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Mozart's starling. Common starling, Sturnus vulgaris. For about three years, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling. The starling is remembered for the anecdote of how Mozart came to purchase it, for the funeral commemorations Mozart provided for it, and as an example of the composer's affection in general for birds.
Mad Dogs & Englishmen. (album) Joe Cocker! Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1970. The album's title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name and Leon Russell's "Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen". Only four songs of the 16 on the original album were drawn from his first two studio albums.
The album Mad Dogs & Englishmen turned 35 years old in 2005. Commemorating this birthday was the release of the limited edition Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The Complete Fillmore East Concerts, documenting the entire four shows (on six discs) performed on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 1970 at New York City's Fillmore East. Track listing
Moondog. Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had ...
Moondog. (1969 album) Moondog is an album by the American composer Moondog, released by Columbia Masterworks Records on October 1, 1969. The album was made on the initiative of the producer James William Guercio and recorded at Columbia's main studio with Moondog conducting 50 musicians. It consists of compositions written by Moondog in the ...
Flightless Bird, American Mouth. " Flightless Bird, American Mouth " is a song recorded by the American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine. The song was released on December 11, 2008 [1] through Sub Pop as the third single from the project's third studio album The Shepherd's Dog .
Mad Gods and Englishmen is a 2006 comic strip by Simon Spurrier and Boo Cook, for the character Harry Kipling. A 2013 episode of Tom Kapinos' Californication is also named after the song. [4] Mad Dogs & Englishmen was a National Review podcast [5] by Charles C. W. Cooke and Kevin D. Williamson. A song by Andrea Lindsay and Luc De Larochellière ...
Charlie Parker. Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed " Bird " or " Yardbird ", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer. [1] Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, [2] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced ...