REO Speedwagon團員去世

搖滾樂團REO Speedwagon自1970 至1989年的吉他手Gary Richrath，九月13日病逝（65歲），Gary寫過不少該團的曲子，其中包含"Ridin' The Storm Out" (#94-1977)及"Take It On The Run" (#5-1981)，而且擔任很多歌的偕同製作工作，他個人於1992年出過一張專輯唱片"Only The Strong Survive"。

1960年代即已組成的REO Speedwagon，來自伊里諾州Champaign，是1980年代很受歡迎的合唱團，團名取自1911年的一輛消防車，他們在歷年暢銷歌星合唱團排行榜獲得第210名。

REO Speedwagon名次最好的歌是1985年獲得三周冠軍的Can’t Fight This Feeling。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOULjyy-n8

Can't Fight This Feelling

REO Speedwagon

I can't fight this feeling any longer.

And yet I'm still afraid to let it flow.

What started out as friendship,

Has grown stronger.

I only wish I had the strength to let it show.

I tell myself that I can't hold out forever.

I said there is no reason for my fear.

Cause I feel so secure when we're together.

You give my life direction,

You make everything so clear.

And even as I wander,

I'm keeping you in sight.

You're a candle in the wind,

On a cold, dark winter's night.

And I'm getting closer than I ever thought I might.

And I can't fight this feeling anymore.

I've forgotten what I started fighting for.

It's time to bring this ship into the shore,

And throw away the oars, forever.

Cause I can't fight this feeling anymore.

I've forgotten what I started fighting for.

And if I have to crawl upon the floor,

Come crushing through your door,

Baby, I can't fight this feeling anymore.

My life has been such a whirlwind since I saw you.

I've been running round in circles in my mind.

And it always seems that I'm following you, girl,

Cause you take me to the places,

That I'd known I'd never find.

And even as I wander,

I'm keeping you in sight.

You're a candle in the wind,

On a cold, dark winter's night.

And I'm getting closer than I ever thought I might.

And I can't fight this feeling anymore.

I've forgotten what I started fighting for.

It's time to bring this ship into the shore,

And throw away the oars, forever.

Cause I can't fight this feeling anymore.

I've forgotten what I started fighting for.

And if I have to crawl upon the floor,

Come crushing through your door,

Baby, I can't fight this feeling anymore.

The Who 近況

搖滾樂團The Who最近已延遲四場演唱會，由於主唱Roger Daltrey生病，這個只剩一半團員的英國合唱團於九月八日宣告取消14日聖地牙哥，16日安納罕，19日拉斯維加與21日洛杉磯的演唱會，另外還取消iHeartRadio九月18日拉斯維加音樂節的表演，他們希望九月24日能恢復正常的巡迴演唱。

1960年代中期於倫敦組團的The Who，原始團員有主唱Roger Daltrey、吉他手Pete Townshend、鼓手Keith Moon與貝斯手John Entwistle，他們帶頭於舞台表演時砸掉吉他及樂器為他們帶來了高知名度，反社會倫常的演出吸引了無數的年輕歌迷，1979年在辛辛那提的演唱會甚至因推擠造成11名觀眾死亡。

The Who的專輯唱片Tommy與quarophenia分別於1975及1979年拍成電影，他們的自傳電影The Kids Are Alright也於1979年推出。The Who於1990年進入搖滾樂名人堂，2001年則獲Grammy終生成就獎，他們在歷年暢銷歌星合唱團排行榜獲得第206名。

Keith Moon於1978年因吸毒過世 （31歲），John Entwistle則於2002年因心臟病去世。

The Who在排行榜上名次最好的歌是1967年第九名的I Can See For Miles，含這一首歌他們共有五首歌進滾石雜誌500大歌曲榜，而搖滾樂劇專輯Tommy則有Pinball Wizard，I’m Free及See Me ，Feel Me三首歌進入排行榜前二十名。

Pinball Wizard於1969年獲得過19名，後來因電影而廣為人知，Elton John  1975年的版本則未推出小唱片 。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiGVI2Hs-g

Pinball Wizard

The Who

Local Lad:

Ever since I was a young boy,

I've played the silver ball.

>From Soho down to Brighton

I must have played them all.

But I ain't seen nothing like him

In any amusement hall...

That deaf dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pin ball !

He stands like a statue,

Becomes part of the machine.

Feeling all the bumpers

Always playing clean.

He plays by intuition,

The digit counters fall.

That deaf dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pin ball !

He's a pin ball wizard

There has got to be a twist.

A pin ball wizard,

S'got such a supple wrist.

'How do you think he does it? I don't know!

What makes him so good?'

He ain't got no distractions

Can't hear those buzzers and bells,

Don't see lights a flashin'

Plays by sense of smell.

