Van Halen es una banda de Glam Metal, originaria de Estados Unidos. Inicialmente nombrada Mammoth por los fundadores de la banda (Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen y Mark Stone) en el año 1972, en Pasadena, California; luego se unirían el cantante David Lee Roth y el bajista Michael Anthony. Van Halen alcanzó la fama rápidamente con su primer álbum debut homónimo en 1978, ampliamente considerado como un hit del rock, alcanzando ventas en Estados Unidos superiores a las 10 millones de copias y siendo calificado en agosto de 1996 como disco de diamante. Mucha de la fama ganada en sus comienzos se debe a la habilidad de Eddie Van Halen, que es considerado uno de los más influyentes e innovadores guitarristas de todos los tiempos.3 La banda ha tenido 3 vocalistas: David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar y Gary Cherone, y durante los años 80 tuvo más hits en la revista Billboard que ninguna otra banda de hard rock o heavy metal.
Editando 12 álbumes desde 1978 hasta la actualidad, Van Halen está en el puesto número diecinueve de las bandas que más álbumes han vendido en los Estados Unidos, con un total de 56 millones de copias, y 90 millones mundialmente. Van Halen también es una de las 5 bandas de rock que cuentan con 2 álbumes que han vendido más de 10 millones de copias en los Estados Unidos, y en el año 2007 fueron incluidos en el Salón de la Fama del Rock. Después de haber sido nominados 3 veces al premio Grammy ganaron el primero por su álbum For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, que también les otorgó el premio AMA.7
En el año 2004 la banda decidió tomar un descanso de los escenarios al finalizar el tour reunión con Sammy Hagar, quien decide alejarse del grupo. Después de la posterior 'exclusión' de Anthony en 2006, cuando Eddie anunció que el nuevo bajista sería su hijo Wolfgang, y después de varias especulaciones del regreso de la banda con David Lee Roth, en el año 2007 la banda regresó a los escenarios en un tour con Roth por los Estados Unidos8 que continuó hasta 2008. En agosto de 2010 la compañía discográfica Warner Bros. Records realizó una conferencia de prensa9 en la que informaron que Van Halen lanzaría un nuevo álbum de estudio y planeaba un tour para 2011. En octubre-noviembre de 2011 se confirmaron rumores de que Van Halen, tras más de 30 años con Warner Bros. Records, firmaría con Interscope Records para el lanzamiento del nuevo álbum A Different Kind Of Truth, confirmado para el 7 de febrero de 2012
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony.
The band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. 1984 was their most successful album. The lead single, "Jump", became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The following singles, "Panama" and "I'll Wait", both hit number 13 on the U.S. charts. The album went on to sell over 12 million copies in the U.S. alone. In 1985, the band replaced lead singer David Lee Roth with former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar. With Hagar, the group would release four U.S. number-one albums over the course of 11 years. Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the release of the band's first greatest hits collection, Best Of – Volume I. Former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone was quickly recruited as lead singer to replace Hagar, and Van Halen III was released in 1998. Cherone left the band in frustration in 1999 after the tour due to the poor commercial performance of the album.
Van Halen went on hiatus until 2003 when they reunited with Hagar for a worldwide tour. The reunited band released a second greatest hits collection the following year, The Best of Both Worlds. Like Volume I before it, The Best of Both Worlds included material from both the Roth and Hagar eras but omitted any Cherone era tracks. The album featured three brand new tracks recorded by the reunited band, two of which were released as singles. Hagar again left Van Halen in 2005, and in 2006 Roth returned as lead vocalist for their highest-grossing tour, and one of the highest-grossing tours of that year. Anthony was not invited to participate in the tour and was essentially fired from the band, replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's son. In 2012, the band released the commercially and critically successful, A Different Kind of Truth, with Roth as lead vocalist. According to the RIAA, Van Halen is the 19th-best-selling band/artist in United States history, selling 56 million albums in the U.S. They were also revealed at number 4 on the Billboard's top moneymakers list in 2013. Van Halen is one of only five rock bands that have had two studio albums sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. Additionally, Van Halen charted the most number-one hits in the history of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and they are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 80 million records.
Van Halen achieved worldwide fame for their many popular songs and larger-than-life stage performances; they also became known for the drama surrounding the departures of former members. Controversy surrounded the band following the exits of Roth, Hagar, and Anthony; this controversy often included numerous conflicting press statements between the former members and the band. In 2007, Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. VH1 ranked them 7th on their list of the top 100 hard rock artists of all time.
