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Mad World


easy for people to relate to: "I think it's a really beautiful example of a person struggling with the fact that life is mad. I honestly think it's one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard and the way it's stripped down now just pins people." He went on to say, "Every so often a song with just vocals, piano and cello creeps up on you and says something about who you are, where you're going which stops you in your tracks." Despite
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You Are So Beautiful


1983. A live rendition, circa 1978, and an edited 1983 live rendition both appear in the film "" (1985). A live version was released on the group's album "" in 2002. "You Are So Beautiful" was originally published in the key of E♭ major in common time with a tempo of 70 beats per minute. Cocker's vocals span from B♭ to E♭. Marc Lee of "The Daily Telegraph" noted the song's contemplative beginning, accompanied only by piano,
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Bill Pearce


turn in my rifle and grab a trombone from the warehouse of musical instruments. Well, as you can imagine I hopped to and that warehouse had the best of everything – Steinway pianos and French Selmers – you name it. I picked out a beautiful French Selmer trombone with a white case and a purple plush lining inside and engraving all the way up the bell and a big "USMC" down the front and man, this was a class item! So, that's what I did during – playing my way,
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Steve Grand


He made me realize the lasting power of music -- how a great song can take you back to the moment you first heard it. From that point on, I knew that's what I wanted to do in life, create something so real and beautiful that it stays with its listener forever." Prior to launching his musical career, Grand modeled under a number of pseudonyms; he was a cover model for Australia's "DNA" magazine in 2011 with a photo session shot by photographer Tom Cullis. He played piano
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All of You (Colbie Caillat album)


Clarkson, Beyoncé, Leona Lewis), while Toby Gad, Jason Reeves and Rick Nowels all have writing credits on "All of You." Meanwhile, Caillat's boyfriend, musician Justin Young, wrote three songs on the album with the singer, an experience she calls "so much fun. I've never been interested in musicians before, and now having a boyfriend that plays amazing guitar and piano and has a beautiful voice… it's cheesy but it's awesome, because we write these songs about our relationship and
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How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)


things from his personality. That's one where his contribution was quite significant, not in a songwriting sense, though when you play piano, it's almost like writing the song. Blue had a lot of influence in the piano structure of that song". Weaver tells his story behind this track: "One morning, it was just myself and Barry in the studio. He said, 'Play the most beautiful chord you know', and I just played, what happened was, I'd throw chords at him
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Naomi Striemer


her beauty, but more so by her voice. You believe her. She has the chops, the range, the drive—and the humility—to offer a beautiful gift." Taylor's description of Striemer's "Images" the album include the haunting piano-driven title track, which opens with the lyric, "I found out today my love has found another/And all the things I did to make you happy won’t make you happy anymore," as Striemer pleads amid urgent percussion, "If
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Piano Man (song)


song "The Entertainer" refers to the editing of the "Piano Man" single by commenting, "It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long / If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05." Joel wrote and originally performed the song in the key of C major. It has a waltz time signature and begins with a jazzy piano solo before moving into its piano and harmonica introduction. The verses and the chorus feature a
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You Really Got Me


(piano). Regular Kinks drummer Mick Avory plays the tambourine. The guitar solo on the recording has been the subject of the persistent myth that it was not played by the Kinks' lead guitarist Dave Davies, but by then-session player Jimmy Page, who later joined the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. Among those claiming Page played lead guitar was Jon Lord of Deep Purple, who also claimed to play piano on the track. Page has always denied playing the song's guitar solo, going so far as to state
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Wired (film)


casualty, and which features a taxicab as a metaphor for the afterlife. In another scene in "Wired", Billy Preston appears as himself, playing a piano accompaniment to Chiklis as Belushi singing the song "You Are So Beautiful" (co-written by Preston) in the style of Joe Cocker. Principal photography of "Wired" commenced in May 1988 and finished in the autumn of that year. The film was completed by the end of 1988; however, it did not receive a theatrical release until August 1989
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Chris Rene


auditions. His song "Young Homie" is "about learning how to be a grown-up," says Rene. "When you're young, you feel like there's no limit, no consequences to your actions. So it's me talking to my younger self and to all the young brothers out there, telling them that life's too beautiful to live like that." While the song contains a heavy subject matter, it is reflective of Rene's personal life. Rene plays piano, guitar, bass
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Howie Stange


Gibson mandolin, the five string banjo, harmonica, and provide vocals. Howie was technically proficient, and played his instruments with clean, crisp breaks and a fast play style. He modeled his piano play after Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, and his tenor voice was a beautiful cross of George Jones and Elvis Presley. Howie's rendition of "Are You Lonesome To-Night?" is perhaps the finest example of Howie's vocal talents, and his play on the piano is unsurpassed on "This Old Bomb of
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James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey


care what you know; show me what you can do. Many of my people who get educated don't work, but take to drink. They see white people drink, so they think they must drink too. They imitate the weakness of the white people, but not their greatness. They won't imitate a white man working hard ... If you play only the white notes on a piano you get only sharps; if only the black keys you get flats; but if you play the two together you get harmony
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Brooke White


