Composer Lee Pockriss worked in configurations from film to Broadway to pop, but he remains to be most widely known for some bubblegum-era smashes written together with longtime collaborator Paul Vance, especially Brian Hyland’s “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” the Cuff Links’ “Tracy,” and Clint Holmes’ “Playground …

At the same time when Australian rock and roll meant pub rock and roll and almost every other band sounded like Cold Chisel, Died Fairly were something of the anomaly. Influenced even more from the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, as well as the Doorways than these were by early Icehouse, …

Invited in 1985 to collaborate with Andrew Lloyd Webber on a fresh musical, Charles Hart composed the lyrics for The Phantom from the Opera, including theater classics like “The Music of the night time,” “Wishing YOU HAD BEEN Somehow Here Again,” the name song, and “All We Consult of You.”

Austrian ensemble Dreams of Sanity straddled the worlds of gothic rock and rock, exploring the marriage of traditional music and rock, intense metallic and angelic feminine lead vocals, some years before that format became the soup du jour of Western european metal. Produced in 1991, the music group underwent numerous …

During her first album launch in 2007, 21-year-old Emmy Rossum had currently carved out an extraordinary career like a singer and actor. Created Sept 12, 1986, in NEW YORK, Rossum was an just child who was simply found out by her grade-school choir movie director to get ideal pitch. This …

b. 28 March 1957, Longview, Tx, USA. Willis used the bass when he was 13 yrs . old, playing in the beginning in church. 2 yrs afterwards, he also started playing electric guitar and studying tranquility. After a when using both equipment, he abandoned your guitar to focus on bass. …

John Barrowman was among few music theater personalities to produce a successful foray right into a saving profession. Though many stage celebrities release an recording sooner or later in their professions, rarely are they fulfilled with graph success and durability. Barrowman was created in Glasgow but elevated, from age nine, …

Carsten Jost (David Lieske) co-founded the techno label Dial with Peter M. Kersten (Sten, Lawrence) and Paul Kominek (Turner, Pawel) in Hamburg, Germany in 1999. Dial provides released broadly acclaimed albums by performers such as for example Pantha du Prince, Efdemin, and Roman Flügel, and is among the most respectable …

Gene Autry was greater than a musician. His music, in conjunction with his professions in films and on radio and tv, made him an integral part of the mythos which has composed the American identification for days gone by century — John Wayne with a small amount of Sam Houston …

Best-known as you of David Bowie’s guitarists (during one of is own most successful intervals commercially — the middle-’70s), Earl Slick has truly gone to play about a number of additional tasks before returning back again to Bowie in the first 21st hundred years. Slick (after that only 22 yrs …