I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Connecticut. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Toni Harper Oscar Peterson piano Herb Ellis guitar Ray Brown bass Toni Harper vocals. Prince musician Wikipedia. Prince Rogers Nelson June 7, 1. April 2. 1, 2. 01. American singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and record producer. Prince was a musical innovator who was known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant dress and makeup, and wide vocal range. His music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R B, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. He has sold over 1. He won eight Grammy Awards,3 six American Music Awards,4 a Golden Globe Award,5 and an Academy Award for the film Purple Rain. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2. He was born in Minneapolis and developed an interest in music as a young child. He signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 1. For You in 1. 97. His 1. 97. 9 album Prince went platinum, and his next three recordsDirty Mind 1. Controversy 1. 98. Princes prominently sexual lyrics and blending of funk, dance, and rock music. In 1. The Revolution and released Purple Rain, the soundtrack album to his eponymous 1. It quickly became his most critically and commercially successful release, spending 2. Billboard 2. 001. After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day 1. Parade 1. 98. 6, The Revolution disbanded, and Prince released the double album Sign o the Times 1. Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' title='Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' />He released three more solo albums before debuting The New Power Generation band in 1. In 1. 99. 3, while in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., he changed his stage name to, an unpronounceable symbol also known as the Love Symbol, and began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations. He released five records between 1. Arista Records in 1. Liberty Records Discography, Part 1 By David Edwards and Mike Callahan Last update April 26, 2003 The Liberty logo and label graphics have changed several times. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Singles Discography for Mercury Records 70000 series most if not all were issued as 78s and 45s. Charlottes sportstalk station featuring CBS Sports and local team broadcasts. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Seattle. VD7T_JkCiw/0.jpg' alt='Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' title='Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' />In 2. Prince again. He released 1. Disciplina Positiva Pdf Libro Software Developer more. Musicology 2. His final album, Hit n Run Phase Two, was first released on the Tidal streaming service on December 1. Prince died from a fentanyloverdose at his Paisley Park recording studio and home in Chanhassen, Minnesota, on April 2. Contents. 1Early life. Career. 2. 1. 19. Beginnings and breakthrough. The Revolution, Purple Rain, and subsequent releases. Solo again, Sign o the Times. The New Power Generation, Diamonds and Pearls, and name change. Increased output and The Gold Experience. Turnaround, Musicology, label change, and 3. The-Best-Of-Sugar-Ray-cover.jpg' alt='Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' title='Sugar Ray Discography Torrent' />Super Bowl XLI, Planet Earth, and Lotusflower. Ten and Welcome 2 Tours. Warner Bros. 2. 1. Posthumous projects. Illness and death. Artistry. 5Legal issues. Personal life. 7Awards and nominations. Discography. 9Filmography. Tours. 11. See also. References. 13. Sources. Further reading. 15. External links. Early lifeeditPrince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1. Minneapolis, to Mattie Della ne Shaw 1. John Lewis Nelson 1. His parents were both African American and his family ancestry is centered in Louisiana, with all four of his grandparents hailing from that state. Princes father was a pianist and songwriter, and his mother was a jazz singer. Prince was given his fathers stage name, Prince Rogers, which his father used while performing with a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. In 1. 99. 1, Princes father told A Current Affair, I named my son Prince because I wanted him to do everything I wanted to do. Princes childhood nickname was Skipper. Prince has said he was born epileptic and used to have seizures when he was young. He also said, My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, Mom, Im not going to be sick anymore, and she said, Why and I said, Because an angel told me so. Princes sister Tika Evene usually called Tyka was born on May 1. Both siblings developed a keen interest in music, and this was encouraged by their father. Prince wrote his first song, Funk Machine, on his fathers piano when he was seven. When Prince was 1. Hayward Baker, with whom she had a son named Omarr, but Prince had a troubled relationship with Baker, thus causing him to repeatedly switch homes, sometimes living with his father and sometimes with his mother and stepfather. However, Baker took Prince to see James Brown in concert and Prince credited Baker with improving the familys finances. After a brief period living with his father, who bought him his first guitar, he then moved into the home of neighbors named Anderson and befriended their son Andre Anderson, who later became known as Andr Cymone. Prince attended Minneapolis Bryant Junior High and then Central High School, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. He played on Centrals junior varsity basketball team, and continued to play basketball recreationally as an adult. Prince met Jimmy Jam in 1. Beginnings and breakthrougheditIn 1. Pepe Willie, the husband of Princes cousin Shauntel, formed the band 9. East with Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry, hiring Andr Cymone and Prince to record tracks. Willie wrote the songs, and Prince contributed guitar tracks, and Prince and Willie co wrote the 9. East song, Just Another Sucker. The band recorded tracks which later became the album Minneapolis Genius  The Historic 1. Recordings. citation neededIn 1. Prince created a demo tape with producer Chris Moon, in Moons Minneapolis studio. Unable to secure a recording contract, Moon brought the tape to Owen Husney, a Minneapolis businessman, who signed Prince, age 1. Sound 8. 0 Studios in Minneapolis with producerengineer David Z. The demo recording, along with a press kit produced at Husneys ad agency, resulted in interest from several record companies including Warner Bros. Records, A M Records, and Columbia Records. With the help of Husney, Prince signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. The record company agreed to give Prince creative control for three albums and ownership of the publishing rights. Husney and Prince then left Minneapolis and moved to Sausalito, California, where Princes first album, For You, was recorded at Record Plant Studios. The album was mixed in Los Angeles and released on April 7, 1. According to the For You album notes, Prince wrote, produced, arranged, composed, and played all 2. Soft and Wet, whose lyrics were co written by Moon. The cost of recording the album was twice Princes initial advance. Prince used the Princes Music Co. Soft and Wet reached No. Hot Soul Singles chart and No. Billboard Hot 1. 00. The song Just as Long as Were Together reached No. Hot Soul Singles chart. Ticket to Princes first performance with his band in January 1. In 1. 97. 9, Prince created a band with Andr Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, and Bobby Z. Their first show was at the Capri Theater on January 5, 1. Warner Bros. executives attended the show but decided that Prince and the band needed more time to develop his music. In October 1. Prince released the album, Prince, which was No. Billboard. Top R BBlack Albums charts and No. Billboard 2. 00, and went platinum. It contained two R B hits Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad and I Wanna Be Your Lover. I Wanna Be Your Lover sold over a million copies, and reached No. Billboard Hot 1. 00 and No. Hot Soul Singles chart. Prince performed both these songs on January 2. American Bandstand. On this album, Prince used Ecnirp Music  BMI. The Rubettes Wikipedia. The Rubettes. Background information. Also known as. The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams 2. The Rubettes featuring Bill Hurd 2. Origin. England. Genres. Pop rock, glam rock, rock roll. Years active. 19. Labels. Polydor Records, State Records. Websiterubettes. com. Members. The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams. Alan Williams. John Richardson. Mick Clarke. Steve Etherington. The Rubettes featuring Bill Hurd. Bill Hurd. Paul da Vinci. Ken Butler. Martin Clapson. Dave Harding. Chris Staines. The Rubettes were an Englishpopband assembled of studio session musicians1 in 1. Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A R at Polydor Records, and his co songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo wop and 1. American pop influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage. Their first release, Sugar Baby Love was an instant hit remaining at number one in the United Kingdom for four weeks in May 1. U. S. chart that August,3 and remains their best known record. Subsequent releases were to be less successful, but the band continued to tour well into the 2. HistoryeditClassic era 1. The Rubettes first and biggest hit was Sugar Baby Love 1. United Kingdom, going on to sell around 5. UK and three million copies globally. With three more songs, Sugar Baby Love was recorded for Polydor in October 1. Landsdown Studios in Holland Park, London, by a group of session musicians featuring the distinctive falsetto lead vocal of Paul Da Vinci real name Paul Prewer. Da Vinci did not, however, join the others to become a member of the band put together by John Richardson, and instead pursued solo work. Sugar Baby Love was their only UK No. U. S. Top 4. 