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Souvenir (Andy Sears Album)
Andy Sears (born Andreas Costa Sears, 16 January 1960, Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex, England) is an English musician and vocalist/composer of the band Twelfth Night from November 1983 to December 1986, and again from June 2007 to November 2012. Sears co-wrote many songs for Davy Jones of The Monkees during the early 1980s, many of which have been subsequently released in Japan and the US. He provided all the backing vocals on the album ''Calibrated Collision Course'' by Spanish band Galadriel (2008). In 2011, he released a limited edition CD of work in progress, ''Souvenir'' to coincide with a European Tour as support to Pendragon. Recently, Sears has garnished critical acclaim for his character portrayal of the villainous 'Lord Henry Jagman' in the musical ''Alchemy'', by Clive Nolan. He is currently working on his next solo album, ''The Dragon Inside''. Discography Solo work *2011: ''Souvenir'' Twelfth Night Albums Studio * '' Art and Illusion'': October 1984, re-releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoreham-by-Sea
Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a coastal town and port in the Adur District, Adur district, in the county of West Sussex, England. In 2011 it had a population of 20,547. The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur Valley, and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel. The town lies in the middle of the ribbon of urban development along the English south coast, approximately equidistant from the city of Brighton and Hove to the east and the town of Worthing to the west. Shoreham covers an area of and has a population of 20,547 (2011 census). History Old Shoreham dates back to pre-Roman times. St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, St Nicolas' Church, inland by the River Adur, is partly Anglo-Saxon in its construction. The name of the town has an Old English origin. The town and port of New Shoreham was established by the Norman Conquest, Norman conquerors towards the end of the 11th century. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art And Illusion (album)
Twelfth Night are an English neo-prog band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014. The BBC has described them as Reading's biggest band of the 1980s. History Formation The seeds of Twelfth Night were sown when guitarist Andy Revell and drummer Brian Devoil joined forces on 23 February 1978 to win a talent competition at Reading University. The road crew included Geoff Mann as backdrop painter, and Rick Battersby as dry ice engineer. Devoil's previous musical experience was of various local bands in Reading, including ''Trash'' with whom he recorded a single ''"Priorities"'' released by Polydor in October the previous year. Revell's previous bands (in Bournemouth) included ''Joe Soap and The Bubbles'' and ''Abraxas''. Later in 1978, Clive Mitten wandered into a rehearsal and asked for a job. Devoil described Mitten as being very good in creating opportunities, convincing them when he said "you need a bass player". Mitten had previously played wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1960 Births
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voices In The Night (Twelfth Night Album)
Voice(s) in the Night or The Voice(s) in the Night or A Voice(s) in the Night may refer to: Books and stories * The Voice in the Night (short story), "The Voice in the Night" (short story), a story by William Hope Hodgson ** ''Voices in the Night: Rare Stories by William Hope Hodgson'' 2009 * ''Voices in the Night'', a novel by Flora Steel 1900 * ''Voices in the Night'', by Charles Albertson 1943 * ''Voices in the Night'', the prison poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1999 * ''Voices in the Night'', by Rhoda Bacmeister and Ann Grifalconi 1965 * ''Voices in the Night'', stories by Steven Millhauser 2015 * ''Voices in the Night'', by Andrew Coburn (author) 1994 Films *Voice in the Night (film), ''Voice in the Night'' (film), a 1934 American action film *''Freedom Radio'' (American title: ''A Voice in the Night''), a 1941 British anti-Nazi film *Wanted for Murder (film), ''Wanted for Murder'' (film), a 1946 British crime film with the alternative title ''A Voice in the Night'' *Voices in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collector's Item (Twelfth Night)
Twelfth Night are an English neo-prog band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014. The BBC has described them as Reading, Berkshire, Reading's biggest band of the 1980s. History Formation The seeds of Twelfth Night were sown when guitarist Andy Revell and drummer Brian Devoil joined forces on 23 February 1978 to win a talent competition at Reading University. The road crew included Geoff Mann as backdrop painter, and Rick Battersby as dry ice engineer. Devoil's previous musical experience was of various local bands in Reading, including ''Trash'' with whom he recorded a single ''"Priorities"'' released by Polydor in October the previous year. Revell's previous bands (in Bournemouth) included ''Joe Soap and The Bubbles'' and ''Abraxas''. Later in 1978, Clive Mitten wandered into a rehearsal and asked for a job. Devoil described Mitten as being very good in creating opportunities, convincing them when he said "you need a bass player". Mitten had previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MMX (Twelfth Night Album)
