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She is lip syncing all her smash hits, back to back.
Much like on "American Idol," awful performances became ratings smash hits.
"But there are definitely three, in my opinion, smash hits."6.
Even the shows that weren't smash hits were still, you know, good.
And a Smash Hits question from the old biscuit tin… Do you like sardines?
They aren't just movies that made back their money at the box office; they're bonafide smash hits.
About their bedroom walls, which were smothered in their posters ripped from the NME or Smash Hits.
He also worked on smash hits "Psycho" with Post Malone and "Work From Home" with Fifth Harmony.
It "could be one of the most beautiful relationships in the world" she later told Smash Hits.
Apex Legends tussles for dominance in the battle royale genre with global smash hits "Fortnite" and "PUBG".
I wouldn't be surprised if the moment was commemorated by a fold-out poster in Smash Hits.
Think about the Vengaboys and try not to sing one of their smash hits in your head.
Each had smash hits — Shelton's "God&aposs Country" and Dan + Shay's "Speechless "— that were top contenders for the award.
SpaceX and Autotrader were two smash hits in 21 that have increased their valuations over the past 22010 years.
But both of those films were smash hits overseas — thus explaining why studios will continue to rely on sequels.
In October 1986 the Smash Hits article appeared with the headline: 'Ask us anything horrible and we'll break your legs!
Malcolm Mackenzie is the editor of monthly mag We Love Pop, the closest thing to Smash Hits on UK newsstands.
"Bling Bling" and "Back That Azz Up" were smash hits, and Lil Wayne, a 17-year-old star, had people entranced.
While perhaps not a pure horror film, the movie's atmosphere of dread and suspense made it one of 2002's smash hits.
Not even recent smash hits like Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and It – all of which earned more than $700 million worldwide – came close.
Edwards -- a native of Detroit -- took over lead singer duties from David Ruffin in 1968 and continued The Temptations run of smash hits.
But while The Room is widely panned, The Disaster Artist is poised to become one of indie studio A24's many smash hits.
"They had a lot more money behind them, the Spice Girls," says music journalist Sylvia Patterson, who worked at Smash Hits and later NME.
That success, Gunn argues, does not suggest that audiences want carbon copies of smash hits made over and over again until the formula crumbles into dust.
The story also comprised the 'comedy' tale of the thwarted reporting the Smash Hits two had endured, featuring some blaring innuendo concerning our foxy young friends.
Other smash hits were cranked out like I Kissed A Girl, Hot 'N Cold, Teenage Dream, Roar and E.T – and there was even a dancing shark.
Jordan Peele has now scored two box office smash hits with black characters at the forefront – and he has no plans to stray from his vision.
Instead, Devine has enjoyed a long, prolific career, over which he has released numerous solid records—none smash hits, but all respectable in their own rights.
The Russian former world number one played at the World Team Tennis "Smash Hits" event in Las Vegas, which raises money for the Elton John Aids Foundation.
Lest we forget, Daft Punk had also gone on a number of world tours by this point, too, and released an impressive array of international smash hits.
Google's Tango hardware was only found in a limited number of  smartphones, including the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro and Asus Zenfone AR, neither of which were smash hits.
The insinuation is that if lived experience is as valuable as creative output, Jones' extraordinary personal history is at least partly to thank for his parade of smash hits.
Musician and producer Nile Rodgers has enjoyed a profitable career, releasing his own smash hits as well as producing for artists including David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger.
The co-founder of Chic has enjoyed a profitable career in music, releasing his own smash hits as well as working with artists including David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger.
Now, as you may know, we have this column called "Smash Hits and Superstars," which is basically when we ring up famous people and ask their opinion on brand new releases.
A federal judge has refused to narrow a copyright infringement case accusing R&B singer Jeremih of swiping a Danish photographer's image for the album artwork on one of his smash hits.
Smash hits like 2013's "Type Of Way," 2015's "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)," and his work with former associate Young Thug propped him up as one of Atlanta's most talented artists.
For smash hits like "Sorry" and "What Do You Mean?" he doesn't even bother to lift the microphone to his face during dance routines he's done so many times he can't even feign enthusiasm.
The lyricist — who previously fronted the glam-rock band Semiprecious Weapons — has cowritten his fair share of smash hits, from "Sorry" (Justin Bieber) and "Centuries" (Fall Out Boy) to "Hands to Myself" (Selena Gomez).
The beats belong entirely to artists other than the album's credited creator, and in many cases they are the sounds of legitimately huge smash hits, already guaranteed to be great courtesy of their original composers.
The smartphone games business — which includes smash hits PUBG and Fortnite — posted 19 percent year-on-year growth to hit sales of 17.6 billion RMB, but that was done 19 percent on that previous blockbuster quarter.
"Toy Story 4", which circles around a group of toys with voices from Hollywood A-listers Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, has become one of the smash hits of the year, grossing over $860 million worldwide.
Today we're restating our commitment to that goal, and we're reminding ourselves that such investigations cannot be limited to feel good stories of indie developers, smash hits on our smart phones, or the latest thing on store shelves.
Over the last few years, OK Go has made a name for themselves with their epic one-shot music videos that go on to be viral smash hits, and may we be the first to say: Big frickin' deal.
" It's not the pair's first foray into YouTube smash hits, Dashwood has some impressive trick shots up her sleeve and Hawkins knows a thing or two about translating Australian slang, releasing a viral video in 2015 titled "How to speak Australian.
Lansing, who greenlit smash hits such as Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump and the Mission: Impossible franchise and helped back Titanic, had to navigate a world full of sexism and nonstop drama to achieve her amazing success in the business.
But the massive popularity of the augmented reality title, which saw hoards of humans roaming parks and piers seeking elusive Pokemon last year at the height of the craze, is also spawning plenty of wannabie AR mobile gaming smash hits.
The Super Bowl dominates the list of the most-watched programs in American television history, routinely drawing more than 100 million total viewers — even in the current era, where shows that attract more than 10 million are considered smash hits.
That's a major development for an industry that hasn't seen many smash hits, but for free-to-play game makers like Against Gravity, which has now raised $29 million to date, there's plenty of maturation in the VR market that still needs to happen.
The brilliant mind behind indie smash hits like Subsurface Circular, Thomas Was Alone, and Volume, among many others, Bithell is far from the go-to, AAA guy many action franchises might want for a lead developer — a fact he'd be the first to tell you.
" Fifth Harmony was assembled by Simon Cowell during the second season of The X Factor in 2012 and placed third in the Fox reality singing competition, later signing a record deal with the music mogul which resulted in smash hits like "Work From Home.
Moreover, thanks to smash hits like Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" — both of which dominated radio play and streaming numbers for an unprecedented stretch of weeks — only 14 songs have claimed the chart's top spot so far this year.
While you won't find recent smash hits like Hamilton or Dear Evan Hanson, BroadwayHD still has plenty to offer, from plays and musicals on the Great White Way and the West End, made-for-TV musical movies, opera and ballet, concerts and cabaret, and lots of Shakespeare.
Over the past couple months, the studio saw a perfect storm brewing starting with Reeves super strong summer that included the box office smash hits "John Wick 3" and "Toy Story 4" and a script from Wachowski that got the studio and Reeves excited about a possible return.
She was interviewed for the legendary British pop magazine Smash Hits in March of that year, and because she obviously didn't have a fucking clue about ordinary people, let alone the mag's audience of teens, she asked for a briefing on the topics she might be asked to address.
Its lucrative gaming business focuses on PC and mobile and is the heartbeat of revenue, accounting for $5 billion in the last quarter alone, thanks to smash hits like Honour Of Kings, 2017's top grossing game, and the acquisition of the companies behind hit games Clash Of Clans (Supercell) and League Of Legends (Riot Games).
The first ripple was K-dramas and films (Strong Girl Bong-soon and Oh My Ghost are smash hits on Netflix), then came K-pop (BTS and BlackPink have exploded in popularity in the U.S.), and finally, K-beauty hit the United States around 2011 when the first BB cream from Dr. Jart launched at Sephora.
The success of those filmmakers this year — along with Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins, the highest grossing female director ever; Thor: Ragnarok's Taika Waititi, the highest grossing Maori director ever; and the smash hits directed by Jordan Peele (Get Out), M. Night Shyamalan (Split), and Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) — accounted for over $2.15 billion in domestic box office returns, and $5.87 billion worldwide.
Many celebrities make an effort to stay out of the spotlight, but there's only one who's made hiding her face from the public eye an actual part of her public persona: Despite having a number of smash hits under her belt, Sia is able to maintain relative anonymity in the real world by concealing her face behind a curtain of blonde hair during interviews and whenever she's onstage.
Avicii — born Tim Bergling — was just 28, but had already lived a full roller-coaster life, with global smash hits, an endless touring schedule and physical ailments that appeared to be connected to the intensity of the hard-partying lifestyle of a touring D.J. After a few years of illness, he announced in 2016 that he was retiring from touring, because of the toll it had taken on his health.
Here Patterson tells the tragic story of music journalism over the past three decades at legendary (legendary like The Beatles, not "legendary" like Richard Ashcroft) publications (note: not "brands" for Pete Doherty's sake) such as Smash Hits (RIP), The Face (RIP), The NME (RI-Free!), and Glamour and Q too, via the personal history of a defiant cultural commentator who refused to be told what to think and how to write it all down.
Box Hits (formerly Smash Hits) mainly broadcasts general mainstream pop music from the past few years. Formally called Smash Hits, it took its name and format of the Smash Hits brand from Bauer which existed in Smash Hits Radio and once ran as a magazine.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was an awards ceremony which ran from 1979 (as the Smash Hits Readers' Poll) to 2005.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was an awards ceremony which ran from 1979 (as the Smash Hits Readers' Poll) to 2005. Each award winner was voted by readers of the Smash Hits magazine. It ended with the closure of the magazine in February 2006. The event was initially produced by Harvey Goldsmith and Janet Street-Porter.
Johnny Dee from Smash Hits said the song is "superb".
Tom Doyle from Smash Hits described the song as "quirky rock".
Now That's What I Call Music, Smash Hits was a compilation album released in 1987. The album is part of the (UK) Now! series, and is a collaboration with Smash Hits magazine, a successful pop music based magazine at the time. It was conceived, written and designed by the Smash Hits staff, and the liner notes are written in the magazine's offbeat style.
In its 1980 review, Smash Hits listed the song as one of the best tracks on parent album "The Age of Plastic", alongside "Video Killed the Radio Star".Smash Hits. Volume 31. February 7, 1980. p. 31.
2 [Phantom], History of Techno [ZYX], Smash Hits 1988 and Acid House Anthems.
He left the BBC in 2000 to join EMAP as MD of Pop where he launched the Smash Hits Radio Show and the Smash Hits TV channel and was executive producer of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party for Channel 4. Between 2002 and 2004 he presented BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast show. He presented a weekly radio show called 'It's Amazing' on national DAB station Amazing Radio in 2010.
Wilson also co-hosted the music program "Video Smash Hits" on the Seven Network.
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. Hosted by Andi Peters and Dani Behr. 3 December 1995.
"Cash of the Titan". Smash Hits (September 17–30, 1981, Vol. 3, No. 19): p.
Smash Hits started to run its Annual Poll Winners Poll in 1980. It involved asking their readers to complete a form that was printed in the magazine. The Form detailed, among other things The Best Dressed Person and Favourite Single from the year, and the readers would send them into the Smash Hits Offices. The completed forms would then be compiled into a list of the winners and runner up's and Smash Hits would then print them in the Magazine.
Beenox Studios developed venues for Smash Hits at various wonders of the world, including the Amazon rain forest. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits was one of three new titles for the Guitar Hero series announced in early 2009. Though the game was initially called Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits, cover art for the game in North America had shown the title had changed to Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. The game was still released as Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits in Europe and Australia.
5 June 1992. Retrieved 25 March 2020. Caroline Sullivan from Smash Hits described Stansfield's voice as "glass-shattering".
Starr, Red. "Genesis: Duke". Smash Hits (17–30 April 1980): 30. Face Value was released in February 1981.
The video placed third in the vote for Best Video at the 1994 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party.
Like the Richard, it never moved beyond the research and development stage."Smash Hits" Popular Mechanics, March 1947.
In his review, Johnny Lee from Smash Hits commented that the song "sounds a bit like Jazzy Jeff's Summertime".
Video Smash Hits was an Australian music television show which was broadcast on the Seven Network in the early- to mid-1990s. It is not to be confused with Video Hits, Network Ten's long running music video show which aired opposite Video Smash Hits on Saturday mornings. Both shows shared the same format.
In his review, Johnny Dee from Smash Hits noted the "snappy, perky rhymes with plenty of that speedy tongue-twisting rrrrrrapping".
Despite being highly regarded by fans, the album failed to chart and met with critical response from the music press. Writing for Smash Hits, Neil Tennant said of the "Lightning Flash" song that despite its synthesized sound, "the group have failed to capture the freshness that new pop demands".Neil Tennant. Smash Hits review, June 1982.
In July 2017, WHOD changed their format to variety hits, branded as "Smash Hits 94.5". The stations was originally branded as Dixie 94.5 and aired a classic hits format.Alabama Broadcast Media Page In mid-November 2017, WHOD went silent (off the air). In February 2018, WHOD returned to the air with variety hits, branded as "Smash Hits 94.5".
The Australian edition of Smash Hits magazine began in November 1984 as a fortnightly. The magazine blended some content from the parent publication with locally generated material. Australian Smash Hits was originally published by Fairfax Magazines and was later purchased by Mason Stewart Publications. Over the years it became a monthly and then a bi- monthly.
A brand new acoustic studio version was recorded and released in 2010 on the band's Smash Hits...Unplugged! CD. This version was produced by Aaron Murray, Sean Kelly and Vollmer.HELIX - More Smash Hits Unplugged Details Revealed The chorus of "Rock You" has lent itself to Vollmer's autobiography, Gimme An R!, as well as many Helix T-shirts and merchandise.
Trouser Press called the album "an LP of ten pop gems", while Smash Hits called it "awful. And I do mean awful".
He recalled The single became a success and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart. It was later included on the Experience's first compilation album Smash Hits. When "Hey Joe" was issued in the U.S., Reprise Records included "51st Anniversary" as the B-side. "Stone Free" was included on the American Smash Hits album, which was released on July 30, 1969.
Virgin released the album under the imprint name Metal Beat Records, which was used for Foxx releases throughout his contract with them. He then worked on dozens of tracks for two projected albums, and one of these tracks, "My Face", was released on a flexi-disc given away with Smash Hits in October 1980."Bitz", Smash Hits, vol. 2 no.
The songs Rafi sang for the film, including "Man Tarpat Hari Darshan Ko Aaj" and "O Duniya Ke Rakhwale", went on to become smash hits.
Dover Records was a British record label that was formed about 1989. One of the recordings was a celebration of Arsenal winning the 1989 League Division One with "We're Back (Where We Belong)" single. Recordings on the Dover label released compilations related to the magazine Smash Hits, starting with Smash Hits Party '89. Dover was a subsidiary of Chrysalis Records and incorporated another Chrysalis offshoot, Flutterby Records.
Marc Andrews from Smash Hits wrote that the song is one of the "highlights" on Love and Kisses. He described it as a "dance-fantastic single".
His stage name derived from his interest in numerology, meaning "number one"."Nicely, Nicely!", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd., November 29 - December 12, 1979, p.
"Smash Hits" is the debut single by Kid Canaveral. It was released by Straight to Video Records on 3 March 2007.Is This Music? Magazine. Issue 25.
The single was well received in the British and European music press. Smash Hits described it as a Wild West shoot-out between Madness, Bow Wow Wow and Altered Images. Stewart Mason of AllMusic wrote, "it all sounds like an enormous put-on, but it's an entertaining one for anyone with a taste for early '80s ephemera." The song was listed in Smash Hits top 10 lyrics of the 80s.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party Party, a post-show bash gained almost as much coverage as the event itself with most of the artists and bands attending.
Smash Hits is a compilation album of Christian rock band All Star United. The album was released in 2000 and featured songs from the band's two previous releases.
The master recording is featured in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. "Little Girls", "Kid Ego", "Mutha (Don't Wanna Go To School Today)" and "Play With Me" were released as singles.
Philadelphia Daily News. 15 August 1991. Retrieved 25 March 2020. Caroline Sullivan from Smash Hits labeled it as a "wistful souly ballad" from the former Tears For Fears backing singer.
The popularity of the program also saw two compilation CDs released and a variety of 'Video Magazines' from 1991 to 1993 in association with the popular music magazine Smash Hits.
Gavin Report stated that Prince's "new duet partner is Rosie Gaines, who absolutely nails her part." Tom Doyle from Smash Hits described the song as "smaltzy over-the-top-balladeering".
Smash Hits has been reissued several times on CD, however, it has been largely superseded by more recent and comprehensive compilations, such as Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2001).
The magazine was published weekly and ran from 7 May 1983 to February 1992. It was intended as direct competition to Smash Hits, which was at its peak at the time. Although Number One contained fewer pages and less colour (at a similar price), the magazine claimed "our strength is our weekliness". One of the most popular aspects was that it published the singles and albums charts every week (obviously not possible for the fortnightly Smash Hits).
Holland is a graduate of the BA Journalism course at the London College of Communication and has worked for the following publications: the teenage magazine,Sneak (fashion section), Smash Hits and Bliss.
The band also hit the headlines when Fruitbat rugby tackled the children's TV presenter Phillip Schofield in front of millions of television viewers at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party in 1991.
Writing in Smash Hits, reviewer Vici MacDonald described the song as "pleasant" and "wistful" and noted a similarity to the song "Can't Get Used to Losing You" as sung by Andy Williams.
David Hepworth of Emap, the publisher of British music magazines Q and Smash Hits, among other titles, came up with the idea to publish a magazine similar to Q, but for films. They recruited Smash Hits editor, Barry McIlheney, to edit the new magazine, with Hepworth as Editorial Director. Hepworth produced a one- page document of what he wanted to achieve. Among them, they planned to review and rate every film that was released in the cinema in the United Kingdom.
For the Compact Disc release the number was changed to 31, as Michael Jackson's "One Day in Your Life" is missing from the CD version. A VHS tape was also released featuring 26 music videos of songs from the compilation. Neil Tennant, who features on side 1 of the album as part of Pet Shop Boys, worked as Assistant Editor of Smash Hits magazine in the early 1980s. Smash Hits went on to release their own various artists compilation albums.
On June 6, 2016, WHGM changed its format to adult hits, branded as "Smash Hits WHGM", it also broadcasts on FM translators W263CQ 100.5 FM Chesapeake City, Maryland; W284BE 104.7 FM Havre de Grace, Maryland; and W298CG 107.5 FM Bel Air, Maryland. In late 2018 or early 2019, WHGM dropped the "Smash Hits" branding and rebranded as "WHGM Gold" and changed its format from Adult Hits to an Oldies/Classic Hits format playing music from the '60s, '70s and '80s.
Smash Hits includes a Music Studio creation mode and is compatible with the "GHTunes" custom song sharing service present in World Tour and Metallica. Smash Hits also includes all the game modes present in World Tour, including single player and band career modes, and the eight-player "Battle of the Band" mode. The game presents a story sequence that ties in with the Career mode, as has been present in more recent Guitar Hero games. In Smash Hits, the players are challenged by the "God of Rock" to play at venues at various Wonders of the World in order to charge a power artifact; it is revealed later that the God of Rock is actually Lou the Devil in disguise seeking the power of the artifact, the real God trapped by Lou.
The song was later featured on the international (non-North America) edition of the Smash Hits compilation released in April 1968, and posthumously on the 1974 Loose Ends and 1997 South Saturn Delta albums.
Fox holds ten Sony awards and was awarded the Gold award for lifetime achievement in 2009, as well as winning the "Best Disc Jockey" award at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party multiple times.
"Hey You" was included in Guitar Hero, and would later appear in Guitar Hero Smash Hits. "Slow Drain" was featured in NFL Street 2. "What You Deserve" is included in the soundtrack of Juiced.
EMAP licensed the brand for a number of compilation albums, including a tie in with the Now That's What I Call Music brand for Now Smash Hits, a retrospective of the early 1980s (80 - 87).
All Star Smash Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Smash Mouth, released on August 23, 2005 by Interscope Records. It includes tracks from their first four albums and non-album material.
Smash Hits magazine gave a mostly positive review, likening the band to Ultravox but stating that they took themselves too seriously. Trouser Press called the album "over the top, being far too intricate and overblown".
Also, the edited album version had "ass" backmasked along with other expletives. "Back That Thang Up" only came out on the single, the compilation Universal Smash Hits in 2000, and Juvenile's Greatest Hits in 2004.
WQIL (101.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a top 40/CHR format. Licensed to Chauncey, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by GSW, Inc. On September 9, 2016, WQIL changed their format from contemporary Christian (branded as "Faith FM") to adult hits, branded as "Smash Hits 101.3", catering to Smash Hits from the 80s and 90s.Smash Hits Debuts in Central Georgia Radioinsight - September 9, 2016 On November 16, 2017, WQIL changed their format from adult hits to top 40/CHR, branded as "Q101.3".
Video Smash Hits featured four hosts during the run of the series: Michael Horrocks, Emily Symons (of Home and Away fame), Toni Pearen, and Kym Wilson (who replaced Symons after she left the show "in disgust").
A remastered version, containing remixes, was released in 2010. The writing credit of Dick Spatsley on "The Love Has Gone" was a reference to a running gag by Smash Hits magazine that deliberately misspelled his name.
"Articulated Lori", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd., 15–28 November 1979, p.11 Tim Whitaker of Deaf School/Pink Military played drums on the single.Strong, Martin C. (1999) The Great Alternative & Indie Discography, Canongate, , p.
Clarke began to voice his discomfort at the direction the band was taking, saying "there was never enough time to do anything. Not with all the interviews and photo sessions".Ellen, Mark (February 1982). . Smash Hits.
3 (2016) and Tone Poet Vol.4 (2018). In 2019 Andrews released a compilation long-player of the Tone Poet series, paradoxically entitled Smash Hits (2019), with an introduction to the material written by Henry Rollins.
Despite its commercial success, at the time the album was panned by the critics, especially in the UK. In Smash Hits, reviewer Mark Frith described the album as an "across the board techno splurge" and stated that this album contained clues as to why the band were unpopular in "elite dance circles".The review of No Limits in Smash Hits in 1993 In the review of the single "Maximum Overdrive", the magazine reiterated that the band were, "not hard or imaginative and they have no credibility in dance circles."The review of Maximum Overdrive in Smash Hits in 1994 The AllMusic review stated that beyond "No Limit" and "Let the Beat Control Your Body", there was little to recommend this album.[ allmusic ((( No Limits > Overview )))] Toby Anstis stated in his review of "Faces" that he "thought the album sounded all the same".
The song received positive reviews. French magazine Smash Hits said : "We fall in love. (...) "Regrets" is one of the best tracks on the album. (...) This song, with its elegance, deserves to be number 1 on the Top".
A full-page advertisement appeared in the July issue of Smash Hits, saying: "Wanted: Anyone with a sense of fun, freedom and adventure. Hold tight, get ready! Girl Power is comin' at you".McGibbon, 1997. p. 109.
After permanently leaving BBC Radio 1, Goodier presented the EMAP-produced Smash Hits Chart, which competed with Radio 1's official chart and Hit40UK. The Smash Hits Chart finished in March 2006, when EMAP also began to broadcast the Hit40UK chart show across their Big City Network of stations. He also presented the Classical Chart for Classic FM. On 1 April 2006, his new Real Top 40 shows began on the Real Radio network in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire. Every show reflected sales and airplay for that area.
Westlife's first big break came in 1998 when they opened for Boyzone and Backstreet Boys' concerts in Dublin. Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. Later, they won a special Smash Hits Roadshow award at that year's Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. Their first live television performance as a group in Ireland and worldwide was on the Irish TV series and the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, The Late Late Show that had its broadcast on 13 November 1998.
The review of Faces in Smash Hits in 1993 Nonetheless, the band won the Best Dance Act award in Smash Hits that yearSmash Hits as well as the World Music Award for Benelux. Retrospective reviews of this album and the band in general have been more favourable. Only three years after the band split, they were described in a Guinness World Records publication as "spectacular" with the sound of "No Limit" being compared to "the sound giant dinosaurs might make stomping on cities".Guinness Rockopedia 1998, p. 456.
The movie, by and large, received favourable reviews from various analysis sources. Sunny Deol's role as a placid Angry Young Man was highly acclaimed. He had performed similar roles in previous smash hits like Ghayal, Damini and Ghatak.
Two years later DJ Pablito and MC Joe left the group. That same year La Factoría launched "Nuevas Metas" the album included smash hits like “Moriré”, “Dale”, “Como me Duele” and the #1 single “Perdóname” (feat. Eddy Lover).
Peter Stanton from Smash Hits gave the song 4 out of 5, commenting, "A fine return to form for Ms Dennis that should get chartland quaking in its boots again. A glorious singalonga chorus with a sexy groove".
The album has been certified 2× Platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies. The album won Best Album at the 2004 Smash Hits Awards. As of 2014, the album has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
Over the years he has won Smash Hits Best Solo Male. He was given a tree in London's Hyde Park for performing for The Prince's Trust. He also has a World Music Award for the best selling Irish artist.
Bill Coleman from Billboard described Sybil's cover as a "spirited Soul II Soul-ish rendition of the Dionne Warwick classic has smash written all over it". Miranda Sawyer from Smash Hits noted "the swoony dance wisples" of the song.
Toby Anstis, reviewing songs for Smash Hits, stated that the song is "a nice bit of pop". Woroni called it a "thumping, driven dance track" and also noted the song as a "obvious higlight" of the No Limits! album.
Sian Pattenden from Smash Hits gave it 5 out of 5, commenting, "They're back! With a stomping curlicue in the lustrous toupee of pop! Housey backbeat combined with chomping bass and swishy pingy sounds amongst Lady Miss Kier's vocals de gusto".
Things you wonder about, things you have yet to make up > your mind about. There's more to deal with than just your fundamental street > wisdom. Dreams. Nightmares."Tom Waits: Waits And Double Measures," Smash > Hits magazine. Interview by: Johnny Black.
Terry Black released a version of the song on his 1965 debut album, Only 16. The Mavericks released a version of the song on their 1999 compilation album Super Colossal Smash Hits of the 90's: The Best of The Mavericks.
This album charted while the first was still in the charts, possibly diluting sales. Further Pye albums It's the Searchers (1964), Sounds Like... and finally Take Me For What I'm Worth (both 1965) were better spaced, but a budget "Golden Guinea" reissue of the second album, plus a compilation Smash Hits and Smash Hits Vol 2, on Pye's budget "Marble Arch" label were issued during 1966 and 1967 in place of any later "new" album. As late as 1970, Marble Arch issued an edited version of It's the Searchers, the group's third album, originally released in 1964.
On release of Guitar Hero 5, 35 of the songs from World Tour and 21 from Smash Hits are importable into Guitar Hero 5 for a small fee (approximately $0.10 per song), and are treated as downloadable content for the game playable in all game modes; the World Tour export was available on release, while the Smash Hits export was available a few days afterwards. Furthermore, 61 of the 65 tracks from Band Hero are importable into Guitar Hero 5. All transferred songs are also playable in Band Hero. However, Guitar Hero 5 is not backwards-compatible with World Tour.
Writing for Smash Hits in 1979, Cliff White described the song as "a dark, threatening wall of synthesised sound" which "throbbed ominously behind a gloomy song of paranoia and loneliness". White went on to say it was "gripping stuff, but cheerful it isn't".
The Potbelleez is the self-titled debut album by the Australian band The Potbelleez. The first two singles from The Potbelleez, "Don't Hold Back", and "Are You with Me", were both smash hits. Other singles released include "Trouble Trouble" and "Duuurty Dreemz".
It has been performed at almost every one of the band's shows, and was praised by critics upon its release. The song was later included on the 2009 Guitar Hero expansion Smash Hits, and also on the band's iTunes Festival: London 2010 EP.
Martin Aston from Record Mirror stated that the track "has been given a bouncy, slick gloss, with a typically snappy slice of rap from the heavyweight poet." Marc Andrews from Smash Hits said it's "rap at its most jolly and fun-filled".
Music & Media commented, "A muscular, square beat, a house-oriented piano and a soulful vocal delivery typify this chart-bound club record." Miranda Sawyer from Smash Hits noted Pauline Henry's "remarkable voice" and described the song as "classy" in her review of The Chimes.
Ian Birch of Smash Hits considered "Don't Go" to be a "sharp successor" to "Only You". He commented: "Vince coaxes a sterling song out of his synthesizer while Alf balances its metallic clip with a deep, emotion- packed vocal that gets better with every hearing".
The running times are taken from the 1980 Polydor (Europe) and 1979 Reprise (US) reissues; the original Track Records and Reprise Records Smash Hits LPs did not include track lengths. Other releases may show different information. All tracks written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.
" NME 3 October 1981 Smash Hits magazine wrote at the time: > "You have to give the band their due. From being considered no-hopers, > they're now Virgin's biggest (financial) hope. This is a number one. It's > got everything - strong chorus, instant appeal and dreamboat topping.
Neil Tennant of Smash Hits described the song as being the "darker side of Yazoo" and featuring "one of [Moyet's] smokiest vocals".Smash Hits - 11-24 November 1982 issue - Singles reviews - page 25 In a 2008 issue of The Advocate, the song was described as "smoldering". William Ruhlmann of AllMusic highlighted "Ode to Boy" as a standout track from You and Me Both by labeling it an AMG Pick Track. In a review of the album by music website Sputnikmusic, the song was described as "one of the high points on the record - dares to slow things down with a sluggish, dingy melody and disjointed, echoed vocals from Moyet".
Upon release, Debbi Voller of Number One stated: "Blancmange are back with a joyous and uplifting romp that could make them the flavour of the month. This song's so bouncy it sounds as if [it was] recorded on a highly sprung trampoline."Number One - Singles - Debbi Voller - 7 April 1984 - page 32 Tom Hibbert of Smash Hits commented: "Neil Arthur sings of climbing mountains, touching skies and other unlikely physical feats to an energetic electro-pop backing that, if not thoroughly satisfying, contains a certain perky appeal."Smash Hits - Singles - Tom Hibbert - 12 April 1984 Billboard considered the song to have "an engaging melody with jagged and exotic studio effects".
Two of the most successful albums of Gloc-9, G9 and Ako Si... were released under Star Records in 2003 and 2005 respectively. These albums brought Gloc-9's biggest smash hits with songs like "Simpleng Tao" and "Hinahanap Ng Puso (feat. Hannah Romawac of Session Road)".
He has also worked as a radio presenter on BRMB and had cover stories published in Smash Hits and Burn (Japan) magazines. His other interests include cars and aircraft, and he is a regular feature writer for aviation magazines and the deputy editor of FlyPast magazine.
In 2007 the magazine retailed for A$5.95 Inc. GST and NZ$6.50. On 30 March 2007 it was announced that the Australian edition would cease publication due to low readership.Emap - Emap shuts Smash Hits after 23 years The editor at that time was Emma Bradshaw.
Mark Frith (born 22 May 1970, in Sheffield) is a British journalist and editor. He has been a writer and editor for magazines such as Smash Hits, Time Out and Heat. He has since branched into TV and radio presenting and is an author of novels.
BBC 6Music. London. 25 August 2007. As a general rule, Mills uninspired by the then-current music scene, found that he was able to identify with older records, which he felt had honesty and genuine youth."What-ho! It's those Kula Shaker chaps!", Smash Hits, 1997-07.
Tom Doyle from Smash Hits gave the song 4 out of 5, commenting, "Looking a bit like a cross between Take That and Flowered Up in their trendy Essex techno gear, E17 come up with this well catchy tune with background barking supplied by their dog".
Writing for Smash Hits in 1980, Red Starr described The Blue Meaning as "gutless exhibitionism set to unmemorable rock music". He said the lyrics were "a mess of meaningless garbled imagery, all mysticism and supernatural hallucinations". The album reached number 40 on the UK Albums Chart.
He has the ability to use several of his abilities from the Battletoads games, including his run, smash hits, and a speeder bike. He was made available in Killer Instinct to all Rare Replay owners for a limited test period prior to the official public launch of Season Three.
Jacquie O'Sullivan (born 7 August 1960 in Hendon, London)Smash Hits, 1988. Personal File: Jacqui O'Sullivan, p. 11 is an English singer of Irish ancestry and songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group Bananarama from 1988 until 1991, replacing Siobhan Fahey, who left in early 1988.
Smash Hits TV was also the name given to a spin-off TV show broadcast on Sky One in 2001. It used to broadcast general mainstream pop music on a "jukebox" system, where viewers had to call a premium rate telephone number to select a music video to play.
Just Seventeen, often referred to as J-17, was a fortnightly magazine aimed at teenage girls, published by Emap from October 1983 to April 2004. A special preview edition was given away free with sister magazine Smash Hits on 13 October 1983, with the first issue published the week after on 20 October (thereby alternating weeks with Smash Hits). It quickly became the UK's market-leading teen-girl magazine until the launch of Sugar in 1994, after which sales began to fall. In 1997, the magazine was changed to a monthly format in response to declining circulation, and the magazine was finally closed in 2004 after losing a third of its readership.
The band toured heavily in the United States and internationally during this period. Amidst some line-up changes and label changes, the band released a compilation album titled Smash Hits in 2000. In 2002, the band signed with Delirious? record label, Furious Records, and released their third studio album titled Revolution.
Figures of Light is an American proto-punk band formed in 1970 by Wheeler Winston Dixon (lead vocals, slide guitar) and Michael Downey (rhythm guitar, backing vocals).Thomas Savage, "The Figures of Light," Savage Magazine, December 4, 2009.Ed Post-Mortem, “Figures of Light – Smash Hits,” garagepunk.com, August 28, 2008.
Smash Hits gave the song 3 out of 5, noting that Stansfield "tangles her tonsils around a breathy, seductive Prince-type tune, in which she promises to "caress your hips"." Sun- Sentinel described it as "a song many women have lived"."STANSFIELD MINES LOVE'S UPS, DOWNS". Sun-Sentinel. 5 June 1992.
Pop Rescue added that "the vocal melody here, sat alongside the funky bass and piano, really gives this a light, upbeat feeling." Al Walentis from Reading Eagle called it "brassy". Richard Paton from Toledo Blade labeled it as a "soulful groove". Johnny Dee from Smash Hits said the tune is "superb".
The story served as a prequel to the video game franchise. Set in Oxnard, California, it stars three junior high schoolers. The trio is given the ability to transform into anthropomorphic toads with superhuman strength and the ability to change their arms and legs into weapons in techniques called "Smash Hits".
Tim Byrne also worked on the show. He now works alongside Simon Cowell. When it moved to television, the awards ceremony was shown on BBC1 from 1988 to 2000 then later on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2005. During 2004 and 2005, it was renamed T4 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party.
One of Hendrix's most popular songs, he frequently played it in concert. Several live recordings have been released and the original song is included on numerous Hendrix compilations, such as Smash Hits, Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection, and Fire: The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
EastEnders has also won a Banff World Television Festival Award, a Smash Hits T4 Pollwinners' Party award, two Pye Awards, an Anna Scher Theatre Award and an SOS Star Award. Rudolph Walker won an Ethnic Multicultural Media Award in 2002. John Partridge won a Stonewall Award for Entertainer of the Year in 2010.
He had been working in Downtown Radio before joining BBC Radio Ulster and presented the Thursday edition. Michael Bradley "Mickey", had been Bassist with The Undertones. He presented three out of four Friday editions. The monthly London edition of the programme was with Barry McIlheney, former editor of Smash Hits and Empire magazines.
They also appeared at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, Midem, Notting Hill Carnival, Sweden's Water Festival and other European music festivals.Dance.machine.free.fr In 1997, MN8 parted ways with Sony/Columbia & 1st Avenue. When the deal had expired, MN8 partnered with the French concert promoter Gerard Drouot to tour France in 1997 and 1998.
In late 1999, Spears promoted her upcoming album in Europe with live performances of her past songs. She appeared on Smash Hits in the United Kingdom. In Italy, she did a short interview on the television show TRL Italy in early 2000. and gave a surprise performance in Paris in May 2000.
The group performed it at awards ceremonies such as the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1996 Irish Music Awards, the 1997 BRIT Awards, and the 1997 Channel V Music Awards held in New Delhi, where they wore Indian costumes and entered the stage in auto rickshaws.McGibbon, 1997. p. 117.Halliwell, 1999. p. 273.
"Locomotion", which marked a move toward more pop-oriented material for OMD, faced initial criticism – notably on BBC Radio 1's Round Table show.Waller, Johnny; Humphreys, Mike. Messages. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1987. . p. 131. Conversely, Tom Hibbert of Smash Hits felt the single was a return to form after the commercially unsuccessful Dazzle Ships.
Norwegian newspaper Glåmdalen wrote in their review of the Get Ready! album, that the song "with all its electronics [is] quite interesting." James Hamilton from Record Mirror said it is "'Start-Rite' techno for young "wannabe" ravers". Tom Doyle from Smash Hits stated that "the insufferable duo return with another ropey techno effort".
During the summer of 2007, Morrison headlined the Forestry Commission's Forest Tour. His fifth UK single, One Last Chance, was released on 2 July 2007 as a download only. The video was shown on The Hits, The Box and Smash Hits music channels. The video was shot in Canada in April 2007.
It was originally based on the former Smash Hits magazine, which was owned by EMAP. The channel is available on a number of platforms including Sky and Virgin Media. It is part of a network of channels owned by The Box Plus Network, which include 4Music, The Box, Kerrang!, Kiss and Magic.
It was a documentary style film on Schulz's life after the smash hits of his first album, and also revealed his new fashion line, called "Q/S Designed by Robin Schulz". The movie also features other notable producers being interviewed such as Lost Frequencies, Axwell and Ingrosso, Oliver Heldens and Sam Feldt.
It has been selected as the VIP Track of the Week on The Box, 4 Music and Smash Hits on 3 December 2009. The video features the girls performing on top of the White Cliffs of Dover with everything they sing echoing over the water, which relates to the lyrics of the song.
After a brief spell in local newspapers and at Melody Maker magazine, McIlheney was appointed editor of Smash Hits in 1986, seeing its circulation rise double to 800,000 during his time in the job. From there he moved on to become launch editor of Empire magazine, which launched in May 1989. He was the managing editor of the UK version of Premiere magazine when in launched in September 1992. In 1994, McIlheney became managing director of EMAP Metro, publishers of Empire and Smash Hits, as well as other titles such as Q and Mojo, and just after they had acquired FHM. In 1999 he launched Heat and a year later became chief executive of EMAP Elan, publishers of Elle, Red, and The Face.
" Music Week described the song as "intelligent acidic techno". Smash Hits gave it 5 out of 5, noting: "L.S.I.? Love, Sex, Intelligence if you're interested. And you will be, 'cos, like Move Any Mountain, this is a corkin' Hi-NRG anthem that snaps at your heels like an annoying Yorkshire Terrier and demands you dance.
Vine's musical talents, aside from the comedy songs in his act, include playing the guitar, piano and drums. He occasionally plays the drums at his church. He was in several bands, including The Flared Generation, which was described as "the most unfashionable punk band in the country" by Smash Hits magazine, alongside his brother Jeremy.
Its quick success on the British cable network The Box sparked press interest, despite initial resistance to the all-girl group idea.Sinclair, 2004. p. 76. The same month, their first music press interviews appeared in Music Week, Top of the Pops, and Smash Hits,Cripps, Peachey, Spice Girls, 1997. p. 141McGibbon, 1997. p. 108.
The clip helped the track score Top 20 showings in UK charts such as the Smash Hits and hit40uk charts, both of which take in radio and video airplay, not just sales. However, the track bowed meekly at No.27 on the official UK singles chart. The album was recorded in many locations, including Jay's personal Chillington Studios.
YS's content varied widely, occasionally ignoring the subject of computers entirely. As the Spectrum scene diminished and there was less software to review, this happened more frequently. The tone of the magazine was inspired by teenage magazines such as Smash Hits and Just Seventeen. In 1992, under the editorship of Andy Hutchinson, several 'lifestyle' type sections were introduced.
The game was later lead game on the first three Atari Smash Hits compilations released by English Software. A sequel, Legend of the Knucker-Hole starring Jet-Boot Jack, was published in 1984.Legend of the Knucker-Hole at Lemon 64 Jon Williams developed that game on the Commodore 64, and it was not ported to any other systems.
The records we did with CBS were not really what > I would have wanted them to have been.” Tensions arose when recording the first single, "Give Me My Freedom", a cover of little-known female soul group The Glories, who released their version in 1967. O'Sullivan called it "an old Northern soul song".Smash Hits magazine, 1988.
On its release, Simon Ludgate of Record Mirror considered the song a "catchy little number" and "ultimately a tale of betrayal". He added, "Imagine Dave Edmunds singing a song by Chris Sievey and you'll get the idea". Fred Dellar of Smash Hits considered the song an "average sample of rocked-up country music" but commented on the "wonderful" title.
Arcade Smash Hits is a video game compilation published by Virgin Games and released in 1992 for the Master System. The game is a compilation of three games in one cartridge. In 1996, Sega released a similar title for the Sega Genesis and Game Gear called Arcade Classics, but with versions of Pong instead of Breakout.
The album was met with mixed reviews, with Smash Hits giving the album two out of five stars. In 2004, Cartwright ended her partnership with Warner Music. Cartwright was announced as a contestant in the first season of Dancing with the Stars. She and her partner Michael Miziner won the first season on 23 November 2004.
"A Little Bit" was first performed on the Party in the Park event in 2002. Later, she performed it on various televised appearances such as the British chart show Top of the Pops, Smile and CD:UK. She also appeared on Smash Hits' chart countdown and promoted the song. In March 2003, she toured with British pop group Liberty X.
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party ended with the closure of the magazine in 2006. The event was initially produced by concert promoter, Harvey Goldsmith and Janet Street-Porter. Steps manager Tim Byrne, also worked on the show. The awards ceremony was shown on BBC1 from 1988 to 2000 then later on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2005.
Among the awards won by the American musician Busta Rhymes are The Source Awards (1999), Soul Train Music Awards (2000), the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (2005), Myx Music Award (2006), and the BET Hip Hop Awards (2006 and 2011). He has been nominated many times for the Grammy Award and the MTV Video Music Award.
Leckie recalled: "We had to give those absolute attention, make them amazing, instant smash hits, number one in America. Everyone was pulling their hair out saying, 'It's not good enough!' We were trying too hard." Yorke in particular struggled with the pressure, and the band's co-manager Chris Hufford considered quitting, citing Yorke's "mistrust of everybody".
Then Guitar Hero used "Take It Off" for 2009 Guitar Hero Smash Hits. "Take It Off" was also used in the 2009 hit movie The Hangover. "Play My Game" was featured in a Season 1 episode of What's New, Scooby Doo?. "Who Invited You" is featured on the soundtrack of the 2003 movie What a Girl Wants.
His uncle is Mick MacNeil of Simple Minds and from the age of 15 he began appearing on Gaelic TV. Later he was involved with Smash Hits TV, BBC Scotland's '@Ire' and 'Dè a-nis?' as well as BBC Choice's 'Beyond 2000'. He was also music presenter for Scottish TV programme, 'Splaoid' and Rock Music Show 'Nochd Gun Chadal'.
There have been releases made to cash in on the success of Tom Jones. In 1973, Arc Records released an album, Smash Hits Tom Jones Style which included the songs "A Minute Of Your Time", " Delilah", " Green Green Grass Of Home " and "It's Not Unusual".Discogs - Unknown Artist – Smash Hits Tom Jones Style Arc also issued an album called The Golden Ring Sing The Best Hits Of Tom Jones. There were also other releases on Arc by the so called The Golden Ring which include Tribute To Glen Campbell, A Tribute To Johnny Cash , Tribute To Elvis and Nat King Cole's Golden Hits etc..Discogs - The Golden Ring Discography, Albums Sam Sorono recorded an album Sam Sorono Sings Tom Jones' Greatest Hits, produced by Chris Babida and released on EMI in 1978.
Billboard described the album as a "quirky pop" work with a "distinctly English flavor". Meanwhile, Fred Dollar of Hi-Fi News & Record Review liked the album's blend of disco and jazz, but didn't recommend the album for others to listen to. Mark Ellen of Smash Hits gave the album an 8 out of 10, with special praise for the album's percussion sounds.
Linda Ryan from Gavin Report described the song as a "Dusty Springfield-does-Motown gem". Mark Frith from Smash Hits gave it 5 out of 5, adding it as "lively, warm, best friend of a record." In his review of the So Tough, another editor, Peter Stanton said that the singles "Avenue" and "You're in a Bad Way" "are classic pop beauties".
Larry Flick from Billboard called it a "light and fluffy rendition of the Tavares disco nugget." He noted further, "Layers of warm harmonies are complemented by reedy horns and an easy-going dance beat. A sugary treat..." Tom Doyle from Smash Hits stated that "this sounds exactly like The Village People", adding that "it's one of the That's best tunes".
He based the idea on a songwords magazine that his sister used to buy, but which was of poor quality. His idea being to launch a glossy-looking magazine which also contained songwords as its mainstay. The publisher was Emap, which was a small-time publisher based in Peterborough and the magazine was originally titled Disco Fever, before they settled on Smash Hits.
Fruitbat (born Leslie George Carter, 12 December 1958, in London) is the stage name of the English musician, most famous for his part in Carter USM. As well as his official birthday he also celebrates a second birthday "like the Queen and Paddington Bear" on 12 February. Fruitbat says his second birthday was given to him in 1992 by Smash Hits.
Munn (2008), p.36. She was also voted "Most Fanciable Female" in Smash Hits 1983 readers' poll. Signed to Respond, she had UK hit singles in March 1983 with "The House That Jack Built" and in July with "Give it Some Emotion" (both credited simply to 'Tracie') Her debut album, Far from the Hurting Kind, was released in 1984 under the name Tracie.
While the FM frequency was now given the focus, the AM parent carried the same broadcast. As of January 1, 2015 KKLS changed their format to classic hits, branded as "Smash Hits KKLS", switching translators to K284BA 104.7 FM Rapid City.Rapid City Gets Smashed As of March 1, 2018 KKLS changed their format to News/Talk, branded as "News. Talk. Radio".
25 Jaar Na Waldolala is a compilation album of recordings by Dutch pop group Luv' released by Universal Music in the Netherlands in 2003. It features smash hits (such as "U.O.Me", "You're the Greatest Lover", "Casanova" or "Ooh, Yes I Do"), Spanish versions of four songs, previously unreleased tracks on CD and solo recordings by José Hoebee and Marga Scheide.
" James Hamilton from Music Week called it a "Tom's Diner inspired hypnotic folksy singalong roller, a real "sleeper" last autumn, now slightly remixed." NME said the song is "a must for this summer" and "a certain Top 10 in the current climate". Sophie Lawrence reviewed the song for Smash Hits, commenting, "It's a bit Belinda Carlisle-ish." She added, "I love it.
The song received favorable reviews from many music critics. Music & Media wrote about the song: "As if time stood still, here is vintage Londonbeat, delivering their soulful pop with those heavenly vocals and the trademark twangy guitar in the background. This will exactly fulfil the public's demand." Sian Pattenden from Smash Hits gave it 3 out of 5 in her review.
Current UK music magazines include Q, Kerrang! and Mojo (all published by EMAP).FEATURE - Rocking to a new tune, Brand Republic, 23 October 2003. Magazines with a focus on pop music rather than rock and aimed at a younger market include the now-defunct Smash Hits and the BBC's Top of the Pops, which outlived the television show on which it was based.
Sean Levert was born in Cleveland, Ohio and was the son of Eddie Levert, the lead singer of The O'Jays.Second Levert Brother Dies. Yahoo! Music, March 31, 2008. He formed the trio LeVert with older brother Gerald Levert and childhood friend Marc Gordon; together they scored several smash hits on the U.S. R&B; charts in the 1980s and early 1990s.
He left to present Going Live! on Saturday mornings between September 1987 and April 1993. From 1988 to 1991, he was the host of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, a pop-magazine awards show. In the early 1990s, Schofield moved to adult-orientated television with various programmes for ITV, such as Schofield's Quest, Schofield's TV Gold and Ten Ball.
ABC television series October 1962] It is occasionally used by live performers as part of a repartee bidding goodnight to an audience or introducing the last or next to last song of the night. "Psychobilly Freakout" was covered by WaveGroup Cover Studios for Activision's Guitar Hero II video game, while the original master recording is featured on Guitar Hero Smash Hits.
In 2010, Graf participated in the WTT Smash Hits exhibition in Washington, D.C. to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation. She and Agassi, her husband, were on Team Elton John, which competed against Team Billie Jean King. Graf played in the celebrity doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles before straining her left calf muscle and being replaced by Anna Kournikova.
On 2 April 2013, all Box Television channels went free-to-air on satellite, apart from 4Music which went free-to-view. As a result, the channels were removed from the Sky EPG in Ireland. However, Smash Hits launched on Freesat on 15 April 2013, alongside three other Box Television channels. On 25 May 2016, the channel was rebranded as Box Hits.
"Straight Out of Line" was featured in the 2004 video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. It can be heard in the film A Man Apart (2003) with Vin Diesel. The song appeared on several compilations including the band's greatest hits album, Good Times, Bad Times...Ten Years of Godsmack, MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Total Rock Vol. 3, and Universal Smash Hits Vol. 2.
Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball is a 2008 book written by former baseball player José Canseco. This book, similar to his first, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big (2005), focuses mainly on steroids in baseball. Vindicated has made several headlines. Canseco also writes of the now infamous 1998 party at his home.
Two months after the release of Actually, 31 people were killed in the King's Cross fire, which some interpreted as being foreseen by the song. Music magazines at the time though (such as Smash Hits) carried adverts to call premium rate phone lines to hear the song, and the money from the phone call would then go to the charity for fire victims.
Miranda Sawyer (born January 1967) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, who is an actor. She was educated at Cheadle Hulme School in Greater Manchester and has a degree in Jurisprudence from Pembroke College, Oxford. She moved to London in 1988 to begin a career as a journalist with the magazine Smash Hits.
Page 12. March 2007 The single was remixed with a re-recorded vocal at Chem 19 Studios for the digital download version and album version of the single. "Smash Hits" is included on the 2010 Kid Canaveral album, Shouting at Wildlife. A video for the song was made by the BBC for "The Music Show" and was broadcast on BBC 2 Scotland in November 2006.
Neil Tennant, then a journalist at Smash Hits, reviewed the album saying that the band "have obviously enjoyed producing some intriguing, if self-indulgent, new music and their own versions of some old favourites". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic also calls the album "intriguing" but states that Untitled "doesn't ever add up to anything cohesive", whilst acknowledging that Almond has "made a conscious departure from Soft Cell".
I DJ for him and I'm not at liberty to speak on much, but you know his caliber and what he does. Clearly going to further territories. I think what you would expect, especially after the last go-round. He was just getting his feet back on Relapse and then Recovery just came with the smash hits and everything and I think now — he's Eminem.
Tom Hibbert (28 May 1952 – 28 August 2011) was an English music journalist and film critic. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a regular writer for music magazines such as Smash Hits, Q and Mojo, and reviewed films for Empire magazine. He was known for his acerbic writing style and irreverent interviews. While at Q, he created the monthly "Who the Hell …?" interview series.
Street Anthems is a Greatest hits album by Roll Deep, released on 19 October 2009. It features all their smash hits from 2001–2009 and some previously unreleased tracks, so it shows the early days of grime and Roll Deep, as well as presenting tracks from the early members of Roll Deep such as Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy Stryder, Syer Barz, Trim, Bubbles, Biggie Pitbull etc.
Smash Hits was a British music magazine aimed at young adults, originally published by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006, and after initially appearing monthly, was issued fortnightly during most of that time. The name survived as a brand for a spin-off digital television channel, now named Box Hits, and website. A digital radio station was also available but closed on 5 August 2013.
Martin Rushent received the 'Best Producer Award' at the 1982 Brit Awards for the production on Dare and the success of Dare led to the band winning the award for 'Best British Newcomer'. The album was ranked at number 6 among the top ten "Albums of the Year" for 1981 by NME and was voted Album of the Year in the Smash Hits 1981 Readers' Poll.
AllMusic said it is the "most interesting" track on the The Beavis and Butt-head Experience album.Review by AllMusic Retrieved October 15, 2013 Larry Flick from Billboard stated that Cher "delivers one of her strongest vocals to date." Rob Fiend from Gavin Report called it "a lovely duet", adding, "One can hardly keep the tears from flowing." Mark Sutherland from Smash Hits said the duet is "hilarious".
Although none of the album's singles charted in Moten's native United States or the United Kingdom where she had a Top 10 hit with "Come In Out of the Rain" the year before, the album did prove successful in Japan, where she scored two smash hits; "Change of Heart", which reached number 1, and "Your Love Is All I Know", which peaked at number 2.
Ott, 97 Other writers were less enthusiastic. Red Starr, writing for Smash Hits, gave the album a generally positive review, describing it as a "bleak nightmare soundtrack". Starr described the lyrics as "mysterious" and "doomy" which were "amidst intense music of urgent guitar, eerie effects and driving rhythms". However, Starr tempered his review by saying not to "expect too much" as the album was "still pretty raw".
" They also noted the saxophone solo of the track. Karla Peterson from The Press-Courier described it as a "atmospheric ballad". In his review of Stars, Al Walentis from Reading Eagle noted the song as "high-spirited". Johnny Dee from Smash Hits gave it 3 out of 5, describing it as a "seriously jazzy meandering, that snoozes along in a relaxing Sunday lay- in fashion.
AllMusic editor MacKenzie Wilson said that their "crafty version" of King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind" "composes a dreamy synthetic wave." He also noted Hawkshaw's "dove-like vocals transcended into freewheeling soundscapes". Music Week stated that the song "is similar in style" to "It's a Fine Day". Sian Pattenden from Smash Hits commented that "the flutes whisper along merrily with the bubbly syntheramic background".
It was also one of Shakira's smash hits in Romania. Shakira's 2001 English language debut album, Laundry Service, features an English version of the song titled "Eyes Like Yours". It contains no differences from "Ojos Así" besides each song's respective language (both still feature the Arabic). The rough, yet literal (in most places) translation of "Ojos Así" was written by Shakira and Gloria Estefan.
Writing for Smash Hits in 1979, Red Starr described the album as "ten immediately accessible chunks of bouncy, straightforward pop-rock". In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Donald A. Guarisco awards this album . He sees Quatro as making "a strong return to her hard-rocking roots" with the album. Example "bracing rocker" tracks are "I've Never Been in Love" and "She's in Love with You".
The steroids rumors and facts resulted in several de facto bans from the game by players who were either certifiable or suspected users of steroids, and significant doubt has been cast about the quality of various baseball records set since at least the early 1990s. Some people base their opinion on Jose Canseco's tell-all book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big.
After Soft Cell disbanded, Ball formed a new band, Other People with his then- wife Gini Hewes"Blue Pyramid" by Virginia, Bandcamp (who previously worked with Almond in Marc and the Mambas) and Andy Astle, but they released only one single, "Have a Nice Day".Smash Hits, 6 December 1984, "Like Punk Never Happened - a Smash Hits archive" by Brian McCloskey, Flickr In the late 1980s, he formed another short-lived band, English Boy on the Loveranch, with Nick Sanderson and Jamie Jones, releasing two hi-NRG singles, "The Man in Your Life" and "Sex Vigilante".English Boy On The Loveranch - Discography, Discogs He also was part of Psychic TV, working on the compilation albums Jack the Tab and Tekno Acid Beat, where he met Richard Norris (they recorded the track "Meet Every Situation Head On" together as M.E.S.H.) and with whom he later formed the Grid.
A second similar take was eventually released in the US in July 1969 on the American Smash Hits compilation. The song was a fixture of Hendrix concerts throughout his career. Although the lyrics and basic structure were followed, his performances usually varied from the original recording. Many were recorded and continue to be released officially for the first time, including on Miami Pop Festival (2013) and Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival (2015).
Hendrix later questioned the choice and commented "Everybody was scared to release 'Red House' in America because they said, 'America don't like the blues, man!'" "Red House" finally saw an American release on July 30, 1969. Reprise Records issued a stereo mix of the version recorded at De Lane Lea/Olympic on the Smash Hits compilation. This version was later released internationally on the 1984 Kiss the Sky compilation.
Graham Bell is an Israeli DJ and record producer duo composed of Assaf Tuvia () and Gal Abutbul (). They we’re both born & raised in Jerusalem, Israel. Instead of starting their career from scratch like most aspiring artists, Tuvia and Abutbul started as ghost producers and sound engineers. They’re best known for their smash hits The Night King, Pam Pam (Phat Bass), Raveolution with Sandro Silva (DJ), & Tambores with Andrew Rayel.