0 entry. In November 1. NME music magazine reported that The Rubettes, The Glitter Band and Mud were among the UK bands who had roles in a new film titled Never Too Young To Rock. Jmeter 2.9 For Windows 7 there. The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid 1. Tonight, Juke Box Jive and I Can Do It sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the BickertonWaddington songwriting team. The Rubettes success encouraged Bickerton and Waddington to set up State Records, so that ten months after the release of Sugar Baby Love, the fourth Rubettes single I Can Do It was on State catalogue reference STAT 1. The band were to abandon glammy nostalgia to enter more serious territory. Under One Roof 1. Rod Stewarts The Killing of Georgie 1. Their most successful self composed hit was the country rock styled ballad Baby I Know, which reached number 1. UK and Germany in 1. The band became a quintet in early 1. Arnesen, and later became a quartet in mid 1. Hurd departed the band to this day the original band and Alan Williams successor has never expanded its line up beyond four members. Whilst the band continued as a four piece Hurd joined Suzi Quatros band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 2. Shes in Love with You in 1. Rubettes in 1. 98. In another attempt to get away from the doo wop glam image, Thorpe insisted that the trademark vocal harmonies were left off of his composition, Youre the Reason Why. Gerry Shury and the band out voted him. The version with no vocal backing has been available as a bootleg recording in certain parts of Europe. After Thorpes departure in 1. In 1. 97. 9, Thorpe departed the band in uncertain circumstances whilst the band has always maintained that he left due to ill health,1. Thorpe himself has stated that he was fired over musical differences. Alan Williams maintains there is always two sides to every story. According to Thorpe, Williams then insisted that all of his lead vocals were taken off the upcoming album Still Unwinding. Tony can be heard on lead vocals on the last Still Unwinding track Does it gotta be Rock n Roll. His guitar parts and backing vocals remained. The band replaced Thorpe with Bob Benham but he departed shortly thereafter and the band dissolved in 1. Reformation 1. 98. The band reformed in 1. Williams, Clark, Hurd, and drummer Alex Bines in order to exploit the German market for 1. This lineup remained relatively stable until 1. Clark in 1. 98. 7, to be replaced first by Steve Kinch and then by Trevor Holliday, before he returned to the fold in 1. In 1. 99. 4, the groups profile was raised by the inclusion of Sugar Baby Love in the hit movie Muriels Wedding. This song was also featured in the 2. Neil Jordan film Breakfast on Pluto soundtrack, and in a popular Safe Sex commercial. Separate Projects 2. In 2. 00. 2, the group hit the headlines once more when, following an acrimonius split and legal action, the Rubettes became the latest in a long line of bands including the Beach Boys and Spandau Ballet to end up in the courts in a dispute over ownership of the bands name. The court ruled that both Williams and Hurd could tour as the Rubettes, as long as it was clear which member was fronting the band. All was well until 2. Williams and Hurd were back in court following an appearance by Hurds band on the German television station ZDF, with Williams claiming Hurd had breached the terms of the original agreement. On 2 February 2. 00. High Court judge found that Hurd and Williams had both been guilty of breaching the 2. Costs of the trial were, however, awarded to Williams in view of the severity of Hurds breaches. Hurd appealed against this decision, but on 3 November 2. Appeal Court in London ruled against him, awarding the costs of the appeal to Williams. Hurd has since gone bankrupt. On 2. March 2. 00. Sugar Baby Love was declared to be the most successful oldie of all time by the German television station RTL. In March 2. 01. 2, Thorpe digitally released the No Hits, No Jazz Collection and performed at Darwen Library Theatre with a live eight piece band for his 5. Anniversary 1 Gig Tour. It featured session musicians Iain Reddy, Liam Barber, Justin Randall and Greg Harper. Youre the Reason Why was played. The Rubettes featuring Alan WilliamseditIn 2. Williams formed his version of the band along with Clarke, Richardson, and ex Kinks keyboardist Mark Haley. In May and June 2. The Rubettes were part of the Glitz Blitz 7. Hitz tour of the UK alongside Sweet and Showaddywaddy. On 2. 1 September 2. Rubettes 4. 0th anniversary, Alan Williams, John Richardson and Mick Clarke are due to return to the Olympia in Paris, the same venue at which the Rubettes made their first appearance in France in 1. Sugar Baby Love topped the French and European charts. In early 2. 01. 5 this version of The Rubettes underwent their first lineup change when Haley departed the band and was replaced by Steve Etherington. On 1. 5 April 2. 01. Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, UK they embarked on their first ever solo theatre tour with 4. UK. then continuing on to the Arena Loire, Angers, France on 4 November 2. Zenith venues in France and Belgium as part of the Age Tendre, Tournee des Idles Tour, cumulating at the Forest National in Brussels, Belgiums biggest venue, on 1. February 2. 01. 7. Their latest compilation album La Legende Continue CLCD0. November 2. 01. 6.