Felony
The term felony, in some common law countries, means a serious crime. The word originates from English common law (from the French medieval word " félonie "), where felonies were originally crimes that involved confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods. Other crimes were called misdemeanors. Many common law countries have now abolished the felony/misdemeanor distinction and replaced it with other distinctions, such as between indictable offences and summary offences. A felony is generally considered a crime of high seriousness, while a misdemeanor is not.
A person convicted in a court of law of a felony crime is known as a felon or convict. In the United States, where the felony/misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. If punishable by exactly one year or less, it is classified as a misdemeanor. Note that the actual prison sentence handed out has no effect on this; the decision is based on the maximum sentence possible under law. For example, if a person is sentenced to six months, but the charge can be "up to two years", it counts as a felony, in spite of the actual time served being well under a year. The individual states may differ in this definition, using other categories as seriousness or context.
Felony (band)
Felony is an American new wave and rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1980s by brothers Jeffrey Spirili and Joe Spirili. The brothers were also known as Jeff Spry and Joe Spry.
History
Before Felony, Jeffrey Spry had been the singer with Detroit Proto-Punk/Hard rock legends, Ron Asheton (of Iggy & The Stooges) and Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson (of The MC5) in a short lived super-group (based in Los Angeles) that was called "The New Order" (preceding the English new wave group of the same name). Jeff was in the band in 1975 and recorded an album with them that was released in 1977.
After a period playing shows and making music business connections in the Los Angeles scene, Felony appeared in the horror b-movie Graduation Day (1981), playing their song "Gangsters of Rock." Soon after, they signed with producers/managers Don Rubin, formerly of pop group The Ivy Three, and Artie Kornfeld. Some live shows were mixed by sound engineer Steve Sands.
Felony went into the studio and emerged with single "The Fanatic," which became a hit on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM with help from program director Rick Carroll. The song reached the top 50 in the singles charts and topped the alternative and dance charts. It became a key track in the development of the Modern Rock radio format. "The Fanatic" was included in the influential 1983 Valley Girl soundtrack, which also featured Modern English's "I Melt With You". Felony also performed the track on American Bandstand. A video was made from "The Fanatic" "The Fanatic" video was shot in Hollywood, California in 1983 and aired on MTV. The Fanatic video includes a cameo of Jeffrey Spry with his first wife, SAG actress, Lucrecia Sarita Russo.
Felony (disambiguation)
A felony is a type of crime.
Felony may also refer to:
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- BSI Records: Chapter One released: 2004
- Diagnosis / Accelerate released: 2001
- Encounters released: 1999
- Breakbeat Sampler, Volume 1 released: 1998
- Sound Chamber / Conflict released: 1998
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- Hustlers Ball released: 1997
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- First Works released: 2005
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- Helltown Hotel released: 2009
- In the Name of Rock-N-Roll released:
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Tonite
by: FelonyHey baby, I'm sorry for all I've done
I can't change the past, it's all gone
But I will change the future I'll try hard
Step by step and bit by bit, heart by heart
There's a light inside your eyes
I remember the first day I saw this light
I don't know why, I promised to die
I don't know why, I promised to cry
She's all alone on this way of mystery
And I hope my soul will turn to see
I can follow her to eternity - we use the flame
Well there's a girl who's sitting there
She takes my hand and tells me that she'll care
She doesn't know, the pain inside my heart
She listens where it's gone and brought it back home
She's been so kind, and in the night I fall, falling
She's been alone in this world
Tonite, tonite, tonite - The sun will rise again
Tonite, tonite, tonite - Nothing will stay the same
The thin ice I'm walking on starts to break
She's the one, I must choose which way to take
All the doubt, it lays back behind
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