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Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer songwriter, poet & visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.

Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patti Smith was born in Chicago on December 30, 1946. Her mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford Township, New Jersey. Raised the daughter of a Jehovah's Witness mother, she claims she had a strong religious education and a very good Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining and much later wrote the opening line ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine") of her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience. Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964. The family was not well-off, and Smith went to work in a factory. Patti Smith was voted "Class Clown" in her senior year.
Discography
Studio albums
* Horses (1975)
* Radio Ethiopia (1976)
* Easter (1978)
* Wave (1979)
* Dream of Life (1988)
* Gone Again (1996)
* Peace and Noise (1997)
* Gung Ho (2000)
* Trampin' (2004)
* Twelve (2007)
Other albums
* Hey Joe / Radio Ethiopia (1977)
* Set Free (1978)
* The Patti Smith Masters (1996)
* Land (2002)
* Horses/Horses (2005)
* iTunes Originals (2008)
* The Coral Sea (2008)
Bibliography
* Seventh Heaven (1972)
* Witt (1973)
* Ha! Ha! Houdini! (1977)
* Babel (1978)
* Woolgathering (1992)
* Early Work (1994)
* The Coral Sea (1996)
* Patti Smith Complete (1998)
* Strange Messenger (2003)
* Auguries of Innocence (2005)
* Land 250 (2008)
* Trois (2008)

Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps on 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, organ, mountain dulcimer, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, spoons, harmonica, mandolin, viola, and violin.

Biography
Patrick Wolf was born in Ireland into a creative household but moved to London as a child. He started his musical education with violin lessons and church choirs and made his first theremin at age eleven, and first began recording songs with his violin, voice, and car boot sale organs on a four-track tape recorder at age twelve. At fourteen, he joined and performed with pop art collective Minty. Two years later, he dropped his A-Levels and left home. During this period, Wolf earned money from busking in a string quartet and formed a group called Maison Crimineaux, a noisy trio built on destructive ethics around white noise and pop music. He also continued to write and record his own material. A Maison Crimineaux gig in Paris was attended by electronic maestro Kristian Robinson (aka Capitol K), who would then go on to release Wolf's debut album Lycanthropy.
Sexuality
On 27 February 2007, in an interview with thelondonpaper, Wolf raised questions about his sexuality: "In the same way I don’t know if my sixth album is going to be a death-metal record or children's pop, I don’t know whether I’m destined to live my life with a horse, a woman or a man. It makes life easier." In a 5 July 2007 interview with the Sydney Star Observer, he confirmed his sexuality: "My sexuality is kind of liberal. I fall in love with men and women. I guess you would call me bisexual. I like to have sex and fall in love I don't like giving terminology for my sexuality." As of August 2007, he is involved in a long-term same sex relationship with an undisclosed partner. In September 2008, Wolf claimed that he was beaten up by security guards for kissing his boyfriend at a Madonna concert.
Discography
Albums
* 2003: Lycanthropy (Faith and Industry / Tomlab)
* 2005: Wind in the Wires (Tomlab)
* 2007: The Magic Position (Loog Records)
* 2009: The Bachelor (Bloody Chamber Music)
* 2010: The Conqueror (Bloody Chamber Music)
Music videos
* 2003 - To the Lighthouse
* 2005 - The Libertine
* 2005 - Wind in the Wires
* 2005 - Tristan
* 2006 - Accident & Emergency
* 2007 - Bluebells
* 2007 - The Magic Position
* 2009 - Vulture

Patrick Krief is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. Krief was a guitarist in The Dears from 2001 - 2008.

In 2004 he appeared on MTV Canada's Project Moose Catch. In 2007 he released his debut solo EP Take It Or Leave, which was produced by former Dears bandmate Murray Lightburn. He toured internationally, including in Mexico, to promote the EP and his new solo career. He also released a CD in 2006 with his old band Lesley Lane and long time friend, drummer Billy Anthopoulis. bIn addition to being a musician, Krief is also a producer, and has worked on albums for bands such as theWANDAS's New Wave Blues album. Krief currently resides in Montreal.

Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953) is a four-time Grammy Award-winning American singer best known for hit songs "Love Is a Battlefield" and the iconic 80's hits "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and "Heartbreaker".

Benatar is a top-selling artist, and one of the 1980s Top Platinum Album Recipients, according to the Recording Industry Association of America with 12.5 million certified units, including two RIAA-certified Multi-Platinum albums, five RIAA-certified Platinum albums, three RIAA-certified Gold albums, plus 19 Top 40 singles to her credit. Recognized for her thrilling mezzo-soprano vocal range, Billboard Magazine ranked Benatar as the most successful female rock vocalist of all-time. Benatar became eligible for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Born Patricia (Patti) Mae on January 10, 1953 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, to Andrew and Mildred Andrzejewski, the family moved from Brooklyn to N Hamilton Ave, Lindenhurst, Long Island when she was 3 years old. "I have wonderful childhood memories of picking berries in the "woods" by our house, driving to the "docks" on the South Bay to get freshly harvested clams," she said. The daughter of a sheet-metal worker and a beautician who once sang with the New York City Opera, Andrzejewski became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing at Daniel Street Elementary School her first solo, a song called “It Must Be Spring,” at age eight. She said, "As a kid, I sang at any choir, any denomination, anywhere I could." At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967 - 1971), Andrzejewski participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot, marching in the homecoming parade, singing at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year. Andrzejewski was cut off from the rock scene in nearby Manhattan though because her parents were "ridiculously strict I was allowed to go to symphonies, opera and theater but I couldn't go to clubs," and her musical training was strictly classical and theatrical. She said, "I was singing Puccini and "West Side Story" but I spent every afternoon after school with my little transistor radio listening to the Rolling Stones..."
Band
Although billed as a solo artist, Benatar recorded and toured with a consistent set of band members over most of her career, who contributed greatly to the writing and producing of songs and are recognizable characters on album photos and in many of her music videos.
* Neil "Spyder" Giraldo (incorrectly spelled as "Geraldo" in early liner notes/credits) is the distinctive lead guitarist of the band and has performed on all of Benatar's albums. (He is also Pat's second husband.) He was born on December 29, 1955. Neil also sings, plays keyboards and harmonica, and has many writing and producing credits on the Benatar albums. Neil performed with Myron Grombacher in Rick Derringer's touring band, appearing in a possible bootleg entitled Derringer Live At The Paradise Theater Boston, Massachusetts, July 7, 1978.
* Myron Grombacher is billed as drummer on nine of Benatar's albums and has numerous writing credits. Myron is easily recognizable in the music videos, particularly as the mad dentist in Get Nervous.
* Charlie Giordano performed keyboard duties on five albums, and is identifiable by his glasses and distinctive array of berets, blazers and 80s-style ties. In 2007, he replaced the late Danny Federici in the E Street Band.
* The original bass guitarist was Roger Capps, replaced on Tropico by Donnie Nossov, and then later by Frank Linx.
* Scott Sheets is credited on rhythm guitar on the first few albums.

By 1983, Benatar had established a reputation for singing about "tough" subject matters, with a significant amount of songs featuring a "battle" metaphor. This was best exemplified by one of the biggest hits of her career, "Love Is a Battlefield" (penned by noted hit songwriter Holly Knight with Mike Chapman), released in December 1983. By then her sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric pop and the story-based video clip for "Love Is a Battlefield" was aimed squarely at MTV, even featuring Benatar in a Michael Jackson-inspired group dance number. This new pop direction was a huge commercial success, with the single peaking at #5 in the United States, her first hit single in the UK at #49, and #1 in Australia for seven weeks. The song would also net Benatar her fourth consecutive Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1983. A live album, Live from Earth, from which "Love Is a Battlefield" was one of two studio-recorded tracks hit U.S. #13 and her fifth consecutive RIAA platinum winner.

Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) is a Scottish singer/songwriter from Paisley. His mother is Scottish, and his father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany, although his father's family has been in Scotland for four generations.

