"of All Time. In 1997, the song was remixed by English techno-house group N-Trance for their second album ""Happy Hour"" and features lyrics from the Millie Jackson version (as performed by vocalist Kelly Llorenna). It was featured in the film ""A Night at the Roxbury"" the following year. In 2017, Stewart released a remix version featuring American band DNCE. They performed the song at 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? ""Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"" (sic) is a song by British singer Rod Stewart from his 1978 album ""Blondes Have More Fun"". It was written by"
"Stewart's look had evolved to include a glam element, including make-up and spandex clothes. Stewart scored another UK number one and US number one single with ""Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"", which was a crossover hit reaching number five on the ""Billboard"" black charts due to its disco sound. This was the lead single from 1978's ""Blondes Have More Fun...or do they?,"" which went to number one on the ""Billboard"" album charts and sold 3 million albums. A focal point of criticisms about this period was his biggest-selling 1978 disco hit ""Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"", which was atypical of"
"Fun (Blondie song) ""Fun"" is the lead single from Blondie's eleventh studio album ""Pollinator"". It was released on February 1, 2017, on all major online platforms. On February 13, 2017, the single was released as a 7-inch single in the UK. The single included the Johnny Marr penned track ""My Monster"" as a B-side. Several remixes were made for the track, and released on digital singles on March 8th. The single made the UK radio Airplay charts in early February 2017, reaching number 22 on February 24, 2017. The single was also chosen as ""Record of the Week"" on BBC"
"Cilla Black Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author. Championed by her friends in the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles ""Anyone Who Had a Heart"" and ""You're My World"" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 Top Ten hits on the British charts between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed"
"Blondes (John Stewart album) Blondes is a studio album released in 1982 by folk musician John Stewart, former member of the Kingston Trio. The LP was released with slightly different track listings in the US and in Sweden. The liner notes of the US release states: The Swedish album was released on Polydor and is credited to ""John Stewart with Chuck McDermott"". The Swedish release contains remixes of all the songs from the US release except ""Angeles"" which is not included at all. It also contains the following additional songs: ""All The Desperate Men"", ""Same Old Heart"" and ""When The"
"including his first US #1 ""Tonight's the Night"". ""Foot Loose & Fancy Free"" (1977) reached #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and #1 in Australia and again produced three US Top 40 singles, including ""You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"", which reached #4. ""Blondes Have More Fun"" (1978) went to #1 in the US and Australia, and produced two more Top 40 singles including his second US #1, ""Da Ya Think I'm Sexy"" (although Stewart and co-writer Carmine Appice were later successfully sued for plagiarizing the song's catchy melody hook from ""Taj Mahall"" by Brazilian songwriter Jorge Ben)."
"her literary debut with the play ""A Taste of Honey"". The play inspired many early lyrics written by Morrissey, and the song ""This Night Has Opened My Eyes"" (included here) is based on the plight of the play's heroine, Jo, an unwed mother. Louder Than Bombs Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by English rock band The Smiths. It was released as a double album in March 1987 by their American record company, Sire Records. It peaked at number 62 on the US ""Billboard"" 200 album chart. Popular demand prompted their British record company, Rough Trade, to issue the"
"The Shirley Bassey Collection The Shirley Bassey Collection is a double compilation album released in 1972 by British singer Shirley Bassey. The album charted at #37 in the UK charts in January 1972. Shirley Bassey enjoyed a successful comeback in the early 1970s, having achieved five hit singles in the first two years of the decade, plus two Top ten albums, ""Something"" and ""Something Else"". This led to several re-issues of her earlier backcatalogue, these included several compilation albums and complete albums, they were mainly released on the EMI Music For Pleasure (MFP) label. The double album set includes both"
