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The song "The Vultures Fly High" was written about the negative treatment Renaissance received from music critics. [3] "Ocean Gypsy" has since been covered by Blackmore's Night. For most of the album's production, the planned title was simply Scheherazade; appending "and Other Stories" was a last minute decision. [3]
Live at Carnegie Hall is a 1976 live double album by the English progressive rock band Renaissance.It presented songs from all of the band's Annie Haslam-era studio albums thus far, including the forthcoming (at the time of the concerts [3]) Scheherazade and Other Stories.
Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( Jean-Pierre Aumont ), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco .
It was soon followed by Scheherazade and Other Stories, released on both sides of the Atlantic in September 1975. The album, whose second side was taken up with the epic tone-poem "Song of Scheherazade" based on stories from One Thousand and One Nights, peaked at No. 48 in the United States. [8]
During this period, Thatcher wrote most of the band's lyrics for the studio albums Prologue (1972), Ashes Are Burning (1973), Turn of the Cards (1974), Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975), Novella (1977), A Song for All Seasons (1978) and Azure d'Or (1979). She wrote the lyrics to their 1978 UK top 10 hit single "Northern Lights".
Two lineups of Renaissance in 2012 and 2016. Renaissance are an English progressive rock band from London. Formed in spring 1969, the group originally consisted of lead vocalist Jane Relf, guitarist and vocalist Keith Relf, bassist Louis Cennamo, drummer and vocalist Jim McCarty, and keyboardist John Hawken. The band has been through many lineup changes, and currently includes lead vocalist ...
Renaissance recorded at the University of Nottingham on 24 January 1976 during a 10-date British University Tour for an on-air radio broadcast. This set has over 78 minutes of live music including favourites: "Running Hard", "Ocean Gypsy" plus the nine part 25+ minute epic "Song of Scheherazade" and a rousing encore of "Ashes Are Burning".
Ashes Are Burning is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Renaissance, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). It was the first of several Renaissance albums to feature (on some songs) an orchestra playing along with the band. It was the band's first album to make the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at No. 171. [2]