OstinAllegro
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@ That was meant to be "Who" are your friends in the picture. They don't look like gerbils.
9:08 AM May 23rd
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@ Why are your friends in the picture, Alleby?
9:06 AM May 23rd
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Can't Help Falling in Love based on Plaisir d'Amour by Martini was also a hit for Andy Williams, Stylistics, UB40 and one other. Who?
2:04 PM Apr 7th
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1962 was a golden year for classical-based pop music. That year saw Can't Help Falling in Love by based on Plaisir d'Amour by Martini
2:00 PM Apr 7th
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April 1962 B Bumble & The Stingers in UK chart with Nut Rocker. Pop instrumental based on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Reaches #1 in May
1:57 PM Apr 7th
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@ Tony Banks - yet another rock musician turned classical getting undue attention from CfM. He'd be nowhere if not already famous.
6:32 AM Mar 19th
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@ Andre Rieu again. Yawn. Time to go back to the system you had where there was a separate "artist" chart. This is so tedious.
12:44 PM Mar 18th
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I love this pop version of the Cat's Duet, allegedly by Rossini. Much more fun than the usual stuffy classical versions
2:00 AM Mar 16th
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Yet another rock star getting his "classical" music played by @ .Music that would be ignored but for the composer's ready made fame
1:48 AM Mar 7th
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@ Did you really need to retweet foul language from viz?
3:05 PM Feb 17th
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@ you haven't answered my question- does a vote for Nimrod count as a vote for the entire Enigma Variations In
2:11 AM Feb 1st
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@ so if someone votes for Nimrod does that count as a vote for Enigma Variations? How does the system work?
2:13 AM Jan 30th
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@ And Neil Diamond's 'Song Sung Blue' was inspired by Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21
2:32 AM Dec 1st, 2011
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Also based on Jupiter from Holst's Planets was "Joybringer" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1973
6:40 AM Oct 22nd, 2011
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World in Union, the pop anthem for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, was based on Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst
6:31 AM Oct 22nd, 2011
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The melody heard in Albinoni's Adagio in G minor is not by Albinoni. It was written by musicologist Remo Giazotto in 1958
6:26 AM Oct 22nd, 2011
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The 2nd part of the the track "Harm" by "Loney Dear" uses the melody from the start of Albinoni's Adagio in G minor.
6:23 AM Oct 22nd, 2011
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@ Beethoven doesn't speak to me - he shouts.
7:06 AM Aug 15th, 2011
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Summer 1981 saw "Hooked on Classics" get to No 2 in the UK charts. This was a medly of famous classics to a disco beat. RPO with Louis Clark
12:58 AM Jul 23rd, 2011
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Summer 1961, Petula Clark was at No 3 in the UK charts with "Romeo", a song based on "Salome" (1919) by the Austrian composer Robert Stolz
12:52 AM Jul 23rd, 2011
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- Name Ostin Allegro
- Location UK
- Web http://www.allegr...
- Bio Creator of the Pop Meets The Classics website
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