"Air Supply Air Supply are a soft rock duo, consisting of English singer-songwriter and guitarist Graham Russell and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s. They formed in Australia in 1975 and have included various accompanying musicians and singers. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) inducted Air Supply into their Hall of Fame on 1 December 2013 at the annual ARIA Awards. Chrissie Hammond, Russell Hitchcock, and Graham Russell met in May 1975 while performing in the Australian production of the Andrew"
"Hitchcock and Graham Russell from the original band. However, the album only charted for one week in Australia and the band were dropped from their label after BMG merged with Sony. The group disbanded by late 2004. Member Kevin Layton auditioned for the 2009 series of ""Australian Idol"" but missed out on the Top 24. Rien Low auditioned for the 2011 series of ""The X Factor (Australia)"" but missed out on a spot in ""Natalie Bassingthwaighte""'s 'Over 25's' category, making the Top 12 but not the Top 6. He also auditioned for ""Season 2"" of ""The Voice (Australia)"" but was"
"the duo decided to enter the studio again to record ""The Earth Is"", which was released in 1991 by Giant Records under Warner Bros. Records. The recording contains their hit single ""Without You,"" along with singles for ""Stronger Than the Night"" (with a music video announcing that Air Supply was back) and ""Stop the Tears"" and the album sold more than one million copies. Inside the album is a note about Hitchcock and Russell's original Musical Director of their meeting place during ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" (and long time Band Member/Orchestrator): ""This Album Is Dedicated to the Memory of Frank Esler-Smith."""
"of minor hits (""Lonely Is the Night"" and ""One More Chance"") from the album ""Hearts in Motion"" released in 1986. Russell and Hitchcock recorded a 1987 ""Christmas Album"" (containing the holiday single ""The Eyes of a Child"") before taking a break as a band. During this time, Hitchcock released his self-titled album in 1988 which was not a big seller. However, he did have the single ""Swear to Your Heart"" in 1990 – from the movie soundtrack for ""Arachnophobia"" – which received significant airplay. On 21 August 1989, using their old producer and welcoming the return of drummer Ralph Cooper,"
"Want to Give It All"" with Russell. Russell and Hitchcock also from time to time were relief hosts on the music program ""Solid Gold"". It is believed that they initially filled in when Andy Gibb was a no show for an episode that they performed on. However, Gibb's ""no shows"" soon became more frequent, which resulted in his termination. Even though this was not their usual job, the duo made an impression on producers and the audience who enjoyed their accents, and they were asked to host every so often until the show was cancelled. Their next album ""Now and"
"cheeky-boy dummy ""Coster Joe"", broke from the prevailing format of a family of dummies, establishing a precedent for performers such as Edgar Bergen and Paul Winchell. According to ""The Times"" obituary, he changed his name because of the political flavour of ""Parnell"". In 1910, Russell published a book on his craft entitled ""Ventriloquism and Kindred Arts"". His act remained popular for several decades, involving prolonged tours of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as visits to the United States and Ceylon. In 1938 he appeared at the Royal Command Performance. He was active in promoting the variety"
"The neighbouring building, formerly houses, was also occupied, and named Vertigo, after the film by Alfred Hitchcock, a famous resident of Leytonstone. The 491 Gallery and Vertigo collectively collaborated on hosting regular exhibitions and offered studio space for musicians to use. They were maintained largely through small donations made by the public. Transport for London, the 491 building's legal owner at the time, agreed to allow the continued use of the building, although no formal arrangement was made with the occupants. The owner of the Vertigo building allowed its use for an annual peppercorn rent of £1. The Gallery regularly"
"Leon Russell and Denny Cordell found an L.A. home at Sound City as well, recording Leon Russell, Delaney & Bonnie, and Joe Cocker. Thanks to the Shelter founders, Sound City hosted a young band from Florida named Mudcrutch in 1974, providing an introduction to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that resulted in a 20+ year relationship. In 1976, Fleetwood Mac recorded one track at the studio, ""Never Going Back Again"", from what would become one of the highest selling and most critically acclaimed albums of all time, ""Rumours"". During the 1980s and 1990s, the studio was used to produce works"
"Herbert Brean Herbert Brean (December 10, 1907 – May 7, 1973) was an American journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring series characters William Deacon and Reynold Frame. He was a director and former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America, a group for which he also taught a class in mystery writing. Aside from his seven mystery crime novels, he also published non-fiction books and articles, and mystery magazine short stories. Alfred Hitchcock used ""A Case of Identity"" (1953), one of Brean's many articles for ""Life"", as the basis for Hitchcock's film ""The Wrong"
"they released two albums on John's Rocket label being ""Word Called Love"" in 1976 and 1977's ""Supersonic Lover"". The duo also performed on two tracks off of Robert Palmer's breakout soul-pop album ""Double Fun"". Their daughter, Lindsay, was born in 1977, but the couple had divorced by the late 1970s, and Russell, now living in Los Angeles, had set out on a solo career. During 1979 Russell's self-titled debut album was released by A&M Records. The album got to No. 20 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. An album cut entitled So Good So Right also got to Nos."
