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The Road To Freedom (Chris De Burgh Album)
''The Road to Freedom'' is singer Chris de Burgh's 15th original album, released in 2004. It was the first album released after he left A&M, who had released all of de Burgh's previous albums and singles. Track listing All compositions by Chris de Burgh except as noted. #"When Winter Comes" – 3:48 #"The Road to Freedom" – 4:26 #"Snow Is Falling" – 3:53 #"The Words 'I Love You'" – 3:26 #"Songbird" – 4:00 #"Five Past Dreams" – 3:48 #"Here for You" – 3:41 #"What You Mean to Me" – 3:29 (music: Phil Palmer, lyrics: de Burgh) #"Rose of England" – 5:14 #"The Journey" – 3:52 #"Read My Name" – 4:16 #"Even Now" - 4:09 (Special Edition Only) #"Kiss Me from a Distance - 3:22 (Special Edition Only) #"Little Angel" - 3:10 (Special Edition Only) #"Once Upon a Time - 3:39 (Special Edition Only) Personnel * Chris de Burgh – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, guitars * Chris Cameron – acoustic piano (1, 3), orchestral arrangements (1, 3, 7) * Peter Gordeno â ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Edel AG
Edel SE & Co. KGaA is a German independent media company based in Hamburg. As a label and publishing group, it also operates marketing and sales for artists and smaller music labels. The repertoire of the Edel labels includes dance, rock and pop music to classical music and a children's catalogue. In addition to the development and marketing of music, the group also deals with the production, logistics and distribution of CDs, DVDs, Phonograph record, vinyls, and books at the production site of the subsidiary optimal media GmbH in Röbel/Müritz as well as with services in the online and book business. History Edel was founded in 1986 by the current chairman of the board of directors and the majority shareholder Michael Haentjes as a one-man company under the name ''edel Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH'' and initially dealt exclusively with mail order for film music. In 1992, the company name was changed to ''edel Company Music GmbH''. The company grew steadily and record ...
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Chris Porter (producer)
Chris Porter is a British record producer, audio engineer and narrator. He has worked with Sir Elton John, Take That, George Michael George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the MTV generation and is one of the best-selling musici ... and Chris de Burgh. References External linksOfficial site Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British record producers British audio engineers {{UK-music-bio-stub ...
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Timing Is Everything (Chris De Burgh Album)
''Timing Is Everything'' is singer Chris de Burgh's fourteenth original album, released in 2002. Track listing All compositions by Chris de Burgh except as noted. #"Guilty Secret" – 3:50 #"If Beds Could Talk" – 3:47 #"Lebanese Night" featuring Elissa – 4:46 #"Timing Is Everything" – 4:47 #"There's Room in This Heart Tonight" – 3:37 #"She Must Have Known" – 3:30 (de Burgh, Mark Spiro Mark Spiro (born March 28, 1957) is an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist. Represented on millions of records sold worldwide, Spiro has delivered songs to artists such as Julian Lennon, Cheap Trick, John Waite, Heart, Laura B ...) #"The Best That Love Can Be" – 3:58 #"Bal Masqué" – 3:28 #"Love and Time" – 4:16 #"Another Rainbow" – 3:47 #"Save Me" – 2:47 Personnel * Chris de Burgh – lead and backing vocals * Peter Gordeno – keyboards * James Nisbet – guitars * Phil Palmer – guitars * Rick Mitra – bass, drums, percussion * Tee Green – ...
