The Album "Beyond Words" By Bobby McFerrin

The Album "Beyond Words" By Bobby McFerrin
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Beyond Words is where Bobby finds the magic in music, and that is the title of his most recent recording (March 2002), the twelfth in a highly creative journey that has already brought him 10 Grammy Awards. The album was marketed jointly by the legendary jazz label Blue Note and revered classical imprint Angel Records. McFerrin was signed to the sister labels under the Jazz & Classics umbrella of Capitol Records in early 2001 and both are a natural home for the performer whose creative energy flows freely through the worlds of jazz, classical, pop, choral, a capella, and world music.
Produced by Linda Goldstein and co-produced by Gil Goldstein, Beyond Words takes the listener on a pilgrimage through Bobby's influences from around the world. African, Asian, Spanish, Middle Eastern, Western and traditional jazz elements can be heard on pieces like 'Invocation', 'A Silken Road', 'Ziggurat', and 'Marlowe'. Bobby even flirts with drum and bass music on 'Taylor Made', a song in which he teams with his son Taylor on mouth percussion. McFerrin uses keyboards to create layers of sound that interweave with multiple layers of vocal textures. He composed all 16 tracks, except for his adventurous take on Chick Corea's 'Windows.' Besides, Chick, Bobby is backed by Richard Bona, Omar Hakim, and Cyro Baptista.
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2. Kalimba Suite music or lyric
3. A silken Road music or lyric
4. Fertile Field music or lyric
5. Dervishes music or lyric
6. Ziggurat music or lyric
7. Sisters music or lyric
8. Circlings music or lyric
9. Chanson music or lyric
10. Windows music or lyric
11. Marlowe music or lyric
12. Mass music or lyric
13. Pat & Joe music or lyric
14. Taylor Made music or lyric
15. A Piece, A Chord music or lyric
16. Monks/The Shepherd music or lyric

Pink Floyd "1969 - Ummagumma", Fourth Album

The Album "Ummagumma" By Pink Floyd (Fourth Album) ...
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Year: 1969
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1. Astronomy Domine (live) music or lyric

2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (live) music or lyric(instrumental)

3. Set the Controls for the Heart of The Sun (live) music or lyric

4. A Saucerful of Secrets (live) music or lyric

5. Sysyphus: . Part One music or lyric(instrumental)
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6. Grantchester Meadows music or lyric

7. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict music or lyric

8. The Narrow Way: . Part One music or lyric
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9. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party: . Part One music or lyric(instrumental)

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Pink Floyd "1969 - More", Third Album

The Album "More" By Pink Floyd (third album)
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2. The Nile Song music or lyric
3. Crying Song music or lyric
4. Up the Khyber music or lyric(instrumental)
5. Green is the Colour music or lyric
6. Cymbaline music or lyric
7. Party Sequence music or lyric(instrumental)
8. Main Theme music or lyric(instrumental)
9. Ibiza Bar music or lyric
10. More Blues music or lyric(instrumental)
11. Quicksilver music or lyric(instrumental)
12. A Spanish Piece music or lyric
13. Dramatic Theme music or lyric(instrumental)

Pink Floyd "1968 - A Saucerful Of Secrets", second Album

The Album "A Saucerful Of Secrets" By pink Floyd (second Album)

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2. Remember a Day music or lyric

3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun music or lyric

4. Corporal Clegg music or lyric

5. A Saucerful of Secrets music or lyric(instrumental)

6. See-Saw music or lyric
7. Jugband Blue music or lyric

Chris Rea's Albums

The Album "Tennis" by Chris Rea (third album) ...
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Year: 1980
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1. Tennis music or lyric
2. Sweet Kiss music or lyric
3. Since I Don't See You Anymore music or lyric
4. Dancing Girls music or lyric
5. No Work Today music or lyric(instrumental)
6. Every Time I See You Smile music or lyric
7. For Ever And Ever music or lyric
8. Good News music or lyric
9. Friends Across The Water music or lyric(instrumental)
10. Distant Summers music or lyric
11. Only With You music or lyric
12. Stick It music or lyric

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The Album "Chris Rea" (fourth album) ...
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2. Runaway music or lyric
3. When You Know Your Love Has Died music or lyric
4. Guitar Street music or lyric
5. Do It for Your Love music or lyric
6. Do You Still Dream? music or lyric
7. Goodbye Little Columbus music or lyric
8. If You Choose to Go music or lyric
9. Loving You music or lyric
10. One Sweet Tender Touch music or lyric

Chris Rea's Debut Albums

Here is the album "Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?" by Chris Rea (first album) ...
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Year: 1978
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2. Closer You Get music or lyric
3. Because Of You music or lyric
4. Dancing With Charlie music or lyric
5. Bows And Bangles music or lyric
6. Fool (If You Think It's Over) music or lyric
7. Three Angels music or lyric
8. Just One Of Those Days music or lyric
9. Standing In Your Doorway music or lyric
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The The Album "Deltics" By Chris Rea (second Album) ...
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2. Things Lovers Should Do music or lyric
3. Dance (Don't Think) music or lyric
4. Raincoat And A Rose music or lyric
5. Cenotaph Letter From Amsterdam music or lyric
6. Deltics music or lyric
7. Diamonds music or lyric
8. She Gave It Away music or lyric
9. Don't Want Your Best Friend music or lyric
10. No Qualifications music or lyric
11. Seabird music or lyric

Biography Of Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
Rea is the son of Camillo Rea, an immigrant from Italy and Winifred, of Irish descent (died Sept 1983). He has two brothers, Nick and Mike, and four sisters, Catherine, Geraldine, Paula and Camille.He is married to Joan, with whom he has two daughters (Josephine, born 16 September 1983, and Julia Christina, born 18 March 1989). He used to live at Sol Mill in Cookham, Berkshire. This property also contained the Sol Mill Recording Studios where he produced some of his later albums. He also produced albums for other artists such as Sylvin Marc, and Robert Ahwai on his JazeeBlue label. The property was sold in 2006.The name "Rea" was well-known locally thanks to the chain of "Rea's Ice-cream" shops owned by Rea's father. In later years the chain folded except for one shop operated by Camillo himself. He played his son's music constantly inside the shop. He holds a season ticket with Middlesbrough football club to be near his birthplace in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.

Rea first picked up the guitar relatively late, at the age of 22. He had not played the local music scene around Middlesbrough much, and had no real history of playing with any local bands. However, under the guidance of local club owner, and promoter John B. McCoy he managed to gain a record deal with Magnet Records. Whatever Happened to Benny Santini, was Rea's debut album, released in 1978. The first single lifted from the album, "Fool (If You Think It's Over)", is his biggest hit in the United States, peaking at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching number one on the Adult Contemporary Singles chart. "Fool (if You Think It's Over)" was nominated for a Song of the Year Grammy, losing out to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are". Unlike most of Rea's other singles, "Fool..." failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart on its first release and only reached #30 when re-released in late 1978 to capitalise on its US achievement. UK singer Elkie Brooks enjoyed greater success with "Fool.." in 1981 when she charted a single at #17. It was also the first record played by Radio Caroline, after a long period off the air. A cover of "Fool..." by Kenny Craddock was used as the theme for BBC sitcom Joking Apart.
The title of the album is a reference to a name Rea's UK record label (Magnet) had considered christening him with to make him sound more attractive commercially.

Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? was produced by Gus Dudgeon. Rea was reportedly dissatisfied with the final mix of the album; he later went some way to supposedly rectify this to his satisfaction, starting with 1988's greatest hits compilation New Light Through Old Windows, which featured a re-recorded version of "Fool..." and several other of his back-catalogue tracks. Dudgeon went on to produce Rea's next effort, Deltics. It is rumoured within the music-industry however, that this 'dissatisfaction' was merely a clever way of dispensing with royalty, or contractual, payments on the original recordings that would have been due under an agreement with his first Manager John McCoy, with whom Rea had subsequently dispensed.
Rea began to focus his attention on continental Europe, releasing eight albums in the 1980s. It wasn't until 1985's Shamrock Diaries and the songs "Stainsby Girls" and "Josephine" that UK audiences began to take notice of him (on 5 July 1986 Rea played in front of 95,000 people at Slane Castle, Ireland, as a supporting act of band Queen on their Magic Tour). His Follow-up albums were On The Beach (1986) and Dancing with Strangers (1987). The Dancing with Strangers tour of 1987 saw Rea sell out stadium size venues for the first time across the world and Rea played Wembley Arena twice. His following album was the New Light Through Old Windows compilation album, which saw studio reworkings of original classics such as On The Beach, Let's Dance and Ace of Hearts, in 1988 brought Rea success and a further hit in Driving Home For Christmas.
His next full album was to be his major breakthrough. The Road to Hell (1989) enjoyed massive success and became his first number one album in the UK. This accomplishment could not be mirrored in the US, where it only reached #107, in spite of the single track "Texas" achieving extensive radio airplay. The title track was released as a single and reached the UK Top 10. The follow-up album, Auberge, was also a European hit, reaching the top spot in the UK.

After Auberge, Rea released God's Great Banana Skin, which reached #4 in the UK. The album returned Rea to the rockier sound of Road to Hell, and the single "Nothing to Fear" gave him another Top 20 hit. A year later Espresso Logic hit the Top 10 and "Julia", written about his second daughter, gave him his eleventh Top 40 position. A period of ill health meant his next album did not appear until 1998.
Despite no singles being released and little promotion, The Blue Cafe still made the UK Top 10, though it proved to be Rea's last. In 1999, 10 years after Road to Hell, Rea released The Road to Hell: Part 2, which received no promotion and never made the Top 40. However, it didn't get Rea down: in 2000, he released King of the Beach, receiving critical praise and a healthy Top 30 placing.
In 2000 a remix of Rea's 1986 "On the Beach" single by York was released and enjoyed moderate success on the dance floor.
After being diagnosed with pancreatitis, Rea underwent an operation called a Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy), with a predicted 50% chance of survival. In 2001, Rea promised himself that if he recovered, he would be returning to his blues roots. This near brush with death was the catalyst for a complete change in musical direction and motivation. The resulting Blue Guitars 11-CD collection of 137 blues-inspired tracks recorded in just 18 months, completed with his own paintings as album covers, is seen by himself as his finest work to date. In an interview with The Britsound Radio Show, Rea revealed that "it’s not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you’re at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realise that this isn’t the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you’ve done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff." So, in 2002, Rea returned to his blues roots, releasing the album Dancing Down the Stony Road following recording sessions in France and the UK. (An abridged version of the album was later released with the title Stony Road.) The album was followed by a DVD of the same name, comprising a "Making of" documentary and footage from a concert in Cologne. Rea set up his own JazzeeBlue label in 2003 to free himself from the pressure of record companies and their expectations. Since then he has released the blues albums Blue Street (Five Guitars) (an instrumental jazz-blues album) and then The Blue Jukebox (another jazz-blues influenced album released to critical acclaim). He has worked with David Knopfler for two albums: Wishbones (2001) and Ship of Dreams (2004).

Chris Rea released his final box-set album, Blue Guitars, in 2005. Consisting of 11 CDs and 1 DVD (Dancing Down the Stony Road), the album is Rea's testament to blues. Each album contains self-compositions, played and performed in a specific subgenre of the blues. The box-set includes a book containing reproductions of paintings by Rea. In an interview with The Britsound Radio Show, Rea declared that this box-set album is a result of his love for the blues: "It’s just my first love. You know if you take music as romance, then blues was my first love you know, it’s my wife. And it’s with me all the time, and I just adore it." This album closes the final chapter of Chris Rea's solo career as he does not intend to make any further solo records. He has stated that he would continue to make records with some of his favourite players under the name The Memphis Fireflies. A double DVD set and a separate double CD set was released in 2006, including live selections from Rea's farewell tour titled The Road To Hell & Back.

In November 2007, Rea announced a new tour and a new album featuring 38 new tracks on three CDs and two vinyls which included a hardback book in the style of a slightly tatty 12" vinyl sleeve. The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes (a dedication to the 1960s guitar of the same name) was released in February 2008. In writing the album, Chris dreamed up a band that had never existed — a pastiche instrumental group from the late 1950s called The Delmonts.
The release of the album was followed by a European tour. The band was introduced as "The Delmonts featuring Chris Rea", and played in various venues across the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concerts consisted of a mixture of blues-orientated instrumentals and new songs as well as several Rea classics.

His song "Driving Home for Christmas", which originally reached number 53 in the UK charts when first released in 1988, re-entered at number 33 nineteen years later in December 2007, making it the first time the song had made the UK Top 40. In a live interview on the BBC Radio 4 programme “Today” on December 17, 2009 Chris Rea said he wrote “Driving Home for Christmas” many years before he first recorded it. His wife had come down to London to drive him home to Middlesbrough in her little Austin Mini to save money because it was cheaper to drive than travel by train. Inspiration for the song came as she and Chris were stuck in heavy traffic heading out of London with a long drive North to Middlesbrough ahead of them; but at the end of that journey home – and Christmas - were waiting. Chris says "Driving Home to Christmas” is a “car version of a carol” (a view endorsed by the Reverend Dr Ian Bradley and others in the Church of England). Now it’s an all-time classic – capturing as it does the thoughts and feelings of all those drivers who have to work away from their families but for whom there’s that special time of year when, no matter how long the drive, no matter how bad the weather, no matter how slow the traffic, they’re going to make it home.
In October 2009, Rhino released a new 2-disc best of compilation. "Still So Far To Go - The Best of Chris Rea" contains some of his best known hits over the last 30 years, many of them less well known, as well as more recent songs from his "blues" period. There are also 2 new songs "Come So Far, Yet Still So Far to Go" and the ballad "Valentino", a song about his dog that had passed on. The album was Rea's highest charting album in 15 years, reaching no. 8 and staying in the top 50 for 4 weeks, helped no doubt by a TV advertising campaign.
In 2010 Rea performed on an European tour called Still So Far to Go. His special guest on stage was an Irish musician Paul Casey. The tour ended on 5th of April in Belfast, United Kingdom.
A new studio album is due to be released in mid-2010.
Rea has stated that he is a fan of the Ferrari motor-racing team, having watched races since his childhood. He mentioned in a TV interview that he had an early memory of asking his father, whilst watching a race on a black-and-white television, what colour the Ferrari was, and his father replied "Red, son, blood red".
Rea also recorded a song, "Saudade," in tribute to three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. It features prominently in the BBC documentary and was released on a greatest hits album in 2001.
Rea also has a passion for the Caterham 7 sports car and even commissioned a painting of his blue car for the cover of "Auberge".
In August 2008, it was incorrectly reported that Rea had donated £25,000 to the Conservative Party. This news report has since been strongly denied by Mr Rea.
In April 2010 however, just weeks before a UK general election, it was reported by the Guardian newspaper that Rea had donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party.
Rea has also been an actor, playing lead in the 1999 comedy Parting Shots opposite such notables as John Cleese, Bob Hoskins and Joanna Lumley. Rea plays a man who is told that cancer gives him six weeks to live, and decides to kill off the people who have done him wrong in life. He also had a cameo role in the 1996 Film La Passione, for which he wrote the soundtrack music.
Rea's lyrics contain references to growing up in Middlesbrough, a town which, at the time, had much heavy industry around it, including chemical processing, steelmaking, and shipbuilding. Perhaps the most famous of these references occur in the song "Stainsby Girls", a tribute to his wife Joan, who attended Stainsby Secondary Modern School, now known as Acklam Grange Secondary School.
Other references easily recognised by Middlesbrough natives occur in "The Road to Hell":

I'm standing by a river, but the water doesn't flow

It boils with every poison you can think of

This lyric refers to the appearance of the River Tees in the 1960s, when it was at its most polluted. The song "Steel River" compares the old polluted Tees with the later clean river, there being salmon, but no industry. "Windy Town" is a memory of Middlesbrough from the viewpoint of a touring musician. The hit "On the Beach" refers to the beach at Saltburn-by-Sea in Cleveland.

sources: www.chrisrea.com , www.wikipedia.org

Pink Floyd "1967 - The Paper At The Gates Of Dawn" First Album

Here is the Album "The Paper At The Gates Of Dawn" by Pink Floyd (first Album)...

