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Christopher John Judge Smith (born 1948 in England), is a songwriter, composer and performer, and a founder member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
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Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ...
Van der Graaf Generator were a seminal 1970s English progressive rock band. ...
Judge Smith was originally the drummer of Van der Graaf Generator (at some points he used a typewriter as well), but after drummer Guy Evans had joined Van der Graaf Generator, Smith concluded that there wasn't a great deal for him to do, since his role was reduced to being a harmony singer. After having recorded the first VdGG-single People You Were Going To / Firebrand, Smith left the band in 1968, amicably. Guy Evans is a British progressive rock percussionist and composer, and a member of Van der Graaf Generator. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
He went on to pursue a solo career, and wrote and recorded several songs. Many of those only appeared on his (currently unavailable) first solo album Democrazy (1991). He called himself Chris Judge Smith initially, but later decided to drop the "Chris" and to call himself simply Judge Smith.
Smith also wrote several stage musicals, including The Kibbo Kift (1976), The Ascent Of Wilberforce III (1981) and Mata Hari (1982), a musical co-written with (and starring) Lene Lovich. CD reissue of Lene Lovichs first album, Stateless. ...
In around 1973, Smith, together with VdGG co-founder Peter Hammill, began work on an opera based on the short story The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Smith writing the libretto and Hammill composing the music. The album was finally released in 1991 on Some Bizzare Records, with a cast of singers including Lovich, Andy Bell out of Erasure, Sarah Jane Morris and Herbert Grönemeyer. A reworked version, called The Fall Of The House Of Usher - deconstructed & rebuilt, was released on Hammill's Fie! label in 1999. The new version is notable for having a cleaner, better produced sound, additional guitars and (unlike the first version) no drums. Image:Peter Hammill in Moscow 1998s. ...
This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ...
A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ...
Andy Bell Andy Bell (born Andrew Ivan Bell, 25 April 1964 in Peterborough) is the lead singer of the British Synth Pop duo Erasure. ...
Erasure is a British synth pop duo band consisting of keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. ...
Herbert Grönemeyer tells of his beginnings. ...
In 1974 Smith wrote and directed a short film called The Brass Band, which has won several international awards.
Smith also wrote music for the television comedy series Not The Nine O'Clock News in the 1980s, including perhaps the most famous song from the series, the punk rock parody 'Gob on You'. Not the Nine OClock News (DVD) Not the Nine OClock News was a comedy television programme shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ...
After many years of work, in 2000 Smith completed and released the double CD Curly's Airships, a large-scale work (Smith himself likes to describe it as a 'songstory') about the R101 airship disaster of 1930. Amongst many others, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Arthur Brown, David Jackson, John Ellis and Pete Brown collaborated on the project. R101 at the mast at Cardington One of the Beardmore engines (sectioned for display) View from the air of the crash site. ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Image:Peter Hammill in Moscow 1998s. ...
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David Jackson (?? - July 13, 2001) was the life partner of poet James Merrill (1926-1995). ...
John Ellis is a British guitarist and songwriter born in London in 1952. ...
Pete Brown is a British performance poet and lyricist, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. ...
On the same day that Van der Graaf Generator played their reunion concert in the Royal Festival Hall in London, 6 May 2005, Smith played an afternoon concert, for the first time in many years, at the Cobden Club in London. He presented his new album The Full English there, and played (amongst others) all songs on it. The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London. ...
May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A recording of a concert by Smith in Guastalla, Italy, in 2005 was released on DVD on 20 March 2006, called Live In Italy 2005.
Discography
- Democrazy (a collection of recordings from 1967-1977) (1991)
- Dome Of Discovery (1994)
- Curly's Airships (songstory, double CD) (2000)
- The Full English (2005)
- Live In Italy 2005 (DVD) (2006)
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