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Terry Williams (drummer)
Terrence Williams (born 11 January 1948) is a retired Welsh rock drummer. During the 1970s and early 1980s Williams was drummer with Dave Edmunds / Rockpile and Man. Rockpile split in 1981 and Williams joined Dire Straits from 1982 until 1988. Williams was born in Swansea. During the 1960s, he played in a number of Welsh bands, including Commancheros, the Smokeless Zone, Dream and Plum Crazy, before joining Dave Edmunds' band Love Sculpture. In 1970 he joined the Welsh rock group Man, which included two former Dream and Smokeless Zone members, Deke Leonard and Martin Ace. Between 1981 and 1982, Williams was part of the Neverland Express band, backing Meat Loaf. In June 1982 Williams joined Dire Straits as the replacement for drummer Pick Withers, shortly after the release of their fourth studio album '' Love Over Gold''. Williams played with them for the first time on the 1983 EP titled '' ExtendedancEPlay'' (featuring the hit single "Twisting by the Pool") and on the 1982� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-eighth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales, with an estimated population of in . Swansea, along with Neath and Port Talbot, forms the Swansea urban area, with a population of 300,352 in 2011. It is also part of the Swansea Bay City Region. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ExtendedancEPlay
''Extendedance Play'' (stylized as ''ExtendedancEPlay'') is a studio 12" EP by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 14 January 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The record contains three tracks on the international version and four on the U.S. version, which also included the song "Badges, Posters, Stickers, T-Shirts," an outtake from the '' Love over Gold'' sessions that had been released in other territories as the b-side to " Private Investigations". The EP consists of upbeat tracks with a rock and roll, jazz and swing feel. It is the first release by the band to feature drummer Terry Williams, who filled the spot after drummer Pick Withers left the group in 1982. This EP has never been released on compact disc except for a very rare CD-Video. However, "Twisting by the Pool" appears on the compilations ''Money for Nothing'' and '' Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits'', and a live version of "Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Dancer (Tina Turner Song)
"Private Dancer" is a song written by British musician Mark Knopfler and recorded by singer Tina Turner, first released in October 1984. The song was intended to be for Knopfler’s band Dire Straits, but was never fully recorded or released by the band. He ended up giving the song to Turner, with her recording being produced by John Carter for her fifth solo album of the same name and released as the album's fifth single. In a fresh recording session, Dire Straits (minus Knopfler) backed Jeff Beck on lead guitar and Straits' touring saxophonist, Mel Collins. The track reached number seven on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number three on the US R&B chart. The song had moderate international success, reaching number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. Background The song was initially intended for Dire Straits' 1982 album '' Love over Gold''. The instruments were recorded, but Mark Knopfler considered the lyrics unsuitable for a male singer, so the track was dropped from the project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comfort And Joy (1984 Film)
''Comfort and Joy'' is a 1984 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Bill Paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him. After he witnesses an attack on an ice cream van by angry competitors, he is led into the struggle between two Italian families over the ice cream market of Glasgow. The film received a BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985.. Plot A few days before Christmas, Glasgow radio disc jockey Allan "Dicky" Bird is stunned when Maddy, his kleptomaniac girlfriend of four years, suddenly announces that she is moving out. His doctor friend Colin tries to console him, but Bird is heartbroken. One day, he goes for a drive to take his mind off his troubles. Noticing an attractive girl, Charlotte, in the back of a "Mr. Bunny" ice cream van, he follows it under a railway bridge on a whim and when the van stops, purchases an ice cream cone. To his amazement, two men d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal (soundtrack)
''Cal'' is the second soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 24 August 1984 by Vertigo Records. The album contains music composed for the 1984 film ''Cal'', produced by David Puttnam and directed by Pat O'Connor. Puttnam also produced the film '' Local Hero'' (1983). Knopfler played the track "Father And Son" on his 2013 tour as an instrumental intro to the song "Hill Farmer's Blues." Critical reception In a contemporary review in ''The New York Times'', Janet Maslin called the album "an exceptionally lovely and haunting score."Maslin, Janet. "Screen: Love in Belfast" in ''The New York Times''. 24 August 1984. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Steven McDonald gave the album four out of five stars and called it a "quiet, reflective set of cues that eschew false dramatics in favor of supporting the story." Track listing All music was written by Mark Knopfler. Charts Personnel ;Music * Mark Knopfler – guitars * Paul Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glasgow Herald
