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Seven (Lisa Stansfield Album)
''Seven'' is the seventh solo studio album by the British singer Lisa Stansfield, released on 31 January 2014. It was her first new album since '' The Moment'' in 2004. ''Seven'' was promoted by three singles: " Can't Dance", " Carry On" and " So Be It", and the European 2013–2014 Seven Tour. The album was re-released in October 2014, titled ''Seven+'', with one new song, " There Goes My Heart" and fifteen remixes. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a double album with the original track listing. In Europe, ''Seven+'' was issued as a standalone album. The '' Live in Manchester'' album/video recorded during the Seven Tour was released on 28 August 2015. Background and release After releasing ''The Moment'' in 2004, Stansfield focused on acting. She played herself in the comedy series ''Monkey Trousers'' in mid-2005. In late 2006, she appeared in the drama series ''Goldplated'', playing Trinny Jamieson. In September 2007, she appeared in another television series, ''Agat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Jane Stansfield (born 11 April 1966) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her career began in 1980 when she won the singing competition ''Search for a Star''. After appearances in various television shows and releasing her first singles, Stansfield, along with Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, formed Blue Zone (band), Blue Zone in 1983. The band released several singles and one album, but after the success of Coldcut's "People Hold On" in 1989, on which Stansfield was featured, the focus was placed on her solo career. Stansfield's first solo album ''Affection (Lisa Stansfield album), Affection'' (1989) and its worldwide chart-topping lead single "All Around the World (Lisa Stansfield song), All Around the World" were major breakthroughs in her career. She was nominated for two Grammy Awards, and ''Affection'' is her best-selling album to date. In the following years, Stansfield released ''Real Love (Lisa Stansfield album), Real Love'' (1991), ''So Natural (Lisa Stansfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy ( ; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play ''Disco Pigs'', a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early film credits include the horror film ''28 Days Later'' (2002), the dark comedy ''Intermission'' (2003), the thriller '' Red Eye'' (2005), the Irish war drama '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (2006), and the science fiction thriller '' Sunshine'' (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama '' Breakfast on Pluto'' (2005), which earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination. Murphy began his collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing the Scarecrow in ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in '' Inception'' (2010) and ''Dunkirk'' (2017). He gained greater prominence for his role as T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Diana Miller (born 28 December 1981) is an American-British actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian '' Vogue'' and for the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films ''Layer Cake'' and '' Alfie''. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in '' Factory Girl'' (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in ''The Edge of Love'' (2008), and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2008. Her role as The Baroness in '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny. Miller returned to prominence with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the 2012 television film '' The Girl'', for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She has since starred in several notable fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley ( ; born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films and Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters, particularly Historical drama, period dramas, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Keira Knightley, numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2018, she was appointed an Order of the British Empire, OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to drama and charity. Born in London to actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent at age six and initially worked in commercials and television films. Following a minor role as List of Star Wars characters#Sabé, Sabé in ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999), her breakthrough came when she played a tomboy footballer in ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002) and co-starred in ''Love Actually'' (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maybury
John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. Life and career Promo director During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's " Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos . and received various awards, and " |
The Edge Of Love
''The Edge of Love'' is a 2008 British biographical romantic drama film directed by John Maybury and starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys. The script was written by Knightley's mother, Sharman Macdonald. Originally titled ''The Best Time of Our Lives'', the fictional story concerns Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (played by Rhys), his wife Caitlin Macnamara (played by Miller) and their married friends, the Killicks (played by Knightley and Murphy). The film premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The story is loosely based on real events and people, drawing on Rebekah Gilbertson's idea and David N. Thomas' 2000 book ''Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow''. He has since written further about Dylan and Vera, highlighting the several deceits in the film that trivialised their friendship. He has described how Dylan and Vera were related as cousins, and the extent to which their families inter-married, farming together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Thomson
Ali Thomson (born 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. His brother is Dougie Thomson, of the Alan Bown Set and Supertramp. Ali began singing and playing piano in local bands and moved to London in the 1970s where he worked for Mountain RecordsBiography Allmusic.com. Allmusic erroneously states that Thomson worked for Mountain as a songwriter. as an office help hand. Ali signed to A&M Records in the UK and recorded two albums. The first album was entitled ''Take a Little Rhythm'' peaking at #99 on the Billboard 200 on August 9, 1980. The title track was a hit in the US, peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1980 and also peaking at No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song also reached No. 10 on the ''Radio & Records'' chart and No. 12 in the Hitline chart in January 1980 on London's Capital Radio in the UK. The song reached No. 22 (2 weeks) and No. 37 AC in Canada. A second single, "Live Every Minute", just missed the top 40, pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hall (playwright)
Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film ''Billy Elliot'' (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as Billy Elliot (musical), a stage musical of the same name. In addition, he wrote the play ''The Pitmen Painters (play), The Pitmen Painters'' (2007), and the screenplays for the films War Horse (film), ''War Horse'' and ''Rocketman (film), Rocketman'' (2019). Early life Hall was born in 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a house painter and decorator and a housewife. He was educated at Benfield School in Walkergate. As a youth he went to Wallsend Young People's Theatre along with Deka Walmsley, Mark Scott and Trevor Fox. Walmsley later appeared in two of Hall’s works, ''Billy Elliot'' and ''The Pitmen Painters''. Hall attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and was taught by poet Paul Muldoon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Mole
Charlie Mole is a British/French film and television score composer and songwriter. Mole received a music scholarship to New College, Oxford, Oxford University, where he was a member of the band "Kudos Points" which provided the dance tracks for the Oxford University Film Foundation production of the Hugh Grant film '' Privileged''. The band achieved a record deal whilst the members were still students. Mole went on to sign a deal with Warner-Chappell as a songwriter for ten years before turning to film score composing. His songwriting collaborations include Chaka Khan, Kylie Minogue, Angie Stone, Ultra Naté, Lisa Stansfield and Girls Aloud Girls Aloud are a British-Irish pop music, pop girl group that was created through the ITV (TV network), ITV talent show ''Popstars: The Rivals'' in 2002. The line up consisted of members Cheryl (singer), Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, N .... Filmography References External links * Year of birth missing (living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordeal By Innocence
''Ordeal by Innocence'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 November 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and the US edition at $2.95. A crucial witness is unaware of his role as such until two years after a man is found guilty of a murder. When he realizes the information he holds, he re-opens the pain of loss in a family, and re-opens the question of who was the murderer two years ago. This novel received mixed reviews at the time of publication, as reviewers were not generally comfortable with the psychological aspects of the story. The plot had her "customary ingenuity" but lacked "blitheness" and was "much too like an attempt at psychological fiction". Sympathy is evoked for too many characters, "but the unravelling is sound and the story well told." Another said there is ingenuity and a good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie's Marple
''Agatha Christie's Marple'' (or simply ''Marple'') is a British ITV television programme loosely based on books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to the third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. Unlike the counterpart TV series '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'', the show took many liberties with Christie’s works, most notably adding Miss Marple’s character to the adaptations of novels in which she never appeared. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, the BBC acquired the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations, suggesting that ITV would be unable to make a seventh series of ''Marple''. Premise ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
