(Vocal/instrumental group, 1985–96, 1999–2008) Ex-Sister of Mercy Wayne Hussey (guitar, vocals) employed Simon Hinkler (guitar), Craig Adams (bass) and Mick Brown (drums) to form another charismatic goth rock band renowned for their dramatic live shows. The powerful God’s Own Medicine emerged in 1986 and ‘Wasteland’ went No. 11 in the UK charts. The John Paul Jones-produced Children (1988) ...
, urging others to follow his example. Eufemiano, still grieving, is comforted by news of a celestial voice that has been heard in the cathedral. Act III His mission unaccomplished, the devil returns to hell. A papal ambassador brings news of Alessio’s death, and his family mourns as they hear a letter he has written to them. ...
1893–1987 Spanish guitarist Self-taught, Segovia made his debut at the age of 15. Considering it his mission to have the guitar taken seriously, he transcribed music written for the lute and the vihuela. Contemporaries who wrote for him included Falla, Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–99) and Villa-Lobos; he played with much passion and intensity. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical ...
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on 19 January 1946, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Immediately after graduation in the summer of 1964, she travelled from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Nashville, taking with her dreams of country stardom and little else. Ever since, she has thrilled audiences worldwide. An entertainer extraordinaire, Dolly has also become an ...
plight, that they became internationally renowned. Blue Sky Mining (1990) was another palatable helping of tuneful, intelligent rock. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Mission | Eighties | Rock ...
(Vocals, b. 1944) Raised in Texas, Marion Franklin Bandy was a rodeo rider before joining his father’s band, The Mission City Playboys. Bandy, a disciple of Hank Williams and George Jones, with his own band, Moe And The Mavericks, specialized in honky-tonk music, cheating songs and steel guitar. His 50-plus US country hits ...
second cousin of DeMarcus, and the trio – 2002 CMA Horizon Award winners – began. Songs like ‘Bless The Broken Road’ and ‘Fast Cars And Freedom’ have almost become mission statements and deliver music high on energy and radio playlist-friendly. Styles & Forms | New Country & The Neo-Traditionalists Personalities | Riders In The Sky | New Country & The ...
(Vocal/instrumental duo, 1997–2011) Divorcées Jack (vocals, guitar) and Meg White (percussion) formed The White Stripes with the mission statement of keeping a childlike simplicity in their music and imagery. Dressing only in red, white and black and playing a thrilling version of blues and rock (owing as much to Led Zeppelin as pioneers like Son House and Leadbelly), ...
companies – Word, Sparrow and Provident – were all owned by secular entertainment conglomerates by the end of the 1990s. Concerns that the subgenre was losing its sense of mission arose as well. When the Christian folk-pop band Sixpence None The Richer topped the international secular charts in 1999 with ‘Kiss Me’, it was hailed as a breakthrough for CCM ...
composer to the US in the late-1960s, although the Academy arguably robbed him of the 1986 Oscar for Best Original Score when they spurned his sumptuous work for The Mission in favour of Herbie Hancock’s for Round Midnight. The Electronic Revolution The Star Wars score was subsequently eclipsed in sales by Vangelis’s synthetic soundtrack to the 1981 film Chariots Of ...
(1987) benefited from Meat Loaf producer Jim Steinman’s widescreen production, which helped give the music the scale and depth it required to have full effect. In 1988, The Mission (a Sisters Of Mercy splinter group) released Little Children which benefited from the production and playing of ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, who not surprisingly gave the album a ...
and Willie Nelson (b. 1933), among others, had threatened that it was time for a change. Waylon’s ‘Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way ?’ was virtually a mission statement, and things duly changed – not least when Tompall Glaser’s (b. 1933) Nashville headquarters, familiarly known as ‘Hillbilly Central’, became a focal point for artists and songwriters ...
Europe, America and the Far East. They also played a free open-air concert on 5 November in San Francisco as part of a campaign against the gentrification of the Mission district of the city that was pricing artists and musicians out. Also on the bill was former Dead Kennedys’ frontman Jello Biafra, singer-songwriter Victoria Williams and public speakers Metallica’s ...
an orchestra but lavish theatrical sets and effects, costumes, dancers and supernumaries. It is therefore little wonder that Benjamin Britten (1913–76) founded his English Opera Group (1947), whose mission was the performance of chamber opera. Chamber Opera While there will always be a place for – and indeed an obsession with – grand opera, economic constraints in the ...
emphasizing traditional black artists such as Sidney Bechet (1897–1959) and Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis. Blue Note remains an important jazz record label to this day. These labels, with their retro mission, were part of a larger trend – a rising recognition that jazz had a history before 1935. Two music magazines in America (Down Beat and Metronome) and one in ...
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