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Celestial (Rob Halford Album)
''Celestial'' is a solo studio album by British heavy metal singer Rob Halford recorded with his family and friends. His previous solo album '' Winter Songs'' was released in 2009. The album is a collection of traditional Christmas carols interpreted by Halford and several originals written by bandmembers. Reception Guy Oddy of ''The Arts Desk'' stated, "...on ''Celestial'', Rob Halford has proved himself to be the one man who can out-camp The Darkness, even with a complete lack of fruity humour and innuendo, but by somehow throwing all self-consciousness aside. For this is an album that doesn’t so much straddle the line between genius and insanity but gamely embraces both, and could just be the greatest rock’n’roll Christmas album ever because of it." Jay H. Gorania of Blabbermouth.net ''Blabbermouth.net'' is a website dedicated to metal and rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. It is run by the website's founder Borivoj Krgin. The first version of the we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Halford
Robert John Arthur Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English heavy metal singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Judas Priest, which was formed in 1969 and has received accolades such as the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. He has been noted for his powerful and wide ranging operatic vocal style and trademark leather-and-studs image, both of which have become iconic in heavy metal.Daniel Bukszpan (2003)"The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal"/ref> He has also been involved with several side projects, including Fight, Two, and Halford. Halford is often regarded as one of the greatest metal frontmen and singers of all time. AllMusic said of Halford, "There have been few vocalists in the history of heavy metal whose singing style has been as influential and instantly recognizable... able to effortlessly alternate between a throaty growl and an ear-splitting falsetto." He was ranked at No. 33 on the list of greatest voices in rock by Planet Rock listeners in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Songs
Winter Song(s) or The Winter Song may refer to: Literature * ''Winter Song'', a 1992 book of poems by Georgina Battiscombe * ''Winter Song'', a novel by Roberta Gellis * ''Winter Song'', a 1950 novel by James Hanley * ''Žiemos daina'' (English: ''Winter song''), a poem suite by Henrikas Radauskas Music * Winter's song, from Shakespeare's play ''Love's Labour's Lost'' Albums * ''Winter Song'' (John Tesh album) * '' Wintersong'', by Sarah McLachlan * ''Wintersong'' (Paul Winter album) * ''Winter Song'' (EP), by Wizz Jones * ''Winter Songs'' (Art Bears album) * ''Winter Songs'' (Ronan Keating album) * ''Winter Songs'' (EP), by Matt Pond PA * '' Halford III: Winter Songs'', by Halford * ''Winter Songs'', by Anúna * ''Winter Songs'', by Ola Gjeilo and Choir of Royal Holloway * ''Winter Songs'', by Cleo Sol, 2018 Songs * "Winter Song" (Chris Rea song), 1991 * "Winter Song" (Sam Fender song), 2020 * "Winter Song" (Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson song), 2008 * "Wint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2019. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2019 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2019 albums Albums 2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good King Wenceslas
"Good King Wenceslas" (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud number 24754) is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a tenth-century king of Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic) who goes on a journey, braving harsh winter weather, to give alms to a poor peasant on Saint Stephen's Day, the Feast of Stephen. During the journey, his page (occupation), page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step, through the deep snow. The legend is based on a story about Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935). In 1853, English hymnwriter John Mason Neale wrote the lyrics in collaboration with his music editor Thomas Helmore to fit the melody of the 13th-century Spring (season), spring carol "Tempus adest floridum" ("The Blooming Time Is Here"), which they had found in the 1582 Finnish song collection ''Piae Cantiones''. The carol (music), carol first appeared in ''Carols for Christmas-Tide'', published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Noel
"The First Nowell" (or Nowel), modernised as "The First Noel" (or Noël), is a traditional English Christmas carol with Cornish origins most likely from the early modern period, although possibly earlier.. It is listed as number 682 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Origin and history "The First Nowell" is of Cornish origin. Its current form was first published in ''Carols Ancient and Modern'' (1823) and ''Gilbert and Sandys Carols'' (1833), both of which were edited by William Sandys and arranged and edited by Davies Gilbert (who also wrote extra lyrics) for ''Hymns and Carols of God''. ''Nowell'' is an Early Modern English synonym of "Christmas" from French ''Noël'', "the Christmas season", ultimately from Latin ''natalis ies' " ayof birth". The word was regularly used in the burden of carols in the Middle Ages towards the early modern period; Sir Christèmas ( Ritson Manuscript), "Nowell sing we now all and some" ( Trinity Carol Roll) and "Nowel – out of youre slepe ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection ''Hymns and Sacred Poems''. The carol, based on , tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is known in the modern era, it features lyrical contributions from Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, two of the founding ministers of Methodism, with music adapted from "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" of Felix Mendelssohn's cantata ''Festgesang'' (''Gutenberg Cantata''). Wesley had written the original version as "Hymn for Christmas-Day" with the opening couplet "wikt:hark, Hark! how all the wikt:welkin, Welkin (heaven) rings / Glory to the King of Kings". Whitefield changed that to today's familiar lyric: "Hark! The Herald Angels sing, / 'Glory to the new-born King. In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of ''Hymns and Sacred Poems''—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this canta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a Christmas carol. Based on an 1868 text written by Phillips Brooks, the carol is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but to different tunes: in the United States and Canada, to "St. Louis" by Brooks' collaborator, Lewis Redner; and in the United Kingdom and Ireland to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 '' English Hymnal''. Words The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, then rector of Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, and later of Trinity Church, Boston. He was inspired by visiting the village of Bethlehem in the Sanjak of Jerusalem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his church, and his organist Lewis Redner (1831–1908) added the music. The text of the carol was first published in ''The Sunday School Service and Hymn Book, arranged by the Sunday School Committee of the Diocese of Ohio'' in five stanzas of eight lines. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy To The World
"Joy to the World" is an English hymn and Christmas carol. It was written in 1719 by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts. It is usually sung to the American composer Lowell Mason's 1848 arrangement of a tune attributed to George Frideric Handel. The hymn's lyrics are a Christian interpretation of Psalm 98 and Genesis 3. Since the 20th century, "Joy to the World" has been the most-published Christmas carol in North America, even though it was not originally associated with Christmas. , it was published in 1,387 hymnals in North America, according to the ''Dictionary of North American Hymnology''. History Origin "Joy to the World" was written by English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts, based on a Christian interpretation of Psalm 98 and Genesis 3. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts's collection ''The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship''. The paraphrase is Watts's Christologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deck The Halls
"Deck the Halls" is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is Welsh, dating back to the sixteenth century, and belongs to a winter carol, " Nos Galan", while the English lyrics, written by the Scottish musician Thomas Oliphant, date to 1862. Lyrics The English-language lyrics were written by the Scottish musician Thomas Oliphant. They first appeared in 1862, in volume 2 of ''Welsh Melodies'', a set of four volumes authored by John Thomas, including Welsh words by John Jones (Talhaiarn) and English words by Oliphant. The original English lyrics, as published in 1862, run as follows (later variants are discussed below): The phrase Tis the season", from the lyrics, has become synonymous with the Christmas and holiday season, with 'tis being an archaic contraction of "it is". Variants A variation of the lyrics appears in the December 1877 issue of the ''Pennsylvania School Journal''. This version, in which there is no longer any reference to drinking, runs as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Away In A Manger
"Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain, it is one of the most popular carols; a 1996 Gallup Poll ranked it joint second. Although it was long claimed to be the work of German religious reformer Martin Luther, the carol is now thought to be wholly American in origin. The two most common musical settings are by William J. Kirkpatrick (1895) and James Ramsey Murray (1887). Words The popularity of the carol has led to many variants in the words, which are discussed in detail below. The following are taken from Kirkpatrick (1895): Variants Almost every line in the carol has recorded variants. The most significant include the following: * Verse 1, line 1: The earliest sources have "no crib for his bed". "No crib for a bed" is found in Murray (1887). * Verse 1, line 2: The earliest sources have "lay down his sweet head." "Laid" is first found in "Little Children's Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", also known as "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as "Tidings of Comfort and Joy," and by other variant incipits. History An early version of this carol is found in an anonymous manuscript, dating from the 1650s.. At page 291, Brown notes that "the main part of the collection, that is, what is transcribed between pages 1 and 119, was put together in a few years in the early 1650s". It contains a slightly different version of the first line from that found in later texts, with the first line "Sit yow merry gentlemen" (also transcribed "Sit you merry gentlemen" and "Sit you merry gentlemen"). The earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. A precisely datable reference to the carol is found in the November 1764 edition of the ''Monthly Review''. Some source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music. Formed in 1990 after Sony's acquisition of CBS Records, Legacy originally handled the archives of Sony Music-owned labels Columbia Records and Epic Records. In 2004, under the Sony BMG joint venture, the label began to manage the archives of RCA Records, J Records, Windham Hill Records, Arista, LaFace, Jive, and Buddah Records. Legacy Recordings also distributes Philadelphia International Records and the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector. It is not related to the defunct British independent label Legacy Records. Reissues/The Essential Series ''The Essential Series'' are one- or two-disc compilations of an artist's extensive catalog. On occasion, certain albums in this series would include a limited edition third disc (labeled ''Essential'' ''3.0''), or be revised to include an artist's newer work (for example ''The Essential Bob Dylan).'' , several volumes in the ''Essential'' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
