#PARLOPHONE UK

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The Beatles - Hello Goodbye

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The Cougars - Saturday Night at the Duck Pond (1963) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Arranged by Keith Owen from: “Saturday Night at the Duck Pond” / “See You in Dreamland” (Single) “Saturday Nite with The Cougars” (EP)

Instrumental Rock | Pre-Beatles UK Rock | Surf Rock

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Personnel: Keith Owen: Lead Guitar Dave Tanner: Rhythm Guitar Adrian Morgan: Bass Guitar Dave Hack: Drums

Released: in February of 1963 Parlophone Records

The single “Saturday Nite at the Duck-Pond” used music from Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The song achieved some notoriety for being banned by the BBC, despite which it spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 33. The reason for the ban was reported in the musical press as the BBC saying “Saturday Nite at the Duck Pond” was “a travesty of a major classical work” - Wikipedia

[fangomusic]

Nine albums: Blur.

Leisure (1991), Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994), The Great Escape (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015), The Ballad of Darren (2023).

[nineteenfiftysix]

pinkpantheress - just for me (To Hell With It, 2021)

[theunderestimator-2]

A picture worth way more than a thousand words: rockabilly legend & "Brand New Cadillac" songwriter Vince Taylor backstage with Joe Strummer in Paris in September 1981. The photo, taken by an unknown photographer, was in Mick Jones's possession and surfaced in 2019, when it was first published in Mojo UK magazine, (Dec. 2019 issue, p.23, Mojo UK).

According to Joe: "Vince Taylor was the beginning of British rock 'n' roll. Before him there was nothing".

(*from Keith Topping's book "The Complete Clash" Reynolds & Hearn Ltd London, the 2004 edition paperback, p.39-40): "…Born Brian Holden in London in 1939, (after the life in California and his obsession with Elvis Presley), A trip back to London in 1958 brought him a name-change… Taylor's second single for Parlophone, 'Pledging My Love', contained on the B-Side his own composition, 'Brand New Cadillac', an instant classic thanks to Taylor's histrionic vocal and guitarist Tony Sheridan's tense riff. Although it was never a hit in England, the song, and others like it, made Taylor a rock 'n' roll superstar in France during the early 1960s… His story inspired David Bowie, who met Taylor in the mid-60s and had a long conversation with him about aliens, to create the character of Ziggy Stardust. 'I met (Taylor) in The Pig's Foot restaurant in the early 80s', remembered Strummer. 'He talked to me for over five hours about the Duke Duchess of Windsor were planning to kill him with poisoned chocolate cake. .' Taylor's final years were spent as a virtual recluse in Switzerland, where he died in 1991…' .

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[odk-2]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨) (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟒) (MFSL: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ) Paul McCartney from: “Beatles for Sale” (LP|UK) “Beatles VI” (LP|US)

Jangle Pop | Beatles

𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐂 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞 @𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 (2662kbps) (Size: 49.7MB)

𝐉𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐔𝐊 (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Paul McCartney: Double-Tracked Lead Vocals / Bass John Lennon: Rhythm Guitar / Harmony Vocals George Harrison: Twelve-String Lead Guitar / Harmony Vocals Ringo Starr: Drums

George Martin: Piano

Produced by George Martin

Recorded: @ The EMI Studios (Abbey Road Studios) on September 29–30 and October 26, 1964 in London, England UK

Released on: December 4, 1964 (UK) June 14, 1965 (US)

Parlophone Records (UK) Capitol Records (US)

The track features a guitar riff played by George Harrison on his Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar. The sound was influential on the Byrds, who crafted their sound partly on the Beatles’ use of the Rickenbacker, and Harrison in turn adopted influences from the Byrds in his 1965 song “If I Needed Someone” - Wikipedia

[keyofnow]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The fifth instalment of The Beatles mythology — and the first to be delivered in a self-contained album form — is their groundbreaking eighth Parlophone LP.

Painting testimonial pictures...

Released on 1 June (UK) and 2 June (US) 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band heralded a bold new phase in The Beatles' saga.

Besides redefining who The Beatles are as musicians (and moreover as artists), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band stretches the conceptual bounds of what a record album is and how the audience is meant to relate to it. The medium is now the message: The Beatles are no longer touring as The Beatles, they're donning an alter-ego constructed as an imaginary band playing an imaginary concert, and sending this album out on tour on their behalf — with the album intended to be listened to in its entirety just like a live performance.

What's it all about?!

Even before the first note, the message of the cover art is unmistakable: the Beatles of olde are represented as wax dummies with matching haircuts and identical suits, while the four real-life Beatles are dressed in fluorescent satin uniforms of distinguishing colours with hair in different styles (and moustaches even!), and the “death” of The Beatles is “memorialised” with a “funerary floral display” laid out at the lads’ feet. (They even take a shot at the “Beatles vs. Stones” sub-myth with a visual shout-out to their supposed competitors as “good guys”.)

Meanwhile the music itself is something else entirely, like 4% Beatles and 96% from another (uncharted) dimension. No one had ever made sounds like this, neither then nor at any preceding time in recorded history. The layers, the textures, the counterpoints and interweaving voices — it's at once part Rock and part Romantic. Only the writing and production credits indicate that this is, indeed, still predominantly the handiwork of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team and their steadfast producer George Martin (with a first-time shout-out to engineering wizard Geoff Emerick).

Even the back cover suggests that not only is the music important, but also so are the words. This was the first time that pop lyrics had been regarded as worthy of printing in their entirety on the record sleeve, and it would not be the last.

The deeper you go...

Prior to this point, all Beatles mythology had been received from various scraps of music journalism alongside copious radio and TV appearances, and periodically compiled (and codified) by visual and literary works. All their recordings to date could be interpreted either as standalone pieces; as reflected in the light of their public image at any given moment; or as a natural progression of the group.

Sgt. Pepper is essentially the four guys (John, Paul, George and Ringo) playing make-believe, as an escape from the prison of their celebrated personae as “Beatles” — aided and abetted at every step by their Classically-trained (and technically-minded) producer George Martin.

Furthermore, “Within You Without You” — George's deepest foray yet into the realm of Indian sounds — is given the middle slot as symbolic centrepiece to the “concert”, presenting their prevailing philosophy that “Love is all and Love is everyone” (part of the closing statement on their preceding album Revolver) with even greater urgency: “With our Love, we could change the world. If they only knew!”

And in the end...

On one level the album was intended to demolish the Beatle myth, so that they could get on living normal lives. It utterly failed in that respect, as it was so well received that it only furthered to deepen the aura of their myth. They had in fact reinvented themselves, as intended; but as an unintended consequence, they were now more famous than ever.

One another level, it was an excuse for them to reach out musically. In that regard it was hugely successful, as the album was produced not only with advanced playing and arrangement, but also with a high-fidelity listening experience in mind. Beyond the distinctively dynamic midrange (the portion audible on any functioning sound systems) lives a sparkling top-end never before achieved on record, as well as an equally unprecedented low-end.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — including their post-Pepper live international satellite broadcast of their recording session for “All You Need Is Love” — would serve as the soundtrack to the Summer Of Love and beyond, and open the door to a brave new world of musical and artistic exploration and expression, not only for The Beatles but also for artists of every stripe...

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[deanwinchestersoftcore]

My ranking based on tracks off:

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Demon Days is the second studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz. It was released on 11 May 2005 in Japan and 23 May 2005 in the United Kingdom by Parlophone and May 24, 2005 in the United States by Virgin Records. Produced by Gorillaz, Danger Mouse, Jason Cox, and James Dring, it features De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder and Dennis Hopper.

As with the band's eponymous 2001 debut, Demon Days and its performances were accompanied by various multimedia, including interactive features on the Gorillaz website, animated music videos and animatics. The visuals were designed by the Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett, under his design company Zombie Flesh Eaters.

