 Dean Friedman (1977) album cover Dean Friedman is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar, and other instruments including the harmonica. Image File history File links Dean-friedman-albumcover. ...
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The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ...
A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ...
The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ...
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He was described as a one-hit wonder [1] following his top 20 hit song "Ariel" in 1977 — a "quirkily irresistible and uncategorizable pop song about a free spirited, music loving, vegetarian Jewish girl" — while "Lucky Stars", a duet with Denise Marsa, was a Top 10 UK hit in 1978. Unlike most so-called one-hit-wonders, Friedman is still (as of 2005) writing and performing songs. In the music industry, a one-hit wonder is an artist who is generally known for only one hit single. ...
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Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat, including beef, poultry, fish, or their by-products, with or without the use of dairy products or eggs. ...
Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, with around 14 million followers (as of 2005 [1]). It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
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Influences The songs of Dean Friedman have been covered by several contemporary bands, including The Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, and The Blenders. The lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, Steve Page, sings background vocals on Friedman's latest album. Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL) is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan. ...
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Steven Page is a lead singer and songwriter of Barenaked Ladies. ...
The British band Half Man Half Biscuit had a hit in 1986 with the song Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman, a claim Friedman emphatically denies. Nigel Blackwell, singer, guitarist and songwriter Half Man Half Biscuit (Nigel Blackwell, Neil Crossley, Ken Hancock and Carl Henry) often abbreviated to HMHB, are a UK rock band from Birkenhead, active sporadically since the mid-1980s, known for their satirical, sardonic and sometimes surreal songs. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
TV and films Friedman has written, performed and produced the theme music to several TV series including Boon, starring Michael Elphick. Other TV credits include Nick Arcade (Nickelodeon) and Eerie, Indiana (NBC). He also composed, performed and produced the soundtrack to the cult horror film I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle in which he performs the track She Runs on Blood, Not Gasoline. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...
Boon was a British television drama series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker and Neil Morrissey. ...
Michael Elphick (born September 19, 1946 in Chichester, West Sussex; died September 7, 2002 in London) was a British actor best remembered for starring in the TV series Private Schulz, Boon, Three Up, Two Down, and Harry. ...
Nick Arcade was a game show hosted by Phil Moore that aired on the Nickelodeon television network in America from 1992 to 1993 (in the first season, the shows were taped in 1991 and aired in early 1992). ...
Nickelodeon (Nick for short) is a cable TV network primarily for children and pre-teens, but also features shows for teenagers in TEENick. ...
Eerie, Indiana is the name of a television show that started in 1991 and ended in 1992. ...
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A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group. ...
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Other (non-musical) work In 1985, Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesiser industry called "Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines". Whilst dated this tome is still of use in evaluating devices that crop up on the second hand market.
In 1986, Friedman saw a demo of a powerful Virtual Reality program that put the user right inside a video game using a video camera (similar to the technology used by the Eye Toy). Virtual Reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ...
The Eye Toy is a digital camera device for the PlayStation 2 similar to a webcam. ...
Friedman was impressed by the technology and wrote an article for Electronic Musician magazine. In 1989 he designed a game called Eat-A-Bug which was licensed to Nickelodeon TV and served as a prototype for the series Nick Arcade, for which Friedman produced a dozen games. He is now the President and Creative Director of InVideo games. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ...
Controversy The record label which produced Ariel insisted Friedman change the song's second verse which refers to the eponymous Ariel as "...a Jewish girl", believing that radio stations may use it as an excuse not to play the record. The third verse was also removed to make the single shorter for radio. The management company received threats from the Jewish Defense League protesting against the edit, and at Friedman's insistence, the original version was put on the album. An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, whose name has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery, or other item. ...
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The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is an activist Jewish movement whose stated goal is protecting Jewish people and property from anti-Semitism. ...
Friedman's second single McDonald's Girl was officially banned by the BBC because the chorus mentioned the name of the fast food restaurant. McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants[1]. Although McDonalds did not invent the hamburger or fast food, its name has become nearly synonymous with both. ...
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Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ...
Revival Friedman's latest album, The Treehouse Journals was financed entirely by his fans via his website. Friedman invited people to finance the cost of the as-yet unrecorded album by making an advanced purchase, and by making limited edition signed copies available. This tactic has been adopted by other bands, including Marillion. Marillion are a British Rock group formed in Aylesbury in 1979, whose 13 studio album career is generally regarded as comprising of two eras, delineated by the departure of original frontman Fish in late 1988 and subsequent arrival of replacement Steve Hogarth in early 1989. ...
- "The internet makes it possible to get rid of the middleman, once and for all!" — Dean Friedman
Discography - The Treehouse Journals (2002)
- Songs For Grownups (1998)
- Dean Friedman In Concert – Sheperds Bush Empire (1998)
- Bloomsbury Live! (1995)
- Live! At The Duke of York (1985)
- Rumpled Romeo (1981)
- 'Well, Well,' Said The Rocking Chair (1978)
- Dean Friedman (1977)
- Music From 'Boon' - TV Soundtrack
- I Bought A Vampire Motorcyle - Soundtrack
- Dean's 'Kids Songs'
- A Million Matzoh Balls
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