Hip hop in the UK, unlike in the US, was immediately fused with soul, R & B and elements of dancehall.

* Chip, formerly known as Chipmunk ( rapper ), UK Hip Hop artist.

Home Grown: The Story of UK Hip Hop, which was exhibited from October 2009 to February 2010, was the first attempt in the UK to document the hip-hop music scene.

Following the Dawn Parade's split, McDonald continued as a solo artist ; he has, to date, recorded two full-length solo albums, partly in collaboration with former Hip Down / Dawn Parade members Jeremy Jones, Nick Morley and Seymour Glass ( credited as Seymour Patrick ) and continues to play live throughout the UK.

The band's second single, released in the August 2004, was a double A-side consisted of a new song " Hip To Hip " and a cover of The Jacksons's song " Can You Feel It " ( with a video of the band dressed as a double glazing salesman, ice cream man, postman, milkman and paperboy ) and charted at number 5 in the UK chart.

:* UK Hip Hop Awards ( Album ) 2000

Bop Cassettes released Mr Spin Droppin ' it ' Best ov Hip Hop 1988 Mix ' in August 1989, UK release.

In 1995, Kinetic Effect recorded ' Man Bites Dog '/' The Effect of Fear ' Their song " The Rhythm I Give ‘ Em ," made the UK Top 10 Hip Hop chart.

In 1987 Positive Beat Records came out of the hotbed of early UK Hip Hop, Ladbroke Grove, London with two releases.

A new generation of young socially conscious hip-hop musicians has emerged as a counter to the grime scene that many in the UK Hip Hop Scene perceive as commercial.

* Britishhiphop. co. uk-The original UK Hip Hop history

* Heroes of UK Hip Hop's Rebel MC page

Million Dead remixed the song ' Pop Idol ' by legendary UK Hip Hop artist Blade, providing an instrumental-only arrangement for the rapper, the original song having previously appeared on his earlier record Storms Are Brewing.

The song cracked the Top 40 on the US R & B / Hip Hop at No .# 29, but failed to show up in the UK chart, while scoring at weak No .# 83 in the Hot 100.

* britishhiphop. co. uk-The original UK Hip Hop History

* Mud Family discography at the UK Hip Hop Database

Before Emap took ownership within Box Television, the channel was recognised for the wide variety of music from all genres, offering up to 500 videos per week as well as for helping to introduce Rap and Hip hop music onto the UK music scene.

#" Alright " ( Hip Hop Mix UK edit )

Group member Dizzy Dustin features on UK Hip Hop artist Ricta album Snacks & Deception LP

* The original UK Hip Hop History

* Rishi Rich Bio on UK Hip Hop Website

* Heroes Of UK Hip Hop Daddy Freddy Page

Coinciding with Gregory's arrival, XTC scored their first charting single in the UK with " Life Begins at the Hop ", which was also the first XTC single penned by Colin Moulding.

On the May 18, 2011, it was announced that Prince would be headlining Hop Farm Festival on July 3, 2011, marking his first UK show since 2007 and his first ever UK festival appearance.

The UK style is attributed to John Gilbert, owner of Hop Back Brewery, who developed " Summer Lightning " in 1989, which then won several awards and inspired numerous imitators.

Escape into the Park and Bionic Events are examples of the Welsh Hard Dance scene. On 16 July 2011 Sian Evans of Trip Hop, Synthpop Bristol based band Kosheen had a No. 1 Official UK Singles Charts hit in collaboration with DJ Fresh.

When it was launched in the UK it was called Corn Circle beer, but the name was changed after a dispute with the Hop Back Brewery who produce a beer called Crop Circle.

In 1976, " At the Hop " was re-issued, and it made its way into the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

Ross Healy went on to record under the alias Amnesia for S. O. U. R, UK Drum N Bass label and as Cray for French label Bip Hop records.

Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company, entering at Number 9.

With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.

In the UK, the above responsibilities would normally be those of the Head Painter, and the Scenic Artist is responsible for producing artist painted backings.

* milgramreenactment. org-site documenting Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment by UK artist Rod Dickinson

Meanwhile in the UK David Hall's " TV Interruptions " ( 1971 ) were transmitted intentionally unannounced and uncredited on Scottish TV, the first artist interventions on British television.

In the UK, the biggest selling artist of the decade is Robbie Williams and the biggest selling band of the decade is Westlife.

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

The song became an instant hit, reaching number one in the UK ( becoming his third number one single as a solo artist ) and New Zealand.

It has been claimed that Williams has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date.

In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s.

Skip zone is the subject of a film ' SKIPZONE ' made in 1992 by UK artist, Peter Lee-Jones.

By this point, Queen's vast amount of record sales made them the second best selling artist in the UK of all time, behind The Beatles.

Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.

The cover illustration for a 1970s UK edition of Double Star ( artist: Anthony Roberts ) was the subject of an unlikely controversy when it was used as the basis of an entry for the 2000 Turner Prize for modern art.

A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the United Kingdom following the birth of punk rock, in particular the Situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, as well as that band's first single, " Anarchy in the UK ".

Death by drowning, as in water escapes pioneered by Houdini ; Death by falling ; as a straitjacket escape hanging from a burning rope hundreds of feet in the air, as created by UK escape artist Alan Alan and in the US by Dorothy Dietrich ; Buried Alive, as done by Dean Gunnarson and others ; being Burned Alive or suffocated in the Chrysalis Escape both performed by Roslyn Walker.

The remixed single ( marketed as " Armand's Star Trunk Funkin ' Mix ") hit number one on the UK single chart and the Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in the U. S. The song was then further remixed by artist Mr. Roy, spawning an entirely new CD-single of remixes that again took to the charts.

* Chester P, UK hip-hop artist, member of Task Force and M. U. D.

More recently, he produced " Raver ", featuring Kano and Donae ' o and Roses Gabor, plus the UK artist Yasmin's first single, " On My Own ".

* Trace ( artist ), a UK drum and bass artist

A recording that was destined to reach the upper parts of the UK Singles Chart, " The Night ", was not commercially released as a single by Motown in the United States after promotional copies ( showing the artist as Frankie Valli ) were distributed in 1971.