domingo, dezembro 22, 2024
Robin e Maurice, os gémeos dos Bee Gees, nasceram há 75 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Bee Gees, country rock, disco, Heartbreaker, Ilha de Man, Maurice Gibb, música, pop, Robin Gibb, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico, rythm and blues contemporâneo, soft rock
terça-feira, outubro 15, 2024
Música de aniversariante de hoje...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 07:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: art rock, balada, Chris de Burgh, Don't Pay The Ferryman, música, pop, Rock, Rock Progressivo
Chris de Burgh comemora hoje 76 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: art rock, balada, Chris de Burgh, Lady In Red, música, pop, Rock, Rock Progressivo
quarta-feira, julho 17, 2024
Billie Holiday morreu há 65 anos...
sexta-feira, junho 07, 2024
Tom Jones - 84 anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Blue Eyed Soul, Green Green Grass Of Home, País de Gales, pop, rythm and blues, Tom Jones
Música adequada à data...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Blue Eyed Soul, Delilah, País de Gales, pop, rythm and blues, Tom Jones
segunda-feira, maio 20, 2024
Robin Gibb morreu há doze anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:12 0 bocas
Marcadores: Austrália, balada, Bee Gees, disco, Ilha de Man, música, pop, Reino Unido, Rhythm and Blues, Robin Gibb, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico, Stayin' Alive
domingo, abril 07, 2024
Billie Holiday nasceu há 109 anos...
Billie Holiday (Filadélfia, 7 de abril de 1915 - Nova Iorque, 17 de julho de 1959), por vezes, mais conhecida como Lady Day, é por muitos considerada a maior de todas as cantoras do jazz.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Billie Holiday, Blue Moon, jazz blues, Lady Day, música, swing
segunda-feira, fevereiro 26, 2024
Michael Bolton nasceu há setenta e um anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, heavy metal, judeus, Michael Bolton, música, soft-rock, When a Man Loves a Woman
segunda-feira, fevereiro 12, 2024
Música de aniversariante de hoje...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 07:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Bolero, cantautor, Espanha, folk, Joaquín Sabina, música, pop, Rock, Rock Latino, Rumba, salsa, Y Nos Dieron las Diez
Joaquín Sabina faz hoje 75 anos...!
Joaquín Sabina nasceu em 1949 em Úbeda,departamento de Jaén, na região andaluz e era filho de um policial e de uma dona de casa. Desde os quatorze anos escrevia poemas e tocava canções com os amigos na cidade natal. Em 1968, vai estudar para a Universidade de Granada, mas logo larga os estudos para um exílio em Londres. As razões precisas que levaram Sabina a essa decisão são objeto de polémica, mas sabe-se que o jovem Joaquín chegou a quebrar a vitrine de um banco, no furor do movimento estudantil espanhol contra o regime do general Franco.
Em Londres, Sabina organiza sessões de cinema com filmes proibidos na Espanha franquista, além de participar em montagens teatrais de esquerda, especialmente obras de Bertolt Brecht. Nessa época Sabina também amadurece como artista musical, pois se vê obrigado a tocar canções espanholas e latinas tradicionais nos restaurantes e bares nos arredores de Portobello Road, um reduto hispânico tradicional na capital britânica.
Em 1977, com a morte de Franco, Sabina retorna à Espanha e casa-se com a argentina Lucia, dando início a uma movimentada vida amorosa. Em 1978, instala-se em Madri com a sua mulher e lança seu primeiro disco de canções: Inventario. Após seu primeiro disco, Sabina afasta-se do estereótipo do "compositor engajado" e adota uma roupagem mais roqueira, mais contemporânea, e discos como Malas compañías e Ruleta rusa o consagram como um artista de sucesso na Espanha e na América de língua espanhola.
Em 2001 sofreu um leve AVC que colocou a sua vida em perigo, recuperando poucas semanas depois sem sofrer sequelas físicas, mas o incidente influiu na sua forma de pensar e viu-se imerso numa importante depressão, o que o levou a abandonar os palcos durante algum tempo. Depois de ultrapassá-la, publicou o seu décimo-oitavo álbum, Alivio de luto (2005). Conseguiu três discos de platina com Vinagre y rosas (2009) e um de ouro por Lo niego todo (2017), os seus últimos discos até ao momento.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: 19 Dias y 500 Noches, balada, Bolero, cantautor, Espanha, folk, Joaquín Sabina, música, pop, Rock, Rock Latino, Rumba, salsa
sexta-feira, dezembro 22, 2023
Os músicos gémeos dos Bee Gees, Robin e Maurice, nasceram há 74 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Bee Gees, country rock, disco, Ilha de Man, Maurice Gibb, música, Night Fever, pop, Robin Gibb, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico, rythm and blues contemporâneo, soft rock
domingo, outubro 15, 2023
Música de aniversariante de hoje...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 07:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: A Spaceman Came Travelling, art rock, balada, Chris de Burgh, música, pop, Rock, Rock Progressivo
Chris de Burgh - 75 anos...!
De Burgh was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, to Colonel Charles Davison, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily de Burgh, an Irish secretary. His father had substantial farming interests, and Chris spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria and Zaire, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his diplomatic and engineering work.
The Davisons finally settled in Bargy Castle, County Wexford, a twelfth-century castle in Ireland bought by his maternal grandfather, General Sir Eric de Burgh, a former Chief of the General Staff in India, who was descended from a distinguished Hiberno-Norman family. The castle was converted into a hotel where Chris gained much early experience performing to the guests, and he later assumed "de Burgh" as his stage name.