Paolo made his first demo which saw him signed to Atlantic Records in May 2005, shortly after his 18th birthday. He released his first single "These Streets" as a free download in May 2006, this was then followed by his next single "Last Request" which was released on 4 July 2006 and charted at #5 in the official UK charts. In the video for "Last Request", Nutini plays the part of a robber - though this is not revealed until the end. Nutini's third single, "Jenny Don't Be Hasty", was released on 25 September 2006 and got to #20 on the UK Singles Chart. "Rewind" was Nutini's fourth single. It was released on 4 December 2006, and reached #27 in the UK. His debut album These Streets, produced by Ken Nelson (Coldplay/Gomez), was released on 17 July 2006 and immediately entered the UK album charts at #3. Many of the songs on the album, including "Last Request" and "Rewind", were inspired by a turbulent relationship with his girlfriend Teri Brogan, and "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" is a true story about encounters with an older woman. These Streets, as Paolo himself puts it on his official website, he states, "The album is a little glimpse of some of the experiences I have been through in the last three years". New self-produced second album Sunny Side Up is due to be released on June 1, 2009.
Discography
Albums
* These Streets - 17 July 2006 (Atlantic) UK #3 U.S. #48
* Sunny Side Up - 2009

Singles
* 2006 - Last Request
* 2006 - Jenny Don't Be Hasty
* 2006 - Rewind
* 2007 - New Shoes
* 2009 - Candy

Charity
On 24 July 2007, Paolo was awarded The Golden St. Christopher medal by the city of Barga in Italy, the highest honour the city can give, to celebrate his extraordinary contributions to Barga and its people. Other artists to receive this award include the band 'Keane'.

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-platinum solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre.

As a result he is known as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal", and, because of some of his material, the "Prince of Darkness". In the early 2000s, his career as a celebrity hit a new zenith when he became a star in his own reality show, The Osbournes, alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack. In August 2008, Osbourne stated in USA Today that he intends to retire from his music career after two more albums.

Personal life
Osbourne has been married twice and is the father of seven children (five biological, and two adopted). He was first married to Thelma Riley (now a teacher in Leicestershire) and adopted her son Elliot Kingsley (1966); together they had Jessica Starshine Osbourne Hobbs (20 January 1972) and Louis John Osbourne (1975).

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
He later married Sharon Arden and had three children with her. They are Aimee Osbourne (2 September 1983), Kelly Osbourne (27 October 1984) and Jack Osbourne (8 November 1985). They also took in the family's friend Robert Marcato after his mother died, but never legally adopted him. Osbourne also has three grandchildren, Isabelle and Harry from his daughter Jessica and granddaughter Maia from son Louis. He wrote a song for his daughter, Aimee, which appeared as a b-side on the album Ozzmosis. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Buckinghamshire, England. It was reported in 1992 that Osbourne was a member of the Church of England and prayed before each show. Osbourne achieved greater celebrity status by the unlikely success of his own brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a series featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family (wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly and special guest appearances from his son Louis, but not their eldest daughter Aimee, who declined to participate). The program became one of MTV's greatest hits. It premiered on 5 March 2002, and the final episode aired 21 March 2005. In 2002, Osbourne and wife Sharon were invited to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner by Fox News Channel correspondent Greta Van Susteren for that year's event. President Bush noted Osbourne's presence by joking: "The thing about Ozzy is, he's made a lot of big hit recordings 'Party with the Animals', 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath', 'Facing Hell', 'Black Skies' and 'Bloodbath in Paradise'. Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff." He has over 15 tattoos, the letters O-Z-Z-Y across the knuckles of his left hand was the first he had done as a teenager, by means of a sewing needle and pencil lead. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are one of the UK's richest couples, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. They ranked at number 458 in 2005, with an estimated £100 million earned from recording, touring and TV shows. They ranked above most British music stars, such as Rod Stewart, George Michael, Robbie Williams, the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, and Pink Floyd, Queen, and Dire Straits members. Osbourne experienced tremors for some years and linked them to his continuous drug abuse. In May 2005 he found out it was actually Parkin Syndrome, a genetic condition, the symptoms of which are very similar to Parkinson's disease. Osbourne will have to take daily medication for the rest of his life to combat the involuntary shudders associated with the condition. Osbourne has shown symptoms of a mild hearing loss, as evidenced in the television show, The Osbournes, as he often asks his family members to repeat what they say.

Black Sabbath
Despite only a modest investment from US record label Warner Bros. Records, Black Sabbath met with swift and enduring success. Built around Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, Geezer Butler's lyrics, and topped by Osbourne's eerie vocals, early records such as their eponymous debut album and Paranoid sold huge numbers, as well as getting airplay.

