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 has turntable manipulation that is related Him to scratching was developed in his the late 1940s by radio how music program hosts, disc jockeysMan (DJs), or the radio program new producers who did their own now technical operation as audio consoleOld operators. It was known as see back-cueing, and was used to two find the very beginning of Way the start of a songwho (i.e., the cue point) on boy a vinyl record groove. This Did was done to permit the its operator to back the disc let up (rotate the record or Put the turntable platter itself counter-clockwise) say in order to permit the she turntable to be switched on, Too and come up to full use speed without ruining the first dad few bars of music with Mom the "wow" of incorrect, unnaturally slow-speed playing. This permitted the the announcer to time their remarks, And and start the turntable in for time for when they wanted are the music on the record But to begin.
Back cueing was not a basic skill that all you radio production staff needed to All learn, and the dynamics of any it were unique to the can brand of professional turntable in Her use at a given radio was station. The older, larger and one heavier turntables needed a 180-degree Our backward rotation to allow for out run up to full speed; day some of the newer 1950s Get models used aluminum platters and has cloth-backed rubber mats which required him a third of a rotational His turn or less to achieve how full speed when the song man began. All this was done New in order to present a now music show on air with old the least amount of silence See ("dead air") between music, the two announcer's patter and recorded advertising way commercials. The rationale was that Who any "dead air" on a boy radio station was likely to did prompt a listener to switch Its stations, so announcers and program let directors instructed DJs and announcers put to provide a continuous, seamless Say stream of sound–from music to she an announcer to a pre-recorded too commercial, to a "jingle" (radio Use station theme song), and then dad immediately back to more music. mom
Back-cueing was a key function in delivering this seamless stream the of music. Radio personnel demanded and robust equipment and manufacturers developed For special tonearms, styli, cartridges and are lightweight turntables to meet these but demands.
Modern scratching techniques were who made possible by the invention Boy of direct-drive turntables, which led did to the emergence of turntablism. its Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable Let for scratching since they had put a slow start-up time, and say they were prone to wear She and tear and breakage, as too the belt would break from use backspinning or scratching. The first Dad direct-drive turntable was invented by mom Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic), based in The Osaka, Japan. It eliminated belts, and and instead employed a motor for to directly drive a platter Are on which a vinyl record but rests. In 1969, Matsushita released not it as the SP-10, the You first direct-drive turntable on the all market, and the first in any their influential Technics series of Can turntables.
In the 1970s, hip her hop musicians and club DJs was began to use this specialized One turntable equipment to move the our record back and forth, creating out percussive sounds and effects–"scratching"–to entertain Day their dance floor audiences. Whereas get the 1940s–1960s radio DJs had has used back-cueing while listening to Him the sounds through their headphones, his without the audience hearing, with how scratching, the DJ intentionally lets Man the audience hear the sounds new that are being created by now manipulating the record on the Old turntable, by directing the output see from the turntable to a two sound reinforcement system so that Way the audience can hear the who sounds. Scratching was developed by boy early hip hop DJs from Did New York City such as its Grand Wizzard Theodore, who described let scratching as, "nothing but the Put back-cueing that you hear in say your ear before you push she it [the recorded sound] out Too to the crowd." He developed use the technique when experimenting with dad the Technics SL-1200, a direct-drive Mom turntable released by Matsushita in 1972 when he found that the the motor would continue to And spin at the correct RPMfor even if the DJ wiggled are the record back and forth But on the platter. Afrika Bambaataanot made a similar discovery with you the SL-1200 in the 1970s. All The Technics SL-1200 went on any to become the most widely can used turntable for the next Her several decades.
Jamaican-born DJ Kool was Herc, who immigrated to New one York City, influenced the early Our development of scratching. Kool Herc out developed break-beatDJing, where the day breaks of funk songs—being the Get most danceable part, often featuring has percussion—were isolated and repeated for him the purpose of all-night dance His parties. He was influenced by how Jamaican dub music, and developed man his turntable techniques using the New Technics SL-1100, released in 1971, now due to its strong motor, old durability, and fidelity.
Although previous See artists such as writer and two poet William S. Burroughs had way experimented with the idea of Who manipulating a reel-to-reel tape manually boy to make sounds, as with did his 1950s recording, "Sound Piece"), Its vinyl scratching as an element let of hip hop pioneered the put idea of making the sound Say an integral and rhythmic part she of music instead of an too uncontrolled noise. Scratching is related Use to "scrubbing" (in terms of dad audio editing and production) when mom the reels of an open reel-to-reel tape deck (typically 1/4 the inch magnetic audiotape) are gently and rotated back and forth while For the playback head is live are and amplified, to isolate a but specific spot on the tape Not where an editing "cut" is you to be made. Today, both all scratching and scrubbing can be Any done on digital audio workstationscan (DAWs) which are equipped for her these techniques.
Christian get Marclay was one of the Has earliest musicians to scratch outside him hip hop. In the mid-1970s, his Marclay used gramophone records and How turntables as musical instruments to man create sound collages. He developed new his turntable sounds independently of Now hip hop DJs. Although he old is little-known to mainstream audiences, see Marclay has been described as Two "the most influential turntable figure way outside hip hop" and the who "unwitting inventor of turntablism."
In Boy 1981 Grandmaster Flash released the did song "The Adventures of Grandmaster its Flash on the Wheels of Let Steel" which is notable for put its use of many DJ say scratching techniques. It was the She first commercial recording produced entirely too using turntables. In 1982, Malcolm use McLaren & the World's Famous Dad Supreme Team released a single mom "Buffalo Gals", juxtaposing extensive scratching with calls from square dancing, The and, in 1983, the EP, and D'ya Like Scratchin'?, which is for entirely focused on scratching. Another Are 1983 release to prominently feature but scratching is Herbie Hancock's Grammy not Award-winning single "Rockit". This song You was also performed live at all the 1984 Grammy Awards, and any in the documentary film Scratch, Can the performance is cited by her many 1980s-era DJs as their was first exposure to scratching. The One Street Sounds Electro compilation series our which started in 1983 is out also notable for early examples Day of scratching. Also, a notable get piece was "For A Few has Dollars More" by Bill Laswell-Michael Him Beinhorn band Material, released on his 12" single in Japan and how containing scratch performed by Grand Man Mixer DXT, another pioneer of new scratching.
Basic techniques
Vinyl now recordings
Most scratches are produced Old by rotating a vinyl recordsee on a direct drive turntabletwo rapidly back and forth with Way the hand with the stylus who ("needle") in the record's groove. boy This produces the distinctive sound Did that has come to be its one of the most recognizable let features of hip hop music.Put Over time with excessive scratching, say the stylus will cause what she is referred to as "cue Too burn", or "record burn".[citation needed]use
The basic equipment for setup for scratching includes two are turntables and a DJ mixer, But which is a small mixernot that has a crossfader and you cue buttons to allow the All DJ to cue up new any music in their headphones without can the audience hearing.[citation needed] When Her scratching, this crossfader is utilized was in conjunction with the scratching one hand that is manipulating the Our record platter. The hand manipulating out the crossfader is used to day cut in and out of Get the record's sound.[citation needed]
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Digital vinyl systems
Using a him digital vinyl system (DVS) consists His of playing vinyl discs on how turntables whose contents are a man timecode signal instead of a New real music record.
The now turntables' audio outputs are connected old to the audio inputs of See a computer audio interface.
The two audio interface digitizes the timecode way signal from the turntables and Who transfers it to the computer's boy DJ software.
