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Alapalooza

Alapalooza is the eighth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1993. By the completion of his previous album, Off the Deep End, Yankovic had already written all of the original songs that he planned to use on his next release. This new album, which would eventually be titled Alapalooza in reference to the music festival Lollapalooza, consisted of seven original songs and five parodies. It produced three parody singles: "Jurassic Park", "Bedrock Anthem", and "Achy Breaky Song". "Jurassic Park" was a top five hit on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart.

Among the album's original creations were "Talk Soup", a tune originally intended to replace the theme song of the television show of the same name, and "Harvey the Wonder Hamster", an oft-requested jingle from one of Yankovic's Al TV specials. A music video compilation, entitled Alapalooza: the Videos, was released the following year and contained four videos, only two of which were from its eponymous album. One of the videos, the one for "Jurassic Park", was animated entirely in the style of claymation and received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, losing to "Love Is Strong" from the Rolling Stones.

Alapalooza met with average to negative reception upon its release, with some critics commenting that the album seemed hurried and out of touch with contemporary music. The video offering received a similarly lukewarm response. Nonetheless, the album was certified "gold" in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America by the end of the year, peaking at number 46 on the Billboard 200, and went "double platinum" in Canada.

Background
Yankovic's 1992 album Off the Deep End, his best-selling album since 1984's "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D, had revived his career and displayed his "credibility as an evolving artist" after the commercial failures of his 1986 work Polka Party! and his feature film UHF. By the time production for Off the Deep End was nearing completion, Yankovic had already written all of the original songs that would be eventually included on Alapalooza. Fearing that his track "I Was Only Kidding" would be outdated by the time of his next album, he rearranged Off the Deep End to allow for the song to be released with the album, saving "Waffle King" for Alapalooza. Nevertheless, "Waffle King" was released as a B-side to Off the Deep End's "Smells Like Nirvana" single, "just in case there wasn't going to be a next album".

Yankovic recorded all of the album's original songs, except "Talk Soup" and "Harvey the Wonder Hamster", by the end of 1992 and, in July 1993, recorded all of Alapalooza's remaining tracks, aside from "Livin' in the Fridge". Yankovic eventually decided to title his new album Alapalooza, a reference to the Lollapalooza music festival. The Yankovic dinosaur in the album's booklet was designed by David Peters, who had worked previously with the singer on the "Dare to Be Stupid" video.

Alapalooza was released on October 5, 1993, in the United States. Globally, some versions included a notice distinguishing it from the official Jurassic Park film soundtrack, as the two cover designs were similar. The Japanese edition contained a bonus track of Yankovic singing "Jurassic Park" in Japanese. A music video compilation for the album, entitled Alapalooza: the Videos, was released in February 1994 and contained four videos, only two of which ("Jurassic Park" and "Bedrock Anthem") were from Alapalooza.

Originals
Alapalooza contains seven original songs among its twelve tracks, although "Young, Dumb & Ugly" and "Frank's 2000" TV" were meant to be stylistic parodies of AC/DC and the early work of R.E.M., respectively. For the former, Yankovic wanted to parody the heavy metal music genre while at the same time avoiding a repetition of what had already been done by Spinal Tap. He ended up disliking the final product because he sang it "in a register that was really too high for [his] singing voice". The latter was a song about consumerism and modern electronics that described the neighborhood's envy of the eponymous character's new television.

The song "Talk Soup", which is about a man who desires to go on television to tell the world about his strange life, was originally commissioned as a new theme for the E! Entertainment Television show of the same name. Although the producers approved the lyrics and enjoyed the result, they decided against using it. "Waffle King", the track that had been intended for Off the Deep End, was written as "a song about a guy who becomes incredibly famous for doing something kinda stupid, and then starts taking himself way too seriously". Yankovic included "Harvey the Wonder Hamster", a short tune from one of his Al TV appearances, after receiving numerous requests to include it on an album.

Parodies
Yankovic's first single from Alapalooza was "Jurassic Park", a parody of the Jimmy Webb song "MacArthur Park" that was first performed by Richard Harris in 1968. After hearing "Lola" by The Kinks on the radio and recalling how much he had enjoyed his previous pairing of a contemporary film with a classic song (1985's "Yoda"), Yankovic came up with the idea for a tune based around the recently released Jurassic Park film. He received permission from Webb, Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, and director Steven Spielberg to produce the track. For the music video Yankovic collaborated with animators Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund to produce a claymation feature that parodied scenes from the movie; the song itself was a comedic retelling of the film's plot interspersed with the gripes about his visit to the park. The music video was directed by Osborne and Nordlund, while Yankovic came up with the original concept and ideas for some of the shots; Osborne said that the directors "came up with about half the ideas in collaboration" with Yankovic.

Having always wanted to write a tribute to The Flintstones, Yankovic next focused his energy on creating a song that he hoped would be current with the impending release of The Flintstones live action film in 1994. In order to collect sound bites and animation and "re-familiarize" himself with the characters, Yankovic watched over 100 episodes of the original show. A parody of both Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" and "Give It Away", the resulting song was a comedic tribute to the program. It ended up becoming the second single released from Alapalooza. Yankovic directed the video for the single, which featured scenes of band members playing the song in Bedrock dressed as characters from the show. In the third and final single, "Achy Breaky Song", a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart", Yankovic lists things he would rather experience than having to listen to the original track. The parody received radio play on country music stations in the United States. The proceeds from the track were donated to United Cerebral Palsy, as both Don Von Tress (the songwriter of "Achy Breaky Heart") and Yankovic felt that the parody was "a little bit [...] mean-spirited".

"Livin' in the Fridge", a parody of Aerosmith's "Livin' on the Edge" that discusses leftovers that have grown sentient in the refrigerator, was the last song to be recorded for the album. With a deadline looming, Yankovic sent requests to several artists to do parodies of their songs. He ultimately went with Aerosmith because they replied first. It was recorded a month after the rest of the tracks had been finalized and less than two months prior to the album's release. The album includes a polka medley, a staple of Yankovic's albums, called "Bohemian Polka". Unlike previous medleys, which had featured portions of multiple songs, "Bohemian Polka" contains only one tune, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and is a rearrangement of the entire song as a polka.

Critical reception
Critical response to Alapalooza ranged from average to negative. In (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide, Alapalooza earned 2.5 stars out of 5, which ranked it somewhere between "mediocre" and "good". Anthony Violanti of The Buffalo News gave the album three stars out of five, claiming that "[o]nce again, Weird Al gets the last laugh on rock 'n' roll". Barry Weber of AllMusic, on the other hand, criticized the album for failing to engage contemporary musical trends and said it "sounds sloppy and mostly like a compilation of old B-sides". In reference to the album's polka tune, Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post wrote that it "doesn't sound all that different" from the original.

Entertainment Weekly felt that overall Alapalooza: the Videos was "amusing", but referred to the claymation video for the "Jurassic Park" as "clever but toothless". The magazine gave the collection an overall grade of "C" and argued that Yankovic's parodies did not satirize the original material, but instead transposed new elements on top of them. The video for "Jurassic Park" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, but lost to the video for "Love Is Strong" by the Rolling Stones. Nonetheless, it received attention in animation festivals worldwide for its use of claymation effects.

Commercial performance
Released in October 1993, Alapalooza was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 23, 1993, representing sales of at least 500,000 units. The video compilation, released on February 1, 1994, went gold in the United States on August 14, 1995, representing sales of at least 50,000 units. In Canada the album went gold on November 16, 1993, platinum on January 31, 1994, and double platinum on February 12, 1998, representing sales of 50,000, 100,000, and 200,000 units respectively. The album peaked at number 46 on the United States' Billboard 200 chart on October 30, 1993, but produced no charting singles. In Canada, however, "Jurassic Park" was a top five hit on The Record's single chart. As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 873,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Personnel
Credits adapted from CD liner notes.

