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's character Ally to perform it onstage with him. The scene was filmed in front of a live audience at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California. "Shallow" is a pivotal moment in "A Star Is Born", since it speaks about Ally and Jackson's conversations. Gaga wrote it from Ally's point of view with the self-aware lyrics asking each other if they are content being who they are. A rock power ballad, the song finds Gaga and Cooper trading verses and gradually moves toward the
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Mark Ronson


May 2018, it was revealed that Ronson was working with Miley Cyrus in the studio. Their first collaboration together "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" was released in November 2018. Ronson also co-wrote the song "Shallow" for the film "A Star Is Born" with his frequent collaborators Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, and Anthony Rossomando. The song earned Ronson an Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as two Grammy nominations, winning the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for
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List of awards and nominations received by Mark Ronson


the documentary "Amy". In 2018, Ronson formed the duo Silk City with fellow producer Diplo, producing the single "Electricity" featuring Dua Lipa. The single won him the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 61st Grammy Awards. That year, he also co-wrote the song "Shallow" for the film "A Star is Born". The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song and
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List of accolades received by A Star Is Born (2018 film)


Actress (Gaga) and Best Supporting Actor (Elliott). It received five nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, winning Best Original Song for Gaga's "Shallow". At the Critics' Choice Movie Award, Gaga won the categories of Best Song (for "Shallow") and Best Actress. "A Star Is Born" received seven nominations at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards, five of them in different categories for Cooper, which was unprecedented in the award's history
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


"Shallow" is a song performed by American singer Lady Gaga and American actor and filmmaker Bradley Cooper. It was released through Interscope Records on September 27, 2018 as the lead single from the soundtrack of the 2018 musical drama film, "A Star Is Born". "Shallow" was written by Gaga with Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson, and produced by Gaga with Benjamin Rice. The song is heard three times throughout the film, most prominently during a sequence when Cooper's character Jackson Maine invites Gaga
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


song. Following the filming, Gaga entertained the crowd playing piano versions of her old songs; Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real also sang at the venue. "Shallow" was first heard during a teaser trailer for "A Star Is Born" in June 2018, where it appeared around the 1:46 mark with Gaga starting to belt the final chorus. The sequence was immediately made into many Internet memes. One week before the film's release, Interscope confirmed that "Shallow" would be released as the first single from
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


Times" praised "Shallow" for elevating "A Star Is Born" "from normal blockbuster fare to a masterwork of the form". She feels the "rapturous reception of [the track] was the most universally excited reaction to any Lady Gaga song in recent memory". Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" rated it the "most boffo track" from the album and complimented its "exponential buildup" and Gaga's "throaty and breathy to full-scale belting". He felt "Shallow"
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


assisted by Bo Bodnar and Alex Williams. Tom Elmhirst mixed the song at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. It was engineered by Brandon Bost and mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound Studios. Ronson also re-recorded a 1980s version of "Shallow", accompanied by big drums; it was used in the film during a sequence when Ally plays at The Forum, while Jackson commits suicide. Gaga described "Shallow" as a pivotal moment in "A Star Is Born", since it spoke about Ally and
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Anthony Rossomando


, and Andrew Wyatt. It was produced by Gaga with Benjamin Rice. "Shallow" is a song for the 2018 film A Star Is Born, performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It is the first single from the film's soundtrack and was released on September 27, 2018, by Interscope Records. "Shallow" was nominated and won the category of Best Original Song – Feature Film, at the 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Awards. It also received a nomination in the category of Best Original Song at the
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the soundtrack on September 27, 2018. Gaga premiered it on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show while being interviewed about the film. An accompanying music video was released showing Gaga and Cooper singing "Shallow" onstage, interspersed with scenes from "A Star Is Born". The song was released as a digital download to the iTunes Store, YouTube and Spotify. BBC Radio 2 playlisted the track on October 13, 2018. In the United States, "Shallow" was sent to hot adult contemporary radio on October 15
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


climactic final chorus with a vocal run by Gaga. The recording is interspersed with the sound of audience noise and applause. Gaga premiered it on DJ Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show while giving an interview about the film. An accompanying music video was also released, showing both Cooper and Gaga's characters singing "Shallow" together onstage, interspersed with scenes from "A Star Is Born". The track received acclaim from music critics who praised Gaga's vocals, the dramatic nature of the composition and the songwriting while feeling
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


songs in "A Star Is Born". In the film, after meeting Gaga's character Ally, Bradley Cooper's character Jackson Maine talks to her about their music and dreams. Ally confesses she has written a song and sings it briefly for Jackson. Its lyrics become the basis of "Shallow", whose full version is used in a sequence when Jackson strides onto the stage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and sings the opening verses. He had invited Ally to come to his show and told her he would
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A Star Is Born (2018 film)


minutes of never-before-seen musical performances by Cooper and Gaga, and jam recording sessions of songs like "Midnight Special", "Is That Alright?" and "Baby What You Want Me to Do". A behind-the-scenes feature called "The Road to Stardom: Making A Star Is Born" would also be included along with the music videos for songs from the soundtrack: "Shallow", "Always Remember Us This Way", "Look What I Found" and "I'll
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


film he changed his opinion, saying "it mostly lives up to expectations—specifically, the first part of the movie and the build-up to when you first hear [it being performed]". In an article published by Spotify analyzing "Shallow"s importance, the writer describes it as the film's "hero song", the first to "truly cover the topic" of the "dangers of Hollywood, fame, and stardom" themes prevalent in "A Star Is Born". In the United States,
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


