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My Better Half (album)
''My Better Half'' is a collaborative studio album by Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers, credited to TnT. It was initially meant to be an extended play to sell at shows, but the recording process resulted in a full-length album. The album was released in September 2006 and peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Charts. Track listing #"Everybody Hates You When You're Popular" – 2:22 (Rogers, Perkins, Kristyna) #"Semi Auto-Duo-Bio" – 3:28 (Rogers, Perkins) #"Any Old Time" – 3:52 (Rogers) #"Half of Nothing" – 4:46 (Perkins) #" Turn Me Loose" – 4:03 (Rynoski, Paul Dean) #"Dinosaurs" – 3:19 (Rogers) #"Someone Above" – 4:35 (Rogers, Perkins) #"You Should See Her Now" – 2:33 (Rogers) #"Here I Am" – 2:30 (Perkins) #"Hate This City" – 3:29 (Rogers) #"Fire Escape" – 2:22 ( Kim Salmon) #" Come On and Love Me" – 3:50 (Paul Stanley) #" Tonight's the Night" – 4:57 (Rod Stewart Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer and songwriter. Known for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Perkins
Gregory Stephen Perkins (born 28 December 1964), better known by his stage name Tex Perkins, is an Australian singer-songwriter who fronted the Australian rock band The Cruel Sea, but has also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie. He has also released many solo records. In 1997, a portrait of Tex Perkins by artist Bill Leak won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize. Career 1980s: early groups Perkins started his musical career in Brisbane cowpunk outfit Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums,Audio interview with Tex Perkins on 612 ABC Brisbane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Salmon
Kim Leith Salmon (born 24 January 1957) is an Australian rock musician and songwriter from Perth. He has worked in various groups including The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, and Darling Downs. Australian rock musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Salmon as one of the first Australians to "embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s" with The Scientists. He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were "masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard-edged rock'n'roll". In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame and in 2007, into the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame. Early work Kim Leith Salmon was born in 1957 in the Western Australian port city of Bunbury. He later recalled wanting to be a nuclear physicist until, at the age of 13, he heard "heavy rock stuff" on the radio. He bought his first guitar, "an acoustic steel string thing", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Collaborative Albums
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is also the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane O'Mara (musician)
Shane O'Mara is an Australian musician and record producer. He worked with Stephen Cummings as a member of Stephen Cummings' Lovetown, Good Humour and the Stephen Cummings Band and co-produced the albums ''A New Kind of Blue'' (1989), ''Good Humour'' (1991) and ''Unguided Tour'' (1992). He played with Chris Wilson in the Chris Wilson Band which released an EP, ''The Big One'', in May and a studio album, ''Landlocked'', in June 1992, and he backed Wilson in ''Live at the Continental'' (October 1994). He formed Rebecca's Empire with then partner Rebecca Barnard (also part of Cumming's backing bands). They released two albums, ''Way of All Things'' (1996) and ''Welcome'' (1999) (both produced by O'Mara) before breaking up in 2000. O'Mara supported Barnards solo career, co producing ''Fortified'' (2006) and assisting with the recording of ''Everlasting'' (2010). In the mid 90s he joined Paul Kelly's Band. He left in 1997 and joined Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union. In 1998 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide. His music career began in 1962 when he took up Street performance, busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined Jimmy Powell (singer), the Dimensions as a harmonica player and vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All-Stars (band), All Stars before moving to the The Jeff Beck Group, Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces (band), Faces in 1969, he also launched a solo career, releasing his debut album, ''An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down'', that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and Rhythm and blues, R&B. His third album, 1971's ''Every Picture Tells a Story'', was his breakthrough, topping the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" is a song written by Rod Stewart, and recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama for his 1976 album '' A Night on the Town''. The song, controversial at the time of release, proved to be a massive commercial success and became his second US chart topper on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It made its debut at number 81 on 2 October 1976 and rose quickly, climbing from number eight to the top of the chart on 13 November 1976, and remained on top for eight consecutive weeks until 8 January 1977. It was the longest stay of any song during 1976, the longest run at the top for a single in the US in over eight years (since the Beatles’ "Hey Jude" in November 1968), and the longest stay at number one for Rod Stewart in his entire recording career, and the final number one of that year. The song also peaked at No. 5 in the UK, No. 1 for six weeks in Canada, No. 3 in Australia and charted well in other parts of the world. It was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley (born Stanley Bert Eisen; January 20, 1952) is an American musician who was the co-founder, frontman, rhythm guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the hard rock band Kiss (band), Kiss from the band's inception in 1973 to their retirement in 2023. He was the writer or co-writer of many of the band's most popular songs. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. Stanley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. In 2006, ''Hit Parader'' ranked him 18th on their list of the Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. A Gibson.com readers' poll in 2010 named him 13th on their list of Top 25 Frontmen. Early life Stanley Bert Eisen was raised in upper Manhattan, New York City, 211th Street and Broadway. Both of his parents were Jewish. He was the younger of two children; his sister Julia is two years older. Their mother Eva Jontof-Hutter came from a family that fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and then to Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dressed To Kill (album)