"album was released on compact disc in 2003. Side Two With a line-up of newly recorded tracks, the group released an album under the same name in the UK and Europe in March 1972. As well as featuring the single ""I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"", which had reached #1 in the UK, it also featured their then current single, ""Beg, Steal or Borrow"". This latter single was their entry into the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest, where it gained second place as well as reaching #2 in the UK singles chart. As well as this, two other songs,"
"word play, the usage of the latter being influenced by Spike Milligan. Upon release, ""Himself"" was a commercial success in the UK, reaching No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart. It received a warm reception from critics, and O'Sullivan became noted for his satirical lyrics and eye-catching, atypical dress style, which included a cloth cap and short trousers. The album was released with a revised track list in the United States in 1972, this time boasting the hit single ""Alone Again (Naturally)"". It reached No. 9 on the US ""Billboard 200"". The original version of ""Himself"" was remastered and re-released"
"he wore platform boots and feather boas during his performances. Exploiting his androgynous appearance, rock star David Bowie wore a dress on the UK cover of his 1970 album, ""The Man Who Sold the World"", and often wore dresses, makeup and leotards both onstage and while doing interviews. In a time when very few people were out, he announced he and his wife were both bisexual. In 1972 Bowie co-produced Lou Reed's album ""Transformer"", which includes several genderbendings songs, notably the classic, ""Walk on the Wild Side"". The New York Dolls are a protopunk band, formed in 1971 and who"
"LaBelle eventually agreed to ""go along with it"". After a tour of England where they changed managers hiring Vicki Wickham, in 1971, the group ditched their bouffant wigs and dresses for Afros and jeans releasing transitional records such as ""Labelle"" (which included the Hendryx-penned sexual ""Morning Much Better"") and ""Moon Shadow"" (which featured the group's gospel-fueled renditions of the Pete Townshend penned, ""Won't Get Fooled Again"", and Cat Stevens' ""Moonshadow""). During this period, the group got notice by the mainstream after opening for blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and British rock group The Who during their tours, leading up to"
"Better"" is a ""lust-drunk anthem"" about James Bond's sexual prowess. ""Nobody Does It Better"" has been covered a number of times and has been featured in many non-Bond films, including ""Mr. & Mrs. Smith"" (2005), performed by 8mm. ""Little Black Book"" (2004), ""Lost in Translation"" (2003) and """" (2004) also used the song. Brazilian singer Fafá de Belém sang and wrote Portuguese lyrics from this song, called ""Meu Homem"". George Wright covered the song in his 1984 album ""Red Hot and Blue"". Singer/Actress Julie Andrews included the song on her 1987 album ""Love, Julie"" (also titled ""Tea for Two"" internationally)"
"Balmes (A Better Life) ""Balmes (A Better Life)"" is a house song by German DJ Ian Pooley. Although an instrumental version of the song was featured on his 2001 album, ""Since Then"", the single version includes vocals from Canadian singer/songwriter Esthero. The single version was released in 2001, with an accompanying animated music video. Upon its release, the song was successful. It was a modest hit in the United Kingdom, where it became Pooley's second Top 75 hit and Esthero's first. The song became Pooley's second-highest peaking chart entry in the UK, and is today his third-highest peaking. The song"
"it made slow progress in the UK Top 40, until it finally peaked in early 1971 at number two. Bolan took to wearing top hats and feather boas on stage as well as putting drops of glitter on each of his cheekbones. Stories are conflicting about his inspiration for this—some say it was introduced by his personal assistant, Chelita Secunda, although Bolan told John Pidgeon in a 1974 interview on Radio 1 that he noticed the glitter on his wife's dressing table prior to a photo session and casually daubed some on his face there and then. Other performers—and their"
"Blair Cunningham replaced Hunt on drums. Their second single, ""Love Plus One"", was released in January 1982 and gave the band their second UK Top 10 hit. ""Pelican West"" was released in February, reaching No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart. The band became internationally famous and toured the globe. ""Love Plus One"" reached the US Top 40, and they secured further UK Top 10 hits in 1982 with the singles ""Fantastic Day"" and ""Nobody's Fool"". In late 1982, tensions began arising within the band as they struggled to record new material, which was hindered when Heyward refused to attend"