. She added: The stars' sultry looks at one another will "[sic]" sitting at the piano launched a thousand 'OMGs on Twitter. A perfect Oscar performance was born." American singers Lea Michele and Darren Criss added the song to the setlist of their LM/DC Tour on October 26, 2018, in Las Vegas. On November 14, 2018, Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi performed a cover of "Shallow" live on BBC Radio 1's "Live Lounge". Actor Billy Porter covered the
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) and Cooper's first. The same week, "A Star Is Born" also returned to the top of the UK Albums Chart, giving Gaga and Cooper an Official UK Chart double, this being Gaga's third. "Shallow" sold 47,610 units—including 34,406 from sales-equivalent streams. After Gaga and Cooper's performance of the song at the 91st Academy Awards ceremony, it rose ten places to number 11 from number 21 on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending March 1, 2019. The British
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Take It Off (Kesha song)


simply clothing." Andrew Burgess from musicOMH wrote that on the song the singer "oozes swagger." Melinda Newman of HitFix used "Take It Off" as an example of Kesha's songwriting, noting that tracks which weren't over-thought were "fine". Newman wrote that "thinking too much is what gets Kesha, who co-wrote the songs here, in trouble. She’s fine wading in the shallow end with bouncy tunes like the literal 'Take It Off'." Monica Herrera from "
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Dark Star (song)


handful of months later, Robert Hunter, who would become a longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead, arrived back in California and overheard the band playing around with the track. He immediately sat down and wrote the opening line, contributing the lyrics and name of the song. As Hunter has explained on multiple occasions, he reworded the opening lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as the chorus. "Dark Star" was initially released as a single in 1968, backed with "Born Cross-Eyed"
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Alan O'Day


100 songs for the Saturday morning "Muppet Babies" series, and in the 1990s he wrote and performed music on the National Geographic series "Really Wild Animals". O'Day was born in Hollywood, California, the only child of Earle and Jeannette O'Day, who both worked at the "Pasadena Star-News". Earle took newspaper photos and did publicity for the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce. Jeannette wrote for the "Star News", as well as being a schoolteacher in Thermal, California and other schools in the
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Chalay Thay Saath


out of 5 stars and wrote that "One wonders how many talented people are going to bear the brunt of shallow characters and pointless plots on their way to big screen recognition". Hira Aftab of Youlin Magazine praised the actors and Umer Adil's direction and wrote that "Overall, though, Chalay Thay Saath is a must-watch for anyone who wants to witness the new direction of Pakistani cinema and the increasing depth of the Pak-China bond". Momin Ali Munshi of Galaxy Lollywood rated 3 out of 5 stars
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A Star Is Born (2018 film)


10 Films of 2018. The film received numerous accolades, including eight nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, among them Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Gaga) and Best Supporting Actor (Elliott); it won Best Original Song for Gaga's "Shallow", besides immense praise for Cooper's and Gaga's on-stage performance on the same song. It also earned five nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and won Best Original Song for "
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Lady Gaga


Star Is Born", which she insisted they perform live in the film. Its lead single, "Shallow", performed by the two, was released in September and has reached number one in various nations including Australia, the UK and the US. The song earned Gaga an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media. The soundtrack contains 34 tracks, including
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"Born This Way". Additionally, "Shallow" reached number two on the Adult Contemporary and number 21 on the Mainstream Top 40 charts. "Shallow" topped the Dance Club Songs chart on December 15, 2018, aided by remixes from DJ Aron, Nesco and Lodato, among many others. It became Gaga's 15th leader on the tally, ranking her in 10th place among artists with the most chart toppers. In Canada, "Shallow" entered the Digital Songs chart at number one, becoming Gaga's fifth
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A Star Is Born (Jay-Z song)


but the former added a third verse during a recording session. Cole wrote his verse for "A Star Is Born" in about 45 minutes in the studio. Its chorus is performed by R&B singer Tony Williams; an early version of the song featured vocals from both Williams and hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi, but only the former's contributions were ultimately used in the final mix. Williams himself was not aware of the prominence of his vocals on "A Star Is Born" until his friend Omar Edwards approached him and
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Ireland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015


Rose McMahon who came second in week 1 and Aislí Moran who came second in week 3. For the final, a sing-off was introduced between the top two contenders. Aimee Banks (born 14 February 2002) is a young soprano from Moycullen, in County Galway. She represented Ireland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with "Réalta na Mara", (lit. Star of the sea), a song which she co-wrote and composed with Niall Mooney, Jonas Gladnikoff and Brendan McCarthy. Banks had
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Mark Ronson


Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for co-writing the song "Shallow" for the film "A Star is Born" (2018). Ronson was born in London and raised in New York City. His stepfather is Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, which contributed to a childhood surrounded by music. While attending New York University, Ronson became a popular DJ in the hip hop scene. His debut album "Here Comes the Fuzz" failed to make an impact on the charts. In 2006, he
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Leon Russell


on May 22, 2007. The song was also used in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness". Russell departed Shelter Records in 1976 to start his own record label, Paradise Records. In 1976 Leon and Barbra Streisand wrote the song "Lost Inside of You" for the film sound track of "A Star Is Born". Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson preformed the song. The "A Star Is Born" soundtrack received a Grammy Nominations for Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
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Why Did You Do That?


