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The Unforgettable Fire, the Glossary

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2.^[1]

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A Conspiracy of Hope

A Conspiracy of Hope was a short tour of six benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place in the United States during June 1986.

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A Sort of Homecoming (song)

"A Sort of Homecoming" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the opening track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire.

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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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Absorption (acoustics)

In acoustics, absorption refers to the process by which a material, structure, or object takes in sound energy when sound waves are encountered, as opposed to reflecting the energy.

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Adam Clayton

Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is a British-Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2.

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Adam Sweeting

Adam Sweeting is a British rock critic and writer.

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Advanced Music Systems

AMS (Advanced Music Systems) were a manufacturer of professional studio equipment.

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AKG (company)

AKG Acoustics (originally Akustische und Kino-Geräte Gesellschaft m.b.H., Acoustic and Cinema Equipment L.L.C.) is an acoustics engineering and manufacturing company.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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American Songwriter

American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine covering songwriting.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anton Corbijn

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director.

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Arena rock

Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock, pomp rock, stadium rock, corporate rock or dad rock) is a style of rock music that became mainstream in the 1970s.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa

The Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP; English: Portuguese Phonographic Association) is the recording industry association of the major labels in Portugal.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Backing track

A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that live musicians play along with or sing along to.

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Bad (U2 song)

"Bad" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the seventh track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire.

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Barry Devlin

Barry Devlin (born 27 November 1946) is an Irish musician, screenwriter and director.

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Bill Graham (1951 – 11 May 1996) was an Irish journalist and author.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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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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Bono

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.

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Bray, County Wicklow

Bray is a coastal town in north County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

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Can (band)

Can were a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass, tape editing), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums).

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Canadian Albums Chart

The Canadian Album Chart, also known as Billboard Canadian Albums, is the official record chart ranking the 100 most popular music albums and extended plays in Canada.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels." According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history," while Barron's has described him as "a contender for most interesting man in the world." Having formed Island Records in Jamaica on May 22nd, 1959, coincidentally when he was nearly 22, Blackwell was among the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American-British musician.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Conny Plank

Konrad "Conny" Plank (3 May 1940 – 5 December 1987) was a German record producer and musician.

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Contemporary art

Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards.

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County Meath

County Meath (Contae na Mí or simply an Mhí) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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Croke Park

Croke Park (Páirc an Chrócaigh) is a Gaelic games stadium in Dublin, Ireland.

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Daniel Lanois

Daniel Roland Lanois (born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer and musician.

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Delay (audio effect)

Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time.

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Diesel generator

A diesel generator (DG) (also known as a diesel genset) is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Donald Cammell

Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dutch Charts

Dutch Charts, GfK Dutch Charts, MegaCharts is a chart company responsible for producing a number of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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EBow

The EBow, short for electronic bow or energy bow, is an electronic device used for playing string instruments, most often the electric guitar.

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Electric grand piano

The electric grand piano is a stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard (an Electrified Version of a Traditional Acoustic Grand Piano), in which the vibration of strings struck by hammers is converted by pickups into electrical signals, analogous to the electric guitar's electrification of the traditional guitar.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.

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Elvis Presley and America

"Elvis Presley and America" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the ninth track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Fairlight CMI

The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight.

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Giants Stadium

Giants Stadium (sometimes referred to as Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands) was a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Henry Mountcharles

Henry Vivien Pierpont Conyngham, 8th Marquess Conyngham (born 25 May 1951), styled as Viscount Slane until 1974 and as Earl of Mount Charles from 1974 until 2009 and predominantly known as Lord Mount Charles, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who is best known for the rock concerts that he organises at his home Slane Castle, and for his column in the Irish Daily Mirror under the byline "Lord Henry".

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.

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Hot Press

Hot Press is a monthly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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International Musician and Recording World

International Musician and Recording World was a magazine published from 1975 to 1991.

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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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Island Records

Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jimmy Iovine

James Iovine (born March 11, 1953) is an American entrepreneur, former record executive, and media proprietor.

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Jornal do Brasil

Jornal do Brasil, widely known as JB, is a daily newspaper published by Editora JB in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Kevin Killen

Kevin Killen (born October 22, 1959) is a Grammy Award-winning Irish music producer, engineer, and mixer known for his work with recording artists including U2, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Jewel, Bon Jovi, Shawn Colvin, Shakira, and David Bowie.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945) is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist, and television personality.

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La Stampa

(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023.

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Larry Mullen Jr.

Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lexicon (company)

Lexicon is an American company that engineers, manufactures, and markets audio equipment as a brand of Harman International Industries.

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Live Aid

Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine that ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the United States, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.

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Martello tower

Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards.

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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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Mastering (audio)

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Meiert Avis

Meiert Avis is an Irish music video and commercial director.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Microphone practice

There are a number of well-developed microphone techniques used for recording musical, film, or voice sources or picking up sounds as part of sound reinforcement systems.

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Mixing console

A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems.

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MLK (song)

"MLK" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the tenth and final track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire.

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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a record label that specialized in the production of audiophile issues.

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Moydrum Castle

Moydrum Castle (meaning "plain of the ridge") is a ruined castle situated in the locality of Moydrum, Ireland, just to the east of Athlone.