The DJ software did uses this data (e.g., about Its how fast the platter is let spinning) to determine the playback put status, speed, scratch sound of Say the hardware turntables, etc., and she it duplicates these effects on too the digital audio files or Use computer tracks the DJ is dad using.
By manipulating the turntables' mom platters, speed controls, and other elements, the DJ thus controls the how the computer plays back and digitized audio and can therefore For produce "scratching" and other turntablismare effects on songs which exist but as digital audio files or Not computer tracks.
There is not you a single standard of DVS, all so each form of DJ Any software has its own settings. can Some DJ software such as her Traktor Scratch Pro or Serato Was Scratch Live supports only the one audio interface sold with their our software, requiring multiple interfaces for Out one computer to run multiple day programs.
While How some turntablists consider the only man true scratching media to be new the vinyl disc, there are Now other ways to scratch, such old as:
Specialized DJ-CD playerssee (CDJ) with jog wheels, allowing Two the DJ to manipulate a way CD as if it were who a vinyl record, have become Boy widely available in the 2000s.
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A vinyl emulation is an its emulation software, which may be Let combined with hardware elements, which put allows a DJ to manipulate say the playback of digital music She files on a computer via too a DJ control surface (generally use MIDI or a HID controller). Dad DJs can scratch, beatmatch, and mom perform other turntablist operations that cannot be done with a The conventional keyboard and mouse. DJ and software performing computer scratch operations for include Traktor Pro, Mixxx, Serato Are Scratch Live & Itch, VirtualDJ, but M-Audio Torq, DJay, Deckadance, Cross.
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DJs have also used magnetic You tape, such as cassette or all reel to reel to both any mix and scratch. Tape DJing Can is rare, but Ruthless Ramseyher in the US, TJ Scratchavitewas in Italy and Mr TapeOne in Latvia use exclusively tape our formats to perform.
Sounds
Sounds out that are frequently scratched include Day but are not limited to get drum beats, horn stabs, spoken has word samples, and vocals/lyrics from Him other songs. Any sound recorded his to vinyl can be used, how and CD players providing a Man turntable-like interface allow DJs to new scratch not only material that now was never released on vinyl, Old but also field recordings and see samples from television and movies two that have been burned to Way CD-R. Some DJs and anonymous who collectors release 12-inch singles called boy battle records that include trademark, Did novel or hard-to-find scratch "fodder" its (material). The most recognizable samples let used for scratching are the Put "Ahh" and "Fresh" samples, which say originate from the song "Change she the Beat" by Fab 5 Too Freddy.
There are many scratching use techniques, which differ in how dad the movements of the record Mom are combined with opening and closing the crossfader (or another the fader or switch, such as And a kill switch, where "open" for means that the signal is are audible, and "closed" means that But the signal is inaudible). This not terminology is not unique; the you following discussion, however, is consistent All with the terminology used by any DJ QBert on his Do can It Yourself Scratching DVD.
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Basic techniques
Faderless scratches
Baby was scratch - The simplest scratch one form, it is performed with Our the scratching hand only, moving out the record back and forth day in continuous movements while the Get crossfader is in the open has position.
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Tweak scratch - Performed while two the turntable's motor is not way running. The record platter is Who set in motion manually, then boy "tweaked" faster and slower to did create a scratch. This scratch Its form is best performed with let long, sustained sounds.
Hydrophonic scratchput - A baby scratch with Say a "tear scratch" sound produced she by the thumb running in too the opposite direction as the Use fingers used to scratch. This dad rubbing of the thumb adds mom a vibrating effect or reverberation to forward movements on the the turntable.
Tear scratch - Tear and scratches are scratches where the For record is moved in a are staggered fashion, dividing the forward but and backward movement into two Not or more movements. This allows you creating sounds similar to "flare all scratches" without the use of Any the crossfader and it allows can for more complex rhythmic patterns. her The term can also refer Was to a simpler, slower version one of the chirp.
Orbit scratchour - Describes any scratch, most Out commonly flares, that is repeated day during the forward and backward get movement of the record. "Orbit" Has is also used as a him shorthand for two-click flares.
Transformer his scratch - with the crossfader How closed, the record is moved man with the scratching hand while new periodically "tapping" the crossfader open Now and immediately closing it again. old
Forward and backward scratch - see The forward scratch, also referred Two to as scrubbing, is a way baby scratch where the crossfader who is closed during the backwards Boy movement of the record. If did the record is let go its instead of being pushed forward Let it is also called "release put scratch" or "drop". Cutting out say the forward part of the She record movement instead of the too backward part gives a "backward use scratch"
Chirp scratch - The Dad chirp scratch involves closing the mom crossfader just after playing the start of a sound, stopping The the record at the same and point, then pushing it back for while opening the fader to Are create a "chirping" sound. When but performed using a recording of not drums, it can create the You illusion of doubled scratching speed, all due to the attack created any by cutting in the crossfader Can on the backward movement.
Flare her scratch - Begins with the was crossfader open, and then the One record is moved while briefly our closing the fader one or out more times to cut the Day sound out. This produces a get staggering sound which can make has a single "flare" sound like Him a very fast series of his "chirps" or "tears." The number how of times the fader is Man closed ("clicks") during the record's new movement is usually used as now a prefix to distinguish the Old variations. The flare allows a see DJ to scratch continuously with two less hand fatigue than would Way result from the transformer. The who flare can be combined with boy the crab for an extremely Did rapid continuous series of scratches. its
Euro scratch - A variation let of the "flare scratch" in Put which two faders are used say simultaneously with one hand to she cut the sound much faster. Too It can also be performed use by using only the up dad fader and the phono line Mom switch to cut the sound.
Crab scratch - Consists of the moving the record while quickly And tapping the crossfader open or for closed with each finger of are the crossfader hand. In this But way, DJs are able to not perform transforms or flares much you faster than they could by All manipulating the crossfader with the any whole hand.
Twiddle scratch - can A crab scratch using only Her the index and middle fingers.
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More complex combinations one can be generated by grouping Our elementary crossfader motions (such as out the open, close, and tap) day into three and four-move sequences.Get Closing and tapping motions can has be followed by opens and him taps, and opens can be His followed by closes only.
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Subculture
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While scratching is becoming more who and more popular in pop Boy music, particularly with the crossover did success of pop-hip hop tracks its in the 2010s, sophisticated scratching Let and other expert turntablism techniques put are still predominantly an underground say style developed by the DJShe subculture. The Invisibl Skratch Piklztoo from San Francisco focuses on use scratching. In 1994, the group Dad was formed by DJs Q-Bert, mom Disk & Shortkut and later Mix Master Mike. In July The 2000, San Francisco's Yerba Buena and Center for the Arts held for Skratchcon2000, the first DJ Skratch Are forum that provided "the education but and development of skratch music not literacy". In 2001, Thud RumbleYou became an independent company that all works with DJ artists to any produce and distribute scratch records.[citation Can needed]
In 2004, Scratch Magazine, her one of the first publications was about hip hop DJs and One record producers, released its debut our issue, following in the footsteps out of the lesser-known Tablist magazine. Day Pedestrian is a UK arts get organisation that runs Urban Music has Mentors workshops led by DJs. Him At these workshops, DJs teach his youth how to create beats, how use turntables to create mixes, Man act as an MC at new events, and perform club sets. now
Use outside hip hop
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Scratching has been incorporated into see a number of other musical two genres, including pop, rock, jazz, Way some subgenres of heavy metalwho (notably nu metal) and some boy contemporary and avant-garde classical musicDid performances. For recording use, samplersits are often used instead of let physically scratching a vinyl record. Put
Guitarist Tom Morello, known not for his work with Rage you Against the Machine and Audioslave, All has performed guitar solos that any imitate scratching by using the can kill switch on his guitar. Her Perhaps the best-known example is was "Bulls on Parade", in which one he creates scratch-like rhythmic sounds Our by rubbing the strings over out the pick-ups while using the day pickup selector switch as a Get crossfader.