"through college. She began her television career in 1954. She appeared on two prize-winning television productions, ""Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest"" (1964) and ""There I Go"", and appeared on stage as Felicity in Jean Genet′s ""The Blacks"". Her notable songs as a folksinger included ""Long Time Boy"" and ""Red and Green Christmas"". She married composer/arranger David Lindup and their son Mike Lindup is the keyboard player of the jazz-funk band Level 42. Nadia Cattouse Nadia Evadne Cattouse (born 2 November 1924 in Belize City, British Honduras) is a Belizean-born British actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for"
"up the charts in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and elsewhere in Europe. They followed this with a cover of ""Too Busy Thinking About My Baby,"" which again charted highly across Europe, including peaking at number 19 in the UK Singles Chart in 1972. They released two other singles, ""Every Day I Have to Cry Some"" (1971), and ""Paris Sunshine"" (1972), soon after issuing their only album. They recorded one more record, backing the French singer, Michel Laurent, on ""Sing Sing Barbara"" which reached number 1 across parts of Europe, staying at the top of the charts in Italy for six"
"Joss Stone Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, ""The Soul Sessions"", which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly multi-platinum ""Mind Body & Soul"" (2004), topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit ""You Had Me"", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone"
"Hollywood Beyond Hollywood Beyond was a British pop group from Birmingham, England. Hollywood Beyond was the brainchild of singer-songwriter Mark Rogers. Their first single, ""What's the Colour of Money"", reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986. The song also reached #8 in The Netherlands, #21 in Germany and #14 in Switzerland. The follow-up single, ""No More Tears"", peaked at #47 in the UK. An album for Hollywood Beyond entitled ""If"", followed on Warner Bros. Records in 1987, produced by Bernard Edwards, Mike Thorne and Stephen Hague. Former members include Andy Welch, Steve Elliott, Dean Loren, Mike Burns, Carol"
"this character's mind. We didn’t want to take the sci-fi elements too seriously, so we did these light-hearted animations and shot in this minimal Apollo capsule set."" Fun (Blondie song) ""Fun"" is the lead single from Blondie's eleventh studio album ""Pollinator"". It was released on February 1, 2017, on all major online platforms. On February 13, 2017, the single was released as a 7-inch single in the UK. The single included the Johnny Marr penned track ""My Monster"" as a B-side. Several remixes were made for the track, and released on digital singles on March 8th. The single made the"
"in 1972, with different cover art—a photograph of Spector dressed as a heavily bearded Santa Claus, wearing a ""Back to Mono"" button—and retitled Phil Spector's Christmas Album. This version went to number 6 on ""Billboard""'s special Christmas Albums sales chart in December of that year, which was its highest chart ranking. It was also in 1972 that it made its debut on the UK charts. It would also re-chart in 1983 peaking at UK #19. In 2003, the album was voted 142 on ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2017, it was ranked"
"Duster Bennett Anthony ""Duster"" Bennett (23 September 1946 – 26 March 1976) was a British blues singer and musician. Based in London, his first album ""Smiling Like I'm Happy"" saw him playing as a one-man band, playing a bass drum with his foot and blowing a harmonica on a rack while strumming a 1952 Les Paul Goldtop guitar given to him in 1968 by Peter Green. Backed by his girlfriend Stella Sutton and the original Fleetwood Mac on three tracks, the album was well received. He remained popular on the local blues club scene until his death in a car"
"played with lasting interest and the other of which includes at least one enjoyable cut."" O'Sullivan topped off his year of success by being ranked by ""Record Mirror"" as the number 1 male singer of 1972, and in May 1973, he won an Ivor Novello award for ""British Songwriter of the Year."" Among retrospective reviews, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic felt the album amply and charmingly displayed O'Sullivan's ""song-and-dance-man"" skills for ""a snappy hook or tearjerking melody,"" and felt that, in many ways, the album's ""unabashed showbiz cheer"" trumps ""the bedsit introspection of ""Himself""."" He also felt the album's ""gloss"""
"1970 and No. 1 on all the other major country charts, making the duo one of the most successful duet pairings of the early 1970s. Their road shows were also successful, and the duo performed at venues from New York’s Madison Square Garden to London’s Wembley Arena. In 1972, they released a new album, entitled ""Two for the Show"". Two singles from the album hit the top 20 on the country charts, starting with ""Much Oblige"", followed by ""What in the World Has Gone Wrong With Our Love"". The duo has been nominated for the CMA Awards' ""Vocal Duo of"
