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Short Back 'n' Sides
''Short Back 'n' Sides'' is the fifth studio album by Ian Hunter. He collaborated with Mick Jones, Topper Headon, Todd Rundgren, and Ellen Foley. In 1995, Chrysalis released a 2 CD set with a remastered version of the album and bonus CD with outtakes of the Chrysalis period. The track "Noises" is an experimental track with many samples used as part of the song and "Theatre of the Absurd" is Ian's only reggae song, inspired by the Ladbroke Grove area of London. Track listing All songs written by Ian Hunter; except where indicated #"Central Park n' West" – 4:00 #"Lisa Likes Rock n' Roll" – 3:56 #"I Need Your Love" – 3:34 #"Old Records Never Die" – 4:18 #"Noises" (Ian Hunter, Tommy Morrongiello) – 5:51 #"Rain" – 5:54 #"Gun Control" – 3:12 #"Theatre of the Absurd" – 5:49 #"Leave Me Alone" – 3:29 #"Keep on Burning" – 4:46 1995 Bonus CD (Long Odds and Out-takes) #"Detroit" (rough mix – instrumental) – 3:42 #"Na Na Na" – 4:13 #"I Need Your Love" (roug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hunter (singer)
Ian Hunter Patterson (born 3 June 1939) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Mott the Hoople, from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and at the time of its 2009, 2013, and 2019 reunions. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before joining Mott the Hoople, and continued in this vein after he left the band. He embarked on a solo career despite ill health and disillusionment with commercial success, and often worked in collaboration with Mick Ronson, David Bowie's sideman and arranger from '' The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' period. Mott the Hoople achieved some commercial success, and attracted a small but devoted fan base. As a solo artist, Hunter charted with lesser-known but more wide-ranging works outside the rock mainstream. His best-known solo songs are " Once Bitten, Twice Shy", later covered by Great White, and "England Rocks", which was modified to " Cleveland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Briley
Martin Steven Briley (born August 17, 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He was born in London and has recorded with and written for a variety of well-known musicians, as well as releasing several solo albums. Music career Beginnings and early bands Briley began playing and writing music when he was ten years old. Arthur Brown was his events teacher. At the age of seventeen, Briley and his band Mandrake Paddle Steamer (later shortened to Mandrake) signed their first record deal with Parlophone/EMI, and subsequently recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. However, the group's published output during their lifetime was limited to two singles, one of which was released only in Sweden. Briley was later signed to George Martin's Associated Independent Recording (AIR) group of companies and went on to become an important part of the London studio scene as an arranger, vocalist and sought-after session guitarist. He also had a brief stint as bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hunter (singer) Albums
Ian Hunter may refer to: * Ian Hunter (actor) (1900–1975), South African-born British actor * Ian Hunter (admiral) (1939–2022), New Zealand naval officer * Ian Hunter (artist) (1939–2017), British artist and dean of Saint Martin's School of Art * Ian Hunter (curator) (1947–2023), Northern Irish artist and art curator * Ian Hunter (cricketer) (born 1979), British cricketer * Ian Hunter (impresario) (1919–2003), British classical music and talent promoter * Ian Hunter (politician) (born 1960), South Australian Labor Party politician * Ian Hunter (rugby union) (born 1969), English rugby player and media marketer * Ian Hunter (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1960s), Scottish footballer (Falkirk) * Ian Hunter (singer) (born 1939), English singer-songwriter, former frontman of Mott the Hoople ** ''Ian Hunter'' (album), his debut 1975 solo album * Ian Hunter (soccer) (born 1961), Australian footballer * Ian Hunter (visual effects supervisor) Ian Hunter is a visual effects artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Albums
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Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith (born 1948) is an American recording artist, film director, celebrity portrait photographer, and rock and roll photographer. She has also made fine art photography with conceptual images and her paintings. Taschen, Rizzoli, and Abrams have published books on her work. In 1985, she received a World Press Photo award. In the 1980s, she wrote songs and performed as Will Powers. In 2023, she was part of a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with the limits of fair use concerning a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen portraits based on a Goldsmith photo of the musician Prince. Life Goldsmith was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1948. She attended the University of Michigan, where she graduated in three years ''magna cum laude'' with two degrees, in English and psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain (born Chiaramonte, January 15, 1953) is an American mixing engineer and record producer, best known for his work with major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Pretenders, and Bryan Adams. Described by '' Sound on Sound'' magazine as having "his name on more hit records than anyone else in the history of popular music", he is credited with establishing the role of mixing engineer. Clearmountain has mixed some of the most iconic live shows in music history, including Live Aid and The Concert for New York City. Records mixed by Clearmountain have won eight Grammy Awards. He has also won two Emmy Awards from five nominations. Early life and education Born in Connecticut, Clearmountain later moved to New York City, where he graduated from Greenwich High School in 1971. As a teenager, Clearmountain had many friends who were musicians. He loved music, and played bass guitar in various bar bands, but felt he didn't want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Powell (musician)
