"When You're Strange When You're Strange is a 2009 music documentary film about the American rock band the Doors. It was written and directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp. The film begins with the band's formation in 1965, its development over the next two years, release of their debut album and subsequent albums and Jim Morrison's use of alcohol and drugs and subsequent death in Paris in July 1971. The film features archival footage of rehearsals, TV and concert performances, private cine-film and the background to Morrison's arrest at a 1969 Miami concert and later trial. The"
"string, and Maton El Toro) and amplifiers. Farrar later moved to the USA, and has written and produced a number of hits for Olivia Newton-John, including ""Hopelessly Devoted to You"", ""Have You Never Been Mellow"" and ""Magic"". Fred Wieland died of lung cancer at the age of 75 on December 10, 2018. The Strangers (Australian band) The Strangers was an Australian band based in Melbourne, that existed from 1961 to 1975. The band started out playing instrumental songs in a style similar to The Shadows, with influences from Cliff Richard. The original line-up included Peter Robinson (bass), Graeme ('Garth') Thompson"
"When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture is the studio album and the soundtrack to the 2010 documentary film, narrated by Johnny Depp, about The Doors and their music. The soundtrack features 14 songs from The Doors’ six studio albums, with studio versions mixed with live versions, including performances from The Ed Sullivan Show, Television-Byen in Gladsaxe, Felt Forum in New York and Isle of Wight Festival 1970. All songs are performed by The Doors and written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, except where noted. All"
"1966 song ""When I Needed You"" appeared on Aerosmith's 1991 compilation box set album ""Pandora's Box"". Chain Reaction (1960s band) Chain Reaction, also known as The Strangeurs, was an American rock band from Yonkers, New York. They had two singles and were most notable for having lead singer Steven Tallarico (Steven Tyler, as he would later come to be known). They started off as the Strangers, until finding a group who already had that name, switching to The Strangeurs as a result. After a line-up change they changed their name to Chain Reaction. Chain Reaction performed in concert as the"
"found on UNKLE's box set, ""Eden"". A promo CD single with a 3:56 radio edit of the UNKLE remix was also distributed. People Are Strange ""People Are Strange"" is a single released by the American rock band the Doors in September 1967 from their second album ""Strange Days"" which was also released in September 1967. The single peaked at the number 12 position of the U.S. Hot 100 chart and made it to the top ten in the Cash Box charts. It was written by Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger although credit was given to the Doors evenly. ""People Are"
"Edition with four bonus tracks. On 19 July 2009 the band participated in the Witchseason Weekender (featuring artists from Joe Boyd's Witchseason production company) at The Barbican, London. They performed a free concert on the foyer stage and then participated in the full Sunday evening concert entitled ""The Music of the Incredible String Band"". Dr. Strangely Strange Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth (born 6 September 1943, County Kildare, Ireland), vocals and guitar, and Ivan Pawle (born 17 August 1943, England) bass and keyboards. Booth and Pawle soon teamed"
"Richard Strange Richard ""Kid"" Strange (born January 1951) is an English writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer and the founder and front man of seminal mid-1970s protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness. Strange's first band was Doctors of Madness, formed in 1975, recording three influential but non-commercial albums. The band was supported by the Sex Pistols, the Jam and Joy Division. He disbanded the band in 1978, after Dave Vanian of the Damned briefly joined him on vocals. He subsequently recorded as a solo artist, releasing two albums ""The Live Rise of Richard Strange"" (Ze Records 1981) and ""The"
"Angeles, California), who also served as Merle’s co-producer on his records. Clint Strong (born in 1966), who had studied under Stan Kenton, joined the Strangers on lead guitar during the mid-80s. Cantwell, David; Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, 2013 Church, Gary; Autobiography of a Nobody, 2012 Haggard, Merle; Sing Me Back Home, 1981 Haggard, Merle; For The Record, 1999 Moore, Tiny; Merle Haggard Presents Swinging Texas Fiddlin', 1982 Nelson, Ken; My First 90 Years Plus 3, 2007 Rubin, Rachel Lee; Okie from Muskogee, 2018 The Strangers (American band) The Strangers are an American country band that formed in 1965 in"
