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According to drummer Nicko McBrain, the track is a remake of one of the band's earlier songs, entitled "Floating", of which "Purgatory" is a faster re-arrangement. [1] It was the group's least successful single as it failed to break into the Top 50 in the UK charts, although the group's manager, Rod Smallwood, states that this was because "it wasn't really a single, it was just lifted off the ...
Tangerine Dream has released albums setting all the three parts of The Divine Comedy to music: Inferno is a recording of a live performance at the St Marien zu Bernau Cathedral in 2001, and Purgatorio and Paradiso are studio albums from 2004 and 2006 respectively. [79]
Robert John (born Robert John Pedrick, Jr., January 3, 1946 – February 24, 2025) was an American singer perhaps best known for his 1979 hit single, "Sad Eyes", which reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.
Reminiscent of the doo-wop ballads of the 1950s, "Sad Eyes" became one of several non-disco, or disco-influenced, tunes to top the 1979 pop chart. It was released in April 1979, when many music fans were primarily listening to disco. In August 1979, there was a cultural anti-disco backlash that encouraged many to turn from disco to pop music ...
J.J. Cale - electric guitar and slide guitar on "Sad Eyes" Bill Dickinson, Willie Weeks, Larry Gales, Michael Moore - bass; Michael Finnigan, James Booker, Joe Harnell, Bill Payne - piano; William Smith - Fender Rhodes electric piano; Earl Palmer, Russ Kunkel, Gary Mallaber - drums; Victor Feldman - vibraphone, congas, percussion
You Are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes is a 2012 biography written by American recording artist Jermaine Jackson about his younger brother Michael. The book was first published by Touchstone on September 13, 2011. It is named after Michael's 1995 hit song. [1]
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008. It was updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009 and translated into six languages.