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For the 1979 Roxy Music song "Spin Me Round", see Manifesto (Roxy Music album).
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
Single by Dead or Alive
from the album Youthquake
B-side
"Misty Circles" (7")
Remixes (12")
Released
5 November 1984
Format
7"
12"
MC
CD
Recorded
1984
Genre
Hi-NRG[1][2]
synth-pop[3][4]
new wave[4]
Length
3:19 (original)
8:00 (Murder mix)
Label
Epic
Songwriter(s)
Pete Burns
Steve Coy
Wayne Hussey
Tim Lever
Mike Percy
Producer(s)
Stock Aitken Waterman
Dead or Alive singles chronology
"That's the Way (I Like It)"
(1984) "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
(1984) "Lover Come Back to Me"
(1985)
"That's the Way (I Like It)"
(1984) "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
(1984) "Lover Come Back to Me"
(1985)
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"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. Released as a single in November 1984, it reached no. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK no. 1 hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at no. 11 on 17 August of that year.[5] In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th favourite 1980s no. one in a poll for ITV.[6] Musician and actor Gary Kemp described the song as "one of the best white dance records of all time".[7]
The video, which features a disco ball, waving gold flags and an evocation of the six-armed Vishnu, was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Re-releases
3 Chart performance
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
3.3 Sales and certifications
4 Dope version
5 Jessica Simpson version
6 Other cover versions
7 Track listing
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Background and composition
Dead or Alive's vocalist Pete Burns stated in his autobiography that he composed "You Spin Me Round" by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new:
How did I write "Spin Me"? I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love'. It's not the same chord structure, but then that's the way I make music – I hear something and I sing another tune over it. I didn't sit and study the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song and it locked. [...] I'm trying to structure the music and I know what I want. [...] It's like do this, do this, do this - and suddenly it hits. I don't want to do Luther Vandross's song, but I can still sing the same pattern over it. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called "See You 'Round Like A Record". [...] So I had those two, Van Dross [sic] and Little Nell and – bingo! – done deal.
—  Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007)
According to Burns, the record company was unenthusiastic about "You Spin Me Round", to such an extent that Burns had to take out a £2,500 loan to record it, then once it had been recorded "the record company said it was awful. It was unanimous – it was awful, it was rubbish." Burns stated that the band had to fund production of the song's video themselves.[8]
The strings were based on Richard Wagner's classical piece "Ride of the Valkyries".[9]
Interviewed for BBC Radio 4's The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in April 2015, Burns said that the confrontational attitude of the producers was met with an equally confrontational attitude from the band and that this led to "quite a bad vibe" for the entirety of the studio time, describing the experience as "a time of intense friction".[10]
Re-releases
A remix version of "You Spin Me Round" was released in 2003 at the same time Dead or Alive's greatest hits album Evolution was released. The song reached no. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. The original 1984 recording was re-released on 30 January 2006 because of lead singer Pete Burns's controversial time as a contestant on television series Celebrity Big Brother and reached no. 5.
Earlier remixes were in 1996 and 1997 (some are included on the US, European and Australian releases of Nukleopatra). In 1999 these mixes were issued in the US as a 2-CD set. The first disc held seven mixes of "You Spin Me Round" while disc two has five mixes of "Sex Drive". In 2000, new mixes appeared on Fragile and in 2001, on Unbreakable: The Fragile Remixes. No videos were made for these.
Chart performance
The song has been re-released three times since its original release in 1984. Each time of its release, it achieved success, but failed to match the success of the original. However, after lead-singer Pete Burns's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, the single was re-released and managed a Top 5 peak on the UK Singles Chart in 2006.
According to Burns, 12-inch singles comprised over 70% of the original sales of You Spin Me Round, and because these were regarded by the record label as promotional tools rather than sales, the band had to threaten legal action against the label before they received the royalties on them.[11]
Weekly charts
Chart (1985)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[12] 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[13] 10
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[14] 3
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[15] 1
France (SNEP)[16] 29
Germany (Official German Charts)[17] 2
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 1
Italy (FIMI)[19] 3
Japan (Oricon)[20] 54
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[21] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[22] 4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[23] 6
Norway (VG-lista)[24] 6
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[26] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[27] 11
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[27] 4
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[27] 4
US Cash Box[28] 13
Chart (1996)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[29] 28
Chart (2003)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[30] 62
Germany (Media Control Charts)[31] 96
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[32] 28
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[33] 23
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[27] 21
Chart (2006)
Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 26
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[34] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[35] 5
Year-end charts
Chart (1985)
Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[36] 13
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[37] 43
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[38] 16
Germany (Official German Charts)[39] 15
Italy (FIMI)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[40] 57
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[41] 46
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[42] 36
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[43] 14
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[44] 19
Chart (2006)
Position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[45] 99
Sales and certifications
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[46]
Gold 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[47]
Gold 500,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Dope version
Nu metal band Dope covered the song on their 1999 album Felons and Revolutionaries. The band's version became their first chart entry on any Billboard chart, reaching no. 37 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Chart (2000)
Peak
position
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[48] 37
Jessica Simpson version
Jessica Simpson's version of the song was released as a promo single from her fifth studio album A Public Affair in 2006. Her version of the song failed to break into the Billboard Hot 100 (though it did reach no. 20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles). Simpson's version has new lyrics and only preserves the chorus of the song.
