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La Bouche Greatest Hits
- Be My Lover
- sweet dreams
- Fallin' in love
- In Your Life
- You Won't Forget Me
La Bouche
Germany in the eighties of the last century was a real European center, where a great many bands that are popular today were born. For example, the biography of the group La Bouche, whose name is very similar to french word actually originated in Germany. The starting point of this group was 1989, when several performers decided to express themselves in an original way.
Why take a long time to come up with a name for your team? You can just take the first letters of the names of the group members:
- Melanie Thornton;
- D. Lane McCray (Jr).
The team created the first MP3 compositions in the style of R&B, pop, dance and so on. Good musical education and understanding the needs of the audience of that era allowed them to quickly take high positions in the charts. Some music lovers even say that it was this group that personified the German dance culture of the nineties. A full-fledged discography of the band began to take shape with the release of two of their truly unforgettable hits: Sweet Dreams, Be My Lover.
The La Bouche team was distinguished not only by constant musical experiments, but also by the origin of its members. Both members of the group were born on American continent, but by the will of fate ended up in Germany. Ironically, the geographical factor will interfere in the fate of the team many more times. Their first real hit, called Sweet dreams, began its ascent to the top musical Olympus specifically in the USA, and only then became recognizable in Germany.
La Bouche (French for "mouth") - musical group, a duo consisting of Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray. Created by producer Frank Farian in Germany in 1994, he performed compositions in Eurodance and Dance styles.
The first single released in 1995, Be My Lover, reached the top 10 in 14 countries, including number one in Germany and number six in the US (US Billboard Hot 100), earning the ASCAP "Most song being performed America".
The second single from the debut album, Sweet Dreams, rose to number 13 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 and to number 1 on the chart. dance music US Dance Chart.
The band's first album, Sweet Dreams, went 5x platinum and 9x gold worldwide. S.O.S.'s second and final album, also known as A Moment of Love, was released in 1998 and featured the song "You Won't Forget Me".
Melanie Thornton leaves the group
In 2000, Melanie Thornton left the group to pursue a solo career. Natasha Wright took her place, and in April of the same year the single "All I Want in April" was recorded. It did not sell well and Frank decided to disband the group. Meanwhile, Melanie's Love How you love Me was hitting the charts and preparing for the release of Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) commissioned by Coca Cola.
The tragedy overtook the group during active promotions new version album Ready to Fly (its first version was released in April of that year). On November 24, the plane on which Melanie Thornton flew to Zurich crashed. 24 passengers died.
The album, recorded in her voice, has always been popular with listeners - both before the disaster and after it.
In April 2002, Frank collected compositions from solo album Melanie and from the first and second albums of La Bouche to the collection of the best songs Best of La Bouche.
In memory of Melanie
A year after Melanie's death, in November 2002, a tribute single entitled "In Your Life" was prepared for release, based on the b-side of her first album. Backing vocals were performed by Kayo Shekoni, the voice of Le Click. The single was released in 2002, in the USA - in 2003. In the U.S. Billboard Hot 10 he was able to win 6th place, and in addition, hit the top ten Dance Radio Airplay. Justin Timberlake, Cayo Shekone and Dane McCray performed the song on the club stage, along with performances by Coolio and Jennifer Lopez. However, the company that released the single to the US market, Logic Records, closed soon after.
La Bouche tours have continued, but there is no news of a new album or single.
La Bouche
Perhaps some will be surprised, but La Bouche is a German band, like many other bands. Although there is nothing strange in this, since Germany in the 80s-90s was the undisputed leader in the production of dance music, and the names of various projects were mostly not in German. And in general, probably even more surprising is the fact that Mo-Do is an Italian team, not a German one, although many songs are performed in German...
La Bouche appeared in the early 90s, in fact, the name of this group is tightly connected with their first performers Melanie Thornton and D. Lane McCray Jr. and although this group performed not only dance music, but also pop and R&B. but the name of this group is inextricably linked with dance culture 90s and 2 of their biggest hits: ""Sweet Dreams"" and ""Be My Lover"" don't let you forget about it..