to the dark side." During Hollywood week, White performed "Beautiful", by Carole King, and accompanied herself on piano. After that performance, judges commented that White reminded them of a young Carly Simon or Carole King. In the live rounds of the competition, White accompanied herself on guitar for her performances of "You're So Vain", "Jolene", and "I'm a Believer" and on piano for "Let It Be", "Every Breath You Take", "Hero"
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Words (Bee Gees song)


up here and listen to that sound'. It was just compression, but he didn't know what to call it then. I think he called it 'limited'. It made the piano sound like it was about 40 pianos playing at the same time and very, very thick. In 'Words' it was very beautiful but that sound on it made it sound like the LA Symphony on it. If you listen to all our records, the piano sound is on it. According to sound engineer Damon Lyon
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (album)


up. "Song to Jutta" is 1960s-style song written by band member Bruce Kunkel. Guitar, snare, and tambourine provide the back rhythm. A piano provides the baseline and an electric piano plays a counter melody. Vocals are long notes giving it a mellow feel. The lyrics implore you to take in the beauty of morning walk on the beach before you have to face the harsh world. "Candy Man" was written by Reverend Gary Davis blues and gospel singer and guitarist. Jeff Hanna sings lead on
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Michel Petrucciani


view his sidemen as more fashionable than he himself was. After hearing Petrucciani play, Lloyd was so inspired that he agreed to tour with him. Lloyd said to him, "I was here planning to not play again. You triggered me. I heard this beauty in you and I said, 'well I have to take you 'round the world cause there's something so beautiful, it was like providence calling." Petrucciani and Lloyd's tour of the West Coast of the United States was a huge success and
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Satellite (The Player Piano album)


artwork is enough to merit buying this album." Wade Chamberlain at FakeJazz, who gave the album a 10 out of 12, said "I'd seen the Player Piano live several times before hearing their self titled debut, and had been more than impressed with their live shows. I have to admit that I was skeptical that the CD could reproduce the beauty of their live performances. If you looked at my score at the top of the review you'd know that it has. This is a beautiful album."
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Doesn't Mean Anything


countdown. The music video begins with Keys walking onto the balcony of her apartment, looking out at the city uttering the words, "This beautiful city seems empty. All the people in the world and you can still feel lonely. What's the point of having it all without the person you love. Sometimes you just need to start again in order to fly." The song then starts to play, with Keys playing the piano in her apartment, and also scenes of her sitting on the couch, and looking
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Denny DeMarchi


on the radio show as her keyboarder. They performed the songs "Linger", "It's You" and "Zombie" between interviews with other guests on the show. One of the guests was Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov from Star Trek. DeMarchi and his older brother Steve are old friends of Don Burton, Dolores O'Riordan's husband. On a visit to Burton and O'Riordan's family home in Canada, DeMarchi played on O'Riordan's piano, DeMarchi's talent on the piano impressed O'Riordan so much that she
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0898 Beautiful South


way, he's ruined her life. Quietly devastating." "Here it is Again" is a "brooding" song, whilst "You Play Glockenspiel, I'll Play Drums" is "odd". Closing song "When I'm 84" encapsulates the album's "dizzily wayward feel" and is a song of "innante funkiness," "blessed with a groovy electronic piano and a bassline worth suing for. It contains Heaton's hedonistic and bold plans for retirement. 'Excerise you muscles?',
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Sweet Smell of Success (musical)


is Susan (Kelli O'Hara), a classy beauty, who's there to see Dallas (John E. Noseworthy, Jr) the hot young piano player. It's his last night before going off to play a gig in Chicago. He wants Susan to go with him. She can’t. There's someone who wouldn’t like it. Looking for a client - any client - Sidney offers his services to Dallas ("I Can Get You In JJ") Dallas laughs off Sidney's pitch. He will make
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Manon Gropius


from heaven. I jumped up, thinking to bar her entrance into this alcove of vice or at least to cut off her view of the poisoner on the wall, but Lucrezia, who never stopped playing her part, had irrepressibly taken the floor: "Beautiful, isn't she? This is my daughter Manon. By Gropius. In a class by herself. You don't mind my saying so, do you, Annerl [diminutive for Anna Mahler]? What's wrong with having a beautiful sister? Like father
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Craig Taborn


to be perceived. Taborn has commented on the similarities and differences in his playing on piano and electronic instruments. Comparing his accompaniments on piano and Fender Rhodes, he said that: I play some of the same chords on the piano, but there are definitely things I would do on the piano because it's a more transparent instrument that I wouldn't do on the Rhodes. [...] The Rhodes is so strong that when you play something on it, it really can dictate, because it's louder and the timbre
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical


all the way". Carole takes to the piano, and performs for her audience. "† Not included on the original Broadway Cast Album." The musical uses a 12-member orchestra consisting of three keyboards, two guitars, bass, drums, percussion, two reeds, trumpet/flugelhorn, and trombone/bass trombone. In addition the performer playing Carole King plays the piano if it is Katie Brayben (London) whereas Jessie Mueller (Broadway) needed piano lessons so she could mime. The Broadway cast album was recorded
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Who You Are (Cary Brothers album)


finds convincing expression in the lilting simplicity of “Honestly” and the truly beautiful but all too brief, “Loneliest Girl In The World,” where guitar picking is graced with icy trickles of piano and reverb-wreathed strings. “Ride” would lift the most cynical and leaden of hearts clear into the stratosphere." - Sid Smith, BBC Music 3 / "Well crafted, beautiful, and simply perfect pop album" - Music Glob 4 / “It's the kind of record that you want to listen to
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Jim McGorman


plays piano and sings. My dad, though, really got me going with music. He showed me the beauty of chord changes. Mom was more of a "word writer." I got my love of lyrics from her. I guess you could say I'm very fortunate to have talented and supportive parents. - Started playing piano at six, drums at eight, guitar at 12, and I've been singing since I was born."" McGorman cites a number of popular music influences, including soul music
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Beautiful Monster


comes into contact with his love interest-slash-nemesis. Whose name is Diamond Eye, and who really is best described as 'a beautiful monster'! You know, she's forbidden fruit; she's that girl who you know is gonna be nothing but trouble... But - because she's so intriguing - even if it literally might cost you your life, you still cannot resist her aura. Which is where the hook 'She's a monster, a beautiful monster; But I don't mind
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Aquemini


giving you that fast food, trying to meet a deadline. It ain't done until it's done sonically." For "Aquemini", the duo used live instrumentation and improvisation, bringing a baby grand piano into the studio and hiring musicians who played "everything from stoner funk to prog rock". Producer Neal H. Pogue recalled, "That was the beauty of making all those records – having musicians come in and out. It was almost like a Motown, that's what we had. Or like a Stax
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The Composer of Desafinado Plays


Latin lover. You should play the guitar. You know, if you play the piano you destroy the whole image, you know? So I've been playing guitar for many, many years, you know, which was let's say my second instrument. That was an instrument that I used to play by ear, you know?The album was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2007, "Rolling Stone Brasil" ranked it number 58 in ""Os 100 Maiores Discos da Música Brasileira"
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Sonnet 13


, the speaker says "So should that beauty which you hold in lease / Find no determination; then you were / Yourself again after yourself's decease, / When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear", all meaning that whatever beauty the youth still has is only temporary (leased to him) and will be lost, unless he has children who continue the legacy and identity of his youthful beauty even after death. Continuing with "Who lets so fair a house fall to decay," the speaker refers to
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Rudolf Firkušný


and great-grandson of Dvořák). He played only two times at the Prague Spring International Music Festival, first in 1946 performed Dvořák's piano concerto, and in 1990 he played the second piano concerto of Martinů. Firkušný won praise from his famous colleague Vladimir Horowitz, who once exclaimed, "Rudolf Firkušný can play Schubert, that's for sure. I heard him on the radio this afternoon ... playing the three Klavierstücke. "Beautiful!"" And the noted piano teacher and critic David Dubal called Firkušný "the
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The Beautiful South


the group, he would end up playing virtually all the piano and keyboard parts on the band's albums. The band's first album "Welcome to the Beautiful South" was released in 1989, and promptly produced a Number 2 UK Singles Chart hit, "Song For Whoever". With the follow-up single "You Keep It All In" reaching number 8 and "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" reaching number 31, the band were soon set to equal or surpass the success of The Housemartins, while
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Love Faces


"Love Faces" revolves around facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse. The song is a mid-tempo slow jam piano-based ballad. It opens with Songz speaking, "When I met you woman, I couldn't help but notice a face so beautiful. I imagined the faces you would make if we ever made love." Prior to the release of "Passion, Pain & Pleasure" in September 2010, "Love Faces" was leaked online. "Love Faces" was sent to urban
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Les Sirènes Female Chamber Choir


BBC Radio 3's The Choir on Sunday 11 November and televised on BBC4 on Friday 23 November 2012. "Absolutely stunning...that was spellbinding." "Aled Jones" "The best legato singing of full-toned piano I have ever heard. It was fantastic." "Mary King, Choir of the Year 2012, Grand Final" "You had me on a soul level, you literally went into my core and I felt choked up. The blend of your voices was so beautiful, that I was just
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Playing the Piano


the experimental album "Out of Noise" on 28 September 2010. Sakamoto promoted the album in North America with an 11-date tour in October and November 2010. AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "For the most part, it is a spare and lovely beauty of an album, with few surprises save for the elegance that Sakamoto performs these indelible pieces with". PopMatters John Garrett noted "An important selling point for "Playing the Piano" is how Ryuichi Sakamoto takes the opportunity to "cover himself", so to speak.
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Anton Rubinstein


the piano really played. The grandeur of style with which Rubinstein presented those five measures, the beauty of tone his softness of touch secured, the art with which he manipulated the pedal, are indescribable ... Violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps adds: His power over the piano is something undreamt of; he transports you into another world; all that is mechanical in the instrument is forgotten. I am still under the influence of the all-embracing harmony, the scintillating passages and thunder of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 57 ["
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Isle of Forgotten Sins


as all the disarranged diners smile and break into happy applause. Krogan continues, "I have another little treat for you", explaining that "a nameless young man whom I fished out of the sea so I called him Johnny Pacific" will entertain. Johnny Pacific goes to the piano and plays the second movement ("Adagio cantabile") of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 (the "") and, while the familiar classical theme continues to be heard in the background, Clancy deals with Burke who regains consciousness
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Is It You (Cassie song)


