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Ambition (Tommy Shaw Album)
''Ambition'' is former Styx guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw's third solo album release. It was produced by Terry Thomas (from the rock band, Charlie) and has a very fluid and melodic sound with rich synthesizer chords and sequences. Originally released on Atlantic Records in 1987. The album was re-released on American Beat Records in 2007. Track listing All words & music by Tommy Shaw & Terry Thomas unless where otherwise noted. # "No Such Thing" - 3:58 # "Dangerous Game" - 4:53 # "The Weight of the World" - 4:56 # "Ambition" - 4:26 # "Ever Since the World Began" (Frankie Sullivan, Jim Peterik)- 4:08 # "Are You Ready for Me" - 4:18 # "Somewhere in the Night" - 4:40 # "Love You Too Much" - 4:03 # "The Outsider" - 4:54 # "Lay Them Down" (Shaw) - 4:15 Personnel *Tommy Shaw: Guitars, Lead Vocals, Background Vocals * Tony Beard: Drums * Felix Krish: Bass Guitar, Fretless Bass Guitar, Bass Synth *Paul Wickens: Keyboards *Peter-John Vettese Peter-John Vettese (born 15 August 1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Shaw
Tommy Roland Shaw (born September 11, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for his tenure in the rock band Styx (band), Styx as co-lead vocalist. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including Damn Yankees (band), Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades as well as releasing several solo albums. Early life and music career Tommy Shaw was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and played with many local bands in his early years. He left Montgomery after attending Robert E. Lee High School (Montgomery, Alabama), Robert E. Lee High School to join The Smoke Ring (band), The Smoke Ring and then MSFunk, a Chicago-managed outfit that he played with for three years, which gave him a chance to be noticed by Styx (band), Styx during a two-week club gig in Chicago. After MSFunk disbanded, he went back to Montgomery to join a local group called Harvest with his childhood friends. Following Styx's move to A&M Records, A&M, guitarist and vocalist John Curulew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wickens
Paul Wickens (born 27 March 1956) is an English musician, composer, and record producer, professionally known as Wix. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Wickens has worked with artists including Nik Kershaw, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bon Jovi, Edie Brickell, Kevin Coyne and many others. Wickens has been a member of the Paul McCartney Band since 1989. Career In the early 1980s Wickens was a member of Woodhead Monroe, a band that issued two singles distributed by Stiff, "Mumbo Jumbo" and "Identify." Wickens began touring with Paul McCartney in 1989. Since then, Wickens has served as the musical director for many of McCartney's tours. He continues to tour with McCartney (as his keyboardist, occasional guitarist and backing vocalist), and of the four musicians in McCartney's touring band, he has worked with McCartney the longest by a considerable margin. Wickens played on albums by Tommy Shaw of the American rock band Styx, the Damned, Tim Finn, Paul Carrack, Nik Kershaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Albums
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 rect 400 0 600 200 King's Cross fire rect 0 200 300 400 Tear down this wall! rect 300 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Young (American Musician)
James Vincent Young (born November 14, 1949) is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist in the American rock band Styx, having served as the only continuous original member of the band. Young began playing keyboard and piano at the age of five. He attended Calumet High in Chicago and learned to play clarinet and guitar during those years. He was nicknamed by Styx members & long time fans as "J.Y." and is often referred to as "The Godfather of Styx". In 1970, Young joined the band TW4 while a student at Illinois Institute of Technology, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. That band later became the first incarnation of Styx. After Styx's initial breakup in 1984, Young released the solo albums ''City Slicker'' (1985) with Jan Hammer, ''Out on a Day Pass'' (1988), and ''Raised by Wolves'' (1995 ) with James Young Group. Young tends to write the more hard rock pieces for Styx. He is best known for the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Springs
Helena Lisandrello, known professionally as Helena Springs (born 1961), is an American singer. The singer was first a backup vocalist for Bob Dylan, starting in 1978 aged 17, and co-wrote 19 songs with him, more than any of his other collaborators. She was a vocalist for Dylan's 1978 World Tour, and the following year on his Gospel Tour. Springs appeared on his albums '' Street-Legal'' (1978), ''Bob Dylan at Budokan'' (1978), and '' Slow Train Coming'' (1979), as well as the compilation '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981'' (2017). She stopped working with Dylan in either late 1979 or early 1980. As a solo artist signed to Arista Records, Springs released the albums ''Helena'' in 1986 and ''New Love'' in 1987, and several singles. She has been a backup singer for other artists, including David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Pet Shop Boys, and Elton John. Springs later worked in cabaret, and launched a line of toy dolls. She had personal relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Lewis (musician)
