Girlschool - Play Dirty - Red Marble - VINYL LP

Limited 180gm red vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Play Dirty is the fourth studio album by British heavy metal band, Girlschool, originally released on Bronze Records in 1983 and produced by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea from the hard rock band Slade. Featuring Kelly Johnson, Kim McAuliffe, Denise Dufort and Gil Weston and showcasing hits such as Inch20th Century Boy,Inch InchBurning In The Heat,Inch and InchPlay Dirty.Inch Remastered in 2020. During the torrent of new wave of British heavy metal, (NWOBHM), Girlschool were somewhere in the middle. They weren't mentioned in the same breath as the giants of the time but they were better known than other bands like Diamond Head and Raven. True, their music didn't get the airplay it deserved but most metalheads in 1983 knew who they were. I was fortunate on one occasion in the year to catch one of the few times the title track from the album, InchPlay Dirty,Inch got played on MTV.InchPlay DirtyInch marked a change in direction for Girlschool towards a more softer rock sound. Some would compare them to Def Leppard, really? However, the softer sound comes out with the first two tracks on the album. It is the first time, to my knowledge, that keyboards were ever used on a Girlschool album. Those tracks aren't bad but they aren't real headbangers either. Things do go much heavier with the third one, the title track. Even then, there are keyboards at the bridges on the song and though I have to admit, they compliment that part of the song well, it took me a couple of listens to get used to it. Besides, Kelly Johnson's guitar solo on said song makes counters any keyboards. After wowing with those more harder songs, things go back to the sound of the opening tracks. Keyboards a plenty here for I get the feeling that on InchSurrenderInch that they were trying for a Night Ranger or Journey type hit single. However, it wasn't rele

Girlschool are a British rock band that formed in the new wave of British heavy metal scene in 1978. Frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead, they are the longest-running all-female rock band, still active after more than 40 years. Girlschool enjoyed strong media exposure and commercial success in the UK in the early 1980s with three albums of Inchpunk-tinged metalInch.

At the time of his death in 1870, Saverio Mercadante was known as a director and administrator first and foremost, who had steered opera houses and then conservatoires through choppy waters at an especially eventful time in Italian political history, rising to become the dominant figure in the musical culture of mid-19th century Naples. Secondly, he was acknowledged as an opera composer of distinction and fluency, if not ranked on the level of lyric geniuses such as Rossini and Bellini. A stroke in 1862 left Mercadante blind, and he began to concentrate his remaining energies on the field of instrumental music which had launched his career in the 1810s. Almost immediately after his death, however, Mercadante's name became obscured, and only in the last couple of decades have his operas and other works been revived outside his native Italy. Most of the works on this album were composed at either end of his long career, but they are unified by the vocal style of writing for his chosen solo instrument. Perhaps because he valued it as a soprano without words, so to speak, Mercadante wrote much for the flute - concertos, trios, quartets and more - and it takes on the character of a bel canto heroine in his hands, exploiting the resources of the most accomplished performers with coloratura agility and elegant phrasing. Gian-Luca Petrucci's choice of repertoire opens with a work specifically indebted to the lyric stage, a set of variations composed in 1759 and based on 'La ci darem la mano' from Mozart's Don Giovanni. He continues with two more attractive variation sets and then a striking scena for piano, cello and voice, Il sogno, to a text by Guacci, with the obbligato cello part transcribed here for flute.