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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Another Cycle

Another Cycle
Studio album by
Released1971
StudioMuscle Shoals (Alabama)
GenreReggae
LabelIsland[1]
ProducerGuilly Bright[2]
Jimmy Cliff chronology
Jimmy Cliff
(1969)
Another Cycle
(1971)
The Harder They Come
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusicStarStar[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar[1]

Another Cycle is an album by Jimmy Cliff, released in 1971.[4]

Production

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The album was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, in Alabama.[5][6] "Sitting in Limbo" was used on the following year's The Harder They Come.[7] Although recorded in the United States, the album was not released in the country.[8]

Critical reception

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "short on roots credibility."[1] Wax Poetics wrote that the album "had some excellent material—Cliff’s earnest tenor nicely contrasted by the bluegrass soul of the Swampers—but despite containing classics such as 'Sitting in Limbo' and the title track, the album was widely panned, falling as it did between two camps and perhaps being too far from the Jamaican vibe that had driven Wonderful World."[2]

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Guilly Bright and Jimmy Cliff; except where indicated

  1. "Take a Look at Yourself"
  2. "Please Tell me Why"
  3. "The Rap"
  4. "Opportunity Only Knocks Once"
  5. "My Friend's Wife" (Guilly Bright)
  6. "Another Cycle"
  7. "Sitting in Limbo"
  8. "Oh How I Miss You"
  9. "Inside Out, Upside Down"
  10. "Our Thing is Over" (Guilly Bright)

Personnel

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Technical
  • Larry Henby, Steve Smith, Marlin Green - engineer

References

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  1. ^ a b c Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. pp. 418–419.
  2. ^ a b "ISLAND AMBASSADOR". Wax Poetics. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  3. ^ Another Cycle at AllMusic
  4. ^ "Artist Biography by Jo-Ann Greene". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Jimmy Cliff Better Days Are Coming: The A&M Years 1969-1971 (Hip-O Select)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. ^ Whitley, Carla Jean (2014). Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music. Arcadia Publishing.
  7. ^ Keresztesi, Rita (2020). Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film. Routledge. p. 124.
  8. ^ Gundersen, Edna (1 July 2005). "'Better Days' coming from Jimmy Cliff". USA Today: E1.
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In music, a cycle can be several things. Acoustically, it is one complete vibration, the base unit of Hertz being one cycle per second. Theoretically, an interval cycle is a collection of pitch classes created by a sequence of identical intervals. Cycles are also individual pieces of larger works, like the movements in a suite, symphony sonata, or string quartet. This can range from settings of the Mass or a song cycle to an opera cycle. Another cycle is the complete performance of an individual composer's work in one genre. Harmonic cycles—repeated sequences of a harmonic progression—are at the root of many musical genres, such as the twelve-bar blues. In compositions of this genre, the chord progression may be repeated indefinitely, with melodic and lyrical variation forming the musical interest. The form theme and variations is essentially of this type, but generally on a larger scale. Composition using a tone row is another example of a cycle of pitch material, although it may be more difficult to hear because the variations are more diverse.

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An astrological age is a time period which, according to astrology, parallels major changes in the development of human society, culture, history, and politics. There are twelve astrological ages corresponding to the twelve zodiacal signs in western astrology. One cycle of the twelve astrological ages is called a Great Year, comprising 25,772 solar years, at the end of which another cycle begins. Some astrologers believe that during a given age, some events are directly caused or indirectly influenced by the astrological sign associated with that age, while other astrologers believe that astrological ages do not influence events in any way. Astrologers do not agree upon exact dates for the beginning or ending of the ages, with given dates varying by hundreds of years.

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Which heavyweight champion was known as the “Brown Bomber”?

Joe Louis.