It turned out that Lex Luthor and Ra's al Ghul had orchestrated the events in order to further the goals of " The Light.

May 2004 saw the release of Light Is Calling ( Nonesuch ), an album of tracks created with producers R. Luke DuBois and Damian le Gassick, and scored for a small ensemble of musicians ( most notably Todd Reynolds on violin ) with complex electronic arrangements orchestrated by DuBois and le Gassick.

Though it topped the country albums charts, it stalled at No. 71 on the pop albums chart ; the album's single, " Light of a Clear Blue Morning " only reached No. 87 on the Hot 100.

Gira's disillusionment with their Uni / MCA exploits led to White Light from the Mouth of Infinity ( 1991 ), a successful blending of earlier hard rock and later pop styles.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

* September 30 – The BBC replaces the Light Programme with two new radio stations: a pop music channel, Radio 1, and the more MOR-orientated Radio 2.

He produced Standing in the Light, by the English pop rock and jazz-funk band Level 42, with Larry Dunn, and promoted go-go bands like Trouble Funk and E. U.

The Sea of Light album ( 1995 ) produced by the band along with Kalle Trapp was well received and in retrospect is seen as the band's return to form, the key to success being ( according to critic Donald A. Guarisco ) the way it " forsook the ill-judged pop metal stylings of albums like Equator for a return to the gothic-tinged old-school metal style that highlighted classic Uriah Heep albums like Look at Yourself ".

Sporting a more mature side of pop music, it earned them their best reactions yet, drawing comparisons to Madonna's album Ray of Light ( 1998 ) as well as other female groups such as All Saints and the Sugababes.

They recorded The Doors ' song " Light My Fire " in a Latin style, released it as a single, and late in the summer of 1968 it reached # 3 on the US pop charts, with over one million copies sold in the US market alone.

When she released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, she moved towards country pop material, which set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.

It also featured pop music remakes of songs such as Debby Boone's " You Light Up My Life " and Bette Midler's " The Rose ".

He is also a fan of several pop music artists, especially singer / songwriters including The Beatles ; James Taylor ( after whom he named the song " James " on Offramp ); Bruce Hornsby, Cheap Trick, Joni Mitchell, with whom he performed on her Shadows and Light ( 1980, Asylum / Elektra ) live tour.

BBC radio DJ Andy Kershaw noted, on a visit to North Korea, that the only recordings available were by the pop singers Jon Hye-yong, Kim Kwang-suk, Jo Kum-hwa and Ri Pun-hui, and the groups Wangjaesan Light Music Band, the Mansudae Art Troupe and the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, who play in a style Kershaw refers to as " light instrumental with popular vocal ".

Katrina and the Waves were an English / American pop rock band, best known for their 1985 hit " Walking on Sunshine " and their 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory with the song " Love Shine a Light ".

For the Asian version of the album, Fabian collaborated with American-Taiwanese pop star Leehom Wang on the song " Light of My Life ".

However, Boone was unable to maintain her success in pop music after " You Light Up My Life ".

He also presented popular music on the BBC Light Programme, notably in Pete Murray's Party from 1958 to 1961, and hosted one of BBC Television's earliest pop music programmes, the skiffle-based Six-Five Special ( 1957 – 1958 ).

Like the Light Crust Doughboys, the Musical Brownies played a mixture of country, pop, and jazz, but the Brownies had a harder dance edge than their predecessors.

It included " Light of Love ", which featured pop diva Whitney Houston on background vocals.

The band were behind a short film, Light On The Surface, in the early nineties set in a motorway service station and featuring the original pop video to their first single, " Cookie ".

Among the pop records issued by the label are the Roaring Twenties series done by the Charleston City All Stars band, conducted by Light.

Ocean Sound and The Light FM continued as before on 97. 5 and 96. 7 MHz FM, whilst Ocean Sound ( West ) relaunched as a music-intensive youth pop station-103. 2 Power FM on 4 December 1988.

Steinberg and Alexander also wrote " All About Us ", a hit for the Russian pop duo t. A. T. u .. Steinberg and Alexander's recent work includes JoJo's 2006 single " Too Little Too Late " and Leigh Nash's " Nervous in the Light of Dawn ", " My Idea Of Heaven " and Katharine McPhee's " Over It " in 2007.