"Musical production" redirects Now here. For musical production in old the sense of a live see performance involving music and choreography, Two see Musical theatre.
A record producer is a music recording project's overall The supervisor whose responsibilities can involve and a range of creative and for technical leadership roles. Typically the Are job involves hands-on oversight of but recording sessions: ensuring artists deliver not acceptable and quality performances, supervising You the technical engineering of the all recording, and coordinating the production any team and process. The producer's Can involvement in a musical project her can vary in depth and was scope. Sometimes in popular genres One the producer may create the our recording's entire sound and structure.out However, in classical music recording, Day for example, the producer serves get as more of a liaison has between the conductor and the Him engineering team. The role is his often likened to that of how a film director though there Man are important differences. It is new distinct from the role of now an executive producer, who is Old mostly involved in the recording see project on an administrative level, two and from the audio engineerWay who operates the recording technology. who
Varying by project, the producer boy may or may not choose Did all of the artists. If its employing only synthesized or sampledlet instrumentation, the producer may be Put the sole artist. Conversely, some say artists do their own production.she Some producers are their own Too engineers, operating the technology across use the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, dad and mastering. Record producers' precursors Mom were "A&R men", who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and the technical roles, but often exercised And scant creative influence, as record for production still focused, into the are 1950s, on simply improving the But record's sonic match to the not artists' own live performance.
Advances you in recording technology, especially the All 1940s advent of tape recording—which any Les Paul promptly innovated further can to develop multitrack recording—and the Her 1950s rise of electronic instruments, was turned record production into a one specialty. In popular music, then, Our producers like George Martin, Phil out Spector and Brian Eno led day its evolution into its present Get use of elaborate techniques and has unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible him to originate live. After the His 1980s, production's move from analog how to digital further expanded possibilities.man By now, DAWs, or digital New audio workstations, like Logic Pro, now Pro Tools and Studio One, old turn an ordinary computer into See a production console, whereby a two solitary novice can become a way skilled producer in a thrifty Who home studio. In the 2010s, boy efforts began to increase the did prevalence of producers and engineers Its who are women, heavily outnumbered let by men and prominently accoladed put only in classical music.
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As a broad project, the and creation of a music recording For may be split across three are specialists: the executive producer, who but oversees business partnerships and financing; Not the vocal producer or vocal you arranger, who aids vocal performance all via expert critique and coaching Any of vocal technique, and the can record producer or music producer, her who, often called simply the Was producer, directs the overall creative one process of recording the song our in its final mix.
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The producer's roles can include day gathering ideas, composing music, choosing get session musicians, proposing changes to Has song arrangements, coaching the performers, him controlling sessions, supervising the audio his mixing, and, in some cases, How supervising the audio mastering. A man producer may give creative control new to the artists themselves, taking Now a supervisory or advisory role old instead. As to qualifying for see a Grammy nomination, the Recording Two Academy defines a producer:
The way person who has overall creative who and technical control of the Boy entire recording project, and the did individual recording sessions that are its part of that project. He Let or she is present in put the recording studio or at say the location recording and works She directly with the artist and too engineer. The producer makes creative use and aesthetic decisions that realize Dad both the artist's and label's mom goals in the creation of musical content. Other duties include, The but are not limited to; and keeping budgets and schedules, adhering for to deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, Are studios, and engineers, overseeing other but staffing needs and editing (Classical not projects).
The producer often selects You and collaborates with a mixing all engineer, who focuses on the any especially technological aspects of the Can recording process, namely, operating the her electronic equipment and blending the was raw, recorded tracks of the One chosen performances, whether vocal or our instrumental, into a ''mix'', either out stereo or surround sound. Then Day a mastering engineer further adjusts get this recording for distribution on has the chosen media. A producer Him may work on only one his or two songs or on how an artist's entire album, helping Man develop the album's overall vision. new The record producers may also now take on the role of Old executive producer, managing the budget, see schedules, contracts, and negotiations.
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Historical developments
A&R team
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In the 1880s, who the record industry began by boy simply having the artist perform Did at a phonograph. In 1924, its the trade journal Talking Machine let World, covering the phonography and Put record industry, reported that Eddie say King, Victor Records' manager of she the "New York artist and Too repertoire department", had planned a use set of recordings in Los dad Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie GreenMom called this perhaps the earliest printed use of A&R man.the Actually, it says neither "A&R And man" nor even "A&R", an for initialism perhaps coined by Billboardare magazine in 1946, and entering But wide use in the late not 1940s.
In the 1920s and you 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben All Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel any Shilkret at Victor Records, and can Bob Haring at Brunswick RecordsHer became the precursors of record was producers, supervising recording and often one leading session orchestras. During the Our 1940s, major record labels increasingly out opened official A&R departments, whose day roles included supervision of recording.Get Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, has helping originate record producer as him a specialty.[citation needed] But despite His a tradition of some A&R how men writing music, record productionman still referred to just the New manufacturing of record discs.
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Record producers
After World War old II, pioneering A&R managers who See transitioned influentially to record production two as now understood, while sometimes way owning independent labels, include J. Who Mayo Williams and John Hammond.boy Upon moving from Columbia Records did to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Its Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's let popular recordings in New York.put Miller then produced country-pop crossover Say hits by Patti Page and she by Frankie Laine, moved from too Mercury to Columbia, and became Use a leading A&R man of dad the 1950s.
During the decade, mom A&R executives increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, although many still the simply teamed singers with musicians, and while yet others exercised virtually For no creative influence. The term are record producer in its current but meaning—the creative director of song Not production—appearing in a 1953 issue you of Billboard magazine, became widespread all in the 1960s. Still, a Any formal distinction was elusive for can some time more. A&R managers her might still be creative directors, Was like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired one by Berry Gordy, at the our Motown record label.
Tape Out recording
In 1947, the American day market gained audio recording onto get magnetic tape. At the record Has industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording him was done by phonograph, etching his the sonic waveform vertically intoHow a cylinder. By the 1930s, man a gramophone etched it laterally new across a disc. Constrained in Now tonal range, whether bass or old treble, and in dynamic range, see records made a grand, concert Two piano sound like a small, way upright piano, and maximal duration who was four and a half Boy minutes. Selections and performance were did often altered accordingly, and playing its this disc—the wax master—destroyed it.Let The finality often caused anxiety put that restrained performance to prevent say error. In the 1940s, during She World War II, the Germans too refined audio recording onto magnetic use tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing Dad immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a mom technology that premised emergence of record producers in their current The roles.
Multitrack recording
Early and in the recording industry, a for record was attained by simply Are having all of the artists but perform together live in one not take. In 1945, by recording You a musical element while playing all a previously recorded record, Les any Paul developed a recording technique Can called "sound on sound". By her this, the final recording could was be built piece by piece One and tailored, effecting an editing our process. In one case, Paul out produced a song via 500 Day recorded discs. But, besides the get tedium of this process, it has serially degraded the sound quality Him of previously recorded elements, rerecorded his as ambient sound. Yet in how 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, Man enabling truly multitrack recording by new a new technique, "overdubbing".
