21-606: Francis John Miller (born 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter and actor. Miller wrote for and performed with many recording artists and is best known for his 1977 album Full House , the singles "Be Good To Yourself", " Darlin' " and his duet with Phil Lynott on the Thin Lizzy song " Still in Love with You ". Miller was born in Bridgeton , Glasgow, Scotland in 1949. Miller began singing professionally as
42-453: A duet with Phil Lynott ; the song appeared on the Thin Lizzy album, Nightlife . Miller's second album High Life , was produced and partly written by Allen Toussaint and recorded in Atlanta, Georgia during 1974. Although two album tracks, "Shoorah Shoorah" and "Play Something Sweet", subsequently provided hits for Betty Wright and Three Dog Night respectively, the album was not
63-560: A Boys' Game , directed by John Mackenzie . In 1980, Miller released his seventh album, Easy Money . The lead single, "Why Don't You Spend the Night", was a minor hit in Australia. Miller later re-recorded the album's closing track, "Tears", as a duet with Bonnie Tyler on her album Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983). Miller moved to Capitol Records for his next album, Standing on
84-541: A commercial success. Miller's next album The Rock (1975) was recorded in San Francisco using the producer Elliot Mazer, who had co-produced Harvest for Neil Young . The next album Full House (1977), was produced by Chris Thomas . The lead off track "Be Good to Yourself" became Miller's first UK top 40 hit, peaking at No. 27 in the UK Singles Chart during June that year. In 1978 Miller hit
105-471: A database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created,
126-471: A feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which
147-585: A teenager with a Glasgow band called The Stoics. In mid 1970, he moved to London to further his career. Later in 1972, Miller signed a solo recording contract with Chrysalis Records , and recorded his first LP Once in a Blue Moon , with record producer Dave Robinson. The album was an early example of pub rock , and featured backing by the pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz . Miller received consistently good reviews, although his singles and albums were not chart hits , Chrysalis continued to invest in his talent. In 1974 Miller sang " Still in Love with You ", as
168-570: The Scottish Albums Chart . In March 2022, Miller released the track "One More Step to the Rainbow" as a protest to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Full House (Frankie Miller album) Full House is the fourth studio album by Frankie Miller , released in 1977. It features a mix of Miller originals and covers, including a version of John Lennon 's "Jealous Guy". The Andy Fraser composition "Be Good to Yourself"
189-740: The Belgian film Ad Fundum . The track was produced by Ry Cooder and peaked at No. 6 on the Belgian Flanders chart . "Where Do the Guilty Go?", which also featured in the film, later peaked at No. 46. In 1994, Miller formed a new band with Joe Walsh , Nicky Hopkins and Ian Wallace . He was writing music in New York City when he suffered a brain aneurysm on 25 August 1994. Miller was unconscious for five months, and when he woke up he found himself unable to speak or sing. He spent
210-615: The Edge . It was noted by Newsday as a departure from the R&;B influences on his earlier releases, sounding more like the music of rock bands Foreigner and Bad Company . In 1985, Miller released his final studio album, Dancing in the Rain . It was produced by John Jansen , and like its predecessor, the album was noted for its rock influences. Mark Deming of AllMusic compared it to Robert Palmer 's single " Addicted to Love " and said that
231-721: The UK top 10 with the song " Darlin' ", which peaked at No. 6 on 14 October 1978. " Darlin' " also made the Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart in the US, peaking at No. 103. The next single penned by Miller "When I'm Away From You" rose to No. 42 in UK, but failed to chart in US. During 1979, Miller wrote the opening and closing songs on the film A Sense of Freedom , as well as performing on them. He diversified into acting. During 1979 Miller starred in Peter McDougall 's TV film, Just
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#1732798086308252-689: The album sounds more "dated" than his earlier work. It peaked at No. 39 on the Swedish Albums chart. In 1991, Miller recorded an excerpt of " Caledonia " for a Tennent's lager television advert. After a surge of requests from viewers, Miller recorded and released a full-length version as a single in 1992. It peaked at No. 45 on the UK Singles Chart. Later that same year, Miller recorded a second duet with Bonnie Tyler, titled "Save Your Love", for her album Angel Heart . In 1993, Miller recorded "Why Don't You Try Me" with Sarah Bettens for
273-476: The database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as
294-508: The dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave
315-640: The industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired
336-566: The music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left the company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where
357-532: The sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes
378-407: The staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of
399-568: The subsequent years in physical rehabilitation. In September 1998, a benefit concert was held at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh featuring Jools Holland , Paul Carrack , Bonnie Tyler and a band of musicians with disabilities. The concert was filmed as part of the BBC Television documentary series Ex-S and broadcast in 1999. The episode was titled Frankie Miller: Stubborn Kinda Fella , and it documented Miller's road to recovery. The episode
420-557: Was issued as a single, and reached No. 27 the UK singles chart, becoming Miller's first chart hit. All tracks composed by Frankie Miller; except where indicated Side One Side Two This 1970s rock album–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG ) is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991,
441-771: Was nominated for Best Regional Documentary at the Royal Television Society awards. A number of tribute albums have since been released, including A Tribute to Frankie Miller (2003), which features covers and duets with various artists, and 100% Pure Frankie Miller (2014) by Spike of The Quireboys . In 2006, Miller released a new studio album, Long Way Home , featuring vocals extracted from demos he recorded before his brain aneurysm. The tracks were produced by Bill Szymczyk , Will Jennings and David Naughton . Another album, Frankie Miller's Double Take , followed in 2016, featuring 19 demos remastered into duets with other artists. The album peaked at No. 11 on
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