After attending Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England, de Burgh went on to graduate from Trinity College, Dublin with a Master of Arts degree in French, English and History.
Musical career
Chris de Burgh signed his first contract with A&M Records in 1974, and supported Supertramp on their Crime of the Century tour, building himself a small fan base. His début album, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues. It failed to chart upon its release in February 1975. Five months later, he released a single called "Turning Round" from the album, released outside the UK and Ireland as "Flying". It failed to make an impression in the UK, but it stayed on top of the Brazilian charts for 17 weeks. This became a familiar pattern for the singer/songwriter, as every one of his '70s albums failed to chart in the UK or US while they racked up big sales in continental European and South American countries. In 1981, he had his first UK chart entry with Best Moves, a collection culled from his early albums. It set the stage for 1982's Rupert Hine produced The Getaway, which reached number 30 in the UK charts and number 43 in the US, thanks to the eerie single "Don't Pay the Ferryman". Chris de Burgh's follow-up album, Man on the Line, also performed well, charting at 69 in the US and 11 in the UK.
Chris de Burgh had an across-the-board success with the ballad "The Lady in Red" in late 1986; the single became a number one hit in the UK (number three in America) and its accompanying album, Into the Light, reached number two in the UK. (number 25 in the U.S.). That Christmas season, a re-release of de Burgh's 1976 Christmas song "A Spaceman Came Travelling" became a Top 40 hit in the UK. Flying Colours, his follow-up to Into the Light, entered the British charts at number one upon its 1988 release, yet it failed to make the American charts. De Burgh never hit the US charts again and his commercial fortunes began to slide slightly in Britain in the early 1990s, yet he retained a following around the world. This is mainly due to inactivity of his previous recording label A&M Records UK division in U.S.
In 2007, a concert in Tehran was planned for mid-2008, together with local band Arian, which would have made Chris de Burgh the first western pop singer to perform in Iran since the 1979 revolution. However, the concert never went ahead because he had not been given permission by the Iranian authorities to perform in the country.
Personal life
Chris de Burgh has been married to his wife Diane since 1977 and lives in Enniskerry, County Wicklow in Ireland. They have two sons, Hubie and Michael, and a daughter, Rosanna, a model, who won the Miss World competition in 2003 for Ireland. He is a distant relative of the 13th-century English nobleman Hubert de Burgh, who features prominently in Shakespeare's play The Life and Death of King John. He is an avid Liverpool F.C. supporter, as is Rosanna, and they often attend matches at Anfield.
In 1994, he was found to have had an affair with his children's 19-year-old Irish nanny, Maresa Morgan, who was assisting the family while de Burgh's wife Diane was recuperating in the hospital from a broken neck during a horse-riding accident. His daughter Rosanna indicated during an interview with The Irish Independent that she held little sympathy for Morgan, regarding the latter's portrayal of herself as a victim as "pathetic" and hoped "she pays for her mistake". She forgave her father for his affair.
In 2011, bottles from DeBurgh's vintage wine cellar sold for over $500,000, including a world record set for a magnum collection of postwar vintages.
DeBurgh has a noted interest in war history, especially that of World War I and World War II. His songs contain numerous references to soldiers and battle, and in 2006 he purchased a rare First World War letter written by an unknown soldier.
De Burgh has pursued and won 16 defamation actions. The Irish Independent said he has always been a bit prickly about criticism. Peter Crawley, a theatre reviewer at The Irish Times, received a directed response from de Burgh when he wrote a less than sympathetic review of de Burgh's show in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre in September 2009. Crawley noted: "He departs the stage for 'Lady in Red', invading boxes and draping himself over audience members ... Certain toes will never uncurl after this experience, but it is almost admirable how unaltered de Burgh has remained by the flow of time." In a lengthy, much-publicised reply to the critic, de Burgh made his feelings known, particularly in the postscript:
We were wondering by way of explanation and, as you seem to portray yourself as a bitter and unfulfilled man, were you much teased by your school chums in the schoolyard and called 'Creepy Crawley'?AllMusic critic Greg Prato has stated: "Depending on who you ask, Chris de Burgh either specializes in pretentious, bombastic art rock disguised as pop or is a master of penning soaring and majestic compositions." The BBC has said of de Burgh: "To his millions of fans, Chris de Burgh is the ultimate romantic singer. But to many others he's a figure of fun." When the staff of Melody Maker were putting together a lampoon edition of a new arts and music magazine, they chose de Burgh for the cover. His signature song, "The Lady in Red", has been repeatedly voted one of the public's most disliked songs. Neil Norman, writing for The Independent, described de Burgh as "the world's naffest balladeer". In his favour, Mike DeGagne, writing for AllMusic, has acclaimed de Burgh as "a genuine master of the soft ballad" and "one of the finest mood-invoking artists ever".
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: art rock, balada, Chris de Burgh, música, pop, Rock, Rock Progressivo, Spanish Train
segunda-feira, julho 17, 2023
Billie Holiday morreu há 64 anos...
quarta-feira, junho 07, 2023
Tom Jones - 83 anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: balada, Blue Eyed Soul, It's Not Unusual, País de Gales, pop, rythm and blues, Tom Jones
sábado, maio 20, 2023
Robin Gibb morreu há onze anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: Austrália, balada, Bee Gees, disco, Ilha de Man, música, Night Fever, pop, Reino Unido, Rhythm and Blues, Robin Gibb, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico