Limahl celebra hoje 66 anos

    

Christopher Hamill (Pemberton, 19 de dezembro de 1958), mais conhecido pelo nome artístico de Limahl, é um cantor britânico que alcançou fama mundial como vocalista da banda britânica de synthpop e new wave Kajagoogoo, antes de seguir carreira a solo. O seu maior sucesso foi "The Never Ending Story" (1984), tema da banda sonora do filme homónimo. 

   

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Kirsty MacColl morreu há vinte e quatro anos...

     

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.

Chart re-emergence

When Stiff went bankrupt in 1986, MacColl was left unable to record in her own right, as no record company bought her contract from the Official Receiver. However, she had regular session work as a backing vocalist, and she frequently sang on records produced or engineered by her husband, Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (of ABBA), and The Wonder Stuff among others. She appeared in the videos "Welcome to the Cheap Seats" for The Wonder Stuff and "(Nothing But) Flowers" for Talking Heads (along with ex-The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr).

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 BBC TV 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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Tom Verlaine, vocalista e guitarrista dos Television, comemora hoje 75 anos...!

 

Tom Verlaine, nascido Thomas Miller, (Morristown, Nova Jersey, 13 de dezembro de 1949) é mais conhecido como cantor e guitarrista da banda Television. Foi considerado o 79º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

    

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Tom é tido por muitos como um dos mais talentosos artistas da era pós-punk. as suas composições poéticas, agregadas à sua forma original de tocar guitarra, são muito influentes e elogiadas pelos media. Ele e o seu colega Richard Lloyd são conhecidos como um dos duos de guitarras mais aclamados e inventivos do rock. Apesar dessa adoração recebida pelos media, Tom raramente responde a essa atenção na forma de entrevistas. 

  

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Warren Cuccurullo nasceu há 68 anos

  

Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (Nova York, 8 de dezembro de 1956) é um guitarrista norte-americano de origem italiana que  já trabalhou com Frank Zappa, Duran Duran e Missing Persons. 

 

Biografia

Warren é o mais velho dos quatro filhos de Jerry e Ellen Cuccurullo; teve dois irmãos, Jerry e Robert, e uma irmã, Stephanie. Tem ascendência italiana (originária da comuna de Nocera Inferiore, na região da Campania, na Itália) e também alguma ascendência grega. Cresceu no subúrbio de Canarsie, do Brooklyn, Nova York, e em 1974 graduou-se na Canarsie High School. Começou a tocar bateria e guitarra ainda criança.

Adotou uma criança, Mayko Cuccurullo (n. 7 de julho de 1983), que vive com a sua mãe, Claudia Bueno (ex-namorada de longa-data de Warren), no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Mayko apareceu no vídeo Breath After Breath de Duran Duran, filmado em 1994, e também contribuiu em alguns coros no projeto N'Liten Up. 

 

1986 - 2001: Duran Duran

Durante as gravações do álbum Notorious, o guitarrista original do Duran Duran, Andy Taylor, resolveu deixar a banda, depois de desavenças artísticas e até mesmo jurídicas. Cuccurullo conheceu Taylor enquanto tocava com este em ensaios e "jams" da sua banda Missing Persons e, ao saber que Taylor não tinha intenções de voltar aos Duran Duran, ofereceu os seus préstimos à banda inglesa.

Os Duran Duran contrataram então Cuccurullo como guitarrista de estúdio e depois para a turnê do álbum. Mais tarde, ele se tornaria membro efetivo da banda até 2001, quando os Duran Duran resolveram voltar à formação original.

