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Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of Sesame Street, but its content involves adult-oriented themes. It has been praised for its approach to themes ...
Q was a disco group formed in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA. They released an album on Epic Records entitled Dancin' Man in 1977, which was successful. The group featured two members from Jaggerz, a hit-making group from the early 1970s. The title track from the album was released as a single and was successful in the US, becoming a Top 40 hit.
The musical's Original Cast Album, on the RCA/Victor label, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Marx (and his parents) can be seen in the documentary film ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway , which followed the trajectories of four Tony-nominated musicals from 2004, Avenue Q , Wicked , Taboo and Caroline, or Change .
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Swain explained in a 2006 radio interview that the band was renamed SSQ after Jon St. James "was fishing in a lake 'no bigger than a bathtub' and made a joke that the boat was the 'S.S. Q,'" referring to the current band Q. St. James had another reason for the name: "SS" stood for "Stacey Swain", who had become the most recognized of the band's ...
The band toured with After the Fire, and supported The Who on their 12-date UK tour in 1981. In 1981, Q-Tips played the Montreux Jazz Festival . With poor record sales after the release of two albums and seven singles, the Q-Tips broke up in early 1982 when Paul Young signed a solo recording contract with CBS Records , [ 3 ] retaining Kewley as ...
Paul Antony Young [4] (born 17 January 1956) [5] is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s.
Bono has been recognised by music critics on several rankings of greatest singers and frontmen. Among singers, Q ranked him the 26th-greatest, [223] Consequence of Sound ranked him the 32nd-greatest, [224] and Mojo ranked him 57th-greatest. [225] Rolling Stone ranked him the 32nd-greatest singer in 2008, [126] and the 140th-greatest in 2023. [226]