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China Girl (song)

Index China Girl (song)

"China Girl" is a song written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's debut solo album, The Idiot (1977). [1]

101 relations: A Million in Prizes: The Anthology, A Reality Tour (album), AllMusic, Art rock, Bass guitar, BBC Online, Berlin, Best of Bowie, Betamax, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Carlos Alomar, Carmine Rojas, Cassette single, Changesbowie, Château d'Hérouville, Chinatown, Sydney, Compilation album, Daily Mail, David Bowie, David Mallet (director), David Quantick, Dennis Davis, Drum kit, Dublin, Dutch Top 40, DVD, EMI America Records, EMI Records, Fascination (David Bowie song), Five Years (David Bowie song), From Here to Eternity, Geeling Ng, George Murray (musician), GfK Entertainment Charts, Glass Spider, Guitar, Hansa Tonstudio, Hérouville, Iggy Pop, IMDb, Institut français d'opinion publique, Kent Music Report, Keyboard instrument, Krautrock, LaserDisc, Lead guitar, Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie), Let's Dance (David Bowie album), ..., Let's Dance (David Bowie song), Live Aid, Lodger (album), London, Manhattan, Modern Love (song), MTV, MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video, Munich, Musicland Studios, New York City, Nile Rodgers, Nothing Has Changed, Official New Zealand Music Chart, Omar Hakim, Paul Trynka, Phil Palmer, Phonograph record, Piano, Pop music, Power Station (recording studio), RCA Records, Record producer, Rhythm guitar, Rolling Stone, Saxophone, Serious Moonlight (1983 film), Singing, Single Top 100, Sony, Speedball (drug), Springbok Radio, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stooge, Swastika, Sydney, The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987, The Idiot (album), The Official Finnish Charts, The Passenger (song), The Singles Collection (David Bowie album), The Washington Post, The Wedding Singer, Toy piano, Ultratop, VH1 Storytellers (David Bowie album), VHS, Vietnamese people, Virgin Records, 12-inch single. Expand index (51 more) »

A Million in Prizes: The Anthology

A Million in Prizes: The Anthology is a 2-disc greatest hits collection of Iggy Pop, released in 2005.

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A Reality Tour (album)

A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie that was released on 25 January 2010.

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AllMusic

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

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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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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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Best of Bowie

Best of Bowie is a career-spanning greatest hits album by English recording artist David Bowie.

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Betamax

Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Carlos Alomar

Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951) is a Puerto Rican-American guitarist, composer, and arranger.

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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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Cassette single

A cassette single (CS, also known by the trademark "Cassingle" or capitalized as the trademark "Cassette Single") is a music single in the form of a Compact Cassette.

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Changesbowie

Changesbowie is a compilation album by David Bowie, released in 1990 in the United States by Rykodisc and by EMI in the UK as part of Rykodisc's Bowie remastering program, to replace the deleted RCA Records compilations Changesonebowie and Changestwobowie.

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Château d'Hérouville

The Château d'Hérouville is a French château of the 18th century (1740) located in the village of Hérouville, in the département of France, near Paris.

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Chinatown, Sydney

Chinatown (Chinese: 雪梨華埠 or 悉尼唐人街) is an urban locality in the southern part of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Mallet (director)

David Victor Mark Mallet (born 17 December 1945 in West Horsley, Surrey) is a British director.

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David Quantick

David Quantick (born 14 May 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is an English freelance journalist, radio/screen writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy.

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Dennis Davis

Dennis Davis (August 28, 1949 – April 6, 2016) was an American drummer and session musician best known for his work with David Bowie, and is considered as having one of the most influential drum sounds of the second half of the 20th Century.

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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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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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EMI America Records

EMI America Records was started in 1978 by EMI as a second US label next to Capitol Records and Virgin Records America.

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EMI Records

EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.

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Fascination (David Bowie song)

"Fascination" is a song written by English singer and songwriter David Bowie and American musician Luther Vandross for Bowie's Young Americans album in 1975.

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Five Years (David Bowie song)

"Five Years" is a song written by David Bowie, recorded on 15 November 1971,Kevin Cann (2010).

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From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann, and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

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Geeling Ng

Geeling Ng (currently, Geeling Ching) is a New Zealand model, actress and restaurateur.

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George Murray (musician)

George Murray is an American bass guitarist best known for his work with David Bowie on a number of Bowie's albums released in the 1970s.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Glass Spider

Glass Spider is a concert film by English writer, singer and actor David Bowie.

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Guitar

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

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Hansa Tonstudio

The Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio, since 1974 located in a former builders' guild hall on Köthener Straße No.

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Hérouville

Hérouville is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Institut français d'opinion publique

The Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP) (French Institute of Public Opinion) is an international polling and market research firm, whose motto is "Connection creates value".

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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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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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie)

Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie) (also known as Bowie Legacy) is a greatest hits album by British musician David Bowie, released on 11 November 2016 through Sony Music Entertainment in the U. S. and Warner Music Group in the UK and several territories.

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Let's Dance (David Bowie album)

Let's Dance is the 15th studio album by David Bowie.

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Let's Dance (David Bowie song)

"Let's Dance" is the title-track from English singer David Bowie's 1983 album of the same name.

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Live Aid

Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative.

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Lodger (album)

Lodger is the 13th studio album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Modern Love (song)

"Modern Love" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video is one of four original general awards that have been handed out every year since the very first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Musicland Studios

Musicland Studios was a recording studio located in Munich, Germany.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist.

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Nothing Has Changed

Nothing Has Changed (also titled Nothing Has Changed: The Very Best of David Bowie and stylised as Nothing has changed.) is a compilation album by English musician David Bowie.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Omar Hakim

Omar Hakim (born February 12, 1964) is an American jazz, jazz fusion and pop music drummer, producer, arranger and composer.

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Paul Trynka

Paul Trynka is a British rock journalist and author.

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Phil Palmer

Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952, London, England) is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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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 music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Power Station (recording studio)

Power Station at Berklee, NYC, formerly known as Avatar Studios is a recording studio at 441 West 53rd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Serious Moonlight (1983 film)

Serious Moonlight is the title of a David Bowie concert video; originally filmed on the singer's 1983 "Serious Moonlight Tour" in Vancouver (12 September night), it was released on video and laserdisc in 1984 and on DVD in 2006.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single Top 100

The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by MegaCharts.

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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Speedball (drug)

Speedball (or powerball) is a mix of cocaine with heroin or morphine taken intravenously or by insufflation.

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Springbok Radio

Springbok Radio was a South African radio station that operated from 1950 to 1985.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for AllMusic.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Stooge

A stooge or stooges may refer to.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987

The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 is a compilation album by David Bowie.

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The Idiot (album)

The Idiot is the debut solo album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.

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The Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista, Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland composed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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The Passenger (song)

"The Passenger" is a song by Iggy Pop and Ricky Gardiner, recorded and released by Iggy Pop on the Lust for Life album in 1977.

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The Singles Collection (David Bowie album)

The Singles Collection is a compilation album by David Bowie, released in 1993 in the UK and (with some changes) as The Singles 1969 to 1993 in the United States.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer is a 1998 American romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci.

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Toy piano

The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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VH1 Storytellers (David Bowie album)

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people (người Việt or người Kinh), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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12-inch single

The 12-inch single (often simply called 12″) is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time compared to typical LPs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(song)

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