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The song was originally written by Jim Steinman, Tony Hendra and Sean Kelly as the theme for the short-lived television comedy series Delta House, sung by Michael Simmons.. Steinman reworked the melody into the song "Dead Ringer for Love" for the Dead Ringer album, while portions of the lyrics would later appear in his "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Youn
[1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation. In many cases, songs celebrate individual cities, presenting them as exciting and liberating.
City Boy's first five albums were produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who was recommended to them by Phonogram A&R guy Chris Peers, and their debut album entitled City Boy, was the first full album that Mutt produced after relocating to the UK from South Africa. Lange became the de facto seventh member of the band, helping Chris Dunn hone his ...
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide wrote that the album "provided the group's finest, liveliest playing and writing, and made tentative steps toward a unique style." [6]In his regular reviews for Truck & Driver magazine, starting a four of five star review, Shaun Connors wrote, "City Boy are probably most known for their 1978 Top 10 single 5.7.0.5. and little else, but there is so much more to ...
City Boy (disc 1) and Dinner At The Ritz (disc 2) (City Boy's second album) are complemented by six bonus tracks on disc 1. New sleeve notes are provided by Malcolm Dome . Press releases inform these releases are re-mastered from original tapes, and that this is the first official release of these albums on CD.
The film score, Fragments of a Prayer, was composed by John Tavener and released on Varèse Sarabande.. Director Alfonso Cuarón describes Tavener's "Fragments of a Prayer," as "a spiritual comment rather than a narrative support."
"City Boy" is a song by Norwegian pop band Donkeyboy from their second studio album Silver Moon. It was released as the album's lead single on 29 November 2011. The song peaked at number one in Norway and Denmark, becoming their sixth top 10 single.
"Rent" was written in 1984. [3] The song is about a transactional relationship between two people. According to lyricist Neil Tennant, the title was chosen for its association with rent boys with the intention of being provocative, [4] but the story he envisioned for the song was about a mistress of a powerful man.