As the guitarist in Yes throughout their heyday in the 1970s, Steve Howe’s tasteful, eclectic playing helped to define a new style of rock music. Despite occasional absences during Yes’s convoluted history during the 1980s and 1990s, Howe remained a pivotal member of the group and has been a permanent member since 1996. He was also a founding ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–81, 1982–2004, 2008–present) The quintessential progressive rock outfit, Yes were formed in late-1960s London by bassist Chris Squire, singer Jon Anderson and drummer Bill Bruford. Early albums Yes (1969) and Time And A Word (1970) only hinted at their potential. The Yes Album (1970) featured new guitarist Steve Howe and established them as a ...
Made famous by The Beatles on ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and The Moody Blues on ‘Nights In White Satin’ the Mellotron was widely adopted by progressive-rock bands such as Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd throughout the 1970s. Introduction | Electric & Electronic Instruments Instruments | Synthesizer | Electric & Electronic ...
Composed between 1917 and 1922 and first performed in Berlin on 14 December 1925, this work features Berg’s own libretto, based on the Georg Büchner play Woyzeck. Written a century earlier, the play recounts the true story of a soldier, barber and drifter who is executed for murder. Büchner may have read about Johann Christian Woyzeck as ...
Alternative-metal guitarist Adam Jones (b. 1965) was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. He learned violin in elementary school, continuing with the instrument in high school, before playing acoustic bass for three years in an orchestra and later teaching himself guitar by ear. Jones studied art and sculpture in Los Angeles before working in a Hollywood character shop sculpting ...
For over 30 years, guitarist Alex Lifeson has quietly served as the cohesive key to success for progressive rockers Rush – arguably the most enduring and successful hard-rock band of all time. A guitarist always more interested in finding the right chord voicing or textural effect to make a chorus work than in shredding the frets off his axe du ...
1947 until the late 1950s he toured with his own group, the Buffalo Bearcats. He recorded for Queen/King from 1945; among his biggest hits were ‘I Love You, Yes I Do’, ‘I Can’t Go On Without You’, ‘Little Girl, Don’t Cry’ and ‘Why Don’t You Haul Off And Love Me’. Jackson alternated ballads, jump tunes and risqué ...
1838–75, French Out of 30 projected operas, Bizet only completed six but would no doubt have left more had his life not been cut short at the age of 36. Born in Paris into a musical family, he was prodigiously gifted and started lessons at the Conservatoire before he was 10. He was taught composition by Fromental Halévy ...
guitar at 13. His early influences were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Kiss, later widening to embrace the progressive rock of Yes, Genesis and Rush, along with jazz-fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. After graduating from high school, Buckley attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood before working in a hotel ...
the age of 83. Essential Recordings 1948 Solo: ‘Boogie Chillen’ 1956 Solo: ‘Dimples’ 1970 with Canned Heat: Hooker ‘N’ Heat 1989 Solo: The Healer Personalities | Steve Howe | The Yes Man | Guitar Heroes ...
1900–50, German A precocious compositional talent, Weill’s early operatic works Der Protagonist (‘The Protagonist’, 1926) and Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (‘The Tsar has his Photograph Taken’, 1928) strengthened his resolve to invent a style of music theatre that used the finest playwrights and dancers. In 1927, he collaborated with writer Bertolt Brecht on Mahagonny Songspiel, and ...
There was a time during the western-swing revival of the 1970s when it looked as if the pioneering legacy of Milton Brown (1903–36) And His Musical Brownies would be entirely subsumed amid the accolades given to the music’s most popular, enduring figure, Bob Wills. Fortunately, that didn’t happen, though Wills continues to reign supreme in the popular ...
him, Schoenberg’s innovations were not courageous enough and were too rooted in classical forms. Boulez believed that ‘in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it’. Serialism was a means for him to take control of all elements of music – pitch, timbre, duration, instrumentation, dynamic – and bind ...
version of King Crimson. Their debut album, In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969), was – and still is – enormously influential, inspiring such prog-rock luminaries as Yes and Genesis. Indeed, throughout the band’s on-and-off existence, albums such as Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1973), Red (1974), Discipline (1981) and The Power To Believe (2003) demonstrate Fripp’s ...
oriental themes. Momentum (1988) was another acoustic album, exploring flamenco themes and classical pieces. In 1986, Hackett took part in the GTR project, forming a group with Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe. GTR undertook a world tour, but disbanded soon afterwards. Hackett released his first live album, Timelapse, in 1992, taken from concerts ...
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