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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.

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Musician (magazine)

Musician was a monthly magazine that covered news and information about American popular music.

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Mute (music)

A mute is a device attached to a musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone quality (timbre) or lowers its volume.

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Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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National Library of Brazil

The National Library of Brazil (Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, official name is) is the depository of the bibliographic and documentary heritage of Brazil. It is located in Rio de Janeiro, the capital city of Brazil from 1822 to 1960, more specifically at Cinelândia square. Considered by UNESCO the largest library in Latin America and the seventh largest in the world, its collections include about 9 million items.

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Neumann U 47

The Neumann is a large-diaphragm condenser microphone.

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Niall Stokes

Niall Stokes (born 1951 in Dublin) is a music journalist who has served as editor of the long-running fortnightly Ireland music and political magazine Hot Press based in Dublin.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Noel Kelehan

Noel Kelehan (26 December 1935 – 6 February 2012) was an Irish musician, conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and musical director of Radio Telefís Éireann.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart (Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more available tracks of a digital audio workstation (DAW) or tape recorder.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Paul Du Noyer

Paul Du Noyer (born Paul Anthony Du Noyer; 21 May 1954) is an English rock journalist and author.

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Paul McGuinness

Paul McGuinness (born 16 June 1951) is a British talent manager.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop was an annual poll of top musical releases, compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice and created by music critic Robert Christgau.

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Percussion mallet

A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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Phoenix Park Racecourse

Phoenix Park Racecourse is a former horse racing venue in Ireland.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Photographic print toning

In photography, toning is a method of altering the color of black-and-white photographs.

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Pitch shifting

Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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PolyGram

PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

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Pride (In the Name of Love)

"Pride (In the Name of Love)" is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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Ranelagh

Ranelagh is an affluent residential area and urban village on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland in the postal district of Dublin 6.

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Record producer

A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.

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Record sleeve

A record sleeve is the outer covering of a vinyl record.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand.

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Recording studio as an instrument

In music production, the recording studio is often treated as a musical instrument when it plays a significant role in the composition of music.

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Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Red Rocks Amphitheatre (also known colloquially as simply Red Rocks) is an open-air amphitheatre in the western United States near Morrison, Colorado, approximately southwest of Denver.

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Reverberation room

A reverberation room or reverberation chamber is a room designed to create reverberation, a diffuse or random incidence sound field (i.e. one with a uniform distribution of acoustic energy and random direction of sound incidence over a short time period).

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Rhett Davies

Rhett Davies (born 1949 in London) is an English record producer and engineer.

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Rhode Island School of Design

The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD, pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island.

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River Boyne

The River Boyne (An Bhóinn or Abhainn na Bóinne) is a river in Leinster, Ireland, the course of which is about long.

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Road case

A road case, ATA case or flight case is a shipping container specifically built to protect musical instruments, motion picture equipment, audio and lighting production equipment, props, firearms, or other sensitive equipment when it must be frequently moved between locations by ground or air.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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RTÉ Television

RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's public service broadcaster. Its first channel was Teilifís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961.

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Shelly Yakus

Sheldon Gershon "Shelly" Yakus (born November 1945) is an American music engineer and mixer.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Simon Marsden

Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet (1 December 1948 – 22 January 2012) was an English photographer and author.

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Slane Castle

Slane Castle (Cáisleán Bhaile Shláine) is located in the village of Slane, within the Boyne Valley of County Meath, Ireland.

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Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music.

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Snare drum

The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.

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Spill (audio)

Spill (also known as bleed and leakage) is the occurrence in sound recording (particularly in close miking) and live sound mixing whereby sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

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Stage monitor system

A stage monitor system is a set of performer-facing loudspeakers called monitor speakers, stage monitors, floor monitors, wedges, or foldbacks on stage during live music performances in which a sound reinforcement system is used to amplify a performance for the audience.

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Stephen B. Oates

Stephen Baery Oates (January 5, 1936August 20, 2021) was an American historian.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Steve Averill

Steve Averill (born 1950) is an Irish graphic artist, art director, writer, musician, and former punk rock vocalist.

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Steve Lillywhite

Stephen Alan Lillywhite, (born 15 March 1955) is a British record producer.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Take

A take is a single continuous recorded performance.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads were an American new wave band formed in 1975 in New York City.

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The Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.

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The Edge

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp.

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The Peace Museum

The Peace Museum was a museum located in Chicago, Illinois, that was founded in 1981 by muralist Mark Rogovin and Marjorie Craig Benton, a former US UNICEF representative.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Unforgettable Fire (song)

"The Unforgettable Fire" is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.

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Thomas Dunne Books

Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers.

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Timbales

Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tom drum

A tom drum (also known as a tom-tom) is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.

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Tony Fletcher

Tony Fletcher (born 27 April 1964) is a British music journalist best known for his biographies of drummer Keith Moon and the band R.E.M., and also as a show director for the Rock Academy in Woodstock.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland

U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland is a concert film by Irish rock band U2. The Unforgettable Fire and U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland are island Records video albums and u2 video albums.

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U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky

U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky is a concert film by Irish rock band U2. The Unforgettable Fire and U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky are island Records video albums and u2 video albums.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unforgettable_Fire

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