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Year: 1967

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2. Lucifer Sam music or lyric
3. Matilda Mother music or lyric
4. Flaming music or video(live) or lyric
5. Pow R Toc H music or lyric(instrumental)
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscop music or lyric
7. Interstellar Overdrive music or lyric(instrumental)
8. The Gnome music or lyric
9. Chapter 24 music or lyric
10. ScareCrow music or lyric
11. Bike music or lyric

Biography of Bobby McFerrin

McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of the late operatic baritone Robert McFerrin, and singer Sara Cooper. Robert, Sr. was the first African American to be a regular with New York's Metropolitan Opera. Sara is a former soloist with regional opera companies, and in Broadway shows, and is a professor emeritus of music at Fullerton College in Fullerton, California.
Bobby McFerrin married Debbie Green in 1975. They have three children.
McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" was a #1 U.S. pop hit in 1988 and won Song of the Year and Record of the Year honors. McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumental performers including pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, drummer Tony Williams, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
As a vocalist, McFerrin often switches rapidly between normal and falsetto registers to create polyphonic effects, performing both the main melody and the accompanying parts of songs. He makes use of percussive effects created both with his mouth and by tapping on his chest. McFerrin is also capable of multiphonic singing; as observed in his song "Drive" from the 2005 DVD Live in Montreal.
A notable document of McFerrin's approach to singing is his 1984 album The Voice, the first solo vocal jazz album recorded with no accompaniment or overdubbing.
In the late 1970s, while working as a piano accompanist for the University of Utah Modern Dance Department, McFerrin auditioned to play in a local piano bar -- Room at the Top in the Salt Lake Hilton. Hired after auditioning with his entire repertoire of five songs, he learned a song a day for a month before starting.
In 1986, McFerrin was the voice of Santa Bear in "Santa Bear's First Christmas," and in 1987 he was the voice of Santa Bear/Bully Bear in the sequel "Santa Bear's High Flying Adventure." That same year, he performed the theme song for the opening credits of Season 4 of The Cosby Show, as well as the music for a Cadburys chocolate commercial.
In 1988, McFerrin recorded the hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy," which brought him widespread recognition across the world. However, the song's success "ended McFerrin's musical life as he had known it," and he began to pursue other musical possibilities -- on stage and in recording studios.
In 1989, he composed and performed the music for the Pixar short film Knick Knack. The rough cut to which McFerrin recorded his vocals had the words "blah blah blah" in place of the end credits (meant to indicate that he should improvise). McFerrin spontaneously decided to sing "blah blah blah" as lyrics, and the final version of the short film includes these lyrics during the end credits. Also in 1989, he formed a ten-person 'Voicestra' which he featured on both his 1990 album Medicine Music and in the score to the 1989 Oscar-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. The song 'Common Threads' has frequently reappeared in some public service advertisements for AIDS. McFerrin also performed with the Vocal Summit.
As early as 1992, widespread rumors circulated that falsely claimed McFerrin committed suicide. The rumors intentionally made light of the distinctly positive nature of his popular song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by claiming McFerrin ironically took his own life.
In 1993 McFerrin sang Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther" theme for the movie Son of the Pink Panther.
In addition to his vocal performing career, in 1994, Mr. McFerrin was appointed as creative chair of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He makes regular tours as a guest conductor for symphony orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, including the San Francisco Symphony (on his 40th birthday), the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and many others. In McFerrin's concert appearances, he combines serious conducting of classical pieces with his own unique vocal improvisations, often with participation from the audience and the orchestra. For example, the concerts often end with McFerrin conducting the orchestra in an a cappella rendition of the "William Tell Overture," in which the orchestra members sing their musical parts in McFerrin's vocal style instead of playing their parts on their instruments.
McFerrin also participates in various music education programs, and makes volunteer appearances as a guest music teacher and lecturer at public schools throughout the U.S. McFerrin has a son, Taylor, and father and son have collaborated on various musical ventures. Taylor has recently been singing, rapping, and playing minimal keyboard accompaniment with Vernon Reid (leader-guitarist of Living Colour) in the eclectic metal-fusion-funk-etc. group Yohimbe Brothers.
In 2009, McFerrin and musician-scientist Daniel Levitin served as co-hosts of "The Music Instinct", a 2 hour award-winning documentary produced by PBS and based on Levitin's best-selling book This Is Your Brain On Music. Later that year, the two appeared together on a panel at the World Science Festival where McFerrin demonstrated audience participation with the ubiquitous nature of human understanding of the pentatonic scale by singing and dancing, and having the audience sing while following his movements.
Sources: www.bobbymcferrin.com , www.wikipedia.org