Demon Days reached the top 10 in 24 countries. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard 200, and was later certified six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US. Outperforming their debut, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide. The album spawned the singles "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare", "Dirty Harry", "Kids with Guns", and "El Mañana"

Please recommend other albums for me to rank-

I’m open to any genre but favor:

Rock, Pop, Heavy metal, Punk rock, Alternative rock, Indie, Grunge, Pop rock, Gothic, Synth, New wave.

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on October 14th, 1991 - Queen Story!

- 'The Show Must Go On' /'Keep Yourself Alive' released in UK on Parlophone

🔸"'The Show Must Go On' came from Roger and John playing the sequence, and I started to put things down. At the beginning, it was just this chord sequence, but I had this strange feeling that it could be somehow important, and I got very impassioned and went and beavered away at it. I sat down with Freddie, and we decided what the theme should be and wrote the first verse. It's a long story, that song, but I always felt it would be important because we were dealing with things that were hard to talk about at the time, but in the world of music, you could do it."

- Brian May, Interview 1994

- B-Side: 'Keep Yourself Alive' by Brian May

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The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [UK Parlophone Release] (26 May 1967)

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Talk Talk - Such A Shame

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The Beatles - Please Please Me (1963) John Lennon from: "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why"(Single) "Please Please Me" (LP)

Merseybeat | Rock and Roll | Pop

FLAC File @Archive (left click = play) (670kbps) (Size: 10MB)

Personnel: John Lennon: Lead Vocals / Rhythm Guitar / Harmonica George Harrison: Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals Paul McCartney: Bass / Backing Vocals Ringo Starr: Drums

Produced by George Martin

Recorded: @ EMI Recording Studios (Abbey Road Studios) in London, England UK on November 26, 1962

Single Released: on January 11, 1963 Parlophone Records (UK) on February 7, 1963 Vee-Jay Records (US)

Album Released: on March 22, 1963 Parlophone Records (UK) Vee-Jay Records (US)

[fangomusic]

Blur, The Ballad of Darren

New music Wednesday

Out of the blue, the band surprised everyone by dropping their ninth album, a remarkable, daring, and genuinely innovative creation. The work presents a contemplative and frequently melancholic collection of songs, demonstrating that they possess significant insights into aging gracefully without losing their edge and staying up-to-date.

[singlesablog]

The Imperial Phase

“Left to My Own Devices” (1988) Pet Shop Boys Parlophone / EMI Records (Written by Tennant / Lowe) Highest U.S. Billboard Chart Position – No. 84

I was faced with a choice at a difficult age Would I write a book?  Or should I take to the stage? But in the back of my head I heard distant feet Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat

- from “Left to My Own Devices”

“We had been so disciplined at making four-minute pop singles, with the exception of "It's a Sin", which is five minutes. The idea was to have an album where every track was a single

- Pet Shop Boys on the idea behind Introspective

I used to joke with a friend that the two albums in Pet Shop Boys catalog that sat next to one another could have swapped their titles: Introspective (1988) could have been titled Behaviour (1990), and vice versa.  Introspection is from the Latin (“to look within”), and I guess this kind of works; an album titled Self Referential would not be nearly as catchy, if more accurate. Oddly, I always thought of introspection as being related to looking backwards, like nostalgia; in the case of the Pet Shop Boys it is perhaps just a case of inverse-ness (gay people were once called inverts), or even a thoughtful kind of literal thinking.  But who knows, they could have just pulled the title out of a bag.  The duo was never averse to fashion.

