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Boris Williams
Boris Peter Bransby Williams (born 24 April 1951) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Cure from 1984 until 1994, and for forming the band Babacar (band), Babacar in the late 1990s. Biography Williams was born in 1951 (some sources mistakenly say 1957) in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, France to English parents and his family moved to Farnham, Farnham, England during his childhood. He first played drums in local bands with future Cure bandmate Roger O'Donnell and originally focused on jazz fusion. He then turned to alternative rock and served as a session and touring musician for Thompson Twins and Kim Wilde. In 1984, The Cure needed a new drummer in the middle of an American tour, when previous drummer Andy Anderson (drummer), Andy Anderson was suddenly fired. Williams was recommended for the position by the Cure's then-bassist/producer Phil Thornalley, who had worked with Williams while engineering the Thompson Twins album ''Quick Step & Side Kick, Qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Versailles (city)
Versailles ( , ) is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, known worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, which is designated an UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Located in the western suburbs of the French capital, from the centre of Paris, Versailles is a wealthy suburb of Paris with a service-based economy and is a major tourist destination. According to the 2017 census, the population of the city is 85,862, down from a peak of 94,145 in 1975.Population en historique depuis 1968 , INSEE A new town founded by order of King , Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock began to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits (The Cure Album)
''Greatest Hits'' is a greatest hits album by English rock band the Cure. It was first released in Japan on 7 November 2001, before being released in the UK and Europe on 12 November and then in the US the day after. The band's relationship with longtime label Fiction Records came to a close, and the Cure were obliged to release one final album for the label. Lead singer Robert Smith agreed to release a greatest hits album under the condition that he could choose the tracks himself. The band also recorded a special studio album released as a bonus disc to some versions of the album. The disc, titled ''Acoustic Hits'', consists of the eighteen songs from the North American release re-recorded using acoustic instruments. History ''Greatest Hits'' features select singles from the Cure's then-25 year history, along with the two new tracks "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes". All songs were newly remastered by Tim Young at Metropolis Mastering specifically for the collection. The UK and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babacar (Babacar Album)
''Babacar'' is the only album by the British rock group Babacar. Critical reception Allmusic reviewer Ajda Snyder calls it "patient and breezy, with mostly clean guitar sounds" and the songs "on the whole, pleasant and trippy." Snyder wrote that singer Caroline Crawley possessed "a very unique and recognizable voice. The subject matter of her lyrics includes all things natural, such as landscapes and fauna, and she sings softly but firmly with a thoughtless confidence." Track listing Personnel ;Babacar * Caroline Crawley - vocals *Roberto Soave - bass guitar *Rob Steen - guitar *Boris Williams - drums ;Additional personnel *Bruno Ellingham - violin *Tristan Powell - e-bow * Porl Thompson - guitar, banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ... *Hebe Lucraft - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl Thompson
Pearl Thompson (born Paul Stephen Thompson,Chris Gerrard (2021)The Cure FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known. Backbeat, ISBN 9781493053988, p. 155 8 November 1957) is an English musician and artist. Thompson is best known as a member of the English alternative rock band The Cure from 1983 to 1993 and from 2005 to 2011, during which he was credited as Porl Thompson and played mainly guitar with occasional keyboards and saxophone. After leaving the Cure he focused on a successful career as a visual artist. Career Thompson spent his early childhood in London and his family later moved to Crawley. He was a school friend of Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, and Lol Tolhurst and played with them in various local bands, eventually evolving into the Easy Cure. He adopted the stage name Porl Thompson to avoid confusion with Paul Thompson of Roxy Music. Thompson's guitar style did not mesh with Smith's post-punk songw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Crawley
Caroline Lesley Crawley (8 August 1963 – 4 October 2016) was an English singer who sang for various bands. Career Caroline Crawley was the co-founder of Shelleyan Orphan alongside guitarist Jemaur Tayle. They met in their mutual home town of Bournemouth, England, where they had a shared appreciation of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate; , pp. 500–01 The name of the band comes from the Shelley poem " Spirit of Solitude". Crawley was the lead vocalist in the band that went on to release four albums, ''Helleborine'' (1987), ''Century Flower'' (1989), ''Humroot'' (1992) and ''We Have Everything We Need'' (2008). In 1991, Crawley was approached by 4AD Records founder Ivo Watts-Russell who asked her to appear on four tracks of This Mortal Coil's album ''Blood''. Crawley was permitted to do her own interpretations of the tracks, and appeared in the video for the Syd Barrett cover, "Late Night". In the early 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freaky Trigger