Drugs, alcohol, doves and bats
According to the press, Osbourne's antics progressively reached a more dangerous point during the 1980s; his alcoholism and drug abuse continued. He later underwent a number of treatments for alcoholism and drug abuse. After signing his first solo career record deal he came in to meet some of the people who worked at the record company. His plan was to release doves into the air to get people to notice him, but when no one noticed, he changed his plans. He grabbed a dove, bit its head off, then spat the head out. Then, with blood still dripping from his lips, a security guard came to remove him. Despite its controversy, this act has been parodied and alluded to several times throughout his career and is part of what made Ozzy Osbourne famous. He gained further notoriety on 20 January 1982, when he bit the head off a bat he thought was rubber while performing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 ranked this incident number two on its list of "Rock's Wildest Myths." While the Rolling Stone article stated the bat was alive, the person who threw it onto the stage said it was brought to the show dead. According to Osbourne himself in the booklet to the 2002 edition of Diary of a Madman, the bat was not only alive, but also managed to bite Osbourne, resulting in him having to take rabies shots. bDuring a tour stop in Texas in 1982, while wearing future wife Sharon's dress, Ozzy drunkenly urinated on a cenotaph erected in honor of those who died at the Alamo across the street from the actual building. A police officer arrested him, and Osbourne was subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for a decade. Osbourne's alcohol problem also came to a very serious peak in 1989 after he became violently drunk and attempted to strangle his wife/manager Sharon. Osbourne later admitted that, at the height of his drug addiction, he shot his family's pets saying: "I was taking drugs so much I was a wreck. The final straw came when I shot all our cats. We had about 17, and I went crazy and shot them all. My wife found me under the piano in a white suit, a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other."
Backing band
Current line up
* Zakk Wylde - guitar (1989-present)
* Rob "Blasko" Nicholson - bass (2003, 2006-present)
* Mike Bordin - drums (1997-present)
* Adam Wakeman - keyboards (2004-present)
Former band members
Guitarists
* Randy Rhoads (1979-1982)
* Bernie Tormé (1982)
* Brad Gillis (1982)
* Jake E. Lee (1982-1987)
* Steve Vai (1994-1995)
* Joe Holmes (1995-1998, 2000)
* Alex Skolnick (1995)
* Jerry Cantrell (2004-2005)
* Zakk Wylde (1987-1992, 1995, 1998, 2001-2004, 2006-2009)
Bassists
* Rudy Sarzo (1981-1982)
* Bob Daisley (1979-1981, 1983-1991)
* Phil Soussan (1986-1987)
* James LoMenzo (1994)
* Mike Inez (1989-1993)
* Geezer Butler (1988, 1995-1996)
* Robert Trujillo (1996-2003)
* Jason Newsted (2003)
* Chris Wyse (2003-2005)
Drummers
* Lee Kerslake (1979-1981)
* Tommy Aldridge (1981-1983)
* Carmine Appice (1983)
* Randy Castillo (1983-1993, 1995)
* Deen Castronovo (1993-1997)
Keyboardists
* Johnny Cook (1981)
* Don Airey (1980, 1983)
* Mike Moran (1985-1986)
* John Sinclair (1988-1991)
* Kevin Jones (1991-1992)
* Rick Wakeman (1995)
* Michael Railo (2001)

OutKast is an American hip hop duo based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia. The duo was originally known as The OKB (The OutKast Brothers) but later changed its name to OutKast.

The group's original musical style was a mixture of Dirty South and G-Funk. Since then, however, funk, soul, pop, electronic music, rock, spoken word poetry, jazz, and blues elements have been added to the group's musical palette. The duo consists of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin (formerly known as Dré) & Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. The duo is one of the most successful hip-hop groups of all time, having received six Grammy Awards. Over 25 million copies have been sold of Outkast's eight releases: six studio albums, a greatest hits release, and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a double album containing a solo album from each member. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is one of only three hip-hop albums to be certified Diamond in the U.S. for shipping over 10 million units. Along with their commercial success, OutKast has maintained an experimental approach in their music and are widely praised for their originality and artistic content.
Pre-Debut
Benjamin and Patton met while attending Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts School. Benjamin's parents were divorced and he was living with his father. Meanwhile, Patton had to move with his four brothers and six sisters from Savannah to Atlanta. Benjamin and Patton eventually teamed up and were pursued by Organized Noize, a group of local producers who would later make hits for TLC. The duo initially wanted to be called "2 Shades Deep" or "The Misfits", but because those names were already taken they later decided to use "OutKast" based on finding "outcast" as synonym for "misfit" in a dictionary. OutKast, Organized Noize, and schoolmates Goodie Mob formed the nucleus of the Dungeon Family organization.
OutKast signed to LaFace Records in 1992, becoming the label's first hip hop act and making their first appearance on the remix of labelmate TLC's "What About Your Friends". In 1993, they released their first single, "Player's Ball". The song's funky style, much of it accomplished with live instrumentation, was a hit with audiences. "Player's Ball" hit number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart.
Discography
* 1994: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
* 1996: ATLiens
* 1998: Aquemini
* 2000: Stankonia
* 2003: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
* 2006: Idlewild

Out Hud was an electronic band formed in 1996 in the Bay Area of California and later based in New York City. The band consisted of guitarist Nic Offer, bassist Tyler Pope, cellist Molly Schnick, vocalist/drummer Phyllis Forbes and mixer Justin Van Der Volgen.

Pope, Offer, and Van Der Volgen are also members of the similar band, !!!. Their first album, S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. was instrumental. For their second album, Let Us Never Speak Of It Again, the group added vocals to their music, with Forbes singing lead while a drum machine filled in her usual role, assisted with Schnick on backing vocals. Shortly after the release of their second album it was announced that Pope would not be joining the band on tour, and instead would be concentrating on James Murphy's dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem. It was then announced in September 2005 that a concert in New York might be their last show. Molly Schnick is working with Rafael Cohen, formerly of Supersystem, on an unknown project. The song "How Long" was featured in the movie I Know Who Killed Me starring Lindsay Lohan.
Discography
Albums
* S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky, 2002, CD/LP)
* Let Us Never Speak of It Again (Kranky, 2005, CD/LP)
EPs and singles
* "Guilty Party" (Red Alert Works, 1997 7")
* "Natural Selection" (Gold Standard Labs, 1997, 7")
* GSL26/LAB SERIES VOL. 2 EP split with !!! (Gold Standard Labs, 1999, 12")
* "The First Single of the New Millennium" (5RC, 2000, 7")
* "One Life to Leave" (Kranky, 2005, 12"/CD)
* "It's for You" (Kranky, 2005, 12"/CD)

The band OURS is a rock band led by singer Jimmy Gnecco. Since their creation in 1990 the line-up has evolved many times, but Gnecco has always felt that having a rotating group of musicians who could play off each other was important.

In high school, Gnecco was in the band Lost Child and later, The Harmony Bandits (which eventually evolved into what is now OURS). Around 1992-1994, OURS released their first album titled Sour under their own label entitled "Beatnik Records" owned by Mike Marri. Afterward, the band dissolved and would not reform again for several years. In 1997, Jimmy Gnecco started OURS again and quickly drew industry attention. Ours signed with DreamWorks Records and after 4 years, OURS released their first major label album Distorted Lullabies in 2001. Produced by Steve Lillywhite of U2 fame, the album received mixed reviews but led to successful tours with acts such as Ocean Colour Scene, Pete Yorn, and The Cult. The track "Sometimes" peaked at #31 on the US Billboard Modern Rock charts that year, while the music video saw moderate airtime on MTV. Precious followed quickly in 2002. Precious featured a more stripped-down sound and received much more positive reviews and a slot opening for The Wallflowers. In 2004, Ours relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to work with legendary producer Rick Rubin. The resulting album, Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy), was released on April 15, 2008. Current members of the band Ours, under the monikers Static, Locke, Race, along with Jimmy, have currently embarked on their 2008 tour.
Members
Current members
* Jimmy Gnecco (vocals, guitar, percussion)
* Static (guitar)
* Locke (guitar, keys, percussion)
* Race (bass)
* James Dickens of Plain Jane Automobile (Drums) - Filling in on the current tour with Blue October
Past members
* Dave Milone
* Tony Angerson
* Scott Greco
* Anthony DeMarco
* A.C. Barnett
* Pit Gnecco
* James Bray
* Zambia Greene
* Darrin Verpuit
* Greg Calvert
Discography
* Sour (1994)
* Distorted Lullabies (2001)
* Precious (2002) US #187
* Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy) (April 25, 2008) #11 US Heatseekers
Singles
* 2001- "Sometimes"- #31 US Modern Rock
* 2002- "Leaves"
* 2008- "The Worst Things Beautiful"

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice.

