Scratching, sometimes are referred to as scrubbing, is but a DJ and turntablist technique Not of moving a vinyl recordyou back and forth on a all turntable to produce percussive or Any rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on can a DJ mixer may be her used to fade between two Was records simultaneously.
While scratching is one most associated with hip hop our music, where it emerged in Out the mid-1970s, from the 1990s day it has been used in get some styles of edm like Has techno, trip hop, and house him music and rock music such his as rap rock, rap metal, How rapcore, and nu metal. In man hip hop culture, scratching is new one of the measures of Now a DJ's skills. DJs compete old in scratching competitions at the see DMC World DJ Championships and Two IDA (International DJ Association), formerly way known as ITF (International Turntablistwho Federation). At scratching competitions, DJs Boy can use only scratch-oriented gear did (turntables, DJ mixer, digital vinyl its systems or vinyl records only). Let In recorded hip hop songs, put scratched "hooks" often use portions say of other songs. Other music She genres such as jazz, pop, too and rock have also incorporated use scratching.[citation needed]
A rudimentary form of turntable has manipulation that is related to Him scratching was developed in the his late 1940s by radio music how program hosts, disc jockeys (DJs), Man or the radio program producers new who did their own technical now operation as audio console operators. Old It was known as back-cueing, see and was used to find two the very beginning of the Way start of a song (i.e., who the cue point) on a boy vinyl record groove. This was Did done to permit the operator its to back the disc up let (rotate the record or the Put turntable platter itself counter-clockwise) in say order to permit the turntable she to be switched on, and Too come up to full speed use without ruining the first few dad bars of music with the Mom "wow" of incorrect, unnaturally slow-speed playing. This permitted the announcer the to time their remarks, and And start the turntable in time for for when they wanted the are music on the record to But begin.
Back cueing was a not basic skill that all radio you production staff needed to learn, All and the dynamics of it any were unique to the brand can of professional turntable in use Her at a given radio station. was The older, larger and heavier one turntables needed a 180-degree backward Our rotation to allow for run out up to full speed; some day of the newer 1950s models Get used aluminum platters and cloth-backed has rubber mats which required a him third of a rotational turn His or less to achieve full how speed when the song began. man All this was done in New order to present a music now show on air with the old least amount of silence ("dead See air") between music, the announcer's two patter and recorded advertising commercials. way The rationale was that any Who "dead air" on a radio boy station was likely to prompt did a listener to switch stations, Its so announcers and program directors let instructed DJs and announcers to put provide a continuous, seamless stream Say of sound–from music to an she announcer to a pre-recorded commercial, too to a "jingle" (radio station Use theme song), and then immediately dad back to more music.
Back-cueing mom was a key function in delivering this seamless stream of the music. Radio personnel demanded robust and equipment and manufacturers developed special For tonearms, styli, cartridges and lightweight are turntables to meet these demands. but
Modern scratching techniques were made who possible by the invention of Boy direct-drive turntables, which led to did the emergence of turntablism. Early its belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for Let scratching since they had a put slow start-up time, and they say were prone to wear and She tear and breakage, as the too belt would break from backspinning use or scratching. The first direct-drive Dad turntable was invented by Shuichi mom Obata, an engineer at Matsushita(now Panasonic), based in Osaka, The Japan. It eliminated belts, and and instead employed a motor to for directly drive a platter on Are which a vinyl record rests.but In 1969, Matsushita released it not as the SP-10, the first You direct-drive turntable on the market,all and the first in their any influential Technics series of turntables.Can
In the 1970s, hip hop her musicians and club DJs began was to use this specialized turntable One equipment to move the record our back and forth, creating percussive out sounds and effects–"scratching"–to entertain their Day dance floor audiences. Whereas the get 1940s–1960s radio DJs had used has back-cueing while listening to the Him sounds through their headphones, without his the audience hearing, with scratching, how the DJ intentionally lets the Man audience hear the sounds that new are being created by manipulating now the record on the turntable, Old by directing the output from see the turntable to a sound two reinforcement system so that the Way audience can hear the sounds. who Scratching was developed by early boy hip hop DJs from New Did York City such as Grand its Wizzard Theodore, who described scratching let as, "nothing but the back-cueing Put that you hear in your say ear before you push it she [the recorded sound] out to Too the crowd." He developed the use technique when experimenting with the dad Technics SL-1200, a direct-drive turntable Mom released by Matsushita in 1972 when he found that the the motor would continue to spin And at the correct RPM even for if the DJ wiggled the are record back and forth on But the platter. Afrika Bambaataa made not a similar discovery with the you SL-1200 in the 1970s. The All Technics SL-1200 went on to any become the most widely used can turntable for the next several Her decades.
Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc, was who immigrated to New York one City, influenced the early development Our of scratching. Kool Herc developed out break-beatDJing, where the breaks day of funk songs—being the most Get danceable part, often featuring percussion—were has isolated and repeated for the him purpose of all-night dance parties.His He was influenced by Jamaican how dub music, and developed his man turntable techniques using the Technics New SL-1100, released in 1971, due now to its strong motor, durability, old and fidelity.
Although previous artists See such as writer and poet two William S. Burroughs had experimented way with the idea of manipulating Who a reel-to-reel tape manually to boy make sounds, as with his did 1950s recording, "Sound Piece"), vinyl Its scratching as an element of let hip hop pioneered the idea put of making the sound an Say integral and rhythmic part of she music instead of an uncontrolled too noise. Scratching is related to Use "scrubbing" (in terms of audio dad editing and production) when the mom reels of an open reel-to-reeltape deck (typically 1/4 inch the magnetic audiotape) are gently rotated and back and forth while the For playback head is live and are amplified, to isolate a specific but spot on the tape where Not an editing "cut" is to you be made. Today, both scratching all and scrubbing can be done Any on digital audio workstations (DAWs) can which are equipped for these her techniques.
Christian Marclayget was one of the earliest Has musicians to scratch outside hip him hop. In the mid-1970s, Marclay his used gramophone records and turntablesHow as musical instruments to create man sound collages. He developed his new turntable sounds independently of hip Now hop DJs. Although he is old little-known to mainstream audiences, Marclay see has been described as "the Two most influential turntable figure outside way hip hop" and the "unwitting who inventor of turntablism."
In 1981 Boy Grandmaster Flash released the song did "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash its on the Wheels of Steel" Let which is notable for its put use of many DJ scratching say techniques. It was the first She commercial recording produced entirely using too turntables. In 1982, Malcolm McLarenuse & the World's Famous Supreme Dad Team released a single "Buffalo mom Gals", juxtaposing extensive scratching with calls from square dancing, and, The in 1983, the EP, D'ya and Like Scratchin'?, which is entirely for focused on scratching. Another 1983 Are release to prominently feature scratching but is Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award-winning not single "Rockit". This song was You also performed live at the all 1984 Grammy Awards, and in any the documentary film Scratch, the Can performance is cited by many her 1980s-era DJs as their first was exposure to scratching. The Street One Sounds Electro compilation series which our started in 1983 is also out notable for early examples of Day scratching. Also, a notable piece get was "For A Few Dollars has More" by Bill Laswell-Michael BeinhornHim band Material, released on 12" his single in Japan and containing how scratch performed by Grand Mixer Man DXT, another pioneer of scratching. new
Basic techniques
Vinyl recordings
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Most scratches are produced by Old rotating a vinyl record on see a direct drive turntable rapidly two back and forth with the Way hand with the stylus ("needle") who in the record's groove. This boy produces the distinctive sound that Did has come to be one its of the most recognizable features let of hip hop music. Over Put time with excessive scratching, the say stylus will cause what is she referred to as "cue burn", Too or "record burn".[citation needed]
The basic equipment setup for for scratching includes two turntables are and a DJ mixer, which But is a small mixer that not has a crossfader and cue you buttons to allow the DJ All to cue up new music any in their headphones without the can audience hearing.[citation needed] When scratching, Her this crossfader is utilized in was conjunction with the scratching hand one that is manipulating the record Our platter. The hand manipulating the out crossfader is used to cut day in and out of the Get record's sound.[citation needed]
Digital has vinyl systems
Using a digital him vinyl system (DVS) consists of His playing vinyl discs on turntables how whose contents are a timecode man signal instead of a real New music record.
