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Memphis (The Badloves Song)
"Memphis" is a song by Australian rock and pop band The Badloves and released in April 1994 as the fourth and final single from the band's debut studio album '' Get On Board''. The song peaked at number 73 on the Australian ARIA Charts. On the album liner notes, Michael Spiby says "India has Buddha, America has Elvis. Inspired by the movie ''Mystery Train (film)'', the song is about Americans' seemingly inexplicable obsession with the dead man from Graceland Graceland is a mansion on a estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, which was once owned by rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited Graceland after his death in 1977. Graceland is located at 3764 Elv ...". Track listing CD single (D11474) # "Memphis" - 4:45 # "Forgiven" - 3:15 # "Spirit in the Sky" (demo) - 2:55 Charts References {{authority control 1993 songs 1994 singles Mushroom Records singles The Badloves songs Songs about Elvis Presley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Badloves
The Badloves are an Australian R&B, soul band that formed as DC3 in 1990 by founding mainstay member Michael Spiby on guitar and lead vocals. They changed their name after a year. Their debut studio album, ''Get on Board'', was issued in July 1993, which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Charts, ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 they won ARIA Award for Best New Talent, Best New Talent and ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist – Album, Breakthrough Artist – Album for ''Get on Board'' and ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist – Single, Breakthrough Artist – Single for its first single, "Lost (The Badloves song), Lost" (1993). The Badloves' second album, ''Holy Roadside'' (October 1995), reached the top 20. Their highest-charting single, "The Weight" (1993), is a cover version of the Band's 1968 single and features Jimmy Barnes on co-lead vocals. It reached the ARIA singles chart top 10. History 1990–1994: ''Get on Board'' The Badloves were forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival Mushroom Records was later acquired by Warner Bros. Records, which operated the label from 2005 to 2010 until it folded to Warner Bros. Records. Founder Michael Gudinski went on to become the leader of the Mushroom Group, the largest independent music and entertainment company in Australia, with divisions such as Frontier Touring. History Mushroom Records was an Australian record label formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998 along with Mushroom Distribution Services, they merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it was operated by Warner Bros. Records. Gudinski subsequently expanded a pre-existing label, Liberation Music, to release material by former Mushroom artists.McFarlane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Spiby
Michael Spiby is an Australian musician and a founding member of The Badloves. He released his debut single "(All my Love) Ella" in 1999 and solo album, ''Ho’s Kitchen'', in 2000 and it was nominated for the 2000 ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album. Discography Albums Awards and nominations , - , 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ... , ''Ho's Kitchen'' , ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album , , - References External linksthe official website om Michael Spiby {{DEFAULTSORT:Spiby, Michael Australian male singers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Limousine
"Green Limousine" is a song by Australian rock and pop band the Badloves and released in December 1993 as the third single from the band's debut studio album '' Get On Board''. The song peaked at number 35 on the Australian ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ... in January 1994. On the album liner notes, the band says "This song offers a wry comment on the willingness of certain celebrities to jump on the bandwagon of any fashionable cause. Doffing their collective caps to the traditions of 60s soul, the band took 12 hours to record the piece... it started as a pop, soul thing and we progressively stripped it back." Track listing CD single (D11611) # "Green Limousine" - 3:48 # "For What it's Worth" - 3:24 # "Yesterday's Gone" - 5:38 # "Sugar Daddy" - 5:29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline (The Badloves Song)
"Caroline" is a song by Australian rock and pop band the Badloves, released in September 1994 as the lead single from the band's second studio album, ''Holy Roadside ''Holy Roadside'' is the second studio album by Australian rock and pop band The Badloves. The album was released in October 1995, peaked at number 14 and was certified gold. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996, the album earned The Badloves a nom ...'' (1995). The song peaked at number 63 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. Track listing CD maxi (D523) # "Caroline" - 3:05 # "Don't Throw Roses" - 3:37 # "Flying" - 3:07 # "Burnout" - 3:05 Charts References 1995 songs 1995 singles The Badloves songs Mushroom Records singles {{1990s-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautama Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic ( sa, śramaṇa). After leading a life of begging, asceticism, and meditation, he attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in what is now India. The Buddha thereafter wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. He taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and severe asceticism, leading to Nirvana, that is, freedom from ignorance, craving, rebirth, and suffering. His teachings are summarized in the Noble Eightfold Path, a training of the mind that includes meditation and instruction in Buddhist ethics such as right effort, mindfulness, and '' jhana''. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a civil rights movement, transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and Cultural impact of Elvis Presley#Danger to American culture, initial controversy. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Train (film)
''Mystery Train'' is a 1989 comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film is a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists, unfolding over the course of the same night. "Far from Yokohama" features a Japanese couple ( Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase) on a cultural pilgrimage, "A Ghost" focuses on an Italian widow (Nicoletta Braschi) stranded in the city overnight, and "Lost in Space" follows the misadventures of a newly single and unemployed Englishman (Joe Strummer) and his reluctant companions (Rick Aviles and Steve Buscemi). The narratives are linked by a run-down flophouse overseen by a night clerk ( Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and his disheveled bellboy (Cinqué Lee), the use of Elvis Presley's song " Blue Moon", and a gunshot. The starting point for the script was the ensemble cast of friends and previous collaborators Jarmusch had conceived characters for, while the tripartite formal structure of the film w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graceland
Graceland is a mansion on a estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, which was once owned by rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited Graceland after his death in 1977. Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the Whitehaven neighborhood, about south of central Memphis and fewer than north of the Mississippi border. It was opened to the public as a house museum on June 7, 1982. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming its first site recognized for significance related to rock music. Graceland was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for such a site. Graceland attracts more than 650,000 visitors annually. It rivals in number of visitors such public attractions as Hearst Castle, now operated as a California state park, and the White House, home and office of the President of the United States in the capital. History Graceland Farms w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956. It oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties. The association has more than 100 members, including small labels typically run by one to five people, medium size organisations and very large companies with international affiliates. ARIA is administered by a Board of Directors comprising senior executives from record companies, both large and small. History In 1956, the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) was formed by Australia's major record companies. It was replaced in the 1970s by the Australian Recording Industry Association, which was established by the six major record companies operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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