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Rubettes and Bickerton
The Rubettes were an English pop band assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A & R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts.
The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid-1970s, such as " Tonight ", " Juke Box Jive " and " I Can Do It " sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the BickertonWaddington songwriting team.

Rubettes and up
In 2002, the group hit the headlines once more when, following an acrimonius split and legal action, the Rubettes became the latest in a long line of bands ( including the Beach Boys and Spandau Ballet ) to end up in the courts in a dispute over ownership of the band's name.

Rubettes and Records
In 2010, Bill Hurd's Rubettes covered the 1997 Thorpe composition ' Where the Angels Fear to Tread ' on their album ' 21st Century Rock ' n ' Roll ' on ' Angel Air Records '.

Rubettes and after
Paul Da Vinci, the voice on The Rubettes hit " Sugar Baby Love ", turned to Penny Farthing immediately after this song made the UK no.

Rubettes and Sugar
The Rubettes ’ first and biggest hit was " Sugar Baby Love " ( 1974 ) which was a number one in the United Kingdom, going on to sell around 500, 000 copies in the UK and three million copies globally.
Of the original Rubettes line-up only Richardson, Williams and Arnesen participated in the recording of " Sugar Baby Love " although all members featured on the Top of the Pops re-recording for playback purposes.
Additional popular tunes heard in the film include " Dancing Queen ", " Mamma Mia ", " Waterloo ", " Fernando ", and " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ", all performed by ABBA ; " Sugar Baby Love " by The Rubettes ; " The Tide Is High " by Blondie ; " I Go to Rio " by Peter Allen ; and " Happy Together " by The Turtles.
He was originally offered the chance to record " Sugar Baby Love " but rejected it as " rubbish "; it was promptly given to a new band, The Rubettes, and it launched their career with a number one hit.
Yoko Ishida's Japanese cover of The Rubettes ' 1974 hit single " Sugar Baby Love " by Kotoko is used for the opening theme for all of the episodes except the first and the last, which use no opening.

Rubettes and Love
They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

Rubettes and ",
* " Under One Roof ", a 1976 song by The Rubettes

Rubettes and was
The court ruled that both Williams and Hurd could tour as the Rubettes, as long as it was clear which member was fronting the band.

success and encouraged
With the critical and commercial success in the United States of such memoirs as Angela ’ s Ashes and The Color of Water, however, more and more people have been encouraged to try their hand at this genre.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.
The Poles, encouraged by their success on the first day, deployed all their available cavalry.
A slight success over Octavian's tired soldiers encouraged him to make a general attack, in which he was decisively beaten.
One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.
The success of the Super Tuscans encouraged government officials to reconsider the DOC regulations in order to bring some of these wines back into the fold labelled as Chianti.
Their enormous commercial success encouraged them to turn out sequel after sequel, and led to an explosion in horror film production in the UK that would last for nearly two decades.
His response to the threat of the rack was " Minare ista pueris are only for boys ", and he denied having encouraged Catholics to pray for the success of the " Catholic Cause ".
This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.
This apparent success in selling his sculpture abroad as well as the conservative Florentine situation may have encouraged Michelangelo to accept the prelate's invitation.
This project was warmly encouraged by Abel, who contributed much to the success of the venture.
He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he decided to write one or more annually.
Initially sponsored by the Daily Express newspaper, its success encouraged several countries in Europe and the Middle East to follow suit.
The success of the tour encouraged the Oliviers to make their first West End appearance together, performing the same works with one addition, Antigone, included at Leigh's insistence because she wished to play a role in a tragedy.
The success of California and new world Chardonnays, partly encouraged by the Californian showing at the Judgment of Paris wine tasting, brought varietal wine labeling to more prominence and the easy to pronounce Chardonnay grape was one of the largest beneficiaries.
Years later, Knef's first husband, an American named Kurt Hirsch, encouraged her to try again for success in the U. S. She changed her name from Knef to Neff and achieved a measure of stardom on Broadway as “ Ninotchka ” in the Cole Porter musical,
Altman's immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer.
Throughout the war, skirmishing tactics against British troops on the move continued to be a key factor in Rebel success ; however, they may also have encouraged the occasional incidents, particularly in the later stages, where British troops used alleged surrender violations as a justification for killing large numbers of captives ( e. g. Waxhaw and Groton Heights ).
The success of the Bronx River Parkway Reservation encouraged the County government to develop its outstanding parks system, preserving great tracts of open space.
The success of the coup and the evident support for it by the Syrian people further encouraged Nasser's revolutionary pursuits.
By all accounts this was met with notable success, particularly as there was a large colony of Armenians on the island at that time, and this encouraged Heraclius to attempt to seek a wider approval of his compromise.
After this success Ford began research into Anti-Lock systems for the rest of their range, which encouraged other manufacturers to follow suit.
After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger ( in print as Runway Zero Eight ).
The film's success encouraged a surge of popular and critical acclaim for Joplin's work.

success and set
The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.
In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
The database of compounds used for parameterization, i. e., the resulting set of parameters and functions is called the force field, is crucial to the success of molecular mechanics calculations.
Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).
Exploiting La Dolce Vita ’ s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent.
The success of The Jolly Fellows ensured a place in Soviet cinema for the musical format, but immediately Shumyatsky set up strict guidelines to make sure the films promoted Communist values.
Coffman's assistant Eric Greif set up a tour of Canada, while Coffman and Greif used Mötley Crüe's success in the Los Angeles club scene to negotiate with several record labels, eventually signing a recording contract with Elektra Records in late spring 1982.
It became a success in New York, and the ( co .) owner of the company, Ezra Fitch, sent emissaries to Chinese villages to buy every set of mahjong they could find.
His opera Artaxerxes ( 1762 ) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s.
These together provide the foundation for Model Driven Architecture ( MDA ), and related set of standards, building upon the success of UML and MOF.
In parallel with the generator set Philips developed experimental Stirling engines for a wide variety of applications and continued to work in the field until the late 1970s, though the only commercial success was the ' reversed Stirling engine ' cryocooler.
; PDP-8: 12-bit machine with a tiny instruction set ; DEC's first major commercial success and the start of the minicomputer revolution.
The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, e. g. with Moana ( 1926 ), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran ( 1934 ), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands.
The stunning success of France in the French Revolutionary Wars saw republics spread by force of arms across much of Europe as a series of client republics were set up across the continent.
His follow-your-bliss management style set the tone for many Valley success stories.
In 1999, after the lasting success of Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, Marienhof, Unter uns and Verbotene Liebe, ProSieben aired Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies, set on the Spanish island with the same name.
This gives the partnership a better than even chance of success in making the contract, whereas without a response ( and without Stayman ), the contract would likely be set.
The quadruplex telegraph was Edison's first big financial success, and Menlo Park became the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement.
The success More enjoyed in educating his daughters set an example for other noble families.
The success of such a model is largely due to the mathematical fact that any function ( such as the position of a planet ) can be decomposed into a set of circular functions ( the Fourier modes ).
In 1989, Nicks set to work with Fleetwood Mac on a new album, Behind the Mask, which was released in 1990 to moderate commercial success in the US.
The ship was abandoned and the following year, another similar vessel, Ra II, was built of totora by Demetrio, Juan and Jose Limachi from Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and likewise set sail across the Atlantic from Morocco, this time with great success.
The first, Blowup ( 1966 ), set in Swinging London, was a major international success.
As armies became trained and adopted set formations, each regiment's ability to keep its formation was potentially critical to its, and therefore its army's, success.

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