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The Silver Convention band was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. The group was named after Levay, "Silver" being Levay's nickname. Kunze had in the late 1960s been a pop lyricist who wrote protest songs in German; when these tunes went out of style, he began producing pop records and commercials.
Levay had developed a taste for American music while growing up in Yugoslavia, eventually becoming a music arranger and lyricist.
Using female session vocalists for their first recordings, they scored a successful single in the United Kingdom in 1975 with the song "Save Me". They were only a studio group, and realised then that they would need to find professional entertainers for presentation to the public.
They recruited vocalists Linda Thompson (real name Linda Übelherr, who would be billed on her solo records as Linda G. Thompson, formerly a member of Les Humphries Singers), Penny McLean (real name Gertrude Wirschinger) and Ramona Wulf (real name Ramona Kraft, born to a German mother and black American G.I. father).
Their first production was the minor successful single named ironically "There Is Always Another Girl".
As Silver Convention they scored two major U.S. hit singles. "Fly, Robin, Fly," of which the complete lyrics consisted of only six distinct words (Fly, Robin, Up, To, The, Sky), scored three weeks at #1 in late November and early December 1975, and won the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1975.
Initially the song was titled "Run, Rabbit, Run", changed by the writers moments before the recording took place. Their next success "Get Up And Boogie", which also consisted of only six distinct words (Get, Up, And, Boogie, That's, Right) scored three weeks at #2 in June 1976.
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Interactive version at http://www.sprawl... (webcam and broadband recomm...
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Interactive version at http://www.sprawl... (webcam and broadband recommended)
A project by Vincent Morisset & friends
Dear friends,
This song was inspired by the book Mountains Beyond Mountains ... If you haven't read it yet you can pick it up here (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812980557/?tag=partnersinhea-20), or at your local bookstore. Or if you would like to give to Partners in Health - the organization the book talks about - you can go here (https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/donate).
Love,
Arcade Fire
ox
Credits:
Music by Arcade Fire - Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld & Richard Reed Parry
Director - Vincent Morisset (AATOAA)
Producer - Jean-Luc Della Montagna (1976)
Choreographer - Dana Gingras
Art Director - Renata Morales
Director Of Photography - Christophe Collette
Editor - Stéphane Lafleur
Cast - Régine Chassagne, Karine Denault, Gabrielle Desgagnés, Noémie Dufour-Campeau, Mark Eden-Towle, Alan Lake, Milan Panet-Raymond, Esther Rousseau-Morin & Michael Watts
Film Production - 1976
Production Manager - Guillaume Bilodeau
Production Assistants - Alexandra Larocque-Pierre, David Deias, Jonathan Vermette & Jonathan Lamirande
Stylist - Renata Morales
Stylist Assistants - Charlotte Eedson, Ana Luisa Rodriguez, Marilis Cardinal, Adam Dekeyser & Vanessa Vick
Make Up - Leslie Ann Thompson
Set And Prop Design - Yola Van Leeuwenkamp & Sylvain Lemaître
Papier Maché Heads - Vadi Confident of Jacmel, Haiti
1st Assistants Camera - Yan Clément & Guillaume Sabourin
Data Wranglers - Sean Sweeney & Sébastien Landry
Gaffer - Denis Lamothe
Best-boy Gaffer - André Caron
Key Grip - Jacques "Jackson" Girard
Best-boy Grips - Conrad Roy & Richard Limoges
Craft - Mélanie Laprise
Post-Production - Post-Moderne
Colorist - Julien Alix
Visual Effects - Guillaume Pelletier
Visual Consultant - Caroline Robert
Post Production Supervisors - Alexandre Domingue, Marie-Pier Favreau & Anne-Marie Bousquet
Interactive Production - AATOAA
Sprawl II Remix For Interactive Experience - Damian Taylor
Programmer - Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit
Designer & Photographer - Caroline Robert
Arcade Fire Management - Scott Rodger, Dounia Mikou & Jennifer George
Band Assistant - Chantal Vaillancourt
Produced in Co-operation with MuchFACT, A Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent, Supported by MuchMusic/MuchMore Networks.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund) and of Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters.
http://www.arcade...
http://www.pih.org
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Album Version made By Me on Movie Maker.
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Album Version made By Me on Movie Maker.
the who eminence front pete townshend roger daltrey keith moon guitar center ensenada baja california.
PETE TOWNSHEND KEITH MOON ROGER DALTREY J.EWINSTLE THE WHO ALBUM IT HARD SUSBSTITUTE MY GENERATION STAN3 stan3 eminence front its hard the who
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The story covers about five days of the life of a certain Jimmy, a parti...
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The story covers about five days of the life of a certain Jimmy, a participant in the circa 1964 Mod lifestyle in England. "The story is set on a rock!" announced the composer, Pete Townshend, at one live performance, indicating that the opera represents Jimmy's looking back at the events of the previous day or two that led him into the gloomy situation where he finds himself at the end of the story. The narrative is difficult to derive from the lyrics alone, but becomes clearer with the benefit of a short story (also written by Townshend) related from Jimmy's first person perspective, that is included in the album's booklet.
The first half of the opera consists of songs that allude to the frustrations and insecurities that govern Jimmy's life, including brief glimpses of his home life, his job, his psychoanalyst, and his unsuccessful attempts to have a social life. Halfway through the opera he sings "I've Had Enough", finds himself kicked out of his home when his parents find his box of 'blues' (blue pills of some unnamed drug, possibly amphetamine) (this happens in the song Cut My Hair). Distraught and with nothing better to do, Jimmy takes a large dose of blues and takes a train ride to the coast (Embodied in the song 5:15, which is supposed to be the time when the train departs). During his stay near the beach in Brighton, he encounters the former "Ace Face", the leader of a group of Mods, whom he admires greatly. However, "Ace Face" now works as a bell boy at a nearby hotel. Ironically, this is the very same hotel Ace Face had smashed the windows of two days before. This display of masculine bravado had earned him the admiration of many of his fellow Mods two days before during Jimmy's first stay in Brighton. Jimmy is disgusted to learn that the person he had admired as a Mod had "sold out".
At this point, Jimmy is inconsolable. Everybody from his parents to his girlfriend had disappointed him before, but he had never expected the Mod lifestyle to let him down. Drunk and depressed, he steals the now former Ace Face's scooter from the front of the Brighton hotel where he is employeed, takes it out to a barren rock protruding from the sea, and crashes psychologically. With nothing left to live for he finds redemption in the pouring rain, which is expressed in the final song, "Love, Reign o'er Me".
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