(Vocal/instrumental group, 1976–present) These AOR giants established themselves in 1977 with their eponymous debut album and single ‘Feels Like The First Time’, which both reached No. 4 in the US. The band was founded by Englishman Mick Jones (guitar) with Lou Gramm’s dramatic tenor vocals to the fore. The original line-up was completed by Ian McDonald (guitar, keyboards), Al ...
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 ...
‘That’s Women for You’ While Don Giovanni was the nineteenth century’s favourite Mozart opera, Così fan tutte, premiered on 26 January 1790, was widely considered frivolous, immoral and (not least by Beethoven) an insult to women. Today we can see it as perhaps the most ambivalent and disturbing of Mozart’s three Da Ponte comedies. In the composer’s ...
about to kill her brother Oreste. Desperate, Iphigénie prays for Diana to end her life. Thoas, King of Tauride, enters. He announces that Iphigénie must sacrifice every foreigner that arrives in Tauride; otherwise, say the oracles, he will die. He tells her of the capture of two young Greeks – in fact Oreste and Pylade – ...
‘The Good-Natured Girl’ Composed: 1760 Premiered: 1760, Rome Libretto by Carlo Goldoni, after Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela Act I Cecchina, a servant girl, is secretly in love with the Marchese della Conchiglia. Believing that her dream will never come true, she runs away when he confesses his own affections for her. He asks one of the ...
Puccini spent the last five years of his life working on Turandot. He patched up his differences with Adami who, together with Renato Simoni, got to work on creating a libretto from Carlo Gozzi’s fairy-tale. Through the usual prevarications, doubts and rows, Puccini slowly worked on the score. At the beginning of 1924, he began to ...
Heart (1994), which hit No. 2 in the US. The common denominator in both styles is Tracey’s pure, wistful voice. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | Foreigner | Eighties | Rock ...
(Saxophone, vocals, 1942–95) Rough bluesy sax player (born Autry DeWalt in Arkansas in 1942) who, with his band The All Stars, signed to Motown in 1964. He first charted the following year with ‘Shotgun’, having stepped up to perform the vocals when the booked singer did not show. More hits followed, notably 1966’s ‘How Sweet It ...
Rock and jazz guitarist Neal Schon, son of a jazz saxophonist and composer, was born in Oklahoma in 1954. A precocious talent, he learned guitar at the age of 10 and joined Santana at 15, turning down an invitation to join Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominos. Schon made two albums with the band, Santana ...
The rise of arena rock began in North America during the mid-1970s with a surge in the popularity of bands like Journey, Foreigner, Boston and Styx. Embraced by a network of FM radio stations, these bands and others like them became so profitable to their record companies that they almost represented a licence to print money. The formula ...
proficient musicians who played in the prog rock bands. It was also a reaction to the perceived artificialness of the ‘corporate rock’ manufactured supergroups such as Boston, Kansas and Foreigner, and the perceived slickness of the equally artificial disco scene. Socially, punk appealed to the disenfranchised British youth who felt at best bored and at worst alienated by ...
the first American group to achieve four consecutive triple-platinum albums, and when Journey appointed singer Steve Perry, it made them one of the biggest bands in the world. Foreigner have now sold an incredible 60 million albums – 35 million of those in the US alone – as a consequence of such airwave standards as the 1980s hits ‘Waiting ...
Show On 20 September 1983 Jimmy Page made only his second public appearance since John Bonham’s death (the first was in May 1982, when he and Robert Plant joined Foreigner on stage for an encore). Playing at the ARMS (Action Research For Multiple Sclerosis) Benefit at the Royal Albert Hall, Page was one of the many musicians, including ...
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