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Rod Coombes
Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing drums with British bands Stealers Wheel in 1972 to 1973 and again in 2008 and Strawbs from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2004 to 2010. Career Rod is an artist and musician whose first instrument was the guitar, but his father, Roy Coombes, was a drummer/vocalist; so drums became Rod's instrument. He has played drums professionally since he was 17, when he joined singer Lulu's backing band, The Luvvers. After the Luvvers, Rod got a call to join George Bean and The Runners, a soul band with a full horn section. Ironically, George got a call for the band to back Lulu on her radio- and UK tours so it was back to Lulu again. The band also backed Cat Stevens when his single "Matthew And Son" was riding high in the charts. Rod got a call from Rod Stewart to join him and Jeff Beck and Ronnie Wood in the Jeff Beck Band, which was riding high in the charts with the single "Hi Ho Silver Lining". Rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a wikt:cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan and multiculturalism, multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and the Portobello Road Market. From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists. 'Notting Hill and Bayswater', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 177-88. For much of the 20th century, the large houses were subdivided into multi-occupancy rentals. Continental Europe, Continental Eastern Europeans in the United Kingdom, Europeans, British African-Caribbean people, Caribbeans (British African-Caribbean people, African Caribbeans, Indo-Caribbean people, Indian Caribbeans, and White Caribbeans), Black British people, Africans, British Indian, Indians, British Arabs, Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackpool Gazette
The ''Blackpool Gazette'' (locally marketed as simply ''The Gazette'') is an English daily newspaper based in Blackpool, Lancashire. Published every day except Sunday, it covers the towns and communities of the Fylde coast. It was founded as ''The West Lancashire Evening Gazette'' in 1929 before being renamed the ''Evening Gazette'', and then ''Blackpool Gazette''. The paper's history dates back to a weekly publication founded in 1873. Background The newspaper is published by National World, and is known locally as ''The Gazette''. The editor is Vanessa Sims. Two other weekly newspapers are also published – the '' Lytham St.Annes Express'' and the '' Fleetwood Weekly News''. It is online at blackpoolgazette.co.uk. ''The Gazette'' had a close link with local football club Blackpool until the club's relegation from the Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuck In The Middle With You
"Stuck in the Middle with You" (sometimes known as "Stuck in the Middle") is a song written by Scottish musicians Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan and performed by their band Stealers Wheel. The band performed the song on the BBC's ''Top of the Pops'' in May 1973, and the song charted at No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. It also became an international hit, reaching No. 6 in the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Overview "Stuck in the Middle" was first included on Stealers Wheel's 1972 eponymous debut album. Gerry Rafferty provided the lead vocals, with Joe Egan singing harmony. It was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Rafferty's lyrics are a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party (the clowns and jokers would be all the music executives and hangers on), written and performed as a parody of Bob Dylan's style; the vocal impression, subject, and styling were so similar, listeners have wrongly attributed the song to Dylan since its release. The song was released as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Old Town
"Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by the Dubliners and the Pogues. History The song was written about Salford, then in Lancashire, England, the area where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for the 1949 play ''Landscape with Chimneys'', produced by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop and set in a North of England industrial town. With the growing popularity of folk music in the 1960s the song became a standard in the repertory of British folk club singers. In a BBC radio documentary about “Dirty Old Town”, Professor Ben Harker (author of ''Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl'', 2007, Pluto Press) explains that although MacColl later claimed the song was written as an interlude "to cover an awkward scene change", studying the script of the play ''Landscape with Chimneys'' reveals the song occurs at the beginning and at the end of the play. Harker argues the song is important to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film production and film distribution, distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, it was founded in February 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. After numerous ownership and structural changes and revamps, United Artists was acquired by media conglomerate Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1981 for a reported $350 million ($ billion today). On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in One Three Media and Lightworkers Media and merged them to revive the television production unit of United Artists as United Artists Media Group (UAMG). MGM itself acquired UAMG on December 14, 2015, and folded it into MGM Television, their own television division. MGM briefly revived the United Artists brand as United Artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hi Ho Silver Lining
"Hi Ho Silver Lining" is a rock song, written by American songwriters Scott English and Larry Weiss and first released as a single in March 1967 by English band the Attack, then a few days later by Jeff Beck. The Attack's version failed to chart, while Beck's recording reached the top 20 of the singles chart in his native Britain in both 1967 and 1972, becoming his biggest solo hit. Beck's single failed to crack the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States, however. The song is popular with fans of numerous football clubs in the United Kingdom, including Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday, and Wolverhampton Wanderers, where it is often chanted by spectators. During the chorus, the words 'silver lining' are usually replaced with the name of the football club in question. Background Songwriters English and Weiss started writing a song together, with a chorus of "Hi ho silver lining", but no verses. When producer Mickie Most heard their early version, he suggested that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing To The Devil's Beat
''Dancing to the Devil's Beat'' is a studio album by English band Strawbs. Track listing #"Revenge (Can Be So Sweet)" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk)– 5:18 #"Beneath the Angry Sky" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:29 #"Copenhagen" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:46 #"Pro Patria Suite" – 7:44 #:"Back Along (We Were Young) (Cousins)" #:"All for Each Other (Cousins)" #:"Home Is Where the Heart Was Ever" (Cousins, Oliver Wakeman) #"Where Silent Shadows Fall" (Cousins) – 5:45 #"The Man Who Would Never Leave Grimsby" ( Dave Lambert) – 5:01 #"The Ballad of Jay and Rose Mary" (Cousins) – 4:17 #"Dancing to the Devil's Beat" (Cousins) - 3:38 #"Oh How She Changed 2009" (Cousins) – 4:21 Personnel ;Strawbs *Dave Cousins – vocals, guitar, banjo * Dave Lambert – vocals, guitar *Chas Cronk – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, programming * Oliver Wakeman – piano, Hammond organ, keyboards, orchestrations *Rod Coombes – drums ;Additional personnel *Ian Cutler – fiddle *Vince Martin – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Hearted Bride
''The Broken Hearted Bride'' is the 17th studio album by English band Strawbs. Reception Track listing #"The Call to Action" ( Dave Cousins) – 7:38 #"Christmas Cheer (Everything's Going to be Alright)" (Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 4:39 #"Too Many Angels" (Cousins, Cronk) – 5:55 #"The Broken Hearted Bride" (Cousins) – 5:11 #"Shadowland" ( Dave Lambert) – 4:48 #"Through Aphrodite's Eyes" (Cousins, Cronk) – 7:26 #"Deep in the Darkest Night" (Cousins) – 4:38 #"You Know as Well as I" (Lambert) – 3:44 #"Everybody Knows" (Cronk) – 4:30 #"Action Replay" (Cousins) – 4:54 #"We'll Meet Again Sometime" (Cousins) – 6:02 Personnel ;Strawbs * Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards * Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar * Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, programming *John Hawken – keyboards * Rod Coombes – drums ;Additional personnel *Ian Cutler – fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Déjà Fou
''Déjà Fou'' is the 16th studio album by English band Strawbs. The title is a play on the phrase déjà vu, French for "already seen", as the band line-up had been seen 30 years before on the ''Hero and Heroine'' album. The phrase ''déjà fou'' literally means "already mad". The album delivers the kind of British folk rock the band had built its reputation on. Track listing #"Riviera dei Fiori" (Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert) – 1:43 #"Under a Cloudless Sky" (Cousins) – 5:16 #"Face Down in the Well" (Cousins) – 5:55 #"On a Night Like This" (Cousins) – 2:27 #"If" (Cousins) – 5:07 #"Cold Steel" (Lambert)) – 5:07 #"Sunday Morning" (Cousins, Lambert) – 3:24 #"This Barren Land" (Cousins, Lambert) – 4:47 #"When the Lights Came On" (Lambert) – 5:43 #"Russian Front" (Cousins, Chas Cronk, John Hawken, Lambert) – 5:40 #"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Cousins) – 4:14 #"NRG" (Cousins) – 4:09 Personnel ;Strawbs *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Angel (Strawbs Album)
''Blue Angel'' is the 15th studio album by English band Strawbs. It was the first Strawbs album in 12 years to contain new material and featured several different line-ups of musicians from past Strawbs eras. Welsh folk-singer Mary Hopkin featured on many tracks, continuing a working partnership established by Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby on their album ''The Bridge'', from which several of the tracks on this album are drawn. The track "Blue Angel" is a rearrangement of the track which appears on Dave Cousins' first solo album '' Two Weeks Last Summer''. "Lay Down" is a re-recorded version of the hit single from ''Bursting at the Seams''. "Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss" is a rearrangement of a track which appears on 1978 studio album '' Deadlines''. The bonus track is the original 1979 version - also released as a single - of a track which later appeared on the 1991 studio album '' Ringing Down the Years''. Reception Jimmy James in an AllMusic review feels that the album re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Cuts (Strawbs Album)
''Deep Cuts'' is the tenth studio album by English band Strawbs. Track listing Side one #"I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 3:00 #"Turn Me Round" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:42 #"Hard Hard Winter" (Cousins, Robert Kirby) – 2:54 #"My Friend Peter" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:15 #"The Soldier's Tale" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:15 Side two #"Simple Visions" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:40 #" Charmer" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:13 #"Wasting my Time (Thinking of You)" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:27 #"Beside the Rio Grande" (Cousins) – 4:18 #"So Close and Yet So Far Away" (Cousins) – 2:59 Bonus track - Japanese re-issue CD #"You Won't See the Light" ( Dave Lambert) Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar *Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar *Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion ;Additional personnel * Robert Kirby – ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomadness
''Nomadness'' is the ninth studio album by England, English band Strawbs. It was their last album recorded for A&M Records and their first with no full-time keyboard player since 1970's ''Dragonfly (Strawbs album), Dragonfly''. Indeed, Strawbs would not feature a full-time keyboard player until 1978 when Andy Richards joined the band. All the tracks are timed at less than five minutes giving the album a lighter, less 'epic' feel in contrast to the previous three studio albums. Rick Wakeman came back to help on electric harpsichord on one song. Track listing Side one #"To Be Free" (Dave Cousins) – 4:17 #"Little Sleepy" (Dave Lambert (British musician), Dave Lambert) – 4:10 #"The Golden Salamander" (Cousins) – 4:57 #"Absent Friend (How I Need You)" (Cousins) – 4:42 #"Back on the Farm" (Cousins) – 2:42 Side two #"So Shall Our Love Die?" (Cousins) – 3:39 #"Tokyo Rosie" (Cousins) – 2:48 #"A Mind of My Own" (Rod Coombes) – 4:33 #"Hanging in the Gallery" (Cousins) – 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