Both Melanie and Lane were Americans by origin, whose fate different circumstances brought them to Germany, for example, Lane was generally born in Alaska, in Anchorage and ended up in Germany serving in the US Air Force, which has many bases in Germany. After staying in Germany he started his musical career as a natural rapper (Cold Cut) and became relatively popular in the country.
Melanie was born in Charleston, pc. South Carolina (the name should be familiar at least from the novel "" gone With the Wind""), she started singing from the age of 6, learned to use it and dreamed of musical career. Having left for Europe, Melanie began to conquer her with her charming voice and charm, performing at concerts as a jazz and blues singer.
Eventually they were both brought in by the FMP Studios team as it was their voices and appearance best suited to the concept of a new project called La Bouche. And on May 9, 1994, a bomb comes out - the single "Sweet Dreams" "which immediately hits the charts of most European countries, and then the USA and begins to break into the first places, capturing which does not leave them for a very long time! The most surprising thing is that under the blow of Melanie Thornton, such a recalcitrant top for many European dance teams as the USA falls, which mostly boil in their own juice and rarely let non-American performers into the first places. On March 6, 1995, their second single was released (the American version came out a little later) "" Be My Lover "" and again it breaks into the world charts, taking first place ... both singles become gold, and now, after a massive attack on radio and television in In July 1995, La Bouche's first album "Sweet Dreams" was released, first in Europe and a little later in the USA, immediately hitting the top of the list of best-selling albums. The success has been amazing and again especially in the US, which as I wrote above was a very difficult market for most Europeans. dance projects. At the end of the same super-successful year, their remix album ""All Mixed Up"" was released. Then there is some silence, during which only the single "Bolingo (Love Is In The Air)" was released, and in October 1997 they were released. new single""You Won" t Forget Me "", and on November 17 of the same year new album""A Moment of Love"" which included 9 new songs, 3 remixes of old ones, and of course 2 songs from previous singles.
Most of the tracks on the album are energetic, fast dance tunes!
In February 1999, the single ""S.O.S."" was released in Germany, which went to 3m in the album 1.5 a year ago! In 2000, Melanie Thornton parted ways with La Bouche and began her solo career. The vocalist Natascha Wright was invited to the group and in April 2000 the single "All I Want" was released...
Melanie had a good start at that time. Solo career, in November 2000 she released the single "Love How You Love Me", and on March 18, 2001 the single "Heartbeat"". April 30 it comes out debut album"Ready To Fly". Then it goes on the rise, on September 3rd her 3rd single ""Makin" Ooh Ohh (Talking About Love)"" is released, and her new single ""Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)"" is expected to be released on November 26, and then the release of a new editions of the album "Ready To Fly" with new songs....
and then this day came: - (November 24, 2001, the news reports about a crash in the mountains of Switzerland, during a flight to Zurich, of another plane, business class .. and then they report that she died in a plane crash famous singer Melanie Thornton.... In her last interview she said "I know we don" t have any guarantee that we're gonna live tomorrow. That "s why I live everyday as it was my last."" her words turned out to be prophetic (if translated, it generally turns out the following "" I know we have no guarantees that we will be alive tomorrow. That's why I live every day, like it's the last"") And the title of her album "Ready To Fly" says she's ready to fly...
Discography:
Sweet Dreams 1995
All Mixed Up 1996
A Moment Of Love 1997
S.O.S. 1998
The Best of La Bouche 2002
Greatest Hits 2007
He seemed to come out of the myths about Hercules or from the epics about Ilya Muromets. The story of his life causes skepticism among many - well, this cannot be, it is implausible.
He was born in Russian Empire, shone in the arenas of Europe and America, survived the German occupation, and at the end of his life he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ... How all this fit into the life of one person is incomprehensible to the mind.