Chart (2007)
Peak
position
US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[49] 20
US Billboard Pop 100[50] 95
Other cover versions
Danzel and Gigi D'Agostino[51] have also done remixes. Danzel's version peaked at no. 32 in Belgium.[52]
Flo Rida featuring Kesha's 2009 single "Right Round" interpolates elements of the song.[53][54][55]
Track listing
1985, Epic – 49-05208; 1989, Epic – 49H69181[56]
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Murder Mix) – 8:00
"Misty Circles" (Extended Version) – 9:10
1997, Epic – 49-78588[56]
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Murder Mix) – 8:00
"Brand New Lover" – 9:10
1999, Cleopatra – CLP 0533-2[57]
CD1
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Sugar Pumpers Radio Edit) – 3:38
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Cleopatra Radio Edit) – 4:13
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Marc Antonine Radio Edit) – 3:21
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Sugar Pumpers Extended Mix) – 5:11
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Sugar Pumpers Pumpin Mix) – 7:05
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Vicious Mix) – 8:10
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Marc Antonine Club Mix) – 7:00
CD2
"Sex Drive" (Radio Edit) – 2:52
"Sex Drive" (Scream Driven Edit) – 3:54
"Sex Drive" (Dead or Alive Original Mix) – 6:39
"Sex Drive" (Scream Driven Mix) – 6:59
"Sex Drive" (Pee Wee Remix) – 5:56
2003, Epic 673578 2[31]
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Metro 7" Edit) – 3:46
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Metro 12" Extended Mix) – 6:55
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Punx Soundcheck Vs Princess Julia) – 5:47
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Original 7" Mix) – 3:16
2006, Epic 82876 806212[58]
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Original 7" Mix) – 3:16
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Performance Mix) – 7:27
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (Metro 7" Edit) – 3:46
Video: "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" – 3:44
See also
List of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)
List of number-one singles of 1985 (Ireland)
List of number-one hits of 1985 (Switzerland)
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
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External links
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Saint Lawrence
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This article is about the Christian saint. For other people or places named Saint Lawrence, see Saint Lawrence (disambiguation). For people or places named San Lorenzo, see San Lorenzo (disambiguation).
Saint Lawrence
Lawrence before Valerianus, detail from a fresco by Bl. Fra Angelico, c. 1447-50, Pinacoteca Vaticana
Martyr
Born
31 December AD 225[1]
Valencia[2] or less likely Osca, Hispania (modern-day Spain)
Died
10 August AD 258
Rome
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodoxy
Anglican Communion
Lutheranism
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Major shrine
Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in Rome
Feast
10 August
Attributes
Usually holding a gridiron and wearing a dalmatic
Patronage
Rome, Rotterdam (Netherlands), Huesca (Spain), San Lawrenz, Gozo and Birgu (Malta), Barangay San Lorenzo San Pablo (Philippines), Canada, Sri Lanka, comedians, archivists, librarians, students, miners, tanners, chefs, Balangiga, Eastern Samar, roasters, poor, firefighters
Saint Lawrence or Laurence (Latin: Laurentius, lit. "laurelled"; 31 December AD 225[1] – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome, Italy, under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered in 258.
