State of Independence, the Glossary
"State of Independence" is a song written by Jon Anderson and Vangelis.[1]
Table of Contents
63 relations: A-side and B-side, Billboard Hot 100, Brenda Russell, Byzantine music, Change We Must, Chrissie Hynde, Christopher Cross, Dick Morrissey, Dionne Warwick, Donna Summer, Donna Summer (album), Dutch Single Top 100, Dutch Top 40, Dyan Cannon, Eddie Gordon, Electronic music, Flow (psychology), Geffen Records, GfK, Greatest Hits (Pretenders album), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, I Feel Love, I Have a Dream, Irish Singles Chart, James Ingram, Jon and Vangelis, Jon Anderson, Kenny Loggins, Keyboard instrument, Lionel Richie, Los 40, Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger), Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald (musician), Moodfood, Moodswings (band), Music Week, Netherlands, New wave music, Official Charts Company, Patti Austin, Peggy Lipton, Polydor Records, Pop music, Post-disco, Quincy Jones, Radio Luxembourg, Record Mirror, Reissue, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- Jon Anderson songs
- Songs with music by Vangelis
- Songs written by Jon Anderson
- Vangelis songs
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and keyboardist.
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Byzantine music
Byzantine music (Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox liturgy.
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Change We Must
Change We Must is the seventh solo album by Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, released in 1994.
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Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American-British musician.
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Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Charles Geppert; May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from San Antonio, Texas.
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Dick Morrissey
Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer.
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Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warwick (born Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host.
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Donna Summer
Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter.
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Donna Summer (album)
Donna Summer is the tenth studio album by American songwriter Donna Summer, released on July 19, 1982, by Geffen Records.
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Dutch Single Top 100
The Dutch Single Top 100 or Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by Dutch Charts.
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Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
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Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, filmmaker and editor.
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Eddie Gordon
Eddie Gordon (born Edmund Richard Gordon; 9 February 1959 in Biggin Hill, Farnborough, Kent) is an English music journalist, producer, DJ and music business personality.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Flow (psychology)
Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or locked in, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
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Geffen Records
Geffen Records (formerly Geffen Records Inc. until 2004) is an American record label, founded in 1980 by David Geffen.
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GfK
GfK (originally label) is the largest German market research company.
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Greatest Hits (Pretenders album)
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by English-American rock band The Pretenders, released in 2000.
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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.
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I Feel Love
"I Feel Love" is a song by the American singer Donna Summer. State of Independence and i Feel Love are Donna Summer songs and Dutch Top 40 number-one singles.
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I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.
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Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and compiled on their behalf by the Official Charts Company.
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James Ingram
James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Jon and Vangelis
Jon and Vangelis was a music collaboration between British rock singer Jon Anderson (lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes) and Greek synthesiser musician Vangelis.
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Jon Anderson
Jon Roy Anderson (born John Roy Anderson on 25 October 1944) is an English and American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he formed in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire.
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Kenny Loggins
Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality.
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Los 40
Los 40 (stylized as LOS40, formerly Los 40 Principales, Los Cuarenta) is a Spanish Top 40-themed music radio station that broadcasts current and recent music, primarily focusing on genres such as pop, dance, electropop, Electro Latin, and Reggaeton.
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Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" is a Grammy-nominated single from Donna Summer's self-titled 1982 studio album. State of Independence and Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) are 1982 singles, Donna Summer songs and Geffen Records singles.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.
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Michael McDonald (musician)
Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of Steely Dan (1973–1974), and the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present).
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Moodfood
Moodfood is a 1992 album by Moodswings.
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Moodswings (band)
Moodswings is a musical duo composed of Grant Showbiz and James F. T. Hood.
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Music Week
Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
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Patti Austin
Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B, pop, and jazz singer and songwriter best known for "Baby, Come to Me", her 1982 duet with James Ingram, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 after its re-release that same year.
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Peggy Lipton
Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American model, actress, and singer.
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Polydor Records
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Post-disco
Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.
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Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg.
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Record Mirror
Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.
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Reissue
In the music industry, a reissue (also re-release, repackage or re-edition) is the release of an album or single which has been released at least once before, sometimes with alterations or additions.
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
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Singing
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.
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Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 American psychological erotic thriller film based on John Lutz's 1990 novel SWF Seeks Same.
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Songfacts
Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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The Friends of Mr Cairo
The Friends of Mr Cairo is the second album by Jon and Vangelis, released in July 1981.
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The Pretenders
The Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978.
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UK Dance Singles and Albums Charts
The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synth-pop) in record stores and digital downloads.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου,; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (Βαγγέλης), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.
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Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.
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See also
Jon Anderson songs
- I Hear You Now
- I'll Find My Way Home
- Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
- State of Independence
Songs with music by Vangelis
- Anthem (FIFA World Cup)
- Because (Demis Roussos song)
- Chariots of Fire (instrumental)
- Conquest of Paradise (song)
- I Hear You Now
- I'll Find My Way Home
- It's Five O'Clock (song)
- Rain and Tears
- State of Independence
- The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child song)
Songs written by Jon Anderson
- And You and I
- Big Generator (song)
- Changes (Yes song)
- Close to the Edge (song)
- Dark Fantasy (song)
- Don't Kill the Whale
- Heart of the Sunrise
- Hold On (Yes song)
- I Hear You Now
- I'll Find My Way Home
- I've Seen All Good People
- In High Places (song)
- It Can Happen
- Lightning Strikes (Yes song)
- Long Distance Runaround
- Open Your Eyes (Yes song)
- Our Song (Yes song)
- Owner of a Lonely Heart
- Rhythm of Love (Yes song)
- Roundabout (Yes song)
- Shoot High Aim Low
- Siberian Khatru
- South Side of the Sky
- Starship Trooper
- State of Independence
- The Calling (song)
- The Gates of Delirium
- The Solution (song)
- Walls (Yes song)
- Wonderous Stories
- Yours Is No Disgrace
Vangelis songs
- Anthem (FIFA World Cup)
- Chariots of Fire (instrumental)
- Conquest of Paradise (song)
- I Hear You Now
- I'll Find My Way Home
- State of Independence
- Vangelis discography
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Independence
Also known as State of Independence (Donna Summer song), State of Independence (Donna Summer).
, Sampling (music), Saxophone, Singing, Single White Female, Songfacts, Stevie Wonder, Synthesizer, The Friends of Mr Cairo, The Pretenders, UK Dance Singles and Albums Charts, UK singles chart, Vangelis, Warner Records.