* Asia on Classic Rock Central-1983 audio interview clips with John Wetton, Geoff Downes and Steve Howe

" Affairs of the Heart " originated in summer 1988 sessions by Lake with Geoff Downes under the project name Ride the Tiger.

The contemporary New Zealand composer David Downes includes a setting of " March " on his CD The Rusted Wheel of Things.

As of March 2012 the main sports presenters on the channel are Olly Foster, Katie Gornall, Katherine Downes, Damian Johnson, Andrew Lindsay and Jenny Culshaw.

Downes ( who was working on a project with Greg Lake ) was not available at this time, so keyboards were played by John Young.

Pat Thrall joined Downes, Palmer and Wetton on tour and they performed classic material, including King Crimson and U. K. songs.

The group's lone promotional performance in conjunction with the album occurred on 19 April 1996, when Downes and Payne appeared with guitarist Elliott Randall on the Virgin FM radio programme Alive in London to play the song " Never ".

This reunion did not take place and John Payne continued to carry on Asia with Downes uninterrupted.

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

Contrary to some early expectations, Downes did not perform with Yes, although their set list included two songs from the 1980 album Drama, which featured Downes on keys.

What is now Downe Township was formed by Royal Charter on January 19, 1748, as Downes Township, from portions of Fairfield Township.

Downes ' example of one sugar baker's house in Liverpool, estimated to bring in £ 40, 000 a year in trade from Barbados, throws a new light on Vanbrugh's social background, one rather different from the picture of a backstreet Chester sweetshop as painted by Leigh Hunt in 1840 and reflected in many later accounts.

It is part of the Otley & Yeadon ward on Leeds City Council and is represented by three Liberal Democrat Councillors Ryk Downes, Colin Campbell & Sandy Lay.

Around this time Horn, Downes and Bruce Woolley ( Tina Charles's guitarist ) co-wrote " Video Killed the Radio Star ", which was released by The Buggles in 1979 ; it reached # 1 in the UK Singles Chart and was the first music video to be played on MTV.

On his return to the band ( as producer ) in 1983 he contributed to their biggest hit, " Owner of a Lonely Heart " and the dance hit " Leave It "; still later, he would co-write about half of the tracks on their 2011 album Fly from Here, much of which was based on a song he had written with Downes back in the Drama era, just prior to joining the band.

While there, however, Franklin married Elizabeth Downes on 4 September 1762 at St George's, Hanover Square in London, England.

The " s " on Downes was dropped.

Less publicized is film shot by British television cameraman Alan Downes for the British ITN news service and his Vietnamese counterpart Le Phuc Dinh who was working for the American station NBC, which shows the events just before and after the photograph was taken ( see image on right.

Poirot expects to unmask ABC on the Doncaster race course, but ABC strikes in a cinema hall instead, killing George Earlsfield, instead of Roger Emmanuel Downes, a logical victim sitting only two seats later.

Geoff Downes of Yes conspicuously used a CMI with monitor on the band's 1980 tour to support the album Drama.

Downes recognises two distinct aspects within the category of mode and suggests that not only does it describe the relation to the medium: written, spoken, and so on, but also describes the genre of the text.

But John Downes is famous in his own right for his work, and from time to time Hannington receives visitors interested in John Downes ’ background.

While Brian Lane pursued record deals ( initially, without much success ), the band set about recording songs with Howe ’ s former Asia and Yes colleague Geoff Downes as producer.

*“ How we deal with the people we study: ‘ The Last Seminar ’ revisited ,” pp. 26 – 36 in David Downes, et.

Phil Beer and Steve Knightley had recorded prior to being Show of Hands, such as on " Downes and Beer "' s Live in Concept.

In mid-2007, all four original members ( Wetton, Downes, Howe and Palmer ) went into the studio to record a new album, marking the first recorded material from all four original members since 1983's Alpha.

Olin Downes of The New York Times too hailed the quality of sound that Fantasound presented, but felt that " much of Fantasia distracted from or directly injured the scores.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

In order to dispel the myth of Vanbrugh's low origins, Downes took pains to explore Vanbrugh's background, closely examining the family and connexions of each of his four grandparents: Vanbrugh, Jacobs or Jacobson, Carleton, and Croft, summing up the characteristics of each line and concluding that, far from being of lower middle class origins, Vanbrugh was descended from Anglo-Flemish or Netherlandish Protestant merchants who settled in London in the 16th and 17th centuries, minor courtiers, and country gentry.

The influential critic Olin Downes had opposed Barbirolli's appointment from the outset, insisting that though " we abhor chauvinism " preference should have been given to " native conductors ".

: These Downes looke as if they were Sown with great Stones, very thicke ; and in a dusky evening they looke like a flock of Sheep: from whence it takes its name.

These three roles, wrote the prompter John Downes, " gain'd her the Name of Famous Mrs. Barry, both at Court and City, for when ever She Acted any of these three Parts, she forc'd Tears from the Eyes of her Auditory, especially those who have any Sense of Pity for the Distress't.

* Yes-many recordings by Yes are notable for their use of the Minimoog, such as the albums Close To The Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Going For The One, Tormato ( featuring Rick Wakeman ), Relayer ( featuring Patrick Moraz ), and Drama ( featuring Geoff Downes ).

That album, 2011's Fly From Here, is a reunion of sorts for Horn's former bandmate Geoff Downes ; not only is Downes a member of the band's current incarnation, but the album also takes its title from a song written by Horn and Downes during their original stint with Yes in the 1980s.

Downes ' only previous experience with video game voice work was a small part for Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator.

During production of Halo, Martin O ' Donnell, Bungie's music director, recommended Downes for the part of the Chief based on his experience working on Septerra.

In the Restoration, Sir William Davenant produced a spectacular " operatic " adaptation of Macbeth, " with all the singing and dancing in it " and special effects like " flyings for the witches " ( John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, 1708 ).

Howe then enjoyed brief success with GTR, another supergroup, formed with Steve Hackett of Genesis and produced by Downes.

Wetton and Downes ' attempt to restart the group in 1987 with guitarist Scott Gorham ( formerly of Thin Lizzy ) and drummer Michael Sturgis ( ex-a-ha ) fizzled when they were unable to land a worldwide recording deal.

After Wetton's 1991 departure, vocalist / bassist John Payne joined the band and, together with Downes, enlisted new musicians and led Asia through to 2006.

2001 did see the band with a stable line-up, achieved during the Aura sessions featuring Downes, Payne, guitarist Guthrie Govan and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band / The Firm / Uriah Heep / Gary Numan / AC / DC drummer Chris Slade ( who had first joined Asia in 1999, briefly ).

On 9 May 2006, John Payne, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Carl Palmer and Steve Howe contractually agreed that John Payne could continue his 15 year period with Asia as Asia Featuring John Payne.

In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.

Recordings include Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin.

He worked with The Buggles, a New Wave band formed in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley.

The article mentioned Alan Lomax as one of the sponsors of the dinner, along with C. B. Baldwin, campaign manager for Henry A. Wallace ; New York Times music critic Olin Downes ; and W. E. B.

The Buggles with Horn and Geoffrey Downes.

He also completed a second Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording, mainly alone after a disagreement with Geoff Downes.