"The Strange Familiar The Strange Familiar is an American pop rock band from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The group was originally formed in 2006 by the husband and wife singer-songwriter team Jeff Andrea and Kira Leyden, former members of the popular Akron, OH band Jaded Era. Their first single, ""Courage Is..."", gained them significant attention after it was heavily promoted on ABC Family to launch a brand new series. In 2012, the band was featured on mtvU, Season 3 of the hit series The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars. Other members include fellow Ohio natives Frank Freeman (bass) and Nicholas"
"The Metamorphosis, respectively. Additionally, ""Obstacles"" and ""To All of You"" were featured in Dontnod Entertainment's 2015 video game ""Life Is Strange"". Morali also composed the original score for the game. The soundtrack to ""Life is Strange"" won numerous awards including: best soundtrack at the 2015 Playstation Universe awards, best soundtrack at the Game Informer Best of 2015 awards and best soundtrack at the Titanium Awards. Their songs also appeared in the French animation movie Long Way North (2015). ' Syd Matters Syd Matters is a French band fronted by composer Jonathan Morali. The other band members are Jean-Yves Lozac'h, Olivier"
"the chart. The song later appeared on the soundtrack of the 1979 feature film, ""More American Graffiti"". Strange Brew (song) ""Strange Brew"" is a song by the British rock band Cream. First released as a single in June 1967 in the UK and US, it was later added to their second studio album ""Disraeli Gears"". The song features Eric Clapton on lead vocals rather than the usual lead by Jack Bruce. The single peaked at number 17 on the UK charts in July of that same year. In the UK, it was the last Cream single to be released by"
"number 6), ""The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"" (1963, US number 3; UK number 3) and ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" (1967, US number 3). On the recording of ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" Bobby Vee and The Strangers are credited. However, that was merely the record label giving a name to the studio musicians working that day. Bobby's original band, The Shadows, backed him on the road, but changed their name to The Strangers upon learning of the UK band The Shadows who backed Cliff Richard. They had not backed him since 1963. He also recorded, in"
"Baby Strange Baby Strange are an indie/rock band formed in 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland. The band consists of Donald Strange (vocalist/guitarist), Connaire McCann (drummer) and Aidan McCann (bass) who share their name with a T. Rex track from the 1972 album The Slider. However, there are conflicting reports as front man Johnny Madden states in an interview with Guestlist says, "" unlike people think we actually made the name up and it really stuck, and then we realised it was a T-Rex song."" The three-piece from north Glasgow were friends for years. ""Creating Baby Strange was a great way to"
"Love Is Strange ""Love Is Strange"" is a crossover hit by American rhythm and blues duet Mickey & Sylvia, which was released in late November 1956 by the Groove record label. The song was based on a guitar riff by Jody Williams. The song was written by Bo Diddley under the name of his wife at the time, Ethel Smith, and was recorded by Bo and Buddy Holly, among others. The guitar riff was also used by Dave ""Baby"" Cortez in his 1962 instrumental song ""Rinky Dink"", also credited to Diddley. At a concert at Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C."
"27 – CD Single 1 INXDD 27 – CD Single 2 INXS MC 27 – Cassette & 7"" Red Vinyl Single The Strangest Party (These Are the Times) ""The Strangest Party (These Are the Times)"" is a single by Australian band INXS. The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence. The song was a new track on their compilation album ""The Greatest Hits"". The song has a catchy drum beat with higher chords and with fingerpickering on certain parts of the song. The song reached #15 on the UK charts and #30 on the Australian charts. The music"
"that starred Val Kilmer as Morrison was released, which helped to expand The Doors' popularity even more, and a new audience had been born. ""When You're Strange"", is a 2009 documentary about The Doors written and directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video. The band continues to release compilations through Rhino Records and new live material through both Rhino and their Bright Midnight Archives label. Notes The Doors discography The following is the discography of the American"
"People Are Strange ""People Are Strange"" is a single released by the American rock band the Doors in September 1967 from their second album ""Strange Days"" which was also released in September 1967. The single peaked at the number 12 position of the U.S. Hot 100 chart and made it to the top ten in the Cash Box charts. It was written by Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger although credit was given to the Doors evenly. ""People Are Strange"" was composed in early 1967 after guitarist Robby Krieger and a depressed Jim Morrison had walked to the top of Laurel"