In 2005, Canseco admitted to using steroids in his book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, which stated that he and McGwire injected steroids together while with Oakland. The book also accused other prominent players of using steroids. McGwire initially denied the allegations, before refusing to comment on steroids during a congressional hearing the following month. In 2010, he too admitted to using steroids.
Reviews for Colour by Numbers have been generally positive. It was ranked at number 7 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by NME. Smash Hits magazine gave the album a rare 10 out of 10, with reviewer Peter Martin commenting "This is simply one of the most enjoyable records I've ever heard." Allmusic's Jose Promis retrospectively rated the album four-and-a-half out of five stars.
Caroline Henderson (born 28 February 1962) is a Danish–Swedish pop and jazz singer. She moved to Copenhagen from Sweden in 1983 and spent her youth singing in various jazz bands. Her breakthrough was in 1989 as part of pop group Ray Dee Ohh. After the group disbanded, Henderson launched a solo career with multi award-winning album Cinemataztic (1995) featuring smash hits "Kiss Me Kiss Me" and "Made in Europe".
She has appeared on Top of the Pops' twice', C.D.U.K. Smash Hits t.v. performing her hit "Touch Me" and The Album Chart Show with Faithless singing "Music Matters". As well as supporting and singing alongside the likes of Lauryn Hill, Keane, and Paolo Nutini. A version of her song "Little Bird" was remixed into DJ Tiësto's compilation album In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles, released in 2006.
These records were smash hits in Benelux. Then, Luv' was supposed to take part in the Yamaha Music Festival (officially known as the 'World Popular Song Festival') in November 1980 with the song "Be My Lover Tonight". Instead of it, Luv' cancelled their participation to this competition and performed in the Musikladen TV show in Germany. Soon after, Marga Scheide became overworked which brought Luv' to a standstill.
In 1997, Sqeezer exclusively released the song "Tamagotchi (Tschoopapa...)", which became the official Tamagotchi song in cooperation with the Saban Worldwide company. It was the lead single from the compilation album Tamagotchi Smash Hits via EMI. The group released the lead single of the second studio album, "Get It Right", a collaboration with the German boy band Bed & Breakfast and singer and host Mola Adebisi, cousin of Reeves.
Just the stuff for a quiet night in with your nearest and dearest." Colette Campbell of Smash Hits stated: "This lot must be one of the drippiest cry-baby bands ever. Every song on the album is about the trials and tribulations of being "in lurve". The music actually sounds quite nice in a desperately gloomy synthesisery sort of way, so it's a shame they're so overwhelmingly serious and pretentious.
Herbert and Dorothy Fields wrote the musical, then titled The Works for Beatrice Lillie. When Sidney Sheldon joined the writing team, it was rewritten for Gwen Verdon, who just had two smash hits on Broadway (Damn Yankees and New Girl in Town). Verdon took the lead on the condition that Bob Fosse would be the director as well as choreographer, making this his debut as a director.PBS article pbs.
Writing in Smash Hits magazine, reviewer David Hepworth wrote, "The Damned seem to be making overtures to the mainstream, knocking timidly on the door of daytime radio and asking to be let in. With keyboards to the fore instead of the usual guitars, this is not unlike the kind of half baked effort you'd expect from Supertramp, if they were trying to grab a bit of new wave credibility".
The concert took place at Thunder Dome, Muang Thong Thani. In April 2007, Ebola received more mainstream national attention when their ballad hit from Enlighten – "Sing Tee Chan Pen" (สิ่งที่ฉันเป็น - As I Am) was selected to be a theme song of Me ... Myself. The film starred Ananda Everingham and Chayanan Manomaisantibhap, being produced and directed by Pongpat Wachirabunjong. Both the movie and the theme song became smash hits.
Writing on the Wall received some of the group's best reviews. Smash Hits awarded the album an 8 out of 10 rating and singled out tracks "New Beginning", "You and your Heart so Blue" and "I Hear Talk" as being particularly strong. Reviewer Tom Hibbert said that "[their music] is awesomely brilliantly conceived pop music performed with relish", while the songs "are thoroughly ravishing, proper popular music".Tom Hibbert.
It lessened the bands thrash influences, instead focusing on a unique, almost alternative metal sound, with more emphasis on funk and progressive rock, as well as traditional metal guitars. Although different, the album was greeted warmly by most fans and many critics. The album was also the band's most commercially successful album. The first single, "Asleep at the Wheel", did moderately well, but was followed by two smash hits.
Reading Eagle writer Carl Brown Jr. named "Never Turn Away" the standout track from Junk Culture, calling it "a soft, subtle song that succeeds from both a melodic and lyrical viewpoint". Conversely, Smash Hits reviewer and Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant described the track as "sad, drifting music" and "boring". OMD frontman Andy McCluskey later joked, "Well, he would know!" Retrospectively, John Bergstrom in PopMatters described the song as "beautiful".
"." John Kilgo from The Network Forty called it a "reggae/rap masterpiece". Gerald Martinez from New Sunday Times stated that "with sparse, hypnotic backig, Shaggy's boastful rapping carries the song." People said that the album "is more like the real reggae thing" and stated that "the raw title song is the style's most uncompromising Top 10 trip yet." Mark Sutherland from Smash Hits called it a "gruff, grinding ragga-lite track".
In late 1997, Rezwan left the band and he was replaced by Tonty as the drummer. In 1998, Ark released their third studio album, "জন্মভূমি (Birthplace)" on Soundtek. It was a huge success and Ark became one of the top bands in the history of Bangladeshi rock music. The album featured the songs "যারে যা (Go Away)", "এই দূর প্রবাসে (In This Far Foreign Land)" and "Bangladesh", which were all smash hits.
MacGowan worked at the Kent & Sussex Courier (Associated Press) as a journalist and a copywriter for their advertising pages. She freelanced in journalism for various London and Kent based advertising agencies, writing articles for Smash Hits, Record Mirror, and FSM Monthly. She also worked for the Phillip Hall Press Agency in London in the 1980s. In 1994, she moved to County Tipperary (Ireland) and worked for the Tipperary NR Council Arts Office.
"Love Machine" was promoted through several live performances, including at the Disney Channel Kids Awards on 16 September 2004, and at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party in 2004. They also performed it at the Carling Academy London on 10 February 2005, and at the TMF Awards 2005 in Belgium. The same year, Girls Aloud went on their debut tour, the What Will the Neighbours Say...? Tour, where they performed "Love Machine" in schoolgirl uniforms.
176–77; Jewell (1982), pp. 251, 257, 271. Exposing many moviegoers to Asian cinema for the first time, RKO distributed Akira Kurosawa's epochal Rashomon in the United States, sixteen months after its original 1950 Japanese release.Jewell (1982), p. 265. The only smash hits released by RKO in the 1950s came out during this period, but neither was an in-house production: Goldwyn's Hans Christian Andersen (1952) was followed by Disney's Peter Pan (1953).
During almost 30 years as a BBC and ITV presenter, Schofield has been the first continuity announcer for Children's BBC and the host of Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, Dancing on Ice, All Star Mr & Mrs, The Cube and, most recently, This Morning. Former breakfast host Kevin Black became New Zealand's highest-paid radio DJ, and served as breakfast host for Solid Gold between 1997 and 2009 before his death in 2013.
The Chris Pelonis-designed room was featured as one of Mix magazine's "Class of 2001 Studios". It has also been used by such artists as Jack Johnson, Jeff Bridges and Kenny Loggins. In 2014, Katy Perry, working with producers Dr. Luke and Max Martin, recorded much of her chart-topping album Prism at Secret Garden, including the smash hits "Dark Horse" and "Roar". Margulies currently divides his time between Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Nashville.
The G-A-Y album was heavily promoted in both the gay and mainstream media. TV commercials ran on music channels such as MTV and The Box, as well as on terrestrial television channel, Channel 4. A nationwide poster campaign took place, and advertisements were placed in the gay and teen press, appearing in such publications as Gay Times and Smash Hits. Commercials also ran on national radio in the weeks prior to release.
The video won for Best Pop Video at the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, for British Video of the Year at the 1997 Brit Awards, and was nominated for the Viewer's Choice at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. It won the Fan.tastic Video honour—given by online Billboard readers—at the 1997 Billboard Music Video Awards, and was also nominated for Best New Artist in a Video and Best Pop/Rock Clip.
It is claimed that the high popularity the song gained by its inclusion in Guitar Hero was the reason the band decided to reunite in 2007, as it sparked their popularity once again. A master version of the track appears in the video game Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. The song was released to radio stations but not on a CD single or vinyl. It was released on the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure soundtrack.
His career in journalism began with contributions to NME and Sounds. He joined the newly launched Smash Hits magazine in 1979, and two years later, after turning it around financially, became its editor. In 1983 he launched Just Seventeen, a perennially popular magazine for teenage girls, and in 1984 Looks. Since then he has launched several other magazines, including Q (1986), More (1987), Empire (1988), Mojo (1993), Heat (1999) and The Word (2003).
"Woman" was featured in the soundtracks of Major League Baseball 2K7, MotorStorm, Madden NFL 07, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Pure, and as a remix in Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights. It is a playable song in Guitar Hero II and on Guitar Hero Smash Hits. and is available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series of video games as of 27 October 2009. It is featured in the video game Saints Row 2.
Severalic magazines include a free album of music (usually a compilation of tracks by various artists), known in the publishing industry as a covermount. The practice began in the 1980s with UK magazine Smash Hits giving away flexi discs, and graduated to mixtapes and compact discs in the 1990s, with modern magazines such as NME and Mojo frequently including cover compilations.Geoghegan, Tom: Are free CDs killing music?, BBC News Magazine, 13 July 2007.
" Imran Khan from PopMatters called it a "weird sci-fi ballad of gothic-gospel electronica". Lucy O'Brien from Select stated that Detroit "makes a brave stab at the anthemic ballad with "Stay", but ends up sounding suspiciously like Jennifer Rush." Smash Hits said it "sounds like a hymn". St. Petersburg Times called the song "the year's best single" and commented, "'You'd better hope and pray/That you make it safe/Back to your own world.
Knowles and Malisse also reached the quarterfinals in Washington and the third round at the US Open. In October, Knowles was invited to participate in the 19th annual World TeamTennis Smash Hits charity event in Cleveland, co-hosted by Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King. Knowles was selected by John as a member of his team, which went on to win the exhibition 19–18. The event raised over $500,000 for various AIDS charities.
The song "Stellar" is featured in the video game Guitar Hero. It also was included as a part of a 3-song pack via Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II on April 11, 2007. The song is also again featured in Guitar Hero Smash Hits. The song "Drive" was released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour, as being released as a part of the Acoustic Pack.
"Step by Step" was voted #4 in a Smash Hits poll of "Best Boyband songs...Ever" and also made the list of the top 30 Guilty Pleasures on About.com's music site. about.com's The song was voted #7 in a viewer poll of the greatest Boy band/Girl band songs on New Zealand show UChoose40. It was also voted #1 in a viewer poll of the greatest Guilty Pleasures on the same show UChoose40.
Water Sport was record of the week in Smash Hits, reviewed in the NME by Dylan Jones and became a club hit in the UK. Duffty played a number of London shows including the ID Magazine Fifth anniversary party at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Duffty relocated to New York in 1993 where he recorded the song I Am An Alien. The Video featured famed downtown diva Amanda Lepore as a futuristic nurse.
Writing in Smash Hits, critic David Bostock announced that, "Japan have made their best album yet". Roland Orzabal of the band Tears for Fears has called Tin Drum "an absolute conceptual masterpiece from lyrics to artwork... just everything", and that it was a main influence on Tears for Fears first album The Hurting. On 6 September 2011, BBC Radio 6 Music awarded Tin Drum a 'Goldie' award for the best album of 1981.
Missile Command has also been included in the compilations Atari Arcade Hits 1, Atari Anniversary Edition, and Atari: 80 Classic Games in One!. It was released as part of the original Microsoft Arcade for the PC in 1993. It was also included in some compilations on Sega consoles: Arcade Smash Hits on the Master System, Arcade Classics on Game Boy Retails 4 Published by Nintendo, Arcade Classics on Game Gear and Arcade Classics on Genesis.
The article presents the discography of American folk music singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. She has released 8 studio albums, 2 greatest hits albums, and 22 singles on Elektra Records. She has 4 Platinum albums, 2 of which are multi-platinum, and 2 Gold albums. Her smash hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason" both hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, peaking at numbers 6 and 3, respectively.
She became one of the first acts to score regularly in the UK Singles Chart with EPs, which were also successful on an international level. At the end of the year Willcox won the Smash Hits' reader's poll in two categories: Best Female Singer and Most Fanciable Female (beating Kim Wilde to the second place). In 1981 she alone, according to Safari, sold in the UK more units than the whole of the Warner Bros. put together.
" The band have since complained that the popularity of American grunge music contributed to the single's failure, as they felt the song had a very British feel. Guitarist Graham Coxon said "It was Nirvana that really fucked "Popscene" up." Sylvia Patterson from Smash Hits rated the song two out of five. She wrote: "[The song] starts off like the Inspiral Carpets in a car crash and ends up exactly like Mancunian punk-poppers from yesteryear The Buzzcocks.
After the Second World War, by which time Walls was dead, Lynn teamed up again with Robertson Hare for two more Travers farces, Outrageous Fortune (1947) and Wild Horses (1952), which were successful without being smash hits. In 1954 he starred with Hare in The Party Spirit, at the Piccadilly Theatre. Lynn successfully toured the provinces in revivals of his earlier London farces until the last few years of his life. His last London performance was in 1958.
In late March, the single was first reported as "Never Give Up on the Good Times"/"Viva Forever". Smash Hits' famous "Bandwatch" section provided a close watch on the status of the single, and the first piece of news it gave was that one of the songs was to have a cartoon-based video. Originally, the single was going to be released on 11 May 1998. Soon after, it was pushed back, in this first case to 25 May.
It includes symbols of male disempowerment, and serves as an example of solidarity and the group's bonding. It received positive reactions from fans and was nominated for numerous awards including the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, and the 1997 Brit Awards. Released as the album's second single on 14 October 1996, it became their second number-one single in the United Kingdom, and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Smash Hits magazine had a running gag in the 1980s wherein they referred to him as "Mark Unpronounceablename of Big Country". On Pete Townshend's All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes and White City: A Novel albums, there are joking references to the spelling of his last name. His brother Steve is a session bassist with whom he frequently collaborates. On 10 October 2009, Mark Brzezicki re-joined the Cult onstage at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The debut album Some Things was released in the UK at the same time and peaked at #30 in the UK Albums Chart. "Pray" peaked at #17 in December that year. At around the same time, Some Things was released in the United States. In November 2002, Lasgo won the Smash Hits award for Best Dance Act of the Year 2002 in the UK. December 2002 marked the release of the second version of Some Things in Belgium.
He left the band shortly after the release of its first album and was asked to join Pigbag in 1980. As noted by The Quietus, after leaving The Pop Group "Simon Underwood ended up having one of post-punk funk’s biggest smash hits with Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag." In 1983, he married bandmate Angela Jaeger at Hammersmith Registry Office. Lacklustre sales and critical reception of Pigbag's new work caused them to disband in June 1983.
The Marvelettes released a version on the 1962 album The Marvelettes Sing and on Smash Hits Of '62 as Tamla TM 229. It was also recorded by Jo (of the duo Judy & Jo) as an answer song in 1962, entitled "Don't Want to Be Another Good Luck Charm", released as a 45 single on Capitol Records as catalog number CP-1468. Johnny O'Keefe, Bobby Stevens, Rupert, The Beatniks, and Helmut Lotti have also recorded the song.
Hepworth, David (1979) "SHAM 69: Hersham Boys", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4-17 October 1979, p.29 The song is included on live and compilation albums. Two live tracks, "I Don't Wanna (live)" and "Tell Us The Truth (live)" appear as b-sides on this single, recorded in 1978. In the music video the sign that Pursey, the rest of Sham 69 and a young boy are sitting next to is the sign for Hersham Road.
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is featured as a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero. "Electric Eye" (with the accompanying intro track "The Hellion") was playable in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero Smash Hits. The entire album was the first album released as downloadable content for the video games Rock Band and Rock Band 2. The title song "Screaming for Vengeance" was played on the main site for the video game Brütal Legend.
Record Mirror, "Run for Your Life", "I'm Never Giving Up" single reviews, March 1983 Smash Hits criticised the song for being too cluttered.Smash Hits, Hand Cut review, March 1983 "Run for Your Life" became a hit in the UK, entering the chart on 12 March 1983. It was the highest new entry of the week at No.31. It rose to No.21 the following week, and then to its peak of No.14 on 26 March.
For the first couple of years the results were printed in either February or March of the next year. However, in 1982 the results were printed in December of the same year. In 1988 the Poll changed from just being published in the Magazine to being a TV Event and was renamed the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. The Awards Ceremony ran from 1988 to 2005 and was still voted for by the readers of the magazine.
"Dancing Like A Gun" is the title of a John Foxx song, released as a single in October 1981, taken from The Garden album released a month previously. It was the first John Foxx solo single not to make the Top 40 singles chart in the UK. Smash Hits declared that "despite his recent success Foxxy (sic.) hasn't lived up to his early promise. This has all the ingredients - the pips and the peel - but without the juice".
Box Hits (formerly Smash Hits) is a British commercial television channel owned by Channel 4's The Box Plus Network. The channel broadcasts general pop music in shows such as Chartbusters, which is recent music and Pop Domination, which is new and old music. It also shows other programmes such as themed countdowns and charts such as Top 50 Boy Bands. The channel also has hours dedicated to a particular artist or band such as Pussycat Dolls: Ultimate 10.
As with the previous album, Hand Cut received many good reviews in the media. Smash Hits gave the album a 7 out of 10 rating, but thought that the over production was sometimes overpowering and preferred the quieter songs on the album (referencing "Where the Ending Starts"). The review stated that the album was well-produced however, saying it was "...another busy Andy Hill- directed epic. The trademarks are all here: ferocious production, terrific drum sound and booming choruses".
Upon release, Red Starr of Smash Hits commented: "Harley's never fully developed talents have scraped rock bottom in recent years. Side one here is back to his stylish, tuneful, Cockney Rebel best, but side two is simply pedestrian Americanised blandness that provokes only weariness. A mixed up album from a mixed up man but all credit for returning to the fray." He considered "Audience with the Man" and "Freedom's Prisoner" to be the album's best tracks.
The kiddie-punk tracks were released on a sampler. When alternative BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel started playing their song "Babysitters" the band caused quite a stir, receiving positive write-ups in music magazines like Smash Hits and Melody Maker. He performed with his brother Mark Tinley, and Johnny Slut of the band Specimen, as Diskord Datkord. They released their only single in 1988, an electroid cover of "Identity" by punk band X-Ray Spex.
Larry Flick from Billboard described the song as a "well-crafted and attitudinal club gem". Dave Sholin from Gavin Report commented, "It's clear by her track record this multitalented singer, producer, writer has a magic touch when it comes to putting together hits for Top 40 radio. Once again, Cathy delivers a house pleaser that's sure to pump non-stop excitement onto the airwaves." Mark Frith from Smash Hits praised the track, giving it 5 out of 5.
They first won their acting trophies in the movie And God Smiled at Me (1972). From 1970 to 1972 at the peak of their popularity, they were able to make 14 films including the movie Guy and Pip. Guy and Pip also made several long-playing (LP) albums together which were all smash hits and best-sellers. They did the Dream Come True album in 1971 and Mahal in 1978, both under the Vicor Music Corporation label.
The album's music has been described as idiosyncratic. According to David S. Mordoh of Rockdelux, Swoon is "a collection of breathless verses and crisp rhythms, with lively acoustic guitar strummed funk – a fluid combination – and bossa nova beats draped in symphonic keyboards". Creem Magazines Karen Schoemer similarly observed how the album's "jumpy playful melodies are fenced in by acoustic guitars and light piano arrangements". while Mark Ellen of Smash Hits described "twisting rhythms and strange wistful chords for scenery".
Rave 92 was issued by Polygram's subsidiser label Cookie Jar Records Ltd. in attempt to document, as the title proclaims, the most "massive rave hits of the year." Rave 92 was compiled by Mark Arthurworrey, who had worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a writer, remixer and compilation compiler. He had compiled rave compilations before for other independent labels, including Smash Hits Rave! (Dover Records, 1990) and Just Seventeen Get Kicking (Dover Records/Chrysalis, 1990).
Foster Blake has published work in magazines since 2002. She was deputy editor of Mania Magazine, Smash Hits Magazine, and beauty director at Cosmopolitan Magazine, Harper’s BAZAAR, and editor in chief of beauty website PRIMPED.com.au. In addition, she has written the relationship advice column for Cosmopolitan since 2009, and wrote columns for Sunday Style magazine from 2013 until 2015. She started a beauty blog called fruitybeauty in 2006, and in 2015 merged with her new site, zotheysay.com.
However, this presentation style was typical practice in commercial radio, anyway, and would have been no different from any other show featured on each of the participating stations. With the fun element in place, it was not unusual for the show to go "on the road" and broadcast live, backstage, from music events. The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and Capital FM's own Party in the Park concerts were recurring occasions of popularity with the show.
Pepsi took over as sponsors of The Network Chart Show in August 1993 from Nescafe, with a complete overhaul of the original show's format. After 9 successful years, in late 2002, Pepsi announced the termination of their sponsorship of the show. In January 2003, the show became Hit40UK, and coincided with launch of the ill-fated rival chart show: the Smash Hits! Chart. On 14 June 2009, Hit40UK became The Big Top 40 Show, powered by iTunes.
Nick Logan (born 3 January 1947 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire) is an English journalist, editor and publisher. Logan is best known for having founded The Face, the magazine which forged a new "lifestyle" sector in British publishing in the 1980s and 1990s. He was editor of the New Musical Express during its 1970s heyday and created a slew of other titles alongside The Face: pop fortnightly Smash Hits, men's magazines Arena, Arena Homme + and Deluxe and women's publication Frank.
Sky Television's channel The Amp, for instance, has it rated as the best video of 1987, Smash Hits magazine's readers rated it as the 3rd best video of 1987 and it won the British Video of the Year in 1988. The video was inspired by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett. The overall tonality, themes and various elements from the video re-occurred in Decouflé's scenography and choreography for the inauguration ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.
Alan Jones from Music Week commented, "Not as immediate as Why, but a stylish little offering with few pretentions. Peppy uptempo pop/rock, and highly engaging, this is certain to keep demand for Lennox's Diva album at a high level." Pop Rescue noted "it's wonderfully thick plodding bass line", adding that Lennox' vocals "are rich here, and she has the space to give some higher notes too." Harry Dean from Smash Hits called the song "pleasantly melodic".
Initially working out of the Smash Hits offices in Carnaby Street, central London, and using the off-the- shelf corporate entity Wagadon, which he had formed for his business relationship with Emap, Logan published the first issue of The Face on 1 May 1980. Featuring a logo designed by Steve Bush, with whom Logan had worked on Smash Hits, and a portrait by photographer Chalkie Davies of Jerry Dammers of The Specials on the front cover, this issue sold 56,000 copies.p20, The Story Of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture, Paul Gorman, Thames & Hudson, 2017. Sales levelled over the next six months, but a fillip was provided by alliance with what would become London's New Romantic scene via articles written by young journalist Robert Elms with photographs by Derek Ridgers, Virginia Turbett and others.pp22-27, The Cult With No Name, Robert Elms, The Face, November 1980 The publication of lookalike rivals such as New Sounds, New Styles and Blitz and the launch of i-D magazine confirmed Logan had established a new publishing sector.
In 1987, he was voted as having the worst haircut (winning this accolade more than once) at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party awards, where he was also in the top three DJs. He was awarded the Sony Award in 1992 for best DJ. Between 1997 and 2004, Sharp presented Heart 106.2's weekday morning Time Tunnel show. Following this, Sharp was a presenter on the Century FM group of stations. In December 2010, Sharp joined Smooth Radio to host Weekend Breakfast.
"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", also known as "STP with LSD" and various related abbreviations and shortenings, is a song by English- American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured as the B-side to their 1967 fourth single "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". Written by vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the song was later featured on the UK Version of the 1968 compilation album Smash Hits and the posthumous Loose Ends and South Saturn Delta compilations.
There, he so impressed the RCA Victor executives, that they wanted him to stay and record an album for them in Spanish. They were unsure how they wanted to record Feliciano so Jose suggested he record some of the bolero music of his parents where Jose then added his blues and folk influences from his experiences while playing in the Village. The result was two smash hits with the singles "Poquita Fe" ("Little Faith", also titled "Sin Fe", or "Without Faith"), and "Usted".
To pull off something this simple takes confidence and character, and this one will be a grower, whether you like it or not." Ro Newton of Smash Hits stated: "Alison Moyet's been biding her time lately in L.A., recording new material but really this is nothing to bring you or her out in a sweat. "Is This Love?" is tunesome alright but hardly enough for her to wrap her tonsils around. This woman is worthy of far greater things than this.
After attending University College School in London, he continued his studies with a psychology degree at Durham University before returning to London to do a research degree in Learning and Development at University College London. During this time he also developed his growing interest in photography. Early work for NME, Melody Maker, Smash Hits, and Spin quickly extended to other publications, and commissions from record companies, musicians, designers and artists internationally. His work appeared on numerous record sleeves, books and magazine covers.
In July 2007, former outfielder and steroid-user Jose Canseco said that he was planning to publish another book about Major League Baseball, to follow his 2005 bestseller Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. Canseco said his new book would have "other stuff" on Rodriguez, and called him a hypocrite. At the time, Rodriguez denied accusations of steroid use. In a 2007 interview with Katie Couric, Rodriguez flatly denied ever having used performance-enhancing drugs.
Her first live album, MTV Ao Vivo - Ivete Sangalo, was released in 2004 for the 10-year career commemorates at the Octavio Mangabeira Stadium, receiving more than 80.000 people featuring Gilberto Gil, the duo Sandy & Junior and the axé music singers Daniela Mercury and Margareth Menezes. The work sold around 1 million copies. In 2005 was released the five studio album As Super Novas featuring the smash hits "A Galera", "Abalou", "Quando a Chuva Passar" "Chorando Se Foi", the Kaoma's cover version.
Lodger received relatively poor reviews on its original release, Rolling Stone calling it "one of his weakest ... scattered, a footnote to "Heroes", an act of marking time", and Melody Maker finding it "slightly faceless". In Smash Hits the album was described as sounding like "a ragbag of rejects from previous styles" with "only occasional flashes of genius". It was also criticised for having a thinner, muddier mix than Bowie's previous albums. Robert Christgau wrote favourably of the album in The Village Voice.
This resulted in discussion in a Smash Hits interview, with Craig explaining to the Goss brothers what 'Pish' Meant. Their debut album, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift and a New Identity followed in 1989. Dempsey departed to join Dawson, and was replaced by Mr. Jason (Jason Boyce) of the Dandilion Adventure, and the band were signed up by top indie label Blast First. Their first release on Blast First was the 1990 EP Eyeball Origami Aftermath Wit Vegetarian Leg.
More chart success followed with "Let Your Heart Dance", "My World" and "Sound of Confusion". Secret Affair regularly appeared on UK television show Top of the Pops and were cover stars of many UK magazines, including New Musical Express, Sounds and Smash Hits. Likened to Jimmy Pursey, Ian Page was often asked to appear on UK television programmes and was viewed as an articulate spokesman for his generation, although his opinionated views sometimes alienated as many potential fans as they won over.
Since then, Brent has starred in Dream Team as Jennifer Taylor, One Man and His Dog as Danielle, Casualty as Sharon Court and in Bad Girls. It was through Bad Girls she became more known. She played Series 7 and 8's biggest bitch, as psychopathic Top Dog Natalie Buxton who was killed by rival Pat Kerrigan (Liz May Brice). Brent has also appeared in many magazines, such as Bliss, Sugar, Top of the Pops, Smash Hits, FHM and many more.
Upon release, Chris Heath of Smash Hits described the song as an "'80s update of David Bowie's Young Americans in both its content and its spirit, where he acknowledges the superficiality of the American dream but isn't narrow-minded enough to simply condemn it." New Musical Express noted the song's "acid irony". Steve Sutherland of Melody Maker described the song as having "skirt-twirling Latinate sarcasm". Music & Media described the song as a "thoroughly modern slice of blue-eyed soul" and "very commercial".
