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Several house tracks became #1 hits on the UK Singles Chart, starting with Chicago musician Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body" (1987). The first house record considered to be a major hit overseas is "Love Can't Turn Around" by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring Darryl Pandy, which peaked at #10 in the UK Singles Chart in ...
"Love Can't Turn Around" is a 1986 Chicago house song by American musicians, DJs and record producers Farley Keith Williams a.k.a. Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring vocalist Darryl Pandy. It holds an important place in the history of house music as the first record in that genre to cross over from the US clubs to the UK ...
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. [10] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.
Choices – The Singles Collection is a compilation album by British band The Blow Monkeys, released in 1989 by RCA and distributed by BMG / Ariola.The album includes most of the band's singles and features genres from the new wave of their debut album to pop rock and funky evolution, up to their discovery of the potentialities of the new dance revolution, a genre that they embraced on their ...
Farley had several other follow-up hits during the late 1980s, most notably "House Nation" in 1986, credited to the House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House, which followed "Love Can't Turn Around" into the UK top ten. [6] The album No Vocals Necessary (1988) contained a 303 driven instrumental acid house track named "The Acid Life" that was ...
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, [ 1 ] an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986.
[3] [4] Queen's second greatest hits album, Greatest Hits II, has sold more than 3.9 million copies since being released in 1991, [1] which includes 50% of sales of box sets containing both albums and 33% of sales of box sets of Queen's three Greatest Hits albums. [5] Of the UK's 40 best-selling albums, more than half are by British artists, [1 ...
It reached No. 74 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 138 on the US Billboard 200. [2] [3] Two singles were released from the album, "Should God Forget" and "House", which peaked at No. 8 and No. 1, respectively, on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [4] "House" also reached No. 90 in the UK Singles Chart.