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valerie dore - the night (12 '' extended remix) 1984

valerie dore - the night (12 '' extended remix) 1984

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Valerie Dore - The Night (12 '' extended remix) 1984

(Barbara Addoms/Giuseppe Nicolosi)

So many things we have, why don't you stay with me tonight ?
I'm trying to discover you, together again for all the night.
There's something going on right now, feeling happy, feel the moon
Let's get closer babe 'cause we dance and dance.

All my friends are talking to me, what's this love I see ?
I know you can make it right, I'm still waiting now
Waiting for the love I need, if you want me too
There's something don't understand, I don't know.

So many things we have, why don't you stay with me tonight ?
I'm trying to discover you, together again for all the night.
There's something going on right now, feeling happy, feel the moon
Let's get closer babe 'cause we dance and dance.

All my friends are talking to me, what's this love I see ?
I know you can make it right, I'm still waiting now
Waiting for the love I need, if you want me too
There's something don't understand, I don't know.

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Valerie Dore, stage name of Monica Stucchi (born May 28th, 1963 in Milan), is an Italo disco artist. Monica Stucchi was born in Milan Italy, Prior to her career in music she worked as graphic designer. In the early 1980s she started singing in The Watermelon String Band, a bluegrass band led by the banjoist Bruno Guaitamacchi that played in Milan pubs. Stucchi was discovered at age 20 by the Italo producer Roberto Gasparini, who decided to launch her solo career and give her the name Valerie Dore to improve her international appeal. Dore's first single, "The Night" (1984) arranged by Lino Nicolosi, "Get Closer" and "It's So Easy", released in 1984 and 1985, respectively. During this time, the Italian music news publication TV Sorrisi e Canzoni ("Smiles and Songs") awarded Monica Stucchi alias Valerie Dore the prize of best new artist of year. She also finished second at the Festivalbar music showcase and performed on the TV show "Azzurro" and on German TV.

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In 1986, Monica Stucchi changed her collaborator and Dore began working with a new production team at Castello di Carimate  on her first album, The Legend. Marco Tansini wrote the music, Simona Zanini wrote lyrics and Monica Stucchi/ Valerie Dore recorded the 10 songs includid in LP. The Legend album's first single, "Lancelot," was a hit in Italy. The second single, "King Arthur," enjoyed moderate success in Europe, and was performed on the Italian music program Discoring.  The songs "The Magic Rain" and "Bow and Arrow" were radio hits as well. In 1986, Monica Stucchi/Valerie Dore was voted the 6th best female artist in Italy by readers of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. The following year, she changed team that don't paied royalties and moved to London to record the single and mix "Wrong Direction" in co production with her future husband, Mauro Zavagli, for their new disco label "MZM PRODUCTION" (MauroZavagliMonica Production). Monica sang in studios with German producer Ralph Ruppert and collaborated with musicians Nick Beggs from Kajagoogoo and Marck Price. But in Italy the mobbing was started. The underpromoted record hit #23 in the Italian charts.

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Between 1990 and 1991, Dore and her husband were in Madagascar where they began a collaboration with a local group. She considered recording a new LP in a Caribbean style, but after some contact with international labels companies, she came to believe that mobbing was horrible.

In 1992, the ZYX label released Dore's The Best of Valerie Dore with bonus tracks: the extended versions of her dance hits "The Night", "Get Closer" and "It's So Easy," plus two remixes of "The Night" done by DJ Oliver Momm. In 1995, Zavagli and Dore moved to Arezzo, Toscana, and Monica Stucchi alias Valerie Dore start working also as an antiquary and restorer. At the same time, they opened a '800 picture's gallery important store in Milan. In November 2006, Dore recorded a new song "How do I get to Mars?" and launched her personal web site www.valeriedore.it (Italian). In 2007, she promoted non-smoking, on "Radio 24". She had been smoking for 15 years, and it was affecting her voice and shortening her career. She wanted to inspire others to stop smoking as well, and, through radio and in an internet forum, she encouraged abstinence. In 2007 she recorded more material in her home studio, eventually released in the 2014 album Greatest Hits & Remixes. She is preparing new publications.
 