After the project was finished, all involved concluded that the collaboration had been successful to such an extent that it deserved some kind of follow up. Work on Ramirez' debut album Distant Dreams accordingly began soon after. The first single Troubled Girl was reasonably successful and expectations for this underrated gem written by Everything but the Girl are justifiably high." Smash Hits said that this remix "could do for Karen Ramirez what Fatboy Slim's mix of Brimful Of Asha did for Cornershop.
Vine has two siblings; a sister called Sonya and a brother, Tim. Vine was educated at Lynton Preparatory School in Ewell, then Aberdour School in Burgh Heath, and then Epsom College. He played the drums in a band called The Flared Generation, which his brother Tim was also a member of; they were described as "the most unfashionable punk band in the country" by Smash Hits magazine. At Durham University (Hatfield College), he graduated with a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English.
Upon release, Billboard described the song as a "straight-ahead rock item", adding "[Stewart] sounds as good as ever on a strong song with equally powerful production." Cash Box noted the song's "very nice chorus hook" and Stewart's "usual consistent performance, with a voice that was born to rock". Music & Media considered the song an "excellent rocker" with "a boiling production". Richard Lowe of Smash Hits described "Lost in You" as a "terrific rock record that sounds a teensy weensy bit U2-ish".
Simon Mills in Smash Hits described the song as "limp, languid, wimpy and totally inoffensive". Contactmusic journalist Dom Gourlay, in a 2011 piece, lauded "(Forever) Live and Die" as a track that "stands the test of time." Critic Stewart Mason in AllMusic wrote that the song "sounds oddly unfinished, albeit pleasant enough"."(Forever) Live and Die" review at AllMusic While unfavourable toward parent album The Pacific Age, OMD frontman Andy McCluskey maintains that "(Forever) Live and Die" is "a good song".
"Born Under a Bad Sign" is an instrumental jam of the Albert King number written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell (performed by Band of Gypsys). "Red House" is the original (mono) take from the European version of Are You Experienced, but minus some of the outro chat (previously unavailable in US & Canada). Another take (stereo from a different session was released on the US version of the 1969 compilation album Smash Hits. On this version Redding plays electric guitar tuned down to resemble a bass.
The reviewer Brooks Atkinson said that Bell and David Brooks had "sung rapturously" on "Almost Like Being in Love." Bell won the Donaldson Award for the best debut performance by an actress in a musical and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She sang on the original cast album of Brigadoon and made other recordings for RCA Victor such as Smash Hits of Broadway, released on four 10-inch disks and featuring songs from several Broadway musicals.Howard Taubman, "Records," New York Times (July 4, 1948).
They released the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Windows versions of Monsters vs. Aliens and the console versions of Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Beenox later developed the Spider-Man games Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. After founder Dominique Brown's departure in December 2012, the studio's focus shifted from leading original game development to doing a number of support tasks on Activision's superbrands Skylanders and Call of Duty.
" He advised listeners to "play loud." Red Starr of Smash Hits rated the album seven out of ten. He felt that, while most of the strongest tracks are cover versions, the album relies on its ska beat, bouncy organ and Black's vocals to provide the impact, and called the album a "very healthy debut with plenty of life." Garry Bushell of Sounds rated the album five stars out of five, noting the vitality of the album and complimenting the catchiness of "Three Minute Hero.
Malcolm McLaren and the Fab Mobile The band were better known by their hype than their music. Never out of the music paper gossip columns, they made tabloid headlines by being banned from nearly every venue on their debut UK tour. "Fabulous bad boys banned" splashed The Sun after an infamous stage-wrecking performance at Kingston Polytechnic that was also reviewed by the NME. Further publicity came via an association with American actor Keanu Reeves chronicled by The Daily Star, Smash Hits and The Face.
In 2006, Norton Records founders Billy Miller and Miriam Linna discovered and re-released the “It’s Lame” single, prompting Figures of Light to reunite.David Solomons, “Figures of Light (live at The Bell House),” Freq, November 20, 2011. At the time, Dixon and Downey hadn’t spoken in around 25 years.Steve Terrell, “Figures of Light Shine Again,” The Stephen W. Terrell Web Blog, June 15, 2012. The band’s newly recorded material was combined with early in-studio and live tracks for their first full-length release, Smash Hits (2008).
Sidgwick & Jackson. 1987. . p. 129. Conversely, Robin Smith gave a positive review for Record Mirror in which he described the album as "smooth, warm and powerful – a living, breathing musical menagerie filled with a hard core of ideas culled from virtually the four corners of the world". Johnny Black in Smash Hits portrayed the record as "infinitely more accessible than the last album [Dazzle Ships]... but still reveals some brave moves." He added however that "moments that turn excellence into magic are fewer and further between".
For 2003's Wormwood and 2007's The Conch Moe utilized several live recordings of new songs as the foundation for studio experimentation, with the results mimicking the band's freewheeling live performances. The ninth moe. album, 2008's Sticks & Stones, focused primarily on material that had never been performed live - a first for the band. Moe released their first "best-of" in 2010, Smash Hits Volume One, which features re-recordings of songs from the Sony era, as well as tracks from their more recent albums.
Age records were broken in 1998 at both ends of the spectrum. Billie became the second youngest solo female to obtain a chart topper at the age of 15 (Helen Shapiro being the youngest – 14 years old) and became the youngest solo female to enter at Number One. She had received a recording contract after appearing in an advertising campaign for Smash Hits magazine. Her debut single "Because We Want To" and follow up "Girlfriend" both topped the UK charts, each for one week.
Upon release, Peter Martin of Smash Hits described the song as "one of [Mercury's] propping-up- the-piano-in-the-smoky-bar routines". Tim Parker of Number One commented: "Freddie Mercury tries his hand at a romantic George Michael ballad but ends up doing a Liberace. The king of camp should stick to high energy." In a retrospective review of Mr. Bad Guy, Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic considered the song one of the album's "winners", "help[ing] make this an outstanding record from start to finish".
Television presenter and journalist Kate Thornton was editor for a short time. In February 2006, it was announced that the magazine would cease publication after the February 13 edition due to declining sales. In July 2009, a one-off commemorative issue of the magazine was published as a tribute to singer Michael Jackson.Smash Hits resurrected for Jackson, Yahoo News, Retrieved 4 July 2009 Further one-off specials were released in November 2009 (Take That), December 2010 (Lady Gaga)Smash Hits returns for GaGa special Music Week.
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" is a song recorded by English-American rock trio the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Written by frontman Jimi Hendrix and produced by band manager Chas Chandler, it features R&B; group Sweet Inspirations on backing vocals. The song was released in August 1967 as the group's fourth single in the United Kingdom and later included on the 1968 British edition of their compilation, Smash Hits. In the United States, it first appeared as the B-side of "All Along the Watchtower".
Zitz' mission begins on Armagedda's surface, where Psyko-Pigs and rat-piloted UFOs roam about to destroy intruders. When fighting them, Zitz is capable of unleashing powerful Smash Hits to finish off weakened enemies, and there's also other "over-the-top" finishing combos that can also be found in this release. There are also many obstacles during the levels that involve skills outside of fighting. In the third stage in the dark caverns of Armagedda, Zitz must use the vines to swing across large gaps.
It was released as the third and final single for the album. A fan requested the song to be the next single after the smash hits of "Make You Mine" and "A Girl Can Dream". Though the song failed to establish the same impact as the previous hits, the song was praised for its ability to maintain consistency with the album's focus. The whistle register is very evident in the song and is considered one of Nina's powerful songs when it comes to using the whistle register.
He worked with D. W. Griffith on such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he played two parts, one in blackface, and Intolerance (1916). He also played a Chinese role in Tod Browning's The Highbinders. At this time, Pallette had a slim, athletic figure, a far cry from his portly build later in his career. He starred as the slender sword-fighting swashbuckler Aramis in Douglas Fairbanks' 1921 version of The Three Musketeers, one of the great smash hits of the silent era.
Retrieved 28 March 2020. Music Week stated in their review of the 1992 version, that it is "sounding fashionably retro". Johnny Dee from Smash Hits gave the song 5 out of 5, commenting, "A Technicolor disco wonderland of a record that'll make the charts a sunnier place if it's a hit. Above all, Sweden's most excellent pop tarts are totally top because they look like cartoon characters, realise pop music's a funny old thing and want the whole world to join their "love train.
Music Week commented, "The prodigious Prince is back with Sexy M.F. It's a very sparse, basic groove not dissimilar to those churned out by James Brown in the Sixties, with lyrics that are alternately facile and controversial, the latter of which will keep airplay to a minimum. His fan base is such that it should, however, make significant inroads into the chart." Johnny Dee from Smash Hits noted the "grunting and grinding in the usual Paisley Park sassy funk style with some gorgeous jazzy brazz-n-stuff".
Goddard, Peter, "Shadowy showman cuts an eerie album", The Toronto Star, April 28, 1978, page D3. Nevertheless, in a 1981 interview with the UK magazine Smash Hits, Nash was questioned about his real name, and replied with "Nashville Thebodiah Slasher". As a result of his coyness about his name, some fans came to believe that the Nash persona was an alter-ego of Ben Mink, who replaced him as FM's violinist in 1978. This is a common misconception, but he has been photographed onstage with Mink.
Pop Idol was broadcast for only two series before was replaced in 2004 by The X Factor, to which former Smash Hits editor Kate Thornton was assigned presenting duties. In 2005, as part of the ITV's 50th birthday celebrations, they were back on television fronting Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a celebration of some of ITV's most enduring gameshows from the past 50 years. They hosted The Price Is Right, Family Fortunes, Play Your Cards Right, Bullseye, Take Your Pick!, The Golden Shot and Sale of the Century.
"Face Like Thunder" was well received by critics, with several making comparisons between Bain's vocals and those of Imogen Heap. Consequence of Sound praised the song's use of cheerful pop sounds to mask emotionally heavy lyrics, and made positive comparisons to Future and Of Montreal. In its review of the Swim Against the Tide EP, Read Dork called the single "arguably the perfect soundtrack to any late-summer drive, with the sort of hook that would bring Smash Hits back to life in a heartbeat".
In a review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four and a half out of five stars. He notes "the main strength of Smash Hits is that it contains the best-known big-name songs in one place. Maybe not enough to make the collection essential, but still enough to make it a representative, accurate sampler". Robert Christgau included the album in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
Madame Aphrodite was a short-lived off-Broadway musical by playwright Tad Mosel and composer/lyricist Jerry Herman, which ran for 13 performances in 1961. It is notable as the only stage musical in the entire Jerry Herman canon (which includes smash hits such as Hello Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles as well as less successful but highly respected flops like Dear World, Mack & Mabel and The Grand Tour) that never spawned an original cast album, and has never been performed since its original production.
Don Palmer of Musician proclaimed that "Wanna Be with You" is a relaxed shuffle bump boogie based around a ten note piano vamp. The handclaps provide a solid back beat while the horns and altered vocal yelps exclaim the obvious". Tim de Lisle of Smash Hits called Wanna Be with You "a pleasant surprise, an excellent melody given a fresh jazzy treatment. "Wanna Be with You" won a Grammy Award in the category of Best R&B; Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
The slogan of The Box is "Fresh Music First". Past mottos include "Big Hits First", "Music Television You Control", and "Smash Hits You Control". Notably, for a brief period in late 1999 and early 2000, there was a trend of artists name checking The Box in their music videos, though the practice wasn't widespread. In most cases, this was simply an insertion of the logo at some point in the regular video, however in a few cases, the channel was actually name checked by the artists themselves.
The magazine was launched in February 1995 and is famous for giving girl group The Spice Girls their nicknames. Alongside a revamp of the TV show, it was originally marketed as the missing link between Smash Hits and NME, but its format was gradually changed, with less music content and a demographic shift to young girls. The title has had several editors over the years, including Peter Loraine, Corinna Shaffer and Rosalie Snaith, and contributing editors including Adam Tanswell. Its current editor is Peter Hart.
Red Room Sessions is an EP by Busted which was released as a limited edition promotional CD single. It could be obtained by collecting a certain amount of tokens through Smash Hits and cans of Coca-Cola.Busted Online Accordingly, its catalogue number was "COKE01".eil.com The CD contained two songs from their first album Busted — including an exclusive mix of "What I Go to School For" — with a cover of the 1964 Beach Boys song "Fun, Fun, Fun", first released as a B-side to "Year 3000".
The song received a heavy promotion, and as such, Björk did numerous TV appearances. On 8 August 1993, she appeared on the UK show The Beat, performing the song along with "Venus as a Boy" and "Come to Me". Björk performed the song live on other British show like Dance Energy, Top of the Pops and Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. She then performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in one of her first appearance on the American broadcast.
Clarke continued to play with local bands until the 1980s, and then played as a duet with his wife (building his wife's bass guitar) in Bristol until his death in 2008. Payne returned to Bristol and also continued to play with local bands. Brice continues his music career playing with the band 'The Ivy League'. The Eagles' music is available on many compilation albums of the era, and in 1998 Sanctuary Records released a 61-track double album set, Smash Hits from The Eagles and The Kestrels.
Smash Hits Magazine December 1981 Today, the song is widely considered a classic of its era. In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for AllMusic, described the song as "a devastating chronicle of a frayed romance wrapped in the greatest pop hooks and production of its year." Fellow new wave musician Graham Parker praised the song, saying, "I just love that catchy chorus." Oakey still describes it as overrated, but acknowledges his initial dismissal was misguided and claims pride in the track.
Music & Media called the song an "utterly brooding version of the old Cole Porter song, in a splendid production fro the Jungle Brothers' Baby Afrika Bambaataa." David Browne from Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the words have special urgency" in Cherry's "stark, bass-line-propelled take" on "I’ve Got You Under My Skin", because the song begins with a rap about AIDS. Marc Andrews from Smash Hits said the track "is the closest any of the artists here get to really putting the message across" in his review of the album Red Hot + Blue.
The track listing and lyrics for each song are listed on Musixmatch.com. The first album track is the lead single "Hollywood Romance" (co-written by de Paul and David Jordan) which was released ahead of the album in October 1978 and was well received,Smash Hits, page 25, 5–18 April 1979 was DJ Dave Lee Travis's record of the week during his time as "the Hairy Cornflake" and became a radio hit. It is still played on BBC radio. The follow-up single "Tigers and Fireflies" was released just prior to the album itself.
In 1983, Neil Tennant met producer Bobby Orlando, while on an assignment in New York interviewing Sting for Smash Hits. After listening to some demos, Orlando offered to produce for the duo.Barrow; Newby, 1994. p. 67. In 1983–84, the duo recorded twelve songs with Orlando, at Unique Studios in New York, "West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "One More Chance", "I Want a Lover", "Thats My Impression", "A Man Could Get Arrested", "I Get Excited", "Two Divided by Zero", "Rent", "It's A Sin", "Pet Shop Boys", and "Later Tonight".
" Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video program Rage, they stated: "While in the past, her material had always been high energy, 'Word Is Out' showcased a far more seductive side to Kylie that many had suspected was there." In another hand, Nick Griffiths from Select called it one of the "odd songs" in the album. Sophie Lawrence reviewed it for Smash Hits, writing, "Sounds like Madonna's La Isla Bonita a bit, doesn't it? She's just been brilliant ever since Better The Devil You Know.
One of the musicians, Micheal Smotherman, said "Don was just as confused as he could be throughout the whole process ... I would push his face up to the microphone and he would start singing. And when it was time to stop I would pull him back gently." The album does, however, have its influence: an early White Stripes EP entitled Party of Special Things to Do (2001) contains three Beefheart covers, including this album's opening track. Kate Bush in a Smash Hits interview considered this one of her top ten albums.
All these, and more..." Anne Lambert of Number One commented: "It's even better than "A New England", more bouncy and with a chorus that stays in your brain after just one listen." Chris Heath of Smash Hits wrote: "Even though Kirsty wrote this herself it sounds very much like "A New England" - lots of shiny guitars above which a million Kirsty MacColls breathlessly sing the tune." Paul Massey of Aberdeen Evening Express commented: "Snazzy pop, but much too like "A New England" I'm afraid. A disappointment from someone as talented as Kirsty.
Logan was admitted to hospital for six weeks, once released from hospital he spent a further six months of rehabilitation to learn to walk again. Logan decided that the pressure of stardom was no longer for him and told Matt and Luke he was thinking of leaving the band. He appeared with the brothers at the 1989 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party; this would be his final appearance as a member of Bros. Logan appeared on the BBC1 television programme Wogan discussing why he had left the band.
"Stone Free" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and the second song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It has been described as a "counterculture anthem, with its lyrics praising the footloose and fancy-free life", which reflected Hendrix's restless lifestyle. Instrumentally, the song has a strong rhythmic drive provided by drummer Mitch Mitchell with harmonic support by bassist Noel Redding. "Stone Free" was issued on December 16, 1966, as the B-side of the Experience's first UK single "Hey Joe" and later included on the Smash Hits compilation album.
Bereft of drums, the minimalist track would not be described as a "commercially viable" single in most circumstances. However, Japan's popularity at the time, in addition to the early 1980s fashion for new wave music, allowed the single to become unexpectedly popular. Writing in Smash Hits, Tim de Lisle described the single as "arguably the best thing they've ever done – slow, spare and mesmerising". Record Mirror made it Single of the Week, with reviewer Runie describing it as "the most stunningly original single you've heard for a long time".
"Psychobilly Freakout", and later "Wiggle Stick", were both featured in video segments on the show Beavis and Butt-Head. The song "I Can't Surf" was part of the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, published in 2001. "Psychobilly Freakout" was used on a commercial for Buell American Motorcycles and a slightly altered version was featured in the game Guitar Hero II and later on Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Their song "Baddest of the Bad" is featured on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.
Smash Hits featured the lyrics of latest hits and interviews with big names in music. It was initially published monthly, then went fortnightly. The style of the magazine was initially serious, but from around the mid-1980s onwards became one of ever-increasing irreverence. Its interviewing technique was novel at the time and, rather than looking up to the big names, it often made fun of them, asking strange questions rather than talking about their music. Created by journalist Nick Logan, the title was launched in 1978 and appeared monthly for its first few months.
The song is written by themselves and Marco Masís better known as "Tainy", also co-producer of the song. Before to the song was released, the track "Tu Olor" was planned to be the first single, but in the end was changed.Tema de promoción de El Regreso de los Vaqueros sera "Zun Zun Rompiendo Caderas" AOL. Retrieved 2011-02-05 Many fans have cited similarities between "Zun Zun Rompiendo Caderas" and their smash hits "Sexy Movimiento" and "Abusadora", due to the song structure and the Electro/Dance sound.
A cover version to which a final solo was added appears in the 2006 music video game Guitar Hero 2, whereas the master track appears in 2009s Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Lissie's cover of the song is used during the Happy Hunting trailer for the 2015 video game Evolve. While pitching as the closer for the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and 2005, Keith Foulke entered home games to the playing of "Mother". Ryan Doumit of the Minnesota Twins baseball team uses "Mother" as his walk up song.
After one year of study in Chicago he returned home to Boston to focus on music, recording his first album Sings Walkin' & Talkin' & Other Smash Hits! The local success of that album and his frenzied live show brought him to the attention of Somerville, Massachusetts based record label, Q Division Records. He recorded his first album of original material, Roll With You, in late 2007 with Q Division producer Ed Valauskas at the helm. That album was released in 2008 and the next two years saw Reed garner a national and international following.
Aretha Franklin recorded the song for her 1981 album Love All the Hurt Away. In August, 2007 soul singer Guy Sebastian recorded a tribute version of "Hold On, I'm Comin" at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee for his album of soul classics The Memphis Album with many of the original Stax music band members including Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Lester Snell, and Steve Potts. Another cover version was recorded by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers in 1966. Tom Jones covered it on the 1967 album 13 Smash Hits.
Eternal released their debut album, Always & Forever in November 1993, and it reached number two in the UK Albums Chart. The album sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom, and confirmed as four times platinum, making it one of 1994's biggest selling albums and the year's biggest-selling debut album. They were named Best Group at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and were nominated for four Brit Awards. Nurding decided to leave the group before the recording of Eternal's second album, and went on to pursue a successful solo career.
Music & Media described the song as a "hit-bound record with a strong Motown (Supremes) feel. Co-written by Appleby and former Bros member Craig Logan, this is an up-tempo, cheerful and well produced song." R.S. Murthi from New Straits Times said it "sounds so much like Stock/Aitken/Waterman that you're disappointed to discover that it's not their work." Tom Doyle from Smash Hits noted that the song is "something of a bouncy singalong SAW-type affair" and added that Appleby's voice is "consistently strong and tuneful".
Daft Punk also had their first interview in the magazine in 1993. Jockey Slut also gave space to some rock and indie, giving prominent space to bands like Nirvana, Blur or Beck as much as they would any dance or electronic act. Jockey Slut’s tagline was “Disco Pogo For Punks In Pumps”, a line stolen from an old Smash Hits review, according to Burgess. Its coverage of Urban styles such as hip-hop and R&B; was also more frequent than the average dance magazine of the time.
Giving the album a favorable review in Smash Hits, David Hepworth said that Jackson "sings like an angel". Sounds shared the same point of view, qualifying Jackson's voice as "astoninshingly agile". In 1980, Jackson won three awards at the American Music Awards for his solo efforts: Favorite Soul/R&B; Album, Favorite Male Soul/R&B; Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B; Single. That year, he also won Billboard Music Awards for Top Black Artist and Top Black Album and the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B; Vocal Performance.
Hughes graduated from London College of Printing and was employed at various advertising agencies where he worked for ID magazine, Smash Hits and Condé Nast. He arrived late at his very first job interview at an advertising agency with a lump of dog excrement stuck to the bottom of his portfolio, managed to transfer some of it on to the white shirt he was wearing and the rest onto the meeting-room table. Directors had to open windows to let the stench out. Despite this, he got the job.
During that year she appeared on numerous Australian editions of magazine covers including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, TV Week, Smash Hits and Dolly. In 1991 readers of TV Hits voted her as the Hottest Woman on Earth. Tkautz also had a supporting role in the mini-series, The Girl from Tomorrow (1992). Due to her popularity, the producers of E Street decided to have Tkautz record a song, which would be used in the show as part of a dream sequence, where her character imagines she is a pop star.
Despite not containing a hit single, it was released in between their smash hits "Here Come the Nice" and "Itchycoo Park" and was highly regarded by other musicians, exerting a strong influence on a number of bands both at home and abroad. The album received mostly positive reviews from critics and fans alike, and has been featured on several best of lists, including Ultimate Classic Rock's list of Top 100 '60s Rock Albums, along with several lists by Mojo magazine. Many fans considers Small Faces to be the group's best album.
After seeing his first performance at age 11, she told his parents he would become a successful stage actor. Tennant also attended Saturday classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. At age 16, he passed an audition for the Academy, becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20. After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant after reading a copy of Smash Hits magazine.
During 2004 and 2005 it was renamed to T4 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. Past presenters have included Phillip Schofield, Simon Mayo, Andi Peters, Toby Anstis, Lily Savage, Ant and Dec, Will Smith, Melanie Sykes, June Sarpong, and Vernon Kay. The award itself was seen as a gimmicky object by many outside the magazine readership, including winners such as rock bands (who only were eligible to win "Best Rock"). It was an oversized fake gold disc bearing the magazine's logo, turned slightly by 45 degrees to the left placed in a black stand.
Beki Bondage (born Rebecca Louise Bond; 3 June in Bristol) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontwoman of the punk band Vice Squad. She appeared on the front cover of a number of influential music papers such as Melody Maker, NME, Smash Hits and Sounds. In 1983, she left Vice Squad to form the band Ligotage with Steve Roberts of UK Subs. Sales of their first single "Crime and Passion" (1983, EMI) were disappointing, and their only album, Forgive and Forget, was released on the independent Picasso Records label.
She joined the Evening Leader newspaper in her home town of Mold, Flintshire. Jones worked on a variety of stories, from hard news to showbiz at the Sunday Mirror, then The Mail On Sunday and The Sun. She worked as editor of Smash Hits magazine in 2001, but returned to The Sun in 2002 to become its youngest columnist. Jones was twice nominated for the UK Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year Award, and the then editor of The Sun David Yelland described her as "the brightest young female voice in Britain".
"John Cougar" was also his first album to be certified gold. Mellencamp's major commercial breakthrough came in 1982 with his only album, thus far, to top the Billboard 200 album Chart, the classic American Fool album. American Fool yielded two Top 5 smash hits (and a third in the Top 20) and would eventually sell ten million copies worldwide (5 million in the US alone). Mellencamp's all time best selling album worldwide is Scarecrow (1985), which has sold 14 million copies to date (5 million in the US alone).
In a review of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Record Mirror described the song as "trembling" and "the best thing they've done for years". In Smash Hits, Jools Holland reviewed the single, stating that it sounded like a "slowed-down version of "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" with a football team singing at the end". Cash Box listed the single as one of their "feature picks" during July 1984. They noted the song's focus on melody, Holder's "heartfelt lead vocal" and the piano intro that "leads into Slade's classic power-rock sound".
Smash Hits Single reviews, November 1986 Like many other Bucks Fizz singles, "Keep Each Other Warm" was produced by Andy Hill and also co-written by him with Pete Sinfield. The B-side was a song called "Give a Little Love", which went on to become a top 20 hit by Aswad two years later. In 1989, "Keep Each Other Warm" was covered by Barry Manilow and released on his self-titled album. Manilow's version was released as a single, reaching No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Adult contemporary chart.
Interview – Smash Hits Magazine – December 1981 Musicians Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright created a synthesizer score to accompany the lyrics that was much harsher than the version that was actually released. Initial versions of the song were recorded but Virgin Records-appointed producer Martin Rushent was unhappy with them. He and Callis remixed the track, giving it a softer, and in Oakey's opinion, "poppy" sound. Oakey hated the new version and thought it would be the weakest track on Dare, resulting in one of his infamous rows with Rushent.
Larry Flick of Billboard wrote: "Blur continues to explore its newfound interest in shameless pop, first exploited on the giddy, 'New- Romantic'-sounding 'Girls & Boys.' This follow-up is pure fun, as the British act pounces through bouncy melodies, woven through playful guitars and spoken-word vocals." Mark Sutherland awarded the song "Best New Single" in the 17 August issue of Smash Hits, calling it "superb," and "one of the barmiest pop songs ever." In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Parklife" at number 41 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.
Bowie and all members of Queen were also given songwriting credit for the sample. In December 1990, Van Winkle told British youth music magazine Smash Hits where he came up with the idea of sampling "Under Pressure": Van Winkle described himself as the first rapper to cross into the pop market and said that although his pioneer status forced him to "take the heat for a lot of people" for his music's use of samples, the criticism he received over sample use allowed sampling to become acceptable in mainstream hip hop.
A new feature in the game, where the drummer can access a mode called Expert+, has also been added. Expert+ mode was implemented to allow faster bass pedal beats, fast to the point where it would normally be out of the playable range of a single bass pedal, and was intended for a dual bass pedal. Guitar Hero Smash Hits (titled Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits in Europe and Australia) was released in June 2009. It features full-band versions of 48 songs from earlier Guitar Hero games that only used the guitar controller.
In 1999, the band issued a "best-of" album featuring three new tracks, called Super Colossal Smash Hits of the 90s: The Best of The Mavericks. The album was quickly reissued the following year with two additional new tracks. However, the release did not spin off any top 40 hit singles in either the US or the UK, and the band found itself in a financially precarious situation. In February 2000 the band suspended payments to all their salaried employees, and in May they fired guitarist Nick Kane.
Luv' hadn't topped an album in the hitlists for nearly thirteen years. Moreover, the trio scored a hit single on the Dutch Top 40: a megamix produced by Dancability (a project involving Martin Boer (of the famous Dutch Dance act 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor). This medley is a non-stop dance mix of Luv's greatest chart toppers (U.O.Me (Theme from Waldolala), Trojan Horse, You're the Greatest Lover and Ooh, Yes I Do), whose original versions were smash hits in the late 1970s in a large part of Continental Europe, South Africa and Mexico.
Upon release, Chris Heath of Smash Hits described the single as "very good" and commented: "Paul Quinn tries very hard to sing like David Bowie over the same 'ker-plunk ker-plunk' synth backing that Clarke has used since his Depeche Mode and Yazoo days. I just wish we hadn't had to wait for so long." Adrian Thrills of New Musical Express described the song as a "slow, reflective ballad". He noted the "crisp backing track [of] electronic embroidery tinged with a human warmth" and Quinn's "powerful but plaintive" voice.