MMX may refer to: * 2010, in Roman numerals Science and technology * MMX (instruction set), a single-instruction, multiple-data instruction set designed by Intel * MMX Mineração, a Brazilian mining company * Martian Moons eXploration, a Japanese mission to retrieve samples from Mars' moon Phobos * Michelson–Morley experiment, an 1887 physics experiment Places * MMX Open Art Venue, in Berlin, Germany * Malmö Airport, Sweden (IATA code) Arts and entertainment Music * " MMX (The Social Song)", a 2010 song by Enigma * ''MMX'' (Twelfth Night album), 2010 * ''Napalm'' (album), original working title ''MMX'', a 2012 album by Xzibit * ''MMX'', a 2012 album by Procol Harum * ''MMX'', a 2010 album by War from a Harlots Mouth * Marble Machine X, a musical instrument designed by Swedish band Wintergatan Video games * ''Mega Man X is a series of Action game, action-platformer, platform games released by Capcom. It is a sub-series of the ''Mega Man'' franchise previously develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelfth Night XII
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Twelfth can mean: *The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution *The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland In mathematics: * 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, following the eleventh and preceding the thirteenth * 1/12, a vulgar fraction, one part of a unit divided equally into twelve parts Music * The note twelve scale degrees from the root (current note, in a chord) ** The interval (music) (that is, gap) between the root and the twelfth note: a compound fifth Currency *Uncia (coin), a Roman coin worth 12th of an As See also *12 (number) *Eleventh *Thirteenth In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the note thirteen scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the thirteenth. The thirteenth is most commonly major or minor . A thirteenth chord is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Nolan
Clive Nolan (born 30 June 1961) is a British musician, composer and producer who has played a prominent role in the development of progressive rock. He has been the regular keyboard player in Pendragon (band), Pendragon (1986–present), Shadowland (band), Shadowland (1992–present), Strangers on a Train (1993–1994) and Arena (band), Arena (1995–present), as well as writing lyrics for Arena and producing or co-producing several other bands' albums. Early life Nolan was educated at The King’s School, Gloucester. At the age of sixteen, Nolan became the youngest musician in England (at the time) to gain an London College of Music Examinations#Diplomas, ALCM diploma in composition from the London College of Music. Holding both a BMus and MMus, he played violin, cello and viola, although his main study while at university was composition, orchestration, musical arrangement and conducting. Career In 1982 Nolan won the cup and two medals at the composers competition in the Chelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoreham-By-Sea
Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a coastal town and port in the Adur District, Adur district, in the county of West Sussex, England. In 2011 it had a population of 20,547. The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur Valley, and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel. The town lies in the middle of the ribbon of urban development along the English south coast, approximately equidistant from the city of Brighton and Hove to the east and the town of Worthing to the west. Shoreham covers an area of and has a population of 20,547 (2011 census). History Old Shoreham dates back to pre-Roman times. St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, St Nicolas' Church, inland by the River Adur, is partly Anglo-Saxon in its construction. The name of the town has an Old English origin. The town and port of New Shoreham was established by the Norman Conquest, Norman conquerors towards the end of the 11th century. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendragon
Pendragon, or (, ''pen dragon''; composed of Welsh , 'head, chief, top' and / ''dragon'', 'dragon; warrior'; borrowed from the Greco-Latin word , plural , 'dragon , ; ) literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon', but in a figurative sense: 'chief leader', 'chief of warriors', 'commander-in-chief', , or 'chief governor'), is the epithet of Uther, father of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain in medieval and modern era and occasionally applied to historical Welsh heroes in medieval Welsh literature such as Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd.Bromwich, Rachel, ''Trioedd Ynys Prydein'', University of Wales Press, 4th ed., 2014, p. 513 In the , one of the earliest texts of the Matter of Britain, only Uther is given the surname ''Pendragon'', which is explained by the author Geoffrey of Monmouth as literally meaning ''dragon's head''. In the prose version of Robert de Boron's ''Merlin'', the name of Uther's elder brother Ambrosius Aurelianus is given as ''Pendragon'', while Uter (Uther) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souvenir (Andy Sears Album)
Andy Sears (born Andreas Costa Sears, 16 January 1960, Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex, England) is an English musician and vocalist/composer of the band Twelfth Night from November 1983 to December 1986, and again from June 2007 to November 2012. Sears co-wrote many songs for Davy Jones of The Monkees during the early 1980s, many of which have been subsequently released in Japan and the US. He provided all the backing vocals on the album ''Calibrated Collision Course'' by Spanish band Galadriel (2008). In 2011, he released a limited edition CD of work in progress, ''Souvenir'' to coincide with a European Tour as support to Pendragon. Recently, Sears has garnished critical acclaim for his character portrayal of the villainous 'Lord Henry Jagman' in the musical ''Alchemy'', by Clive Nolan. He is currently working on his next solo album, ''The Dragon Inside''. Discography Solo work *2011: ''Souvenir'' Twelfth Night Albums Studio * '' Art and Illusion'': October 1984, re-releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