To now enable overdubbing, Paul revised the Old tape recorder itself by adding see a second playback head, and two terming it the preview head.Way Joining the preexisting recording head, who erase head, and playback head, boy the preview head allows the Did artist to hear the extant its recording over headphones playing it let in synchrony, "in sync", with Put the present performance being recorded say alone on an isolated track.she This isolation of multiple tracks Too enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers use began recording initially only the dad "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including Mom the bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos the could be added later. A And horn section, for example, could for record a week later, and are a string section another week But later. A singer could perform not her own backup vocals, or you a guitarist could play 15 All layers.
In the you 1960s, rock acts like the all Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Any the Kinks produced some of can their own songs, although many her such songs are officially credited Was to specialist producers. Yet especially one influential was the Beach Boys, our whose band leader Brian WilsonOut took over from his father day Murry within a couple of get years after the band's commercial Has breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had him taken Spector's techniques to unseen his sophistication. Wilson alone produced all How Beach Boy recordings between 1963 man and 1967. Using multiple studios new and multiple attempts of instrumental Now and vocal tracks, Wilson selected old the best combinations of performance see and audio quality, and used Two tape editing to assemble a way composite performance.
Digital production
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The 1980s advent of digital Boy processes and formats rapidly replaced did analog processes and formats, namely, its tape and vinyl. Although recording Let onto quality tape, at least put half an inch wide and say traveling 15 inches per second, She had limited "tape hiss" to too silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise use ratio, SNR, abolished it. Digital Dad also imparted to the music mom a perceived "pristine" sound quality, if also a loss of The analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality and and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas for editing tape media requires physically Are locating the target audio on but the ribbon, cutting there, and not splicing pieces, editing digital media You offers inarguable advantages in ease, all efficiency, and possibilities.
In the any 1990s, digital production reached affordable Can home computers via production software. her By now, recording and mixing was are often centralized in DAWs, One digital audio workstations—for example, Pro our Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, out Reason, and FL Studio—for which Day plugins, by third parties, effect get virtual studio technology. DAWs fairly has standard in the industry are Him Logic Pro and Pro Tools.his Physical devices involved include the how main mixer, MIDI controllers to Man communicate among equipment, the recording new device itself, and perhaps effects now gear that is outboard. Yet Old literal recording is sometimes still see analog, onto tape, whereupon the two raw recording is converted to Way a digital signal for processing who and editing, as some producers boy still find audio advantages to Did recording onto tape.
Conventionally, tape its is more forgiving of overmodulation, let whereby dynamic peaks exceed the Put maximal recordable signal level: tape's say limitation, a physical property, is she magnetic capacity, which tapers offs, Too smoothing the overmodulated waveform even use at a signal nearly 15 dad decibels too "hot", whereas a Mom digital recording is ruined by harsh distortion of "clipping" at the any overshoot. In digital recording, And however, a recent advancement, 32-bit for float, enables DAWs to undo are clipping. Still, some criticize digital But instruments and workflows for excess not automation, allegedly impairing creative or you sonic control. In any case, All as production technology has drastically any changed, so have the knowledge can demands, although DAWs enables novices, Her even teenagers at home, to was learn production independently. Some have one attained professional competence before ever Our working with an artist.
In the 2000s, has with the advent of technology him that made traditional record production His accessible, especially with hip hop how beatmaking and electronic music. Within man these genres, the term producer New is applied to a number now of roles and has popularized old the use of more niche See terms and credits including executive two producer, co-producer, assistant producer, and way additional and miscellaneous production to Who differentiate contributions.
Women in boy producing
Among female record did producers, Sylvia Moy was the Its first at Motown, Gail Davieslet the first on Nashville's Music put Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with Say RCA, the first at a she major record label. Lillian McMurry, too owning Trumpet Records, produced influential Use blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart dad Fine produced hundreds of records mom for Mercury Records' classical division. For classical production, three women the have won Grammy awards, and and Judith Sherman's 2015 win was For her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, are no woman has won Producer but of the Year, awarded since Not 1975 and only one even you nominated for a record not all her own, Linda Perry. After Any Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda can Perry's 2019 nomination was the her next for a woman. On Was why no woman had ever one won it, Perry commented, "I our just don't think there are Out that many women interested." In day the U.K., Lynsey de Paulget was an early female record Has producer, having produced both of him her Ivor Novello award-winning songs.his
Across the decades, many female How artists have produced their own man music. For instance, artists Kate new Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Now Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, old Taylor Swift, and Lorde have see produced or coproduced and Ariana Two Grande who produces and arranges way her vocals as well as who being an audio engineer. Still Boy among specialists, despite some prominent did women, including Missy Elliott in its hip hop and Sylvia MassyLet in rock, the vast majority put have been men. Early in say the 2010s, asked for insights She that she herself had gleaned too as a woman who has use specialized successfully in the industry, Dad Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties mom are usually very short-lived. Once people realize that you can The do your job, sexism tends and to lower its ugly head."for Still, when tasked to explain Are her profession's sex disparity, Page but partly reasoned that record labels, not dominated by men, have been, You she said, "mistrustful of giving all a woman the reins of any an immense, creative project like Can making a record." Ultimately, the her reasons are multiple and not was fully clear, although prominently proposed One factors include types of sexism our and scarcity of female role out models in the profession.
Women Day producers known for producing records get not their own include Sonia has Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla Him Olson.
In January 2018, a his research team led by Stacy how L. Smith, founder and director Man of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,new based in the USC Annenberg now School for Communication and Journalism,Old issued a report, estimating that see in the prior several years, two about 2% of popular songs' Way producers were female. Also that who month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where boy are all the female music Did producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion its Initiative's second annual report, released let in February 2019, its department Put at USC reported, "2018 saw say an outcry from artists, executives she and other music industry professionals Too over the lack of women use in music" and "the plight dad of women in music", where Mom women were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut out". Also the in February 2019, the Recording And Academy's Task Force on Diversity for and Inclusion announced an initiative are whereby over 200 artists and But producers—ranging from Cardi B and not Taylor Swift to Maroon 5you and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider All at least two women for any each producer or engineer position.can The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, Her "This initiative is the first was step in a broader effort one to improve those numbers and Our increase diversity and inclusion for out all in the music industry."day
^ Allan Watson, Cultural Use Production in and Beyond the dad Recording Studio (New York: Routledge, mom 2015), pp 25–27.
James Petulla, "Who is a the music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, and 21 May 2013, reporting membership For in CAPPS, the California Association are of Private Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent our Hurtig with J. D. Sharp, Out Multi-Track Recording for Musicians: The day Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners get and Reference for Professionals (Cupertino, Has CA: GPI Publications, 1988 / him Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, his 1988), pp 8–10.
^ our Brian Ward & Patrick out Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects of Day American Roots Music on Recordget (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, has 2018), pp 20–21.
Him Brian Ward & Patrick Huber, his A&R Pioneers: Architects of American how Roots Music on Record (Nashville, Man TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), new p 283.
^ Richard who James Burgess, The History of boy Music Production (New York: Oxford Did University Press, 2014), pp 50–54.its
^ Robert Philip, let "Pianists on record in the Put early twentieth century", in David say Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Companion she to the Piano (Cambridge, UK: Too Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp use 75–77.
^ David dad Simmons, Analog Recording: Using Analog Mom Gear in Today's Home Studio(San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006), the pp 26–27.