The final issue saw a change to a full colour, glossy format that anticipated the emergence of Countdown Magazine (1982–87) and the Australian version of Smash Hits. Notable contributors included: Keith Shadwick, Stuart Matchett, Ross Stapleton, Scott Matheson, Peter Nelson, Adrian Ryan, Keri Phillips, Craig N. Pearce, Larry Buttrose, Chris Willis, Toby Creswell, Mark Mordue, Richard McGregor, Richard Guilliat, David Langsam, Jillian Burt, Dennis Atkins and Elly McDonald. In May 2017, the University of Wollongong in New South Wales made all 48 issues of Roadrunner available in a digital archive.
The departure in 1982 of vocalist Barry McIlheney to what would become a successful career in music journalism brought an end to the band. McIlheney wrote for and edited Melody Maker and Smash Hits among others, later founding Empire magazine and moving further into publishing. Guitarist Davy McLarnon then formed a songwriting partnership with the bassist of similarly- defunct Guilty Achievements. This led to their formation of the band Five Boys (1983–86), later Big Electric PLC (1986–88), for which they wrote and performed material before McLarnon joined Peace Frog in the 90's.
In 1978 Logan left the NME and determined to never again work in a corporate environment. He pitched several magazine ideas to the printing company East Midlands Allied Press, which was developing its magazine division Emap. Among these was the proposal for a colourful teenage pop monthly which was test-marketed in the north-east of England in the autumn of 1978 as Smash Hits. "My interest was in featuring excellent photography with song lyrics as ballast and bringing good acts like The Jam to a young audience," Logan said later.
" Phil Shanklin of ReviewsRevues complimented the "strong interplay" between her and the background vocalists, who would later be singing in the British R&B; girl group Eternal. He commented, "This backing vocal/lead vocal combination are a feature of this CD as well as the big cavernous, echoing sound which turns this track into a real power-house and emphasises the quality of Dina’s vocals." Tony Mortimer from East 17 reviewed the song for Smash Hits, stating, "This girl's gonna be massive". He added that "Gladys Knight probably inspired her somewhere along the line.
Helloween included a version of this song in the album The Time Of The Oath (1996). "Electric Eye" is featured in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the fictional in-game radio station "V-Rock". It is also a playable track in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s as a master track, including "The Hellion", and it also appears on Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Additionally, it is available for download on Rock Band, as of 22 April 2009, as part of the entire Screaming for Vengeance album download, or as a single song.
The band performed on the Smash Hits tour in 1998 and supported Boyzone on their UK tour in 1999.Young, Graham (1999) "Pet Shop Brum!", Birmingham Mail, 15 June 1999, p. 28 Their most notable single was "24 Hours from You", which was co-written by Richard Drummie of Go West, and helped by a promotional video shot in South Africa,"The hotshots to watch in 99", Birmingham Mail, 5 January 1999 and an appearance on the ITV television show Mad for It."Wednesday TV", Daily Record, 30 January 1999 It reached #13 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1999.
" In their review of the album, Smash Hits described it as "unimpressive", but noted that the "change of style definitely grows on you". They went on to say that, although the album was more accessible, it was "lacking the zany magic of old". The AllMusic review, written more than a decade later, takes a longer view. Reviewer Mark Deming writes that "their second album captures the group in the midst of a significant stylistic shift" while acknowledging that the song "'Triumph of the Will' embraces fascism as a satirical target without bothering to make it sound as if they disapprove.
In 2002, Green starred as clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill in the crime drama Wire in the Blood. Green's production company has brought at least four new dramas to the small screen in recent years, including the massive ratings hit Christmas Lights. The success of this one-off drama led to a series being commissioned under the name Northern Lights, which was followed by a sequel called City Lights. Coastal also produces drama series, including Hereafter starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan. In 1995, Green won the Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party award for Favourite TV Actor.
All his subjects – Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bucks Fizz, John Lydon – were delightfully over-exaggerated, as mischievous and eccentric as their interrogator." This lampooning included renaming well- known musicians based on their character traits, such as "Dame David" for Bowie, "Fab Macca Whacky Thumbs Aloft" for McCartney, "Sir Clifford of Richard" for Cliff Richard, "Lord Frederick Lucan of Mercury" for Freddie Mercury, and "Horrible Headband" for Mark Knopfler. Hibbert later said: "It sounds like I'm blowing my own trumpet but yes, I did [invent Smash Hits lingo]. Before I got there in 1983 there was none of that.
In a review of Crossroads, Fred Goodman of Rolling Stone noted the "rich arrangement and heartfelt delivery" and added: "Crossroads" breaks little new ground for Chapman musically, but its subtly shaded percussion, pizzicato violin and lilting accordion give new muscle to Chapman's previously bareboned presentation." Steve Morse of The Boston Globe felt the song "opens the album in a startling confessional manner". Sian Pattenden of Smash Hits described the song as "very much the kind of folksy, sombre song you'd expect from Tracy". She added: "If you liked "Fast Car" then you'll like this because it's jolly similar.
Charlie Simpson and Tom Fletcher auditioned to be in the band and were both offered a place to complete the lineup. 24 hours later, however, Busted's manager told Fletcher via a phone call that the band was to go ahead as a trio, comprising Bourne, Willis and Simpson. The band was launched in August 2002, making their first appearance on the cover of Smash Hits with the headline: "Meet Busted: They're Going to Be Bigger than Rik Waller!", making it a first for any pop band to appear on the magazine's cover before releasing a single.
The same year, Robinson appeared on the Channel 4 television show The Salon, a reality show based at a hairdressing salon where members of the public and several celebrities went for haircuts and beauty treatments. He also appeared in the TV documentary 25 Years of Smash Hits that traced the influence of UK pop music. In 2006, Robinson was interviewed in the Channel 4 TV documentary Whatever Happened to the Gender Benders?, which reflected on the advent of the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s and the prominent roles that he, Boy George and Steve Strange played within it.
Fourth album Šta Ću Mala S' tobom (1994, PGP-RTS) had 7 music videos: "Šta Ću Mala S' Tobom", "Udahni Duboko", "Sunce Nek Potamni", "Donesi Divlje Mirise", "Oči Bez Sjaja", "Bolje Da Te Nisam Ni Poljubio", "Zasviraće Sve Gitare"; all of them were smash hits and were circulating non-stop on Yugoslavian TV networks. This is when his musical career started to advance more. In 1995 he released 9 music videos: "Tvoje Oči", "Otrovana Grehom", "Nije Meni", "Idi Moram Da Ti Kažem", "Kasnije Il' Pre", "Pesma Prijatelju", "Ljubav Od Mastila", "Pesma Prijatelju", "Divlja Devojka" (the latter featuring Dragana Mirković as a duet).
When Smash Hits published the lyrics in their magazine, they published the complete lyric, which included a verse that was subsequently dropped from the released version of the song: :Don't even try to induce, In all my restrain there's no hesitation :All the signs on the loose 'cause sanity's rare this end of the hard day :Shadows are crawling out of the subway :Any way that you choose in every direction just to confuse me This additional verse was also included in the lyrics which were printed on the back of the sleeve of the Cryptic Cut No Voice release.
There were other licensed versions in the magazine's history. In 1984, an Australian version was created and proved just as successful for that new market as the original had back in Britain, whilst in the United States, a version was published during the 1980s under the title Star Hits, drawing articles from the British version. It was published by Emap, who also use the name for one of their digital television services, and for a digital radio station. The brand also covered the annual Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, an awards ceremony voted for by readers of the magazine.
Upon release, Ian Cranna of Smash Hits described the song as "slow [and] reflective". He questioned the decision to release the song as a single but added: "Nevertheless, it's still their best for ages - a gentle, wistful piano song that recalls "Sister of Mercy" with an appropriately anguished middle bit. And for once they show their true colours as sympathetic real people instead of something out of an advert - fingers crossed for a hit." Billboard commented: "Preferred selection from Close to the Bone is a poignant midtempo ballad that receives the band's customary ornate and lavish treatment".
David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a music journalist, writer and publishing industry analyst who has launched several successful British magazines. He was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and with Mark Ellen turned the 1980s English pop magazine "Smash Hits" into one of the most popular magazines of its era. Hepworth co-presented the BBC broadcast of Live Aid on 13 July 1985, when he was the presenter told by Bob Geldof to "fuck the address" when pleading with viewers to send in their "fucking money".Dylan, Jones.
Colin Irwin of Number One called the album "quite a departure" for Minogue, and praised "Tell Tale Signs", "My Secret Heart", and "Tears on My Pillow" for shifting away from other traditional SAW-produced tracks. Echoing the same sentiments, Richard Lowe of Smash Hits praised the diversity of the songs and called it a "magnificent pop [album]". In a review for the 2015 reissue of Enjoy Yourself, PopMatters Joe Sweeney deemed it a more ambitious production and felt Minogue's vocals were "notably stronger" than before. He felt the result, however, sounded "like a messy document of artistic maturation".
Rhythm of Love is primarily a dance-pop album, a departure from the bubblegum pop music of her earlier work. It has a more dance-oriented production and instrumentation from saxophone and guitar. Select Andrew Harrison said most of the album "goose- steps to Stock Aitken Waterman's mercilessly mutated house beat," while Marc Andrews from Smash Hits said the album "is not as 'different' as it could have been", with the majority of its tracks being "familiar boompy-tee-boomp backbeat, swirling strings and relentless thumping drums." He also said the album is a "pretty much a cracking pop outing" overall.
One of Carter USM's most talked-about moments was when Fruitbat rugby tackled presenter Phillip Schofield on live TV, in front of millions of viewers at the Smash Hits music awards. Schofield made some remarks about the band's performance and Fruitbat has said that he was "severely hammered" after drinking a crate of beer supplied by The Farm. The incident made the front pages of most of the UK tabloids, and generated some infamy for the band. Carter USM split in 1997, although they continued to play semi-regular gigs until bringing the band to a close in 2014.
Upon release, Red Starr of Smash Hits considered the single a "pointless rehash of an album track in a truly dreadful cover". They added: "The sooner BEF give up this dead-end synthetic funk and turn their talents back to writing classic stuff like "Dreams of Leaving" and "Radio WXJL" from Travelogue the better." Sunie of Record Mirror noted: "It doesn't quite match the magnificent "Penthouse and Pavement" single but it's pretty fab nonetheless." In a retrospective review of the album, Dan LeRoy of AllMusic considered the song one of the "standout combinations of witty lyrics and whiplash electro- grooves".
The synthesizer outfit takes us to a lovely Caribbean bridge that will work as well on EHR as in clubland." Music Week commented, "The instant familiarity of Erasure's Love To Hate You is due in no small part to the fact that it seems to be based on several previous hits, most notably Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, Elton John's Nobody Wins and even Modern Romance's Everybody Salsa. Typically throbbing Hi- NRG, subtle it is not, but a hit it most certainly is." Mark Frith from Smash Hits said "it's rather nice to welcome Erasure back.
Bo Johan Renck directed the accompanying music video which features the group serenading an arguing couple in bullet time at a high rise apartment block. According to academic analysis, the video helped popularise caffeine as a beverage for the upper class. All Saints promoted "Black Coffee" with live performances on CD:UK, Children in Need, Later... with Jools Holland, Top of the Pops and at the 2000 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. Much group in-fighting happened during the promotion of the single, prompting tense live renditions and eventually causing the group to controversially split up in 2001.
The duo announced the title of the album in an interview with Forbes magazine, in which they said that "[it] represents what the all encompassing idea behind the album is." After its May 2019 release, the album debuted at number 22 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, and at number 5 on the Latin Pop Albums chart, with 2,000 equivalent album units, with nearly all of that sum derived from streaming activity. The album features smash-hits "Mi Mala", "Ya No Tiene Novio", "Desconocidos" and Lali's "Sin Querer Queriendo", in which the duo appears as featured artist.
"Round and Round" was used in season 1 of the series Supernatural and season 2 of the Netflix series Stranger Things. The song was also used in the end credits for Billy & Mandy Save Christmas and in the 2008 film The Wrestler. It also appeared in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the fictional in-game radio station "V-Rock". It was also featured in the rhythm video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s as a cover, and as a master recording in Guitar Hero Smash Hits and Rock Band 2.
Berry's directing work has been seen at theaters across the country, most recently at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse where he directed a critically acclaimed production of On the Town. Directing highlights include Cabaret performed at The 5th Avenue Theatre, St. Paul's Ordway Center (Ivey Award), San Jose's American Musical Theatre, and Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, as well as the smash hits First Date and RENT at The 5th. Most recently at The 5th Avenue, Berry directed The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, and Carousel. In the 2015-/16 season, he will helm How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
In July 1981 the Associates appeared in Smash Hits magazine with Billy Mackenzie announcing his plan to release ten singles over the remainder of the year. His ambition was founded on a plan to use competing label money to record new material then release previously recorded material. Many of the songs that appeared on Fourth Drawer Down had a notably darker and more experimental edge than their debut album The Affectionate Punch, although Mackenzie's lyrics often defied literal interpretation. An early single "Tell Me Easter's on Sunday" is propelled by a somber pulsing beat with a cycling mournful guitar line.
On the release of the 1992 remix of the song, Music Week commented that it "has been remixed as a precursor to their upcoming hits retrospective. It was a brilliant introductory single, and its lack of success first time out — it peaked at number 55 — is baffling. A straightforward reissue would have been preferable, as the song has very strong melodic verses, which are exorcised completely from the remix, but its dancefloor sensibilities are more than sufficient to ensure it becomes a major success." Mark Frith from Smash Hits described it as a "Human League-esque" song.
"Tarzan & Jane" was championed by Smash Hits magazine in the United Kingdom in 1999, but their UK label Edel decided to hold back the release until later on in the year, to coincide with the release of Disney's Tarzan. They elected to release "Best Friend" first; although it received a lot of rotation on the television channel The Box, it only reached number 41 in the UK Singles Chart, and plans to release "Tarzan & Jane" were cancelled. It reached number 2 in the Dutch hit lists. "Tarzan & Jane" reached number 15 on the Eurochart Hot 100.
Chris Heath is a British writer who was a regular contributor to the popular English music magazine Smash Hits in the eighties and early nineties. In the late eighties, he travelled with Pet Shop Boys on their first ever world tour and the result was the book entitled Literally, released in 1990. In 1993, he published Pet Shop Boys Versus America which was written as he accompanied them on a US tour. He wrote the liner notes to the 2001 reissues of the band's first six albums, and assisted in the compilation of additional songs for inclusion.
Record Mirror Single reviews, November 1982 It was also well received by Smash Hits which said "Bucks Fizz still know how to make really cultured pop singles" while also complimenting the production.Smash Hits single reviews by Deborah Steels, 25 November 1982 The promotional video depicts a day in the life of Bucks Fizz, beginning with member Jay Aston oversleeping and then joining the rest of the group for rehearsals, press interviews and culminating in a live performance. The live performance was specially shot for the video at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, the audience being made up of fan-club members.
Released prior to South Saturn Delta, First Rays of the New Rising Sun was Experience Hendrix's attempt at presenting Hendrix's planned fourth studio album. The album consists of songs previously released on his first posthumous albums The Cry of Love (1971), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972). South Saturn Delta collects five songs from the latter two then out-of-print albums that were not selected for First Rays. An early Jimi Hendrix Experience single B-side that saw release on the UK compilations Smash Hits (1968) and Loose Ends (1974), but never officially released in the US was also added.
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big is a 2005 book by Jose Canseco and his personal account of steroid usage in Major League Baseball. The book is autobiographical, and it focuses on Canseco's days as a major leaguer, his marriages, his daughter, and off-field incidents including his barroom brawl in 2001. The book deals primarily with anabolic steroids, drawing upon the personal experiences of Canseco. He takes personal credit for introducing steroids to baseball and names former teammates Mark McGwire, Juan González, Rafael Palmeiro, Iván Rodríguez, and Jason Giambi as fellow steroid users.
On release of Band Hero, 35 of the songs from World Tour and 21 from Smash Hits are importable into Band Hero for a small fee (approximately $0.10 per song), and are treated as downloadable content for the game playable in all game modes. Furthermore, 69 of the 85 tracks from Guitar Hero 5 will be importable into Band Hero. All transferred songs will also be playable in the Guitar Hero 5 and will be free if downloaded in either games. However, Guitar Hero 5 or Band Hero is not backwards-compatible with World Tour nor any other Guitar Hero game.
Girls Aloud also appeared on Children in Need 2005, GMTV, Ministry of Mayhem, and Top of the Pops Reloaded. They performed the song during the last ever Smash Hits Poll Winners Party at Wembley Arena and at London's G-A-Y nightclub. Girls Aloud performed "Biology" on a number of Australian shows during their week-long promotional trip, including 9am with David & Kim, Sunrise, and whatUwant. "Biology" has been performed by the group at a number of summer festivals and open-air concerts, such as T4 on the Beach in 2007 and V Festival in 2006 and 2008.
Both sides of the single received a lot of airplay on local Detroit stations, but problems very quickly arose. The first version of the song was withdrawn because it was considered "too raw", and a smoother take was released. Gordy did little to promote the single's A-side, and, some time later, the label discovered that the song could be conceived to have a scandalous "double meaning", and switch to pushing the B-side alone before ceasing promotion of the single altogether. Neither sides of the single charted nationally, but were smash hits on several regional charts in parts of the country.
Middlemiss worked for Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans before briefly working as a nanny, a shop assistant and a waitress. She worked for only two weeks as a trainee researcher on GMTV with Peter McHugh, before gaining her first presenting job on music show The O-Zone with Jamie Theakston from 1995. She got the audition for The O-Zone after she met presenter Toby Anstis at a party and he gave her tape to the producer. She then presented the Smash Hits Awards, The Phone Zone and Top of the Pops and its spin-off radio show on BBC Radio 1.
The album was well received and garnered positive reviews in the music press,NME, 28 April 1979 with Smash Hits nominating "Hollywood Romance" and "Losin' the Blues for You" as the album's best tracks.Smash Hits, volume 9, 5 April 1979 Six of the original tracks, including the title track, "Melancholy Melon" and "Without You", were finally released on CD on de Pauls' anthology CD Into My Music in March 2013 and the original album sleeve was used for a limited issue release on Think! Records label in Japan. "Hollywood Romance" was not included and has yet to be released on CD although it is available as a mp3 download.
" Davydd Chong from Record Mirror stated that it is "an absolute belter in the vocal department, and all others, the tune bounds along proudly, head held high, evoking the spirit of some mid-Seventies soul classic." Phil Shanklin of ReviewsRevues sait the song has "the verve and drive of a Ce Ce Peniston hit", adding it as "a big song which needs a big vocal and Dina shines." Adam Higginbotham from Select noted the song as "solid, tastefully-cut soul bleeding subtly into brisk garage beats." Johnny Dee from Smash Hits described it as a "luxury, jazzy, summertime wobbler that sounds a bit like a Burt Bacharach tune from the '60s.
In the early 1980s he moved to London, and changed the spelling of his name to "Kristopher", writing under the byline of "Kris Kirk". He worked as a journalist for Gay News and Gay Times and in 1984 he also began writing about the pop scene for Melody Maker, becoming the first openly gay music journalist in the UK. He also wrote numerous freelance articles for music publications, including Smash Hits and The Face and for other publications such as The Guardian, New York Rocker and City Limits. In 1988, Kris Kirk moved to rural Wales to open a secondhand book shop with his boyfriend, photographer Ed Heath.
Graney has played at the Big Day Out Festival on many occasions, as well as the Livid festival and the Falls Festival. He performed on the TV shows Recovery, Nomad, Smash Hits, Live and Sweaty, Denton, Midday with Kerry Anne, Jimeoin, Shaun Micallef's Micallef Tonight, Mornings with Bert Newton, AM with Denise Drysdale, Sale of the Century, The Games, RocKwiz, Spicks and Specks, Australia's Dumbest Musician, Neighbours (two-episode story), Review, and Roy and HG's Club Buggery (1996–1997). He wrote a lyric book, It Is Written, Baby (1997). With Moore, he composed and performed the score of the movie Bad Eggs (2003), and for Mahony's short film Ray (2005).
A portion of the Arrow's space, along with a smaller slot that was previously used by Bauer Group's Smash Hits Radio, was reused to launch Bauer-owned alternative/rock station Q Radio onto the DRG multiplex. The Arrow was removed from Virgin Media channel 921 on 21 June 2009 and Sky channel 0161 on 22 June 2009. In February 2009, The Arrow was removed from the Switch Scotland regional DAB service, and replaced by Gold.Wohnort.org In Yorkshire, the station has been moved from the regional DAB multiplex to local multiplexes; the move was to make way for XFM London, which moved in the other direction.
Love Moves received mostly negative reviews from contemporary critics. Colin Irwan of Smash Hits, despite referring to Wilde as "one of pop's more welcome survivors", accused the singer of "underselling" herself. Describing "It's Here" as "characterless" and the album itself as containing "featherweight production and unimaginative material", some praise was given to "Time" (which was compared to the work of Belinda Carlisle) and "In Hollywood" (featuring a "Madonna-esque sense of drama"). Q described the album as a disappointment, writing of Wilde's "character-free voice" and the "EEC approved variants of what once might have been considered a lightly soulful persuasion" found on "Time" and "Who's to Blame".
The album had three smash hits, a semi-autobiographical plena named "Ya Llegó" (written for him by fellow Puerto Rican composer and singer Felito Felix) and another called "Julia Lee", the story of a bully who terrorized San Juan's Barrio Obrero neighborhood. A third hit was a medley of "Qué Será" and "Askarakatiskis". In Puerto Rico, two additional plenas written by Tite Curet Alonso, one called "La Humanidad" ("The Humanity"), in which Tite criticizes people's pettiness that have ruined the friendship between two buddies, and "Tinguilikitín", which describes Mayagüez's old horse-pulled tram and its bell, were minor hits. Soon after his mid-1960s albums were re-released.
On its release, Alex Kadis of Smash Hits wrote: "It's undoubtedly super and musically accomplished but it's not exactly 'of the moment'. But then, if Michael Bolton can get away with slushy, epic ballads so can Datchler, and anyway, this is far smoother and grander and weepier than anything you'll have heard for a long time." Bob Eborall of the Ealing Leader considered the song "a tuneful, pleading track" which "could score [Datchler a hit]". Music & Media listed the song as a "sure hit" and described it as a "well-arranged song" but felt it was "sadly let down by some awkward lyrics in the verses".
The setlist was considered the weakest part of the game; although it was praised for its diversity, critics believed that the widely varying genres represented would mean that players would not enjoy every song in the game. Guitar Hero 5 is the first game in the series to reuse content from previous Guitar Hero games. Most of the existing downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour can be reused in Guitar Hero 5 without additional cost, while for a small fee, players can import a selection of songs from Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits into Guitar Hero 5. Such content is incorporated into the main game modes.
Upon release, New Musical Express described the song as a "blasting dance furore about having no ozone layer and seeing the air pollution from the power station, and so on..." Melody Maker noted the song's "hard-on, haughty syncopation" and added: "Blast may lack Trevor Horn's exotic depth and sweep but "Atomic City" has learned enough from Frankie to locate a hiatus of pastoral serenity in the midst of the swelter." Smash Hits felt the song was "overblown". Music & Media noted the song's "dark, funky backing", "dramatic orchestral breaks", "subdued but highly seductive chorus" and "excellent production". American newspaper The Age described the song as "very 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood'".
In the 1990s, the magazine's circulation slumped and it was overtaken by the BBC's spin off magazine Top of the Pops. Emap's other biweekly teen magazine of the period Big! (which featured more celebrities and stars of TV series including Australians based Home and Away and United States imported Beverly Hills, 90210) was closed and this celeb focus was shifted over to Smash Hits, which became less focused on teen pop and more of an entertainment magazine. The magazine also shifted size a number of times in subsequent relaunches including one format that was as big as an album with songwords to be clipped out on the card cover.
J-Euro Best is a compilation album, consisting of recordings by various Avex artists produced and/or remixed by various music producers mostly those of eurobeat from Italy, released in 2001 by Avex Trax. As an album in the Super Eurobeat Presents : J-Euro series,Avex Trax, J-EURO J-Euro Best contained 14 tracks including ones sung by prominent Avex artists such as Ayumi Hamasaki, MAX and Every Little Thing.Tsutaya, J-Euro Best > Summary J-Euro Best can be considered a greatest hits album, as the album consists of many smash hits in the 2000 "J-Euro" boom in the para para scene.
Jason Charles Lewis known professionally as Jayce Lewis (born 29 September 1984) is a Welsh musician from Bridgend, South Wales, who entered the industry as a respected percussionist. In late 2009, Lewis released a self-produced single titled "Icon" (also included on EMI Records' Smash Hits 2009 compilation), achieving a top-10 chart position alongside VH1/MTV Asia Viacom18 features. With strong industrial music and synthpop influences, his music has been generalised as alternative rock with electronica roots and "tribal percussion". Lewis has collaborated with acts such as Queen and synthpop icon Gary Numan, for whom Lewis has been a supporting act three times.
Born in Derby on 25 March 1965 and raised in Essex, Young was discovered by The Jam frontman, Paul Weller, through an advertisement in Smash Hits magazine for his Respond Records label. The ad solicited demo tapes from female singers between the ages of 18 and 24, for the purpose of hiring a vocalist alongside the group The Questions. Although just 17 years old, Young replied and sent Weller a cassette of a Phoebe Snow-inspired version of the Betty Wright hit "Shoorah Shoorah". Young's tape was singled out from among the hundreds received, and shortly thereafter was invited to London for an audition.
During the 1998 season, McGwire admitted to taking androstenedione, an over-the-counter performance enhancement drug that was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the NFL and the IOC, but not by Major League Baseball. In the years following 1998, the continued increase in offensive production caused critics to question how players were suddenly becoming more powerful. Many speculated that players were using anabolic steroids to increase their strength and endurance. Use of the banned drug was subsequently revealed by Jose Canseco in his 2005 book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big where he alleged that 85% of baseball players were using the banned substance.
Johan started DJing at the age of 17 in his home country of Belgium, and during the latest 15 years has built up an international fame spinning as a DJ in Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Northern Ireland, Israel, North Cyprus and now also as resident DJ at Club Gorgeous in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides DJing, Johan is a trance producer working with partner Sven Maes. Johan and Sven are behind European smash hits from Airscape, Balearic Bill, Des Mitchell, Abnea, Svenson & Gielen. Furthermore, they are well known for their remixing skills which can be heard on productions by Chicane, Delerium, Vengaboys, Tiësto, Scooter, Boy George a.o.
In 1996, signed to MCA Records, her debut single, "You Lift Me Up" was released and was well reviewed, and a big national club hit in the UK. The single also reached the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up, "Just A Little Bit of Love" was not so well received by critics. Of note, Smash Hits, reviewing the single, declared that "Rebekah may be as cute as a box of Andrex puppies, but even that shouldn't help this duffer of a dance single into the charts". Nevertheless, it was a sizeable club success, and like its predecessor, was produced by the popular dance outfit, K-Klass.
It finds a way into people's hearts in a way that independent music never did." He explained his reasons for abandoning the band's original "do- it-yourself" philosophy to Smash Hits in November 1981: As well as his musical change of heart, Gartside had also abandoned the strict Marxist philosophy of the early Scritti Politti ideas and recordings, saying that "a lot of the very oppositional politics that we'd been involved in lost their appeal and credibility for me. I rejected the principles of that, what was monolithical Marxism. I no longer supported the mechanism which held that up, and carried over to the music.
He played Ravenal only in the original production of Show Boat, not in any of the revivals, and never appeared in films or on television. Despite appearing in three musical theatre smash hits over a span of seven years, Marsh made his last appearance in a new show in 1930, The Well of Romance, opposite his Show Boat co-star, Norma Terris. After that, he appeared in major roles on Broadway in 1930's revivals of some Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. He made no recordings of the songs that he sang either in The Student Prince or Show Boat, but he did record some of those Gilbert and Sullivan selections.
The set was rife with green laser beams and giant artificial phalli. On November 6, 2012, Kesha made the song's first televised performance on The X Factor Australia's fourth season. On November 20, 2012, Kesha performed "Die Young" at The Today Show in New York, NY. The performance was held in the Rockefeller Plaza, and she wore a camouflage leotard adorned with an upside cross and rainbow-colored paper flowers. Along with "Die Young", she performed her other smash hits, "Blow" and "We R Who We R". Billboard congratulated "Die Young"s performance at the American Music Awards of 2012 as being one of the five best performances that night.
