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No Frills (Nik Kershaw Album)
''No Frills'' is the eighth album by Nik Kershaw, recorded live at his own Shorthouse Studios and released on 1 February 2010 under his own record label. Initially, the album was only available for purchase online via Kershaw's web site through his own indie vanity label, Shorthouse Records. Kershaw regards his subsequent album '' Ei8ht'' as his eighth album as ''No Frills'' was "90 per cent old songs, it was just different acoustic versions of those old songs. I didn't really count that as a collection of original work." Track listing #"Oh You Beautiful Thing" – 3:27 #"Have a Nice Life" – 4:06 #" Dancing Girls" – 3:48 #" Somebody Loves You" – 4:12 #"Lost in You" – 3:22 #" The Riddle" – 4:07 #"Loud, Confident & Wrong" – 3:43 #"Fiction" – 3:35 #"Don Quixote" – 5:34 #"Oxygen" – 4:31 #"Wounded" – 3:58 #"Wouldn't It Be Good" - 4:33 #"Billy" - 4:02 #"This Broken Man" - 4:42 #"I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a song b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nik Kershaw
Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Kershaw came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist. He released eight singles that entered the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart during the decade, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", " Dancing Girls", "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "Human Racing", " The Riddle", " Wide Boy", "Don Quixote" and "When a Heart Beats". His 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 beat all other solo artists. Kershaw appeared at the dual-venue concert Live Aid in 1985 and has also penned a number of hits for other artists, including a UK No. 1 single in 1991 for Chesney Hawkes, " The One and Only". Early years Nicholas "Nik" Kershaw was born on 1 March 1958 in Bristol, England, and grew up in Ipswich, Suffolk. His father was a flautist and his mother was an opera singer. He was educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys where he played the guitar – he was self-taught ... [...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, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acoustic Music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular music, particularly in folk. It stood in contrast to various other types of music in various eras, including big band music in the pre-rock era, and electric music in the rock era. Music reviewer Craig Conley suggests, "When music is labeled acoustic, unplugged, or unwired, the assumption seems to be that other types of music are ''cluttered'' by technology and overproduction and therefore aren't as ''pure''." Types of acoustic instruments Acoustic instruments can be split into six groups: string instruments, wind instruments, percussion, other instruments, ensemble i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koch Records
MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch", formerly known as Koch Records and eOne Music) is a New York City-based independent record label and music management company. It was formed in 2009 from the music assets of Koch Entertainment, which had been acquired by the present-day Entertainment One (eOne) in 2005. In April 2021, after the acquisition of eOne by Hasbro, the company announced that it would sell eOne Music to The Blackstone Group. It owns the libraries of Artemis Records, Dualtone Records, and Last Gang Records. History eOne as a whole has its origins in the music distributor Records on Wheels, which was acquired by the Canadian retail chain CD Plus in 2001 to expand its wholesale business. Darren Throop joined the company after CD Plus acquired his record store chain Urban Sound Exchange. The combined company later became known as ROW Entertainment, with Throop as president and CEO. In June 2005, ROW acquired the American independent music distributor and home entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You've Got To Laugh
''You've Got to Laugh'' is the seventh studio album by Nik Kershaw, released on 26 October 2006 under his own record label. Initially at least, the album is only available for purchase online vihis web sitethrough his own studio, Shorthouse Records. The album is also available for a digital download via iTunes or eMusic. In a 2008 interview, Kershaw spoke of the album. "''You've Got to Laugh'' took about five years to get together. That wasn't intense recording, obviously. I just waited until I'd got enough tracks and that was the time to release it. Had it not been for my girlfriend, it probably wouldn't have been released at all. The songs are all about my own experiences or those of people around me; they're about friends and foes; they're about real life, which means there's nothing too glamorous going on". Track listing #"Can't Get Arrested" – 4:41 #"Oh, You Beautiful Thing" – 3:15 #"Lost" – 4:40 #"All About You" – 4:35 #"Promises, Promises" – 3:52 #"I Hope You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ei8ht (album)
''Ei8ht'' is the eighth studio album by Nik Kershaw, released on his independent label Shorthouse Records in 2012. The album reached No. 91 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 12 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. Background Kershaw started working on the album in early 2011. Speaking to ''The Evening Times'' in 2012, he said: "I sat down about 18 months ago and decided it was time to make another lbum I have to do that every now and again to get it out my system." Two singles were released from the album. A radio version of "The Sky's The Limit" was released in August, with a music video for the song premiering on YouTube on 4 August. It was directed by Steve Price and was filmed at Armagh Observatory and Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland, and Haytor, Dartmoor. The second and final single, "You're the Best", was released in September. "The Sky's the Limit" was featured in the 2016 biographical film ''Eddie the Eagle'' and appeared on its soundtrack release, ''Fly''. Reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing Girls (song)
