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Falls In Love Jimi Hendrix
1,738 words
On November 27, 1942, Jimi Hendrix was born as
John Allen Hendrix in Washington at Seattle
General Hospital. His childhood was not a
privileged one, however, he did indulge himself in
one particular way: Jimi loved to play the guitar.
At first he played an old acoustic, and later a
cheap Silvertone electric, which were both strung
for a lefty on a right-handed guitar, one of the
defining Hendrix traits (Murray 34 - 5). As a
teenager, young Jimi listened to the music which
affected his music so g...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Bob Dylan
1,704 words
... he commercial appeal, but plus the real
Hendrix that gave him his true appeal. The next
album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience was titled
Electric Ladyland, which Hendrix said was a
reference to... groupies, but I prefer the term
Electric Ladies. My whole Electric Ladyland album
is about them (Fairchild, Electric Ladyland 5).
Some of the songs on Electric Ladyland, such as
Crosstown Traffic and the cover of Bob Dylan's
song All Along the Watchtower, mark a departure
from the Jimi Hendrix estab...
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Lady Lay Your Body Lay Your Body Album
803 words
Carl Thomas gained plenty of experience -- musical
and otherwise -- over the course of his lifetime.
A native of Chicago's projects, Carl credits three
forces for steering him towards music: church,
school, and avoiding gang activity. From a young
age, he knew he'd make his mark in music. In
addition to the R and B and hip-hop he grew up
with, he also broadened his tastes to include such
artists as Sting, Roberta Flack, and James Taylor.
"It's all about choices, he says. Moreover, the
use of sam...
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Women Of Country Music
1,328 words
... t in country music. She was born into an
impoverished family in the Great Smoky Mountain
Region of Tennessee. At 18, just out of high
school, Dolly left her 11 siblings and moved to
Nashville. Less than two years later Dumb Blond,
hits the charts and climbs to No. 24 and her
second Something Fishy reached No. 17. Later this
year, 1967, Porter Wagoner hires her to replace
his female singer on his television show. This was
Dolly's big break. The duets they sang routinely
made the Top 10. In 19...
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Queen Of Bare Midriff Queen Of Bare Album
808 words
oligo. Oh. My. God. Got your new album. Love it!
Seriously, it just rawwwwwks, you know? After your
first one, I was like, no way she can top this.
Ever, ever, ever. No way. WELL, WAY! Oops... I Did
It Again is sooo amazing. Where do I begin? I love
how the album is basically the same beat, the
whole way through. You could Tae Bo to this thing
and never miss a punch. On most albums, the beats
are all mixed up slow song, fast song, mid-tempo
song. Its confusing! With Oops its like your drum
machi...
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Themes Of Bob Dylan Music
1,187 words
Bob Dylan was recognized by his poetry and song
writing. He usually wrote songs about protesting
and religious themes. Although the theme of Bob
Dylan's work is depressing, it is necessary to
consider how the events in his life affected his
music. Also Bob Dylan had other musicians that
influenced him in his early years. Bob Dylan was
born in Duluth Minnesota on the date of May 24 th
1941. By the time he was ten years old he was
writing poems and had taught himself to play
guitar. He later chang...
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Donde Estan Los Ladrones Donde Estan Los Album
524 words
There are many famous people around the world, and
some of them are the singers. The singers are very
important for the people thanks to their music.
One of the persons that most people like because
of her own style of music is the Latin girl
Shakira. Thanks to all the things she did as a
child, and to all the things she is going to do,
she has become a star that we, the people who know
her, love. Shakira has done a lot of things since
she was a child to become the famous person she is
now. She ...
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Yoko Ono Paul Mccartney
1,047 words
... to concentrate on more elaborate studio
recordings. The Beatles spent much of early 1967
in the studio, recording their magnum opus, Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This
groundbreaking concept album completely changed
the way rock albums created: it used numerous
studio effects, placed the emphasis on the album
as a whole rather than on singles, and rewrote the
standard for cover art with its famous
mannequin-based photo collage. Sgt. Pepper's later
won four Grammys. On August 27, 196...
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Bob Marley Record Label
1,302 words
bob marley was found and died in the same place.
he now has over 200 fan websites and his latest
son ziggy marley is writing in his throne Reggae
singer, guitarist, and composer. Born Robert Nesta
Marley, on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint
Ann, Jamaica. Raised mostly in Trenchtown, a poor
section of Kingston, Jamaica? s capital, Marley
began singing with his friends Bunny Livingston
and Peter Mackintosh (later shortened to Tosh)
when he was a teenager. Marley? s first single, ?
