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Let Me Down Easy – Sheppard

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Let Me Down Easy – Sheppard

Let Me Down Easy - Sheppard

Brisbane pop 6-piece, Sheppard, have become one of the 2013s breakout radio acts with a sing-a-long hit Let Me Down Easy igniting airwaves around the country and are pleased to unveil a new video for the track. The band takes their song on the road this month with a string of shows.

Sheppard features siblings Amy, George and Emma Sheppard along with friebds Jay Bovino, Michael Butler and Dean Gordon, together creating a uniquie mix of party atmosphere and good-time melody that is taking Australia by storm.

2012 saw the band on the road both at home and in the UK, USA The Phillipines, South Africa and even India where they played the NH7 Weekend Festival in Pune, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.

Sheppard’s hit single, Let Me Down Easy, debuted in the Australian top 50, becoming one of the biggest independent hits on Australian radio this decade, with adds across the Nova and Austereo networks. This follows on from the radio success story of the band in the USA, where they’ve had over 750 spins on commercial radio and cracking the top 100 on the CMJ charts. On their most recent US tour they sold out Crystal Ballroom (1500cap) in Portland, where the song was #1 most requested on Portland’s KNRK 94.7.

Sheppard have a series of local Australian shows from April to June, including a single tour for Let Me Down Easy and a Rock The Schools before they plan to once again grace overseas shores in the second half of 2013.

News source…..www.chuggentertainment.com

Picture source…..buzzworthy.mtv.com

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Chaka Demus & Pliers She Don’t Let Nobody

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Chaka Demus & Pliers She Don’t Let Nobody

Chaka Demus & Pliers She Don't Let Nobody

John Taylor (born April 16, 1963 in West Kingston), better known as Chaka Demus, is a Jamaican reggae musician and DJ, best known as part of the duo Chaka Demus & Pliers.

Early Years

Taylor was a regular attendee at Kingston dances and was given a chance by Prince Jammy to DJ on his sound system.  Upon releasing his debut single, the Jammy-produced “Increase Your Knowledge” in 1985, he was virtually unknown and none of his early records saw chart success, but would later become huge hits. Other musicians quickly recognised him as having great potential, most notably Yellowman who joined him for such songs as “Everybody Loves Chaka”, “Scotty”, and “Bring It To Me” and Admiral Bailey, who collaborated with him on “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer”, giving him his first hit.  After minor success, he moved to the Penthouse Records label where he recorded the single “Chaka on the Move” but switched back to Jammy’s the following year where he paired up with Shabba Ranks for the Rough & Rugged album. The same year saw the release of “Everybody Loves Chaka”, for the Scorpio label, which was then followed up by the 1989 album, The Original Chaka’ ‘Watch me Ride’

Mainstream Success

He first met Pliers (Everton Bonner) in 1991 and suggested that they team up. They enjoyed an internationally successful partnership including a string of hit singles and a number one album in the UK between 1993 and 1997.

In 2007, Chaka Demus & Pliers reunited to record a track called “Need Your Lovin” which was released on vinyl, on Explorer Records. On November 18, 2007, Chaka Demus & Pliers performed “Murder She Wrote” alongside Alicia Keys at the 2007 American Music Awards. Their subsequent album, “So Proud”, was released in Europe and the Middle east in October 2008. A solo album, called DJ Spirit was released in 2008.

Chaka Demus now runs his own record label, Bright Star, on which he has released records by his son, known by his stage name of Marvellous. He continues to perform with Pliers, and recorded a new album in 2012, featuring guest appearances from Pliers, Marvellous, and Freddie McGregor.  Source wikipedia

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Never Let Her Slip Away – Andrew Gold – A Song For Stephanie

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Never Let Her Slip Away – Andrew Gold – A Song For Stephanie

Andrew Gold obituary

Singer-songwriter famed for the 1970s chart hit Lonely Boy

Best known for his 1970s solo hits Never Let Her Slip Away and Lonely Boy, Andrew Gold, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, was an accomplished all-round musician, composer and arranger. His skills in the recording studio helped to propel Linda Ronstadt to stardom, and he worked with a long list of top-flight artists from the Eagles and Jackson Browne to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Cher and Celine Dion.

A musical career seemed almost inevitable from the moment he was born, in Burbank, California. His parents were Marni Nixon, the singer who dubbed the musical performances of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Deborah Kerr in The King And I and Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and the composer Ernest Gold, who scored the movie Exodus. Andrew recalled living in Laurel Canyon as a teenager: “My father had this little studio with a piano and all his awards. When he was working on a movie he’d go up there and compose. I’d wake up to this piano music over and over. I was always going to be a musician, and my parents encouraged me.”

He first met Ronstadt as a high school student in the 1960s, when he saw her perform with her band the Stone Poneys (“My girlfriend was pissed off at me cos I kept checking out Linda’s legs,” he confessed.) When the group split up in 1967, Gold teamed up with their guitarist Kenny Edwards and singer-songwriters Wendy Waldman and Karla Bonoff to form Bryndle (the “y” in the name was in homage to The Byrds). The group secured a recording deal and made an album, though it was not released.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/06/andrew-gold-obituary

 

Never Let Her Slip Away Andrew Gold A Song For Stephanie

Source:    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/06/andrew-gold-obituary

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