O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
Kirsty Anna MacColl (Croydon, 10 October 1959 – Cozumel, Quintana Roo, 18 December 2000) was an English
singer and songwriter. She wrote and recorded several pop hits between
the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition, she sang on hit recordings
produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and The Pogues.
At the age of 41, MacColl died after being hit by a boat in Mexico.
Early career
Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon,
where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School
and John Newnham High School, making appearances in school plays. At
the time of her birth, her father had been in a relationship with folk
singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peggy Seeger since 1956 (a relationship that would continue until his death in 1989), and already had a son with her.
She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.
Debut single
Her debut solo single "They Don't Know",
released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart.
However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting
into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart.
MacColl recorded a follow-up single, "You Caught Me Out", but felt she
lacked Stiff's full backing, and left the label shortly before the song
was to be released. The single was pulled, and only a few "white
label" promo copies of the single are known to exist.
MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a UK number 14 hit with "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", taken from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album (to be called Real) which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks. She returned to Stiff, where pop singles such as "Terry" and "He's On the Beach" were unsuccessful but a cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England"
in 1985 got to number 7 in the UK charts. This included two extra
verses specially written for her by Bragg. Also around this time,
MacColl wrote and performed the theme song "London Girls" for Channel 4's short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing (1984).
In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's
version, reached #2 in the UK in 1983 and #8 in the United States in
early 1984; Ullman's video for the song featured a cameo by Paul McCartney
near the end. MacColl also sang back-up on the track, providing the
"Baay-byy" as the range was too high for Ullman to reach. It was also
played over the closing credits of Ullman's HBO show Tracey Takes On...
in 1996. Ullman also recorded three more of MacColl's songs, "You
Broke My Heart In 17 Places" and "You Caught Me Out", as the title
tracks of her first and second albums respectively, and "Terry" which
was released as a single in 1985.
MacColl re-emerged in the British charts in December 1987, reaching Number 2 with The Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Shane MacGowan.
This led to her accompanying The Pogues on their British and European
tour in 1988, an experience which she said helped her temporarily
overcome her stage fright. In March 1989, MacColl sang backing vocals on the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah EP.
After the contract issue was resolved, MacColl returned to recording as
a solo artist and received critical acclaim upon the release of Kite (LP) in 1989. The album was widely praised by critics, and featured collaborations with David Gilmour and Johnny Marr. MacColl's lyrics addressed life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain on "Free World", ridiculed the vapidity of fame in "Fifteen Minutes", and addressed the vagaries of love in "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" Although Kite contained many original compositions, MacColl's biggest chart success from the album was the cover of The Kinks' song "Days", which gave her a UK Top 20 hit in July 1989. A bonus track on the CD version of Kite was a cover of the Smiths song "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby".
During this time, MacColl was also featured on the British sketch comedy French and Saunders, appearing as herself, singing songs including "15 Minutes" and "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sunny Jim!" (from Kite),
"Still Life" (the B-side of the "Days" single), "Girls On Bikes" (a
reworking of B-side "Am I Right?") and, with comedy duo Raw Sex, the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid". She continued to write and record, releasing the album Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success, Landlady was not a hit for Virgin Records, and in 1992, when Virgin was sold to EMI, MacColl was dropped from the label.
Later work
She released Titanic Days, informed by her failing marriage with Lillywhite, in 1993, but ZTT Records
had agreed only to release the album as a "one-off" and declined to
sign her to a contract. In 1995, she released two new singles on Virgin,
"Caroline" and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (a duet with Evan Dando), together with the "best of" compilation Galore.
Galore became MacColl's only album to reach the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart,
but neither of the new singles, nor a re-released "Days", made the Top
40. MacColl did not record again for several years; her frustration
with the music business was exacerbated by a lengthy case of writer's
block. MacColl herself admitted that she was ready to give up her music
career and become an English teacher in South America.
In 1998, the album What Do Pretty Girls Do? was released, containing BBC Radio 1 live sessions (featuring Billy Bragg on two songs) that were broadcast between 1989 and 1995.
After several trips to Cuba and Brazil, MacColl recorded the world music-inspired (particularly Cuban and other Latin American forms) Tropical Brainstorm,
which was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It included the song
"In These Shoes?", which garnered airplay in the U.S., was covered by Bette Midler and featured in the HBO show Sex and the City. After MacColl's death it was adopted by Catherine Tate as the theme tune for her BBCTV show and featured on the soundtrack to British film Kinky Boots.
TV work
MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show,
a comedy show on the BBC. Unlike other guests on the show, she was not
part of any of the sketches but sang her songs whilst performing as in
a music video. She also made regular appearances on Jools Holland's TV shows, also on the BBC, singing during the 1995 Hootenanny a rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" with the Pipes and Drums of the Irish Guards.
MacColl appeared in the 1991 Channel 4 historic musical fantasy The Ghosts of Oxford Street as Kitty Fisher, performing "Fairytale of New York" opposite Shane MacGowan as the Duke of York.
Death
In 2000, following her participation in the presentation of a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cuba, MacColl took a holiday in Cozumel, Mexico,
with her sons and her partner, musician James Knight. On 18 December
2000 she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef, part of the
National Marine Park of Cozumel, in a designated diving area that
watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local
veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group were surfacing from a dive a
powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl
saw the boat coming before her sons did; Louis (then 13) was not in its
path, but Jamie (then 15) was, she was able to push him out of the way
(he sustained minor head and rib injuries) but in doing so she was
struck by the boat and died instantly. MacColl's body was repatriated
back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom, and was cremated after a humanist funeral at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London.
The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana
supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The
boat was owned by Carlos González Nova, brother and founder of the
chain. One employee of Guillermo González Nova, boathand José Cen Yam,
stated that he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident.
Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat
was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that González Nova said.
Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and was sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos
(about €63, £61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also
ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's
family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen
Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame.
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Perry Archangelo Bamonte (London, 3 September 1960) is an English musician and illustrator, best known as a member of the rock band The Cure from 1990 to 2005, and again since 2022.
Biography
Bamonte was born in London, England. His older brother Daryl worked as a tour manager for The Cure and Depeche Mode, and via this connection Perry joined the Cure's road crew in 1984. He eventually became the guitar tech and personal assistant for group leader Robert Smith. Already a guitarist, during this period Bamonte was taught to play piano and keyboards by Smith's sister Janet. When keyboardist Roger O'Donnell
left the Cure in 1990, Bamonte was promoted to a full member of the
band, playing both keyboards and guitar regularly, as well as six-string bass and percussion occasionally.
Bamonte's first album with the Cure was Wish in 1992, and he remained with the band for their next three albums. Due to the departure of guitarist Porl Thompson
and the return of Roger O'Donnell during this period, Bamonte's duties
for the band shifted to a stronger focus on guitar and less on
keyboards. In 2005, Bamonte and O'Donnell were dismissed by Smith, who reportedly wanted to reinvent the band as a three-piece.
Despite the abrupt dismissal and the lack of an official statement
describing the reason, Bamonte and Smith remained on amicable terms.
Bamonte kept a low profile for several years, devoting his time to fly fishing and a career as an illustrator. He continues to contribute content and illustrations for the magazine Fly Culture. In 2012 he joined the supergroup Love Amongst Ruin as bassist and appeared on their 2015 album Lose Your Way. In 2019, Bamonte joined fellow members of the Cure, past and present, for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Cure in 2022 for the first performance of their extensive Lost World
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activist.
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In addition to composing music and writing lyrics for Depeche Mode
songs, he has also been lead vocalist on several, and usually solo (some
examples are, "Somebody", "A Question of Lust" and "Home"), as evidenced by most of the Depeche Mode concerts, and has been a backing vocalist on many others.
In 1999 he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors
for "International Achievement", the Moog Innovation Award "for his
many contributions to the exploration of sound in popular music" in
2019, and became a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member in late 2020 with
fellow Depeche Mode members, Andrew Fletcher and Dave Gahan.
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Com ascendentes polacos, escoceses e canadianos,
John Anthony Gillis, filho de Teresa e Gorman Gillis, era o mais
novo de dez filhos (seis irmãos e três irmãs) vivendo num bairro de
classe média-baixa em Detroit, Michigan, numa família católica. O pai e a mãe dele trabalhavam na Arquidiocese de Detroit,
como superintendente de manutenção do prédio e secretária no
escritório do Cardeal, respetivamente. White eventualmente tornou -se
menino de coro, o que acabou dando-lhe um papel no filme de 1987, O
Mistério do Rosário Negro (The Rosary Murders), principalmente filmado
na paróquia Holy Redeemer, no sudoeste de Detroit. White, em criança, era fã de música clássica. Ele frequentou a Cass Technical High School em Detroit.
Ele começou a tocar um instrumento, bateria, aos seis anos. Quando adolescente, White já escutava blues e rock dos anos 60 que iriam influencia-lo bastante nos The White Stripes, sendo Son House e Blind Willie McTell
os seus músicos favoritos de blues. Ele e seu amigo de infância,
Dominic Suchyta, escutavam álbuns no sótão de White nos fins de semana e
começaram a gravar covers num gravador de rolo.
White era descrito, nesse tempo, sendo "um rapaz com cabelo curto e
suspensórios". Ele já mencionou em várias entrevistas que a música
"Grinnin' In Your Face", de Son House, é sua música favorita de todos os
tempos.
Em 2005, no programa 60 Minutes, White disse para Mike Wallace que a sua vida poderia ter sido diferente. "Eu seria aceite num seminário em Wisconsin,
e eu iria tornar-me padre, mas no último segundo eu pensei, 'eu vou
para uma escola pública.' Eu tinha acabado de comprar um novo
amplificador e eu não sabia se eu podia leva-lo para o seminário." Aos
15 anos, White começou um programa de aprendizagem de estufagem com um
amigo da família, Brian Muldoon. White credita Muldoon, expondo-o ao punk rock, tocando com Muldoon como uma banda: "Muldoon tocava bateria, então eu tinha que tocar guitarra." Eles gravaram um álbum, Makers of High Grade Suites, como The Upholsterers. White começou um negócio sozinho, Third Man Upholstery.
O slogan do seu negócio era "A sua mobília não está morta" e a mistura
de cores era amarelo e preto - incluindo uma carrinha amarela, um
uniforme amarelo e preto e uma prancheta amarela. Embora à Third Man Upholstery
nunca faltasse trabalho, White disse que era não lucrativo, por causa
da sua complacência sobre dinheiro e as suas práticas, que eram
consideradas pouco profissionais, inclusive fazer as contas com lápis e
escrever poesia no interior do mobiliário. Não muito depois, White
teve o seu primeiro show profissional, como baterista da banda de
Detroit Goober & The Peas. Ele também tocou em outras bandas locais e fez shows sozinho.