|
Temper Temper (Temper Temper Album)
''Temper Temper'' is the only album by British music act Temper Temper, consisting of Eric Gooden and singer Melanie Williams. The album was released in 1991 and contains the single "Talk Much" which peaked at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart. Track listing #"Talk Much" #"First Impressions" #"Like We Used To" #"Temperance" #"Don't Wanna Have to Ask You" #"Happy Days" #"It's All Outta Lovin' You" #"Stop on By" #"Sweet as Can Be" #"Beg or Plead" Personnel * Andrew Williams – organ, vocals *Chris Manis – percussion *Doreen Edwards – background vocals *Eric Gooden – engineer, keyboards, producer, vocals, background vocals *Fritz McIntyre – organ, background vocals * Joe Roberts – vocals *Melanie Williams – vocals, background vocals *Mick Moran – percussion, producer *Nick Garside – engineer *Stephen Boyce-Buckley – string arrangements, keyboards, engineer *Sylvan Richardson – bass *Temper Temper – main performer *Tim Oliver – engineer, producer *Tony Henry – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temper Temper (duo)
Temper Temper were an English musical duo active in the early 1990s whose members were songwriter/producer Eric Gooden (of Sweet Mercy) and singer Melanie Williams. Gooden and Williams were previously known as the duo No Sovereign who released the single "Showdown" in 1987 on Geffen Records. The duo released their only album, the self-titled '' Temper Temper'' in 1991. It contains the single "Talk Much" which briefly registered on the UK Singles Chart. After Temper Temper Gooden continued as a producer with his act Sweet Mercy (alongside Eric Powell) and continues to release material to the present day. The duo had two top 10 UK Dance hits in 1996 with "Happy Days" and "Into Your Heart", the latter under the name '6 by Six'. Williams went solo and featured on dance trio Sub Sub's 1993 UK No. 3 hit "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)", then in 1994 released the album ''Human Cradle'' (also produced by Gooden) on the Columbia label which spawned four UK chart hits, including the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American culture, African-American African-American neighborhood, communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body movements, are an important hallmark of soul. Other characteristics are a Call and response (music), call and response between the lead and Backing vocalist, backing vocalists, an especially tense vocal sound, and occasional Musical improvisation, improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music is known for reflecting African-American identity and stressing the importance of African-American culture. Soul has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues, and primarily combines elements of gospel, R&B and jazz. The genre emerged from the power struggle to increase black Americans' awareness of their African ancestry, as a newfound consciousness led to the creation of music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient history (for example Ancient Greek vases sometimes show dancers accompanied by musicians), the earliest Western dance music that we can still reproduce with a degree of certainty are old-fashioned dances. In the Baroque period, the major dance styles were noble court dances (see Baroque dance). In the classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz also arose later in the classical era. Both remained part of the romantic music period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle, mazurka, ecossaise, ballade and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group. They were originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman (musician), Tom Newman. They grew to be a worldwide success over time, with the success of platinum performers Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Devo, Tangerine Dream, Genesis (band), Genesis, Phil Collins, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, OMD, the Human League, Culture Club, Simple Minds, the Spice Girls, Lenny Kravitz, the Sex Pistols, and Mike Oldfield among others, meaning that by the time it was sold, it was regarded as a major label, alongside other large international independents such as A&M Records, A&M and Island Records. Virgin Records was sold to Thorn EMI in 1992. EMI would later be acquired by Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2012 with UMG creating the Virgin EMI Records division. The Virgin Records name continues to be used by UMG in certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Williams
Melanie Williams (born 28 October 1964) is a British singer. She sang on the hit single "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)" alongside the Manchester-based electronic group Sub Sub. Career Williams was a friend of Sub Sub at the time, and the band, searching for a female guest vocalist, featured her vocals. This helped expose her talents to the public, and was followed by further critical success. Williams and her writing colleague Eric Gooden founded Square One Studios in Bury, Greater Manchester. The proprietor Trevor Taylor, liked what he heard and they began recording a string of tracks assisted by house engineer and musician Stephen Boyce-Buckley. They released the single "Showdown" under the name No Sovereign on Geffen Records in 1987, and subsequently landed a recording contract with 10 Records; a sub-division of Virgin Records. They released a self-titled album as the duo Temper Temper in 1991. Williams launched a solo career in 1994 as a soul/dance singer, signed to Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Williams (Doves)
