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Real Late Starter
"Real Late Starter" is the first single from Nerina Pallot's third album, '' The Graduate''. The single was released as a three-track digital download and as well as an exclusive 7" vinyl, only available on Nerina's website in the UK on 19 October 2009 after the release of the album, with a cover of Steely Dan's " Peg" and an acoustic version of "My Last Tango" (from '' Dear Frustrated Superstar'') as the B-sides. The song was written and produced by Nerina Pallot, mixed by Andy Chatterley and mastered at Blue Pro Mastering. Real Late Starter was A-Playlisted in the UK by BBC Radio 2. It did not reach the Official UK top 40 on release, but did reach number 19 in the Indie Singles chart. The song was covered by Joe McElderry in 2010 and is featured on his debut album ''Wide Awake Wide Awake or Wideawake may refer to: Places *Wide Awake, South Carolina, US *Prestonville, Kentucky, US, formerly Wideawake * Wideawake Airfield or RAF Ascension Island, a British military base Books an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot (born 26 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and producer, who has released six albums and over a dozen EPs. She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the 2007 BRIT Awards and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for "Sophia (Nerina Pallot song), Sophia" in the category of 'Best Song (musically and lyrically)' in the same year. Besides her own material, Pallot has written songs for Kylie Minogue and Diana Vickers. She mostly tours around the UK and is married to record producer Andy Chatterley. Early life Pallot was born in London and brought up in Jersey by a French people, half-French father and a mother from Allahabad, Prayag, India, together with her sister. Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song aged 13. She has identified seeing singer and pianist Kate Bush perform her hit song "This Woman's Work" on television series ''Wogan'' as a catalyst for her to pursue a music career. She attended Jersey College for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Graduate (Nerina Pallot Album)
''The Graduate'' is the third studio album by London-born singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot, which was released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009. The album title refers to Pallot's 2009 graduation from university with a first-class honours English Literature degree. Background and production The album was released more than three years after the gold-selling ''Fires'' and marks a change in the musical genre for Pallot. According to her biography on her official MySpace page: "''The Graduate'' has piano-driven songs high on happy pills, woozy electronics and beefed up bass. Where guitars would once have swooned, now they swagger and there is a new-found feistiness to Pallot’s emotive vocals." The album was self-produced and recorded in the North London studio she shares with her husband, Grammy-nominated producer Andrew Chatterley. Pallot's record label had originally sent her to the States to work with Linda Perry. The pair recorded two songs together before Pallot r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...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] |
The Echo Label
The Echo Label was a British record label started by Chrysalis Group in 1994, and linked with Pony Canyon in Japan. The Chrysalis Group were the original owners of Chrysalis Records, which they sold to EMI. In 2005, The Echo Label recorded a loss of over £2.0 million. The decision was taken to restructure the business at the beginning of the 2006 financial year, into an "incubator" for developing writer-artists with the intention of "upstreaming" them to a major label. The signings which resulted from this included Bat for Lashes, Steven Lindsay, Rosalie Deighton, Jacob Golden and Sarabeth Tucek. They would continue to release records for their established artists Feeder and Morcheeba. However, in a Chrysalis Group report dated 15 August 2008, it was stated that The Echo Label had performed below management's expectations and had not upstreamed any artists in this period, other than Bat For Lashes, who were transferred to Parlophone in early 2007. In May 2013, Sony Music E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learning To Breathe (song)
''Fires'' is the second album by London-born singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot. First released in April 2005 on her own independent record label, Idaho Records, ''Fires'' was met with much critical acclaim but did not gain commercial recognition. After working as a support act for artists such as Sheryl Crow and Suzanne Vega, Pallot was signed up to 14th Floor Records, who were impressed with the audience response and after-show sales of her album. Thus, ''Fires'' was reissued in late April 2006 with revamped artwork and some slight remixes on some of Pallot's songs. The album entered at UK #41 and later, on the strength of the popular single "Everybody's Gone to War", made it as far as #21. To date, the album has been certified gold in the UK for sales of over 100,000, and has earned Pallot a nomination at the 2007 BRIT Awards for Best British Female. As of 4 October 2009, the album has sold 138,563 copies in the UK. Track listing All songs written by Nerina Pallot. #"Everybod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live performances to become a studio-only band, opting to record with a revolving cast of session musicians. ''Rolling Stone'' has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies". Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians, and began recording albums. Their first album, ''Can't Buy a Thrill'' (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, bluesAllMusic Steely Dan: Biography and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success through seven studio album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg (song)
