(Vocal/instrumental group, 1967–98, 2006–present) The core of Genesis – Peter Gabriel (vocals), Tony Banks (keyboards) and Mike Rutherford (bass) – met at school in the mid-1960s. Steve Hackett (guitar) and Phil Collins (drums) joined in 1970 to complete the classic line-up, which recorded Nursery Cryme (1971), Foxtrot (1972) and Selling England By The Pound (1973), albums whose complex ...
The guitarist in Genesis from 1970–77, Steve Hackett developed a technical skill and tone control that was a vital factor in shaping the band’s music. He also helped to steer the post-Peter Gabriel Genesis towards a new style before leaving to pursue a solo career. An undemonstrative performer, Hackett has been a major influence on guitarists looking beyond the ...
use of the different sonorities available from the kit. Rock drummers in the 1960s and 1970s – including John Bonham (1948–80) of Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins (b. 1951) of Genesis and Keith Moon (1946–78) – developed extensive drum solos, like that in Led Zeppelin’s ‘Moby Dick’, which John Bonham could extend to 30 minutes in live performance. Introduction | ...
popular instrument. Made famous by The Beatles on ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and The Moody Blues on ‘Nights In White Satin’ the Mellotron was widely adopted by progressive-rock bands such as Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd throughout the 1970s. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Synthesizer | Electric & Electronic ...
Like a great river that runs endlessly, forming numerous tributary streams as it flows, jazz continues to evolve over time. And no matter how far the River Jazz may flow from its source – whether through stylistic evolution or technological innovation – the essential spirit of the music remains intact. Granted, the more academic and esoteric extrapolations of ...
‘The Woman Without a Shadow’ Like Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten had a tempestuous genesis. The idea itself stemmed from the period immediately after the premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, but Hofmannsthal’s continual flood of ideas compounded by Strauss’s curmudgeonliness ensured the project stalled regularly. The start of the First World War did nothing to help, and ...
Junior Wells: Play The Blues 1991 Solo: Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues 1993 Solo: Feels Like Rain 1995 Solo: Slippin’ In Personalities | Steve Hackett | Guitar Genius & Genesis | Guitar Heroes ...
in a serious motorcycle crash shortly before 1990’s Charmed Life. Cyberpunk (1993) flopped and was his last album for 12 years. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Genesis | Seventies | Rock ...
essential problem of Edgar was that Puccini’s dramatic and musical nature was out of sympathy with Fontana’s text. There seemed to be no easy solution, however, and the genesis of Puccini’s next work, Manon Lescaut, was tortuous. When the opera finally reached completion it was a sensation, catapulting Puccini to fame and fortune after its 1893 ...
13. His early influences were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Kiss, later widening to embrace the progressive rock of Yes, Genesis and Rush, along with jazz-fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. After graduating from high school, Buckley attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood before working in a hotel and playing ...
same year, he co-produced a documentary film on the history of the electric guitar, entitled It Might Get Loud. Page’s limited-edition autobiography was published in September 2010 by Genesis Publications, and in December 2012, along with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, Page was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors by US President Barack Obama in recognition ...
Creation’, 1798) and Die Jahreszeiten (‘The Seasons’, 1801). Consummation The Creation was Haydn’s most popular work in his lifetime and remains so today. Its literary origins were the Book of Genesis and, more obliquely, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, its initial musical inspiration the oratorios of Handel. Conscious that he was writing the masterpiece that would ensure his lasting ...
(Singer-songwriter, b. 1950) Gabriel left Genesis in 1975. His first solo album produced the intriguing hit ‘Solsbury Hill’, telling of that departure. In 1980, the avant-pop of ‘Games Without Frontiers’ began a run of accessible art rock albums and singles including the political ‘Biko’, 1982’s Peter Gabriel (Security in the US), and 1986’s triumphant world-music influenced So and its ...
(Vocals, b. 1951) The London-born drummer and vocalist from Genesis established himself as an unlikely pop star in the early 1980s, alternating between atmospheric ballads such as ‘In The Air Tonight’ and ‘One More Night’, and up-tempo, soul-based numbers and covers, including ‘Easy Lover’, ‘Sussidio’ and ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’. Enormous selling albums Face Value (1981), No ...
In his 40-year career as an award-winning songwriter, guitarist and musician’s musician, Richard Thompson (b. 1949) has won fans for his work as an original member of Fairport Convention, as part of a duo with former wife Linda Thompson and as a solo artist. His songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris ...
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