Band members
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – lead and background vocals, keyboards, accordion
 * Jim West – guitars, banjo, mandolin, background vocals
 * Steve Jay – bass guitar, background vocals
 * Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Rubén Valtierra – keyboards
 * Brad Buxer – keyboards, orchestral arrangements and programming (track 1)
 * Warren Luening – trumpet
 * Joel Peskin – clarinet, baritone saxophone
 * Tommy Johnson – tuba
 * Julia Waters – background vocals
 * Maxine Waters – background vocals
 * Sandy Berman – dinosaur sound effects
 * "Musical Mike" Kieffer – musical hands
 * Alan Reed – voice of Fred Flintstone
 * Mel Blanc – voice of Barney Rubble and Dino

Technical
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – producer
 * Tony Papa – engineer, mixing
 * Colin Sauers – assistant engineer
 * Jamie Dell – assistant engineer
 * Bernie Grundman – mastering
 * Spencer Proffer – executive producer (track 7)
 * Doug Haverty – art direction
 * Command A Studios – design
 * David Peters – dinosaur imagery
 * David Westwood – logo design
 * Rocky Schenck – inside photography

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De Lisle carbine

The De Lisle carbine or De Lisle Commando carbine was a British firearm used during World War II that was designed with an integrated suppressor. That, combined with its use of subsonic ammunition, made it extremely quiet in action, possibly one of the quietest firearms ever made.

Few were manufactured as their use was limited to specialist military units.

History
The weapon was designed as a private venture by William Godfray de Lisle (known as Godfray), an engineer who worked for the Air Ministry. He made the first prototype in .22 calibre; this he tested by shooting rabbits and other small game for the table, near his home on the Berkshire Downs. In 1943, he approached Major Sir Malcolm Campbell of Combined Operations with his prototype; this was informally tested by firing the weapon into the River Thames from the roof of the New Adelphi building in London. This was chosen to discover if people in the street below heard it firing – they did not. A patent, number 579,168 was filed by De Lisle on May 8.

Combined Operations officials were impressed with the weapon and requested De Lisle produce a 9mm version. However, this was a failure. A third prototype, using the .45 ACP cartridge that was favoured by de Lisle, was much more successful. Tests of this showed the weapon had acceptable accuracy, produced no visible muzzle flash and was inaudible at a distance of 50 yd.

Subsequent official firing tests recorded the De Lisle produced 85.5 dB of noise when fired. As a comparison, modern testing on a selection of handguns has shown that they produce 156 to 168 dB when firing without a suppressor, and 117 to 140 dB when firing with one fitted. The De Lisle's quietness was found to be comparable to the British Welrod pistol. However, the Welrod was useful only at very short range and used fabric and rubber components in the suppressor that required replacement after a few shots. The De Lisle was able to fire hundreds of rounds before the suppressor required disassembly for cleaning.

Combined Operations requested a small production run of De Lisle carbines and an initial batch of 17 were hand–made by Ford Dagenham, with Godfray De Lisle himself released from his Air Ministry duties so he could work full-time on the project; this initial batch was immediately put into combat use by the British Commandos. In 1944, the Sterling Armaments Company was given an order for 500 De Lisle carbines, but eventually only produced around 130. The Sterling version differed in a number of details from the earlier, Ford Dagenham model. Two prototypes of a further version, for Airborne forces, were made. These had folding stocks, similar to those fitted to the Sterling submachine gun.

De Lisle's own .22 prototype was given to the National Army Museum in London, but it was subsequently lost and its present whereabouts are unknown.

Combat Use
During the remainder of World War II, the De Lisle carbine was mainly used by the Commandos, although they also saw some use by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). E. Michael Burke, the American former commander of a Jedburgh Team, stated that a De Lisle was used by them to assassinate two senior German officers in 1944.

A number of De Lisles were shipped to the Far East and used during the Burma Campaign to take out IJA soldiers on sentry duty. The De Lisle would also be used during the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency.

US Army Special Forces - MACV-SOG used the weapon for many years in the Vietnam War, according to MSG Reinald "Magnet Ass" Pope in a 2024 interview.

It has been claimed the weapon was also used by the Special Air Service during the Northern Irish Troubles.

Design

The De Lisle was based on a Short Magazine, Lee–Enfield Mk III* converted to .45 ACP. The receiver was modified, altering the bolt/bolthead, replacing the barrel with a modified Thompson submachine gun barrel (6 grooves, RH twist), and using modified magazines from the M1911 pistol. The primary feature of the De Lisle was its extremely effective suppressor, which made it very quiet in action. The suppressor reduced the sound of the firearm discharging to such a degree that working the bolt (to chamber the next round) produced a louder noise than firing a cartridge.

The .45 ACP cartridge was selected as its muzzle velocity is subsonic for typical barrel lengths; consequently it would both retain its full lethality and not require custom-loaded ammunition to use with a suppressor. Most rifle rounds are supersonic, where the bullet generates a "sonic boom" like any other object traveling at supersonic velocities, making them unsuitable for covert purposes. The Thompson gun barrel was ported (i.e. drilled with holes) to provide a controlled release of high pressure gas into the suppressor that surrounds it before the bullet leaves the barrel. The suppressor, 2 in in diameter, went all the way from the back of the barrel to well beyond the muzzle, making up half the overall length of the weapon.

The suppressor provided a very large volume to contain the gases produced by firing; this was one of the keys to its effectiveness. The MP5SD and AS Val are among other modern firearms that use the same concept.

The Lee–Enfield bolt was shortened to feed the .45 ACP rounds; the Lee–Enfield's magazine set-up was replaced with a new assembly that held a modified M1911 magazine. The bolt operation offered an advantage in that the shooter could refrain from chambering the next round if absolute silence was required after firing; a semi-automatic weapon would not have offered this option as the cycling of the bolt coupled with rearward escaping propellant gas and the clink of the empty case against any hard surface would produce a noise with each shot. While the carbine was silent, it was not very accurate.

Clones
In 1970, MAC developed a 9mm carbine called the "Destroyer", inspired by the need for a suppressed weapon to be used in special forces missions during the Vietnam War. The first models were based on the Destroyer carbine with five variants made.

Modern reproductions
A reproduction of the .45 caliber carbine is manufactured by the American company Valkyrie Arms based on original specifications.

Special Interest Arms, for a time, produced limited quantities of a De Lisle replica which incorporated an improved magazine adapter system that allows the use of unmodified M1911 magazines and also fully supports the barrel chamber in the action, later discontinued.

On May 22, 2024, US Armament Manufacturing announced pre-orders for a reproduction of the De Lisle carbine.

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Off the Deep End

Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992. This album was the first album self-produced by Yankovic, after six albums with Rick Derringer. Recorded between June 1990 and January 1992, the album was a follow-up to the unsuccessful soundtrack to Yankovic's 1989 film UHF. Off the Deep End and its lead single "Smells Like Nirvana" helped to revitalize Yankovic's career after a lull following his last hit single, "Fat", in 1988.

The musical styles on Off the Deep End are built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the newly arisen grunge movement. Half of the album is made up of parodies of Nirvana, MC Hammer, New Kids on the Block, Gerardo, and Milli Vanilli. The other half of the album is original material, featuring many "style parodies", or musical imitations of existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like the Beach Boys, James Taylor and Jan and Dean.

Off the Deep End was met with mostly positive reviews and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200. The album also produced one of Yankovic's most famous singles, "Smells Like Nirvana", a parody of Nirvana's major rock hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song was Yankovic's second-highest charting single, after "Eat It", which was released in 1984. The cover also parodies the cover of Nirvana's album, Nevermind. The original had a naked baby in the water with a dollar bill cast by a fishing rod; Yankovic's replaced the baby with himself, and the dollar bill with a donut. Off the Deep End was Yankovic's fourth Gold record, and went on to be certified Platinum for sales of over one million copies in the United States. In addition, the album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1993.

Background
In 1989, Yankovic starred in a full-length feature film, co-written by himself and manager Jay Levey, and filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called UHF. A satire of the television and film industries, also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop. Although the movie made a little over six million domestically – out of a budget of five million – it was considered unsuccessful.

Yankovic also released a quasi-soundtrack for the film in late 1989, entitled UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff, which featured songs (and commercials) from the movie as well as new unrelated studio material from Yankovic. The album failed to be successful, charting at only 146 on the Billboard 200 and quickly falling off. After the release of UHF, Yankovic returned to the studio to record his follow-up album.

