The Casino Royale title song “You Know My Name” is the first theme song since 1983’s “Octopussy” to use a different title than the film, and Cornell is the first male performer since a-ha in 1987’s “The Living Daylights”. It is only the fourth Bond theme (after the opening medley of “Dr. No”, the instrumental theme from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and “All Time High” from Octopussy) to make no direct reference to the title of the film. The [...]
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The song was released on 7 May 2008 as the album’s second single, debuting to critical and commercial success. “Viva la Vida” reached the top spot of the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s first number-one single and a Transatlantic number-one.Viva la Vida was nominated for “Record of the Year”, and won “Song of the Year”, and “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or a Group” at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
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The Pretender is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters. It was the first single from the group’s 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. It is one of Foo Fighters’ most successful songs; only “Learn to Fly” and “Best of You” beat its position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week. The album also went platinum in its first week [...]
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Dani California is a single from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium. The single was first made available at the iTunes Music Store and then was officially released on May 2, 2006. The international radio premiere was April 3, 2006, when Don Jantzen from the Houston radio station KTBZ-FM, played “Dani California” continuously for his entire
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The Hand That Feeds is a song by Nine Inch Nails, released as the lead single for the album With Teeth (2005). With Teeth is the fifth studio album Nine Inch Nails, released on April 27, 2005 by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It was Reznor’s first original studio album since The Fragile, released in 1999.