THIS CHARMING MAN

THE SMITHS

SONGWRITERS: STEVEN MORRISSEY &JOHNNY MARR

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: THE SMITHS

LABEL: Rough Trade Records

GENRE: INDIE

YEAR: 1983

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them one of the most important bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. Q magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms". NME named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll.

Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio albums, The Smiths(1984), Meat Is Murder(1985), The Queen Is Dead(1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come(1987). Four of their albums (including three studio albums) appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They have also released several compilations, and numerous non-album singles. The Smiths had several singles reach the UK top 20 and all four of their studio albums reached the UK top 5, including one which hit #1. They won a significant following and remain cult favourites, although they had limited commercial success outside the UK while they were still together. The band broke up in 1987 due to internal tensions and have turned down several offers to reunite.

Punctured bicycle

On a hillside desolate

Will Nature make a man of me yet?

When in this charming car

This charming man

Why pamper life's complexities

When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I would go out tonight

But I haven't got a stitch to wear

This man said "It's gruesome

That someone so handsome should care"

A jumped-up pantry boy

Who never knew his place

He said "return the rings"

He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things

I would go out tonight

But I haven't got a stitch to wear

This man said "It's gruesome

That someone so handsome should care"

This charming man

This charming man

A jumped-up pantry boy

Who never knew his place

He said "return the ring"

He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things.

VALERIE

STEVE WINWOOD

SONGWRITERS: STEVE WINWOOD & WILL JENNINGS

COUNTRY: u. k.

ALBUM: TALKING BACK TO THE NIGHT

LABEL: island records

GENRE: synthpop

YEAR: 1982

Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician whose genres include rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays bass guitar, drums, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, violin, and other strings.

Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a successful solo career with hits including "While You See a Chance", "Valerie", "Back in the High Life Again" and two US Billboard Hot 100 number ones: "Higher Love" and "Roll with It". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004

"Valerie" is a song written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings and originally recorded by Winwood for his third solo album, Talking Back to the Night, in 1982.

The song deals with a man reminiscing about a lost love he hopes to find again someday. Will Jennings reportedly wrote the lyrics while thinking about Singer Valerie Carter, whose career was declining, in part, because of drug use. On its original release, the single reached number 51 on the UK Singles Chart and number 70 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

In 1987, a remix by Tom Lord-Alge was included as a single from Winwood's compilation album Chronicles. The remixed version of "Valerie" climbed to number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late December 1987, and also reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. Both versions also reached number 13 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

So wild, standing there

With her hands in her hair

I can't help remember

Just where she touched me

There's still no face

Here in our place

So cool, she was like

Jazz on a summer's day

Music, high and sweet

Then she just blew away

Now she can't be that warm

With the wind in her arms

Valerie, call on me

Call on me, Valerie

Come and see me

I'm the same boy I used to be

Love songs fill the night

But they don't tell it all

Not how lovers cry

Just like they're dying

Her cries hang there

In time somewhere

Someday some good

Wind may blow her back to me

Some night I may

Here her like she used to be

Now she can't be that warm

With the wind in her arms

Valerie, call on me

Call on me, Valerie

Come and see me

I'm the same boy I used to be

(Instrumental Interlude)

So cool, she was like

Jazz on a summer's day

Music, high and sweet

Then she just blew away

Now she can't be that warm

With the wind in her arms

Valerie, call on me

Call on me, Valerie

Come and see me

I'm the same boy I used to be

I'm the same boy I used to be.

VOODOO CHILE

ERIC CLAPTON

SONGWRITER: JIMI HENDRIX

WHERE: LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES ROCK

YEAR: 2009

Live from Madison Square Garden is a 2 CD/2 DVD live album by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood which was released on 19 May 2009 by Duck/Reprise Records. The album is made up of recordings from Clapton and Winwood's performances at Madison Square Garden in February 2008. It is also Eric Clapton's ninth live album and Steve Winwood's first live album as a solo artist.

The duo performed songs from their time in the band Blind Faith as well as selections from Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, Clapton's and Winwood's solo careers and some rock and blues covers. Their band consisted of Willie Weeks on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Chris Stainton on keyboards.

Well, Im a voodoo Chile

Lord Im a voodoo Chile

Well, the night I was born

Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red

The night I was born

I swear the moon turned a fire red

Well my poor mother cried out lord, the gypsy was right!

And I seen her fell down right dead (have mercy)

Well, mountain lions found me there waitin

And set me on a eagles back

Well, mountain lions found me there

And set me on a eagles wing

(it's the eagles wing, baby, what did I say)

He took me past to the outskirts of infinity

And when he brought me back

He gave me a venus witchs ring

Hey!

And he said fly on, fly on

Because Im a voodoo chile, baby, voodoo Chile

Hey!

Well, I make love to you

And lord knows youll feel no pain

Say, I make love to you in your sleep

And lord knows you felt no pain (have mercy)

Cause Im a million miles away

And at the same time Im right here in your picture frame

(yeah! what did I say now)

Cause Im a voodoo Chile

Lord knows Im a voodoo Chile

Well my arrows are made of desire

From far away as jupiters sulphur mines

Say my arrows are made of desire, desire

From far away as jupiters sulphur mines

(Way down by the methabe sea, yeah)

I have a humming bird and it hums so loud

You think you were losing your mind, hmm

Well I float in liquid gardens

And Arizona new red sand (Yeah)

I float in liquid gardens

Way down in Arizona red sand

Well, I taste the honey from a flower named blue

Way down in California

And the n New York drowns as we hold hands

'Cause Im a voodoo Chile

Lord knows Im a voodoo Chile

Yeah!

WHY

ANNIE LENNOX

SONGWRITER: ANNIE LENNOX

COUNTRY: SCOTLAND

ALBUM: MEDUSA

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1995

Diva is the debut solo album by the Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, released in 1992. The album entered the UK album chart at number 1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being certified quadruple platinum. It was also a success in the US, where it was a top 30 hit and has been certified double platinum. Diva won Album of the Year at the 1993 Brit Awards, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards the same year.

Why... Why...

How many times do I have to try to tell you

That I'm sorry for the things I've done?! Uhhh...

But when I start to try to tell you

That's when you have to tell me:

Hey...this kind of trouble's only just begun

I tell myself too many times

Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut

That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words

That keep on falling from your mouth

Falling from your mouth

Falling from your mouth

Tell me...

Why...

Why...

I may be mad;

I may be blind;

I may be viciously unkind;

But I can still read what you're thinking

And I've heard it said too many times

That you'd be better off...

Besides...

Why can't you see this boat is sinking

(This boat is sinking this boat is sinking)

Let's go down to the water's edge

And we can cast away those doubts

Some things are better left unsaid

But they still turn me inside out

Turning inside out...

Turning inside out...

Tell me...

Why

Tell me...

Why

This is the book I've never read;

These are the words I've never said;

This is the path I'll never tread;

These are the dreams I'll dream instead;

This is the joy that's seldom spread;

These are the tears...

The tears we shed

This is the fear;

This is the dread

These are the contents of my head

And these are the years that we have spent

And this is what they represent

And this is how I feel

Do you know how I feel?

'Cause I don't think you know how I feel

I don't think you know what I feel

I don't think you know what I fear

You don't know what I fear.