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The singers accompany themselves on guitar, horns, bass, and drums, among other instrumental configurations. The group was founded in 1948 in Indiana and reached its peak popularity in the mid-1950s. The last original member retired in 1993, [ 2 ] but the group continues to tour internationally.
"Needles and Pins" is a rock song credited to American writers Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono. Jackie DeShannon recorded it in 1963 and other versions followed. The most successful ones were by the Searchers, whose version reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart in 1964, and Smokie, who had a worldwide hit in 1977.
The middle eight originally featured a guitar solo from Greenwood. When the guitarist Ed O'Brien pointed out that the chord progression was the same as the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe", Yorke wrote a new middle eight using the same vocal melody. According to Greenwood, "It was funny to us in a way, sort of feeding something like that into ...
In New Zealand, it reached #20 in the Top 40 Singles Chart on the week of October 7, 1979, [7] five weeks after its debut at #43 on the chart (September 9). [8] The song begins with a stanza written in typical eight-bar blues structure and chord sequence and then progresses to a 10-bar blues chorus.
Major thirds tuning. Each major-thirds tuning packs the octave's 12 notes into 3 strings' 4 frets. Among alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third ("M3" in musical abbreviation). [ 1] Other names for major-thirds tuning include major-third ...
[9] [11] During the song's intro, at 0:30, an electric guitar chord is emphasised leading into the riff, accomplished with either a volume pedal or by violining. [11] Wyman's bass guitar contribution includes distortion made with a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone , and authors Philippe Margotin & Jean-Michel Guesdon describe his playing as reminiscent ...
"Ticket to Ride" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Issued as a single in April 1965, it became the Beatles' seventh consecutive number 1 hit in the United Kingdom and their third consecutive number 1 hit (and eighth in total) in the United States, and similarly topped national charts in Canada, Australia and ...
Songwriter (s) Dave Carroll. Music video. "United Breaks Guitars (Official Video)" on YouTube. " United Breaks Guitars " is a trio of protest songs by Canadian musician Dave Carroll and his band, Sons of Maxwell. It chronicles a real-life experience of how his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines in 2008 and the obstructively ...