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2 unusual facts about Beck-Ola


Beck-Ola

The cover features a reproduction of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's The Listening Room.

The Listening Room

The 1958 reproduction of the painting was used for the album cover of Beck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group.


26 Mixes for Cash

In addition to the remixes featured on this release, James has also remixed tracks by Beck, DJ Pierre, and Soft Ballet, as well as additional remixes of tracks by Seefeel, Gavin Bryars, Jesus Jones, Saint Etienne, and Mescalinum United.

A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight

A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight is Beck's first EP, released on 10" vinyl by Fingerpaint Records in 1994.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Battle of Tiro

The first Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) unit was a small guerilla force that started out with twenty men (later grew exponentially) and operated in the mountains around the city of Gelemso.

Biffen

Biffen och Bananen (the Beef and the Banana), a comic strip by Rit-Ola, originally published in Folket i Bild, 1936–1978

Blue Obelisk

Among those who received a Blue Obelisk Award are Christoph Steinbeck (2006), Geoff Hutchinson (2006), Bob Hanson (2006), Egon Willighagen (2007), Jean-Claude Bradley (2007), Ola Spjuth (2007), Noel O'Boyle (2010), Rajarshi Guha (2010), Cameron Neylon (2010), Alex Wade (2010), Nina Jeliazkova (2010), Henry Rzepa (2011), Dan Zaharevitz (2011), and Marcus Hanwell (2011).

Bluemercury

Bluemercury carries a variety of beauty products for men and women from over 100 brands including Laura Mercier, La Mer, Diptyque, Bobbi Brown, and Oribe, as well as the Beck's private cosmeceutical line M-61 Laboratories.

Bolton-on-Swale

Bolton Beck is a tributary of the Swale which passes underneath a small bridge at the north of the village.

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Bridgefoot

It is situated at the confluence of the River Marron and Lostrigg Beck, approximately 1 mile south of the River Derwent.

Choc-Ola

In the late 1970s, Pete Rose was arguably one of the most renowned sports figure of his era.

Coupland, Cumbria

Coupland Beck is a minor river that flow into the river Eden south of Coupland.

Devil's Haircut

"Devils Haircut", a song by Beck which appears on the album Odelay

Deweare

Deweare's music was greatly influenced by the resurgence of French punk cult bands such as Bérurier Noir and Ludwig von 88, as well as by rock musician, comedian and poet Alain Bashung and by American music artist Beck—another musician to whom Deweare's vocals have been compared.

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fatman the Human Flying Saucer

Beck and Binder created Fatman long after Beck's popular creation Captain Marvel was canceled partly due to a copyright infringement suit with DC Comics.

George E. M. Kelly

The flying section, now led by Capt. Beck and including the repaired S.C. No. 2, was shipped to College Park, Maryland in June–July 1911 where the Army opened its own Flying School in June.

Hans Beck

Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf, beginning his toy making career as a creator of little vehicles and figures for his younger siblings.

Joe Beck

In the 1980s Beck recorded several CDs for the DMP Digital Music Products label, including co-billed work with the noted flautist Ali Ryerson.

Joël-François Durand

BBC Symphony Orchestra - London Sinfonietta - Gareth Hulse (oboe) - Paul Silverthorne (viola) - Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ)

John Beck

John Beck Hofmann aka John Beck (born 1969), film director and screenwriter

Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Kirkdale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England, which along with Sleightholmedale makes up the larger Bransdale and carries the Hodge Beck from its moorland source near Cockayne to the River Dove and onto the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering.

Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik

1873, after the Franco-Prussian War, those rifles were adapted to the new standard (system Beck); in 1875, the rifles were replaced by the Mauser Model 1871.

KXLU

They've often been credited with the discovery of Beck, who donated a track to "Demolisten: Volume 2" CD, and also played music by Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service, Dntel), who was a friend and fellow KXLU DJ at the time.

