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Gold is a French music band from Toulouse, which enjoyed considerable success in the Francophone world in the 1980s. History. Gold was originally composed of five ...
ESG (Emerald, Sapphire & Gold) is an American dance punk/funk/rock band formed in the South Bronx in 1978. ESG has been influential across a wide range of musical genres, including hip hop, and dance-punk. The band's track "UFO" is one of the most sampled songs in history. [3]
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
Gold had written "Big in Japan" in 1979 after hearing the music of Holly Johnson's band Big in Japan. [5] They first named their band "Forever Young" and subsequently changed it to "Alphaville" after the 1965 science fiction film. [citation needed] Together the three wrote and recorded Forever Young as a demo.
Country music groups and bands continued to rise in popularity during the 1980s. The most successful of the lot was Alabama, a Fort Payne-based band that blended traditional and pop-country sounds with southern rock. Their concerts regularly sold out, while their single releases regularly reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Andrew Gold was invited to record with the band by Lenny Waronker, head of A&R at Warner Bros, and played keyboards and percussion on the completed album, as well as adding background vocals. [1] The U.S. release of Ten Out of 10 also featured three songs co-written by Gold: "Power of Love," "Runaway" and "We’ve Heard It All Before". [ 2 ]
Gold was born on August 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, [1] [4] and eventually followed his parents into show business. His mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy ...
By 1990, a second studio album with Garcia was released: Temples of Gold appeared in the top 20 in Germany and the first edition of it added a six-song live EP, of recordings made in Los Angeles. An additional US-Tour followed, before the 1992 Album You Bought It You Name It was released.