"Peg" is a song by American rock music, rock group Steely Dan, first released on the band's 1977 album ''Aja (album), Aja''. The track was released as single in 1977 and reached number 11 on the United States, US Billboard charts, ''Billboard'' chart in 1978 and number eight on the ''Cashbox (magazine), Cash Box'' chart.[ Steely Dan USA chart history], Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012. With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Peg" is tied with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Hey Nineteen" for being Steely Dan's longest-running chart hit. In Canada, "Peg" spent three weeks at number seven during March 1978. Music and lyrics "Peg" has been described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as a "sunny pop" song with "layers of jazzy vocal harmonies", while music scholar Stephen K. Valdez said it features a fusion of jazz and rock elements. In the opinion of jazz musician and academic Andy LaVerne, the song "has the blues at its core, though it might not be apparent at first listen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Frustrated Superstar
''Dear Frustrated Superstar'' is the debut album by Nerina Pallot. Following its release in August 2001, the album peaked at UK #82, but officially did not chart as the official UK Albums Chart lists only the Top 75 sellers. Following its lack of commercial success, Pallot publicly criticised the record, which, following the success of follow-up ''Fires'' in 2006, was re-shipped to stores by Polydor at a discount price. According to UK music sales publication ''Music Week'', the album had sold a total of 10,073 copies in the UK as of 28 May 2006.Music Week: Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley top charts', 28 May 2006 Pallot has since begun playing material from ''Dear Frustrated Superstar'' frequently in concert. Track listing Singles Two singles were released from the album, "Patience" and "Alien". "If I Know You" was planned as the third single from the album and a video was shot, however the single and video never surfaced. Following this, Nerina and Polydor Polydor Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe McElderry
Joseph McElderry (; born 16 June 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He won the sixth series of the ITV show ''The X Factor'' in 2009. His first single " The Climb" reached number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Charts. He was also the winner of the second series of ''Popstar to Operastar'' in 2011 and the first series of '' The Jump'' in 2014. In 2015, McElderry played the lead role of Joseph in the touring production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat''. In 2022, McElderry is set to perform a tour in tribute to George Michael. To date, McElderry has released five top 20 albums – two of them reaching the UK top three. He was the first ''X Factor'' contestant to release a fourth album. As of 2014, McElderry had sold over two million records worldwide. Early life Joseph McElderry was born in South Shields, England, McElderry is the only child of Jim and Eileen (née Joyce) McElder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Awake (Joe McElderry Album)
''Wide Awake'' is the debut album of English pop singer Joe McElderry, winner of the sixth series of British talent competition ''The X Factor''. The album was released digitally on 22 October 2010, with a physical release following on 25 October 2010. Two retailer exclusive versions of the album were available, with Asda offering four bonus cards and play.com offering signed copies of the album. Background McElderry recorded his first single " The Climb" in December 2009, releasing it on 14 December, shortly after he won the sixth series of the British television talent contest ''The X Factor''. The singer received 61.3% of the final public vote. Joe's prize was a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music, a subsidiary of Sony BMG including a £150,000 advance payment. After completing X Factor Live tour, various meetings of the album took place and recording on the album began in July, before being completed in early September. Joe worked with producers Ray Hedges, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Indie Chart
The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom. Originally published in January 1980, and widely known as the indie chart, the relevance of the chart dwindled in the 1990s as major-label ownership blurred the boundary between independent and major labels. Separate independent charts are currently published weekly by the Official Charts Company. History In the wake of punk, small record labels began to spring up, as an outlet for artists that were unwilling to sign contracts with major record companies, or were not considered commercially attractive to those companies. By 1978, labels like Cherry Red, Rough Trade, and Mute had started up, and a support structure soon followed, including independent pressing, distribution and promotion. These labels got bigger and bigger, and by 1980 they were having Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart. Chart success was limited, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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