Some of Murakami's best-known works include Norwegian Wood ( 1987 ) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( 1994 – 1995 ).

* Haruki Murakami-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

:* Two patients share names with actual authors: Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer and translator whose works include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian novelist and playwright.

* In Haruki Murakami ’ s novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( 1994-1995 ), the character Mamiya is traumatised by having witnessed a colleague being flayed to death in Manchukuo in the late 1930s.

* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a novel by Haruki Murakami

While having a similar personality and background, the character is not related to the one in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle of the same name.

In May 2010, Harvill Secker published the Limited Centenary Edition of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to celebrate its one hundred years of publishing.

* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle-Literary Encyclopedia

* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( The New Canon )

* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Multimedia Theatre Production Stephen Earnhart's multimedia adaptation of Murakami's novel

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CD 3-way split with The Wind-Up Bird and 1 Mile North ( Music Fellowship )-2004

Due to his uncanny abilities, he has found part-time work in his old age as a finder of lost cats ( a clear reference to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ).

The main characters are significant departures from the typical protagonist of a Murakami novel, such as Toru Watanabe of Norwegian Wood and Toru Okada of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, who are typically in their 20s or 30s and have rather humdrum personalities.

Wells, which are mentioned often in Murakami's novels and play a prominent role in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, occur several times in Pinball.

There is also a brief discussion of the abuse of a cat, a plot element which recurs elsewhere in Murakami's fiction, especially Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ( in which the search for a missing cat is an important plotline ).

Sam and Mark are now hosting Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up, which features mainly trivia, as well as playing a prank on families.

On May 27, 2010, John Ondrasik announced that he had left Columbia Records and his album Slice would be re-released on Wind-Up Records along with the song " Slice " being released as a single in July 2010.

On August 24, 2010, the band announced that they were leaving Wind-Up after nine years, stating “ We felt it was time for a change.

He was signed to Wind-Up Records less than 15 months after his senior year at Fontainebleau High School.

* The music company Wind-Up Entertainment Inc. houses one music publishing concern called Renfield Music Publishing, and another called Dwight Frye Music, which publishes artists such as Evanescence and Creed.

The 1981 primetime special " Wind-Up Wilma " also shows Bedrock has a baseball team named the Dodgers.

Due to the band's disenchantment with their former record label ( Wind-Up ), they decided to release this disc without the support of a label.

It was released in April 1997 on Wind-Up Records.

Meltzer changed Grass Records ' name to Wind-Up Records, eventually scoring the mainstream success he sought with groups such as Creed and Evanescence.

The Wrens battled for years afterwards to try and regain the rights to the albums in order to make them available again-in 2006 Wind-Up finally relented and re-released Silver and Secaucus on November 14 of that year, although the label retained the rights to the records.

It has released records through Magic Bullet, Conquer the World, Deathwish Inc, Initial, Hydra Head, Victory, Wind-Up, Equal Vision and Burning Heart.

Two further series both having 3 episodes, forced more on specific issues The Last Show Before The Recovery, started on 7 June 2009, which looked at the banking crisis, and The Daily Wind-Up, aired from the 2nd of May until the 4th May 2010, and focused on the 2010 United Kingdom General Election.

Talking Heads-which has since been renamed to " If You Talk Too Much ( My Head Will Explode )", a line from the song's chorus ( a decision Wind-Up made to make the songs more recognizable on the radio )-has since had a new video made, shot in an airport, that was directed by actor Joaquin Phoenix.

People In Planes were in pre-production for their second album for Wind-Up records since they returned from the States in late 2006.

" The album was originally released in 2004 on Some Records, but in 2005 The Exit signed to Wind-Up Records and re-released Home for an Island, adding three new songs " Sun Will Rise in Queens ," " Pressure Cooker " and " Warm Summer Days.

One of the most consistent characters to be found in Lionni ’ s books are mice, such as the star character in his book, Frederick and Alexander in the Caldecott Honor Book, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse.

An empty Cutty Sark box serves as a plot device in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, it is a character's favourite drink in the 1978 novel The Human Factor by Graham Greene and featured prominently in Murakami's novel 1Q84.

* Big Bird's Dance ( December 14, 1969 ) – Big Bird dances to " Minuet of the Robots " by Jean-Jacques Perrey while bird watchers watch him.

She is a patron of the Bird College of Dance, Music & Theatre Performance, based in Sidcup, Kent.

Songs typically played during the Fifth Quarter include " On Wisconsin ," " You've Said It All " ( also known as the " Bud " song, referring to its beginning as a jingle in a Budweiser beer commercial ), " Space Badgers " ( A variation on the opening to Also sprach Zarathustra ), " Dance Little Bird " ( The Chicken Dance ), " Beer Barrel Polka ," " Tequila ," and " Hey Baby.

Sometime in the late 1970s, the song acquired the name " Vogeltanz " ( The Bird Dance ) or " Vogerltanz " ( Little Bird Dance or Birdie Dance ), although these names never caught on seriously in Germany.

On some sheet music and recordings it is called " Dance Little Bird.

Since then the song has become known under numerous other " birdie " names, including " Vogerltanz " ( Bird Dance ), " Danse des Canards ", " Baile de los Pajaritos ," " Chicken Dance ," and " Dance Little Bird ".

The album " Bird Dance " went double-platinum in Canada, and gold in Australia.

Despite other claims as to the name " Chicken Dance ", the name had come about because an Austrian tour guide translated " Bird Dance / Dance Little Bird " and other similar names, from German to English by calling it " The Chicken Dance " when Norm Edlebeck's Band appeared in Austria in the fall of 1981.