 

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Duran Duran - Breath After Breath

 

Every day I wake up in this room
And I don't know
Where I come from
Where I'm going to
Then I hear the voice
Senhora musa da paz
Me abraça
Me carrega no teu andor
Dormir no colo da dor
Amiga, arrasa!
A tua mão desenhou
O sonho na areia
Agora, entrega de vez
Meu rumo
E vida

From where I stand
The truth isn't black and white
Alone we live and die
We love and fight
Breath after breath
We carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow

Do I dare
Oh do I dare
Follow through the goorsteps
My whole body hears
Beating on my heart like a feather
Beating of a moment til I disappear
Diga uma palavra alegre
Manda um recado
Que seja agora
Faz o mundo ficar novo
E dançar no colo do tal de amor

From where I stand
The truth isn't black and white
Alone we live and die
We love and fight
Breath after breath
We carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow


Circles in sand are washed out into the sea
Just as we slip on through to eternity
Breath after breath
We carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow
Diga uma palavra, cara
Bem alegre
Corre, manda logo um recado
Me abraça
Faz um clima doce
Me arrepia!
Chega de sufoco
Me põe louco!
Me faz diamante
Teu amante
Dança ao som do vento
Me ensina
Basta de sufoco
Não faz jogo...

A flame of love is burning
Always
The song is of the planets
Oh whooooooo
The dance is to the rhythm of the rain
Where everyone is coming from
Is coming to
And birth is just a
Breath after breath

Tim Butler, músico dos The Psychedelic Furs, faz hoje 66 anos

  

Timothy George Butler (Teddington, 7 December 1958) is an English musician and songwriter. He is the bassist, and co-founder of the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs. His brother Richard Butler and himself founded the band. He is also the youngest of three brothers.

Richard, the eldest, is the lead vocalist of the Psychedelic Furs. Both brothers were also founding members of the alternative rock band, Love Spit Love.

Butler was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England and lives in Liberty, Kentucky with his wife Robyn Wesley Butler and their children. She was a fan since the Psychedelic Furs' third studio album Forever Now (1982).

 

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Billy Idol - 69 anos

 
William Albert Michael Broad (Middlesex, 30 de novembro de 1955), mais conhecido pelo seu nome artístico de Billy Idol, é um músico britânico.

   

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Iniciou a sua carreira musical como integrante do Bromley Contingent, um grupo de seguidores dos Sex Pistols, que incluía membros dos The Clash e Siouxsie and the Banshees. Billy uniu-se a Tony James (que depois foi para o Sigue Sigue Sputnik e Sisters of Mercy), ambos faziam parte da primeira formação da lendária e famosa banda punk Chelsea, logo depois deixaram os Chelsea e formaram a banda Generation X, cujo nome veio de um livro sobre a Cultura Rock da Juventude dos Anos 60. O Generation X que, além do próprio Idol na guitarra e voz, trazia Tony James no baixo e John Towe na bateria, faz sucesso em Londres em 1979.

Após três discos lançados, o grupo acaba em 1980 e já no ano seguinte, Billy Idol resolve investir numa carreira a solo. Mudou-se em definitivo para os Estados Unidos e ao lado do respeitadíssimo guitarrista Steve Stevens, lançou grandes hits como "Dancing With Myself", "Mony Mony", "White Wedding", "Rebel Yell", "Eyes Without a Face", "Flesh For Fantasy", "Sweet Sixteen", "Don't Need a Gun" e "Cradle Of Love".

Em 19 de janeiro de 1991, Billy Idol fez a sua primeira apresentação no Brasil, na segunda edição do Rock In Rio. No dia seguinte, ele fez outra apresentação no Festival, que foi decidida em cima da hora pela produção, para substituir Robert Plant (ex-Led Zeppelin), que tinha cancelado, na véspera, a sua apresentação. A justificativa: a Guerra do Golfo. Idol não deixou a desejar e protagonizou, novamente, uma das melhores apresentações daquele festival.

O cantor permaneceu um longo tempo em silêncio na década de 90, onde lançou apenas o álbum "Cyberpunk". Em 2002, ele gravou o acústico “Storytellers” para o canal de televisão norte-americano VH-1 e em 2005 volta aos tops com o álbum Devil's Playground.

Em 2008 lançou o CD e DVD "The Very Best Of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself", uma coletânea dos principais sucessos e duas faixas novas, John Wayne e New Future Weapon.

   

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Tina Weymouth - 74 anos

Martina Michèle Weymouth (Coronado, California, November 22, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with her husband, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz. In 2002, Weymouth was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.

 

  

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Michael Hutchence, vocalista dos INXS, morreu há vinte e sete anos...

 
  

Michael Kelland John Hutchence (Sydney, 22 de janeiro de 1960 - Sydney, 22 de novembro de 1997) foi um músico australiano que ficou conhecido mundialmente como vocalista da banda de pop rock INXS.

   

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Michael falou com a ex-namorada Michelle Bennett, com quem combinou um almoço no dia seguinte. Michelle passou logo de manhã, no dia 22, no quarto de Michael, mas presumiu que este estava dormindo, já que não obteve resposta deste. Foi uma empregada que abriu a porta e encontrou Michael sem vida, logo após. Ele havia morrido enforcado com o próprio cinto, preso à maçaneta da porta. Apesar de suspeita de asfixia autoerótica, a versão oficial diz que se enforcou com um cinto. Segundo Rhett, irmão de Michael, o quarto estava todo revirado. O pai de Michael, Kelland Hutchence, ficou sabendo da morte do filho por um telefonema de uma rede de TV. Paula logo viajou para a Austrália com a filha Tiger.

A cerimónia ocorreu na igreja de Santo André, em Sydney, com transmissão nacional. Milhares de pessoas acompanharam do lado de fora da catedral. O caixão de Michael foi coberto por flores (Iris) e uma única tigerlily (lírio), representando a filha. Ele foi cremado e parte das cinzas foram espalhadas em Sydney.

   

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Peter Hammill, dos Van der Graaf Generator, celebra hoje 76 anos

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (Ealing, Londres, 5 de novembro de 1948) é um músico multi-instrumentista, poeta e compositor, ícone referencial e pioneiro do rock progressivo dos anos 70. Ele foi o fundador e líder da emblemática banda britânica, Van der Graaf Generator.

 

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Adam Ant faz hoje setenta anos...!

     

Adam Ant é o nome artístico de Stuart Leslie Goddard (Londres, 3 de novembro de 1954), líder e vocalista da banda Adam and the Ants. Embora tenha começado a tocar música punk, foi aos poucos mudando seu estilo em direção à imagem de um astro pop. Assim como David Bowie, Madonna e outros célebres camaleões da música, Adam era notório por reinventar a sua imagem a cada disco novo.

Indubitavelmente o ponto alto da carreira de Ant foi no começo dos anos 80 com a sua banda. Ajudou muito o surgimento da MTV, que lhe deu o veículo ideal para transmitir a sua mensagem às massas - o videoclip.

Até 1985 Adam ainda tinha apelo suficiente nos media, inclusive participando do concerto beneficente Live Aid, onde, ao invés de tocar os seus maiores sucessos, ele escolheu as músicas do seu recém-lançado álbum a solo. Não adiantou muito, e foi o começo do declínio de sua carreira. Foi então que Adam passou a atuar em filmes e séries de TV.

No final dos anos 90, aproveitando a onda de nostalgia em relação aos anos 80, Adam retomou a sua carreira, obtendo sucesso relativo (principalmente entre os seus antigos fãs).

No começo de 2002 Adam envolveu-se numa disputa num pub na Inglaterra, o que lhe deu um processo em tribunal. Foi então revelado que era maníaco depressivo. Desde este incidente ele voltou a ser notícia, com rumores sobre seu estado de saúde e prováveis projetos musicais.

    

Discografia

Com Adam and the Ants

• Dirk Wears White Sox (1979)
• Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)
• Prince Charming (1981)

Álbuns a solo

• Friend or Foe (1982)
• Strip (1983)
• Vive Le Rock (1985)
• Manners and Physique (1990)
• Persuasion (1991 - gravado mas não lançado)
• B-Side Babies (1994)
• Wonderful (1995)
• Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (2013)

Videografia

• Prince Charming Revue (show - 1981)
• Antics in the Forbidden Zone (videoclipes - 1990)
• Live in Tokyo (show - 1994)
• Antvideo (videoclipes - 2001)

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Os The Police lançaram o seu álbum de estreia há 46 anos

  

Outlandos d'Amour (Outlands of Love) is the debut studio album by British rock band the Police, released on 2 November 1978 by A&M Records. Elevated by the success of its lead single, "Roxanne", Outlandos d'Amour peaked at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 23 on the Billboard 200. The album spawned two additional hit singles: "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely".

Although Outlandos d'Amour received mixed reviews upon its release, it has since been regarded as one of the strongest debut albums. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 38th best debut album of all time and the 428th greatest album of all time. 

 

Background and recording

With a budget of £1,500 borrowed from their manager, Miles Copeland (brother of drummer Stewart), the Police recorded Outlandos d'Amour at Surrey Sound Studios in an intermittent fashion over six months, with the band recording whenever the studio had free time or another band's sessions were cancelled. Miles Copeland had promised to pay Surrey Sound £2,000 upon completion of the recording, but did not give them the full amount until much later.

Miles occasionally visited the studio during recording, and he reacted to what he heard from the band with vehement derision. However, upon hearing "Roxanne" he had the opposite reaction and took the recording to A&M Records the following day, where he persuaded the record label to release it as a one-off single. Although the single failed to chart, A&M agreed to give the band a second chance with "Can't Stand Losing You". At first, A&M proposed the band create an improved mix of the song, but after five attempts admitted that it could not improve upon the band's mix, and released the original mix for the single. When it became the band's first hit, the label quickly approved the release of the by-then finished album.

Miles had originally wanted to name the album Police Brutality. However, after hearing "Roxanne" and then envisioning a more romantic image for the band, he proposed Outlandos d'Amour instead. This title is a loose French translation of "Outlaws of Love", with the first word being a combination of the words "outlaws" and "commandos", and "d'Amour" meaning "of love".

 

Music and lyrics

Outlandos d'Amour, while at times incorporating reggae, pop and other elements of what would eventually become the band's definitive sound, is dominated by punk influences. This is evident on the opening track "Next to You", despite it essentially being a love song. Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers initially felt the lyrics were neither aggressive nor political enough for their style at the time, but bassist and vocalist Sting was adamant about keeping the song as it was. "Next to You" includes a slide guitar solo by Summers, which Copeland initially dismissed as "old wave".

The second track is the reggae-influenced "So Lonely". Sting has said he used Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the musical basis for the song, while the lyrics in its verses were recycled from "Fool in Love", a song he originally wrote for his earlier band Last Exit. The song itself, about someone who is lonely after suffering a broken heart, was seen as ironic by a large segment of the band's listeners. Sting disagreed with this sentiment, saying, "No, there's no irony whatsoever. From the outside it might look a bit strange, being surrounded by all this attention and yet experiencing the worst lonely feeling ... but I do. And then suddenly the attention is withdrawn a half an hour later. You're so isolated ..."

"Roxanne" was written by Sting after visiting a red-light district near the band's hotel in Paris. The Police had been staying there in October 1977 to perform at the nearby Nashville Club. The song's title comes from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, an old poster of which was hanging in the hotel foyer. Sting had originally conceived the song as a bossa nova, although Stewart Copeland has been credited for suggesting its final rhythmic form as a tango. During recording, Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track. The Police were initially reluctant about the song, but Miles Copeland was immediately enthusiastic after hearing it.

The remaining two tracks on the first side of the album are "Hole in My Life", another reggae-influenced song by Sting, and "Peanuts", a composition written by Stewart Copeland and Sting about Rod Stewart. The lyrics were meant as an expression of disappointment on Sting's part towards his former idol, of whom he said: "I used to be a great fan of his but something happened to him. I hope I don't end up like that." Having since experienced the celebrity lifestyle himself, he has said he no longer identifies with the song's lyrical content and has come to view Stewart in a different light.

"Can't Stand Losing You" begins side two of the original LP. Written and composed by Sting, the song is about a young lover being driven to suicide following a breakup. In a 1993 interview with The Independent, he described the lyrics as "juvenile", saying that "teenage suicide ... is always a bit of a joke"; he also claimed to have written the lyrics in only five minutes.

The following track, "Truth Hits Everybody", is a punk-influenced song. After that is "Born in the 50's", which details life as a teenager during the 1960s. "Be My Girl—Sally" is a medley of a half-finished song by Sting and an Andy Summers poem about a blow-up doll. This leads into the semi-instrumental closer, "Masoko Tanga", the only song on the album to not become a staple of the band's live performances.

