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Đorđe Gogov
Đorđe Gogov (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Гогов; born 5 September 1988, in Dimitrovgrad, Serbia) is a Serbian singer, musician, and television personality. He came to media attention as one of sixteen contestants on the B92's ''Operacija trijumf'', Balkan version of Endemol's ''Fame Academy''. As one of four members of OT Band, he took part in Beovizija 2009, with the song "Blagoslov za kraj", and the band placed 2nd in the final. Personal life Đorđe Gogov is a former professional high jumper, but had to give up of athletic career because he had no conditions for trainings. He was the first Serbian at the age of 14 to jump over 200 cm, with a 201 cm jump. Gogov admires artists such as Ivana Peters, Negative, Dado Topić, Gibonni, Lenny Kravitz, and Glen Hughes.Đorđe Gogov at the ''Operacija trijum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrovgrad, Serbia
Dimitrovgrad () alternatively Caribrod () is a town and municipality located in the Pirot District of southeastern Serbia. According to 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 8,043 and the town has 5,188 inhabitants. Name Since 1950, the official name of the town has been ''Dimitrovgrad'' (), but the name ''Caribrod'' () is also used. In Bulgarian, the name ''Tsaribrod'' () is preferred because there is another Dimitrovgrad on the Maritsa river in Bulgaria and Tsaribrod was used before the town was named after Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist leader who advocated a union between the Bulgarians and remaining Yugoslav nations to form the Balkan Federation. The idea was abandoned when Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito failed to reach agreements with Joseph Stalin ( Tito–Stalin split); however, Dimitrov himself did not become unpopular in Yugoslavia from the breakdown and subsequently, the name of the town continued to be in honour of him despite many citizens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Hughes
Glen Hughes is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for Canterbury-Bankstown as a and , winning the 1995 ARL Premiership with them, also scoring a try in that match. Background Hughes is the son of a former Canterbury player, Garry Hughes, and the brother of Steven Hughes and Corey Hughes, who also played for the club. Playing career Hughes made his first-grade debut for Canterbury against North Sydney in round 1 1992 at North Sydney Oval. Hughes first three seasons were mainly spent in Canterbury's reserve grade team and he did not play in the club's 1994 grand final loss against the Canberra Raiders. In the 1995 ARL season, Hughes played 15 games including the 1995 Grand Final victory over Manly-Warringah at the Sydney Football Stadium. The victory was considered a major upset as Canterbury had finished the season in sixth place and Manly were minor premiers. In the 1998 NRL season, Hughes played 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's "classic" line-up consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash (musician), Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current line-up consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Isaac Carpenter (drummer), Isaac Carpenter, and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese. Guns N' Roses heavily toured the West Coast of the United States, West Coast club circuit during their early years. Their debut album ''Appetite for Destruction'' (1987), supported by the Appetite for Destruction Tour, eponymous tour, failed to gain traction, debuting at number 182 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, until a year after its release when a grassroots campaign for the "Welcome to the Jungle" music video brought the band ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Of '69
"Summer of '69" is a song recorded by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams from his fourth album, ''Reckless (Bryan Adams album), Reckless''. It is an up-tempo rock song about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star. The track was written by Adams and his longtime songwriting collaborator Jim Vallance. "Summer of '69" was produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain. "Summer of '69" was released in June 1985 under A&M Records as the fourth single from ''Reckless''. According to later claims by Adams, the title is a reference to 69 (sex position), the sex position, not the year; Vallance disputes this assertion, however. The song was released with two B-side tracks: "Kids Wanna Rock" and "The Best Was Yet to Come", which had previously appeared on the albums ''Reckless (Bryan Adams album), Reckless'' and ''Cuts Like a Knife'' respectively. "Summer of '69" received favourable reviews from music critics. The music video for the song, which was filmed by Steve Barron, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a British and Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million album, records and Single (music), singles worldwide, placing him on the list of best-selling music artists. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and over a dozen in the US, UK, and Australia. Adams released his Bryan Adams (album), eponymous debut album when he was 20 years of age. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 top ten album ''Cuts Like a Knife''; the album featured its title track and the ballad "Straight from the Heart (Bryan Adams song), Straight from the Heart", which became his first US top-ten hit. His 1984 Canadian and US number one album, ''Reckless (Bryan Adams album), Reckless'' became the first album by a Canadian to be certified diamond in Canada and made him a global star with si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Mandić