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«I Don't Like Mondays» es una canción de The Boomtown Rats que fue el número uno de la lista de éxitos del Reino Unido durante cuatro semanas del verano de 1979. Escrita por Bob Geldof, fue el segundo sencillo de la banda.
Geldof explicó que escribió la canción después de leer un teletipo en la radio del campus de la Universidad del Estado de Georgia, WRAS, sobre el tiroteo cometido por Brenda Ann Spencer, de 16 años, que disparó en el patio de la escuela elemental de Grover Cleveland en San Diego, California, el 29 de enero de 1979. Mató a dos adultos e hirió a ocho niños, así como a un oficial de policía. Spencer no mostró ningún remordimiento por su crimen y la única explicación que dio sobre su acción fue "No me gustan los lunes. Esto revitaliza el día". La canción se interpretó por primera vez al cabo de menos de un mes. Geldof explica cómo escribió la canción:
Estaba haciendo una entrevista de radio en Atlanta con Fingers y había una máquina de teletipo. Lo leí en cuanto salió. Que no le gustaran los lunes como un motivo para hacer algo es un poco extraño. Estaba pensando en ello en el camino de vuelta al hotel y dije 'un chip de silicio dentro de su cabeza se sobrecargó' ('Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload'). Lo escribí. Y los periodistas que la entrevistaban decían '¿Dime por qué?' ('Tell me why?'). Era un acto sin sentido. Era el acto sin sentido perfecto y esa era la razón sin sentido perfecta para hacerlo. Así que pude escribir la canción sin sentido perfecta para ilustrarlo. No fue un intento de explotar la tragedia.
Geldof destinó originalmente la canción a la cara B, pero cambió de opinión después de que la canción fuera un éxito de audiencia en la gira de The Boomtown Rats por Estados Unidos. La familia de Spencer intentó, sin éxito, evitar que el sencillo se editara en Estados Unidos. A pesar de ser un éxito en el Reino Unido, sólo llegó al número 73 del Billboard Hot 100 estadounidense. La canción sonó de forma regular en radiofórmulas de los Estados durante la década de 1980, aunque las emisoras de radio de San Diego se abstuvieron de emitir la canción durante algunos años por respeto a las sensibilidades locales ante el tiroteo. La canción fue número uno de la lista de sencillos del Reino Unido en julio de 1979. En el Reino Unido ganó los premios Ivor Novello en la categoría de mejor canción pop y letra excepcional.
En un concierto en Londres en 1995, antes del décimo aniversario de Live Aid (durante el cual el mismo Geldof interpretó la canción), Bon Jovi la versionó después de que Geldof lo acompañara en el escenario del Wembley Arena. Esta actuación fue grabada en el disco en directo One Wild Night Live 1985-2001 de Bon Jovi, así como en la primera edición del doble álbum These Days. Fue versionada por Tori Amos en su álbum de 2001 Strange Little Girls. El propio Geldof realizó una improvisada versión de la canción mientras presentaba el concierto Live 8 en Londres, el 2 de julio de 2005. Geldof acompañó a Bon Jovi nuevamente para una nueva interpretación de la canción en el O2 Arena el 23 de junio de 2010, la décima noche de su estancia de 12 noches.
"I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish band The Boomtown Rats that was a number one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks during the summer of 1979, and ranks as the sixth biggest British hit of 1979. Written by Bob Geldof, it was the band's second number one single.
According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day". The song was first performed less than a month later.
Geldof explained how he wrote the song:
I was doing a radio interview in Atlanta with [Johnnie] Fingers and there was a telex machine beside me. I read it as it came out. Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. I was thinking about it on the way back to the hotel and I just said 'Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload'. I wrote that down. And the journalists interviewing her said, 'Tell me why?' It was such a senseless act. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it. It wasn't an attempt to exploit tragedy.
Geldof had originally intended the song as a B-side, but changed his mind after the song was successful with audiences on the Rats' US tour. Spencer's family tried unsuccessfully to prevent the single from being released in the United States. Despite being a major hit in the United Kingdom, it only reached #73 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was played regularly by album-oriented rock format radio stations in the United States throughout the 1980s, although radio stations in San Diego refrained from playing the track for some years in respect to local sensitivities about the shooting.
The strings were arranged by Fiachra Trench. Apart from Geldof, pianist Johnnie Fingers and drummer Simon Crowe are the only members of the group who appear on the recording.
A slightly extended version, including a reprise of the first verse after the last, prior to the chorus, appeared on the group's third album, 'The Fine Art of Surfacing'.
The song became Number One in the UK single charts in July 1979. In the UK it won the Best Pop Song and Outstanding British Lyric categories at the Ivor Novello Awards.
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Teclista, compositor y locutor Rick Wakeman lanzará su nuevo álbum en solitario Piano Portraits el 13 de enero de 2017. Impulsado por la reacción sin precedentes a su interpretación de David Bowie 'Life on Mars' en BBC Radio 2 este año, Wakeman ha grabado un Álbum de piano en solitario completo con una variada selección de música incluyendo canciones clásicas en las que originalmente actuó.
En contraste con la tendencia de los proyectos orquestales, los retratos de piano capturan el virtuosismo técnico y la ligereza del tacto que se han convertido en marcas registradas de Wakeman desde que se dio a conocer por primera vez en los años setenta. Grabado en The Old Granary en South Norfolk, la colección de 15 temas abarca desde el hito David Bowie hits 'Life on Mars', que Wakeman grabó las partes originales para piano, y 'Space Oddity' a la que contribuyó con mellotron; A través de The Beatles, Yes y Led Zeppelin; A piezas clásicas compuestas por Debussy y Tchaikovsky.
"He estado deseando hacer un álbum de piano durante años y pasé bastante tiempo viendo todo, desde piezas clásicas clásicas hasta cosas que había tocado en el pasado como 'Morning Has Broken' y 'Life On Mars ', "Explica Wakeman. "Más piezas de música que pensé que funcionaría muy bien como Stairway to Heaven y clásicos como 'Clair de Lune'. Casi todas las pistas tienen un recuerdo para mí en algún lugar de la línea y sólo parecía funcionar. "
Rick Wakeman ha creado una fascinante e idiosincrática carrera que ha atravesado cómodamente múltiples mundos musicales. Un pianista de formación clásica, estudió en el Royal College Of Music antes de convertirse en un músico de sesión muy exigente que toca una serie de canciones de éxito como Black Sabbath, Elton John, Cat Stevens y David Bowie.
También conocido como un miembro de la banda de rock progresivo Yes y como un artista en solitario de gran éxito, Wakeman es sin duda uno de los artistas más originales, entretenidos y pioneros de su generación.
Keyboardist, songwriter and broadcaster Rick Wakeman will release his new solo album Piano Portraits on January 13th 2017. Prompted by the unprecedented reaction to his performance of David Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars’ on BBC Radio 2 earlier on this year, Wakeman has recorded a full solo piano album featuring a varied selection of music including classic songs that he originally performed on.
Bucking the trend of orchestral projects, Piano Portraits captures both the technical virtuosity and lightness of touch that have become trademarks of Wakeman’s playing since he first made a name for himself in the 1970s. Recorded at The Old Granary in South Norfolk, the 15-track collection ranges from landmark David Bowie hits ‘Life on Mars’, which Wakeman recorded the original piano parts for, and ‘Space Oddity’ to which he contributed mellotron; through The Beatles, Yes and Led Zeppelin; to classical pieces composed by Debussy and Tchaikovsky.
“I’ve been wanting to do a piano album for years and I spent quite a bit of time looking at everything from straight classical pieces to stuff that I’d played on in the past like ‘Morning Has Broken’ and ‘Life On Mars’,” Wakeman explains. “Plus pieces of music that I thought would work really well like Stairway to Heaven and classics like ‘Clair de Lune’. Nearly all of the tracks have a memory for me somewhere down the line and it just seemed to work.”
Rick Wakeman has carved out a fascinating, idiosyncratic career that has comfortably traversed multiple musical worlds. A classically trained pianist, he studied at the Royal College Of Music before going on to become a much in-demand session musician playing on a string of hit songs by the likes of Black Sabbath, Elton John, Cat Stevens and David Bowie.
Also well known as a member of progressive rock band Yes and as a hugely successful solo artist, Wakeman is without doubt one of the most original, entertaining and groundbreaking performers of his generation.
