In 1974, Led Zeppelin took a break from touring and launched their own record label, Swan Song, named after an unreleased song.

In addition to using Swan Song as a vehicle to promote their own albums, the band expanded the label's roster, signing artists such as Bad Company, The Pretty Things and Maggie Bell.

In 1975, Led Zeppelin's double album Physical Graffiti, was their first release on the Swan Song label.

Category: Swan Song Records artists

Grant wanted them to sign with Led Zeppelin's own production company, Swan Song Records.

His autobiography, Swan Song, was published in 2003 and covers the period up until his retirement from football.

According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

** Swan Song -- Kenneth Branagh, David Parfitt

Since this measure of destruction was no longer imaginary, some of these new works, such as Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7, Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon, and Robert McCammon's Swan Song shun the imaginary science and technology that are the identifying traits of general science fiction.

One of the influential names in the late 1970s – early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCamon had three New York Times bestsellers ( The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song ) and 5 million books in print.

Swan Song.

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ), Wild Wild West ( 1999 ), The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ), Conspiracy ( TV ) ( 2001 ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), Warm Springs ( TV ) ( 2005 ), Valkyrie ( 2008 ), Wallander ( TV series ) ( 2008 – present ), and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ); and directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) ( also starring ), Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) ( also starring ), The Magic Flute ( 2006 ), Sleuth ( 2007 ), and the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ).

* Swan Song ( 1946 ), ( with Ben Hecht )

They have released some of their records on Claypool's Prawn Song Records label, the name of which is a parody of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.

They did lay the groundwork, however, for other major acts to set up similar personal labels and distribution deals including The Rolling Stones ' own label and Led Zeppelin's Swan Song, and all of the Moodies ' studio releases from 1969 to 1999 would bear the Threshold logo on at least one of their format versions.

Swan Song Records was a record label launched by the English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974.

Artists that released material on the Swan Song label during its existence included Led Zeppelin itself ( including later solo releases by band members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ); Bad Company ; The Pretty Things ; Dave Edmunds ; Mirabai ; Maggie Bell ( and the short-lived band she fronted, Midnight Flyer ); Detective ; and Sad Café.

In addition to these artists, two other noted recording acts ( though not signed to the label ) were credited artists on Swan Song singles, both of which were UK hits in 1981: B.

Swan Song ceased active operations in 1983, and now exists only to reissue previously released material.

In January 1974 Led Zeppelin negotiated the agreement with Atlantic Records to set up Swan Song Records.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

By March 1975, Swan Song had four albums ( Bad Company, Silk Torpedo, Physical Graffiti, and Suicide Sal ) in the Billboard Top 200 chart.

) Artists that Swan Song Records wanted to sign but who bowed out to other labels were Roy Harper and blues guitarist Bobby Parker.

* Swan Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, 1987

1987 saw the beginning of a Trumpeter Swan reintroduction programme which is now seeing mating pairs returning to Elk Island, raising hope for a sustainable population.

* 1987: Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon ( tie )

* 1987 Roger Mear & Robert Swan, In the Footsteps of Scott

In 1987, the group collaborated with Swan Arcade to form Blue Murder, who have performed and recorded sporadically with various line-ups to the present day.

Despite adaptations by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 ( Swan Theatre ) and 1987 ( Mermaid Theatre in London ), where the play's setting was altered to take place in the West Indies, most performances of the script in the past 25 years have been by experimental or smaller troupes.

* The Black Swan, by Paula Z. Hogan ( Heinemann Library, 1979 ; Steck-Vaughn, 1987 )

* Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Exhibition History 1975 to April 1987

In 1987, Di Trevis revived the play for the RSC at the Swan Theatre ; Antony Sher played Vindice.

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Brandon — Souris, Dauphin — Swan River, Lisgar — Marquette and Portage — Interlake ridings.

In 1987 Clark was together with Professor Trevor Swan the first recipient of the Distinguished Fellow awards, presented by The Economic Society of Australia.

In 1987, she made her debut as Odette in Swan Lake.

Black Swan has received high praise from film critics, and received a record 12 Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations, four Independent Spirit Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, three SAG nominations, and many more accolades.

Her performance as Lily in Black Swan gained her worldwide accolades, including receiving the Premio Marcello Mastroianni for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

The Society for New Communications Research, in 2008, also recognized UIS with their Award for Excellence in Online Reputation Management. Each year since 2001, the Sloan Consortium has offered one award for " Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Online Learning "-the 2002 award was given to Professor Emeritus Ray Schroeder, the 2003 award was given to Visiting Research Professor Burks Oakley, and the 2006 award was given to the UIS James J. Stukel Distinguished Professor, Karen Swan.

This culminated with his receiving the very first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Swan Bostrom in the period film Come and Get It ( 1936 ).

The film won several awards, including the Grand Prix Prize at the 2003 Golden Swan Awards, the Golden Butterfly Prize for Best Direction at the Isfahan International Children's Film Festival, and a trio ( Best Director, Best Newcomer, and People's Choice Award ) at the Montreal Film Festival.

External recognition has included Queen ’ s Anniversary Prizes for Green Chemistry and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre ( 2006 & 2012 ), Times Higher Education Awards for Innovation in Culture and the Arts ( 2008 ), Entrepreneurial University of the Year ( 2009 ), Engineering Research Team of the Year ( 2010 ), Innovative Teacher of the Year ( 2011 ) and Outstanding Fundraising Team ( 2012 ), and an Athena Swan Institutional Silver Award ( 2012 ).

* Folk Club Award: Black Swan Folk Club, York

* 1999 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical – Swan Lake

* 1999 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Choreography – Swan Lake

* 1999 Tony Award Best Choreography – Swan Lake

* 1999 Tony Award Best Direction of a Musical – Swan Lake

Swan ’ s 1993 novel, The Wives of Bath, ( a darkly humorous tale about a murder in a girls ’ boarding school ) was a finalist for the UK ’ s Guardian Fiction Prize and Ontario ’ s Book Award, and was picked by a U. S. Readers ’ Guide as one of the best novels of the 1990s.

Swan also criticized literary critic David Staines as " a tweedy pooh-bah mired in 19th century literary traditions " when he allegedly disparaged novels by Barbara Gowdy and other Canadian writers chosen by Swan and other jurors for Canada ’ s 1997 Governor General's Award.

In November 2004, he was given a Swan D ' Or Award for a spell of back-to-back hat-tricks.

Zippel contributed lyrics to The Swan Princess ( music by Lex de Azevedo, the song Far Longer than Forever was nominated for a Golden Globe Award ), as well as provided the singing voice of Jean-Bob the Frog, and more notably wrote the lyrics for the Disney films Hercules, with music by Alan Menken ( the song " Go the Distance " received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ) and Mulan, with music by Matthew Wilder.

The Black Swan of Trespass, based on the Ern Malley affair, was produced at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, BSharp, Belvoir, and Tower Room Theatre at the Malthouse in 2005, and earned her a Green Room Award and a MIFA award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

The Black Swan of Trespass won awards for Excellence in Writing and Best Theatre Production from the Melbourne Fringe Festival, plus the Producer ’ s Choice Award from the New York International Fringe festival.