According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." Redding was born in the small town of Dawson, Georgia. When he was 5, his family moved to Macon, Georgia. Redding sang in the choir at church, and as a teenager won the talent show at the Douglass Theatre for 15 weeks in a row. His early influences were Little Richard and Sam Cooke. Richard Pennyman (Little Richard) was also a Macon resident. Redding said, "If it hadn't been for Little Richard, I would not be here. I entered the music business because of Richard he is my inspiration. I used to sing like Little Richard, his Rock 'n' Roll stuff, you know. Richard has soul, too. My present music has a lot of him in it."
Death
On December 9, 1967, Redding and his backup band, The Bar-Kays, made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio on the local "Upbeat" television show. The next afternoon, Redding, his manager, the pilot, and four members of The Bar-Kays were killed when his Beechcraft 18 airplane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967. The two remaining Bar-Kays were Ben Cauley and James Alexander. Cauley was the only person aboard Redding's plane to survive the crash. Alexander was on another plane, since there were eight members in Redding's party and the plane could only hold seven, and it was Alexander's turn in the rotation to take a commercial flight. Cauley reported that he had been asleep until just seconds before impact, and recalled that upon waking he saw bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and say, "Oh, no!" Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seatbelt. He then found himself in the frigid waters of the lake, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. Redding's body was recovered the next day when the lake bed was searched. He was entombed on his private ranch in Round Oak, Georgia, 23 miles (37 km) north of Macon. The cause of the crash was never precisely determined although it most likely that he drowned.
Discography
Albums
* 1964 - Pain in My Heart (Atco)
* 1965 - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Volt)
* 1965 - Otis Blue (Volt)
* 1966 - The Soul Album (Volt)
* 1966 - Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (Volt)
* 1967 - King & Queen with Carla Thomas (Stax)
* 1967 - Live in Europe (Volt)
* 1967 - The History of Otis Redding (greatest hits album) (Volt)
Other albums
* 1968 - Soul As Sung by Otis Redding and Little Joe (Alshire Presents)
* 1970 - Monterey International Pop Festival - Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise) US: #16
* 1972 - The Best of Otis Redding (Atco) US: #76
* 1982 - Recorded Live: Previously Unreleased Performances (Atlantic)
* 1986 - The Ultimate Otis Redding (Warner Bros.)
* 1987 - The Otis Redding Story (Atlantic)
* 1992 - Remember Me (Stax)
* 1992 - The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1 (Rhino)
* 1993 - Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding (Rhino 4D Boxed Set)
* 1995 - The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 2 (Rhino)
* 1998 - Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology (Rhino 2D)
* 1998 - Love Songs (Rhino)
* 1999 - In Concert (Stax)
* 2002 - Very Best of Otis Redding (Atco) UK: #26
* 2006 - Stax Profiles (Stax)
* 2006 - The Definitive Soul Collection (Rhino 2D)
* 2008 - Live in London and Paris (Stax)

Orbital are an English electronic duo from Sevenoaks consisting of brothers Phil Hartnoll and Paul Hartnoll whose career lasted from 1989 until 2004 and have now reformed in 2009.