But, having gone through difficult trials, knowing great glory Having survived love and betrayal, Ivan Poddubny remained the same as he was at the beginning - a hero with the innocence and naivety of a child.
Russian professional wrestler and athlete Ivan Poddubny. Photo: RIA Novosti
He was born on September 26 (October 8, according to a new style), 1871, in the village of Bogodukhovka in the Poltava region, into a Cossack family.
The Poddubny family was famous physical force and power, and Vanya went to the ancestors. But if he got strength and endurance from his father, then from his mother - thin ear for music. This subsequently amazed contemporaries - this musicality did not combine with the appearance of a strong man.
The strength of the Poddubny family did not make them rich, therefore, from an early age, Ivan joined in hard physical labor, from the age of 12 he worked as a laborer.
In his early twenties, Ivan went to seek his fortune in the city. According to legend, unhappy love was the reason for this - a rich neighbor flatly refused to marry his daughter to the "hungry man".
Strongman Poddubny easily got a job as a port loader, first in Sevastopol, and then in Feodosia, and did not think about any other career.
Thirst for the fight
As is often the case, chance changed everything. The circus came to Feodosia Ivan Beskaravayny. An integral part circus performances turn XIX-XX centuries there were performances of strongmen and wrestling fights. Here and in the circus of Beskaravayny there were wrestlers with whom it was proposed to compete with everyone.
Ivan, confident that he would not yield to the strongmen from the circus, tried his hand and ... unconditionally lost.
It was then that he realized that wrestling is not just a rivalry between strong people from birth, but a whole science.
Ivan was overwhelmed with excitement and a desire to prove that he can become the best.
He began to systematically train, study the technique of wrestling, and soon again entered the circus arena, where he won several victories over well-known athletes at that time.
After that, he was hired as a professional wrestler in Enrico Truzzi's circus. Thus, at the age of 27, the brilliant career of Ivan Poddubny began.
Like most wrestlers at that time, he combined several roles. Poddubny demonstrated power tricks, for example, this one: they put a telegraph pole on his shoulders, on which ten people hung on both sides and, as a result, as a rule, the pole broke. The audience gasped in delight.
But the main spectacle, of course, was the fight. All of Russia soon spoke about Poddubny, since he had no equal in the traditional Russian wrestling on sashes.
Referee - scoundrel!
However, French wrestling, which was later called first classical and then Greco-Roman, was much more popular in the world. Poddubny switched to her, and in 1903 he received an offer to represent Russia at the world championship in Paris.
The conditions of the tournament, in which 130 wrestlers participated, were very tough - the loser of at least one fight was eliminated. The “Russian Bear” Poddubny went through 11 opponents like a hurricane until he met with the idol of the French public, Raoul le Boucher.
The fight with the French almost turned Poddubny away from the fight forever. Fights at that time could last for several hours, until one of the rivals was laid on the shoulder blades. The Frenchman, unable to take Poddubny with the first onslaught, began to frankly run away from him. In addition, it turned out that he was smeared with a fatty substance that interferes with grips - this dishonest method, by the way, is still used by wrestlers. When Poddubny drew the attention of the judges to this, they only shrugged their shoulders. And after an hour of fighting, the victory was given to Le Boucher "for beautiful and skillful avoidance of sharp tricks."
This decision angered even the French public, and Poddubny, shocked by such dishonesty, wanted to completely end his wrestling career.
Friends and colleagues hardly managed to convince the giant. But I must say that Poddubny, by virtue of his nature, was extremely inconvenient for the organizers of wrestling fights - he basically did not conduct “fixed” fights and did not take bribes. Because of this, a couple of times his opponents even tried to organize the murder of Poddubny, but, fortunately, these plans fell through.
Why was Poddubny not an Olympic champion?
