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‘Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life’, 1991 Despite releasing nine albums, changing the face of British comedy, creating (both as a group, and as individual members) some of the most memorable television comedy, and enjoying a string of hit movies, most people remember Monty Python for this one song. Sung by Eric Idle at ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

‘The One And Only’, 1991 Born to famous parents, Len ‘Chip’ Hawkes of 1960s group The Tremeloes, and TV host Carol Hawkes, Chesney is perhaps the greatest definition of a one-hit wonder. Although Hawkes continues to try and restart his career (he is currently writing songs with British comedian Tony Hawks), everyone will remember him for his brief ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

(Comedy group, 1962–69) Though they scored their only big hit, ‘I’m The Urban Spaceman’, two years later, this London band, led by Vivian Stanshall (vocals, euphonium) and Neil Innes (vocals, guitar), had run in the same pack as The New Vaudeville Band, Whistling Jack Smith and other leading lights of a 1966 craze for ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Straddling genres from pop to rock, country to dance, novelty songs tell humorous stories using satire, wackiness or a topical link with television, film or a popular craze. Though often musically dubious, they have enjoyed massive, but generally fleeting, success in the modern era. Music and comedy have been bed fellows since the days ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Several women composers of the late twentieth century have a particular affinity for opera, while also writing works in a wide variety of other genres. For the Scottish composer Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), writing her first full-length opera, The Decision (1965), led to the development of what she describes as her ‘dramatic-abstract’ instrumental style. Her later operas, which ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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