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Nervous Night
''Nervous Night'' is a 1986 film starring American rock band The Hooters and directed by John Charles Jopson. Background As a follow-up to The Hooters' 1985 Columbia Records debut album '' Nervous Night'', a film of the same title was produced by Bell One Productions. ''Nervous Night'' was shot on 35mm film and intercuts two separate elements: a concert filmed at the Tower Theater outside Philadelphia, and a series of short films, each one starring a different band member. The highly stylized short films were shot on days off while the band toured the Pacific Northwest and includes scenes filmed in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. The concert includes performances of their hit songs " All You Zombies," " Time After Time" (a No. 1 song for Cyndi Lauper that was co-written by band member Rob Hyman), "And We Danced," and "Day By Day." The VHS release by CBS/Fox Video did not contain the short films; however, portions of the shorts were included in the "Day By Day" music vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hooters
The Hooters is an American rock music, rock band, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1980. They combine elements of rock, reggae, ska, and folk music. The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid-1980s due to heavy radio airplay and MTV rotation of several songs, including "All You Zombies (song), All You Zombies", "Day by Day", "And We Danced (The Hooters song), And We Danced", and "Where Do the Children Go". In 1985, the band played at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia. In Europe, the Hooters had success with the singles "All You Zombies" and "Johnny B (song), Johnny B", and the band's breakthrough across Europe came with the single "Satellite (The Hooters song), Satellite". In 1990, the band played at The Wall Concert in Berlin. The Hooters have staged successful tours in Europe. In 2007, the band released its first album of new material since 1993, ''Time Stand Still.'' The band's most recent album, ''Rocking & Swing'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jopson
John Charles Jopson (born 1954) is a film director and screenwriter best known for the 2014 feature film ''Terroir'', the jazz film '' One Night with Blue Note'' and his music videos from the 1980s. Biography John Jopson began his film career in automobile racing, first in 1975 as a stringer filming Formula One races for UPITN in London. He then worked as cinematographer on the Italian Formula One movie ''Speed Fever'' (Formula Uno, Febbre della Velocità) in 1978, and in 1984 directed the feature-length film ''Gasoline'' featuring Mario Andretti and Gilles Villeneuve based on scenes filmed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His racing footage was also used in the 1977 Al Pacino film '' Bobby Deerfield'', and in 1979 Jopson won the Golden Quill Award for his eclectic short film ''Mass Transit'' based on Kraftwerk's 22-minute tome "Autobahn". During the 1980s, based in New York City, Jopson directed videos, concert films and documentaries for a diverse group of artists incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All You Zombies (song)
"All You Zombies" is a song by American rock band the Hooters, written by the band's founding members Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman. It was first recorded live and released as a single in 1982. It was subsequently included on the band's debut album '' Amore'' (1983) and an extended version of the song was included on their second album ''Nervous Night'' (1985). This version was released as a single in 1985 and reached No. 58 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also charted within the top 20 in Germany and New Zealand, but was most successful in Australia, where it reached number 8 on the charts in 1985. Background Influenced by reggae music, co-writer Eric Bazilian said the band was working on a different song when the idea "just came to us, like a vision." The band members dropped their work on the other song and finished "All You Zombies" that night. Writing partner Rob Hyman believed the song to be the fastest they had written "that was of any quality." The Hooters first relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s English-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 ** Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Films About Rock Music And Musicians
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular photographs to detail the complex attributes of historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the American Civil War. Documentary movies evolved from the creation of singular images in order to convey part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Five popular films ('' Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', '' Song of the South'' and '' Lady and the Tramp'') were re-released in theaters. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1986 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 7 - Lawrence Gordon resigns as president and chief operating officer of the Fox Entertainment Group, citing poor health * February 3 - Pixar Animation Studios is founded by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. * April - Guy McElwaine resigns as head of Columbia Pictures. * April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. * June - First Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland. *July 2 - '' The Great Mouse Detectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Uosikkinen
