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Cara Tivey
Cara Tivey is an English pianist/keyboardist and vocalist who has mainly worked as a side musician. She is best known for her collaborations with Billy Bragg. Tivey is also the cousin of Stephen and Nick Duffy of The Lilac Time. Biography Cara Tivey joined Birmingham band Au Pairs as keyboard player in 1983, followed shortly after by the Fine Young Cannibals. In 1985 Tivey got her first recording break with Everything But the Girl on '' Baby the Stars Shine Bright''. In 1988, she started working with Billy Bragg on the '' Workers Playtime'' album, singing vocals on 'Must I Paint You A Picture'. She shared the bill with Bragg on the song "She's Leaving Home", which they recorded for the Beatles tribute ''Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father'' compilation. The song eventually reached number one in the UK Singles Chart as part of the double A side single along with Wet Wet Wet's "With a Little Help from My Friends". During her time with Billy Bragg, Cara also had the opportunity to accomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musical keyboard, keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling Single (music), singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and music streaming, streaming. The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV (Official UK Top 40), is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15,000 retailers and digital services daily, capturing 99.9% of all singles consumed in Britain across the week, and over 98% of albums. To be eligible for the chart, a Single (music), single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Keyboardists
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Living People
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Blur (band) Members
Blur may refer to: Optics and images * Bokeh, the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus parts of an image * Box blur, a graphic-art effect * Defocus aberration, blurring of an image due to incorrect focus * Gaussian blur, a graphic-art effect * Motion blur, blurring of an image due to movement of the subject or imaging system Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Red Blue Blur, or The Blur, an alternate identity for Clark Kent in ''Smallville'' * The Atlanta Blur or The Blur, a character in the Marvel MAX comic Supreme Power Films * ''Blurred'' (film), a 2002 Australian film * ''Blurs'' (film), a 2011 Croatian film * ''Blurr'' (film), a 2022 Indian horror thriller film by Ajay Bahl Music * Blur (band), an English rock band ** ''Blur'' (Blur album), a 1997 album by the band ** '' Blur: The Best Of'', a 2000 album by the band * ''Blur'' (Rachael Lampa album), a 2002 album by Rachael Lampa * "Blur", song by Britney Spears from the album ''Circus'' * "Blur", song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bloke
''William Bloke'' is the seventh album by alternative folk artist Billy Bragg, released in September 1996, five years after his last studio album. It peaked at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's only single, "Upfield", reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1996. The albums's title is a pun on the 18th-century English poet William Blake. Background After the release of 1991's '' Don't Try This at Home'', Billy Bragg became a father in 1993 and took time out to concentrate on fatherhood before recording ''William Bloke'' in 1996. Bragg has said that he saw the albums he made in the 1980s as "ideologically political" because that's how he viewed his country of Britain. However, by the mid-1990s, he felt that things had moved into "a less clear phase", and with his family life having changed completely, "those two things are what you're hearing on the album." The album's lyrics deal with themes such as lost idealism ("From Red to Blue"), lamenting the loss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parklife
''Parklife'' is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 25 April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album '' Modern Life Is Rubbish'' (1993), ''Parklife'' returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: " Girls & Boys", "End of a Century", " Parklife" and " To the End". Certified four times platinum in the United Kingdom, in the year following its release the album came to define the emerging Britpop scene, along with the album ''Definitely Maybe'' by future rivals Oasis. Britpop in turn would form the backbone of the broader Cool Britannia movement. ''Parklife'' therefore has attained a cultural significance above and beyond its considerable sales and critical acclaim, cementing its status as a landmark in British rock music. In 2010, ''Parklife'' was one of ten classic album covers from British artists commemorated on a UK postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail. In 2015, ''Spin'' included th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Life Is Rubbish
''Modern Life Is Rubbish'' is the second album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in May 1993. Although their debut album ''Leisure'' (1991) had been commercially successful, Blur faced a severe media backlash soon after its release, and fell out of public favour. After the group returned from an unsuccessful tour of the United States, poorly received live performances and the rising popularity of rival band Suede further diminished Blur's status in the UK. Under threat of being dropped by Food Records, for their next album Blur underwent an image makeover championed by frontman Damon Albarn. The band incorporated influences from traditional British guitar-pop groups such as the Kinks and the Small Faces, and the resulting sound was melodic and lushly produced, featuring brass, woodwind and backing vocalists. Albarn's lyrics on ''Modern Life Is Rubbish'' use "poignant humour and Ray Davies characterisation to investigate the dreams, traditions and prejudices of sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
& Love For All
''& Love for All'' is the third album by English band the Lilac Time and was released by Fontana Records in 1990. It saw the band move away from the folk pop sound of their first two albums towards an electric guitar and keyboard heavy sound indebted to 60's pop and psychedelia. Recording As a result of delays to the release of the Lilac Time's second album '' Paradise Circus'', the band had already begun working on ''& Love for All'' before that album was released in October 1989. Sessions for the album began at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, with Andy Partridge of XTC and the Dukes of Stratosphear producing. Partridge left the project mid-way through recording and was replaced by John Leckie, who recorded a further six tracks with the band. The band's lead singer and songwriter Stephen Duffy has said that the tracks recorded with Leckie were more representative of the band's sound than those produced by Partridge and came "closest to sounding like us". The album w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Try This At Home (Billy Bragg Album)
''Don't Try This at Home'' is the sixth full-length album by urban folk artist Billy Bragg. "Sexuality" was released as a single which reached #27 on the UK charts and #2 on the U.S. Modern Rock charts. Johnny Marr of The Smiths co-wrote "Sexuality" and helped to produce two tracks. The song "Cindy of a Thousand Lives" is about photographer Cindy Sherman. "Tank Park Salute" is about his father, Dennis Bragg, who died of lung cancer when Bragg was 18. He said that for a show in Barking, where he grew up, he was so moved by the presence of his mother and brother in the audience that he kept a copy of the lyrics in case he forgot them while performing. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Peter Buck contribute to "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood." The song was named after a drawing by Woody Guthrie, whose unpublished lyrics were set to music by Bragg and Wilco on the '' Mermaid Avenue'' albums a few years later. "Dolphins" is a cover of the Fred Neil song. The song "God's Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Internationale (album)
''The Internationale'' is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. Although Bragg is known for his association with left-wing causes, this release is unusual; most of Bragg's recordings balance overtly political songs with social observation and love songs. Versions The album was originally released as a seven-track EP in 1990. In 2006, as part of a planned series of reissues of albums in his back catalogue, ''The Internationale'' was remastered and reissued along with the seven tracks from 1988's ''Live & Dubious'' EP and five bonus tracks. Also included is a bonus DVD titled ''Here and There'' containing live concerts from East Berlin, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union. Track listing Disc one :;Original album #"The Internationale" (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg) – 3:45 #" I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
