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The Parlotones
The Parlotones are a South African indie rock band from Johannesburg. Formed in 1998, the group consists of Kahn Morbee (vocals and rhythm guitar), Paul Hodgson (lead guitar), Glen Hodgson (bass guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), and Neil Pauw (drums and percussion). The Parlotones' early sound was rooted in Britpop, but eventually grew to incorporate a wider spectrum of musical genres. The lyrics focus on personal themes, of love and everyday life, paired with catchy melodies that engage their audience. Within four years, the band signed with Sovereign Entertainment and released their debut album '' Episoda''. The Parlotones have released ten studio albums and are one of South Africa's best-selling music artists of all time, enjoying multi-platinum success. They have won nine South African Music Awards, and, in 2009, were the first South African band to headline at the Coca-Cola Dome. With their success, the band have championed many philanthropic causes, including The Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demographia, the Johannesburg–Pretoria urban area (combined because of strong transport links that make commuting feasible) is the 26th-largest in the world in terms of population, with 14,167,000 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful (The Parlotones Song)
Beautiful, an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty, may refer to: Film and theater * ''Beautiful'' (2000 film), an American film directed by Sally Field * ''Beautiful'' (2008 film), a South Korean film directed by Juhn Jai-hong * ''Beautiful'' (2009 film), an Australian film directed by Dean O'Flaherty * ''Beautiful'' (2011 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by V. K. Prakash * '' Beautiful: The Carole King Musical'', a 2014 Broadway musical Music * The Beautiful (band), an American rock band 1988–1993 Albums * ''Beautiful'' (Candido Camero album) or the title song, 1970 *'' Beautiful!'', by Charles McPherson, 1975 * ''Beautiful'' (David Tao album), 2006 * ''Beautiful'' (Fantastic Plastic Machine album), 2001 * ''Beautiful'' (Fish Leong album), 2003 * ''Beautiful'' (Jessica Mauboy album) or the title song (see below), 2013 * ''Beautiful'' (Meg album) or the title song, 2009 * ''Beautiful'' (The Reels album), 1982 * ''Beautiful'' (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning Live
In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions. Good is generally considered to be the opposite of evil and is of interest in the study of ethics, morality, philosophy, and religion. The specific meaning and etymology of the term and its associated translations among ancient and contemporary languages show substantial variation in its inflection and meaning, depending on circumstances of place and history, or of philosophical or religious context. History of Western ideas Every language has a word expressing ''good'' in the sense of "having the right or desirable quality" ( ἀρετή) and ''bad'' in the sense "undesirable". A sense of moral judgment and a distinction "right and wrong, good and bad" are cultural universals. Plato and Aristotle Although the history of the origin of the use of the concept and meaning of "good" are diverse, the notable discussions of Plato and Aristotle on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jip (TV Program)
Jip or JIP may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Given name * Kim Jip (1574–1656), Korean scholar * Kwon Jip (born 1984), South Korean footballer * Jip van den Bos (born 1996), Dutch racing cyclist Surname * Ye (surname) (), romanized Jip in Cantonese Arts and entertainment * Jip (''Doctor Dolittle''), a fictional dog * '' Jip and Janneke'', a series of children's books * '' Jip, His Story'', a 1996 children's book by American novelist Katherine Paterson * Mister Jip, a fictional character belonging to the Marvel Comics Universe * The beloved dog of Dora Spenlow in the Charles Dickens 1850 novel ''David Copperfield'' Other uses * Japan Innovation Party, a political party * JNK interacting proteins; see JNK * Slang term for semen See also * Gyp (other) Gyp is a word for cheating or Fraud, swindling. Gyp or GYP may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Gyp Casino, Swedish drummer Jesper Sporre (born 1961) * Gyp Mills, English sculptor and songwriter David John Mills (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Way Home (The Parlotones Song)
Long Way Home may refer to: Film and television * ''A Long Way Home'' (1981 film), an American television film directed by Robert Markowitz * ''The Long Way Home'' (1985 film), starring Richard Moir *''The Long Way Home'', a 1989 documentary directed by Michael Apted *''The Long Way Home'', a 1995 Irish drama film directed by Paddy Breathnach * ''The Long Way Home'' (1997 film), a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris *''The Long Way Home'', a 1998 television film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Jack Lemmon * ''The Long Way Home'' (2013 film), a Turkish drama film * ''The Long Way Home'' (2015 film), a South Korean war film * ''Long Way Home'' (2018 film), a Brazilian drama film Literature * ''A Long Way Home'' (book), a 2013 autobiography by Saroo Brierley * ''The Long Way Home'' (novel) or ''Keepers of the House'', a 1982 novel by Lisa St Aubin de Terán * ''The Long Way Home'' (Buffy comic), a ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' comic book series *''The Long Way Home'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Coast Radio (South Africa)
