(Vocal/instrumental group, 1966–68) Though they wowed hippy audiences at ‘happenings’ in London during the watershed year of 1967, this did not translate into chart placings for ‘My White Bicycle’ and ‘Revolution’, now regarded as psychedelic classics. Yet singer Keith West alone had a hit with ‘Excerpt From A Teenage Opera’ from an intended album and stage show. However, ...
Ochs, she will be sent to a convent for life. Annina brings Ochs a letter from ‘Mariandel’ asking for a rendezvous. He sings his favourite song in anticipation of tomorrow evening. Act III ‘Mariandel’ is approving the unpleasant surprises Valzacchi has prepared in an inn’s private room. Ochs demands to be left alone with her. Feigning shyness, she is ...
, looking into a light. Yniold is frightened. Act IV Pelléas’s father, now recovering, has told him he must leave. Pelléas arranges to meet Mélisande beside the well. Tomorrow he will depart for ever. Arkel hopes that Mélisande’s presence will bring new happiness to the castle. Golaud is distraught at Pelléas’s departure. Overwhelmed with jealousy, he seizes her ...
to their homes near Linz Castle. A local boy, Antonio, leads on a blind man and tells him about the girl he will be seeing at a wedding tomorrow, before going to find lodgings for the night. When left alone the man, who is indeed Blondel, reveals that he is only pretending to be blind and ...
, The Faithful Shepherdess, whose players include Pauline as Daphnis and Tomsky as Plutus. Lisa slips a key to Hermann enabling him to reach her through the countess’s bedroom tomorrow night, but he insists on going tonight. The Master of Ceremonies announces the arrival of Tsarina Catherine. Hermann is mesmerized by a portrait of the beautiful young countess in ...
Composed: 1866–69, completed by Cui and Rimsky-Korsakov 1870 Premiered: 1872, St Petersburg Libretto set directly to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin’s verse tragedy Act I Don Juan has been exiled from Madrid for murdering Don Alvaro, the commander. He has now returned in secret, accompanied by his servant Leporello, to see an old flame, the actress Laura. ...
(Vocal group, 1969–73, 1980–83) A British progressive rock band founded by ex-Crazy World Of Arthur Brown members Vincent Crane (organ) and Carl Palmer (drums), plus bassist Nick Graham. After one self-titled album in 1970, Palmer and Graham left and were replaced by John Cann (guitar, vocals) and Paul Hammond (drums), scoring two UK hit singles ‘Tomorrow Night’ ...
recording career began in earnest in 1970 with Writer but 1971’s Tapestry proved her greatest success. The album combined re-interpretations of King’s early songs, like ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow ?’ with new material. Tapestry was a benchmark in the newly popular genre of the adult-orientated singer-songwriter. Although she remained active in the 1970s, subsequent albums like Music (1971) ...
One of honky-tonk’s most enduring and beloved figures, Ernest Tubb (1914–84) was born near Crisp, Texas, one of five children from a broken home. He began his career singing at local radio stations and working a string of day jobs – among them a ditch digger, drugstore clerk and brewery worker. As a young man, in ...
unknown in any musical field. Produced by country veteran Allen Reynolds (whose clients have included Don Williams and Crystal Gayle), his debut album delivered the No. 1 hit single ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’. But a huge transformation was about to take place, through the 16-million selling No Fences (1990), Ropin’ The Wind (1991, 14 million), The Chase (1992, ...
(Vocals, songwriter, b. 1928) Mississippi-born singer O’Gwynn grew up listening to and emulating Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. During the mid-1950s, he was a feature performer on the Louisiana Hayride and was a regular on the Grand Ole Opry for a few years in the early 1960s. He is most often remember for minor hits such as ‘Talk ...
Alonzo ‘Lonnie’ Johnson will probably be forever classified as a ‘blues’ guitarist, and – at least in his later years – he seemed to accept the label, albeit somewhat gruffly. But in fact he was a consummate musician, deft enough to move between jazz, pop and blues stylings with ease, and inventive enough to imbue everything ...
from then until the early 1970s, including ‘Walking The Dog’ and ‘Do The Funky Chicken’, which reflected his vaudeville roots. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Tomorrow | Sixties | Rock ...
, pop and rhythm and blues. He joined his first professional band, the Syndicate, aged 16, and during the latter half of the 1960s, played with Tomorrow (who were popular on the London underground scene with their hippy anthem, ‘My White Bicycle’) and Bodast before he was contacted by Yes bassist Chris Squire in 1970 and ...
Offbeat, daring, challenging, provocative, sometimes outrageous, always different, during the wildly experimental and progressive second half of the 1960s The Velvet Underground was the avant-rock outfit par excellence. Although not commercially successful, they produced groundbreaking music that would subsequently cultivate a strong cult following while heavily influencing the punk/new-wave generation. Acclaim And Disdain Eschewing ...
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