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John Trotter (drummer)
John Trotter (born 1966, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) is an English and Australian drummer. He began playing the drums aged 11. He studied with Barry Black at Ronnie's Drum Shop and made his first recordings in the shops basement studio aged 14. He became a full-time professional on leaving school at 16 with The Don Smith Band at Newcastle’s Mayfair Ballroom. After playing many cabaret clubs, cruise ships and summer seasons, he moved to London in 1985. Initially playing with The Andy Ross Orchestra, John became a respected member of the ‘Session Community’ covering all aspects of the music industry, accompanying artists such as Robbie Williams, Hot Chocolate, Cliff Richard, The Corrs, Georgie Fame, Ruby Turner, Colin Blunstone, Chris Thompson & Stevie Lange, Barbara Dickson, The Drifters, Robert Hart, James Belushi, Tony Burrows, The Three Degrees, Chris Farlowe, Jimmy Barnes, Dame Edna Everage and Rolf Harris, toured with The Peter Green Splinter Group and The Moody Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Belushi
James Adam Belushi (; born June 15, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Jim on the sitcom ''According to Jim'' (2001–2009). His other television roles include ''Saturday Night Live'' (1983–1985), '' Total Security'' (1997), and ''Twin Peaks'' (2017). Belushi appeared in films such as ''Thief'' (1981), ''The Man with One Red Shoe'' (1985), '' Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986), ''Red Heat'' (1988), '' K-9'' (1989), ''The Palermo Connection'' (1990), ''Destiny Turns on the Radio'' (1995), ''Angel's Dance'' (1999), ''The Wild'' (2006), ''The Ghost Writer'' (2010), '' Thunderstruck'' (2012), '' Home Sweet Hell'' (2015) and ''Wonder Wheel'' (2017). He is the younger brother of late comic actor John Belushi and the father of actor Robert Belushi. Early life Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Wheaton, Illinois, to Adam Anastos Belushi (1918–1996), an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë, and Agnes Demetri Belushi (née Samaras; 1922–1989), who was born in Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Camilleri
Joseph Vincent Camilleri, (born 21 May 1948) aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent, is a Maltese Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons' highest-charting single was "Hit & Run" from June 1979, which peaked at #12; NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. Jo Jo Zep's " Taxi Mary" peaked at No. 11 in September 1982; and The Black Sorrows top single, "Chained to the Wheel", peaked at No. 9 in March 1989. Camilleri has also produced records for The Sports, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Paul Kelly & the Dots, The Black Sorrows, Renée Geyer, and Ross Wilson. Australian music journalist, Ian McFarlane, described him as "one of the most genuinely talented figures in Australian music", and, as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Camilleri was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry As ... [...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] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenslade
Greenslade were an English progressive rock band, formed in the autumn of 1972 by keyboard player Dave Greenslade and bassist Tony Reeves, with keyboardist Dave Lawson and drummer Andrew McCulloch. History The band made their live debut at Frankfurt's Zoom Club in November 1972. Longtime musical associates, with a common background in jazz, Greenslade and Reeves had been original members of Colosseum. The two decided they wanted to form a band with two keyboardists. At the time, Reeves was A&R director for the independent progressive label Greenwich Gramophone Co., and he invited Dave Lawson of Samurai, a commercially struggling act with the label, to become part of the group. Lawson was previously a member of The Alan Bown Set and Web, whilst drummer Andrew McCulloch was briefly a member of King Crimson and Fields. On 20 February 1973 the band appeared on BBC's ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' playing two numbers - "Pilgrims Progress" and "Bedside Manners Are Extra", both fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mann Alive
