '70 και τα κιθαριστικά μέρη δεν είχαν ηχογραφηθεί από τον Ρίτσι Μπλάκμορ, αλλά από τον Τόμι Μπόλιν.
Αυτός ήταν και ο τελευταίος δίσκος που κυκλοφόρησαν οι Deep Purple μέχρι το 1984, αφού μετά την περιοδεία για την προώθηση του, διαλύθηκαν. Η τελευταία συναυλία τους ήταν στις 15 Μαρτίου του 1976, στο Λίβερπουλ. Λίγους μήνες μετά την διάλυση του συγκροτήματος ο Τόμι Μπόλιν βρέθηκε νεκρός από υπερβολική δόση ηρωίνης.
Οι πωλήσεις του δίσκου κυμάνθηκαν σε μέτρια επίπεδα και αυτός ήταν ο πρώτος στούντιο δίσκος των Deep Purple ο οποίος δεν μπήκε στο αμερικανικό Top-40 από το 1970. Παρ' όλα αυτά, τρεις εβδομάδες μετά την κυκλοφορία του βραβεύθηκε ως ασημένιος δίσκος στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία (60.000 πωλήσεις).

Από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια

Sanjuro

Live at "Queens"

Ενημέρωση:

Στα μέσα Νοεμβρίου θα κυκλοφορήσει από την δισκογραφική εταιρεία  Final Touch (διανομή Universal) το πρώτο cd του τραγουδοποιού “Sanjuro”

Θα συμπεριλαμβάνεται σε αυτό και η διασκευή του τραγουδιού «Να την προσέχεις» του συγκροτήματος των «Ονιράμα».

Το Σάββατο 22 Οκτώβρη ο “Sanjuro” παρέα με “Annie” την τραγουδίστρια που τον συνοδεύει στις ζωντανές εμφανίσεις και που ερμηνεύει αρκετά από τα τραγούδια του cd θα εμφανιστούν στο Club “Queen” στο Καλοχώρι.

The Police

"Voices Inside Of My Head"
From their 1980 album "Zenyatta Mondatta" here's The Police with "Voices Inside Of My Head" Sampled by 702 feat. Missy Elliot "Steelo" Chill Rob G "Let The Words Flow" Wyclef Jean feat. Lauryn Hill "Year Of The Dragon". Memro "Trick of the Tail"

U2

"Unknown Caller" 

...is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the fourth track on their 2009 album No Line on the Horizon. It was written from the perspective of a drug addict, who begins to receive bizarre text messages on his cellphone. The song was developed very early during the No Line on the Horizon sessions, and was recorded in a single take.

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Nirvana

"The Man Who Sold the World"

...is the third studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released on Mercury Records in November 1970 in the United States and in April 1971 in the UK. The album was Bowie's first with the nucleus of what would become the "Spiders from Mars", the backing band made famous by The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972. Though author David Buckley has described the singer's previous record David Bowie (Space Oddity) as "the first Bowie album proper",^[7] NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said of The Man Who Sold the World, "this is where the story really starts".^[8] It has been claimed that this album's release marks the birth of glam rock.^[9]

The album was written and rehearsed at Bowie's home in Haddon Hall, Beckenham, an Edwardian mansion converted to a block of flats that was described by one visitor as having an ambience "like Dracula's living room".^[10] As Bowie was preoccupied with his new wife Angie at the time, the music was largely arranged by guitarist Mick Ronson and bassist/producer Tony Visconti.^[2] Despite his exasperation with the singer's preoccupation with married life, Visconti would later rate The Man Who Sold the World his best work with Bowie until 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).^[11]

Much of the album had a distinct heavy metal edge that distinguishes it from Bowie's other releases, and has been compared to contemporary acts such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.^[8] The record also provided some unusual musical detours, such as the title track's use of Latin rhythms to hold the melody.^[11] The sonic heaviness of the album was matched by the subject matter, which included insanity ("All the Madmen"), gun-toting assassins and Vietnam War commentary ("Running Gun Blues"), an omniscient computer ("Saviour Machine"), and Lovecraftian Elder Gods ("The Supermen").^[8] The song "She Shook Me Cold" was an explanation of a heterosexual encounter. The album has also been seen as reflecting the influence of such figures as Aleister Crowley, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche.^[11]

None of the songs were released to the public as singles at the time, though a promo version of "All the Madmen" was issued in the U.S. in 1971 (see note below). The same song appeared in Eastern Europe in 1973, as did "The Width of a Circle". "Black Country Rock" was released as the B-side of "Holy Holy" in the UK in January 1971, shortly before the album. The title track appeared as the B-side of both the U.S. single release of "Space Oddity" in 1972 and the U.K. release of "Life on Mars?" in 1973; it also provided an unlikely hit for Scottish pop singer Lulu (produced by Bowie and Ronson) and would be covered by many artists over the years, including Richard Barone in 1987, and Nirvana in 1993, who performed the cover in their famous Unplugged in New York.

