He was controversial at the time for a flamboyant, over-the-top act in which he said whatever he wanted.
|
|
"I know how important and how devastating it is when folks at the top act in an unethical manner," he said.
|
|
In late July and early August they filled Madison Square Garden for 13 shows without benefit of a hit record, a hit single, much radio airplay, much publicity to speak of, and any of the trappings associated with a top act.
|
|
To be able to provide such data, states were mandated to create accountability measures and yearly assessments to gauge the effectiveness of schools in meeting those measures. Following NCLB, more recent legislation under the Race to the Top Act further pushed states to use data gathering and reporting to demonstrate school’s ability to meet the demands of the public. Embedded in both NCLB and the Race to the Top Act is an assumption that the collection and use of data can lead to increased student performance.
|
|
The club quickly set-itself up as one of the top ACT clubs with a string of major ACT titles (15 in total) during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. This included five league premierships, seven finals championships and three Federation Cups.
|
|
"Outta Here" is a song by Belgian singer and actress Laura Tesoro. The song was released as a digital download in Belgium on 27 August 2014 through Top Act Music. It has peaked at number 23 in Flanders, and was written by Tom Lodewyckx, Eva Jane Smeenk and Laura Tesoro.
|
|
WFAI management cancelled the show after numerous complaints from its country listening audience. As a country station, WFAI was a reporting station for Billboard magazine and had been awarded numerous platinum and gold records for its contribution to country music. In summer of 1981, WFAI hosted a free country concert. The top act was Ronnie McDowell.
|
|
Between 23 and 31 August 1975 the former airfield was the site of the "People's Free Festival" (also named "Watchfield Free Festival"), a free rock festival as a successor of the "Windsor Free Festivals" from the preceding years which ended in riots in 1974. The british authorities offered the organisers the former airfield as a new venue. Top act in 1975 was Hawkwind.
|
|
Bands in London's pub rock scene stripped the music back to its basics, playing hard, R&B-influenced; rock 'n' roll. By 1974, the scene's top act, Dr. Feelgood, was paving the way for others such as the Stranglers and Cock Sparrer that would play a role in the punk explosion. The pub rock scene created small venues where non- mainstream bands could play and they released low-cost recordings on independent record labels.Laing, Dave.
|
|
She had numerous big rock hits, and also sang Bosnian sevdalinka songs (Omer beže), as well as Croatian Christmas songs. Beside being a top act within the world of Croatian popular music, she was also highly acclaimed in the former Yugoslav rock scene. She is known for her strong voice, which she describes as contralto, as well as her unique sense of fashion. On 5 March 2015, the 40th anniversary of Gubec-Beg was celebrated.
|
|
Wooden Nickel Records was an American independent record label started in 1971 by Bill Traut, Jim Golden and Jerry Weintraub as a successor to Dunwich Records. Most of Wooden Nickel's releases were by acts based in the Chicago area, including the Siegel–Schwall Band, James Lee Stanley, Megan McDonough and Styx. The label had a distribution deal with RCA Records. Wooden Nickel ceased operations after its top act, Styx, signed with A&M; Records in 1975.
|
|
Morrison leads the big band Swing City, who together with his brother James Morrison played the prerecorded fanfare at the opening of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and more than twelve years later remains a top act. In addition to two successful albums, Morrison and his wife, singer Jacki Cooper, and have toured China, where they performed and recorded with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Morrison produced the albums Elly Holyt and Mothership. Both won Australian Jazz Bell Awards.
|
|
Todor "Toše" Proeski ( ; 25 January 1981 – 16 October 2007) was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the Balkans and was considered a top act of the local Macedonian and Balkan music scene. He was dubbed the "Elvis Presley of the Balkans" by BBC News. He died in a car crash on the Zagreb–Lipovac A3 highway, near Nova Gradiška in Croatia, in the morning on 16 October 2007, aged 26.
|
|
A white koala named Johnny is teased about his color so he joins a traveling circus with the help of Hamish, a Tasmanian Devil, and Higgens, a monkey photographer. He is disappointed that he is part of the freak show instead of the main acts in the big tent. The top act is "Wild Bushman" who takes all the audience from the freak show. Johnny checks out the act and ends up part of the act by accident and saved by The Wild Bushman.
