"Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead on Warner Bros. records in 1968. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir. "Dark Star" was an early Grateful Dead classic and became one of their most loved and anticipated numbers, often with the group using it as a vehicle for musical improvisation sessions that extended well beyond the original structure of the song. The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list and was ranked at number 57 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.
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Dark Star (song)
Dark Star (song) | Introduction
A song released as a single by the Grateful Dead on Warner Bros It was an early Grateful Dead classic and became one of their most loved and anticipated numbers, often with the group using it as a vehicle for musical improvisation sessions that extended well beyond the original structure of the song. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. It is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead
who wrote the lyrics for the grateful dead
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Robert C. Christie Hunter
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San Luis Obispo, California
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"Dark Star", "Ripple", "Truckin'", "China Cat Sunflower"
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The song begins with distinct guitar riffs. The first is played by Jerry Garcia and then a second one played by Bob Weir is interwoven on top of it. This second riff has been described by author Eric F. Wybenga as "that dodgy little Bobby intro that scratches your brain just behind the ears." Wybenga described the lyrics as "acid-drenched", and said, further: "China Cat Sunflower's lyric—composed, Robert Hunter has said, in a state where contemplation of a cat served as touchstone for an interplanetary journey—is a real masterwork. It's one of the very few rock-and-roll lyrics (including Dylan's) that has as much impact on the page as it does sung, if not more.
China Cat Sunflower | Music and lyrical composition
The cover art on all Dark Star releases up to "I Am the Sun" in 2000 was by Tom Phillips, an artist from Peckham, South London. The images he used were based on his work "A Humument", an illustrative and textual reworking of an 1892 Victorian novel. Phillips had previously contributed similar artwork for the sleeve of the King Crimson album "Starless and Bible Black".
Dark Star (band) | Cover art
"Fingerspitzengefühl" and "What Was In Between" was dedicated to the memory of Dietrich A. Stoermer (1936 - 2015). "Are Your Stars Out?" was inspired by and dedicated to J.D. Salinger.
Dark Arts (album) | Track listing
The music for "Dark Star" is chiefly a pure electronic score created by Carpenter using a modular synthesizer. The song played during the opening and closing credits is "Benson, Arizona." The music was written by John Carpenter, while the lyrics were written by Bill Taylor, concerning a man who travels the galaxy at light speed and misses his beloved back on Earth. The lead vocalist was John Yager, a college friend of Carpenter's who was not a professional musician, "apart from being in a band in college." Not coincidentally, there is actually a Dark Star Road in Benson, Arizona.
Dark Star (film) | Soundtrack
Songs of Stars and Shadows is the second short story collection by author George R. R. Martin. The collection was first published by Pocket Books on July 1, 1977 and contains nine short stories. The cover of the book was painted by Edward Soyka, based on the story, This Tower of Ashes.
Songs of Stars and Shadows | Introduction
In May 1967, Garcia composed the preliminary chords of the song, but it was at the time without lyrics. A handful of months later, Robert Hunter, who would become a longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead, arrived back in California and overheard the band playing around with the track. He immediately sat down and wrote the opening line, contributing the lyrics and name of the song. As Hunter has explained on multiple occasions, he reworded the opening lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as the chorus. "Dark Star" was initially released as a single in 1968, backed with "Born Cross-Eyed", a track written by rhythm guitarist Bob Weir.
Dark Star (song) | Composition and release
"China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album "Aoxomoxoa". The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song was typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song appeared on "Europe '72", paired (as was typical) with "I Know You Rider". Lyrically, this song has many literary references, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", George Herriman's "Krazy Kat", and Dame Edith Sitwell's "Polka".
China Cat Sunflower | Introduction
If you have never heard the February 13 performance of Dark Star / That's It for the Other One / Lovelight, you must be living in a cave or have never seen the Grateful Dead. It's one of the most amazing performances they ever did. Over 90 minutes of pure bliss that is sure to convert the unconverted."
Dick's Picks Volume 4 | Critical reception
The long, epic track with symphonic influences starts with a short drum solo by Cozy Powell, a "great drumming moment" frequently cited as an example of his skills. It features the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, a Vako Orchestron, and what Ritchie Blackmore called "a string thing all playing this half-Turkish Scale". Blackmore's solo, after the second verse, is in "B" Phrygian dominant scale, and is cited as "one of his best". The song has been called a "morality tale", and its lyrics are written from the standpoint of a "slave in Egyptian times", according to lyricist Ronnie James Dio. They relate the story of the Wizard, an astronomer who becomes "obsessed with the idea of flying" and enslaves a vast army of people to build him a tower from which he can take off and fly.
Stargazer (Rainbow song) | Description
Star Songs of an Old Primate is the third short story collection by Alice Sheldon (under the pen name James Tiptree, Jr.). It was published by Del Rey Books (a specialized SF and Fantasy imprint of Ballantine Books) in 1978. It was the first of Tiptree's books published after the revelation that Tiptree was a female, rather than male, writer.
Star Songs of an Old Primate | Introduction
Born 1965 in Chongqing, Han works as a journalist for the state news agency Xinhua. His first short story collection, "Gravestone of the Universe" 宇宙墓碑 was published in 1981 in the Taiwanese journal "Huanxiang" 幻象. It waited ten years for publication in the People's Republic of China because publishers found its tone too dark. Han has received the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction six times. The "LA Times" described him as China's premier science fiction writer.