Valerie Dore - The Magic Rain

Valerie Dore - The Magic Rain

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Valerie Dore - The magic rain (1986 LP version)

"THE MAGIC RAIN"

The wind brings chimes
from aging times
I hear the cries
Alone
Blue raindrops fall
deep in a well
caught in a spell
I call
I see shadows fight alone on the ground
I see maidens calling out with no sound
I see signs in the air telling me what
I've found

Now I know
The magic rain
comes and goes
The magic rain
hides and shows

Ancient perfumes
A sorcerer's eyes
are seeking dreams
In fires
There's a man of power calling for more
There's a magic chamber behind the door
There's a feeling that I've seen this somewhere before

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Central Line -- Walking Into Sunshine

Central Line -- Walking Into Sunshine

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Central Line -- Walking Into Sunshine

Central Line was an R&B and soul band from London, England. They recorded three albums with Mercury in the 1980s and had two hit singles in the United States, as well as one Top 40 hit in their native country.
The band was formed in March 1978, and were signed to Mercury Records early in 1979 by John Stainze. The original founding members were Steve Salvari, Camelle Hinds, Lipson Francis and Henry Defoe. Hinds, Francis and Defoe were previously in a band called TFB (Typical Funk Band), which had contained members that would go on to form Light of the World. 
TFB also contained the drummer Errol Kennedy, who later joined Imagination. Salvari joined TFB after the departure of Kenny Wellington in late 1976, as their second keyboard player and the band members then stood at Salvari, Hinds, Francis, Defoe and Kennedy. The band gigged for about a year then broke up. Francis and Defoe went to work with a bass player who was in Boney M, and Salvari and Hinds staying together to work on various projects.

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In early 1978, four of the TFB members got back together, and expanded the previous format by recruiting Linton Beckles (born Linton Charles Beckles, 17 December 1955 – 3 April 2015) and Kim "Jake" Le Mesurier (younger son of English actors John Le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques and brother of longtime Rod Stewart Guitarist Robin Le Mesurier). The band decided they needed a new identity, and Defoe came up with the name Central Line, because the band were now running down a central line of funk and soul. They toured with Roy Ayers, Grover Washington, Fat Larry's Band and The Real Thing. Central Line released their first single, "Wot We Got Its Hot" to a good reception, but their second single "Sticks & Stones" did not fare so well. They finished the year appearing on BBC Television's, Linda Lewis' Roadshow.

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Original members
Steve Salvari – vocals, keyboards
Camelle Hinds – vocals, bass
Lipson Francis – vocals, keyboards
Henri Defoe – vocals, guitar
Jake Le Mesurier – drums, percussion
Linton Beckles – vocals, percussion
Mel Gaynor – Drums, Percussion
Michael Finbarr Murphy – Guitars, Keyboards
Roy Carter – Keyboards, Guitar
Steve Jeffries – Keyboards
George Chandler – backup vocals
Dee Sealy – backup vocals
Jimmy Chambers – backup vocals

Salvari left in early 1980. After working with Barry White, Robert Palmer and Sheena Easton, he continues in the music industry as a record producer. Mel Gaynor left after their debut album was released to join Simple Minds, and soon after Henri Defoe enjoyed a writing collaboration with Michael Finbarr Murphy. Bassist Hinds later formed Hindsight with Defoe, and also played bass in The Style Council,  as well as forming The Walkers with trumpet player Canute Wellington, and releasing "(Whatever Happened To) The Party Groove" / "Sky's The Limit" in 1983. Despite a club hit with "Walking into Sunshine" which sold well in the United States, and a UK Top 40 hit with "Nature Boy",  consistent mainstream success eluded them, and they disbanded in August 1984. Le Mesurier died in Spain in the 1990s from an accidental drug overdose. Beckles died in London from complications of pneumonia on 3rd April 2015. He was 59. Francis died in London on 29th June 2018.

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Mel Gaynor

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Don't Want To Wait Anymore

Don't Want To Wait Anymore

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The Tubes - Don't Want To Wait Anymore 

"Don't Want To Wait Anymore"
 

We, could be the last two on earth
To start a new world
Just you and me, girl
Try, and you can almost see
How it could be, just you and me

Lost, trapped in the freezing cold
Barely alive, have to make love to survive
I'll show you how it's done
We'll take it as it comes
A rocket to the sun

I don't want to wait anymore
I just don't think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don't want to wait anymore
I waited so long
Forgot what I'm waiting for

Stranded on a desert isle
With no one around
For thousand of miles
Imagine any place
This is what it takes
But don't tell me to wait

I don't want to wait anymore
I just don't think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don't want to wait anymore
I waited so long
Forgot what I'm waiting for

I don't want to wait anymore
I just don't think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don't want to wait anymore
I waited so long
Forgot what I'm waiting for

Forgot what I'm waiting for, whoa
I don't want to wait anymore
I just don't think I have the strength
The strength to carry on
Oh, I don't want to wait anymore
I waited so long
Forgot what I'm waiting for