resented it since he was upset at Ally's success and his failing career. Gaga on the other hand was vague about whether "Why Did You Do That" is a bad song saying: "When we see her on "Saturday Night Live" and she’s singing a song about why do you look so good in those jeans, it’s almost the antithesis of where we started," Gaga said. "That is relatively shallow." In "A Star Is Born", "Why Did You Do That
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


Visual Media. The song was performed live at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, the 91st Academy Awards, and serves as the encore to Gaga's Las Vegas residency show, Enigma. Gaga collaborated with Mark Ronson, with whom she had produced her fifth studio album, "Joanne" (2016), to develop the soundtrack for this version of the film "A Star Is Born". "Joanne" contains country rock tracks and "twangier" ballads like "Million Reasons" and the title track, which influenced the
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


song atop the chart. In Australia, "Shallow" debuted at number 25 on the ARIA Singles Chart, before reaching number one two weeks later. It became Gaga's fourth song to reach the top, her first since "Born This Way", and Cooper's first. The track was the best-selling digital download for the week while entering the ARIA streaming charts at number 14. It also reached the top of the radio airplay charts according to "The Music Network". "Shallow" has since held
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Burton Cummings


Burton Lorne Cummings, (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Burton is the former lead singer and keyboardist for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. During his 10 years in the band, from 1965 to 1975, he sang, wrote or co-wrote many hit songs, including "American Woman," "No Time", "Share the Land", "Hand Me Down World", "Laughing", "Star Baby", "New Mother Nature"
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List of UK top-ten singles in 2018


included "This Is Me" (from "The Greatest Showman"), "For You" ("Fifty Shades Freed"), "All the Stars" ("Black Panther"), "Shallow" ("A Star Is Born" and "Sunflower" (""). "Shallow" was the only one of these singles to reach the number-one spot. Additionally, "Rewrite the Stars" by Anne-Marie and James Arthur also entered the top 10 at number 8, however despite
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Hyper Hyper


hardcore?)", licensed to Low Spirit Records/Polydor. Ultra-Sonic receive a "big shout" in the lyrics of the song, as do a further thirty DJs who were popular in Germany in the mid-1990s. "Music & Media" wrote about the song: "In the wake of massive successes by DJs-turned-performers such as Marusha, Sven Väth, Westbam and Jam & Spoon, a new star is born. Produced by, a highly successful remixer collective, all ingredients are present to
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Rock & Roll Heart Attack


starred as Shana the Rock Star in "Teen Witch" (1989), where she co-wrote and performed the songs "Never Gonna Be The Same Again" and "Finest Hour". Valentine is Italian born and was raised in Canada. She is a classically trained, solo singer, composer, pianist and percussionist who is now a U.S. citizen and works as a composer in the film and television industry. "Rock And Roll Heart Attack" produced three singles: "Victim", "Make It Through
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Highway Star (song)


"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on their 1972 album "Machine Head" and is the fastest song in tempo on the album. It is characterised by long, classically-inspired guitar and organ solos. Organist Jon Lord claimed that the organ and guitar solos were based on Bach-like chord sequences. This song was born on a tour bus going to Portsmouth in 1971 when a reporter asked the band how they wrote songs. To demonstrate, guitarist
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


musical triple duty as love song, vocal showcase and plot pivot". "Rolling Stone" listed it as the second-best song of 2018. Their writer with Brittany Spanos called it a "classic-rock fantasy where the 1990s never ended". With 32 awards, including an Oscar, it's the most awarded song in history of music, surpassing Beyoncé's Formation. "Shallow" is part of the setlist of Gaga's 2018–2019 Las Vegas residency show, Enigma. After performing her song "Born This Way
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John Marascalco


John S. Marascalco (born March 27, 1931) is an American songwriter, who was most noted for the songs he wrote for Little Richard. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He co-wrote several of the most seminal songs in 1950s rock and roll. Together with Robert Blackwell, he wrote the songs "Good Golly Miss Molly", "Ready Teddy", and "Rip It Up" made famous by Little Richard. Also for Little Richard, Marascalco co-wrote "Heeby Jeebies", "
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Lindsay Robins


Lindsay Robins (born December 18, 1986 in Montreal, Quebec) is a singer-songwriter who wrote and performed the theme song "What Would You Do" for the VJ Search reality series on MuchMusic, which went on to be the 2007 recipient of The North American Promax Award for Best Music Package/Theme Song. She has written and performed music for the television series Instant Star, and in 2006, released a solo rock album, "Dirty Chemistry", on Aquarius Records. Her debut solo record, "
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Born to Love You (Lanco song)


"Born to Love You" is a song by the American country music band Lanco. Lead vocalist Brandon Lancaster wrote the song with Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley, and Josh Osborne. It is the third single from the band's debut album "Hallelujah Nights". The song is about the small towns in which the narrator was raised, while also stating that he is "born to love" his lover. Lanco lead singer Brandon Lancaster, who co-wrote the song, told blog "The Boot" that "
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Lewis Capaldi


