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Live At The Marquee (Osibisa Album)
DVD track listing The same tracks of the show but with some different titles #Fire #Life #Ayioko #Paper/Match #Woyaya #Gong Gong #Too Much #Happy Children #Warrior #Sunshine Day Personnel *Sol Amarfio: drums *Kari Bannerman: guitar *Gregg Brown: bass, vocals *Tony Etoria: guitar *Teddy Osei: saxophone, flute, percussion, vocals *Daku "Potato" Adams: congas *Errol Reid: keyboards *Frank Tontoh: drums *Mac Tontoh: trumpet Production *Recorded live at The Marquee Club, London, April 5, 1983 *Production (Original): Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Maurice Bacon, Kate & Derek Burbidge *Production (DVD): Jeff Harrison, Gil Matthews *Direction: Don Coutts *Cameras: Dave Swan, Barrie Dodd, Kevan Debonnaire, Badger *Vision Mixer: Pam Hicks *Unit Manager: Dick Allott *Production Manager: Lucy Ogilvie *Video Editor: Alan Goddard *Production Assistant: Heather Staines *Recording: Doug Bennett *Mixing: Smudger *Lighting: Entec Ltd. *Thanks: Jack Barrie, Nigel Hutchins, Harold Pendleton, Harold & B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osibisa
Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-Rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in London, alongside such contemporaries as Assagai, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, Black Velvet and Noir, and were largely responsible for the establishment of world music and Afro-Rock as a marketable genre. The original band which featured on the first three studio albums were universally known as the Beautiful Seven. History In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Soloman (Sol) Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form the Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I Feel) Pata Pata". In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Tontoh
Frank Tontoh (born 22 May 1964) is a Ghanaian percussionist. Life and work Born into the world of music, his father being trumpeter Mac Tontoh, Frank began his musical studies at MIT in Los Angeles. Afterwards, he completed a degree in composition and arranging with school friend and fellow musician Courtney Pine at Trinity College London. In 1982, Tontoh toured with his father's band Osibisa, touring the world for four years. On returning to London in 1986, He formed the Jazz Warriors with Pine, the first of many bands he would become associated with. The friends also appeared as part of the jazz quartet in the first instalment of ''Doctor Whos twenty-fifth anniversary special ''Silver Nemesis''. Afterwards, Tontoh went on to form his own band, Desperately Seeking Fusion. He has worked for, and performed with, many others including Aztec Camera, Level 42, Tasmin Archer, Jason Donovan, Gary Barlow, Des'ree, Mis-Teeq and Gabrielle among others. In 1996, he worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Live Albums
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican City, Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ver La Musica
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Amazon
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New Musical Express
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a free publication, before becoming an online brand which includes its website and radio stations. As a 'rock inkie', ''NME'' was the first British newspaper to include a singles chart, adding that feature in the edition of 14 November 1952. In the 1970s, it became the best-selling British music newspaper. From 1972 to 1976, it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill, Paul Morley, and Tony Parsons. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s, changing from newsprint in 1998. The magazine's website NME.com was launched in 1996, and became the world's biggest standalone music site, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Pendleton
Harold Pendleton (17 July 1924 – 22 September 2017) was a British music business executive and former club owner, who established the Marquee Club in London and the National Jazz Festival, the precursor of the Reading Rock Festival. Biography Born in Southport, Lancashire, Pendleton trained as an accountant and moved to London in 1948. He had a love of traditional jazz music, and when visiting clubs became friendly with Chris Barber, who had set up the National Federation of Jazz Organisations of Great Britain (NFJOGB). Pendleton became the organisation's secretary, shortening its name to the National Jazz Federation (NJF), and began organising events highlighting British jazz musicians. "Harold Pendleton", ''TheMarqueeClub.net'' . Retrieved 1 May 2014 By 1957 it was promoting 200 concerts a year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Osei
Teddy Osei (born December 1937) is a musician and saxophone player from Ghana. Osei is best known as the leader of the Afro-pop band Osibisa, founded in 1969. Born in Kumasi, Osei was introduced to musical instruments while still a child. He began to play the saxophone while attempting to create a band with his college friends in the coastal city of Sekondi. After graduating from college, he worked as a building inspector for a year before creating a band called "The Comets." The Comets enjoyed brief popularity before Osei traveled to London in 1962. He received a grant from the Ghanaian government to study at a private music and drama school for three years, before being forced to leave by a regime change in Ghana. In 1969, he founded Osibisa along with several other musicians. The band remained popular through the 1970s, before experiencing a decline, although it continues to perform today. Personal life Osei was born in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti region of Ghana. At bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier Records
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Tony Etoria
Tony Etoria (born c.1954) is a Welsh singer, songwriter, music producer and actor of Jamaican descent, best known for his 1977 hit "I Can Prove It". Etoria was born in Ely, Cardiff. At the age of 23, he had a top 40 UK hit with the disco song "I Can Prove It". He wrote the song himself and it was later covered by Phil Fearon. He went on to record for EMI and other labels. In 1978 he and his band appeared alongside Racing Cars and Budgie in the first Welsh Rock Festival, presented by John Peel on BBC Wales. He was a member of the 1980s bands Decoupage and Osibisa. Etoria also opened the "Famous Studios" recording studio in Trade Street, Cardiff, where he recorded and produced some notable acts, including Screaming Lord Sutch, Yr Anhrefn, the Super Furry Animals Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993. For the duration of their professional career, the band consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marquee Club
The Marquee Club was a music venue first located at 165 Oxford Street in London, when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts. Its most famous period was from 1964 to 1988 at 90 Wardour Street in Soho, and it finally closed when at 105 Charing Cross Road in 1996, although the name has been revived unsuccessfully three times in the 21st century. It was a small and relatively cheap club, located in the heart of the music industry in London's West End, and used to launch the careers of generations of rock acts. It was a key venue for early performances by bands who were to achieve worldwide fame in the 1960s and remained a venue for young bands in the following decades. It was the location of the first-ever live performance by the Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962. Origins The club was established by Harold Pendleton, an accountant whose love of jazz had led him to become secretary of the National Jazz Federation. Originally it was located in the Marquee Ballroom i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
