"and other countries. Ebony and Ivory (piano duo) Ebony and Ivory was the name given to two elderly women in New Jersey, one white and one black, who played classical piano together. Both had suffered a stroke in 1982 and become partially disabled. Ruth Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick were introduced to each other the following year and began playing piano together, one hand each. A reporter covering their story dubbed them ""Ebony and Ivory"" after the 1982 hit song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Margaret Patrick (1913–1994) grew up in Harlem and started playing the piano at the age"
"McCartney filmed a promotional interview for the ""Tug of War"" album. The b-side of the single, the song ""Rainclouds"", is written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, though on early pressings of the single the song was credited only to McCartney. ""Ebony and Ivory"" spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and was the fourth-biggest hit of 1982. For McCartney, the song's run atop the chart was the longest of any of his post-Beatles works, and second longest career-wise (behind ""Hey Jude"" with The Beatles); for Wonder, it was his longest-running chart-topper. It marked the first"
"Ruth Brewer Eisenberg Ruth Brewer Eisenberg (1902–1996) was ""Ivory"" of ""Ebony and Ivory,"" the inter-racial piano duo. Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick, ""Ebony,"" each had a stroke in 1982, which partially disabled them. Prior to the stroke, each had studied and played classical piano. Eisenberg was disabled on the left, Patrick on the right. They were introduced at a post-stroke group in Englewood, New Jersey by the program's director, who knew of their shared love for music and thought perhaps together, they could play as one. A reporter dubbed them ""Ebony and Ivory"" after the song by Paul McCartney and Stevie"
"ex-Beatle's North American releases on CBS, which had a pressing plant, distribution network, and office, in McCartney's native England. Under Yetnikoff, in 1982, McCartney collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the number-one hit ""Ebony and Ivory"", included on McCartney's ""Tug of War"", and with Michael Jackson on ""The Girl Is Mine"" from ""Thriller"". The following year, McCartney and Jackson worked on ""Say Say Say"", McCartney's most recent US number one hit. Yetnikoff was also involved in Streisand's biggest selling album, ""Guilty"" with Barry Gibb from The Bee Gees. Yetnikoff features prominently in Frederic Dannen's landmark 1990 book ""Hit Men: Power Brokers"
"Ebony Eyes (Rick James song) ""Ebony Eyes"" is a 1983 hit R&B/Soul single recorded by American singers Rick James and Smokey Robinson for the Gordy (Motown) label. The song was first featured on James' album ""Cold Blooded"". The song was produced and arranged by Rick James. It peaked at number 43 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. Ebony Eyes was a collaborative effort by Smokey Robinson and Rick James. It was first released on the album Cold Blooded, the title song quickly became Rick James' third number one R&B hit but Ebony Eyes also climbed the R&B/Hip Hop charts and"
"Ebony Woman Ebony Woman is an album by soul singer Billy Paul. The album was produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, arranged by Stanley Johnson and Bobby Martin, and engineered by Joe Tarsia. On its original Neptune Records release in 1970 the LP reached #12 on the Billboard soul charts and #183 on the pop charts. The Bobby Martin penned ""Let's Fall in Love All Over"" was released as a single but failed to chart. The album was re-released with new cover art in 1973 on Philadelphia International Records reaching #186 on the pop chart and #43 on the"
"Avalon (Roxy Music song) ""Avalon"" is a 1982 song by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from their album ""Avalon"". The single, with its B-side, ""Always Unknowing"", charted at No. 13 in the UK. The song's distinctive backing vocals were performed by Haitian singer Yanick Etienne, whom Bryan Ferry encountered during the recording of the album. He heard her in the adjacent studio and invited her to contribute backing vocals to the recording. The song's music video was directed by Howard Guard and features the English actress Sophie Ward, daughter of actor Simon"
"rowspan=""2""|1983 || rowspan=""2""| ""Blue Eyes"" || Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male || Blue Eyes (Elton John song) ""Blue Eyes"" is a song performed by Elton John with music and lyrics written by Elton John and Gary Osborne. It was released in 1982, both as a single and on the album ""Jump Up!"", which reached No. 8 in the UK. In the US, the song spent three weeks at No. 10 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100, It also went to No. 12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart."
