(Vocals, b. 1978) Usher Raymond IV, often called the ‘prince of pop’ after his 2004 Confessions album sold 1.1 million copies in the first week, is the perfect blend of pop and R&B. A singer since the age of 13, Usher made his name via singles such as ‘You Make Me Wanna’ (1997), which topped charts ...
, 1889–90); Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1892–93); Nocturnes (1897–99); La mer (1903–05); Images (1905–12) Stage works: Rodrigue et Chimène (1890–92); Pelléas et Mélisande (1893–1902); La chute de la maison Usher (1908–17); Le martyre de Saint Sèbastien (1911); Jeux (ballet, 1912–13) Chamber music: String Quartet (1893); Rhapsody for clarinet (1909–10); Syrinx (Solo flute, 1913); Sonatas (cello and piano; violin ...
Carter Jr., earned the title of one of the hardest-working stars in the US during the Noughties. He collaborated with a who’s-who of hip hop artists from Eminem to Usher, while still releasing five studio albums during the decade. The New Orleans native secured a US No. 1 album in 2008 with Tha Carter III and, released seventh ...
Bloomfield (guitars), Sam Lay (drums, vocals) and Mark Naftalin (keyboards) – in black Chicago clubs. They backed Dylan’s electric debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and helped to usher blues into the psychedelic era, with the groundbreaking East-West (1966). After the departure of Bloomfield, Butterfield changed his sound and added a horn section for The Resurrection Of ...
pair have toured the US for the first time in 2006 on the strength of their third album Jackinabox (2005). Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Usher | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
, contrasting with the explosive bravura of the beboppers. This quieter, cooler style finally came to fruition on Davis’ Birth Of The Cool, the 1949 recording that helped usher in a new musical movement in jazz. Davis’ landmark nonet sessions of 1949–50 were characterized by a relaxed yet disciplined integration of elements, featuring cool-toned soloists such as alto saxophonist Lee ...
and, with the aid of mind-bending chemicals and new lyrical collaborators, focus on far more obscure topics. Landmark numbers such as ‘Good Vibrations’ and ‘Heroes And Villains’ would usher in a new era of increasingly sophisticated west coast music, even though drug abuse and emotional problems would subsequently force the chief Beach Boy to withdraw almost totally from ...
, Velvet Revolver and Green Day, who also performed at the Billboard Awards ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, on 8 December, where Usher was voted the Best Artist – again! Personalities | Introducing Green Day Personalities | Green Day | Return To Form (2005) | Key Events ...
its own genre, ‘film opera’: the score is performed in synchronization with a silent screening of Jean Cocteau’s 1945 film. Glass’s chamber opera The Fall of the House of Usher (1988) is closer to Old World models. Adams writes political operas mainly on subjects from recent history: President Nixon’s 1972 visit to Mao-Tse Tung in Nixon in China (1987); the ...
January–March Lifehouse Sessions Lifehouse was to be a multi-media, multi-sensory experience that would meld fiction with live performance. Well, that was Pete Townshend’s intention at least. In December 1970 the press had announced that the band would embark on two film projects: Tommy and the provisionally titled Barrel One And Barrel Two, which later evolved into Lifehouse. In ...
outfits with short haircuts and snappy suits. And significantly, as punk rose to a crescendo in the summer of 1977, the death of one rock icon seemed to usher in a new era as an overweight and reactionary Elvis Presley died in sad and bloated circumstances. The Pistols split in 1978, their bass player Sid Vicious dying of ...
No instrument has had a more dramatic impact on contemporary music than the synthesizer. Its development opened up a whole new world of seemingly endless sonic possibilities and ushered in completely new forms of music. History The birth of the synthesizer dates back to the mid-1940s when Canadian physicist, composer and instrument builder, Hugh le Caine (1914–77) built the ...
This section encompasses styles that were, at least initially, designed to work in tandem with other forms of expression, deepening or enhancing their impact. The scores of musical theatre are woven into stories played out by the characters on stage. A film soundtrack is composed to interlock with the action on a cinema screen, while cabaret songs ...
As the first superstar instrumentalist to emerge from the modern Nashville recording scene, Chet Atkins (1924–2001) was a living legend for most of his life, but the Nashville-based guitarist was also a producer, engineer, label executive and A&R man without peer. Chester Burton ‘Chet’ Atkins was born on in June 1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee. He started ...
(Vocals, songwriter, actor, 1938–99) Axton’s mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, and Hoyt himself enjoyed his greatest success through other artist’s covers of his songs – ‘Greenback Dollar’ (Kingston Trio), ‘Joy To The World’ (Three Dog Night) and ‘The Pusher’ (Steppenwolf). Popular in the UK through his 1979 singles ‘Della And The Dealer’ and ‘A ...
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