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Julian Mendelsohn
Julian Mendelsohn is an Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer. Early life After completing school in Australia, Mendelsohn moved to the United Kingdom. He secured his first job in 1974 at Milner Sound Fulham Rd. Chelsea, run by ex-BBC engineer John Milner. List of works Mendelsohn was a producer for: Albums * The Firm - '' Mean Business'' (1986) * Pet Shop Boys - '' Disco'' (1986) * Models - '' Models' Media'' (1986) *Pet Shop Boys - ''Actually'' (1987) *Level 42 - '' Staring at the Sun'' (1988) * Pseudo Echo - ''Race'' (1988) * The Blow Monkeys - '' Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood'' (1989) * Nik Kershaw - '' The Works'' (1989) * Del Amitri - '' Waking Hours'' (1989) * Liza Minnelli - '' Results'' (1989) * The Associates - '' Wild and Lonely'' (1990) *Dusty Springfield - ''Reputation'' (1990) *Pet Shop Boys - '' Discography: The Complete Singles Collection'' (1991) *Tasmin Archer - '' Great Expectations'' (1992) *Paul McCartney - ''Off the Ground'' (1993) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. '' Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco (Pet Shop Boys Album)
''Disco'' is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 November 1986 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States. ''Disco'' consists of remixes of tracks from the band's debut album '' Please'' and its respective B-sides. The album includes remixes by Arthur Baker, Shep Pettibone and the Pet Shop Boys themselves. Background According to interviews, the album was released to showcase music the duo deemed non-radio friendly. With the exception of "Suburbia", all the mixes on ''Disco'' were either rare import remixes or previously unreleased. ''In The Night'' - possibly originally intended for the B-side of the original 12" 1985 release of " Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (the sleeve of which lists "In The Night (Extended)" but in fact played the 7" version); previously unreleased ''Suburbia'' - a.k.a. The Full Horror (standard 12" version) ''Opportunities'' - a.k.a. "Version Latina" from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waking Hours
Waking may refer to: *Waking up, emerging from sleep *Waking (band), an alternative rock band *The Waking "The Waking" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke in 1953 in the form of a villanelle. It comments on the unknowable with a contemplative tone. It also has been interpreted as comparing life to waking and death to sleeping. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Amitri
Del Amitri are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Glasgow in 1980. Between 1985 and 2002, the band released six studio albums. Their 1995 single " Roll to Me" reached number 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Five Del Amitri albums have reached the Top 10 in the UK. Globally, Del Amitri have sold six million albums. History Band name Del Amitri's founding member and main songwriter, Justin Currie, explained in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless – basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'." In 2018, Currie clarified that 'Del Amitri' is a bastardisation of the name of a film producer who appeared in the closing credits of a film he saw in 1979 – "probably Dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember... so eventually through osmosis or maybe Chinese Whispers 'Dimitri' became 'Del Amitri'." Many sources have repeated a claim that the name was chosen because it is Greek for "from the womb", but this is untrue. Formation and early yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Works (Nik Kershaw Album)
The Works is the fourth studio album by the English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nik Kershaw. It was released in 1989 and was the last album he created for MCA Records. Kershaw chose the album's title as he felt the album represented "the collected works of Nik Kershaw". He did not release any new solo material until ''15 Minutes'', 10 years later. The album was not commercially successful, though the lead single " One Step Ahead" reached No. #55 in the UK. " Elisabeth's Eyes", the second and final single, failed to chart altogether. Although the album was produced by Peter Wolf and co-produced by Brian Malouf, both singles were written shortly after Kershaw became unhappy with Wolf's production and his direction for the album. They were produced by Kershaw and Julian Mendelsohn, with the two also re-working the production of the entire album, earning them an additional production credit. After its original release, the album remained out of print on any forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nik Kershaw
Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Kershaw came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist. He released eight singles that entered the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart during the decade, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", "Dancing Girls (song), Dancing Girls", "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "Human Racing (song), Human Racing", "The Riddle (Nik Kershaw song), The Riddle", "Wide Boy (song), Wide Boy", "Don Quixote (Nik Kershaw song), Don Quixote" and "When a Heart Beats". His 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 beat all other solo (music), solo artists. Kershaw appeared at the dual-venue concert Live Aid in 1985 and has also penned a number of hit record, hits for other artists, including a UK chart-topper, No. 1 single in 1991 for Chesney Hawkes, "The One and Only (song), The One and Only". Early years Nicholas "Nik" Kershaw was born on 1 March 1958 in Bristol, England, and grew up in Ipswi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoops! There Goes The Neighbourhood
''Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood'' was The Blow Monkeys' 1989 follow-up album to '' She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter'', released two years before. The album, the fourth issued from the band, represented a further step towards the incorporation of more dancey elements, started with their third 1987 LP, especially with the UK hit "It Doesn't Have to Be That Way", which, getting to Number 5, made that their highest-charting song ever. The first single was "This Is Your Life" continued the pop funk style but failed chart wise and reached no. 70 in the UK. The second single, the politically oriented "It Pays to Belong", following Dr. Robert's tradition of criticising England's political reality also did not chart in the UK Top 75. A change of style to house the lead singer scored a hit together with soul singer Kym Mazelle, which reached Number 7 in early 1989. Subsequently, the album tracklist was quickly rejigged, "Wait" recredited as a Blow Monkeys song and included o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blow Monkeys
The Blow Monkeys are a British new wave/sophisti-pop band that formed in 1981. The first single, "Live Today Love Tomorrow," was released in 1982. They subsequently enjoyed a successful career with several hit singles and albums across the 1980s before splitting up at the beginning of the 1990s. Their first hit song was " Digging Your Scene," which hit No. 12 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 14 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in August 1986. They had four albums and eleven singles in the UK charts between 1986 and 1990. In late 2007, the original band members reunited. They have subsequently released six albums of new material. Career The Blow Monkeys formed in 1981 when lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and piano player Dr. Robert (born Bruce Robert Howard, 2 May 1961, Haddington, Scotland) returned to the United Kingdom after spending five years in Australia. Dr. Robert is named after the Beatles song Doctor Robert. The other band members are Mick Anker o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race (album)
''Race'' is the third studio album released by Australian new wave band, Pseudo Echo. It was released via EMI Australia in 1988 and RCA Records internationally in 1989. ''Race'' resulted in a musical change for the group as it mirrored the music landscape at the time; dominated by big hair, big guitars and rock. While the album no doubt alienated the majority of the band's fan base, it equally attracted a new breed of rock loving fans. The album included their track " Take On the World" which won at 1987 World Popular Song Festival (aka Yamaha Music Festival) in Japan. Three singles were released from the album, the first " Fooled Again" (which had " Take On the World" as a B-side) peaked at No. 32 in Australia in late 1988. Reviews AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudo Echo
Pseudo Echo are an Australian new wave band that formed in 1982 by founding mainstay Brian Canham on vocals, guitar and keyboards. Other original members were Pierre Gigliotti (as Pierre Pierre) on bass keyboards and bass guitar, and Tony Lugton on keyboards. Later members included Anthony Argiro on drums, James Leigh on keyboards and his brother, Vince Leigh on drums. In the 1980s, Pseudo Echo had Australian top 20 hits with "Listening", " A Beat for You", " Don't Go", " Love an Adventure", " Living in a Dream" and their cover of " Funky Town" (originally by Lipps Inc.), which peaked at No. 1 in 1986. In 1987, it reached No. 1 in Canada (No. 17 Year End), No. 1 in New Zealand, No. 6 in the United States, and No. 8 in the United Kingdom. Their 1984 debut album, '' Autumnal Park'', peaked at No. 11 on the Australian Kent Music Report. '' Love an Adventure'' followed in 1985 and reached No. 14. Their third album, ''Race'' (1988), pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staring At The Sun (Level 42 Album)
''Staring at the Sun'' is the eighth studio album by British jazz/funk band Level 42, released in 1988. The album includes the singles " Heaven in My Hands" (UK No. 12), " Take a Look" (UK No. 32) and " Tracie" (UK no. 25). Background ''Staring at the Sun'' is the first Level 42 album not to feature brothers Phil Gould and Boon Gould, although Boon did write the lyrics to six of the songs. They were replaced by British guitarist Alan Murphy, who had collaborated with Go West and singer Kate Bush, and drummer Gary Husband, who had been a member of the band Morrissey–Mullen. This would be the only Level 42 album on which Murphy would appear, as he died only a year after its release from complications related to HIV/AIDS. Commercial performance The album was not as successful as its predecessors, again reaching the Top 5 in the UK Albums Chart but missing the top half of the ''Billboard'' 200 in the US. Internationally, it reached the Top 10 in several countries, but ultimatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Level 42
Level 42 is an English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979. They had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s. Their highest-charting single in the UK was " Lessons in Love", which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, upon its release in 1986. An earlier single, " Something About You", was their most successful chart-wise in the United States, reaching number 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. After much success as a live and studio band in the 1980s, Level 42's commercial profile diminished during the early 1990s following a series of personnel changes and musical shifts. Disbanding in 1994, the band reformed in 2001. History 1979–1980: Prehistory and formation Mark King and the Gould brothers (Phil and Rowland, the latter generally known by his nickname Boon) were all brought up on the Isle of Wight and played together in various bands during their teenage years. Phil Gou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