(Note:) Although stock copies have apparently never turned up, according to Michel Ruppli & Ed Novitsky's "The Mercury Labels" Greenwood Press, 1993, "Janine" from the previous album was intended as the B side of the edited "All The Madmen" single (Mercury 73173).

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U2

"Magnificent"
...is a song by U2. It is the second track on the band's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon and was released as the album's second single.^[1] The song was originally titled "French Disco", but was renamed later in the recording sessions.^[3] It is played before the start of every New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden.
The single was released in May 2009 and reached #42 on the UK Singles Chart. While well received by critics, it was the first U2 single not to make the UK Top 40 since "A Celebration" in 1982.

"Magnificent" originated from the band's improvised recording sessions with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in Fez, Morocco in June 2007.^[4] The track was created out of a series of chord changes in the midst of a jam. The Edge noted that "The basic chord progression had a power that got everyone inspired. I think we all knew that it was inherently joyful, which is rare."^[5] A group of Moroccan percussionists played along with the band, and the result quickly became a band favourite during the sessions.^[5]
Bono noted that the lyrics were influenced by both Cole Porter and Bach, and that the song is about "two lovers holding on to each other and trying to turn their life into worship."^[5] Lanois described the song's origins: "We wanted to have something euphoric and Bono came up with that little melody. And he loved that melody, and stuck with it. Almost like a fanfare. And then I was involved in the lyrical process on that, because we wanted to talk about sacrifice that one makes for one's medium or one's art. I thought it had for a setting New York in the 50s; looking out a small bedroom window. Maybe a Charlie Parker kind of figure."^[6]



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Queen

"Another One Bites the Dust" 

...is a song by the English rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album The Game (1980). The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number two on the R&B charts and the Disco Top 100, and number seven in the United Kingdom Singles Chart.^[2][3] The song is credited as Queen's best selling single, with sales of over 7 million copies. This version was ranked at number 34 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.[

The bass line was inspired by the song "Good Times" by the Disco group Chic.^[5][6] In an interview with New Musical Express, Chic co-founder Bernard Edwards stated, "...that Queen record came about because that Queen bass player... spent some time hanging out with us at our studio".^[7]

Recording sessions were produced by Reinhold Mack at Musicland Studios in Munich (West Germany) and consisted of Deacon playing almost all the instruments: bass, piano, rhythm and lead guitars and handclap percussion. Roger Taylor added a drum loop and Brian May contributed some noises with his guitar and an Eventide Harmonizer. There are no synthesisers used in the song: all effects are created with pianos, guitars, and drums, with subsequent tape playback performed in reverse at various speeds. Finally, some sound effects were run through the harmonizer for further processing. The effect of the harmoniser can be heard clearly in the "swirling" nature of the sound immediately before the first lyric. After attending a Queen concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson suggested to Freddie Mercury backstage that "Another One Bites the Dust" be released as a single.^[8] The earlier live performances of the song had drummer Roger Taylor on lead vocals during the chorus, as opposed to the album version which was sung by Mercury in its entirety. In later performances, parts of the chorus were sometimes not sung by any member of the band, letting the audience sing it instead.

The song garnered Queen a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.^[9] The band lost to Bob Seger's album Against the Wind.^[9] The music video for "Another One Bites the Dust" was filmed at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.[

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Pink Floyd

"Another Brick in the Wall"
....is the title of three songs set to variations of the same basic theme, on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera, The Wall, subtitled Part 1 (working title "Reminiscing"), Part 2 (working title "Education"), and Part 3 (working title "Drugs"). All parts were written by Pink Floyd's bassist, Roger Waters. Part II is a protest song against rigid schooling in general and boarding schools in particular,^[1] which led to the song being banned in South Africa during the apartheid regime.^[2] It was also released as a single and provided the band's only number-one hit in the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany and many other countries. In addition, in the US, along with the tracks, "Run Like Hell", and "Don't Leave Me Now", "Another Brick in the Wall" reached number fifty-seven on the disco chart.^[3] In the UK, it was their first single since 1968's "Point Me at the Sky"; the song was also the final number-one single of the 1970s. For Part II, Pink Floyd received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group and lost to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind". In addition, Part II was number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[4] The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
The single, as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education.[



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