Always has a replay,

'n' never tilts at all...

That deaf dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pin ball.

I thought I was

The Bally table king.

But I just handed

My pin ball crown to him.

Even my usual table

He can beat my best.

His disciples lead him in

And he just does the rest.

He's got crazy flipper fingers

Never seen him fall...

That deaf dumb and blind kind

Sure plays a mean pin ball.!!!!!

五度空間合唱團

The 5th Dimension合唱團團員 Florence LaRue八月28日做了髖骨手術，她預計 回家休息三天就可以復出表演。

The 5th Dimension 是歷年暢銷歌星與合唱團排行榜第90名的受歡迎團體，他們是一個走流行風的R&B合唱團，1960年代中期在洛杉磯組團，團員Marilyn McCoo與Billy Davis Jr來自the Hi-Fis合唱團，他們倆於1969年結婚，1976年後改以二重唱錄唱片，也主持電視節目，他們那一首動聽的情歌You Don’t Have To Be A Star（to be in my show） 於1976年曾得到排行榜冠軍。

The 5th Dimension 合唱團暢銷曲很多，其中名次最好的歌是1969年獲得六週排行榜冠軍的Aqurius/Let the Sunshine In，這一首混和曲是搖滾樂劇Hair當中的插曲，也是Grammy獎1969年的年度唱片，後來被收進搖滾樂名人堂。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X5HYynP5E

Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In

-Words by James Rado and Gerome Ragni: Music by Galt MacDermot

When the moon is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding

Sympathy and trust abounding

No more falsehoods or derisions

Golden living dreams of visions

Mystic crystal revelation

And the mind's true liberation

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

When the moon is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

Aquarius!

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in,  the sunshine in

Oh, let it shine, c'mon

Now everybody just sing along

Let the sun shine in

Open up your heart and let it shine on in

When you are lonely, let it shine on

Got to open up your heart and let it shine on in

And when you feel like you've been mistreated

And your friends turn away

Just open your heart, and shine it on in

FADE

Kiss 團員 Gene Simmons家遭搜索

洛杉磯警方八月20日搜索了Kiss 合唱團的團員 Gene Simmons的家，報導顯示警方是去找兒童色情犯罪的證據，網路反兒童犯罪團體表示，Gene與他的家人都配合這次行動，也沒有涉案的嫌疑，但是他們相信去年Gene出去巡迴演唱時家裡出過事。

Kiss是一個以舞台化妝演出知名的重搖滾樂團，組成於紐約，Gene Simmons是該團的貝斯手，另三名團員是首席吉他手Ace Frehley、吉他手Paul Stanley、鼓手Peter Criss，團員們都兼主唱，他們也如日本漫畫迷cosplay般的裝扮自己後上台表演。

Gene Simmons裝扮為The Bat Lizard，Stanley裝Star Child，Frehley 裝Space Man，Peter Criss則是The Cat，1983經過團員的變動，Kiss 合唱團才開始不化妝上台表演。

Kiss 合唱團作品不少，在歷年暢銷歌星與合唱團排行榜獲得第242名，其中成績最好的歌是1976年第七名的一首抒情搖滾Beth。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkojuUSDO8

BETH

KISS

(Peter Criss)

Beth I hear you calling

But I can't come home right now

Me and the boys are playing

And we just can't find the sound

Just a few more hours

And I'll be right home to you

I think I hear them calling

Oh Beth what can I do

Beth what can I do

You say you feel so empty

That our house just ain't our home

I'm always somewhere else

And you're always there alone

Just a few more hours

And I'll be right home to you

I think I hear them calling

Oh Beth what can I do

Beth what can I do

Beth I know you're lonely

And I hope you'll be alright

'Cos me and the boys will be playing all night

民謠搖滾的經典之作

Columbia唱片公司的一位製作人Donald "Bob" Johnston，八月14日在納許維爾的一間安養院中去世（83歲），在Columbia的時候，Bob曾經參與好多經典專輯唱片的製作，如Bob Dylan的 "Blonde On Blonde" 及"Highway 61 Revisited"， Simon & Garfunkel的 "Sounds Of Silence" 及 "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme" 還有 "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison"，

他也製作了Patti Page的單曲 "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" (#8-1965)。

Donald "Bob" Johnston的太太Joy Byers是一位作曲人，Bob和她一起寫過 Elvis Presley's "It Hurts Me" 及 "Let Yourself Go" 還有 Timi Yuro的 "What's A Matter Baby"。

"Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme"是Simon & Garfunkel的第三張專輯唱片，1966年十月十日推出，其中的單曲"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" 中的Scarborough Fair是十九世紀的一首民歌，與讚美詩般的Canticle混和，自歌詞中表達因越戰帶來的悲情，也曾在電影 『畢業生』當中使用當配樂，這一首歌於1968年獲得過第11名，在BMI全美最常播出百名排行榜則獲得第31名，極受歌迷們喜愛。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g

Scarborough Fair

Simon & Garfunkel

Music & Lyrics : Paul Simon - Art Garfunkel

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt

(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)

Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme

(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)

Without no seams nor needlework

(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land

(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)

Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme

(Washed is the ground with so many tears)

Between the salt water and the sea strand

(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather

(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)

Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme

(Generals order their soldiers to kill)

And to gather it all in a bunch of heather

(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)

Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine.