Originals
On June 6, 1990, recording for Off the Deep End officially began at Santa Monica Sound Recorders, in Santa Monica, California. The first recording session started with "Airline Amy". These recording sessions marked the first time Yankovic self-produced his songs, after six albums with Rick Derringer. The producer and musician had parted ways because Derringer found that Yankovic would not listen to his input, and Yankovic came to realize that he could do most of the production work himself. Subsequent studio albums would be produced by Yankovic. In regards to this split, Yankovic said: "We [i.e. Yankovic and his band] had a great run with Rick, he's a terrific guybut I had become more and more of a control freak over the years, and I'd finally gotten to the point in my recording career where I felt that I could capably hold the reins all by myself." By late 1990 five originals—"Airline Amy", "Trigger Happy", "When I Was Your Age", "You Don't Love Me Anymore", and "Waffle King"—were recorded.

"You Don't Love Me Anymore" was one of the last original songs recorded during the 1990 sessions. The song is written as a soft acoustic ballad. However, the lyrics are of a—literally—destructive relationship between Yankovic and an unnamed girl. Although they were formerly in love, the "flames died down" and they are no longer passionate—in fact the girl hates Yankovic to such an extent that she repeatedly attempts to kill him. In 1992, when the album was finally released, Yankovic desired to release the song as a single. His record label, Scotti Brothers, allowed it under the stipulation that the music video be a parody of another music video. "You Don't Love Me Anymore" was subsequently released to radio on June 19, 1992. While the song was an original composition, the video was a parody of "More Than Words" by Extreme. Yankovic later explained that when the song was released, many people erroneously believed it was a parody of "More Than Words", and thus, Yankovic crafted the music video to be a parody of the song. The single received moderate radio attention, which surprised Yankovic, because he had always thought that radio stations "usually just go for the parodies".

One of the original songs recorded in the 1990 sessions was "Waffle King". However, when Yankovic resumed recording in 1992, he recorded a new original called "I Was Only Kidding". Originally, "Waffle King" was supposed to appear on Off the Deep End. However, by the time the recording of the parodies for this album began, Al had written all the original songs that were to appear on his next album, Alapalooza. Because he was concerned that one of the jokes from the song "I Was Only Kidding" might be dated by the time his next album would finally be released—a line that references the movie Wayne's World: "I really love you... not!"—Yankovic included "I Was Only Kidding" on Off the Deep End in place of "Waffle King". "Waffle King" was instead used as the b-side of the "Smells Like Nirvana" single and would later resurface on Alapalooza.

The album also contains a hidden track at the end called "Bite Me". The "song", which consists of several seconds of loud music and Yankovic screaming, appears after 10 minutes of silence following "You Don't Love Me Anymore". According to Yankovic, the song was supposed to "come on [...] and scare you to death". Later pressings of Off the Deep End by Volcano and pressings outside the USA took away the hidden track and silence. The track is a nod to Nirvana: pressings of Nevermind featured the hidden track "Endless, Nameless".

Parodies and polka
After recording the first batch of originals in 1990, Yankovic focused his attention on parodies. By early 1991, only three parodies had been recorded. Two of them, the cookie-inspired New Kids on the Block parody "The White Stuff" and the television-centric MC Hammer parody "I Can't Watch This", were slated to be released as singles. In fact, several cartons of promo singles were pressed, but they were deleted from the record company's catalogue at the last minute. These CDs were later discovered by Yankovic and his drummer, Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, in a trash heap and have since become collector's items. "The Plumbing Song", a double parody of Milli Vanilli's hit singles "Baby Don't Forget My Number" and "Blame It on the Rain" was also recorded. In a 1992 interview with Dr. Demento, Yankovic said that he believed the parody to be "kind of redundant" at that point in time, given the lip-synching scandal that had effectively destroyed the band almost two years prior. In reference to this scandal, Yankovic also jokingly affirmed that he did indeed sing lead vocals on his parody.

Yankovic waited for almost two years for the next "big thing" to emerge. "I don't have any really good reason why it took so long other than the fact that I was waiting for Michael Jackson's new album to come out," Yankovic explained. Unfortunately for Yankovic, the new album hit several snags. On November 26, 1991, Michael Jackson's new album, Dangerous was released. After hearing the hit single "Black or White", Yankovic approached Jackson about a potential parody entitled "Snack All Night". Although Jackson was a big supporter of Yankovic's work, he felt that a parody might damage the song's message. Jackson told Yankovic that he could, if he wanted to, parody another song off his album, but just not "Black or White". Yankovic soon turned his attention in another direction. Guns N' Roses had just released a version of Wings's 1970s hit "Live and Let Die". Yankovic approached Paul McCartney, leader of Wings, about a parody idea entitled "Chicken Pot Pie". Although McCartney was a supporter of Yankovic's work and he wanted to give Yankovic the chance to parody one of his songs, he begrudgingly turned him down due to the fact that, as a vegetarian, he could not condone the eating of animal flesh. Yankovic, a fellow vegetarian, has stated that he respects McCartney's decision.

It was around this time that Nirvana's Nevermind was making waves in the rock and pop scene. As the popularity of 1980s pop gave way to grunge, Yankovic decided it was time to record a parody of the Seattle-based band's huge hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Yankovic later said, "I wanted to make sure that when I came back after that long hiatus, it was with something strong, and it wasn't until Nirvana that I felt I had a real contender." To secure permission for the parody, Yankovic wanted to approve it with Kurt Cobain. After learning that Nirvana was to perform on Saturday Night Live, Yankovic called up his UHF co-star, Victoria Jackson, who was, at the time, a regular cast member on the show. Jackson got Cobain on the phone so that Yankovic could make his request. Cobain agreed, although he asked if the new parody was "going to be a song about food". Yankovic reassured him that it would actually be about how "no one can understand [the] lyrics" to the original, which Cobain thought was funny. After receiving permission, Yankovic wrote and recorded "Smells Like Nirvana" on January 27, 1992.

After "Smells Like Nirvana", Yankovic recorded "Taco Grande", a Mexican food-themed parody of Gerardo's "Rico Suave". The latter features a cameo appearance from comedian Cheech Marin. Originally, Yankovic had wanted Marin to rap in Spanish, but it turned out that Marin knew only some basic Spanish. However, a bilingual secretary translated what Yankovic wanted him to say from English to Spanish and Marin read the resulting rap phonetically. One of the last songs to be recorded was the obligatory polka medley, "Polka Your Eyes Out". Yankovic had already performed the medley at Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Special on Comedy Central before the album had been released.

Artwork
The cover for Off the Deep End parodies the famous cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind, which depicts an infant in the deep end of a pool chasing after a dollar bill on a fishhook. The Off the Deep End cover shows Yankovic in the baby's place apparently swimming to catch a doughnut on a string. While the Nirvana cover has a fully nude baby, Yankovic instead wore a bathing suit in a way that his body position hid it; he later jokingly noted, "I never really anticipated going full-frontal on any of my album covers." The CD, liner notes, and artwork continue the parody of Nirvana's album, borrowing the same blue, wave-light graphics from the printed surface of Nevermind.

Critical reception
Critical response to Off the Deep End was generally positive. Many critics praised not only Yankovic's parodies, but also his originals. Barry Weber, of AllMusic, wrote, "In addition to re-establishing his satirical craftsmanship, Deep End showcases some of Yankovic's best originals ever; "Trigger Happy," "When I Was Your Age," and "You Don't Love Me Anymore" prove to be the album's greatest songs." Christopher Thelen, of the Daily Vault, wrote, "In fact, it's strange to admit, but the originals on Off The Deep End actually are, at times, stronger than the parodies." In The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Off the Deep End was awarded 3.5 stars out of 5, denoting that the album averaged between good and excellent. Not all reviews were so positive, however. Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne noted that the video for Off the Deep End' lead single "Smells Like Nirvana" was "an old-fashioned laugh riot", but that half of Yankovic's humor was merely visual, meaning that the songs without videos were not as funny.

The music video for "Smells Like Nirvana" achieved similar praise. Spy Magazine named it the "Video of the Year" in 1993, Rolling Stone ranked it as #68 on their list of the Top 100 Videos of All Time, and it was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Performance in 1992.

At the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993, Off the Deep End was nominated for the Best Comedy Album. However, the album lost to Peter Schickele's Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.

Commercial performance
Off the Deep End was released April 1992, and was subsequently named the Best Selling Comedy Recording of the year by National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM). Off the Deep End was certified gold. On January 25, 2006, the album was certified platinum. The album's lead-off single, "Smells Like Nirvana" was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100, charting at number 35. It also charted on Hot 100 Singles Sales at number 12 and the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at number 35. Both the album and hit single helped propel Yankovic into the 1990s. As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 1,057,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Track listing
Note

Personnel
Credits adapted from CD liner notes, except where noted.

