"Boy" is a ballad performed by British duo Erasure. Originally recorded in typical synthpop/Erasure style in 1997, the song appeared on their album Cowboy. In 2006, Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell released Union Street, an album containing past Erasure songs reinterpreted in acoustic and country and western style.
Joined by three additional non-Union Street tracks, "Boy" was released by Mute Records as the "Boy EP" — its extended track total made it ineligible for the UK singles chart. The "Boy EP" was released as an album teaser, several weeks before Union Street. In the United States, "Boy" was made available by Mute as a digital download only.
Also contained in the release was an acoustic version of Erasure's 1985 song "Cry So Easy", found on their debut album Wonderland. Here, Bell's original vocal was used with new instrumentation. A live recording of an acoustic version of "I Bet You're Mad At Me" is also exclusive to this release (the song originally on the Nightbird album), as is "Jacques Cousteau", an electronic Vince Clarke instrumental.
Boy (stylized BOY) is a Swiss/German pop duo founded in 2007 by Swiss singer Valeska Steiner and German bassist Sonja Glass. The two met while at a pop-music course at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2005. The band initially played concerts exclusively, before being discovered and signed to Herbert Grönemeyer's label, Grönland Records, in 2011.
Their debut album, Mutual Friends (Gold-certified in Germany), was produced by Philipp Steinke and released in the autumn of 2011. The band sings entirely in English in a style reminiscent of that of Leslie Feist.
In the UK, Mutual Friends was released by Decca in June 2012. The North American release of the album is set for February 2013 on Nettwerk Records.
Boy won the Hamburg Musician Prize HANS in 2011 in the category Hamburgs Newcomer of the Year, and their album Mutual Friends won the 2012 European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).
The duo's song "Little Numbers" was also featured in the Lufthansa Airline's Business Class advertisement in mid-2012. In 2013 the song was at No. 4 in the Japan Hot 100.
Edgar Zivanai Tekere (1 April 1937 – 7 June 2011), nicknamed "2 Boy", was a Zimbabwean politician. He was the second and last Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their estrangement.
Pre-Independence
During the war, Tekere served on the ZANU high command, or Dare reChimurenga. He was detained by the Rhodesian government at Gonakudzingwa.
Early life
Edgar Zivanai "2-Boy" (nom de guerre) Tekere was an early ally of Robert Mugabe within the Zimbabwe African National Union (of which he was a founder member in 1964) during the fight for independence and against the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith. Mugabe and Tekere, having served eleven and a half years in Hwa-Hwa Penitentiary & Gonakudzingwa State Prison as political prisoners of Ian Smith's government, immediately left upon release and crossed the Eastern Highlands Border in Mutare through the mountains by foot, following the Gairezi river trail to Seguranza military camp in Mozambique, to mastermind and kickstart guerilla warfare, aided by Samora Machel, in 1975. The Bush War or Second Chimurenga raged on. harassment of Tekere's close family members and relatives by the platoon of Rhodesian Front Soldiers, Selous Scouts, Police Special Branch and Central Intelligence Organisation, under the auspices of Ian Smith.
Erasure is a form of found poetry or found art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas. Erasure is a way to give an existing piece of writing a new set of meanings, questions, or suggestions. It lessens the trace of authorship but requires purposeful decision making. What does one want done to the original text? Does a gesture celebrate, denigrate, subvert, or efface the source completely? One can erase intuitively by focusing on musical and thematic elements or systematically by following a specific process regardless of the outcome.
Several contemporary writer/artists have adopted this form to achieve a range of cognitive or symbolic effects.
Examples
Doris Cross appears to have been among the earliest to utilize this technique, beginning in 1965 with her "Dictionary Columns" book art. d.a. levy also worked in this mode at about the same time.
In mathematical logic, a logical system has the erasure property if and only if no subset of the propositions can be added to another subset of the propositions to refute a consequence.
For instance, if proposition A means "the store is open from 8:00 to 22:00" and proposition B means "except Tuesdays", the system AB does not have erasure.
An overtly experimental and introspective album, Erasure contains eleven, mostly mid-tempo tracks that differed from their past output of shiny, three-minute pop songs. Most tracks clocked in at five minutes or more, several contained long synth interludes, and guest artists included the London Community Gospel Choir and performance artist Diamanda Galás.
Although appreciated for its experimental nature, Erasure marked the beginning of Erasure's slide from the peak of their popularity in the mainstream music world. Coming off four consecutive number-one albums in the UK, this album failed to hit the top ten and two single releases also missed the UK top ten. After a successful top twenty debut on the Billboard 200 for their previous album I Say I Say I Say, Erasure debuted and peaked at number eighty-two in the U.S. and generated no Hot 100 singles. In Germany the album also peaked lower than previous albums, at number eighty-seven.
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Lena Philipsson
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You Opened My Eyes
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Lena Philipsson Unga Pojkar & Äldre Män [Sexy Performance]
Young boys and older men - Lena Philipssons sexy performance with humor
Swedish blog about Lena:
http://bacardiboy.blogg.se/lenaph/
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Take It or Leave It
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Talking In Your Sleep
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Lena Philipsson - Dansa I Neon
Lena Philipsson live performance at Melodifestivalen 1987.
published: 10 Oct 2006
Kom
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Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Writer: Vicki Benckert
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Jag måste skynda mig på
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Jag måste skynda mig på · Lena · Orup
Lena 20 år
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Released on: 2007-11-07
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Lena Philipsson - 07 Why (My Name 1989)
Lena Philipssons album "My Name" from 1989 was one of her greatest albums so far. It contained several songs that became huge hits in Sweden.