"Ward. It was filmed in Mentmore Towers country house. In 1997, British House dance group M People, covered the song and released it as the twelfth and closing track on their final to date studio album ""Fresco"". Avalon (Roxy Music song) ""Avalon"" is a 1982 song by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from their album ""Avalon"". The single, with its B-side, ""Always Unknowing"", charted at No. 13 in the UK. The song's distinctive backing vocals were performed by Haitian singer Yanick Etienne, whom Bryan Ferry encountered during the recording of the album."
"Ebony Eyes (John D. Loudermilk song) ""Ebony Eyes"" is a song written by John D. Loudermilk, recorded in 1961 by The Everly Brothers, and released as a single together with ""Walk Right Back"", which reached No.8 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The lyrics tell a young man's tragic story of losing his beloved fiancée in an airplane crash in dark, stormy weather conditions, conditions which remind him of his fiancée's ""ebony eyes"". The single, a double A-side in the UK, reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart on 2 March 1961 for 3 weeks and was the ninth best-selling"
"the suggestion that the words ""I buried Paul"" are spoken by Lennon in the final section of the song ""Strawberry Fields Forever"", which the Beatles recorded in November and December 1966. Lennon later said that the words were actually ""Cranberry sauce"". Another example is the interpretation of the ""Abbey Road"" album cover as depicting a funeral procession. Lennon, dressed in white, is said to symbolise the heavenly figure; Starr, dressed in black, symbolises the undertaker; George Harrison, in denim, represents the gravedigger; and McCartney, barefoot and out of step with the others, symbolises the corpse. The number plate of the"
"and lasted from 3 February to 2 March, ending with ""Ebony and Ivory"" and ""What's That You're Doing"", two songs featuring Stevie Wonder. 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart also became a frequent collaborator of McCartney's during this period. Further sessions that summer were undertaken at Martin's AIR studios at Oxford Street, London. The sessions were so productive that several of its tracks were held over for McCartney's next album, ""Pipes of Peace"", which followed in 1983. The rest of 1981 was spent in a quiet fashion, with McCartney and Martin touching up the album and perfecting it. In a contemporary review"
"uptempo version of the song (omitting one verse) which reached number four in the US and number seven in the UK. The Hermits' version was, according to singer Peter Noone and guitarist Keith Hopwood, done as a tribute to Cooke upon his death. Otis Redding recorded a version of the song on his 1965 album ""Otis Blue"". In 1978, Art Garfunkel recorded the song at a slow tempo, with Paul Simon and James Taylor alternating as lead and backing vocalists. This reached number 17 on the US ""Billboard Hot 100"" and number 15 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100. The"
"Yellow Submarine (song) ""Yellow Submarine"" is a 1966 song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the ""Revolver"" (1966) album and issued as a single, coupled with ""Eleanor Rigby"". The single went to number one on every major British chart, remained at number one for four weeks, and charted for 13 weeks. It won an Ivor Novello Award ""for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966"". In the US, the song peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart"
"Paul's second LP ""Ebony Woman"" (1970), was a more commercial release on Gamble & Huff's Neptune label. Paul cut a new version of his 1959 single and made it the title track. Gamble & Huff were firmly in control of the production. Merging jazz and soul, the LP achieved some modest success reaching #12 on the ""Billboard"" soul chart and #183 on the pop chart. After Neptune folded, Gamble and Huff started their third label – Philadelphia International Records (PIR) – and brought Paul with them. Gamble and Huff signed a distribution deal with Clive Davis and CBS Records. ""Going"
"its third edition. It is included in sermons and religious publications in the US and other countries. Eisenberg's daughter was the art historian Jacqueline Moss. Her nephew is Canadian artist and musician Mendelson Joe. Ruth Brewer Eisenberg Ruth Brewer Eisenberg (1902–1996) was ""Ivory"" of ""Ebony and Ivory,"" the inter-racial piano duo. Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick, ""Ebony,"" each had a stroke in 1982, which partially disabled them. Prior to the stroke, each had studied and played classical piano. Eisenberg was disabled on the left, Patrick on the right. They were introduced at a post-stroke group in Englewood, New Jersey by the"
"The song was released as a single in 1982, and Bowie included a re-recorded version of the song on his album ""Let's Dance"" (1983). Bowie performed the song live regularly during his 1983 ""Serious Moonlight"" tour. The song was also used in Quentin Tarantino's film ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009) and Charlize Theron’s spy thriller ""Atomic Blonde"" (2017). Bowie's re-recording had guitar by a then-unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan. All compositions by Moroder, lyrics by David Bowie on ""Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"". Cat People (1982 film) Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nastassja"
"by Tiffany. British rock artist Billy Idol released a cover version in 1981 (on the ""Don't Stop"" EP). Along with the track ""Baby Talk"", Idol's version of ""Mony Mony"" went to #7 on the Billboard dance chart. A live recording of the song became a hit for Idol in 1987 as well, while promoting his then-forthcoming compilation work ""Vital Idol"". The live version was released as a single and went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, coincidentally displacing Tiffany's cover of another Tommy James song, ""I Think We're Alone Now"", from the top spot. It also finished directly"
"Mony Mony ""Mony Mony"" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 in the U.S. Written by Bobby Bloom, Ritchie Cordell, Bo Gentry and Tommy James, the song has appeared in various film and television works such as the Oliver Stone drama ""Heaven & Earth"". It was also covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981. Idol's version, which took in more of a rock sound, became an international top 40 hit and additionally revived public interest in the original garage rock"
"and researcher John Moulden found no basis to this claim, and Pete St. John has stated that he wrote the words as well as the music. The song was first recorded by Jerry Crilly. In 1979, it was recorded by Danny Doyle, reaching the top ten in the Irish Singles Chart. The song charted again in 1982 for Barleycorn, reaching number seven in Ireland, but the most successful version was released by Paddy Reilly in 1982. While peaking only at number four, it remained in the Irish charts for 72 weeks. Two further versions have since reached the Irish top"
"I could hear Paul McCartney doing that, so I needed to, with greatest respect to Paul, take that and put it somewhere black. So I asked Babyface who, even though he may not be aware of it, gave it the blues thing. The first two lines I play on that song on the acoustic guitar are lines I quote wherever I can and they come from the beginning of ""Mannish Boy"" by Muddy Waters. On every record I make where I think, this has got a chance of doing well, I make sure I pay my dues on this. So"
"as Paul McCartney and Hal David and Brian Wilson. Members of the Western Writers of America included it in their list of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic considered it one of Eagles' major compositions. Paul Gambaccini of ""Rolling Stone"" felt it was Henley's rough voice that made the song memorable. Although the song is one of Eagles' best-known songs, their recording never charted on ""Billboard"" until the death of Glenn Frey, when it reached No. 20 on the Rock Digital Songs chart. Eagles' version of the song was featured in the ""Seinfeld"" episode"
"percussion track. Among the faintly audible comments over the coda, ""Cranberry sauce"" was taken to be Lennon intoning ""I buried Paul"" by proponents of the ""Paul is Dead"" hoax, a theory that contended that McCartney had died in November 1966 and been replaced in the Beatles by a lookalike. Shortly before Lennon's death in 1980, Lennon expressed dissatisfaction with the final version of the song, saying it was ""badly recorded"" and accusing McCartney of subconsciously sabotaging the recording. By January 1967, Epstein was under pressure from their record company to release a new single by the Beatles. Martin told him"
"album track for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It was also included in the film ""Yellow Submarine."" When I'm Sixty-Four ""When I'm Sixty-Four"" is a song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released in 1967 on their album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". The song is sung by a young man to his lover, and is about his plans of their growing old together. Although the theme is ageing, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote, when he was 16. It was in the Beatles' setlist in their early days as"
"Lennon–McCartney Lennon–McCartney (sometimes McCartney–Lennon) was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) and Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) of the Beatles. It is one of the best known and most successful musical collaborations in history, with the Beatles selling over 600 million records, tapes and CDs as of 2004. Between 5 October 1962 and 8 May 1970, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalogue. Unlike many songwriting partnerships that comprise separate lyricist and composer, both Lennon"
