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Library - Biographies
Biography from All-Music Guide on Sonicnet.
The visionary behind the hit-making British house team M People is Mike Pickering (b. March 1958; Manchester), a respected DJ who played in Quando Quango, booked several early shows by the Smiths, and signed Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records while working A&R during the mid-'80s.
Reference: http://www.sonicnet.com
Biography from AudioClub (in Russian/Cyrillic).
Reference: http://audioclub.ru/Russian/artist_60.html
Biography from BMG Deutschland.
Initiator von M-People war der 1958 in Manchester geborene Mike Pickering. Nach der Schulzeit jobbte er zunächst in einer Fischfabrik, doch schon bald offenbarte er viele Talente.
Reference: BMG Deutschland (http://www.tsef.com)
Biography from BMG Germany.
Von den einladenden Streichern der melodischen Ballade 'Just For You ' bis zum letzten brüchigen Beat von 'Avalon' verkörperte das vor dem Best of-Album erschienene Album 'Fresco' einen weiteren klassischen Longplayer von M-People.
Reference: http://www.bmg.de/mpeople/mpebio01.htm
Biography/Article from Epic (Sony Music).
Ask Michael Pickering how he would categorize M People and he laughs. "As far as I'm concerned there's only two categories of music: Music I like and music I don't like!"
Reference: http://www.music.sony.com/Music/ArtistInfo/MPeople_ElegantSlumming.html
Biography/Article from EpicCenter.
"Our music is there to inspire some hope and to pay respect to the power of soul," says Mike Pickering of Epic recording group M People. And what is soul? Simple, he answers: "Any music that you feel and that you deliver with emotion."
Reference: http://www.epiccenter.com/EpicCenter/docs/artistbio.qry?artistid=107
Biography/Article from ffn Star Traxx.
M People gehören zu den wenigen Formationen aus der Dancepop-Ecke, die es sowohl Kritikern wie Fans, Clubfreaks wie Radiohörern, Fans ausgeklügelter Mixe wie Liebhabern guter Liveshows Recht machen können.
Reference: http://www.radioffn.de/star/960630/starportrait.html
Biography from Manchester On-Line.
M People are the credible face of that much maligned musical genre: commercial dance. They make soulful, mainstream dance music for the masses, reaping them massive commercial rewards since their formation in 1991.
Reference: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/bands/1990/mpeople.html
Biography/Article from Nestor (in Russian/Cyrillic).
Reference: http://www.gis.minsk.by/v-server/nestor/mg/9712/mg74709.htm
Biography from Popular Music.
The key component of M People is Mike Pickering (b. March 1958, Manchester, England; keyboards/programming), a former disc jockey at the Factory Records' owned Hacienda club in Manchester.
Reference: http://www.cdnow.com
Biography from Pride of Manchester.
M People were 'created' in 1991 by ex-Haçienda DJ, Mike Pickering and have since become the World's best dance act of the 1990's. The Chorlton-cum-Hardy DJ had previously worked as an A&R man for Factory Records and was credited for shaping the success of The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and James with his Friday night talent shows at the Haç.
Reference: http://www.prideofmanchester.com/music/MPeople.htm
Biography from Radiomorje.
Na plesièih in ob njih se dogaja veliko zanimivih stvari. Plesna glasba dobiva in se oblikuje v neke celote, se spreminja in vpliva na trende tudi v drugih glasbenih smereh.
Reference: http://www.radiomorje.si/cd/mpeople1.html
Biography from Showbizz-Site.
De man die M People bijeen bracht is de muzikale duizendpoot Mike Pickering. Sinds 1990 werkt hij samen met Paul Heard (gekend van Orange Juice, Working week en Trouble).
Reference: http://www.showbizzsite.com/artm/mpeople.htm
Biography from The Rough Guide To Rock.
Perhaps even more than Soul II Soul, M People epitomize club culture's obsession with an upwardly mobile fantasy world, where fashionable people do nothing but dance and have short-lived, stylish romances.
Reference: http://www.roughguides.com/rock/entries/entries-m/M_PEOPLE.html
Shovell biography from LP Music.
After leaving school at 16 years of age, Shovell found his first job far away from the field of Latin music. He worked as a plumber for a number of years, and only took up playing bongos and congas as a hobby.
Reference: http://www.lpmusic.com/Online_Magazine/Endorsers/shovell.html
Biography from www.m-people.co.uk.
"Everyone thinks they know one or two M People songs. Then they remember another one. You remind them of a couple more and suddenly they realise there are about a dozen songs they know backwards", says Mike Pickering, former Manchester DJ and founder of M People.
Reference: http://www.m-people.co.uk
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