Contents
1 Life
2 Martyrdom
3 Associated Roman churches
4 Miracles
5 Veneration
5.1 Roman Catholic Church
5.2 Anglican Communion
6 Legacy
7 Patronage
8 Gallery
9 In popular culture
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Life[edit]
St Lawrence is thought to have been born on 31 December AD 225[1] in Valencia, or less probably, in Huesca, the town from which his parents came in the later region of Aragon that was then part of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis.[2] The martyrs St. Orentius (Modern Spanish: San Orencio) and St Patientia (Modern Spanish: Santa Paciencia) are traditionally held to have been his parents.[3][4]
He encountered the future Pope Sixtus II, who was of Greek origin and one of the most famous and highly esteemed teachers, in Caesaraugusta (today Zaragoza). Eventually, both left Spain for Rome. When Sixtus became the Pope in 257, he ordained St Lawrence as a deacon, and though Lawrence was still young appointed him first among the seven deacons who served in the patriarchal church. He is therefore called "archdeacon of Rome", a position of great trust that included the care of the treasury and riches of the Church and the distribution of alms to the indigent.[5]
St. Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church by Bernardo Strozzi
St Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, notes that Roman authorities had established a norm according to which all Christians who had been denounced must be executed and their goods confiscated by the Imperial treasury. At the beginning of August 258, the Emperor Valerian issued an edict that all bishops, priests, and deacons should immediately be put to death. Pope Sixtus II was captured on 6 August 258, at the cemetery of St Callixtus while celebrating the liturgy and executed forthwith.[6]
After the death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome demanded that St Lawrence turn over the riches of the Church. St Ambrose is the earliest source for the narrative that St Lawrence asked for three days to gather the wealth.[7] He worked swiftly to distribute as much Church property to the indigent as possible, so as to prevent its being seized by the prefect. On the third day, at the head of a small delegation, he presented himself to the prefect, and when ordered to deliver the treasures of the Church he presented the indigent, the crippled, the blind, and the suffering, and declared that these were the true treasures of the Church.[8] One account records him declaring to the prefect, "The Church is truly rich, far richer than your emperor." This act of defiance led directly to his martyrdom and can be compared to the parallel Roman tale of the jewels of Cornelia.
On 10 August, St. Lawrence, the last of the seven deacons, and therefore, the ranking Church official, suffered a martyr's death.[9]
Martyrdom[edit]
By tradition, St Lawrence was sentenced at San Lorenzo in Miranda, imprisoned in and baptized fellow prisoners at San Lorenzo in Fonte, martyred at San Lorenzo in Panisperna, and was buried in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. The Almanac of Filocalus for AD 354 states that he was buried in the Catacomb of Cyriaca on the Via Tiburtina[9] by Hippolytus and Justin the Confessor, a presbyter. One of the early sources for his martyrdom was the description of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in his Peristephanon, Hymn 2.
The Martyrdom of St Lawrence by Orazio Borgianni
A famous legend has persisted from ancient times. As deacon in Rome, St Lawrence was responsible for the material goods of the Church and the distribution of alms to the poor.[8] St Ambrose of Milan relates that when the treasures of the Church were demanded of St Lawrence by the Prefect of Rome, he brought forward the poor, to whom he had distributed the treasure as alms.[9] "Behold in these poor persons the treasures which I promised to show you; to which I will add pearls and precious stones, those widows and consecrated virgins, which are the Church's crown."[5] The Prefect was so angry that he had a great gridiron prepared with hot coals beneath it, and had Lawrence placed on it, hence St Lawrence's association with the gridiron. After the martyr had suffered pain for a long time, the legend concludes, he cheerfully declared: "I'm well done on this side. Turn me over!"[8][10] From this derives his patronage of cooks, chefs, and comedians.
Some historians, such as Rev. Patrick J. Healy, opine that the tradition of how St Lawrence was martyred is "not worthy of credence",[11] as the slow lingering death cannot be reconciled "with the express command contained in the edict regarding bishops, priests, and deacons (animadvertantur) which ordinarily meant decapitation."[11] A theory of how the tradition arose is proposed by Pio Franchi de' Cavalieri, who postulates that it was the result of a mistaken transcription, the accidental omission of the letter "p" – "by which the customary and solemn formula for announcing the death of a martyr – passus est ["he suffered," that is, was martyred] – was made to read assus est [he was roasted]."[11] The Liber Pontificalis, which is held to draw from sources independent of the existing traditions and Acta regarding Lawrence, uses passus est concerning him, the same term it uses for Pope Sixtus II, who was martyred by decapitation during the same persecution.[11] However, this modern scholarship is disputed by another scholar, Janice Bennett, whose study of other primary sources indicates that the traditional narratives are substantially correct.[12]
Emperor Constantine I is traditionally held to have erected a small oratory in honour of St Lawrence, which was a station on the itineraries of the graves of the Roman martyrs by the seventh century. Pope Damasus I rebuilt or repaired the church, now the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, while the Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo in Panisperna was erected over the site of his martyrdom. The gridiron of the martyrdom was placed by Pope Paschal II in the Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina.