Return to Ommadawn es el vigésimo sexto álbum de estudio de Mike Oldfield. Es una secuela de su tercer álbum, Ommadawn (1975). El álbum fue lanzado el 20 de enero de 2017 en CD, CD / DVD, LP . Mike Oldfield: "Cuando empecé a pensar en lo que debía hacer para mi nuevo álbum, fui a las redes sociales y les pedí a los fans su opinión. Y muchos de ellos parecían querer que volviera al estilo acústico de los tres primeros álbumes, y de éstos es Ommadawn que parece ser su favorito ".
Michael Gordon Oldfield (Reading, Reino Unido, 15 de mayo de 1953) es un músico, compositor, multiinstrumentista y productor británico. Grammy 1975 por mejor composición Pop-Rock álbum instrumental por Tubular Bells (1973).
En una dirección ya un poco más seria, se editó Ommadawn en septiembre de 1975. Su tercera gran obra de rock sinfónico instrumental, le había llevado nueve meses de grabación. En Ommadawn, Mike tocaba unos 20 instrumentos que iban desde las guitarras al piano de cola y la espineta. El álbum incorporaba música de África e Irlanda por medio del grupo de percusión africano Jabula y la gaita irlandesa de Paddy Moloney, líder de The Chieftains. Otros artistas colaboradores fueron Terry y Sally Oldfield, los miembros de la Hereford City Band y el solista de flauta dulce Leslie Penning. Penning también acompañó a Mike en el single navideño de aquel año, una versión del villancico tradicional In Dulci Jubilo que consiguió alcanzar el cuarto puesto en las listas de ventas del Reino Unido. Desde aquel momento y durante varios años, Oldfield publicaría un single navideño con regularidad.
Este tercer álbum en el mercado británico en octubre de 1975, siendo criticado y alabado por igual. Sólo el tiempo ha situado este trabajo entre los más maduros de la etapa sinfónica del músico de Reading, y por dos razones: se denota en primer lugar la elaborada producción del álbum, con las cuidadas transiciones sobre y entre melodías de la primera parte de la obra, en las que Oldfield reivindica al estudio de grabación como un instrumento musical más de sus creaciones; y en segundo lugar, por la consolidación de la faceta multiinstrumentista de Oldfield, que en esta obra llegaría a utilizar bajo y guitarra acústica, banjo, bouzouki, bodhrán, guitarra española, bajo y guitarra eléctrica, teclados, glockenspiel, arpa, mandolina, percusiones, piano, espineta, steel guitar, sintetizadores y bajosextos (guitarras de doce cuerdas), además de su propia voz. La obra respira influencias celtas y africanas, y aunque resultaría arriesgado quitar méritos a los enormes esfuerzos llevados a cabo por músicos como Peter Gabriel, se le puede considerar un claro precedente de la llamada World Music. Como curiosidad, se puede destacar que la obra original contiene un tercer corte no especificado en la carátula, una pieza vocal compuesta por Oldfield y William Murray llamada On Horseback. Dicha pieza apareció en un single en diciembre de 1985 como cara B de In Dulci Jubilo, y es el propio Mike quien canta acompañado de un coro infantil.
En definitiva Mike Oldfield ya no era sólo objeto de famas pasajeras, y fue admitido dentro de la élite del rock del momento. Ello se observa en las colaboraciones de músicos veteranos que comenzaron a interesarse por el trabajo del de Reading.
Return to Ommadawn is the twenty-sixth studio album by Mike Oldfield. It is a sequel to his third album, Ommadawn (1975). The album was released on 20 January 2017 on CD, CD/DVD, LP . Mike Oldfield: “When I first began to think of what I should do for my new album, I went on social media and asked the fans for their opinion. And so many of them seemed to want me to go back to the acoustic style of the first three albums, and of these it’s Ommadawn that appears to be their favourite one.”
Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. His biggest commercial success is the 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit in America after its opening was used as the theme for the film The Exorcist – . He also recorded the 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow".[1] and a rendition of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo".
Oldfield has released more than 20 albums with the most recent being a sequel to his 1975 album Ommadawn titled Return to Ommadawn. It was released in January 2017.