visuals, set in the film's school dance studio, Ryan Leslie begins with an introduction on the piano. Cassie, who plays the character Sophie Donovan in the movie, then begins singing while standing next to the piano. Clips from the film also appear throughout the video. It was later included as an outtake from "Step Up 2: The Streets" on its DVD release. Cassie talked about the scene not making the final cut of the film, "we tried to make it so it wasn't like Cassie
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Al Capp


didn't speak English. Kelly retaliated by giving away Capp's baby grand piano. According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. "Because you can't play the piano, anyway!" ("Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker confirmed the story, relating a slightly expanded version in his autobiography, "Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook", 2001.) Milton Caniff offered another
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You Are So Beautiful


while Wilson never sought to claim a share of the song's authorship, "If you check out Wilson's solo work, you can hear where Wilson's mind took over 'Beautiful.'" In a 2004 interview, when asked whether his brother Dennis was "one of the uncredited writers" of "You Are So Beautiful", Brian Wilson said: "He did not write that song." Dennis sang "You Are So Beautiful" as an encore at Beach Boys shows intermittently from 1975 until his death in
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Beautiful (Jessica Mauboy album)


that ["The Sapphires"] was so good." Mauboy further stated that not knowing which direction she wanted to go with helped. "I had all these stories and feelings. All I needed was to be in the studio and play a bit of piano and play some melodies to help me write." Mauboy told "The Northern Star" that "Beautiful" is "very diverse ... I'm taking it back to my first album where I had a bit of dance and twist of R&B." Part of
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Forgotten Dreams


of interest to fans of stride, classic jazz, and early swing, this memorable release should still appeal to all fans of jazz piano". All About Jazz said "All 19 cuts on this collection of hauntingly beautiful pieces is masterfully performed by the two men Sheridan and Hyman. Both men, performing on identical pianos for this recording, have shown that their 15+ years playing together has really created a unified flow to what they do. There are times when the two pianos are panned separately into the speakers, so
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Nick Hakim


. It’s so beautiful.". In his teens, he was mentored by Lorenzo “Zo!” Ferguson from The Foreign Exchange who helped him improve on piano. Later, Hakim left his hometown for the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2013, he moved to Brooklyn where he got involved with the local community of musicians, playing with artists like the Onyx Collective and Jesse and Forever, who have since been featured on his albums. Nick Hakim self-released his debut EP, "Where
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Kabiye language


ŋ ño-yuŋ, ñe-ɖeu nɛ ñe-leleŋ yɔɔ." "My Kabiye language, you are so beautiful! When anyone pronounces you and another listens, you are like a song. But anyone who does not ponder you deeply will not perceive your beauty. Anyone who listens attentively when you are being spoken must, as it were, dig deeply to discover your character. It is because of this inexhaustible weightiness that we cannot let go of you. From where does this impenetrable character come? We
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The Body of Jonah Boyd


and Nancy Wrights' four-hand partner at playing the piano – secretly wants to be part of the Wright family. Although she describes herself as being "fat" and not at all beautiful, she never has any problems attracting men and has already had several affairs with married men. So, too, with Ernest Wright. Nevertheless, she comes over every Saturday to play the piano with Nancy, but in fact, she wants more. Despite Denny always claims that she does not want to marry as it is sufficient
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Nothin' on You


.B is seen traveling the world, in cities such as London, Paris, Tokyo, Georgia (Atlanta) and New Orleans, searching for beautiful girls. The woman he chooses is revealed towards the end of the video. During the video there is a scene in which B.o.B plays guitar and sings, Mars plays the drums, and Philip Lawrence plays the piano. Eugena Washington, the second runner-up of "America's Next Top Model, Cycle 7", appears as one of the many girls
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The Awful Truth


see Bellamy singing "Home on the Range" off-key while Dunne tried to pick out the tune on a piano. He shook his head in disbelief and left. Later, Cohn became angry when he learned McCarey was apparently dawdling on the set by playing the piano and telling stories. He angrily confronted McCarey in front of the cast and crew, shouting, "I hired you to make a great comedy so I could show up Frank Capra. The only one who's going to laugh at this picture is Capra
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Live Songs


n't play piano. I can bang around, but I can't play, and you've got great musicians here. They're wonderful people.' 'Either you come and play, or I won't go' was Cohen's response. I thought, 'Hell, I'm not gonna miss this.' So we started off. I just played piano and guitar and organ, whatever. I couldn't play very well, but he couldn't sing very well." Cohen is backed by a medium
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Jesús María Sanromá


