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The song was used as the main song to the group's musical, Dschinghis Khan ~Wa ga Tsurugi, Nessa wo Some yo~ (ジンギスカン～わが剣、熱砂を染めよ～), running through January 2008. [18] The single debuted at number 4 in the Oricon Daily Singles Chart and ranked 5th for the week. [19]
The band, under their English-language band name Genghis Khan, released a version of the song with English lyrics entitled "Moscow" in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [1] Australia's Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics, and the single was issued locally in a die-cut ...
Dschinghis Khan (German pronunciation: [ˌdʒɪŋɡɪs ˈkaːn]; "Genghis Khan") is a German Eurodisco pop band. It was originally formed in Munich [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest with their song " Dschinghis Khan ".
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales FIN [1]GER [2]JPN [3]Dschinghis Khan: Released: August 1979; Label: Jupiter; Formats: LP, MC Released in Australia as Genghis Khan with English-language versions of some tracks
Pages in category "Songs about Genghis Khan" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
"Genghis Khan" is a song performed by Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow from their third studio album, iii (2016). Written and produced by the band alongside Henrik Jonback, the song was conceived when lead singer Andrew Wyatt felt like a tyrant while in a long-distance relationship, comparing his cruelty to that of Mongolian emperor Genghis Khan.
In 1206, Temüjin (previous name of Genghis Khan) had united all the tribes on the Mongolian Plateau under his rule and received the title "Genghis Khan". The Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China became a major obstacle to the Mongol Empire's quest for world domination. In the past, the Jin dynasty had adopted a divide-and-rule strategy to ...
"Genghis Khan with a telegraph" is a Russian idiom which means the use of technological progress to strengthen despotism.It was first used by Alexander Herzen in 1857 and then widely used until the 1970s, sometimes modified with doomsday weaponry: "Genghis Khan with nuclear bomb", "with hydrogen bomb", "with [ballistic] rockets". [3]