"along with a successful 1978 UK tour, including a gig at London's Roundhouse, made Blondie one of the first American new wave bands to achieve mainstream success in the United Kingdom. By this time, Gary Valentine had left and been replaced by Frank Infante (guitar, bass guitar). With this lineup in place for a short time, British musician Nigel Harrison was hired as the group's full-time bassist, expanding Blondie to a six-piece for the first time in its history and thus allowing Infante to switch to guitar. The band's line-up had stabilized. Blondie's third album, ""Parallel Lines"" (UK No. 1,"
"song, ""Miss Broadway"", which charted at number 26 on the U.S. R&B chart and at number 92 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1978. ""Miss Broadway"" and ""Black Is Black"" both rose to number 21 on Billboard's ""National Disco Action Top 40"" chart in summer 1977. Other hits in continental Europe followed into the late 1970s. Lenton began recording solo again in 1983, although she has worked with contemporary music producers to craft remixes of ""Black Is Black"" and ""Miss Broadway"". In UK sources, such as David Roberts' ""British Hit Singles & Albums"", the band is listed by the name"
"1967), Chuck Berry (""Live at Fillmore Auditorium"" 1967), Savoy Brown (""Blue Matter"" 1968), Karen Dalton (""It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best"" 1969), the Rolling Stones (""Jamming with Edward!"" 1972), Bob Dylan (""Self Portrait"" 1970), Hound Dog Taylor (""Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers"" 1971), Grateful Dead (""Europe '72"" 1972), Foghat (""Stone Blue"" 1978), Eric Burdon (""Comeback"" 1982), Eric Clapton (""From the Cradle"" 1994), Susan Tedeschi (""Better Days"" 1995), Paul Butterfield Blues Band (""The Original Lost Elektra Sessions"" 1995), Gov't Mule with Little Milton (""Mulennium"" 1999), Keb Mo (""The Door"" 2000), Diesel (""ITunes Live from"
"Surprisingly, the Bond theme song was not featured on this collection however. The album itself, released in February 1972, made No.13 and remained on the UK album chart for 11 weeks. In the US, Bassey undertook a promotional tour during March which took in 12 cities. It reached No.94 on the ""Billboard"" 200 Track ""I've Never Been a Woman Before"" was subsequently released as a single, but failed to match the success of the first. The B-side, ""The Greatest Performance of My Life"" (also taken from this album) became a mainstay of her live concerts for the next few years."
"to be excessively sexual, were released at this time. He would later soften his vocal approach. Songs such as ""I Know You Got Soul"" by Bobby Byrd, ""Think"" by Lyn Collins and ""Doing It to Death"" by Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s are considered as much a part of Brown's recorded legacy as the recordings released under his own name. That year, he also began touring African countries and was received well by audiences there. During the 1972 presidential election, James Brown openly proclaimed his support of Richard Nixon for reelection of the presidency over Democratic candidate George McGovern. The"
"vocal section. Then in 1972, Lodge's songs ""Isn't Life Strange?"" (No. 13) and ""I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)"" (No. 36) were lifted from ""Seventh Sojourn"" as charting UK singles. ""Sojourn"" also saw Pinder using the new Chamberlin instrument in place of the mellotron and Edge using an electronic drum kit. Pinder's stirring lament ""Lost in a Lost World"" opened this last ""Core Seven"" outing, while his sympathetic ode to Timothy Leary ""When You're a Free Man"", Thomas's romantic ""For My Lady"", and Hayward's serene ""New Horizons"" all stood out. In an interview following the release"
"stranger / The girl with the wistful eyes' PB 1229 Apl 1962 'Come down the mountain Katie Daly' BF 1267 Sep 1963 'Don't do me any favours / If only I could say' BF 1304 Jan 1964 'Lipstick paint a smile on me / I'm a lonely one too' BF 1327 Apl 1964 'Make room for one more fool' ""The Golden Years of the Theatre Royal"" 1986 ""50 Great Years of Joe Loss"". Music For Pleasure EMI label CDDL 1281 ""Joe Loss & His Orchestra: Featuring Rose Brennan Howard Jones & Elizabeth Batey"" (2004) ""Joe Loss: In the Mood."" EMI"
"the set, showcasing their vocal harmonies with old favourites like ""Poor Boy Blues"", ""Friend of Mine"", and ""Crazy City"". They recorded their 2012 winter tour. The band released a single ""Breathless""/""When the City Sleeps"" under the pseudonym of ""Bombadil"" in 1972. ""Breathless"", an instrumental, was credited to ""Terry Bull"" (actually John Lees). The B side ""When the City Sleeps"" was credited to ""Lester Forest"" (actually Woolly Wolstenholme), who also played every instrument and sang. This obscure track made an appearance on the soundtrack of the 2007 series ""Life on Mars"", although it was not featured on the CD release. Barclay"