Band members
 * "Weird" Al Yankovic – lead and background vocals, keyboards, accordion
 * Jim West – guitars, banjo, background vocals
 * Steve Jay – bass guitar, background vocals
 * Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Brad Buxer – synthesizer
 * Warren Luening – trumpet
 * Joel Peskin – clarinet
 * Tommy Johnson – tuba
 * Julia Waters – background singer
 * Maxine Waters – background singer
 * Oren Waters – background singer (track 5)
 * Luther Waters – background singer (track 5)
 * Carmen Twillie – background singer
 * Jim Haas – background singer (track 2)
 * Jerry Whitman – background singer (track 2)
 * Jon Joyce – background singer (track 2)
 * Gene Morford – background singer (track 2)
 * Peggy Newman – background singer (track 10)
 * Natasha Neece – background singer (track 10)
 * Alisa Curran – background singer (track 10)
 * Samantha Kaye – background singer (track 10)
 * Beau Weaver – voiceover announcer (track 3)
 * Neil Ross – voiceover announcer (track 3)
 * Marlene Aragon – voiceover announcer (track 3)
 * Edith Fore – "I've fallen..." voiceover (track 3)
 * Cheech Marin – Spanish spoken word vocal (track 8)

Technical
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – producer
 * Tony Papa – engineer, mixing
 * Jamey Dell – assistant engineer
 * Colin Sauers – assistant engineer
 * Kirk Weddle – photographs

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Talk:Green belt (United Kingdom)

Moving of this page
I've renamed this (excellent) page since green belts are no longer solely a UK issue and there were separate pages "Green belt" and "Green Belt" distinguished only by capitalisation, and dealing with the general concept and with UK greenbelts respectively. "Green Belt" now redirects to "Green belt", which has a link to this page as a prominent example. Hope this meets with everyone's approval. Best wishes, Cambyses 21:13, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

leaping
Shouldn't we say something about London leaping over the greenbelt? Mark Richards 21:19, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

POV assertion
I removed this text: "The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has been campaigning since 1926 for the protection of the countryside from urban sprawl. It influences planning policy, and seeks urban regeneration as a way to protect the countryside from urban sprawl. In 1955, in response to CPRE pressure, the Government set out a Green Belt policy. In 2005 CPRE celebrates 50 years of the Green Belt policy but will highlight the latest development pressures which threaten Green Belts."

It is highly POV cliam green belts as a triumph for CPRE. They are influential, but green belt were part of environmental thinking since before CPRE was set up. Icundell 11:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I wondered what to do with this text when I moved it. I disagree that it is highly POV - the only possible POV sentence is "In 1955, in response to CPRE pressure, the Government set out a Green Belt policy." which may or may not be true (I don't know!) - and it refers to influencing the UK Green Belt policy not whatever was part of "environmental thinking".  In the end I decided to leave it as is.  Either way, the CPRE probably needs a mention on the page about the UK Green Belt as it is a notable campaigner. Perhaps change it to something as simple as: "The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has been campaigning since 1926 for the protection of the countryside from urban sprawl, including the UK Green Belt areas."? Stephenb 14:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry - I can't face wikipedia as often as I used to be able to. It was highly POV in the sense that it credited CPRE solely for their introduction, which is simply false. What happned to Ebenezer Howard and the Town and Country Planning Association, eh?

This comment relates to a different POV assertion:

To 2018 overall there has been a reduction in green belt of 9900 hectares since 2014 primarily due to immigration driving increased housing demand.

This looks like brexiteer propaganda, nothing mentioning immigration on the reference 14 where 2018 distribution of green belt comes from. 46.33.137.72 (talk) 09:25, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Date of 1st introduction
It would be helpful to add when the green belt was 1st introduced - ideally in the 1st paragraph. Brandonfletcher 12:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Green belt (UK)
Surely this is an inappropriate title just now. The UK isn't covered within this page just ENgland and Wales, shouldthis not be redressed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.195.48.90 (talk) 12:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair point. I've amended the article to make a brief reference to the position in Scotland, and a tag to indicate that it needs to be expanded.  But for the time being the reference to UK seems reasonable (to me).  Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Grammar/terminology
Currently the lede states that the green belt is a policy. Surely the green belt is the land in which building is restricted, and "having a 'green belt' on which building is restricted" is the policy. Wardog (talk) 10:41, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it's either, or both. You could equally well argue that it is the green belt policy, to limit development, that is applied to areas of designated land.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:25, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I would say that the "green belt" is the area, and the "green belt policy" is one way of referring to policy regarding how the area is developed or controlled. I would prefer to amend the lead Wardog's comment above. Has this issue already been discussed and resolved elsewhere? - BobKilcoyne (talk) 10:06, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Changes to Green Belt Planning Policy (2012) and other minor edits
I have replaced the references to Planning Policy Guidance Note (PPG) 2, which has been superseded by the National Planning Policy Framework. Although I state that the policy was formerly contained in PPG2. I have changed reference from "local councils" to "planning authorities" as in some cases, County and District tiers might be involved in the definition of green belt land in their areas, or the application of green belt policy in the determination of planning applications.

I also made some minor grammatical changes.

I am a Chartered Town Planner so please do not hesitate to ask if you have any queries or would like clarification.

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Map
Is there a map of all the green belts? The map at present, though good as far as it goes, has England and Wales only. The Scotland Bypass strikes again! Hogweard (talk) 23:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think the absence of a map is more to do with the different planning regime in Scotland. Google <"green belt" Scotland> and you will see the difficulty.  Though maps exist in local documents, I have not seen, even in Scottish government publications like this, any map that shows them all on one map.   So, it may well be original research to try and piece a map together.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * That's a good point. It would be possible to do one, but only with a vast amount of work or the right (expensive) database.  All the mini-green belts of Ulster would be a challenge too. Hogweard (talk) 22:49, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Konstantinos Karamanlis

Wife of C.Karamanlis
The article mentions nothing about Karamanlis's wife, Amalia Megapanou. Why? Parrisia 18:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Probably because the article doesn't have a "Personal life" section. Feel free to add it, if you can source the information. -- Kimon talk 18:30, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Unfair to mention Lambros Eftaxias and not Amalia Megapanou ;) Rastapopoulos 08:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Critisism Paragraph
I think that in every politicians article there should be a criticism paragraph. Most notable example for Constantine Karamanlis should be the signing of the Zürich and London accords and the subsequent Cyprus issue. Another controversial part is his rise to power with the aid of the palace. Some people also accuse him for the lack of counteraction against the military dictatorship (from my point of view that is an unfair accusation - how many Greeks really opposed the militants? -, but still it exists).

--ManosGR 07:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

- He was in self-exile at the time !!! - How could he react to that from Paris? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.73.206.171 (talk) 23:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Critics sentence
I removed the following sentence: Though it has been supported by his critics that it was part of the effort to stop the rising of the socialist PASOK by giving left-wing voters an alternative choice. because it is not cited. If there is a citation for it I will restore it. If not it may be true, it does sound plausible since every politician likes to outmanoeuvre the opposition but without citation it is just speculation. Dr.K. 16:47, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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Konstantinos Karamanlis: Rename request
His name is Konstantinos Karamanlis. A Google search actually yields more results for Konstantinos Karamanlis than for Constantine Karamanlis. Britannica's article is listed under Konstantinos Karamanlis as well. Could an admin please move this article to Konstantinos Karamanlis? Many thanks. Dr.K. (talk) 23:46, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much Anthony. Tasos (Dr.K. (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2008 (UTC))

Decisive role in Cyprus invasion
After the first invasion, Turkey had taken 3% of Cyprus. A 3 week ceasefire was established. Turkey spent this time reinforcing their beach heads with troops for a full invasion. Everyone was aware of this. So Karamanlis was asked if Greece would send troops to defend Cyprus. Seeing as Greece had been under a military Junta for the best part of a decade, Greece was fully militarized. However Karamanlis refused to send a single Greek soldier to Turkey, or put a Greek frigate in the area. This was decisive. I am putting this as a sub header in the article. http://hellenicantidote.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/karamanlis-betrayal-of-cyprus-greece.html Reaper7 (talk) 14:26, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

 * And why exactly don't you ask the more pertinent question why the junta itself, which was headed by soldiers and supposedly "militarized" the country, also did nothing? Why the mobilization it called was a fiasco? It was not Karamanlis, but the junta-appointed head of the armed forces who said the infamous "Οι Τούρκοι χτυπούν την Κύπρο αλλά εμείς είμαστε Ελλάς". Likewise it was these "patriotic" gentlemen who withdrew the Greek division that had covertly been sent to the island by a civilian government. So please, read up on some real history books instead of relying on blog posts. Constantine  ✍  17:38, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Oh dear. You are doing the classic avoidance technique to defend something perverted. You desperate attempt to'win'? perhaps some sort of battle you think has taken place has lead you to moving the argument somewhere else. So lets teach you to behave and please read slowly and carefully, because if you don't, I will just have to repeat the same things over and something tells me you wont get bored but I will.