Alto in 1899 and Jesús María in 1902 who was born in Carolina. José María earned a living in Fajardo by publishing a newspaper and teaching. Jesús María began playing his father's piano. José realizing his son was talented said, "If you are going to play the piano, then you shall go to school to study." He enrolled him at a music school located in the town of Fajardo to take piano lessons. In 1913, at the age of 11, Sanromá made his debut in the Fajardo Municipal
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Beautiful Lies You Could Live In


as a solo artist happened at the same time as the group Pearls Before Swine - which, since its formation in 1965, had never previously appeared live - was beginning its first concert tour in 1971. The other members of the 1971 touring band - Mike Krawitz (piano), Gordon Hayes (bass) and Jon Tooker (guitar) - all played on "Beautiful Lies", but were not specifically differentiated as band members from the session musicians. The sessions took place in New York and Woodstock, presumably in early
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John Patton (musician)


and helped him learn how to play it. Patton was fascinated with the differences in the nuance of the sound that an electric organ could produce. "Man, listen, it's so sensitive and it will reveal its secrets if you try to get up in there and learn it...and learn the sound and contact. You can't play it like a piano 'cause that's another thing all together - The notes are the same but, see, that electricity puts another 'jammie' on you, you know what
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So Much Love (The Rocket Summer song)


"So Much Love" is a song by rock artist The Rocket Summer. It was the lead single off his third studio album "Do You Feel", released in 2007. The song charted in the Top 13 on "R&R magazine's" Christian Hit Radio chart as of December 15, 2007. The music video consisted of Bryce Avary singing and playing the piano, with a series of people climbing out of grand piano and onto the dance floor. The video later shows Avary switching back and forth between the piano
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Furious (2017 film)


she had a most beautiful body. Emperor Batu, who was false and merciless, became excited, and told Prince Fedor: "Prince, give me your wife so that I may enjoy her beauty." And Prince Fedor said - "It is not our Christian custom to bring to you, the godless emperor our wives so that your lust may be satisfied. If you conquer us then you will be the ruler of our wives." The godless Batu was offended, became angry, and ordered the immediate death of
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You Are So Beautiful


movies, television shows, and ads. Billy Preston wrote "You Are So Beautiful" with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher. Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore was using the song as a means to attract young women each time he sang it in concert. In Moore's description, Preston told him: "That song's about my
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Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Volume 1


the cover artwork. Created by his mother, Anita, who died when Connick was only 13 years old. A treasured drawing which holds great significance for the artist. "My mother loved when I played piano for her", Connick explained, "so I thought it would be fitting to have a piece of her vision next to mine." All songs written by Harry Connick Jr.. Track #11, "The Other Hours" is also recorded with vocal by Connick, on his Grammy nominated album "Only You
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Love You Lately


) cannot seem to come to terms with their parting, continually looking at past photos and recollecting the beautiful memories of the times shared together. At the end of the video, she decides to pick up the phone to call her boyfriend, who already seems to have anticipated her call. The video ends with Powter alone at his piano and a studio light being left on, tribute to the song's lyrics: 'Cause there's a thousand lights that'll make you feel brand new, but if you ever lose your
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Someone like You (Adele song)


music can still break your heart." Writing for BBC Online, Ian Wade noted that the "final track Someone Like You, just voice and piano, is an actual thing of beauty, placing the listener in one of those moments where you feel you're in the presence of a future standard." Bill Lamb of About.com wrote that "the piano melody is gorgeous and combined with Adele's heartfelt reading of her words, the effect is highly emotional. You can imagine it being both honked through by talent show contestants
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Piano burning


is delivered prior to it being set alight, and afterwards its remains are placed on display in the tavern's garden along with those of burnt pianos from previous years. In 1968, New Zealand composer Annea Lockwood wrote a piece called "Piano Burning". The score specifies that the performer uses an upright piano that is beyond repair. In the composers words, Piano burning should really be done with an upright piano; the structure is much more beautiful than that of a grand when you watch it burn. The piano must
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Narciso Yepes


I-M. However, since Yepes studied under teachers who were "not" guitarists, they pushed him to expand on the traditional technique. According to Yepes, Asencio "was a pianist who loathed the guitar because a guitarist couldn't play scales very fast and very legato, as on a piano or a violin. 'If you can't play like that,' he told me, 'you must take up another instrument.'" Through practice and improvement in his technique, Yepes could match Asencio's piano scales
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas


who played piano at the church where O'Brien was serving for an evening, and the pastor was told, "That's the original way I wrote it, so I want you to sing it this way." Although Ralph Blane is credited with writing the music for many of Martin's songs, Martin claimed in his autobiography that he wrote both music and lyrics to all of the songs in "Meet Me in St. Louis" and that "all of the so-called Martin and Blane songs, (except for Best
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Le Volume Courbe


- Bella Union Dutch Housing (2002 ) Piano Magic - Writers Without Homes - 4AD Dutch Housing (Sybarite Remix) (2002) Piano Magic - Writers Remixed (12", EP) - 4AD Mono Random (2003) 7-Hurtz* - Electroleum - Output Recordings All The Things You Are (2010) Television Personalities - A Memory Is Better Than Nothing - Rocket Girl Commiserations (2016) Society (Virgin) Who Built The Moon (2017) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - It's A Beautiful World - Universal Music
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The Marble Index


said, "I was pretty much left alone for two days, and I let [Nico] in at the end. I played her [the album] song by song, and she'd burst into tears. 'Oh! It's so beautiful!', 'Oh, it's so beautiful!' You know, this is the same stuff that people tell me, 'Oh! It's so suicidal!'" The original release of "The Marble Index" included eight of 12 songs Nico recorded
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Peggy Eaton


she was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity. Well-educated for her time and sex, she studied French and was known for her ability to play the piano. William T. Barry, who later served as Postmaster General, wrote "of a charming little girl ... who very frequently plays the piano, and entertains us with agreeable songs." As a young girl, her reputation was already under scrutiny because she worked in a bar frequented by men and casually bantered with the boardinghouse clientele. An elderly Peggy reminisced
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Judy Carmichael