"Dancing Girls" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was the third single from his debut studio album, ''Human Racing'', and released on 2 April 1984. It charted on 14 April 1984, and reaching a peak position of No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart. It stayed on the charts for nine weeks. Music & Lyrics Kershaw explained the song to ''Number One'' magazine in September 1984: In a podcast interview with ''Sodajerker'', Kershaw remembers writing the bassline spontaneously on a Roland Juno-6 synthesizer, using the arpeggiator function, and programming a rhythm on a Roland TR-808 drum machine – it was to this musical basis that the lyrics would be written. Music video The external street scenes for the music video for "Dancing Girls" were filmed in the dead-end section of Woodberry Grove, Finchley, North London. It depicted Kershaw as the subject of the song's lyrics, an advertising executive, imagining himself dancing with a group of middle aged dancers, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somebody Loves You (Nik Kershaw Song)
"Somebody Loves You" is a song from English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, which was released in 1999 as the lead single from his fifth studio album ''15 Minutes''. The song was written and produced by Kershaw. "Somebody Loves You" reached No. 70 in the UK Singles Chart. Background Speaking to Amanda Cagan and Melissa Sprawl in 1999, Kershaw said of the song's message, "When you're up on stage, it feels like there's so much love coming off the audience. While it's good to experience that, you have to remember it's not for you, but something being projected onto you. You can enjoy it while it's happening, but it's very dangerous if you start believing it." He expanded further in a 1998 interview with ''Kuno On Line'', "he song isabout being on stage and being famous. It's a negative look on what you get when you are famous, and when I was famous. I became the person I was playing in publicity. You know, you walk into a room. You didn't have to try too hard. Everyone knew who you we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riddle (Nik Kershaw Song)
"The Riddle" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, released in 1984 as the lead single from his second studio album of the same name. Kershaw described the lyrical content as being nondescript to fill as a "guide vocal" for the production. It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and peaked within the top 10 in countries like Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. An accompanying music video was made for the song and features references to Lewis Carroll's book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The song was covered by many artists, including Gigi D'Agostino (1999) and Jack Holiday and Mike Candys (2012). Lyrics The "riddling" lyrics caused speculation among listeners as to their meaning; Kershaw states that there is in fact no intended meaning at all, the words simply being a "guide vocal" thrown together to fit the music. Kershaw has stated: "In short, 'The Riddle' is nonsense, rubbish, bollocks, the confused ramblings of an 80s popst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Quixote (Nik Kershaw Song)
"Don Quixote" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw from his 1984 studio album '' The Riddle''. Released in August 1985 as the final single from that album, it reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1985, and became Kershaw's seventh (and last) consecutive UK top 20 hit single. A month before "Don Quixote" was released as a single, it was the second of four songs played by Kershaw at Live Aid. The others were previous singles " The Riddle", "Wouldn't It Be Good" and " Wide Boy". Background While discussing his method of writing lyrics, Kershaw explained the song's origins in the January 1986 issue of music technology magazine Sound on Sound ''Sound on Sound'' is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, a .... Track listing 7" single (WEA NIK 8) A. "Don Quixote" - 4:11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wouldn't It Be Good
"Wouldn't It Be Good" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, released on 20 January 1984 as the second single from his debut studio album, ''Human Racing'' (1984). The release was Kershaw's second single, and features the non-album track "Monkey Business" as the B-side, which was also released as a bonus track on the 2012 re-release of the album. Background and recording "Wouldn't It Be Good" was the second single from Kershaw's debut studio album ''Human Racing'' (1984) and turned out to be among his more popular single releases. It spent three weeks at number four on the UK Singles Chart and became successful throughout Europe, as well as a top-10 entry in Canada and Australia. Kershaw is also most closely associated with this song in the United States, where it narrowly missed the top 40. Kershaw performed this song at Live Aid in London's Wembley Stadium in July 1985. Kershaw's first single from this album had failed to be a major hit, and it was on the strength ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
