A prelude to the forthcoming summer gigs in London, Prince played a relaxed set of classic hits (" Kiss ", changing the lyric from " You don't have to watch Dynasty " to Desperate Housewives, " Girls & Boys ", and " Nothing Compares 2 U ") alongside more recent tracks, plus a well-received cover version of Gnarls Barkley's " Crazy ".

Early performances included well-received cover sets ( Simon & Garfunkel, etc.

" The album achieved Gold status in both Canada and Australia, Silver status in the United Kingdom, and went Platinum in the U. S. A. A cover of Harry Chapin ’ s " Cat's in the Cradle " was subsequently released as a well-received single that sold over 500, 000 copies in the United States alone and peaked at No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart.

In 2006, Wilson contributed a well-received cover of Kris Kristofferson's " Sunday Mornin ' Coming Down " on the tribute CD The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson.

King also scored another well-received hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Club Play with her cover version of the song " I Say a Little Prayer " ( originally recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1967 ), which featured on the soundtrack to the film, My Best Friend's Wedding.

In 2007 The Contact created well-received a cover of " Major Tom ( Coming Home )" on the album Canvas Tears.

Truck Stop Love, out of Manhattan, Kansas, had a somewhat similar sound and was also signed to a national label, Scotti Brothers Records, with the well-received How I Spent My Summer Vacation being an appropriate swan song.

Starting out on Warner Brothers in the early ' 80s, the Yellowjackets moved to MCA / GRP in 1986, where they released a string of well-received albums.

Love first gained critical and commercial notice in the United States in 1989 for her cameos on Queen Latifah Grammy Award-winning and pro-woman single " Ladies First ," on Adeva's " Ring My Bell ," on the Jungle Brothers ' well-received single " Doin ' Our Own Dang ," and on De La Soul's hit single " Buddy.

To no one's surprise The Brothers Karamazov, with Dullin, who finally arrived in New York in March 1918, in the role of Smerdiakov and later in his well-received role as Harpagon, the miser, counted among the successes.

The Lost Boys was well-received by most critics, made over $ 32M at the U. S. box office, and is regarded as an 80s classic.

He followed this with dozens of well-received novels and stories, including La Peau de chagrin (" The Magic Skin "), in 1831, Le Père Goriot (" Father Goriot ") in 1835, and the two-volume Illusions perdues (" Lost Illusions "), in 1837 and 1839.

Lost in the past, Bryan makes unsuccessful attempts to reconcile via phone with his ex-wife and son, and meditates on the suicide of one of his former bandmates, an event left out of a well-received documentary film about the events leading to the band's dissolution.

The move was critically well-received, as Numan's harder and darker sound emerged just as Numan-influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails were enjoying their first rush of fame.

The collaboration was generally well-received, with just one critic, Seth Rogovoy, from the Berkshire Eagle, questioning the collaboration.

Although she missed out on an Academy Award nomination, Entertainment Weekly honored her well-received performance as one of the " Worst Oscar Snubs Ever ".

* Mondays: A well-received feature of DU1 and DU2 was its Top Ten Conservative Idiots, a rundown of what DU administrators find as the most outrageous right-wing activities in the past week.

Boosted by her well-received role in the film Desperately Seeking Susan, " Crazy For You " ( 1985 ) became her second US # 1 hit, and the follow-up Material Girl reached # 2 in the USA and was Top 5 in many other countries.

The two singles were generally well-received, with " Diamnds " being in the Top 20 most requested songs on ChristianRock. net during its first week.

In 1990 Pebbles released Always, a well-received set that included the Top Five hit " Giving You the Benefit ", " Always ", and " Love Makes Things Happen ".

The album was critically well-received including a 9. 8 out of 10 score from online music magazine, Pitchfork Media.

Two's Company was exceptionally well-received in Britain and ran for four seasons until 1979, despite being buried in the " graveyard slot " of Sundays at 10: 30pm.

It was generally less well-received than its predecessor in the music press ( although Melody Maker rated it 8 / 10 ), and sold less well.

Chrono Cross was also well-received by reviewers ; GameSpot awarded the game a perfect 10, one of only seven games in over 40, 000 games listed on Gamespot to have been given the score, and its Console Game of the Year Award for 2000.

Their debut LP, Original Stylin was well-received, peaking at # 122 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and the group became well known for the terminology they created, such as “ Acknickulous ” and “ The Giddy Up ”.

Jacobs, an editor at Esquire magazine, read the entire 2002 version of the 15th edition, describing his experiences in the well-received 2004 book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.

2003's The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives was well-received, particularly at Adams's alma mater's publication, the Harvard Crimson.

In May 1983, Le Guin delivered a well-received commencement address entitled " A Left Handed Commencement Address " at Mills College, Oakland, California.

After a poor performance at a 1992 gig that featured a well-received set by Suede on the same bill, Blur were in danger of being dropped by Food.

After they had finished university he had accompanied his friends in a well-received revue at the Edinburgh Fringe ( Richard Burton even appeared one night in their parody of Luther ).

The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23.

They returned to the stage to hone their act, and eventually made well-received appearances on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and Double Six, raising their profile and increasing their popularity.

The Voyage Home received mostly positive reviews — Nimoy called it the most well-received of all Star Trek films made at that point — and it appealed to general audiences in addition to franchise fans.

The film's TV rights were picked up by A & E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.

After a poor performance at a 1992 gig that featured a well-received set by Suede on the same bill, Blur were in danger of being dropped by Food.

As with Springsteen's first album, it was well-received critically but had little commercial success at the time.

His works were thus not universally well-received, however they did reflect in some areas of society a growing respect for, or at least ambivalence toward, a female ruler in Catherine the Great.

Reviews were again mixed, sales were mediocre ( It peaked at 137 in March 1970 ) and the MC5's tours were not as well-received as before.

The magazine published some well-received material and was profitable, but Guinn, the publisher and owner, decided in 1967 that it would be better to have Galaxy resume a monthly schedule ; both Worlds of Tomorrow and Galaxy were bimonthly at that time, while If was monthly.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

However, the resignation of long-serving but at that point unpopular Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the well-received election of John Major as her successor had seen the comfortable Labour lead in the opinion polls wiped out and in the 17 months leading up to the election its outcome had become much less predictable.

Although Gattaca was not a success at the box office it drew generally favorable reviews from critics, and Hawke's performance was critically well-received.

" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.

In 1993, Garner played the lead in another well-received TV-movie, Barbarians at the Gate, and went on to reprise his role as Jim Rockford in eight The Rockford Files made-for-TV movies, beginning the following year.

The album was an attempt on the band's part to experiment with different types of popular music at the time, but was not as well-received as previous albums by fans.

) Kaye ( best known in much of the U. S. as the voice of NFL Films ) did another equally well-received remake of " War of the Worlds " in 1971 using a revised script and some new cast members from among the staffers on hand at the time, including Jackson Armstrong and newsmen Jim McLaughlin and Joe Downey.

" In 2005, a production by Richard Eyre, starring Eve Best, at the Almeida Theatre in London has been well-received, and later transferred for an 11½ week run at the Duke of York's on St Martin's Lane.