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A Spanner in the Works

Index A Spanner in the Works

A Spanner in the Works is a studio album released by Rod Stewart on 26 May 1995. [1]

77 relations: Accordion, Album, AllMusic, Andy Taylor (guitarist), Anne Dudley, Backing vocalist, Bagpipes, Bass guitar, Bernard Edwards, Billy Livsey, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan, Bouzouki, Carmine Rojas, Choir, Chris Rea, Davey Johnstone, Dónal Lunny, Drum kit, Entertainment Weekly, Fiddle, Frankie Miller, Gavin Wright, Graham Lyle, Guitar, Guy Pratt, Harmonica, Horn section, If We Fall in Love Tonight, Irish fiddle, James Newton Howard, Jamie Muhoberac, Jeff Golub, Jim Cregan, Jimmy Crespo, Kenny Aronoff, Keyboard instrument, Kick Horns, Lead vocalist, Leave Virginia Alone, Leland Sklar, Lenny Waronker, Lol Creme, Mandolin, Marc Jordan, Máire Ní Chathasaigh, Michael Landau, Muddy Waters, Music recording certification, Orchestra, ..., Organ (music), Otis Redding, Paulinho da Costa, Percussion instrument, Piano, Pop rock, Rick Braun, Rock music, Rod Stewart, Sam Cooke, Single (music), Sound City Studios, Squeezebox, Stephen Lipson, String section, The Blue Nile, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Tim Pierce, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Trevor Horn, Unplugged...and Seated, Van Nuys, Warner Bros. Records, Wild Mountain Thyme, Wildflowers (Tom Petty album), 1995 in music. Expand index (27 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Andy Taylor (guitarist)

Andrew Taylor (born 16 February 1961) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a former member of both Duran Duran and The Power Station.

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Anne Dudley

Anne Dudley (born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bernard Edwards

Bernard Edwards (October 31, 1952 – April 18, 1996) was an American bass player, singer, songwriter and record producer, known primarily for his work in disco music with guitarist Nile Rodgers, with whom he co-founded the band Chic.

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Billy Livsey

Billy Livsey is an American songwriter, keyboardist, and producer from Nashville, Tennessee.

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Billy Preston

William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bouzouki

The bouzouki (also buzuki; μπουζούκι; plural bouzoukia μπουζούκια) is a musical instrument popular in Greece that was brought there in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches.

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Carmine Rojas

Carmine Rojas (born February 14, 1953, Brooklyn, New York City, United States) is an American bass guitarist, musical director and composer.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognisable for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing.

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Davey Johnstone

David William Logan "Davey" Johnstone (born 6 May 1951, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with Elton John.

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Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Frankie Miller

Francis John Miller (born 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter.

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Gavin Wright

Gavin Wright (born 1943) is an economic historian and the William Robertson Professor of American economic history at Stanford University.

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Graham Lyle

Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and actor.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Horn section

A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.

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If We Fall in Love Tonight

If We Fall in Love Tonight If We Fall in Love Tonight is a ballad album released by Rod Stewart on 1 November 1996 (see 1996 in music).

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Irish fiddle

The Irish fiddle is, historically the last, of the most important instruments in the traditional repertoire of Irish music.

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James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer.

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Jamie Muhoberac

Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Backstreet Boys, Chris Cornell, My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Bowling For Soup, Eric Prydz and Pet Shop Boys.

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Jeff Golub

Jeff Golub (April 15, 1955 – January 1, 2015) was an American jazz guitarist who had a solo career and who led the band Avenue Blue.

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Jim Cregan

James Cregan (born 9 March 1946) is an English rock guitarist and bassist, best known for his associations with Family, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart.

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Jimmy Crespo

James Crespo, Jr. (born July 5, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American guitarist.

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Kenny Aronoff

Kenny Aronoff (born March 7, 1953 in Albany, New York) is an American drummer who has been the sideman for many bands both live and in the studio.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kick Horns

Kick Horns are a UK horn section based in London.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Leave Virginia Alone

"Leave Virginia Alone" is a 1995 song written by Tom Petty and performed by Rod Stewart off Stewart's album A Spanner in the Works.

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Leland Sklar

Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American musician.

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Lenny Waronker

Lenny Waronker (born October 3, 1941) is an American producer and music industry executive.

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Lol Creme

Laurence Neil "Lol" Creme (born 19 September 1947) is an English musician and music video director, best known for his work in 10cc.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Marc Jordan

Marc Wallace Jordan (born March 6, 1948), is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor.

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Máire Ní Chathasaigh

Máire Ní Chathasaigh (born 1956) is an Irish harpist and singer.

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Michael Landau

Michael Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, engineer, and record producer.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Paulinho da Costa

Paulinho da Costa (born Paulo Roberto da Costa on May 31, 1948) is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Rick Braun

Rick Braun (born July 6, 1955, in (Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a smooth jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sound City Studios

Sound City Studios is a recording studio incorporated in 1969, located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Squeezebox

The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina.

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Stephen Lipson

Stephen J. Lipson (Steve Lipson) (born 16 March 1954) is an English record producer/engineer, guitarist and songwriter.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile were a musical group from Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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Tim Pierce

Tim Pierce (born 1959 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English bassist, singer, songwriter, music producer, and recording studio and label owner.

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Unplugged...and Seated

Unplugged...and Seated is a live album released by British musician Rod Stewart on 24 May 1993.

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Van Nuys

Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles in California.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Wild Mountain Thyme

"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is a Scottish folk song that was collected by Francis McPeake 1st, who wrote the song himself for his wife.

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Wildflowers (Tom Petty album)

Wildflowers is the second solo studio album by American musician Tom Petty, released on November 1, 1994.

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1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Spanner_in_the_Works

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