Biography of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band who earned recognition for their psychedelic music in the late 1960s, and as they evolved in the 1970s, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art, and elaborate live shows. One of rock music's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million certified units in the United States, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Pink Floyd were formed in 1965, and originally consisted of university students Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and Syd Barrett. The group were a popular fixture on London's underground music scene, and under Barrett's leadership released two charting singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play", and a commercially and critically successful debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In 1968, guitarist and singer David Gilmour joined the line-up, and Barrett was removed due to his increasingly erratic behaviour. Following Barrett's departure, bass player and singer Roger Waters became the lyricist and dominant figure in the band, which went on to achieve worldwide critical and commercial success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and rock opera The Wall.



Wright left the band in 1979, and Waters in 1985, but Gilmour and Mason (joined by Wright) continued recording and touring under the name Pink Floyd. Waters used legal means to try to keep them from using the name, declaring Pink Floyd a spent force, but the parties reached an out-of-court settlement allowing Gilmour, Mason and Wright to continue as Pink Floyd. The band again enjoyed worldwide success with A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994), and Waters continued as a solo musician, releasing three studio albums. Although for some years relations between Waters and the remaining three members were sour, the band reformed in 2005 for what would be a final one-off performance at Live 8.source : www.wikipedia.org , www.pinkfloyd.com

Biography of Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981).
Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a Jamaican of English descent, whose family came from Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 60. Marley was teased as a youth because of his mixed racial origins, and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected: "I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white." Although Marley recognized his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of his beliefs, he self-identified as a black African. In songs such as "Black Survivor", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption", Marley sings about the struggles of blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".
Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to play music. He left school at the age of 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. It was at a jam session with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set, Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work.
Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, being 10 times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S., and selling 20 million copies worldwide.

Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became a leading proponent of the Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. According to his biographers, he affiliated with the Twelve Tribes Mansion. He was in the denomination known as "Tribe of Joseph", because he was born in February (each of the twelve sects being composed of members born in a distinct month). As genuine Rastas practice a diet excluding meat, which is known as Ital, Marley was a vegetarian. He signified this in his album liner notes, quoting the portion from Genesis that includes Jacob's blessing to his son Joseph. Marley was baptized by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on November 4, 1980.
source : www.wikipedia.org/

the Album "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things"

Here is the album "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things" by Json Mraz...

1. Make It Mine music or lyric
2. I'm Yours music or lyric
3. Lucky (Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat) music or lyric
4. Butterfly music or lyric
5. Live High music or lyric
6. Love For A Child music or lyric
7. Details In The Fabric (Jason Mraz and James Morrison) music or lyric
8. Coyotes music or lyric
9. Only Human music or lyric
10. The Dynamo Of Volition music or lyric
11 . If It Kills Me music or lyric
12. A Beautiful Mess music or lyric