 * The Junta was a disaster. The Junta collapsed 2 days after the first invasion. The Junta was full of lies and deception and collapsed accordingly. Their actions lead directly to Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Now here comes the extremely complicated part, I am going to put in bold so you cannot say you missed it!

 * This is an article about Karamanlis, not the Junta. Now take a breath and lets continue remembering that. Regarding Cyprus, Karamanlis was integral in the history of Cyprus, firstly he was the one who virtually forced Makarios in 1959 to sign the Zurich and London agreements that granted Cyprus a poisoned and restricted form of independence. There was over 3 weeks in between the first and second Turkish invasion. The Cypriots and everyone else noticed Turkey unloading heavy tanks and 1000s of troops onto their captured 3% of the island preparing for a proper invasion. Greece openly threatened Turkey of 'war over dishonour' if Turkey attempted anything further. These words were given by Georgios Mavros, Karamnalis' foreign minister for Greece at Geneva, on the orders of karamanlis. According contemporary reports, moral was high with troops in Cyrpus before the second invasion and the Greek army was not in disarray as karamanlis told the Cypriots before they were cleansed. The Cypriots begged through Glafkos for some troops, or at least one of the many a Hellenic frigates to block the invasion. Karamanlis gave nothing. The outcome was a foregone conclusion. If he had deployed Greek troops or allowed the submarines in the area to defend the beaches, the outcome would have been different in most cases. A Turko-Greco war was unlikely as neither Turkey or Greece desired a war, however, Cyprus would have had the upper hand defending itself.

 * Now to leave out this, or worse - delete it from the article, use revisionism, pseudo communism or some other agenda to try and pretend this never happened is disgusting. Whether you agree or not with his actions - whether you think he was a saviour or a weak fool controlled by the USA, his actions or lack of actions in 1974 were decisive in why Cyprus is in two pieces. The actions of the Junta, the UK and USA were also decisive, but so was Karamanlis. The only people who have difficulty admitting this are usually the marxist clones poorly manufactured en masse in Greek universities mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. Anyone else centrist or mildly right wing would have no problem admitting the failures of either the Junta or Karamanlis. However, a Greek pseudo communist's mind begins at the Greek civil war and ends at the fall of the Junta. You wont speak to one without him/her mentioning either at least a few times in a general conversation about politics, hence the reason your mind forced itself to mention the Junta in place of admitting Karamanlis was key to the fall of Northern Cyprus also. There is a whole article describing how evil the Junta was, please if you feel insecure, give that a good read again to feel validated - but don't let your leftist politics protect the reality of what Karamanlis' orders did to the history of Cyprus. I don't expect you to do the right thing, but at least in reading this, let it sink in before going mad again and telling me to read up on some real history books. I encourage you to do the same, I had to study marx for a year, so at least do me the honour of reading something not connect with marx. Reaper7 (talk) 19:17, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Right, I am avoiding the issue but you are bringing Marx (?!) into a discussion on the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Seriously? And why would any leftist (supposing I am the "archetypal Greek leftist" you believe me to be, judging from the comprehensive statistical sample of a single post) defend the icon of the Greek right, have you thought of that? I don't care what peeves you have, and you obviously have a lot, but leave them out of here. Period with that. Now, Karamanlis has a lot you can accuse him of, and not only on Cyprus and the Zurich agreements, but in this case you need a source far better than a blog that accuses him of treason for refusing to get involved in what was already a mess of epic proportions. Yes, Karamanlis could have sent troops to Cyprus, and did not do so. Why? Before crying "treason", perhaps one should examine whether the country was in a state to fight. The junta itself clearly did not believe so, and if you care to speak to anyone who was in the mobilization, you'll find out that it was a tragicomic farce. Anyone who says otherwise obviously wasn't there or engages in wishful thinking. This supposedly "fully militarized" Greece you write of was incapable of properly equipping the men it called up or even directing them to their units, let alone deciding whether and what forces to send to Cyprus, witness the events around the Lesbos LST, the Nike operation, and the subs that were recalled midway to the island. If the military leadership itself was incapable of deciding, how is Karamanlis the traitor? Going to war in the midst of a regime change, and with the military and government in chaos, might have led to even greater disasters. This is in essence Karamanlis' argument, and it is hard to dispute his assessment of the Greek military's readiness state. The navy and the air force were probably OK, and arguably better than their Turkish counterparts, but the brunt of the fighting would have been borne by the army, and that was in a mess. Karamanlis could have gambled, indeed, and didn't. With the benefit of 40 years' worth of hindsight you can choose to blame him for that, but if you were in his place, you might well have done the same. Constantine  ✍  20:11, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Let the dance begin.

 * Firstly, your answer wreaked of Greek pseudo marxism, just checked your profile page and there was the ..this user is a Marxist.. userbox right on queue. Hardly a wild guess, your style is textbook Greek pseudo marxist. So, I think we can put that one to bed. I am neither right or left, but I have met many with your template mentality and one or two others with the generic far right. Both easy to spot and predictable.

 * Secondly, when you use these ", it is for something someone actually said, not something you needed them to say to help your argument. So therefore, "archetypal Greek leftist" and "treason" should be attributed to me according to you, except I never said them did I? Learn how to use formal English grammar, if not speak in Greek please, without mistakes. There is enough misinformation to be cutting through in your posts without invention, thanks.

 * Thirdly Greek pseudo marxists usually change the subject in conversations as I am having to repeat to you. You first endeavored to talk about the Junta, safe ground for a Greek pseudo marxist university grad. Unfortunately no one was discussing the Junta, or its involvement. Now you mention "treason" or "crying treason" - even more desperate. Nope, no cigar. Like with the Junta and other side issues brought in whole sale to muddy the waters, it is not part of the debate. I repeat. Whether right or wrong morally, his decision was of vital historical importance to Cyprus. The other ridiculous attempt you made is to enter another stupid word - 'traitor.' Again, wikipedia is not about moralising for the third time, it is about actions and reactions. Not about idealistic moralising in a university paper. In my edit that was removed by yourself, I did not moralise on his actions. You however, used revisionism and removed the edit so no one can make up their own mind. Greece is not behind an iron curtain - not last time I checked, maybe let people make up their own minds?

 * Fourthly, whether the army was as disorganised and demoralised as Karamanlis later claimed after the cleansing of Northern Cyprus, it does not make a difference. The Cypriots were calling for a blockade undertaken by the Hellenic Navy, which was organised and even the main supplier of weaponry the the forces in Cyprus over the decades. There is no debate he could have easily given the green light for the navy to take up defensive positions as the biggest problem for the defense forces on the ground was being outnumbered by the masses of Turkish troops free to land on Cypriot territory after the first invasion. The same goes with the airforce. Turkey gained complete control of the skies and bombed the Greek and Greek Cypriot positions into submission and retreat.

