IS YOUR LOVE STRONG ENOUGH?

BRYAN FERRY

SONGWRITER: BRYAN FERRY

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: THREESOME: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE

LABEL: E. G. RECORDS

GENRE: CLASSIC ROCK

YEAR: 1985

Bryan Ferry CBE (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and songwriter. His voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established a distinctive image and sartorial style; according to The Independent, Ferry and his contemporary David Bowie influenced a generation with their appearances. Peter York described Ferry as "an art object" who "should hang in the Tate".

Ferry came to prominence as the lead singer and main songwriter with the glam art rock band Roxy Music, achieving three nº. 1 albums and 10 singles which reached the top 10 in the UK between 1972 and 1982. Their singles included "Virginia Plain", "Street Life", "Love is the Drug", "Dance Away", "Angel Eyes", "Over You", "Oh Yeah", "Jealous Guy", "Avalon", and "More Than This".

Ferry began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of Roxy Music. His early solo hits include "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", "Let's Stick Together" and "This Is Tomorrow". Ferry disbanded Roxy Music following the release of their best-selling álbum Avalon in 1982 to concentrate on his solo career, releasing further singles such as "Slave to Love" and "Don't Stop the Dance" and the UK no. 1 album Boys and Girls in 1985. When his sales as a solo artist and as a member of Roxy Music are combined, Ferry has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

As well as being a prolific songwriter himself, Ferry has recorded many cover versions of other artists' songs, including standards from the Great American Songbook, in albums such as These Foolish Things (1973), Another Time, Another Place (1974), Let's Stick Together (1976) and As Time Goes By (1999), as well as Dylanesque (2007), an album of Bob Dylan covers. In 2019, Ferry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.

"Is Your Love Strong Enough", song written by Bryan Ferry from Legend (Tangerine Dream soundtrack), also from More than This (compilation album)

"Is Your Love Strong Enough", cover of the Bryan Ferry song from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) soundtrack by How To Destroy Angels

"Is Your Love Strong Enough", song from Pop Life (Bananarama album) written Dallin and Jolley.

Just one step at a time

And closer to destiny

I knew at a glance

There'd always be a chance for me

With someone I could live for

Nowhere I would rather be

Is your love strong enough?

Like a rock in the sea

Am I asking too much?

Is your love strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

And stranger than fantasy

I knew from the start

It had to be the place for me

Someone that I would die for

There's no way I could ever leave

Is your love strong enough?

Like a rock in the sea

Am I asking too much?

Is your love strong enough?

Is your love strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Is your love strong enough?

Is your love strong enough?

Is your love strong enough?

Is your love strong enough?

Is your love strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Strong enough?

Strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Strong enough?

Strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Strong enough?

Strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Strong enough?

Strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart

Strong enough?

Strong enough?

Just one beat of your heart.

AWAKEN

YES

SONGWRITERS: JON ANDERSON & STEVE HOWE

WHERE: SYMPHONIC LIVE 2003

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SYMPHONIC LIVE

LABEL: EAGLE VISION

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2001

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. The band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history; nineteen musicians have been full-time members. Since June 2015, it has consisted of guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, singer Jon Davison, and bassist Billy Sherwood. Yes have explored several musical styles over the years, and are most notably regarded as progressive rock pioneers.

Yes began performing original songs and rearranged covers of rock, pop, blues and jazz songs, as evident on their first two albums. A change of direction in 1970 led to a series of successful progressive rock albums until their disbanding in 1981, their most successful being The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971) and Close to the Edge (1972). Yes toured as a major rock act that earned the band a reputation for their elaborate stage sets, light displays, and album covers designed by Roger Dean. The success of "Roundabout", the single from Fragile, cemented their popularity across the decade and beyond.

In 1983, Yes reformed with a new line-up that included Trevor Rabin and a more commercial and pop-oriented musical direction. The result was 90125 (1983), their highest-selling album, which contained the U.S. number-one single, "Owner of a Lonely Heart". From 1990 to 1992, Yes were an eight-member formation after they merged with Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe for Union (1991) and its tour. Since 1994, Yes have released albums with varied levels of success and completed tours from 1994 to 2004. After a four-year hiatus, they resumed touring in 2008 and continue to release albums; their most recent is Heaven & Earth (2014). In 2016, a new group of former Yes members began touring and named themselves Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.

Yes are one of the most successful, influential, and longest-lasting progressive rock bands. They have sold 13.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US. In 1985, they won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance with "Cinema", and received five Grammy nominations between 1985 and 1992. They were ranked No. 94 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Yes have headlined annual progressive rock-themed cruises since 2013 named Cruise to the Edge. Their discography spans 21 studio albums. In April 2017, Yes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which chose to induct current and former members Anderson, Squire, Bruford, Kaye, Howe, Wakeman, White and Rabin.

Symphonic Live is a video and live album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on DVD and a single CD on 18 June 2002 by Eagle Vision and subsequently on two CDs and on Blu-ray by Eagle Records. The album documents the group's performance at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on 22 November 2001 during their Yessymphonic Tour, supporting their nineteenth studio album Magnification, which also featured an orchestra. The tour featured Yes performing on stage with an orchestra; Symphonic Live features the European Festival Orchestra conducted by Wilheilm Keitel.

Keyboardist Rick Wakeman was invited by the band to perform at this concert, but this did not happen because of scheduling conflicts. In his place was Tom Brislin.

High vibration go on

To the Sun, oh let my heart dreaming

Past a mortal as me

Where can I be

Wish the Sun to stand still

Reaching out to touch our all being

Past all mortal as we

Here we can be

(He can be here)

(Be here now)

Here we can be

Suns, high, streams, through

Awaken gentle mass touch

(Gentle mass touch)

Awaken gentle mass touch

(Gentle mass touch)

Strong, dreams, reign, here

Awaken gentle mass touch

(Gentle mass touch)

Awaken gentle mass touch

(Gentle mass touch)

Awaken gentle mass touch

(Star, song)

Star, song, age, less

Awaken gentle mass touching

(Gentle mass touch)

Awaken gentle mass touching

(Gentle mass touch)

Awaken gentle mass touching

Touching

Touching

Touching

Workings of man

Set to ply out historical life

Reregaining the flower of the fruit of his tree

All awakening

All restoring you

Workings of man

Crying out from the fire set aflame

By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being

Is promised for his seeing his reaching so clearly

Workings of man

Driven far from the path

Rereleased in inhibitions

So that all is left for you

All is left for you

All is left for you

All is left for you now

Master of images

Songs cast a light on you

Hark thru dark ties

That tunnel us out of sane existence

In challenge as direct

As eyes see young stars assemble

Master of light

All pure chance

As exists cross divided

In all encircling mode

Oh closely guided plan

Awaken in our heart

Master of soul

Set to touch

All impenetrable youth

Ask away

That thought be contact

With all that's clear

Be honest with yourself

There's no doubt no doubt

Master of time

Setting sail

Over all our lands

And as we look

Forever closer

Shall we now bid

Farewell farewell

High vibration go on

To the Sun, oh let my heart dreaming

Past a mortal as me

Where can I be

Wish the Sun to stand still

Reaching out to touch our own being

Past all mortal as we

Here we can be

Like the time I ran away

Turned around and you were standing close to me

Like the time I ran away

Turned around and you were standing close to me.

MCARTHUR PARK

DONNA SUMMER

SONGWRITER: JIMMY WEBB

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ON THE RADIO: GREATEST HITS VOLUME I & II

LABEL: DUNHILL RECORDS

GENRE: BAROQUE POP

YEAR: 1968

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.

While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Summer became the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting and singing in Europe, where she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Munich, where they recorded influential disco hits such as "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love", marking her breakthrough into an international career. Summer returned to the United States in 1975, and other hits such as "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On the Radio" followed.