"Evans)... heh-heh"" and then shouts ""Oh, look out!"" At which point, 0.04 of the song McCartney says ""Easy"" to bring it down a notch. A slower, ethereal version of this song, recorded in late January 1969 during the ""Let It Be"" sessions, appears on the 1996 compilation ""Anthology 3"". She Came In Through the Bathroom Window ""She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"" is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by the Beatles on their album ""Abbey Road"" as the fifth song of the ""Abbey Road"" medley, followed by ""Golden Slumbers"". McCartney said the song"
"on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in July 1957. The Diamonds also performed the song live on the ABC television show ""Circus Time"" on June 27, 1957, and included it on the 1962 Mercury LP album ""Pop Hits"" (MGW 12178). The Beatles recorded a cover version of the song on October 18, 1964 for the UK album ""Beatles for Sale"". It first appeared in the U.S. on the album ""Beatles VI"". It was also on a 7-inch extended play, ""Beatles for Sale No. 2"", released by Parlophone/EMI in 1965. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, sang in"
"yogis – Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar – among the crowd surrounding the Beatles; as a further Indian detail, a four-armed idol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi was placed in the garlands of flowers at the bottom of the image. Among the song's lyrics, printed on the back cover, the positioning of the words ""Without You"" beside McCartney's head served as a clue in the Paul Is Dead rumour, which grew in the United States partly as a result of the Beatles' failure to perform live after 1966. In 1971 the song was issued as the title"
"the musical revue ""Smokey Joe's Cafe"". The Beatles played ""Young Blood"" in their Cavern Club repertoire. It is one of twelve songs recorded by them in July 1962 on a tape, which was re-purchased by Paul McCartney at a Sotheby's auction in 1985. A previously unreleased version performed by The Beatles (for the BBC radio show ""Pop Go the Beatles"" broadcast on June 11, 1963) is included on their album ""Live at the BBC"", released in 1994. It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio, London on June 1, 1963, and George Harrison is the lead vocalist on this recording;"
"of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life. In the 1966 Donovan song - 'Sunny South Kensington', Quant and Jean-Paul Belmondo's drug use/abuse is immortalized in the lyric: ""Jean-Paul Belmondo and-a Mary Quant got stoned, to say the least"". Mary Quant Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDI (born 11 February 1934) is an English fashion designer and fashion icon, who is of Welsh heritage. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements."
"either the Beatles or Paul McCartney, although bootleg recordings exist of McCartney's original demo of the song, recorded for Mary Hopkin. The international online magazine ""PopMatters"" has published McCartney's demo along with critical commentary expressing a preference for the composer's version over Hopkin's rendition. Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song) ""Goodbye"" is a song written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by Mary Hopkin. It was released on 28 March 1969, and it reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart, prevented from reaching the top position by the Beatles' single ""Get Back"". In the US, released 7 April"
"Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. He gained worldwide fame as the bass guitarist and singer for the rock band the Beatles, widely considered the most popular and influential group in the history of popular music. His songwriting partnership with John Lennon remains the most successful in history. After the group disbanded in 1970, he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine. McCartney is one of the most successful composers and performers of all time. More than 2,200 artists"
"the song as ""just one example of why the Beatles' appeal reached so far beyond the traditional rock audience"". Paul McCartney came up with the melody of ""Eleanor Rigby"" as he experimented with his piano. However, the original name of the protagonist that he chose was not Eleanor Rigby, but Miss Daisy Hawkins. The singer-composer Donovan reported that he heard McCartney play it to him before it was finished, with completely different lyrics. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song: McCartney said he came up with the name ""Eleanor"" from actress Eleanor Bron, who had"