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Презентация, в которой находится информация на английском языке о наиболее известных музыкальных группах и исполнителях Соединенного Королевства разных временных отрезков. 

Работа сделана в виде путешествия по стране, то есть группы и исполнители распределены в зависимости от их места рождения или возникновения (места рождения солистов).

Created by Spiridonova

Alyona Vladimirovna

Volgograd 2012

THE UK MUSIC ADVENTURE

LET’S START FROM THE VERY HEART

LONDON

Queen - a British

rock band,

formed in London in 1970

Originally consisting of

Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano),

Brian May (guitar, vocals),

John Deacon (bass guitar),

and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals).

The band have released 18 number one albums,

18 number one singles, and 10 number one DVDs.

Estimates of their album sales generally range

from 150 million to 300 million albums,

making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.

They received a Lifetime Achievement Award

from the British Phonographic Industry

in 1990, and were inducted

into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

Bohemian Rhapsody –

the greatest and the most famous

song of the group

Pink Floyd –

an English rock band,

was founded in London in 1965

The band originally consisted of students

Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright.

Rock band achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music.

They are one of the most commercially successful and musically influential groups in the history

of popular music.

They continued to record and tour through 1994;

two more albums followed : A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

and The Division Bell (1994).

Inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996,

and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005,

as of 2013 they have sold more than 250 million albums

worldwide, including 74.5 million certified units in the United States .

The most well-known album of the group is The Wall

The Rolling Stones - an English rock band,

formed in London in 1962.

The first settled line-up consisted of

Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica, Ian Stewart on piano,

Mick Jagger on lead vocals and harmonica, Keith Richards on guitar

and backing vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989

noting that critics and the public recognized their claim to the title of “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”

Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4th on their

"100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list, and their album sales

are estimated to have been more than 200 million worldwide.

The Rolling Stones have released 22 studio albums in

the United Kingdom (24 in the United States),

eleven live albums (ten in the US), and numerous compilations

Their album Sticky Fingers (1971) began

a string of eight consecutive studio albums

reaching number one in the United States.

Their most recent album of new material,

A Bigger Bang , was released in 2005.

In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones

at number ten on "The Billboard Top All-Time Artists",

and as the second most successful group in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In 2012 the band celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Go North, go high!

Dunfermline

Nazareth - a Scottish hard rock band,

founded in 1968 in Dunfermline, Scotland

from the remaining members of semi-professional

local group The Shadettes by vocalist Dan McCafferty,

guitarist Manny Charlton (ex Mark V and The Red Hawks),

bassist Pete Agnew, and drummer Darrell Sweet.

Hard rock band had several hits in the United Kingdom

in the early 1970s, and established an international audience

with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog .

Perhaps their best-known hit single

was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975

The band continues to record and tour.

Let’s visit neighbours

Edinburgh

Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish recording artist

and actress, best known internationally as the lead vocalist of the

alternative rock band Garbage.

For much of her international career Manson commuted between

her home city of Edinburgh to the United States

to record with Garbage; now she lives and works in Los Angeles

Manson gained media attention for her forthright style,

rebellious attitude and distinctive contralto voice.

Manson has been voted at №60 on the VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists list.

Garbage is an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994.

The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson (vocals, guitar)

and American musicians Duke Erikson (bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion),

Steve Marker (guitar, keyboards), and Butch Vig (drums, percussion).

The band have counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units.

Next point is…

… Glasgow

Camera Obscura - an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland.

The band formed in 1996 and have released four albums.

Camera Obscura was formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell,

John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar. Several other members

performed with the band before David Skirving joined

as a permanent guitarist.

On April 18, 2009 Camera Obscura released a special edition Record Store

Day 7 called French Navy for independent record stores. Their single

"French Navy" is also used by Echo Falls ( the sponsors of Come Dine With Me )

at the start of each episode and during the commercial breaks.

Going middle

Go-go!

Manchester

Hurts - an English synthpop duo formed in 2009,

consisting of singer Theo Hutchcraft

(born 30 August 1986 in Richmond)

and synthesist Adam Anderson

(born 14 May 1984 in Manchester).

Their debut album, Happiness , released in September 2010,

reached the top ten in twelve European countries, and has sold

over one million copies worldwide. The band has also sold more than one million singles worldwide in September 2012

On 14 December 2012, Hurts announced that their second studio album,

Exile , would be available on 11 March 2013 and was available to

pre-order through iTunes, which was accompanied by a video advertising

the new album. This video contained a new track from Exile called

"The Road", and was released on 14 December 2012 on YouTube.

