The Raconteurs est le projet du chanteur, guitariste et pianiste des White Stripes, Jack White. Il est accompagné de trois amis, issus de la scène rock de Détroit, qu'il a rencontrés en 1998 : le guitariste Brendan Benson, le bassiste Jack Lawrence et le batteur Patrick Keeler. Le groupe s'est formé après que Jack White et Brendan Benson eurent composé leur première chanson : Steady, As She Goes. La particularité de ce groupe est que ses quatre membres ont tous eu un certain succès auparavant : Jack White avec les White Stripes, Benson en solo (trois albums : One Mississippi, Lapalco et Alternative to Love), Jack Lawrence et Patrick Keeler formant la section rythmique des Greenhornes. Néanmoins, des quatre, seul Jack White
a explosé, devenant une icône incontournable de la scène rock. Il est
pour l'essentiel responsable de la rapidité de la création du groupe.
Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish musician. He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best reggae act, and the 1998 BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist.
James Patrick Page (né le ) est un guitariste, producteur et compositeurbritannique de rock, né à Heston dans la banlieue de Londres. Il est le fondateur, leader et compositeur de la majorité du répertoire original du célèbre groupe de rock, Led Zeppelin.
Auparavant, dès 1963, il mène une carrière prolifique comme musicien de
studio. Sa virtuosité en fait vite un des musiciens les plus demandés
lors des séances d'enregistrement des artistes et des groupes phares
jusqu'à son arrivée chez les Yardbirds, fin 1966. En 1968, il fonde le groupe qui va devenir une des plus importantes formations de l'histoire du rock en compagnie de Robert Plant, John Paul Jones et John Bonham.
Avec ses amis Eric Clapton et Jeff Beck,
il est considéré comme l'un des trois meilleurs guitaristes
britanniques, et comme l'un des plus influents de l'histoire du rock. En
2005, il est élevé au grade d'Officier de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique pour son travail caritatif au Brésil. Il reçoit, en 2008, le titre de Docteur honoris causa pour son apport à la musique. En 2011, le magazine américain Rolling Stone le classe troisième derrière Jimi Hendrix (1er) et Eric Clapton (2e) dans le palmarès des 100 meilleurs guitaristes rock de tous les temps. Il est très inspiré par le blues, le folk, la musique indienne et la musique orientale.
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE
(born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who achieved international
success as the guitarist and leader of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, he had become the most sought-after session guitarist in England. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. In late 1968, he founded Led Zeppelin.
Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.[2][3][4]Rolling Stone
magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and
ranked him number 3 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All
Time". In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995). Page has been described by Uncut as "rock's greatest and most mysterious guitar hero." Los Angeles Times magazine voted Jimmy Page the 2nd greatest guitarist of all time.
Ric Ocasek est un chanteur, musicien et réalisateur américain né le à Baltimore, dans le Maryland. De son vrai nom Richard Otcasek, il fut le chanteur du groupe new waveThe Cars de 1976 à 1988.
Ric Ocasek (born Richard T. Otcasek; March 23, 1949) is an American songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band, the Cars. Ocasek has been married to model Paulina Porizkova since 1989.
Naked Eyes était un groupe britannique de pop/new wave des années 1980, qui connut le succès surtout aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Océanie en 1983 (alors que dans leur pays d'origine le groupe ne connut, paradoxalement, que très peu de succès).
Il était composé à la base de Pete Byrne au chant et de Rob Fisher aux claviers (décédé en 1999), tous deux originaires de Bath en Angleterre. Avant cela, ils firent partie d'une formation nommée Neon, avec des membres du futur Tears for Fears. Leur premier album connut un succès certain, notamment en Amérique du Nord, mais leur second, paru fin 1984 marcha beaucoup moins bien, ce qui entraina de fait la dissolution du groupe en 1985.
Par la suite, Rob Fisher forma avec Simon Climie (au chant), le duo Climie Fisher, qui connut un grand succès au niveau international entre 1987 et 1989, mais aussi en Angleterre, ce que Naked Eyes n'avait pas réussi à obtenir.
Naked Eyes is a Britishnew waveband that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Originally a duo, the band is known largely for its four top 40 singles.
