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"Rebel Yell" is a song by English rock musician Billy Idol. It is the title track of his second album Rebel Yell (1983), and was released as the album's lead single in January 1984 by Chrysalis Records .
Rebel Yell is the second studio album by the English rock singer Billy Idol, released on 10 November 1983 by Chrysalis Records. After the release of his 1982 eponymous debut studio album , Idol continued his collaboration with producer Keith Forsey and multi-instrumentalist Steve Stevens .
The song (and others) has been aggressively shopped around, the group going so far as to produce a special "All Time Classics" CD for advertising, television and movies. [ 8 ] The song has been wildly successful, and was the basis for Dieter Meier's investment fortune, which as of 2017 was valued at an estimated $175 million.
This power-struggle came to a head in 1983, when Idol and his label, Chrysalis Records, disagreed about the cover art for his breakthrough sophomore album, Rebel Yell.So, in order to get his way ...
The origin of the cry is uncertain. One theory is that the rebel yell was born of a multi-ethnic mix. In his book The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History, Craig A. Warren puts forward various hypotheses on the origins of the rebel yell: Native American, Celt, Black or sub-Saharan, Semitic, Arab or Moorish, or an inter-ethnic mix.
The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with Tarzan the Ape Man . The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply "the ...
Yell! consisted of singers Daniel James and Paul Varney. In 1989, they both met manager Jeff Chegwin and decided to form the group. They were signed by Simon Cowell to Fanfare Records. The group's first single, a cover version of Dan Hartman's 1970s hit, "Instant Replay", was produced by Nigel Wright and re-mixed by Pete Hammond from PWL.
Rebel Yell: 1986 "To Be a Lover" 22 3 — 3 28 — 2 7 8 6 Whiplash Smile: 1987 "Don't Need a Gun" 26 ... Song Album 1993 "Wasteland" (UK Jukebox 7" and US promo CD)