Vaig néixer el dia 8 de febrer de 1980 a Barcelona, a les 00:20 de la matinada, però vaig passar la infància a Maçanet de la Selva. Als sis anys ens vam traslladar a Santa Coloma de Farners, i és on visc a dia d'avui. A casa hi havia una televisió en blanc i negre que no s'engegava gaire i una radio que tot el dia funcionava, la meva mare va ser qui em va encomanar l'amor per la música i amb ella vaig cantar les primeres cançons. Als 10 anys vaig començar a estudiar guitarra, i uns anys més tard vaig escriure la meva primera cançó. La primera vegada que vaig trepitjar un escenari va ser als setze anys, amb un grup de versions i un parell d’anys més tard vaig formar Frenètic. Frenètic, durant més de 10 anys m’ha ensenyat que a la vida tot té un procés i que l’esforç i les ganes sempre acaben donant fruits. Vam editar dos discos, vam guanyar alguns premis i vam tenir la gran
sort de que algunes de les nostres cançons van sonar a les emissores de radio i televisió del país. M’agrada escoltar Antonio Vega, Los Suaves i Sopa de Cabra entre molts altres. D’ells valoro l’enorme capacitat d’explicar històries, la màgia de transmetre amb la paraula i la cançó, i la sensació de nostàlgia, que sempre ha estat el meu nord a l’hora d’escriure. Intento vestir les cançons amb poca roba, cuidar cada paraula i llençar un missatge íntim i personal amb cadascuna de les cançons. Aquest projecte que encara he d'iniciar ja m'ha permès formar part dues vegades del recull de poemes musicats "Terra i Cultura" impulsat pel Celler Vall-Llach amb la musicació dels poemes "Dins la nit, els meus anys" de Carles Riba i “Cançó de la rosa de paper” de Vicent Andrés Estellés
I was born on February 8, 1980 in Barcelona, at 0:20 am, but I spent childhood in Massanet de la Selva. For six years we moved to Santa Coloma, which is where I live today. At home there was a black and white television and radio does not turn much you work all day, my mother was the one who entrusted I love music and I sang her first song. 10 years ago I began to study guitar, and a few years later I wrote my first song. The first time I stepped on stage was at sixteen with a cover band and a couple of years later I formed Frantic. Frantic for more than 10 years has taught me that everything in life is a process and that the effort and the desire to always end up paying off. We released two albums, we won some awards and we had great
lucky that some of our songs sound radio and television stations in the country. I like listening to Antonio Vega, The Soft Goat Soup and many others. From them I appreciate the enormous ability to tell stories, convey the magic word and song, and the feeling of nostalgia that has always been my north at the time of writing. I try to dress scantily clad songs, take care of each word and throw an intimate and personal message to each of the songs. This project started because I still have twice allowed me to be part of the collection of poems set to music "Land and Culture" promoted by Celler Vall-Llach musicació poems "In the evening, my years" by Carles Riba and "song of the rose paper" Vicent Andrés Estellés.
Joan Chandos Báez (Staten Island, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 9 de enero de 1941), más conocida como Joan Báez, es una cantante, compositora y activista estadounidense, cuya música folk contemporánea incluye a menudo canciones protesta o de justicia social. Caracterizada por una voz potente, aguda, próxima a la de una soprano, y con un vibrato controlado para potenciar la dramatización de las letras de las canciones, es una de las mayores figuras de la canción protesta surgida en los años sesenta, al calor de la Guerra de Vietnam. Su repertorio, no obstante, abarca también lo tradicional, el country y el pop rock, y además de ser compositora, es generalmente considerada como una intérprete del trabajo de otros artistas, habiendo grabado canciones de Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon y Stevie Wonder, entre otros. En los últimos años, obtuvo cierto éxito al interpretar canciones de compositores modernos como Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle y Natalie Merchant.
Báez comenzó su carrera musical en 1960 y logró un éxito inmediato. Sus tres primeros discos, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 y Joan Baez in Concert, han sido certificados como discos de oro y estuvieron en las listas de éxitos durante dos años. En la década de 1970, Báez logró nuevos éxitos con su canción "Diamonds & Rust" y con versiones de "There But for Fortune" de Phil Ochs y "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" de The Band. Otras canciones asociadas a Báez incluyen "Farewell Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" y "We Shall Overcome". Interpretó tres de estas canciones en el Festival de Woodstock en 1969, promocionó las canciones de Bob Dylan a nivel nacional y mostró su compromiso con el activismo político y social en los campos de la no violencia, los derechos civiles, los derechos humanos y la defensa del medio ambiente.
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers' work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status and stayed on the Billboard and other record album charts for two years. Songs of acclaim include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She is also known for "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young","Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Baez also performed three songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.Baez will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.
Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (n. el 10 de enero de 1945, en Londres, Inglaterra) es un músico, compositor y productor británico de rock, conocido mundialmente por haber sido vocalista en las bandas The Jeff Beck Group y Faces, como también por su exitosa y extensa carrera como solista. Con su distinguida voz rasposa inició su carrera como músico callejero para luego participar en The Dimensions y en el supergrupo The Steampacket durante los primeros años de la década de los sesenta. Sin embargo alcanzó el éxito luego de ingresar a The Jeff Beck Group, donde solo participó en sus dos primeros álbumes, y luego en Faces hasta 1975 cuando la agrupación inglesa se separó.
En octubre de 2016, fue nombrado caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico por Guillermo de Cambridge, título otorgado por la Reina en junio por la celebración de sus 90 años
Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He has had six consecutive number one albums in the UK and his tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that reached the top ten, six of which gained the #1 position.[3] Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group, and then with Faces, though his music career had begun in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In October 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player and part-time vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars, and in August, Stewart signed a solo contract, releasing his first single, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", in October. He maintained a solo career alongside a group career, releasing his debut solo album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down in 1969. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B.
From the late 1970s through the 1990s, Stewart's music often took on a new wave or soft rock/middle-of-the-road quality, and in the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists". A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time.[9] As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces.
Lisztomania es una película de 1975 escrita y dirigida por Ken Russell. El film relata, con varias libertades, la vida del compositor húngaro Franz Liszt. Cuenta con las actuaciones de Roger Daltrey (vocalista de The Who), Paul Nicholas, Sara Kestelman, Veronica Quilligan, Fiona Lewis y Andrew Reilly. Otras estrellas hacen apariciones en la película, entre ellos el ex Beatle Ringo Starr, Oliver Reed y Rick Wakeman (de la banda Yes). Wakeman, además, adaptó la música de Liszt y Wagner para el film.
La película retrata a Liszt (Daltrey) como la primera estrella de rock (tiene fanáticos, escándalos y groupies). Comienza cuando, tras un recital, recibe la invitación de la princesa Caroline de San Petersburgo (Kestelman), e inicia una relación con la misma, dejando atrás a su amante Marie d'Agoult y a sus hijos. Una vez que el papa (Starr) impide el nuevo matrimonio, Liszt se convierte en abad, y recibe una misión: exorcizar a su amigo y esposo de su hija Cosima, Richard Wagner (Nicholas).
Russell se propuso personificar el bien y el mal en la música. Liszt representa el bien: un compositor inspirado, solo interesado en su música. Por otro lado, Wagner encarna el mal ya que se lo muestra plagiando la música de Liszt y se lo vincula con el nazismo.
En este sentido, el film está más relacionado con la vida de Wagner que con la vida de Liszt, pues en él se muestra el enfrentamiento entre la Iglesia Católica y Wagner (el compositor practicaba su propia religión, y en la película se lo ridiculiza adorando la figura de Superman). En Lisztomania se lo retrata como la génesis del nazismo (al morir rencarna en un zombi nazi), esto se debe a que Wagner era antisemita y a que, años después, Hitler expresaría su admiración por el compositor.
Lisztomania is a 1975 film by Ken Russell, drawn from a biography of Franz Liszt.
Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey (of The Who) as Franz Liszt. The film was released the same year as Tommy, which also starred Daltrey and was directed by Russell. The film is derived, in part, from an actual "kiss-and-tell" book, Nélida, by Marie d'Agoult, about the couple's affair.
The term "Lisztomania" was coined by the German romantic literary figure Heinrich Heine to describe the massive public response to Liszt's virtuosic piano performances. At these performances, there were allegedly screaming women, and the audience was sometimes limited to standing room only.
Rick Wakeman, from the progressive rock band Yes, composed the Lisztomania soundtrack, which included synthesiser arrangements of works by Liszt and Wagner. He also appears in the film as the Nordic god of thunder, Thor. Daltrey and Russell wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack, and Daltrey provided vocals.
Of the other rock celebrities appearing in the film, Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles, appears as the Pope.
This film was first to use the new Dolby Stereo sound system.
Rather than a straightforward narrative, the film presents Liszt's life through a series of episodes. At the start of the film, Liszt is caught in bed with Marie d'Agoult by her husband the Count d'Agoult. The Count challenges Liszt to a fight with sabres but Marie begs the count to let her share Liszt's fate. The Count then orders his staff to trap Liszt and Marie into the body of a piano, nailing it shut, and then leaving it on railroad tracks.
The scene is then shown to be a flashback triggered by the camera flash of photographers backstage before one of Liszt's concerts. Richard Wagner appears and Liszt introduces him to his circle of colleagues including Gioachino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, and Richard Strauss. Liszt then pays Wagner to allow him to perform a variation on a theme from Rienzi. At the concert, Wagner is put off by Liszt's crowd-pleasing showmanship at the expense of serious musicianship, which includes adding the melody of Chopsticks to his Rienzi variation. However the crowd, consisting entirely of young screaming girls, go wild at Liszt's performance, storming the stage. Liszt uses Hans to proposition potentially wealthy females in the audience during his performance. One of them is Princess Carolyn, who relays to Liszt her address in Russia.
The next scene shows Marie's and Liszt's domestic life plagued by jealousy over his constant touring away from home and his infidelities. At this point they have three children, the oldest being Cosima. Domestic life has also strained Liszt's creativity. Liszt prepares to depart to St. Petersburg to play for the Tsar. Marie threatens to abandon him if he decides to go. Liszt then suggests to Cosima that he would sell his soul to the Devil to be able to compose brilliant music again. As Liszt is leaving, Cosima consoles him that she will pray to God every day so that Liszt will meet the Devil and be able to sell his soul to him.
In Russia, Liszt meets Princess Carolyn at her court. She begins to seduce him, offering him the ability to compose the brilliant music he wanted in exchange for total control of his life. In one of the most ostentatious scenes of the movie, Liszt then experiences a hallucination where the women of Princess Carolyn's court assail him but then become seduced by his music which strokes his libido and gives him a 10-foot erection. Carolyn sinisterly observes from afar as the women then celebrate his giant erection with a chorus line. The women then drag Liszt's erection to a guillotine in which Carolyn reveals that the bargain for Liszt's newfound musical prolificity is the forfeiture of his libertinism.
The next scene shows Liszt in Dresden during the May Uprising, conflicted about not supporting his friends in the revolt and spending all his time isolated to compose music. Wagner, now a political criminal on the lam, reappears and asks Liszt for money so that he can escape the country with his family. As Liszt tends Wagner's wounds, Wagner secretly drugs Liszt, making him pass out. Wagner then reveals himself to be a vampire who has a mission to write music that will inspire a new German nationalistic movement. He then proceeds to suck Liszt's blood and compose on the piano. Before departing, Wagner leaves him his latest political pamphlet (a Superman comic).
Liszt and Carolyn travel to the Vatican to get married after the Pope agrees to grant her a divorce from her husband. The wedding is ultimately voided by the intervention of her husband and the Tsar. Furious at the Pope's political impotence, Carolyn threatens to write an anthology on her disagreements with the Church (Causes intérieures de la faiblesse extérieure de l'Église en 1870). Liszt then proposes that he will join the Church as an abbot.
Liszt's life as an abbot is shown to be disobedient as he is caught in bed with a woman. The Pope then explains that Wagner has seduced Cosima as his wife and has begun to lead a devilish cult organised around his music. He tasks Liszt with travelling to Wagner's castle to exorcise him and return him to the Christian faith or else Liszt will be excommunicated and his music will be banned.
Liszt travels to Wagner's castle, where he observes a secret ritual portraying a devilish Jew raping several blonde-haired Germanic nymphs. Wagner then appears with Cosima, dressed in Superman outfits, and sings how "the flowering youth of Germany was raped by 'the beast'" and that a "new messiah" will soon arrive to drive out the beast. At the conclusion of the song, Cosima marches the audience, composed entirely of children, out with a Nazi salute as they chant that they "will be the master race".
Liszt confronts Wagner, who is unaware of what Liszt saw, and inquires about his ambitions. Wagner confesses that he has been building a mechanical Viking Siegfried to rid the country of Jews. When Wagner awakens Siegfried with his music, the creature turns out to be crass and slow-witted. Liszt sneaks holy water into Wagner's drink, however the water has no effect on Wagner. Wagner then reveals himself as a vampire to Liszt and threatens to steal his music so that Wagner's Viking can live. Liszt rushes to the piano and plays music that exorcises Wagner, bringing him to near death. Cosima, witnessing Wagner's moribund state, imprisons Liszt and then resurrects Wagner in a Nazi ceremony as a Frankenstein Hitler wielding a machine-gun guitar. Trapped, Liszt observes as Cosima leads Wagner-Hitler to gun down the town's Jews, after which she kills Liszt by stabbing a needle through the heart of a doll made to look like him.
