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When initially aired, the first ten episodes of Chartjackers, each five minutes in length, detailed the events of the previous seven days. [2] The final episode, broadcast on 21 November 2009, compiled highlights from the previous ten weeks into one 30-minute episode, which was narrated by British DJ MistaJam. [3]
A shilling of George III, king at the turn of the 19th century.. The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, [1] is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of one shilling given to recruits to the armed forces of the United Kingdom in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, although the practice dates back to the end of the English Civil ...
An English print book, which added around a dozen pages to the web version and edited some of its text, [4] was published by First Second Books in 2013. [2] First Second Books has published the subsequent books as well. [1] The second book in the series, Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling, was partially published online before the release of ...
Spike is the 12th studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 1989 by Warner Bros. Records.It was his first album for the label and first release since My Aim Is True with no appearance by the Attractions.
Writing for The Guardian, Michael Cragg ranked "King" as the band's twelfth best song. [20] Grazia magazine called the song "the feminist anthem of 2022." [21] In an album review, Neil Z. Yeung writing for AllMusic, highlighted "King" as one of the songs that offer "some of the strongest lyrics and personal insight on the album". [22]
The song is credited solely to guitarist Robbie Robertson, although drummer/singer Levon Helm claimed that "King Harvest" was a group effort. [1] It is sung in the first person from the point of view of a poverty-stricken farmer who, with increasing desperation, details the misfortune which has befallen him: there was no rain and his crops died ...
The song was written as part of an appeal by the Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War and their families. The fund was the first such charitable effort for a war. The chorus of the song exhorted its audience to "pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay– pay– pay!"
Author James Perone claims that the song still fits into the album by being the one song on which King's piano blends in with the other instruments on the song. [5] Perone regards Danny Kortchmar's electric guitar and Ralph Schuckett's electric piano as the most prominent instruments on the song, [5] but Landau showers most praise on Charlie Larkey's bass guitar and Joel O'Brien's drums.