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Past Lives – The Best Of The RCA Years
''Past Lives – The Best of the RCA Years'' is a compilation released in 2007 by English jazz-funk band Level 42. The compilation has the greatest songs of the period 1991–1996, in which the band was with the label RCA/BMG. All songs were released on the studio albums '' Guaranteed'' (1991) and '' Forever Now (1994). Track listing # "Past Lives" (1994) (King, P. Gould) – 5:39 # " Guaranteed" (1991) (Lindup, Husband, King, Badarou) – 4:51 # " Overtime" (1991) (Lindup, King, Barfield) – 4:47 # " My Father's Shoes" (1991) (Lindup, King, Green, Badarou) – 5:14 # " Forever Now" (1994) (Musker, Darbyshire, King) – 4:14 # "All Over You" (1994) (King, Lindup, Gould) – 4:02 # " Love in a Peaceful World" (1994) (Gould, White) – 7:13 # "Model Friend" (1994) (King, Lindup, Gould) – 4:56 # "Romance" (1994) (King, Lindup, Gould) – 4:55 # "One in a Million" (1994) (Lindup, Gould, Badarou, King) – 4:56 # "Don't Bother Me" (1994) (King, Gould) – 4:57 # "Seven Years" (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Level 42
Level 42 are an English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979. They had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s. Their highest-charting single in the UK was " Lessons in Love", which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, upon its release in 1986. An earlier single, " Something About You", was their most successful chart-wise in the United States, reaching number 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Musically the band encompasses jazz funk, pop, rock, new wave, and synth-pop, and are noted for frontman Mark King's slap bass guitar playing, as well as the harmonies of King's deep tenor voice and the high tenor/falsetto backing vocals of keyboardist Mike Lindup After much success as a live and studio band in the 1980s, Level 42's commercial profile diminished during the early 1990s following a series of personnel changes and musical shifts. Disbanding in 1994, the band reforme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overtime (Level 42 Song)
"Overtime" is a song by English jazz-funk band Level 42, released as a single from the 1991 album, '' Guaranteed''. It was written by Mike Lindup, Mark King and Drew Barfield. It reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was filmed in black and white and set in a factory. Personnel * Mark King – bass, vocals, guitars *Mike Lindup – keyboards, vocals *Gary Husband – drums *Jakko Jakszyk – guitars, backing vocals *Wally Badarou – keyboards *Gary Barnacle Gary Barnacle (born 1959) is an English saxophonist, flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer, and producer. Barnacle is primarily noted for his session work and live work, including various Prince's Trust concerts at Wembley Arena, th ... – saxophone Charts References External links * 1991 singles Level 42 songs Songs written by Mark King (musician) Songs written by Mike Lindup 1991 songs {{1990s-UK-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Level 42 Albums
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Danny Blume
Danny Blume is an American music producer, musician, and composer. He is a Grammy Award winner and multiple Grammy nominee. He operates a studio and lives in Woodstock, New York. Before becoming a music producer, he played as a guitarist and bassist for Kid Creole and the Coconuts Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American musical group created by August Darnell with Coati Mundi (musician), Andy Hernandez and Adriana Kaegi. Its music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular a mix of disco and Latin ..., playing for multiple U.S Presidents. In the 2018 Grammy's, he was nominated for Best Children's Album for his work as a producer with Falu as engineer and producer. External links * http://www.dannyblume.com 1960 births Living people Musicians from Berkeley, California Record producers from California American male composers 21st-century American composers American audio engineers Grammy Award winners Engineers from California 21st-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Miller
Dominic James Miller (born 21 March 1960) is a British guitarist. He has worked most of his career as a sideman and guitarist for, among others, Julia Fordham, Eddi Reader and notably Sting. He has also released several solo albums. Career Miller was born in Hurlingham, Argentina, to an Irish mother and an American father who worked for Johnson Wax. When he was ten, his family moved to Racine, Wisconsin, where the Johnson headquarters was located, and moved to London two years later. Returning to Racine, at fifteen, he performed publicly for the first time at a club in Racine as the only white person in a soul music band. He moved to London and studied at Guildhall School of Music, then returned to the U.S. and took a summer course at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He also took lessons from Brazilian guitarist Sebastião Tapajós. In the 1980s, Miller toured as a guitarist for World Party and King Swamp. As a session musician he recorded with the Pretenders, Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz and rock music, rock guitarist, violinist and composer. He contributed to numerous bands, including Soft Machine, U.K. (band), U.K., The Tony Williams Lifetime, Pierre Moerlen's Gong and Bruford (band), Bruford, in addition to solo work. Holdsworth was known for his esoteric and idiosyncratic usage of advanced music theory concepts, especially with respect to melody and harmony. His music incorporates a vast array of complex chord progressions, often using unusual chord shapes in an abstract way based on his understanding of "Chord-scale_system, chord scales", and intricate improvised solo (music), solos, frequently across shifting tonal centres. He used myriad scale (music), scale forms often derived from those such as the Lydian scale, Lydian, octatonic scale, diminished, harmonic major, hexatonic scale, augmented, whole tone scale, whole tone, chromatic scale, chromatic and altered scale, altered scales, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Gould (musician)
Philip Gabriel Gould (born 28 February 1957) is a British drummer, songwriter and singer from the Isle of Wight in southern England. He founded the band Level 42 with Mark King. Career Gould was born in Hong Kong, and studied percussion at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he met keyboardist Mike Lindup. Gould's first foray into the charts came with pop group M, drumming on their single " Pop Muzik", a number one single in the United States, and No. 2 hit in the UK. Gould also appeared on ''Top of the Pops'' with Roxy Music for their performance of " More Than This" as well as the promo video for the song. Together with Mike Lindup, Mark King and Gould's guitarist brother Boon, he formed Level 42 and had several major hits, writing many of the lyrics and co-writing several songs. They would achieve their commercial peak with the albums '' World Machine'' and '' Running in the Family,'' each selling more than a million copies. In 1987, the Gould brothers left L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Husband
Gary Husband (born 14 June 1960) is an English jazz and rock drummer, pianist, keyboard player and bandleader. He is also a composer, arranger, producer and educator. Husband was a member for 16 years of John McLaughlin's group The 4th Dimension. He has recently been working with Bill Evans All-Star Vans Band, Robben Ford Dragon Tales band, and his duet with guitarist Nguyên Lê. He has been a member of many of Billy Cobham's bands, worked alongside guitarist Allan Holdsworth for over three decades, the British pop/funk band Level 42, various lineups led by Jack Bruce and two lineups of guitarist Gary Moore’s groups. As a session musician, Husband has also performed, recorded or toured with Chick Corea, Jeff Beck, Robin Trower, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Per Mathisen, Lenny White, Randy Brecker, Soft Machine Legacy, Foley, Al Jarreau, Hessischer Rundfunk Big Band, George Martin, Quincy Jones, Andy Summers, UK, Mike Stern, Dewa Budjana, Jack DeJohnette, Tony Levin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lindup
Michael David Lindup (born 17 March 1959) is an English musician known as the keyboard player and falsetto-voiced singer who joined Mark King and brothers Phil and Boon Gould to form the British jazz-funk/pop rock band Level 42. Early life Lindup was born in London, England. He attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he studied piano, percussion and composition, and sang in senior and chamber choirs, later graduating to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There, his musical experience spread to include playing orchestral percussion in concert at the Royal Festival and Albert Halls, drums and keyboards in jazz ensembles and participating in pop workshops. In 1985, he played in the bateria of the London School of Samba (LSS) in the Notting Hill Carnival. Three founder members of the LSS subsequently played on his first solo LP ''Changes'' in 1990. Career Since July 2000, Lindup has been part of the live line-up of UK/Brazilian outfit Da Lata, playing ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In A Peaceful World
"Love in a Peaceful World" is a song by English jazz-funk band Level 42, released in July 1994 by RCA Records from their final studio album of the decade, '' Forever Now'' (1994). It was written by Phil Gould and former Style Council drummer Steve White, with whom Gould had collaborated the previous year for the Style Council side project Talbot White on the ''United States of Mind'' project. The entire Level 42 band is credited as producer for the song. The song peaked at No. 31 on the UK Singles Chart, and is the last single of Level 42 to enter the charts. The music video of this song is the final video recorded by Level 42, with Jeff Baynes as director. The single was released only in the United Kingdom. Among other latter-day compilations, the song appears on the compilation album ''Past Lives – The Best of the RCA Years'', released in 2007 which features their greatest hit songs from 1991–1996 when the band was with RCA. Critical reception Alan Jones from ''Music Week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever Now (Level 42 Song)
"Forever Now" is a song by English jazz-funk band Level 42. It was released in February 1994, by RCA Records, as the first single from their 10th studio album, '' Forever Now'' (1994). The song is written by Mark King, Frank Musker and Richard Darbyshire, and produced by King with Mike Lindup, Phil Gould and Steve Anderson. It reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart and charted in four other countries. Personnel * Mark King – bass, vocals * Mike Lindup – keyboards, vocals * Phil Gould – drums * Wally Badarou – keyboards * Danny Blume – guitars * Gary Barnacle – saxophones * John Thirkell John Thirkell is a British trumpet and flugelhorn player, who has appeared on hundreds of pop, rock, and jazz recordings. Through the 1980s and early 1990s, he was on at least one album in the UK Charts continuously, without a break, for over ..., Derek Watkins, Stuart Brooks – trumpets * Richard Edwards – trombone Charts References Level 42 songs 1994 sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father's Shoes
"My Father's Shoes" is a song by English jazz-funk band Level 42, released in 1992 as a single from the 1991 album, '' Guaranteed''. It was released in only two countries—United Kingdom and Spain. The music video is the last video of Level 42 to feature Jakko Jakszyk and Gary Husband. Jakszyk left the band in 1992, returning in 1994 for the last Level 42 tour prior to the disbandment. Husband left the band in 1992, but returned in 1994 in the reform of the group and stayed in the group until 2010, and recorded the studio album '' Retroglide'' (2006). The song peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart. Personnel * Mark King – bass, vocals, guitars *Mike Lindup – keyboards, vocals *Gary Husband – drums *Wally Badarou – keyboards *Dominic Miller Dominic James Miller (born 21 March 1960) is a British guitarist. He has worked most of his career as a sideman and guitarist for, among others, Julia Fordham, Eddi Reader and notably Sting. He has also released several so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
