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Alan Harper's Tash said:
There are three main types of augmented sixth chords, commonly known as the Italian sixth, the French sixth, and the German sixth.

The Italian sixth (It+6 or It6 or ♯iv6) is derived from iv6 with an altered fourth scale degree. This is the only augmented sixth chord comprising just three distinct notes; in four part writing the tonic pitch is doubled.

The French sixth (Fr+6 or Fr4 3) is similar to the Italian, but with an additional tone. The notes of the French sixth chord are all contained within the same whole tone scale lending a sonority common to French music in the 19th century (especially associated with impressionistic music)


The German sixth (Ger+6 or Ger6 5) is also like the Italian, but with an added tone.
In Classical music, however, it appears in much the same places as the other variants, though perhaps less often because of the contrapuntal difficulties outlined below. It appears frequently in the works of Beethoven, and in ragtime music. The German sixth chord is enharmonically equivalent to a dominant seventh chord though it functions differently.
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Education.
 
BimboBob said:
A-ha were Norwegian physicists in the early 80's.Being a country a bit behind the rest of the world they got their name when their lead singer Horton Market jumped into a hot bath and had to leap out shouting "a-ha" and subsequently discovered he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.
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Are you sure it wasn't A-harchimedes?
 
Gaudion M said:
TV Science bloke Prof Brian Cox was in 2 bands:

hair rock outfit Dare (far right)

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And cheese dance outfit D Ream (far left)

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The keyboard player in Dare was in Thin Lizzy. His mum was Phil Lynott's mums hairdresser and got the gig via the connection.
 
2.58 minutes into the recording of " hey jude" you can hear Paul say " oh fucking hell " after a mistake. Some say it was John however. You have to listen really carefully but it is in there
 
tshirtman said:
Saw Dare live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Oldham, around 86/87,
if I remember right, the lead singer was originally in Thin Lizzy, they released one decent song called Abandon.
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Yep, a lad from Hollinwood called Darren Wharton
 
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