Since When (song)
" Since When" is a song by Canadian rock band 54- 40.
The song is the first single and title track of the band's eighth studio album," Since When".
The song is the highest charting single in the band's history, peaking at No. 11 on the" RPM" singles chart in Canada.
The song won the award for" Best Song" at the West Coast Music Awards, with the song's music video winning the award for" Best Video".
The Kinks
The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s.
The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965 (as a result of constant fighting between the brothers).
Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned
"You Really Got Me", became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
Their music was influenced by a wide range of genres, including rhythm and blues, American rock and roll, British music hall, folk, and country.
They gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies' wittily observational writing style, and are considered one of the most influential groups of the period.
Early works included albums such as "Face to Face" (1966), "Something Else" (1967), "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" (1968), "Arthur" (1969), "Lola Versus Powerman" (1970), and "Muswell Hillbillies" (1971), along with their accompanying singles.
After a fallow period in the mid-1970s, the band experienced a revival during the late 1970s and early 1980s with their albums "Sleepwalker" (1977), "Misfits" (1978), "Low Budget" (1979), "Give the People What They Want" (1981) and "State of Confusion" (1983).
In addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks' record sales.
In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence.
Ray Davies (rhythm guitar, lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Davies (lead guitar, vocals) remained members throughout the band's 32-year run.
Longest-serving member Mick Avory (drums and percussion) was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984.
Original bass guitarist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969, and Dalton was in turn replaced by Argent bassist Jim Rodford in 1978.
Session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s.
In 1969 the band became an official five-piece when keyboardist John Gosling joined them, being replaced by Ian Gibbons in 1979, who remained in the band until they broke up in 1996 as a result of the commercial failures of their last few albums and creative tension between the Davies brothers.
The Kinks have had five Top 10 singles on the US "Billboard" chart.
Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40.
In the UK, The Kinks have had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums.
Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and the band have sold over 50 million records worldwide.
Among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music".
In 1990, the original four members of The Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005.
In 2018, after years of ruling out a reunion, Ray Davies and Dave Davies announced they were working to reform the Kinks.
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Father Christmas (1991 film)
Father Christmas is a British animated short starring Mel Smith as the titular character.
Created for Channel 4 and first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1991 in Britain, the story is an adaption of two books written by Raymond Briggs-" Father Christmas" and" Father Christmas Goes on Holiday"- and is the second animated adaptation of Briggs' work made for the channel, following the 1982 animated short" The Snowman".
The story focuses on a stereotypical vision of Father Christmas with a down- to- earth twist, living in contemporary Britain with his pets and reindeer, coping with everyday domestic chores, who recounts to the viewers about a holiday he took before preparing for another Christmas.
The animated short was dedicated to the late animator John McGuire, with the film later released as part of a DVD bundle alongside" The Snowman", before being released separately in subsequent home media releases.
Robin Jones Gunn
Robin Jones Gunn is the best- selling, award- winning Christian author of over 100 books, including the Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen series for teen girls as well as the Glenbrooke series and the Sisterchicks series.
Robin's non-fiction titles are" Praying For Your Future HusbandSpoken For" and" Victim of Grace".
Her books have sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide.
She is best known for the characters in the Christy Miller series that now continue in'" Christy &Todd: The College YearsChristy& Todd: The Married YearsChristy& Todd: The Baby Years" and the" Katie Weldon" series.
In 2007 she received the Christy Award for her novel Sisterchicks in Gondolas.
In November 2016, a television film adaptation of the first two novels in her Christmas series, Finding Father Christmas and Engaging Father Christmas, was broadcast on Hallmark Movies& Mysteries, as" Finding Father Christmas", starring Erin Krakow and Niall Matter.
At the time of broadcast, the film was both the highest rated and the most watched premier in the network's history.
Gunn also published an ebook( How My Book Became A Movie :A True Story) detailing her experiences of the process, from the origins of the novel into the film's production.
A sequel to the film, entitled" Engaging Father Christmas" was confirmed by Hallmark on May 9, 2017 and began filming in June 2017.
