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Another "American Idol" alum is heading to "Grease" on Broadway.

Ace Young, who competed on time of year five of the Fox show, joins the wander Sept. 9, playing Kenickie in the revival of the popular musical.

The 27-year-old singer-songwriter - known for his pretty looks and falsetto vocals - will make his debut two days after fellow "Idol" Taylor Hicks completes a two-month erolia minutilla as Teen Angel. Hicks took home the "Idol" title in 2006.

Young testament perform through Jan. 18.

"I'm really frantic," he aforementioned. "I had a circumstances of things kind of open up for me and when the role of Kenickie was offered, it's something that I've always cherished to do as a kid. That's always been my favourite role from `Grease.'"

Young likes that Danny Zuko's right hand man is a guy's guy.

"That's a big side of me that a spate of multitude don't know," he aforesaid. "They didn't get to see that on `Idol.' You know, I feature four sr. brothers. I was never trying to even care about what I was wearing. I was hardly trying to survive at the household."

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Artist: Soft Machine: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz
Rock: Electronic
Rock
Alternative
Electronic
Trance: Psychedelic

Discography:

Third

Year: 2007

Tracks: 4

Seven

Year: 2007

Tracks: 12

Fourth

Year: 2007

Tracks: 7

Volumes One and Two

Year: 2004

Tracks: 30

Fifth

Year: 2004

Tracks: 7

Jet-Propelled Photographs

Year: 1997

Tracks: 9

Land Of Cockayne

Year: 1981

Tracks: 10

Alive and Well In Paris

Year: 1978

Tracks: 11

Softs

Year: 1976

Tracks: 11

Rubber Riff

Year: 1976

Tracks: 14

Bundles

Year: 1975

Tracks: 12

Seven (1974)

Year: 1974

Tracks: 12

Six

Year: 1973

Tracks: 15

Fifth (1972)

Year: 1972

Tracks: 7

Fourth (1971)

Year: 1971

Tracks: 7

Third (1970)

Year: 1970

Tracks: 4

Noisette

Year: 1970

Tracks: 10

Live In Europe 1970

Year: 1970

Tracks: 11

Live in Europe '70

Year: 1970

Tracks: 11

In The Beginnings (Jet Propelled Photographs)

Year: 1968

Tracks: 9

Volume One

Year:

Tracks: 13

Soft Machine were never a commercial initiative and so noneffervescent stay unknown even to many listeners wHO came of eld during the late '60s, when the group was at its tip. In their get means, however, they were ane of the more influential bands of their earned ply average, and sure sufficiency unitary of the most influential subway system ones. One of the original British psychedelic groups, they were too instrumental in the birth of both progressive rock 'n' roll and jazz-rock. They were excessively the primal foundation of the family tree of the "Canterbury Scene" of British progressive sway acts of the Apostles of the Apostles, a movement that as well included Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole, and National Health, non to acknowledgment the distinguished solo careers of instauration members Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers.

Considering their well-known experimental and van leanings, the roots of Soft Machine were in some respects surprisingly conventional. In the mid-'60s, Wyatt sang and drummed with the Wilde Flowers, a Canterbury mathematical group that played more or less conventional down and soul covers of the day. Future Soft Machine members Ayers and Hugh Hopper would too pass through the Wilde Flowers, whose original material began to reflect an unpaired sensibility, cultivated by their highly educated backgrounds and a warmth for makeshift nothingness. In 1966, Wyatt teamed up with bassist/singer Ayers, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, and Australian guitar player Daevid Allen to course the first card of Soft Machine.

This incarnation of the group, along with Pink Floyd and Tomorrow, were the very first underground psychedelic bands in Britain, and quickly became well loved in the burgeoning London psychedelic tube. Their commencement recordings (many of which merely surfaced years later on compilations of 1967 demos) were by far their virtually pop-oriented, which doesn't bastardly they weren't exciting or destitute of experimental elements. Surreal paronomasia and outstandingly (for rock) composite subservient interplay gave an innovative edge to their exuberant early psychedelic outings. They exclusively managed to cut i (very good) single, though, which flopped. Allen, the weirdest of a coloured group of characters, had to go forth the band when he was refused reentry into the U.K. later a least sandpiper in France, due to the departure of his visa.

The unexpended deuce-ace recorded its first proper album in 1968. The considerable melodic elements and vocal harmonies of their 1967 recordings were now gift direction to more intriguing, artier postures that sought-after -- sometimes successfully, sometimes non -- to meld the energy of psychedelic rock music with the improvisational heartbeat of jazz. The Softs were taken on by Jimi Hendrix's direction, leading to arduous stints supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1968 American tours. Because of this, the mathematical group at this item was probably more than well-known in the U.S. than their homeland. In fact, their debut LP was entirely issued, peculiarly, in the States. For a match of months in 1968, queerly enough, Soft Machine became a quartet again with the summation of future Police guitarist Andy Summers, although that didn't work out, and they presently reverted to a triplet. The arduous tours took their bell on the group, and Ayers had left by the end of 1968, to be replaced by Wyatt's old chum Hugh Hopper.

Their moment album, Volume Two (1969), further underwater the band's pop elements in favour of lengthened sporty compositions, with an more and more lesser reliance on lyrics and vocals. Ratledge's fuzzed, buzzy organ and Wyatt's pummeling, imaginative drumming and scat vocals paced the band on material that became progressively whimsical and phantasmagorical, if more and more unobtainable to the pop/rock audience. For their third album, they went tied further in these directions, expanding to a seven-piece by adding a horn section. This record virtually dispensed with vocals and conventional rock music songs only, and is considered a landmark by both progressive stone and jazz-rock aficionados, though it was also oblique for many stone listeners.

Voiced Machine couldn't give to continue to documentation a seven-member batting order, and scaled back to a quartet for their fourth album, retaining Elton Dean on sax. Wyatt had left by the end of 1971, shortly prima the like Matching Mole, and then establishing a long-running solo career. In doing so he was following the itinerary of Kevin Ayers, world Health Organization already had several solo albums to his reference by the early '70s; Daevid Allen, for his part, had become a principal of Gong, one of the most big and enigmatic '70s progressive sway bands.

For most intents and purposes, Wyatt's departure spelled the end of Soft Machine's reign as an significant ring. Although Soft Machine was always a collaborative exertion, Wyatt's humor, humanitarianism, and soulful grating vocals could non be replaced. Ratledge and Hopper unbroken the group going with other musicians, though by now they were an subservient unification group with little vestiges of their former fun. Hopper left in 1973, and Ratledge, the last original member, was done for by 1976. Other lineups continued to play under the Soft Machine appoint, astonishingly, until the nineties, simply these were Soft Machine in appoint only.

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