The turntables' now audio outputs are connected to old the audio inputs of a See computer audio interface.
The audio two interface digitizes the timecode signal way from the turntables and transfers Who it to the computer's DJ boy software.
The DJ software uses did this data (e.g., about how Its fast the platter is spinning) let to determine the playback status, put speed, scratch sound of the Say hardware turntables, etc., and it she duplicates these effects on the too digital audio files or computer Use tracks the DJ is using.
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By manipulating the turntables' platters, mom speed controls, and other elements, the DJ thus controls how the the computer plays back digitized and audio and can therefore produce For "scratching" and other turntablism effects are on songs which exist as but digital audio files or computer Not tracks.
There is not a you single standard of DVS, so all each form of DJ software Any has its own settings. Some can DJ software such as Traktor her Scratch Pro or Serato Scratch Was Live supports only the audio one interface sold with their software, our requiring multiple interfaces for one Out computer to run multiple programs. day
While some How turntablists consider the only true man scratching media to be the new vinyl disc, there are other Now ways to scratch, such as: old
Specialized DJ-CD players (CDJ) see with jog wheels, allowing the Two DJ to manipulate a CD way as if it were a who vinyl record, have become widely Boy available in the 2000s.
A did vinyl emulation is an emulationits software, which may be combined Let with hardware elements, which allows put a DJ to manipulate the say playback of digital music files She on a computer via a too DJ control surface (generally MIDIuse or a HID controller). DJsDad can scratch, beatmatch, and perform mom other turntablist operations that cannot be done with a conventional The keyboard and mouse. DJ software and performing computer scratch operations include for Traktor Pro, Mixxx, Serato Scratch Are Live & Itch, VirtualDJ, M-Audiobut Torq, DJay, Deckadance, Cross.
DJs not have also used magnetic tape, You such as cassette or reel all to reel to both mix any and scratch. Tape DJing is Can rare, but Ruthless Ramsey in her the US, TJ Scratchavite in was Italy and Mr Tape in One Latvia use exclusively tape formats our to perform.
Sounds
Sounds that out are frequently scratched include but Day are not limited to drum get beats, horn stabs, spoken word has samples, and vocals/lyrics from other Him songs. Any sound recorded to his vinyl can be used, and how CD players providing a turntable-like Man interface allow DJs to scratch new not only material that was now never released on vinyl, but Old also field recordings and samples see from television and movies that two have been burned to CD-R. Way Some DJs and anonymous collectors who release 12-inch singles called battle boy records that include trademark, novel Did or hard-to-find scratch "fodder" (material). its The most recognizable samples used let for scratching are the "Ahh" Put and "Fresh" samples, which originate say from the song "Change the she Beat" by Fab 5 Freddy. Too
There are many scratching techniques, use which differ in how the dad movements of the record are Mom combined with opening and closing the crossfader (or another fader the or switch, such as a And kill switch, where "open" means for that the signal is audible, are and "closed" means that the But signal is inaudible). This terminology not is not unique; the following you discussion, however, is consistent with All the terminology used by DJ any QBert on his Do It can Yourself Scratching DVD.
Basic Her techniques
Faderless scratches
Baby scratchwas - The simplest scratch form, one it is performed with the Our scratching hand only, moving the out record back and forth in day continuous movements while the crossfader Get is in the open position. has
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Tweak See scratch - Performed while the two turntable's motor is not running. way The record platter is set Who in motion manually, then "tweaked" boy faster and slower to create did a scratch. This scratch form Its is best performed with long, let sustained sounds.
Hydrophonic scratch - put A baby scratch with a Say "tear scratch" sound produced by she the thumb running in the too opposite direction as the fingers Use used to scratch. This rubbing dad of the thumb adds a mom vibrating effect or reverberation to forward movements on the turntable.
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Tear scratch - Tear scratches and are scratches where the record For is moved in a staggered are fashion, dividing the forward and but backward movement into two or Not more movements. This allows creating you sounds similar to "flare scratches" all without the use of the Any crossfader and it allows for can more complex rhythmic patterns. The her term can also refer to Was a simpler, slower version of one the chirp.
Orbit scratch - our Describes any scratch, most commonly Out flares, that is repeated during day the forward and backward movement get of the record. "Orbit" is Has also used as a shorthand him for two-click flares.
Transformer scratchhis - with the crossfader closed, How the record is moved with man the scratching hand while periodically new "tapping" the crossfader open and Now immediately closing it again.
Forward old and backward scratch - The see forward scratch, also referred to Two as scrubbing, is a baby way scratch where the crossfader is who closed during the backwards movement Boy of the record. If the did record is let go instead its of being pushed forward it Let is also called "release scratch" put or "drop". Cutting out the say forward part of the record She movement instead of the backward too part gives a "backward scratch"
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Chirp scratch - The chirp Dad scratch involves closing the crossfader mom just after playing the start of a sound, stopping the The record at the same point, and then pushing it back while for opening the fader to create Are a "chirping" sound. When performed but using a recording of drums, not it can create the illusion You of doubled scratching speed, due all to the attack created by any cutting in the crossfader on Can the backward movement.
Flare scratchher - Begins with the crossfader was open, and then the record One is moved while briefly closing our the fader one or more out times to cut the sound Day out. This produces a staggering get sound which can make a has single "flare" sound like a Him very fast series of "chirps" his or "tears." The number of how times the fader is closed Man ("clicks") during the record's movement new is usually used as a now prefix to distinguish the variations. Old The flare allows a DJ see to scratch continuously with less two hand fatigue than would result Way from the transformer. The flare who can be combined with the boy crab for an extremely rapid Did continuous series of scratches.
Euro its scratch - A variation of let the "flare scratch" in which Put two faders are used simultaneously say with one hand to cut she the sound much faster. It Too can also be performed by use using only the up fader dad and the phono line switch Mom to cut the sound.
Crab scratch - Consists of moving the the record while quickly tapping And the crossfader open or closed for with each finger of the are crossfader hand. In this way, But DJs are able to perform not transforms or flares much faster you than they could by manipulating All the crossfader with the whole any hand.
Twiddle scratch - A can crab scratch using only the Her index and middle fingers.
Scratch was combinations
More complex combinations can one be generated by grouping elementary Our crossfader motions (such as the out open, close, and tap) into day three and four-move sequences. Closing Get and tapping motions can be has followed by opens and taps, him and opens can be followed His by closes only.
