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unusual facts about The Beat



Dance Craze

The film, shot in 1980, comprised performance footage of Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, The Beat and Bad Manners on tour throughout the United Kingdom.

Donald Hodgen

The notoriety of the gang, which was part of a wider group in loyalist north and west Belfast known as the "NF Skinz" because of their vague support for the National Front, gained widespread notoriety on 14 January 1981 when "Seig Heiling" members launched a brutal attack on anti-racist fans of The Specials and The Beat when the two bands played a concert at the Ulster Hall.

Random Hand

The band then performed at events like Morcambe's Wasted Festival and shows with The Planet Smashers, Adequate Seven, Sonic Boom Six, Bad Manners, The Beat, Skindred and Babar Luck.

Stuart Christie

Christie recently displayed an exhibition of Anarchist Art at the Dragon Bar in Hastings, which was in conjunction with Wesley Magoogan former saxophonist with The Beat, Billy Ocean and Hazel O'Connor.


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Bassem Christo

And these renowned entertainment shows were not the limit of Christo's achievements with LBC, as he also famously directed a large number of musical concerts including the "Beat Machine" series, Scorpions, Julio Iglesias, and Raúl di Blasio.

Beamer, Benz, or Bentley

DJ Felli Fel used the beat to make "Lakers Anthem 2010" to support the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Finals.

Beauty and the Beat!

Beauty and the Beat! is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, accompanied by the George Shearing Quintet.

Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

The congregation is "somewhere between Conservative and Modern Orthodox" with distinctive African-American influences; while men and women sit separately as in Orthodox synagogues, a choir sings spirituals to the beat of a drum.

Betsy Jolas

Already she had been moved from sources as varied as Musorgsky in Boris Godunov, Lassus, and Delibes in the “Bell Song” from Lakmé, but also Debussy in Pelléas et Mélisande has suggested a prosody that reframes the pulse, whereby she alters the tempo of the beat places notes in unsuspected groupings within the beat, creating her characteristic wave rhythm.

Bob McFadden

In 1959, he appeared as a singer with folk music artist, Rod McKuen, on the Brunswick Records album entitled Songs Our Mummy Taught Us which included the two tracks, "The Mummy" and "The Beat Generation", also released as a single.

Body and the Beat

Body and the Beat is an album recorded by Australian/New Zealand rock band Dragon in 1984.

Change the Beat

"Change the Beat" is a song written and recorded by Fab Five Freddy, and one of the most sampled songs in music history.

Christina Aguilar

In late of 2008, Christina has a special project album "Mai - Tina: Beauty on the Beat", collaborating with one of the most successful Thai female artists and her former rival(from a rumour news), Mai Charoenpura.

Dieter Zembski

In 1965 he performed with his band The Mushroams, in which he played drums, on the Beat-Club music program on German national television.

Diwali Riddim

The beat is characterized by syncopated clapping, and it was given the name Diwali for its Indian dance-music influence.

Do Somethin'

During the first verse, they fly in a pink Hummer and move their heads to the beat on the song, while Spears puts the truck on autopilot.

Eddie Mooney

The band released six albums, "The Dakotas", "The Beat Goes On", "Don't Look Back", "Everlasting", "Strong" and "Evolution" and were a regular fixture on the successful "Solid Silver 60s" tours (six to date), where they also backed acts such as Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, John Walker of The Walker Brothers and others.

Fiona Gillies

Gillies is producing The Beat Beneath My Feet, about a former rock God, played by Luke Perry, who is discovered living in a flat in South London.

For Whom the Beat Tolls

For Whom the Beat Tolls (a play on the Ernest Hemingway novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', which itself is drawn from "Meditation XVII" of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a series of essays by metaphysical poet John Donne) is the eighth studio album by rapper Canibus, released through Mic Club Music on May 29, 2007 in the United States and June 5 worldwide.

Genius Factor Games

The app allows users to practice CPR to the beat of the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive.

GodsGirls

GodsGirls models have been featured in music videos such as The Sounds' "Tony the Beat," Kelis' "Bossy," Teddybears' "Cobrastyle," Saliva's "Ladies and Gentlemen," Hollywood Undead's "No. 5" and Good Charlotte's "The River".

Graciela Naranjo

Largely self-taught, she had a warm contralto voice as her innovative behind-the-beat phrasing and emotional intensity that she put into the words she sang, served to turn novelty tunes and light songs into definitive, bolero-based treatments.

Grew Up a Screw Up

Rapper's Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, and Brisco freestyled over the beat on Lil Wayne's mixtape 'Lil Weezy Ana Vol.

Intensive Care Foundation

The theme for the 2008 Appeal is "Keep the Beat" with rock legend Jimmy Barnes being the face of the Appeal.