Han Song (writer) | Life
Lasting 22 minutes in length, this version of "Dark Star" flowed into the song "Wharf Rat" and then back into "Dark Star". Another well-loved performance considered by many fans to be the peak rendition of "Dark Star" is from the Fillmore East on February 13, 1970. This performance of the song includes the "Feelin' Groovy Jam", so-called because of its passing resemblance to "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by Simon and Garfunkel.
Dark Star (song) | Selected performances
L.A. Beaurline states that this setting of "Why So Pale and Wan" is the earliest existing musical setting of this lyric. Cutts remarks that "it is virtually impossible to be certain that particular songs are not actually separate songs but sections of others." Clearly some songs gave Cutts trouble; where he saw two songs beginning at folio 89 verso ("Come from the dungeon to the throne" followed by "Thou O bright sun"), Jorgens renders these as a single song. Musicologist Vincent J. Duckles notes the first song, "Beauty which all men admire" must have had some currency as it is found in two other contemporaneous manuscripts.
Drexel 4041 | Content
""The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Dark Side of the Moon", "The Wall" – that's what I grew up with and that's what I dreamed of doing one day," he recalled in 1992. "I was a big Gentle Giant fan. I was a "huge" Jethro Tull fan. But I had to feed my children and heat my house, so I wrote some songs with a little girl who became extremely popular. It's really that simple." with Other Artists:
Patrick Leonard | Influences
To avoid drawing attention, Bei Dao wrote alone in his kitchen late at night. In 1974, he composed the first draft of his novella, "Waves," in a darkroom under the guise that he was developing photographs.
Bei Dao | Cultural Revolution
Farnon is probably best known for two famous pieces of light music, "Jumping Bean" and "Portrait of a Flirt", which were originally released in 1955 as the A and B sides on the same 78, and for "Westminster Waltz", and "A Star is Born". Farnon also wrote the music for more than forty motion pictures, including "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N." (1951), "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955), "The Road to Hong Kong" (1962), "Shalako" (1968) and "Bear Island" (1979). He wrote the theme tune and other music for many, mostly British, television series including "Colditz" (1972–74), "Secret Army" (1977–79), "Kessler" (1981), and "A Man Called Intrepid" (1979).
Robert Farnon | Works
In an August 2011 interview with "Songfacts", lead singer Jon Foreman explained the inspiration for "Stars": In another interview, Foreman said that "Stars" is about perspective, a song about stepping back in the midst of chaos and looking at the stars; the idea of anti-entropy, implying there must be something keeping the world together. "The first verse looks at things from Descartes perspective, pinning the center of the universe on the individual. 'Maybe I've been the problem,' maybe I'm overcast, falling apart, etc... The second verse talks about our world from the perspective of the stars looking down on earth from the eternal dance of gravity and motion." The song is a fan favorite for its thought provoking lyrics and heavy aggressive sound.
Stars (Switchfoot song) | Lyrical themes
The First Question Award (ザ・ファースト・クエスチョン・アワード) is the debut solo album by the Japanese recording artist Cornelius. It was released in 1994 and charted at number four on the Japanese "Oricon" album chart. "The First Question Award" includes the singles "The Sun Is My Enemy", "Perfect Rainbow", "(You Can't Always Get) What You Want" and "Moon Light Story".
The First Question Award | Introduction
The track takes advantage of Prince's multi-tracked vocals and piano work, recalling some of his jazz-inspired material. "So Dark" is a remix of "Dark" from the "Come" album, stripping out the horns, organ and live drums and laying the lyrics over a simple drum machine pattern. "Movie Star" was originally a "Dream Factory" track and according to liner notes, inspired by Morris Day. The jazzy number is filled with humor and pokes fun at Prince's celebrity. The first disc ends with "Tell Me How U Wanna B Done", a remix of "The Continental" from 1992's "Love Symbol Album". Remixed by NPG band member Kirk Johnson in 1995, this version adds a repetitive keyboard riff and scratching to the original song's coda section.
Crystal Ball (box set) | Disc one
He also studied religion at Unwanul Wustha Madrasah. However, he did not study music formally, instead learning by himself. In 1931, he wrote his first song, "O Sarinah", which was about a suffering people. During his career he wrote between 202 and 204 songs. Among his most famous compositions are "Halo, Halo Bandung, "Rayuan Pulau Kelapa" (1944, "Solace on Coconut Island"), "Gugur Bunga di Taman Bakti" (1945, "The Fallen Flower in Bakti Garden"), and "Selendang Sutera" (1946, "A Coil of Silk").
Ismail Marzuki | Biography
Star Dust is a collection of poetry by Frank Bidart, first published in book form by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005. The book was a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry. The book is split into two sections. The first section, "Music Like Dirt", is a sequence of poems that became the first chapbook to ever be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize when it was originally published in 2002. The second section includes "The Third Hour of the Night", a dark and violent poem about Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. It is part of a project by Bidart that, so far, includes two similarly titled poems.
Star Dust (poetry collection) | Introduction
The single, to quote Phil Lesh, "sank like a stone." Of the 1600 copies that made up the original shipment in 1968 by Warner Bros., only about 500 actually sold. A classic live version appeared in 1969 on "Live/Dead", the Dead's first live album. It also appeared on later compilations "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" in 1977 and "The Best of the Grateful Dead" in 2015. It also appears as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of "Live/Dead". It also features Hunter's only appearance on a Grateful Dead record, reciting a monologue at the end of the song.
Dark Star (song) | Composition and release
The Grateful Dead first performed "China Cat Sunflower" on January 17, 1968, at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco, CA, and played the song well over 500 times in concert. During the first year after its introduction into the band's set list, the song was played by itself or often in the middle of an extended jam between the songs "Dark Star" and "The Eleven"—a position more familiarly (to Deadheads) filled by "St. Stephen". Four instances of this arrangement have been released on official recordings, the first on the compilation album "So Many Roads (1965–1995)", the second on Dick's Picks Volume 22, and the other two on Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2.
China Cat Sunflower | Live performances
Set just before the events of , the film tells of how Mara Jade (a character from the "Star Wars" expanded universe) worked with other Rebels to capture the plans for the first Death Star. While on the mission, though, Mara hears the Emperor's call to turn to the dark side of the Force. Other crucial moments in Star Wars history are explained in this film, such as how Han Solo got in trouble with Jabba the Hutt.
The Dark Redemption | Synopsis
The first line is "Tian di xuan huang" () ("Heaven and Earth Dark and Yellow") and the last line, "Yan zai hu ye" () explains the use of the grammatical particles "yan", "zai", "hu", and "ye".
Thousand Character Classic | Introduction
According to Sakuraba, the "sound design" for "Dark Dawn" was different and he preferred the music in the first two games. He has also expressed a desire for an official soundtrack release of the series' music. Sakuraba also contributed songs to two games in the "Super Smash Bros." franchise, among which two were adapted from his works in "The Lost Age" and "Dark Dawn".
Golden Sun | Music
In "Middle Fingers Up", G-Dragon discusses the diminishing number of his personal relationships and his ever-decreasing social circle. "Bullshit"'s lyrics are self-referential, referencing his hit-single "Crayon" by name while the canine onomatopoeia recalls the title track of his previous album "Coup d'Etat". "Super Star" reveals his inner feelings of hollowness and emptiness, despite the musician achieving the success he previously dreamed of. The lyrics of "Untitled, 2014" reads like a letter to a past lover, with G-Dragon asking for forgiveness and the chance to see them again, even if it is just in his dreams. "Divina Commedia", titled after Dante's poem of the same name, is a semi-autobiographical account of his rise to fame.
Kwon Ji Yong | Lyrics and themes
Atomic" with the Santa Fe Opera. In March 2011, he released his first solo album, "The New American Art Song", featuring world premiere songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann and Glen Roven who all accompany Okulitch on piano. Simultaneous with the record release, the songs were performed in a concert at Carnegie Hall, again with the composers accompanying (except Heggie).
Daniel Okulitch | Career
James Young & Aiden Whalley began making music together in London in 2007(?), releasing their first compositions "Dead 2 Me" & "Break" under the name Darkstar on their own label - 2010 Records. This release was followed later the same year by "Lilyliver/Out of Touch" and "Memories (Remix)/Sayter" a split single with London producer Zomby, issued on the MG77 label. London musician and Hyperdub label head Kode9 released "Need You/Squeeze My Lime" in 2008. The "Round Ours" EP was also released in 2008 on Clandestine Cultivations.
Darkstar (band) | Early singles
"MLK" was director Richard Kelly's original choice for the soundtrack to the final sequence of "Donnie Darko". After difficulties licensing the song, it was decided to use Gary Jules' rendition of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World" instead. In the novel "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "MLK" is mentioned as one of Charlie's favorite songs, along with "Blackbird".
MLK (song) | In popular culture
The song was broadcast internationally, marking his place in history as the first caucasian Taiwanese mandopop singer and songwriter. Despite his achievement, he received a low score of 12/25 for his performance, eliminating him from the show and subsequently causing internet fans to protest the decision to such an extent that the protests made the entertainment section of the national "China Times" newspaper. Despite being eliminated from the show, Jerome relocated to Taipei vowing to continue writing music for his fans. He is working on his next album release.
Jerome Xavier DuBois | "One Million Star"
The success of his works internationally established him as a top Hallyu star.
Song Joong-ki | Introduction
"Self-Portrait in Three Colors" was originally written for John Cassavetes' first film as director, "Shadows", but was never used (for budgetary reasons). "Open Letter to Duke" is a tribute to Duke Ellington, and draws on three of Mingus's earlier pieces ("Nouroog", "Duke's Choice", and "Slippers"). "Jelly Roll" is a reference to jazz pioneer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton and features a quote of Sonny Rollins' "Sonnymoon for Two" during Horace Parlan's piano solo. "Bird Calls", in Mingus's own words, was not a reference to bebop saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker: "It wasn't supposed to sound like Charlie Parker. It was supposed to sound like birds – the first part." "Fables of Faubus" is named after Orval E.
Mingus Ah Um | Composition
Along the eastern inner wall and rim is an unusual narrow ribbon of dark material. English progressive rock band Camel named the first song on their album "Moonmadness" after the crater. Science fiction author Travis J I Corcoran set much of his first novel, "The Powers of the Earth", on and under Aristillus.
Aristillus (crater) | Introduction
Dark Star is a soundtrack by John Carpenter for the 1974 film of the same name. While recorded in 1973, it wasn't released by Citadel until 1980, after the 1979 re-release of the film and the success of Carpenter's 1978 film "Halloween". A limited expanded edition was released in 2016 through We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records.
Dark Star (soundtrack) | Introduction
"Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead on Warner Bros. records in 1968. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir. "Dark Star" was an early Grateful Dead classic and became one of their most loved and anticipated numbers, often with the group using it as a vehicle for musical improvisation sessions that extended well beyond the original structure of the song. The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list and was ranked at number 57 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.
Dark Star (song) | Introduction
According to Yankovic's official website, Lucasfilm's official response to the song was, "You should've seen the smile on (George Lucas') face." This is the second "Star Wars" song Weird Al has created, with the first being 1985's "Yoda", a parody of "Lola" by The Kinks.
