In addition to the group's two best-known tracks, " White Rabbit " and " Somebody to Love ", the album featured " My Best Friend " by former drummer Skip Spence, Balin's driving " Plastic Fantastic Lover ," and the atmospheric Balin-Kantner ballad " Today ".

The group's first single was Balin's " It's No Secret " ( a tune he wrote with Otis Redding in mind ); the B-side was " Runnin ' Round The World ", the song that led to the band's first clash with RCA, over the lyric " The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

") and the inscription on Balin's tombstone, reading: BALIN FUNDINUL UZBAD KHAZAD-DÛMU, or Balin son of Fundin Lord of Moria.

One of the motivations for Balin's doomed expedition to Moria was the possibility of recovering the ring.

In, during the unsuccessful attempt to recolonize Moria, Balin's party evidently found Durin's Axe.

) The Axe was evidently lost again when Balin's party was destroyed in.

Original manager Matthew Katz was fired in August, sparking a long-running legal battle that continued until 1987, and Balin's friend and roommate Bill Thompson was installed as road manager and temporary band manager.

Slick's recruitment proved pivotal to the Airplane's commercial breakthrough — she possessed a powerful and supple contralto voice that complemented Balin's and was well-suited to the group's amplified psychedelic music, and as a former model, her good looks and stage presence greatly enhanced the group's live impact.

As the group played faster and faster, Morrison spun around wildly until he finally fell senseless on the stage at Marty Balin's feet.

He had also been deeply affected by the death of his friend Janis Joplin and had begun to pursue a healthier lifestyle ; Balin's study of yoga and abstention from drugs and alcohol further distanced him from the other members of the group, whose drug intake continued unabated.

Balin's reluctance to tour had kept the band off the road for over a year, and Slick's alcoholism increasingly became a problem, which led to two consecutive nights of disastrous concerts in Germany in June 1978.

The band also added Skip Spence on guitar and began to rehearse at Marty Balin's club, the Matrix.

For instance, in Moria, an illustration of the runic text on Balin's gravestone is given.

A new children's play area called Balin's Jungleland was also added.

* Site du collège Fernand Balin d ' Anse Bertrand – Official site of Anse-Bertrand Fernand Balin's Senior High School.

First sighted by Boromir, the Troll barges through the open doors, and smashes much of the Chamber, including Balin's tomb, in the ensuing fight.

Lurking in a lake beneath the western walls of the dwarf-realm Moria, it is said to have appeared after the damming of the river Sirannon, and was first recorded by Balin's dwarf company 30 or so years before the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring.

After journeying further into the mines, the Fellowship found the Book of Mazarbul, a record of the dwarf Balin's failed expedition to reclaim Moria and its eventual downfall.

An artist's rendition of Balin's tomb.

Balin's colony was overrun by orcs soon afterward, and Balin was killed by an orc archer in the Dimrill Dale in 2994.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, the title characters discover Balin's tomb in the Chamber of Mazarbul.

Gimli takes up Balin's axe when the Fellowship discover the Chamber of Mazarbul.

In the book there is no reference to Gimli changing his weapon, which is not described in detail ; there is also no mention of Balin's axe.

Lucky did not match the performance of Balin on the Billboard charts, and Balin's contract with EMI ended.

The album included the Miracles tribute song, " Sweet Harmony " and the hit ballad " Baby Come Close ".

One of the Miracles ' first Tamla singles, the ballad " Bad Girl ", became the Miracles ' first song to chart that October when it was licensed to and issued nationally by Chess Records.

With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz.

Despite the rise of the grunge and alternative rock, adult contemporary-styled ballad hits include " Bed of Roses " and " Always " helped sustain the band ’ s popularity in the 90's.

However, it was in English language and British song that Dawson was especially famous, and his career helped to preserve the concert recital, and many of the older ballad type of songs, at a time when other forms of popular music were displacing the Victorian standards.

The album continued to sell well with the release of " L ' Instant X ", " California " ( a jazzy-pop ballad bolstered with bass guitar featuring a highly acclaimed video directed by Abel Ferrara ), " Comme j ' ai mal " and " Rêver ", which helped the album reach Nº1 in January 1997 – 16 months after its release – becoming Diamond.

Clapton originally wrote " Layla " as a ballad, with lyrics describing his unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, but the song became a " rocker " when Allman reportedly helped compose the song's signature riff.

Delia Murphy, who was the wife of the ambassador and in her day a well-known ballad singer, was one of those who helped O ' Flaherty.

This included his poem and ballad " Home, Sweet Home ", which helped make the opera an instantaneous success and Payne a famous man.

Slim Dusty ( 1927 – 2003 ) was known as the King of Australian Country Music, and helped to popularise the Australian bush ballad.

They helped to establish the new teen idols and wrote the so-called " teeny bopper songs ", which " blends soft rock with pop ballad, is not explicitly physical and only hints at sexual interaction.

Films such as Cohen's High Lonesome Sound — the subject of which was Kentucky banjoist and ballad singer Roscoe Holcomb — helped give enthusiasts a sense of what it was like to see Appalachian musicians perform.

* The multi-faceted novel Red Shift by Alan Garner can be read as a subtle reworking of the ballad.

That same year, UB40's reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad Red Red Wine would top the Billboard's Pop Singles chart and, like the Monkees ' version of " I'm a Believer ", become better known than Diamond's original version.

The band were renamed " Paul McCartney and Wings " for the 1973 album Red Rose Speedway, which yielded the first U. S. No. 1 Wings hit, the romantic ballad " My Love ".

John Wesley Harding updated the song into a modern ballad about wandering and lost love as " The Red Rose and the Briar " on his album Here Comes the Groom.

" Country Song " ( also known as " The Red Queen ") is a ballad filled with chess metaphors.

The most famous among these are " The Song of Shchors " ( 1935 ), telling the tale of Ukrainian Red Army commander Nikolai Shchors, and " Partisan Zheleznyak " ( 1936 ), which combines the energetic rhythms of a military marching song with elements of a mournful ballad as it describes Commander Zheleznyak's heroic death in battle ( the song opens and closes with a stanza about Zheleznyak's lonely burial mound in the steppes ).

The fight is remembered by a plaque on the Red Lion pub in Saint Columb Major, Cornwall, where Polkinghorne was landlord and by a ballad entitled " A New Song on the Wrestling Match between Cann and Polkinghorne ".

* Song & Style: " Akai Nikkichou " ( Red Diary )-a pop ballad

Huw Pudner and Bob Thomas have written a folk ballad called The Lockkeepers Daughter about the Neath canal, and Pudner worked with Chris Hastings to produce a folk ballad called The Red Jacket Stream about the Tennant Canal.

And that was how it should have been, because this was Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, whose deeds are celebrated in song and ballad wherever seafarers gather.

A first-person ballad about a woman wishing for her husband to come back home from fighting war overseas, " Come Home Soon " also inspired sales of special " Come Home Soon " bracelets, the proceeds of which went to the American Red Cross.