Associated Roman churches[edit]
St. Lawrence in stained glass window by Franz Mayer & Co.. He is holding a palm branch, a symbol for martyrdom, and a griddle, the instrument of his death.
The Roman Catholic Church erected six churches on the sites in Rome traditionally associated with his martyrdom:
Minor Basilica of St Lawrence in Damaso (Basilica Minore di San Lorenzo in Damaso): site where he performed his duties as deacon of Rome;
Minor Basilica of St Mary in Domnica alla Navicella (Basilica Minore di Santa Maria in Domnica alla Navicella): site where he customarily distributed alms to the indigent;
Annexed Church of St Lawrence in Miranda (Chiesa Annessa San Lorenzo de’ Speziali in Miranda): site of his sentencing and condemnation by the Prefect of Rome;
Annexed Church of St Lawrence in Fonte (Chiesa Annessa San Lorenzo in Fonte): site of his imprisonment by the centurion Ippolito and of the fountain in which the Saint baptized his fellow prisoners;
Church of St Lawrence in Panisperna (Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Panisperna): site of his actual martyrdom/death and the oven used to roast him to death; and
Papal Minor Basilica of St Lawrence outside the Walls (Basilica Minore Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura: site of his burial and sepulchre.
Also in Rome are three other significant churches that are dedicated to Saint Lawrence but not associated with his life:
Minor Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina (Basilica Minore di San Lorenzo in Lucina), which possesses the relics of the gridiron on which and the chains with which he was martyred;[13]
Church of St. Lawrence in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum, Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs (Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum, Pontificio Santuario della Scala Santa), proximate to the Archbasilica of St. John in Laterano, which was originally a private Papal chapel when the edifice that houses it was a Papal palace, and which housed some of the most precious relics of the Roman Catholic Church, hence the title "Sancta Sanctorum" ("Holy of Holies"); and
Church of St Lawrence in Piscibus (Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Piscibus), which is proximate to the Basilica of St. Peter.
Saint Lawrence Martyr Church in Redondo Beach, California
Miracles[edit]
The life and miracles of St. Lawrence were collected in The Acts of St Lawrence but those writings have been lost. The earliest existing documentation of miracles associated with him is in the writings of St. Gregory of Tours (538–594), who mentions the following:
A priest named Fr. Sanctulus was rebuilding a church of St Lawrence, which had been attacked and burnt, and hired many workmen to accomplish the job. At one point during the construction, he found himself with nothing to feed them. He prayed to St. Lawrence for help, and looking in his basket he found a fresh, white loaf of bread. It seemed to him too small to feed the workmen, but in faith he began to serve it to the men. While he broke the bread, it so multiplied that his workmen fed from it for ten days.[5][better source needed]
The mediaeval Church of St Mary Assumed (Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta) in the small commune of Amaseno, Lazio, Italy houses the famous reliquary of the ampulla containing relics of St. Lawrence, namely a quantum of his blood, a fragment of his flesh, some fat and ashes. Tradition holds that annually, on the Feast of St. Lawrence, and sometimes on other occasions, the blood in the ampulla miraculously liquefies during the Feast and re-coagulates by the following day.[14][better source needed]
Veneration[edit]
The stone on which St Lawrence's body was laid after death, in San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Due to his conspiring to hide and protect the written documents of the Church, St Lawrence is known as the patron saint of archivists and librarians.[15]
Roman Catholic Church[edit]
St Lawrence is one of the most widely venerated saints of the Roman Catholic Church. Legendary details of his death were known to Damasus, Prudentius, St Ambrose, and St Augustine. Devotion to him was widespread by the AD fourth century. His liturgical celebration on 10 August has the rank of feast in the General Roman Calendar, consistent with the oldest of Christian calendars, e. g. the Almanac of Philocalus for the year 354, the inventory of which contains the principal feasts of the Roman martyrs of the middle of the fourth century. He remains one of the saints enumerated in the "Roman Canon" of the Holy Mass as celebrated in the Latin Church.
St Lawrence is especially honoured in the city of Rome, of which he is considered the third patron after St. Peter and St. Paul.[16] The church built over his tomb, the Papal Minor Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, became one of the seven principal churches of Rome and a favourite place of Roman pilgrimages.[10] The area proximate to the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura is named the "Quartiere San Lorenzo".
Because the Perseid Meteor Shower typically occurs annually in mid-August on or proximate to his feast day, some refer to the shower as the "Tears of St Lawrence".[5]
The shrine containing the gridiron was used to roast St Lawrence to death according to tradition is in the Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome.
His intercession to God is invoked by librarians, archivists, comedians, cooks and tanners as their patron. He is the patron saint of Ampleforth Abbey, whose Benedictine monks founded one of the world's leading public schools for Catholics, located in North Yorkshire (North East England).
On his feast the reliquary containing his burnt head is displayed in the Vatican (Basilica di San Pietro?) for veneration.
Anglican Communion[edit]
Within Anglicanism the Saint's name is traditionally spelled Laurence or Lawrence. His feast is on the 10th of August which is in the calendar of the Book of Common Prayer, the volume of prayers which, in its 1662 format, was the founding liturgical document of a majority of Anglican provinces. In the Book of Common Prayer the feast is titled "S Laurence, Archdeacon of Rome and Martyr". His feast on 10 August has been carried into the contemporary calendars of most Anglican provinces,[17] including the Church of England,[18] which designates it as a lesser festival under the title "Laurence, deacon, martyr, 258".
Anglo-Catholics venerate St Lawrence, who is the patron of many Anglican parish churches, including 228 in England.[19][20] A major church in Sydney, Australia, in the former civil parish of St Laurence, is known as "Christ Church St Laurence". The Anglican charitable society, Brotherhood of St Laurence also bears his name.
Legacy[edit]
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According to Reverent Francesco Moraglia, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, the role of deacon is distinguished by service of the poor. He is destined both to the service of the table (corporal works of mercy) and to the service of the word (spiritual works of mercy). "The beauty, power and the heroism of [d]eacons such as Lawrence help to discover and come to a deeper meaning of the special nature of the diaconal ministry."[6]
El Escorial, near Madrid, laid out in a grid pattern resembling a gridiron.
Many churches, schools, parishes, towns, and geographic features throughout the world are named for St. Lawrence of Rome. Depending on locality they are named St. Lawrence, St. Laurence, San Lorenzo, St. Laurent, St. Lorenz or similarly in other languages. San Lorenzo del Escorial, the monastery built by King Philip II of Spain, commemorates his victory at the Battle of St. Quentin (1557) on the Feast of St. Lawrence.[21] The monastery and the attached palace, college, and library are laid out in a grid pattern that resembles the gridiron of the Saint's martyrdom. The gridiron of St Lawrence is also thought the basis of the design of the Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula, which is a monastery in Padula, Salerno, Italy. Two universities bear his name: St. Lawrence University (non-Catholic) in Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States, and St. Lawrence University in Kampala, Uganda.
On his second voyage, French explorer Jacques Cartier, arriving in the river estuary of the North American Great Lakes on the Feast of St. Lawrence in 1535, named it the Gulf of St. Lawrence.[22] The river emptying into the gulf was named the St. Lawrence River. Many names in what are now Québec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada are references to this important seaway, e. g., the Laurentian mountains north of the city of Montreal, Saint-Laurent (borough), Saint Lawrence Boulevard which spans the width of the Island of Montreal, and St. Lawrence County, New York, United States near Lake Ontario.
The rescue operation for the miners trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile was named Operacíon San Lorenzo after Lawrence.
In Freemasonry the Order of St. Lawrence the Martyr is a masonic degree whose ritual is based upon the story of the Saint. It is one of the constituent degrees of the Allied Masonic Degrees.
