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Hope And Despair
''Hope and Despair'' is the debut solo album by Scottish musician Edwyn Collins. It was released in 1989. Track listing All tracks composed by Edwyn Collins; except where indicated #"Coffee Table Song" – 4:51 #"50 Shades of Blue" – 3:55 #"You're Better Than You Know" – 4:12 #"Pushing It to the Back of My Mind" – 3:47 #"If Ever You're Ready" – 4:21 #"Darling, They Want It All" – 3:42 #"The Wheels of Love" – 4:54 #"The Beginning of the End" – 3:57 #"The Measure of a Man" (Dennis Bovell) – 3:38 #"Testing Time" – 3:51 #"Let Me Put My Arms Around You" – 4:06 #"The Wide Eyed Child in Me" – 2:51 #"Ghost of a Chance" – 4:08 #"Hope and Despair" – 3:22 Personnel *Edwyn Collins – guitar, vocals, backing vocals *Dennis Bovell – bass *David Ruffy – drums *Bernie Clarke – Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer *Roddy Frame Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s new wave ba ...
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Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Stephen Collins (born 23 August 1959) is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner. Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded. After the group split in 1985, Collins started a solo career. His 1994 single " A Girl Like You" was a worldwide hit. In February 2005, Collins was hospitalised after two cerebral haemorrhages which resulted in aphasia, and he needed months to recover. He resumed his musical career in 2007. A documentary film on his recovery, ''The Possibilities Are Endless'', was released in 2014. Collins was the co-founder of the indie record label Postcard Records and co-founded a second label, Analogue Enhanced Digital, in 2011. Collins has also worked as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer. He won an Ivor Novello Award, the Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009. Early life Collins was born in Edinburgh. He lived in Dundee from the age of six to 14 after his father go ...
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Country Rock
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Backbeat Books, 3rd ed., 2002), p. 1327. Country rock began with artists like Waylon Jennings, Buffalo Springfield, Michael Nesmith, Bob Dylan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, The International Submarine Band and others, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Poco, Charlie Daniels Band, and Pure Prairie League. Country rock also influenced artists in other genres, including The Band, the ...
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Record Mirror
''Record Mirror'' was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after ''New Musical Express'', it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK Albums Chart, UK album chart was published in ''Record Mirror'' in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official UK Singles Chart, UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for BBC Radio 1, Radio 1 and ''Top of the Pops'', as well as the USA's ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' charts. The title ceased to be a stand-alone publication in April 1991 when UBM plc, United Newspapers closed or sold most of their consumer magazines, including ''Record Mirror'' and its sister music magazine ''Sounds (magazine), Sounds'', to concentrate on trade papers like ''Music Week''. In 2010, Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster), Giovanni di Stefano bought the name ''Record Mirror'' and relaunched it as an online music go ...
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Phil Thornalley
Phillip Carden Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter, musician, and producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He produced the album ''Pornography'' by The Cure and was later their bass player. He began releasing his own music in 1988 and briefly joined the band Johnny Hates Jazz. In later years he worked principally as a songwriter, and is perhaps best known for co-writing the song " Torn" (made famous by Natalie Imbruglia) and for writing two UK number one hits for Pixie Lott. Starting in the 2010s he released more solo music under his own name and as Astral Drive. Biography Thornalley was born in Worlington, Suffolk. He began working as a recording engineer in 1978 at RAK Studios in London for producers Mickie Most, Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin. His first major role as a producer was for the 1982 album ''Pornography'' by The Cure.Rees, Dafydd & Crampton, Luke (ed.) ''Rock movers & shakers, Volume 1991, Part 2'' (1991), , ("...the ...
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Hellbent On Compromise
Hellbent may refer to: * Hellbent (novel), by Anthony McGowan Film and television Films * ''Hell Bent'' (film), a 1918 silent Western film * ''Hellbent'' (film), a 2004 slasher film Television episodes * "Hell Bent" (''Doctor Who'') * "Hell Bent" (''Wentworth'') Music *H3llb3nt, an electro-industrial supergroup * ''Hell Bent'' (album), a 2013 album by Potty Mouth *''Hellbent'', a 2019 album by Randy Rogers Band * ''Hellbent'', a 2021 album by indie-pop group Autoheart * "Hellbent", a song by New Order from the 2013 album ''Lost Sirens'' See also * Hellbent Games, videogame developer * Hell Bent for Leather (other) * Hell (other) * Bent (other) Bent may refer to: Places * Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bent District, an administrative subdivision of Iran * Bent, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands * Bent County, Colorad ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ...
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Dennis Bovell
Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953) is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a progressive rock group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band Matumbi, and released dub-reggae records under his own name as well as the pseudonym Blackbeard.Thompson, Dave (2002), "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, . He is most widely known for his decades-spanning collaborations with Linton Kwesi Johnson. Biography Born in Saint Peter, Barbados, in 1953,Huey, Steve"Dennis Bovell Biography" Allmusic. Retrieved 27 December 2014. Bovell moved to South London in 1965 and became immersed in Jamaican culture, particularly dub music, setting up his own Jah Sufferer sound system.Larkin, Colin (1998), ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Virgin Books, , pp. 35–36. Running the sound system brought trouble from the police and Bovell was imprisoned for six months on remand, but was la ...
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Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s new wave band Aztec Camera and has undertaken a solo career since the group's dissolution. In November 2013, journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: "Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent, melodic, wistful Scotpop." Since the end of the Aztec Camera project, Frame has released four solo albums, the last of which is 2014's ''Seven Dials''. Early life Frame grew up in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and went to Canberra Primary School and Duncanrig Secondary School. Frame was surrounded by music from a very young age, as his older sisters were music fans and listened to a great number of artists, such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He started to learn guitar playing at a very early age. During his early years playing guitar, Frame frequently listened to Wilko Johnson and was able to play many of Johnson's songs ...
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1989 Debut Albums
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first 1989 Brazilian presidential election, Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final poin ...
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Edwyn Collins Albums
Edwyn is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair (1865–1945), British Royal Navy officer * Edwyn ap Gwriad, Welsh king of Gwent from 1015 to 1045 *Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), English philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world *Edwyn Burnaby (1798–1867) (1798–1867), English landowner, of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire *Edwyn Collins (born 1959), Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop * Edwyn Gray, British author who specialises in naval writing * Edwyn E. Mason (1913–2003), New York politician * Edwyn Owen (1936–2007), American Olympic ice hockey player *Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield (15 March 1854 – 24 January 1933), styled Lord Stanhope between 1883 and 1887, was a British peer and courtier. Background and education Scudamore-Stanhope was the eldest child of ... (1854–1933), British peer and courtier * Edwyn Sherard ...
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