" Manic Monday " is a song by the American pop rock band The Bangles, and the first single released from their second studio album Different Light ( 1986 ).

Top Gear was originally a short-lived pop music show on the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s.

This will be the third ELO compilation that presents a chronological run-through of ELO's singles / songs following US compilations Olé ELO in 1976 and Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra in 1995.

Sullivan completed his Festival Te Deum ( 1872 ); another oratorio, The Light of the World ( 1873 ); his only song cycle, The Window ; or, The Song of the Wrens ( 1871 ); incidental music to The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1874 ); and more songs, parlour ballads, and hymns, including " Onward, Christian Soldiers " ( 1872 ).

In October 1991 he released his third consecutive multi-platinum album, Blue Light, Red Light, on which he wrote and arranged the songs.

George Harrison's interest in Indian music, popularized the genre in the mid-1960s with songs such as " Love You To ", " Tomorrow Never Knows " ( credited to Lennon-McCartney ), " Within You Without You " and " The Inner Light ".

Notable anti-war songs include " And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( 1972 ) by Eric Bogle, and " A Walk in the Light Green " ( 1983 ) by Redgum, most often remembered by its chorus " I was only nineteen ".

) Hart continued to write plays after parting with Kaufman, such as Christopher Blake ( 1946 ) and Light Up the Sky ( 1948 ), as well as the book for the musical Lady In The Dark ( 1941 ), with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

They followed this up in 1988 with an album composed almost entirely of Jimmy Webb songs, Light Years.

This is especially evident in songs like " The Unattainable Earth " ( which was named after one of Miłosz ' books ), " Safety Net ", " Pictures of the Gone World ", " Divine Instant ", and " Half Light, Epoch, and Phase ".

Blows soundtrack is a compilation of songs and artists from the 1970s, such as: " Can't You Hear Me Knocking " by The Rolling Stones, " All the Tired Horses " by Bob Dylan, " Rumble " by Link Wray, " Glad and Sorry " by Faces, " Strange Brew " by Cream, " Black Betty " by Ram Jam, " Blinded By the Light " by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, " Let's Boogaloo " by Willie Rosario, " Keep It Comin ' Love " by KC & the Sunshine Band, " That Smell " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Can't You See " by The Marshall Tucker Band, and " Push & Pull " by Nikka Costa.

Two of the songs, Us and To Feel This Way, were different versions of tracks later to be seen on Been's solo album, and in the case of " To Feel This Way ", the " Light Sleeper " soundtrack as well.

Worrell ’ s synthesizer work is prominent on the majority of Parliament ’ s most popular ( and most sampled ) songs throughout the 1970s, most notably ” Mothership Connection ( Star Child )” and “ Give Up the Funk ( Tear the Roof Off the Sucker )” from Mothership Connection, " Flash Light from Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome and " Aqua Boogie " from Motor Booty Affair.

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

The band played four songs, and later provided backup with the Electric Light Orchestra for George Harrison.

The disc also included two newly-recorded songs, " World of Light " and " Paradise ".

** The Queen Is Dead, a short film incorporating the Smiths songs " The Queen Is Dead ", " Panic ", and " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " ( 1986 )

Rossdale co-wrote two songs for Taylor Momsen's band The Pretty Reckless on their new album, Light Me Up.

Psychedelia, another staple of the band's eclectic sound, is also very much in evidence, although songs like " The Light From a Cake " and " Flowers " feature a more-orchestrated, less-dissonant version of psychedelic music than did the band's earlier albums.

1996 saw his first release with them, Making Light of It, a low-key collection of songs, the majority returning to an introspective demeanor and tone, produced by David Miner ( T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello ), and featuring Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong of The Choir.

The track listing of Carnival of Light gives an indication of the tension that was mounting between the two guitarists, with the first half of the album being songs written by Mark Gardener and the last half of the album being songs written by Andy Bell-Andy Bell had refused to let his songs be interspersed with pieces written by Gardener.

Featured songs are " Hunting High And Low " and " A Million Light Years Away ".

It was during this period that Foster would write most of his best-known songs: " Camptown Races " ( 1850 ), " Nelly Bly " ( 1850 ), " Old Folks at Home " ( known also as Swanee River, 1851 ), My Old Kentucky Home ( 1853 ), Old Dog Tray ( 1853 ), and Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair ( 1854 ), written for his wife Jane Denny McDowell.