Bands to emerge from other major British cities included The Animals from Newcastle on Tyne, The Moody Blues and Spencer Davis Group from Birmingham, and Them from Belfast.

Waller's first piano solos (" Muscle Shoals Blues " and " Birmingham Blues ") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.

The Moody Blues formed on 4 May 1964, in Erdington, Birmingham, England.

The five appeared as the Moody Blues for the first time in Birmingham in 1964.

The Moody Blues performed live at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 which raised money for the Birmingham Children's Hospital.

The central theme of Rhapsody in Blue is used as a riff in The Electric Light Orchestra's " Birmingham Blues " off their 1977 hit album Out of the Blue.

Bands to emerge from other major British cities included The Animals from Newcastle ( with the keyboards of Alan Price and vocals of Eric Burdon ), The Moody Blues and Spencer Davis Group from Birmingham ( the latter largely a vehicle for the young Steve Winwood ), and Them from Belfast ( with their vocalist Van Morrison ).

After a debut at the Bell Hotel in Stourbridge and further bookings around the Birmingham area, Moody Blues manager Tony Secunda offered to manage them.

Many artists in the realms of Rock, Country, Rhythm and Blues and pop have emerged from Alabama over the past 50 years, including Wilson Pickett, Toni Tennille, Percy Sledge, Tommy Shaw of Styx, Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas, the Southern Rock / Pop / R & B band Wet Willie, the Rock band Brother Cane, the Power Pop band Hotel of Birmingham, Bill McCorvey of the Country band Pirates of the Mississippi, and songwriter / producer Walt Aldridge.

These included bands from Birmingham who were often grouped with the beat movement, the most successful being The Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues.

Following the success of " Inquilaab ", in 1997 Junoon went on their first full-scale tour of the United States, performing from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles where they appeared at the House of Blues and at the New York's Roosevelt Hotel, which was reviewed in the international edition of Newsweek Magazine.

As the band started to gain success after the release of their third studio album Inquilaab, Junoon went on their first full scale tour of the United States, performing from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles where the appeared at the House of Blues and from there to New York's Roosevelt Hotel, which featured in Newsweek Magazine.

Jasper also was one of the comperes for the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986, which featured many local bands such as Electric Light Orchestra and the Moody Blues, with a finale that included George Harrison from the Beatles.

Among the most successful beat acts from Birmingham were The Spencer Davis Group and The Moody Blues ; The Animals came from Newcastle, and Them, featuring Van Morrison, from Belfast.

Some of the most popular were Brown ’ s Ferry Blues, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar and Fifteen Miles from Birmingham.

In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues ( DVD UK, released October 2006 ), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of Birmingham R & B band The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them — a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the band's home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas.

Past performers include: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, United States Coast Guard Band, Indiana University Philharmonic, U. S. Air Force Band, U. S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, U. S. Navy Band Commodores, " President's Own " United States Marine Band, Australian Wind Orchestra, City of Milano Wind Orchestra, Clarence Wind Ensemble, Birmingham Symphonic Winds, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

Greenhoff made a huge impact at Birmingham, scoring fifteen goals in 36 games ( in all competitions ) as the " Blues " finished 1968 – 69 seventh in the Second Division.

Birmingham City eventually secured his permanent registration in January 1996, but he was to play just two games for the Blues when covering for old Peterborough team-mate Bennett and the Dutchman Bart Griemink, before an injury forced his premature retirement from the full-time game.

At the end of the season, Birmingham were promoted back to the Premier League, and Carsley won the Players ' and Junior Blues ' Player of the Season awards.

Denny Laine ( born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, 29 October 1944, Holcombe Road, Tyseley, Birmingham ) is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, guitarist ; lead singer on The Moody Blues ' 1965 debut album The Magnificent Moodies ; and, later, best known for his role as co-founder ( with Paul and Linda McCartney ) of Wings.

Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production " Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine ", which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

The group at this time is sometimes referred to as the " Lunar circle ", though this is a later description used by historians, and the group themselves used a variety of less specific descriptions, including " Birmingham Philosophers " or simply " fellow-schemers ".

Gilliam attended Birmingham High School where he was class president and senior prom King, was voted " Most Likely to Succeed ", and achieved straight A's.

* " Birmingham, Alabama ", a song recorded by Harry Belafonte released on the RCA compilation All-Time Greatest Hits, Vols.

* " Birmingham ", for the AEGON Classic, formerly the DFS Classic, a tennis tournament held in Birmingham, England

A major exhibition, " Turner's Britain ", with material ( including The Fighting Temeraire ) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004.

The event would inspire the African-American poet Dudley Randall's opus, " The Ballad of Birmingham ", as well as jazz musician John Coltrane's song " Alabama ".

* Sheet music for " Come with the gipsy bride ; Heart bowed down ", Birmingham, AL: Cawthon & McIntosh.

* March 15 – " Heartbeat ' 86 ", a charity concert for the Birmingham Children's Hospital, is held at the NEC.

In 1862, Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham, described the region as " black by day and red by night ", because of the smoke and grime generated by the intense manufacturing activity and the glow from furnaces at night.

Residents of Birmingham ( Brummies ) meanwhile often refer to their Black Country neighbours as " Yam Yams ", a reference to the use of " Yow am " ( or yow'm ) instead of " You are ".

" I worked in all the theatres in Birmingham so I'd go to drama school from 10 to 5, then I'd go to the Alex Theatre or the Hippodrome Theatre and I'd dress the stars who were on tour ", she recalled.

In 1956, the first MSc programme in Geotechnical Engineering commenced under the title of " Foundation Engineering ", and has been run annually at the University of Birmingham since.

Though Powell referred to the speech as " the Birmingham speech ", it is otherwise known as the " Rivers of Blood " speech, a title derived from its allusion to a line from Virgil's Aeneid.

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* " Birmingham " ( 1974 ), a song by Randy Newman from the album Good Old Boys

* " Birmingham " ( 1996 ), a song by Amanda Marshall

* " Birmingham " ( 2001 ), a song by Drive-By Truckers from the album Southern Rock Opera

* " Birmingham ( We Are Safe )", a song by the David Crowder * Band from the album Church Music

*" Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six ," a song by The Pogues in support of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four

* The song " Birmingham Sunday ", composed by Richard Farina and most famously recorded by Joan Baez in 1964, chronicled the events and aftermath of the bombing.

* The song " Ronnie and Neil " on the Drive-By Truckers ' album Southern Rock Opera includes the line " church blows up in Birmingham, four little black girls killed, for no goddamn good reason ".

* The song " Birmingham Jail " by Chatham County Line on the album IV.

Edislia Rombley's 1998 entry ( Hemel en Aarde ) remains the Netherlands ' most successful post-1975 song, finished fourth in Birmingham.

" Lost and Found " ( which Grant described as " an urban love song ") became the first single to promote the collection, and would reach # 12 in the UK singles chart in May 2006, after completing their delayed winter tour, which ended at the LG Arena in Birmingham in front of 8, 000 fans.

* " Home Taping's Killing Music " is also the title of a short song by Misty's Big Adventure, a band from Birmingham, which takes the implications of this slogan to their illogical conclusion.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

The Ani DiFranco song Hello Birmingham, from her 1999 album To The Teeth, was written as a response to the Slepian murder.

Shaun's arrangement of St. Patricks Breastplate titled ' The Deer's Cry ', first used on the soundtrack of the TV documentary ' Who Bombed Birmingham ' and later included on his album The Pilgrim, is probably his most requested song.

* Umphrey's Mcgee covered the song during a performance at the Birmingham Southern College on 4 / 9 / 05, however they have played it many times before.

Birmingham City have also adapted the song and their fans sing the song about Chris Burke.