 * Fifthly, clearly you bought the Karamanlis argument. As for him being right wing, inviting the KKE back to Greece will certainly further that mythology as well as inviting back civil war far left exiles. You should lower your politics. You should allow the reader to have the debate we are having, not disallow the reader the facts so he can't even freely debate the facts. You can claim he saved Greece, feel free to tell the word that. However, refrain from removing the reality text that his decision sealed the fate of Cyprus. Reaper7 (talk) 21:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

 * OK, a) if you cannot differentiate between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, I feel sorry for you (and it is "reeked" BTW, not "wreaked"), b) since you took the trouble to visit my userpage, you might also take an extra 5 secs to look at my contributions page, and then consider how many "stereotypical leftists" spend years writing on Byzantium or Greek military history, and how this fits in your stereotypes, and c) as long as you insist on tagging and addressing people by your preconceived notions of who and what they should be without actually knowing them or having at least interacted with them in any long-term basis, there really is no point trying to talk to you. You've made up your mind on what I am and what Karamanlis was (obviously a communist, that is why the Americans, the palace and the army backed him when he came to power in 1954), and nothing I say will make any difference. So, until you bring a reputable source to back up your claims, this discussion is over. Have a nice day. Constantine  ✍  06:30, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Naughty, stop lying, stop moralising, can your brain do that? Don't care about your politics, don't care about you making up I think karamanlis was a communist to help your ego. This all started with your stupid rudeness telling me to read a history book and you got it in your face, now you want a tissue? Your ego means nothing to me. I already mentioned Karamanlis was the one who forced Makarios clearly - to take the US option of signing the poisoned deal in the 1950s. You have bounced around like an ape in a Zoo trying to politicise according to your morality. First you tell me karamanlis is a traitor in my eyes or treasonous... - complete lies.. than you say he is not leftist... now he is owned by the Americans? I DON'T CARE - NEITHER DOES THE READER. I don't care about your political schizophrenia. You have blocked the Cyprus paragraph that simply said his role in the history of Cyprus was vital. Greeks are more stupid thanks to you, sleep well and pretend his role was not decisive. Ignorant Greeks need Greeks like you more than you will ever be able to comprehend. My claims are that he refused to send any military, that is known. What we discussed about the navy and airforce should be open to the public, however, let it be hidden. This article is your child. I will let you go back into the closet. Karamanlis' image is secure - your vital job of keeping Greeks ignorant has completed a new cycle. I tried my best. See you in the next life! Maybe you not a leftist, leftists usually like to have the last word. I will let you have that as you probably need it more than me after having a mirror shoved in your face by myself.Reaper7 (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Stasi smear campaign
The repeatedly published photograph of the former New Democracy leader Constantine Mitsotakis standing next to a uniformed Nazi officer is not a photomontage frabricated in Bulgaria, if it is the same picture i own. It is an original picture taken during the second world war in Crete. There is not one Nazi officer next to Mitsotakis, there are two Nazi officers, one to the left, one to the right of Mitsotakis. On the left side of Mitsotakis (from his point of view) my father is standing. He was a soldier of the so called Wehrmacht in second world war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterNeis (talk • contribs) 10:04, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

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The Referendum - 1974
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Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook 1981 (Events of 1980) records his second term as starting 15 May 1980 when he was sworn into office

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A Muslim family name (some converted to Christian Orthodoxy to maintain their real estate)

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Excarnation

In archaeology and anthropology, the term excarnation (also known as defleshing) refers to the practice of removing the flesh and organs of the dead before burial. Excarnation may be achieved through natural means, such as leaving a dead body exposed to the elements or for animals to scavenge; or by butchering the corpse by hand. Following excarnation, some societies retrieved the excarnated bones for burial. Excarnation has been practiced throughout the world for hundreds of thousands of years. The earliest archaeological evidence of excarnation is from the Awash River Valley in Ethiopia, 160,000 years ago. Examples of excarnation include "sky burials" in parts of Asia, the Zoroastrian "Tower of Silence", and Native American "tree burials". Excarnation is practiced for a variety of spiritual and practical reasons, including the Tibetian spiritual belief that excarnation is the most generous form of burial and the Comanche practical concern that in the winter the ground is too hard for an underground burial. Excarnation sites are identifiable in the archaeological record by a concentration of smaller bones (like fingers or toes), which would be the bones that would be the easiest to fall off the body, and that would not be noticed by practitioners of excarnation.

Identification of excarnation
From the pattern of marks on some human bones at prehistoric sites, researchers have inferred that members of the community removed the flesh from the bones as part of its burial practices.

Since metatarsals, finger bones and toe bones are very small, they would easily fall through gaps in a woven structure or roll off the side during this removal. Thus a site where only small bones are found is suggestive of ritual excarnation.

Distinguishing excarnation from cannibalism
Archaeologists seeking to study the practice of ritual excarnation in the archeological record must differentiate between the removal of flesh as a burial practice, and as a precursor to cannibalism. When human bones exhibiting signs of flesh removal are discovered in the fossil record, a variety of criteria can be used to distinguish between the two. One common approach is to compare the tool marks and other cuts on the bones with butchered animal bones from the same site, with the assumption that cannibalized humans would have been prepared like any other meat, whereas excarnated bodies would be prepared differently. Cannibalized bones, in contrast to excarnated bones, may also exhibit telltale signs such as human tooth marks, broken long bones (to facilitate marrow extraction), and signs of cooking, such as "pot polishing". Pot polishing refers to the smoothing and beveling that is observed in bones that have come into contact with the abrasive inner surface of a cooking vessel.

Ethiopia
160,000 years ago, Homo sapiens idaltu in the Awash River Valley (near present-day Herto village, Ethiopia) practiced excarnation.

India
The Parsis in Mumbai maintain a hilltop reserve, the Doongerwadi forest, in Malabar Hill with several Towers of Silence. Due to a decline in vultures in India (due to changes in animal husbandry practices) the traditional excarnation practice has faced pressure to evolve while still serving the same purpose, so the trustees of the reserve introduced solar concentrators at the towers. Other scavenger birds play a part but are not as efficient as vultures.

Tibet
Practices making use of natural processes for excarnation include Tibetan sky burials. Archaeologists believe that in this practice, people typically left the body exposed on a woven litter or altar. Following excarnation, the litter with its remains would be removed from the site.

Japan
In modern Japan, where cremation is predominant, it is common for close relatives of the deceased to transfer, using special chopsticks, the remaining bones from the ashes to a special jar in which they will be interred. However, in ancient Japanese society, prior to the introduction of Buddhism and the funerary practice of cremation, the corpse was exposed in a manner very similar to the Tibetan sky burial.

Pakistan
The Kalash people of Pakistan until recently (mid 1980s) practiced above ground burial in large wooden coffins called Bahg'a where the dead were laid with all their best belongings in cemeteries called Madokjal or place of many coffins. This tradition had been dying off with the last being the burial of a shaman in 1985, until the burial in 2016 of Batakeen of Anish village Bumburet.

Indonesia
The Bali Aga people of Trunyan village on Lake Batur in  Bali practice customs found no where else on the island. These are the mountain Balinese, and they practice Animistic traditions that predate the arrival of Hinduism in Bali. The burial custom here is for the bodies to be laid on the ground and left to decompose, with a cloth cover or a bamboo cage. Once the decomposition is complete, the bones are placed on a stair shaped altar 500 feet to the north. A large banyan tree known as taru menyan (literally translated as "nice smelling tree") is thought to take away bad smells.

Hawaii
Pre-contact Hawaiians ritually defleshed the bones of high-ranking nobles (ali'i) so that they could be interred in reliquaries for later veneration. The remains of Captain Cook, who the Hawaiians had believed to be the god Lono, were treated this way after his death.

New Zealand
The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands placed their dead in a sitting position in the sand dunes looking out to sea; others were strapped to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.

Great Plains
Air burials (also known as tree burials) are a form of secondary burial, where a body is placed above ground either in a tree or on scaffolding. After an extended period of time (months to years) the remains are excarnated and buried underground. Air burials were practiced throughout the Great Plains by many different societies, including the Comanche, the Blackfeet, the Sioux, the Dakota, the Cheyenne, the Mandans, and the Crow. Air burials were practiced for both spiritual and practical reasons. Some tribes, like the Sioux and the Lakota, believed that elevating remains would better facilitate a spirit's journey outside of their body. Additionally, elevating remains protected the bodies from being eaten by wolves and allowed a way to manage disease when burial was not possible, like in the winter when the ground was too hard. Lastly, some nomadic groups had specific burial grounds that they only visited once a year. These groups used air burial to care for the dead while waiting to return to their burial grounds.

Due to the temporary nature of air burials and because scaffoldings were made out of perishable materials, like wood, air burials leave behind little archaeological evidence. Thus much of the evidence of air burials come from ethnographic sources. However, some archaeological sites have been discovered where archaeologists believe excarnation occurred as remains were transfer from the primary air burial to their final resting place or to a secondary air burials site. These sites are identifiable by a concentration of smaller bones (like fingers or toes), which would be the bones that would be the easiest to fall off the body, and that would not be noticed by practitioners of excarnation.

After colonization, the U.S. government made air burial illegal, as it conflicted with the nation's Christian ideals. However, in recent years, air burial has been allowed on reservation, leading to a small number of people returning to the practice of air burial.

Pacific Northwest
Canoe burials were a primary form of burial among the Chinookan-speaking tribes of the Columbia River. Bodies would be wrapped in blankets and placed inside a canoe with personal items. Wealthier families would sometimes top the burial canoe with a second, larger canoe to keep out the rain. The canoe(s) would then be placed in a tree.

In 1830, Chinook chief Comcomly died and was buried via canoe burial at a family burial ground.

Britain and Ireland
There is evidence of excarnation in Britain and Ireland during the Neolithic, whereby bodies would be left to decompose in an open-air mortuary enclosure, on an excarnation platform, or in a sealed cave, before the bones were deposited elsewhere.

Italy
Neolithic farmers living in Tavoliere, Italy, over 7000 years ago, practiced ritual defleshing of the dead. Light cut marks suggest that the bones were defleshed up to a year after death. The bones were deposited in Scaloria Cave and, when excavated, were mixed with animal bones, broken pottery and stone tools.

Germany
A practice known as mos teutonicus, or active excarnation, was a German custom. The bodies were broken down differently than solely defleshing, they were cut up and boiled in either wine, water, or vinegar.

Other examples
In Europe during the Middle Ages and early modern period, defleshing was a mortuary procedure used mainly to prepare human remains for transport over long distances. The practice was used only for nobility. It involved removing skin, muscles, and organs from a body, leaving only the bones. In this procedure, the head, arms, and legs were detached from the body. The process left telltale cuts on the bones.

One notable example of a person who underwent excarnation following death was Christopher Columbus. The American Revolutionary War general, Anthony Wayne, also underwent a form of excarnation.

King Saint Louis IX of France is said to have been defleshed by boiling his corpse until the flesh separated from the bones. This was intended to preserve his bones, to avoid decaying of the remains during their return to France from the Eighth Crusade, and to provide relics.

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Michael Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook

Michael David Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook  (born 10 February 1942) is a British-Australian businessman and life peer who rose to prominence as owner of the airline BMI. He sold his stake in the airline to Lufthansa on 1 July 2009 and had an estimated personal fortune of £280 million. He was one of the UK's first openly gay senior executives.

Early life
Michael Bishop was born in Bowdon, Cheshire. The son of a factory boss, he was given a pleasure flight at the age of six. In 1949 his parents took him on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin in search of chocolate, a rarity during post-war rationing.

Educated at the independent Mill Hill School in north London, he enjoyed flying and as a result took a series of school holiday jobs with an aerial photographer.

British Midland
In 1963, Bishop joined the ground handling operation of Manchester-based Mercury Airlines, a schedule and charter airline, which was taken over by British Midland Airways (later re-branded as BMI) in October 1964. Bishop joined British Midland, and rose to become General Manager of the airline in 1969 and managing director in 1972.

In 1978, the London-based Minster Assets investment group, which owned British Midland, decided to sell its stake. With the help of an entrepreneurial Californian dentist, Bishop raised £2.5 million to lead a management buyout, and was subsequently appointed chairman. He later said: "I had to borrow the money from an American citizen. Most venture capitalists want a return of 40% to make up for all their other failures, and they want an exit strategy." From 1969 he was the key driving force behind the steady growth of the airline, which held 11% of the landing and take-off slots at London Heathrow Airport, second only to British Airways, and had a route network spanning Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

Bishop formerly held a controlling 50% + 1 share stake of BMI, with German airline Lufthansa holding 30% minus 1 share, and SAS Airlines a further 20%. In October 2008, under a deal agreed in 1999 as part of the package for BMI to join the Star Alliance, Bishop agreed to sell his 50% stake to Lufthansa for an undisclosed sum, though reports suggested it was about £318m. BDLH (Lufthansa's holding vehicle) acquired Bishop's share on 1 July 2009, assuming full control of the company.

Honours and appointments
Between 1991 and 1993, Bishop was deputy chairman of Channel 4 television, becoming chairman from 1993 to 1997. He was also a board member at Sir Nigel Rudd's Williams plc., and deputy chairman at Airtours.

In 1986, he was appointed CBE, and in 1991 he was knighted. The University of Leicester awarded him an honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D) degree on 12 July 2007.

In an annual survey by The Independent of the UK's most influential gay men and women, Bishop was ranked as number 5 in 2005 and number 6 in 2006.

In February 2011, Bishop was created a life peer as Baron Glendonbrook, of Bowdon in the County of Cheshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords the next month, where he sits as a Conservative.

Bishop was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to the not-for-profit sector through philanthropic support".

Personal life
Bishop is openly gay and, since 2008, has spoken out publicly about gay rights and success in the workplace. He is often referred to as "dapper" by the press, to note his keen sense of elegance.

He has been a member of the Conservative Party since the age of 17. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company due to his personal financial sponsorship.

Bishop lives in London and at Bruern Abbey, West Oxfordshire. Since purchasing the 18th-century country house on the Bruern site in 2013, he has completely refurbished it, installing a "large and impressive cantilever stone staircase and twenty-five kilometres of data cabling" and an underground car park.

Bishop is a member of the Lord Lyon Society.

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CaPiTaLs
'Green Belt', 'Greenbelt' 'Greenwedge' etc are all nouns so should be in caps? Sorry if not, but i think they are Bjrobinson 15:05, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Green Belt UK
I've renamed the old Green Belt to Green Belt (UK), inserted a link to the latter here and made Green Belt redirect here. Please see Talk:Green Belt (UK) for a fuller explanation. Best wishes, Cambyses 21:15, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Pioneered in the UK?
Interesting that this page says "pioneered in the UK", and that the greenbelt (UK) page gives 1944 as the starting date. Dunedin, New Zealand's green belt was set into local body legislation considerably before that (about 1910, I think!)

Global view
This article needs to have a global view. Right now, it seems to be about what green belts are in the United Kingdom. I can only speak of what they are in the United States, but of course the situation in other regions should be considered as well. In the U.S., in my experience and also according the quick searches that I have performed, the green belt is the land itself. It is not a land use designation, a policy or an agreement not to develop the land. A particular green area in the U.S. may have a land use designation (like "protected" or "undevelopable") or an agreement that protects it, but it is not necessary for it to have one to be called a greenbelt, greenway, green space or green strip. If no one else makes any changes, I'll try to do them myself eventually. However, I also have many other articles to work on. -- Kjkolb 14:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

-- well 'green belt' might not be a concept that's used in the United States, but is a well understood concept in countries like Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, etc. This encyclopedia is global in scope and isn't just America centric. -- I've removed your tag. -- Themepark

Do we really need a biblical statement on Greenbelts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phreed100 (talk • contribs) 16:28, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Desert barricade also green belt ?
Is'nt a green belt also used for describing land reforested to keep desert's expanding aswell ? In Morocco, Saoudi-Arabia, Bahrein, aswell as some other countries along the northern and southern border of the Sahara, I have heard the term pop up. Please look into it.

An example of the term being used by a respectable organisation (FAO) is found here: Fao report

KVDP 14:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Good call! I think this could warrant a section in the article or even its own article if you have enough material. Feel free to add it in!—Elipongo (Talk 15:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Maps
There's a nice map of UK greenbelts here: http://www.magic.gov.uk/staticmaps/maps/gn_belt_col.pdf  ...copyrighted though. It's probably impossible to find such map which is not copyrighted, since the UK government will have defined the green belt areas based upon an ordnance survey map (same old problem with UK geo-data) -- Harry Wood (talk) 10:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

criticism
I don't know anything about green belts, but just a thought on a related note to look into adding to the article here. About the idea of supposed "keeping the poor out" through supposed increased cost of living with greenbelts. Well all I see with the lack of greenbelts in the USA is massive sprawl characterized by huge housing lots. American families don't need such huge houses. Poor people can't afford them (this was done deliberately to keep the poor out!). I'm assuming that if greenbelts had been put in place, for instance in Chicagoland, then simply the area would be characterized by much smaller lots and higher population density - this could unintentionally make housing MORE affordable rather than less. (I'm sure if they could now, in the closer suburbs they'd just tear down all the houses and rebuild smaller ones in smaller lots - would be far more cost effective for the land - but that would obviously be crazy to destroy current property) Peoplesunionpro 19:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

--- Maybe you should read the article on Wikipedia about what greenbelts are all about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themepark (talk • contribs) 05:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

News article that might fit here
...or might lead to information on green belt-related programs/projects in Maryland, United States. Provided for consideration by regular editors of this article.

