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Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales FIN [1]GER [2]JPN [3]Dschinghis Khan: Released: August 1979; Label: Jupiter; Formats: LP, MC Released in Australia as Genghis Khan with English-language versions of some tracks
Genghis Khan [a] (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, [b] was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes , he launched a series of military campaigns , conquering large parts of China and Central Asia .
"Dschinghis Khan" (German pronunciation: [ˌdʒɪŋɡɪs ˈkaːn]; "Genghis Khan") is a song recorded by German disco group Dschinghis Khan, with music composed by Ralph Siegel and lyrics by Bernd Meinunger.
"Genghis Khan" is a song performed by Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow from their third studio album, iii (2016). Written and produced by the band alongside Henrik Jonback, the song was conceived when lead singer Andrew Wyatt felt like a tyrant while in a long-distance relationship, comparing his cruelty to that of Mongolian emperor Genghis Khan.
The band, under their English-language band name Genghis Khan, released a version of the song with English lyrics entitled "Moscow" in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [1] Australia's Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics, and the single was issued locally in a die-cut ...
"Genghis Khan with a telegraph" is a Russian idiom which means the use of technological progress to strengthen despotism.It was first used by Alexander Herzen in 1857 and then widely used until the 1970s, sometimes modified with doomsday weaponry: "Genghis Khan with nuclear bomb", "with hydrogen bomb", "with [ballistic] rockets". [3]
The song exists in various versions with differing lyrics, the earliest of which is probably that of Dash Khuurch as documented in Tseveen Jamtsarano's book "Obraztsy mongol'skoi narodnoi literatury", published in St. Petersburg in 1908. Other written versions include the storyteller Togtool's version kept in the Oral Literature Library of the ...