Two other songs from these sessions were excluded from Outlandos d'Amour but released as B-sides for two of its singles: "Dead-End Job", a song credited to Sting and Copeland, on the B-side of "Can't Stand Losing You"; and "No Time This Time" by Sting, on the B-side of "So Lonely". The latter was subsequently included on the band's second album Reggatta de Blanc. 

 

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A banda Legião Urbana lançou o álbum As Quatro Estações há 35 anos...

   
As Quatro Estações é o quarto álbum da banda brasileira Legião Urbana, lançado a 26 de outubro de 1989. O álbum cristalizou a formação que perduraria até ao fim da mesma, após a saída do baixista Renato Rocha, pelo seu não comprometimento com o grupo.

Depois do fatídico show no Estádio Mané Garrincha, em Brasília, que terminou em confusão generalizada, a banda chegou a ser odiada por parte do público que foi ao show. O facto aumentou a fobia de palco de Renato Russo e fez com que a banda adotasse uma postura mais introspetiva. Durante as gravações, o baixista Renato Rocha se desentendeu com os demais membros e deixou a banda, fazendo com que algumas bases de baixo já preparadas para o disco fossem regravadas por Renato Russo e Dado Villa-Lobos.

O disco trata de temas como a bissexualidade, como na canção Meninos e Meninas (em que Renato assume abertamente ser bissexual) e Maurício, e a religião, como em Monte Castelo (adaptada de trechos da Primeira Epístola de São Paulo aos Coríntios, da Bíblia, mesclada com trechos de um soneto de Luís Vaz de Camões). A crítica social também está presente, com 1965 (Duas Tribos), em que o cantor menciona a tortura (prática comum na ditadura militar, nos anos 70).

Nove das onze faixas do disco estão entre as mais conhecidas da banda, considerado por muitos como o melhor e mais inspirado da história da Legião, inclusive pelo próprio Renato Russo. Entre elas, estão: Há Tempos, Pais e Filhos, Quando o Sol Bater na Janela do Teu Quarto, Meninos e Meninas, Monte Castelo e Maurício.

A partir da turnê deste álbum, Renato, Dado e Bonfá passaram a contar com três músicos de apoio: Fred Nascimento (guitarra rítmica e violão), Bruno Araújo (baixo elétrico) e o produtor musical Mu Carvalho (teclados). Destacam-se dois memoráveis shows: no Jockey Clube do Rio de Janeiro, no dia 7 de julho de 1990 (mesmo dia da morte de Cazuza, homenageado pela banda) com 60.000 espetadores, e no Estádio Palestra Itália (Parque Antártica), um mês depois, que foi lançado em CD em 2004 com o título As Quatro Estações ao Vivo, com 100 mil pessoas na plateia.

      

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Monte Castelo - Legião Urbana

Ainda que eu falasse
A língua dos homens
E falasse a língua dos anjos
Sem amor eu nada seria

É só o amor! É só o amor
Que conhece o que é verdade
O amor é bom, não quer o mal
Não sente inveja ou se envaidece

O amor é o fogo que arde sem se ver
É ferida que dói e não se sente
É um contentamento descontente
É dor que desatina sem doer

Ainda que eu falasse
A língua dos homens
E falasse a língua dos anjos
Sem amor eu nada seria

É um não querer mais que bem querer
É solitário andar por entre a gente
É um não contentar-se de contente
É cuidar que se ganha em se perder

É um estar-se preso por vontade
É servir a quem vence, o vencedor
É um ter com quem nos mata a lealdade
Tão contrário a si é o mesmo amor

Estou acordado e todos dormem
Todos dormem, todos dormem
Agora vejo em parte
Mas então veremos face a face

É só o amor! É só o amor
Que conhece o que é verdade

Ainda que eu falasse
A língua dos homens
E falasse a língua dos anjos
Sem amor eu nada seria

Nick Hodgson, ex-baterista dos Kaiser Chiefs, celebra hoje quarenta e sete anos

   

Nicholas David James Hodgson (Leeds, Inglaterra, 20 de outubro de 1977) é um baterista, vocalista e compositor britânico, que ficou conhecido por seu trabalho nos Kaiser Chiefs. Compôs músicas como "Boxing Champ", "Remember You're a Girl", "If You Will Have Me", mas o seu maior sucesso como compositor foi "Man on Mars", canção lançada como single no álbum The Future Is Medieval. Em fevereiro de 2013, anunciou o seu primeiro projeto fora dos Kaiser Chiefs.

   

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Lobão - 67 anos

   

Lobão, nome artístico de João Luiz Woerdenbag Filho (Rio de Janeiro, 11 de outubro de 1957), é um cantor, compositor, músico e escritor brasileiro. A sua carreira musical é marcada por grandes parcerias; compôs sucessos como "Me Chama", canção muito famosa na voz de vários intérpretes, que ficou na 47ª posição das maiores músicas brasileiras, segundo a revista Rolling Stone, e "Vida Louca Vida", conhecida na voz de Cazuza. Apesar de ter surgido e conseguido sucesso no ambiente marginal e underground do rock brasileiro nos anos 80, Lobão vem dialogando com diversos géneros, como o samba e a MPB, ao longo de sua carreira. Em 1988, por exemplo, o disco Cuidado! contou com a participação da percussão da Estação Primeira de Mangueira. Em 2018 lançou o disco Guia Politicamente Incorreto dos Anos 80 pelo Rock, em paralelo ao livro, com músicas de bandas que marcaram a década de 80.

  

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Saudades de Renato Russo...

 

Será - Legião Urbana

 

Tire suas mãos de mim
Eu não pertenço a você
Não é me dominando assim
Que você vai me entender
Eu posso estar sozinho
Mas eu sei muito bem aonde estou
Você pode até duvidar
Acho que isso não é amor

Será só imaginação?
Será que nada vai acontecer?
Será que é tudo isso em vão?
Será que vamos conseguir vencer?

Nos perderemos entre monstros
Da nossa própria criação
Serão noites inteiras
Talvez com medo da escuridão
Ficaremos acordados
Imaginando alguma solução
Pra que esse nosso egoísmo
Não destrua o nosso coração

Será só imaginação?
Será que nada vai acontecer?
Será que é tudo isso em vão?
Será que vamos conseguir vencer?

Brigar pra quê, se é sem querer?
Quem é que vai nos proteger?
Será que vamos ter de responder
Pelos erros a mais, eu e você?

Música adequada à data...

Midge Ure nasceu há setenta e um anos

  

James "Midge" Ure (Cambuslang, 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim, the diminutive form of his actual name. Ure enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids and Visage, and as the second frontman of Ultravox. In 1984, he co-wrote and produced the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. The song is the second-highest-selling single in UK chart history. Ure co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. He acts as a trustee for the charity and also serves as an ambassador for Save the Children.

Ure is the producer and writer of several other synth-pop and new wave hit singles of the 1980s, including "Fade to Grey" (1980) by Visage and the Ultravox signature songs "Vienna" (1980) and "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" (1984). He achieved his first UK top 10 solo hit in 1982 with "No Regrets". In 1985, his solo debut studio album The Gift reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and yielded the UK Singles Chart number-one single "If I Was". He also co-wrote Phil Lynott's "Yellow Pearl", which served as the theme of Top of the Pops for much of the 1980s. 

 

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Vienna - Ultravox

We walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on the window pain
Lying waiting

A man in the dark in the picture frame
So mystic and soulful.
A voice reaching out and a piercing cry

It stays with you until
The feeling is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna

The music is weaving
Haunting notes pizzicato strings

The rhythm is calling
Alone in the night as the daylight brings a cold empty silence
The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky

It fades to the distance

The image is gone
only you and I
This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna

This means nothing to me

This means nothing to me

Oh Vienna

Ivan Doroschuk, vocalista dos Men Without Hats, nasceu há 67 anos

    

Ivan Eugene Doroschuk (Montreal, Quebec, 9 October 1957) is an American-born Canadian musician. He is the lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats, best known for the hit song "The Safety Dance".

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