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Johnny Elichaoff
''The League of Gentlemen'' is the sole studio album by British guitarist and composer Robert Fripp and his short-lived band The League of Gentlemen (band), The League of Gentlemen, released in February 1981 on the E.G. Records, Editions E.G. label. The music is instrumental, although two tracks contain spoken-word overlays and three tracks, labelled as "Indiscretions", are composed entirely of spoken-word collages. Three further tracks, "Pareto Optimum" I & II and "Ochre", are solo organ pieces produced using the Frippertronics system. Recording and release The album was recorded in several sessions during 1980, produced by Fripp and engineered by Tony Arnold at 'Arny's Shack' studio in Parkstone, Dorset, England. The initial sessions included original drummer Johnny Toobad but ultimately he was replaced at short notice by Kevin Wilkinson, who was in their support band on tour, due to Toobad's escalating heroin addiction. Wilkinson played on all but two tracks on the finishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborator, notably with David Bowie, Blondie (band), Blondie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall, the Roches, Talking Heads, and David Sylvian. He also composed the startup sound of Windows Vista, in collaboration with Tucker Martine and Steve Ball. Robert Fripp discography, His discography includes contributions to more than 700 official releases. His compositions often feature unusual asymmetric rhythms, influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations include a tape loop, tape delay system known as "Frippertronics" (superseded in the 1990s by a more sophisticated digital system called "Soundscapes") and New standard tuning, New Standard Tuning. Matthew Schnipper of ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork'' likened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Lee (musician)
Sara Lee is an English-American bassist and singer-songwriter, who came to prominence when replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in the post-punk band Gang of Four, of which she was a member from 1982 to 1984. She was also a member of Robert Fripp's short-lived band The League of Gentlemen and is also notable for work with the B-52s, Ani DiFranco, and Indigo Girls. As of October 2021, Lee rejoined Gang of Four with founding members Hugo Burnham and Jon King as well as David Pajo, to tour in 2022. Biography Lee confirmed in an interview on Rundgrenradio.com that Sara Lee is her birth name. Born in the West Midlands of England, Lee's entire family was musical. Both parents were music teachers (her father was latterly a bass song man in the choir of York Minster), her sister a cellist, and her brother a trombone player. Music formed an important part of her childhood. She played tympani and double bass in school and local orchestras as a teenager, until the day she discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Willis
Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, ''The Essential Ellen Willis,'' received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Early life and education Willis was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, and grew up in the boroughs of the Bronx and Queens in New York City.Margalit FoxEllen Willis, 64, Journalist and Feminist, Dies ''The New York Times'', November 10, 2006. Her father was a police lieutenant in the New York City Police Department. Willis attended Barnard College as an undergraduate and did graduate study at University of California, Berkeley, where she studied comparative literature. Career In the late 1960s and 1970s, she was the first pop music critic for the '' New Yorker'', and later wrote for, among others, the '' Village Voice'', ''The Nation'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Slate'', and ''Salon'', as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Goldstein (writer, Born 1944)
Richard Goldstein (born June 19, 1944) is an American journalist and writer. He wrote for ''The Village Voice'' from June 1966 until 2004, eventually becoming executive editor. He specializes in gay and lesbian issues, music, and counterculture topics. Works * ''1 in 7: Drugs on Campus'' (1966) * ''Words, words, words on Pop censorship'' (1966) * ''Richard Goldstein's The Poetry of Rock'' (1969) * ''US #1: A Paperback Magazine'' (1969) * ''US #2: Back to School Issue'' (1969) * ''US #3: The Roots of Underground Culture'' (1970)https://www.flickr.com/photos/188102582@N05/53923832973 * ''Goldstein's Greatest Hits: A book mostly about rock 'n' roll'' (1970) * ''Reporting the Counterculture (Media and Popular Culture: 5)'' (1989) * ''South Bronx Hall of Fame: Sculpture by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres'' (1992), with Michael Ventura * ''Born on the Street Graffiti'' * ''The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right'' (2002) * ''Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right'' (2003) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Durbin
