(Vocal/instrumental group, 1971–81) McCartney put together Wings in the summer of 1971, featuring wife Linda (keyboards), Denny Laine (guitar) and Denny Seiwell (drums) for the debut album Wildlife (1971). The line-up was bolstered by the inclusion of guitarist Henry McCullough. In 1973, Seiwell and McCullough abruptly quit, refusing to travel to Nigeria to record Band On The ...
are invariably piston valves, but German and Austrian ones have rotary valves. The flugelhorn’s ancestor was a type of semicircular hunting horn carried by the hunt-master who directed the wings of a ducal hunt, and in German the name Flügelhorn predates the instrument with which we are familiar by a couple of centuries. The flugelhorn can be heard in ...
sur Sion in Switzerland dates from the mid-fifteenth century and is generally referred to as the oldest playable organ in the world. The doors over its face look like the wings on a medieval altarpiece. As Baroque principles took over in art and architecture, so the grand appearance of the Baroque organ developed. The organ in the Sint Bavo Kerk ...
asks Salome to dance for him. Herodias objects and again Salome refuses to obey Herodes. He offers her anything she desires, even half his kingdom. He hears the beating wings once more and can barely breathe. Salome agrees to dance, to Herodias’s fury. Herodes is so overcome by her dance that he agrees to keep his oath. Her demand ...
and singer Most famous for his contribution to The Beatles, McCartney broke away from the group in 1970 with the album McCartney. He then formed his own group, Wings, with whom he created a number of successful albums, notably Band on the Run (1973). McCartney pays much attention to detail in his songwriting. He is acutely aware ...
tableau parlant (‘The Talking Picture’). Grétry charmed French audiences with his elegant, expressive melodies and their distinctly Italian grace. A string of successes encouraged Grétry to spread his musical wings with his composition of Andromaque (‘Andromache’, 1780), which was based on Racine’s play about the Trojan War. This was a big, dramatic subject, with rather too much tragedy ...
(Ber-nar’ d∂ Van’-ta-dôrn) c. 1135–95 French Troubadour Bernart is regarded as perhaps the finest and most musically important of the troubadours. More of his melodies have survived than any other troubadour’s; one, ‘Quan vei la lauzeta mover’ (‘When I See the Lark Open His Wings’), was extremely popular and inspired poems to be sung to its melody in four different ...
Head, which arrived in 2002, was full of much the same balladry and artful musicianship that its predecessor had been, but here the band had stretched their wings, honing their live show to one that could fill the largest of stadiums. ‘The Scientist’ and ‘Clocks’ were more explicitly piano-driven, and the latter was used as music ...
The most famous living guitarist in the world, Eric Clapton’s career has passed through an extraordinary series of highs and lows during his long reign as a guitar hero. He has also experimented with numerous stylistic changes, but has always returned to his first love, the blues. A love child born in 1945, Clapton was brought up ...
fashionable ladies yelling from their boxes. The noise was so great that the dancers could not hear the music, and Nijinsky had to shout directions to them from the wings, while Diaghilev repeatedly had the house-lights raised and lowered in a vain attempt to quell the uproar. During the culminating ‘Sacrificial Dance’ the spasmodic movements of the Chosen Victim ...
Martyn made the transition from solo artist to band leader; he received the OBE shortly before his death. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Paul McCartney & Wings | Seventies | Rock ...
proficient guitarists of the 1980s. Whereas Racer X was essentially one giant adrenaline rush, Gilbert’s next band, Mr. Big, offered him the opportunity to stretch his songwriting wings, and the band’s 1989 self-titled debut reached No. 46 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. But it was 1991’s Lean Into It, featuring the No. 1 acoustic ...
Ray Charles Robinson was born on 23 September 1930 in Albany, Georgia. Blind by the age of seven, he was educated at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, where he studied piano and learned to read music in braille. A Musical Education Shortly after his fifteenth birthday, he was expelled and left ...
in him becoming one of the great saviours of country music. Skaggs helped steer it back on track, encouraging the new traditionalists, who were waiting patiently in the wings for a bright new dawn to break. His albums Don’t Cheat In Our Hometown (1983) and Country Boy (1984) may not have included as many chart-topping singles as he had ...
Consisting of John Lennon (1940–80) on rhythm guitar, Paul McCartney (b. 18 June 1942) on bass, George Harrison (1943–2001) on lead guitar and Ringo Starr (b. Richard Starkey, 7 July 1940) on drums, The Beatles evolved from Lennon’s grammar school skiffle group The Quarry Men to become the most successful, acclaimed and influential act in the ...
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