Oliver Mandić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливер Мандић; born 13 July 1953) is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock musician, composer, and producer. Early life Musically involved from a young age, Mandić first started playing the accordion before taking up the piano. In his early youth, Mandić's family moved to the capital Belgrade where he pursued a career as a pianist after getting accepted at highly reputable Kornelije Stanković musical high school. However, despite a lot of promise, he left school in 1969 to try to branch out into pop music. Early career During the early 1970s, Mandić performed in various Belgrade bands as the keyboardist, and was described as "the wunderkind of Belgrade ockscene". Towards the end of 1971, he formed the jazz-rock band Oliver, which consisted of Mandić, members of the progressive rock band Pop Mašina and singer Dušan Prelević. Functioning as a supergroup of sorts, the band had only one live appearance, on 2 January 1972, at a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvir Laković Laka
Elvir Laković, also known as Laka ; born 15 March 1969), is a Bosnian rock singer-songwriter, born in Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Early life He attended music school there studying guitar, but he disliked the school's teaching methods and views towards music, and then subsequently quit the school. He also studied two years of the occupational health university course in Niš, Serbia, but did not graduate.Interview with Elvir Lakovic on November 4th 2008 During the Bosnian war, he was mobilized in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the war, he worked for various international organizations for six years. His parents live in ; his father is a lawyer and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam ( sr-cyr, Електрични Оргазам, lit=Electric Orgasm, translit=) is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of new wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act. They were one of the most notable acts of the former Yugoslav rock scene. History New wave years (1980–1983) The melodic hard rock band Hipnotisano Pile (''Hypnotized Chicken''), formed in 1979, which got the name by the line from the Iggy Pop song " Lust For Life", consisted of Srđan Gojković "Gile" (drums), Ljubomir Jovanović "Jovec" (guitar), Bojan Banović (vocals), Vladan Stepanović (guitar), "Džo" Otašević (keyboards). The band performed their own material, mainly written by Banović, on Guitar festivals in Belgrade. In mid-January 1980, at the Mornar bistro, after a Leb i Sol concert held at the Belgrade Dom Sindikata, Hipnotisano Pile members, drummer Gojković and guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Yell (song)
"Rebel Yell" is a song by the English rock musician Billy Idol. It is the title track of his second album ''Rebel Yell'' (1983), and was released as the album's lead single in January 1984 by Chrysalis Records. Initially, it only reached No. 62 in the UK and No. 46 in the US upon its release. However, a 1985 re-issue proved to be a big hit, peaking at no. 6 in the UK. The song received wide critical acclaim and in 2009 was named the 79th best hard rock song of all time by VH1 based on a public vote. Composition and lyrics At a televised performance of ''VH1 Storytellers,'' Idol said that he had attended an event where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones were taking swigs from a bottle of "Rebel Yell" bourbon whiskey. He was not familiar with the brand, but he liked the name and decided to write the song. The song was co-written by guitarist Steve Stevens. The instrumental introduction, which sounds like a combination of electric guitar and elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Wedding
A white wedding is a traditional formal wear, formal or semi-formal wear, semi-formal wedding originating in Great Britain. The term originates from the white colour of the wedding dress, popularised by Victorian era elites after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1840 wedding to Albert, Prince Consort, Prince Albert. The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when 750 million people watched Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the wedding of Diana, Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer to Charles III, Charles, Prince of Wales, which saw her wear Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer, an elaborate white taffeta dress with an 8 m train. The full white wedding experience today typically requires the family to arrange for or purchase printed or engraved wedding invitations, musicians, decorations such as flowers or candles, clothes and flowers for bridesmaids, groomsmen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Idol achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X (band), Generation X. He later embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made him a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in America. Idol began his music career in 1976 as a guitarist in the punk rock band Chelsea (band), Chelsea, but left the group after a few weeks and formed Generation X with his former Chelsea bandmate Tony James (musician), Tony James. With Idol as lead singer, the band achieved success in the UK and released three studio albums on Chrysalis Records before disbanding. In 1981, Idol moved to New York City to pursue his solo career in collaboration with guitarist Steve Stevens. His debut studio album ''Billy Idol (album), Billy Idol'' (1982) was a commercial success, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Paunović
Nikola Paunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Пауновић; born 25 July 1985, in Kragujevac, Serbia) is a Serbian singer and television personality. He came to media attention as one of sixteen contestants on the B92's ''Operacija trijumf'', Balkan version of Endemol's ''Fame Academy'' and Spanish '' Operación Triunfo''. As one of four members of OT Band, he took part in Beovizija 2009, Serbian selection for Eurovision 2009, with the song "Blagoslov za kraj", and the band placed second in the final. Discography Solo singlovi * 2010: "Nepozvan" – (Suncane skale in Herceg Novi, Montenegro) * 2011: "Odlazim od tebe" (feat. Cvija) OT Band singles * 2009: "Blagoslov za kraj" (feat. Kaya) * 2009: "Strpi se još malo" ( cover of Take That's Patience or forbearance, is the ability to endure difficult or undesired long-term circumstances. Patience involves perseverance or tolerance in the face of delay, provocation, or stress without responding negatively, such as re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
