Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d ' Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

The age distribution,, in Montreux is ; 2, 050 children or 8. 3 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 3, 021 teenagers or 12. 2 % are between 10 and 19.

Montreux is twinned with the towns of Menton, France and Wiesbaden, Germany.

Montreux is home to the Bibliothèque municipale de Montreux et Veytaux library.

It is held at the Montreux Music & Convention Centre, built in 1973 and has become a global phenomenon.

* The Golden Award of Montreux, annually in April, is traditionally, since 1989, the first international advertising and multimedia Competition in Europe-starting the global season for awarding creative excellence.

Montreux is the home of Mountain Studios, the recording studio used by several artists.

" Bonzo's Montreux " by Led Zeppelin is named after the city where the drums session of John Bonham was recorded in 1976.

Due to Montreux's location in the Alps, and as Lake Geneva is a mountain lake, Montreux has an alpine climate.

*" Mr. Nabokov is not in his room "-Doron Rosenblum's pilgimage to Montreux, Ha ' aretz, Sept. 18., 2009

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It is possible to hear the squeak of the pedal in several recordings, including " Since I've Been Loving You ", " The Ocean ", " The Rain Song ", " Over the Hills and Far Away ", " Dancing Days ", " The Crunge ", " Houses of the Holy ", " Ten Years Gone ", " Bonzo's Montreux " and the live version of " I Can't Quit You Baby " on Coda and " All My Love " on In Through The Out Door.

The Montreux – Oberland Bernois railway (,, abbreviated MOB ), is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country ; its main line, in length, built to gauge, connects Montreux, Gstaad, and Zweisimmen where passengers can transfer to a branch of the standard gauge Bern – Lötschberg – Simplon railway.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is particularly well known.

Aigle, population 8, 100 people, is 13 km southeast of Montreux at the foot of the Alps.

For jazz fans-The cowbell is highlighted in the opening of " Compared to What " by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, a song that's perhaps known best from their million-seller live album, " Swiss Movement ", recorded on June 21, 1969 at The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

For the record, the poster itself is © by the Montreux Jazz Festival.

The poster is © by the Montreux Jazz Festival, the use of this thumbnail in Wikipedia is fair use.

: Streams, recorded live at Montreux, Hues ( both records contain different trio performances later collated on CD as Trio Live ), the quartet album Sizzle and his first big-band disc, Crystals ; perhaps his best-known work from this period though is his appearance at 49 years old on Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, in the company of Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul.

The Marty series proved popular enough with an international audience ( the first series won the Golden Rose Award at Montreux ) to launch a film career.

* Freddie Mercury's Montreux Memorial Day, annually first week-end of September since 2003.

After the first series, the special Frost Over England was produced, winning the Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival.

In October 2006, Morrison had released his first commercial DVD, Live at Montreux 1980 / 1974 with concerts taken from two separate appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

At this time, the creation gained considerable international kudos ; in 1961 the show won a Golden Rose at Montreux for best light entertainment programme and the first three albums of songs ( 1960 – 1962 ) all did extremely well, the first two being long-running # 1 albums in the UK Albums Chart.

The first episode won the Golden Rose, as well as two other major prizes at the 1991 Rose d ' Or Light Entertainment Festival in Montreux.

The main line of the MOB was opened in stages, the first, from Montreux to Les Avants () on 17 December 1901, followed by the Les Avants to Montbovon () section on 1 October 1903.

* Perfect Future: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival ( 3 / 26 / 08 Cutting Edge ) ( bonus live cd with first pressing of Perfect Future )

McLaughlin performed with Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, on 2 July 2010, for the first time since the band split up.

The festival was first held at Montreux Casino.

Santana came to Montreux for the first time in 1970 ; Van Morrison played in 1974 and 1980.

Paschetto was singularly responsible for the first workable prototype of streaming media, which Raila presented and demonstrated at the Voice Mail Association of Europe 1995 Fall Meeting of October 1995, in Montreux, Switzerland.

His first group Alex Riel / Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboards June 1968 edition.

The school, located in Montreux, Switzerland was Northwood University's first international venture.

Besides appearing at the first two Glastonbury Festivals ( then called ' Fayres '), in 1970 / 71, they also were invited to play the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Clapton first used Gold Lace Sensors on three prototype signature models built by George Blanda-one was finished in Torino Red and the other two in Pewter Grey Metallic-in the " Prince Trust Live Aid ", " Live in Montreux " and " Eric Clapton and friends Live 1986 " DVDs from 1986.

In their first year Nucleus won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released their first album ( Elastic Rock ), and performed at both the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club.

This incident became the inspiration behind Deep Purple's most famous song, " Smoke on the Water ", which mentioned the Mobile in the lyrics (" We all came out to Montreux ... to make records with a mobile ", and later referring to the Mobile as the " Rolling truck Stones thing ").

The subject of immortality brings to mind a vivid incident which took place in 1929 at Montreux in Switzerland.

The reversion to this old regime was formalized under the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits of July 1936.

Their CCTV live show was featured at major festivals including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Sónar, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and John Peel's Meltdown.

The band at the Montreux Pop Festival, May 1988.

From 1960 to 1964, he had a television series, It's a Square World, which won a BAFTA award in 1962 and Grand Prix de la Presse at Montreux in 1963.

The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits was a 1936 agreement that gives Turkey control over the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles and regulates the transit of naval warships.

#: The Montreux Convention should be revised and that this should be discussed with the Turkish Government.

From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly had to struggle with health problems that necessitated many long stays at a sanatorium in Territet, near Montreux, on Lake Geneva.

In the summer of 1970, House toured Europe once again, including an appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival ; a recording of his London concerts was released by Liberty Records.

The Convention on the Turkish Straits lasted only thirteen years and was replaced with the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits in 1936.

In September of the same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, Live at Montreux 1991 / 1992, through Eagle Rock Entertainment, of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival very early on in her career while promoting her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes.

** The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert.

Statue of Freddie Mercury overlooking Lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland.

Both stages of recording, before and after Mercury's death, were completed at the band's studio in Montreux, Switzerland.

On 25 November 1996, a statue of Mercury was unveiled in Montreux overlooking Lake Geneva, almost five years to the day since his death.

As an international artist, Akiko has toured Europe extensively, performing at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Café de la Danse, and Cite de la Musique in Paris.

He appeared at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, with vibraphonist Gary Burton in July 1986 and on 6 September 1987 gave a concert in New York ’ s Central Park, in the city where he spent his childhood.

Fitzgerald and Basie also collaborated on the 1972 album Jazz at Santa Monica Civic ' 72, and on the 1979 albums Digital III at Montreux, A Classy Pair and A Perfect Match.

On July 6, 2008, she played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland.

Montreux lies on the north east shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated.