The piano riff for " Rikki " was lifted directly from the title track to Song for My Father by hard bop pianist Horace Silver.

Dave and his brother worked out the famous two-chord riff of their 1964 hit, " You Really Got Me ", on the piano in the front room.

A version by Art of Noise ( with guest artist Duane Eddy reprising his original 1959 performance on twang guitar taking the piano riff ) earned a Grammy Award in 1987.

The new arrangement slowed down and reworked the original riff and dispensed with the piano coda.

The song's familiar guitar riff is featured on a series of TV adverts for Vauxhall / Opel cars, while the extended piano coda was featured prominently in Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas.

The opening piano riff to the title track was used extensively in the MTV reality series The Real World: San Francisco during scenes involving the hospitalization of Pedro Zamora.

With a propulsive yet contemplative piano riff and the refrain, That's just the way it is / Some things will never change / That's just the way it is / But don't you believe them, the song described aspects of the American Civil Rights movement and institutional racism.

This version had only the piano riff as the main instrument and was recorded in London for Island Records in 1973 with Peter Tosh and some unknown female backing singers.

Two cover versions, by Tenor Fly ( incorporating the piano riff from Nina Simone's " My Baby Just Cares for Me "), and the cast of Coronation Street, both reached the charts in 1995.

*" The Honeydripper " by Joe Liggins, recorded on April 20, 1945, synthesized boogie-woogie piano, jazz, and the riff from the folk chestnut " Shortnin ' Bread ", into an exciting dance performance that topped the R & B " race " charts for 18 weeks ( a record later shared with Jordan's " Choo Choo Ch ' Boogie ") and also made the pop charts.

The song is a piano-driven ballad ; the song also contains a piano riff.

Using a powerful repeating piano riff, 12-string guitar, some organ playing, and a dramatic orchestral string arrangement, the song was suggestive enough to spark some controversy.

Built around a piano riff, the song builds into a huge, synthesiser-heavy chorus.

" Paste Magazine praised the song, saying “ Speed of Sound, the first single from their big-stakes follow-up, X & Y, reveals the hand they ’ re playing: a piano riff as memorable as the one in “ Clocks ,” ringing guitars, martial drums, orchestral pomp and, in the center, Chris Martin ’ s keening vocal, so vulnerable and yet forceful enough to stand out from the mass of sonic detail.

" 13th Floor / Growing Old " contains a " Prince-ish " piano riff.

* Swedish DJ Eric Prydz and Australian producer Daniel R Muller released his single Pjanoo in 2008, which contains a piano riff inspired by Rushen's " I Was Tired Of Being Alone "

Son piano is more varied than salsa piano which is more formulaic and holds on to a single riff much longer.

The So So Def remix does use the sample of " Hey DJ ", but in a different manner: both the album and Bad Boy remixes use the piano riff from " Hey DJ ", while the So So Def remix uses the line " Hey JD, won't you play that song, keep them dancing, dancing all night.

The track opens with solemn guitar chords and the sound of bubbling liquid before being overlaid with a beat and a piano riff.

A repeat of the blues progression / guitar riff instrumental section, augmented by piano brings the song into a bridge before returning to a repeat of the first vocal section.

" The main piano riff in the Radiohead song " Karma Police " is inspired by the piano in this song.

Primarily by John Lennon ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ), and finished in the studio by Lennon and McCartney, the song was recorded during the filming of the " Lady Madonna " promotional video, and like " Lady Madonna " is one of the few Beatles ' songs to revolve around a piano riff.

Also in London at this time was Jan Ladislav Dussek, who, like Clementi, encouraged piano makers to extend the range and other features of their instruments, and then fully exploited the newly opened possibilities.

She then transferred as a piano student to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, in the hope of finding a band with which to sing.

He would play a strange-sounding piano tune from sheet music, looking increasingly confused ; turning the sheet upside down, he would then play the actual tune, flashing a joyful smile of accomplishment to the audience ( he had, at first, been literally playing the actual tune upside down ).

Beiderbecke switched between cornet and piano on that number, and then in September played only piano for his recording of " In A Mist ".

Stanley Jordan began his music career at age six, studying piano, then shifted his focus to guitar at age eleven.

At the age of fourteen, he began working as a piano player in a brothel ( or as it was referred to then, a sporting house.

His clumsy attempts at solving the case frequently lead to misfortune for himself and others ; in the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, he cannot even interview witnesses to a crime without falling down stairs, getting his hand caught in first a medieval knight's gauntlet and then a vase, knocking a witness senseless ( and voiceless ), destroying a priceless piano or accidentally shooting another officer in the backside.

After leaving school, he gave piano lessons in Cardiff, and then moved to London in 1913.

He turned down a music professorship in Tunisia then returned to the Conservatoire in 1898 and started his studies with Gabriel Fauré, determined to focus on composing rather than piano playing.

Two years later, Ravel completed his Rapsodie espagnole, his first major " Spanish " piece, written first for piano four hands and then scored for orchestra.

Turner convinced his mother to pay for him to have piano lessons with a teacher ; however he did not take to the formal style of playing, instead spending the money in a pool hall, then learning boogie-woogie from Perkins.

In 1995, Steinway Musical Properties, parent company of Steinway, merged with the Selmer Company to form Steinway Musical Instruments, which acquired the flute manufacturer Emerson in 1997, then piano keyboard maker Kluge in 1998, and the Steinway Hall in 1999.

" In November 1851 Bache went to live with Mellon, who was then living in London, and in 1852 was given a contract by Addison, Hollier and Lucas to write light piano pieces ; he turned out these works in considerable numbers.

A few months later, encouraged by her brother, who believed his niece should try her luck in " the picture business ", then operating largely on the East Coast, Edith sold her daughter's piano and bought three train tickets for New York.

He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and then studied, 1930 – 33, at the Royal College of Music under John Ireland ( composition ) and Arthur Benjamin ( piano ).

He was educated first at Highgate School ( 1911 – 17 ) and then at the Royal Academy of Music ( 1918 – 22 ), where he studied composition under Frederick Corder and piano with Tobias Matthay.

Nor is any ' nationalistic ' impulse easily discernible in the incidental music for Serov's play Oedipus in Athens, on which he worked between the ages of 19 and 22 ( and then abandoned unfinished ), or in the Intermezzo in modo classico for piano solo ( revised and orchestrated in 1867 ).

By then, Basie's sound was characterized by a " jumping " beat and the contrapuntal accents of his own piano.

Stan and Ollie then heft the piano back up the stairs.

He also played piano obsessively after school, deconstructing the harmonies of The Four Freshmen by listening to short segments of their songs on a phonograph, then working to recreate the blended sounds note by note on the keyboard.

He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).

Also in 1928, Poulenc recorded his Trois mouvements perpétuels and the Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, and then Le bestiaire.

1920 – 30 was the decade that saw the player piano reach its peak, and then its rapid decline.

With the addition of a piano player ( briefly Bob Sheff and then Scott Thurston ), the Stooges toured for several months, starting in February 1973.