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Martin Charnin. " It's the Hard Knock Life " is a song from the musical Annie [1] with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. [2][3][4] The song is sung by the eponymous protagonist, together with her fellow orphan girls, and is about how the girls are treated by Miss Hannigan. In the 2014 film adaptation, the lyrics in the line ...
School of Hard Knocks. The School of Hard Knocks (also referred to as the University of Life or University of Hard Knocks) is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life's usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education. The term originated in the United States; its earliest documented ...
Hard Knock Life, released on October 27, 1998. It features a vocal and pitch-modified instrumental sample [1] of the song "It's the Hard Knock Life" from the 1977 musical Annie. The song was produced by The 45 King and at the time of its release was the most commercially successful Jay-Z single. The RIAA certified it as a gold single in March ...
Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley). The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years ...
“Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” (1998): As one of his most defining hits, “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” transformed Jay-Z into a household name. By sampling “Annie” the musical ...
Contents. Annie (1982 film) Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film based on the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip created by Harold Gray. Directed by John Huston and written by Carol Sobieski, the cast includes ...
Hard Knock Life. Hard Knock Life may refer to: "It's the Hard Knock Life", a song from the musical Annie. Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, a 1998 album by Jay-Z. "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)", a song from the album, which samples the showtune from Annie. Category: Disambiguation pages.
It's Hard. It's Hard is the tenth studio album by English rock band the Who. Released in September 1982, it was the final Who album to feature bassist John Entwistle, who died in 2002. It was also the second and final Who studio album with drummer Kenney Jones, as well as the last to be released on Warner Bros. Records in the US.