Judy Carmichael (born November 27, 1957) is a Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and vocalist who is one of the few jazz pianists honored as a Steinway Artist. She specializes in a rare form of pre-1950s jazz, stride piano, a highly physical style of playing first made popular by Fats Waller. The music was long associated with big, powerful—mostly black—men, so when Carmichael first emerged on the scene as a young, thin, white, ex-beauty queen, it was a shock. Count
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Said the Sky


2014, he self-released his debut EP "Faith". Tyler Trew of "YourEDM" reviewed the EP stating, "He plays into both of his strengths, utilizing piano heavily throughout his productions in conjunction with superior sound design, most notably in the neuro basses that can be found in all of his singles on "Faith". You get the most bass with "Everything" which starts off the EP quite perfectly and ever so celestially; piano and an inspiring vocal speech lead you into what is to come
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Chamber music


harpsichord, the pianoforte could play soft or loud dynamics and sharp sforzando attacks depending on how hard or soft the performer played the keys. The improved pianoforte was adopted by Mozart and other composers, who began composing chamber ensembles with the piano playing a leading role. The piano was to become more and more dominant through the 19th century, so much so that many composers, such as Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin, wrote almost exclusively for solo piano (or solo piano with orchestra). Ludwig van Beethoven straddled this period of
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Shortnin' Bread


playing "Ding Dang" on piano. Only one lyric was ever written: "I love a girl and I love her madly / I treat her so fine but she treats me so badly". During sessions for "The Beach Boys Love You", engineer Earle Mankey commented that "everybody who showed up got subjected to 'Ding Dang'." A significant number of "Ding Dang" and "Shortenin' Bread" permutations exist in the Beach Boys' tape vaults. Most of them are unreleased, with
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Alice (Avril Lavigne song)


"I got off the phone, sat down at my piano at home, wrote the song immediately; I was so inspired because I'd been designing for the movie [...] so I had all the images in my head." She played the song for Burton, who later called Lavigne to give his approval and confirm the song would be used for the film. On his radio show, "On Air with Ryan Seacrest", Seacrest called the story a "great lesson," telling his listeners "you
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Box of Rain


American Beauty" and their other 1970 release "Workingman's Dead". As the first song on "American Beauty", it was also the first Grateful Dead song released on record to feature Phil Lesh as the lead vocalist. The song also featured two musicians who are not in the band. Dave Torbert played bass, while Lesh played acoustic guitar. David Nelson (of New Riders of the Purple Sage) plays the lead guitar with a Fender Telecaster, while Jerry Garcia plays the piano. While many describe Dave Nelson
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Squeeze (The Velvet Underground album)


Purple played the drums. So he and I would lay down a track. How much interplay can you have when all it is one guitar or a piano? You can hear that, it's kind of dead. I think you get more when you have 3 or 4 people playing together, they feed off each other, they work together and something comes out of it, it's bigger." The eleven songs that make up "Squeeze" were written by Yule and recorded with the help of Ian Paice,
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Violet Hill


me go?", talks about a man's love of a woman, who does not reciprocate his love. The song ends with Martin playing the piano and singing, and pleading in nearly spoken-words: "If you love me, won't you let me know?" In live performances of the song, he plays the piano part on his acoustic guitar. According to Neil McCormick of "The Sydney Morning Herald", he writes that the lyrics "I don't want to be a soldier",
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Don't Be Messin' 'Round


of the lyrics difficult. The song opens with Jackson playing chords on an acoustic piano, after which he sings, "Are you ready for a real good time, my love?/Are you ready for a real good treat?/There'll be so much dancing, singing/Ah, you came falling into me." As the chorus follows, Jackson repeats "So don't be messin' 'round, don't be messin' 'round" in a soft falsetto register. The instrumentation infuses digital drum snares over cowbells and shakers. Jackson
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No Aphrodisiac


One of the lyric lines is "truth, beauty and a picture of you", Freedman later explained "their role in the song is just to be comedic. I'm saying 'I miss you but the universe will turn me on in your absence'. Truth of course doesn't exist, and beauty is all." AllMusic's Jonathan Lewis felt it was "a melancholy, piano-driven song about long-distance relationships". According to Bernard Zuel of "The Sydney Morning Herald", it was
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A.K.A. (album)


and piano. The seventh track "So Good" looks back at a failed relationship, where the singer proves she doesn't need the accompaniment of a man to endure, "I'm so done with pleasing you/ I'm so over needing you, all this space just gave me room so I could fly," she sings over mid-tempo electronic beats. "Let It Be Me" is a melancholic string-backed ballad, featuring Spanish guitar and passionate Latin sensibility. "When they ask who do you love
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Secret (2007 film)


1979, she imagines that Xiaoyu is still alive. So she told Xianglun that Xiaoyu was upstairs. A soundtrack album was released by JVR Music on 13 August 2007. According to "Cinema Online", Chou does a better job behind the scenes than in front of the camera. The pace of the story is satisfying, cinematography is beautiful and Chou is able to convey the magic of music: "You leave the cinema with the image of Chou's fingers dancing over the piano keys, creating that extraordinary music. It
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Steinway Vertegrand


"I Want to Tell You" and "Penny Lane". In addition, the band used it over the middle section of "Rocky Raccoon" and in the introduction to "With a Little Help from My Friends". Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, recorded the soundtrack to the 2013 film "Beautiful Creatures" at Abbey Road with his band, thenewno2. Noting the band's excitement about the prospect of using the piano, he said, "If you could see [the] piano's discography
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Plommons


lessons in Sundbyberg. Lindqvist knew only three chords at the time and Soelberg was just starting to play. The two met a local news reporter who was looking for a musical group to write an article on. When asked if the two were involved in a band, Lindqvist replied "Yes sir, you have the honor to meet Sweden's first female pop band". Lindqvist and Håkansson quickly needed to form a band so they contacted Eva Kroon (later Kroon-Bisenius, born 1947) to play the piano. The
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Who Do You Love? (album)


Fear And Loathing" were recorded during the sessions. "Born To Lose" and "Kamikaze" were re-recorded for the album because the band "weren't exactly happy" with the original single versions. Mellotron made its first appearance on a King Adora album, played by Mark Wallace. Sasha Vallely provided vocals for "Love So Volatile", while guitarist Martyn Nelson played piano on "Sweet Abandon". Following the completion of the album, the band put the record out to the highest bidder and subsequently signed
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Up All Night (One Direction album)


music influences. Instrumentation throughout the record is provided by guitar strings, drums and a piano. The album opens with lead single "What Makes You Beautiful", an uptempo teen pop and power pop song. The opening guitar riff has been noted as similar to that of "Grease" single "Summer Nights". "What Makes You Beautiful" has a guitar-based chorus; Digital Spy's Robert Copsey likened it to a cross between Pink's "Raise Your Glass" and McFly's "All About You"
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Bloody Well Right


song to the album's opening track "School" with the line "So you think your schooling is phoney", helping to perpetuate the false impression that "Crime of the Century" is a concept album. According to Hodgson, any unifying thread beyond that was left to the listener's imagination. The song begins with Rick Davies playing a Wurlitzer electric piano 51-second piano solo, leading into the rest of the band joining in. There is then a guitar solo played by Roger Hodgson, making use of the wah-
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More Beautiful You


Beautiful You" correlates to the self-image of young girls associated with eating disorders, and the desire to fit into the everyday culture that we live in today. This song highlights that we need to live for God and Jesus Christ not for worldly standards of beautification, so we can be beautiful in and through him. It could be by Diaz is that young girls feel the pressure to give up their virginity to fulfill some societal standard of behavior, but not to do so and to be a "More Beautiful You
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Im Sang-ok


is soon to come. After that, he called merchants who owed on him and forgave all the debts they had, giving them golds, saying “When you try to possess a water, water loses its life and gets rotten. So is wealth. Wealth just stays for a while for you. So is person. There's no difference for people from the birth, how precious, how rich, how noble, how beautiful. The debt is as water. You can’t have him as who owed you,
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Timi Zhuo


first Hokkien album. She was skilled at playing piano at a very young age. She was considered as a young and beautiful girl that when she started her singing career that she was given the nickname "Small Princess." From 1986 to 1991, she starred in many Hokkien soap operas, including 'No more wine for sale 酒矸通卖無', 'Sentiment of the Wind and Rain 风雨情', 'where are you 君在何处', 'love you in the bone 爱你入骨', 'neighbor relatives 隔壁亲家', 'Mother
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Ava Jerome


Turns", stating, "I was a fan of hers from "As the World Turns". And when you first see Maura, she is so classically beautiful. I was not that familiar with "As the World Turns", but when you would turn it on, you would see this beautiful woman who just seems to be appropriate as a soap actress." According to West, Ava has a lot going on; "She's mysterious and strong and just has all of the characteristics of a great character
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Les biches


me." Pretty one, is it true that you love me, is it me that will you take? My daughter, you need to get married: choose who you like. "Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!" Long live the beautiful month of May! Long live the month, the month of love! Mad'moiselle, enter our house Mad'moiselle, give a glance so that we love you with a heart all full of love. A husband will choose you; so choose a good catch. "
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Heart (Audrey Assad album)


At times there is Jazz, at others there is Soul, and then there is that piano led Groove. Audrey throws in many beautiful songs that can move you to tears, capturing her voice with such clarity." Davies called the "Standout Tracks" on the album the following: "Blessed Are The Ones", "Sparrow", "Wherever You Go". New Release Tuesday's Kevin Davis suggested "Heart is loaded with meaningful, engaging and beautiful songs and is the most amazing album by a female vocalist
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Andhadhun


