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The cover of Cast of Thousands was designed by art director Rob Crane, who cited Antony Gormley's installation The Field for the British Isles as inspiration. [14] The two characters on the album cover were 10 feet (3.0 m) tall female and male polystyrene figures, named "Elle" and "Bo", which were originally placed by the side of the M1 motorway near Mansfield, but were removed by police ...
Cast of Thousands is a brave and cool album. "Ian MacKaye and I found the Adverts' great "Safety in Numbers"/"We Who Wait" single in a record store many years ago and played it over and over, amazed at what a great band we had found. I still listen to the Adverts and follow TV Smith's ongoing musical journey with great interest and as long as ...
A Man Like Curtis – The Best of Curtis Mayfield (1992) People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story (1996) Get Down to the Funky Groove (1996) [Charly] [5] The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield (1997) R&B #91; Give It Up – The Very Best of the Curtom Years 1970–1977 (1997) Beautiful Brother. The Essential Curtis Mayfield (2000) Soul Legacy (2001)
Curtis Lee Mayfield was born on Wednesday, June 3, 1942, in Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [15] the son of Marion Washington and Kenneth Mayfield, one of five children. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Mayfield's father left the family when Curtis was five; his mother (and maternal grandmother) moved the family into several Chicago public housing ...
Joseph "Lucky" Scott was an American bassist, and musical director. He is most recognized for his work with Curtis Mayfield, in particular the Super Fly album. While Lucky was predominantly the bassist and musical director for Curtis Mayfield, his credits also include The Impressions, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, The Staple Singers, Leroy Hutson, Gladys Knight, and more.
The cast of the 1985 film "The Goonies" reunited Monday in support of castmate Ke Huy Quan. Stars Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green, Corey Feldman, and writer Chris Columbus joined Quan at the ...
Adrian Younge plays all instruments and wrote the lyrics to every song on the soundtrack except "Shine", "Cleaning Up The Streets", and "Gloria". His influences on the score were Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Ennio Morricone and Wu-Tang Clan. Morricone greatly influenced Younge from the classical European funk music, while Wu-Tang Clan helped ...
"Astounded" is a song by Canadian musical collective Bran Van 3000 featuring vocals from American artist Curtis Mayfield. The song contains interpolations from Mayfield's song "Move On Up" and also contains a sample and an interpolated melody of The Doobie Brothers' "Rockin' Down the Highway".