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Lennon Bermuda
''Lennon Bermuda'' is a tribute album and book inspired by John Lennon’s visit to Bermuda in 1980, where he wrote a portion of his ''Double Fantasy'' album. The ''Lennon Bermuda'' boxed set comprises two discs by various artists with a connection to Bermuda, including Yoko Ono, covering Lennon songs. There is also a book by author Scott Neil, illustrated by artist Graham Foster, describing Lennon’s stay on the island. Bermudian Andy Newmark, who played drums on ''Double Fantasy'', features on many of the tracks on ''Lennon Bermuda'' by artists including Paul Carrack, Bryan Ferry, Nils Lofgren, Rocky and the Natives and several others. The international release date for ''Lennon Bermuda'' was April 29, 2013, and the US release date September 24, 2013. The executive producers were Michael Freisenbruch and Tony Brannon. Track listing All songs written by John Lennon, except where noted. ;Disc 1 #Yoko Ono – "Walking on Thin Ice" (Ono) #Bryan Ferry – "Jealous Guy" #Judie Tzu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxi Priest
Max Alfred "Maxi" Elliott (born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time. Early life Maxi Priest was born in Lewisham, London, the second youngest of nine siblings. His parents had moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to gospel, reggae, R&B, and pop music. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother, who was a Pentecostal missionary. Priest grew up listening to Jamaican artists such as Dennis Brown, John Holt, Ken Boothe and Gregory Isaacs as well as singers like Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra. As a teenager, he lifted speaker boxes for the Jah Shaka and Negus Negast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Let Me Down (Beatles Song)
"Don't Let Me Down" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, recorded in 1969 during the ''Let It Be'' sessions. It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. The band recorded the song with keyboardist Billy Preston; the single release with "Get Back" was credited to "the Beatles with Billy Preston". Originally released as a B-side, producer Phil Spector excluded the song from ''Let It Be''. However, it was eventually included on an alternate mix of the album, '' Let It Be... Naked''. Composition Written by John Lennon as an anguished love song to Yoko Ono, it was interpreted by Paul McCartney as a "genuine plea", with Lennon saying to Ono, "I'm really stepping out of line on this one. I'm really just letting my vulnerability be seen, so you must not let me down." The song is in the key of E major and is in time during the verse, chorus and bridge, but changes to in the pick-up to the verse. It grew (like "Sun King") fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman (John Lennon Song)
"Woman" is a song written and performed by English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist John Lennon from his 1980 album ''Double Fantasy''. The track was chosen by Lennon to be the second single released from the ''Double Fantasy'' album, and it was the first Lennon single issued after his murder on 8 December 1980. The B-side of the single is Ono's song "Beautiful Boys". Lennon wrote "Woman" as an ode to his wife Yoko Ono, and to all women. The track begins with Lennon whispering, "For the other half of the sky", a paraphrase of a Chinese proverb, once used by Mao Zedong. Background In an interview for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine on 5 December 1980, three days before his murder, John Lennon said that the song "came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda, it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms ... but any truth is universal. What dawned on me was everything I was taking for grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watching The Wheels
"Watching the Wheels" is a single by John Lennon released posthumously in 1981, after his murder. The B-side features Yoko Ono's "Yes, I'm Your Angel." It was the third and final single released from Lennon and Ono's album ''Double Fantasy'', and reached No. 10 in the US on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 7 on '' Cashbox's'' Top 100. It peaked at number 30 in the UK. Writing and recording In "Watching the Wheels" Lennon addresses those who were confounded by his "househusband" years, 1975–1980, during which he retired from the music industry to concentrate on raising his son Sean with Ono. The acoustic demo of "Watching the Wheels" is featured in the ending credits to the 2009 film ''Funny People''. The song features a hammered dulcimer accompanying the lead piano. Though most of the musicians on the album were well-known and oft-recorded session players, the dulcimer was played by one Matthew Cunningham; producer Jack Douglas invited Cunningham to the session after having he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Brown (musician)
Rachel Brown is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for her song "Bumblebee". Early life Rachel Brown was born and raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Ethiopian born mother Amsale Aberra who was an famous American fashion designer and executive Neil Brown, a New Jersey native with Bermudian and South Carolinian roots. After graduating from Hunter College High School in New York, Brown purchased a guitar and taught herself to play and write songs. Brown attended Harvard College, developing her passion for music in her spare time, graduated ''cum laude'', and was selected as one of Harvard's “15 Most Interesting Seniors” by ''The Harvard Crimson''. Musical career In 2009 while visiting family in Bermuda, Brown found herself at an open mic night called Chewstick. That night lead to her return to Bermuda later that year to perform at their annual musical Beachfest, which in turn led to her performing later that summer at the Bermuda National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album ''Rubber Soul''. It was written mainly by John Lennon, with lyrical contributions from Paul McCartney, and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Influenced by the introspective lyrics of Bob Dylan, the song is considered a milestone in the Beatles' development as songwriters. The track features a sitar part, played by lead guitarist George Harrison, that marked the first appearance of the Indian string instrument on a Western rock recording. The song was a number 1 hit in Australia when released on a single there in 1966, coupled with " Nowhere Man". Lennon wrote the song as a veiled account of an extramarital affair he had in London. When recording the track, Harrison chose to add a sitar part after becoming interested in the instrument's exotic sound while on the set of the Beatles' film ''Help!'', in early 1965. "Norwegian Wood" was influential in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Nova