''Freaky Trigger'' is an Internet publication and e-zine that focuses on popular culture with topics varying from music to cinema. It was founded by the music critic Tom Ewing in 1999 and features Pete Baran and Mark Sinker as editors. From 2000 to 2005, it also used to host a music-specific blog, titled NYLPM. Ewing also started the popular music forum I Love Music (ILM) in August 2000 as a sister website to ''Freaky Trigger''."ILXor.com FAQ" Retrieved 9 February 2016 A notable feature on the website is ''Popular'', a longtime ongoing series where Ewing reviews each UK Singles Chart number one single ever in chronological order. ''Popular'' was later the subject of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Up (The Cure Album)
''Mixed Up'' is a remix album by English rock band the Cure, released on 20 November 1990 by Fiction Records. The songs are remixes of some of their hits, reflecting the popularity of remixing of existing songs and dance culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2018, a sequel remix album was released, titled '' Torn Down''. Most of the songs are extended mixes. Several had been previously released on 12" singles, but some are completely remade, with Smith recutting vocals due to the original tapes not being available. The record closes with the extended version of a new single, " Never Enough". The remix of " Pictures of You" was originally released under the title "(Strange Mix)". In an interview featured on the ''Trilogy'' DVD, singer Robert Smith described the remix album as something "fun after the doom and gloom of '' Disintegration''". The Cure also released some other new mixes as the B-sides of the singles from ''Mixed Up'': the first single, "Never Enough", f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Head On The Door
''The Head on the Door'' is the sixth studio album by English rock band the Cure. It was released on 30 August 1985 by Fiction Records. Preceded by the single " In Between Days" which had reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart, ''The Head on the Door'' was described by ''Melody Maker'' as "a collection of pop songs". With its variety of styles, it allowed the group to reach a wider audience in both Europe and North America. In the United Kingdom it became their most successful album to date, entering the albums chart at No. 7 on 7 September. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams. Bassist Simon Gallup, who had previously worked on three major Cure albums of the early 1980s, was called back before the recording. In 1985, the band became a quintet with instrumentalist Porl Thompson as their fifth official member. ''The Head on the Door'' is the first Cure album where all the songs were composed solely by singer and guitarist Robert Smith. History and music T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quick Step & Side Kick
''Quick Step & Side Kick'' is the third studio album by the English new wave band Thompson Twins. It was released in February 1983 by Arista Records, and was their first album to be released as a trio (the band consisted of up to seven members during previous releases). The album reached no. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified Platinum by the BPI. In the United States and Canada, the album was titled simply as ''Side Kicks'', and was only the second Thompson Twins album to be released there. The album was the first collaboration between the band and record producer Alex Sadkin and was recorded at Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas. The Jamaican singer Grace Jones (who had worked with Sadkin on three of her studio albums by that time) made a guest appearance on the track " Watching", though her vocals were not included on the track when it was remixed and released as a single in mid-1983. Different versions of the album were released in several different terri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Thornalley
Phillip Carden Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter, musician, and producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He produced the album ''Pornography'' by The Cure and was later their bass player. He began releasing his own music in 1988 and briefly joined the band Johnny Hates Jazz. In later years he worked principally as a songwriter, and is perhaps best known for co-writing the song " Torn" (made famous by Natalie Imbruglia) and for writing two UK number one hits for Pixie Lott. Starting in the 2010s he released more solo music under his own name and as Astral Drive. Biography Thornalley was born in Worlington, Suffolk. He began working as a recording engineer in 1978 at RAK Studios in London for producers Mickie Most, Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin. His first major role as a producer was for the 1982 album ''Pornography'' by The Cure.Rees, Dafydd & Crampton, Luke (ed.) ''Rock movers & shakers, Volume 1991, Part 2'' (1991), , ("...the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
