Sphere (band)

Sphere is the name of the following musical groups:

Sphere (American band)

Sphere were an American jazz ensemble which began as a tribute to pianist/composer Thelonious Monk, whose middle name was "Sphere".

The band initially consisting of Monk's longtime tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams, and Monk's former drummer Ben Riley. Saxophonist Gary Bartz assumed Rouse's place after his death in 1988.

Discography

References

Sphere (1998 film)

Sphere is a 1998 science fiction psychological thriller film directed and produced by Barry Levinson. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sphere was based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film was released in the United States on February 13, 1998.

Plot

An alien spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for 300 years. A team of experts, including marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin, mathematician Dr. Harry Adams, astrophysicist Dr. Ted Fielding, psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman, and U.S. Navy Capt. Harold Barnes, are assembled and taken to the Habitat, a state-of-the-art living environment located near the spacecraft.

On examination of the spacecraft, they determine that it is actually an American spacecraft from the future, apparently having fallen back through time after entering a black hole, an "unknown event" in the ship's computer logs. The logs do not give any indication of how far in the future it came, but that its mission was to collect objects from across the galaxy. This includes a large perfect fluid sphere that hovers a few feet above the floor in the ship's cargo bay. They cannot find any way to probe the inside of the sphere, and the surface is impenetrable; the crew find it odd that the surface of the sphere reflects its surroundings except for humans.

Breathless

Breathless may refer to:

Film and television

Music

Albums

Songs

Breathless (The Corrs song)

"Breathless" is a song by Irish pop rock group The Corrs. It was released on 18 July 2000, as the first single taken from their third studio album In Blue (2000). "Breathless" was co-written and produced by famed music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who produced for Shania Twain, Bryan Adams and Def Leppard, among others.

"Breathless" is a pop and pop rock song, with lyrics about seduction and how when you're falling in love, you're just enticing that person to go one step further. A music video was filmed on the Mojave Desert and was directed by Nigel Dick.

It is considered their signature hit after topping the charts around the world. The song scaled the charts all over the world, including hitting number 1 in Spain and the UK—their only British chart-topper to date. It also went top ten in Australia and No. 34 in the United States in March 2001, giving the Corrs their only US Top 40 hit. The single was the 33rd biggest-selling in the UK in 2000.

In 2001 the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The song was on the soundtrack of Brazilian soap opera "Uga Uga". It was also featured in the opening scene of the film The Wedding Date, starring Debra Messing; and in a Sopranos episode, named "Another Toothpick".

Breathless (Shankar Mahadevan album)

Breathless is the 1998 album which first gave Indian singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan major fame. The title track, "Breathless", is a steady stream of a song that goes on without a break, stanzas, verse or apparently even a pause for breath. The length of the part of the song which is 'breathless' is about six minutes. Mahadevan made the album in collaboration with Javed Akhtar, a reputed lyricist in the Indian music industry. Renu Desai was a model and appeared in the music video of Shankar Mahadevan's "Breathless".

Track listing

Reception

The music album was a huge success, selling over 300,000 copies and topped all major music charts in India for about ten straight weeks.

Music video

The music video of the title song "Breathless" was directed by Farhan Akhtar and his sister Zoya Akhtar This was the beginning of a long association, as Shankar, along with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa (as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), went on to score music for all of the films directed by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar.