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The Loved One (song)
"The Loved One" is a song by Australian R&B/rock band The Loved Ones and was released in May 1966 as the debut single ahead of their extended play, ''The Loved Ones'' (also known as the ''Blueberry Hill'' EP), which appeared in December. The song also featured on their debut long play album, ''Magic Box'', in October 1967. "The Loved One" reached No. 2 on the Australian Top 40 singles charts in 1966.McFarlane . Retrieved 16 March 2010. Background The Loved Ones were formed in Melbourne in 1965 by Gerry Humphrys, Ian Clyne and Kim Lynch.Spencer et al, (2007'Loved Ones, The'entry. Retrieved 16 March 2010. They had previously been members of a youthful trad jazz band, The Red Onion Jazz Band, in which Humphrys and Lynch had played clarinet and tuba respectively.Spencer et al, (2007'Red Onion Jazz Band'entry. Retrieved 16 March 2010. They recruited drummer Gavin Anderson and ex–Wild Cherries guitarist Rob Lovett.Spencer et al, (2007'Wild Cherries, The'entry. Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loved Ones (Australian Band)
The Loved Ones were an Australian rock band formed in 1965 in Melbourne following the British Invasion. The line-up of Gavin Anderson on drums, Ian Clyne on organ and piano, Gerry Humphrys on vocals and harmonica, Rob Lovett on guitar and Kim Lynch on bass guitar recorded their early hits. Their signature song, "The Loved One (song), The Loved One", reached number two on Australian singles charts and was later covered by INXS. In 2001 it was selected as number six on the Australasian Performing Right Association's (APRA) list of APRA Top 30 Australian songs, Top 30 Australian songs of all time. Their debut album, ''Magic Box (The Loved Ones album), The Loved Ones' Magic Box'', was released late in 1967 and included their other hit singles, "Ever Lovin' Man" and "Sad Dark Eyes". They disbanded in October 1967 and, although the band's main career lasted only two years, they are regarded as one of the most significant Australian bands of the 1960s. They reformed for a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publisher (popular music), music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the ''Copyright law of Australia#Copyright Act 1968, Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and Music publisher (popular music), music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Baby Live
''Live Baby Live'' is the first live album by Australian Rock music, rock band INXS. It was released on 4 November 1991 and features tracks recorded during their Summer XS Tour in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, Spain, Switzerland, Melbourne, Sydney, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas. The album peaked in the top 10 on both the Australian and United Kingdom albums charts. It has sold over one million copies in the United States, earning a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA. A single, "Shining Star (INXS song), Shining Star", was released from and ahead of the album on 21 October. It became the group's ninth Top 40 single on the UK Singles Chart, but failed to appear on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the US, despite reaching the top 20 of the rock charts. The title's two uses of 'live', indistinguishable by spelling alone, are pronounced differently – according to ''The Greatest Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INXSIVE
''INXSIVE'' is the first compilation album by Australian rock band INXS, which was released in 1982 on Deluxe Records for the Australian market only. It appeared in the top 100 of the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. ''INXSive'' features highlights from the band's first two studio albums, related B-sides, and two non-album singles: " Simple Simon" and "The Loved One". The latter is a cover of a 1966 single originally by The Loved Ones; INXS later re-recorded this song and released it on the album ''Kick'' (October 1987). It was described by Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane: "The budget-priced collection ''INXSive'' on Deluxe mopped up various album tracks and early singles sides". It completed the band's contract with DeLuxe prior to their move to WEA The Wea were a Miami–Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana. Historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Send A Message
"I Send a Message" was the second single released by Australian rock band INXS from their fourth album '' The Swing''. The music video was directed by Yamamoto San and filmed in Tokyo at the city's oldest Buddhist temple in Main Old City Park. ''Cash Box'' called the song "a powerful dance cut" with a "frenetic back beat" and "staccato vocal." At the 1984 Countdown Music Awards, the song was nominated for Best Australian Single. Track listing 7" single Track listing 12"/CD Maxi single Track listing Charts The song was released on 12 March 1984 and reached No.3 on the Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 19 .... NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. It also reached No.18 on the New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Keep Walking
"Just Keep Walking" is a song recorded by Australian rock band INXS. Deluxe Records released the song in October 1980 as the only single from their debut studio album ''INXS''. The song reached the 38th place on the Top 40 list and became their first Australian Top 40 hit, earning the band international fame. Background The only single from the eponymous album released the same year, it is the song that helped the band launch its international career. By that time, INXS had already had three years of experience and already released the debut single " Simple Simon". "Just Keep Walking" is also the subject of the group's first music video, shot like a live performance in a minimalist setting: white background and INXS logo on the black floor. The song has a remixed version in 2001 under the title "I'm So Crazy" by the Italian group Par-T-One. The B-side is the song "Scratch", which was not released on album until its inclusion in the 2002 compilation album '' Stay Young 1979–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Thomas (record Producer)
Christopher P. Thomas (born 13 January 1947 in Perivale, Middlesex, England) is an English record producer who has worked extensively with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Badfinger, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Pulp and the Pretenders. He has also produced breakthrough albums for the Sex Pistols, the Climax Blues Band, the Pretenders and INXS. Early life Thomas was classically trained on the violin and piano as a child and he began playing bass in London pop bands, turning down at one point the opportunity to play with Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell before Hendrix had struck fame. After several years, Thomas decided that he had little interest in making a career as a performing musician. In a 1998 interview, he stated "I realized that being in a band you were dependent on all these other people, and I also knew that if I'd ever been successful in a band, I would've wanted to stay in the studio and just make the records; I wasn't that interes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the Beat (music), beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes doo-wop). It may be viewed as a distinct genre field rather than music that overlaps with Pop music, pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product and less Authenticity in art#Authenticity of performance, authentic than rock music. Characteristics and etymology Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre, genre and form of rock music, rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, drums, and sometimes with keyboards and harmonica). From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal music, heavy metal. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago blues songs, such as those by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, who put several blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kick (INXS Album)
''Kick'' is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band INXS, released on 19 October 1987 through WEA in Australia, Mercury Records in Europe, and Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada. The album was produced by British producer Chris Thomas, recorded by David Nicholas in Sydney and Paris and mixed by Bob Clearmountain at AIR Studios in London. The band's most successful studio album, ''Kick'' has been certified six times platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album also spawned four US top 10 singles, " New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", " Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight", the last of which reached the top of the US ''Billboard'' singles charts. Background Between 1980 and 1984, INXS released four studio albums and had toured their native country Australia extensively. The release of '' Listen Like Thieves'' and its second single "What You Need" in 1985 brought the group international acclaim, as well as a breakthrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INXS
INXS (a phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian rock band, formed as the Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. The founding members were bassist Garry Gary Beers, main composer and keyboardist Andrew Farriss, drummer Jon Farriss, guitarist Tim Farriss, lead singer and main lyricist Michael Hutchence, and guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly. For 20 years, INXS was fronted by Hutchence, whose stage presence made him the focal point of the band. Initially known for their new wave/pop style, the band later developed a harder pub rock style that included funk and dance elements. In 1984, INXS had their first number-one hit in Australia with " Original Sin". The band achieved international success in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s with the hit albums '' Listen Like Thieves'', '' Kick'', and '' X'', and the singles " What You Need", " Need You Tonight" (the band's only US number-one single), " Devil Inside", " Never Tear Us Apart", " Suicide Blonde" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Birth Of Cleo
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
