Now or Never (Billie Holiday song)
"Now or Never" is a jazz song written by singer Billie Holiday, and composer Curtis Reginald Lewis.
Now or Never
Now or Never may refer to:
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.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an African American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing.
Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice.
She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935.
Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca.
By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse.
After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall.
Due to personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction, but were mild commercial successes.
Her final album, "Lady in Satin", was released in 1958.
Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959.
She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album.
She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973.
"Lady Sings the Blues", a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972.
She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) "
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill"
; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986, and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film.
In 2017 Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
María Ripoll
María Ripoll is a Spanish film director from Barcelona, with an international background and eight feature films to her credit.
The success of her film" It's Now or Never" has placed her as the highest- grossing female film director in Spanish history.
Emergency (Tank song)
" Emergency" is a song by R&B singer Tank.
It's the second single from his fourth album," Now or Never".
Now or Never (Yoko Ono song)
" Now or Never" is a song written by Yoko Ono that was first released on her 1973 album" Approximately Infinite Universe".
It was also the lead single off the album, backed by" Move on Fast."
A remixed version of" Move on Fast" was later released as a single and reached# 1 on the" Billboard" Dance Club Songs chart.
" Now or Never" is a political song.
According to John Lennon's biographer Peter Doggett, the lyrics of" Now or Never" sum up Ono's philosophy that" Dream you dream alone is just a dream/ But dream we dream together is reality.
New York Times" music critic Stephen Holden described this line as expressing a" Beatles- style utopianism."
A Yoko Ono press release described the song as a" wistful wake- up call to a tuned- out, slacked- off America."
Vietnam
War historian Lee Andresen considered the song to be a protest against the war.
The notorious cover of the single release, which depicted dead Vietnamese victims of the My Lai Massacre reinforced the Vietnam connection.
Andresen describes the cover as being" the most painfully graphic of any produced by record companies during the war."
Ben Urish and Ken Bielen describe the lyrics as being" interrogative.
Rolling Stone" reviewer Nick Tosches was underwhelmed by the lyrics, using lines such as" People of America/ When will we stop/ It is now or never" as examples of the" obnoxiousness" of Ono's lyrics at the time, describing them as" philosophical and political party- line corn that went out of style with last season's prime- time TV."
The music of" Now or Never" is folk music- like in the vein of early Bob Dylan.
It was recorded in February and March 1972 at the Record Plant East in New York.
John Lennon played guitar and Elephant's Memory provided the other backing instrumentation.
Ono and Lennon co-produced the recording.
Lennon and Ono rehearsed" Now or Never" for their One on One concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York in August 1972, prior to any official release of the song, but the song was ultimately not performed in the actual concerts.
The couple did perform the song at their TV appearance for the Jerry Lewis Telethon a few days later on September 4, 1972.
" Now or Never" was the second of three songs they played at the telethon, after" Imagine" and before" Give Peace a Chance."
At the time Lennon was under threat of deportation from the United States, and Ono introduced the song by stating that “ John and I love this country very much and we ’re very happy that we ’re still here. ”
The telethon would prove to be the couple's last performances with Elephant's Memory.
In 1984 a revised version of" Now or Never" was released on the album" Every Man Has a Woman" celebrating Ono's 50th birthday.
This version used a children's choir to provide the vocals.
According to Urich and Bielen, this added urgency to the lyrics," as if a very aware child were chastising the adults for what they were permitting the world to become."
The instrumentation was from the original 1972 sessions, including Lennon and Elephant's Memory.
In 1994 the song was included in Ono's Off- Broadway musical" New York Rock".
According to Holden," Now or Neverdistills the childlike quality of a show that is as sweetly idealistic as it is hopelessly naive."
April Diamond
April Diamond is an American singer.
Her first single release" Lose Control" debuted on the" Billboard" magazine chart under the" Hot Dance Club Play" category on January 6, 2018.
The song was written and produced by David Longoria and remixed by Robert Eibach, Dave Audé and others.
It climbed that chart on" Billboard" peaking at# 27 on February 3, 2018 and remained on the chart for a total of 8 weeks.
" Lose Control" received a nomination in the category of" Best Dance Song" in the 2017 Hollywood Music In Media Awards.
Diamond received two nominations for the category of" Best Electronica/ Dance Artist" and one win for the category of" Best Female Pop Artist Of The Year" from the Los Angeles Music Awards.
Diamond was also featured on the theme song" Now Or Never" from the movie" Bloodline: Now Or Never" along with David Longoria, who also wrote the song.
She sang on the recording of the song We Are One with David Longoria and more than 700 other artists and performed the song on the lawn of the White House on May 20th, 2017.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/dance-club-play-songs/2018-02-24
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.

Question: When did the performer of song Now Or Never (Billie Holiday Song) die?
Answer: July 17, 1959