Lena Philipsson är som bäst när hon sjunger på engelska, det är dags för henne att ge ut ett nytt engelskspråkigt album efter de senaste årens svenska låtar. Det är hög tid att bryta upp och gå vidare från samarbetet med Orup som varat alldeles för länge.
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My Name
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My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
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Together We're Alone
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My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
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Boy · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
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Lyricist: HeleneTh...
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Boy · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
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Lyricist: HeleneThalinsson
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Boy · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
℗ 1984 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Lyricist: HeleneThalinsson
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You Opened My Eyes · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
Writer: Bo Wastesson
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Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Take It or Leave It · Lena Philipsson
Talking In Your Sleep
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Take It or Leave It · Lena Philipsson
Talking In Your Sleep
℗ 1988 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
Released on: 1988-05-26
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Composer: Per Gessle
Producer: Torgny Söderberg
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Take It or Leave It · Lena Philipsson
Talking In Your Sleep
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Composer: Lasse Andersson
Composer: Per Gessle
Producer: Torgny Söderberg
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Kom · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Lena Philipsson
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Writer: Vicki Benckert
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Kom · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Lena 20 år
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Lena 20 år
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Lena 20 år
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Lena Philipssons album "My Name" from 1989 was one of her greatest albums so far. It contained several songs that became huge hits in Sweden.
Lena Philipsso...
Lena Philipssons album "My Name" from 1989 was one of her greatest albums so far. It contained several songs that became huge hits in Sweden.
Lena Philipsson är som bäst när hon sjunger på engelska, det är dags för henne att ge ut ett nytt engelskspråkigt album efter de senaste årens svenska låtar. Det är hög tid att bryta upp och gå vidare från samarbetet med Orup som varat alldeles för länge.
Lena Philipssons album "My Name" from 1989 was one of her greatest albums so far. It contained several songs that became huge hits in Sweden.
Lena Philipsson är som bäst när hon sjunger på engelska, det är dags för henne att ge ut ett nytt engelskspråkigt album efter de senaste årens svenska låtar. Det är hög tid att bryta upp och gå vidare från samarbetet med Orup som varat alldeles för länge.
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My Name
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My Name · Lena Philipsson
My Name
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Released on: 1989-10-03
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My Name · Lena Philipsson
My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
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Together We're Alone · Lena Philipsson
My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
Released on: 1989-10-03
Producer: ...
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My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
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My Name
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Boy · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
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You Opened My Eyes · Lena Philipsson
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Take It or Leave It · Lena Philipsson
Talking In Your Sleep
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Composer: Per Gessle
Producer: Torgny Söderberg
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Kom · Lena Philipsson
Lena Philipsson
℗ 1988 Mariann a Warner Music Group Company
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Lena 20 år
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Released on: 2007-11-07
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Lena Philipssons album "My Name" from 1989 was one of her greatest albums so far. It contained several songs that became huge hits in Sweden.
Lena Philipsson är som bäst när hon sjunger på engelska, det är dags för henne att ge ut ett nytt engelskspråkigt album efter de senaste årens svenska låtar. Det är hög tid att bryta upp och gå vidare från samarbetet med Orup som varat alldeles för länge.
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My Name
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Together We're Alone · Lena Philipsson
My Name
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Sweden AB
Released on: 1989-10-03
Producer: Torgny Söderberg
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"Boy" is a ballad performed by British duo Erasure. Originally recorded in typical synthpop/Erasure style in 1997, the song appeared on their album Cowboy. In 2006, Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell released Union Street, an album containing past Erasure songs reinterpreted in acoustic and country and western style.
Joined by three additional non-Union Street tracks, "Boy" was released by Mute Records as the "Boy EP" — its extended track total made it ineligible for the UK singles chart. The "Boy EP" was released as an album teaser, several weeks before Union Street. In the United States, "Boy" was made available by Mute as a digital download only.
Also contained in the release was an acoustic version of Erasure's 1985 song "Cry So Easy", found on their debut album Wonderland. Here, Bell's original vocal was used with new instrumentation. A live recording of an acoustic version of "I Bet You're Mad At Me" is also exclusive to this release (the song originally on the Nightbird album), as is "Jacques Cousteau", an electronic Vince Clarke instrumental.
Olly and Danny sought inspiration from 80s acts such as Erasure, Adamski and Pet ShopBoys when penning the 'magical' song ... 'We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80's like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys.'.
Olly and Danny sought inspiration from 80s acts such as Erasure, Adamski and Pet ShopBoys when penning the 'magical' song ... 'We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80's like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys.'.
Olly and Danny were inspired by 80s acts Erasure, Adamski and Pet ShopBoys when penning the "magical" song ... "We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80’s like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys.".
Olly and Danny were inspired by 80s acts Erasure, Adamski and Pet ShopBoys when penning the 'magical' song ... 'We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80's like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet Shop Boys.'.
Alexander said the song was written last summer, starting off with the title word because “it just popped into my head and I liked it” ... “We were inspired by a lot of music we love from the 80’s like Erasure, Adamski and of course Pet ShopBoys.”.