Shirley Ann Redd Lewis (née Redd; born June 11, 1937) was an American educator, academic administrator, and college president. In 1994, she was the first female president of Paine College, a private, historically black Methodist college in Augusta, Georgia. Her research focus was in language acquisition in education. She also held roles at Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development, and Meharry Medical College. Early life and education Shirley Ann Redd was born on June 11, 1937 in Winding Gulf, West Virginia. Her parents were Thelma Danese Biggers Redd and Ronald F. Redd, her father worked as a school teacher. When she was young her parents divorced, which caused her to move with her mother in order for her mother to find work; together they moved to Beckley, West Virginia; Harlem, New York City; Cambridge, Massachusetts, and eventually settle down in Berkeley, California. Her mother worked as a children's nurse. She attended Berkeley High School. She gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dee Lewis
Dee may refer to: People Surname * Dee, an alternate spelling of the Welsh surname Day * Dee, a romanization of several Chinese surnames, including: ** Those listed at Di (surname) ** Some Hokkien pronunciations of the surname Li () * Di Renjie (630–700), Duke Wenhui of Liang, a Tang dynasty official * Arthur Dee (1579–1651), a physician and alchemist * Billy Dee, retired African American adult film actor * Bob Dee (1933–1979), American football defensive end * Daisy Dee (born 1970), Dutch singer, actress and TV host * Dave Dee (1943–2009), English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman * Ed Dee (born 1940), American author * Frances Dee (1909–2004), American actress * Gerry Dee (born 1968), Canadian comedian * Jack Dee (born 1961), British comedian * Jeff Dee (born 1961), American artist and game designer * Joey Dee (born 1940), American singer, of Joey Dee and the Starliters * John Dee (1527 – 1608 or 1609), English mathem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Hart
Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway * Lea, Devon, a location * Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish * Lea, Lancashire, a village * Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish * Lea, Lydham, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Pontesbury, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Wiltshire, a village * River Lea, a tributary of the Thames Spain * Lea, a river in Biscay, Basque Country United States * Lea County, New Mexico People * Lea (given name) * Lea (surname) * Lea (musician), a German singer-songwriter and keyboardist * Lea baronets, a title in the baronetage of the United Kingdom * Lea Salonga, a Filipina singer, actress, and columnist Arts and entertainment * Liberian Entertainment Awards (LEA), an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher O'Shaughnessy
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as " Chris", "Topher", and sometimes "Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Alexander (drummer)
Steve Alexander (born 20 November 1962) is a Welsh drummer. Starting out with the Irish band ''Shook Up!'', he earned a living as a session drummer, working regularly in London's recording studios on film, TV and commercial sessions and playing with the BBC Radio Orchestra. He became a permanent member of Brother Beyond following the departure of Eg White in 1986. Biography In 1995, Alexander was hired by Duran Duran"Steve Alexander on DrummerWorld" Drummerworld. Retrieved on June 16, 2011. and continued to work with them for 6 years following the departure of their previous drummers , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Cannata
Richie Cannata (born March 3, 1949) is an American music producer, saxophonist, keyboardist and studio owner. He is most notable for playing saxophone in Billy Joel's band alongside Liberty DeVitto, Russell Javors, and Doug Stegmeyer. After leaving the band in 1981, he opened Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, New York. Artists including Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have recorded in Cannata's studio. Early life Cannata was born 3 March 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ernest (26 March 1914 – 14 April 1993) and Anna (February 25, 1926 — 1 April 2007) Cannata. Interested in music from a very early age, Cannata was introduced by his family first to the piano at the age of four and later to clarinet and tenor saxophone at the age of eight. He also plays flute and keyboards in addition to alto, soprano and baritone sax. In 1950s his family moved to Garden City South where Cannata blossomed as a musician. He played his first gig at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter-John Vettese
Peter-John Vettese (born 15 August 1956 in Scotland), also known as Peter Vettese, is a Scottish keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Vettese is perhaps best known for being the keyboardist for progressive rock band Jethro Tull for most of the 1980s. Early life Peter Vettese grew up in a musical family in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. He began his music studies with piano lessons at the age of 4. At 9, he began playing in public with his father's band. He left home at 17 to join one of the UK's biggest dance hall Big Bands, but was fired for rehearsing in company time with his own group. He then formed the jazz fusion group Solaris with guitarist Jim Condie, and toured Scotland and the US. He was playing in pubs and clubs in Scotland when he saw an advertisement for keyboard players in the music newspaper ''Melody Maker'', which turned out to be from the progressive rock band Jethro Tull. Jethro Tull Vettese joined Jethro Tull in 1982 for the recording of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