An audio-only video of "The Road" was also uploaded.

The lead single from the album, "Miracle", premiered

on BBC Radio 1 on 4 January 2013 .

Hurts attended the 2013 Brit Awards on 20 February 2013.

Exile was released on 8 March 2013.

Now… get ready to be excited

Liverpool

The Beatles - an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

They became the most commercially successful and critically

acclaimed act in the rock music era

The group's best-known lineup consisted of

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later utilized

several genres, ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock,

often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways.

In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged

as "Beatlemania", but as their songwriting grew in sophistication,

they came to be perceived by many fans and cultural observers

as an embodiment of the ideals shared

by the era's sociocultural revolutions.

The Beatles have had more

number-one albums on

the British charts and sold

more singles in the UK

than any other act.

According to the RIAA,

the band are the best-selling act in the United States,

with 177 million certified units.

In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine's list

of the all-time most successful "Hot 100" artists.

As of 2012, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the

Hot 100 chart with 20. They have received 7 Grammy Awards,

an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and

15 Ivor Novello Awards.

Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation

of the 20th century's 100 most influential people,

the Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with

EMI Records estimating sales of over one billion units.

Go center, go heavy!!

Birmingham

Black Sabbath - an English rock band, formed

in Birmingham in 1969, by guitarist Tony Iommi,

bassist Geezer Butler, singer Ozzy Osbourne

and drummer Bill Ward.

Despite an association with occult and horror themes,

Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social instability,

political corruption, the dangers of drug abuse and

apocalyptic prophecies of the horrors of war.

Black Sabbath are cited as pioneers of heavy metal.

The band helped define the genre with releases

such as quadruple-platinum Paranoid , released in 1970.

They were ranked by MTV as the "Greatest Metal Band" of all time,

and placed second in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" list.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked them among the 100 greatest

artists of all time. They have sold over 15 million records in

the United States and over 70 million records worldwide.

Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame

in 2005 and the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

Going rebellious

Belfast

The Chieftains - a traditional Irish band

formed in November 1962,

by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy.

Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built

around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous with traditional

Irish music and they are regarded as having helped popularise

Irish music across the world

The group continued to release successful records throughout the

1970s and 1980s, and their work with Van Morrison in 1988 resulted

in the critically acclaimed album Irish Heartbeat . They went on

collaborating with many other well-known musicians and singers;

among them Luciano Pavarotti, the Rolling Stones, Madonna,

Sinéad O'Connor and Roger Daltrey

The band have won six Grammys during their career and they

were given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious BBC

Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002. The Irish government awarded them

the honorary title of ‘Ireland’s Musical Ambassadors’ in 1989.

In 2012, they celebrated their 50 th anniversary with the

release of their most recent record Voice of Ages .

Coming back

Hertford

Deep Purple - an English rock band

formed in Hertford in 1968.

They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal

and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed

over the years. Originally formed as progressive rock band, the

band's sound shifted to hard rock in 1970.

Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath,

had been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock

and heavy metal in the early to mid-Seventies".

They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as

"the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow

Theatre, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide, including

7.5 million certified units in the US.

Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard

Rock programme and a British radio station Planet Rock poll ranked

them 5th among the "most influential bands ever".

At the 2011 Classic Rock Awards in London, they received

the Innovator Award. In October 2012, Deep Purple were

nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

And the last but not the least one

Pinner

Sir Elton Hercules John,

CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947),

is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer,

pianist and occasional actor.

In his four-decade career

John has sold more than

250 million records,

making him one of the

most successful artists

of all time.

His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold

over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the

best selling single in the history of the UK

Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.

He has more than 50 Top 40 hits,

including seven consecutive No. 1 US

albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10,

four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits.

He has won six Grammy Awards,

four Brit Awards, an Academy Award,

a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.

In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49

on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

John was inducted into the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame in 1994.

Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II

for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.

John has performed at a number of royal events,

such as the funeral of Princess Diana

at Westminster Abbey in 1997, and

the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert

outside Buckingham Palace in 2012.

For now we have to say “Goodbye”

but it’s not the end of your adventure

in the world of music

‘ cause music never ends!