* 1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions )

As part of her portrayal of recovering drug addict and aspiring singer Emily in Clean, Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star and Dean Wareham of Dean & Britta.

Concurrently, a number of more predominantly guitar-driven dream pop bands emerged in the United States, including Sentinel, Alison's Halo, BOBBY, Low, Mazzy Star, Velour 100, Fine China, Love Spirals Downwards, Tears Run Rings, Porcelain Raft, Ars Poetica, Duster, Warm Ghost, Azure Ray and Frownland.

Mazzy Star, another successful band with ties to the genre, evolved from Opal, which in turn evolved from Clay Allison.

* Mazzy Star

Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from the group Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith.

Mazzy Star has deep roots within the Californian Paisley Underground movement of the early 1980s.

With Roback as its musical catalyst, Opal were a direct precursor to Mazzy Star musically — often featuring the same psychedelic guitar drones and similar hints of blues and folk that would later appear on Mazzy Star recordings.

Roback initially conceived of the band's name as the singular idiom Mazzy, while Sandoval later suggested coupling it with the word Star, as starlight-along with numerous metaphors and various allusions to distant light-had been a recurring theme of her poetry since adolescence.

The American branch of Rough Trade folded in late 1990, briefly leaving Mazzy Star without a record label.

" Later, in a September 2009 interview with Vancouver-based music website Straight. com, interviewer John Lucas wrote of the 8-year gap between Bavarian Fruit Bread and Through the Devil Softly, " That seems like a long time until you consider that Mazzy Star, Sandoval's partnership with guitarist David Roback, hasn't put an album out since 1996.

The songs that Maggie Cheung performs in the film were written and produced by David Roback of Mazzy Star.

** Mazzy Star

** Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See

** Mazzy Star has some success with the single " Fade into You ", becoming the biggest hit for dream pop in the mainstream.

Their lyrical subject matter often veered towards the melancholy and macabre, which results in comparisons to Nick Cave, TV series Twin Peaks and Mazzy Star, as did Sussex's vocal style.

The songs that Maggie Cheung performs in the film were written and produced by David Roback of Mazzy Star.

In addition to Bowman on drums and Paul Olguin ( Mazzy Star, Mary Wells ) on bass, the album features a number of notable local musicians.

Emery also played bass with the Alternative rock band Hole on their 1991 debut album " Pretty on the Inside ", as well as playing bass in Mazzy Star and Teardrain.

The band toured with bands such as Mercury Rev, Smashing Pumpkins, Mazzy Star, Hole and Pavement.

# " Rhymes Of An Hour " ( Hope Sandoval ) by Mazzy Star

Written over a year before Mazzy Star's inception, the track " Ghost Highway " is the duo's only original song to not feature a writing credit from Sandoval, while another song found on the album, " Give You My Lovin '," was written by Going Home guitarist Sylvia Gomez and first recorded by Sandoval and Gomez in 1987.

These are Aerie, a winged elf who, at a young age, was captured by slavers and sold to the circus, and has lost her wings ; Keldorn, an older paladin, and a respected member of the Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart ; Mazzy, an honourable halfling fighter who leads an adventuring group called the Fentan Knights ; Nalia, the daughter of a duke, and who tries to help those less fortunate than she ; Valygar, who is of a family noted for its talented magic-users, but hates the art ; Anomen, a member of the Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart, and whose wish is to become a full knight ; Cernd, a druid ; Haer ' Dalis, a tiefling bard, and member of an acting troupe ; Jan, a gnome, of the Jansen family ; Yoshimo, a thief from the land of Kara-Tur ; and Korgan, a dwarven fighter, of evil alignment.

Among My Swan is the third album by the band Mazzy Star.

Performing up to seven new songs at each of these concerts, Sandoval revealed in interviews around this time that these new songs were written and recorded for Mazzy Star's fourth studio album, which was to be released independently sometime in the future.

San Francisco-based guitarist Chuck Prophet joined for the 1985 Gas Food Lodging ( Enigma ), after which MacNicol was replaced on drums by Keith Mitchell ( later of Mazzy Star ).

Majesty Crush served as the opening act at shows in the early 1990s for such bands as Jesus Jones, Mazzy Star, Royal Trux, and The Verve.

Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian described the song as " perversely pretty ", while Leo Finlay of Music Week compared the song to Mazzy Star, and that it " employs the current hip staus of country music to devastating effect ".

# Mazzy Star-Fade Into You

Much of the material found on Mazzy Star's debut album originates from this period, with the band only changing their name shortly after renegotiating a new record deal with Rough Trade.

Image taken by Pauline Masurel ( Wikipedia user: Mazzy ) on 27 January 2004

In the immediate aftermath of Mazzy Star's dissolution, Sandoval, who had appeared on The Jesus and Mary Chain's 1994 release Stoned & Dethroned, made another guest appearance on their final record Munki, and also collaborated with The Chemical Brothers, while Roback produced and mixed two songs found on Beth Orton's 1999 album Central Reservation.

' Following the release of " I've Been Let Down " as a single in 1996, Mazzy Star went on hiatus and would not release new music until the Common Burn single in 2011.

Star hopping is a method often used by amateur astronomers with low-tech equipment such as binoculars or a manually driven telescope.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

" This tune is more commonly recognizable as " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ".

However, it is better known by its other names: () or (), or in English, Cowherd Star.

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Bronze Star Medal or Bronze Star is an individual military decoration of the United States Armed Forces that may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

The Bronze Star Medal is awarded only to service members in combat who are receiving imminent danger pay.

The Bronze Star Medal is a bronze star in circumscribing diameter.

The Bronze Star Medal with the " V " device is the United States military's fourth highest award for valor.

Star δ Cap, at the tip of the horn, is of the third magnitude.

" " The Morning Star is the Evening Star.

All Star Cheerleader is also available for Nintendo DS.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

One of the most famous cyborgs is Darth Vader from the Star Wars films.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

Appearing only in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is the spice spider of Kessel, a creature made of glitterstim spice and silicon that spun crystalline webs harvested by miners as glitterstim spice, an illegal psychoactive narcotic.

On the night of Christmas Eve, so important is the appearance of the first star in remembrance of the Star of Bethlehem, that it has been given an affectionate name of " the little star " or Gwiazdka ( the female counterpart of St. Nicholas ).

The Dallas Cowboys ' blue star logo representative of Texas as " The Lone Star State " is one of the best known team logos in professional sports.