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Eric Woolfson, letrista, teclista e vocalista da banda The Alan Parsons Project, morreu há quinze anos...

   

Eric Norman Woolfson (Glasgow, 18 de março de 1945 - Londres, 2 de dezembro de 2009) foi um músico escocês. Tendo co-fundado o conjunto britânico The Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson atuou no grupo como cantor, compositor, letrista, pianista e produtor.

Depois de deixar o conjunto, Woolfson desenvolveu uma carreira como músico teatral.

  

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Eric Woolfson faleceu no dia 2 de dezembro de 2009, após uma longa batalha contra o cancro. Sobreviveu-lhe a esposa, Hazel, e duas filhas.

  

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O álbum So, de Peter Gabriel, foi lançado há 38 anos

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records and Virgin Records. After working on the soundtrack to the film Birdy (1984), producer Daniel Lanois was invited to remain at Gabriel's Somerset home during 1985 to work on his next solo project. Initial sessions for So consisted of Gabriel, Lanois and guitarist David Rhodes, although these grew to include a number of percussionists.

Although Gabriel continued to use the pioneering Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer, songs from these sessions were less experimental than his previous material. Nevertheless, Gabriel drew on various musical influences, fusing pop, soul, and art rock with elements of traditional world music, particularly African and Brazilian styles. It is Gabriel's first non-eponymous album, So representing an "anti-title" that resulted from label pressure to "properly" market his music. Gabriel toured So on the This Way Up tour (1986–1987), with some songs performed at human rights and charity concerts during this period.

Often considered his best and most accessible album, So was an immediate commercial success and transformed Gabriel from a cult artist into a mainstream star, becoming his best-selling solo release. It has been certified fivefold platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album's lead single, "Sledgehammer", was promoted with an innovative animated music video and achieved particular success, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and subsequently winning a record of nine MTV Video Music Awards. It was followed by four further singles, "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Kate Bush), "Big Time", "In Your Eyes", and "Red Rain".

The album received positive reviews from most critics, who praised its songwriting, melodies and fusion of genres, although some retrospective reviews have criticised its overt commercialism and 1980s production sounds. So was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1987 but lost to Paul Simon's Graceland. It has appeared in lists of the best albums of the 1980s, and Rolling Stone included the album in their 2003 and 2020 editions of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 it was voted number 82 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. So was remastered in 2002, partially re-recorded for Gabriel's 2011 orchestral project New Blood and issued as a box set in 2012. 

 

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Kevin Ayers morreu onze anos...

Kevin Ayers (Herne Bay, Kent, 16 August 1944 – Montolieu, France, 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."

       

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Ayers died in his sleep on 18 February 2013 in Montolieu, France, aged 68.

 

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Música adequada à data...

Eric Woolfson, o letrista, teclista e vocalista da banda The Alan Parsons Project, morreu há catorze anos...

   

Eric Norman Woolfson (Glasgow, 18 de março de 1945 - Londres, 2 de dezembro de 2009) foi um músico escocês. Tendo co-fundado o conjunto britânico The Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson atuou no grupo como cantor, compositor, letrista, pianista e produtor.

Depois de deixar o conjunto, Woolfson desenvolveu uma carreira como músico teatral.

  

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Eric Woolfson faleceu no dia 2 de dezembro de 2009, após uma longa batalha contra o cancro. Sobreviveu-lhe a esposa, Hazel, e duas filhas.

  

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O fantástico álbum So de Peter Gabriel foi lançado há 37 anos

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records and Virgin Records. After working on the soundtrack to the film Birdy (1984), producer Daniel Lanois was invited to remain at Gabriel's Somerset home during 1985 to work on his next solo project. Initial sessions for So consisted of Gabriel, Lanois and guitarist David Rhodes, although these grew to include a number of percussionists.

Although Gabriel continued to use the pioneering Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer, songs from these sessions were less experimental than his previous material. Nevertheless, Gabriel drew on various musical influences, fusing pop, soul, and art rock with elements of traditional world music, particularly African and Brazilian styles. It is Gabriel's first non-eponymous album, So representing an "anti-title" that resulted from label pressure to "properly" market his music. Gabriel toured So on the This Way Up tour (1986–1987), with some songs performed at human rights and charity concerts during this period.

Often considered his best and most accessible album, So was an immediate commercial success and transformed Gabriel from a cult artist into a mainstream star, becoming his best-selling solo release. It has been certified fivefold platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album's lead single, "Sledgehammer", was promoted with an innovative animated music video and achieved particular success, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and subsequently winning a record of nine MTV Video Music Awards. It was followed by four further singles, "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Kate Bush), "Big Time", "In Your Eyes", and "Red Rain".

The album received positive reviews from most critics, who praised its songwriting, melodies and fusion of genres, although some retrospective reviews have criticised its overt commercialism and 1980s production sounds. So was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1987 but lost to Paul Simon's Graceland. It has appeared in lists of the best albums of the 1980s, and Rolling Stone included the album in their 2003 and 2020 editions of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 it was voted number 82 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. So was remastered in 2002, partially re-recorded for Gabriel's 2011 orchestral project New Blood and issued as a box set in 2012. 

 

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Kevin Ayers morreu dez anos...

Kevin Ayers (Herne Bay, Kent, 16 August 1944 – Montolieu, France, 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Mallorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album, The Unfairground, was released in 2007. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: "Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them."

       

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Ayers died in his sleep on 18 February 2013 in Montolieu, France, aged 68.

 

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Música adequada à data...

Eric Woolfson, o letrista, teclista e vocalista da banda The Alan Parsons Project, morreu há 13 anos...

   

Eric Norman Woolfson (Glasgow, 18 de março de 1945 - Londres, 2 de dezembro de 2009) foi um músico escocês. Tendo co-fundado o conjunto britânico The Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson atuou no grupo como cantor, compositor, letrista, pianista e produtor.

Depois de deixar o conjunto, Woolfson desenvolveu uma carreira como músico teatral.

  

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Eric Woolfson faleceu no dia 2 de dezembro de 2009, após uma longa batalha contra o cancro. Deixou esposa, Hazel, e duas filhas.

  

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Eric Woolfson, letrista, teclista e vocalista do The Alan Parsons Project, morreu há doze anos...

   

Eric Norman Woolfson (Glasgow, 18 de março de 1945 - Londres, 2 de dezembro de 2009) foi um músico escocês. Tendo co-fundado o conjunto britânico The Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson atuou no grupo como cantor, compositor, letrista, pianista e produtor.

Depois de deixar o conjunto, Woolfson desenvolveu uma carreira como músico teatral.

  

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Eric Woolfson faleceu no dia 2 de dezembro de 2009, após uma longa batalha contra o cancro. Deixou esposa, Hazel, e duas filhas.

  

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Eric Woolfson, do The Alan Parsons Project, morreu há oito anos

Eric Norman Woolfson (Glasgow, 18 de março de 1945 - Londres, 2 de dezembro de 2009) foi um músico escocês. Tendo co-fundado o conjunto britânico The Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson atuou como cantor, compositor, letrista, pianista e produtor.

Depois de deixar o conjunto, Woolfson desenvolveu uma carreira como músico teatral.

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Eric Woolfson faleceu no dia 2 de dezembro de 2009, após uma longa batalha contra o cancro. Deixou esposa, Hazel, e duas filhas.

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