Summer earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100's top-five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time I Know It's for Real". She was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a 12-month period. She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B Singles chart in the US and a number-one single in the United Kingdom. Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with "I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)". While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.

Summer died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida. She sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She won five Grammy Awards. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Giorgio Moroder described Summer's work with them on the song "I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2016, Billboard ranked her at No. 6 on its list of the Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists .

"MacArthur Park" is a song written and composed by Jimmy Webb. Richard Harris was the first to record it in 1968; his version peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number four on the UK Singles Chart. "MacArthur Park" was subsequently covered by numerous artists, including a 1969 Grammy-winning version by country music singer Waylon Jennings and a number one Billboard Hot 100 disco arrangement by Donna Summer in 1978.

In 1967, producer Bones Howe had asked Webb to create a pop song with classical elements, different movements and changing time signatures. Webb delivered "MacArthur Park" to Howe with "everything he wanted", but Howe did not care for the ambitious arrangement or unorthodox lyrics and the song was rejected by the group The Association, for whom it was originally intended.

Spring was never waiting for us, dear

It ran one step ahead

As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages and were pressed

In love's hot, fevered iron

Like a striped pair of pants

Macarthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress

Foaming like a wave

On the ground beneath your knees

The birds, like tender babies in your hands

And the old men playing chinese checkers by the trees

Macarthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh, no!

There will be another song for me

For I will sing it

There will be another dream for me

Someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warm

And never let you catch me looking at the Sun

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life

You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it

I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it

I will have the things that I desire

And my passion flow like rivers through the sky

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life

I'll be thinking of you

And wondering why

Macarthur's park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

No, no!

Oh no!

DEIXAR VOCÊ

GILBERTO GIL

COMPOSITOR: GILBERTO GIL

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: UM BANDA UM

GRAVADORA: WARNER MUSIC BRASIL

GÊNERO: M. P. B.

ANO: 1982

Um Banda Um é um álbum lançado por Gilberto Gil em 1982.

Na ocasião, o Gil iria lançar um disco voltado para o mercado internacional. Gravando algum material influenciado por ritmos jamaicanos em Nova Iorque, o cantor recebeu, no Brasil, uma cópia dele e, no entanto, não gostou do resultado e o projeto foi adiado. Foi produzido por Liminha (assim como o álbum anterior, Luar), sendo gravado entre junho e julho de 1982 pela gravadora Warner. As canções mais famosas do disco são Drão, Andar com Fé e Esotérico, todas sendo muito influenciadas pelo estilo reggae

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira, conhecido como Gilberto Gil GCIH (Salvador, 26 de junho de 1942), é um cantor, compositor, instrumentista, produtor musical e político brasileiro, conhecido por sua contribuição na música brasileira e por ser vencedor de prêmios Grammys Americano, Grammy Latino e galardeado pelo governo francês com a Ordem Nacional do Mérito (1997). Em 1999, foi nomeado "Artista pela Paz", pela UNESCO.

Gil foi também embaixador da ONU para agricultura e alimentação e ministro da Cultura do Brasil (2003–2008). Em mais de cinquenta álbuns lançados, ele incorpora a gama eclética de suas influências, incluindo rock, gêneros tipicamente brasileiros, música africana, funk, música disco e reggae.

Deixar você

Ir

Não vai ser bom

Não vai ser

Bom pra você

Nem melhor pra mim

Pensar que é

Só

Deixar de ver

E acabou

Vai acabar muito pior

Pra que mentir

E

Fingir que o horizonte

Termina ali defronte

E a ponte acaba aqui?

Vamos seguir

Reinventar o espaço

Juntos manter o passo

Não ter cansaço

Não crer no fim

O fim do amor

Oh, não

Alguma dor

Talvez sim

Que a luz nasce na escuridão.