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"Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose referencing Avalon, California. [2] It was introduced by Jolson and interpolated in the musicals Sinbad and Bombo .
"Avalon" is a 1982 song by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from their eighth and final studio album Avalon (1982). The single, with its B-side, "Always Unknowing", charted at No. 13 in the UK.
Avalon is the eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released on 28 May 1982 by E.G. Records, and Polydor.It was recorded between 1981 and 1982 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, and is regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of the band's later work.
Avalon is the first solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 14, 2010. [1] Avalon is a combination of work that took Sully Erna almost seven years to complete. [ 2 ]
The meaning and origin of the name Avalon have been long debated by Arthurian scholars as well as Celtic and Romance philologists. [1] Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudo-chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain", c. 1136) calls the place Insula Avallonis, meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin.
The group's name was derived from Ferry and Mackay making a list of old cinemas, and Ferry picking Roxy because it had a "resonance", some "faded glamour", and "didn't really mean anything". [10] After learning of an American band with the name Roxy , Ferry changed the name to Roxy Music, a play on "rock music".
Avalon (Chaos Divine album) or the title song, 2008; Avalon (Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge album), 2014; Avalon (Roxy Music album) or the title song (see below), 1982; Avalon (Sully Erna album) or the title song, 2010; Avalon, from the film Avalon, 1990; Avalon: The Greatest Hits, by Avalon, 2009; Avalon Los Angeles CA 24/06/06, by Sasha, 2006
"Why" was written and produced by Avalon's manager and record producer Robert "Bob" Marcucci and Peter De Angelis. [2] The melody is based on an Italian song. The Avalon version features an uncredited female singer (alleged to be Fran Lori), [3] heard in the repeat of the first four lines of the first part of the song, with Avalon replying, "Yes, I love you".