Future Games is the fifth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood
Mac, released on 3 September 1971. It was recorded in the summer of 1971 at
Advision Studios in London and was the first album to feature Christine McVie as
a full member. This album was also the first of five albums to feature American
guitarist Bob Welch. “He was totally different background –
R&B, sort of jazzy. He brought his personality,” Mick Fleetwood said of
Welch in a 1995 BBC interview. “He
was a member of Fleetwood Mac before we’d even played a note.”
Without the 1950s leanings of departed guitarist Jeremy Spencer, the
band moved further away from blues and closer to the melodic pop sound that
would finally break them into America four years later. After
the band completed the album and turned it in, the record label said that it
would not release an album with only seven songs, and demanded that they record
an eighth. "What a Shame" was recorded hastily as a jam to fulfill
this request.
The magic of a blackened night
Can go so far, but not seem right
Although my love, will drive away the sunshine
The magic of, a blackened night
And before you go show me
All the words of love
And the falling sands of time
Blow my wind and drifted by
To and fro the trees still bend
Wondering what the host will send
We will go right down to the sea
Bathing in light we will be free to wander
And the falling sands of time
Blow my wind and drifted by
To and fro the trees still bend
Wondering what the host will send
We will go right down to the sea
Bathing in light we will be free to wander
And the falling sands of time
Blow my wind and drifted by
To and fro the trees still bend
Wondering what the host will send
We will go right down to the sea
Bathing in light we will be free to wander
The magic of a blackened night
Can go so far, but not seem right
Although my love, will drive away the sunshine
The magic of, a blackened night.
GIVE ME
LOVE
GEORGE
HARRISON
SONGWRITER:
GEORGE HARRISON
COUNTRY: U.
K.
ALBUM: LIVING
IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
LABEL: APPLE
RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
ROCK
YEAR: 2012
George Harrison: Living in the Material World is a 2011 documentary film
directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the life of The Beatles George Harrison.
It earned six nominations at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding
Nonfiction Special.
The film currently holds an 85% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes,
based on 34 professional reviews.
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is a song by English
musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1973 album Living
in the Material World. It was also issued as the album's lead single, in May
that year, and became Harrison's second US number 1, after "My Sweet Lord".
In doing so, the song demoted Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love"
from the top of the BillboardHot 100, marking the only occasion that two former
Beatles have held the top two chart positions in America. The
single also reached the top ten in Britain, Canada, Australia and other
countries around the world.
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is one of its author's
most popular songs, among fans and music critics, and features a series of
much-praised slide-guitar solos from Harrison. The recording signalled a
deliberate departure from his earlier post-Beatles work, in the scaling down of
the big sound synonymous with All Things Must Pass and his other co-productions
with Phil Spector over 1970–71. Aside from Harrison, the musicians on the track
are Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann and Gary Wright. In his lyrics,
Harrison sings of his desire to be free of karma and the constant cycle of rebirth;
he later described the song as "a prayer and personal statement between
me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".
George Harrison MBE(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English
musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer who achieved international
fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet
Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular
music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned
spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs
were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965
onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group
included "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My
Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django
Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences.
By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest
in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use
of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Having
initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he
subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. After the
band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must
Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single,
"My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist,
the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian
musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid.
In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the
Beatles Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and
co-founding HandMade Films in 1978.
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul
Oh
My Lord . . .
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you
Won't you please
Oh won't you
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul
Oh
My Lord
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you.
RED RAIN
PETER GABRIEL
SONGWRITER:
PETER GABRIEL
COUNTRY: U.
K.
ALBUM: SO
LABEL: GEFFEN
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE
ROCK
YEAR: 1986
"Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter
Gabriel's 1986 solo album So. In the USA, it was the second single from the
album and reached number three on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart in
1986, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August. In the rest of
the world it was not released until 1987 and received less airplay and sales,
peaking at 46 in the UK singles chart after entering the chart in July of that
year. A live version also charted in the US and the UK in 1994.
The song is a
combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring
dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his backyard pool drinking cold red
wine. Another version of the dream had bottles in the shape of people falling
from a cliff. Once they smashed with impact onto the ground, the people-shaped
bottles had red liquid coming out, and then it began to rain the same red
liquid.
Earlier in his solo career, Gabriel had an idea for a movie, Mozo. In
it, villagers were punished for their sins with a blood-red rain. "Red
Rain" was to be the theme song. This idea was eventually scrapped, although there was a mention of Mozo in
the song "On the Air" in Peter Gabriel (II). "Down
The Dolce Vita", "Here Comes The Flood", and
"Exposure" reference the Mozo story, as well.
