#jimmy cliff

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Jimmy Cliff feat Lebo M - Hakuna Matata 1995

A second version of the song "Hakuna Matata" from the 1994 film The Lion King was produced for the companion album Rhythm of the Pride Lands. Just as with the original version, it was written by Elton John and Tim Rice. This version has a slightly modified, previously unreleased verse focusing on Timon's past. It was partially rewritten with a different instrument arrangement, but remains very similar to the original. The music video was featured on the VHS tapes of the Lion King film in some countries.

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Jimmy Cliff, 1968

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The Harder They Come (1972) dir. Perry Henzell

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Jimmy Cliff *July 30, 1944

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Happy 80th, Jimmy Cliff.

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Step back to the '60s and catch a glimpse of ska's roots in this BBC documentary, featuring most of the ska pioneers!

A little gem for all fans of ska.

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Wayne Kramer - The Harder They Come (1979)

R.I.P. Wayne Kramer

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Happy 80th birthday (July 30), Jimmy Cliff.

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My heart, I don't know why, beats unhappily when it sees you. How can you love someone and just because you're no longer together feel like they're to blame for all your sadness? That hand that you held so tightly is now tied to someone else. He sees you as you pass by and doesn't even care. He still hugs his new love tightly just to hurt his chest a little more. Then he gives her a kiss and leaves without looking back. I follow you through the streets, even if you make fun of me.

Jonas r Cezar

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Jimmy.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 2024

As he led the E Street Band through “Twist and Shout,” Bruce Springsteen betrayed a roached voice much as John Lennon had when the Beatles cut their version 60 years earlier.

But, like Lennon’s, Springsteen’s voice benefitted from its battered state - conveying joy and conviction, not exhaustion.

The house lights were on and the heart-stoppin’, pants-droppin’, hard-rockin’, Earth-quakin’, booty-shakin’, love-makin’, Viagra-takin’, history-makin’ - legendary - E Street Band had already been on stage for three hours April 21 as it played its twice-postponed-in-2023 gig inside Columbus, Ohio’s, Nationwide Arena to close the U.S. leg of its 2024 spring tour. Springsteen, who at 74 retains the energy and voice - acrobatic with guttural growls and falsetto cries - of a much-younger man, was sweat-soaked, his tie tucked into his blue shirt, his vest now removed, returned alone to close the show with an acoustic version of “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

Death is not the end, he sang, while proving the life-affirming nature of live music.

Though the band could’ve phoned it in, the expanded 18-piece - augmented with four-voice choir and five-piece horn section - instead brought a loud hailer, opening the 30-song, 185-minute set with a grimy version of “Youngstown,” the first of a handful of tour debuts that included “Streets of Fire” and “I’m Goin’ Down.” That some songs were slowed by a quarter-step seems to have been the only acknowledgement of age.

So, if these guys are actually taking Viagra, it isn’t because of on-stage impotence. The band is so hot that even relatively weak songs like “Bobby Jean” and “Dancing in the Dark” are splendid in the moment.

A few scattered empty seats did nothing to temper the raucous atmosphere inside the hockey arena. Fans hoisted signs - “I’m Mary, thanks for all the songs” was among the best - and Springsteen sung a line of “Thunder Road” to a woman who’d been dancing furiously in front of the stage all evening, causing her to light up like a strobe. Though there was no crowd surfing during “Hungry Heart” - dude is 74, remember - Springsteen did go into the audience during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” as images of late E Streeters Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici shone on the house video screens.

Back on stage, the living celebrated being alive. Steven Van Zandt played a guitar emblazoned with the Ukraine flag during “No Surrender.” Fellow guitarist Nils Lofgren spun like the Tasmanian Devil as he unspooled his “Because the Night” solo. And Jake Clemons served as Springsteen’s saxophone-blowing foil and conjured Uncle Clarence’s spirit throughout the night, thus garnering some of the crowd’s loudest adulation.

One of those moments came during a religious-experience rendering of “Spirit in the Night,” when Clemons sat on the stage and Springsteen literally leaned on his bandmate. The music temporally settled before exploding like a supernova and the climax. This was the greatest E Street moment Sound Bites has witnessed since the Band reunited for the 1995 Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“Last Man Standing,” with Springsteen on acoustic accompanied by trombone, was a nod to his earliest bandmates, all gone now. “Trapped” was a singalong on the choruses. “She’s the One” borrowed the Bo Diddley beat. “Wrecking Ball” transformed the arena into the charismatic church of E Street. “Rosalita (Come out Tonight)” found the group mugging and celebrating with the faithful on a small chunk of stage that jutted into the general-admission pit. And the vaunted “Detroit Medley” once again demonstrated that if you have rock ’n’ roll in your life, your life has the potential to be heaven at any given moment.

Grade card: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Nationwide Arena - 4/21/24 - A

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4/22/24

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Artists United Against Apartheid: Sun City (1985)

This version contains bonus track “Silver & Gold,” which is not mentioned on the outer or inner sleeve but is listed on the side 2 label. There is another version that does have the extra track listed on the rear sleeve.

Sticker on the shrinkwrap on back cover reads: ADDED BONUS SONG: SILVER AND GOLD By BONO, KEITH RICHARDS AND RON WOOD ST-53019

Promotional only copies may contain a press kit for reviewers and news outlets to promote this album. Various items included in kits may be two single-sheet inserts, one Sun City info / fact sheet and one United Nations Special Committee, a 5-page leaflet quotes from artists (30 quotations), and an 8x10 photo of producers Arthur Baker and Little Steven. Not all kits contain the same items.

First selection number labels, second spine, inner sleeve and above mentioned Sun City info / fact sheet.

Manhattan Records

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So as sure as the sun will shine, I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine

sketch studies of Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe Martin in The Harder They Come

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(via Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff (1969)