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Rush (2013 Soundtrack)
''Rush'' is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on 10 September 10 2013. The soundtrack features a musical score composed and arranged by Hans Zimmer, plus five classic rock songs by Dave Edmunds, Steve Winwood, Mud, Thin Lizzy, and David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, pa .... Track listing ;Music appearing in the film and trailers and not included on the soundtrack References External links * * * {{Authority control 2013 soundtrack albums 2010s film soundtrack albums Film scores Hans Zimmer soundtracks Biographical film soundtracks Sony Classical Records soundtracks WaterTower Music soundtracks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards and a Tony Awards, Tony Award. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 2007. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. He has won two Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Awards for Best Original Score for ''The Lion King'' (1994), and for ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'' (2021). His works include ''Gladiator (2000 film), Gladiator'' (2000), ''The Last Samurai'' (2003), the ''Pirates of the Caribbean (film series), Pirates of the Caribbean'' series (2006–2011), The Dark Knight Trilogy, ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy (2005–2012), ''Inception'' (2010), ''Man of St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Hear You Knocking
"I Hear You Knocking" (or "I Hear You Knockin'") is a rhythm and blues song written by American musician Dave Bartholomew. New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Smiley Lewis first recorded the song in 1955. The lyrics tell of the return of a former lover who is rebuffed. "I Hear You Knocking" reached number two on the ''Billboard'' R&B singles chart in 1955, making it Lewis's most popular and best-known song. Subsequently, numerous artists have recorded it, including Welsh singer and guitarist Dave Edmunds, whose version reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks in 1970 and was in the top 10 in several other countries. Background Several earlier blues and R&B songs use lyrics similar to "I Hear You Knocking". James "Boodle It" Wiggins recorded an upbeat piano blues in 1928 titled "Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In" which repeated the title in the lyrics. It was followed by songs that used similar phrases, including "You Can't Come In", by Bert M. Mays (1928) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951) is a Puerto Rican guitarist. He is best known for his work with David Bowie from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician. History The son of a Pentecostal minister, Alomar was raised in New York. From the age of ten he taught himself to play the guitar, and started playing professionally at age sixteen. In the 1960s he performed during "Amateur Hour" at the Apollo Theater, eventually joining the house band, backing Chuck Berry and many leading soul artists. Around 1968–69 he toured for eight months in James Brown's live band, eventually quitting after being docked wages for missing a musical cue. In 1969 Alomar formed a group called Listen My Brother with vocalists Luther Vandross, Fonzi Thornton (later to work with Chic and Roxy Music), and Robin Clark. In 1969, the band played several times on Sesame Street, including on the show's pilot. That same summer, Listen My Brother also perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame (David Bowie Song)
"Fame" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was released on his 1975 album '' Young Americans'' and was later issued as the album's second single by RCA Records in June 1975. Written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, it was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City in January 1975. It is a funk rock song that represents Bowie's dissatisfaction with the troubles of fame and stardom. The song was a major commercial success in North America, becoming Bowie's first number 1 single on both the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the Canadian Singles Chart. The song was one of the most successful singles of the year, ranking at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Year-End Hot 100. However, it was less successful in Europe, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1990, Bowie remixed the song under the title "Fame '90" to coincide with his Sound+Vision Tour. "Fame" has since appeared on many compilation albums, and was remastered in 2016 as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bell
Eric Robin Bell (born 3 September 1947) is a Northern Irish rock and blues musician, best known as a founding member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy, of which he was a member from 1969 to 1973. After his time in Thin Lizzy, he briefly fronted his own group before joining the Noel Redding Band in the mid-1970s. He has since released several solo albums and performs regularly with a blues-based trio, the Eric Bell Band. Career Early career Bell was born in England on 3 September 1947 and brought up as a young child in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by his adoptive sibling-parents Harold and Ivy Bell. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Downey (drummer)
Brian Michael Downey (born 27 January 1951) is an Irish drummer. He was a founding member of the rock band Thin Lizzy and the only other constant in the band aside from leader Phil Lynott until their disbandment in 1983. Downey also co-wrote several Thin Lizzy songs. Allmusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia has argued that Downey is "certainly one of the most underrated ock drummers!-- don't remove the brackets around "rock drummer"; the brackets indicate that the words "rock drummer" are not in the original cited quote but can be inferred by the context of the quote. --> of his generation". Career Growing up in Crumlin, Dublin, Brian's early musical influences came from his father who played in a local pipe band and loved jazz, and also from his 1960s heroes: The Kinks, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In his youth, Downey met friend, co-founder and bass guitarist Phil Lynott, who attended the same school. Before forming Thin Lizzy, Downey had been in numerous school bands, begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Lynott
