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David Leonard (producer)
David Leonard is an American record producer and audio engineer. Production discography * 1981: Chaka Khan – '' What Cha' Gonna Do for Me'' – co-engineer * 1981: The Go-Go's – '' Beauty and the Beat'' – mixing assistant * 1982: Toto – ''Toto IV'' – co-engineer * 1983: The Go-Go's – ''Vacation'' – studio assistant * 1985: Fishbone – ''Fishbone'' – co-engineer, mixer * 1986: Fishbone – '' In Your Face'' – co-mixer * 1986: Eddie Money – '' Can't Hold Back'' – co-engineer * 1986: Various Artists – '' Quicksilver'' – engineer * 1987: Sheena Easton – '' No Sound But a Heart'' – co-producer * 1988: Michelle Shocked – ''Short Sharp Shocked'' – mixer * 1988: Parthenon Huxley - '' Sunny Nights'' - mixer * 1989: Belinda Carlisle – ''Runaway Horses'' – co-engineer * 1989: The Outfield – ''Voices of Babylon'' – co-producer * 1991: Susanna Hoffs – ''When You're a Boy'' – co-engineer, co-mixer * 1992: The Men – ''The Men'' – producer and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston; February 24, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter. Her music has entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and received an award for Folk Album of the Year at the CMJ New Music Awards. Early life Shocked was born Karen Michelle Johnston on February 24, 1962, in Dallas, Texas, at the Baylor University Medical Center. Her stepfather was in the US Army and the family moved from base to base, eventually settling in Gilmer, Texas. She was raised in a Mormon family. Johnston went through a punk rock phase, wearing a Mohawk hairdo and squatting in abandoned buildings in San Francisco, California. Career In 1984, Johnston adopted the stage name "Michelle Shocked", a play on the expression "shell shocked", she said in a 1992 interview with ''Green Left Weekly'': "The term 'Miss shell shocked' is a direct reference to the thousand-yard stare, which was a term that they firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie B
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224–1275), second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier Born in 1600s and 1700s * Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729–1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia * Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628–1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway * Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), French balloonist * Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères ( 1795–1840), English baroness * Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French mathematician * Sophie Piper (1757–1816), Swedish countess * Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), German actress * Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), German author Born 1790–1918 * Sophie, Duchess of Alen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grave Dancers Union
''Grave Dancers Union'' is the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band Soul Asylum and was released in 1992. The album spent 76 weeks on the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' music charts and was certified triple-platinum certification, platinum in 1993, establishing Soul Asylum as one of the most successful rock groups of the first half of the 1990s. Overview During recording of ''Grave Dancers Union'', producer Michael Beinhorn grew dissatisfied with drummer Grant Young (musician), Grant Young's performance and brought in Sterling Campbell. He and Campbell would each wind up playing on half the record. Due to the band's reluctance to admit that a session musician was involved in the album's recording, Campbell was credited as "percussionist." Young would continue as the band's drummer for touring duties after the album was released, until he was dismissed and officially replaced by Campbell prior to the recording of their next album, ''Let Your Dim Light Shine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their 1993 hit "Runaway Train (Soul Asylum song), Runaway Train" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The band was originally called Loud Fast Rules, with a lineup consisting of Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy (musician), Dan Murphy, Karl Mueller (rock musician), Karl Mueller, and Pat Morley. They changed their name to Soul Asylum in 1983. Morley was replaced by Grant Young (musician), Grant Young in 1984. The band recorded three albums with Twin/Tone Records and two with A&M Records, with little commercial success. In 1992, they released the triple-platinum album ''Grave Dancers Union'', featuring "Runaway Train". The band played at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton early the next year. They also scored a platinum record with the album ''Let Your Dim Light Shine'' three years later. In 1998 they recorded ''Candy from a Stranger.'' Mueller was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Men (pop Rock Band)
The Men were an American pop rock band from Santa Monica, California. Despite its name, the group actually had two females as members. The group released a self-titled album on Polygram Records in 1992 (produced and engineered by David Leonard), which hit #22 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Heatseekers chart on the strength of the single "Church of Logic, Sin, and Love". The tune hit #8 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, but it was their only hit, and the group disbanded soon after. Their video got into medium rotation on MTV.[ Biography], Allmusic.com Jef Scott had fronted other LA area bands, most notably The Jef Scott Group, recently, Jef has written songs featured on Sons Of Anarchy, Vampire Diaries and the new 90210. Lore and David also had a side project called Jimi's Kids, which sometimes featured a past and future collaborator, Ken David Paul. Ken and David had been in two other bands together, Tocan and Kill Buddha. Members *Jef Scott - vocals, guitar *Lore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When You're A Boy
