Bruce Springsteen's first seven albums get the remastered box set treatment Bruce Springsteen’s first seven albums will be reissued as a CD or vinyl box set, with five of them remastered for the first time for CD, and all the vinyl editions getting the remaster treatment for the first time. Accompanied by a 60-page book, The Album Collection Vol 1 1973-1984 is due out on 17 November. Coinciding with Springsteen’s 65th birthday, the set incorporates the following albums: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ; The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle; Born to Run; Darkness on the Edge of Town; The River; Nebraska; and Born in the USA. To clean up the audio, Springsteen worked with long-time collaborator Toby Scott, as well as Bob Ludwig, an engineering legend who has mastered most of the Boss’s albums since the early 80s. They transferred audio from the original analogue tapes, using a modern technique called the Plangent Process. “I didn’t expect that the first three albums especially would sound so suddenly clear and full of depth,” Ludwig went on.
2000 Years: The Millennium Concert 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two-disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000. On 05/31/2000 it was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 250,000 copies. The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during Joel's The Night of Two Thousand Years Tour. Though some alterations were made before its release: some songs are not the same version featured in the original concert (like "Big Shot")[citation needed], others were edited in studio (some YouTube videos of "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" show Billy singing offkey, while he sings perfectly on the album). 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert also marked the first time several songs had to be transposed to lower keys to accommodate Joel's deepening voice.
Annie Lennox In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012, Lennox performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Lennox performed the song Little Bird during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London on 12 Aug 2012. Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.[3] In 2012, Lennox was listed at number 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music.[4] She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history" due to her commercial success since the early 1980s. Early life
Eric Clapton Clapton has been the recipient of 17 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004, he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music.[6][7][8] In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.[9] Early life[edit] Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (7 January 1929 – March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 – 15 May 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec.[10] Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Cream A milk bottle showing cream risen to the top Cream skimmed from milk may be called "sweet cream" to distinguish it from whey cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making. Whey cream has a lower fat content and tastes more salty, tangy and "cheesy".[1]
Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.[2] Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. U2 - Artificial Horizon (Vinyl Available to order from U2.com for a limited time. Comilation Mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Audio Post Production at Partial Productions. Track C1: Recorded by Alastair McMillan at Croke Park, Dublin, 27th July 2009; features samples of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes'. "Beshno Az Ney/Windfall" performed by Sussan Deyhim, courtesy of Venus Rising Records. Track C2: Engineering at Echjoplex, London.
The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers, more formally called The Blues Brothers' Show Band and Revue, are an American blues and rhythm and blues revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet Jake" Blues and harmonica player/backing vocalist Elwood Blues, fronted the band, which was composed of well-known and respected musicians. The Blues Brothers first appeared on Saturday Night Live on January 17, 1976.[1] The band made its second appearance as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live. They would make their third and last appearance on November 18, 1978.[2]
The 1940's Radio Hour The 1940's Radio Hour is a Play with Music by Walton Jones. Full of 1940s music, dancing and old-time sound effects the play portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942. Plot[edit] The narrative concerns the harassed producer, the leading singer who is often drunk, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, and the young trumpet-player who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.
1940s in music For music from a year in the 1940s, go to 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1940s. In the First World, pop music, Swing, Big band, Jazz, Latin and Country music dominated and defined the decade's music. The U.S. and North America[edit]