"""intelligent"" rather than violent programs. The partners also collaborated on two feature films, ""The Hindenburg"" (1975) and ""Rollercoaster"" (1977), and the Broadway show ""Merlin,"" featuring the magician Doug Henning. The team occasionally used the pseudonym ""Ted Leighton"", most notably on the telefilm ""Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You"", (where their work was substantially re-written by other screenwriters), and ""Columbo"" when they came up with stories to be scripted by their collaborators. They used the name as early as 1959 for short stories published in ""Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"" when the magazine already contained stories appearing as by Levinson and Link."
"office in Pincher Creek, Alberta, to draw public attention to the issue through prearranged media involvement. Russell also involved himself in larger projects, including in the politically charged opposition to the construction of the Oldman River Dam in southwestern Alberta. He was a founding member of the Friends of the Oldman River and he participated in actions to oppose the dam project, most prominently as a speaker at musician Ian Tyson's benefit concert held at Maycroft Crossing on June 12, 1989. Russell's first successful titles with Alfred A. Knopf Inc. were followed by ""The High West"" in 1974 and ""The"
"through international charts. In Japan, the album was reissued as Strangers in Love to avoid confusion with the band's 1985 self-titled album. Chrissie Hammond, Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell met in May 1975 while performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". With Hammond and Hitchcock on vocals and Russell on guitar, they formed Air Supply as a harmony vocal group in Melbourne. Hammond left to form Cheetah and was replaced by Jeremy Paul (ex-Soffrok) on bass guitar and vocals in 1976. The group's first single, ""Love and Other Bruises"", peaked"
"Theo Hutchcraft Theodore David Hutchcraft (born 30 August 1986) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the synthpop duo Hurts. Hutchcraft met Adam Anderson outside a nightclub in late 2005 whilst their friends were fighting. Too drunk to join in, they started talking about music and realised they had similar tastes; they decided to start a band. Over the next few months they exchanged music and lyrics via e-mail, before forming Bureau in March 2006. They performed their first gig as a quintet in May at The Music Box in Manchester, and were shortly"
"and Hitchcock on lead vocals and Russell on guitar, they formed a harmony vocal group, Air Supply in Melbourne, while the show was still running. Chrissie left Air Supply in 1976. Both sisters were session vocalists for Australia-based artists including Jo Jo Zep, Jon English, Marc Hunter and Flash and the Pan. They also worked as a vocal duo backing Stevie Wright, Norman Gunston and Daryl Braithwaite. Cheetah were managed by Brian de Courcy and initially signed with Philips Records, which issued their debut single, ""Love Ain't Easy to Come By"" in 1977 – without the group's permission. They switched"
"King, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan. Russell helped the blues guitarist Freddie King revive his career by collaborating on three of King's albums for Shelter Records during the early 1970s. During those same years, Russell profited from what was then called the ""country and western"" market by recording and performing under the moniker ""Hank Wilson"", and was a regular performer at Gilley's Club, a honkytonk in Pasadena, Texas made famous by the film ""Urban Cowboy"". Russell recorded the song ""Get a Line on You"" at Olympic Studios in October 1969, with contributions from Mick Jagger (lead vocal), Ringo Starr (drums),"
"The Sun Also Rises (duo) The Sun Also Rises were a Welsh, Cardiff-based folk duo, comprising Graham Hemingway (vocals, guitars) and Anne Hemingway (vocals, dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibes, percussion) who performed in the late 1960s/early 1970s. They were named after the novel by Ernest Hemingway as a comical reference to their shared name. The Hemingways were married in 1968 and impulsively began performing together playing traditional songs and covers in the venues of Cardiff. Anne's only experience of publicly singing before forming the band was in a school choir. Graham's guitar technique brought together classical playing with self-taught flamenco accents. Their"
"re-released in 2007 as a CD on the Saydisc label (VTS202). The Sun Also Rises (duo) The Sun Also Rises were a Welsh, Cardiff-based folk duo, comprising Graham Hemingway (vocals, guitars) and Anne Hemingway (vocals, dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibes, percussion) who performed in the late 1960s/early 1970s. They were named after the novel by Ernest Hemingway as a comical reference to their shared name. The Hemingways were married in 1968 and impulsively began performing together playing traditional songs and covers in the venues of Cardiff. Anne's only experience of publicly singing before forming the band was in a school choir. Graham's"
"at No. 6 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in October. It was followed by ""Air Supply"", their debut album, in December, which reached No. 17 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart and achieved gold in Australia. The album was produced by Peter Dawkins (Spectrum, Ross Ryan) with Air Supply line-up as Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and drummer Jeff Browne, guitarist Mark McEntee and keyboardist, arranger Adrian Scott. The second single was ""Empty Pages"" peaked at No. 43. A national tour followed with Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and Scott joined by Nigel Macara (ex-Tamam Shud, Ariel) on drums and"
"for five weeks in May and June. At about this time they also changed management from Blackmore to Mal Fisher. On the strength of ""Hitch Hiker"", the ABC gave them their own television show, ""It's A Gas"", which was later rebadged as ""Dig We Must"". The name change was designed to attract a more sophisticated 'adult' market, but lost the duo much of their 'teen' appeal which led to friction between the two singers. After recording their last album ""Exposaic"", the pair officially split in early 1967 after just three years as Australia's chart-topping stars. After the break-up, Allen continued"
"Kicks Like a Mule Kicks Like a Mule is a British rave/electronic music duo consisting of Richard Russell and Nick Halkes. Their first single, ""The Bouncer"", peaked at #7 in the UK Singles Chart when it was released in 1992. Although both Halkes and Russell worked at the XL Recordings label at the time of the single's release (XL being run by Russell to this day), it was released on Rebel MC’s independent Tribal Bass label. It featured a repeated vocal sample of an archetypal club bouncer saying ""your name's not down, you're not coming in"" and ""Not tonight, your"
"title is credited to the mix of influences that made Russell's unique musical style. After touring with Willie Nelson, Russell and Nelson in 1979 had a #1 hit on ""Billboard""s country music chart with their duet of ""Heartbreak Hotel"". This single was nominated for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1979 Grammy Awards (presented on February 27, 1980), with the award going to the Charlie Daniels Band for ""The Devil Went Down to Georgia"". They also released their duet country pop-rock studio album, ""One for the Road"", that year. It was Russell's fifth gold album."