''The Herald'' is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. ''The Herald'' is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. The title was simplified from ''The Glasgow Herald'' in 1992. Following the closure of the '' Sunday Herald'', the ''Herald on Sunday'' was launched as a Sunday edition on 9 September 2018. History Founding The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the ''Glasgow Advertiser''. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. ''The Herald'', therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Hero (soundtrack)
''Local Hero'' is the debut soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released in April 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It contains music composed for the 1983 film '' Local Hero'', produced by David Puttnam and both written and directed by Bill Forsyth. In 1984, the album received a BAFTA award nomination for Best Score for a Film. The final track of the album, "Going Home", is played before every home game of Newcastle United F.C. Knopfler re-recorded the song as a charity single for the 2014 Great North Run in his home city. Background Following a string of three multi-platinum albums with Dire Straits—''Dire Straits'' (1978), ''Communiqué'' (1979), and ''Making Movies'' (1980)—Knopfler, the group's lead singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, began to look for new musical challenges and opportunities. In early 1982, his manager wrote to several film directors indicating that Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (; born 25 February 1941), is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include '' Chariots of Fire'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, '' The Mission'', '' The Killing Fields'', '' Local Hero'', '' Midnight Express'' and '' Memphis Belle''. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Between 1997 and 2021, Lord Puttnam sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords. In 2019 he was appointed chair to the select committee on democracy and digital technologies. The committee published its findings in its ''Digital Technology & the Resurrection of Trust'' report in June 2020. Early life David Terence Puttnam was born in Southgate, London, England, the son of Marie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Means Nothing To Me
"She Means Nothing to Me" is a song recorded by Phil Everly and British singer Cliff Richard, released as a single in 1983 as the second single from Phil Everly's eponymous album. The song reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Welsh musician and songwriter John David. Cliff Richard included a remixed version of the track with louder vocals on his 1984 album '' The Rock Connection''. Personnel As per the album liner notes and record centre-label: * Phil Everly – lead vocals * Cliff Richard – lead vocals, backing vocals * Terry Williams – drums * Mickey Gee – rhythm guitar, electric rhythm * Mark Knopfler – rhythm guitar * John David – lead guitar * Pete Wingfield – electric piano * Stuart Colman – bass, 6-string bass, reverse lead guitar, Korg , founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument or electro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song. In the early 1960s, he had a successful screen career with films including ''The Young Ones (1961 film), The Young Ones'', ''Summer Holiday (1963 film), Summer Holiday'' and ''Wonderful Life (1964 film), Wonderful Life'' and his own television show at the BBC. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Everly
Phillip Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014) was an American musician, who was one half of the duo The Everly Brothers alongside his older brother Don. Early life Phil was born in Chicago in 1939 to Isaac Milford "Ike" Everly, Jr. (1908–1975), a guitar player, and Margaret Embry Everly (1919–2021). He was of German, English and Cherokee descent. The Everly family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1953, where the brothers attended West High School. In 1955, the family moved to Madison, Tennessee, while the brothers moved to Nashville. Don had graduated from high school in 1955, and Phil attended Peabody Demonstration School, from which he graduated in 1957. Career The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Career started in 1951. They signed to Cadence Records In 1957. Their first hit was " Bye Bye Love", which had been rejected by 30 other acts. "Bye Bye Love" went to no. 2 on the pop chart, behind Elvis Presley's " (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear", and No. 1 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is the one of the two members who stayed during the band's existence, along with the bassist John Illsley. He pursued a solo career after the band dissolved, and is now an independent artist. Knopfler was born in Glasgow, and raised in Blyth, Northumberland, Blyth, near Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. After graduating from the University of Leeds and working for three years as a college lecturer, Knopfler co-founded Dire Straits with his younger brother, David Knopfler. The band recorded six albums, including ''Brothers in Arms (album), Brothers in Arms'' (1985), one of the List of best-selling albums, best-selling albums in history. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced ten solo albums to date. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