"first two records and adding the tracks ""Brother"", ""Southwest"", ""Rainy Night 65"", ""Refugee"", ""Sunset"", ""Caslen"" and ""See You in Hell"" on the third record. Strange Brotherhood Strange Brotherhood was released in 1998 and is the seventh studio album by British rock band, New Model Army and the first on their own independent label, Attack Attack Records. The album was produced by Simon Dawson except for the tracks ""Whites of Their Eyes"" and ""Queen of My Heart"" which were produced by Mike Gregovich. The album featured the guest guitarist, Dave Blomberg, and also an orchestral arrangement. This album is also notable"
"memorial bronze statue of Strange made and sited in his hometown in Wales. The album's cover photograph was by Boy George (credited as ""Rude George""), who had known Strange since the late 1970s. Rather than release any singles from the album, the band decided to release a companion album called ""Darkness To Diamond"" in early 2016. It features remixes and alternate versions of the ten songs from ""Demons To Diamonds"", and the first ever external remix made by Visage of a song called ""Heartbleed"" by James Grant, former frontman of the 80s band Love and Money. The song began life"
"Steve Strange Collective was announced. Run by Strange's friends and relatives, they oversaw the release of the final Visage album, ""Demons to Diamonds"", which was released on 6 November 2015. Visage (band) Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978. The band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their hit ""Fade to Grey"" which was released in late 1980. In the UK, the band achieved two Top 20 albums (""Visage"" and ""The Anvil"") and five Top 30 singles before the commercial failure of their"
"later Boston. ""Remedy"", June 2003 (Squint/Warner) Strange Celebrity Strange Celebrity was a Christian rock band, formed in Nashville, Tennessee, composing of four members: Luke Brown (lead vocals, guitar), Rick Wilson (drums), Quinton Gibson (guitar), and Tracy Ferrie (bass guitar). The band is now defunct, as Luke Brown has pursued a solo career. Strange Celebrity formed after founding member Luke Brown relocated from Chattanooga to Nashville. Initially the group was known as Flipside. They released one album in June 2003, titled ""Remedy"", produced by Dan Wilde of the Rembrandts. Chris Rodriguez was a musical consultant for the album. Tracy Ferrie has"
"72 Grateful When You're Dead ""Grateful When You're Dead"" is a song by English rock band Kula Shaker, taken from their first album ""K"". The song's title is a reference to the American rock band Grateful Dead. The song consists of two parts: the GWYD part, which is a standard rock song, and the JWT part, which is a more drifting part with dark and ethnic sounds. The single was released in April 22 1996. It was released both as a 7"" and a CD, and reached number 35 on the UK singles chart. Catalogue number CD: KulaCD2Catalogue number 7"":"
"the mysterious organ being heard. The song ends with Morrison's ecstatic celebration of a war being over, with sounds of crowds cheering and bells tolling. As pointed out in the 2010 film ""When You're Strange"", at the height of Morrison's success, his father, a U.S. Navy admiral, was commanding a division of aircraft carriers off the coast of Vietnam. The song was Morrison's reaction to the Vietnam War and the way that conflict was portrayed in American media at the time, with lines such as ""Breakfast where the news is read/ Television children fed/ Unborn living, living dead/ Bullets strike"
"Dr. Strangely Strange Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth (born 6 September 1943, County Kildare, Ireland), vocals and guitar, and Ivan Pawle (born 17 August 1943, England) bass and keyboards. Booth and Pawle soon teamed with multi-instrumentalist Tim Goulding (born 15 May 1945, Hatch Street, Dublin), vocals and keyboards, at that time an aspiring painter, and percussionist/vocalist Caroline ""Linus"" Greville, and began living and rehearsing in a house owned by Goulding's girlfriend, backing vocalist ""Orphan Annie"" Mohan, which its tenants nicknamed ""The Orphanage"". The Orphanage became a springboard for"
"The Strangers (American band) The Strangers are an American country band that formed in 1965 in Bakersfield, California. They mainly served as the backup band for singer-songwriter Merle Haggard. However, from 1969 to 1973, they issued several records independent of Haggard, released on Capitol Records. Merle Haggard named the band after his first hit single (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers. The Strangers were voted touring band of the year by the Academy of Country Music eight times. The band continues to tour with longtime member Norman Hamlet, as well as Haggard's children Ben and Noel Haggard. Lead guitarist Roy"
"Strange (Reba McEntire song) ""Strange"" is a song written by Wendell Mobley, Jason Sellers and Neil Thrasher, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire as her first release for the Valory label, a sister label of Big Machine Records. McEntire debuted the song on the Academy of Country Music awards the week before its release to country radio. It is the first single from her twenty-fifth studio album, ""Keep On Loving You"", released on August 18, 2009. ""Strange"" is a moderate up-tempo in which the narrator says that she has just ended a relationship, and that she finds"
"The Strangest Party (These Are the Times) ""The Strangest Party (These Are the Times)"" is a single by Australian band INXS. The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence. The song was a new track on their compilation album ""The Greatest Hits"". The song has a catchy drum beat with higher chords and with fingerpickering on certain parts of the song. The song reached #15 on the UK charts and #30 on the Australian charts. The music video for the single features the band performing in a futuristic, black sci-fi like setting. The song was also featured in"
"Strange Brotherhood Strange Brotherhood was released in 1998 and is the seventh studio album by British rock band, New Model Army and the first on their own independent label, Attack Attack Records. The album was produced by Simon Dawson except for the tracks ""Whites of Their Eyes"" and ""Queen of My Heart"" which were produced by Mike Gregovich. The album featured the guest guitarist, Dave Blomberg, and also an orchestral arrangement. This album is also notable in being the last studio album to feature New Model Army founding member, Robert Heaton. ""Wonderful Way to Go"" was released as a single"
"player in The Coral Reefer Band for Buffett's 1979 tours, which included the Volcano Tour. After recording the ""Volcano"" album in Montserrat, Sykes recorded ""I’m Not Strange, I’m Just Like You"", his third studio album, and released it on the independent Memphis Records label. After it became a hit locally in 1980, Tom Petty’s Backstreet Records, released it and it spent 11 weeks on the Billboard charts. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, ""I’m Not Strange"" includes bluesy track “B.I.G.T.I.M.E.,” which Sykes performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live and was eventually recorded by George Thorogood. In 1982"
"Chain Reaction (1960s band) Chain Reaction, also known as The Strangeurs, was an American rock band from Yonkers, New York. They had two singles and were most notable for having lead singer Steven Tallarico (Steven Tyler, as he would later come to be known). They started off as the Strangers, until finding a group who already had that name, switching to The Strangeurs as a result. After a line-up change they changed their name to Chain Reaction. Chain Reaction performed in concert as the opening act for such groups as The Beach Boys, The Byrds and The Yardbirds. The band's"
"Remaster) Stranger (Electric Light Orchestra song) ""Stranger"" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). This song first appeared on the band's 11th studio album, Secret Messages. Stranger also was the third single from the LP. The small quiet opening is one of the many messages that takes place in this album. A high pitched backmasked voice is heard during the opening, played in reverse the voice is actually saying ""You're playing me backwards."" ""Recorded this in Holland, where I was looking through the eyes of a stranger."" Jeff Lynne (2001 - Secret"
"Institute Between 1995 and 1997 Strange played a butler in more than 50 episodes of the popular German primetime TV show ""Gottschalks Haus-Party"" and had a fight against WWE's The Undertaker in one episode. Richard Strange Richard ""Kid"" Strange (born January 1951) is an English writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer and the founder and front man of seminal mid-1970s protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness. Strange's first band was Doctors of Madness, formed in 1975, recording three influential but non-commercial albums. The band was supported by the Sex Pistols, the Jam and Joy Division. He disbanded the band"
"Were Strangers, and played together for the first time since the farewell show in 2004. On January 27, 2011, the group released a 4-song EP available for download. Their music is considered by many as alternative metal with rap metal and industrial metal influences. According to previous interviews, they consider themselves ""murder rock"". Lollipop Lust Kill Lollipop Lust Kill was an American nu metal band, formed in 1996 in Toledo, Ohio. Lollipop Lust Kill was formed in 1996 in Toledo, Ohio with the original line-up including DeadGreg, Dr. Distorto, Evvy Pedder, D. Human, and drummer Bloody Sunday. Prior to Evvy"