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"Pink Cadillac" has long been a staple of Melissa Etheridge's live repertoire; at a 2 October 1996 Milwaukee concert by Etheridge, Springsteen joined her onstage to close the show with a duet of "Pink Cadillac". [47] [48] [49] Etheridge has never recorded "Pink Cadillac", although her live performance is widely available as a bootleg recording.
The House of Atreus Act I, released in 1999, is the ninth studio album by the American heavy metal band Virgin Steele. It has the subtitle A Barbaric-Romantic Opera . This album is the first part of a metal opera inspired by the Oresteia , a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Pink Cadillac was released in May 1989, opening against Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The film eventually grossed $12,143,484. The film eventually grossed $12,143,484. In contrast, the movie Eastwood made just prior to Pink Cadillac , the fifth Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool , grossed $37,903,295. [ 5 ]
The House of Atreus Act II, released in 2000, is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Virgin Steele.It was released as a double CD album. [1] This album is the second and final part of a metal opera inspired by the Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
Tired of the bloodshed, the gods exonerated Orestes and declared this the end of the curse on the house of Atreus, as described in Aeschylus' play The Eumenides. However, other stories say that when Aletes and Erigone came of age and became rulers at Mycenae, Orestes returned with an army then killed his half-brother and raped his half-sister ...
While performing “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” Pink changed the original lyrics. The original line is: “Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears / She’s so pretty / That just ain’t me.”
In the Homeric telling of the story, [4] Orestes is a member of the doomed house of Atreus, which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe.He is absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra.