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Pink Floyd Dark Side
1,295 wordsIn March of 1994, Pink Floyd released another album after a seven-year break from the music business. The Division Bell set off a US and European tour that according to Forbes will bring in an estimated 62 million dollars for the band. This is six million more than The Delicate Sound of Thunder tour from 1988 and far more than the band's earlier tours. For David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright the profit has increased, but for the fans the quality has dwindled. Pink Floyd's current music...
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Good V Evil In Star Wars
1,633 wordsThe novel, Star Wars, by George Lucas, is a story about the classic struggle between Good and Evil. The story illustrates what the Evil will do to achieve its goals and how the Good will overcome many diversities to achieve justice. To get a good idea of the background and setting of Star Wars, the prologue to the movie Star Wars: A New Hope tell us, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is a period of civil war... Rebel spaceships... have won their first battle against the evil Galactic...
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Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady
745 wordsIn the past hundred years, many people have had a dramatic influence on the world. However, the people we usually recognize are men. Einstine with E = mc and John Kennedy with Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Now its time to recognize the women who dramatically changed history and generations of lives. There are many women that should be mentioned in this paper but the women I write about have changed my life as well as yours. Ann Richards is a forme...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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Janis Joplin Port Arthur
1,324 wordsBlues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19 th 1943, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-abbe rational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive, intolerant, and un nurturing must " ve made even Janis' early childhood difficult. By...
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Cuban Jam Session Tenor Sax Cachao
1,370 wordsHis name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some of them, like his older brother the late Orestes played with the Filarmonica under the baton of Eric Kleiber, formerly the conductor of the Berlin Opera Orchestra. Cachao was so young then that they had to bui...
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Beach Boys Solo Album
797 wordsThe Beach Boys formed in 1961. The band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love. All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angela's. They were first called the Pendletones which was a shirt brand, but a record label executive named them the Beach Boys. One of their first big hits was 'Surfin' that was credited for starting the 'surfing craze. ' 1962 they released the album Surfin Safari with the song 'Surfin Safari' hitting the U. S Top 40. 1963 'Surfin U...
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Picked Up My Guitar Ry Cooder Jay
1,285 words... finale lined up. These shows rely on the participant pulling something big at the end. Ok, I think I will enter, and I hope you know the whole band has to be there, I do need a bass line and drumbeat. Fine, no skin off my Back, Sam, the word is back. Ok, time to start learning some new stuff, only a week to the big day. After the little session that morning, I went home, and watched Sams DVD. I suppose I shouldnt have taken it but who cares. I skipped it all right up to the duel, it was impr...
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Sky With Diamonds Lucy In The Sky
644 wordsWhen someone mentions the Beatles, most people who know of the band would think of Lennon, McCartney, Ringo and Harrison playing great music on stage. The Beatles still are the best pop rock group ever and it has been said that no other pop rock band will come close to their level of success. Their music was fresh, new and of course it sounded fantastic. But there have been rumors and stories about what the Beatles were singing about, and also about the band members such as whether Paul McCartne...
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Cash Money Click Roc A Fella Def
315 wordsA native of Hollis, Queens, 21 -year-old Ja-Rule, otherwise known as Jeff Atkins began his career guesting on Mic Geronimo's "Time To Build, " the b-side to "Masta I. C. " in 1995. From that Blunt/TVT Records appearance, the gravel-voiced MC was able to land a deal for his group, the Cash Money Click, on the same label. Unfortunately, the trio, which also featured MCs Nemesis and Chris Black, only dropped one single, " 4 My Click/Get The Fortune, " before Chris Black was incarcerated. After that...
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Description And Analysis Of Oratorio Art Song
915 wordsThis article will give a description of what an Oratorio and Art-Song are. It will also inform you on the stylistic characteristics, a summary on the historical background and a brief outline on the composers who helped develop and excelled in these styles of fantastic vocal music. Oratorio is based upon a substantial story of a religious or spiritual character. It is written for solo voices, chorus and orchestra and is often performed in churches or concert halls. Oratorio resembles an opera bu...
