Other influential DJs and remixers who helped to establish what became known as the " disco sound " included David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Shep Pettibone, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and Chicago-based " Godfather of House " Frankie Knuckles.

Years later, Kraftwerk would become a significant influence on hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles.

The name was derived from the Warehouse Club in Chicago, where resident DJ Frankie Knuckles mixed old disco classics and Eurosynth pop.

Early house producers like Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines.

* 2011-Wynter Gordon, Alexis Jordan, Frankie Knuckles, Larry Tee, Bob Downe

Frankie Knuckles saddled both markets with his Def Classic Mixes, often slowing the tempo slightly as he removed ornamental elements to soften the " attack " of a dancefloor filler.

" It became May's best known track, which, according to Frankie Knuckles, " just exploded.

** Frankie Knuckles

* 1995: " Power of Love / Love Power ( The Frankie Knuckles Mixes )"

An honorary street sign in Chicago for house music and Frankie Knuckles.

In this era, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5 and club DJs like Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, and Marshall Jefferson played various styles of dance music, including older disco records, newer Italo Disco, hip hop and electro funk tracks, as well as electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and recent danceable R & B productions in the genre now known as boogie.

Early such recordings included Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles ' " Your Love "; and Chip E .' s " The Jack Trax " record, featuring the songs “ It ’ s House ” and “ Time to Jack ”, each of which used complex rhythms, simple bassline, sampling technology, and sparse vocals.

During 1987, it hosted performances by American house artists including Frankie Knuckles and Adonis.

On 27 May 1990, the Stone Roses performed at Spike Island in Widnes, Cheshire, supported by DJs Frankie Knuckles, Phonso Buller, Dave Haslam, and Dave Booth.

* Frankie Knuckles, American DJ

The name House music is said to come from the Chicago dance club, the Warehouse, where the legendary Frankie Knuckles DJed.

* Frankie Knuckles

At the end of 1982, when DJ Frankie Knuckles left the Warehouse to open the Power Plant, Ron Hardy DJed at the Warehouse's new location until Robert Williams renamed it " The Muzic Box.

While Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse ( and later the Power Plant ) had a very smooth style of playing, Hardy was very different.

House music as a genre got its start from the Garage's house DJ Larry Levan and his contemporaries, Frankie Knuckles and Nicky Siano who were both also influential disc jockeys.

An honorary street sign in Chicago for house music and Frankie Knuckles.

Frankie Knuckles ( born January 18, 1955, New York ) is an American DJ, record producer and remix artist.

*" Tears " ( single ); Frankie Knuckles presents Satoshi Tomiie – FFRR

* Sessions Six – Mixed by Frankie Knuckles – Ministry of Sound

Carlos Berrios and producer Frankie Cutlass appeared to have saved the style's demise by creating a new sound that was used on " Temptation " by Corina and " Together Forever " by Lisette Melendez.

Through the then relatively new science of forensic ballistics, both weapons were determined to have been used in the massacre – and that one of Burke's Tommy guns had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale a year and a half earlier.

One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department ’ s long-held theory that Burke, and by extension Al Capone, had been responsible for Yale's death.

As well as these versions, the name has also been used as the stage name of a New York City-based singer-songwriter, an LP by Frankie Armstrong, Brian Pearson, Blowzabella and Jon Gillaspie, and for the title of an Irish reel.

Sparrow ( Arnold Stang ), who runs a con selling homeless dogs, clings to him like a young brother, but Schwiefka ( Robert Strauss ), whom Frankie used to deal for in his illegal card game, has more sinister reasons for welcoming him back, as does Louis ( Darren McGavin ), Machine's former heroin dealer.

From 1956 until 1960, the group stayed together, performing in clubs and lounges as The Four Lovers and recording on various record labels with various names: Frankie Tyler, Frankie Valley, Frankie Valley and the Travelers, Frankie Valle and the Romans, The Village Voices, and The Topics are some of the 18 " stage names " used individually or collectively by the members of the group.

The sketch is clearly inspired by the real-life story of notorious London gangsters the Kray twins, although the Piranhas ' methods seem to resemble more closely those used by the rival the Richardson Gang and their associate " Mad " Frankie Fraser.

Heineken, Target and Macy ’ s have used songs from The Orchard ’ s catalogue in their advertisements ; The Black Angels and The Raveonettes were featured on True Blood, Frankie Avalon ’ s “ Venus ” was played on Dexter and both the Dum Dum Girls ’ “ Coming Down ” and Kina Grannis ’ “ The One You Say Goodnight To ” were heard on season 5 of Gossip Girl ; and songs distributed by The Orchard that have made it into film soundtracks include The Red Army Choir of Alexandrov ’ s “ Soviet National Anthem ” in X-Men: First Class, Frankie Avalon ’ s classic “ Swingin ’ on a Rainbow ” in The Help and Macon Greyson ’ s “ Black Light ” in The Wrestler.

The name had first been used by Red Hand Commandos dissident Frankie Curry in 1996 and he was the leading figure in what was a somewhat unstructured organization until he was killed in 1999.

The newspaper used the name " Bez " as a generic label for the likes of Chas Smash of Madness, Andrew Ridgely of Wham !, Paul Morley of Art of Noise, Linda McCartney of Wings, and Paul Rutherford of Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

* A short sequence, in which Peter Carter asks June her name, was used in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the " Frankie and June " musical number.

Frankie Kennedy, as a young musician from Belfast, used to travel to Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal on his summer holidays, learning Irish and playing traditional Irish music.

This led to a high-profile dispute with Frankie Gavin in 2009 when the latter used the name for his pre-existing Hibernian Rapsody band.

Selling it to RCA for $ 24, 000, it was used to promote Presley's latest film, Frankie & Johnny.

Robertson claimed that Beacon was only used because Frankie Miller was unavailable.

Tommy used the Milano brothers and the Narducci brothers to execute Frankie Flowers.

Trex stalked Greene and Frankie until he was subdued by the Rescue Bots and Cody Burns used voice commands to override the virus.

Don Ciccone used a Bass VI to record the " Who Loves You " album for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, as well as live in a few tours.