"life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative."" Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock"
"Gold and DJed at Bestival in 2010. Kicks Like a Mule Kicks Like a Mule is a British rave/electronic music duo consisting of Richard Russell and Nick Halkes. Their first single, ""The Bouncer"", peaked at #7 in the UK Singles Chart when it was released in 1992. Although both Halkes and Russell worked at the XL Recordings label at the time of the single's release (XL being run by Russell to this day), it was released on Rebel MC’s independent Tribal Bass label. It featured a repeated vocal sample of an archetypal club bouncer saying ""your name's not down, you're"
"to Australia in 1958. From 1974 Lyndsay fronted a group, Skintight, for three years and toured backing Renée Geyer before forming Cheetah. The name was chosen as they ""wanted a feline image"", it was ""seen as a bit racy, not right."" They ""adopted a sensual approach to singing and modelled their clothes on the title of Lyndsay's old band."" Chrissie was a member of a group, Eli Flash, prior to undertaking the role of Mary Magdalene, from May 1975, in the second Australian musical theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. There she met Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell. With Chrissie"
"Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, ""North by Northwest"", to"
"line-up as Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and drummer Jeff Browne, guitarist Mark McEntee and keyboardist, arranger Adrian Scott. A national tour followed with Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and Scott joined by Nigel Macara (ex-Tamam Shud, Ariel) on drums and Brenton White (Skintight) on guitar. Brenton White rehearsed but did not perform with Air Supply. Their second album, ""The Whole Thing's Started"", also produced by Dawkins, was released in July 1977 with White replaced on lead guitar by Rex Goh. The album spawned the singles ""Do What You Do"" (June), ""That's How the Whole Thing Started"" (October) and ""Do It Again"" (February 1978)"
"Harlesden, North West London, England). In 1957 Bennett formed the band the Rebel Rousers. They recorded several singles with record producer Joe Meek that were released by Parlophone. Bennett continued recording for Parlophone, issuing cover versions of ""You've Really Got a Hold on Me"" and ""Got My Mojo Working"". Brian Epstein became their manager in September 1964 and their seventh release, ""One Way Love"" (written by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy under their pseudonyms Bert Russell and Norman Meade) b/w ""Slow Down"", reached No. 9 in the British charts. Their next, ""I'll Take You Home"" (written by Barry Mann and"
"afterwards signed to independent record label High Voltage Sounds. They released their first double A-side single ""After Midnight"" / ""Dollhouse"" in November, which was made Single of the Week on Xfm. In 2007, Bureau disbanded and soon after Hutchcraft and Anderson formed the band Daggers. They signed to Label Fandango and in October released another double A-side single ""Money"" / ""Magazine"", which despite failing to chart, was nominated for the Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Throughout 2008, Daggers continued to build a following, and began working with successful producers Biff Stannard and Richard X, but after a disastrous A&R showcase"
"on sale and making it the fastest selling debut album by a band in 2010. ""With Hurts:"" Theo Hutchcraft Theodore David Hutchcraft (born 30 August 1986) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the synthpop duo Hurts. Hutchcraft met Adam Anderson outside a nightclub in late 2005 whilst their friends were fighting. Too drunk to join in, they started talking about music and realised they had similar tastes; they decided to start a band. Over the next few months they exchanged music and lyrics via e-mail, before forming Bureau in March 2006. They performed"
"Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes."
"plot"". The Ghost (1963 film) The Ghost (Italian title: Lo Spettro) is a 1963 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda, using the pseudonym ""Robert Hampton"". The film stars Barbara Steele and Peter Baldwin. Other titles for the film include The Spectre and Lo Spettro del Dr. Hichcock. In 1910 Scotland, the ailing Dr. Hichcock (Elio Jotta) presides over a seance in which his housekeeper, Catherine (Harriet Medin), is the medium. Hichcock's wife, Margaret (Barbara Steele), is having an affair with Dr. Livingstone (Peter Baldwin). She persuades her lover to murder her husband. During the distribution of Hichcock's estate, Catherine"
"Liam Titcomb Liam Russell (born Liam Russell-Titcomb August 16, 1987) is a Canadian musician and actor. He released his self-titled album on Sony Music Canada in 2005. He released his second album Can't Let Go on Double Dorje Records and his 3rd Cicada on Nettwerk Music. He played the character Will in ""Strange Days at Blake Holsey High"", and starred as Jones in the CBC Television drama ""Wild Roses"". Raised in Toronto and Hamilton, Liam was surrounded by music throughout his childhood. His first public performance was at the age of two, when he joined his father, Brent Titcomb, on"