David Uosikkinen (born February 11, 1956) is an American drummer and Internet content manager, best known for being a member of rock band The Hooters. Early life Born in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S., Uosikkinen grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania and at eight years old, took up the trumpet. His father regularly took him to see jazz bands at the Lambertville Music Circus and after he saw The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, Uosikkinen realized that music and being in a band was what he wanted to pursue with his life. He eventually turned to the drums when a neighbor let him play on his new set. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson (now Harry S. Truman) High School in 1974, where he participated in gymnastics. After high school, Uosikkinen played in a number of Philadelphia area bands, including The Kooks, The Torpedoes, Hot Property and Youth Camp. Uosikkinen's parents are both immigrants from Finland. Tenure with The Hooters In 1980, Uosikkinen joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bazilian
Eric Michael Bazilian (born July 21, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer. Bazilian is a founding member of the rock band the Hooters. He wrote " One of Us", a song first recorded by Joan Osborne in 1995. Early life and education Eric Bazilian was born on July 21, 1953, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to Stanford Bazilian, a psychiatrist, and Barbara Bazilian, a concert pianist. He is Jewish. Bazilian graduated from Germantown Friends School and studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Career The Hooters In college, Bazilian met Rob Hyman. Together, they formed The Hooters in 1980. Bazilian sings and plays guitar, mandolin, recorder, harmonica, and saxophone in the band. In 1983, The Hooters began working on their first album. The result, '' Amore'', was released on the independent label Antenna and sold over 100,000 copies.Bashe, P. R., & George-Warren, H., ''The Rolling Stone Encyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lilley
John Lilley (born March 3, 1954) is an American guitarist, singing, singer, and songwriter best known for being a member of rock band the Hooters. Early life John Lilley learned to play the guitar at nine years old after he saw the Beatles perform on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' on February 9, 1964. He initially learned to play jazz and folk music, with his first teacher being folk and Bluegrass music, bluegrass expert Jerry Ricks. He eventually studied jazz improvisation with Dennis Sandole and then jazz, theory, orchestration, composition and arranging with Calvin Harris. Lilley also participated in visual arts, drawing voraciously while in school and mostly painting as an adult. Music career In his twenties during the mid-1970s, Lilley got involved in the local Philadelphia rock music scene, as the manager and guitarist of the Get Right Band and later became the guitarist for Robert Hazard and the Heroes, who went on to write Cyndi Lauper's hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun (song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And We Danced (The Hooters Song)
"And We Danced" is a song by the American rock band the Hooters, released as a single in 1985. The song appeared on the band's second album, '' Nervous Night''. It peaked at No. 21 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and reached No. 3 on the Mainstream Rock chart. "And We Danced" became the band's second consecutive Top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 6. The Hooters performed "And We Danced" at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. The music video for the song was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. The video featured live footage of the band filmed at the now-demolished Exton Drive-In in Exton, Pennsylvania. Background Singer Eric Bazilian said: Reception and accolades ''Cash Box'' said that the song shows the "band’s flair vocally and instrumentally" and has "an appealing Springsteen-like purely American sound." "And We Danced" was ranked as the 88th greatest song of the 1980s on internet radio station WDDF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew Hyman (born April 24, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, and arranger, best known for being a founding member of the rock band the Hooters. Early life Hyman started taking piano lessons at the age of four and grew up playing in local bands in Meriden, Connecticut, including The Trolls and the Pro-Teens. While attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, Hyman met future bandmate and composing partner Eric Bazilian and producer Rick Chertoff. In the late 1960s, Hyman and Chertoff, along with local singer David Kagan formed a band called Wax, who recorded an album in the early 1970s. They also released two albums under the group name of Baby Grand in the mid 1970's with Chertoff as the producer. The Hooters Hyman and Eric Bazilian formed The Hooters in 1980. The band played its first show on July 4 of that year. They took the band's name from a ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