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer,
songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame as the original lead singer
and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in
1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill"
as his first single. His 1986 album So, is his best-selling release and is
certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The
album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV
Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and is MTV's most played music video
of all time.
Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He
co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing
and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also
pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the
first online music download services. Gabriel has also been involved in
numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-Apartheid single
"Biko". He has participated in several human rights benefit concerts,
including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and
co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The
Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
It can't be that cold,the ground is still warm to touch
Hay ay ay we touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm
Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
Well I've seen them, buried in a sheltered place in this town
They tell you that this rain can sting and look down
There is no blood around see no sign of pain
Hay ay ay no pain
Seeing no red at all, see no rain
Red rain is coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
Red rain
Haahhh
Haahhh
Putting the pressure on much harder now
To return again and again
(Back voice) Red rain
Just let the red rain splash you
Let the rain fall on your skin
(Back voice) Red rain
I come to you defences down
( Back voice ) oh oh
With the trust of a child
Hayyy ay red rain coming down
Red rain
Red rain is pouring down
Pouring down all over me
And I can't watch anymore
No more denial
It's so hard to lay down in all of this
Red rain coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I see it
Red rain coming down
Red rain is pouring down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I'm bathing in
Red rain coming down
Red rain is coming down
Red rain is coming down all over me
I'm begging you
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming down
Red rain coming downnnn
Over me in the red red sea
Over me
Over me
Red rain.
LAND OF
CONFUSION
GENESIS
SONGWRITER:
MIKE RUTHERFORD, TONY BANKS & PHIL COLLINS
COUNTRY: U.
K.
ALBUM: INVIVIBLE
TOUCH
LABEL: CHARISMA
RECORDS
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE
ROCK
YEAR: 1986
Invisible Touch is the thirteenth studio album by the English rock band Genesis,
released on 6 June 1986 by Atlantic Records in the United States and 9 June
1986 by Charisma and Virgin Records in the United Kingdom. After taking a break
in group activity for each member to continue with their solo projects in 1984,
the band reconvened in October 1985 to write and Record Invisible Touch with
engineer and producer Hugh Padgham. As with their previous
album, it was written entirely through group improvisations and no material
developed prior to recording was used.
Invisible Touch was a worldwide success and reached No. 1 on the UK
Albums Chart and No. 3 on the US Billboard 200. It remains the
band's highest selling album after it was certified multi-platinum for over 1.2
million copies sold in the UK and 6 million sold in the US. Genesis became the first band and foreign act to
have five top five singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, with "Invisible
Touch" being their first and only song to reach No. 1 on the charts. The
album received mixed reviews upon its release and retrospectively, with several
reviews, both positive and negative, observing its similarity to Collins's solo
records and their commercial pop-oriented sound. In 2007, the album was re-released with new stereo and
5.1 surround sound mixes.
"Land of Confusion" is a song by the English rock band Genesis
from their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song was the third track on the
album and was the third track released as a single, reaching No. 4 in the U.S. and
No. 14 in the UK in late 1986. It also reached No. 8 in the Netherlands. The
music was written by the band, while the lyrics were written by guitarist Mike
Rutherford. The song's video featured puppets from the 1980s UK sketch show Spitting
Image.
Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming,
Surrey in 1967. The most successful and longest-lasting line-up consisted of
keyboardist Tony Banks bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil
Collins. Significant former members were original lead Singer Peter Gabriel and
guitarist Steve Hackett. The band moved from folk music to progressive rock in
the 1970s, before moving towards pop at the end of the decade. They
have sold 21.5 million albums in the United States, with worldwide sales of
between 100 million and 150 million.
Formed by five Charterhouse pupils including Banks, Rutherford, Gabriel,
and Anthony Phillips, Genesis were named by former pupil Jonathan King, who
arranged for them to record several unsuccessful singles and their debut album From
Genesis to Revelation in 1968. After splitting with King, the group began to
tour professionally, signed with Charisma Records and recorded Trespass(1970)
in the progressive rock style. Following the departure of Phillips, Genesis
recruited Collins and Hackett and recorded Nursery Cryme(1971). Their
live shows also began to be centred on Gabriel's theatrical costumes and
performances. They were first
successful in mainland Europe, before entering the UK charts with Foxtrot(1972).
In 1973, they released Selling England by the Pound(1973), which featured their
first UK top 30 single "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)". The concept
album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway followed in 1974, and was promoted with a
transatlantic tour featuring an elaborate stage show. Following the Lamb tour,
Gabriel left Genesis in August 1975 to begin a solo career.
I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street
Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in
Oh, superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour
This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me why this is the land of confusion
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in
I remember long ago
When the sun was shining
And all the stars were bright all through the night
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