In Heaven, Liszt is reunited with the romanced women of his life and Cosima (it's never explained how she got there after killing Liszt or how the other women got there), who regret their behaviour towards him and each other and finally live in harmony. Liszt and the women decide to fly down to Earth in a spaceship to destroy Wagner-Hitler who has now ravaged Berlin in a fiery machine-gun frenzy. Once Wagner-Hitler is destroyed, Liszt sings that he has found "peace at last".
David Robert Jones (Londres, 8 de enero de 1947-Nueva York, 10 de enero de 2016) más conocido por su nombre artístico David Bowie fue un músico y compositor británico, quien ejerció a su vez de actor, productor discográfico y arreglista. Figura importante de la música popular durante más de cinco décadas, Bowie es considerado un innovador, en particular por sus trabajos de la década de 1970 y por su peculiar voz, además de la profundidad intelectual de su obra.
A pesar de haber lanzado un álbum (David Bowie) y varios sencillos antes, Bowie consiguió notoriedad en julio de 1969, cuando su sencillo «Space Oddity» llegó al top 5 de la lista británica de sencillos. Después de tres años correspondientes a una etapa de experimentación, resurgió en 1972, en plena era del glam rock, con su extravagante y andrógino álter ego Ziggy Stardust, gracias a su exitoso sencillo «Starman» y el disco The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. David Buckley, su biógrafo, describe el impacto de Bowie de esa época diciendo que «retó al núcleo de la música rock de la época» y «creó, posiblemente, el personaje más importante de la cultura popular». La relativamente corta vida de Ziggy probó ser solo una faceta de una carrera marcada por continuas reinvenciones, innovaciones musicales y presentaciones visuales de todo tipo.
Bowie consiguió, en 1975, su primer éxito en Estados Unidos, gracias a su exitoso sencillo «Fame», coescrito con John Lennon y a su disco Young Americans, del cual dijo él mismo que era el disco definitivo del plastic soul (término acuñado por un músico de raza negra para describir a un artista blanco interpretando música soul). El sonido significó un cambio radical del estilo que le había hecho famoso en el Reino Unido. Después de esto, confundió tanto a su discográfica como a sus seguidores estadounidenses con el disco minimalista Low (1977), la primera de tres colaboraciones con Brian Eno. Todos estos álbumes, conocidos como la «Trilogía de Berlín», entraron en el top 5 británico, además de recibir elogios de la crítica.
Después de disparejos éxitos comerciales a finales de la década de 1970, consiguió números uno en el Reino Unido con el sencillo «Ashes to Ashes» y su correspondiente álbum, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Colaboró con Queen en el número uno de las listas de venta «Under Pressure» para, poco después, volver a conseguir un éxito comercial con su disco de 1983 Let's Dance, del que se extrajeron los exitosos sencillos «Let's Dance», «China Girl» y «Modern Love». A lo largo de las décadas de 1990 y 2000, Bowie siguió experimentando con distintos estilos musicales, incluyendo blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult contemporary y jungle. No salió de gira desde su gira musical entre 2003 y 2004 A Reality Tour y no se presentó en vivo desde 2006. Su más reciente disco Blackstar salió al mercado el 8 de enero de 2016, apenas dos días antes de su fallecimiento.
Buckley dice de Bowie: «Su influencia fue única en la cultura popular, ha permeado y cambiado más vidas que ninguna otra figura pública». En la encuesta de 2002 de la cadena televisiva BBC de los 100 británicos más importantes, se colocó en el puesto número 29. Ha vendido, aproximadamente, 136 millones de discos a lo largo de su carrera. Ha recibido nueve discos de platino, once de oro y ocho de plata en el Reino Unido y cinco de platino y siete de oro en Estados Unidos. En 2004, la revista Rolling Stone le posicionó en el puesto número 39 de su lista de los cien artistas de rock más importantes de todos los tiempos y en el puesto 23 de su lista de los mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos.
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Born and raised in Brixton, South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. "Space Oddity" became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as "plastic soul", initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the "Berlin Trilogy". "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen. He then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including industrial and jungle. He also continued acting; his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. In 2013, Bowie returned from a decade-long recording hiatus with the release of The Next Day. He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).
