ABBA (1972–1983) was a Swedish pop music group. They remain the most successful Swedish music act and were one of the most popular groups in the world. The group dominated charts worldwide during the mid-to-late 1970s and early 1980s, selling many hit singles and albums. Estimates of ABBA's total worldwide sales vary from 100 to 500 million (there seems to be no reliable source for this information) which could make them the second most successful band of all time after The Beatles. They were the first act from the European mainland ...

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• ABBA - Early years
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• ABBA - After ABBA
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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. In the UK the first major 1980s fashion trend was sparked by the arrival of the New Romantics in the popular music charts in 1980. The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 is also considered to be a major turning point. In America, the decade was most poignan ...

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• 1980s - Music
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• 1980s - Film
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• 1980s - Others
• 1980s - People
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• 1980s - Sports figures
• 1980s - Films
• 1980s - Television
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Zooropa is an album by the Irish alternative rock band U2. Originally slated to be an EP, it was recorded between legs on the Zoo TV Tour and released in May 1993 (see 1993 in music) by Island Records as a full-length album. Zooropa - History. It was very much an "alternative rock" album in the climate of 1993. In North America, grunge was at its peak. While contemporaries R.E.M. latched onto this trend with their distortion-filled Monster, U2 released an album without angst or even a single g ...

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• Zooropa - Singles
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• Zooropa - Personnel

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Zacatecas is a city in Mexico, the capital of the state of Zacatecas. Its population as of 2002 was approximately 115,000. It is built in a deep, narrow ravine, 2450 m (8050 ft) above sea level, with narrow, crooked streets (callejones in Spanish) climbing the steep hillsides, and white, flat-roofed houses. The colonial center is a UNESCO World Heritage site and features elaborately decorated buildings, cobblestoned streets, and wrought-iron lanterns. The more modern outer suburbs are a mix of cinderblock shanties and ga ...

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The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. A part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the sixties, camp came to academic prominence in the eighties with the widespread adoption of the Postmodern views on art and culture. Today, camp falls into two distinct categories: intentional camp and unintentional camp. Inte ...

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• Camp style - Academic appropriation or proliferation of camp
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Youth culture generally refers to the ways young people (adolescents and teenagers) differentiate themselves from the general culture of their community. A youth subculture as such is recent, thought to start around the mid-20th century, that is, after World War II, due to the economic, political, and educational changes. It was typically a feature of Western civilization. Youth culture, may appear rebellious but may centre on conformity to an "in-group" as youth is a time of identity formation. Youth culture - Hi ...

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• Youth culture - USA
• Youth culture - Common Stereotypes
• Youth culture - Trends
• Youth culture - Cultures & Trends
• Youth culture - Youth cultures

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A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece. For example, in DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time. (Not be be confused with a breakdown.) In hip-hop and electronica, a short break is also known as "the drop", and is sometimes accented by cutting off even the percussion. It may be described as wh ...

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Boston is a best-selling American rock band that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. The music of Boston is often cited as having been influential in the music industry's move from hard rock in the 1970s to the "power pop" that would dominate the 1980s. Centered on guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band's works best known works include the singles "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind", "F ...

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Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John (fresh from her role in Grease), Michael Beck and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, UK pop idol Cliff Richard, and the San Francisco-based art-rock band The Tubes. The film's tagline is "A fantasy. A musical. A place where dreams come true." The film was a box-office flop, and was nominated for six Razzies at the first-ever Golden Raspberry Awards (winning one), but the film had en ...

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Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularize rock and roll. Since then, the UK has produced numerous popular performers in far-ranging fields from heavy metal to folk-rock and drum n bass, as well as undergoing a renaissance in the ancient forms of folk music indigenous to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Anguilla - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Gibraltar - Montserrat - Turks and Caicos - Virgin Islands Mu ...

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• Music of the United Kingdom - English folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Irish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Scottish folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Welsh folk music
• Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1950s and 60s: Importation and Exportation
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1970s: Rock splinters Jamaican and Indian music
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1980s
• Music of the United Kingdom - 1990s: Britpop and techno
• Music of the United Kingdom - Samples

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British rock was born out of the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from the United States, but added a new drive and urgency, exporting the music back and widening the audience for black R & B in the U.S. as well as spreading the gospel world wide. Much of what has made rock music unique, in its ability to unite audiences and adapt new influences, came from British bands in the late ...

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• British rock - 1960s rockers and rock groups
• British rock - The British Invasion 1964–1969
• British rock - Blues-rock
• British rock - Psychedelic rock
• British rock - Progressive rock
• British rock - Heavy metal
• British rock - Folk-rock
• British rock - Glam rock
• British rock - Punk rock
• British rock - Alternative rock
• British rock - Twee pop
• British rock - Space rock
• British rock - Shoegazing
• British rock - Dream pop
• British rock - Gothic rock
• British rock - Modern music
• British rock - Britpop

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Robert Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968 in Miami Lakes, Florida), better known as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, known today for the single "Ice Ice Baby" that topped the charts beginning in the early 1990s (see 1990 in music). At that time, he was also one of the very few successful white rappers. Vanilla Ice - Early Career. Before To the Extreme, he made an indie release titled Hooked. It had most of the tracks which were to be later included on To the Extreme plus a cove ...

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• Vanilla Ice - Third Chance
• Vanilla Ice - Legacy
• Vanilla Ice - Discography
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Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. It can be either the whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. Dance music includes a huge variety of music, including traditional dance music such as Irish traditional music, waltzes, rock and roll, country music and tangos. An example of traditional dance music in the United States is the old-time music played at square dances and contra dances. In the Baroque period, the major dance styles were noble court dances, which were often derived from folk dances. Examples incl ...

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"Dancing Queen" is the title of a song, which was one of the biggest hit singles recorded by Swedish group ABBA. Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, recorded in 1975 for the group's album Arrival, and released as a single in 1976, the song contributed to the huge popularity of disco music in the late seventies. Not all critics unanimously praise the song: some have claimed it is an inferior copy of ...

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U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums and vocals. U2 has been one of the most popular rock bands in the world since the 1980s. According to the RIAA, they have sold approximately 50.5 million albums in the U.S., had six #1 albums in the U.S. and are widely considered as one of the most successful groups of the last 25 years. The band is also very politically a ...

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• U2 - History
• U2 - Formation and breakthrough 1976 – 1980
• U2 - Boy and October 1980 – 1981
• U2 - War 1983
• U2 - The Unforgettable Fire and Live Aid 1984 – 1986
• U2 - The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum 1987 – 1989
• U2 - Achtung Baby Zoo TV and Zooropa 1991 – 1994
• U2 - Pop and Popmart 1996 – 1998
• U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind and Elevation 2000 – 2001
• U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Vertigo 2004 –
• U2 - Next album recordings 2006 – 2007
• U2 - Other projects
• U2 - Discography
• U2 - Studio albums
• U2 - Live albums
• U2 - Other projects
• U2 - Campaigning
• U2 - Sound samples

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DJ Hollywood (born December 10, 1954) is an American old school hip hop DJ and rapper. Accordint to Kurtis Blow, Hollywood was the first rapper in the hip-hop style. DJ Hollywood first came to prominence just as disco was becoming popular, and he soon became one of the most in-demand performers of the nascent hip hop culture. Most of his body of musical work was live, not recorded, although he did release a single "Shock Shock The House" in 1980 on CBS Records. Hollywood worked with Grandmaster Flash as well as Donald D, whose record "Don's Groove" ...

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In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. Pop musicians may play covers as a tribute to the original performer or group, to win audiences who like to hear a familiar song, or to increase their chance of success by using a proven hit or to gain credibility by its comparison with the original song. Covering material is an important method in learning various styles of music. Bands may also perform covers for the simple pleasure of playing a familiar song. Cover version - Early cover ver ...

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• Cover version - Introduction of new artists
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• Cover version - Cover bands tribute bands and impersonators
• Cover version - Most covered songs
• Cover version - Covers in particular genres
• Cover version - Punk
• Cover version - Hip-Hop
• Cover version - Swamp pop
• Cover version - Samples

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Violet Beauregarde is a fictional character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She is a chewing gum fanatic, having broken a world record by chewing the same piece and type of gum for three months solid. In the original novel and 1971 film, Violet has a best friend named Cornelia Prinzmetel, whose record she broke. In all three versions of the story, Violet tries an experimental piece of ...

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• Violet Beauregarde - Violet in 1971 film
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• Violet Beauregarde - Violet's downfall
• Violet Beauregarde - Violet Beauregarde Song
• Violet Beauregarde - Plot
• Violet Beauregarde - Times sung
• Violet Beauregarde - Portion of lyrics

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The Whisky A Go-Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8901 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has been called the first real American disco. It was opened January 11, 1964 at the site of an old bank building that had been remodeled into a short-lived club called the Party, by a former Chicago policeman, Elmer Valentine. Valentine's partners were lawyer Theodore F. Flie ...

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Bisexual chic is (an often) brief cultural trend in which it becomes a fad to attest to bisexuality as one's sexual orientation, encompassing bisexual behavior. Bisexuality must be idealized insofar that it is considered "chic" to behave as such. The term was first defined [1] by a cultural trend beginning vaguely in the 1970s with acts such as the androgynous David Bowie, celebrities like Marlon Brando, the glam rock movement, and the disco movement all latching onto to bisexuality for the perceived sexual liberation ...

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