Kevin Patrick Cronin Jr. (Evanston, Illinois, October 6, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and pianist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the Billboard Hot 100 throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including two chart-toppers written by Cronin: "Keep on Loving You" (1980) and "Can't Fight This Feeling" (1984).
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O músico, nas suas letras, deixa evidenciado o seu patriotismo, e é uma espécie de porta-voz dos trabalhadores, muitas vezes mencionados nas suas canções. O álbum Born to Run está na lista dos 200 álbuns definitivos no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
O artista também participou da música "We Are the World", uma parceria de 45 cantores que tinha o objetivo de arrecadar fundos para o combate da fome na África, escrita por Michael Jackson e Lionel Richie. Os 45 astros formaram o grupo USA for Africa. Bruce já vendeu mais de 120 milhões de discos.
The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and they worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hits from their years as a duo, their 21-song set list included material from their solo careers, and covers. Amongst them were "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer" and Simon's "Late in the Evening", with the show concluding with a reprise of the latter. Ongoing personal tensions between the duo led them to decide against a permanent reunion, despite the success of the concert and a subsequent world tour.
The album and film were released the year after the concert. Simon and Garfunkel's performance was praised by music critics and the album was commercially successful, peaking No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album charts and being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video recordings were initially broadcast on HBO and were subsequently made available on Laserdisc, CED, VHS and DVD. A single was released of Simon and Garfunkel‘s live performance of The Everly Brothers‘s song "Wake Up Little Susie". It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and is the duo's last Top 40 hit.
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Warren William Zevon (Chicago, Illinois, January 24, 1947 – Los Angeles, California, September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician.
Zevon's most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Accidentally Like a Martyr", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".
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Zevon died of mesothelioma on September 7, 2003, aged 56, at his home in Los Angeles. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles.
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A carreira a solo de Waters apresenta, até o momento, cinco álbuns de estúdio: 'Music from the Body' (com Ron Geesin, 1970), The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), 'Radio K.A.O.S.' (1987), Amused to Death (1992) e Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). Em 1990, Waters produziu um dos maiores concertos de rock da história, The Wall — Live in Berlin, com um público estimado em duzentas mil pessoas. Em 1996, ele foi introduzido ao Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll, como membro do Pink Floyd. Waters tem estado em turnê extensivamente desde 1999, tocando The Dark Side of the Moon integralmente em suas turnês mundiais de 2006 a 2008.
Em 2 de julho de 2005, ele reuniu os seus ex-parceiros de Pink Floyd: Nick Mason, Richard Wright e David Gilmour para o Live 8, um concerto de caridade. Foi a primeira aparição do grupo com Waters desde a última performance, 24 anos antes. Em 2010, ele iniciou a turnê The Wall Live, que inclui uma apresentação completa do álbum The Wall. Durante essa turnê, Gilmour e Mason (os únicos remanescentes do Pink Floyd, desde a morte de Richard Wright), mais uma vez, juntaram-se a Waters, em 12 de maio de 2011, na O2 Arena, em Londres. Tocou, com Gilmour, "Comfortably Numb"; Mason juntou-se em "Outside the Wall".
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Alastair Ian Stewart (Greenock, 5 September 1945) is a Scottish-born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of characters and events from history.
Stewart has released 16 studio and four live albums since his debut album Bed-Sitter Images in 1967, and continues to tour extensively in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. He is best known for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat", from the platinum album of the same name. Though Year of the Cat and its 1978 platinum follow-up Time Passages brought Stewart his biggest worldwide commercial successes, earlier albums such as Past, Present and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his intimate brand of historical folk-rock, a style to which he returned in later albums. His 2009 release, Uncorked, was released on his independent label, Wallaby Trails Recordings, and was followed up by Al Stewart and The Empty Pockets Live in 2024. Stewart has worked with Peter White, Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, Francis Monkman, Tori Amos, and Tim Renwick, and more recently has played with Dave Nachmanoff and former Wings lead-guitarist Laurence Juber.
Stewart appears throughout the musical history of the folk revivalist era. He played at the initial Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London flat with Paul Simon (who was collaborating with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers), and hosted at the Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960s.
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Amy Macdonald (Bishopbriggs, 25 de agosto de 1987) é uma cantora e compositora escocesa.
O seu álbum de estreia, This Is the Life, foi lançado em 30 de julho de 2007 e até a data já vendeu mais de 1.200.000 exemplares por todo o mundo. O primeiro single, "Poison Prince", foi lançado em 7 de maio de 2007. Ela já participou de vários festivais de música, tais como Festival de Glastonbury, Hyde Park Calling, T in the Park, V Festival e no Festival do Sudoeste em Portugal. Amy assinou um contrato com a gravadora Vertigo, a mesma que representa os The Killers e Razorlight.
Amy Macdonald começou a tocar guitarra acústica aos 15 anos. As suas maiores influências são Travis e The Libertines.
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Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (San Francisco, 1 de agosto de 1942 - Forest Knolls, California, 9 de agosto de 1995) foi guitarrista, vocalista e letrista da lendária banda de rock psicadélico Grateful Dead. Foi considerado o 46º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
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Jerry Garcia por vezes teve a saúde ameaçada por causa do seu peso instável, e, em 1986, entrou em coma diabético, que quase lhe custou a vida. Apesar da sua saúde ter melhorado após esses incidentes, ele também teve que lutar contra o vício do consumo de heroína e cocaína. Morreu em 1995 quando estava internado num centro de reabilitação para dependentes químicos na Califórnia, vítima de um ataque cardíaco. O seu corpo foi cremado e parte de suas cinzas espalhadas no Rio Ganges na Índia e a outra parte por baixo da Ponte Golden Gate, Califórnia no Estados Unidos. Desde então tornou-se uma figura muito respeitada na cultura musical americana.