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The Tubes, one of the most adventurous and outrageous bands of the 1970s and early 1980s, were something of a rock phenomenon with their extravagant live shows that were alternately entertainingly preposterous and self-indulgent beyond belief. Arch satirists of popular culture everything was made fun of, from a beach movie parody for Sushi Girl, to leather clad S&M hijinks in Mondo Bondage, to the game show antics of What Do You Want From Life? Their eponymous 1975 debut album included the single "White Punks on Dope" while their 1983 single "She's a Beauty" was a top 10 U.S. hit and a frequently-played music video in the early days of MTV. They also performed in the 1980 film Xanadu, singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song "Dancin'" opposite a big band.


The Tubes formed on March 22nd, 1972, in San Francisco, California, featuring members from two Phoenix, Arizona, bands who had relocated to San Francisco in 1969. One, The Beans, included Bill Spooner, Rick Anderson, Vince Welnick, Frank Martinez, Scott Hornbeck and Bob Macintosh. The other, the Red White and Blues Band, featured Prairie Prince, Roger Steen, and David Killingsworth. After performing at Expo '70 in Japan, Killingsworth left the Red, White and Blues Band, leaving Steen and Prince to audition new bass players, albeit unsuccessfully. Before moving to San Francisco the Beans had been a local favorite in Phoenix, selling out shows with a tongue-in-cheek concept rock show called "The Mother of Ascension" featuring costumes and props. After moving, Bill Spooner worked at the Fillmore West concert hall sweeping floors in between Beans shows at the Longshoremen's Hall and other minor venues. The band's loud, heavy jamming style did not attract much attention, and the band needed to go back home to Phoenix. There they would sell out shows, which provided enough money to pay their rent. The Beans' manager and former Alice Cooper Group drummer, John Speer, suggested they add Prince and Steen along with their roadie John Waybill to one of these shows. Waybill's nickname among the band was "Fee," short for "Fiji" thanks to his copious head of hippie hair.

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"The Radar Men from Uranus" played the Celebrity Theatre  in Phoenix, as well as a show in Mexico where they were run out of town by the police (it was where Rick Anderson almost drowned after he was washed out to sea while swimming). The group would stick together and play shows at biker bars such as The Inn of The Beginning. The vocals at this time were shared by Spooner, Steen and Waybill as different characters. Prairie Prince and Phoenix high school friend Michael Cotten were attending art school at the San Francisco Art Institute at this time; they attracted local press attention by painting a mural of crashing waves on the side of the Cliff House Restaurant. Cotten was asked by Spooner to buy an ARP synthesizer  instead of a film camera and began to perform with the band as well as create props and costumes.

One of the first Tubes shows was at the Art Institute cafeteria as part of an art show for classmate and future Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow. While experimenting with their stage show and art, Prince and Cotten met model Re Styles while painting the Cliff House Mural. Styles had been born Shirley Marie Macleod on March 30, 1950 in Middelburg, Netherlands. She had appeared in both Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and Sun Ra's Space is the Place and posted for Playboy and Penthouse magazines. She was also associated with Sweet Pam and the Cockettes. By 1975 she was credited with clothes design and dance co-ordination for the band. Onstage she would play Patty Hearst and dress in wild leather outfits during the "Mondo Bondage" dance with Waybill. By 1979, she and Prince were married.

After several years of playing biker bars, the band needed help. They had a temporary agreement with producer David Rubinson and played on bills with The Pointer Sisters and Sylvester, but were still trying to find an audience. Prince had been hired by newly formed fusion rock band Journey to record demos, and approached their manager Herbie Herbert, a former Santana roadie and Bill Graham employee. Herbert made a deal with Graham that if the Tubes could sell out three local shows, Graham would give him an opening slot on the show of his choice.

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Herbert booked shows at a local club called the Village, which sold out thanks to themes inspired by the San Francisco post-hippie underground culture such as "The Streaker's Ball" and "Mondo Bondage." Much to Graham's dismay, Herbert chose an opening slot for the upcoming Led Zeppelin show at Kezar Stadium. The band pulled out the stops, including Waybill dressed as an early version of "Quay Lewd" throwing "Cocaine"  (flour) and "Pills" (candy) at the crowd, who threw it back. Graham threatened Herbert that the band would never play in San Francisco again but calmed down and eventually fell in love with the band, booking them at Winterland  and other California venues for New Year's shows and Halloween. After the 1973 Led Zeppelin show, Herbert wanted to manage the band, but Spooner and the group went with local management team Mort Moriarty and Gary Peterson, also known as "Bag O' Bucks." Moriarty was interested in the use of video in rock music and saw the Tubes' stage show as the future of music videos. Bob Macintosh died of cancer at this time, leaving Prince as the only drummer.

In 1974, Bag O' Bucks filmed a Tubes show at the California Hall and shopped the "video demo" around Los Angeles. George Daly, Columbia Records head of A&R in San Francisco, made some Tubes demos, but CBS' corporate headquarters in New York City would not agree to signing the Tubes to Columbia due to the radical nature of their art. After 18 months, with no success at his own label, Daly, at the suggestion of Rick Wakeman, finally pitched the group to competitor A&M Records, where his former Columbia East Coast A&R colleague and friend, Kip Cohen,  had recently headed the A&R division. Daly personally flew managers Moriarity and Petersen down to LA, and Cohen signed The Tubes to A&M, a rare example of cross-company support by major label executives. Working with lawyer Greg Fischbach, the band signed with A&M Records.

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Sérgio Mendes - Never Gonna Let You Go (HD)

Sérgio Mendes - Never Gonna Let You Go (HD)

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"Never Gonna Let You Go"
(originally by Dionne Warwick)

 

I was as wrong as I could be
To let you get away from me
I'll regret that move
For as long as I'm livin'

But now that I've come to see the light
All I wanna do is make things right
So just say the word
And tell me that I'm forgiven

You and me
We're gonna be
Better than we were before
I loved you then but now I intend
To open up and love you even more
This time you can be sure

I'm never gonna let you go
I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever
Gonna try and make up for all the times
I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine
From this day on we're gonna be together
Oh, I swear this time
I'm never gonna let you go

Looking back now
It seems so clear
I had it all when you were here
Oh, you gave it all
And I took it for granted

But if there's some feeling left in you
Some flicker of love
That still shines through
Let's talk it out
Let's talk about second chances

Wait and see
It's gonna be
Sweeter than it was before
I gave some then but now I intend
To dedicate myself to given more
This time you can be sure

I'm never gonna let you go
I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever
Gonna try and make up for all the times
I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine
From this day on we're gonna be together
Oh, I swear this time
I'm never gonna let you go

Oh
So if you'll just say
You want me too

I'm never gonna let you go
I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever
Gonna try and make up for all the times
I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine
From this day on we're gonna be together
Oh, I swear this time
I'm never gonna let you go

I'm never gonna let you go
I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever
Gonna try and make up for all the times
I hurt you so

Gonna hold your body close to mine
From this day on we're gonna be together
Oh, I swear this time
I'm never gonna let you go

Sérgio Mendes was born on February 11, 1941 into a prosperous family in Niterói, Brazil. His father was a physician who was strict with his son; when Mendes did poorly in school, his father shaved his head as a punishment. Mendes also suffered from a crippling bout with scoliosis that forced him to wear a body cast during much of his childhood. His primary consolation was music: even while in a cast, the budding musician propped himself up at the piano, where he would play for hours at a time.

Mendes was not encouraged by his parents to think of music as a potential profession, although they paid for his training as a classical pianist at a local conservatory. Despite their disapproval, he formed his first jazz combos while a teenager with a friend from Niterói, Tião Neto, on the bass; the group was rounded out with several different drummers. Mendes's trio landed a number of paying gigs around Niterói, even though they could not play very many of the dance tunes that were popular at the time. Mendes supplemented this training with trips across Guanabara Bay on the ferry from Niterói to Rio de Janeiro, historically the center of Brazil's musical life. Mendes became a regular at the Lojas Murray club, where he soaked up the latest jazz and contemporary sounds. The camaraderie of Rio's music scene was also helpful; on more than one occasion, the audience at Lojas Murray took up collections to pay for Mendes's ferry ride back home.

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Mendes made his first professional mark on the Rio scene while still a teenager. In 1960 he started playing on Sunday afternoons at the Little Club, located in Rio's premier beachfront entertainment district, the Copacabana. While Mendes was not paid for the appearances, he was allowed the freedom to experiment with various jazz and Latin rhythms, including the bossa nova, which was reaching the height of its popularity in Brazil. Bossa nova, or "new wave," came on the scene in 1957 with the João Gilberto recording of Tom Jobim's "Desafinado" ("Out of Tune"). Bossa nova songs typically featured a seemingly simple, syncopated rhythm with unadorned vocals; often the singer was accompanied only by a guitar. The result was a strikingly modern form of music that soon replaced the samba as Brazil's best-known cultural export.
 

