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.
Timothy Ross Armstrong (Albany, California, November 25, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. Known for his distinctive hoarse and soulful voice, he is the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants. Prior to forming Rancid, Armstrong was in the ska punk band Operation Ivy.
In 1997, along with Brett Gurewitz of the band Bad Religion and owner of Epitaph Records, Armstrong founded Hellcat Records. In 2012, through his website, Armstrong started releasing music that influenced him, along with stripped-down cover songs of his own work under the name Tim Timebomb. Armstrong is also a songwriter for other artists. Armstrong won a Grammy Award for his work with Jimmy Cliff and Pink, and has also worked with Joe Walsh.
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Nicholas Robert "Nik" Turner (Oxford, 26 August 1940 – Pembrokeshire, 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a former member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings, and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt-inspired costumes.
Tim McIlrath (Arlington Heights, Illinois, 3 de novembro de 1979) é o guitarrista e vocalista da banda norte-americana Rise Against. Ele é vegetariano desde os 17 anos, apoia os direitos dos animais, promove o PETA com a sua banda e é Straight Edge.
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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.
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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Sandy West (Long Beach, California, July 10, 1959 – San Dimas, California, October 21, 2006) was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 1970s.
Early life
Sandy (born Sandy Pesavento) was born in Long Beach, California. When she was 9 years old, her grandfather bought her a drum kit, and being an avid fan of rock and roll acts of the 1960s and 1970s, she began practicing rock music immediately and regularly. In 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, she was the drummer in the Prisk Elementary School orchestra. She proved to have a natural talent and quickly became a proficient drummer.
By the age of 13, she was the only girl in local bands who played at teenage parties. West attended Edison High school in Huntington Beach California with actor Willie Aames, playing drums in school bands as Sandy Pesavento, one of those bands was Witchcraft that featured Jimmy "Trash" Decker that later went on to form the punk band The Crowd in 1977.
At 15, she met Joan Jett and producer Kim Fowley co-created and formed The Runaways.
The Runaways
Driven by her ambition to play professionally, she sought out fellow musicians and other industry contacts in southern California with the idea of forming an all-woman rock band. In 1975, she met producer Kim Fowley, who gave her the phone number of another young musician in the area, guitarist Joan Jett. Joan and Sandy met shortly thereafter. The women subsequently played for Fowley, who agreed to help them find other female musicians to round out the band, most notably Lita Ford and Cherie Currie.
Post-Runaways years
After four years of recording and touring the world, the Runaways disbanded in April 1979. West made varied attempts to continue her career as a professional musician, playing with other acts in southern California, releasing a solo EP, The Beat is Back, and forming the Sandy West Band. None of these ventures produced significant income, so West was forced to spend most of her post-Runaways years working outside music. West later claimed that ex-Runaways' manager/producer Kim Fowley had not paid the members of the band what they were entitled to. "I owe him my introduction to the music business but he's also the reason I'm broke now," West said.
West appeared in Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways, a documentary about the Runaways produced and directed by the band's former bassist Victory Tischler-Blue, providing some of the more poignant interview segments, describing the things she had to do post-Runaways for money. She worked mostly in construction, and spent a small amount of time as a bartender and a veterinary assistant. In other parts of the Edgeplay interviews, she alludes to having engaged in criminal activity in order to make ends meet (e.g., she describes how she had to break someone's arm for money they owed). West spent time in jail on multiple occasions following her career in the Runaways, which she alluded to in Edgeplay.
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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
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Você pode até duvidar
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Nos perderemos entre monstros
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Pra que esse nosso egoísmo
Não destrua o nosso coração
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Será que vamos conseguir vencer?
Brigar pra quê, se é sem querer?
Quem é que vai nos proteger?
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Pelos erros a mais, eu e você?
Lita nasceu em Londres mas tem ascendência italiana. Ela mudou-se, com a família, para os Estados Unidos, ainda em criança. Esta juntou-se à banda feminina The Runaways aos 16 anos de idade e, após o término do grupo em 1979, iniciou a sua carreira a solo. Os seus dois primeiros álbuns tiveram um sucesso bastante discreto.
Em 1985 Lita foi indicada para o Grammy de "melhor performance feminina de rock" em Gotta Let Go, junto com Wendy O. Williams e Pia Zadora. Em 1988, com Sharon Osbourne como empresária, Lita alcançou seus maiores sucessos, Close My Eyes Forever (dueto com Ozzy Osbourne, marido de Sharon) e Kiss Me Deadly.
Lita foi casada com Chris Holmes (da banda W.A.S.P.) de 1986 a 1992 e esteve envolvida com Nikki Sixx (dos Mötley Crüe) e Tony Iommi. Atualmente, ela está separada de Jim Gillette (da banda Nitro).
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John William Cummings (Long Island, Nova Iorque, 8 de outubro de 1948 - Los Angeles, Califórnia, 15 de setembro de 2004), mais conhecido como Johnny Ramone, foi um dos mais influentes guitarristas de punk rock da história, tendo integrando a banda Ramones. Assim como o vocalista Joey Ramone, permaneceu membro do quarteto punk até ao seu fim.
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Em 15 de setembro de 2004 morreu em Los Angeles, depois de 5 anos lutando contra um cancro da próstata. Encontra-se sepultado no Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Condado de Los Angeles, Califórnia nos Estados Unidos.
Em 2003, a revista Time colocou-o na lista dos "10 Melhores Tocadores de Guitarra Elétrica". No mesmo ano, a 27 de agosto de 2003, a revista Rolling Stone colocou-o em 16º na lista dos "100 melhores guitarristas de todos os tempos", mas, em 2011, a Rolling Stone
modificou a lista dos 100 melhores guitarristas de todos os tempos,
tendo passado para o lugar 28º de melhor guitarrista da história do
rock.
Desde a morte de Johnny, Eddie Vedder dedica-lhe, em todas performances ao vivo, a canção Man of the Hour.