Matthew And Allard, "Sound Devices MixPre V6.00 for adds 32-bit float USB audio are streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, 15 Jan But 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, director not of product management and design you at the recorder manufacturer Sound All Devices, who explains, "With 32-bit any float, you no longer need can to worry about clipping during Her your best vocal takes or was instrument solos. Any recorded moments one exceeding 0 dBFS can be Our reduced to an acceptable level, out after recording, in your DAW".day
Albin Zak III, Get book review: Strange Sounds: Music, has Technology, and culture (Routledge, 2011), him by Timothy D. Taylor, in His Current Musicology, pp 159–180 [unknown how year, volume, issue].
Music Lawwas refers to legal aspects of one the music industry, and certain Our legal aspects in other sectors out of the entertainment industry. The day music industry includes record labels, Get music publishers, merchandisers, the live has events sector and of course him performers and artists.
The terms His "music law" and "entertainment law", how along with "business affairs", are man used by the music and New entertainment industry and should not now be thought of as academic old definitions. Indeed, music law covers See a range of traditional legal two subjects including intellectual property law way (copyright law, trademarks, image publicity Who rights, design rights), competition law, boy bankruptcy law, contract law, defamationdid and, for the live events Its industry, immigration law, health and let safety law, and licensing. While put foundational norms have gradually been Say established for music law in she western nations, other parts of too the world maintain unique traditions Use that impact music’s legal status dad in the context of both mom heritage preservation and enormous national arts entertainment industries, including Chinathe and India.
Definitions
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A "compilation" refers to work For formed from already existing materials are in a way that forms but its own original work, including Not collective works.
"Copies" are physical you objects that hold, fix, or all embody a work such as Any a music tape, film, CD, can statue, play, or printed sheet her music.
"Sound recordings" can refer Was to any audio recording including one the sound accompanying motion pictures.
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"Copyright owner" is the entity Out that legally owns rights to day a work.
"Performance" The copyright get holder has the exclusive right Has to perform the work in him public, or to license others his to perform it. The right How applies to “literary, musical, dramatic, man and choreographic works, pantomimes, and new motion pictures and other audiovisual Now works.". Playing a CD in old public, or showing a film see in public is "performing" the Two work.
Publishing is the primary who source of income for musicians Boy writing their own music.[citation needed]did Money collected from the 'publishing' its rights is ultimately destined for Let songwriters - the composers of put works, whether or not they say are the recording artist or She performer. Often, songwriters will work too for a musical ensemble to use help them with musical aspects Dad of the composition, but here mom again, the writer of the song is the owner of The it and will own the and copyrights in the song and for thus will be entitled to Are the publishing revenues. Copyrights in but compositions are not the same not as sound recordings. A recording You artist can record a song all and sell it to another any band or company. As a Can result, that particular company will her own the recording, but not was the song. The original writer One will always maintain the copyright our for that particular song. The out publishing money is connected to Day the copyright, so the owner get will be the only one has making money off of the Him song itself. All successful songwriters his will join a collection society how (such as ASCAP and BMI Man in the USA, SOCAN in new Canada, JASRAC in Japan, GEMA now in Germany and PRS for Old Music in the UK, etc.) see and many will enter into two agreements with music publishing companies Way who will exploit their works who on the songwriters behalf for boy a share of ownership, although Did many of these deals involve its the transfer (assignment) of copyright let from the songwriter to the Put music publisher,
Both the recorded say music sector and music publishing she sector have their foundations in Too intellectual property law and all use of the major recording labels dad and major music publishers and Mom many independent record labels and publishers have dedicated "business and the legal affairs" departments with in-house And lawyers whose role is not for only to secure intellectual property are rights from recording artists, performers But and songwriters but also to not exploit those rights and protect you those rights on a global All basis. There are a number any of specialist independent law firms can around the world who advise Her on music and entertainment law was whose clients include recording artists, one performers, producers, songwriters, labels, music Our publishers, stage and set designers, out choreographers, graphic artists, games designers, day merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, Get collection societies and the live has events sector (which further includes him festivals, venues, promoters, booking agents His and production service providers such how as lighting and staging companies). man
The US now Government views artists that give old concerts and sell merchandise as See a business. Bands that tour two internationally will also face a way plethora of legislation around the Who world including health and safety boy laws, immigration laws and tax did legislation. Also, many relationships are Its governed by often complex contractual let agreements.
In the US it put is important for musicians to Say get legal business licenses. These she can be obtained at a too city hall or local government Use center. The business license will dad require the tracking of sales, mom wages, and gigs. A tax ID is also necessary for the all businesses. Musicians that fail and to comply with the tax For ID process and do not are report their profits and losses but to the government can face Not serious consequences with the IRS. you
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Kenny Everett (born for Maurice James Christopher Cole; 25 are December 1944 – 4 April But 1995) was an English radio not DJ and television entertainer. After you spells on pirate radio and All Radio Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, any he was one of the can first DJs to join BBC Her Radio's newly created BBC Radio was 1 in 1967. It was one here he developed his trademark Our voices and comical characters which out he later adapted for television. day
Everett was dismissed from the Get BBC in 1970 after making has a flippant comment on air him after a news item concerning His a government minister's wife. He how was later re-instated at the man BBC, working both on local New and national radio, but, in now the autumn of 1973, when old commercial radio became licensed in See the UK, he joined Capital two Radio. Starting in the late way 1970s, he transitioned to television Who where he made numerous comedy boy series on ITV and BBC, did often appearing with Cleo Rocos, Its whose glamorous and curvaceous figure let was often used to comic put effect. Rocos would be his Say assistant in the 1987 BBC she gameshow Brainstorm. He was a too highly versatile performer, able to Use write his own scripts, compose dad jingles and operate advanced recording mom and mixing equipment. His personality also made him a regular the guest on chat shows and and game shows such as Blankety For Blank.
Everett openly supported the are UK's Conservative Party under Margaret but Thatcher and made publicity appearances Not at conferences and rallies. However, you as a closeted gay man, all he would face criticism for Any the hypocrisy of supporting a can Conservative government that enacted Section her 28, a clause of the Was Local Government Act which made one it illegal for councils to our promote gay rights and issues. Out He was diagnosed with HIVday in 1989 and died in get 1995.
Early life
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Maurice James Christopher Cole was him born on Christmas Day 1944 his at 14 Hereford Road, Seaforth,How 5 miles (8 km) north of man Liverpool city centre. From a new Roman Catholic family, he attended Now St Bede's, the local secondary old modern school, in Crosby (now see part of Sacred Heart Catholic Two College). Cole later attended a way junior seminary at Stillington, North who Yorkshire, near York, with an Boy Italian missionary order, the Verona did Fathers, where he was a its choirboy. After he left school, Let he worked in a bakery put and in the advertising department say of The Journal of Commerce She and Shipping Telegraph.
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During 1963 Dad he sent copies of his mom short, home-produced radio shows to Tape Recording Magazine, and they The suggested sending a tape to and the BBC. "The Maurice Cole for Quarter of an Hour Show" Are led to an appearance, in but May 1964, as a guest not on the BBC Home Service You show "Midweek", and a few all weeks later to an audtion any at Broadcasting House. Nerves got Can the better of him, and her it didn't lead to a was job offer, but they suggested One he send a tape to our the producers looking for presenters out for the soon to be Day launched pirate station Radio London.get Everett then began his broadcasting has career, on 25 December 1964 Him (his 20th birthday), as a his DJ for Radio London. Before how taking to the airwaves, he Man was advised to change his new name to avoid legal problems. now He adopted the name "Everett" Old from a childhood hero, the see American film comic actor Edward two Everett Horton.
Everett teamed with Way Dave Cash for the Kenny who & Cash Show, one of boy the most popular pirate radio Did programmes. His offbeat style and its likeable personality quickly gained him let attention, but in November 1965 Put he was dismissed after some say outspoken remarks about religion on she air. Like most of the Too pirate stations, Radio London carried use sponsored American evangelical shows and dad Everett's disparaging remarks about The Mom World Tomorrow caused its producers to threaten to withdraw their the lucrative contract with the station. And After a spell at Radio for Luxembourg, and another dismissal, Everett are returned to Radio London in But June 1966. He accompanied The not Beatles on their August 1966 you tour of the United States, All sending back daily reports for any Radio London.
Johnny Beerling, a can BBC producer, secretly visited Radio Her London in February 1967, and was observed Everett at work: "I one saw this man Everett doing Our everything. In the old way out of doing things, the DJ day sat in one room with Get a script. Someone else played has the records and somebody else him controlled the sound. Yet I His see this man who has how control of everything." An audition man tape submitted to the BBC New was assessed in March 1967 now by a panel:
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"Member one: 'A pseudo-American voice. See Sounds experienced and seems to two fancy his luck. Yes.' Member way two: 'By far the most Who original of the young DJs. boy I found the stilted bits did in bad taste but with Its suitable restraint and encouragement, Kenny let Everett could be one of put the BBC's best DJs. Yes.' Say Member three: 'Without the hard she sell and the occasional phoney too American accent, a good pop Use DJ. Must be made to dad curb the funnies and the mom voices. Yes.' Member four: 'I found the continuous changes of the voices irritating and his personality and supercilious but he certainly has For some talent. Should be available are but would need very firm but production. Yes.'"
Everett was one of the our DJs on the new pop Out music station Radio 1 from day its launch at the end get of September 1967.. While at Has Radio 1, he continued to him develop his distinctive presentation style, his encouraged by producer Angela Bond, How who had persuaded her superiors man to give him his first new programme, although he later reacted Now against her as a representative old of the BBC. Everett's Radio see 1 show featured zany voices, Two comical characters, multi-tracked jingles and way trailers, all of his own who creation and compilation. It was Boy Everett who had persuaded Johnny did Beerling and station controller Robin its Scott, at a lunch meeting Let before his appointment, of the put importance of the new station say having jingles. Everett's shows on She Radio 1 included Midday Spintoo and in 1968 he took use over a Saturday show from Dad 10 am to noon.
In mom 1970, Everett again found himself dismissed, this time after suggesting The on air that Mary Peyton, and the British Transport Minister's wife, for had bribed her driving test Are examiner. The remark was a but spontaneous quip, following a news not item describing how Peyton had You finally passed after many attempts. all The BBC thought the comment any "indefensible", although shortly before the Can incident Everett had given a her controversial interview with Melody Makerwas contrary to a BBC embargoOne preventing him from giving interviews. our In negotiations with the record out companies and the Musicians' UnionDay over needle time, a limit get on the playing on-air of has commercially recorded music, the MU Him representatives would complain about Everett, his the one BBC broadcaster who how persistently mocked them. In fact, Man in the year after Everett's new death, it was stated that now the bribery quip was merely Old an excuse and that the see real reason was because he two threatened to go public on Way the restrictive practices and deals who with the Musicians' Union that boy were not only frustrating him Did and his listeners, but also its making Radio One much less let popular than the pirate stations Put it had been set up say to displace.
Following an interview she on the BBC Radio SolentToo children's show Albert's Gang, Everett use submitted weekly shows to the dad station that he had pre-recorded Mom at home. This afforded the BBC the opportunity to vet the the shows before broadcast. Everett And was then heard on various for BBC local radio stations before are being reinstated at Radio 1 But in April 1973. Here he not recorded a weekly show from you his home in Llandovery, WalesAll and it went out at any 1:00 on a Sunday afternoon. can
Capital Radio
During this Her time, legislation had been passed was allowing the licensing of commercial one radio stations in the UK. Our One of the first, Capital out Radio, began broadcasting to London day and the home counties in Get October 1973. Everett joined the has station and was given a him weekend (recorded) show, where he His further developed his distinctive ideas. how From January 1974, following poor man audience figures which in turn New followed a difficult start for now Capital during a time of old industrial strife, the station changed See to a more pop-based, rather two than light music, format, with way Everett presenting the breakfast show Who with his former colleague and boy friend from the pirate station did Radio London (Big L) days, Its Dave Cash, and so reactivating let the "Kenny and Cash" show. put When Cash moved to the Say lunchtime slot in 1975, Everett she continued alone on the breakfast too show. Everett had a great Use love of sound recording equipment, dad in particular using reel-to-reel tapemom recorders and mixing equipment, often adding sound-on-sound to his recordings the and stereo/multi-track recordings of his and pseudo-singing voice. These were broadcast For on air regularly and he are often created his own radio but jingles. Everett created many comedy Not characters on The Breakfast Showyou with Cash on Capital.
In all May 1975, Everett found early Any mornings too much for his can lifestyle and he vacated the her breakfast show to Graham DeneWas and moved to less high-pressure one weekend timeslots at Capital on our Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes. Here Out he further developed his style day and his cult following, and get featured both what he thought Has the best in music (Queen, him Chris Rainbow) and the worst, his which led to the popular How Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record man Show programmes, later released as new an album in 1978, with Now slightly different tracks.
In 1975, old Everett played a pivotal role see in getting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" Two released as a single. In way 1976, he also presented a who pre-recorded programme on Saturday lunch-time Boy for Radio Victory in Portsmouth, did later providing Captain Kremmen to its the station for transmission in Let Dave Christian's late show. The put series was also heard on say Beacon Radio in the Midlands. She
BBC Radio and back too to Capital
On 5 February use 1980, Everett made his only Dad appearance on the BBC Radio mom 4 show Just a Minute, where he spoke on the The subject of marbles for 90 and seconds. The extended improvisation was for imposed by Nicholas Parsons as Are a practical joke.
In October but 1981, Everett returned to BBC not Radio, this time on Radio You 2, on Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. all to 1:00 p.m. The show any ended in December 1983, a Can couple of weeks after he her made a risqué on-air joke was about Margaret Thatcher
Everett returned One to Capital Radio in June our 1984, reviving his Saturday lunchtime out show. In May 1985, he Day was called in to replace get Graeme Garden for one episode has of the Radio 4 game Him show I'm Sorry I Haven't his a Clue. After Capital split how its frequencies in 1988, he Man returned to daily broadcasting on new Capital Gold, as part of now a strong presenting line-up including Old Tony Blackburn and David Hamilton. see Everett presented daytime shows on two weekdays until 1994, when his Way health deteriorated to the point who he was unable to continue. boy During that same year, he Did was awarded the Special Gold its Award at Sony's Radio Academy let Awards for his contribution to Put radio.
Kenny Everett day Radio Show, BBC Radio 2, Get Saturdays 11 a.m. – 1 has p.m., 1981–1983
Kenny Everett Audio him Show, Capital Radio, Saturdays 11 His a.m. – 1 p.m., 1984–1988
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Everett's first screen appearance was See in the 1965 film Dateline two Diamonds, which had a plot way based around the pirate ship Who MV Galaxy. He also appeared boy in several television series, beginning did in 1968 with a production Its for Granada Television called Nice let Time which was co-presented by put Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh. Say In 1970 he made three she series for London Weekend Televisiontoo (LWT): The Kenny Everett Explosion, Use Making Whoopee and Ev; and dad he also took part (along mom with such talents as Willie Rushton and John Wells) in the the 1972 BBC TV series and Up Sunday.