|
|
Sting agreed. Copeland was furious about the agreement and shocked that Sting would open the show rather than be one of the closing acts. But the event was being organised not as a live concert but as a television show and that, according to Hollingsworth, meant a top act at the beginning when "the largest audience tunes in to see how it's going to be". At least one big act was planned for each hour of the 11-hour day in a bid to keep the audience.
|
|
Irish boy band Westlife performed at the Nobel Peace Price Concert in 2009. As the 2000s decade ends with 275 singles reached the No. 1 position on the chart in the UK. Over this period, Westlife were the most successful musical act and group at reaching the top spot with 11 No. 1 singles only from the said decade, top act with most total number of weeks at No. 1 with individual credits and second to most total number of weeks at No. 1 with 14 weeks.
|
|
Anacaona toured Cuba (1933), Puerto Rico (1935), Mexico (1936), Panama, Colombia and Venezuela (1937). In 1937 the septet published three records with RCA-Victor, then the worldwide leading music label. In the winter of the same year the Anacaona septet was the top act at a newly inaugurated night club on Broadway called „Havana Madrid“. The band was invited to perform at NBC's New York radio station, at the Hotel Commodore, Hotel Pierre, and the Waldorf Astoria where a show was held for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birthday. The band travelled on to Paris in 1938 with Alberto Socarrás, known as the “Magician on the Flute”.
|
|
Jeff Jarrett, who has represented both Bullet Club and nWo, has named in-ring ability as the main difference between the two stables, stating "Bullet Club is off the charts bell to bell more talented". Former NJPW wrestler and current WWE trainer Matt Bloom has stated that Bullet Club's popularity helped the promotion become global. Bullet Club's matches often involve excessive outside interference, ref bumps and other tactics, which are more common in American professional wrestling and are rarely seen in Japanese puroresu, even in matches involving other villainous acts. This disregard for Japanese traditions and culture got the stable over as a top act.
|
|
After splitting from his partnership with the Borman Brothers, Hank Whirling (Mature) needs a bank loan to keep his Whirling Circus going, now in competition with the Bormans. He gets it from a stuffy New York City bank, but only on the condition he take along accountant Randy Sherman (Red Buttons) and publicist Helen Harrison (Rhonda Fleming) to help the circus turn a profit. Hank's top act is the Colino trapeze troupe, featuring family patriarch Zach Colino (Gilbert Roland), his wife Maria (Adele Mara) — affectionately called “Mama” by Zach — and newcomer Tommy Gordon (David Nelson). The circus also features ringmaster Hans (Vincent Price) and clown Skeeter (Peter Lorre).
|
|
This is the discography of Scottish band Bay City Rollers. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "the tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'biggest group since the Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at teeny-bopper acts of the 1970s".A Beatlemania-alike revival had been mentioned before when T-Rex were a top act in 1971, introducing glam rock, and in 1972/73 when Slade were riding high in the UK singles and album charts. During the 1970s, the Bay City Rollers achieved successes across the globe throughout Europe, Asia, Australasia and North America.
|
|
Crushed Butler formed in 1969 with a line-up of Jesse Hector (guitar, vocals), Alan Butler (bass guitar) and Darryl Read (drums).Heibutzki, Ralph "[ Crushed Butler Biography]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 27 September 2009 They initially played cover versions of other bands' songs, before writing their own original material. They dressed with ripped slash-neck T-shirts, studded belts and straight legged Levis jeans, and their aggressive and energetic live performances, blew many a name top act of the stage, from the Lyceum to the Guildford Civic - they were futuristic and a group to be reckoned with. The band auditioned and recorded for several record labels including EMI and Decca, but failed to secure a deal.
|
|
Mega was the last of the Los Megas trio to lose his mask as he lost a steel cage match in the main event of the 2004 El Castillo del Terror ("The Tower of Terror") and was forced to unmask. In the spring of 2007 IWRG introduced a new version of Los Oficiales as they introduced a trio of masked "policemen". All three wrestlers had previously worked for IWRG under other names but were reintroduced as Oficial Fierro (Formerly Ultra Mega), Oficial 911 (formerly Comando Mega) and Oficial AK-47. Over the following years Los Oficiales developed into IWRG's top act, winning several team championships such as the Districto Federal Trios Championship, the IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship and the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.
|
|