''Mann Alive'' is a live double album released in 1998 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Track listing ;CD1 The Gig # "Martha's Madman" (Lane Tietgen) – 10:07 # " The Times They Are a-Changin' " (Bob Dylan) – 6:35 # "You Angel You" (Dylan) – 4:11 # "Father of Day, Father of Night" (Dylan) – 10:25 # " For You" ( Bruce Springsteen) – 3:44 # "It's A Fine Line" (Manfred Mann, Steve Kinch, John Trotter, Mick Rogers) – 1:32 # " Demolition Man" ( Gordon Sumner) – 7:17 # " Nothing Ever Happens" ( Justin Currie) – 4:45 # "She Was" (Mann, Kinch, Trotter, Rogers) – 3:40 # "Blinded by the Light" (Springsteen) – 9:00 # "Davy's On The Road Again" (John Simon, Robbie Robertson) – 6:24 ;CD2 Encore & More # "I'll Give You" (Mann, Kinch, Trotter, Rogers) – 2:15 # "Shelter from the Storm" (Dylan) – 6:26 # "Redemption Song" (Bob Marley) – 3:36 # " The Mighty Quinn" (Dylan) – 6:59 # "Demolition Man" (Short version) (Sumner) – 3:02 # "Blinded by the Light" (Short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Vengeance
''Soft Vengeance'' is an album released in 1996 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Track listing #" Pleasure and Pain" (Mike Chapman, Holly Knight) – 5:39 #" Play with Fire" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:58 #"Nothing Ever Happens" (Justin Currie) – 4:10 #"Shelter from the Storm" (Bob Dylan) – 6:06 #"Tumbling Ball" (Mark Spiro) – 5:35 #"The Price I Pay" (Robert Cray, Dennis Walker) – 4:06 #"Lose the Touch" (Cyril Schumann) – 3:31 #"Adults Only" (Manfred Mann) – 3:36 #"Wherever Love Drops (Part One)" (Mann, Russell Hoban) – 1:05 #"The Complete History of Sexual Jealousy" (Nick Currie) – 3:30 #"99 lbs" (Dannie Bryant) – 2:38 #"Miss You" (Cyril Schumann) – 3:33 #"Nature of the Beast" ( Doc Neeson, Geoffrey Leib) – 4:35 #"Wherever Love Drops (Part Two)" (Mann, Hoban, Anthony Moore) – 2:00 Singles *1996 - Nothing Ever Happens #"Nothing Ever Happens (Radio Mix)" (Currie) – 3:39 #"Nothing Ever Happens (TV Mix)" (Currie) – 4:52 #"Shelter from The Storm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manfred Mann's Earth Band are an English rock band formed by South African musician Manfred Mann (musician), Manfred Mann. Their hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen's "For You (Bruce Springsteen song), For You", "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night". After forming in 1971 and with a short hiatus in the late 1980s/early 1990s, the Earth Band continues to perform and tour. History Formation Keyboardist Manfred Mann (musician), Manfred Mann started in the 1960s with the Manfred Mann, self-titled band that had such hits as "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" and Bob Dylan's "Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn), The Mighty Quinn" and then moved on to jazz fusion-inspired Manfred Mann Chapter Three before forming the Earth Band in 1971. Feeling that Chapter Three had suffered from too many self-imposed rules, being frustrated with mostly only playing Mike Hugg's compositions and not being an economically feasible venture (due to the number of musicians involved) were all reasons for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moody Marsden Band
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Peter Green Splinter Group
The Peter Green Splinter Group were a blues band formed in 1997, fronted by guitarist and singer Peter Green. Green was the leader of Fleetwood Mac until 1970. He suffered a mental breakdown during the 1970s. He was rehabilitated with the aid of Nigel Watson, Cozy Powell and other friends, and then began touring and recording with the Splinter Group. The group was disbanded in early 2004 with Green's departure from the group – an upcoming tour was cancelled, as was the planned release of a new album. Band members * Peter Green – (vocals, lead guitar, slide guitar, harmonica) * Nigel Watson – (vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar) * Roger Cotton – (piano, Hammond C3, rhythm guitar) (1998–2004) * Larry Tolfree – (drums, percussion) (1997–2004) * Pete Stroud – (fretless and fretted bass guitars, double bass) (1998–2004) * Neil Murray – bass guitar (1997–98) *Cozy Powell – drums (1997) *Spike Edney Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon "Jimmy" Barnes (née Swan; born 28 April 1956) is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. Barnes has achieved 15 solo number one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. Additionally Barnes achieved 5 more as lead singer of Cold Chisel, bringing his combined sum to 20 number one albums in Australia, comfortably eclipsing the Beatles (with 14), Madonna (12), Eminem and U2 (11). Early life Barnes was born James Dixon Swan in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow, the son of Dorothy and Jim Swan. His father was a prizefighter. His maternal grandmother was Jewish, but he was raised Protestant. He called his childhood environment a "slum" of alcohol and violence, saying that his mother had him and his four siblings (John, Dorothy, Linda, and Alan) before she was 21. His older brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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