Oxygène

Oxygène (English: Oxygen) is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977. Jarre recorded the album in his home using a variety of analog synthesizers and other electronic instruments and effects. It became a bestseller and was Jarre's first album to achieve mainstream success. It was also highly influential in the development of electronic music and has been described as the album that "led the synthesizer revolution of the Seventies".

Background

Prior to 1976, Jarre had dabbled in a number of projects, including an unsuccessful synthesizer music album, advertising jingles and compositions for a ballet. His inspiration for Oxygène came from a painting by the artist Michel Granger (given to Jarre by his future wife Charlotte Rampling), which showed the Earth peeling to reveal a skull. Jarre obtained the artist's permission to use the image for this album.

Dolly

Dolly is often used as the diminutive name of a doll. It may also refer to one of the following:

In tools

  • Dolly (tool), a portable anvil
  • Dolly (trailer), for towing behind a vehicle
  • Boat dolly or launching dolly, a device for launching small boats into the water.
  • Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots
  • Hand truck, sometimes called a dolly
  • In people

    Dolly is often used as the diminutive for the English personal name Dorothy.

  • Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
  • Doyle Brunson (born 1933), professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
  • Dolly Buster (born 1969), porn actress
  • Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
  • nickname of Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), cricketer
  • nickname of Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist
  • Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
  • William Denton Dolly Gray (1878–1956), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911
  • Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American singer and entertainer; wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
  • Dolly!

    Dolly! is a television variety show starring country music star Dolly Parton that aired in first-run syndication during the 1976-77 season.

    In the mid-1970s, Parton was approached by Bill Graham, president of Show Biz, Inc., the same company that produced The Porter Wagoner Show (on which Parton had costarred for seven years), and soon afterward the syndicated variety show Dolly was born.

    The show boasted a budget of $85,000 per episode, an impressive sum at the time for a syndicated series. (It was, in fact the most expensive show to be produced out of Nashville to that point.) A variety of Nashville and Hollywood stars were scheduled to appear, including Karen Black, Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, The Hues Corporation, Captain Kangaroo, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Ronnie Milsap, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, KC & The Sunshine Band, and Anson Williams. According to her 1978 biography, Dolly by Alanna Nash, Parton spoke to Bob Dylan and he initially agreed to do the show, but eventually bowed out due to his discomfort with the television medium at the time.

    Dolly (magazine)

    DOLLY is a monthly teen magazine started in 1970 by Fairfax Ltd. in Australia and New Zealand, and purchased by ACP in 1988. The current editor is Lucy E Cousins. The previous editor was Tiffany Dunk.

    Dolly was the basis and inspiration for Sassy Magazine (1987-1996) in the United States. The magazine is aimed at older teenage girls (13-17 age group) and covers celebrity news and gossip, fashion and beauty and various feature articles attractive to female teenagers and dealing with issues that are faced by this age group and gender. The magazine also has a website containing games, information on upcoming issues, quizzes and downloads. The magazine has now produced over 400 issues and as of 2007 has a readership of 505,000.

    Controversy

    In 2005, Dolly came into media attention for taking advantage of young people wanting to get into the magazine industry. Dolly was accused of soliciting, publishing and ridiculing unpaid articles from hopeful young women looking for a job in magazine journalism.

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    Part IV

    by: Fate's Warning

    listen
    only us breathing
    and the rain keeping time
    dividing the silence
    in a distant thunder
    listen
    only hearts beating
    and the rain keeping time
    measuring out the minutes
    and taking us under




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