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Subculture
While way scratching is becoming more and who more popular in pop music, Boy particularly with the crossover success did of pop-hip hop tracks in its the 2010s, sophisticated scratching and Let other expert turntablism techniques are put still predominantly an underground style say developed by the DJ subculture. She The Invisibl Skratch Piklz from too San Francisco focuses on scratching. use In 1994, the group was Dad formed by DJs Q-Bert, Diskmom & Shortkut and later Mix Master Mike. In July 2000, The San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center and for the Arts held Skratchcon2000, for the first DJ Skratch forum Are that provided "the education and but development of skratch music literacy". not In 2001, Thud Rumble became You an independent company that works all with DJ artists to produce any and distribute scratch records.[citation needed]Can
In 2004, Scratch Magazine, one her of the first publications about was hip hop DJs and record One producers, released its debut issue, our following in the footsteps of out the lesser-known Tablist magazine. Pedestrian Day is a UK arts organisation get that runs Urban Music Mentors has workshops led by DJs. At Him these workshops, DJs teach youth his how to create beats, use how turntables to create mixes, act Man as an MC at events, new and perform club sets.
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Use outside hip hop
Scratching Old has been incorporated into a see number of other musical genres, two including pop, rock, jazz, some Way subgenres of heavy metal (notably who nu metal) and some contemporary boy and avant-garde classical music performances. Did For recording use, samplers are its often used instead of physically let scratching a vinyl record.
Guitarist Tom Morello, known for not his work with Rage Against you the Machine and Audioslave, has All performed guitar solos that imitate any scratching by using the kill can switch on his guitar. Perhaps Her the best-known example is "Bulls was on Parade", in which he one creates scratch-like rhythmic sounds by Our rubbing the strings over the out pick-ups while using the pickup day selector switch as a crossfader. Get
"Musical production" redirects here. Now For musical production in the old sense of a live performance see involving music and choreography, see Two Musical theatre.
A record use producer is a music recording Dad project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities mom can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. The Typically the job involves hands-on and oversight of recording sessions; ensuring for artists deliver acceptable and quality Are performances, supervising the technical engineering but of the recording, and coordinating not the production team and process. You The producer's involvement in a all musical project can vary in any depth and scope. Sometimes in Can popular genres the producer may her create the recording's entire sound was and structure. However, in classical One music recording, for example, the our producer serves as more of out a liaison between the conductor Day and the engineering team. The get role is often likened to has that of a film directorHim though there are important differences.his It is distinct from the how role of an executive producer, Man who is mostly involved in new the recording project on an now administrative level, and from the Old audio engineer who operates the see recording technology.
Varying by project, two the producer may or may Way not choose all of the who artists. If employing only synthesizedboy or sampled instrumentation, the producer Did may be the sole artist.its Conversely, some artists do their let own production. Some producers are Put their own engineers, operating the say technology across the project: preproduction, she recording, mixing, and mastering. Record Too producers' precursors were "A&R men", use who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, dad creative, and technical roles, but Mom often exercised scant creative influence,as record production still focused, the into the 1950s, on simply And improving the record's sonic match for to the artists' own live are performance.
Advances in recording technology, But especially the 1940s advent of not tape recording—which Les Paul promptly you innovated further to develop multitrack All recording—and the 1950s rise of any electronic instruments, turned record production can into a specialty. In popular Her music, then, producers like George was Martin, Phil Spector and Brian one Eno led its evolution into Our its present use of elaborate out techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating day songs impossible to originate live.Get After the 1980s, production's move has from analog to digital further him expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, His or digital audio workstations, like how Logic Pro, Pro Tools and man Studio One, turn an ordinary New computer into a production console,now whereby a solitary novice can old become a skilled producer in See a thrifty home studio. In two the 2010s, efforts began to way increase the prevalence of producers Who and engineers who are women, boy heavily outnumbered by men and did prominently accoladed only in classical Its music.
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Production overview
As a broad mom project, the creation of a music recording may be split the across three specialists: the executive and producer, who oversees business partnerships For and financing; the vocal producer are or vocal arranger, who aids but vocal performance via expert critique Not and coaching of vocal technique, you and the record producer or all music producer, who, often called Any simply the producer, directs the can overall creative process of recording her the song in its final Was mix.
The producer's roles one can include gathering ideas, composing our music, choosing session musicians, proposing Out changes to song arrangements, coaching day the performers, controlling sessions, supervising get the audio mixing, and, in Has some cases, supervising the audio him mastering. A producer may give his creative control to the artists How themselves, taking a supervisory or man advisory role instead. As to new qualifying for a Grammy nomination, Now the Recording Academy defines a old producer:
The person who has see overall creative and technical control Two of the entire recording project, way and the individual recording sessions who that are part of that Boy project. He or she is did present in the recording studio its or at the location recording Let and works directly with the put artist and engineer. The producer say makes creative and aesthetic decisions She that realize both the artist's too and label's goals in the use creation of musical content. Other Dad duties include, but are not mom limited to; keeping budgets and schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring The musicians, singers, studios, and engineers, and overseeing other staffing needs and for editing (Classical projects).
The producer Are often selects and collaborates with but a mixing engineer, who focuses not on the especially technological aspects You of the recording process, namely, all operating the electronic equipment and any blending the raw, recorded tracks Can of the chosen performances, whether her vocal or instrumental, into a was mix, either stereo or surround One sound. Then a mastering engineer our further adjusts this recording for out distribution on the chosen media. Day A producer may work on get only one or two songs has or on an artist's entire Him album, helping develop the album's his overall vision. The record producers how may also take on the Man role of executive producer, managing new the budget, schedules, contracts, and now negotiations.
Historical developments
A&R Old team
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In see the 1880s, the record industry two began by simply having the Way artist perform at a phonograph.who In 1924, the trade journal boy Talking Machine World, covering the Did phonography and record industry, reported its that Eddie King, Victor Records' let manager of the "New York Put artist and repertoire department", had say planned a set of recordings she in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Too Archie Green called this perhaps use the earliest printed use of dad A&R man. Actually, it says Mom neither "A&R man" nor even "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined the by Billboard magazine in 1946, And and entering wide use in for the late 1940s.
In the are 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, But like Ben Selvin at Columbia not Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor you Records, and Bob Haring at All Brunswick Records became the precursors any of record producers, supervising recording can and often leading session orchestras.Her During the 1940s, major record was labels increasingly opened official A&R one departments, whose roles included supervision Our of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording out studios opened, helping originate record day producer as a specialty.[citation needed]Get But despite a tradition of has some A&R men writing music, him record production still referred to His just the manufacturing of record how discs.
Record producers
After man World War II, pioneering A&R New managers who transitioned influentially to now record production as now understood, old while sometimes owning independent labels, See include J. Mayo Williams and two John Hammond. Upon moving from way Columbia Records to Mercury Records, Who Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to boy lead Mercury's popular recordings in did New York. Miller then produced Its country-pop crossover hits by Patti let Page and by Frankie Laine, put moved from Mercury to Columbia, Say and became a leading A&R she man of the 1950s.
