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Bram Tchaikovsky
Peter Bramall (born 10 November 1950 in Lincolnshire, England), better known by his stage name Bram Tchaikovsky, is a British vocalist and guitarist. He first came to prominence as a member of UK punk/pub rock band The Motors, whom he joined in 1977. After he left them, he led an eponymous power pop band, with Micky Broadbent (bass, keyboards) and Keith Boyce (drums). He scored a US Top 40 hit single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1979, with "Girl of My Dreams" (released February in UK, June in USA). In the Netherlands, "Sarah Smiles" was a minor hit, reaching number 32 in April 1979. Nick Garvey, Keith Line and Denis Forbes were also involved in later band lineups. In 1979 he played guitar for the Skids hit 'Into The Valley' on the BBC. After disappointing sales, the band split up in 1981 and Tchaikovsky left the music industry. Tchaikovsky was also credited with co writing "Solid Ball of Rock", from the 1991 Saxon The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north-west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just , England's shortest county boundary. The county town is Lincoln, where the county council is also based. The ceremonial county of Lincolnshire consists of the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire and the area covered by the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Part of the ceremonial county is in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and most is in the East Midlands region. The county is the second-largest of the English ceremonial counties and one that is predominantly agricultural in land use. The county is fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solid Ball Of Rock
''Solid Ball of Rock'' is the tenth studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1991 on Virgin Records. Five of its 11 tracks were written by new bassist Nibbs Carter, who co-wrote another three songs. "For our audience – and without an audience there is no band – our focus returned on ''Solid Ball of Rock''…" noted singer Biff Byford. "Since then we've been right on it." Phil Sutcliffe in Q Magazine referred to the album as "a modicum of celebratory rock 'n' roll chest beating". Track listing Personnel ;Saxon * Biff Byford – vocals, engineer *Graham Oliver – guitar *Paul Quinn – guitar *Nibbs Carter – bass guitar *Nigel Glockler – drums ;Production *Kalle Trapp – producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ..., engineer Charts Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arista Records Artists
This is a list of artists who record or have recorded for Arista Records. Listed in parentheses are names of affiliated labels. Artists known by their full name are listed categorically by last name. __NOTOC__ 0-9 * 5th Dimension A * A Flock of Seagulls (Jive/Arista US) * Ace of Base (Americas/Japan) * Adema * Air Supply (outside Oceania and Canada) * The Alan Parsons Project * Sasha Allen (Divine Mill/Arista) * Keith Anderson (Arista Nashville) * Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe * Asleep at the Wheel (Arista Nashville) * Sherrié Austin (Arista Nashville) * Automatic Black *Armaan Malik * Audrey Nuna B * Babyface * Babylon A.D. * Bandit * Bay City Rollers * Jeff Black (Arista Austin) * Black Box (Deconstruction/Arista) * Black Rob (Bad Boy/Arista) * Blackhawk (Arista Nashville) * Blood Donor * The Blues Band * Angela Bofill * The Bogmen * BoneCrusher (So So Def/Arista) * David Bowie (Savage/Arista) * BR549 (Arista Nashville) * Brand Nubian * The Braxtons * Anthony Braxton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polydor Records Artists
This is a list of artists that are, or once were, signed to Polydor Records. __NOTOC__ 0-9 * 10cc * 2Pac (Polydor UK) * 220 Kid * 4 Runner (Polydor Nashville) * +44 (Polydor UK) * 50 Cent (Polydor UK) * The 1975 (Polydor UK / Dirty Hit) A * ABBA * Absent Minded (Polydor UK) * Bryan Adams * AFI (Polydor UK) * Abd al Malik * Ace of Base * A-ha * A II Z (Polydor UK) * Alizée * Alphabeat * Alphaville * Alpines * Alquin * The All-American Rejects (Polydor UK) * The Allman Brothers Band * María Conchita Alonso * All Time Low (Polydor UK) * The Amboy Dukes * Thomas Anders * Jon Anderson * Angels and Airwaves (Polydor UK) * Die Antwoord (Polydor UK) * Paul Anka * Army of Lovers (Polydor UK) * Art of Noise (China/Polydor) * Appleton * Asia * Athlete (Polydor UK) * Atlanta Rhythm Section * Audience * Audioslave (Polydor UK, shared with Sony Music Entertainment) * The Automatic * Roy Ayers * Ayọ * Intan Ayu (Polydor Bandung) B * Tony Banks (Charisma/Polydor) (US/Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radar Records Artists
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English Male Singers
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Living People
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1950 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Man, Changed Man
''Strange Man, Changed Man'' is the debut studio album by English power pop musician Bram Tchaikovsky, released in 1979 by Radar Records. Critical reception Robert Christgau was critical of ''Strange Man, Changed Man'' in a 1979 review for ''The Village Voice'', dismissing the album as a mixture of "old-wave" and new wave clichés and likening Tchaikovsky to "a power pop Crosby, Crosby & Crosby." Retrospectively, Jim Green of ''Trouser Press'' described the album as "an energetic mixture of The Byrds, Springsteen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He has released 21 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is an originato ... and, not surprisingly, The Motors", writing that in addition to "three fine singles... the rest of the material has also worn remarkably well." Track listing #"Strange Man, Changed Man" #"Lonely Dancer" #"Robber" #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, '' Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Top 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