''Dressed to Kill'' is the third studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on March 19, 1975. It was produced by Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart and the band itself as the label's financial situation at the time did not permit the hiring of a professional producer. Clocking in at 30 minutes and 7 seconds, ''Dressed to Kill'' has the shortest runtime of any Kiss studio album. Album information Possibly due to the short length of the album, original vinyl versions had long pauses between each track to make the sides longer than they would be based on the material they had. Each side ran just 15 minutes, and some of the song times were listed incorrectly on the vinyl versions. For example, "Two Timer" was listed at 2:59 and "Ladies in Waiting" was listed at 2:47. The album cover was photographed on October 26, 1974 by Bob Gruen. While the cover depicts Kiss in business suits, the only member of the band who owned one was Peter Criss. The suits worn on the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scientists
The Scientists are a post-punk band from Perth, Western Australia, led by Kim Salmon, initially known as the Exterminators and then the Invaders. The band had two primary incarnations: the Perth-based punk rock, punk band of the late 1970s and the Sydney/London-based swamp rock band of the 1980s. In October 2010, ''Blood Red River'' (1983) was included in the list in the book ''100 Best Australian Albums''. History 1976–1977: formation Kim Salmon had formed a punk rock, punk band, the The Manikins, Cheap Nasties, in August 1976. He left in December 1977 and the remainder, with Robbie Porritt joining as lead vocalist, continued as the Manikins. Salmon replaced Mark Demetrius in the Exterminators, who then became known as the Invaders. The lineup included Roddy Radalj (guitar, vocals), Boris Sujdovic (bass) and John Rowlings (drums). 1978–1981: Perth The Invaders became the Scientists in May 1978, when James Baker (musician), James Baker from The Victims (Australian band), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Nothing (Tex Perkins Album)
Sweet Nothings or Sweet Nothing may refer to: Film and theater * ''Sweet Nothing'' (film), a 1995 American film directed by Gary Winick * ''Sweet Nothings'', a 2010 adaptation by David Harrower of the 1894 play ''Liebelei'' by Arthur Schnitzler Music * Sweet Nothings (group), an all-female a capella group at Exeter University Albums * ''Sweet Nothing'' (album), by Tex Perkins' Dark Horses, 2003 * ''Sweet Nothing'', by Sonic's Rendezvous Band, 1999 * ''Sweet Nothings'' (album), by Dog Fashion Disco, or the title song, 2014 * ''Sweet Nothings'', by Plini, 2013 Songs * "Sweet Nothing" (Calvin Harris song), 2012 * "Sweet Nothing" (Gabrielle Aplin song), 2015 * "Sweet Nothing" (Taylor Swift song), 2022 * "Sweet Nothing", by Natasha Bedingfield from '' Roll with Me'', 2019 * "Sweet Nothing", by Working Week from '' Working Nights'', 1985 * "Sweet Nothin", by Bug Hunter from ''Torn Between a Couple'', 2017 * "Sweet Nothin's", by Brenda Lee, 1959 * "Sweet Nothing's", by Ai from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dean (guitarist)
Paul Warren Dean (born February 19, 1946) is a Canadian musician and the lead guitarist of the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s. Biography Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Dean first started out playing washtub bass at the age of 12, followed by a plastic wind-up ukulele, which he received for Christmas at 13. He received his first guitar 2 months later, an acoustic, which he commenced to smash using it as a badminton racket. He next saved to buy his first electric guitar later that summer. Dean's early musical influences included Duane Eddy, Luther Perkins, Hank Marvin, The Ventures, The Fireballs, Johnny and the Hurricanes, and later Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Boston. Dean's first bands included Cannonball, the Great Canadian River Race, Canada (later known as Canada-Fox) and Scrubbaloe Caine. Scrubbaloe Caine released one album, ''Round One'' in 1973 before dissolving by 1975. A self-titled album that Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn Me Loose (Loverboy Song)
"Turn Me Loose" is a hit song recorded by Canadian rock band Loverboy. It was released on their eponymous debut album in 1980, and as a single in 1981. With a strong rock synthesizer start to the song, followed by a steady build on the guitars, it peaked at #7 on the ''RPM'' singles chart in 1981 and #6 on the ''Billboard'' Top Rock Tracks chart in the US. ''Record World'' attributed the song's success to "Mike Reno's vocal plea, a guitar grind, and marvelous production." Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications Personnel * Mike Reno – Lead vocals * Paul Dean – Guitar, and Backing vocals * Doug Johnson – Keyboards * Scott Smith – Bass * Matt Frenette – Drums Additional musicians * Nancy Nash – backing vocals * Katie Kissoon – backing vocals Cover versions * Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins covered it on their 2006 album '' My Better Half'', under their recording alias T'N'T *Electric Six covered the song on their cover album '' Mimicry and Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
