Billy Field

William Bruce "Billy" Field (born 20 January 1953) is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known for his hit singles "True Love" (1982) ( No. 17), "Bad Habits" (1981) (No. 4) and "You Weren't In Love with Me" (1981) (No. 1).

Early career

Billy Field was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales in 1953, and spent his early years on Widgiewa Station, a large sheep and cattle property near the small Riverina town of Urana, and worked there for various periods until his mid-20s.

Field was originally in a band called King Fox in 1967. The band consisted of Field and Paul Radcliffe (later of Machinations) and issued the EP Unforgotten Dreams on the du Monde label in 1969 as well as a single, "I Think You're Fine", on Festival records in 1972. Field then played in various pub bands in Sydney.

Solo career

Field's first album was released in 1981, titled Bad Habits (on WEA in Australia and Europe and CBS in the United States). It was arranged and co-produced by Tom Price.

"You Weren't In Love with Me" peaked at No. 67 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1982.

Billy Field (Gaelic footballer)

William "Billy" Field (born 1952) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-forward for the Cork senior team.

Field joined the team during the 1973 championship and remained with the team for the following three seasons. During that time he won one Munster medal but was denied an All-Ireland medal in 1973 after breaking his leg in the semi-final.

Field also enjoyed a lengthy club career with St. Michael's.

References

Bad Habits (Billy Field album)

Bad Habits was an album released by Australian artist Billy Field in 1981. It spent 2 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1981.

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Seven deadly sins

The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a Western religious grouping and classification of vices. This grouping emerged in the fourth century AD and was used for Christian ethical education and for confession. Though the sins have fluctuated over time, the currently recognized list includes pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. There is a parallel tradition of seven virtues.

The seven deadly sins are called "capital" because they are the origins of other vices. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a mortal or deadly sin is believed to destroy the life of grace and charity within a person.

The tradition of seven deadly sins as we know it today originated with the desert fathers, specifically Evagrius Ponticus. Evagrius identified seven or eight evil thoughts or spirits that one needed to overcome. Evagrius' pupil John Cassian brought that tradition to Europe with his book The Institutes. The idea of seven basic vices or sins was fundamental to Catholic confessional practices as evidence in penitential manuals as well as sermons like "The Parson's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This connection is also clear in how Dante's Purgatory is arranged according to the seven deadly sins. The concept of seven deadly sins was used throughout the medieval Christian world to teach young people how to avoid evil and embrace the good as is evident in treatises, paintings, sculpture decorations on churches. Works like Peter Brueghel the Elder's prints of the Seven Deadly Sins as well as Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene show the continuity of this tradition into the modern era.

Bad Habits

Bad Habits may refer to:

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Bad Habits (Colin James album)

Bad Habits is a blues album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). In the U.S., the album was released on Elektra Records. The album was produced, engineered and mixed at Compass Point in Nassau and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City. The album earned James the 1996 Juno Award for "Male Vocalist of the Year". The album had sold 70,000 units in Canada by January, 1999.

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