East Coast Radio (ECR) is a KwaZulu-Natal commercial South African radio station with an audience of approximately 5 million. It is one of the largest regional radio stations in South Africa. The station can also be heard online via its website and on channel 26 via Digital Worldspace Radio and is also available for listen on their app which is downloadable from the App Store and Google Play Store Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store and formerly the Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google. It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on the Android operating syst .... It broadcasts from Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal. In November 2019, East Coast Radio had enabled a new online feature to listeners called East Coast Gold, which enables them to play music from the 1960s and the years that succeeded it. East Coast Radio started as Radio Port Natal, broadcasting from the SABC studios in Old Fort Road, Durban o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highveld
The Highveld (Afrikaans: ''Hoëveld'', where ''veld'' means "field") is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1500 m, but below 2100 m, thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east of the Highveld. It is home to some of the country's most important commercial farming areas, as well as its largest concentration of metropolitan centres, especially the Gauteng conurbation, which accommodates one-third of South Africa's population. Location and description The Highveld constitutes almost the whole of the Free State, and Gauteng Provinces, and portions of the surrounding areas: the western rim of Lesotho, and portions of the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, North West, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga Provinces of South Africa. The highest part of the Highveld, around 2100 m, is its northeastern well-defined boundary, where the plateau escarpment (the Mpumalanga Drakensberg) separates it from the Mpumalanga Lowveld, (containing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
57 (band) , a semi-automatic pistol
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57 may refer to: * 57 (number) * one of the years 57 BC, AD 57, 1957, 2057 * "57" (song), a song by Biffy Clyro * "Fifty Seven", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Arch Stanton'', 2014 * "57" (album), a studio album by Klaus Major Heuser Band in 2014 * "57 Live" (album), a live double-album by Klaus Major Heuser Band in 2015 * Heinz 57 (varieties), a former advertising slogan * Maybach 57, a car * American Base Hospital No. 57 * Swift Current 57's, baseball team in the Western Canadian Baseball League * FN Five-Seven The FN Five-seven (stylized as Five-seveN) is a semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium. The pistol is named for its 5.7×28mm (.224 in) bullet diameter, and the trademark capitalization style is intended to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lester
On April 13, 2023, Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old black teenager, was shot twice and wounded after ringing the doorbell to the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri. Yarl was attempting to pick up his twin brothers and ended up at the wrong address, according to family members. Andrew Daniel Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged in connection with the shooting on April 17, 2023. He is charged with armed criminal action and first-degree assault, which is the equivalent of attempted murder in Missouri. The Clay County district attorney stated that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. If convicted, Lester faces 10 years to life in prison. The shooting gained additional attention as the first of four shootings across the US to occur in a one-week period, that were all characterized by young people being met with gunfire after making a mistake. The others were the killing of Kaylin Gillis in Hebron, New York, after she mistakenly entered the wrong driveway, the shooting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superstars (The Parlotones EP)
A superstar is a widely acclaimed celebrity. Superstar or superstars may also refer to: People * Warhol superstars, the associates of Andy Warhol * WWE Superstar, a branding term referring to a WWE wrestler * Superstar Billy Graham (born 1943), used the name Superstar * Princess Superstar (aka Concetta Kirschner, born 1971), Italian-American rapper * Har Mar Superstar (born 1978), musician from Minnesota * Roni Duani (born 1986), Israeli singer also known as Roni Superstar * Rajinikanth (born 1950), Indian film actor often credited as Superstar Rajinikanth * Shakib Khan (born 1979), Bangladeshi actor popularly referred as Superstar Shakib Khan *Steve Austin (born 1964), used the name Superstar during his short time in Extreme Championship Wrestling. Film * '' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story'', a 1987 short film using Barbie dolls to tell the story of pop singer Karen Carpenter * ''Superstar'' (1999 film), a 1999 ''Saturday Night Live''-based movie starring Molly Shannon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by performing cover songs at venues in East Village, Manhattan, such as Sin-é, while gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing interest from record labels and Herb Cohen—the manager of his father, singer Tim Buckley— he signed with Columbia Records, Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, ''Grace (Jeff Buckley album), Grace'', in 1994. Over the following three years, the band toured extensively to promote ''Grace'', including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album in New York City with Tom Verlaine as the producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
