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Eventually they did play his video, but only after it was a #1 hit (“Songfacts”). His video paved the way for other black artist to receive airplay on MTV by break down the race barriers. Quincy Jones was the one responsible for the arrangement of “Billie Jean”. Jackson and Jones agreed that they want Steve Barron to produce the video (“Songfacts”). Barron had a complex plan of using many dancers but do to budget constants he had to settle for a more simplistic approach (“Songfacts”). The bass and drums laid the foundation for the song with the chorus providing a “catchy melodic hook” (Covach, “Introduction to Rock”). “Billie Jean” was one of those songs where it was transitioning out of the hippie aesthetic era and more into the pop era. It was a little of both styles. The energy that Michael Jackson put into his songs and videos showed a clear correlation to the hippie aesthetic (Covach, “The Hippie Aesthetic”). AC/DC’s “Back in Black” is a good example of a song that is not hippie aesthetic.

The song is written about an attractive woman that appeals highly to Robert Plant. He speaks of the way she moves and her physical appearance in a very sexual

The song writer uses Hyperboles, Metaphors, Personification, and especially imagery. Within the first section, it states that “she’s buying a stairway to heaven”, this being a hyperbole, since you cannot literally buy a stairway to heaven. For the next few sections, the writer uses lines like, “In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings”, “And my spirit is crying for leaving”, and “in my thoughts I have seen the rings of smoke through the trees, and the voices of those who stand looking.” These use Imagery, and personification, to let you see what is happening within the story of the lady. More examples of personification are, “And the forests will echo with laughter”, “Our shadows taller than our soul”. Some examples of hyperboles are the lines, “Your head is humming, and it won’t go”, “All that glitters is gold”, “Our shadows taller than our soul”, and, “everything turns to gold.” The song uses an outstanding amount of literary elements.

According to their website, their songs express who God is and who we are in Him; capturing new and fresh expressions of worship.

In addition, they also question the faith and actions of the world. The choirs of the song: “Father, Father, Father help us/Send some guidance from above/People got me, got me questionin'/ Where is the love (Love)/ ….Where is the love/The love, the love?” (lines 23-31) they tie in social institutions and agents of socialization. Above all they are focusing on one social institution which is religion. The song

To conclude this presentation. Space Oddity is the second album by David Bowie, the different attempts of styles Bowie demonstrated was something new and refreshing since his debut in 1967. The star of the show was of course the song Space oddity. A song about an astrounout stranded in space, with strong emphasis on cynicism and alienation.

The period between 1964 and 1967 witness the uprising of British artists on the American music chart. The rock bands that made their way to the U.S charts contribute to the direction for rock music up to late of 1960s. Numerous bands have blown a fresh wind into the music scene and left behind hit songs that echo through years later. The Dave Clark Five was the first to follow the success of the Beatles and toured the U.S extensively followed their hit song "Glad All Over" in 1964. Former jazz trio "The Animals" landed on the #1 spot in both the U.K and U.S chart with "House of the Rising Sun". This rendition added a twist to the original country version by featuring piano. Another double #1 hit was "World Without Love" by Peter and Gordon.

Concurrent with his singing career, Michael also trademarked some his unique dance moves accompanied by some of his songs like “Billie Jeans” and “Ghosts”. Though I am not a dancer, I am absolutely awed by his dance moves such as the moonwalk, circle slide, the pelvic thrust and the spin, all of which serves as a trademark icon to him. No doubt, many dancers all over the world had been greatly inspired by Michael as with the many singers and musicians.

Harrison and Starr also went on to do solo albums. Ringo also starred in some

XTC’s composer Andy Partridge considered Easter Theatre as one of the most perfect songs of his career. Featured as the Lead Single in Apple Venus Volume 1, Andy intentionally designed the lyrics uniquely, purportedly to exorcise the ever-present influences of the Beatles and the Beach Boys’ Brain Wilson. It is commonplace in rock music that every band has to espouse some Beatles-que lyrics and of course borrow to some extent from the genius of Brian Wilson, who is regarded as the greatest composer of all times. This paper investigates whether Andy was successful in avoiding such common influences, and more so those of the Beatles’ Penny Lane, which was done by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

If you analyse any piece of footage from Michael's earlier years with the Jackson 5, it is clear that from a young age this 8 year old boy from Gary, Indiana danced as easily as he sung. He could execute a step to perfection, but then spin it around and include it into a beat just as naturally as if it were a musical riff. His dancing wasn't just an ordinary part that was merely just there to support his act, it was a key part of the whole performance. But as compelling as Michael was in the Jackson 5, it was his solo career which defined him as a dancer. An example of his talent was in his Motown tour while performing Billie Jean in 1983, in which he executed a number of difficult moves and manipulated his body in many ways. The audience would

The songs lyrics chilled, Nina Simone said “That is about the ugliest song I have ever heard," (Lynskey) referring

If Bowie collected throughout his life, the great bulk of his serious art-buying took place in a great surge in the late Eighties and early Nineties, which Bowie the compulsive auto-didact backed up with obsessive reading, visits to the artists, and writings for specialist journals. He pursued his particular interest areas simultaneously and completely independently of each other, so that they form often substantial collections in their own right. Bowie’s initially baffling passion for Modern British art can perhaps best be explained by the fact that he spent most of his adult life in voluntary exile from the country of his birth: in Germany, Switzerland and America. Removed from everyday reality in his world of limos and private jets, Bowie seems to have been constructing a sort of Britain-of-the-mind, through the efforts of other artists – but one that touched on deep-seated aspects of his own experience. Harold Gilman’s brilliant but very downbeat British post-impressionist interior, and Carel Weight’s mildly sinister faux-naïve image of children playing in a windswept street, are both very redolent of the sort of drab, repressed postwar suburban Britain Bowie grew up in.

The Kiss is a work that was painted by the Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt, between the years 1907 and 1908. Klimt utilizes his personal experiences and life changes as his inspiration for the creation of perhaps his most famous work yet. He links modernity and eroticism at the center of his work, the couple’s embrace. This embrace is a quintessential expression of one of the deepest passions known to mankind, sensual love. Klimt’s color choices, use of depth, line, and balance, are all techniques that contribute to the message he is trying to convey. This couple’s love radiates passion at its strongest, the love between man and woman, and the disconnect from reality they experience as they embrace.

At first glance, David Bowie 's Space Oddity would seem to be a patriotic theme song for the soon-to-be-launched Apollo 11 mission. While such assumptions would be fairly based considering the BBC used the song in its coverage of the moon landing, Space Oddity is much more profound and metaphorical in meaning. As it was actually written, this song provides a view into the artist 's rise to fame, drug problems, and changing perspective on the world.