The title was bought in 1987 by Emap and moved from Kent to Peterborough, where the management sought to repeat the publishing success of its Smash Hits pop title and re-launched AW as an A4 title aimed at teenagers. Emap made some business decisions that decreased the quality of the product and damaged the magazine's reputation. First, the previous editorial staff was not retained by Emap thus losing the experience and inside connections these employees had fostered through the years. On top of this the inexperienced editorial team had to deal with a publication date brought forward to Wednesdays, requiring a speedy and expensive turnaround of each weekend's results.
Rags to Rufus was released in 1974 and two of its singles — the Stevie Wonder-penned "Tell Me Something Good" and the Parker-Khan composition, "You Got the Love" — became smash hits leading to Rags to Rufus going Platinum and also landed them opening spots for the tours of several top stars including Stevie Wonder, Cheech and Chong and the Hues Corporation. "Tell Me Something Good" also brought Rufus their first Grammy Award. In addition, it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a Gold disc by the RIAA on August 9, 1974. Due to Khan's increasing popularity Rufus and ABC started calling the group Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan.
Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote, "Listeners may not have a clue what it's about, but the mood created by this totally unique production will keep 'em glued and wanting more. Not only have the Germans demolished the Berlin Wall, they had the good sense to make this a number one "sod - as in (Marquis De Sade) ness." Kim Såtvedt from Norwegian newspaper Laagendalsposten picked the song as one of the best cuts of the album. Ian Cranna from Smash Hits noted the "atmospheric lines" of the song in his review, adding that it's "combining medieval monks' chants and wispy, wistful synthesiser driftings over hippety-hoppety beats.
On the single's release, Smash Hits described it as "attractive left field pop" that had "sparse guitaring reminiscent of early Cure and plenty of deadpan melodic bite". The single was reissued as a limited edition 7" single on 4 December 2006 on the same label and with the same catalogue number, KOW 1, and reached number 177 on the UK Singles Chart. A promo 7" version was also released by Korova in January 1983. The song was covered by the Scottish rock group Idlewild on the b-side of their 2000 single "These Wooden Ideas," and by the American band Rogue Wave on the 2016 album of 80s covers, Cover Me.
"Keep Each Other Warm" is a 1986 single by Bucks Fizz. The song peaked at No. 45 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1986. It was the fifth and final single from their Writing on the Wall album, which was released at the same time. It also received positive reviews in the music press with Number One magazine stating; “Their best effort yet with the new line-up, but set beside the sheer genius of say “The Land of Make Believe”, it doesn't really cut the cake”,Number One magazine Single reviews, November 1986 while Smash Hits predicted; “Bucks Fizz will find themselves back with a very welcome hit”.
He was replaced by Mark Sutherland, formerly of NME and Smash Hits, who thus "fulfilled [his] boyhood dream" and stayed on to edit the magazine for three years. Many long-standing writers left, often moving to Uncut, with Simon Price departing allegedly because he objected to an edict that coverage of Oasis should be positive. Its sales, which had already been substantially lower than those of the NME, entered a serious decline. In 1999, MM relaunched as a glossy magazine, but the magazine closed the following year, merging into IPC Media's other music magazine, NME, which took on some of its journalists and music reviewers.
With additional guitarist Jim McKinven (formerly of Berlin Blondes), they recorded their debut album, Happy Birthday (1981), largely produced by Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The band also worked briefly with producer Martin Rushent for the title track, which became the band's third single and their biggest hit. The song reached number 2 in the UK (for three weeks) in October 1981, catapulting the band to fame. They quickly became established as one of the biggest new wave acts around, and were subsequently voted "Best New Group" at the NME Awards and "Most Promising New Act" in the 1981 Smash Hits readers poll.
Beat Boy was poorly received by critics. In a scathing review of the album, Ian Cranna of Smash Hits characterised Strange and Egan as "two wafer-thin talents" and described the album as "a cross between all-purpose Euro-disco and Queen, with excruciatingly amateurish lyrics". Though the band's first two studio albums peaked within the Top 20 and Top 10 respectively, each earning a Silver disc in the UK, Beat Boy peaked at number 79 and spent only two weeks on the album chart. Two singles were released from the album, "Love Glove" in August 1984 (UK No. 54) and "Beat Boy" in November 1984, which did not chart.
The Philadelphia Inquirer gave a 3 out of 5 star rating stating "And while there are no surprises here, the group offers another session of class music, fortified by strong melodies and appealing lyrics. The skilled blend of classic funk and mainstream values guarantees wide acceptance for this release. The groups shifts nicely from mellow ballads such as 'My Love' to upbeat material such as 'Let's Groove'." With a 7 out of 10 rating Fred Dellar of Smash Hits found that "White's production is impeccable; the vocals float and flare, the horns urge you onto the dance-floor and the rhythms make you stay there".
Although MRIB's Network Chart was a direct rival to the chart that was compiled by Gallup for CIN/OCC and broadcast by BBC Radio 1, the same radio station announced in 1995 that it was launching the 1FM Artist Chart that combined album and singles sales and would be compiled by MRIB. This had apparently disappointed CIN. From 1998 to 2001, MRIB also compiled the World Beat album chart show for CNN International. In 2002, Emap announced that they would be launching their own Smash Hits chart for its FM radio stations such as Kiss and that it would be compiled using sales data from MRIB.
The version in Guitar Hero II was a cover version, while Smash Hits featured the master recording. The song was also featured in The Real World Road Rules reunion. The cover art for the single of the song was done by Avenged Sevenfold's close friend Cam Rackam. The Rock Band 3 version of the original master recording of the song being notable in that it has support for Rock Band PRO mode, which takes advantage of the use of a real guitar / bass guitar, along with standard MIDI-compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards in addition to up to three-part harmony and/or backing vocals.
Dissatisfied with his salary earnings as a Columbia staff producer, particularly after several hit albums which earned him no royalties, Johnston became an independent producer, most successfully with Lindisfarne on Fog on the Tyne, which topped the British album chart in 1972. In 1972 he toured with Leonard Cohen as a keyboard player, and produced the resulting live album Live Songs. In 1978 he produced Jimmy Cliff's Give Thankx album, featuring "Bongo Man". In 1979, Johnston produced an album with the San Francisco band Reggae Jackson, titled Smash Hits that featured Jimmy Foot, Cheryl Lynn, Kenneth Nash, and Wayne Bidgell (the low voice heard on Jimmy Cliff's "Bongo Man" track).
By 25 September, this had increased to 400,000 copies. The high expectations of the single's success prompted bookmaker William Hill to refuse taking bets on the single charting at number one. Reviewing the single's other A-side "Mis- Shapes" in 13 September issue of Smash Hits, Mark Sutherland wrote: "Unlike Common People, nothing short of brazen horsefixing will prevent it reaching Number One." Although the single had higher first-week sales than "Common People" and was the band's closest shot at the number one spot, the single charted at number two behind Simply Red's "Fairground", which had a lead of more than 20,000 copies.
Other magazines in the category included Arena, Esquire and Men's Health. He was again nominated the following year. He has made numerous television appearances commentating on popular culture and gay issues including 'The Richard & Judy Show' (Channel 4, 2003), '25 Years of Smash Hits', 'The Posh & Becks Years' (Sky, 2004), 'Living With Boy George' (Channel 4, 2008), 'Paul O'Grady's Hollywood' (ITV, 2017) and 'The Double Life Of George Michael' (ITV, 2018). He has contributed to numerous publications including The Sunday Times, The Observer Music Monthly, Time Out, Out and UK black music monthly Echoes and worked on PR for new artist launches with various major labels.
After graduating, he wrote for Record Mirror, NME and Time Out before signing up as Features Editor of Smash Hits in 1981, where he became the editor in 1983. He was the launch editor of Q, the re-launch editor of Select, and the launch managing editor of Mojo. He later became the editor-in-chief of EMAP Metro overseeing 14 consumer magazines, but he left Emap after 16 years to join the independent publishing company Development Hell in 2002. He also has a long broadcasting career which includes contributions to BBC Radio 1 as stand-ins for David "Kid" Jensen and John Peel. He presented the BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test from 1982 to 1987.
As a result, minor hit single boosted the band's ticket sales and enabled them to perform live extensively in larger venues. They reconsidered the partnership with Sasaji, and decided to continue recording together on follow-up album. In April and July 1994, with as producer, the singles "Sora mo Toberuhazu" and were released and became smash hits. In September, when they installed Sasaji as producer again, they released the 5th album , which ranked 14th when just released. By the way, this year they appeared in Music Station (TV Asahi’s program) with "Kimi ga Omoide ni Naru Mae ni", in Pop Jam (NHK’s program) with "Aoi Kuruma", in Count Down TV (TBS’s program) with "Spider".
Yuen was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. With a support of Ng See-yuen, he achieved his first directing credit in 1978 on the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, starring Jackie Chan, followed quickly by Drunken Master. The films were smash hits, launching Jackie Chan as a major film star, turning Seasonal Films into a major independent production company, and starting a trend towards comedy in martial arts films that continues to the present day. Yuen went on to work with such figures as Sammo Hung in Magnificent Butcher (1979), Yuen Biao in Dreadnaught (1981), Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey (1993), and Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in Tai Chi Master (1993), and Wing Chun (1994).
Pop Rescue commented, "This song stood out from the rest of the charts when it was released in the UK, and that along with the boys’ breathy sexy promises and the inclusion of ‘sex’ in the song title made this track a sure-fire hit. Musically it’s quite a simple song, allowing the vocals to really shine here – and to their credit, their vocals worth together really well." James Hamilton from Record Mirror described it as a "sweetly cooing young guys crooned gorgeous sineous sexy swayer". In his review of the C.M.B. album, Mark Frith from Smash Hits said that "they sound excellent" when "they do manage to break into a sweat" like on "I Wanna Sex You Up".
The band confirmed that they wanted Space Cowboy to get involved in the album after he led Lady Gaga to huge success whom we worked with on tracks ("Just Dance" and "Poker Face"). The band wanted to work with MNEK after he produced a lot of Tinie Tempah's smash hits, and they are big fans of his music. When the band was asked to explain the single they said; "All Fired Up" was explained as think "Ibiza closing party meets Miami poolside rave – the girls continue to blow us away as their signature pop vocals are played over a synth dance beat creating this anthemic dance banger." The band labelled the track as their "floor filler".
It also reached No.1 in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, while in Germany it also became their biggest selling single. The song was the group's debut single release in the US, but didn't achieve chart success there. Critical reaction to the song was favourable with Record Mirror stating: "Prejudices and preconceptions aside, it's an excellent record and a worthy successor to 'Don't You Want Me' at the top." Record Mirror, Chartfile, 16 January 1982 "The Land of Make Believe" remains a firm fan favourite and reviews in the press at the time were positive with Smash Hits calling the song "sheer genius" and more recently Q Magazine labelling the song "not half bad" and "an 80s classic".
In 2004, Sampson returned to the Liverpool dance music scene, and he formed a partnership with producer Paul Keenan under the name Uniting Nations. They released "Out of Touch", a remake of a Hall & Oates hit, which sold 150,000 copies of the single in the United Kingdom and became a European hit. Other big hits included "You And Me" (which reached No. 15 in the UK), proving yet another hit in Europe, and "Ai No Corrida", which reached No. 18, also in the UK. Smash Hits readers and T4 viewers voted Uniting Nations "Best Dance Act" at the last ever Poll Winners Party in 2005. Sampson also had three number one singles in Poland with Uniting Nations.
In 2006 the duo kept on working as they broke into a wider-music scene with at least two more smash hits that were played throughout Puerto Rico and U.S. Urban music radio and television stations, including the songs "Japón" ("Japan"), and "Suave" ("Soft/Slow"). The group had their first massive-venue concert on May 6, 2006 at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan. They also toured Central and South America, playing "Atrévete-te-te" before an escola de samba in Venezuelan television, and also visiting, among others, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras and Colombia. In light of the criticism directed towards the band, Calle 13 has become a cultural reference to be reckoned with in Puerto Rico.
The group performing the song during the Spice World – 2019 Tour The song was performed many times on television, in both Europe and the US, including An Audience with..., Live & Kicking, Top of the Pops, the Bravo Supershow, Much Music, the Late Show with David Letterman, and Saturday Night Live. The performance at Saturday Night Live on 12 April 1997 was the first time "Say You'll Be There" was performed with a live band—their previous performances have all been either lip-synched or sung to a recorded backing track. The group performed the song at the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1997 Prince's Trust Gala, the 1997 San Remo Festival, and the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards.
Denis Ian Goodwin (19 July 1929 - 26 February 1975) was a radio and television comedy scriptwriter and actor, best known for his writing partnership with Bob Monkhouse, with whom he also compèred the Smash Hits programme on Radio Luxembourg. Goodwin was born in London and attended Dulwich College at the same time as Monkhouse, although there is no evidence that the two met at school. In 1944, his father Laurence Goodwin was killed by a V-1 flying bomb ("doodlebug") while waiting at a bus stop in South London. In 1948, while working at a department store, Goodwin approached Monkhouse and they formed a writing and comedy partnership that lasted for fourteen years.
Smash Hits launched the career of many journalists including Radio Times editor Mark Frith. Other well-known writers have included Dave Rimmer, Mark Ellen (who went on to launch Q, Mojo and Word), Steve Beebee, Chris Heath, Tom Hibbert and Miranda Sawyer. Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys also worked as a writer and assistant editor, and once claimed that had he not become a pop star, he would likely have pursued his ambition to become editor. The magazine was also available in Continental Europe, especially in Germany where the issues could be bought at railway stations or airports, whilst the title was licensed for a French version in the 1990s.
Bev Hillier of Smash Hits gave Faces an 8 out of 10 rating and found that "Their repertoire ranges from dreamy ballads through funk with a capital F, with numerous other styles incorporated en route. Every member's contribution is vital but Verdine White's bass in particular takes direct control of the feet and the horn section make Dexys sound like the Pied Piper. If you think disco's faceless, you ain't heard this". With a three out of four star rating Chuck Pratt of the Chicago Sun Times exclaimed "this fine funk soul group puts its best face forward on this ambitious and generous double pocket set of intricately produced, high gloss funk".
Less impressed, Smash Hits gave the album a score of 6 out of 10, while Peoples reviewer found the music "arch- Harrison: lyrically cheery and thematically uplifting" but "so restrained and subdued that the tunes track through a whole side unnoticed and indistinguishable". Robert Christgau was more critical in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), giving it a "C" grade and singling out "Faster" as the record's only good song. Describing the album's release, author Elliot Huntley writes that its commercial performance was hindered by the fascination with new wave music in Britain, and as a result, "interest in Beatle product was probably at an all time low".Huntley, pp. 161–62.
The album also made an impact across Europe, charting well in a number of countries. To support and celebrate the success of the album, Louise embarked on a UK wide 'sell-out' arena tour of over twenty dates, including Wembley Arena. "Let's Go Round Again" (a cover of a song by The Average White Band) was the second single released from the album, which reached number ten. At the start of 1998, Louise's career was at a high point: her second album had gone platinum, she was on the cover of magazines such as Smash Hits and GQ, and she had been voted Sexiest Woman in the World by the readers of FHM magazine.
The great physical distance that separates them and Devdas anxiety to redeem a promise is skillfully conveyed through some stunning use of parallel cutting. The sequence of Devdas crying out in delirium, Parvati stumbling and then Devdas falling from his berth in the train was commended for its essential 'Indianness' in conveying fate's domination over individual destiny. KL Saigal played Devdas in the Hindi version (Barua himself played the role in the Bengali version) and the film took him to cult star status. His songs in the film Balam Aaye Baso Mere Man Mein and Dukh ke Din Ab Beete Nahin became smash hits and set the tone for a glorious filmic career till his death in 1947.
Audiences generally appeared to find the music somewhat more sterile and less engaging than that of its conceptually more cohesive predecessor, Computer World. Compared to the band's four preceding albums, some critics have pointed to the lack of a strong and sufficiently intriguing theme to tie the Electric Café material together. Furthermore, the near half- decade hiatus in the band's record releases and performance activity lost them crucial momentum in their career. While recognising Kraftwerk's influence on groups such as Depeche Mode and The Human League, journalist Ian Cranna writing in Smash Hits described the album as "frankly rather dull" adding "one can only assume it's an exercise for their own amusement".
Smash Hits is a compilation album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Track Records first issued it on April 12, 1968, in the UK and included all four of the group's singles (both A and B sides) released up to that time, plus four additional songs from the UK edition of Are You Experienced. Reprise Records did not issue the album in the US until July 30, 1969, with some different tracks. It included two songs from Electric Ladyland and three tracks from the UK edition of Are You Experienced, which were previously unreleased in the US (including a stereo version of "Red House" from a different take than the original mono album version).
The Word was launched in February 2003. It was the first magazine to come from Development Hell Ltd, an independent publishing venture set up by David Hepworth and Jerry Perkins, two former EMAP executives with more than 35 years combined experience devising, editing and publishing titles such as Q, Empire, Mojo and Heat. The company also produce the dance music and clubbing title Mixmag and owns the dance music networking site Don't Stay In. The Guardian Media Group owned 29.5% of the Development Hell Ltd. The Word was edited by Mark Ellen, former editor of Smash Hits, Q and Select, launch managing editor of Mojo, and former editor-in-chief of EMAP Metro.
In August 1983, Tennant, who was an assistant editor at Smash Hits, went to New York to interview Sting. While there he arranged to meet Hi-NRG producer Bobby Orlando and gave him a demo tape containing "It's a Sin" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)". From 1983–84, Orlando recorded 11 tracks with Tennant and Lowe including "West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "It's A Sin", "I Want A Lover", "I Get Excited", "Two Divided By Zero", "Rent", "Later Tonight", "Pet Shop Boys", "A Man Could Get Arrested" and "One More Chance". In April 1984, the Orlando-produced "West End Girls" was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
"Hersham Boys" is a single released by English punk rock band Sham 69 in 1979 from their third studio album The Adventures of the Hersham Boys. It was the band's biggest and most well-known hit, peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart and at nine on the Irish Singles Chart. This success was despite the song's poor review in pop magazine Smash Hits; music journalist David Hepworth described the song as "A tired, hollow effort struggling between weary attempts at rabble-rousing and blush-making pseudo-Springsteen 'street' songs that reek of desperation and contract fulfilling. As empty self- satisfied a record as anything they supposedly set out to replace".
Top of the Pops magazine has been running since February 1995, and filled the void in the BBC magazine portfolio where Number One magazine used to be. It began much in the mould of Q magazine, then changed its editorial policy to directly compete with popular teen celebrity magazines such as Smash Hits and Big, with free sticker giveaways replacing Brett Anderson covers. A July 1996 feature on the Spice Girls coined the famous "Spice" nicknames for each member (Baby, Ginger, Posh, Scary and Sporty) that stayed with them throughout their career as a group and beyond. The BBC announced that the magazine would continue in publication despite the end of the television series, and is still running.
Written by Andy Hill, the lyrics tell of someone who is finding it difficult to adjust to life in a big city but is determined to stay.bucksfizzlyrics.net - London Town lyrics Lead vocals on the track are by member Bobby G, although he was unhappy with the way his vocals were mixed, giving them a distorted quality, claiming that he "sounded like a munchkin".Smash Hits, "The Band You Love to Hate", September 1984 This single was a short-notice replacement for another song, "Invisible", which featured lead vocals by Jay Aston, but was withdrawn for reasons which are unclear. Details of its release had already been announced to the fan club and mentioned on radio.
Her 1961 recording of "Sailor" became her first no.1 hit in the UK, while such follow- up recordings as "Romeo" and "My Friend the Sea" landed her in the British Top Ten later that year. "Romeo" sold over one million copies globally, and was her first gold disc, which was awarded by the RIAA. In France, "Ya Ya Twist" (a French language cover of the Lee Dorsey rhythm and blues song "Ya Ya" and the only successful recording of a twist song by a woman) and "Chariot" (the original version of "I Will Follow Him") became smash hits in 1962, while German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted as well.
Projects in development include a sitcom and a programme on climate change. In recent years, Sarpong has presented other series, including Your Face or Mine?, a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for E4; Dirty Laundry, an urban talk-show that was an original idea of Sarpong's; Playing It Straight, a dating game-show filmed in Mexico for Channel 4, and Sarpong has presented the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party and the Party In The Park. She is a regular at the MOBO Awards and presented them for three years in a row. She has also appeared on BBC Television's Question Time, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC's Have I Got News for You.
Returning to London, Thompson continued to write musicals, with Bolton and others. None of his 1930s shows were smash hits like the Broadway shows of the late 1920s, but many were solid successes, including Seeing Stars (1935), Going Places (1936), Swing Along (1936)Swing Along at The Guide to Musical Theatre, accessed 9 May 2010 and Magyar Melody (1939). The last of these made history on 27 March 1939 as the first musical to be broadcast directly from a theatre and shown on television.Magyar Melody at The Guide to Musical Theatre, accessed 9 May 2010 Thompson and Bolton had a final Broadway hit with Follow the Girls, which ran for almost 900 performances in 1944.
Smash Hits album reviews, November 1986 Number One magazine was impressed by the adult rock sound of many of the tracks, but feared that the album wouldn't stand up to repeated listenings. Nevertheless, they gave the album a 4 out of 5 rating, commenting that "Writing On the Wall sees the Fizzers moving ever further away from their light pop of old, [giving] a fair impression of American AOR rockers – in the most melodic way possible of course".Karen Swayne. Number One Magazine album reviews, November 1986 The newly established Q Magazine rated the album 3 out of 5 and favoured the tracks "Keep Each Other Warm" and "The Company You Keep".
Heat Radio launched in 2003 as a non-stop music station broadcasting from London, where it was located alongside the sister magazine. In 2007 the station re-launched with presenters and showbiz news throughout the day. In 2009, Heat moved to Bauer Radio's studios in Castlefield, Manchester, as part of a cost-cutting programme, to be based alongside sister radio stations Key 103 and The Hits Radio, where music and entertainment news output would be sourced. That same year, the station, along with The Hits Radio, Smash Hits Radio, Q Radio and Kerrang Radio, were removed from Sky, Virgin Media and UPC Ireland, due to cost-cutting measures with Bauer Radio, BSkyB and Liberty Global.
The band was awarded 2nd Best Album of the Year by Revolver magazine behind Mastodon's Leviathan, and was awarded Best Music Video for "Laid to Rest" (2005). While on tour, the band recorded a performance and released it with the name of Killadelphia.Blabbermout.net - Lamb of God: 'Killadelphia' DVD Certified Platinum The release was made available as a DVD and a CD. The DVD was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2007. In 2006, a cover version of the first single from the album, "Laid to Rest", was featured as a playable track in Guitar Hero II. The original version was released for Guitar Hero Smash Hits in 2009.
Educated at Bromsgrove School (Wendron House) and Oriel College, University of Oxford and the London Business School, he started his career as a writer and was a producer for the BBC from 1968 to 1974. He joined EMAP in 1972, and took it from being a small regional newspaper publisher to a large media group. He was involved in launching many new magazines – for instance, Smash Hits, a journal that printed words to pop songs, which went from an initial circulation of 10,000 to one million within a year, which provided the cash which helped Emap to subsequently become a leader in the world of business communications encompassing magazines, events, exhibitions and data products.
Reviewing the album for Smash Hits in 1980, Red Starr says, "Strong enough to surprise the cynics but too mod cliched to make much impression elsewhere." Starr says the band write "some strong pop tunes" and adds that their lyrics "show the potential to contribute something original". Allmusic - 4.5 out of 5 - The band's debut picks up on all of the elements that made the early Jam albums brilliant, a certain reverence for '60s pop with a youthful, forward-looking attitude, punk's high-charged energy and strong songwriting. Beat Boys in the Jet Age is an unfortunately forgotten album which features some of the era's best teen anthems and serves as a highpoint of the often disappointing mod revival.
On 25 January 2000, Ségara released her second album, Au Nom d'une Femme, which achieved more success and remained her most successful album. It reached the top of the French and Belgium charts and two its singles, "Il y a trop de gens qui t'aiment" and "Elle, tu l'aimes...", became smash hits, reaching respectively the first and the third position on the SNEP chart. The album was a triumph: it sold about 1.3 million units and won a NRJ Music Awards in 2001 in the category 'Francophone album of the year'. The third studio album, Hélène, was released in 2002 and contains Ségara's previous songs recorded in Spanish-language and had minor success.
For a short while, Angleró became one of the singers for Bobby Valentín’s orchestra. He then started one of various inceptions of his own band (Angleró had to change the name of one of these, jokingly named Angleró y Su Congregación, as to not appear as blasphemous), with a young Marvin Santiago as his lead singer. Santiago later joined Valentín’s band and became its first featured singer. Angleró wrote various songs for Valentín’s band, such as: Mírate al espejo, Amolador, Son Son Chararí, and two smash hits: the anthemic “Soy boricua” (a patriotic Puerto Rican song) and “La boda de ella”, a huge hit for the band and then-lead singer Cano Estremera.
Stephen Richard Wright (born 26 August 1954) is an English radio personality and DJ, credited for introducing the zoo format on British radio, with its zany, multi-personality approach. He currently presents Steve Wright in the Afternoon and Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs on BBC Radio 2, one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. On BBC Television Wright has hosted Home Truths, The Steve Wright People Show, Auntie's TV Favourites, Top Of The Pops and TOTP2. Wright has won awards, including Best DJ of the Year as voted by readers of The Sun, the Daily Mirror Readers Poll and by Smash Hits in 1994.
On its release, David Hepworth of Smash Hits wrote: "It's good enough, jolly enough and assuredly catchy enough, but Jackson can make much slyer, more affecting records when he wants to, and without sacrificing any of the commercial appeal." Peter Trollope of the Liverpool Echo described the song as a "good album track" but one that "shouldn't have been [the] follow up" to "It's Different for Girls". Mike Gardner of Record Mirror considered "Kinda Kute" a "jolly rolling tune" but felt it "hasn't the edge to do more than creep into the lower reaches of the charts". He felt "Don't Wanna Be Like That" would have been a "better choice" as a single.
He was hired regularly to shoot magazine covers and posters for British music publications as diverse as Smash Hits (Bananarama, Wham); Sounds (Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney) and Q Magazine (a shoot in Brazil with The Cure, and at the other end of the pop spectrum, Wet Wet Wet). He also shot on the sets of TV shows like Top of the Pops adding The Bee Gees, Traffic, The Who, Duran Duran and Elvis Costello to his archive in the 1970s and 1980s. But it was his first client, Disc and Music Echo that set him out on the varied road of music photography by giving him his very first shoot. Other images that have become iconic and were shot for Disc include David Bowie and John Lennon.
In 1990, a version was released by Bombalurina, titled "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", which featured Timmy Mallett, star of Wacaday, a popular UK children's television show of the time, along with two dancers, Dawn Andrews and Annie Dunkley. Andrews later married Gary Barlow of the group Take That. Mallett told the British pop magazine Smash Hits that the composer of popular theatre musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber had come up with the idea for making the single, and had asked Mallett to sing on it. The day after recording the song, Mallett took a copy of it on a tour of European clubs where he was making personal appearances, and asked the clubs' DJs to play the song, raising public awareness of the record.
" David Hepworth, writing in Smash Hits, said, "Original followers [of the band] may find it low on character and surprise while lovers of the mighty "Over You" should be suckers for its mature, silky charms." Greil Marcus praised the album "This record, all graceful lust and wistful regret, is pure romance; it’s also the best summer music anyone’s made since oil spills began undermining the concept ... Flesh + Blood floats; it drifts; it fades away; it soars back. It captures the easy, endless promises of summer, and it captures the summer you’ve never gotten over; it works as soothing, mindless background music, and it can break your heart. Like a perfect July day, it makes no demands on a listener, yet it can give a listener everything.
The Rough Trade label subsequently issued a single by Jamaican reggae singer Augustus Pablo, the debut EP by Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire and the second Stiff Little Fingers single, "Alternative Ulster". During 1978, the label released singles by the Monochrome Set, Subway Sect, Swell Maps, Electric Eels, Spizzoil and Kleenex. In 1979, Rough Trade's first album, Inflammable Material by Stiff Little Fingers, reached number 14 in the UK charts and became the first independently released album to sell over 100,000 copies in the UK.Cranna, Ian (1979) "Rough Charm", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4–17 October 1979, p.6–7 Rough Trade's significance by this time was such that it was made the subject of a South Bank Show documentary.
At one time Canseco was the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players; but was later surpassed by Manny Ramirez, Albert Pujols, David Ortiz, Carlos Delgado, Rafael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, and Miguel Cabrera. He was the first player to hit 30 home runs for four different teams: Oakland (1986–88, 1990, 1991), Texas (1994), Toronto (1998), and Tampa Bay (1999). This record was later surpassed by Fred McGriff and Gary Sheffield who did it for five different teams. Canseco admitted using performance- enhancing drugs during his major-league playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.
In 2005, Canseco admitted to using anabolic steroids with Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno and Manuel Collado in a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids, a figure disputed by many in the game. In the book, Canseco specifically identified former teammates Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Jason Giambi, Iván Rodríguez and Juan González as fellow steroid users, and admitted that he injected them. Most of the players named in the book initially denied steroid use, though Giambi admitted to steroid use in testimony before a grand jury investigating the BALCO case and on January 11, 2010, McGwire admitted publicly to using steroids.
Throughout her career, Ajram has released eleven studio albums to date (including two dedicated for children) and numerous chart toppers such as "Yay", "Ya Tabtab", "Moegaba", "Ehsas Jdeed", "Ibn El Giran", "Fi Hagat", "Ya Kether", "Ma Tegi Hena" and "Badna Nwalee El Jaw". Ajram is the first and only female spokesperson of Coca-Cola in the Arab world, releasing several promotional Coke anthems that became instant smash-hits, such as "Oul Tani Keda", "El Dounya Helwa", "Noss El Kawn" and "Shaggaa Bi Alamak". Ajram has made the list of Most Powerful Arabs on Arabian Business several times, and was similarly listed by Newsweek as one of the most influential Arab singers. Between 2013–2017, Ajram served as a judge on MBC's reality talent show '[Arab Idol]'.
The concept of greatest hits compilations has been adapted to other media as well. In television, some shows have released compilations of their critically successful and highest-rated episodes to drive new viewers to watch a program, such as Family Guys Freakin' Sweet Collection and South Park: The Hits. Several video game companies have re- released popular games for continued sales, sometimes with discounted prices: Sony's PlayStation has released games under their Greatest Hits series; Nintendo has re-released games under the Nintendo Selects label (formerly called "Player's Choice"); Microsoft has re-released games under the Platinum Hits label. Some video game franchises have released greatest hits collections of their own content, such as Super Mario All-Stars, Sonic Mega Collection, and Guitar Hero Smash Hits.
This was despite Age of Chance and other contributors like Big Flame and Stump being stylistically different to the album's characteristic indie pop sound. Age of Chance's subsequent releases saw the band meld their noise rock influences with samplers and hip hop, "music with an influence palpable across swathes of subsequent British pop." The band took further influence from disco and Prince and changed their attire to brightly coloured lycra clothes. For the sole single from their mini-album Kiss Crush Collision (1986), which reached number 4 in the UK Independent Albums Chart, Age of Chance covered Prince's then-recent hit "Kiss", working out the music from hearing it in clubs and consulting Smash Hits for the lyrics, although changing them considerably.
Adams was a member of four- piece boyband a1, who won a BRIT Award in 2001 for Best Newcomer and had two number one singles, "Take On Me" (the chart-topping song that was originally made famous by and written by the Norwegian band a-ha) and "Same Old Brand New You", before separating in 2002. Whilst in the boyband, Adams also scooped a Smash Hits Poll Winners Party Award for Most Fanciable Male in 2001. It was announced in 2009 that a1 were to reform to compete to represent Norway in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. a1 then resigned with Universal Music Group and recorded another two studio albums "Waiting For Daylight" and "Rediscovered", which Adams co-wrote and produced.
In 1967, Polydor Records issued the single in Germany with "Manic Depression" as the B-side, but it did not appear on the charts. "Foxy Lady" has appeared on numerous Hendrix compilation albums, including Smash Hits, The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two, Cornerstones: 1967–1970, The Ultimate Experience, Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix, and The Singles Collection. It is also one of the few songs to be performed by each of the different Hendrix lineups, including the Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, the Band of Gypsys, and the Cry of Love touring group. Live renditions appear on Live at Monterey, Live at Woodstock, Band of Gypsys 2, Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight, and several other live albums.
Songs from the Big Chair received critical acclaim. In his review, critic Barry McIlheney of Melody Maker stated that "none of you should really be too surprised that Tears for Fears have made such an excellent album", calling it "an album that fully justifies the rather sneering, told-you-so looks adopted by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal on the sleeve", before concluding, "An awful lot of people will, of course, go on and on about overcoats, The Lotus Eaters and an alleged lack of depth. And an awful lot of people will have to eat an awful lot of words." Ian Cranna of Smash Hits described it as "looser, more exploratory than before" in nature, and noted its "unflinching lyrical honesty".
To give herself more credibility, Minogue created an alias for herself as "Angel K" and released several white label promotional vinyls. Those tracks included "Do You Dare" and "Closer", which later appeared as B-sides on singles "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "Finer Feelings", respectively. Waterman also wanted to produce more "cutting edge dance music" for Minogue to fit in his show The Hitman and Her, which he considered was "a very hip and trendy show" back then. Minogue suggested that she hoped to find time to do more recording that year, telling Smash Hits in August that she "may do some more writing in America which may lead to another recording there," but it was never materialize.
Donovan, writing a review of Kylie for Number One, felt that it would "brighten your day up", but suggested Minogue's vocal "sounds a bit too much like Minnie Mouse after a while." In another mixed review, Nick Levine of Digital Spy also panned the dated production saying the record was "as loaded with variety as a loaf of bread". He felt her personality and the "quintessentially '80s charm" compensated for its weaknesses, while calling "I Should Be So Lucky" the stand out "classic" track. Chris Heath of Smash Hits praised the "simple, deliriously wonderful disco" tracks, while Rolling Stone suggested they sound like "delightful trifles" and are as "cheesily and identically redolent of the late 80s' as a pair of stone-washed jean shorts".
While Daly was living on the Lower East Side in New York City, a friend who arranged red carpet events suggested that she interview the celebrity attendees. After buying a video camera, Daly's first interview was with New York-based Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant, who became a friend until his death. After a few red carpet interviews, in 2000, she sent a showreel to the producers of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, who immediately contracted her to host the Find Me a Model competition. Since then, she has presented shows including Get Your Kit Off, Singled Out, Smash Hits TV, SMTV Live, Back To Reality and the first series of Make Me a Supermodel with Dave Berry.
Among those he accused was McGwire, his former Oakland Athletics teammate.Canseco, Jose (2005) Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. New York: ReganBooks, page 262 The following year, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, investigative reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle published the Game of Shadows where they detailed alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and implied that both McGwire and Sosa had also used the banned drug.Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (2006) Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the STEROID SCANDAL that Rocked Professional Sports. New York: Gotham Books, pages 51,71,72,79,112,243,245-247 Both McGwire and Sosa, along with other baseball players including Rafael Palmeiro testified to Congress in 2005 that they never used steroids.
"Breaking Up the Girl" received a mixed response from contemporary music journalists. Paul Elliot of Q, who had the chance to listen to the track as soon as it was mixed, described the song as being "redolent of vintage Blondie". Jerry Ewing of Classic Rock wrote that the song was "wonderful, guitar-based rock, with a magic sprinkling of melody" "This serene delight showcases Garbage's softer side," wrote Sunday Mail's Billy Sloan, "Its soft sound contrasts against the spurned vocals; a testament to the chameleon-like style that is the glory of Garbage" A reviewer for Smash Hits! wrote, "[It's] not as instantly memorable as ["Cherry Lips"]... this radio-friendly rock-tinged pop will have your toes tapping away to the beat in no time".
The original 1984 line-up of the band was Stephen O'Neil (vocals, guitar), Annabel Bleach (vocals), Michelle Cannane (guitar and percussion), Frances Gibson (bass), and David Nichols (drums).Strong, Martin C (2003) "Cannanes", in the Great Indie Discography, Canongate, The band released their first single "Life"/"It's Hardly Worth It" in a limited edition of just 12 cassettes in 1985, followed the same year by a cassette album, The Cannanes Come Across with the Goods. The band's first vinyl release was the Bored Angry & Jealous EP in 1986, which was proclaimed "Single of this and any other week" by The Legend! writing in the NME.Andrews, Marc; Isaac, Claire; Nicols, David (2011) Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984 - 2007, Affirm Press, , p.
Tarek Madkour, produced three tracks in the album including the title track. Ajram, before the album's release was rumored to have already filmed "Meen Ghairy Ana" and "Ibn El Giran". "Meen Ghairy Ana", by the successful trio, Nizar Francis, Samir Sfeir and Tarek Madkour who previously created Ajram's smash hits "Yay" and "Ana Yalli", is an upbeat romantic song which was used for the 2008 Coca-Cola campaign in the Middle East. In the song, Madkour's brand new Western formula of beats and instruments created a unique and "colorful" style for Ajram; a much richer mix than the simple, yet unique electric guitar he included in the album's hit "Betfakkar Fi Eih", from which the video's whole style was inspired.
During the recording of Electric Ladyland, he and producer Chas Chandler parted ways and Hendrix explored recording with new musicians and different musical styles. By the middle of the year, he had not completed any promising new material and Reprise Records resorted to issuing his April 1968 UK compilation album, Smash Hits, with some new tracks for the North American market. A concert film for which he had performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London in February 1969 was wrapped up in legal disputes and its release was uncertain. In May, while en route to a concert performance in Toronto, Hendrix was detained and charged with illegal possession of narcotics. If convicted of the felony, he faced as many as 20 years in prison.
Signed by Cliff Cultreri at Relativity Records, Kingpin changed their name to Shotgun Messiah (due to a San Francisco-based band holding the rights to the name Kingpin), remixed and re-packaged Welcome To Bop City as a self-titled album, and released it as their international debut in 1989. After having MTV smash hits such as "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" and "Shout It Out", whilst the band was in progress of making a follow-up to their debut self-titled album, Zan was let go. They hired a new bassist, Bobby Lycon, from New York City, and on Cody's suggestion, Tim Tim switched to lead vocals. At this time, Tim Tim, whose role was now frontman, went by the name Tim Skold.
The song became Rush's first top 40 success in the US as well as a hit in Europe, although smaller than expected in the UK, after predictions of it reaching number one by both Smash Hits and Number One Magazines.Billboard.com The album itself boasted a host of power ballads and uptempo pop/rock tunes with high production values and went on to reach number one in Germany for 9 weeks, remaining on the chart for over a year. It also reached number one in Switzerland. In the US the album peaked at number 118 and number 48 in the UK. A third single "Heart Over Mind" duly became another hit in Europe and also hit the US Club Chart, peaking at No.33.
In March 1985, after long negotiations, Pet Shop Boys cut their contractual ties with Bobby O, with a settlement giving Bobby O significant royalties for future sales. Hiring manager Tom Watkins, they signed with the London-based Parlophone label. In April, Tennant left Smash Hits magazine - where he had progressed to the position of deputy editor - and in July, a new single, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", was released, reaching number 116 in the UK. The B-side to this single, "In the Night", later resurfaced, in a longer remixed version, as the opening track to the duo's first remix album, Disco, in 1986. This version was also used as the theme for the UK television series The Clothes Show.
The transfer process requires the player to enter a unique code from the World Tour or Smash Hits manual to be able to redownload available songs in a pack (on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) or individual songs (on the Wii) that have been updated to include the new features. Players on the Xbox 360 can delete individual songs after downloading the pack. Some songs are not transferable because of licensing issues—not technical issues—according to Bright. Tim Riley, the head of music licensing at Activision, stated that the company will continue to seek licenses for more songs from previous games and downloadable content to be exported into Band Hero, but cannot guarantee that these songs will be licensed for future Guitar Hero games.
The group were awarded the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy for their work on the film, and soon afterward were signed to Pye Records, at the time among the top three labels in Britain. After releasing the singles "Bristol Express" and "Exodus (Main Theme)", the Eagles embarked on a major tour of England along with Del Shannon, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Tillotson, and Dionne Warwick. The tour lasted much of 1963, during which their debut album, Smash Hits From The Eagles, was released in the UK and the US. The following year brought their most successful single and the one for which they are best remembered today, a vocal rendition of "Wishin' and Hopin' ", with the B-side "Write Me a Letter".
In late 1982, tensions began arising within the band as they struggled to record new material, which was hindered when Heyward refused to attend recording sessions. Eventually, in January 1983, the band's forthcoming single, "Whistle Down the Wind", was postponed and a statement was issued confirming that the band and Heyward were parting company. At the time, Heyward told Smash Hits magazine that he had been contemplating going solo for some time and had already recorded some tracks with session musicians. However, many years later, Heyward stated that he had been struggling with stress and depression at the time after a year of constant work and pressure, which led to him being, in effect, sacked by the other members of the band.
Lobby card for Twentieth Century Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two long-suffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb (Walter Connolly) and the consistently tipsy Owen O'Malley (Roscoe Karns). Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protegée into the actress "Lily Garland", and both she and the play are resounding successes. Over the next three years, their partnership spawns three more smash hits, and Lily is recognized as a transcendent talent. Then Lily tries to break off their professional and personal relationship, fed up with Oscar's overpossesiveness and control of every aspect of her life.
Smash Hits, December 1986 ("Keep Each Other Warm" review)Q Magazine, October 2000, (Are You Ready re-issue review)Q Magazine, April 2001 Members Bobby G and Cheryl Baker have both named it as the best of their own songs. It seems that "The Land of Make Believe" also earned them a grudging respect within music circles, as Baker recalls confronting Bob Geldof who had publicly "slagged off" the band, with him then admitting to her that he actually really liked "The Land of Make Believe". The Human League's Philip Oakey contemporarily declared his admiration for Bucks Fizz in general, while OMD's Andy McCluskey said that he thought it was "an absolutely wonderful song with a great melody". "The Land of Make Believe" was many times used as the closing number of Bucks Fizz's concerts.
The transfer process requires the player to enter a unique code from the World Tour or Smash Hits manual to be able to redownload available songs in a pack (on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) or individual songs (on the Wii) that have been updated to include the new features. Players on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 can delete individual songs after downloading the pack. Some songs are not transferable because of licensing issues—not technical issues—according to Bright. Tim Riley, the head of music licensing at Activision, stated that the company will continue to seek licenses for more songs from previous games and downloadable content to be exported into Guitar Hero 5, but cannot guarantee that these songs will be licensed for future Guitar Hero games.
The albums discography of Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivete Sangalo consists of seven studio albums, three live album, seven compilation albums, one extended play and five video albums. In 1993, Sangalo began her career as lead singer of Banda Eva, the most successful Brazilian axé music band, and released six studio albums, one live album and two compilation albums. In 1999 Sangalo began her solo career and release her self-titled album, with the smash hits "Se Eu Não Te Amasse Tanto Assim" and, "Canibal". Her second album, Beat Beleza, was released in September 2000 featuring the singles "Pererê" and "A Lua Que Eu Te Dei". In 2002 Sangalo released her most successful single, "Festa" from the same title album, Festa, and in 2003 was released Clube Carnavalesco Inocentes em Progresso, her least successful album.
Orlando (styled Orlando) were an English Romo band of the 1990s.Orlando feature by Taylor Parkes, Romo special feature, Melody Maker 25 November 1995 page 10 They were one of seven core Romo acts featured by Melody Maker in their guide to the Romo sceneRomo special feature, Melody Maker 25 November 1995 and were subsequently cited as being "figureheads" of the scene. As well as substantial coverage in Melody Maker, the band also received press coverage from the NME, Select"Food Repels Us" Orlando interview, Select February 1997 Smash Hits and Penthouse UK. The band consisted of Dickon Edwards, Tim Chipping, Neil Turner, Mike Austen and David Gray. Musically, Orlando combined the synthesised dance-pop of 1990s boybands and American swingbeat acts with verbose lyrics in the general style of Morrissey and Richey Edwards.
A month before the album's UK release, photographs from the session were featured in a six-page spread in Smash Hits, in which Minogue said of her "dramatic" new image; "I've grown up. I'm more womanly!... I think the outrageous me has been kinda subdued for a long time and now it's coming out!". Rhythm of Love was released in the UK on 12 November 1990 by PWL and in Australia on 3 December 1990 by Mushroom Records. Two special editions of Rhythm of Love were released in 1990 and 1991: an Australasian Tour souvenir edition was released in Australia to support the tour; it included three bonus tracks in a gold outer sleeve—this edition was later released in the UK and is commonly referred to as the Gold edition.
Players can also create their own character and instrument to play with. The game continues to support the user-created music studio introduced in World Tour through GHTunes, and additional downloadable content for the game was also made available. A majority of existing downloadable tracks from World Tour are forward-compatible with Guitar Hero 5, along with selected on-disc tracks from World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits, and songs from the game could also be exported for a fee to play in its sequel, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, and spin-off game Band Hero. The game was well received by reviewers, who appreciated the improvements in the accessibility of the game, allowing players to immediately jump in and play without spending excessive time in the game's menus.
The group formed in Naples in October 1974, but it was officially launched in February 1975 under the production of Giancarlo Bigazzi and Totò Savio. They got an almost immediate huge success, with several singles charting on the Italian hit parade. Characterized by a style which mixes Neapolitan tradition and melodic pop-rock, they got their biggest hit in 1976, peaking at the third place on the Italian hit parade with Tu, ca nun chiagne, a cover version of a 1915 Canzone Napoletana classic. In 1977 the group entered the main competition at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song Miele, which sold 1 million copies. They attended at the popular music competition Festivalbar three times, scoring three smash-hits: M'innamorai (1975); Vai (1976); Concerto in La Minore (dedicato a lei) (1978).
Writing in Smash Hits, Bev Hillier described You Know How to Love Me as a "great album" that was "relaxing, pleasant, easy listening and anything similar that you can think of". Hillier went on to describe Hyman's voice as "amazing and perfectly used". According to the Allmusic review by Jose F. Promis, "The album never truly realized its full potential, but does include the song that would become one of Hyman's signature tunes, "You Know How to Love Me." The song was never a blockbuster hit, but has grown into a classic, covered by artists such as Lisa Stansfield and Robin S". The album reached number ten on the R&B; charts in 1980. The single, "You Know How to Love Me" was a club smash reaching number six on the dance charts.
Caminiti died unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack in The Bronx at the age of 41; he was pronounced dead on October 10, 2004 at New York's Lincoln Memorial Hospital. On November 1, the New York City Medical Examiners Office announced that Caminiti died from "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and opiates", but possibly-steroid-induced coronary artery disease and cardiac hypertrophy (an enlarged heart) were also contributing factors. In 2005, Jose Canseco published Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, admitting steroid usage and claiming that it was prevalent throughout major league baseball. When the United States Congress decided to investigate the use of steroids in the sport, some of the game's most prominent players came under scrutiny for possibly using steroids.
Herman Li, Frédéric Leclercq and Sam Totman performing in Melbourne in 2009 The band went mainstream with their third album, Inhuman Rampage, which was released on 9 January 2006 after signing with Roadrunner Records. The first song on the album, "Through the Fire and Flames", is perhaps their most famous song to date, and is featured on the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits and Brütal Legend, and as downloadable content for the Rock Band franchise. Former Demoniac frontman Lindsay Dawson appeared as a backing vocalist for the album. In November 2005, prior to the release of the album, Lambert left the band to raise his newborn son, and the band enlisted Frédéric Leclercq for the remaining of the Sonic Firestorm Tour.
Cash Box wrote that "the group who surprised everyone by breaking out of clubs and onto the pop charts clocks in with its second single, driven by the same intense vocals and formidable House groove that skyrocketed its U.S. debut single, "Everybody, Everybody"." The Daily Vault's Michael R. Smith described it as "effective and timeless" in his review of Dreamland and added that it now "sound fresher and fuller of life than ever." Gene Sandbloom from The Network Forty wrote that the song "has every bit the house power, but this time lead vocalist Katrin Quinol kicks off with an Annie Lennox intro that leaves you almost exhausted after four minutes." Chris Heath from Smash Hits noted that it is "exceedingly similar" to "Ride on Time" and said it is "slightly brilliant".
Ian Birch, Smash Hits Magazine, Album reviews, March 1983 Record Mirror claimed that "Run for Your Life" was too similar to a previous single "My Camera Never Lies", but did state that the group were now making "exceedingly good pop music". Writing for Irish magazine, RTÉ Guide, reviewer Brendan Martin gave the album a positive review, saying "Hand Cut follows the formula of their previous albums. There are two singles along with a selection of good pop songs".Brendan Martin, RTÉ Guide, Album reviews, March 1983 The New Straits Times gave the album a largely negative review saying that it was "overly clean, lacking a rough hewn edge". It did however single out two tracks which rose above "the mundane", namely "10,9,8,7,6,5,4" and "If You Can't Stand the Heat" calling them "catchy".
Chris Kohler of Wired listed Smash Hits on a list of "raw deals" for gamers, citing Activision's approach that results in "players end up paying more for segregated song lists", and contrasted the approach to that of the Rock Band series, in which downloadable content is integrated into existing games. Game Informer's Matt Helgeson noted that, ultimately, the cost per song was still cheaper than current prices for downloadable content, but he still felt the game's purpose was solely for "creating revenue for Activision". The song selection, use of master recordings, and expansion to the full-band experience were praised. Dan Amrich of Official Xbox Magazine called the selection an "excellent selection of material" that avoided the most popular songs in favor of those that "are the most fun to play".
Songs each cost approximately $2 through the various online stores for the console's platform. Prior to Guitar Hero 5, downloadable content for earlier games will not work in other games in the series, save for songs from Metallica's Death Magnetic, which were available for Guitar Hero III, World Tour, and Metallica. Existing World Tour downloadable content for World Tour will be forward-compatible with Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, and for a small fee, some songs from both Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits can be exported to both Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero, limited by music licensing. Activision has also stated that they are considering a monthly subscription service to deliver downloadable content to user for future games.
Writing in Smash Hits in 1979, Red Starr said the album was an "intriguing but only occasionally attractive array of verbal and musical images". Starr went on to say that it sounded like "pointless backroom self indulgence". Head Heritage retrospectively viewed Mix-Up as a "great snapshot of a brief period in post-punk UK when there was a sudden urge to grapple with a bizarre, homemade, hamfisted white dub landscape." AllMusic writer Andy Kellman was less favourable, writing that "Cabaret Voltaire's first two proper studio albums hardly match the greatness of later works like Red Mecca, 2 X 45 and even 3 Crepuscule Tracks", while noting that Mix-Up "only helped solidify Cabaret Voltaire's status as an integral part of the extended frisson of 1978-1982 post-punk".
Accessed October 22, 2007. After the pair separated, Turner continued to experience cross-genre musical success, establishing himself as one of the founders of rock and roll with such smash hits as "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but he did not turn his back on his roots. The Boss of the Blues marks one of the last reunions Turner would have with Johnson, when, supported by a number of swing's best performers,, he re-created a number of the classic tracks that had helped lay the groundwork for rhythm and blues. The bold, vigorous arrangements by the veteran Ernie Wilkins fully represent the traditions of Kansas City music, while also giving a 'mainstream' platform to the musicians, not all of whom, including both Pete Brown and Lawrence Brown, had Kansas City backgrounds.
Between April 1955 and March 1958 the squadron was re-equipped with de Havilland Venoms and mounted 115 strike missions, which fell into two categories – 'Firedogs' (pre-planned bombing, strafing, and rocket attacks against suspected guerrilla targets) and 'Smash Hits' (immediate on-call strikes against opportunity targets in response to a guerilla raid or 'hot' information). The squadron was replaced in 1958 by No. 75 Squadron flying English Electric Canberras from its station in Tengah. The effectiveness of the air strikes against targets in the jungle was inevitably limited but they provided much valuable training experience to the New Zealand pilots. In July 1955 No. 41 Squadron returned to Malaya and resumed supply dropping operations in support of anti-guerrilla forces, this time using the highly effective Bristol Freighter aircraft.
Impress arbitrators are appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In July 2017, in its first libel arbitration case, it ordered Byline Media to pay freelance journalist Dennis Rice £2,500 over tweets about him. In May 2018, it ordered the blog Evolve Politics to pay £900 in damages over an article wrongly claiming a Sky News broadcaster attended a Presidents Club dinner. In September 2017, an IMPRESS internal review concluded that some of its senior board members - Heaward, Emma Jones (former editor of Smash Hits magazine and deputy editor of the Sun's showbiz column Bizarre) and Máire Messenger Davies (emerita professor of media studies at Ulster University) - breached its own standards by appearing to be biased against a number of newspapers; it recommended they step down from the Board.
"On and On" was first heard at the Swedish television show "Sommarkrysset" at TV4 August 16, 2008. It was the song that announced her comeback after leaving Sony Music and being signed to independent label Roxy Recordings, the song was released as a single the same week and after spending a massive 26 weeks on the Swedish Top 60 Singles Chart it was surely considered one of the smash-hits of Sweden the summer of 2008. Since its international release the song has been remade and remixed numerous times, the first remix was the Danish DK Radio Edit which was released as the second single in Denmark. Though it failed to chart, the original edit from the album managed to peak at 16 at the Danish Singles Chart.
On September 22, 2005, ESPN reported that Rafael Palmeiro, who had tested positive for steroids and was suspended for 10 games under Major League Baseball's steroid policy, implicated Tejada to baseball's arbitration panel, suggesting that a supplement given to him by Tejada was responsible for the steroid entering his system. Tejada denied the allegations, saying that the only thing he gave Palmeiro was vitamin B-12, a legal substance under MLB policy. On September 24, 2005, the Baltimore Sun reported that "The Health Policy Advisory Committee, which oversees baseball's testing policy, issued a statement that exonerated Tejada and chastised the media for reporting that he might have distributed steroids to another player." In José Canseco's 2005 book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, he mentioned that he believed Tejada might have taken steroids.
His self-issued 1999 album Soulstream included a re-recording of "The Power of Love", which was also released as a single. Paul Rutherford, the other openly gay member of the band, released the partially ABC produced album Oh World and a handful of singles before retiring with his New Zealander partner to Waiheke Island. The "other three", as Smash Hits labelled them, continued to work together in what turned out to be a vain attempt to resurrect "Frankie" with various singers including Dee Harris from Fashion and Grant Boult (Jeckyl Ice) from The Premise, who had opened the shows on the band's UK and European tours. Under the name Boss Dog, with Boult on vocals, the band were offered a major deal with Virgin Records but on the condition they work as Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
The single went double-platinum in the UK, and was voted 2002's The Record of the Year by ITV viewers. This was followed by another number-one single, "Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)". His third single, a double A-side "Suspicious Minds"/"The Long and Winding Road", a duet with Pop Idol winner Will Young, also reached number one. His fourth, "What My Heart Wants to Say", reached number five. Gates's debut album What My Heart Wants to Say achieved first week sales of 100,000 copies, peaking at number two in the UK Albums Chart, and eventually earned double platinum status in the UK. The now-defunct Smash Hits magazine dedicated 7 October 2002 as International Gareth Gates Day. In 2003, Gates sang the 2003 Comic Relief charity single, "Spirit in the Sky", with The Kumars.
In a contemporary review for Smash Hits, Red Starr hailed Music for Stowaways as a "fine debut" that demonstrates the "enjoyable side of electronics." They felt the "Uptown" side was the superior side, while finding the "Downtown" side to be "less essential" but "[occupying] the time very nicely," and rated the release 9/10. In 2015, Uncut magazine included Music for Stowaways on their list of the "50 Greatest Lost Albums of All Time," describing it as "uncompromising, experimental stuff, on one hand harking back to the Human League’s stark Dignity of Labour EP, and yet somehow foreshadowing much of Warp Records' output 15 years later." Meanwhile, although the Music for Listening To version was released to moderate sales, John Bush of AllMusic retrospectively rated it four and a half stars out of five and named it an "Album Pick".
Writing for The Globe and Mail, Alan Niester again compared Wilde to Dusty Springfield and Debbie Harry, but called "2-6-5-8-0" and "You'll Never Be So Wrong" "extremely promising", describing the latter as "a moody and captivating ballad that stands head and shoulders above all the Blondie and Pat Benatar simulations." Smash Hits magazine sarcastically suggested "this is the best Blondie album for a couple of years" but expressed hope that the singer would assert herself more in the future. High Fidelitys Mitchell Cohen found Wilde's voice alternately "plaintive" and "shrill" but described the album as "entertaining" and "a lot of fun", again drawing comparisons to the music of the 1960s. Mike Nicholis praised Wilde's voice and individuality despite comparing the reggae-influenced "Everything We Know" to "The Tide is High" by Blondie, released the previous year.