The Silver Fox 的懷念名曲

鄉村音樂製作人Billy Sherrill八月四日在納許維爾家中去世（78歲），他帶給歌迷們一些跨鄉村與熱門排行榜的歌，如Tammy Wynette的"Stand By Your Man" (#19-1969)，那首歌是他和Tammy一起寫的，而"Behind Closed Doors" (#15-1973) 及 "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" (#1-1973) 則是Charlie Rich的暢銷曲。

Billy Sherrill於2010年進入鄉村音樂名人堂，而2008年則獲選入音樂家名人堂。

Charlie Rich 1932年出生於阿肯色州Colt，1995年七月25日因血栓塞症去世，是一位鄉村搖滾歌謠樂手，1968-1981年共有45首暢銷曲進排行榜，早年唱爵士與藍調，1950年代中期在美國空軍服役時組過爵士樂團The Velvetones，1958年在貓王發跡的Sun唱片擔任過樂手。

Charlie Rich在流行歌壇作品很多，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第397名，其中名次最好的就是1973年的冠軍曲The Most Beautiful Girl，這首歌也在全美最常播出百首歌曲榜獲得第56名。

Charlie Rich有個外號叫The Silver Fox「銀狐」。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9f-Pq3Wsk

The Most Beautiful Girl

Charlie Rich

Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?

And if you did, was she crying, crying?

Hey, if you happen to see the most beautiful girl that walked out on me

Tell her, "I'm sorry."

Tell her, "I need my baby."

Won't you tell her that I love her.

I woke up this morning and realized what I had done

I stood alone in the cold gray dawn

I knew I'd lost my morning sun

I lost my head and I said some things

Now come the heartaches that morning brings

I know I'm wrong and I couldn't see

I let my world slip away from me

So.......

(repeat first verse)

Cilla Black去世

英籍女歌星及電視節目主持人Cilla Black，八月二日被發現死於西班牙Estepona她夏天住居，雖然死因正調查中，但她應該是死於自然原因。

Cilla Black出生於利物浦，本名Pricilla White，因為在著名的Cavern Club當衣帽間女郎而認識了很多搖滾樂界的明日之星，其中包括披頭合唱團the Beatles的團員，她因為常被邀請上台客串表演吸引了不少注意，另一家Casanova Club最後找她去正式演出，作曲人Bobby Willis還娶了她 （1999年去世 ），披頭的經紀人Brian Epstein 也簽下她，而因一家雜誌在文章中錯用了"Cilla Black"的名字，她乾脆就用來當藝名。

Cilla Black 於1963與披頭的 Parlophone唱片公司簽約，第一張單曲"Love Of The Loved"只得到第35名，但是第二首翻唱Dionne Warwicke 的"Anyone Who Had A Heart"獲得了英國排行榜冠軍，之後的"You're My World"同樣的到英國排行榜冠軍，他接著與披頭在美國的發行商Capitol唱片公司簽約，"You're My World"是她僅有的一首排行榜前75名的歌，只得到26名。

Cilla Black在英國仍然很受歡迎，有不少歌進入排行榜前十名，如"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (#2-1965)、"Conversations" (#3-1969) 及 "Something Tells Me" (#3-1971)。

1968年Cilla Black在BBC開了自己主持的節目"Cilla"，持續八年做了66集，1975 與 1976年也曾在"Cilla's Comedy Six" 及 "Cilla's World Of Comedy"以女演員身分演出，他也曾當過周末電視"Blind Date" 與 "Surprise Surprise"電視節目的主持人。

Cilla Black的自傳"What's It All About,"在2003年出版。

"You're My World"在1964年獲美國排行榜第26名，1977年Helen Reddy重唱獲得過第18名。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGTPXx0zmw

YOU'RE MY WORLD

Cilla Black

(Cilla Black)

You're my world

You're every breath I take

You're my world

You're every move I make

Other eyes see the stars up in the sky

But for me they shine

Within your eyes

As the seas reach for the sun above

So my arms reach out for you with love

With your hand resting in mine

I feel a power so divine.

You're my world

You are my night and day

You're my world

You're every prayer I pray

If our love ceases to be

Then it's the end of my world

The end of my world

The end of my world for me.