''When You're a Boy'' is the debut solo album by Susanna Hoffs. It begins with the ''Billboard'' Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed", includes the track "Unconditional Love" (co-written by Cyndi Lauper), and ends with a cover of " Boys Keep Swinging", the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. The album's title comes from the lyrics to the latter. The album peaked at No. 83 on the US albums chart. Three singles were released from the album: "My Side of the Bed", "Unconditional Love", and "Only Love". The first two featured the non-LP B-side "Circus Girl". Reception Jimmy Nicol of '' Q'' gave the album four out of five stars and wrote, "An album which expands the Bangles' brief into undreamed of territories. She reveals herself to be a highly inventive composer, lyricist – and even humourist... After all, how many other American pop stars embarking on a solo career would name their album after a late '70s English art-rock 45?" AllMusic's review was negative, giving it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer and guitarist, best known as a co-founder of the pop-rock band The Bangles. Hoffs founded The Bangles (originally called the Bangs) in 1981 with Debbi and Vicki Peterson. They released their first full length album '' All Over the Place'' on Columbia Records in 1984. Hoffs started a solo career after The Bangles disbanded in 1989. She released her first solo album, '' When You're a Boy'', in 1991. She later formed the faux British 1960s band Ming Tea with Mike Myers and Matthew Sweet. Hoffs has also appeared in a supporting role in several movies. Early life Hoffs was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of film director/writer/producer Tamar Ruth (née Simon) and Joshua Allen Hoffs, a psychoanalyst. Her mother played Beatles music for Hoffs when she was a child, and she began playing the guitar in her teens. Hoffs attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voices Of Babylon
''Voices of Babylon'' is the third studio album by the British band The Outfield, released during the spring of 1989 and which spawned an eponymous single. It was the group's last album to feature drummer Alan Jackman until the release of ''Replay'' in 2011. It was also their final album on the Columbia label. Following the album's release, and with their commercial success slipping, the band parted ways with Jackman and hired Paul Read as a replacement for the album's tour. This album features a unique script similar to what is known as the Pigpen cipher. On the album cover, the script says "OUTFIELD" and the liner notes show the title of each album track in that script. Track listing #"Voices of Babylon" #"My Paradise" #"Part of Your Life" #"Shelter Me" #"The Night Ain't Over" #"No Point" #"Taken By Surprise" #"Reach Out" #"Makin' Up" #"Inside Your Skin" All songs were written by John Spinks, except for "Taken By Surprise", which was written by John Spinks and Tony Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outfield
The Outfield were an English rock band based in London, England. The band achieved success in the mid-1980s and are best remembered for their hit single, " Your Love". The band's lineup consisted of guitarist John Spinks, vocalist and bassist Tony Lewis, and drummer Alan Jackman. They had an unusual experience for a British band in that they enjoyed commercial success in the US, but never in their homeland. The band began recording during the mid-1980s, and released their first album, ''Play Deep'', in 1985 through Columbia Records. The album reached No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' 200 list and then reached triple platinum in the United States. The band's single "Your Love" reached No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as well as No. 7 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and it became their signature song. The band continued to record and tour through the 1980s and then into the early 1990s. While subsequent albums ''Bangin''' (1987) and ''Voices of Babylon'' (1989) saw som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runaway Horses (album)
''Runaway Horses'' is the third solo studio album by American singer Belinda Carlisle, released on October 3, 1989, by MCA Records. The album features songs written by Rick Nowels, Ellen Shipley, Charlotte Caffey and a song co-written by Carlisle herself. The album contains an array of guest artists, including George Harrison and Bryan Adams. The album peaked at number 37 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, a considerable fall in sales from Carlisle's 1987 album, '' Heaven on Earth'', but reached number four in the United Kingdom, where it was certified Platinum. Reception and chart performance In positive review of November 11, 1989, Rob Garner of ''RPM'' called this record "a very well packaged group effort." He resumed: "Any one of these chorus-with-a-hook tracks could find play." AllMusic retrospectively reviewed the album as being not as strong as '' Heaven on Earth'' but still generally likeable and appealing. The album made its debut on the ''Billboard'' 200 on October 21, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle ( ; born August 17, 1958) is an American singer. She gained fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, the most successful all-female rock band of all time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist. Raised in Southern California, Carlisle became the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's after the band's formation in 1978. With their chart-topping debut studio album '' Beauty and the Beat'' in 1981, the group helped popularize new wave music in the United States. The Go-Go's were the first (and to date only) all-female band in history who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to achieve a No. 1 album. The Go-Go's have sold over seven million records worldwide. After the break-up of the Go-Go's in 1985, Carlisle went on to have a successful solo career with radio hits such as "Mad About You", "I Get Weak", "Circle in the Sand", " Leave a Light On", and "Heaven Is a Place on Earth". The Go-Go's reformed in 1999, and Carlisle continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