The Saga Begins | History
"Stars" is a 1972 song from Dan Fogelberg's debut album, "Home Free". It appears as the second track on the album. The song was written by Fogelberg and produced by Norbert Putnam, and was released on the Epic label. It was later covered Amy Holland in 1980 on her self-titled debut album and by Alison Krauss on her 2001 album "New Favorite".
Stars (Dan Fogelberg song) | Introduction
Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead is an album by the David Murray Octet released on Astor Place. It was released in 1996 and contains Murray's versions of compositions by the Grateful Dead. The Octet plays on the first six tracks, and the last is a Murray solo, accompanied only by Bob Weir on acoustic guitar.
Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead | Introduction
Being present for a "Dark Star" performance became a "Holy Grail" for Deadheads. The song became so legendary that it was often referred to as "IT" by dedicated Heads. Knowing this, the Dead would sometimes tease the song's introduction before switching into another song, finally bringing it back in the end of the seventies on New Years 1978, at the closing of Winterland. Semi-regular guest pianist Bruce Hornsby would later incorporate such teases into his own concerts, knowing a good number of Deadheads might be in attendance. After the New Years 1981 show "Dark Star" would only appear once more in the first half of the eighties (at the Hearst Greek Theatre on July 13, 1984) and would lie dormant until revived at the legendary ""Formerly the Warlocks"" two-day run at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia on October 9, 1989.
Dark Star (song) | Performance history
The screenplay was written by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon while film students at the University of Southern California. Initially titled "The Electric Dutchman", the original concept was Carpenter's, with O'Bannon "fleshing out many of the original ideas" and contributing many of the funniest moments. According to O'Bannon, "The ending was copped from Ray Bradbury's story "Kaleidoscope"", found in the short story collection "The Illustrated Man" (1951). O'Bannon references one of his USC teachers, William Froug, when Pinback says in a video diary entry "I should tell you my name is not really Sergeant Pinback, my name is Bill Frug."
Dark Star (film) | Screenplay
He wrote his first novel, "Dark", at the age of 21. It has since been released in the United Kingdom and translated into French. It was later optioned to be made into a film by State Street Pictures ("Soul Food", "Barbershop", "Roll Bounce") and Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Kenji Jasper | Introduction
His research was particularly meticulous and can describe his performance by this Chinese idiom. In the year, his another work Beautiful Night (liangxiao良宵) came to the public. The composition of Han Palace, Autumn Moon reflects the sadness of maids who were obliged to go into Han Palace. In a lonely, silent night, the moonlight covered the palace which was a prison to the maids. The maids poured their depression and resentment. Besides this well-known masterpiece, he also wrote many other musical compositions, such as "Back From the South" (Nangui), the "Long Night" (Changye) and so on. There is a story about the "Long Night".
Jiang Fengzhi | Main music works
However, he later declared: ""Space Metal" was really magic. I am afraid that I will fail to capture the same atmosphere and actually ruin it! I am actually against sequels; you cannot repeat the same atmosphere and feeling like you had with the first album."
Star One (band) | Origins and first album (2002-2003)
The soundtrack of the 1974 film "Dark Star" by John Carpenter features a muzak-style instrumental piece called "When Twilight Falls on NGC 891". The first solo album by Edgar Froese, "Aqua", also released in 1974, contained a track called "NGC 891". Side 2 of the album, which included this track, was unusual in having been a rare example of a commercially issued piece of music recorded using the "artificial head" system.
NGC 891 | In popular culture
In 1957 Sun produced her second play for the Chinese Experimental Theater, "Peach Flower Fan", a period play in which Sun utilized features of Chinese opera and folk dance. In 1957 Sun also produced a comedy, "Portrait of One Hundred Clowns", in order to defend herself against her political critics by shallowly promoting the Anti-Rightist Movement. In 1961 Sun produced a play, "the Hatred of Black Slaves", based on the American novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". In "the Hatred of Black Slaves" Sun experimented with techniques found in Chinese opera (the same which had inspired Brecht's concept of "alienation effects") in an effort to break down the "fourth wall".
Sun Weishi | Late artistic career
In a 1999 interview, he said "I don't like history; I just like the buildings, the palaces, the dress." The film influenced the creation of Tan Dun's 2006 opera "The First Emperor".
The Emperor's Shadow | Reception
"Dark Star" was often the basis for jamming during the Dead's live shows, allowing the band to employ techniques typical of improvisational jazz.
Dark Star (song) | Introduction
Many special effects were done by Dan O'Bannon, ship design was by Ron Cobb, model work by O'Bannon and Greg Jein, and animation was done by Bob Greenberg. Cobb drew the original design for the "Dark Star" ship on a napkin while eating at the International House of Pancakes.
Dark Star (film) | Special effects
"Supernova" is a rock song accompanied by guitar riffs and a synthesizer with an "analog feeling". Jung Yong-hwa wrote the song with "Star Wars", and the general idea of the silence in outer space, in his mind. He elaborated, stating: "When I watch films that portray the universe, it opens up a space in there with only me inside... I wanted to express that space of quiet tranquility as the universe. That was the thought." "White" is an electronic rock song that also features a synthesizer. "Irony" is a song that pertains to a couple that no longer love each other, but reject the idea of a breakup as a result of the empathy felt for one another.
Colors (CNBLUE album) | Music structure
Carpenter expanded the "Dark Star" short into a feature which was released in 1974 with a final budget of only US$60,000. O'Bannon served in a number of capacities, including scripting, editing and acting in one of the leading roles ("Pinback"). In 1975, "Dark Star" won the Golden Scroll award (the Saturn Awards' original name) for Best Special Effects. O'Bannon, growing up a science-fiction and horror enthusiast, abandoned technical work (including a stint as a computer animator on George Lucas' classic "Star Wars") for screenwriting.
Dan O'Bannon | Early work
Songs are drenched in strings and sweet sentiment one minute, starkly played and downcast the next. No pop song has ever bottomed out more than "Holocaust", an anguished plaint sung at a snail's pace over discordant slide-guitar fragments and moaning cello [...] On the up side, there's the delicious pop minuet "Stroke It Noel", the anticipatory magic of "Nightime" ("Caught a glance in your eyes and fell through the skies," Chilton rhapsodizes) [...] Big Star's baroque, guitar-driven pop reaches its apotheosis on songs like "Kizza Me", "Thank You Friends" and "O, Dana". [...] Without question, "Third" is one of the most idiosyncratic, deeply felt and fully realized albums in the pop idiom.
Big Star | "Third/Sister Lovers"
To the theme of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," Hole wrote in 1989, "Darkle, darkle, little grain," "I wonder how you entertain" "A thousand creatures microscopic." "Grains like you from pole to tropic" "Support land life upon this planet" "I marvel at you, crumb of granite!"
Francis D. Hole | Musical Works
"Better News" and "I'm Black" were composed in collaboration with Ian Dench. The idea to "Don't Panic" was inspired by a fire alert in London. "Mr Arrow Key" is about a guide for the things of life. "Pink Elephant" covers the story of a girl who is clumsy like an elephant. "Goosebumps" is a song about homesickness. "To the Moon" is a love song which took Lena, her co-writer Alexander Schroer and producer Swen Meyer seven months to find suitable lyrics for a certain melody. "Neon (Lonely People)" describes the feeling of loneliness despite the fact that someone is among people.
Stardust (Lena album) | Background
During a scene of the episode, the song "Me Oh My" by Bryan Ferry can be heard. Also, the Mazzy Star song "Fade into You" plays on a jukebox in the diner. Walter names his two lab mice John and Yoko, a reference to The Beatles, and he also points out that octopuses "really do make gardens".
Wallflower (Fringe) | Cultural references
Ritter also has an interest in writing, and has claimed many different writers as influences on both his songwriting and fiction work. Some of his favorite authors are Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, and Dennis Lehane (who wrote the intro for the Deluxe Edition of "Hello Starling"). The title of Ritter's sixth album, "So Runs the World Away", comes from a line in the third act of Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Ritter's own novel, "Bright's Passage", was published by Dial Press on June 28, 2011. He said of the novel, "Besides my songs, "Bright's Passage" is the first [written] work I've wanted anyone to see ...
Josh Ritter | Other ventures
For example, the songs "Tianjing Sha Qiu Si" (Naixin) and "Jianlou house" (Is it China) are based on ancient Chinese poems."Tianjing Sha Qiu Si" was written during the Yuan dynasty by poet Ma Zhiyuan, "Jianlou House" corresponds to the poem "Lou Shi Ming", written during the Tang dynasty by poet Liu Yuxi. Djang San was also one of the first musicians to use ancient Chinese poems in music, the idea being to re-give a life to some poems originally written for music but for which the musical parts have been lost. The idea of the album "Is it China" was to create a mix between ancient Chinese music and culture and modern Western music by using Chinese music instruments such as Zhongruan or Hulusi (葫芦丝) as well as traditional rock instruments such as guitar, bass, and drums.
Djang San | First albums
Starr's first musical hero was Gene Autry, about whom he commented: "I remember getting shivers up my back when he sang, 'South of the Border'". By the early 1960s he had become an ardent fan of Lee Dorsey. In November 1964, Starr told "Melody Maker": "Our music is second-hand versions of negro music ... Ninety per cent of the music I like is coloured."
Ringo Starr | Influences
The Stars Are Cold Toys and Star Shadow are two 1997 books of a space opera series by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukianenko. It is a first-person narration, told by a pilot Pyotr Khrumov, who attempts to prevent destruction of the planet. While the story begins as hard science fiction describing Pyotr's flight to home on shuttle Spiral, later the emphasis drifts from technical details. The books are known for bright worlds of Geometers (a cynical deconstruction of the world of Upbringing and the famous Noon Universe of Strugatsky brothers) and Shadow (a world of utter individualism, in which every person is treated according with an often unpleasant reality of one's subconsciousness).
The Stars Are Cold Toys | Introduction
The debris from the explosion hits the "Outrider", apparently killing Dash. Back on Tatooine once more, Luke records a holographic message for Jabba the Hutt. Author Steve Perry was commissioned to write the novel—the backbone of the multimedia project—after writing the novelizations of "The Mask" for Bantam, and "Aliens" based upon graphic novels by Dark Horse Comics, which had been licensed by Lucasfilm to create "Star Wars" comics. In addition to studying the original "Star Wars" trilogy, Perry read the first spin-off novel in the franchise, "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", to get an idea of how to write for Vader.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire | Novel
Star Boulevard (Traditional Chinese: 星光大道; Simplified Chinese: 星光大道; pinyin: xīng guāng dà dào) is a China's first TV musical series. It is also called "Walk of Fame". This 20-episode series, sponsored by Starlight International Media Co. Ltd, will feature some of Hong Kong's best including Jordan Chan, Eric Tsang and Ruby Lin. However, these stars will only be playing a supporting role because the real stars of the show are newcomers Huang Yida, Yang Ziting, Lu Jiejun and Li Xuan.
Star Boulevard | Introduction
There was a close relationship between music and film industries and many of its singers also became actresses. Around 1927, Li composed the hit song "The Drizzle" ("毛毛雨") recorded by his daughter Li Minghui (黎明暉), and this song is often regarded as the first Chinese pop song. The song, with its fusion of jazz and Chinese folk music, exemplifies the early "shidaiqu" - the tune is in the style of a traditional pentatonic folk melody, but the instrumentation is similar to that of an American jazz orchestra. The song however was sung in a high-pitched childlike style, a style described uncharitably as sounding like "strangling cat" by the writer Lu Xun.
Mandopop | 1920s: Birth of "Shidaiqu" in Shanghai
The AllMusic review states "Percussionist Alex Cline's first album as a composer demonstrates, right out of the gate, the man's knack for conjuring timeless, elemental music. Minimal ambience opens most tracks, with Cline's love of Asian percussion evident via gongs and Tibetan singing bowls".
The Lamp and the Star | Reception
His second wife, Patricia "Puddie" Watts (now Patricia Gleason), was responsible for the line about the "geezer" who was "cruisin' for a bruisin used in the segue between "Money" and "Us and Them", and the words "I never said I was frightened of dying" heard halfway through "The Great Gig in the Sky".
The Dark Side of the Moon | Voices
the 'I' is generally me in this lot." He said "When the Trumpets Sound"—"a brutal song about all the things you've done wrong catching up with you"—had been commissioned by playwright and film director Toa Fraser. McGlashan said: "He needed a song for the middle section of his [2013] film of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's "Giselle" and he'd been listening to "Blood on the Tracks": songs about going down the road feeling bad. That was the template he was using and he said, 'Why don't you try writing a song like that?'" McGlashan said "Lucky Stars" was "probably the first album I've done for a long, long time that when it was finished I was really keen to get started on the next one because I'd enjoyed the process so much."
Lucky Stars (album) | Introduction
Wilkes and Harrison disagreed over the size of the Babaji image, which the designer apparently disliked and wanted to reduce in size. Inside the gatefold cover, around the edges of a tinted photo of Harrison and comedian Peter Sellers walking beside a Friar Park lake, text asks the "Wanderer through this Garden's ways" to "Be kindly" and refrain from casting "Revengeful stones" if "perchance an Imperfection thou hast found", the reason being: "The Gardener toiled to make his Garden fair, Most for thy Pleasure." A speech balloon over the photograph contains the words "Well, Leo! What say we promenade through the park?" This line was taken from the Mel Brooks movie "The Producers", a favourite of Sellers and Harrison.
Dark Horse (George Harrison album) | Album artwork
Because the manga's creator, Tomoko Hayakawa, is an avid admirer of the rock singer, Kiyoharu, it was decided that Kiyoharu would perform the theme music for "The Wallflower" anime. His songs, "Slow" and "Carnation" play over the opening and ending themes, respectively. The songs were a collaboration between Kiyoharu and Takeshi Miyo. The background orchestral music was written by two respectable Japanese composers, Hiromi Mizutani and Yasuharu Takanashi. The opening theme "Slow" plays over recycled footage from the first episode, and is more of a love ballad. Episode 14 onwards shows the second version of the opening sequence which portrays more original footages.
The Wallflower (manga) | Anime
After the Incident of January 28, 1932, Chinese people were angry about Janpese troop and the Nationalist Party. Facing the dark society, Jiang created the composition—the "Long Night" (Changye). The "Long Night" can be divided into three parts. The first part describes wandering in the darkness. The second is about longing for the light. The last is running towards a new future.
Jiang Fengzhi | Main music works
The unlikely musician thus became the concertmaster of his school orchestra. He would play classical and jazz music, and never being exposed a pop song until sixth grade, when he heard Smash Mouth's "All Star". Soon after, he discovered "All the Small Things" by blink-182 and attempted to play the song on guitar. Choi began to listen to more and more pop songs and fell in love with the Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, and Japanese pop. In junior high Choi would stay up late listening to the radio, recording the songs and began to make his own mix tapes.
David Choi | Early life
Black Star at the Point of Darkness is a spoken word album by American composer and author Paul Bowles, consisting of several poems, orchestral pieces, and recordings made in his travels. The recordings were produced by American musician, writer and producer, Randall Barnwell for his own company, Istikhara Music.
Black Star at the Point of Darkness | Introduction
Act I Act II All songs contain music by Martin and Brickell with lyrics by Brickell except "Way Back in the Day" and "At Long Last" by Edie Brickell and "Bright Star" with ensemble lyrics by Martin. "Way Back in the Day", "I Can't Wait", "Heartbreaker", "Another Round", "I Had a Vision", "Always Will" and "So Familiar" all were included on the album "So Familiar". "Asheville" and "Sun's Gonna Shine" both originated from the album "Love Has Come for You".
Bright Star (musical) | Songs
Danny Elfman comments on each of the 17 tracks in the liner notes that accompany the album. For the suite from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" (track 1), Elfman states that it was his first orchestral film score and writes, "Filmmusic fans will undoubtedly hear my tributes to Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann, the two composers who were responsible for igniting my interest in filmmusic way back when I was a kid." He also writes that the "big, old-fashioned romanticism" of his score to Dick Tracy was inspried by the music of George Gershwin, and that he was influenced by French composer Erik Satie for the Forbidden Zone love theme (track 16).
Music for a Darkened Theatre: Film &amp; Television Music Volume One | Liner notes
Jingjing is very grateful, agreeing to meet again. Meet again, the hibernating seed watered by the spring dew, will cultivate into a bright, fresh flower. Will they meet again? It is unknown to Jingjing, it's also unknown to Yun Xiang, after all life is full of unknowns.
Sound of Colors (TV series) | First meet
For example, he was ranked second in "Person of the Year" by Yahoo!Taiwan and was also listed in a book called "Who's Who in the ROC, 2007–2008".
Aska Yang | One Million Star (2007)
It was on the set of his first major film, "The Man Who Fell to Earth", that Bowie began writing a pseudo-autobiography called "The Return of the Thin White Duke". He was also composing music on the understanding that he was to provide the picture's soundtrack, though this would not come to fruition. (At Bowie's recommendation, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas would write and produce all the original music for the film instead.) Director Nicolas Roeg warned the star that the part of Thomas Jerome Newton would likely remain with him for some time after production completed.
Station to Station | Background
"The Shambler from the Stars" is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of" Weird Tales". It was later included as part of his first published book, "The Opener of the Way" (1945), and his 1994 collection "The Early Fears". A Cthulhu Mythos tale, it introduced the forbidden tome "De Vermis Mysteriis" (Mysteries of the Worm). Later on in 1935, Lovecraft wrote the short story "The Haunter of the Dark" as a sequel and dedicated it to Bloch. Eventually, in 1950, Bloch wrote his own sequel "The Shadow from the Steeple".
The Shambler from the Stars | Introduction
Bloom is known for being an avid reader, especially science fiction and fantasy novels. He once sent a fan letter to English science-fiction author Michael Moorcock, and then collaborated with him on three songs. "Black Blade" was written from the point of view of Moorcock's Elric character, and the other two were "The Great Sun Jester" and "Veteran of the Psychic Wars," the latter of which was used in the original "Heavy Metal" movie. In 1987, Bloom and Moorcock performed the song live at the Dragon*Con convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Bloom also collaborated with author Eric Van Lustbader on the song "Shadow Warrior," and in 1998 and 2001 with cyberpunk author John Shirley on the "Heaven Forbid" and "Curse of the Hidden Mirror" albums.
Eric Bloom | Outside work
Inspired by how these works married music and narrative, he decided to write a rock opera to explore his feelings about relationships, fame, and his life as a touring musician.
Songs from the Black Hole | Background
Set to the tune of Don McLean's "American Pie", "The Saga Begins" recounts the plot of "", from Obi-Wan Kenobi's point of view. Yankovic gathered most of the information he needed to write the song from Internet spoilers. Although Lucasfilm declined a request for an advance screening, Yankovic eventually attended a costly pre-screening for charity. He had done such an accurate job with the story line that after the pre-screening, he ended up making only very minor alterations. McLean approved of the song and, according to Yankovic, also has said that his children played it so much that "he'd start thinking about Jedis and "Star Wars", and it would mess him up" in concert.
The Saga Begins | History
Writing for "The Star", Chester Chin noted that it's "uncomfortably uncharacteristic upon first listen" because of the group's past songs which were more upbeat, but praised its indie sensibilities as "an assured step in the right direction" in a time where majority of the releases from K-pop "focus on the brash and bombastic".
One of These Nights (Red Velvet song) | Reception
"Star Boulevard" is about a group of young university music students striving for their musical dreams, and in the end their dream of performing on stage is realized in Xing Guang Xing Yuan stepping onto their own star boulevard. The story starts in the piano workshop, born from there is Le Manyao (played by Yang Tzu Ting), who has an unimaginable perfect singing voice. During her childhood, because of a friend Xiao Nu's practical joke, she became a "stutterer." At this time Xiao Nu, due to a family situation, left home with his mother.
Star Boulevard | Introduction
The song concludes with an upbeat hard rock instrumental part. Like "Overture", the meaning here is ambiguous. "Pingree's Music Reviews" says, "'2112' ends with the oppressive government being attacked by another entity, left entirely up to the listener's interpretation." On the "Classic Albums" episode on "2112" and "Moving Pictures", Lee comments on the ambiguity of the ending, but Peart states that his intent was that the Elder Race successfully deposed the Solar Federation (the comic booklet also represents starships approaching the planet and plane silhouettes – identical to the ones in the "Overture" – bombing it, killing Father Brown but leaving "Anonymous" alive, as he stays in the cave where the one-page "Soliloquy" was set).
2112 (song) | VII "<a href="Rush%20instrumentals%232112">Grand Finale</a>"
His composition 'River Flows in You' was selected by fans of "The Twilight Saga" to serve as 'Edward's Lullaby' prior to the release of the first film. Fan pressure was so strong that the piece was included in the soundtrack of the later film, "Eclipse". The piece is still heavily circulated, and has seen a surge in popularity with the release of the fifth book in the saga, "Midnight Sun".
Yiruma | Popular Culture
A sixty-minute biographical film for BBC Television of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. Doran also co-wrote a book on Gagarin with the popular-science writer, Piers Bizony.
Jamie Doran | "Starman" (1998)
After the concert (where the audience is much more enamored by Aza's looks and sexual attributes than her musicality), he and the two Selenites fly back to Warsaw - a city in the communist United States of Europe (U.S.E.), where Jacek is now the chief scientist in charge of telecommunications. When Jacek asks the two Selenites how they came to be in possession of Marek's ship, the Master lies and tells Jacek that Marek sent them to Earth in his ship to get help. The Disciple disapproves of this but does not contradict him. Far from achieving its stated goals of equality, communism in the U.S.E.
The Lunar Trilogy | Volume 3: Stara Ziemia ("The Old Earth") [first edition—Warsaw, 1911]
Was it some Golden Star? is a poem written by Gilbert Parker, published in Volume I of a series of poems called "Embers". It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 5. The Opus 59 songs were part of a song-cycle of six romantic songs by Parker that was never completed – strangely Nos 1, 2 and 4 were never composed. The other songs were "Oh, soft was the song" and "Twilight". The songs were originally written with piano accompaniment, but this was later re-scored by the composer for full orchestra.
Was it some Golden Star? | Introduction
Let's Go to My Star is Lee Jung Hyun's first album.
Let's Go to My Star | Introduction
Criss is credited as one of the primary songwriters and composers for StarKid Productions. He has contributed songs to "A Very Potter Musical", "Me and My Dick" (which became the first-ever student-produced college musical to reach "Billboard", debuting at No. 11 on the Top Cast Albums chart), "Little White Lie", and "A Very Potter Senior Year". Subsequently, Criss solely composed all the songs and music for "A Very Potter Sequel", its companion album "A Very StarKid Album", and "Starship", which landed at No. 1 on the "Billboard" Top Cast Albums chart, and at No. 134 on the "Billboard" 200 chart.
Darren Criss | StarKid Productions (2009–present)
His first two pieces to make a mark with a wide public were "The Phantom Melody" (1911) and "In a Monastery Garden" (1915), both best known in their orchestral versions, but originally written for cello and piano and for solo piano respectively. For the familiar orchestral version of the second of these pieces the composer published a synopsis: Ketèlbey followed the same basic formula for many of his most popular later works. For "In a Persian Market" his synopsis notes "the camel drivers approaching, the cries of beggars, entry of beautiful princess (represented by a languorous theme given at first to clarinet and cello and then full orchestra) ...
Albert Ketèlbey | Light orchestral
Dark Sun is a World Book Day novella in the popular CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. It fits into the series between "The Sleepwalker" and "The General".
Dark Sun (novel) | Introduction
Tjhit Liap Seng (Perfected Spelling: Chit Liap Seng, Hokkien Chinese for "Seven Stars" or "Pleiades"; ), also known as Bintang Toedjoeh in Malay, is an 1886 novel by Lie Kim Hok. It is considered the first Chinese Malay novel.
Tjhit Liap Seng | Introduction
His first completed novel, "Ain’t No Sin to Rock and Roll", was optioned for film by Miles Chapin. His second, "Tina's ’68 Mustang", is under revision. "The Master Planets" is Don’s third completed novel.
Donald Gallinger | Career
Frank (one of her many portraits in song) and "Wretched Wilbur". Robinson would arrange strings for Denny's further albums as well as for Nick Drake and other artists signed to the same company. The first songs recorded were the traditional "Blackwaterside" and "Let's Jump the Broomstick" in March 1971 at Sound Techniques. Sessions continued the following month until the end of May at Island studios, where the album was completed with the cutting of the title track, a sea voyage as a metaphor for death inspired by the loss of her friend 'Tigger' (Paul Bamber) who was in the Merchant Navy.
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens | Production
Notes Songs written by Chan include "First Love" and "Rocky Road" in English and "Craziness of Love" (兩心痴), derived by Chan as well. In 1999, the song "Ripples" (漣漪) was used by the Hong Kong Government in commercials for the Tracker Fund IPO.
Danny Chan | Singles
Theater plays (playwright): Black Stallion, King Gesar, The Cornered Beast, To Be Stranded. Films(screenwriter): My Mongolian Mother, Paerzatege( The Homeland). TV dramas: The Silent Aimin River, The House of Detention.
Luo Jian Fan | Main Works
Chen's earliest known publication is 'Flying Swan' written in 1992 and featured in the 1999 album "eXchange: china". This eXchange project was created to highlight works by immigrants to the U.S. who are lesser known composers. This particular album focused on immigrants from china. It wasn't until 2003 that he published his first album, "Primary Voice", which features 9 songs played with a mix of traditional Chinese and electronic instruments. These exotic nature songs hint of primitive oriental rites, and legends. Chen's perhaps most well known works are featured in his album "Away From Xuan". This album features three orchestral works featuring a Chinese ensemble and a guitar quartet among a normal set of orchestra instruments.
Chen Yuanlin | Works
The book received generally positive reviews and became a "New York Times" Best Seller. Allison Stewart of "The Washington Post" commented, "Once an artist plays their first sold-out show, or signs their first record deal, they are no longer relatable human beings whose experiences in earlier chapters — childhood crushes, bullies, trouble at school — mirror our own. [...] It’s an unbridgeable gap, one that Ben Folds, a singer, pianist and musical Everyman whose relatability seems to have been factory-issued, does his best to navigate in his engaging and solid new memoir." John Young of the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" stated that the book, "offers a glimpse inside the head of another musical genius while also being one of the best-written, most interesting musical memoirs of the rock era."
A Dream About Lightning Bugs | Reception
The album itself spawned two further singles: "Dark Star" in February 2001, and "Morning Rain" in July 2001. All songs written by John Harold Arnold Bramwell.
Natural History (I Am Kloot album) | Introduction
"History" (MR: "Ryŏksa") was the first long North Korean work to deal with Kim Il-sung during the Anti-Japanese struggle. Yan'an faction member Yi P'il-gyu expressed harsh criticism of "History", aimed at Han's close relationship with Kim Il-sung: "Han Sŏl-ya — he should be killed. He deserves it even only for just one book — "History". He is a very bad and harmful man; he is Kim Il Song's sycophant, a bootlicker".
Han Sorya | Works
... 'It's about acid' does it less justice than the observation that it's about seeing, sensing, and making connections in a sensuous world. Anyone out there remember what it was like to be three years old?"
China Cat Sunflower | Music and lyrical composition