Which lead singer and songwriter of the band Dire Straits also composed the soundtrack album Last Exit to Brooklyn?
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (album) Last Exit to Brooklyn is a soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 3 October 1989 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album contains music composed for the 1989 film "Last Exit to Brooklyn", produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Uli Edel.
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Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He was born in Glasgow but raised near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is best known for having been the lead guitarist, lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his younger brother, David Knopfler, in 1977.
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Jack Feldman (songwriter) Jack Feldman is an American Tony Award-winning lyricist who has written songs for television, film, and Broadway. He has worked on many Disney movies ranging from "Oliver & Company" to "", collaborating with Alan Menken on the songs for "Newsies". He wrote the lyrics for Barry Manilow's Grammy Award–winning song "Copacabana" and recently won a Tony along with Alan Menken for the stage musical version of "Newsies". Feldman grew up on Long Island in New York.
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The Last Ship (album) The Last Ship is the eleventh studio album by English musician Sting, released on 20 September 2013 in Germany and on 24 September 2013 in the UK and US. The album features guest artists with roots in the northeast of England, including Brian Johnson from AC/DC, Jimmy Nail, The Unthanks, The Wilson Family, and Kathryn Tickell. The title is an allusion to the closing of the shipyards in the historic shipbuilding town of Wallsend, where Sting grew up.
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Mindy Jones Mindy Jones is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California and is currently the lead singer for recording artist Moby. Her collaborations with him include a cover of "The Big Dream" by American director David Lynch, which is featured on his tribute album; "Rio", by English new wave/synthpop band Duran Duran; and his last two albums, played during his most recent tour at the Fonda and Ace theatres in downtown Los Angeles. Her cover of the Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" was featured on episode 9 of the first season of the NBC series "Blindspot".
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Mark Stein (musician) Mark Stein (born March 11, 1947) is the lead vocalist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger for Vanilla Fudge, and was for the Tommy Bolin band, and Alice Cooper's band during 1978 to 1979.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (song) Last Exit to Brooklyn is a song by German musical group Modern Talking. It was released in April 2002 as the second single from their tenth studio album "America". The single released on May 7, 2001, experienced a moderate success, it spent only five weeks on the German single chart and peaked at only No. 41.<ref name="Chartverfolgung/MODERN TALKING/Single"> </ref> "Last Exit to Brooklyn" charted similarly in Austria peaking at No. 44 and No. 94 in Switzerland. The single; however, managed to chart better in Russia, where it peaked at No. 7.
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Brooklyn Go Hard "Brooklyn Go Hard" is the second promo single by rap artist Jay-Z, featuring additional vocals by alternative musician Santigold. The song was produced by Kanye West. It appears on the soundtrack to The Notorious B.I.G. biopic "Notorious" for which it serves as the theme song. It was released on December 1, 2008, as an exclusive download available via subscription to (RED)Wire, with a portion of the profits going towards Bono's Product Red organization. In 2013, it was used in a trailer and several television commercials for the Jackie Robinson biopic "".
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Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs, and for film scores.
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Songs for the New Depression Songs for the New Depression is the third studio album by American female singer Bette Midler, released in early 1976 on the Atlantic Records label. The album which saw her making her debut as a composer ("Mr. Rockefeller" and the French language "Samedi et Vendredi"), as well as co-producer and sound engineer features contributions from musicians as diverse as soul singer Luther Vandross, Todd Rundgren and Brazilian jazz accordionist Sivuca. "Songs for the New Depression" includes Midler's version of Tom Waits' "Shiver Me Timbers", a duet with Bob Dylan, "Buckets of Rain", and opens with her discofied take on Frank Sinatra's standard "Strangers in the Night" which became a #7 hit on the US dance charts. Two of the tracks, "Old Cape Cod" and "Marahuana", were originally recorded during the sessions for 1972 debut album "The Divine Miss M" but remixed three years later by producers Lew Hahn and Arif Mardin for "Songs for the New Depression". The album peaked at #27 on the "Billboard" album chart. "Mr. Rockefeller" was sampled by rapper Kanye West on the song, "Last Call", from his debut album, "The College Dropout".
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The Fixx The Fixx are a rock and new wave band formed in London in 1979. The band's hits include "One Thing Leads to Another", "Saved by Zero", "Are We Ourselves?", and "Secret Separation", all of which made the U.S. Top 20, as well as early MTV Video hits "Red Skies" and "Stand or Fall" and Mainstream Rock chart hits "Driven Out" and "Deeper and Deeper", the latter of which was featured on the soundtrack of the 1984 film "Streets of Fire".