Philip Parris Lynott (, ; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. He was known for his distinctive plectrum, pick-based style on the bass and for his imaginative lyrical contributions, including working-class tales and numerous characters drawn from personal influences and Celts (modern), Celtic culture. Lynott was born in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England and grew up in Dublin with his grandparents. He remained close to his mother, Philomena Lynott, Philomena, throughout his life. He fronted several bands as a lead vocalist, including Skid Row (Irish band), Skid Row alongside Gary Moore, before learning the bass guitar and forming Thin Lizzy in 1969. After initial success with "Whiskey in the Jar", the band had several hits in the mid-1970s, such as "The Boys Are Back in Town", "Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song), Jailbrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rocker (song)
"The Rocker" is a song by Irish rock group Thin Lizzy, included on their 1973 album ''Vagabonds of the Western World''. It was also released as a single in a 2:41 edited format; the original album track stretched to 5:17, with most of the extra length being taken up by an extended guitar solo by Eric Bell. There is an accompanying performance on Dutch TV programme ''TopPop'' to the song which features Gary Moore recorded in 1974 during his first of two spells with the band. The B-side of the single in most territories was the album track "Here I Go Again", but in Germany the non-album track, "A Ride in the Lizzy Mobile", was used. This track later appeared on the four-CD box set ''Vagabonds Kings Warriors Angels'' as "Cruising in the Lizzy Mobile". The single failed to chart in the UK, but reached No. 11 in Ireland and spent four weeks on the chart. However, it became a live favourite and was one of the few songs from Eric Bell's time with the band to survive his departure and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Chinn
Nicholas Barry Chinn (born 16 May 1945) is an English-American songwriter and record producer. Together with Mike Chapman he had a long string of hit singles in the US and UK in the 1970s and early 1980s, including several international record chart, number-one gramophone record, records. The duo wrote hits for The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Mud (band), Mud, New World (band), New World, Arrows (British band), Arrows, Racey, Smokie (band), Smokie, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis and the News, Exile (American band), Exile and Toni Basil. Career Chinn was born in London to an affluent Jewish family that owned a string of service stations and car sales distributorships. As a young man his talent for writing successful pop songs was obvious and within a month or two of his first efforts as a songwriter, Chinn co-wrote with Mike d'Abo the two main songs for the hit film, ''There's a Girl in My Soup'' (1970). It was at this point that Chinn met Australian-born Mike Chapman, who was a waiter at a nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chapman
Michael Donald Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and the Knack. Chapman received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours. Early career Chapman was born in Queensland, Australia, and was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane. He emigrated to Britain where he became a member of the Downliners Sect and then in 1968 joined the group Tangerine Peel. They released an album in 1969 and had several near-hit singles between 1967 and 1970. In 1970 he met Nicky Chinn while working as a waiter at a London nightclub, Tramp. The pair struck up a song-writing partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyna-mite
"Dyna-mite" is a 1973 single, written by the songwriting team of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was originally written for the Sweet, who rejected it, and later inherited by the English glam rock band Mud. Chapman and Chinn produced the song as well. Chart performance The song was a "catchy rocker" that became a top five hit in the UK Singles Chart reaching number four in October 1973. It topped the charts in the Netherlands in 1974. Other information The single was released on 7" vinyl record format by the RAK music label. The B-side was "Do It All Over Again". In Australia, the single was released by RAK as "Dynamite", without the hyphen in the title. The song is featured in the soundtrack of the 2013 film '' Rush''. A cover of the song, performed by Matthew Porretta Matthew Charles Porretta (born May 29, 1965) is an American television, voice, and film actor known for his appearances in ''Wings'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', and '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muff Winwood
Mervyn "Muff" Winwood (born 15 June 1943, Erdington, Birmingham, England) is an English songwriter and record producer. The elder brother of Steve Winwood, both were members of The Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff played bass guitar. Following his departure from the group he became an A&R executive and record producer. Early life Winwood's father, Lawrence, was a foundryman by trade, who also played tenor saxophone in dance bands and had a collection of jazz and blues records. Winwood attended Cranbourne Road Primary School and the new Great Barr School (one of the first comprehensive schools) and was a choir boy at St John's Church in the Perry Barr neighborhood of Birmingham. He first became interested in the guitar, then the bass. He was nicknamed "Muff" after the popular 1950s children's TV character Muffin the Mule. His younger brother is Steve Winwood. The Spencer Davis Group The Spencer Davis Group was formed after Davis saw the Winwood brothers (Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
