There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.

The end result is a song that retains familiar phrases and lyrics, but offers something new.

Other variants make significantly more changes in order to rhyme with zed, and even alter the rest of the song to fit a new rhythm.

Stephen Sondheim wrote the song " Comedy Tonight " for this new opening.

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

It is unclear when exactly is the song first sung by new recruits, but it is assumed to be sometime after completing training.

It contained hit songs " Halil İbrahim Sofrası " and " Kol Düğmeleri ", a new version of the artist's very first song.

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

Mariano Egaña, Chilean Minister in London, acting on the criticism that Robles ' song was receiving, asked Carnicer to compose a new hymn with Bernardo de Vera's original text.

At one of the concerts, they debuted their first new song since 1986, " You're Such a Fake ".

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to explain putting a song in a rape scene for money to his teenage daughter … The deal was pushed through by a new business manager the other three hired.

The Dead Kennedys performed what appears to be their first new song in 24 years, " You're Such a Fake ", during their October 16, 2010, concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D. C.

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Among the singles from the album was " Through Being Cool ," written as a reaction to their newfound fame from " Whip It ," an attack on their new fans that misinterpreted the song — and Devo's — message.

Casale said that this song was chosen from a batch of songs that the band was working on, and that also this is the closest the band has been to a new album.

A new top 20 hit, " That Was Then, This Is Now " was released ( though Jones did not perform on the song ) as well as an album, Pool It !.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

A new song called " Sumiregusa " (" Wild Violet ") was based on a Japanese poem by Roma Ryan.

November 2008 saw the release of And Winter Came ... with a new video for the song " Trains and Winter Rains ".

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

In 2010, singer Rihanna sampled " One By One " on a song from her new album Loud.

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

The new approach did not secure immediate approval, but it was endorsed by the House of Lords in Quin & Axtens v Salmon AC 442 and has since received general acceptance.

In order to have boltholes or decoys in case of attack, the Time Lords have created nine separate planet Gallifreys ( it even hinted that the original Gallifrey may at some point be reduced to ruins ) and special looms to constantly produce new soldiers.

A century later the victorious William of Normandy received the surrender of the surviving senior English Lords and Clergy, at Berkhamsted, resulting in a new Anglicised title of William the Conqueror.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

In 1977, he had remained in the House of Commons, with Dennis Skinner, while other MPs walked to the Lords to hear the Queen's speech opening the new parliament.

Second, the Bill reduced the Lords ' power by eliminating many of their pocket boroughs and creating new ones where they had no influence.

The Court of Requests, between the two Houses, became the new home of the Lords in 1801.

The mediaeval House of Lords chamber, which had been the target of the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was demolished as part of this work in order to create a new Royal Gallery and ceremonial entrance at the southern end of the palace.

Next door, the Herrenhaus, or Prussian House of Lords ( the Upper House of the Prussian State Parliament ), occupied a former porcelain factory for a while, before moving to an impressive new building erected on the site of the former Mendelssohn family home in 1899 – 1904 by Friedrich Schulze Colditz ( 1843 – 1912 ).

With this new western threat, the faction of the Lords of the South grow restless.

Recent constitutional changes saw a new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom come into being in October 2009 that took on the appeal functions of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

Later in 1968, when the government published its Bills for the new session, Powell was angry at Heath's acceptance of the plan drawn up by the Conservative MP Iain Macleod and Labour's Richard Crossman to reform the Lords, titled the Parliament ( No. 2 ) Bill.

The new version passed in the House of Commons by even larger majorities in March 1832 ; it was once again sent up to the House of Lords.

The ministers believed that they were left with only one alternative: to create a large number of new peerages, swamping the House of Lords with pro-reform votes.

By abstaining from further votes, they allowed the legislation to pass in the House of Lords, and the Crown was not forced to create new peers.

Some aristocrats complained that, in the future, the government could compel them to pass any bill, simply by threatening to swamp the House of Lords with new peerages.

The nation's landowners ( well represented in the House of Lords ) were intensely angry at the new taxes.

Lloyd George was instrumental in introducing the Welsh Church Act which disestablished, i. e., secularized, Wales though on the outbreak of War, postponed until 1920, removing the opportunity of the six Welsh Bishops in the new Church in Wales to apply ex officio to sit in the House of Lords and removing ( disendowing ) certain pre-1662 property rights.

In 1986 and 1987, only three Greyhawk modules were released, A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords, S1-4 Realms of Horror and GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, all being collections of previously published modules rather than new material.

In modern practice, no new hereditary peerages are created ( except for members of the Royal Family ), but only life peerages which carry the personal right to sit and vote in the House of Lords.

In Angel: After the Fall, Spike has adjusted to Los Angeles ' new status as a literal hell on Earth ; he and Illyria both serve together as the Demon Lords of Beverly Hills, living in the Playboy Mansion after the death of Hugh Hefner and served by a harem of human and demon females known collectively as the " Spikettes.

Destiny lost the Book of Destiny in the opening storyline of the new Brave and the Bold series, and when Lobo and Supergirl arrive in his garden he speaks about how it was intended to reach the four men who existed outside its pages, in the process waylaid by the Luck Lords in a bid to reshape reality.

The determination of each Appellate Committee was normally final, but the House of Lords ( in common with the Court of Appeal and High Court of England and Wales ) retained an inherent jurisdiction to reconsider any of its previous decisions, this includes the ability to " vacate " that decision and make a new one.

Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which came into force on 1 October 2009, abolished the judicial functions of the House of Lords ( except on impeachment ), and transferred them to a new body, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

He was elevated to the House of Lords with the title of Viscount Stansgate in 1941 ; the new wartime coalition government was short of working Labour peers in the upper house.