Mad at Gravity was a short lived alternative rock
band from 2000 to 2003. The band's name came from a poem that lead
singer J. Lynn Johnston wrote at age nineteen, stating that it "just
jumped out" and "it had so many applications."
Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician.
She has had several hits in her native country, as well as a few minor
international hits, most notably "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet
Snow". Laing also contributed to the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika. Laing also contributed music to, and appeared in, the 1985 action film Shaker Run.
Currently she resides in New Zealand and occasionally plays live shows, enjoying a small but devoted fan base.
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, The Best of Kansas), one platinum live album (Two for the Show) and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind".
Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout
the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums
throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was
the second-most-played track on classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in
1997.
Septième d'une famille de neuf enfants, il chante avec ses frères dès l'âge de six ans et débute une carrière professionnelle à l'âge de onze ans au sein des Jackson Five, groupe formé avec ses frères aînés. Tout en restant membre du groupe, il entame en 1971 une carrière solo. Sept de ses albums solo parus de son vivant figurent parmi les albums les plus vendus au monde : Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995), Blood on the Dance Floor (1997) et Invincible (2001).
Dans les années 1980, Michael Jackson devient une figure majeure de la musique pop et l'une des personnalités les plus célèbres du XXe siècle. Il révolutionne l'industrie du disque, notamment en concevant des clips musicaux comparables à des courts-métrages de cinéma, comme Beat It, Billie Jean, Thriller, Bad ou Smooth Criminal. Au cours de ses concerts, vidéos et apparitions publiques, il popularise largement de nombreux pas de danse, dont le Moonwalk, qui devient sa signature. Ayant fusionné les genres de musiquesoul, funk et rock, son style vocal et musical continue d'influencer nombre d'artistes de hip-hop, pop et R'n'B contemporain.
Surnommé « The King of Pop » (« Le Roi de la pop »), Michael Jackson
a battu nombre de records de l'industrie du disque. Pour l'ensemble de
sa carrière, les ventes de ses singles et albums s'élèvent à près d'un
milliard d'exemplaires, ce qui le classe parmi les trois plus gros vendeurs de disques de tous les temps, avec les Beatles et Elvis Presley. Thriller, avec des estimations de vente variant entre 51 et 65 millions d'exemplaires, est quant à lui l'album le plus vendu de l'histoire. Michael Jackson a remporté plus de prix que n'importe quel autre artiste et a été élu Artiste du Millénaire aux World Music Awards en 2000.
Michael Jackson a donné plus de 400 millions de dollars à des œuvres caritatives, notamment grâce à sa tournée Dangerous World Tour.
Toutefois, son image publique a été considérablement ternie à cause de
certains aspects de sa vie privée, notamment ses recours à la chirurgie esthétique, son mode de vie jugé excentrique par les tabloïds, ainsi que deux accusations d'abus sexuel sur mineur. L'une n'a pas connu de suite judiciaire et l'autre a abouti à un procès, au terme duquel Michael Jackson a été acquitté.
Ses deux mariages et ses trois enfants sont également à l'origine de
polémiques, notamment concernant sa paternité. En 2010, le FBI
rend public le dossier de Michael Jackson, dans lequel les autorités
soulignent n'avoir trouvé aucune preuve ou comportement chez Jackson qui
soutiendrait les accusations passées.
Michael Jackson meurt le , par « homicide accidentel » lié à une overdose de médicaments, au moment même où il prépare avec son groupe et ses danseurs la série de concerts This Is It qui doivent se dérouler à Londres. Le 7 novembre 2011, à l'issue d'un procès de neuf semaines, le Dr Conrad Murray, son médecin personnel, est reconnu coupable d'homicide involontaire par la Cour supérieure de Los Angeles.
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop,
his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized
personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four
decades.
The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller",
were credited with breaking down racial barriers and with transforming
the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of
these videos helped to bring the then-relatively-new television channel MTV to fame. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream",
he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as
forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video
performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance
techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop, and rock artists.
Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best selling album of all time. His other albums, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best selling albums. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
twice. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the
Dance Hall of Fame as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music.
His other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards, as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 26 American Music Awards—more than any other artist—including the "Artist of the Century" and "Artist of the 1980s"; 13 number-one singles in the United States during his solo career, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era; and the estimated sale of over 400 million records worldwide. Jackson has won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. Jackson became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when "Love Never Felt So Good" reached number nine on May 21, 2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, the Guinness World Records recognized him for supporting 39 charities, more than any other entertainer.
