quarta-feira, dezembro 17, 2025
Paul Butterfield nasceu há 83 anos...
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segunda-feira, novembro 17, 2025
Peter Cox, vocalista dos Go West, celebra hoje setenta anos...!
Peter John Cox (Kingston upon Thames, 17 November 1955) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the English pop duo Go West. As a solo artist, he scored three top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart in the 1990s.
Early career and Go West
Peter John Cox sang in his school choir and later as a chorister at The Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace. In his early twenties, he worked in a cover band for the Mecca Organisation. In 1978, he joined Terra Nova, a band put together by former Manfred Mann's Earth Band members Chris Slade and Colin Pattenden; they released an album in 1980. While in residency in a Sheffield nightclub, Cox began writing with longtime collaborator Richard Drummie, with whom he eventually signed a publishing deal.
In 1982, Cox and Drummie formed the band Go West, with Cox as lead vocalist and Drummie on guitar and backing vocals. After Go West signed a deal with Chrysalis Records, "We Close Our Eyes" became a top 5 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. Other Go West singles released that year included "Call Me" (1985) and "Don't Look Down". The following year, Go West was named 'Best Newcomer' at the 1986 Brit Awards.
In 1987, the band reached the top 40 in the US with the single "Don't Look Down – The Sequel". In 1990, Go West had a No. 8 hit in the US with "King of Wishful Thinking" from the film Pretty Woman. In 1992, the duo released their third studio album Indian Summer, which included "Faithful"; the song reached the top 20 in Canada and the United States.
Solo career
Cox moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to pursue a solo career. His self-titled debut studio album, Peter Cox, was released in 1997 to critical acclaim. Subsequent albums include Flame Still Burns (2001), Nine Miles High (2002), Desert Blooms (2002), Game for Fools (2005) and Motor City Music (2006). Cox also teamed up with Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet on the album Tony Hadley vs Peter Cox & Go West, released in 2004.
In 2003, Cox replaced Then Jerico's Mark Shaw on the British reality television show Reborn in the USA after Shaw quit the series in the show's first few days. Even though Cox had achieved previous success across the Atlantic as the lead vocalist of Go West, he was able to appear on the show as he was unknown in the US as a solo artist. He was a favourite to win but was voted off in New York after he forgot the lyrics to the Norah Jones hit he was performing.
Other albums by Cox include The S1 Sessions (2010), Riding the Blinds (2012), and Damn the Brakes (2013).
Cox's voice has been described as "smooth as silk" with a "gritty underbelly".
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domingo, agosto 31, 2025
Van Morrison nasceu há oitenta anos...!
Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded "Gloria", which became a garage band staple. His solo career started under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). While initially a poor seller, the album has become regarded as a classic. Moondance (1970) established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances.
Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and early rhythm and blues. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz and stream of consciousness narrative, such as the album Astral Weeks. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic soul", and his music has been described as attaining "a kind of violent transcendence".
Morrison's albums have performed well in Ireland and the UK, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40. He has scored top ten albums in the UK in four consecutive decades, following the success of 2021's Latest Record Project, Volume 1. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released – on average – more than an album a year. He has received two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.
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Brown Eyed Girl...
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terça-feira, junho 24, 2025
George Michael nasceu há sessenta e dois anos...
George Michael, nome artístico de Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Londres, 25 de junho de 1963 - Oxfordshire, 25 de dezembro de 2016), foi um cantor britânico que vendeu mais de 100 milhões de discos no mundo todo.
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Marcadores: blue-eyed soul, dance pop, George Michael, homossexuais, música, pop, pop rock, rythm and blues, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!
segunda-feira, junho 02, 2025
Hoje é dia de ouvir música dos anos 80...
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Tony Hadley, vocalista dos Spandau Ballet, celebra hoje 65 anos...!
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domingo, abril 20, 2025
Steve Marriott morreu há 34 anos...
Na Grã-Bretanha, Marriott tornou-se um ícone de estilo, popular e frequentemente fotografado. Marriott foi influenciado por músicos como: Miles Davis, Buddy Holly, Booker T & the MG's, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters e Bobby Bland. Em sua vida posterior, Marriott se distanciou da indústria musical e se afastou das grandes gravadoras, permanecendo em relativa obscuridade. Ele voltou às suas raízes musicais, tocando em pubs e clubes em Londres e Essex.
Marriott morreu em 20 de abril de 1991, quando um incêndio, que se pensava ter sido causado por um cigarro, destruiu a sua casa do século XVI em Arkesden, Essex. Ele tinha 44 anos e recebeu postumamente o prémio Ivor Novello, em 1996, por sua "contribuição excecional para a música britânica", e foi listado no Mojo como um dos 100 maiores cantores de todos os tempos.
O ex-líder dos Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, escolheu Marriott como o quarto maior cantor de todos os tempos e Clem Burke, dos Blondie, classificou-o em décimo sexto. Paul Stanley dos Kiss chamou a Marriott de "inacreditável" e um herói dele, enquanto Steve Perry, dos Journey, o nomeou como um dos seus cantores favoritos.
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quarta-feira, abril 16, 2025
Dusty Springfield nasceu há 86 anos...
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (London, 16 April 1939 – Henley-on-Thames, 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her image – marked by a peroxide blonde bouffant/beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and eye shadow) and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances – made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
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sábado, abril 12, 2025
Vince Gill - 68 anos
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quarta-feira, abril 02, 2025
Jesse Carmichael, teclista dos Maroon 5, celebra hoje 46 anos
Carmichael also has a solo project called 1863 and a side project titled Circuit Jerks.
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segunda-feira, março 17, 2025
Música adequada à data...
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Saudades de Alex Chilton...
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Alex Chilton morreu há quinze anos...
Alex Chilton (born William Alexander Chilton; Memphis, December 28, 1950 – New Orleans, March 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was never repeated in later years with Big Star and in his subsequent indie music solo career on small labels, but he drew an intense following among indie and alternative rock musicians. He is frequently cited as a seminal influence by influential rock artists and bands, some of whose testimonials appeared in the 2012 documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me.
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Chilton was taken to a hospital in New Orleans on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, complaining of health problems, and died the same day of a heart attack. Chilton had experienced at least two episodes of shortness of breath in the week prior to his fatal heart attack, though he did not seek medical attention in part because he did not have health insurance. He was survived by his wife, Laura, a son, Timothee, and a sister, Cecilia.
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domingo, março 02, 2025
Dusty Springfield morreu há 26 anos...
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (London, 16 April 1939 – Henley-on-Thames, 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire.
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quinta-feira, janeiro 30, 2025
Steve Marriott nasceu há oitenta anos...
Stephen Peter Marriott (Bow, Londres, 30 de janeiro de 1945 - Essex, 20 de abril de 1991), popularmente conhecido como Steve Marriott, foi um versátil cantor, compositor e guitarrista britânico, mais lembrado pela sua poderosa voz e a sua técnica de guitarra agressiva em grupos como os Small Faces (1965-1969) e os Humble Pie (1969-1975).
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sexta-feira, janeiro 17, 2025
Paul Young faz hoje 69 anos
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sexta-feira, janeiro 10, 2025
Saudades de David Bowie...
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David Bowie partiu há nove anos...
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Na noite do dia 10 de janeiro, dois dias após o seu sexagésimo nono aniversário e o lançamento do álbum Blackstar, Bowie morreu, no seu apartamento em Nova York, vítima de cancro de fígado. O músico foi diagnosticado com a doença dezoito meses antes, mas optou não anunciar o seu estado de saúde para o público. O diretor de teatro belga Ivo van Hove, com quem trabalhou no musical Off-Broadway Lazarus, disse que Bowie evitou assistir aos ensaios pelo avanço da doença. Hove observou que David estava trabalhando constantemente durante o diagnóstico.
Tony Visconti, produtor musical de Bowie, disse:
Ele sempre fez o que quis. E ele queria fazer as coisas do jeito dele, e da melhor maneira possível. A sua morte não foi diferente da sua vida - uma obra de arte. Ele fez Blackstar para nós, é o seu presente final. Eu sabia por um ano que isso aconteceria dessa forma. Não estava, entretanto, preparado. Ele era um homem extraordinário, cheio de amor e vida. Ele sempre estará connosco. Por ora, é apropriado chorar.Após a morte de Bowie, fãs fizeram homenagens e memoriais. Foram distribuídas flores num mural de Brixton, sul de Londres, onde o cantor nasceu. A fotografia da capa do álbum Aladdin Sane serviu de ilustração, enquanto fãs cantavam as suas músicas. Outras homenagens ocorreram em Nova York, Los Angeles e Berlim. Bowie foi cremado em Nova York.
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quarta-feira, janeiro 08, 2025
David Bowie nasceu há 78 anos...
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