They took their name from Greater London's orbital motorway, the M25, which was central to the early rave scene and party network in the South East during the early days of acid house. One of the biggest names in British electronica during the 1990s, Orbital were both critically and commercially successful, being particularly known for an element of live improvisation during their shows, a rarity with techno acts. They were initially influenced by early electro and punk rock. In 1989, Orbital recorded a track called "Chime" on their father's cassette deck. It was released on Oh Zone Records in December 1989, and re-released on FFRR Records a few months later. The track became a rave anthem, reaching number 17 in the UK charts, and earning them an appearance on Top of the Pops, during which they wore anti-Poll Tax t-shirts. A few singles and EPs followed, and their first self-titled album, a collection of tracks recorded at various times, was released in late 1991.
In late 1992, the Radiccio EP barely reached the UK top forty, but it included probably their most well-known song, "Halcyon". The song featured a backwards sample of Kirsty Hawkshaw from "It's a Fine Day" (a chart hit for Opus III earlier that year), and B-side "The Naked and the Dead" was similarly based on a line from Scott Walker's rendition of Jacques Brel's song "Next". "Halcyon" was dedicated to the Hartnolls' mother, who was addicted to the tranquiliser Halcion (Triazolam) for many years. The duo's popularity grew rapidly with the release of their second album, titled Orbital 2, in 1993. The album featured complex arrangements and textures, and opens with the two-minute track "Time Becomes", which comprises nothing more than two slightly detuned, looped samples of a Michael Dorn line from Star Trek: The Next Generation, "...where time becomes a loop" being played simultaneously through the left and right channels, respectively (until one cycle of phase difference has happened). This same sample was used at the beginning of "the Mobius", the opening track in the previous album. This audio pun was intended to make listeners believe that they had bought a mis-pressed album (Orbital 1 packaged as Orbital 2). The album reached #28 on the UK album charts, staying in the top chart for fifteen weeks. "Halcyon" was remixed for the album, as "Halcyon + On + On". The version played live has also gained notoriety amongst fans for containing a complete mashup of diverse samples including "You Give Love a Bad Name" by the band Bon Jovi, "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle, and most recently "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by the band The Darkness. The first two albums are commonly known as "the green album" and "the brown album", after the colour of their covers.
Political commentary
Orbital sometimes incorporated political and environmental commentary into their music. The track "Forever" on Snivilisation samples a speech by Graham Crowden from the 1982 Lindsay Anderson film Britannia Hospital, in which he lambasts humankind for its destructive ways; and the track "You Lot" on the Blue Album, features a confrontational, partially vocoded anti-genetic engineering sample from Christopher Eccleston, originally from the TV two-part series The Second Coming written by Russell T Davies. They recorded "The Girl With The Sun In Her Head" from In Sides using Greenpeace's mobile solar power generator CYRUS. They named an early record "Belfast" after playing live in the city of Belfast at the height of The Troubles in 1990. Other album track titles suggest environmental concern such as "Kein Trink Wasser" ("no drinking water" in German) from Snivilisation and "Dŵr Budr" ("dirty water" in Welsh) and "P.E.T.R.O.L." from In Sides.
Albums
* 1991 - Orbital (aka the Green Album)
* 1993 - Orbital (aka the Brown Album)
* 1994 - Diversions (aka John Peel Sessions)
* 1994 - Snivilisation
* 1996 - In Sides
* 1997 - Satan Live
* 1997 - Event Horizon (OST) with Michael Kamen
* 1999 - The Middle of Nowhere
* 2001 - The Altogether
* 2002 - Work 1989–2002 (Singles/Rarities Collection)
* 2003 - Octane (OST)
* 2004 - Blue Album
* 2005 - Halcyon (Best of compilation)
* 2007 - Orbital: Live at Glastonbury 1994–2004

Oran "Juice" Jones (born 1959 in Houston, Texas), often incorrectly cited as Orange "Juice" Jones, is a Soul and R&B singer. He was the first artist who was signed to OBR Records, a subsidiary of Def Jam.

He was also the first R&B artist on the hip hop record label. His song "The Rain" became a hit in 1986, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, which he followed with a successful duet with label mate Alyson Williams, "How to Love Again."
Discography
* JUICE (1986) Def Jam Recordings/Columbia
Side one
1. The Rain (5:07)
2. You Can't Hide From Love (5:13)
3. Here I Go Again (4:50)
4. Curiosity (4:03)
5. Grabbers Got Game (3:41)
Side two
1. Your Song (4:36)
2. Love Will Find A Way (3:55)
3. It's Yours (4:06)
4. 1.2.1. (4:14)
5. Two Faces (4:42)
6. I Heart Pants (hidden track) (4:39)