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Dan Hickey
Daniel Hickey (born May 30, 1957) more commonly known as Dan Hickey, is an American drummer, who performed with the rock band They Might Be Giants from 1997 to 2003. Early life and career Birth Daniel Hickey was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was raised in Long Island, but mostly grew up in New York City. Music Dan Hickey's music career started in 1991, when he first played the drums in Joe Jackson's album '' Laughter & Lust''. He was also the drummer for Jules Shear and Benny Mardones. They Might Be Giants drumming Works Hickey was the drummer for the band from 1997 to 2003, recording four albums with them. He was the co-writer of the two songs, "Radio They Might Be Giants", and "Robot Parade" (Adult Version). He also appeared in the videos for " Boss Of Me" and " Doctor Worm". However, he never played on the song "Doctor Worm". Leaving Marty Beller replaced Dan Hickey in 2004, when he was not available for the band's gigs. Beller later noted that, "I listened to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River. The neighborhood has a large Polish immigrant and Polish-American community, containing many Polish restaurants, markets, and businesses, and it is often referred to as Little Poland. Originally farmland—many of the farm owners' family names, such as Meserole (Messerole) and Calyer, are current street names—the residential core of Greenpoint was built on parcels divided during the Industrial Revolution and late 19th century, with rope factories and lumber yards lining the East River to the west, while the northeastern section along the Newtown Creek through East Williamsburg became an industrial maritim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boss Of Me
"Boss of Me" is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. The song is famously used as the opening theme song for the television show ''Malcolm in the Middle'', and was released as the single from the soundtrack to the show. In 2002, "Boss of Me" won the band their first Grammy Award, in the category of Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The song was one of the band's most commercially successful singles and is one of their best-known songs. The song was originally written with the chorus "Who's gonna guess the dead guy in the envelope" for a contest presented by the Preston and Steve show during their Y-100 days. Release "Boss of Me" was released commercially in the United Kingdom, Australia and mainland Europe. Mainland Europe was given a separate release from the British release, which had different cover artwork and a different track listing. The single was marketed as the single from the soundtrack album, '' Music from Malc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Flansburgh
John Conant Flansburgh (born May 6, 1960) is an American musician. He is half of the long-standing Brooklyn, New York–based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants with John Linnell, for which he writes, sings, and plays rhythm guitar. Early life Flansburgh was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. His father, Earl Flansburgh, was a well-known Boston architect. His mother, Polly Flansburgh, is the founder and president of Boston By Foot. Her father, Brigadier General Ralph Hospital, was an artillery commander in the U.S. Army in the Italian Campaign during World War II. His brother, Paxus Calta (born Earl Schuyler Flansburgh), is an anti-nuclear activist and political organizer. Flansburgh attended the George Washington University, where he learned to play guitar while working as a parking garage attendant, then Antioch College and Pratt Institute, where he graduated with an arts degree. Since 1982: They Might Be Giants Flansburgh co-founded They Might Be Giants, with longtime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Linnell
John Sidney Linnell ( ; born June 12, 1959) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, and is one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, with John Flansburgh, which was formed in 1982. In addition to singing and songwriting, he plays accordion, Baritone saxophone, baritone and bass saxophone, clarinet, and Electronic keyboard, keyboards for the group. Linnell's lyrics include strange subject matter and word play. Persistent themes include aging, delusional behavior, bad relationships, death, and the personification of inanimate objects. Conversely to some of these dark themes, the accompanying melodies are usually cascading and upbeat. Early life John Linnell was born in New York City, to father Zenos Linnell, (1925–2011), a psychiatrist, and mother Kathleen (née Glenn; 1926–2008). When Linnell was a child, Walt Kelly's ''Songs of the Pogo'' album made a strong impression on his musical sensibilities. The album contained lyrics that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shemekia Copeland
Charon Shemekia Copeland (born April 10, 1979) is an American electric blues vocalist. She has released 12 albums, won nine Blues Music Awards, and won five Blues Blast Music Awards. In 2024, Copeland received nominations at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards for Best American Roots Performance, Best American Roots Song, and Best Contemporary Blues Album. Early life Copeland was born in Harlem, New York City, United States. She is the daughter of Texas blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland. She began singing at an early age and her first public performance was at the Cotton Club when she was about 10. Copeland graduated in 1997 from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey. Career In 1998, Copeland landed a recording contract with Alligator Records, which issued her debut album, ''Turn the Heat Up!''. Her second album, ''Wicked'', was released in 2000 and featured a duet with Ruth Brown. It earned her three Blues Music Awards. The follow-up record, ''Talking to Strangers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popa Chubby
Popa Chubby, (pronounced POP'-uh) stage name of Theodore Joseph "Ted" Horowitz (born March 31, 1960, in The Bronx, New York City, New York), is an American singer, composer, and guitarist. Life and career At age thirteen Horowitz began playing drums; shortly thereafter, he began listening to the music of the Rolling Stones and started playing guitar. Although he grew up in the 1970s, Horowitz was influenced by artists of the 1960s, including Jimi Hendrix and Cream, among others. In his early twenties, although mainly playing blues music, he also worked as backing for punk rock poet Richard Hell. Horowitz first came to public attention after winning a national blues talent search sponsored by KLON, a public radio station in Long Beach, California, which is now known as KKJZ. In 1989, he appeared, as Ted Horowitz, as guitarist on Pierce Turner's ''Sky & the Ground''. He won the New Artist of the Year award and as a result was chosen as the opening act at the Long Beach Blues Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Beller
Martin A. Beller (born July 10, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. He is the current drummer for They Might Be Giants since Dan Hickey's departure in 2004. He has recorded two solo albums and has contributed writing and vocals for three of TMBG's albums: ''Here Come the ABCs'' (on "Alphabet Lost And Found"), '' Here Come the 123s'' (on "High Five!") and '' Here Comes Science'' (on "Speed and Velocity"). On TMBG's 2011 compilation album '' Album Raises New and Troubling Questions'', Beller is referenced in the song "Marty Beller Mask", the lyrics of which suggest that he is actually Whitney Houston wearing a mask. On the news of Houston's death, TMBG decided to phase the song out from public performance, before returning it in 2022. Personal life Beller lives in New York and is married to literary agent A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers, film producers, and film studios, and assists in sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Worm
''Severe Tire Damage'' is a primarily live album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1998. It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ("Doctor Worm"). The live cuts, some recorded at soundchecks without any audience, feature at least one track from every album since their debut, which includes a few old fan favorites that have been reworked since the duo adopted a full backing band. Songs like "She's an Angel", from their debut, ''They Might Be Giants'', and "Birdhouse in Your Soul", from their major label debut, ''Flood'', are treated to multiple guitars and a horn section. Conversely, the song "Meet James Ensor" originally appeared on their first full band effort, ''John Henry'' (1994) and surfaces here in a bare-bones rendition, with only vocals and an accordion. Besides the aforementioned lack of an audience on several tracks, some tracks have also undergone studio "retooling" - most notably, "Ana Ng," which appeared in its untampered form (with an uncrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Mardones
Ruben Armand "Benny" Mardones (November 9, 1946 – June 29, 2020) was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter who was best known for his hit single " Into the Night", which hit the top 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 (#11) and again in 1989 (#20). Early life and career Benny Mardones was born on November 9, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, Ruben Sr., who was originally from Santiago, Chile, left the family when Benny was an infant and returned to Chile. Mardones had a sister, two half-brothers, and two half-sisters who live in Chile. Mardones grew up in Savage, Maryland, and graduated from Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland in 1964. He joined the U.S. Navy after high school and served in the Vietnam War. After his discharge, he moved to New York City to pursue his singing and songwriting career, and composed several songs with writing partner Alan Miles. Mardones began his career as a songwriter, writing songs for people like Brend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Shear
Jules Mark Shear (born March 7, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit single " All Through the Night", the Bangles' hit " If She Knew What She Wants", and the Ignatius Jones and Allison Moyet hit " Whispering Your Name" and charted a hit as a performer with "Steady" in 1985. Life and early career Shear was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He attended the University of Pittsburgh. He distinguished himself with the Pitt Glee Club where he led a special side ensemble called Wooden Music, which used acoustic instruments, in a foreshadowing of his "Unplugged" concept. One of his noted songs of the time, which he performed in concerts with the glee club, was "Always in the Morning". He left Pitt after three years in 1973, and headed to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. Shear is married to singer-songwriter Pal Shazar. Career Shear has recorded more than 20 albums to date. He made his first appearance on vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
