Dion or Dio may refer to:
Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, rock and R&B styles—and, most recently, straight blues. He was one of the most popular American rock and roll performers of the pre-British Invasion era. He had more than a dozen Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 60s. He is best remembered for the 1961 singles, "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer", written with Ernie Maresca.
Dion's popularity waned in the mid-1960s, perhaps due to the public's changing taste in pop music, and perhaps in part due to personal difficulties he had during this period. But toward the end of the decade, he shifted his style and produced songs with a more mature, contemplative feeling, such as "Abraham, Martin and John". He became popular again in the late 1960s and into the mid-1970s, and he has continued making music ever since. Critics who had dismissed his early work, pegging him as merely a teen idol, praised his later work, and noted the influence he has had on other musicians.
Dion or Dio (Ancient Greek: Δίον, Greek: Δίο, Latin: Dium) is a village located at the foot of Mount Olympus and in the municipality of Dio-Olympos.
It is best known for its ancient Macedonian sanctuary of Zeus and city, visible in the archaeological park and the Archaeological Museum of Dion.
The ancient city owes its name to the most important Macedonian sanctuary dedicated to Zeus (Dios, "of Zeus"), leader of the gods who dwelt on Mount Olympus; as recorded by Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, bore Zeus two sons, Magnes and Makednos, eponym of Macedonians, who dwelt in Pieria at the foot of Mount Olympus. Hence from very ancient times, a large altar had been set up for the worship of Olympian Zeus and his daughters, the Muses, in a unique environment characterised by rich vegetation, towering trees, countless springs and a navigable river. For this reason Dion was the "sacred place" of the Ancient Macedonians. It was the place where the kings made splendid sacrifices to celebrate the new year of the Macedonian calendar at the end of September. In the Spring, purification rites of the army and victory feasts were held.
There was a sad gypsy clown who could make you cry
With a lick of guitar and a Spanish Fly
And every night was a wild thing awaiting
To fill the world with sound and fury
Now that's all over
There was a brilliant man with a rabbit's heart
You'd fall in love while he beat on his autoharp
With a kiss after 10 cigatettes
"I'm sorry kid, Chicago's calling
And this town is over"
Now it's all over
But what a town it was
With it's endless freak parade
Now it's just a dying town
The city shined with it's own kind of rock stars
The punk in the cafe, the girl in the pool bar
Thank you for my decafe grande
I'm tired of fighting, I'm a lover
And I'm tired it's over, it's all over
But what a town it was
With it's endless freak parade
And all around us, the music played and played
It's all over now, the freaks got chased away
And now it's just a dying town
It's just a dying town
(instrumental break)
Fat cat came and chased all the blues away
And punk rock, jazz and the hip hop DJ
Music can't be killed however
If it's unloved, the music's over
It looks over now, it sure looks over now
It sure looks over now
But what a town it was
With it's endless freak parade
And all around us, the music played and played
It's all over now, the freaks got chased away
And now it's just a dying town
Oh, oh, it's just a dying town
Oh, oh (it's just a dying town)
Oh what a town it was,
The freaks got chased away
What a town it was