The film premiered Hallmark Movies& Mysteries in November 2017.
Gunn also appears as an extra in both films, alongside her agent.
A third film in the series, entitled" Marrying Father Christmas" premiered on the channel on November 4, 2018.
The Father Christmas Letters
The Father Christmas Letters, also known as Letters from Father Christmas, are a collection of letters written and illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien between 1920 and 1943 for his children, from Father Christmas.
They were released posthumously by the Tolkien estate on 2 September 1976, the 3rd anniversary of Tolkien ’s death.
They were edited by Baillie Tolkien, second wife of his youngest son, Christopher.
The book was warmly received by critics, and it has been suggested that elements of the stories inspired parts of Tolkien's" The Lord of the Rings".
Father Christmas (song)
"Father Christmas" is a 1977 single by the English group The Kinks.
It tells of a department store Father Christmas who is beaten up by a gang of poor kids who tell him to give them money instead of toys, as toys are impractical; and asks that the toys be given "to the little rich boys.
" At one point, a child asks the narrator to give his/her father a job for Christmas—or, if he must deliver a toy, a machine gun.
The song has been covered a number of times by bands including the Gigolo Aunts, Dispatch, Green Day, Man Overboard, Bad Religion, Warrant, Lit, Bowling For Soup, Save Ferris, Smash Mouth, Cary Brothers, Action Action, Everything, Deer Tick,
OK Go, The Unlikely Candidates, Cheap Trick, and Chris Jericho.
The track appeared in a TV spot for "Unaccompanied Minors" and in episodes of the TV series "
That '70s Show" and "Bob's Burgers".
The track was included on the Arista compilation "Come Dancing with The Kinks" and is also available as a bonus track on the CD reissue of the Kinks' 1978 album "Misfits".
Warrant's cover was featured on a hair metal Christmas tribute record called "We Wish You a Hairy Christmas", where it was the opening track.
The b-side to the single was another Ray Davies composition, "Prince of the Punks".
It was written in the bitter aftermath of Davies' troubled stint as the co-producer for Café Society's debut album, which was issued in 1975.
Davies wrote as part of the lyrics, "Tried to be gay/
But it didn’t pay/
So he bought a motorbike instead", in direct reference to Tom Robinson, one of the band members of the short-lived Cafe Society.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Father Christmas (disambiguation)
Father Christmas is a Christmas gift- bringer.
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Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas.
Although now known as a Christmas gift- bringer, and normally considered to be synonymous with American culture's Santa Claus which is now known worldwide, he was originally part of an unrelated and much older English folkloric tradition.
The recognisably modern figure of the English Father Christmas developed in the late Victorian period, but Christmas had been personified for centuries before then.
English personifications of Christmas were first recorded in the 15th century, with Father Christmas himself first appearing in the mid 17th century in the aftermath of the English Civil War.
The Puritan- controlled English government had legislated to abolish Christmas, considering it papist, and had outlawed its traditional customs.
Royalist political pamphleteers, linking the old traditions with their cause, adopted Old Father Christmas as the symbol of' the good old days' of feasting and good cheer.
Following the Restoration in 1660, Father Christmas's profile declined.
His character was maintained during the late 18th and into the 19th century by the Christmas folk plays later known as mummers plays.
Until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with adult feasting and merry-making.
He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents, nocturnal visits, stockings or chimneys.
But as later Victorian Christmases developed into child- centric family festivals, Father Christmas became a bringer of gifts.
The popular American myth of Santa Claus arrived in England in the 1850s and Father Christmas started to take on Santa's attributes.
By the 1880s the new customs had become established, with the nocturnal visitor sometimes being known as Santa Claus and sometimes as Father Christmas.
He was often illustrated wearing a long red hooded gown trimmed with white fur.
Any residual distinctions between Father Christmas and Santa Claus largely faded away in the early years of the 20th century, and modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous.

Question: Which award the performer of song Father Christmas (Song) earned?
Answer: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame