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Yes is the debut studio album by English rock band Yes, released on 25 July 1969 by Atlantic Records. After forming in the summer of 1968, the band toured extensively across the United Kingdom with sets comprising both original material and rearranged cover versions. They signed with Atlantic in March 1969, and entered Advision and Trident ...
The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre.
The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [ 1] genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. [ 2] Soft rock, [ 3] glam metal, thrash metal, shred ...
Freddie Jackson (pictured in 2019) spent eight weeks at number one in 1985, the most by any act. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1985 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005 ...
The Spice Girls featured as a band of female techno-warriors, with the Mojave Desert as a background. The music video for "Say You'll Be There" was directed by Vaughan Arnell, produced by Adam Saward and filmed on 7–8 September 1996, in the Mojave Desert, located in California. [41] It was inspired by the films Pulp Fiction and Faster ...
Andrews, Marc; Isaac, Claire; Nichols, David (2011). Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984 – 2007. Affirm Press. ISBN 978-0-98713-267-3. Arena, James (2013). First Ladies of Disco: 32 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers.
Flag of the Schutzstaffel from 1925 to 1945. The Black Banner or Black Standard used by Abu Muslim in his uprising leading to the Abbasid Revolution in 747. During the German Peasants' War in the 16th century, the white, black and pink flag was used by the revolting farmers. Afghanistan flew a solid black flag from 1709 to 1738 and from 1880 to ...
The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It depicts the 64-year-old president of the United States during his final year in office. The portrait was a gift to former British Prime Minister William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, and spent more than 170 years in England .