The Independent described Sir Mick as being "in good voice" and "impressively strident" in the opening song.
This evening, that strategy took the form of an opening song about the Olympics, with particular attention paid to equestrian dressage.
"Having performed an exotic dance and an opening song, 26-year-old stewardess Lin Lin won resounding ovation from the few passengers in the audience, " Xinhua recounts.
Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.
We can only be thankful: the thought of a pop song opening Vertigo instead of Herrmann's magnificent Prelude is profoundly depressing.
And then there's Sony Pictures Television, which sent out a Joan of Arcadia box that not only played the series' theme song upon opening, but also featured a live tree, which was prominent in the provided episode.
The tradition for the 007 pop theme song emerged with the release of Goldfinger in 1964, in which the fashionable blues singer Shirley Bassey performed the title song for the opening sequence of the film.
In January Stern debuted on Sirius, opening his show with the theme song from 2001: A Space Odyssey--accompanied by flatulence.
"The New Love Song, " the opening track from Joshua James' debut album The Sun Is Always Brighter, is misleading at first.
Season V began on a wrong note with a tawdry Bollywood song-and-dance opening show which even appears to have put off fans.
Plans include a new song school, alterations to the clergy vestry and opening access to underground vaults.
Though Darondo owes much of his style to Al Green, the track gives Green's best songs a run for their money: The song's every element is sublime, from the opening guitar line to Ray Dobard's sweeping string arrangement to Darondo's delicate vocals, which reveal a fragile vulnerability.
Panish played a song Jackson wrote for his children as a montage of photos played during opening statements.
Dale's version was titled "Miserlou" and it would become their signature song, gaining a new generation of fans when Quentin Tarantino made it the opening track to Pulp Fiction.
From the opening power chords to bassist-singer Bobby Hackney's rushed, garbled vocal, the song has the harried, live-for-the-moment desperation that's always made for great punk (and great rock 'n' roll overall).
The 'modern' stuff goes straight for the jugular with opening track Free Speech For The Dumb - a fast and furious re-working of the 1982 song from second generation punks Discharge.
But the song builds again, the flames reach higher, and British Sea Power returns to its pumping opening lines, pushing harder and faster toward an inevitable screeching burnout.
After the song, Burton offers up a "one more thing" to the crowd, staff members opening up the back wall to reveal the second half of the room, as a man picks up the guitar at the side of the stage, for an instrumental jam.
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