Karen Durbin (August 28, 1944 – April 15, 2025) was an American journalist, feminist and film critic. While Durbin is best known for her work with ''The Village Voice'', she wrote and published consistently on film, arts, anti-war, and feminist issues (particularly during the second wave) from the late 1960s until the mid-2010s. In addition to her work with ''The Voice'', Durbin was also known for her contributions as editor and writer for publications such as '' Mirabella'', '' Mademoiselle'', ''Elle'', ''The New York Times'', among others. Early life and education Karen Lee Durbin was born August 28, 1944, in Cincinnati, Ohio,Voice Names New Editor '' |
Nationwide (TV Programme)
''Nationwide'' was a BBC current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 5 August 1983. Originally broadcast on BBC1 from Tuesday to Thursday, and then each weekday from 1972, it followed the early evening news, and included the regional opt-out news programmes. Outline It followed a magazine format, combining regional news, political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981, the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983 and, the following October, it was replaced by '' Sixty Minutes''. The long-running '' Watchdog'' programme began as a ''Nationwide'' feature. The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to '' That's Life!'', with eccentric stories such as a skateboarding duck and men who claimed that they could walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Lawley
Susan Lawley (born 14 July 1946) is an English retired television and radio broadcaster. Her main broadcasting background involved television news and current affairs. From 1988 to 2006, Lawley was the presenter of ''Desert Island Discs'' on BBC Radio 4. Early life and education Sue Lawley was born at Sedgley, near Dudley, in July 1946, and was a pupil at Dudley Girls High School. She studied modern languages at the University of Bristol, where she dropped her Dudley accent in favour of received pronunciation. Career She began her professional career as a trainee reporter on the '' Western Mail'' and '' South Wales Echo'' between 1967 and 1970, during which time she shared a house in Cardiff with Michael Buerk. She then moved to BBC Plymouth as a subeditor and freelance reporter from 1970 until 1972. In 1972, she worked as a sound recordist and then gained prominence as one of the reporters/presenters of BBC TV's news magazine '' Nationwide''. She appeared on the show unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Roche
The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey. Career In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry", born April 10, 1953) attended Park Ridge High School, but dropped out of school to tour as a duo. Maggie wrote most of the songs, with Terre contributing to a few. The sisters got a break when Paul Simon brought them in as backup singers on his 1973 album ''There Goes Rhymin' Simon''. They got his assistance (along with an appearance by the Oak Ridge Boys) on their only album as a duo, '' Seductive Reasoning'' (1975). Reviewing ''Seductive Reasoning'' in '' Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies'' (1981), Robert Christgau said, "Female singing duos must function as mutual support groups; last time a women's sensibility this assured, relaxed, and reflective made it to vinyl was Joy of Cooking. These folkies manque are a litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television (band)
Television was an American rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1973. The group's most prominent lineup consisted of Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar), Richard Lloyd (guitarist), Richard Lloyd (guitar), Billy Ficca (drums), and Fred Smith (bassist), Fred Smith (bass). An early fixture of CBGB and the Punk rock#New York City, 1970s New York rock scene, the band is considered influential in the development of punk rock, punk and alternative rock. Although they recorded in a stripped-down, guitar-based manner similar to their punk contemporaries, Television's music was by comparison clean, improvisational, and technically proficient, drawing influence from jazz and 1960s rock. The group's 1977 debut album, ''Marquee Moon'', is considered one of the defining releases of the punk era. History Early history and formation Television's roots can be traced to the teenage friendship between Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell. The duo met at Sanford School in Hockessin, Delaware, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Christian
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist. He was among the first electric guitarists and was a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. His single-string technique, combined with amplification, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument. For this, he is often credited with leading to the development of the lead guitar role in musical ensembles and bands. Early life Christian was born in Bonham, Texas. His family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, when he was a small child. His parents were musicians. He had two brothers: Edward, born in 1906, and Clarence, born in 1911. Edward, Clarence, and Charlie were all taught music by their father, Clarence Henry Christian. Clarence Henry was struck blind by fever, and in order to support the family he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