Le Boucher was rewarded for international championship Petersburg, where he again met with Poddubny. Revenge was cruel - the Russian wrestler twirled the Frenchman as he wanted. For twenty minutes, he held the opponent, excuse me, in a knee-elbow position, to the whistling and hooting of the public, until the judges took pity on Le Boucher. After this defeat, the French wrestler had a real tantrum.
The tournament was won by Poddubny, who defeated another Frenchman, world champion Paul Pons, in the final in a two-hour fight.
With titles at that time, everything was quite difficult. In professional wrestling, in one city or another, the tournament was announced as the “world championship”. Poddubny won almost everywhere, but it’s quite difficult to understand exactly how many times he was the world champion.
But it is known that in the period from 1905 to 1908 he invariably won the most prestigious of the tournaments - the world championship in French wrestling in Paris.
At that time, the Olympics were already gaining popularity, the program of which included wrestling, but Poddubny was ordered to go there. The Olympics were then exclusively the lot of amateur athletes, and Poddubny was a professional.
“But with personal ... Well, only with personal - hello ...”
By 1910, the wrestler, who had won everything, earned a lot of money, was tired of the world of professional wrestling and decided to end his career. He left for his homeland, bought a house, land and began to manage the household.
However, the businessman from Poddubny was useless, moreover, his wife's requests quickly reduced his financial capital.
In general, in love affairs, the giant was disastrously unlucky. At the very beginning of his career in the circus, Poddubny fell in love with a 40-year-old Hungarian tightrope walker, an experienced and temperamental woman. Ivan was ready to marry her, but the Hungarian soon found herself a new boyfriend.
Then there was an affair with gymnast Masha Dozmarova. It was an amazing couple - a huge strong man and a fragile, almost airy girl. But on the eve of the wedding, a tragedy happened - Masha fell from under the dome of the circus and crashed to death.
The first wife of Poddubny was Antonina Kvitko-Fomenko, and it was she who squandered everything that her husband earned, and in the midst of civil war and completely ran away, taking with her part of her husband's medals.
In 1922, Poddubny married the mother of a young wrestler Ivan Mashonin, Maria Semyonovna, and in this marriage he finally found personal peace.
Monument to Ivan Poddubny in Yeysk. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Karachun
American voyage of the "Russian bear"
On the eve of the First World War, Poddubny, whose finances sang romances thanks to Antonina, returned to the circus and again began to win victory after victory.
He also spoke during the years of the Civil War, although this time in his biography is perhaps the most mysterious page. Only one thing is known for sure - the simple-minded giant was too far from politics to join any of the parties, and at the same time he was equally warmly welcomed by whites, and reds, and greens.Already at the very end of the war in Odessa, Poddubny was almost shot by the Reds - the Chekists confused him with the organizer of Jewish pogroms by the name of Poddubnov, but, fortunately, they figured it out in time.
In 1922, Ivan Poddubny began performing at the Moscow Circus. Doctors examine the 51-year-old wrestler and make a helpless gesture - there are no complaints, his health is excellent.
In 1924, Ivan Poddubny received permission to go on a long tour of Germany and the United States.
Surprisingly, the fact is that the wrestler, who was well over 50, was in no way inferior to rivals who were fit for him not only as sons, but even as grandchildren.
In the USA, where the rules of wrestling were far from European and more like a street fight. Poddubny, however, quickly got used to it and continued to win, collecting full halls in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
“The other day I had dinner with Poddubny, a man great strength and the same stupidity, ”not anyone gave this characteristic to the athlete, but the famous Russian writer Alexander Kuprin. The great wrestler was really incredibly naive, which was used by those around him. When Poddubny, who missed his homeland, went home, the Americans actually deprived him of the fees he earned - they say they still remain somewhere in American bank accounts.
How Poddubny worked as a bouncer for the Germans
Nevertheless, in the USSR, Poddubny was greeted as a hero. Upon his return, the wrestler announced that he had completed his career and would henceforth be engaged in the popularization of wrestling.
