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History 1975–1979: Roots and early years Lead vocalist and co-founder Andy McCluskey in 2011 Founders Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys met at primary school in Meols in the early 1960s, and in the mid-1970s, as teenagers, they were involved in different local groups but shared a distaste for guitar-driven rock with a macho attitude popular among their friends at the time. By 1975, McCluskey ...
Show Me the Way to Go Home. " Show Me the Way to Go Home " is a popular song written in 1925 by the English songwriting team Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, using the pseudonym "Irving King". The song is said to have been written on a train journey from London by Campbell and Connelly. They were tired from the traveling and had a few alcoholic ...
That's the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel. Every night when I go out, The monkey's on the table, Take a stick and knock it off, Pop! Goes the weasel. A penny for a spool of thread A penny for a needle, That's the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel. All around the cobbler's bench The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey thought ...
Spasm band. A spasm band is a musical group that plays a variety of Dixieland, trad jazz, jug band, or skiffle music. The term "spasm" applied to any band (often made up of children) who made musical instruments out of objects not usually employed for such. The first spasm bands were formed on the streets of New Orleans in the late eighteen ...
Razzle Dazzle, at 248 Main St., is scheduled to close at the end of the month. Until then, everything in the store is marked down in a going out of business sale, including greeting cards for 25 ...
Kansas City Shuffle. A " Kansas City Shuffle " is an advanced form of a bait-and-switch confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the " mark 's" arrogance and/or self-loathing. It is also the title of a 1926 jazz song named after the scheme.
Dazzle Multimedia also sold an internal, PCI-card version of the Dazzle, under the name Snazzi.: 73 Dazzle Multimedia was acquired in majority by SCM Microsystems, a German-American technology company, in 1999. The first Dazzle recorder to support USB was the Digital Video Creator (DVC) 50 and 80 models, first released in March 2001.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...