With Brown and Damiani's departure, McCrea felt " freer to experiment " with the next album, 1998's Prolonging the Magic ; he wrote and produced every song.

Other reviewers were less complimentary, with Mike Pattenden in The Times writing that " Prolonging the Magic suggests that may well be destined to go down as one-hit wonders ...

While a handful stand out – the country waltz Mexico, You Turn the Screws and Hem of Your Garment – Prolonging the Magic shows McRea and company to be little more than an above average bar-room act.

A tour of Europe was temporarily postponed in March after McCrea broke a bone in his hand moving furniture, which also led to the delay of the European release of Prolonging the Magic.

* Prolonging the Magic ( 1998 )

Brown played on the Cake albums Motorcade of Generosity and Fashion Nugget before leaving the band in 1998 prior to the recording of Prolonging the Magic.

Sheep Go to Heaven is a single by American alternative rock band Cake from their 1998 album Prolonging the Magic.

* 1748: The era name was changed to Kan ' en ( meaning " Prolonging Lenience ") to mark the enthronement of Emperor Momozono.

As a philosopher he is best known by his Zur Diätetik der Seele (" Dietetics of the soul ") ( Vienna, 1838 ), which attained great popularity, and the tendency of which, in contrast to Hufeland's Makrobiotik (" On the Art of Prolonging Life "), is to show the true way of rendering life harmonious and lovely.

Prolonging this phase, e. g. by careful fertilization, water and pest management results directly in a higher harvest.

Hufeland, a German physician, in his book The Art of Prolonging Human Life ( 1797 ), first used the word " macrobiotics " in the context of food and health.

Following Prolonging the Magics release, the band toured the United States, playing in cities including San Diego and Los Angeles.

Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride, Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

Sakamoto released his first solo album in mid-1978, Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto, with the help of Hideki Matsutake, who would later be the " fourth member " of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and with the band's founding member Haruomi Hosono also contributing to the song " Thousand Knives ".

Although the majority of the band's material was written and performed by Gary Barlow, Williams did perform lead vocals on their first Top Ten hit " Could It Be Magic ", " I Found Heaven ", and " Everything Changes ".

While " Magic " was the band's only American top 40 hit, a later single from the band, " January " became a much bigger hit than " Magic " in the U. K., claiming the number 1 spot (" Magic " did not even make the U. K. top ten ).

Both singles are featured in the band's next studio album, entitled Magic, released on November 18, 2009.

Further commercial success continued with the albums Mother Nature Calls ( 1997 ) and Magic Hour ( 1999 ), however the band's fourth album Beetroot ( 2001 ) was far less successful which led to the band's split soon after.

Anselmo relocated to Texas to record Power Metal, which was released in 1988 on the band's own record label, Metal Magic Records.

The band's debut single was issued in March 1970 as a cover version of Badfinger's " Crimson Ships " – from that band's January 1970 album Magic Christian Music.

To fulfil tour obligations in April, Gentle Giant hired ex-Grease Band / Wild Turkey / Graham Bond's Magic member John " Pugwash " Weathers, the man who was to become the band's third and final drummer.

In March 2001, on the eve of the band's signing with EMI Records, the band toured with Magic Dirt and Motor Ace with Ronan Charles on keyboards joining Steele, O ' Connor and Keenan.

** Yellow Magic Orchestra ( album ), the band's debut album

His cost-cutting measures at Apple included what was considered by some to be the " cold-blooded " firing of many of the employees who had flocked to the band's experiment in " western Communism " ( including the erratic Magic Alex, and Epstein's old friend Alistair Taylor ).

It was released on the band's own label ( also called Metal Magic ) and produced by Jerry Abbott ( under the alias " The Eldn '"), notable country music songwriter and producer, and father of Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul, who were seventeen and nineteen years old, respectively, at the time of release.