The group's first releases in 1985–86; "It's Not Too Late", "Stand By" and "She Don't Want You", were on Jose Armada Jr.'s primary independent label Joey Boy Records in Miami and became club smash hits. In 1988, with the success of their club hits, the group was signed with major label Capitol/EMI Records, releasing its only self-titled album, which had a plethora of producers, including Stock Aitken Waterman ("Tell Him I Called"), Kurtis Mantronik ("Tell the Truth"), Michael Morejon, and Martineé. Neither the album nor the singles hit the pop charts, although some singles did become club hits. The group split in 1990, and Christensen later formed the group 3rd Party in the late 1990s; that group’s major claim to fame was the song "Waiting for Tonight", which Jennifer Lopez covered on her debut album.
Writing in Smash Hits, Peter Silverton observed that A Broken Frame, in contrast to the group's early post- Vince singles which he thought showed "a lack of purpose", "makes a virtue of their tinkly-bonk whimsy". In contrast, Melody Maker wrote that, although "ambitious and bold", "A Broken Frame – as its name suggests – marks the end of a beautiful dream", a comment on the departure of main songwriter and electronics genius Vince Clarke. Reviewer Steve Sutherland considered the songs "daft aspirations to art", the album's musical and thematic "larcenies" sounding like "puerile infatuations papering over anonymity". At the same time, Sutherland acknowledges that the group's increasing complexity "sounds less the result of exterior persuasion than an understandable, natural development", although he finally concludes that Depeche Mode remain (in contrast to Clarke's new group Yazoo) "essentially vacuous".
Writing for Smash Hits in 1980, David Hepworth described Middle Man as an "impeccably tasteful collection of sophisticated white soul" that was "useful as background music in the more sedate kind of nite spot". Acknowledging that the album was "well done", Hepworth noted that Scaggs' previous albums were "thrilling as well as perfectly formed". Hepworth went on to say that the album sounded as though "they designed the sleeve first and then made the record to go in it". Interestingly, two cuts from the album, "Jojo" and "Breakdown Dead Ahead", landed higher on the Canadian charts than on another international or US charts, indicating that Canadian audiences had embraced Scaggs' harder rock edge, diverging from slower ballads and hits such as "Look What You've Done To Me", which he deftly wrote in the same year, as a track for the movie, Urban Cowboy.
The song became a Billboard Top Single Pick on 3 November 1979, whom the publication found the chorus catchy and also highlighted the orchestral instruments supporting the backing singers. Although there had been a mixed review of the single from Smash Hits, who found the song to be "too tidy, like vymura" (wallpaper), they listed it in a review of The Age of Plastic as one of the best tracks of the album, along with "Living in the Plastic Age". Timothy Warner wrote that, although several common pop elements were still present in the song, it included stronger originality for its own purpose than most other pop hits released at the time. These unusual pop music characteristics include the timbres of the male and female vocal parts, and the use of suspended fourth and ninths chords for enhancement in its progression.
According to the Appleton sisters, they were completely ignored by Lewis and Blatt during their performance at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party on 10 December 2000. The performance was later criticised by The Guardians Betty Clarke who wrote, "Only All Saints let the side down, going through the motions..." At the Capital FM Christmas Party, Natalie and Lewis nearly came to blows backstage over who would wear a particular jacket causing an onstage rift during the performance and ultimately, All Saints splitting up the following year. In 2014, All Saints reunited and performed "Black Coffee" as part of their setlist as special guests on the Backstreet Boys' In a World Like This Tour. The group also performed the song during their Red Flag Tour in 2016, and as an opening act for Take That's 2017 tour, Wonderland Live.
Reviews of the album in the UK music press were mixed. NME praised the album, saying, "Although the predominant musical influence is black (ska, bluebeat, reggae and soul), it's wrapped in ferocious rock'n'roll: the kind of hybrid that so many other British bands have tried to contrive but, in comparison, failed to make convincing ... This album embraces two decades of black and white music, gives it perspective and then goes on to reflect the modern rock'n'roll culture ... It's the kind of album that's musically fathomless and it will probably establish The Specials as true hopes for the '80s. At the very least this debut is essential for anybody who wants to know what's going on in rock'n'roll today". Smash Hits was also positive, saying it had "some excellent original touches" and that the lyrics were "very strong".
In a 1998 article by Associated Press writer Steve Wilstein, McGwire admitted to taking androstenedione, an over-the-counter muscle enhancement product that had already been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the NFL, and the IOC; however, use of the substance was not prohibited by Major League Baseball at the time, and it was not federally classified as an anabolic steroid in the United States until 2004. Jose Canseco released a book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in 2005. In it, he wrote positively about steroids and made various claims—among them, that McGwire had used performance-enhancing drugs since the 1980s and that Canseco had personally injected him with them. In 2005, McGwire and Canseco were among 11 baseball players and executives subpoenaed to testify at a congressional hearing on steroids.
Writing in Smash Hits at the time of the album's release, Neil Tennant commented that Jones had "a neat talent for writing melodic pop songs with clever hooks and real 1970s singer- songwriter lyrics. A must for all Supertramp fans." Don Watson of NME was more critical, writing, "It's as hard to distinguish his music as it is to distinguish it from your carpet; conveniently, though, the lyrics are printed on the inner sleeve so that we may fully appreciate the complete lack of any novel observation in the songs... What's so amusing about Jones' songwriting is the glib manner in which he brandishes threadbare platitudes as unique insights." In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau panned Human's Lib as a "revolving self-help manual" marred by Jones' "ressentiment" and unadorned synth-pop.
The group performing the song during The Return of the Spice Girls Tour in Toronto, February 2008, dressed in tight metallic outfits designed by Roberto Cavalli "Spice Up Your Life" had its premiere in the UK on 27 September 1997, on the BBC's National Lottery programme, which attracted more than nine million viewers. The song was subsequently performed many times on television, in both Europe and the US, including An Audience with..., Top of the Pops, All That, The Jay Leno Show, the Late Show with David Letterman, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Spice Up Your Life" was also performed in many award ceremonies such as the 1997 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1997 MTV Europe Music Awards, the 1997 Billboard Music Awards, the 1997 Premios Ondas, the 1997 Channel V Music Awards, and the 2000 Brit Awards.
The NME was generally thought to be rudderless at this time, with staff pulling simultaneously in a number of directions in what came to be known as the "hip- hop wars". It was haemorrhaging readers who were deserting NME in favour of Nick Logan's two creations The Face and Smash Hits. This was brought to a head when the paper was about to publish a poster of an insert contained in the Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist, consisting of a painting by H.R. Giger called Penis Landscape, then a subject of an obscenity lawsuit in the US. In the summer and autumn of 1987, three senior editorial staff were sacked, including Pye, media editor Stuart Cosgrove, and art editor Joe Ewart. Former Sounds editor Alan Lewis was brought in to rescue the paper, mirroring Alan Smith's revival a decade and a half before.
Beenox performed all of the major development efforts, including designing the venues, selecting the songs, and creating the note tracks, though Neversoft provided their own development tools and provided Beenox with their own insight from developing the other Guitar Hero games in the series. While the Beenox developers were provided with the note charts from the songs in their original games, they only looked at these after developing new charts for the songs on their own, and modified their new charts to accommodate sections from the originals that made them fun to play in the first place. The game's full setlist was revealed over the course of April and May 2009 by allowing users to vote on the order of the remastered tracks from the four previous games. In North America, various retailers provided pre-order incentives for those who reserved Smash Hits.
In the second half of 1978, Luv' reached fame in a large part of Europe and South Africa thanks to the success of smash hits like "You're the Greatest Lover", "Trojan Horse" and the With Luv album. The release party of the second LP (entitled Lots of Luv) took place at the Lido Club in Amsterdam in May 1979.Article published in Leidsch Dagblad on May 16 1979 Accessed: April 24, 2011 Two songs from this opus were released as singles: "Casanova" and "Eeny Meeny Miny Moe" (inspired by Boney M.'s 1978 song "Rasputin"). After the release of the 1978 With Luv', the producers and songwriters Hans van Hemert and Piet Souer (under the pseudonym Janschen & Janschens) teamed up once again to supervise the recording and the production of Lots of Luv, influenced by Pop music, Disco and Latin American music sounds.
In its early years, Heat generally broadcast at 64 kbit/s in mono on DAB. Following the 2007 relaunch, the service was boosted to 112 kbit/s in stereo where possible (in London, Smash Hits Radio moved to the former Heat capacity to allow the prior SH slot to be used as part of the extended Heat.) More recently, the heat service switched back to mono, generally at 80 kbit/s, and this bitrate carried over when heat migrated to SDL National. On 1 February 2019, Heat Radio became an online only non-stop music station as it was taken off the Sound Digital national multiplex but remained on Freeview until June 2020 when it was replaced by Greatest Hits Radio.Greatest Hits Radio launches on Freeview On 27 July 2020, it returned to be broadcast via DAB via local radio in Inverness.
Admission ticket for the premier of the movie "A Viszkis" The relatively strong uniformity of movie ticket prices, particularly in the U.S., is a common economics puzzle, because conventional supply and demand theory would suggest higher prices for more popular and more expensive movies, and lower prices for an unpopular "bomb" or for a documentary with less audience appeal. Unlike seemingly similar forms of entertainment such as rock concerts, in which a popular performer's tickets cost much more than an unpopular performer's tickets, the demand for movies is very difficult to predict ahead of time. Indeed, some films with major stars, such as Gigli (which starred the then-supercouple of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez), have turned out to be box-office bombs, while low-budget films with unknown actors have become smash hits (e.g., The Blair Witch Project).
As primary songwriter, lead guitarist and keyboard player for Kansas, having penned such hits as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind", Livgren propelled the band to worldwide success and critical acclaim, with numerous gold and multi-platinum albums and more than 14 million recordings sold to date. Kansas produced eight gold albums, one platinum album, two quadruple-platinum albums, one platinum live album, and a 1 million-selling gold single, "Dust in the Wind", according to the Kansas State Historical Society. "Carry On Wayward Son" has been covered by bands including Dream Theater, Rachel Rachel, Critical Mass, Shryne, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Stryper, and country superstars The Oak Ridge Boys as well as continuing appearances on album soundtracks such as the movies Heroes and Anchorman. It is also featured in the video games Guitar Hero II, Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero Smash Hits.
In José Canseco's book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, Canseco suggested that Clemens had expert knowledge about steroids and suggested that he used them, based on the improvement in his performance after leaving the Red Sox. While not addressing the allegations directly, Clemens stated: "I could care less about the rules" and "I've talked to some friends of his and I've teased them that when you're under house arrest and have ankle bracelets on, you have a lot of time to write a book." Jason Grimsley named Clemens, as well as Andy Pettitte, as a user of performance-enhancing drugs. According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.
Guitar Hero Smash Hits (titled Guitar Hero Greatest Hits in Europe and Australia) is a music rhythm game and the fourth expansion game to the Guitar Hero series. The game features 48 songs originally featured in five previous games in the series--Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith-- redesigning the songs to be based on master recordings and to include support for full band play first introduced to the series in Guitar Hero World Tour. The game was developed by Beenox, published by Activision and distributed by RedOctane for release on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 systems and was released around the world in the second half of June 2009. The game reuses many elements from previous titles in the series, including Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero: Metallica.
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits received moderate praise from reviews, many of which cited that the game itself demonstrates the over-saturation of the music game market and the sheer number of titles with the Guitar Hero series that Activision has marketed. Chris Roper of IGN summarized that the game "is the definition of 'milking'", noting that, save for the PlayStation 2 version, all of the songs in the game could have been distributed as downloadable content or reused within other compatible titles. Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb commented that "something about the game's full [...] price tag doesn't quite feel right" and reaffirmed that being able to select a handful of the songs to play again would have been a preferred method of distribution. Tom Bramwell of Eurogamer further suggested that a simultaneous release of both the retail product and the same songs as downloadable content would have been an improvement.
Shnayim signaled the beginning of a string of ultra-popular albums of original material from Artzi, which are some of the best selling Israeli records of all time. In 2000 Artzi released "Ahavtihem" ("I Have Loved Them"), a collection of reworked love songs, many of which originally written by him for other artists. The album featured many smash hits, including the tender revision of his past hit "Ahavtia" ("I Have Loved Her"), "Nof Yaldoot" ("Childhood's View"), "Anakhnu Lo Tzrikhim" ("We Don't Need"), "At Va'ani" ("You And Me"), "Ma'avir Duff" ("Turning The Page") – a duet with Nurit Galron (which performed the song originally), "Shir Preda" ("A Goodbye Song") – a duet with his singer-songwriter son, Ben Artzi and "Melekh Ha'olam" ("King of the World", a Hebrew translated cover of White Plains' "When You Are A King"). The album went on to sell over 200,000 copies – an unprecedented achievement in the little Israeli music market.
When the truth became known, there was considerable backlash from many fans and music critics. Liner notes for a 2006 re-release of More of the Monkees also noted that the album sales had consistently outperformed the TV show's Nielsen ratings; more were listening to the Monkees than watching The Monkees on TV. The west coast American recording industry had many session musicians under contract performing for many musical acts, such as the Wrecking Crew that recorded for the Monkees and many other music groups of this era so this was nothing new. However, NBC responded to the criticism, and internal tensions, by retooling the show in its second season with the Monkees now writing and performing much of their own music that was much less pop-oriented. Moreover, Don Kirshner, the producer for the Monkees for their first season and responsible for their first smash hits, was terminated by Colgems Records, resulting in a much less bubblegum rock sound for the band.
In the UK the Drifters' version of "Up on the Roof" failed to reach the Top 50, being trumped by two local cover versions, sung by, respectively, Julie Grant and Kenny Lynch. The Kenny Lynch version, which largely replicated the Drifters' original, was the more successful, reaching number 10 in the UK. The Julie Grant version, which reached number 33 in the UK, reinvented the song as a Merseybeat number; its producer Tony Hatch would later be inspired to write Petula Clark's iconic hit "Downtown", which was originally envisioned as being in the style of the Drifters, with whom Hatch hoped to place it. Other early recordings of the song were made by Little Eva (album LLLLLoco-Motion/ 1962) and Jimmy Justice (album Smash Hits From Jimmy Justice/ 1963). Also Richard Anthony wrote French lyrics for the song, which he recorded as "Sur le toit" for his 1963 EP entitled En Écoutant La Pluie.
Winning a competition open to the UK in 1987 he went on to write a jingle for the Red Cold Coca-Cola advertising campaign played on radio stations through out Europe whilst the rapper was featured in the News of the World and Smash Hits magazine. Recording his album mixtape "Hidden era made clearer" with Simon Milligan (DJ Troubled soul) he quickly gained notoriety as a credible underground artist writing about his experiences and views on the troubles of Ireland. The artist was interviewed by Face magazine in 1989 and featured on several popular TV shows not ail you the BPM Show on Chanel 4, BBC 2's Hypnosis and Sky TV. The rapper also worked live shows with DJ Chris Caul in the 1990s playing venues across Belfast and Glasgow. The multi genre MC also known as MC BFast was a prominent figure on the Irish dance music scene in the 1990s.
The play was adapted twice as a Broadway musical twice, each time with a different title and each time unsuccessful. A musical adaptation titled Banjo Eyes, with music by Vernon Duke and lyrics by John La Touche, opened on Broadway at the Hollywood Theatre on December 25, 1941, and ran for 126 performances. The cast included Eddie Cantor, Virginia Mayo, Lionel Stander, and Jacqueline Susann. Starring George Gobel as Erwin and Sam Levene as Patsy, who was reprising the role of Patsy he had created twenty-five years earlier, the second musical adaptation was titled Let It Ride (1961), which boasted a score by legendary songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, best known for creating three Oscar-winning songs, Buttons and Bows, Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera and two other movie songs that were smash hits, Silver Bells and Tammy; on television, the team wrote the Bonanza and Mister Ed theme songs.
In April 1996, after being unable to secure a major record deal, 911 and their management team Backlash decided to form their own record label, Ginga Records. The following month, they released their debut single, a cover of Shalamar's "Night to Remember", and it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 38. In July, their second single "Love Sensation", which was later featured in the 1997 live-action film Casper: A Spirited Beginning, charted even higher at number 21. The success of these two independently released singles created a major record label bidding war and in September 1996, 911 were signed up by Richard Branson's Virgin Records on a £3.5 million, four-album deal. 911 won GMTV's 'Search for the Next Big Thing' and were voted the 'Second Best Newcomer' after the Spice Girls in Smash Hits. 911 had their first top 10 hit in 1996 with "Don't Make Me Wait", which reached number 10.
Following its release on The Sword's debut album Age of Winters in February 2006, a cover version of "Freya" was featured as a playable track in stage 5, "Return of the Shred", of the video game Guitar Hero II, released in November 2006. The version of the song included on the game was recorded by WaveGroup Sound and features an extra part at the end which was not present on The Sword's recording. It was later included on the 2009 expansion Guitar Hero Smash Hits, as one of 19 tracks from Guitar Hero II. Speaking about the band's inclusion on the Guitar Hero games (including later releases Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero 5), Kemado Records marketing director and label manager Jeffrey Kaye simply revealed that the team at Activision were fans of heavy metal and The Sword in particular, adding that "There was very little pitching necessary for them". "Freya" was later issued as the sole single from Age of Winters on September 4, 2007.
The song "Q Quarters" - called "desolately beautiful" by Smash Hits \- ends with the striking lines: "Washing down bodies / Seems to me a dead-end chore / Floors me completely / Beauty drips from every pore". Washing down bodies was a job that Billy Mackenzie said his grandmother did during World War II. The song "Kitchen Person" features a rhythm taken from an electric typewriter and Billy singing down the tube of a vacuum cleaner (an effort that earned them Single of the Week in Melody Maker). The album title had a literal origin: the fourth drawer down in a chest in the band's flat at the time contained their supply of "over the counter herbal relaxant tablets that when taken by the handful... would acts as a sleeping aid as well as producing a pleasant bedtime buzz." The cover shot was taken in the swimming pool of the recording studio they used in Oxfordshire.
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits plays similar to Guitar Hero World Tour, featuring support for a four-instrument band: lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocal. In addition to using master recordings for each song, the songs have been charted to use gameplay features introduced in World Tour including the open bass strumming & slider sections for intense solos using the touchpad on the guitar bundled with World Tour. Certain songs have been recharted or remixed to be more accessible to the full band; for example, "I Love Rock N Roll" includes a drum and vocals solo without guitar portions that were omitted in the original Guitar Hero, while the piano introduction in "Killer Queen" is tapped out by the lead guitar player. The game borrows gameplay and graphical elements from Guitar Hero: Metallica, including the "Expert+" difficulty level using two bass drum pedals and the rearrangement of on-screen meters for band mode.
The song is one of the first songs recorded with singer M. Shadows' different vocal style avoiding unclean vocals as well as a more hard rock sound as opposed to their previous work, with heavy and fast riffs and a relatively normal song structure (with the exception of the guitar solo, which comes after the first chorus rather than the second, atypical of a three verse song). The song's rapid main riff was voted as the 14th greatest riff ever by the guitar magazine Total Guitar in March 2007. Total Guitar wrote: "The main riff to Beast and the Harlot is a great piece of dropped-D riffing with Zacky and Synyster cleverly placing the second part of the riff across the beat to create an aggressive syncopated feel, once again avoiding all the usual metal clichés." The song was featured in the soundtrack of the video games Burnout Revenge, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Smash Hits.
" Tennant wrote the majority of the lyrics while on the bus home from his job at Smash Hits. Lyrically, Sound on Sound describes the song as "a number about the mundane lives of bored '80s yuppies", while according to Nick Levine for the BBC, the lyrics "reflect the emphasis placed on personal financial gain during the Thatcher and Reagan years", with the song's opening lines being "You always wanted a lover, I only wanted a job." The track was recorded at Advision Studios, and produced by Stephen Hague, engineered by David Jacob and mixed by Julian Mendelsohn, who co-produced Actually, at Sarm West Studios. While Tennant's vocal recording was relatively straightforward, Springfield was very particular with her vocals, according to Mendelsohn, who said: "Even though Dusty was a great singer, she was very long‑winded when it came to getting the vocals right to her own satisfaction [...] I remember Neil [Tennant] and I looking at each other as if to say, 'Christ, this is going to take forever.
By 1986, having gone their separate ways Fowler and Cox were part of the dream team on the design side of the PWL empire, Pete Waterman's production company, photographing Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley. At the time Fowler had moved in alongside Design Consultancy Stylorouge in Paddington for several years, his other clients included Boy George, Gary Glitter, Spandau Ballet, Iron Maiden, Toyah, Howard Jones, Paul Young, and Wet Wet Wet, many images finding their way onto the pages of Smash Hits, but in the case of Wet Wet Wet, for the first time the band allowed a photographer exclusive and uninhibited access on tour. The result is a book that combines the most spectacular and most intimate shots, in a blend of vibrant colour and powerful black and whites.Picture This, Wet Wet Wet, The Official Book, , published by Virgin Books In 1993 he began a long working relationship with actress and singer Sarah Brightman, seeing him moving into directing with a TV commercial and promo for her 2008 album Symphony.
An innovation in the magazine's early years was celebrity guest editors, including Donovan, Cat Stevens, Gerry Marsden, The Kinks and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Although its focus was pop music, Fabulous 208 was the first magazine of its type to cover other pop culture genres: fashion, films and television, and this later extended beyond the media to celebrity footballers such as George Best - a trend which was widely emulated in the late 60s and beyond, most notably by the ITV-sponsored Look-In. Its readership had always been predominantly female, but as it moved into the 1970s the magazine repositioned itself more explicitly as a girl's publication, placing itself in competition with titles such as Jackie (which itself had launched only weeks after Fabulous) with more fashion features, and models replacing pop stars on the cover in most weeks. By the end of the 1970s it was being outsold by both Jackie and on the pop front by newly launched titles such as Smash Hits (from 1978).
Despite its commercial performance, critical response to Short Stories, both upon release and in retrospect, has been mixed. A Smash Hits journalist put the blame entirely on Anderson for making the album "entirely unlistenable"; he jokingly described his lyrics as "the kind of 'cosmic' drivel that gets hippies a bad name", and felt that the "tuneless" melodies were written by just coming up with notes and pitches at random. In a retrospective review, AllMusic reviewer Dave Connolly called the record "underwhelming", saying that it had very few "nearly memorable moments"; he criticized it for being more focused on melody than making the arrangements less "amorphous" and "paper-thin", an issue also present on the last Yes album Anderson sang on before working on Short Stories, Tormato. Gary Graff, who wrote a mixed review for The Beaver County Times, mainly criticized Vangelis' musical work on the record, feeling it was much more of a Vangelis album than a collaborative LP between him and Anderson and would have been more commercially successful if only he was credited on it.
By 1980, after having started out in a terrace house in Paddington and then moved to another terrace in Glebe, RAM had taken over a building on Crown St. in the heart of Darlinghurst, and so successful was the burgeoning little media empire overseen by Philip Mason and his partner Barry Stewart – called Soundtracks – that it had bought up the surfing magazine Tracks and launched a fashion magazine called Ragtimes too. Like RAM, Tracks was the leader in its field, and the pair were trailed by Ragtimes, which Mason had created as a plaything for his wife, Alexandra Joel. In May 1980, Soundtracks sold RAM to Eastern Suburbs Newspapers, thus beginning O'Gradys slow exit from the magazine. (Mason-Stewart would go on to long publish Australian editions of Playboy and Smash Hits.) Greg Taylor, a musician as well as a journalist (sax player with Jimmy and the Boys), meantime served an apprenticeship as Assistant Editor under O’Grady. New writers like Kent Goddard, Miranda Brown (Jenny’s younger sister) and Elly McDonald were blooded.
Nonetheless, MN8 finished the year ahead of Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" as one of the biggest selling UK singles for the year. MN8 followed up with 6 more UK Top 30 hits including "If You Only Let Me In", "Baby It's You", "Tuff Act to Follow", "Dreaming", "Pathway to the Moon" and a cover of the Surface hit "Happy". Their debut album, To The Next Level reached number 13 in the UK Albums Chart. To The Next Level (produced by Dennis Charles & Ronnie Wilson) included a contribution from Pamela Sheyne, who wrote the song "Baby It's You".Source: M Magazine/ PRS MCPS, Issue 14, September 2004 Besides P. Diddy and Sheyne, MN8 collaborated with the late Oji Pearce (Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It"), Simon Climie, Arthur Baker, Steve Silk Hurley, Conner Reeves, Blacksmith and Dalvin DeGrate (Jodeci).Source: Smash Hits – June 1995 MN8 have toured alongside Janet Jackson, Diana King, Brownstone, Spice Girls, Madonna, Celine Dion, Robbie Williams, Boyzone, East 17, Backstreet Boys and Ricky Martin.
Kiss Fresh is a National Digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Radio as part of the Kiss Network, and a sister station to Kiss that plays exclusive first releases of the biggest tracks from the world of Hip-Hop, R&B;, EDM, House and Garage. Initially provided over Freeview (replacing Smash Hits Radio) and online, the station was made available via digital radio in the London area, alongside sister station Kisstory, from 12 December 2014. The DAB availability of KissFresh extended beyond London from 1 May 2016, with the station being made available in some (but not all) of the areas previously served by Kisstory on local DAB, this capacity having been released following the migration of Kisstory to Sound Digital.a516digital.com, 1 May 2015 From 10 July 2017, KissFresh itself expanded to national DAB availability, joining the lineup of services on Digital One alongside the parent Kiss FM UK service; as part of the move the KissFresh schedule and playlist was revised to better differentiate KissFresh from its sibling.
Before Hendrix died in 1970, he was in the final stages of preparing what he intended to be a double studio LP, which was given various titles such as 'First Rays of the New Rising Sun', 'People, Hell & Angels', and 'Strate Ahead' [sic]. Most of the tracks intended for this album were spread out over three posthumous single LP releases: The Cry of Love (1971), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972). In the case of the last two of these LPs, a demo track, a live track, and unreleased studio tracks were used to fill out the releases. In late 1973, his international label prepared to issue an LP titled Loose Ends which contained eight tracks, six of which were generally regarded as incomplete or substandard (the only two "finished" tracks on this release were "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", a heavily re-mixed stereo version of the B-side which had been released in the original mono mix on the 1968 European and Japanese versions of the Smash Hits, and a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Drifter's Escape", both of which would ultimately be re-released on the South Saturn Delta CD in 1997).
" Mike Soutar, meanwhile, wrote in Smash Hits that the album was "packed with the kind of crowd-rousing flag hoisting anthems that everyone expects from the Minds", but thought the song's individual lengths meant that they would "probably sound epic played live, they'll probably drive you quite mad in the comfort of your own bedroom." Less positive reviews, however, came from U.S. publications such as Rolling Stone whose writer Mark Coleman criticised the band for what the reviewer considered to be political vacuity: "Street Fighting Years stands as an unfortunate example of politicized rock at its most simple-minded." He also opined that the album's production was too clean, describing it as "so studio smooth that every song – whether it's a chugging, multi-layered call to arms ("Take a Step Back") or a floating, ambient meditation ("Let It All Come Down") – virtually slides out of the speakers." CMJ took a more positive view, admitting that Street Fighting Years "lacks the inspirational anthems of the Sparkle in the Rain era" but "focuses attention on the passion of the lyrics, which have a political awareness and social consciousness that keeps those spots where the music falls short up on a high level.
On release Psychocandy received favourable reviews. Writing for NME, Andy Gill described the album as "a great citadel of beauty whose wall of noise, once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion", while William Shaw of Smash Hits called it "a wonderful LP which should bring the Scottish brats the success they've missed out on so far." Tim Holmes of Rolling Stone praised the band as "a perfect recombinant of every Edge City outlaw ethic ever espoused in rock." In the end of year-roundups, the album placed at number two in NME's list of best albums of 1985, number 3 in The Face, and number 5 in Melody Maker. Subsequently, the album has frequently appeared in "best ever" album lists, such as Q magazine's "100 Greatest British Albums Ever", where it placed at number 88 in 2000. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number 23 in its "40 Best Albums of the '80s" list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 268 on Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, and 269 in a 2012 revised list. The magazine also ranked the album number 45 on its list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.
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