(Vocal/instrumental group, 1976–present) This influential UK post-punk outfit, led by wild-haired Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) with Lol Tolhurst (drums) and Michael Dempsey (bass), debuted in 1978 on the Albert Camus-inspired ‘Killing An Arab’, followed by debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979). Simon Gallup (bass, keyboards) replaced Dempsey and the tone got even darker with Seventeen Seconds (1980), ...
played by bassoonists, despite the completely different playing technique required. The instrument gradually had keys added, giving a more chromatic range. This, however, did nothing to cure the problems of intonation and poor tone quality; only a skilled player could fully remedy such drawbacks, and even then the serpent received criticism. Despite this, the serpent ...
, Antonia insists on singing with Hoffmann. Crespel returns with Dr Miracle, whom he believes was responsible for his wife’s death, but who claims that only he can cure Antonia. Miracle contrasts humdrum married life with Antonia’s dreams of the stage and calls on her to sing with an apparition of her mother. She collapses with the strain and ...
Control’ is one example among many. Hailed as a classic by the critics, the album made an immediate impact on emerging bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, the Cure and U2. More recently, Joy Division’s influence can be heard on Editors and Interpol. Closer (1980) refined Joy Division’s sound into a more stately affair, with Sumner’s synthesizer ...
Queen, Boston, ELO and Cheap Trick, along with heavier outfits like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Later, he discovered the alternative scene via Bauhaus, The Cure and The Smiths. Corgan formed The Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago in 1988 with James Iha (guitar) and D’arcy Wretzky (bass). The addition of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain pumped up the band’s ...
Loved’ but this reunion was a one-off. Their time in the ‘new pop’ vanguard of the 1980s is their legacy. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Cure | Eighties | Rock ...
, singer-songwriter, b. 1948) Discovered by The Beatles’ Apple label, for whom he recorded his first album in 1968, Taylor moved back to America to seek a cure for heroin addiction. He signed to Warner Bros and unleashed the three-million-selling Sweet Baby James in 1970, featuring the No. 3 single ‘Fire And Rain’. Although his early work ...
became worse over many years, although it fluctuated somewhat. At first Beethoven tried to keep it secret, but he consulted various doctors in an attempt to find a cure, and confided his problems in letters to close friends in 1801. In 1802, as a final attempt at a cure, he moved to the quiet village of ...
of Oasis, the technological edge of New Order (their name even came from a fictional band in one of their videos) and the introspection of The Smiths and The Cure, the band found mass acclaim in 2004 with their Hot Fuss album. Second album Sam’s Town was released in 2006, and compilation Sawdust, containing B-sides, rarities ...
and light somebody, we are saying “Get rid of these things that are no good for humanity”.’ Anthony B Leading Exponents Sizzla Capleton Anthony B Junior Reid Fatis Burrell Jah Cure Norris Man Determine Bobo Dread Deejays Style Bobo deejays differ from standard deejays in the lyrics they use, which tend to focus mainly on Rastafarian morals and ideals. Introduction ...
continued to be the major Britpop impulse, however, with bands as diverse as Eurythmics, former Depeche Mode leader Vince Clarke’s Yazoo and Erasure, and punks-turned-electro-popsters The Cure and New Order producing successful, machine-driven pop containing varying degrees of light and shade. By the end of the 1980s, northern synth-pop duo The Pet Shop Boys had ...
template for goth – self-obsessed and despairing lyrics over moody and atmospheric music. Starting as a post-punk band, by the time of their fifth album, Pornography (1982), The Cure had miserablism down to a fine art, firmly establishing their goth credentials and achieving a UK Top 10 album despite its rather relentless monotony. Of all the prominent goth ...
As the genre’s name so boldly implies, timing and image were both of critical importance to the realm of nu metal. In pure musical terms there was little to unite the scene’s leading exponents, save for the radical detuning of their instruments and a desire to distance themselves from such old-school hard rock favourites as Iron Maiden and Metallica. ...
Adele was just three years old when she attended her first live gig with her mother: a Cure concert in London’s Finsbury Park. It was the same year her father, a Welsh plumber, left her mother, practically severing all ties with his daughter in the process. After that first gig, the tot took to the music straight ...
February The Remains Of The Ramones After the detours of the previous two albums, Subterranean Jungle, released on 28 February 1983, was welcomed as something of a return to what The Ramones did best, if not exactly a return to vintage form. Producers Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin, heads of the power-pop and punk label Bomp ...
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