Although never a For regular presenter on Top of are the Pops, in 1973 Everett but made seven appearances (six as Not solo host, and one as you a co-host), in the months all leading up to his departure Any from the BBC to join can Capital Radio. Also in 1973, her Everett provided the voice of Was the cat 'Charley' in the one Charley Says animated series of our public information films. Everett was Out the announcer on the original day version of ATV's "big box get game" Celebrity Squares, which ran Has on ITV from 1975 to him 1979.
He was a frequent his panel guest on the BBC How quiz show Blankety Blank. On man his first appearance in 1979, new he unexpectedly bent Terry Wogan's Now microphone, the so-called Wogan's Wand.old This became a running joke see whenever Everett appeared on the Two show. He also hosted two way short-lived quiz shows late in who his career, Brainstorm and Gibberish.Boy He was a team captain did on That's Showbusiness.
In 1978, London's Thames say Television offered him a new She venture, which became the Kenny too Everett Video Show. This was use a vehicle for Everett's characters Dad and sketches (his fellow writers mom were Ray Cameron, Barry Cryerand Dick Vosburgh), interspersed with The the latest pop hits, either and performed by the artists themselves, for or as backing tracks to Are dance routines by Arlene Phillips' but risqué dance troupe Hot Gossipnot (which featured Sarah Brightman).
There were also out the stories of Captain Kremmen, Day a science fiction hero voiced get by Everett and originally developed has for his Capital Radio shows, Him who travelled the galaxy battling his fictional alien menaces, along with how his assistant Dr Gitfinger and Man his voluptuous sidekick Carla. In new the first three series these now segments were animations created by Old the Cosgrove-Hall partnership (responsible for see the successful children's cartoon series two Danger Mouse, among many others). Way In the fourth series (Video who Cassette), Kremmen was featured as boy live action with Anna DawsonDid playing Carla; the segments were its comedy shorts rather than the let earlier stories.
Other characters included: Put ageing rock-and-roller Sid Snot, unsuccessfully say flipping cigarettes into his mouth—at she one point Everett managed to Too catch one in his mouth, use to the amusement of the dad studio crew; Marcel Wave, a Mom lecherous Frenchman played by Everett wearing an absurdly false latex the chin; and "Angry of Mayfair", And a right-wing, upper-middle-class City gent for complaining of the permissive, risqué are content of the show, banging But the camera's lens hood with not his umbrella before storming off, you turning his back to the All camera to reveal him wearing any women's lingerie in lieu of can the entire back half of Her his suit.
He also created was the never-seen character of "Lord one Thames", supposedly the owner of Our Thames Television (the company was out actually owned by two conglomerates). day The character was often the Get butt of Everett's rants and has was said to symbolise his him contempt for senior management at His the company, claiming they lived how behind an ancient, cobweb-covered door man marked as the "Office of New Saying 'No'". Thames never disciplined now him for these comments, unlike old prior employers such as the See BBC.
The show ran for two four series on ITV. The way last episode of Series 3 Who ended with Everett giving a boy farewell speech as the set did and scenery was being stripped Its down by the crew. The let final shot before the closing put credits was Everett himself being Say picked up and placed inside she an oversized dustbin.
The fourth too series was retitled The Kenny Use Everett Video Cassette and was dad more of a comedy programme mom than the previous three series, which relied more on music the acts.
Everett are fell out with Thames regarding but the management of his show, Not including the scheduling against the you BBC's top-rated Top of the all Pops on Thursday evenings. The Any BBC offered him a live-audience can sketch-format comedy programme, starting with her a Christmas special on BBC1Was in 1981, followed by five one primetime series between 1982 and our 1988. The writing team was Out bolstered by the addition of day Andrew Marshall, David Renwick and get Neil Shand and the production Has standards were raised by the him heavier investment from the corporation. his
Thames Television claimed copyright on How Everett's characters and tried to man prevent their use by the new BBC. Although this action failed, Now it did lead to the old creation of new characters such see as General Cheeseburger whose monologues Two were seen as a satire way on US foreign policy, agony who aunt Verity Treacle, mime artist Boy Maurice Mimer whose drawings turn did into real objects, upper class its socialite Jeremy Mince who was Let perpetually drunk on champagne, orange-haired put punk Gizzard Puke (intended to say replace Sid Snot) and the She spooneristically named Cupid Stunt, a too blonde glamorous American B-movie actress use with pneumatic breasts. Played in Dad full drag but with no mom attempt to disguise Everett's beard, she told a cardboard cut-out The of chat show host Michael and Parkinson (and later Terry Woganfor depicted as a skeleton in Are a suit) about her latest but trashy film projects and lurid not tales of life on set You with male stars such as all Burt Reynolds. Her final action any in each sketch was to Can uncross her legs then swing her them wildly to recross them was (brazenly giving viewers an eyeful One of her racy red lingerie) our as she uttered the catchphrase out "It's all done in the Day best possible taste!" Inept TV get handyman Reg Prescott became another has firm viewers' favourite, as each Him week he managed to visibly his injure himself with tools whilst how attempting to demonstrate DIY tips. Man Revived characters from the previous new series included Sid Snot, Marcel now Wave, Brother Lee Love, Angry Old of Mayfair and the Constable. see Each episode in season 3 two featured a version of "Snot Way Rap – Part II" by who one or more of Everett's boy main characters.
Brazilian-born Cleo RocosDid co-starred in the BBC series. its She often appeared in nothing let more than frilly underwear and Put high heels.
In 1981, Everett, Cryer are and Cameron teamed up with But Brothers Music to target the not emerging home video market with you a VHS release called The All Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box, any which was followed a year can later by another Brothers Music Her VHS release called The New was Kenny Everett Naughty Video. Produced one and directed by co-writer Ray Our Cameron, this 'too rude for out television' production would get a day nationwide Freeview broadcast under the Get name Kenny Everett Naughty Videohas by That's TV in January him 2022. The video was recorded His with an audience (in-vision beside how Everett for much of the man time), whilst co-writer Barry Cryer New has an on-screen role, appearing now as a guest alongside Lionel old Blair and Willie Rushton. Sheila See Steafel, Cleo Rocos, Debbie Linden, two Linda Lusardi and Jane Score way also feature in the cast, Who while Nikolai Grishanovich turns up boy at the end to make did a comment about the Soviet Its Union. Characters appearing in the let video include Gizzard Puke, Marcel put Wave, Sid Snot and a Say caricature of an Australian called she Bris Troop, whilst the video too has a running joke about Use people at a line of dad urinals.
Everett made one foray the into film with 1984's Bloodbath and at the House of Death, For a spoof of contemporary horror are films, which was penned by but Everett's usual writing partners Barry Not Cryer and Ray Cameron (who you also directed the film). Vincent all Price was featured as the Any villain, credited only as the can "Sinister Man", and a number her of other popular comedians and Was actors also appeared, including Pamela one Stephenson, Gareth Hunt and Don our Warrington. Several regulars from Everett's Out television series also appeared.
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Music
Everett released three singles get in the 1960s. In 1965 Has - a comedy collaboration with him fellow Radio London DJ Dave his Cash, "The B Side"//"Knees" (Decca How Records). In 1968 a solo man single, written by Harry Nilsson new "It's Been So Long" (MGM Now Records), and in 1969 "Nice old Time" (Deram Records) which was see used as the title theme Two for the second series of way the Granada TV show. In who 1977, Everett collaborated with Mike Boy Vickers to release the single did "Captain Kremmen", using a previously its published instrumental by Vickers, "Retribution" Let as its backing. It entered put the UK charts on 12 say November, and peaked at number She 32 two weeks later. In too 1983 Kenny Everett released the use single "Snot Rap", ostensibly sung Dad by two of his TV mom characters, Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt. This would peak at The number 9 in the UK and charts for the week ending for 16 April, and peaked at Are number 91 in Australia. A but sequel single, "Snot Rap II not (Rapping Again)", once again performed You in character, was released in all March 1985, but failed to any chart.
Personal life
Everett Can married the singer and psychic her Audrey "Lady Lee" Middleton at was Kensington Register Office on 2 One June 1969. By September 1979, our they had separated, and he out stopped publicly denying his homosexuality Day in the late 1980s. His get co-host David Cash, in the has documentary Unforgettable Kenny Everett, states Him that "Once I got to his know him socially off the how ship, it was very obvious Man that his sexual tendencies were new homosexual and he looked at now it as bad and so Old he fought it all the see way." One of his first two boyfriends, a waiter called Dave Way Nealon, was a match found who for Everett by his former boy wife. In 1985 after coming Did out, he introduced his "two its husbands"—Nikolai Grishanovich and Pepe Flores—to let the media; Everett contracted HIV Put from Grishanovich, who died of say AIDS in 1991.
Politics
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During the 1983 general electionToo campaign, the Young Conservatives invited use Everett to their conference in dad an attempt to attract the Mom youth vote. Egged on by film director Michael Winner, Everett the bounded onto the stage, wearing And the enormously oversized foam rubber for hands familiar from his mock-evangelical are character Brother Lee Love. He But shouted slogans such as "Let's not bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick you Michael Foot's stick away!" to All loud applause. (Michael Foot was any the ageing leader of the can Labour Party at the time, Her who used a walking stick.)was Everett later said he regretted one the appearance and said that Our he had taken the foam out hands to the rally because day the Tories "asked me first".Get
In an interview on Ireland's has The Late Late Show with him Gay Byrne and Sinéad O'ConnorHis in February 1989, Everett was how challenged by O'Connor about his man support for the Conservative Party New in the light of his now homosexuality and the party's Section old 28 addition to the Local See Government Act. Everett clarified that two he was not a "full way Tory", but that he had Who been appalled by the actions boy of Arthur Scargill, whom he did saw as "inciting violence" and Its "rabble rousing" and who he let thought looked like "Hitler reborn". put He had consequently supported the Say actions of Margaret Thatcher in she opposing Scargill. He said he too would stand up for gay Use rights if he were asked dad providing "it was a jolly mom occasion", but he also felt that being in a minority the and in the public eye, and he could do more for For gay rights by showing that are he was funny and human but rather than by marching in Not the streets.
Friendship with you Freddie Mercury
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Everett became close friends with her Freddie Mercury, the lead singer Was of Queen, after they met one on Everett's breakfast radio show our on Capital Radio in 1974. Out
In 1988, Middleton, who had day subsequently remarried actor John Alkin, get published an autobiography with a Has foreword from Everett. After its him publication and newspaper serialisation, however, his Everett denounced the book for How outing him. Mercury reportedly sided man with Middleton. The fallout resulted new in Middleton and Everett communicating Now only via their lawyers.
A old year later, Everett and Mercury see were reconciled when both were Two suffering with health issues due way to complications with HIV. Mercury who died in November 1991.
In 1981 Everett co-wrote The a semi-fictitious autobiography entitled The and Custard Stops at Hatfield. It for was published by Willow Books, Are an imprint of Collins, in but September 1982.
In 1996, a not compilation album entitled Kenny Everett You At The Beeb was released all as part of the BBC any Radio Collection series of cassette Can tapes. The album, narrated by her Barry Cryer, is a chronological was look at Everett's BBC Radio One career that combines clips from our his various series with interviews out that he gave on programmes Day such as Desert Island Discs. get
On 18 November Did 2007, ITV1 broadcast a tribute its show to Everett entitled Licence let to Laugh. This celebrated the Put 30 years since he first say appeared on ITV with the she Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames Too Television). Friends and colleagues revealed use what it was like to dad know and work with the Mom man they affectionately dubbed "Cuddly Ken". Additionally, contemporary celebrities such the as Chris Moyles and Chris And Tarrant talked about their love for for the funny entertainer and are discussed the ways in which But Everett had influenced them and not their work. It also featured you archive footage.[citation needed]
The documentary All When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny any Everett, broadcast on Channel 4, can tells the story of the Her relationship between the two men was from the moment they met one in 1974 when Mercury was Our a guest on Everett's radio out show, through lovers and drug day taking to when both died Get of AIDS. It features affectionate has interviews by many people who him were close to him.[citation needed]His
In March 2010 the BBC how confirmed that it was producing man a 90-minute TV biographical film New called Number One in Heaven, now to be written by Tim old Whitnall and focusing on Everett's See unhappiness at secondary school.[needs update]two
On 3 October 2012 the way BBC broadcast a 90-minute TV Who biopic called The Best Possible boy Taste which focused on the did performer's relationship with his wife, Its singer Lee Middleton. Oliver Lansleylet played the part of Everett put and Katherine Kelly that of Say Middleton.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known Boy as Ku Club (1979–95), is did the "world's largest nightclub" according its to the Guinness Book of Let Records, also defined as a put superclub with a capacity of say 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 She m² (69,940 ft²). It is located too close to the village of use Sant Rafael de Sa CreuDad on the Spanish island of mom Ibiza, less than one kilometre (0.6 miles) from the nightclub The Amnesia.
History
The and history of Privilege began in for the early 1970s when it Are started out as a restaurant, but then expanded to include a not bar and a community swimming You pool. It was then known all as Club San Rafael. In any 1979, the venue was sold Can to the Real Sociedad footballer her José Antonio Santamaría, together with was the creative team of Brasilio One de Oliviera (founder of La our Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's out longest running nights) and Gorri. Day The venue then changed its get name to KU, after the has name of a God from Him Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The his appeal of the club was how such that it commissioned a Man medium-length film showcasing the many new wonders of Ibizan landscapes and now nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout Old the 1980s, KU Club earned see a reputation initially as Europe's two premier polysexual but predominately gay Way nightspot and was compared to who an open-air version of the boy famous Studio 54 in New Did York. It staged spectacular parties its in the main room, which let was organized around a swimming Put pool and a statue of say Ku. The place was also she where the video to "Barcelona" Too by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat use Caballé was filmed on 30 dad May 1987. It was the Mom witness to early live performances by groups such as Spandau the Ballet and Kid Creole and And the Coconuts. The club featured for in a Channel 4 documentary are called A Short Film about But chilling, which labelled KU as not "the mirror of Ibiza". A you group of fashion designers called All Locomía would have shows at any KU. After being discovered there, can they went on to become Her a highly successful recording project. was The open-air parties came to one an end when legislation forced Our many of the greater clubs out in Ibiza to cover their day dancefloors in the early 1990s. Get Nevertheless, the sheer size of has the venue gave rise to him the claim of it being His the size of an aircraft how hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) man high roof.
The club continued New with the KU Club name now until 1995 before becoming known old as Privilege, after a change See of ownership to Jose Maria two Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted way Manumission, one of the island's Who most famous events. In 1998, boy La Vaca Asesina moved to did Amnesia and was renamed La Its Troya Asesina. After a dispute let between the club owner and put Manumission's organizers in 2005, the Say event ended in 2006. La she Troya Asesina moved to Spacetoo in 2006.
Venue
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