Time to learn something!
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on "Random article" in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!
Here's mine:
Gregg Diamond (1949 - March 14, 1999) was a pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer who was active in the jazz and disco music scenes of the 1970s.
Diamond wrote the song "Hot Butterfly," which was released in 1978 under one of his group's names, Bionic Boogie, with Luther Vandross providing lead vocals. The song was later covered by David Lasley and Chaka Khan. His other popular songs included "Risky Changes" (released by Bionic Boogie in 1977), "Dance Little Dreamer" (released by Bionic Boogie in 1977), "Cream (Always Rises to the Top)" (released by Bionic Boogie in 1978), "Starcruisin'" (1978), "Fancy Dancer" (1978), and "Tiger, Tiger (Feel Good For a While)" (1979).
Diamond's association with Vandross came off the success of David Bowie's "Young Americans" album, which both Luther and Gregg's brother Godfrey—his full time engineer—contributed to.
He also produced a breakout album for TK recording artist George McCrae, scoring a massive club hit with "Love In Motion", which Diamond produced and wrote.
His biggest commercial success was as writer and producer of the single "More More More" recorded by the Andrea True Connection in 1975.
He died of gastrointestinal bleeding on March 14, 1999 at the age of 49.
I cannot tell a lie: This was not the first, or possibly even the fifth random article that came up for me. I kept getting stubs and articles marked for deletion or cleanup.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nowhere in the rules does it say it has to be your first random article. If that were the case, all mine would be either European soccer players or video game characters.
Posted by: Mark | January 31, 2007 at 11:16 PM
What? No stubs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Monde
Semi-Monde
Semi-Monde is a play written by Noel Coward in 1926, but not produced until 1977. Set in the lobby, restaurants, and bar of an up-scale Paris hotel, the play follows the lives of a variety of socialites over a three year period from 1924 to 1926. It is remarkable among its contemporaries due to its prominent sexuality and homosexuality. This, however, is but the facade of Coward's exploration of the disconnected monotony of the lives of the elite.
The play was first produced in 1977 by the Glasgow Citizen's theatre. It has been produced only once since, in 2001 by the Lyric Theatre of London. No further professional performances are known of; the only other production recorded is a current production by Arts Canterbury in Ottawa
I'd like to see it...but if it only shows up once every 24 years, I've got a wait ahead of me.
Posted by: Karan | February 01, 2007 at 01:12 AM