The album (if you are unware) consists of six extended tracks, and unlike the quote above, only 4 of them were released as singles, “Domino Dancing”, “Devices”, “Always on My Mind” (which preceded the record and was presented in a much different version), and “It’s Alright”.  “It’s Alright” and “Always on My Mind” are covers, “I Want a Dog” and “I’m Not Scared” are recycled cuts, so the album only contained two original songs, “Domino Dancing” (a huge hit all over the world) and “Devices” (an even bigger hit in the UK, but not in the US).  Like the EP Disco, an earlier collection of 6 extended cuts, it treated the form with respect, but also expanded the idea of what a proper album could be.  To my mind it is easily one of their very best, most original, and certainly most popular (internationally it is their best seller ever).  I love every track (with a small mark off for “It’s Alright”, which does grow a little tedious), but none as much as “Left to My Own Devices”, which is formally audacious and endlessly, thrillingly queer from a gay male perspective.

I was faced with a choice at a difficult age Would I write a book?  Or should I take to the stage?

Back to the idea of introspection, most young gay men have an intense inner life, and we of a certain generation (coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s) were forced to find our culture on our own.  “Left to My Own Devices” is a catalogue of the thoughts and ideas that might roam around in a bachelor’s world.  One of the slyer things about the song is that most of it is spoken word.  Here we find Neil rapping (again!) but instead of trying to create the beat the effect is more like reportage than singing.  The lyrics, as usual, are a collage of ideas carefully cut and pasted to create an atmosphere of bourgeois dandyism (“I phone up a friend who’s a party animal”, “we’ll do some shopping”)—I mean, there is a lot of tea drinking in these lyrics, and I can never be sure that this is either very gay, very British, or both.  I think the Pet Shop Boys, song to song, are generally more in search of a tone where content is concerned, and I also think that tone is always meant to elude you a bit.  As long as you are dancing I don’t think they care what you think, and one sure thing about Introspective is that this certainly is a dance record, and not well understood as one of the most purchased and successful House records ever made, and if you are ever in any doubt of that, please focus on the opening of “Left to My Own Devices”, where they employed an actual opera singer (Sally Bradshaw) to sing the word “house” over and over again as if it were an aria.

All of this can be seen as sardonic (their infamous “irony”) but I always prefer to think of it as sophistication; at the very least, Pet Shop Boys take their ideas and music seriously.  If you read my blog post on Chic’s “Good Times” you can easily understand the courage of performing this style of music in earnest in a world of the backlash that “Disco Sucks” created, which effectively took the bubbles out the late 70s, forced an entire world of music underground, and ironically exploded the genre into many different forms, some of which this record preserves.  There is a level of irony abounding in “Left to My Own Devices”; aside from the gay thing, perhaps that subversiveness is built into the genre of disco music itself.  The track did not really chart in the US outside of the clubs, but that hardly mattered: one could really enjoy Introspective as a gestalt, one long thought, or even one long track.  Whenever I find that I have an itch to listen to the album it is inevitably for the opening of “Devices”, where amidst a full symphony Neil opens with “I get out of bed at half past ten” and then proceeds to take you on a long ride describing a mundane day conducted by the best producers and mixers in the world.  It is the transformation of the mundane into the extraordinary, and also the testament of an inner life revealed.  In contrast to the general success of the album, perhaps “Left to My Own Devices” is the real innovation of the 6 tracks; it may not be the most American, or the most well-known, but being an invert myself, I must say: I rather like it that way.  Is it an irony that a disco record can make one feel seen?  Maybe not.  To some of us, hiding in plain sight just comes naturally.

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Behaviour (1990).

Tennant later regretted the release of Introspective so soon after the previous album, Actually, feeling that it pigeon-holed them as a dance act.  The melancholy follow-up, Behaviour, generally considered to be their finest achievement, was a relative failure.

I was surprised to learn that “The imperial phase” was actually put into the vernacular by Neil Tennant. The imperial phase is the period in which a musical artist is regarded to be at their commercial and creative peak simultaneously, and was coined to describe the group's feelings on their career circa "Domino Dancing" (1988). Critic Tom Ewing described three criteria for defining an artist's imperial phase as "command, permission, and self-definition".