La Ola Walzer

"La Ola Walzer" (Trans: The Wave Waltzer) is a song performed and recorded by Austrian artist DJ Ötzi.

Lancaster Canal

In 1791, John Longbotham, Robert Dickinson and Richard Beck resurveyed the proposed line, and a final survey was carried out later the same year by John Rennie.

Lytchett Matravers

Geoffrey Beck (b. 1966), being one of the only remaining descendants of the de Carterets of Arundel, and a direct descendant of Renaud de Courtenay, Baron Okehampton (c. 1125 – c. 1190).

Manchester Fiction Prize

The number of judges was increased from three to four in 2011, with short story writers Heather Beck, John Burnside and Alison MacLeod joining Royle on the panel.

Mario Caldato, Jr.

Since then, he has engineered, produced and or mixed many artists including Beck, Day One, Super Furry Animals and three Money Mark albums, Molotov's "Apocalypshit" and two Jack Johnson albums On & On, and In Between Dreams.

Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News, and has also been a guest speaker for Women's Wear Daily Beauty Innovation Forum.

Miguel Mateos

Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata Blanca, and many more bands became international stars in the so-called "Argentine Invasion" ("La Ola Argentina") of rock music that swept Latin America and parts of North America and Europe.

Morgan Beck

Morgan Beck legally changed her name to Morgan Beck Miller after marrying Olympic skiing champion Bode Miller.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

Perry Van der Beck

By the time Van der Beck had returned to the Rowdies in 1984, the NASL was on its last legs and in 1985, Van Der Beck left the team to follow former Rowdies coach Gordon Jago to the Dallas Sidekicks of the MISL.

Philippe Beck

Philippe Beck, born in Strasbourg on April 21, 1963, is a French poet, writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes, in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Dorothea married Georg Frederick Karl of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, later Margrave of Bayreuth, on 17 April 1709 in Reinfeld.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Simon Bedwell

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo show “The Furnishers” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, and Studio Voltaire London.

Sleightholme

It lies beside Sleightholme Beck, a tributary of the River Greta.

Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs

The site covers a gorge in the valley of Sleightholme Beck between the hamlet of Sleightholme and the confluence with the River Greta, some 3 km upriver from the village of Bowes.

Soham murders

The inspectorate also criticised a "lack of grip" on the investigation, which included nationally televised appeals by footballer David Beckham, and Detective Superintendent David Beck who announced that he had left a message for abductors on Jessica's mobile phone before the case was taken from him.

The Heart of Christmas

The Heart of Christmas is a 2011 American Christian drama feature film directed by Gary Wheeler and starring Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Bethea, Jeanne Neilson, Eric Jay Beck, George Newbern and Matthew West in his film debut.

The Heathens

Building momentum on the success and release of their first music video for the song "Stickin' Around," the video was accepted at the Los Angeles Film Fest in May 2006, where it played alongside the likes of other such notable artists as Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, The Go! Team, The Shins, and Bright Eyes.

The Jeff Beck Group

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

Thin Man Theatre

It was founded by Nora Mally (Artistic Director) and Nikki Beck (Producing Director) in 2008 while they were working at New Century Theatre, an Actors' Equity Association company in Western Massachusetts.

Thomas Altheimer

In a plea to the Copenhagen City Court, he refers the plaintiff to publisher Gyldendal and author Claus Beck-Nielsen for payment as the lawful owners of the copyright to his former identity.

Tomata du Plenty

Much of the film was later used in a full-length feature, Population: 1, produced and directed by Dutch filmmaker Rene Daalder and featuring a cast of L.A. musicians and scene-makers, including a preschool Beck Hansen.

Un Nos Ola Leuad

Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) is the only novel written by Welsh writer Caradog Prichard.

Warren Schatz

In 1965 the Swedish garage pop group Ola & the Janglers recorded a Warren Schatz composition, Tomorrow's On Your Side, only available on two EPs, GEP-66 (Ola & the Janglers EP) and JSEP-5547 (various artists EP) in Sweden.


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