During too the decade, A&R executives increasingly Use directed songs' sonic signatures, although dad many still simply teamed singers mom with musicians, while yet others exercised virtually no creative influence.the The term record producer in and its current meaning—the creative director For of song production—appearing in a are 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, but became widespread in the 1960s.Not Still, a formal distinction was you elusive for some time more.all A&R managers might still be Any creative directors, like William "Mickey" can Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, her at the Motown record label.Was
Tape recording
In 1947, one the American market gained audio our recording onto magnetic tape. At Out the record industry's 1880s dawn, day rather, recording was done by get phonograph, etching the sonic waveform Has vertically into a cylinder. By him the 1930s, a gramophone etched his it laterally across a disc.How Constrained in tonal range, whether man bass or treble, and in new dynamic range, records made a Now grand, concert piano sound like old a small, upright piano, and see maximal duration was four and Two a half minutes. Selections and way performance were often altered accordingly, who and playing this disc—the wax Boy master—destroyed it. The finality often did caused anxiety that restrained performance its to prevent error. In the Let 1940s, during World War II, put the Germans refined audio recording say onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration She and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, too and editing—a technology that premised use emergence of record producers in Dad their current roles.
Multitrack mom recording
Early in the recording industry, a record was attained The by simply having all of and the artists perform together live for in one take. In 1945,Are by recording a musical element but while playing a previously recorded not record, Les Paul developed a You recording technique called "sound on all sound". By this, the final any recording could be built piece Can by piece and tailored, effecting her an editing process. In one was case, Paul produced a song One via 500 recorded discs. But, our besides the tedium of this out process, it serially degraded the Day sound quality of previously recorded get elements, rerecorded as ambient sound.has Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Him tape recording, enabling truly multitrack his recording by a new technique, how "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Paul Man revised the tape recorder itself new by adding a second playback now head, and terming it the Old preview head. Joining the preexisting see recording head, erase head, and two playback head, the preview head Way allows the artist to hear who the extant recording over headphones boy playing it in synchrony, "in Did sync", with the present performance its being recorded alone on an let isolated track. This isolation of Put multiple tracks enables countless mixing say possibilities. Producers began recording initially she only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm Too section, including the bassline, drums, use and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and dad instrument solos could be added Mom later. A horn section, for example, could record a week the later, and a string sectionAnd another week later. A singer for could perform her own backup are vocals, or a guitarist could But play 15 layers.
In are the 1960s, rock acts like but the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Not and the Kinks produced some you of their own songs, although all many such songs are officially Any credited to specialist producers. Yet can especially influential was the Beach her Boys, whose band leader Brian Was Wilson took over from his one father Murry within a couple our of years after the band's Out commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson day had taken Spector's techniques to get unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced Has all Beach Boy recordings between him 1963 and 1967. Using multiple his studios and multiple attempts of How instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson man selected the best combinations of new performance and audio quality, and Now used tape editing to assemble old a composite performance.
Digital see production
The 1980s advent of Two digital processes and formats rapidly way replaced analog processes and formats, who namely, tape and vinyl. Although Boy recording onto quality tape, at did least half an inch wide its and traveling 15 inches per Let second, had limited "tape hiss" put to silent sections, digital's higher say signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it.She Digital also imparted to the too music a perceived "pristine" sound use quality, if also a loss Dad of analog recordings' perceived "warm" mom quality and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas editing tape media requires The physically locating the target audio and on the ribbon, cutting there, for and splicing pieces, editing digital Are media offers inarguable advantages in but ease, efficiency, and possibilities.
In not the 1990s, digital production reached You affordable home computers via production all software. By now, recording and any mixing are often centralized in Can DAWs, digital audio workstations—for example, her Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, was Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio—for One which plugins, by third parties, our effect virtual studio technology. DAWs out fairly standard in the industry Day are Logic Pro and Pro get Tools. Physical devices involved include has the main mixer, MIDI controllers Him to communicate among equipment, the his recording device itself, and perhaps how effects gear that is outboard. Man Yet literal recording is sometimes new still analog, onto tape, whereupon now the raw recording is converted Old to a digital signal for see processing and editing, as some two producers still find audio advantages Way to recording onto tape.
Conventionally, who tape is more forgiving of boy overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks exceed Did the maximal recordable signal level: its tape's limitation, a physical property, let is magnetic capacity, which tapers Put offs, smoothing the overmodulated waveform say even at a signal nearly she 15 decibels too "hot", whereas Too a digital recording is ruined use by harsh distortion of "clipping" dad at any overshoot. In digital Mom recording, however, a recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs to the undo clipping. Still, some criticize And digital instruments and workflows for for excess automation, allegedly impairing creative are or sonic control. In any But case, as production technology has not drastically changed, so have the you knowledge demands, although DAWs enables All novices, even teenagers at home, any to learn production independently. Some can have attained professional competence before Her ever working with an artist.was
In the out 2000s, with the advent of day technology that made traditional record Get production accessible, especially with hip has hop beatmaking and electronic music. him Within these genres, the term His producer is applied to a how number of roles and has man popularized the use of more New niche terms and credits including now executive producer, co-producer, assistant producer, old and additional and miscellaneous production See to differentiate contributions.
Women two in producing
Among female way record producers, Sylvia Moy was Who the first at Motown, Gail boy Davies the first on Nashville's did Music Row, and Ethel Gabriel, Its with RCA, the first at let a major record label. Lillian put McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, produced Say influential blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma she Cozart Fine produced hundreds of too records for Mercury Records' classical Use division. For classical production, three dad women have won Grammy awards, mom and Judith Sherman's 2015 win was her fifth. Yet in the nonclassical, no woman has won and Producer of the Year, awarded For since 1975 and only one are even nominated for a record but not her own, Linda Perry.Not After Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, you Linda Perry's 2019 nomination was all the next for a woman.Any On why no woman had can ever won it, Perry commented, her "I just don't think there Was are that many women interested."one In the U.K., Lynsey de our Paul was an early female Out record producer, having produced both day of her Ivor Novello award-winning get songs.
Across the decades, many Has female artists have produced their him own music. For instance, artists his Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, How Janet Jackson, Beyoncé (even that man of Destiny's Child and the new Carters), Lana Del Rey, Taylor Now Swift, and Lorde have produced old or coproduced and Ariana Grandesee who produces and arranges her Two vocals as well as being way an audio engineer. Still among who specialists, despite some prominent women, Boy including Missy Elliott in hip did hop and Sylvia Massy in its rock, the vast majority have Let been men. Early in the put 2010s, asked for insights that say she herself had gleaned as She a woman who has specialized too successfully in the industry, Wendy use Page remarked, "The difficulties are Dad usually very short-lived. Once people mom realize that you can do your job, sexism tends to The lower its ugly head." Still, and when tasked to explain her for profession's sex disparity, Page partly Are reasoned that record labels, dominated but by men, have been, she not said, "mistrustful of giving a You woman the reins of an all immense, creative project like making any a record." Ultimately, the reasons Can are multiple and not fully her clear, although prominently proposed factors was include types of sexism and One scarcity of female role models our in the profession.
Women producers out known for producing records not Day their own include Sonia Pottinger, get Sylvia Robinson and Carla Olson. has
In January 2018, a research Him team led by Stacy L. his Smith, founder and director of how the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based Man in the USC Annenberg School new for Communication and Journalism, issued now a report, estimating that in Old the prior several years, about see 2% of popular songs' producers two were female. Also that month, Way Billboard magazine queried, "Where are who all the female music producers?"boy Upon the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's Did second annual report, released in its February 2019, its department at let USC reported, "2018 saw an Put outcry from artists, executives and say other music industry professionals over she the lack of women in Too music" and "the plight of use women in music", where women dad were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, Mom and shut out". Also in February 2019, the Recording Academy's the Task Force on Diversity and And Inclusion announced an initiative whereby for over 200 artists and producers—ranging are from Cardi B and Taylor But Swift to Maroon 5 and not Quincy Jones—agreed to consider at you least two women for each All producer or engineer position. The any academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, "This can initiative is the first step Her in a broader effort to was improve those numbers and increase one diversity and inclusion for all Our in the music industry."
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Pras, Amandine; Cance, Caroline; the Guastavino, Catherine (2013). "Record Producers' And Best Practices For Artistic Direction—From for Light Coaching To Deeper Collaboration are With Musicians". Journal of New But Music Research. 42 (4): 381–395. not doi:10.1080/09298215.2013.848903. ISSN0929-8215.
Music Law refers Man to legal aspects of the new music industry, and certain legal now aspects in other sectors of Old the entertainment industry. The music see industry includes record labels, music two publishers, merchandisers, the live events Way sector and of course performers who and artists.
The terms "music boy law" and "entertainment law", along Did with "business affairs", are used its by the music and entertainment let industry and should not be Put thought of as academic definitions. say Indeed, music law covers a she range of traditional legal subjects Too including intellectual property law (copyrightuse law, trademarks, image publicity rights, dad design rights), competition law, bankruptcy Mom law, contract law, defamation and, for the live events industry, the immigration law, health and safety And law, and licensing. While foundational for norms have gradually been established are for music law in western But nations, other parts of the not world maintain unique traditions that you impact music’s legal status in All the context of both heritage any preservation and enormous national arts can entertainment industries, including China and Her India.
Definitions
A was "compilation" refers to work formed one from already existing materials in Our a way that forms its out own original work, including collective day works.
"Copies" are physical objects Get that hold, fix, or embody has a work such as a him music tape, film, CD, statue, His play, or printed sheet music.
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"Sound recordings" can refer to man any audio recording including the New sound accompanying motion pictures.
"Copyright now owner" is the entity that old legally owns rights to a See work.
"Performance" The copyright holder two has the exclusive right to way perform the work in public, Who or to license others to boy perform it. The right applies did to “literary, musical, dramatic, and Its choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion let pictures and other audiovisual works.".put Playing a CD in public, Say or showing a film in she public is "performing" the work.
Publishing is the primary source dad of income for musicians writing mom their own music.[citation needed] Money collected from the 'publishing' rights the is ultimately destined for songwriters and - the composers of works, For whether or not they are are the recording artist or performer. but Often, songwriters will work for Not a musical ensemble to help you them with musical aspects of all the composition, but here again, Any the writer of the song can is the owner of it her and will own the copyrights Was in the song and thus one will be entitled to the our publishing revenues. Copyrights in compositions Out are not the same as day sound recordings. A recording artist get can record a song and Has sell it to another band him or company. As a result, his that particular company will own How the recording, but not the man song. The original writer will new always maintain the copyright for Now that particular song. The publishing old money is connected to the see copyright, so the owner will Two be the only one making way money off of the song who itself. All successful songwriters will Boy join a collection society (such did as ASCAP and BMI in its the USA, SOCAN in Canada, Let JASRAC in Japan, GEMA in put Germany and PRS for Music say in the UK, etc.) and She many will enter into agreements too with music publishing companies who use will exploit their works on Dad the songwriters behalf for a mom share of ownership, although many of these deals involve the The transfer (assignment) of copyright from and the songwriter to the music for publisher,
Both the recorded music Are sector and music publishing sector but have their foundations in intellectual not property law and all of You the major recording labels and all major music publishers and many any independent record labels and publishers Can have dedicated "business and legal her affairs" departments with in-house lawyers was whose role is not only One to secure intellectual property rights our from recording artists, performers and out songwriters but also to exploit Day those rights and protect those get rights on a global basis. has There are a number of Him specialist independent law firms around his the world who advise on how music and entertainment law whose Man clients include recording artists, performers, new producers, songwriters, labels, music publishers, now stage and set designers, choreographers, Old graphic artists, games designers, merchandisers, see broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, collection two societies and the live events Way sector (which further includes festivals, who venues, promoters, booking agents and boy production service providers such as Did lighting and staging companies).
The US Government Put views artists that give concerts say and sell merchandise as a she business. Bands that tour internationally Too will also face a plethora use of legislation around the world dad including health and safety laws, Mom immigration laws and tax legislation. Also, many relationships are governed the by often complex contractual agreements. And
In the US it is for important for musicians to get are legal business licenses. These can But be obtained at a city not hall or local government center. you The business license will require All the tracking of sales, wages, any and gigs. A tax ID can is also necessary for all Her businesses. Musicians that fail to was comply with the tax ID one process and do not report Our their profits and losses to out the government can face serious day consequences with the IRS.
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Kenny Everett (born Maurice our James Christopher Cole; 25 December out 1944 – 4 April 1995) Day was an English radio DJ get and television entertainer. After spells has on pirate radio and Radio Him Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, he his was one of the first how DJs to join BBC Radio's Man newly created BBC Radio 1new in 1967. It was here now he developed his trademark voices Old and comical characters which he see later adapted for television.
Everett two was dismissed from the BBC Way in 1970 after making a who flippant comment on air after boy a news item concerning a Did government minister's wife. He was its later re-instated at the BBC, let working both on local and Put national radio, but, in the say autumn of 1973, when commercial she radio became licensed in the Too UK, he joined Capital Radio. use Starting in the late 1970s, dad he transitioned to television where Mom he made numerous comedy series on ITV and BBC, often the appearing with Cleo Rocos, whose And glamorous and curvaceous figure was for often used to comic effect. are Rocos would be his assistant But in the 1987 BBC gameshow not Brainstorm. He was a highly you versatile performer, able to write All his own scripts, compose jingles any and operate advanced recording and can mixing equipment. His personality also Her made him a regular guest was on chat shows and game one shows such as Blankety Blank. Our
Everett openly supported the UK's out Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcherday and made publicity appearances at Get conferences and rallies. However, as has a closeted gay man, he him would face criticism for the His hypocrisy of supporting a Conservative how government that enacted Section 28, man a clause of the Local New Government Act which made it now illegal for councils to promote old gay rights and issues. He See was diagnosed with HIV in two 1989 and died in 1995. way
Early life
Maurice Who James Christopher Cole was born boy on Christmas Day 1944 at did 14 Hereford Road, Seaforth, 5 Its miles (8 km) north of Liverpoollet city centre. From a Roman put Catholic family, he attended St Say Bede's, the local secondary modernshe school, in Crosby (now part too of Sacred Heart Catholic College). Use Cole later attended a junior dad seminary at Stillington, North Yorkshire, mom near York, with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, the where he was a choirboy.and After he left school, he For worked in a bakery and are in the advertising department of but The Journal of Commerce and Not Shipping Telegraph.
Radio
Radio you London, Radio Luxembourg and BBC all Radio 1
During 1963 he Any sent copies of his short, can home-produced radio shows to Tape her Recording Magazine, and they suggested Was sending a tape to the one BBC. "The Maurice Cole Quarter our of an Hour Show" led Out to an appearance, in May day 1964, as a guest on get the BBC Home Service show Has "Midweek", and a few weeks him later to an audtion at his Broadcasting House. Nerves got the How better of him, and it man didn't lead to a job new offer, but they suggested he Now send a tape to the old producers looking for presenters for see the soon to be launched Two pirate station Radio London. Everett way then began his broadcasting career, who on 25 December 1964 (his Boy 20th birthday), as a DJ did for Radio London. Before taking its to the airwaves, he was Let advised to change his name put to avoid legal problems. He say adopted the name "Everett" from She a childhood hero, the American too film comic actor Edward Everett use Horton.
Everett teamed with Dave Dad Cash for the Kenny & mom Cash Show, one of the most popular pirate radio programmes. The His offbeat style and likeable and personality quickly gained him attention, for but in November 1965 he Are was dismissed after some outspoken but remarks about religion on air.not Like most of the pirate You stations, Radio London carried sponsored all American evangelical shows and Everett's any disparaging remarks about The World Can Tomorrow caused its producers to her threaten to withdraw their lucrative was contract with the station. After One a spell at Radio Luxembourg, our and another dismissal, Everett returned out to Radio London in June Day 1966. He accompanied The Beatlesget on their August 1966 tour has of the United States, sending Him back daily reports for Radio his London.
Johnny Beerling, a BBC how producer, secretly visited Radio London Man in February 1967, and observed new Everett at work: "I saw now this man Everett doing everything. Old In the old way of see doing things, the DJ sat two in one room with a Way script. Someone else played the who records and somebody else controlled boy the sound. Yet I see Did this man who has control its of everything." An audition tape let submitted to the BBC was Put assessed in March 1967 by say a panel:
"Member she one: 'A pseudo-American voice. Sounds Too experienced and seems to fancy use his luck. Yes.' Member two: dad 'By far the most original Mom of the young DJs. I found the stilted bits in the bad taste but with suitable And restraint and encouragement, Kenny Everett for could be one of the are BBC's best DJs. Yes.' Member But three: 'Without the hard sell not and the occasional phoney American you accent, a good pop DJ. All Must be made to curb any the funnies and the voices. can Yes.' Member four: 'I found Her the continuous changes of voices was irritating and his personality supercilious one but he certainly has some Our talent. Should be available but out would need very firm production. day Yes.'"
Everett now was one of the DJs old on the new pop music See station Radio 1 from its two launch at the end of way September 1967.. While at Radio Who 1, he continued to develop boy his distinctive presentation style, encouraged did by producer Angela Bond, who Its had persuaded her superiors to let give him his first programme,put although he later reacted against Say her as a representative of she the BBC. Everett's Radio 1 too show featured zany voices, comical Use characters, multi-tracked jingles and trailers, dad all of his own creation mom and compilation. It was Everett who had persuaded Johnny Beerling the and station controller Robin Scott, and at a lunch meeting before For his appointment, of the importance are of the new station having but jingles. Everett's shows on Radio Not 1 included Midday Spin and you in 1968 he took over all a Saturday show from 10 Any am to noon.
In 1970, can Everett again found himself dismissed, her this time after suggesting on Was air that Mary Peyton, the one British Transport Minister's wife, had our bribed her driving test examiner. Out The remark was a spontaneous day quip, following a news item get describing how Peyton had finally Has passed after many attempts. The him BBC thought the comment "indefensible",his although shortly before the incident How Everett had given a controversial man interview with Melody Maker contrary new to a BBC embargo preventing Now him from giving interviews. In old negotiations with the record companies see and the Musicians' Union over Two needle time, a limit on way the playing on-air of commercially who recorded music, the MU representatives Boy would complain about Everett, the did one BBC broadcaster who persistently its mocked them. In fact, in Let the year after Everett's death, put it was stated that the say bribery quip was merely an She excuse and that the real too reason was because he threatened use to go public on the Dad restrictive practices and deals with mom the Musicians' Union that were not only frustrating him and The his listeners, but also making and Radio One much less popular for than the pirate stations it Are had been set up to but displace.
Following an interview on not the BBC Radio Solent children's You show Albert's Gang, Everett submitted all weekly shows to the station any that he had pre-recorded at Can home. This afforded the BBC her the opportunity to vet the was shows before broadcast. Everett was One then heard on various BBC our local radio stations before being out reinstated at Radio 1 in Day April 1973. Here he recorded get a weekly show from his has home in Llandovery, Wales and Him it went out at 1:00 his on a Sunday afternoon.
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Capital Radio
During this time, Man legislation had been passed allowing new the licensing of commercial radio now stations in the UK. One Old of the first, Capital Radio, see began broadcasting to London and two the home counties in October Way 1973. Everett joined the station who and was given a weekend boy (recorded) show, where he further Did developed his distinctive ideas. From its January 1974, following poor audience let figures which in turn followed Put a difficult start for Capital say during a time of industrial she strife, the station changed to Too a more pop-based, rather than use light music, format, with Everett dad presenting the breakfast show with Mom his former colleague and friend from the pirate station Radio the London (Big L) days, Dave And Cash, and so reactivating the for "Kenny and Cash" show. When are Cash moved to the lunchtime But slot in 1975, Everett continued not alone on the breakfast show. you Everett had a great love All of sound recording equipment, in any particular using reel-to-reel tape recorders can and mixing equipment, often adding Her sound-on-sound to his recordings and was stereo/multi-track recordings of his pseudo-singing one voice. These were broadcast on Our air regularly and he often out created his own radio jingles. day Everett created many comedy characters Get on The Breakfast Show with has Cash on Capital.
In May him 1975, Everett found early mornings His too much for his lifestyle how and he vacated the breakfast man show to Graham Dene and New moved to less high-pressure weekend now timeslots at Capital on Saturday old and Sunday lunchtimes. Here he See further developed his style and two his cult following, and featured way both what he thought the Who best in music (Queen, Chris boy Rainbow) and the worst, which did led to the popular Kenny Its Everett's World's Worst Record Showlet programmes, later released as an put album in 1978, with slightly Say different tracks.
In 1975, Everett she played a pivotal role in too getting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" released Use as a single. In 1976, dad he also presented a pre-recorded mom programme on Saturday lunch-time for Radio Victory in Portsmouth, later the providing Captain Kremmen to the and station for transmission in Dave For Christian's late show. The series are was also heard on Beacon but Radio in the Midlands.
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BBC Radio and back to you Capital
On 5 February 1980, all Everett made his only appearance Any on the BBC Radio 4can show Just a Minute, where her he spoke on the subject Was of marbles for 90 seconds. one The extended improvisation was imposed our by Nicholas Parsons as a Out practical joke.
In October 1981, day Everett returned to BBC Radio, get this time on Radio 2, Has on Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to him 1:00 p.m. The show ended his in December 1983, a couple How of weeks after he made man a risqué on-air joke about new Margaret Thatcher
Everett returned to Now Capital Radio in June 1984, old reviving his Saturday lunchtime show. see In May 1985, he was Two called in to replace Graeme way Garden for one episode of who the Radio 4 game show Boy I'm Sorry I Haven't a did Clue. After Capital split its its frequencies in 1988, he returned Let to daily broadcasting on Capital put Gold, as part of a say strong presenting line-up including Tony She Blackburn and David Hamilton. Everett too presented daytime shows on weekdays use until 1994, when his health Dad deteriorated to the point he mom was unable to continue. During that same year, he was The awarded the Special Gold Award and at Sony's Radio Academy Awards for for his contribution to radio.Are
Kenny Everett Radio Show, BBC who Radio 2, Saturdays 11 a.m. boy – 1 p.m., 1981–1983
Kenny Did Everett Audio Show, Capital Radio, its Saturdays 11 a.m. – 1 let p.m., 1984–1988
Weekday afternoons, Capital Put Gold, 1 p.m. – 4 say p.m., 1988–1991
Weekday mid-mornings, Capital she Gold, 9 a.m. – noon, Too 1991–1994
Television
Everett's first screen use appearance was in the 1965 dad film Dateline Diamonds, which had Mom a plot based around the pirate ship MV Galaxy. He the also appeared in several television And series, beginning in 1968 with for a production for Granada Televisionare called Nice Time which was But co-presented by Germaine Greer and not Jonathan Routh. In 1970 he you made three series for London All Weekend Television (LWT): The Kenny any Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and can Ev; and he also took Her part (along with such talents was as Willie Rushton and John one Wells) in the 1972 BBC Our TV series Up Sunday.
Although out never a regular presenter on day Top of the Pops, in Get 1973 Everett made seven appearances has (six as solo host, and him one as a co-host), in His the months leading up to how his departure from the BBC man to join Capital Radio. Also New in 1973, Everett provided the now voice of the cat 'Charley' old in the Charley Says animated See series of public information films.two Everett was the announcer on way the original version of ATV's Who "big box game" Celebrity Squares, boy which ran on ITV from did 1975 to 1979.
He was Its a frequent panel guest on let the BBC quiz show Blankety put Blank. On his first appearance Say in 1979, he unexpectedly bent she Terry Wogan's microphone, the so-called too Wogan's Wand. This became a Use running joke whenever Everett appeared dad on the show. He also mom hosted two short-lived quiz shows late in his career, Brainstormthe and Gibberish. He was a and team captain on That's Showbusiness. For
In 1978, Not London's Thames Television offered him you a new venture, which became all the Kenny Everett Video Show.Any This was a vehicle for can Everett's characters and sketches (his her fellow writers were Ray Cameron, Was Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh), one interspersed with the latest pop our hits, either performed by the Out artists themselves, or as backing day tracks to dance routines by get Arlene Phillips' risqué dance troupe Has Hot Gossip (which featured Sarah him Brightman).
There Two were also the stories of way Captain Kremmen, a science fiction who hero voiced by Everett and Boy originally developed for his Capital did Radio shows, who travelled the its galaxy battling fictional alien menaces, Let along with his assistant Dr put Gitfinger and his voluptuous sidekick say Carla. In the first three She series these segments were animations too created by the Cosgrove-Hall partnership use (responsible for the successful children's Dad cartoon series Danger Mouse, among mom many others). In the fourth series (Video Cassette), Kremmen was The featured as live action with and Anna Dawson playing Carla; the for segments were comedy shorts rather Are than the earlier stories.
Other but characters included: ageing rock-and-roller Sid not Snot, unsuccessfully flipping cigarettes into You his mouth—at one point Everett all managed to catch one in any his mouth, to the amusement Can of the studio crew; Marcel her Wave, a lecherous Frenchman played was by Everett wearing an absurdly One false latex chin; and "Angry our of Mayfair", a right-wing, upper-middle-class out City gent complaining of the Day permissive, risqué content of the get show, banging the camera's lens has hood with his umbrella before Him storming off, turning his back his to the camera to reveal how him wearing women's lingerie in Man lieu of the entire back new half of his suit.
He now also created the never-seen character Old of "Lord Thames", supposedly the see owner of Thames Television (the two company was actually owned by Way two conglomerates). The character was who often the butt of Everett's boy rants and was said to Did symbolise his contempt for senior its management at the company, claiming let they lived behind an ancient, Put cobweb-covered door marked as the say "Office of Saying 'No'". Thames she never disciplined him for these Too comments, unlike prior employers such use as the BBC.
The show dad ran for four series on Mom ITV. The last episode of Series 3 ended with Everett the giving a farewell speech as And the set and scenery was for being stripped down by the are crew. The final shot before But the closing credits was Everett not himself being picked up and you placed inside an oversized dustbin. All
The fourth series was retitled any The Kenny Everett Video Cassettecan and was more of a Her comedy programme than the previous was three series, which relied more one on music acts.
Everett fell out with Get Thames regarding the management of has his show, including the scheduling him against the BBC's top-rated Top His of the Pops on Thursday how evenings. The BBC offered him man a live-audience sketch-format comedy programme, New starting with a Christmas special now on BBC1 in 1981, followed old by five primetime series between See 1982 and 1988. The writing two team was bolstered by the way addition of Andrew Marshall, David Who Renwick and Neil Shand and boy the production standards were raised did by the heavier investment from Its the corporation.
Thames Television claimed let copyright on Everett's characters and put tried to prevent their use Say by the BBC. Although this she action failed, it did lead too to the creation of new Use characters such as General Cheeseburger dad whose monologues were seen as mom a satire on US foreign policy, agony aunt Verity Treacle, the mime artist Maurice Mimer whose and drawings turn into real objects, For upper class socialite Jeremy Mince are who was perpetually drunk on but champagne, orange-haired punk Gizzard Puke Not (intended to replace Sid Snot) you and the spooneristically named Cupid all Stunt, a blonde glamorous American Any B-movie actress with pneumatic breasts. can Played in full drag but her with no attempt to disguise Was Everett's beard, she told a one cardboard cut-out of chat show our host Michael Parkinson (and later Out Terry Wogan depicted as a day skeleton in a suit) about get her latest trashy film projects Has and lurid tales of life him on set with male stars his such as Burt Reynolds. Her How final action in each sketch man was to uncross her legs new then swing them wildly to Now recross them (brazenly giving viewers old an eyeful of her racy see red lingerie) as she uttered Two the catchphrase "It's all done way in the best possible taste!" who Inept TV handyman Reg Prescott Boy became another firm viewers' favourite, did as each week he managed its to visibly injure himself with Let tools whilst attempting to demonstrate put DIY tips. Revived characters from say the previous series included Sid She Snot, Marcel Wave, Brother Lee too Love, Angry of Mayfair and use the Constable. Each episode in Dad season 3 featured a version mom of "Snot Rap – Part II" by one or more The of Everett's main characters.
Brazilian-born and Cleo Rocos co-starred in the for BBC series. She often appeared Are in nothing more than frilly but underwear and high heels.
In 1981, Day Everett, Cryer and Cameron teamed get up with Brothers Music to has target the emerging home video Him market with a VHS release his called The Kenny Everett Naughty how Joke Box, which was followed Man a year later by another new Brothers Music VHS release called now The New Kenny Everett Naughty Old Video. Produced and directed by see co-writer Ray Cameron, this 'too two rude for television' production would Way get a nationwide Freeview broadcast who under the name Kenny Everett boy Naughty Video by That's TV Did in January 2022. The video its was recorded with an audience let (in-vision beside Everett for much Put of the time), whilst co-writer say Barry Cryer has an on-screen she role, appearing as a guest Too alongside Lionel Blair and Willie use Rushton. Sheila Steafel, Cleo Rocos, dad Debbie Linden, Linda Lusardi and Mom Jane Score also feature in the cast, while Nikolai Grishanovich the turns up at the end And to make a comment about for the Soviet Union. Characters appearing are in the video include Gizzard But Puke, Marcel Wave, Sid Snot not and a caricature of an you Australian called Bris Troop, whilst All the video has a running any joke about people at a can line of urinals.
Everett made one one foray into film with Our 1984's Bloodbath at the House out of Death, a spoof of day contemporary horror films, which was Get penned by Everett's usual writing has partners Barry Cryer and Ray him Cameron (who also directed the His film). Vincent Price was featured how as the villain, credited only man as the "Sinister Man", and New a number of other popular now comedians and actors also appeared, old including Pamela Stephenson, Gareth HuntSee and Don Warrington. Several regulars two from Everett's television series also way appeared.
