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Rod Coombes
Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing drums with British bands Stealers Wheel in 1972 to 1973 and again in 2008 and Strawbs from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2004 to 2010. Career He has played drums professionally since he was 17, when he joined singer Lulu's backing band The Luvvers. He played with the Jeff Beck Group at the time of the release of the single "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and then joined soul band Trifle, with whom he stayed for about 18 months. He moved on to raunchy blues rock band Juicy Lucy before joining Stealers Wheel for their eponymous first album (which spawned the million seller " Stuck in the Middle With You"). In 1973, he left the increasingly dysfunctional band and joined Strawbs, with whom he stayed until after the release of the 1977 album '' Burning for You''. After spending some time on the studio side learning to engineer and produce, he lived in Malaysia for a period, returning to obtain his mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road Market. From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists. 'Notting Hill and Bayswater', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 177-88. For much of the 20th century, the large houses were subdivided into multi-occupancy rentals. Caribbean immigrants were drawn to the area in the 1950s, partly because of the cheap rents, but were exploited by slum landlords like and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Cuts (Strawbs Album)
''Deep Cuts'' is the tenth studio album by English band Strawbs. Track listing Side one #"I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 3:00 #"Turn Me Round" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:42 #"Hard Hard Winter" (Cousins, Robert Kirby) – 2:54 #"My Friend Peter" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:15 #"The Soldier's Tale" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:15 Side two #"Simple Visions" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:40 #" Charmer" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:13 #"Wasting my Time (Thinking of You)" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:27 #"Beside the Rio Grande" (Cousins) – 4:18 #"So Close and Yet So Far Away" (Cousins) – 2:59 Bonus track - Japanese re-issue CD #"You Won't See the Light" ( Dave Lambert) Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar *Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar *Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion ;Additional personnel *Robert Kirby – backi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Pie (song)
A lemon tart (french: tarte au citron) is a dessert dish, a variety of tart. It has a pastry shell with a lemon flavored filling. In the UK, lemon tart consists of a pastry case (often made in a fluted tart tin) containing a baked lemon custard (usually composed of eggs, sugar, lemon juice and cream). Usually recipes include blind-baking before adding the custard. Sometimes, the tart is dusted with icing sugar prior to serving. Alternatively, the lemon filling can be cooked in a saucepan and then added to the baked pastry case. A dessert very similar to the lemon tart is the lemon pie, usually served for dessert, made with a crust usually made of shortcrust pastry and lemon custard filling. The lemon pie is prepared with a bottom pie crust. This pie is different from the lemon meringue pie Lemon meringue pie is a dessert pie consisting of a shortened pastry base filled with lemon curd and topped with meringue. History Fruit desserts covered with baked meringue wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Darling (song)
"Grace Darling" is a song by English band Strawbs, featured on their 1975 album ''Ghosts''. Recording The track was recorded in the chapel of the Charterhouse School, which the members of the band Genesis had attended in the 1960s, and which Strawbs' producer at the time, Tom Allom, had also attended. According to Dave Cousins, the chapel's pipe organ was used, played by the Alastair Ross, choirmaster and organist of St Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe; the band's keyboardist, John Hawken, chose not play on the recording, as he was not used to the very noticeable delay that falls between the pressing of a key on a pipe organ and the sounding of the corresponding note.''Ghosts'' CD booklet, A&M 540 937-2 (1998) During the recording of the album, Cousins fell ill and spent some time in hospital, returning to the studio after a lumbar puncture to record his vocals lying on the studio floor. Lyrical and musical content The title derives from the refrain "You are my saving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn (song)
"Autumn" is a three-part song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album ''Hero and Heroine''. The final part "The Winter Long" was released as a single in 1974 under the title "Hold on to Me (The Winter Long)". Heroine's Theme The first part of the three part song is an instrumental written by keyboardist John Hawken. It was later released as a single in the United States due to demand from black radio stations. The music begins with a menacing riff played on a Moog synthesizer, gradually builds to a climax and then segues into the much quieter second part of the song. Deep Summer Sleep "Deep Summer Sleep" is written and sung by Dave Cousins. The Winter Long The final part of the song is written by Dave Cousins but sung by Dave Lambert. It was released as a single in the UK in 1974. Several overseas releases followed. Release history B-side of the single The B-side track "Where Do You Go (When You Need a Hole to Crawl In)" is a Dave Cousins composition, fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero And Heroine (song)
"Hero and Heroine" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album of the same name. It is written by Dave Cousins and has obvious drug allusions, the main reason it didn't get much airplay on BBC radio. The song is in a similar vein to an earlier track "Witchwood" but with rather more obvious allegory. Dave Cousins originally demonstrated the song to the band on banjo and the guitar picking under the verses does indeed retain a bluegrass feel. Keyboardist John Hawken and guitarist Dave Lambert added mellotron and guitar power chords between the verses which gives the whole song a more epic bearing. B-Side The B-side track "Why" is another Dave Cousins composition, not released on any studio album. It forms the first part of the composite song "Why and Wherefore" which appears on the compilation/rarities album '' Halcyon Days''. Personnel *Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert – electric guitar *Chas Cronk – bass guitar *John Hawke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shine On Silver Sun
"Shine on Silver Sun" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album ''Hero and Heroine''. It is written by Dave Cousins and was intended as a "come-back" single after the post-"Part of the Union" band split. The single was a minor success peaking at number 34 in the UK Singles Chart. B-Side The B-side track "And Wherefore" is a band composition, not released on any studio album. It forms the second part of the composite song "Why and Wherefore" which appears on the compilation/rarities album '' Halcyon Days''. Personnel *Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert – backing vocals, electric guitar *Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar *Rod Coombes – drums * John Hawken – piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ..., mellot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuck In The Middle With You
"Stuck in the Middle with You" (sometimes known as "Stuck in the Middle") is a song written by Scottish musicians Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan and performed by their band Stealers Wheel. The band performed the song on the BBC's ''Top of the Pops'' in May 1973, and the song charted at No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. It also became an international hit, reaching No. 6 in the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Overview "Stuck in the Middle with You" was released on Stealers Wheel's 1972 eponymous debut album. Gerry Rafferty provided the lead vocals, with Joe Egan singing harmony. It was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Rafferty's lyrics are a dismissive tale of a music industry cocktail party written (i.e. the clowns and jokers would be all the music executives and hangers on), and performed as a parody of Bob Dylan's style (the vocal impression, subject, and styling were so similar, listeners have wrongly attributed the song to Dylan since its release). The band was surprised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Old Town
"Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and The Pogues. History The song was written about Salford, Lancashire, England, the city where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in his 1949 play ''Landscape with Chimneys'', set in a North of England industrial town, but with the growing popularity of folk music the song became a standard. The first verse refers to the gasworks croft, which was a piece of open land adjacent to the gasworks, and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. The line in the original version about smelling a spring on “the Salford wind” is sometimes sung as “the sulphured wind”. But in any case, most singers tend to drop the Salford reference altogether, in favour of calling the wind “smoky”. The Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Artists
United Artists Corporation (UA), currently doing business as United Artists Digital Studios, is an American digital production company. Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. UA was repeatedly bought, sold, and restructured over the ensuing century. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the studio in 1981 for a reported $350 million ($ billion today). On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in entertainment companies One Three Media and Lightworkers Media, then merged them to revive United Artists' television production unit as United Artists Media Group (UAMG). However, on December 14 of the following year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG and folded it into MGM Television. United Artists was again revived in 2018 as United Artists Digital Studios. Mirror, the joint distribution ventur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shout (The Isley Brothers Song)
Shout or Shouts may refer to: * Shout (sound), a loud vocalization Films and television * ''The Shout'', a 1978 film by Jerzy Skolimowski * ''Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe'', 1986 television movie about the Australian singer * Shout (film), ''Shout'' (film), a 1991 movie starring John Travolta * Shout, a character on the children's television series ''The Fresh Beat Band'' Music * Shout (Black gospel music), a form of exuberant, fast-paced church music originating among slaves in the southern United States. * Shout (band), a Christian rock band in the late 1980s * Shout Records, a record label *'' Shout! The Mod Musical '', a Broadway musical featuring songs from the 1960s * ''Shout! The Legend of The Wild One'', a musical based on the life of Johnny O'Keefe Albums * Shout! (Isley Brothers album), ''Shout!'' (Isley Brothers album), by The Isley Brothers * Shout (Devo album), ''Shout'' (Devo album) * Shout! (Gov't Mule album), ''Shout!'' (Gov't Mule album) Songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing To The Devil's Beat
''Dancing to the Devil's Beat'' is a studio album by English band Strawbs. Track listing #"Revenge (Can Be So Sweet)" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk)– 5:18 #"Beneath the Angry Sky" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:29 #"Copenhagen" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:46 #"Pro Patria Suite" – 7:44 #:"Back Along (We Were Young) (Cousins)" #:"All for Each Other (Cousins)" #:"Home Is Where the Heart Was Ever" (Cousins, Oliver Wakeman) #"Where Silent Shadows Fall" (Cousins) – 5:45 #"The Man Who Would Never Leave Grimsby" ( Dave Lambert) – 5:01 #"The Ballad of Jay and Rose Mary" (Cousins) – 4:17 #"Dancing to the Devil's Beat" (Cousins) - 3:38 #"Oh How She Changed 2009" (Cousins) – 4:21 Personnel ;Strawbs *Dave Cousins – vocals, guitar, banjo * Dave Lambert – vocals, guitar *Chas Cronk – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, programming *Rod Coombes – drums *Oliver Wakeman – piano, Hammond organ, keyboards, orchestrations ;Additional personnel *Ian Cutler – fiddle *Vince Martin – harm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