TRNSMT. Capaldi's second extended play "Breach" was released on 8 November 2018, which included previously released singles "Tough" and "Grace", along with new songs "Someone You Loved" and a demo of "Something Borrowed". Zane Lowe premiered "Someone You Loved" on Apple's Beats 1 radio on the day of release. On 14 November 2018 Capaldi performed a cover of Lady Gaga's "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born" live on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. To
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I'll Never Love Again


"I'll Never Love Again" is a song from the 2018 film "A Star Is Born", performed by its stars Lady Gaga and director Bradley Cooper whose character sings the final chorus in the flashback scene. The soundtrack contained both versions of the song including the extended version that featured Gaga as the sole performer. Gaga wrote the song with Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, and Aaron Raitiere. Both tracks were produced by Lady Gaga and Benjamin Rice. The song has received positive critical reception and has reached the top
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This Is Not a Movie


film" and "go nowhere". Harry H. Long of the "Lebanon Daily News" said the film's themes are unclear and scattershot, but the film is "masterfully done" and features a "tour-de-force performance" from Furlong. Jamie S. Rich of DVD Talk rated it 0.5/5 stars and wrote that although the film is not poorly made, the writing is shallow and immature. Devon Ashby of CraveOnline rated it 2.5/10 stars and wrote that it "[fails] to compensate for its lack of
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)


Tomatoes the film has a 38% approval rating, based on 16 reviews. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film 1 star out of 4 stars and wrote, "It's shallow and kind of dumb, and the animation is routine, and the story isn't much, and the stakes are a lot higher these days in the featurelength animation game". "Variety" Daniel M. Kimmel gave the film a positive review and wrote, "In spite of narrative problems... the film's
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Paul Williams (songwriter)


melody by Barbra Streisand) from the movie "A Star Is Born" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song of the Year. He has been nominated on other occasions for an Academy Award and several Golden Globe Awards. In 1987 he wrote the songs performed by Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty in the film "Ishtar". He wrote the music for a musical production of "Happy Days" that debuted in 2007 and also made a cameo appearance as an animated version of himself singing "Breathe
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Don Raye


The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" as well as "A Song is Born". Raye and de Paul also wrote "Beware the Jabberwock," a song for Disney's "Alice in Wonderland", which was not included in the final version of the film. A demo was recorded, and is included on the 2004 and 2010 DVD releases of the Disney movie. Raye co-wrote "The Ballad of Thunder Road" with its script writer and star, Robert Mitchum. The Robert Mitchum version of the
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Doris Pearson


Doris Pearson (born Doris May Pearson, 8 June 1966 in Brent, London, England) is an English singer and ex member of the pop group, Five Star. Doris Pearson, the eldest of the three Pearson sisters, was mainly known as choreographer of the group, teaching the other members of Five Star the dance routines to their hits. She, like the other members, sang backing vocals and wrote songs for Five Star albums. Her first self-penned song, an uptempo pop track "Don't You
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Songs She Wrote About People She Knows


Songs She Wrote About People She Knows is a Canadian musical comedy film, released in 2014. The solo directorial debut of Kris Elgstrand, the film stars Arabella Bushnell as Carol, a shy, repressed office worker who begins expressing her frustrations with her friends and coworkers in song after being encouraged by a music therapist to open up about her feelings. Her song "Asshole Dave" leads her boss Dave (Brad Dryborough) to fire her, but also reignites his own faded dream of becoming a rock star, setting them both
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Before I Go to Sleep (film)


just a gimmick. It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable," wrote the "New Jersey Star-Ledger". "Christopher Nolan's 2000 brain-twister 'Memento' starred Guy Pearce as a man with a similar malady. The earlier film rigorously stuck within the logical confines of its premise. Joffé's is filled with far too many contradictions and implausible situations," wrote the "Philadelphia Inquirer". Kidman's performance has been positively received. Writing for "Daily
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J. Hartley Manners


John Hartley Manners (10 August 1870 – 19 December 1928) was a London-born playwright of Irish extraction who wrote "Peg o' My Heart", which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor, on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs. He was born on 10 August 1870. He wrote the 1922 silent screen adaptation of "Peg o' My Heart" which starred Laurette. The 1933 sound remake starring Marion Davies was adapted from Manners' play as Manners had died in 1928. Manners also wrote two
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A Star Is Born (2018 film)


cappella performance of "Shallow" by Gaga as well as her singing "Is That Alright?" during the wedding sequence of Ally and Jack. Extra footage also contained Cooper singing "Too Far Gone" in a recording studio, and Jack and Ally writing a song titled "Clover" together. The film was available for digital download through retailers on January 15, 2019, followed by its release on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on February 19. The home video release feature 10
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A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)


are supremely messed up but hit to the core of the listener." The soundtrack's track list and release date were announced on August 30, 2018. Interscope Records tweeted that the album "features 19 songs in a wide range of musical styles + 15 dialogue tracks that will take you on a journey that mirrors the experience of seeing the film." Three singles have been released from the album: one worldwide release, and two radio-only singles in selected territories. "Shallow" was released worldwide on September 27
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Travis Shallow


Travis Shallow (born Travis Leigh Shallow; July 31, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is best known for his prolific solo career, and as a former member of alternative country band A Few Good Liars, with whom he recorded one studio album in 2011 titled, "Battered Wooden Body". "That album showcases the harmony vocal power of the group and Shallow sings songs that can be tender and those that traffic in darkness. In all he does so with restraint
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Dorothy Parker


In 1936, Parker contributed lyrics for the song "I Wished on the Moon", with music by Ralph Rainger. The song was introduced in "The Big Broadcast of 1936" by Bing Crosby. With Campbell and Robert Carson, she wrote the script for the 1937 film "A Star Is Born", for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing—Screenplay. She wrote additional dialogue for "The Little Foxes" in 1941. Together with Frank Cavett, she received a nomination for an Oscar
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Rob Lord (musician)


Rob Lord (born 1966 in Coventry, England) is a London-based musician and composer who toured and recorded for a number of groups playing keyboards and guitar for The Primitives, Dodgy, The Conells, Voice of the Beehive, and Grace, who Rob wrote the song "You're Not Mine" for and toured with Michael Jackson. Rob also had his own bands Starpower and Vagabond Joy signed to EMI and Rough Trade. In 2004 Rob composed the score to "Slipstream", his first Hollywood feature starring Sean
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Shannon Rubicam


Shannon Rubicam (born October 11, 1951 in Seattle, Washington) is an American female singer/songwriter who is best known for being half of the mid-to-late-1980s pop duo Boy Meets Girl. Her husband, George Merrill, was the other half of Boy Meets Girl, who are best remembered for their 1988 hit "Waiting for a Star to Fall". Merrill and Rubicam first met in 1975 when both were performing at a friend's wedding. The couple also wrote two hit songs for Whitney Houston,
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Hep Stars


the first true pop star in Sweden, the band itself being headline material in tabloids and various youth-oriented magazines. Other Swedish bands such as Tages and Shanes who largely wrote their own songs made a remark on Hep Stars using cover versions. This motivated Andersson to try to write songs for the band. Also it was a hard job to try to find fresh songs for the band's repertoire. The first song he introduced to band was "No Response" which reached #3 in the charts. The band was
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1000 Stars (song)


In its second, third and fourth weeks, the song dropped to numbers 31, 36 and 43, respectively. The music video for "1000 Stars" was directed by Gemma Lee and released onto Bassingthwaighte's official YouTube channel on 20 April 2009. Bassingthwaighte performed the song at the 51st TV Week Logie Awards on 3 May 2009. The Webb Sisters, who co-wrote "1000 Stars" with Chris Braide, released their own version of the song on their 2009 EP "The Other Side". It was later
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My Star (Brainstorm song)


"My Star" was the Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed in English by Brainstorm. This was Latvia's debut entry, making them the last of the Baltic states to debut at the Contest. The song is compared by at least one author on the Contest to the work of Oasis, in that it is a pop song written in something close to the britpop style. Lyrically, the song deals with lead singer Renārs Kaupers (who wrote and composed the song under the pseudonym Reynard Cowper) and
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Mama Lilla Would


"End of the Road" was included exclusively on the "BRAVO: Come Together" compilation album. Most of the songs are available on Petruo's MySpace page. Petruo wrote and composed most of the songs for "Mama Lilla Would", helped by several songwriters. Thorsten Brötzmann and Alex Geringas, who wrote "Drama Queen", wrote one song, "Call Dr. Music". Though the album was commercially unsuccessful, it was well–received by music critics. German edition of Amazon.com awarded it with 4.5 stars
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Parvati Shallow


Parvati Shallow (born September 21, 1982) is an American television personality and was the $1 million winner of the reality television series "". She had previously competed in "" in which she placed sixth, and later was the runner-up in "". She is widely considered by fans and critics to be one of the most skilled contestants ever to participate. From July 7, 2011 to October 14, 2011, Shallow starred in CBS's "Around the World For Free". From 2013 to
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Andrew McMaster (songwriter)


1980. He also wrote works that were recorded and released by Anita Harris, Alex Harvey, Ducks Deluxe, and James Dewar. McMaster was born in Glasgow and raised in the city's Calton area, which is part of Glasgow’s East End. In May 1968, one of McMaster's songs, "Tuppenny Bus Ride", was released by singer and television star, Anita Harris. He co-wrote a song, "Broken Hearted Fairytale", with Alex Harvey, which appeared on Harvey's solo album,
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Written in the Sand (song)


country. Liv Stecker of "The Boot" wrote that the song is "a mellow, reflective tune that questions the future of a relationship", in which the narrator asks ""Are we written in the stars, baby, or are we written in the sand?"" The song features "snaps and gentle, fingerpicked acoustic guitar". Lead vocalist Matthew Ramsey wrote the song with group members Trevor Rosen and Brad Tursi, along with Shane McAnally, who produced it. "Sounds Like Nashville" writer Cillea
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Elias (singer)


his first LP. At this time, he met Maurice Vallet, who wrote with Julien Clerc, and he also wrote some texts for him. From 2003 to 2006, Elias composed some songs for other artists with many writers. He signed a contract with Free Demo, a publishing house in Paris (V.M.A group ) and then he started writing songs for French real T.V artists ("Star Academy" and "Nouvelle Star"). Between 2007 and 2008 he took a professional break. From 2009 on, Elias decided
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Shallow Life


released as a double disc deluxe edition with new artwork from January 22–27, 2010 in Europe and February 22, 2010 in North America. The bonus disc contains live and acoustic recordings and previously unreleased studio tracks. The Album received mixed reviews from music critics. "Allmusic" writer, gave a mixed review to the album and rated it as two-and-a-half stars out of five and wrote: "In all fairness, Shallow Life, does come on very much as expected based on "Lacuna Coil"
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Mulder and Scully (song)


The X-Files"] stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny". Matthews also related that "I'm sure loads of people bought the record by mistake, but who cares? They should be flattered we wrote a song about ["The X-Files"] anyway". The song was met with mixed to positive reviews from critics; many reviewers lauded the band's musical composition, but maligned the track for its heavy reliance on pop culture references. The "Sunday Mirror" wrote positively of the song and
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Tiangong Kaiwu


example, he described the layout and construction of the grain tribute boat as a shallow, flat-bottom craft, with the preferred woods of cedar and chestnut being used to construct the bulkhead compartments of the hull. Song also wrote of the methods used by the Chinese in his day for pearl diving in Guangdong. Song wrote that these divers were able to stay underwater for prolonged periods of time since a secure rope was tied around their waists connected to the ship as they breathed through a long curving pipe that led up above
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Sergey Chumakov (singer)


Sergey Sergeevich Chumakov () (born June 7, 1972, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer. In 1988, Sergey met with the poet Alexander Shaganov, who later would become his producer (1991–93). In 1990 Sergey acquainted with the composer Valery Bashenev, wrote the music for most of the performance of the songs. In February 1991 Chumakov became the winner of the TV contest "Morning Star". In May of the same year with the group "Lyube" toured Ukraine. In 1991-94
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Ballard MacDonald


Ballard MacDonald (October 15, 1882 – November 17, 1935) was an American lyricist, who was one of the writers of Tin Pan Alley. Born in Portland, Oregon, he was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). MacDonald wrote lyrics for a song called "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" in 1910, which became a hit with revised lyrics when it was sung in The Ziegfeld Follies by vaudeville star Bert Williams. He subsequently worked with composer Harry
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Darren McGinnis


Darren McGinnis (born in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a Canadian country music singer. He debuted in 2009 with the single "More Than Me". It was nominated at the 2010 Canadian Radio Music Awards for Country Song of the Year. McGinnis' debut album, "What's Your Story", was released on March 3, 2009, by AIM Music and distributed by Fontana North. It received three and a half stars from Bruce Leperre of the "Winnipeg Free Press", who wrote that "McGinnis's
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Tim Driesen


Tim Driesen (born 22 June 1978) is a Belgian actor, notable for roles in both musicals, plays, and television serials. He has composed a full-scale musical as well as a number of pop-songs. In 2007, he created the role of Adrian Banks (a character based on pop-star Mark Owen) in the Take That musical, "Never Forget". Take That member Gary Barlow, who wrote the majority of the production's musical numbers, said jokingly of the cast: "
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91st Academy Awards


("All the Stars" and "Shallow") would be performed live. After a negative reaction from audiences and industry musicians, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and members of the music branch, the Academy backtracked and announced that all five songs would be performed (although "Variety" later reported that "All the Stars" would not be performed due to "logistics and timing" issues with the song's performers). The following month, the Academy announced that the presentation of the awards for Best Cinematography, Best
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Ponkunnam Damodaran


Ponkunnam Damodaran was a lyricist, novelist, dramatist who was active in or before the 1950s. He wrote the song "Pachappanamthate...", used in the Malayalam film "Nottam". He was born in Ponkunnam in [Kottayam District] of Kerala.He wrote novels: Sarpam kotthunna sathyangal,Aadarsam theechoolayanu etc.Also he wrote plays: Mathamethaayaalum manushyan nannavanam, Rashtra silpi etc.He wrote 6 beautiful songs with Vayalar Ramavarma in Nammalonnu-drama written by Cherukaadu.The song 'Irunaazhi manninnai urukunna karshakar irukaali maadukalaayirunnu'
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Olivia Harrison


appeal on British television and radio, and, with his Traveling Wilburys bandmates, recorded a cover version of the song "Nobody's Child" to help raise funds for the orphans. In October 1992, she wrote to the "Guardian" newspaper to express her disgust with the author Geoffrey Giuliano, who had recently published a biography of her husband. She accused Giuliano of falsifying a brief acquaintance with George into a friendship and criticised his depiction of Paul McCartney, whom Giuliano had dismissed as "vacuous and shallow". On
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Girl Gone Wild


did not represent the album's sound, hence failed as a single to promote it. Jon Pareles from "The New York Times" called it "shallow, effective club fodder", describing it as containing "blippy stereo-hopping synthesizers and generic title". This view was shared by Emily Mackay of "The Quietus", who felt that the song would have been better for another artist and was below Madonna's level. Jude Rogers from "The Guardian" wrote that "the filter sweeps used brilliantly throughout "
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Shooting Star (Tara McDonald song)


"Shooting Star" is a song by English/Irish singer-songwriter Tara McDonald, released as the second single from her debut studio album in Europe. The song features platinum selling Francophone artist Zaho. "Shooting Star" was written by Tara McDonald, Zaho, Maegan Cottone & Nathan Duvall (one third of the UK dance band Disciples (production team) who also produced the track and among other credits recently produced & co wrote 'Move' for Little Mix selling Gold in the Uk and Australia), and Zaho
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The Godfathers (TV series)


godfathers'. Child Welfare Officer Elizabeth Dent was played by Tina Grenville, who was the real life mother of Ashley Grenville, who starred as Mike Varga. When writing, producing and starring in the series became too much for Michael Laurence, he wrote his character Pete out of the series after 26 episodes but returned for guest appearances. He was replaced by a new godfather Dave, until the series ended at 72 episodes. The theme song for the series was written and performed by Michael Caulfield (who also later wrote and
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Star Wars Headspace


a busy weekend, and all of the small surprises built into it should make it something that any Star Wars fan will be able to easily enjoy." A correspondent for "The Boston Globe" wrote that it was much better than he expected it to be, giving all credit to the producers who contributed to the compilation. "Los Angeles Times" critic Randall Roberts spotlighted the distinguishing characteristic of each song. Bromwich, who wrote a review for "Pitchfork", scored the release a 6.9 out of ten, highlighting
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Paul Williams (songwriter)


." Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song "Rainbow Connection" from "The Muppet Movie", and penning the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping song "Evergreen," the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film "A Star Is Born", for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show "The Love Boat",
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Rock Show (Parks and Recreation)


he tried to shoot and direct it as if it were a music video. Yang is a writer with "Parks and Recreation", and wrote the previous first season episode, "Boys' Club". Rivers is a composer who has worked on the sketch comedy show "Human Giant", which starred "Parks" star Aziz Ansari. Rivers wrote the songs performed in "Rock Show", which Pratt said took him only "about fifteen minutes". Hiscock wrote the lyrics for "The Pit" in the
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Louder (Lea Michele album)


it's been for me." Because of this, Furler gave the song to her. Furler also wrote the song "Battlefield" especially for Michele, and co-wrote "If You Say So" with her. "If You Say So" was confirmed to be dedicated to Cory Monteith, Michele's "Glee" co-star and late boyfriend, who died in July 2013. Talking about the title track "Louder", Michele has said, "It's a song that, no matter what,
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Musong


the current generation’s(born in the 2000s and 2010s) people. In this book, the child on his impending leeway to success, the mother who was almost fatally ill and the woman who stays behind in their back to watching them go--(and also the author), they are all from the various generations and they have emotions and internal conflicts, but they just express differently. Lung used her smoothly written style to wrote down three generation’s people’s emotions and lonely or shallow life, that can let all the readers from different generations
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Killing Me Softly with His Song


Lori Lieberman, who performed the original recording in 1971, the song was born of a poem she wrote after experiencing a strong reaction to the Don McLean song "Empty Chairs", writing some poetic ideas on a napkin at the Troubadour Club after seeing him perform the song, and then relating this information to Norman Gimbel, who took her feelings and converted them into song lyrics. Gimbel passed his lyrics to Charles Fox, who set them to music. According to Gimbel, he was introduced to the Argentinian-born composer
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A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)


writing songs for the soundtrack during filming, leading to "so many different incarnations of each song." Cooper added that "the music really became a character in the movie. There is no lyric that's ever in any point of the movie that doesn't have exactly to do with where one of them is or hopes to be or regrets being. That was our launching pad and then it was just about discovering what songs fit in the right places." Jason Isbell wrote a song for Cooper's character, which
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Rainbow Connection


had previously collaborated on several songs for the 1976 film "A Star Is Born", were tasked with writing the songs for "The Muppet Movie". For the song that became "Rainbow Connection", Jim Henson told them that the opening scene should feature Kermit the Frog by himself, singing and playing the banjo. Williams and Ascher wrote most of the song fairly quickly at Williams' house, but got stuck trying to think of appropriate words for the part in the chorus that eventually became the phrase "the rainbow
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David Pevsner


others as guest artists. He wrote the lyrics of all thirteen songs. He solely composed seven of those songs and co-composed five of those with several others. Michael Skloff composed one of Pevsner's songs, "I Gotta Give It Up to Love." While "Perky Little Porn Star" and "The Naked Maid" from "Naked Boys Singing!" are included, the remaining songs are original. The cover art of the album pays homage to that of Bruce Springsteen's album "Born in the
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Good Girl (Alexis Jordan song)


." "Good Girl" debuted at number six in the United Kingdom, and charted at number fifteen in Ireland. In the United States, the song peaked at the top of the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Nick Levine of Digital Spy awarded the song four out of five stars, and wrote "Call us naive, but with beats this struttable, verses so irresistibly bop-friendly and that, ahem, killer chorus, who wouldn't want to take a chance on her?" "Daily Star"s Sarah-
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Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)


Jackson's conversations and their "need and drive" to go deep and move away from the shallow area in their relationship. The singer explained on Beats 1 they wrote the track from the point of view of Ally and how it became part of the reason they fall in love. "When I was writing music for the film I had to think about Ally as if she wasn't me. I went with a sound for her, even in the pop realm, that's unlike anything I've ever put out before
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Sexual minority


star individuals who are open about their non-heterosexual lifestyles. In music, people like Sam Smith and Sia have created songs that express their emotions and sexuality with a number of followers. While sexual minorities do have a place in the media, it is often critiqued that they are still limited in their representations. In shows, if a character is gay, they are often a very shallow character that is only present for comic relief or as a plot twist. Compared to a heteronormative counterpart, the sexual minority is often
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A Star Is Born (Jay-Z song)