Patronage[edit]
Against Fire
Against Lumbago
Archives
Archivists
Armories
Armourers
Brewers
Butchers
Chefs
Comedians
Comediennes
Comics
Confectioners
Cooks
Cutlers
Deacons
Glaziers
Laundry workers
Librarians
Libraries
Paupers
Poor people
Restaurateurs
Schoolchildren
Seminarians
Stained glass Workers
Students
Tanners
Vine Growers
Vitners
Wine Makers
Ceylon
Sri Lanka
Diocese of Alba, Italy
Diocese of Amarillo Texas
Diocese of Rotterdam, Netherlands
Esbonderup, Denmark
Gross Gartach, Germany
Naurod, Germany
Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Gyõrszemere község, Hungary
Abano Terme, Italy
Alba, Italy
Angrogna, Italy
Berzo Demo, Italy
Berzo Inferiore, Italy
Brissogne, Italy
Cabella Ligure, Italy
Camino, Italy
Cavatore, Alessandria, Italy
Chambave, Aosta, Italy
Denice, Italy
Folgaria, Italy
Gamalero, Italy
Montevarchi, Italy
Mortara, Italy
Rome, Italy
Santena, Italy
Scala, Italy
Seravezza, Italy
Tivoli, Italy
Zagarolo, Italy
Limbazi, Latvia
Il-Birgu, Malta
San Lawrenz, Gozo, Malta
Huesca, Spain
Source[23]
Gallery[edit]
St. Lawrence's Chapel on top of a Śnieżka in the Sudetes
A statue of St Lawrence overlooking the river named after him, the Saint Lawrence River
Lawrence statue in St Lawrence Deacon & Martyr Parish Church, Balagtas, Bulacan, Philippines [1]
St Lawrence holding the gridiron, by the Master of Meßkirch, c.1535-40
St Lawrence, Ranworth Rood Screen, Ranworth, St Helen's Church, UK, c.1430
St Lawrence pictured on the astronomical clock in Lund Cathedral, Sweden
St Lawrence depicted in a 14th-century book of hours
Church of St Lawrence, Oxhill, Warwickshire, England
In popular culture[edit]
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In Fargo, season 1, episode 3, Lorne Malvo notes the stained glass window of St Lawrence in Stavros' office, in response to which Stavros narrates his martyrdom, in "A Muddy Road".
In the video game Dota 2 created by Valve, Lina the Slayer's dying voice line "Turn me over... I'm done" is a reference to Lawrence of Rome.[24]
In a scene in the 1992 film, Lorenzo's Oil, Augusto, Michaela, and Lorenzo tell a story about St Lawrence and refer to his Feast Day as "The Night of The Shooting Stars." [25]
See also[edit]
Several other saints were also named "Lawrence" (or the corresponding local variant), so one might also occasionally encounter something named after one of them. More information on these topics can currently be accessed through disambiguation articles like:
Saint Lawrence (disambiguation)
San Lorenzo (disambiguation)
St. Laurence's Church (disambiguation)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Citing St. Donato as the original source. Janice Bennett. St. Laurence and the Holy Grail: The Story of the Holy Chalice of Valencia. Littleton, Colorado: Libri de Hispania, 2002. Page 61.
^ Jump up to: a b Citing Francisco Diago and St. Donato as sources. Janice Bennett. St. Laurence and the Holy Grail: The Story of the Holy Chalice of Valencia. Littleton, Colorado: Libri de Hispania, 2002. Pages 15 and 62.
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^ Jump up to: a b c d ""St. Lawrence, Deacon Martyr," said to have been martyred by being put on a gridiron. St. Lawrence Orthodox Christian Church" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Moraglia, Fr. Francesco, "St. Lawrence, Proto-Deacon of the Roman Church", Vatican".
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^ Jump up to: a b Foley, OFM, Leonard, "St. Lawrence", Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons, and Feast (Revised by Pat McCloskey, OFM), Franciscan Media ISBN 978-0-86716-887-7
^ Jump up to: a b c d Rev. Patrick Joseph Healy (1905). The Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century A.D. Boston, Ma: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.
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Jump up ^ Parrocchia Santa Maria Assunta in Amaseno, Lazio, Italy; "I Luoghi di San Lorenzo a Roma"; [2]; accessed 13 March 2017.
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Major League Baseball Wild Card Game
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The Major League Baseball Wild Card Game is a play-in game which was added to the Major League Baseball postseason in 2012.[1] The addition keeps the playoff format similar to the three-tiered postseason format used from 1995 through 2011, but adds a second wild-card team. Two wild-card teams in each league play each other in a single-game playoff after the end of the regular season. The winner of the game advances to face the 1st seeded team in the Division Series. The home team for the wild-card game is the team with the better regular-season record (4th Seed).
If both teams have the same number of wins and losses, tie-breaking procedures are used, with no additional games being played. On the other hand, teams tied for the division title will now always play a one-game playoff for the division title, even if both teams are already qualified for the postseason. This is in contrast to the earlier wild card format used, for example in the 2005 season when the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox tied for first place in their division but did not play an additional game as both teams were qualified for the postseason in any event.
In the division series, the winner of the wild-card game will always face whichever division champion has the best record. All division winners receive a bye as they await the result of the game. Previously, a wild-card team could not face the champion of its own division. This change makes it possible for the two teams with the best record in the league to face each other before the League Championship Series for the first time since 1997, if the wild card winner has the second-best record only to its own division's champion. From 1995 to 1997 the matchups for the division series were determined by annual rotation between the west, central and east divisions.
Nineteen of the thirty MLB franchises have appeared in a Wild Card Game. The New York Yankees of the American League and the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League have appeared in a record three games. The San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees have won the most Wild Card Games with two each.
Contents
1 Purpose
2 Implementation
3 Results
3.1 American League
3.2 National League
3.3 Win–loss records by team
4 Records
5 See also
6 References
Purpose[edit]
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The addition of a second wild-card team to each league was completed for multiple reasons:
Added importance to division races [2]. Before 1994, only division-winning teams advanced to the playoffs, creating excitement when teams within a division competed for the best record in that division. From 1994 to 2011, the urgency of a division race was somewhat reduced as one second place team from each league made the playoffs as a wild card. In addition, the winner of the wild-card game is at a disadvantage in the next series, due to having to make strategic decisions to avoid immediate elimination, such as play its best pitchers available, without regard for future playoff games.
Wild-card teams are penalized. In the four-team format from 1994 to 2011, the wild-card team had to win just as many postseason games as a division winner in order to reach the World Series. Now the winner of the wild-card game is at a disadvantage because it has to play an extra game.
Increases postseason interest and revenue, with the tension of a sudden-death match at the start of the playoffs, similar to tie-breaker games held to resolve regular season ties. Recent examples of this were seen in tie-breaking games in 2007, 2008, and 2009, as well as the final day of the 2011 regular season.
With an additional playoff spot at stake, more teams are competing at the end of the regular season for a place in the playoffs.
Implementation[edit]
With the adoption of MLB's new collective bargaining agreement in November 2011, baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced that a new playoff system would begin within the next two years; the change was ultimately put into place in 2012.[3]
Even though one of the stated purposes of the Wild Card game was to create disadvantages for Wild Card teams in the postseason,[4] Wild Card Game winners have won six of the first twelve Division Series played under the new format. Of the best-of-five Division Series lost by Wild Card Game winners, three lost in five games, two lost in four games, and only one team has been swept. The 2014 postseason featured the first Series sweeps involving Wild Card Game winners, but they were both in favor of the AL Wild Card Kansas City Royals who swept both the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Baltimore Orioles en route to the second World Series featuring both NL and AL Wild Card Game winners, with the San Francisco Giants defeating the Royals in seven games. The first all Wild Card World Series also involved the Giants, but they were on the losing end, losing the 2002 World Series to the then Anaheim Angels in seven games.
The one-game, win-or-go-home Wild Card format favors teams with at least one dominant pitcher. In the twelve games played since the new Wild Card system began in 2012, five have been shutouts. In four of the seven others, the losing team scored 3 or fewer runs. Only the 2014 AL Wild Card game between the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics and the 2017 NL Wild Card game between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks featured high scoring[clarification needed] by both teams, with the Royals eventually winning 9-8 in 12 innings and the Diamondbacks winning 11-8 with the most runs scored in a Wild Card game. The margin of victory has been four runs or more in six of the twelve games played, and one run only twice—in the 2014 Royals-Athletics game and the 2018 Rockies-Cubs game.
Results[edit]
Key
bold Wild Card Game winner
↓ Lost tie-breaker game to reach Wild Card Game (arrow links to game)
↑ Won tie-breaker game to reach Wild Card Game (arrow links to game)
Reached League Championship Series
Reached World Series
Won World Series
The visiting team has had a surprising amount of success in the wild card game, having won 8 of the 14 games played by an average of 3.75 runs per win. 5 games have ended in a shutout, all 5 of them being thrown by the visiting team (including 3 straight in the 2014-16 NL editions). 2017 was the first year in which the home team won both wild card games. Despite the road team's statistical advantage, 2 games have ended in walk-off fashion, the 2014 and 2016 AL wild card games.