– when you are acting blind and when you are actually blind, and we tried both. I wanted to see what the difference in his body language would be." Khurrana, who played the piano in the film, met several blind students and observed "how [a blind pianist] plays, conducts and moves his hands". Khurrana studied piano for four hours daily under Akshay Verma, a pianist based in Los Angeles, and did not use a body double in the film. He called it the "most
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Kathy Mattea


were being recorded, and everyone was just playing with abandon." Musicians on this album included bassist Hutch Hutchinson, drummers Abe Laboriel Jr. and Jim Keltner, and guitarist Duke Levine; contributing backing vocalists included Kim Richey, Michael McDonald, Suzy Bogguss, Jonatha Brooke, and Mary Ann Kennedy. Lionel Cartwright wrote "If That's What You Call Love", which also featured him on piano and background vocals, and Phil Keaggy played guitar on the closing track "Beautiful Fool". Thom Owens of Allmusic stated that "
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The Day Is Brave


is not exception with a very well written and beautiful album. Actually it feels like the perfect record to play on a warm night with the one you like with a nice sophisticated and passionate sound" -Melodic "With his songs based more around the lyrics and the atmosphere they create rather than reading sheet music or studying classical musicians it’s easy to draw comparisons between Brendan and other piano-playing crooners that he idolizes like Elton John and Billy Joel. Brendan’s style steers further from pop than these two legends in his debut
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Jon Lord


's] style, and all failed." Said Lord himself, "There's a way of playing a Hammond [that's] different. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that you can play a Hammond with a piano technique. Well, you can, but it "sounds" like you are playing a Hammond with a piano technique. Really, you have to learn how to play an organ. It's a legato technique; it's a technique to achieve legato on a non-legato instrument
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Glenn Gould


on—and the piano I use for all recordings is now so fixed—so that it is a shallower and more responsive action than the standard. It tends to have a mechanism which is rather like an automobile without power steering: you are in control and not it; it doesn't drive you, you drive it. This is the secret of doing Bach on the piano at all. You must have that immediacy of response, that control over fine definitions of things." As a teenager, Gould was significantly
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Shark Fin Blues


released "Shark Fin Blues" as the first single from her fourth studio album, "Oz" (September 2014). It debuted at number No. 71 on the ARIA Singles Chart on the week commencing 18 August. The video clip was released via YouTube on 11 August. In an album review, Helena Ho from "Renowned for Sound" said the song "begins with simple piano chords so that the bare beauty of Higgins' vocals are highlighted. She sings with such passion and emotion, you can hear her
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You Are So Beautiful


of Cocker's biggest chart hits, peaking at number five on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, and at number four on Canada's Top Singles chart. Some sources credit Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys with contributing to the song's genesis. Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys from the late 1970s onwards. Kenny Rankin, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Tyler and Brian Kennedy are also among the artists who have covered "You Are So Beautiful". The song has also been featured in numerous
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Hypatia


one of the men who came to her lectures tried to court her, she tried to sooth his lust by playing the lyre. When he refused to abandon his pursuit, she rejected him outright, displaying her bloody menstrual rags and declaring "This is what you really love, my young man, but you do not love beauty for its own sake." Damascius further relates that the young man was so traumatized that he abandoned his desires for her immediately. Michael A. B. Deakin, a historian of mathematics, argues that
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Platonism


"br "How do you mean?"br "The lovers of sights and sounds like beautiful sounds, colors, shapes, and everything fashioned out of them, but their thought is unable to see and embrace the nature of the beautiful itself."br "That's for sure."br "In fact, there are very few people who would be able to reach the beautiful itself and see it by itself. Isn't that so?"br "Certainly."br "What about someone who believes in beautiful things, but doesn't believe in the
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Craig Taborn


is much more opaque. So you leave more holes. On the piano, I would maybe play more sustain chords. Taborn prefers earlier models of Fender Rhodes, for their raunchier sound. He also attempts to retain control over the sound that is presented to an audience when playing electronic instruments: he links his instruments to his own amplifier, and then has the venue take its feed from that amplifier. Guitarist David Torn commented that Taborn is "the rare musician who takes the approach, 'What can I do with this
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Beautiful Vision


You might read it on Wednesday and on Thursday you pick it up again and get an entirely different thing. I don't feel qualified to speak about what it's about - you really have to read it yourself ... because there's so much in there." "Beautiful Vision" can be interpreted as either a vision of heaven or of his girlfriend, who also influences "She Gives Me Religion" and "Vanlose Stairway" (which refers to the stairway in the apartment where she lived). Biographer Clinton Heylin
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Could You Be Loved


So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you". Instruments used on the original record of this song are guitars, bass, drums, acoustic piano, the Hohner clavinet and an organ, as well as the Brazilian cuíca. Marley's song was played straight after the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones used this song for his walkout music at UFC 152. The song has been played in various movies including: The song appears in the 2013 video game "Just Dance 2014
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Stephen Magnusson


, because it was so produced, and because of this amazing journey that they’d take you on. Especially from the mid-’60s on, they just explored sound." Magnusson was also influenced by the linear playing of George Benson and Wes Montgomery, but also fascinated by Andy Summers of the Police: "who played these beautiful colours that didn’t sound like pop music at the time… I just loved exploring that principle." Magnusson travelled to Europe in the mid-1990s, performing and collaborating with musicians in Switzerland, Germany,
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