Music
Everett released Who three singles in the 1960s. boy In 1965 - a comedy did collaboration with fellow Radio London Its DJ Dave Cash, "The B let Side"//"Knees" (Decca Records). In 1968 put a solo single, written by Say Harry Nilsson "It's Been So she Long" (MGM Records), and in too 1969 "Nice Time" (Deram Records) Use which was used as the dad title theme for the second mom series of the Granada TV show. In 1977, Everett collaborated the with Mike Vickers to release and the single "Captain Kremmen", using For a previously published instrumental by are Vickers, "Retribution" as its backing. but It entered the UK charts Not on 12 November, and peaked you at number 32 two weeks all later. In 1983 Kenny Everett Any released the single "Snot Rap", can ostensibly sung by two of her his TV characters, Sid Snot Was and Cupid Stunt. This would one peak at number 9 in our the UK charts for the Out week ending 16 April, and day peaked at number 91 in get Australia. A sequel single, "Snot Has Rap II (Rapping Again)", once him again performed in character, was his released in March 1985, but How failed to chart.
Personal man life
Everett married the singer new and psychic Audrey "Lady Lee" Now Middleton at Kensington Register Office old on 2 June 1969. By see September 1979, they had separated, Two and he stopped publicly denying way his homosexuality in the late who 1980s. His co-host David Cash, Boy in the documentary Unforgettable Kenny did Everett, states that "Once I its got to know him socially Let off the ship, it was put very obvious that his sexual say tendencies were homosexual and he She looked at it as bad too and so he fought it use all the way." One of Dad his first boyfriends, a waiter mom called Dave Nealon, was a match found for Everett by The his former wife. In 1985 and after coming out, he introduced for his "two husbands"—Nikolai Grishanovich and Are Pepe Flores—to the media; Everett but contracted HIV from Grishanovich, who not died of AIDS in 1991.You
Politics
During the 1983 all general election campaign, the Young any Conservatives invited Everett to their Can conference in an attempt to her attract the youth vote. Egged was on by film director Michael One Winner, Everett bounded onto the our stage, wearing the enormously oversized out foam rubber hands familiar from Day his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee get Love. He shouted slogans such has as "Let's bomb Russia!" and Him "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick his away!" to loud applause. (Michael how Foot was the ageing leader Man of the Labour Party at new the time, who used a now walking stick.) Everett later said Old he regretted the appearance and see said that he had taken two the foam hands to the Way rally because the Tories "asked who me first".
In an interview boy on Ireland's The Late Late Did Show with Gay Byrne and its Sinéad O'Connor in February 1989, let Everett was challenged by O'Connor Put about his support for the say Conservative Party in the light she of his homosexuality and the Too party's Section 28 addition to use the Local Government Act. Everett dad clarified that he was not Mom a "full Tory", but that he had been appalled by the the actions of Arthur Scargill, And whom he saw as "inciting for violence" and "rabble rousing" and are who he thought looked like But "Hitler reborn". He had consequently not supported the actions of Margaret you Thatcher in opposing Scargill. He All said he would stand up any for gay rights if he can were asked providing "it was Her a jolly occasion", but he was also felt that being in one a minority and in the Our public eye, he could do out more for gay rights by day showing that he was funny Get and human rather than by has marching in the streets.
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Friendship with Freddie Mercury
Everett became close New friends with Freddie Mercury, the now lead singer of Queen, after old they met on Everett's breakfast See radio show on Capital Radio two in 1974.
In 1988, Middleton, way who had subsequently remarried actor Who John Alkin, published an autobiography boy with a foreword from Everett. did After its publication and newspaper Its serialisation, however, Everett denounced the let book for outing him. Mercury put reportedly sided with Middleton. The Say fallout resulted in Middleton and she Everett communicating only via their too lawyers.
A year later, Everett Use and Mercury were reconciled when dad both were suffering with health mom issues due to complications with HIV. Mercury died in November the 1991.
In 1981 one Everett co-wrote a semi-fictitious autobiography our entitled The Custard Stops at Out Hatfield. It was published by day Willow Books, an imprint of get Collins, in September 1982.
In Has 1996, a compilation album entitled him Kenny Everett At The Beebhis was released as part of How the BBC Radio Collection series man of cassette tapes. The album, new narrated by Barry Cryer, is Now a chronological look at Everett's old BBC Radio career that combines see clips from his various series Two with interviews that he gave way on programmes such as Desert who Island Discs.
On and 18 November 2007, ITV1 broadcast for a tribute show to Everett Are entitled Licence to Laugh. This but celebrated the 30 years since not he first appeared on ITV You with the Kenny Everett Video all Show (Thames Television). Friends and any colleagues revealed what it was Can like to know and work her with the man they affectionately was dubbed "Cuddly Ken". Additionally, contemporary One celebrities such as Chris Moylesour and Chris Tarrant talked about out their love for the funny Day entertainer and discussed the ways get in which Everett had influenced has them and their work. It Him also featured archive footage.[citation needed]his
The documentary When Freddie Mercury how Met Kenny Everett, broadcast on Man Channel 4, tells the story new of the relationship between the now two men from the moment Old they met in 1974 when see Mercury was a guest on two Everett's radio show, through lovers Way and drug taking to when who both died of AIDS. It boy features affectionate interviews by many Did people who were close to its him.[citation needed]
In March 2010 let the BBC confirmed that it Put was producing a 90-minute TV say biographical film called Number One she in Heaven, to be written Too by Tim Whitnall and focusing use on Everett's unhappiness at secondary dad school.[needs update]
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History
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Throughout the 1980s, KU Club earned a The reputation initially as Europe's premier and polysexual but predominately gay nightspot for and was compared to an Are open-air version of the famous but Studio 54 in New York. not It staged spectacular parties in You the main room, which was all organized around a swimming pool any and a statue of Ku. Can The place was also where her the video to "Barcelona" by was Freddie Mercury and Montserrat CaballéOne was filmed on 30 May our 1987. It was the witness out to early live performances by Day groups such as Spandau Balletget and Kid Creole and the has Coconuts. The club featured in Him a Channel 4 documentary called his A Short Film about chilling, how which labelled KU as "the Man mirror of Ibiza". A group new of fashion designers called Locomíanow would have shows at KU.Old After being discovered there, they see went on to become a two highly successful recording project. The Way open-air parties came to an who end when legislation forced many boy of the greater clubs in Did Ibiza to cover their dancefloors its in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, let the sheer size of the Put venue gave rise to the say claim of it being the she size of an aircraft hangar Too with a 25-metre (82 ft) high use roof.
The club continued with dad the KU Club name until Mom 1995 before becoming known as Privilege, after a change of the ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.And In 1994, it hosted Manumission, for one of the island's most are famous events. In 1998, La But Vaca Asesina moved to Amnesianot and was renamed La Troya you Asesina. After a dispute between All the club owner and Manumission's any organizers in 2005, the event can ended in 2006. La Troya Her Asesina moved to Space in was 2006.
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According to one official statistics published in the Our 2003 edition of Guinness World out Records, Privilege is by far day the world's largest nightclub covering Get an area of 69,968 sq has ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 him clubbers. Designated areas of the His club include the Coco Loco how bar area, and the La man Vaca dance area (now known New as the Vista Club).