Roger Powell (born March 14, 1949) is an American musician, programmer, and magazine columnist best known for his membership with the rock band Utopia. Career Musician Powell's musical career started in the late 1960s, programming analog synthesizers for commercials. Powell was the protégé of Robert Moog (who created the Moog synthesizer), as well as Moog's competitor ARP, contributing designs and demonstrating systems. Powell played keyboards and synthesizers with the rock band Utopia, led by Todd Rundgren and featuring players Kasim Sulton and Willie Wilcox, among others, from 1974 until its disbanding in 1985, playing, writing, and singing on ten of the band's eleven albums. For Utopia's live shows, Powell created the ''Powell Probe''; the first remote, hand-held polyphonic synthesizer controller, which featured a custom-made shell used to access a complex stack of sequencers and other peripherals offstage, a device also used in a modified form by Jan Hammer. His first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Windo
Gary Windo (7 November 1941, in Brighton, England – 25 July 1992, in New York City) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist. Career Windo came from a musical family in England. By age six he took up drums and accordion, then guitar at twelve and saxophone at seventeen. He lived in the United States during the 1960s but returned to England in 1969. In the early 1970s, his career grew as he founded the Gary Windo Quartet and worked with Carla Bley, Brotherhood of Breath, Centipede, Matching Mole, The Running Man, and Nick Mason. Sonny Stitt heard Windo play at the Berlin Jazz Festival and asked him to join the band, which he declined. He worked outside jazz, with the Psychedelic Furs, Robert Wyatt, NRBQ, and for the comedy television show ''Saturday Night Live''. He taught music lessons with his friend Eric Peralli. Windo could play many reed instruments, including soprano sax and bass clarinet. His time in America exposed him to all types of jazz, and he was at home in any idiom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Kelly
Wells Kelly (April 7, 1949 – October 28, 1984) was an American pop and soft rock drummer. Kelly was born in New Orleans in 1949. He grew up in New York. His father, Burnham Kelly, was a dean of architecture at Cornell University. He was one of six siblings, including older brother Sherman Kelly, whom Wells worked with in the 1970s. From 1968 to 1970, he played drums for Boffalongo, who recorded the original version of "Dancing in the Moonlight". The song, written by Wells' brother Sherman after surviving a near-fatal assault by a St. Croix gang, failed to chart. In 1970, Boffalongo disbanded, and members went on to form either King Harvest or Orleans. Kelly was a member of both groups; King Harvest from 1970 to 1971, and then Orleans from 1972 to 1981. A year after leaving King Harvest, the band, that included Sherman, had a hit with their own song from their previous band Boffalongo with "Dancing in the Moonlight". Their version went to number thirteen in the US in February a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miller Anderson (musician)
Miller Anderson (born 12 April 1945) is a UK-based blues and rock guitarist and singer. He worked extensively with Ian Hunter in the formative years of the 1960s, before either of them achieved significant success. They worked in bands such as the Scenery and At Last The 1958 Rock 'n' Roll Show (later called Charlie Woolfe), and Anderson is referenced in the title track of Hunter's 1976 album '' All American Alien Boy'' ("well I remember all the good times me and Miller enjoyed, up and down the M1 in some luminous yo-yo toy"). Anderson would later guest on two Hunter solo albums. Apart from pursuing his solo career, he was a member of the Keef Hartley Band. Other groups Anderson has been associated with are the Spencer Davis Group, Broken Glass, the Dukes, Mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tymon Dogg
Tymon Dogg (born Stephen John Murray) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Dogg's career started early with shows at the Cavern and Peppermint Lounge in Liverpool when he was 15. As well as pursuing a solo career, he collaborated with many bands and musicians including The Clash, and was a member of Joe Strummer's last band, The Mescaleros. Career Dogg moved to London at 17, signed to Pye Records (under the name ''Timon'') and recorded a single, "The Bitter Thoughts of Little Jane" featuring then-session musicians Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Moving to Apple Records, Dogg recorded tracks produced by Peter Asher featuring Paul McCartney on piano and James Taylor on guitar. Dogg then toured with The Moody Blues and worked closely with Justin Hayward to produce many tracks, "Now She Says She's Young" being released as a single in 1970. Dogg became part of London's early 1970s underground scene. Moving into a squatted property in Westbourne Grove, Dogg m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Mandel
Tommy Mandel (born June 2, 1949) is an American keyboardist most notable for playing with Bryan Adams from 1981 to 1998, starting with the album ''You Want It You Got It''. Career Prior to joining Bryan Adams' band, Mandel released a self-titled solo EP. He has played with Dire Straits and Chrissie Hynde, among many others. He is currently musical director of the theatre department at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. Partial discography Solo * ''Tommy Mandel'' EP (1981) * ''Mello Magic'' LP (2018) * ''Music For Insomniacs'' LP (2020) with Bryan Adams * ''You Want It You Got It'' * ''Cuts Like a Knife'' * '' Reckless'' * '' Into the Fire'' * '' Live! Live! Live!'' * '' Waking Up the Neighbours'' * '' So Far So Good'' * '' The Best of Me'' * '' Anthology 1980–2005'' with Dire Straits * '' Alchemy: Dire Straits Live'' * '' Money for Nothing'' with Ian Hunter * '' Welcome to the Club'' * '' Short Back 'n' Sides'' * '' All of the Good Ones Are Taken'' * '' Yui Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
