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Unlike the jewel beetles, which retain their chitin, the Mechanitis chrysalis loses the reflective coating in about a week. [11] The fragile coating which gives the chrysalis of the Mechanitis its golden sheen is caused by light reflecting on the transparent chitin. The coating is dense, and there are up to 25 transparent layers which lie in ...
The first single "X Offender" was originally titled "Sex Offender", but since radio stations would not play a song with such a provocative title, the band renamed the song. After disappointing sales and poor publicity, the band ended their contract with Private Stock and signed with Chrysalis Records in mid 1977.
Chrysalis Records (/ ˈ k r ɪ s ə l ɪ s /) is a British independent record label that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders' names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis . [ 1 ]
"Vienna" is a song by British new wave band Ultravox, released on 9 January 1981 by Chrysalis Records [4] as the third single and the title track from their fourth studio album of the same name.
In 1971, Chrysalis Music signed David Bowie to a publishing deal but Wright was on tour in the US with Ten Years After when Ellis, his business partner, listened to a white-label copy of "Hunky Dory", and turned down the chance to sign the singer to a recording contract. "You get some right and you get some wrong," Wright reflected.
Chrysalis were an American folk/rock band formed in Ithaca, NY in 1966. [1] The band released only one album before breaking up in 1970, though several additional recordings were later released. The band consisted of Paul Album (bass), James Spider Barbarous (guitar, vocals), Dahaud Elias Shaar (percussion), Nancy Nairn (vocals), John Sabin ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions UK [1]Generation X: Released: 17 March 1978; Label: Chrysalis Formats: LP, MC, 8-track 29 Valley of the Dolls: Released: 26 January 1979
Also in New York, he heard Pat Benatar in a small club; with Chrysalis, she went on to sell millions of records, as did Huey Lewis and The News, a rock band from San Francisco. After the breakup of UK punk band, Generation X, Ellis took the lead singer to America and launched the career of Billy Idol. In each of these cases, and there are ...