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The Storyman
''The Storyman'' is singer Chris de Burgh's 16th original album, released in 2006. The album is a collection of songs with accompanying stories. The original digipack release of the album included two booklets; one contained the usual lyrics and credits, while the second contained stories written by de Burgh to accompany each song. The lyrics of the title track contain multiple references to previous songs and albums from de Burgh's career, in chronological order. Track listing #"The Storyman Theme" – 4:00 #"One World" – 3:56 #"Leningrad" – 5:12 #"My Father's Eyes" – 4:18 #"The Grace Of A Dancer" – 6:13 #"Spirit" – 4:16 #"The Shadow Of The Mountain" – 4:19 #"Raging Storm" – 4:18 (featuring Kristyna Myles) #"The Mirror Of The Soul" – 9:15 #"The Sweetest Kiss Of All" – 3:13 #"The Storyman" – 4:37 #"My Father's Eyes" (Chris de Burgh with Hani Hussein) - 4:35 All compositions by Chris de Burgh. Personnel * Chris de Burgh – vocals, keyboards, guitars * R ...
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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 ...
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A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distributing releases from Polydor Ltd. from the UK. Throughout its operations, A&M housed well-known acts such as Alpert himself, Squeeze, Gin Blossoms, Dishwalla, Joe Cocker, Procol Harum, Captain & Tennille, Sting, Sergio Mendes, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Supertramp, Bryan Adams, Burt Bacharach, Liza Minnelli, The Carpenters, Paul Williams, Quincy Jones, Janet Jackson, Cat Stevens, Peter Frampton, Elkie Brooks, Carole King, Styx (band), Styx, Dennis DeYoung, Extreme (band), Extreme, Amy Grant, Joan Baez, The Police, Jann Arden, CeCe Peniston, Shanice, Blues Traveler, Soundgarden, Duffy (singer), Duffy, Phil Ochs, Sheryl Crow, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Nazareth_(band), Nazareth. PolyGram was acquired by Seagram and dissolved into Un ...
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Phil Palmer
Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists. He is best known for his work with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. Biography Palmer grew up in north London. Ray and Dave Davies of The Kinks were his uncles on his mother's side."Session Man" by Phil Palmer, 2021 Palmer has supported artists that include Lucio Battisti (album '' Una giornata uggiosa'', 1980), Pet Shop Boys, Murray Head, Steve Harley, Wishbone Ash (1986 touring), Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Iggy Pop, Scott Walker (''Track Three'', 1984), Thomas Anders (1989), Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Dire Straits (1992 tour), Pete Townshend (1993 and 2000 shows), Eros Ramazzotti ( Tutte storie 1993), Alejandro Sanz (Alejandro Sanz 3 1995), Paola e Chiara (1997), Pino Daniele, Geri Halliwell, Katey Sagal, Chris de Burgh, Bryan Adams, Johnny Hallyday, David Knopfler, George Michael, Ivano Fossati, Renato Zero, Claud ...
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Peter Gordeno (musician)
Peter Dean Gordeno (born 20 February 1964) is an English songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, who has also been a Concert, live and session musician. Since 1998, he has toured with Depeche Mode. He performs keyboard parts in lieu of Alan Wilder, as well as occasional backing vocals and bass guitar. He and Andrew Phillpott went as backing musicians along with Martin Gore on a brief tour called "A Night with Martin L. Gore" in 2003. His father was the choreographer and dancer Peter Gordeno, and his mother is Angela Wallace. He also has a brother and a sister. He has been credited since the early 1990s, with writing, playing instruments, producing and providing backing vocals on several singles and full albums of an array of artists from the pop scene. He was also the musical leader on the track "Miss Sarajevo" from the ''Songs from Last Century'' pr ...
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Gavyn Wright
Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He is best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions (including Elton John, Simply Red, Bush, Mecano, Oasis, Gordon Haskell, Donna Lewis, Tina Turner, Italian singer-songwriter Alice, Lucio Battisti, Van Morrison) as well as numerous TV and movie soundtracks (including ''Shrek'' 1 and 2, ''The Constant Gardener'', ''Stuart Little'', ''Batman Begins'', ''The Black Dahlia'', ''Shakespeare in Love'', '' 12 Monkeys'', ''The Last Emperor'', ''We Were Soldiers'', '' Shall We Dance?''). External linksDiscographyat DiscogsFilmographyat the New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ... British classical violinists British male ...
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