The band never quite capitalised on the momentum generated by the success of debut single " Tom Verlaine ", which was named ' Single of the Week ' by the NME, although the band's final LP, Magic Happens entered the lower reaches of the UK Albums Chart and " Airplane Gardens ", lasted for one week in the UK Singles Chart.

Later that year, the band's only album, Magic Lantern, was released by Chaparral Records.

A third paper, The Magic Comic, aimed at a slightly younger audience, followed in July 1939, but ceased publication in early 1941, due to paper rationing.

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.

The first through third games in the Heroes of Might and Magic series traces the fortunes of the Ironfists in more detail, though none of the sci-fi elements appear in the Heroes series.

Their third single " World of Magic " was not quite as successful as the first two singles ; however, it entered the Top 30 both in Germany and Sweden.

Written by Basic Role-Playing and RuneQuest author Steve Perrin, Superworld began as one third of the Worlds of Wonder product, which also included a generic fantasy setting, " Magic World ", and a generic science fiction setting, " Future World ", all using the same core Basic Role-Playing rules.

For his own third published story, Ditko penciled and inked the six-page " A Hole in His Head " in Black Magic vol.

Despite still not having Hill due to injury, the Magic entered the playoffs for the third straight year.

Following the All-Star break, the Magic went on a roll, winning 23 of their 28 remaining games, clinching their fourth consecutive playoff berth and winning their third consecutive division championship in the process.

The Magic were faced with the third seeded Pacers in the first round.

After being matched by the Orlando Magic for J. J. Redick they signed their third free agent from the Jazz in the off-season in shooting guard Ronnie Brewer, traded for former Warrior point guard C. J.

Warp's third record, " Testone " ( 1990 ) by Sweet Exorcist ( Richard H. Kirk and Richard Barratt ), defined Sheffield's bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's " Computer Game " ( 1978 ) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ).

In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer / songwriter, Patrick Wolf on the duet " Magpie " from his third album The Magic Position and wrote and recorded a new song for the French film Truands called " A Lean and Hungry Look " with Ulysse.

The group's third album Blacks ' Magic was released in March 1990, and was a personal album for the trio on many fronts.

" Duncan won his third NBA Finals MVP Award, joining Michael Jordan, Shaquille O ' Neal, and Magic Johnson as the only players in NBA history to win it three times.

It is located on the third level of the Ministry of Magic and houses the following offices:

" All wagons came equipped with Ford's " Magic Doorgate " three-way tailgate, and were available with an optional rear-facing third seat which increased the car's carrying capacity from 6 to 8 people.

All wagons still featured Ford's " Magic Doorgate " three-way tailgate, while the power rear window, rear-facing third seat and roof rack remained options.

He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ( 1969 ), won the Caldecott Medal.

He edged Shaquille O ' Neal to win the NBA MVP award, becoming the first Canadian to earn the honour, as well as the third point guard ever to be named MVP, along with Magic Johnson and Bob Cousy.

A two-time NBA MVP, Nash is only the second point guard ( along with Magic Johnson ) to win the MVP award multiple times and the third guard in NBA history to earn back-to-back MVPs ( joining Johnson and Michael Jordan ).

Nonetheless, the party had to relinquish the third seat in favor of the ' Magic formula ', which was introduced to the cabinet in 1959.

By the time the band set to work on their third album, Magic Hour, released May 1999 the Britpop movement was faltering-a number of Cast's contemporaries, such as Kula Shaker and The Seahorses had disbanded, Suede and Mansun were experiencing a drop in record sales from their previous efforts and label mates Shed Seven and Medal had been dropped by Polydor.

* In the computer game series, The Magic Candle, halflings are portrayed as friendly, peaceful people, who are skilled in crafts ( particularly sewing in the second and third games ), as well as negotiation due to their high charisma.

Photius mentions that Theodore wrote three books on " Persian Magic ", which not only attacked Zoroastrianism, but according to Photius betrayed his " Nestorian " views in the third book, and defended belief in the final restoration of all men.