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Changed The World John Lennon
433 wordsThe Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon changed the world of popular music forever. In 1969, the image of The Beatles was crumbling from within. But there was life after The Beatles demise for John Lennon. Lennon pursued his dreams of world peace with his wife Yoko Ono, from the breakup of The Beatles in 1970 (not official until 1975), until his murder in 1980. John Lennon began to release solo records. He recorded one of his most popular and influential solo s...
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Hit And Run Serial Killers
880 wordsThis book, in Solo Solo This book, in my opinion, is a very good example of a serial killer, and his ironic demise. The book begins with an example of serial killing, where a powerful, influential man is killed by an assassin. The book, after the killing, follows the killer to an unusual place-a concert hall. There it is found that the killer is internationally famous concert pianist John Mikali. This man, Mikali, has been tormented by death and pain all of his life. His family has been based th...
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Skaters Compete Nationally Figure Skating Championships States
847 wordsSkating traces its origins practically back to the origins of human beings. To cross frozen lakes and streams, early humans tied animal bones to their feet and glided through the winter months. Eventually, iron and steel blades replaced the bones and a rough means of travel was transformed into recreation. Skating remained popular among all social classes, but as a competitive sport, only the extremely well to do could afford to participate. Figure skating as we know it today traces its origins ...
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Louis Armstrong Orleans Jazz
302 words2. List and briefly describe 4 important characteristics of the Blues -blue notes, a 12 note scale that is used in the blues that often combines notes in direct correlation to each other such as B and B flat. -improvisation, keeping the original melody but creating a new musical tone to the piece. -interpretation, in this sense one is not required to keep either the harmony or melody in a piece and the sound is left up to those playing it. -syncopation, the stressing of a weak or off beat to giv...
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Johann Sebastian Bach Bach Cantatas Music
657 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685, in Eisnach, East Germany. Unfortunately, Bach was declared an orphan at the young age of ten. He moved in with his oldest brother, Johann Christoph who lived in Ohrdruf. At age 15, he enrolled in Saint Michaels Church, where he sang in the choir. He stayed there for two years. Soon after he left the school, he became an organist at Saint Boniface Church, then at Saint Blasius Church. In 1717 he was employed as a court organist,...
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Paul Mccartney John Lennon
941 wordsLennon/McCartney John Lennon and Paul McCartney are two of the greatest artists popular music has ever embraced. Their collaboration on early Beatles songs propelled the group to international fame. As the Beatles matured, however, the relationship between these two became more competitive than cooperative. They developed unique and surprisingly polar styles. In a 1980 Playboy interview John Lennon stated: You could say that (Paul) provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for t...
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Collection Of Home Recordings Collection Of Home Barlow
482 wordsArguably the most productive songwriter of his generation, Lou Barlow is also the one of the most influential; thanks to his low-fidelity legacy, any geek with a guitar, a four-track machine and an unrequited crush on a girl could become an underground pop star. Although born in Dayton, Ohio on July 17, 1966, Barlow was raised primarily in Amherst, Massachusetts, where during high school he joined forces with fellow introverted outsider J Mascis in the hardcore band Deep Wound. After the groups ...
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Luke Skywalker Obi Wan
626 wordsRebecca Mitcham Mrs. Sleek Senior English 24 July 1999 Luke Skywalker- Typical Hero? I want to come with you to Alderman. Theres nothing here for me now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father. ? With this statement, Luke Skywalker is already on his way towards a story that is both familiar and different to all heroes. He identifies with several reoccurring traits that many heroes are cast with. Luke is estranged from his natural parents and, as he gets older, fin...
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One Of The Greatest Ringo Starr
815 wordsIt is not often that a band comes along and changes the face of music forever. The Beatles managed to do this and many other accomplishments that make them one of the greatest bands of all time. This essay will try to explain what made this band so popular and what led to their sad downfall and eventual breakup. The four members of the group, all born in Liverpool, were Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Each came from a working-class background, and all had had exper...
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