Longtime listeners to Dial-A-Song have counted at least 500 distinct songs and variations recorded by They Might Be Giants, making them one of the most prolific rock bands in history in terms of published material.

* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.

It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.

The band played on most of its singles, including " I'm Into Something Good ", " Listen People ", " Can't You Hear My Heartbeat ", " Leaning on the Lamp Post ", " Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter ", " A Must to Avoid ", " You Won't Be Leaving ", and " I'm Henry VIII, I Am " ( the last said at the time to be " the fastest-selling song in history ").

Oasis ' much anticipated third album, Be Here Now, was released on 21 August 1997 and set a new record as the fastest selling album in UK Chart history.

Oasis ' second album, ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ?, reached the top of the album charts in many countries and their third studio album, Be Here Now, became the fastest-selling album in UK chart history.

DJs Jimmy Savile and Alan Freeman presented the first show, which featured ( in order ) The Rolling Stones with " I Wanna Be Your Man ", Dusty Springfield with " I Only Want to Be with You ", the Dave Clark Five with " Glad All Over ", The Hollies with " Stay ", The Swinging Blue Jeans with " Hippy Hippy Shake " and The Beatles with " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", that week's number one ( throughout its history, the programme always finished with the best-selling single of the week ).

The Jacksons — brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael — the first act in recording history to have their first four major label singles: " I Want You Back ", " ABC ", " The Love You Save ", and " I'll Be There " reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

The album went straight to number one in the Irish Albums Chart, the third highest single-week sales in the history of the charts, behind U2's The Best of 1980-1990 and Oasis ' Be Here Now.

The union chose a dramatic motto that summed up porters ' resentment over their working conditions and their sense of their place in history: " Fight or Be Slaves ".

The band's history and influence are chronicled in the 1993 documentary Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King by Jeff Feuerzeig.

In 2011, the band scored history in Scotland when two of their tracks, " Sunshine on Leith " and " I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles )", were featured on Scotland's Greatest Album ( 2011 ).

Be the recognized authority on U. S. naval history and instill pride in America's naval heritage.

His debut album for No Limit, Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, was the most successful release in the label's history at the time, as it sold over half a million copies in its first week and was certified double platinum in less than three months.

The four-hour seminar presents an overview of the entire gamut of Jewish history, Jewish philosophy, and attempts to answers questions such as, " Why Be Jewish?

*" We Had to Be So Careful " A German Farmer's Recollections of Anti-German Sentiment in World War I ( Oral history courtesy of Latah County Historical Society )

It gives a complete history of The Beatles ' recording sessions, from 4 September 1962, shortly after the Beatles had returned to England from Germany, to 2 April 1970, when their final album, Let It Be, was mixed.

In 2011, Moment was presented with the Be ' chol Lashon Media Award for Carl Hoffman's " Letter from the Philippines ," which chronicles the history of the island's Jews and his rediscovery of Judaism as a foreigner living in Manila.

In 2011, Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby published the first history of the field-Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology.

Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's " Physical ", Chicago's Grammy-nominated " Hard Habit to Break ", " Genie in a Bottle " by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of the Year, Natasha Bedingfield's " These Words ", " The Hardest Thing " by 98 Degrees, " He Loves U Not " by Dream, " Stole " by Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland, The Script's " Breakeven " and " The Man Who Can't Be Moved ", and most recently, American Idol Season 8 Winner Kris Allen's first single debut " Live Like We're Dying ," and " Fight for This Love " by Great Britain's Cheryl Cole.

In 2008, Zinn worked with Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle on creating A People's History of American Empire, a graphic novel that covers various historic subjects from A People's History of the United States as well as Zinn's own history of involvement in activism and historic events as covered in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Some make perfect sense on a thematic as well as sonic level, like Kool & the Gang's " Kool It ( Here Comes the Fuzz )" and Stevie Wonder's " Superwoman, Where Were You When I Needed You " on " New Agenda ," or the orchestral flourish from Diana Ross & the Supremes ' " Someday We'll Be Together " on " If ," which seems to exist for the sole purpose of providing the impetus behind one of the greatest dance-break routines in music video history.