It was genius producer Trevor Horn who came up with the line “Debussy to a disco beat” tossing it off while laying down a track.  Tennant, ever the historian, collaged it into the song, and gave Horn a writing credit on the b-side “The Sound of the Atom Splitting” as compensation.

Apparently, Neil Tennant’s mother was upset at hearing him sing “I was a lonely boy, no strength, no joy, in a world of my own” but it seems that this is just a character he was play acting: he apparently had a happy childhood.

"In a secret life I was a Roundhead general" – [In British history] the "Roundheads" were the pro-Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War of the mid-1600s. The name "Roundheads" came from the fact that they generally wore their hair trimmed short, unlike their opponents, the long-haired "Cavaliers" who supported King Charles I. (And in case you're not up on your British history, Charles I was ultimately defeated, deposed, and beheaded.) Again, Neil has pointed out that, as a child, he himself would actually have been far more sympathetic to the Cavaliers (in contrast to his more anti-royalist sympathies as an adult). 

- (Directly quoted from geowayne.com)

Pet Shop Boys are still recording. Nonetheless, the Boys 15th studio album, was released April 26th, 2024 to near universal praise.

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This post was written using analog techniques to collate facts.  After deciding on a topic, one Wikipedia entry will naturally suggest another, and then I let those concepts create an environment of creative association rather than mere fact finding. I do cross reference sources to find what is most interesting.  While some small details may be disputable, none is used for any other reason than to open up the idea at hand, and to support the belief that most pop songs are indeed works of art, with the great ones renewing themselves endlessly.

[bonedev]

Sorry this is me just being nosy, what made you so nervous about getting sued for copyright infringement? As far as I know as long as you make your own assets and such it falls under the category of parody, and as long as you don't sell it(ignoring the music part, which you could get around by using covers). Also I actually really like the monster dating sim idea, do you have any spisific OC's in mind that you would want to use?

To answer you first question

This was something I should have delved deeper on. I am NOT giving up on MxK (because this is something I really wanna do :( ) It's just I really, really, really need to do a lot of CYA (cover your ass) if I want this game to not be killed off before it even gets started. It may take a while to get permission, since I am using Damon & Jamie's original characters-- they may not mind, but big labels might. IDK how strict they could be. I'd rather be safe than finish the game, release it & get slapped with fees/lawsuits, even if they're parodied or not overtly referenced.

I plan on using just instrumentals of Gorillaz's songs in the game, but again, I don't know how strict Parlophone UK/Warner is about fan projects using their IP. I don't think a game like this has been made before, so I don't know what legal loopholes I have to go through to even make references to other musicians, animes & other IPs in MxK. I don't know how far 'fair use' or 'parody law' will go for something like this.

Since Damon & Jamie are celebrities with their own personal lives, I don't know how active they are on social media, but I pray I can reach someone who could pass this word onto them. I'm not giving up. I won't let this take the wind out of my sails. At least I'm asking now rather than when the game is near completion

As for your second question:

I have my own OCs & with my husband's help, we've come up with the idea for 16 characters, 8 guys & 8 girls. A few examples will be: A robo-cat boy, a clown boy, a fairy boy, an ogre girl, a vampire girl, & a mummy girl.

They won't all just be generic monsters. I've had a fascination with monsters & mythology from all over the world & want to incorporate monsters from all over the world (ex: a vampire from the Philippines is called a Manananggal).

This could be an opportunity to finally show off my OCs & ideas, since I've been so anxious & scared to show them off outside of DeviantArt or my husband & friends.

Plus, DnD & Baldur's Gate 3 have been mega inspirations for game mechanics

[joshuaboakley]

Loving the Alien (2002 Remaster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch/bfevmGay_GE Loving the Alien (2002 Remaster) Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UK Loving the Alien (2002 Remaster) · David Bowie Loving The Alien E.P. ℗ 2002 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company Producer: David Bowie Vocals: David Bowie Producer: Derek Bramble Producer: Hugh…