"A Star Is Born" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Jay-Z from his eleventh studio album "The Blueprint 3" (2009). The song, produced by Kanye West, Kenoe and No I.D., features a verse from American rapper J. Cole, Jay-Z's protege and the first artist to be signed to his Roc Nation label. In the song, Jay-Z recognizes rappers who have risen to fame in the last decade, such as Kanye West, Lil Wayne, T.I.
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Chris Clark (singer)


Christine Elizabeth Clark (born February 1, 1946), better known as Chris Clark, is an American soul, jazz, and blues singer, who recorded for Motown Records. Clark became known to Northern Soul fans for hit songs such as 1965's "Do Right Baby Do Right" (by Berry Gordy) and 1966's "Love's Gone Bad" (Holland-Dozier-Holland). She later co-wrote the screenplay for the 1972 motion picture "Lady Sings the Blues" starring Diana Ross, which
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Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)


"Chloe's Prayer", a 2006 film. In 2008, Hunt appeared in a short film noir, "The Grand Inquisitor", as Hazel Reedy, the could-be widow of one of America's most infamous unapprehended serial killers. The film premiered at the 6th annual Noir City Film Festival in San Francisco. In 2013, Hunt debuted a clip of a song she wrote 40 years earlier titled "Here's to All Who Love" about love and same-sex marriage. Sung by "Glee" star
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Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon


critical of Taylor's songwriting. "Having squandered most of the songs on his big success, he's concentrating on the intricate music", Christgau wrote, finding the lyrics "more onanistic than ever, escapist as a matter of conscious thematic decision. From what? you well may wonder. From success, poor fella. Blues singers lived on the road out of economic necessity, although they often got into it; Taylor is an addict, pure and simple. A born-rich nouveau star who veers between a '
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Not Profane


Not Profane is a German music producer, songwriter and singer. He is known for regularly posting music videos on his Not Profane Channel on YouTube. As a songwriter he wrote the Top 40 single "Somebody Who Loves Me" for the Dutch artist Jeronimo van Ballegoijen (known as Jeronimo) and produced another song "Unheard" on his album. He also co-wrote "Movie Star" for American teen star Carson Lueders. As an artist he produced, wrote and released singles with Tiffany Alvord - "Our Balloons"
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Paul Buckmaster


" Later film-director Nicolas Roeg decided not to use the recordings but existing songs as soundtrack for the movie. Buckmaster also wrote some instrumental tracks for the 1974 Harry Nilsson film "Son of Dracula." In 1995 Buckmaster composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced the original score to Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys", a science fiction movie starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. Buckmaster wrote the score for the 1997 film "Most Wanted", starring Keenen Ivory Wayans (who also wrote the film)
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Donna Loren


"), and "Dream World" (B side: "(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You"). Nancy Mantz and Dave Burgess co-wrote two of Loren's Challenge songs (they also wrote one song each with other collaborators), and her arrangers included Sonny Bono. Loren's recording of "Dream World" written by Joy Kennedy was awarded four stars by "Billboard" in their new singles reviews. While only in her mid-teens, Loren recorded songs such as "
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Colonel Homer


. D'Angelo wrote both songs in an hour and presented them to Groening at the episode's table read. Unlike most other guest stars on "The Simpsons" who record their lines and then leave to accommodate their schedule, D'Angelo stayed with the production team all day and pitched several jokes for the episode. "Entertainment Weekly" named D'Angelo's performance as Lurleen one of the sixteen best guest appearances on "The Simpsons". Tom Nawrocki of "Rolling Stone" rated the songs D'Angelo wrote as two of the best songs in
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Ellis Paul


"The World Ain't Slowing Down" chosen for the theme song in the Farrelly brothers movie "Me, Myself and Irene" starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Both events took place on the same June weekend. In November 2001, Paul was again successful in having a song in a movie when "Sweet Mistakes" was featured in "Shallow Hal" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black. Paul released his 8th CD, "Sweet Mistakes", a collection of audience-favorites not yet recorded, on November 15
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Stephen Marley (musician)


5, 1988, 15 days before Stephen's 16th birthday, Conscious Party made Ziggy an international star. Ziggy wrote all the songs on the album and performed the lead, ably backed by sisters Sharon, Cedella and brother Stephen - who co-wrote and performed the lead vocals on the song "A Who a Say". The album went platinum in the United States, and the Melody Makers would become the youngest recipients of the Grammy for Best Reggae album for Conscious Party. Their follow up album "One Bright Day
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Children of the Sun (Tinie Tempah song)


"Children of the Sun" is a song by English rapper Tinie Tempah, featuring additional vocals from Swedish singer John Martin. It was released on 25 October 2013 as the second single from Tempah's second studio album "Demonstration" (2013). The track was produced by Eshraque "iSHi" Mughal, who also wrote Tinie's hits "Written in the Stars", "Invincible", "Game Over" and "Angels & Stars". The song reached number six in the UK Singles Chart. The lyrics
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Born in East L.A. (song)


"Born in East L.A." is a single by Cheech & Chong. It is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.", with references to the song "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman. Written by Cheech Marin, the song's lyrics deal with a Mexican-American man from East Los Angeles who is mistaken for an undocumented immigrant and deported. The song served as the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Marin. Cheech Marin wrote the song without his comedy partner
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