American League[edit]
Year
Visitor
Manager
Score
Host
Manager
Winner's postseason performance
2012
Baltimore Orioles Buck Showalter 5–1 Texas Rangers Ron Washington Lost ALDS 3–2 (Yankees)
2013
Tampa Bay Rays↑ Joe Maddon 4–0 Cleveland Indians Terry Francona Lost ALDS 3–1 (Red Sox)
2014
Oakland Athletics Bob Melvin 8–9
(12 inn.) Kansas City Royals Ned Yost Won ALDS 3–0 (Angels), Won ALCS 4–0 (Orioles), Lost WS 4–3 (Giants)
2015
Houston Astros A. J. Hinch 3–0 New York Yankees Joe Girardi Lost ALDS 3–2 (Royals)
2016
Baltimore Orioles Buck Showalter 2–5
(11 inn.) Toronto Blue Jays John Gibbons Won ALDS 3–0 (Rangers), Lost ALCS 4–1 (Indians)
2017
Minnesota Twins Paul Molitor 4–8 New York Yankees Joe Girardi Won ALDS 3–2 (Indians), Lost ALCS 4–3 (Astros)
2018
Oakland Athletics Bob Melvin 2–7 New York Yankees Aaron Boone Lost ALDS 3-1 (Red Sox)
National League[edit]
Year
Visitor
Manager
Score
Host
Manager
Winner's postseason performance
2012
St. Louis Cardinals Mike Matheny 6–3[5] Atlanta Braves Fredi González Won NLDS 3–2 (Nationals), Lost NLCS 4–3 (Giants)
2013
Cincinnati Reds Dusty Baker 2–6 Pittsburgh Pirates Clint Hurdle Lost NLDS 3–2 (Cardinals)
2014
San Francisco Giants Bruce Bochy 8–0 Pittsburgh Pirates Clint Hurdle Won NLDS 3–1 (Nationals), Won NLCS 4–1 (Cardinals), Won WS 4–3 (Royals)
2015
Chicago Cubs Joe Maddon 4–0 Pittsburgh Pirates Clint Hurdle Won NLDS 3–1 (Cardinals), Lost NLCS 4–0 (Mets)
2016
San Francisco Giants Bruce Bochy 3–0 New York Mets Terry Collins Lost NLDS 3–1 (Cubs)
2017
Colorado Rockies Bud Black 8–11 Arizona Diamondbacks Torey Lovullo Lost NLDS 3–0 (Dodgers)
2018
Colorado Rockies↓ Bud Black 2–1
(13 inn.) Chicago Cubs↓ Joe Maddon Lost NLDS 3-0 (Brewers)
Win–loss records by team[edit]
Team
Win–loss record
Appearances
Arizona Diamondbacks
1–0 1
Atlanta Braves
0–1 1
Baltimore Orioles
1–1 2
Cincinnati Reds
0–1 1
Chicago Cubs
1–1 2
Cleveland Indians
0–1 1
Colorado Rockies
1–1 2
Houston Astros
1–0 1
Kansas City Royals
1–0 1
Minnesota Twins
0–1 1
New York Mets
0–1 1
New York Yankees
2–1 3
Oakland Athletics
0–2 2
Pittsburgh Pirates
1–2 3
San Francisco Giants
2–0 2
St. Louis Cardinals
1–0 1
Tampa Bay Rays
1–0 1
Texas Rangers
0–1 1
Toronto Blue Jays
1–0 1
Records[edit]
Most runs scored, one team: 11, Arizona Diamondbacks vs Colorado Rockies, October 4 in the 2017 NLWC[6]
Most runs scored, both teams: 19, Colorado Rockies 8–11 Arizona Diamondbacks, October 4 in the 2017 NLWC[6]
Most hits, one team: 17, Arizona Diamondbacks vs Colorado Rockies, October 4 in the 2017 NLWC[6]
Most hits, both teams: 30, Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks, October 4 in the 2017 NLWC[6]
Longest game, by innings: 2018 NLWC, 13 innings (Colorado Rockies 2, Chicago Cubs 1)[7]
See also[edit]
Baseball portal
List of American League Wild Card winners
List of National League Wild Card winners
List of Major League Baseball Wild Card Game broadcasters
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Jayson Stark (March 2, 2012). "The new MLB postseason". ESPN.com.
Jump up ^ "MLB adopts expanded format for 2012 postseason". Retrieved Oct 11, 2018.
Jump up ^ Bloom, Barry M. (March 2, 2012). "Addition of Wild Card berths finalized for 2012". MLB.com. MLB.com.
Jump up ^ "Fixing the Wild Card". September 26, 1999.
Jump up ^ Game was played "under protest" by the Atlanta Braves regarding a perceived incorrect call regarding the infield fly rule, but shortly after the game Joe Torre, MLB executive vice president for baseball operations, denied the protest, citing umpire's judgment. "Wild-card game stopped after call". Associated Press/ESPN. October 5, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Team Batting Game Finder: In the LWC, From 1903 to 2017, sorted by most recent date". Baseball Reference. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
Jump up ^ Dale, Shane (October 3, 2018). "Rockies beat Cubs in longest winner-take-all game in MLB history". KNXV. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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