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The Fog (soundtrack) The Fog is a soundtrack album composed and performed by John Carpenter, featuring the score to the 1980 film "The Fog". It was released in 1984 through Varèse Sarabande. An expanded edition was released in 2000 through Silva Screen Records, containing an extra six tracks not included on the original release (one of them being an interview with Jamie Lee Curtis). In 2012, another expanded edition was released through Silva Screen Records, containing all of the tracks from the 2000 release and all of the original score cues.
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P. F. Sloan P. F. "Flip" Sloan (born Philip Gary Schlein; September 18, 1945 – November 15, 2015) was an American pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was very successful during the mid-1960s, writing, performing, and producing Billboard top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, The Searchers, Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots, The Turtles and The Mamas & the Papas. Many of his songs were written in collaboration with Steve Barri. His most successful songs as a writer were three top ten hits. Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction", Johnny Rivers' 1966 "Secret Agent Man" and Herman's Hermits' 1966 "A Must to Avoid".
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Thom Yorke Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and composer best known as the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, Yorke mainly plays guitar and piano and works extensively with synthesisers, sequencers and programming. He is known for his falsetto vocals; in 2008, "Rolling Stone" ranked him the 66th greatest singer of all time.
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Trilogy: Past Present Future Trilogy: Past Present Future (or simply Trilogy) is a 1980 album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. It was his first album in six years. This album produced the last of Sinatra's many signature numbers, "Theme from "New York, New York"."
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David Paich David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954) is an Emmy and Grammy award-winning American keyboardist, singer, composer, recording producer, and arranger, best known for his work with the rock band Toto. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records. Additionally, Paich has contributed to a host of artists with his songwriting and arrangements including working with Boz Scaggs extensively in the 1970s and Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
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The Last Wish The Last Wish was a rock band from Houston, Texas, noted for being the first band of Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld. Ryan Delahoussaye of Blue October played with The Last Wish at a couple shows, but he was never a member of the band. Song writing collaboration was often shared by Greg Hammond, Amy Immel and Justin Furstenfeld. The members of the band attended Bellaire High School, and HSPVA, and the group was started while the members were students. The group built a strong fanbase in Houston, where they played several sold out shows at Houston venues such as Zelda's, Fitzgerald's, Toads Tavern, Last Concert Café, Café Artiste, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, and The Abyss. Furstenfeld left the group in 1995 while they were working on their third album. Furstenfeld still plays Last Wish songs during his solo shows, and Blue October has played Last Wish songs on occasion.
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Tokyo Joe (Bryan Ferry song) Tokyo Joe is a song by Bryan Ferry, the lead vocalist for Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from his fourth solo album and the first consisting entirely of original songs, In Your Mind, in May 1977, being Ferry's eleventh single. The single features the non-album track, "She's Leaving Home" as the B-side, which was originally recorded for The Beatles tribute album "All This and World War II".
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Last Exit (free jazz band) Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and bass guitarist Bill Laswell. They were active from 1986 to the early 1990s, releasing primarily live albums recorded in Europe. Sharrock's death in 1994 caused the dissolution of the band, though touring had not occurred for several years before his demise.
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So Far Away (Dire Straits song) "So Far Away" is a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the album "Brothers in Arms". It became the band's fourth and final top 20 hit (as well as top 40) on the Billboard charts, peaking at #19. The original studio version of the track appeared on the 2005 compilation "".
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Tony Ramey Tony Ramey is an Americana and Country Music singer and songwriter. During his career, he has recorded nine albums and had dozens of songs recorded by other country music artists. His repertoire of songs reaches over 2,400 in number and his songwriting career spans eighteen years as a professional. Ramey wrote and performed the title song for the movie, "The Last Ride" a fact-based drama about the final days of troubled country-music legend Hank Williams. His music can also be heard on the soundtrack for . His songs have appeared in television as well on daytime drama series “The Young and the Restless” and on outdoor television shows such as “Canada in the Rough”.
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Walk of Life "Walk of Life" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their fifth studio album "Brothers in Arms" (1985). It subsequently appeared on their live album "On the Night" (1993). It was released as a single in 1985 but had first been available as the B-side of "So Far Away" released in advance of "Brothers in Arms".