Andrew Sebastian Williams (born 18 February 1970) is a British musician who is the drummer and vocalist of Doves. He is the son of noted modernist architect Desmond Williams and the twin brother of bandmate Jez. Andy and Jez were born in Manchester, England and have a brother Dominic and sister Sarah. Before forming Doves, the band's three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub. While Doves were on a hiatus between 2010 and 2020, Andy and Jez Williams formed a side project called Black Rivers, releasing a self-titled album in February 2015. Andy sings occasional backing vocals and also lead vocals on some songs; "Rise", "Melody Calls" and the verses of "Here It Comes" from '' Lost Souls'', "M62 Song" from '' The Last Broadcast'', the B-sides "Hit the Ground Running", "45" (verses) & "At The Tower" (chorus), "Shadows of Salford" from '' Some Cities'' and the verses of "Blue Water" from the special edition of '' The Places Between: The Best of Doves''. Andy play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz McIntyre
Fritz Gerald McIntyre (2 September 1958 – 23 August 2021) was a British musician, most famous for his tenure as keyboard player in the original line-up of Simply Red. Early life McIntyre was born in Birmingham in 1958. His father was not only a church pastor, but also a choirmaster and gifted musician. As a boy he learnt a lot about music through him, and also learned trumpet and double bass at school, to accompany his self-taught skills in piano and guitar. The family moved to Canada, although McIntyre returned to Manchester in his twenties, hoping for a career in music. Career McIntyre successfully auditioned for Simply Red in 1984. He co-wrote several of Simply Red's songs with frontman Mick Hucknall and sang background vocals. He also sang the lead vocals in the song "Wonderland" from the ''Stars'' album. He was a founder member of the band, and played from their debut album ''Picture Book'' in 1985 until their 1995 album ''Life''. He was the last of the founder memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Roberts (musician)
Joe Roberts is an English soul/dance singer, active in the 1990s. Prior to Roberts starting to record with business and life-partner Melanie Williams, he also had solo hits with "Lover", "Back in My Life" and " Adore", originally by Prince on his '' Sign “☮” the Times'' album. Together with Williams, Roberts covered "You Are Everything", previously recorded by the Stylistics and later covered by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye. The 1995 single "Happy Days" with Sweet Mercy performed well on the UK Dance Chart, peaking at No. 8. Discography Albums *''Looking for the Here and Now'' (1993), FFRR Singles * "Love Is Energy" (1992) - UK No. 81 * "Back in My Life" (1993) – UK No. 59 * "Lover" (1994) – UK No. 22 * "Back in My Life" (re-issue) (1994) – UK No. 39 * " Adore" (1994) – UK No. 45 * "Come Together" (1994) * "You Are Everything" (1995) – UK No. 28 † * "Happy Days" (1996) – UK No. 63 ‡ * "U Got the Love" (1997) ‡ † Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts ‡ Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvan Richardson
Sylvan Richardson is a British guitarist, composer, and massage, masseur. Music Best known for being the one-time guitarist of Simply Red, after the second album ''Men and Women (album), Men and Women'' and a successful world tour, Richardson left the band after becoming disillusioned with the industry. He then studied composition in New York City. Richardson went on to work with acts such as Andy Sheppard and girl group Cleopatra (group), Cleopatra and many others, as a session bassist and band director. Richardson has his own group The Sylvan Richardson Band, who are currently based in Manchester. In his spare time, he enjoys Squash (sport), squash and Kung Fu. Masseur After training as a masseur, in 2009 he made a guest appearance on the BBC comedy quiz show ''Would I Lie to You? (British game show), Would I Lie To You?,'' in which he revealed that he was cycle sport, cyclist Chris Hoy, Sir Chris Hoy's masseur. On 19 July 2010, Richardson was appointed as Liverpool F.C.'s n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''The New York Times'' as "Wikipedia-like". While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings. History Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo .... It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Debut Albums
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving fifteen sovereign republics and the CIS in its place. In July 1991, India abandoned its policies of dirigism, license raj and autarky and began extensive liberalisation to its economy. This increased GDP but also increased income inequality over the next two decades. A UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations fought against Iraq, which had invaded and annexed Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War and would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics would lead into the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, which ran through the rest of the decade. In the context of the apartheid, the year after the liberation of political prisoner Nelson Mandela, the Parliament of South Africa repeals the Population Registration Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