Aspects of Jackson's personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In the mid-1990s, he was accused of child sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount and no formal charges were brought. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted
of further child sexual abuse allegations and several other charges
after the jury found him not guilty on all counts. While preparing for
his comeback concert series titled This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25, 2009, after suffering from cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world.
Il rejoint brièvement le groupe Siouxsie & The Banshees en 1976 avant d’intégrer comme guitariste le groupe punkChelsea en 1977, qui deviendra Generation X après le départ de son leader Gene October(en)
dont il récupère la place de chanteur-leader. Il entame ensuite avec
succès une carrière solo américaine et internationale après la
séparation du groupe.
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock musician, songwriter and actor. Born in Stanmore, Middlesex, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. Unlike other British punk rock artists of his era, Idol was inspired by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Haircut 100 est un groupe de pop britannique actif entre 1981 et 1984, puis de nouveau depuis 2009.
Il est fondé en 1980, après avoir adopté différents noms, par trois
amis d'enfance : Nick Heyward au chant, Les Nemes à la basse et Graham
Jones à la guitare. Après quelques concerts, Haircut 100 est signé par
la maison de disques Arista, et verra sa formation augmenter à six
membres avec l'arrivée de trois musiciens de session : Phil Smith aux
cuivres, Mark Fox aux percussions et Blair Cunningham à la batterie.
Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison in San Francisco in 1979. They released four albums: Gamma 1 in 1979, Gamma 2 in 1980, Gamma 3 in 1982 (all on Elektra Records) and Gamma 4
in 2000. Some of their best known songs are probably "Fight to the
Finish" from their first album, "Meanstreak" and "Voyager" from the
second album.
Steve Earle, Stephen Fain Earle pour l'état-civil, et né le à Fort Monroe en Virginie, est un musicien américain, apparu au public avec la scène country alternative du début des années 1980.
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (/ˈɜrl/) (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folksinger-songwriter,
record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a
songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His
breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.
Daltrey has long been known as one of the most charismatic of rock's
front-men and famed for his powerful voice and energetic stage presence.
His persona has earned him a position as one of the "gods of rock and
roll".
As a member of the Who, Daltrey received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1988, and from the Grammy Foundation in 2001. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The Who are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Daltrey has also been an actor and film producer, with roles in films, theatre and television.
Interprète: John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band
Titre: On The Dark Side
Année: 1984
Billboard: #1
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band is an Americanrockband from Rhode Island which began its career in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s. Originally known as simply Beaver Brown,
they got their name from longtime friend William Bosworth. classic
lineup of the group (consisting of John Cafferty on vocals and guitar, Gary Gramolini on lead guitar, Pat Lupo on bass, Kenny Jo Silva on drums, Bobby Cotoia on keyboards, and Michael "Tunes" Antunes on saxophone) started out as a New England
bar band based in Narragansett, Rhode Island and established a
following up and down the Northeast corridor with strongholds in the beach resort towns
of Narragansett and Misquamicut, Rhode Island; New York City; New
Haven, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Accept est un groupe de heavy metalallemand, originaire de Solingen. Il est fondé par le chanteur Udo Dirkschneider et par le guitariste Michael Wagener (devenu producteur depuis). Le groupe débute sous le nom de Band X, en 1968, avant de prendre le nom d'Accept, en 1971.
Il ne commence une carrière professionnelle qu'à la fin des années
1970. Le groupe se dissout et se reforme plusieurs fois ; dernièrement
en 2009. Il est notamment reconnu pour avoir joué un rôle important dans l'essor du speed metal, avec leur chanson Fast as a Shark. L'album Balls to the Wall, sort en 1983, et est vu comme l'un des disques classiques de l'histoire du metal.
Au niveau esthétique, leur musique est plus particulièrement connue
pour un style de heavy metal incisif et puissant. Elle est aussi marquée
par de nombreuses références à la musique classique. Le groupe a également exploré différentes possibilités stylistiques (entre autres dans le hard FM, le speed metal, le hard rock, le metal alternatif,
etc.). Au niveau des paroles, une partie importante du répertoire est
marquée par des textes engagés liés aux questions sociales et aux droits
de l'homme (l'oppression des minorités dans le monde, la dénonciation
du racisme, des préjugés, de la peine de mort, de la guerre et du
militarisme, du fondamentalisme religieux ou, encore, du conformisme
social, etc.).
Le groupe connaît un succès important au cours des années 1980. Il est souvent considéré comme la seconde figure importante du heavy metal allemand, après Scorpions.
Il fait également l'objet de controverses au cours des années 1980,
dans lesquelles il est accusé, sans fondement, de sympathies nazies (en France et en Pologne), de sympathies soviétiques (aux États-Unis), d'attitudes anti-soviétiques (en URSS). Il leur est également reproché la thématique apparemment gay-friendly de certaines chansons et imageries. Ces controverses se dissipent avec le temps.
Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s. The band played an important role in the development of speed and thrash metal, being part of the German heavy metal scene, which emerged in the early to mid-1980s. Accept achieved commercial success with their fifth studio album Balls to the Wall (1983), which remains the band's only album to be certified gold in the United States and Canada, and spawned their well-known hit "Balls to the Wall".
Following their disbandment in 1997 and short-lived reunion in 2005, Accept reunited again in 2009 with former T.T. Quick frontman Mark Tornillo replacing Dirkschneider and released their three highest charting albums to date, Blood of the Nations (2010), Stalingrad (2012) and Blind Rage (2014), the latter of which was Accept's first album to reach number one on the charts in their home country.
ABC are an English new wave group that first came to prominence in the early 1980s. Their 1982 debut album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK number one and they achieved ten UK and five US Top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990. The band, now essentially singer Martin Fry, continues to tour and released their eighth studio album, Traffic, in 2008.
Caesars est un groupe de rock alternatifsuédois. Il est d'abord connu sous le nom de Caesars Palace dans son pays natal, ou encore Twelve Caesars dans le reste de la Scandinavie.
Le groupe est créé à l'origine en 1995 par deux amis : Cesar Vidal et Jocke Ahlund. Ceux-ci sont rejoints après par David Lindqvist et Jens Orjenheim. Mais Jens décide de quitter le groupe, et fut remplacé par Nino Keller. Leurs trois premiers albums ne se sont vendus qu'en Scandinavie mais ils se sont fait connaitre en dehors de celle-ci grâce à leur chanson Jerk It Out qui s'est répandue entre autres par la publicité à la télévision.
En 2005, Jerk It Out a été repris par Apple pour la promotion de son baladeur iPod Shuffle. Depuis, le single est entré dans les meilleures ventes et les titres de Paper Tigers sont joués sur différentes radios.
Leur 6e album, intitulé Strawberry Weed est sorti le 24 mars 2008.
Caesar was a Dutch indie rock trio from Amsterdam, consisting of
Roald van Oosten, Marit de Loos and Sem Bakker. The band was founded in
1994. Caesar released four studio albums, plus one retrospective release
in 2006, Before My Band Explodes. The band was stopped in 2008. They were named for Julius Caesar who is famous for being a Roman Dictator.
The Eagles are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 150 million records—100 million in the U.S. alone—including 42 million copies of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and 32 million copies of Hotel California. "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" was the best selling album of the 20th century in the U.S.
They are the fifth-highest-selling music act and highest-selling
American band in U.S. history. No American band sold more records than
the Eagles during the 1970s.
It was not until 1975's One of These Nights that the Eagles became arguably America's biggest band. The album included three top 10 singles: "One of These Nights", "Lyin' Eyes", and "Take It to the Limit",
the first hitting the top of the charts. They continued that success
and hit their commercial peak in late 1976 with the release of Hotel California,
which would go on to sell more than 16 million copies in the U.S. alone
and more than 32 million copies worldwide. The album yielded two
number-one singles, "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California". They released their last studio album for nearly 28 years in 1979 with The Long Run, which spawned three top 10 singles: "Heartache Tonight", "The Long Run", and "I Can't Tell You Why", the lead single being another chart-topping hit.
The Eagles disbanded in July 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks. They have toured intermittently since then and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their first full studio album in 28 years and their sixth number one album. The next year they launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour in support of the album. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the band's documentary release, History of the Eagles.
