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The Gladiators' next two albums on Virgin were Naturality (1978) and Sweet So Till (1979). [3] The group's next album Gladiators was recorded at Coach House Studios in the UK with local producer Eddy Grant. It was the first Gladiators' album on which no member of the group played any of the instruments, as a few members of the band Aswad were ...
The group performed in their gladiator costumes, with "Nero" wearing a toga and a laurel wreath crown. They won a contract with Decca Records , and recorded a rocked-up version of Julius Fučík 's well known circus music tune, "Entry of the Gladiators", with a spoken introduction by Slade: "Hey, say there, Brutus, man, like, here come the ...
Guitar chord, a chord played on a guitar, which has a particular tuning; The Chords (British band), 1970s British mod revival band; The Chords (American band), 1950s American doo-wop group; The Chord, a c.1715 painting by Antoine Watteau; Andrew Chord, a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors
Proverbial Reggae was the second album by Jamaican Roots Reggae band The Gladiators, recorded and released in 1978 on Virgin Records' Front Line imprint.. British dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has said the songs on Proverbial Reggae "combine intelligent, poetic lyrics with majestic melodies, enchanting harmonies, producing inspired, entertaining meaningful music."
The phrase "entry of the gladiators" is known in two descriptions of Pompeii in 1877 and is probably older. On January 10, 1900, Kapellmeister Anton Fridrich (1849–1924, known for composing the regimental march "Khevenhüller-Marsch" ) created an arrangement for string orchestra for himself in Graz .
The song's frequent chord and time changes caused problems in playing the song correctly; the difficulty was so great that producer Brian Eno attempted to erase the track. [87] [88] Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. later said of the song, "It took so long to get that song right, it was difficult for us to make any sense of it. It only became a truly ...
"American Gladiators gave them that stage to go after their athletic aspirations, be on TV and win $25,000," he says. "I think this was really this first bit of where American culture changed, not ...
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