A largely British movement, glam rock and glitter were highly popular in the early 1970s – so popular that one artist, Marc Bolan, was given his own TV series. Inspired by early rock’n’roll and bubblegum pop, glam rock was fun, catchy and melodic, played with crunchy, distorted guitars, with the musicians dressing up ...
During the mid-1960s, America’s military action in Vietnam was escalating out of control; students around the world were becoming more politically involved, civil rights and feminism were hot issues and the burgeoning youth movement was turning onto the effects of mind-bending drugs. Accordingly, certain strains of popular music melded attitude, experimentation and a social conscience, and ...
incongruity. Among the ‘low’ characters, the children of nature, Papageno and Papagena, contrast with the Moor Monostatos, who sings in a frenetic buffo style. The hard glitter of the Queen of Night’s music is set against the grave nobility of the numbers for Sarastro and the priests. At the centre are the two lovers, Pamina and ...
One of the great chameleon figures in rock, David Bowie has also been among the most influential. Born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947, his earliest records with The King Bees, The Mannish Boys and The Lower Third were unsuccessful. In 1966 he changed his name to David Bowie and combined his songwriting with an interest in ...
‘Endless Love’ duet with Luther Vandross was particularly memorable. Switching to Virgin for $80 million in 2001, Carey experienced a breakdown due to exhaustion, and sales of the Glitter soundtrack (2001) were so poor, that Virgin paid her $28 million to leave. The Emancipation Of Mimi (2005) returned her to chart ways. Styles & Forms | Nineties | ...
to be based on reality. After signing an $80m record deal with Virgin at the end of the 1990s and enduring disappointing sales and a critically savaged flop movie in Glitter, she posted sprawling suicidal messages on her website and spent time in rehab. Virgin dropped her in 2002, but it was not all bad news: the record company ...
Soft Machine Prog Rock Style Classical tunes played with rock instrumentation combine to produce the signature sound of progressive rock. Introduction | Rock Styles & Forms | Glam Rock & Glitter ...
at the tail end of 1970. His extraordinary blend of stomping rhythms, a pre-grunge guitar style, abstract sex lyrics, reverberant sound plucked from 1950s rock’n’roll, flamboyant glitter clothes and make-up, as well as androgynous beauty framed by a cascade of corkscrew hair, introduced British teenagers to the delights of both adolescent sexual confusion and joyously ...
of offering serious criticism of contemporary manners and morals. The French painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin turned to domestic scenes and still lifes to create an alternative world to the fantasy and glitter of the court at Versailles. In literature, this aim for greater realism was manifested in the transformation of the novel from prose romance to an important weapon of social ...
opera Quadrophenia for the Prince’s Trust charity at London’s Hyde Park in front of an estimated 150,000 people. An all-star cast featured Phil Daniels as the narrator, Gary Glitter as the rocker, Trevor McDonald as the newsreader and Dave Gilmour as the bus driver. Gilmour played guitar and shared vocal duties on ‘The Dirty Jobs’ and wore for ...
All Dolled Up In New York Throwing a fistful of glitter into the mix, along with some debilitating drug problems, The New York Dolls tottered unsteadily along the line between punk and glam rock in the early 1970s. Fronted by the pouting Jagger-esque David Johansen, the band lost drummer Billy Murcia to a drug overdose before their self-titled ...
tour would continue under the name of The Who. The 1997 production was smaller than that of the previous year and included a change in guest stars, with Gary Glitter and Billy Idol replaced by P.J. Proby and Ben Waters. Kicking off with some European shows in April, the band continued through to August, finishing in Florida. ...
(Animated vocal group, 1998–present) Gorillaz, a virtual band created as an antidote to the bland pop its creators (Blur’s Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett) saw dominating the charts, have, through stunning choice of guest vocalists and Albarn’s gift for melody, made some of the most memorable pop music of recent years. Their self-titled debut (2001) ...
1561–1633, Italian Like his rival and fellow Roman Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri possessed several musical talents. He was a composer, singer and harpist. In 1588, also like Caccini, Peri joined the Medici court in Florence. At age 27, he was, it seems, an attractive addition to one of the most glittering courts in ...
(Fränts Yo’-sef Hi’-dan) 1732–1809 Austrian composer Joseph Haydn was the most celebrated musician of the late-eighteenth century and the first of the great triumvirate (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) of Viennese classical composers. A tireless explorer and innovator, he did more than anyone to develop the dramatic potential of the sonata style. When he composed his cheerful F major Missa brevis ...
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