In addition to his afternoon gigs at the Little Club, Mendes also played the piano at Bottles, another club in the Copacabana. Appearing on stage as an accompanist to the "Pocket Shows" put on by cabaret performers, Mendes soon formed his own regular lineup, the Sérgio Mendes Sextet. After 1961 Mendes, along with other groups appearing in the Copacabana, added stronger percussion to the bossa nova, creating a harder sound that bridged the gap between bossa nova and the samba. Mendes also made his first record in 1961, Dance Moderno, which appeared on the Philips label. The following year Mendes traveled to New York City to appear with his Sextet at the Birdland Ballroom. A chance encounter with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley led to Mendes's appearance with the jazz legend on the 1962 album Quiet Nights. Mendes also participated in a pivotal bossa nova concert at Carnegie Hall on November 21, 1962. The concert was a major critical and commercial success and confirmed the popularity of Brazilian music in the United States.

Mendes had ridden the bossa nova craze during a time of optimism in Brazil's history. The civilian governments of the late 1950s and early 1960s promised to transform the country into an economic powerhouse, and the construction of the new capital at Brasilia symbolized their hopes. When inflation and corruption got out of hand in 1964, however, armed forces took over the government in a military coup. For the next twenty-five years the military ruled Brazil with a repressive hand; while musicians offered critiques of the military regime through the sly lyrics of melodramatic "tropicalismo" songs, they suffered along with the rest of the country during these repressive years.


 

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Like many others in Brazil's artistic community, Mendes chose to leave his homeland in 1964. He discovered a musical community in New York City that rivaled the talent in Rio de Janeiro, and Mendes's recording career took off immediately. For the rest of the decade he released at least one full-length album every year, and sometimes as many as three. Signed to Capitol Records, Mendes's albums did not at first generate impressive sales. Released at the height of the British invasion, records such as 1964's The Swinger from Rio and Sérgio Mendes and Bossa Rio and 1965's In the Brazilian Bag were out of step with mainstream trends. In 1966 Mendes put together a new group under the name Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66 and signed a contract with A&M Records, best known as the home of its cofounder, Herb Alpert, and his group the Tijuana Brass.

It was Mendes's releases with Brasil '66 that made him into a household name in the United States. The group's first A&M release, Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66 went into the top ten on Billboard's album chart and eventually earned a gold record for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States. The track "Mais Que Nada"—later included on the soundtrack to the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997—also brought the group airplay on top forty radio stations. The 1967 release Equinox continued Mendes's trend toward light, pop-oriented Latin beats, but the 1968 album Look Around gave the group its biggest pop hit with a cover version of the Beatles' song "Fool on the Hill." Like Equinox, Look Around earned Mendes and Brasil '66 gold records, as did the 1968 album Fool on the Hill.



 

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With a string of four gold albums, Mendes was the biggest selling Brazilian artist in the United States in the 1960s. Although some critics applauded his genre-expanding attempts to fuse Brazilian rhythms with contemporary pop sounds, others accused him of pandering to mainstream tastes. Along with Herb Alpert's albums with the Tijuana Brass, Mendes's work was often categorized as easy listening "elevator" music by purists who derided his 1960's output.

Mendes experimented with folk, jazz, and traditional Brazilian music on the 1973 album Primal Roots and his popularity declined in the United States, although he remained a popular recording and concert performer in Europe, Japan, and Latin America throughout the 1970s. In 1983 he staged a commercial comeback in the United States with the album Sérgio Mendes, which featured the top ten single "Never Gonna Let You Go." In 1992 Mendes released the critically acclaimed Brasilero, which won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Although he was now a permanent resident of Los Angeles, California, Mendes spent five months in Brazil working on the album, which drew inspiration from the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of the Bahía region.

With his explorations of Brazilian, African, and western sounds on albums such as 1996's Oceano and 1999's Mais Que Nada, Mendes has continued a prolific recording career that spans over forty years. With his Grammy Award and enduring popularity, Mendes has been a major force in bringing world music to diverse audiences around the globe.
 

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Career: Recording artist: Dance Moderno, 1961; Quiet Nights, 1963; The Swinger from Rio, 1964; Sérgio Mendes and Bossa Rio, 1964; In the Brazilian Bag, 1965; The Great Arrival, 1966; Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66, 1966; The Beat of Brazil, 1967; Equinox, 1967; Sérgio Mendes' Favorite Things, 1968; Look Around, 1968; Fool on the Hill, 1968; Crystal Illusions, 1969; Bossa New York, 1969; Stillness, 1971; País Tropical, 1971; Primal Roots, 1972; Love Music, 1973; Vintage '74, 1974; Home Cooking, 1976; Sérgio Mendes and the New Brasil '77, 1977; Pele, 1977; Brasil '78, 1978; Magic Lady, 1979; Sérgio Mendes, 1983; Brasil '86, 1986; Arara, 1989; Brasileiro, 1992; Oceano, 1996; Mais Que Nada, 1999; In Person at El Matador, 1999.
 

Awards: Recording Industry Association of America, Gold Album, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, 1967, Gold Album, Look Around, 1968, Gold Album, Fool on the Hill, 1969, Gold Album, Equinox, 1969; Grammy Award, Best World Music Album, Brasileiro, 1992.
 

The Adventures - Send My Heart (Original Unedited Version 1984)

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The Adventures Biography

The Adventures were a Northern Irish rock/pop band, formed in Belfast in 1984 who scored a number of hits during the 1980s and early 1990s.

History

 

Lead vocalist Terry Sharpe and guitarist Pat Gribben first worked together when in 1978 they joined punk band The Starjets. The band experienced limited success and disbanded in the early 1980s. Sharpe and Gribben then formed The Adventures in early 1984 with Gribben's wife, Eileen, Gerard Murphy, Tony Ayre and Paul Crowder, performing their first show in February 1984 in North London. They signed to Chrysalis Records and were taken on by upcoming manager, Simon Fuller, who saw them achieve much publicity and promotion in the music press, including an appearance on BBC's Crackerjack. Despite this promising start, their debut single, "Another Silent Day", released in the summer of 1984, barely scraped into the chart. Further singles were released, "Send My Heart", "Feel the Raindrops", and "Two Rivers", all of which were minor hits in the UK Chart, but no major breakthrough was achieved. Their debut album, Theodore and Friends, was released in 1985 while the group were on a world tour supporting Tears for Fears. It received much critical acclaim, but again no significant sales.

The band lay low for the next two years. During this time, main songwriter Pat Gribben composed some new songs for a second album and the band left Chrysalis Records and were picked up by Elektra Records. With another burst of promotion and heavy airplay, their new single "Broken Land" became their first significant hit, reaching No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart and spent 10 weeks on the chart. The single was quickly followed up by the album, The Sea of Love, which reached No. 30 and also remained on the charts for 10 weeks. The follow-up singles, "Drowning in the Sea of Love" and "One Step From Heaven", failed to reach as highly and stalled at No. 44 and No. 82 respectively, though the album was certified Silver (for 60,000 copies sold) by the BPI in 1989, a year after its release.

The band combined pop/rock with a folk music sound for their third studio album, Trading Secrets with the Moon. Released in early 1990 along with a couple of singles, the album failed to capitalise on their earlier success and only appeared briefly on the UK Albums Chart, stalling at No. 64. This ended their contract with Elektra.

With another rethink and now down to a quartet, The Adventures returned in 1992 with the single "Raining All Over the World". Now signed to Polydor Records, the song reached No. 68, and was to be the group's final chart appearance. A fourth album, Lions and Tigers and Bears, was released in 1993, produced by ex-Vibrators bassist Pat Collier at London's Greenhouse Recording Studios. Despite featuring a new single, a contemporary reworking of the 1960s hit "Monday Monday", the album met with tepid response and failed to chart. The group were then dropped by Polydor, and essentially broke up soon after.

Pat Gribben continues to write songs and is currently working with singer Ryan Molloy, while Terry Sharpe spent some years performing in a cover band, The Dead Handsomes. The Adventures regrouped briefly in 2007 for some gigs in Belfast, but no major reunion was ever organised. They regrouped again in 2009 to perform further small scale gigs in Belfast, as well as appearances at the Time To Be Proud and Féile an Phobail festivals during the summer.

Former bass player Tony Ayre died on 20 December 2009.

 

Band members

 

  • Terry Sharpe – lead vocals (11 December 1956)

  • Eileen Gribben – vocals, violin

  • Gerry "Spud" Murphy – guitar, percussion, vocals

  • Tony Ayre – bass (died 2009)

  • Pat Gribben – guitar

  • Paul Crowder – drums

  • Jonathan Whitehead – keyboards

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TOPPOP: Gidea Park - Beach Boy Gold

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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.

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Slow Hand - The Pointer Sisters - HQ/HD

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