Announced, and ... did not complete. He had his last fight on the wrestling mat in 1941, at the age of 70. History does not know another similar example of sports longevity in this sport.
In 1939, 68-year-old Ivan Poddubny participated in the parade of athletes on Red Square, and in the same year he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Poddubny wore this award with pride, practically without taking it off, which a few years later almost cost him his life.He settled in small town Yeysk on the coast of the Sea of Azov. From many years of overload, the heart began to fool around, but Poddubny did not go to the doctors, preferring traditional medicine. When the war began and the Germans occupied Yeysk, the wrestler refused to evacuate anywhere, saying that he had little time left to live and there was no point in running.
Once a German patrol detained an elderly giant with a Soviet order on his chest on Yeisk Street. The Nazis were taken aback by such impudence, but they were even more taken aback when they found out who was in front of them.
The glory of Poddubny was so great that the invaders did not touch him or his award and, moreover, offered to move to Germany to train German athletes there.
If Poddubny had been more cunning, he probably would have thought before refusing, but the strong man immediately answered with a resolute “no”.
The Germans shrugged their shoulders and ... left Poddubny alone. Moreover, in order for the strong man to earn a living, they gave him a place as a marker in the billiard room.
Part-time Poddubny worked as a bouncer in a bar for the Nazi military.
This, of course, was complete surrealism: an elderly giant with a Soviet order on his chest throws out drunk soldiers of the Fuhrer with one hand into the street. And the Aryans, sober in the morning, run not to deal with the “Russian pig”, but to write a letter to their wife: “You know, dear, Ivan Poddubny himself threw me out into the street yesterday!”.
Bust of Ivan Poddubny in Yeysk. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / GennadyL
The giant was crippled by hunger
After the liberation of Yeysk, the state security agencies carried out an inspection regarding Poddubny’s cooperation with the Germans and ... did not find crime, believing that the retired fighter had not betrayed his homeland in any way, and “commerce is just commerce.”
Moreover, in 1945 Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. This was already the second title of Poddubny - in 1939, as a circus performer, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Alas, all these titles did not help Poddubny in post-war years. No, he was not persecuted for political reasons, the trouble was elsewhere - for normal life the giant needed significantly more products than ordinary person, and under the card system it was almost impossible to solve this problem.
Poddubny turned to the local authorities, they helped in any way they could, but this was clearly not enough. AT last years Poddubny sold his medals to buy groceries.
Perhaps if he had lived in Moscow, everything would have turned out differently, but in little Yeysk the wrestler was left to himself.
Once, returning from the market, he fell, having received a fracture of the femoral neck. Since then, the famous hero walked only on crutches.
Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny died of a heart attack on August 8, 1949 and was buried in a city park, next to the graves of soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War.
Later, a large granite stone was installed on his grave, on which it is written: "Here lies the Russian hero."
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AT early XIX For centuries, wrestling was considered the “queen of sports” - it just so happened: fashion is made up of a thousand and one factors. Russia was considered the birthplace of real strong men, and all because of Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny. Then he was considered a real giant: height - as much as 184 centimeters, by modern standards, we can say that this is a little above average (we are growing, sir), but by old standards - a giant. True, Ivan's other characteristics were very even: weight - 118 kg, biceps - 46 cm, chest - 134 cm on exhalation, thigh - 70 cm, neck - 50 cm. Inspires.
In some way, Ivan proved that strength and physique are inherited. Ivan's father - Maxim - had exceptional growth, strength and an impressive constitution. Often they fought with their father for fun local residents. Like everything amazing in this world, Ivan took the first step on the path to sports from unhappy love: Alenka Vityak, the giant’s first love, they didn’t want to give for the poor, so Ivan sent his feet to work in Stavropol, where he planned to accumulate more gold and achieve her arms are a commendable thrust.
For fourteen hours a day, our hero worked in the port, easily dragging heavy bags and boxes. After that, he ended up in Feodosia, where he rented a room with two sailors, who told Ivan about the usefulness of training and exercise. And then the circus arrived. Ivan Beskorovayny circus. In addition to the standard set of gutta-perchie girls / boys, jugglers and illusionists, the program included strong men and wrestlers with whom one could measure strength. Poddubny decided to participate and suffered his first crushing defeat. This gave the future champion such a sickly motivation: not only did our hero stop drinking and smoking, he completely changed all his habits, began to work out every day with 32-kilogram weights and a 112-kilogram barbell. Started to heat up.
So Poddubny got into the circus. He became a celebrity and a dream of ladies almost immediately. He wrestled many people with sashes, and the most famous was his telegraph pole trick. The essence of the procedure was that a telegraph pole was placed on Poddubny's back, 10 people hung from both ends of the pole and pulled him down. All this ended with the fact that the pillar simply broke under the strong back of Poddubny.
But everything changed when Ivan received a telegram from St. Petersburg in which someone invited the strong man to an "important conversation." As it turned out, this was an invitation from the chairman of the St. Petersburg Athletic Society, Count Ribopierre, to become a real wrestler in classical wrestling. Poddubny was given a coach and premises, training began immediately.
All this was in order to lead a Russian man to Paris for a classical wrestling competition, where 130 opponents were already waiting for Ivan. Ivan won 11 times in a row, and he had a duel with the boss - a favorite of the public, a handsome man of huge growth and broad-shouldered Raoul le Boucher. This fight was tough and epic. It turned out that Raul was smeared with some kind of greasy agent, so that Poddubny could not grab him in any way. The judges stopped the fight, but could not offer anything better than wiping Raul with a towel every five minutes. The battle lasted an hour, no one could win, but de Boucher, slippery in every possible sense, was recognized as the winner, because he perfectly escaped the attack. Of course, it's easy to dodge an attack when you're slippery! However, in the future, Raoul will take it into account. When he comes to St. Petersburg next time and the revenge takes place, the cunning Frenchman will offer Ivan a bag of money for him to refuse the fight, but Ivan will not only refuse the money, but will also make de Boucher suffer in full sense this word. For twenty minutes, under the hooting of the crowd, de Boucher was on his knees, crushed by Poddubny, who thus decided to punish Raoul for cheating.
Further, Poddubny had happy time victories and other joys, until 1910, then somehow there was no time for struggle, revolution, sir. Sometimes Poddubny began his performances in the cities (as he himself said) "with the whites, and ended with the reds." In 1910, perhaps the most famous anecdote with Poddubny happened. The first school of jiu-jitsu appeared in Paris, which was founded by a Japanese martial artist. The new art was surprising because small man easily fought with people bigger and stronger than him. Poddubny was put up against the Japanese. With the very first blow-cutting, the jiu-jitsu master knocked Ivan down, his quick attacks extremely surprised the straightforward Poddubny. But it ended with Ivan simply grabbing the Japanese by the kimono and breaking his thigh on his leg, as if it were just a stick. And what is he flaunting? In 1922, Poddubny returned to the ring in his sixties.
The Soviet government also respected the strong man. In 1939 he was even given the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
Old age came to Poddubny in the era of occupation. The Germans who occupied Yeysk knew perfectly well what kind of strange, strong, gray-haired man he was, who easily throws Wehrmacht soldiers out of taverns when they get drunk like bags of hay. The Nazis respected Poddubny, gave him 5 kilograms of meat per month and even invited him to his homeland to become a coach, but Ivan refused in every possible way.
Poddubny's life was interesting, but in love he was not too happy. Most of the women wanted only money from him, one of the giant's lovers fell from great height to the circus arena, the other ran away with a rich officer. A strong body and high needs also went sideways to Poddubny. After the war started severe hunger, and the ration, which was issued for a month, was with Poddubny only for a day. In addition, he broke his hip. Poddubny died in 1949.