Judge Not,...
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Doesn T First One
874 words
Dear Britney, Omigod, oligo, oligo. Oh. My. God.
Got your new album. Love it! Seriously, it just
rawwwwwks, you know? After your first one, I was
like, no way she can top this. Ever, ever, ever.
No way. WELL, WAY! ? Oops... I Did It Again? is
sooo amazing. Where do I begin? I love how the
album is basically the same beat, the whole way
through. You could Tae Bo to this thing and never
miss a punch. On most albums, the beats are all
mixed up? slow song, fast song, mid-tempo song.
It? s confusing!...
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Sean Penn Father
1,485 words
Born August 16, Madonna Madonna Born August 16,
1958 in Bay City, Michigan to a lower-middle class
Italian-Catholic household, Madonna Louise Ciccone
was the third eldest daughter born. Her father
Chrysler engineer Sylvio (Tony) Ciccone and
French-Canadienne Madonna Fortin, for whom the
future superstar was named? Veronica? was added to
her name for confirmation. While at a young age of
five, Madonna? s world fell apart as her mother
struggled to a long process of breast cancer on
December 1, 19...
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Janis Joplin Port Arthur
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Blues 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 mustve made even Janis early childhood
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
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Censorship of American Media and Music The first
amendment to the Constitution contends that
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the
press. In the past ten years especially, music has
been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and
critics of morality and taste. One attack on this
freedom comes from parental advisory stickers.
These stickers are used as a form of censorship
against an artist an...
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Day In The Life Paul Mccartney
1,502 words
The Beatles Liverpool, England is an ancient
metropolis surviving in a modern world. After
severe bomb damage during World War II, the city
has lost the gleam it once had. Unemployment there
has reached the highest level in England, and
robberies are doubletree national average. This
city of slums also leads the worlds death rate for
lung cancer. Yet despite its grim statistics,
Liverpool is known today as the birthplace of four
individuals who rose from these conditions to find
international su...
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Dave Matthews Band Lived Their Lives
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When the contemporary Dave Matthews Band came out
in 1991, they had no idea what was in store for
them. The Dave Matthews Band has influenced many
people and have also contributed to the great
musical movement of the 1990 s and of today. The
Dave Matthews Band takes from widely varied
musical interests of five musicians to create a
unique sound that combines the influences of folk,
jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae. David
Matthews, the bands namesake and lead guitarist
and vocalist, began to as...
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Bob Dylan Im Gonna
8,597 words
Five Against the World There are two Eddie
Vedder's. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when
he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other
is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of
pointing out injustice and waging that war on the
homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy
late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif. , its
easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets
outside the Site, the recording studio where Pearl
Jam are finishing their second album. It is
tortured Eddie, the ...
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Death Of His Mother Rock And Roll
1,315 words
Mini Documentary John Lennon was born on October
9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. When he was four
years old, his parents separated and he ended up
living with his Aunt Mimi. Johns father was a
merchant seaman and John did not see a lot of his
father when he was small. As a child, John was a
prankster and he enjoyed getting in trouble. As a
boy and young adult, John enjoyed drawing
grotesque figures and cripples. One of the reasons
for his obsession with cripples and deformities
was because of the...
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One Of The Reasons Warner Brothers
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Madonna is an Madonna Madonna Madonna is an artist
that has been around for years. I am going to use
her in my senior project to find out things about
her life and the many things she as an artist has
accomplish, and what she has plan for her future.
How she had affective millions of people with her
songs. Madonna has been in the music business for
over 20 years now. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
who is named after her mother, was born in Bay
City, Michigan in August 16, 1958. Now turning the
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York New York University Of Michigan
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Madonna was born Madonna Madonna Madonna was born
on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City,
located in the state of Michigan. Her real birth
name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. However, most
people know her as simply Madonna. She is known as
a controversial singer, actress, dancer,
songwriter, and has become one of Americas biggest
and well- known stars in the late 1980 s. Madonnas
assertive behavior, outspoken personality, and
aggressive acts of sexuality, along with her great
efforts to push ba...
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Rolling Stone Magazine Heavy Metal Music
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Throughout history, the emotions of people have
shown themselves in a variety of forms. Some of
the people chose the medium of music to express
their emotions and ideas. Music somehow became
useless for some people, while music was still
spreading across the world. But this work offended
some people who were in the need of authority;
these people tried to control the music created by
the artists. This control of the music is in the
form of censorship, and censurers used their
political, economic...
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