He did not know his own exact age, and before his appearance in the films he had little experience of typical " modern " living: he had only ever seen three white people before being cast and was unaware of the value of paper money, allowing ( according to legend ) his first earnings for The Gods Must Be Crazy to literally blow away in the wind.

The 2002 album Don't Be Afraid of Love included a number of guest vocalists, including funk legend Bootsy Collins.

2 ), and Be a Legend ( Create your own baller and become a legend ).

The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy ( Avon, 1962 ), her first short story collection, includes " The Diploids " ( aka " Six Fingers "), " Feedback ", " Pictures Don't Lie ", " Incommunicado ", " The Snow Ball Effect ", " Defense Mechanism " and " And Be Merry " ( aka " The Pyramid in the Desert ").

: This collection contained the short story The Man Who Would Be King

A cartoon version of the story of Atalanta's foot race was included in Free to Be ... You and Me, a record album and illustrated songbook first released in November 1972, and later in 1974 as a television special.

* " It Could Be You " ( 1964 ), a short story by Australian Frank Roberts, features a day-in-day-out televised blood sport.

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story " It Had to Be Murder ".

During one of the meetings, the vice-president's stepson ( and future comic book writer ) Jeph Loeb suggested a story that would eventually be called " Must There Be a Superman ?".

* Michael Cisco's short story collection Secret Hours contains the short story He Will Be There, based around The King In Yellow mythology and dedicated to his friend Joseph S. Pulver.

As Penman explains: '“ After I ’ d finished Here Be Dragons, I knew I wanted to continue the story .... At first I ’ d planned to write one book in which Simon de Montfort would share top billing with Llewelyn Fawr ’ s grandson, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, who later wed Simon ’ s daughter.

Instead, the overarching story of all five seasons of the series pitted Angel as the central player in a battle between the " good " Powers That Be and the " evil " law firm Wolfram & Hart and his possible role in a prophesied apocalypse.

Incidental to the story of discovery of the Lady Be Good is the 2012 discovery of a British RAF P40 Kittyhawk that went down in June of 1942.

Brooke was also a model for the hero of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim, and he is briefly mentioned in Kipling's short story " The Man Who Would Be King ".

* In Ernest Hemingway's short story A Way You'll Never Be, Captain Paravicini says to Nick, the protagonist who is suffering from psychological instability following a head wound, " I said it should have been trepanned.

* The story of the " Lady Be Good " inspired a television movie titled The Sole Survivor ( 1970 film ), with a North American B-25 Mitchell playing the B-24D role.

In 2000, aged 91, assisted by Wendy Holden, she wrote her autobiography, Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion, having waited for all the other principals in her life story to die before writing it.

One of the first Looney Tunes shorts directed by Freleng during his second tenure at the studio was You Ought to Be in Pictures, a short which blended animation with live-action footage of the Warner Bros. studio ( and of Schlesinger veterans such as story man Michael Maltese and even " Leon " himself ).

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

Ownership of the copyright in Woolrich's original story " It Had to Be Murder " and its use for Rear Window was litigated before the United States Supreme Court in Stewart v. Abend, 495 U. S. 207 ( 1990 ).

His song " A Better Place to Be " was inspired by a story he heard in Watertown.

In 1992, Lavender published Let Me Be Free: The Nez Percé Tragedy ( 1992 ), the tragic story of the Nez Percé Indians ' flight from their homeland to Canada to escape the United States cavalry.

* 1989: Some Can Whistle — a continuation of the story begun in All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers.

* 1992: The Evening Star — adapted for film as The Evening Star and a continuation of the story begun in Terms of Endearment and Moving On and All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers

Kafiristan is where the bulk of Rudyard Kipling's famous story " The Man Who Would Be King " takes place.

The book for which Gunther is best remembered today, however, does not deal with the intrigues of politics: Death Be Not Proud is the story of his son, Johnny, who died of a brain tumor at the age of 17.