Heather Nova (born Heather Allison Frith, July 6, 1968) is a Bermuda, Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet. , she has released eleven full-length albums, six EPs and twelve singles. Biography Heather Nova was born Heather Allison Frith on Bermuda, a British overseas territory. Her mother is a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father is a native of Bermuda. Nova spent most of her childhood with her family, including one sister, television reporter and fashion model Susannah, and one brother, reggae singer Mishka (musician), Mishka, on a sailboat (named ''Moon'') built by her father, where the Friths spent most of the 1970s and part of the 1980s, sailing throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean waters and coasts. Since her idyllic childhood, Heather has played over 600 concerts, sold over 2 million albums and has a career of over 30 years in the music industry. Nova started playing guitar and violin at an early age, writing her first song when she was 12. Nova enrolled at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Together
"Come Together" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on their 1969 album ''Abbey Road'' and was also released as a single coupled with "Something". The song reached the top of the charts in the United States and peaked at No. 4 in the United Kingdom. It has been covered by several other artists, including Ike & Tina Turner, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson. Background and inspiration In early 1969, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, held nonviolent protests against the Vietnam War, dubbed the Bed-ins for Peace. In May, during the Montreal portion of the bed-in, counterculture figures from across North America visited Lennon, including American psychologist Timothy Leary, an early advocate of LSD, whom Lennon admired. Leary intended to run for Governor of California in the following year's election and asked Lennon to write him a campaign song based on the campaign's slogan, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John 'Rhino' Edwards
John Victor "Rhino" Edwards (born 9 May 1953) is an English bass guitarist, playing in the rock group Status Quo. Career Born in Chiswick, London, Edwards learnt classical violin as a child and won a scholarship to the London College of Music at the age of eleven. He was educated at Chiswick Grammar School and Stinsford School, Dorchester. Around 1973–4, Edwards was to be found playing simultaneously in two pub bands in The White Bear in Hounslow (a venue renowned at that time as a music venue, where Rick Wakeman had been a regular player). The two bands were The Sunday Band (playing on that day of the week), playing covers of rock standards, and Rococo, with a regular Friday slot, and sharing the same singer as well as bass player. Rococo released a single "Ultrastar"/"Wildfire" on Decca Deram in 1973. Later on he joined Judie Tzuke's backing band whereupon he was given the nickname "Rhino" for being so clumsy. Edwards has played with Peter Green, ex-Fleetwood Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borrowed Time (John Lennon Song)
"Borrowed Time" is a song from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's last album, '' Milk and Honey''. While the single failed to chart in the United States, it charted at number 32 in the UK Singles Chart. The B-side features Ono's song "Your Hands" from the same album. Composition The song was inspired during Lennon's 1980 sailing holiday Seaman, Frederic. (1991). ''The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir''. Carol Publishing Group from Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda. During the journey, Lennon's yacht encountered a prolonged and severe storm, resulting in most of the crew eventually succumbing to profound fatigue and seasickness. Lennon (free of seasickness) was eventually forced to take the yacht's wheel alone for many hours. Lennon found this terrifying but invigorating, with the effect of both renewing his confidence and making him contemplate the fragility of life (Lennon claimed his recovery from heroin addiction some years earlier had rendered him immune to seasickness). On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia (Beatles Song)
"Julia" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album ''The Beatles'' (also known as "the White Album"). It is performed as a solo piece by John Lennon. The song was written by Lennon (though credited to Lennon–McCartney) about his mother Julia Lennon, who died in 1958 at age 44. The track is the final song on side two (disc one on CD) of ''The Beatles'' and was the last song recorded for the album. In 1976, it was issued as the B-side of the Beatles single "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Composition "Julia" was written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) in the key of D major and features Lennon on vocals and acoustic guitar. It was written during the Beatles' 1968 visit to Rishikesh in northern India, where they were studying under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was here that Lennon learned the song's finger-picking guitar style (known as 'Travis-picking') from the Scottish musician Donovan. Donovan later explained: No other Beatle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
