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- 7061: Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane
- ... gave the award. Peck described Dylan as the Heart of Americans, the Rock of Ages, a Man of Music, and a Poet Teller of Tales. Dylan was a 1960s folk singer who led anti-war lyrics. His social relevant lyrics into rock influenced the Beetles. He is described as the most influenced songwriter of the 20th century. Dylan was the only rock and roll singer to be invited to the ...
- 7062: Count Basie
- ... played as a background for soloists. Another musical hallmark of the Basie style is its reliance on the blues, both blues chord progressions and blue notes, certain flatted notes in a musical scale. After World War II ended in 1945, changes in the economy and in Americans musical tastes sent most of the big bands into commercial decline. Eventually, the changed economic realities of touring with a band affected Basie, and ...
- 7063: Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
- ... in Seattle's nightclubs and restaurants, Vedder sightings are few and far between. And not just on the streets of Seattle. Shunning interviews, refusing to make videos and playing truncated tours because of his unwinnable war with Ticketmaster, he now keeps a low profile in the city, living in his large house in West Seattle, in an enclave of upper-middle-class homes on a tree-lined slope that overlooks Puget ...
- 7064: The Tupac Conspiracy
- ... yourself, but that certainly is suspicious and it must mean something. . According to Neal, on the song "Thug Luv" which is a duet with Tupac on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's double CD Art Of War after Tupac says "whuz poppin' n*gga", Bizzy Bone can be heard saying "He's Alive He's Alive He's Alive" in the background. During an interview, an ABC correspondent asked Suge Knight, "If ...
- 7065: Music and Its Effect On People
- ... be, Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. Let It Be is a great example of a song of it's decade. The 70's was a time of "free love" and understanding and even war. Let It Be talks about was written by John Lennon in the late 1960's to be released in 1970. I think he was trying to get across a point, and a very valid one ...
- 7066: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... the Orchestra was in England during the 1956 tour (the Kenton Orchestra was the first American entertainment group permitted by the British Musicians Union to tour that fabled land of Kings and legends since World War II), that Stan scored several original sequences for the Sadler Wells Ballet Company, along with composing the music for a grandiloquent ballet, featuring the Russe de Monte Carlo Company, commemorating Grace Kelly's Royal wedding ...
- 7067: Hear No Evil: Music Censorship
- ... 53). Zappa discredits the PMRC in a humorous way. He also uses children to build his appeal, just as the pro-censorship side does. ...fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes on the civil liberties of people who are not children... (P.C.H. 52). Here, Zappa uses children against the PMRC, showing that this problem encompasses more than just children. This may cause a loss of credibility with ...
- 7068: Louis Armstrong
- ... to Africa, which was filmed by the CBS "See It Now" unit and became both a television profile and feature film documentary 'Satchmo The Great'. The international tours in the political context of the Cold War earned him the title 'Ambassador Satch' ". (www.foppejohnson.com/armstrong/home.html) "In the mid-1950s he recorded his last unmitigated jazz masterpiece work, 'Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy', for Columbia. There were also some ...
- 7069: Hernan Cortes
- ... asked to quit and return to Spain. There he appialed to the king and was created marquis of the valley of Oaxica. There he was reappointed Captian-General but he was not returned to the civil government of Mexico. He married the daughter of the count of Aguilar and in 1530 he returned to Spain. In Spain he was constantly checked on his activities, all his stuff was confiscated, his rights ...
- 7070: The Beatles
- ... nicknamed "The Home of the Beatles". The Cavern Club, which's premises comprised a small group of cellars below a seven story warehouse which had originally been used as an air raid shelter during the war. Later, Alan Sytner, a jazz fan decided to open it up as a new jazz club. After a few years, he sold it to Ray McFall another jazz fan. The club was originally strictly jazz ...
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