Jess Klein

In 2005, Nerdcore Rapper MC Frontalot posted on his website a rap breakdown using the beat from the Jess Klein song "Soda Water."

Johan Bobäck

"Kermit" has written and produced songs for many artists like Garou, Chris Norman, Darin, Troy This, Jeanette Biedermann (Undress to the Beat), Linda Sundblad, Play, Ola Svensson, Elin Lanto etc.

John Masouri

John has also written articles on reggae for Mojo, Music Week, The Guardian, The Observer and NME, as well as magazines in the US (The Beat), Japan (RM) and Germany (Riddim).

John Willsteed

Willsteed has won three Australian Film Institute Awards for Sound Design (Vietnam Nurses, The Beat Manifesto and Rare Chicken Rescue).

Katy Carmichael

Since then her TV credits include playing DC Jo McMullen in Liverpool 1 and roles in And The Beat Goes On, the Galton and Simpson series with Paul Merton, Wing and a Prayer, Karaoke, and Bread.

KBTE

Before the station acquired the urban contemporary format, KBTE was an active rock station as "The Bat"; however the station began stunting with loops of The Go-Go's 1980s song We Got The Beat before the launch of The Beat.

Kevin Gorman

Gorman, originally from Chester, England first came to the attention of DJ Hell, with a 2006 demo featuring track DMX, which featured heavy usage of the Beat Repeat feature of Ableton Live.

KNRJ

On November 3, 2008, the new format as Old school hip hop 92.7 / 99.3 / 101.1 The Beat launched, the first song being was Ice Cube's You Know How We Do It.

Moombahcore

Skrillex's track "Bangarang", which features the beat of moombahcore and numerous other styles, is a well-known track of this genre.

Party Like a Rockstar

Another unofficial remix has been produced by Lil Jon and the Swedish composer Jay Orpin, who also wrote the first remix, but had Lil' Jon make changes for the beat for this remix.

Pattole Palome

Kodava folk dances are performed to the beat of many of these songs.

Prince Markie Dee

As of 2008, Morales was serving as the afternoon drive radio host/DJ at 103.5 The Beat WMIB radio in Miami, Florida until 2010, now he is working at WEDR 99.1 FM

Ranking Roger

The Beat released three albums: the critically acclaimed and seminal I Just Can't Stop It (1980), Wha'ppen? (1981) and Special Beat Service (1982).

Rodger Corser

Corser narrated the first series of Network Ten's factual TV series Recruits, which shows the people in training to become police officers in the New South Wales Police Force and people who have only just started out on the beat.

SDSU Show

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes - Also started during the 2011-12 season, The Show started doing an a cappella version of the beat.

Sinclair Beiles

The photographer Harold Chapman recorded this period in his book The Beat Hotel (Gris Banal, 1984).

Stand-up tragedy

The Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-) often refers to himself as a "stand-up tragedian",

Syncope

Syncopation, a musical effect caused by a syncope, missed beat or off-the-beat stress

The Beat Club, Bremen

The Beat Club, Bremen is a live album by the band King Crimson, released through the King Crimson Collectors' Club in February 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Beatnuts

Milk Me contained the song "Confused Rappers", a track that dissed Jennifer Lopez for essentially stealing the beat from The Beatnuts' "Watch Out Now" on her 2002 hit "Jenny from the Block".

The Genesis Explosion

"The Genesis Explosion is a song released by Dead Brain Cells from their album Universe. It is the signature song for the band, as many who have never heard of the band are familiar with the beat and rhythm of "The Genesis Explosion".

The Skints

Since 2008 the band have toured extensively, playing hundreds of shows, supporting bands that include The King Blues, The English Beat (The Beat UK), The Aggrolites, Gym Class Heroes, You Me at Six, Sublime with Rome, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Slackers, Gogol Bordello and Bedouin Soundclash.

Toss It Up

Originally, Dr. Dre was going to use the beat from No Diggity, a song by Blackstreet but when Dre left Death Row Records he sold the beat to Blackstreet which angered rapper 2Pac.

Until We Rich

The beat, produced by Carl "Chucky" Thompson, contains a sample of "Show Me" by Glenn Jones that was also used in Queensbridge rapper AZ's Pieces of a Man album track "How Ya Livin" featuring Nas.

Victory Mixture

Ditta met DeVille in 1980 when DeVille was touring with Mink DeVille, and Ditta joined the band in an after-hours jam session at the Beat Exchange, a New Orleans punk rock hangout.

Watkin Tudor Jones

He also illustrated his lyrics to help the audience follow which were projected onto a big screen above the live performers and are triggered live to the beat by Max's personal assistant, Yolandi Visser, in a PowerPoint presentation style.