WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

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A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

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BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

* Canterbury scene, the British progressive music genre

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* Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia

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* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Freestylers, a British electronic music group

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

* Gramophone ( magazine ), a British publication devoted to classical music

Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.

Many British films are co-productions with American producers, often using both British and American actors, and British actors feature regularly in Hollywood films.

Just as the British Film Commission has played a crucial role in attracting the biggest and best international studios to produce their films here, so we must incentivise UK producers to chase new markets both here and overseas.

Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) was a British chemical company, taken over by a number of chemical companies, including Huntsman Corporation, a United States-based company, and AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, two of the largest chemical producers in the world.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

The latter films had American producers, stars and financing but were filmed in England or on location with British film crews, supporting actors, and expertise.

Later, the producers of the British talent show Stars in Their Eyes forced a contestant to censor one of its lines, changing "... all it takes is one itchy trigger – One more widow, one less white nigger " to "... one less white figure ".

In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers of Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit at their house the day before he died.

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

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Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

Only Visiting This Planet, which was " Initially coordinated by George Martin ", and was produced by The Triumvirate of British producers Rod Edwards, Roger Hand, and Jon Miller, often ranked as Norman's best album, " mixed his Christian message with strong political themes ", and " was meant to reach the flower children disillusioned by the government and the church " with its " abrasive, urban reality of the gospel ".

He had a development deal with Newharts producers MTM Enterprises and persuaded them to buy the rights to produce a pilot for an American adaptation of the British sitcom The Young Ones.

By 1989, Stiles had gained the attention of the producers of the British improvisational comedy show, Whose Line Is It Anyway ?.

Following the final season of the British version in 1998, the American version premiered, with both Stiles and Carey credited as executive producers.

* January 4 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is accused of arrogance by British television producers after playing an impromptu version of " Sunshine of Your Love " past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 show Happening for Lulu.

Bacharach had been contracted to produce " Alfie " for the Michael Caine film of the same name and wanted Dionne Warwick to sing the tune but the British producers wanted a British subject to cut the tune.

The show was a co-production between British and Dutch producers.

Granada Television has introduced many broadcasters and television personalities to British television and had a number of directors, producers and writers who have formed their own production companies.

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