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Hopelessly
"Hopelessly" is a pop song performed by English singer Rick Astley and written by Rob Fisher and Astley. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley. The song was recorded for Astley's first album, '' Body & Soul'' (1993). It was released as the album's second and first single on 3 April 1993 by RCA Records. The single peaked at number 33 in the UK charts. It peaked at number 28 in the US and at number eight in Canada. It is still a recurrent play on most North America hot AC stations, given the fact that it was a hit single in that format (it reached #4 on Billboard's AC chart). It was featured in the compilation Reflections of Love. Astley retired shortly after the song's release, making "Hopelessly" the first single he would release (excluding the album's final single The Ones You Love) until 2001. Track listing ;Studio version #"Hopelessly" – 3:35 #"When I Fall in Love" – 3:02 #" Hold Me in Your Arms" – 4:24 #"Whenever You Need Somebody" – 3:28 ;Live version #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body & Soul (Rick Astley Album)
''Body & Soul'' is the fourth (and final until 2001) studio album by English singer Rick Astley released in 1993. It was not commercially successful and as the first album ever to be released by Astley, it failed to enter the UK album chart, but it managed to enter the Italian album chart at #28. Two singles were released to support the album. The first single to be released was "Hopelessly" that hit #33 on The single on the British charts, followed by "The Ones You Love" at #48. After this album, Astley left the music business behind for several years and released no new material until the 2001 single "Sleeping". Track listing # "Hopelessly" (Rick Astley, Rob Fisher) – 3:34 # "Waiting for the Bell to Ring" (Dave West, Rick Astley) – 4:53 # "The Ones You Love" (Rick Astley, Dave West) – 4:40 # "A Dream for Us" ( Bruce Roberts, Rick Astley) – 6:07 # "Body and Soul" (Rick Astley) – 4:09 # "Enough Love" (Andy Morris, Ian Devaney, Lisa Stansfield, Rick Astley) – 4:07 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Astley
Richard Paul Astley (born 6 February 1966) is an English singer, songwriter and radio personality, who has been active in music for several decades. He gained worldwide fame in the 1980s, having multiple hits including his signature song "Never Gonna Give You Up", " Together Forever" and "Whenever You Need Somebody", and returned to music full-time in the 2000s after a 6-year hiatus. Outside his music career, Astley has occasionally worked as a radio DJ and a podcaster. Born and raised in Lancashire, Astley became a musician after leaving school, as the drummer for the soul band FBI. Three years later, he rose to fame through his association with the production trio Stock Aitken Waterman; releasing the 1987 album ''Whenever You Need Somebody'', which sold 15.2 million copies worldwide. His debut single "Never Gonna Give You Up" was a number 1 hit single in 25 countries, winning the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Single. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Astley Songs
The discography of English singer and songwriter Rick Astley consists of nine studio albums, five compilation albums, two remix albums, and twenty-four singles. His debut studio album, ''Whenever You Need Somebody'', was released in November 1987. It peaked at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart and number 10 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. Astley became a global pop sensation in 1987 with his debut single "Never Gonna Give You Up" written by the trio Stock Aitken Waterman. The song was at number one on the UK Singles Chart for five weeks, becoming the year's highest-selling single. The song was also a worldwide number one hit, topping the charts in 24 other countries, including the US, Australia, and Germany. "Whenever You Need Somebody" was released as the second single from the album in October 1987. The single was a recycled Stock, Aitken, Waterman song, originally recorded by O'Chi Brown in 1985. It became a successful European hit, reaching number 1 in seven countries, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Knew Love (Rick Astley Song)
"Never Knew Love" is a pop song performed by the English singer Rick Astley and written by Derek Bordeaux and John Paul Taylor. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley. The song was recorded for and included in Astley's third album, '' Free''. It was released on 23 June 1991 and peaked at number 70 in the UK Singles Chart. Track listing #"Never Knew Love" (Remix) - 3:15 #"Never Knew Love" (The 3 Day Mix) - 8:37 #" So Glad" - 3:28 #"Some Kinda Love" - 4:35 Personnel * Rick Astley – lead vocals * Dave West – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, drum programming * Hywel Maggs – guitars * Lars Danielsson – bass guitar * Per Lindval – drum overdubs * Jacob Andersen – percussion * Dan Higgins – saxophone solo * Larry Williams – saxophones * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone * Larry Hall – trumpet * Jerry Hey – brass arrangements * Anne Dudley – string arrangements and conductor * Kevin Dorsey – backing vocals * Carol Kenyon – b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ones You Love
"The Ones You Love" is a song performed by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley, written by Astley and Dave West. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Astley, and recorded for Astley's third album, '' Body & Soul'' (1993). The song was released as the album's final single on 23 August 1993 by RCA Records and peaked at number 48 on the UK Singles Chart. After its release, Astley retired from music, and "The Ones You Love" served as his final single until the release of "Sleeping" in October 2001. Critical reception Alan Jones from ''Music Week'' gave the song three out of five, declaring it as "cheerful, uptempo and commercial, though far inferior to his last hit "Cry for Help" which is included here n the single" Track listing # "The Ones You Love" (single edit) – 4:20 # "Cry for Help" (single edit) – 4:14 # "The Ones You Love" (instrumental) – 4:21 Personnel * Rick Astley – lead vocals * Dave West – keyboards, bass, drum programming * Mark Brzezicki Mark M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Written By Rob Fisher (British Musician)
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Ballads
A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.J. M. Curtis, ''Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984'' (Popular Press, 1987), p. 236. Ballads are generally melodic enough to get the listener's attention. Sentimental ballads are found in most music genres, such as pop, R&B, soul, country, folk, rock and electronic music. Usually slow in tempo, ballads tend to have a lush musical arrangement which emphasizes the song's melody and harmonies. Characteristically, ballads use acoustic instruments such as guitars, pianos, saxophones, and sometimes an orchestral set. Many modern mainstream ballads tend to feature synthesizers, drum machines and even, to some extent, a dance rhythm. Sentimental ballads had their origins in the early Tin Pan Alley music industry of the later 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Songs
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1993 Singles
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Ballads
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings. Classical guitars derive from the Spanish vihuela and gittern of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Those instruments evolved into the seventeenth and eighteenth-century baroque guitar—and by the mid-nineteenth century, early forms of the modern classical guitar. For a right-handed player, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is properly held up by the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). However, the right-hand may move closer to the fretboard to achieve different tonal qualities. The player typically holds the left leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Williams (composer)
Jim Williams is an Ivor Novello Award and César Award nominated British TV and film composer and guitarist. His television credits include: ''Auf Wiedersehen Pet'', '' Hotel Babylon'', '' Harley Street'', ''Under the Greenwood Tree'', ''Heartless'', ''Wanted'', ''The Gift'', '' Lock Stock'', ''Outlaws'', '' Sorted'' and ''Minder''. His film credits include four Ben Wheatley films '' Down Terrace'', ''Kill List'', '' Sightseers'', and ''A Field in England'', Julia Ducournau's '' Raw'' and ''Titane'', and the British films ''The Dark Mile'' and '' Beast''. His score for ''Raw'' was nominated for Best Original Music at the 2018 43rd César Awards and Beast for the BIFA award for Best Music. His scores for Brandon Cronenberg's ''Possessor'' and Sidharth Srinivasan’s ''Kriya'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Fantasia Film Festival Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a film festival that has been based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
