Happy 4th of July, Independence Day!
Meanwhile, The Newtons have continued preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied the First Conditional.
Power Station at BerkleeNYC, formerly known as Avatar Studios (1996-2017) and Power Station, is a recording studio at 441 West 53rd Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York City.
The building contains 5 studio spaces: A, B, C, G, and E, as well as a black box theater. The building was originally a Consolidated Edison power plant.
In 1977, it was rebuilt as a recording studio by producer Tony Bongiovi and his partner Bob Walters.
The complex was renamed Avatar Studios, under the Avatar Entertainment Corporation, in May 1996.
In 2017, the studios were renamed back to Power Station, by special arrangement with Berklee NYC. The studio reopened in 2020 after a full renovation, while maintaining the studio spaces.
In 1995, Sonalysts, which had begun as an underwater acoustics research company, licensed the Power Station's design and naming rights from Bongiovi and Walters. The company built a perfect replica of the original Studio A in Waterford, Connecticut, as a part of the new Power Station New England.
More information: Power Station, NYC
Independence Day is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen.
It was originally released on his fifth album, The River, in 1980. It was recorded at The Power Station in New York, on April 24-25, 1980.
In 2015, Springsteen stated that he regards Independence Day, Point Blank, Stolen Car and the title track as being the heart and soul of The River album.
Independence Day, along with the title track, Wreck on the Highway and Point Blank, is one of the verse-chorus songs on The River that was essentially a short story or character sketch. It is one of the darker hued songs on The River.
The lyrics are about a home that can no longer hold both father and son. The song is sung by the son to the father, opening with the line Papa go to bed now, it's getting late, reversing the usual command of a father to a son. The son recognizes that despite their similarities, the father and son would never agree but just continue to argue constantly, and so it was time for the son to leave home.
AllMusic critic William Ruhlmann said Independence Day is an unusually sad, beautiful and private song, with a slow piano and a languid saxophone solo, as well as delicate organ and acoustic guitar work. The song has been described as Springsteen's best recorded vocal, with an unerring sincerity which fuels the song.
Although released on The River in 1980, Independence Day was written in 1977 and was originally played in the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour.
Independence Day has been a reasonably popular concert song, with 199 performances through 2015. A concert version of Independence Day was released on the live album Live/1975-85.
Independence Day was released as the B-side on the single release of The River in several countries and as the B-side of Sherry Darling in others.
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Papa, now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But won't you just say goodbye? It's Independence Day
I swear I never meant to take those things away.
Bruce Springsteen
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