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Early Greenbelts
What were the greenbelts for in biblical times? I assume the purposes were rather different than modern ones. --OGoncho (talk) 07:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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Canada's oldest greenbelt
Not sure why a user keeps deleting referenced material on Ottawa's greenbelt. It is cited and the user offers no reason for deletion. I think the might be some sort of weird power trip. Anyway, I've readied the sourced info. 50.101.52.223 (talk) 01:09, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

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UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is the sixth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on July 18, 1989. The album is the final of Yankovic's to be produced by former McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorded between December 1988 and May 1989, the album served as the official soundtrack to the 1989 film of the same name, although the original score by John Du Prez is omitted. The album's lead single was the titular "UHF", although it was not a hit and did not chart.

The music on UHF is built around pastiches of rock, rap, and pop music of the late 1980s, featuring parodies of songs by Dire Straits, Tone Lōc, Fine Young Cannibals, and R.E.M. The album also features many "style parodies", or musical imitations of existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like Harry Chapin, as well as various musical genres like blues. The album also features many music cuts from the film as well as some of the commercials, like "Spatula City", and other parody bits, like "Gandhi II".

Peaking at No. 146 on the Billboard 200, the album was not a commercial success, and received lukewarm critical attention. The UHF soundtrack is one of Yankovic's few studio albums not certified either Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. It would also be Yankovic's last studio album to be released on vinyl record in the U.S. until 2011's Alpocalypse.

Background and recording
Following the success of Yankovic's 1988 album Even Worse, which featured the Michael Jackson spoof "Fat", Yankovic pitched a screenplay co-written by his manager Jay Levey called UHF (internationally known as The Vidiot from UHF) to Orion Pictures. A satire of the television and film industries, the film starred Yankovic as George Newman, a man who stumbles into managing a low-budget UHF television station and finds success with his eclectic programming choices. Also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, and Victoria Jackson, it brought the floundering studio Orion their highest test scores since the movie RoboCop. Although the movie made slightly over US$6 million domestically—out of a budget of $5 million—it was considered unsuccessful.

In December 1988, Yankovic returned to the studio to record the soundtrack to his feature film. Once again, former McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer was brought in to produce the album. This would be Derringer's last production credit for Yankovic. The producer and musician eventually parted ways because Derringer found that Yankovic would not listen to his input, and Yankovic came to realize that he could do most of the production work himself. Subsequent studio albums would be produced by Yankovic. Recording with Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar. The album was recorded in six different sessions at both Santa Monica Sound Records in Santa Monica, California and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles. During the first session, the song "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" was recorded. The second session yielded the titular "UHF" and "Let Me Be Your Hog". During the third session, Yankovic recorded "Stanley Spadowski's Theme"—which would later be renamed "Fun Zone"—as well as the skit "Gandhi II". Only one song was recorded during the fourth sessions, the skit "Spatula City". The fifth recording session resulted in five songs: "Spam", "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars", "Hot Rocks Polka", "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", and "Generic Blues". The sixth and final session produced the two parodies "Isle Thing" and "She Drives Like Crazy".

Originals
On February 24, 1989, Yankovic recorded the first original song for the album, "Let Me Be Your Hog". The song is a short rock snippet that is heard in the movie as Newman's uncle Harvey (Stanley Brock) lounges in his pool. Originally, Yankovic had wanted to use the 1974 single "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas for the scene, but he could not obtain the rights for the song, and thus "Let Me Be Your Hog" was recorded. Yankovic then recorded the theme from his movie, the titular "UHF", written in the style of a TV station's large promotional campaign. On February 25, Yankovic recorded the instrumental "Fun Zone", also known as "Stanley Spadowski's Theme". Originally written four years earlier for a failed Saturday Night Live replacement titled Welcome to the Fun Zone, this song is played at the beginning of every "Weird Al" concert.

Three months later, on May 24, 1989, Yankovic recorded three more originals. The first of these, "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars", is a rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing Earth. The second original song, "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", is a folk ballad about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota. Musically, the song was inspired both by the book Roadside America, which "featured all the campy places around the country that one could possibly visit", as well as the music of Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot, which Yankovic described as "storyteller songs, [with] sprawling narratives". The final original song recorded for the album was "Generic Blues", Yankovic's attempt to write "the ultimate blues song". After the release of the song, B.B. King listed it as one of his top ten favorite blues songs.

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is also notable in that it was Yankovic's first and only studio album to dabble in the art of skits. The first of these segments is called "Gandhi II", which re-imagines Mahatma Gandhi as the hero of a blaxploitation-style sequel to the film Gandhi, spoofing both the theme and promos for the film Shaft. The second skit is called "Spatula City" and is an advertisement for a spatula outlet store. These short segments were used in the film as commercials; other commercial segments, such as "Plots 'R Us" and "Conan the Librarian", were not used on the album.

Parodies and polka
On December 20, 1988, Yankovic recorded "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies". The song features the lyrics of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song altered slightly and set to the tune of "Money for Nothing". The song appears in its entirety within UHF as a computer-animated dream sequence, framed as if it were part of a music video. As part of his terms that allowed Yankovic to record this parody, Dire Straits lead singer and guitarist and "Money for Nothing" songwriter Mark Knopfler insisted that he be allowed to play the guitar featured in the parody. As a result, both he and Guy Fletcher—Dire Straits' keyboardist—recorded their parts on guitar and synthesizer respectively. According to Yankovic, his guitarist Jim West had practiced the song for weeks, and, as a result could recreate the original; Knopfler, on the other hand, had been playing the song for years and was much more relaxed with his playing. As a result, West's version sounded more like the original version, although Knopfler's track was the one used. Yankovic revealed in the DVD commentary for UHF that the concept "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" was originally a parody of Prince's 1984 hit "Let's Go Crazy". Prince, however, refused, and was unreceptive to any parody ideas Yankovic ever presented him with. The fractured titled "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" is a result of Dire Straits' lawyers insisting that "Money for Nothing" remain in the parody's title. Yankovic was unhappy with the title and stated that he would rather have had the title be either "Money for Nothing for the Beverly Hillbillies" or "Beverly Hillbillies for Nothing". The legal title for the song features an asterisk after the word "Hillbillies", although it is often printed without the marking.

On May 24, 1989, Yankovic started recording the second parody for the album, "Spam". The song, a play on R.E.M.'s hit "Stand", is an ode to the canned luncheon meat Spam. Yankovic noted that it was "fun to pick [apart the song] and figure out some of those almost subliminal parts—parts that would fade in and out, little bell sounds, things you don't really hear on first listening." On May 25, 1989, Yankovic recorded "Isle Thing", a parody of "Wild Thing" by Tone Lōc, about a woman who introduces the narrator to the television show Gilligan's Island. Notably, the song is Yankovic's first rap parody; an earlier rap, "Twister", is a Beastie Boys style spoof, but not a direct parody. Another Tone Lōc hit, "Funky Cold Medina", is referenced in the lyrics: "Ginger and Mary Ann coulda used some funky cold medina". The final parody, "She Drives Like Crazy"—recorded the same day as "Isle Thing"—is a spoof of Fine Young Cannibals' 1988 single "She Drives Me Crazy". Lyrically, the song is about a man who fears his girlfriend's crazy driving habits.

Like many of Yankovic's previous albums, UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff features a polka medley of hit songs. "The Hot Rocks Polka" contains songs written and made popular by the Rolling Stones.

Music videos
Both "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "UHF" received stand-alone music videos. The "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" video was reused for the movie, described above. The "UHF" video featured Yankovic and his band parodying other musicians and specific music videos, interspersed with clips from the movie. Artists and videos parodied included Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle", ZZ Top's "Legs", the Beatles' "Your Mother Should Know", George Michael's "Faith", Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love", Prince's "When Doves Cry" and "1999", Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" and "Girlfriend Is Better", Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer", Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and "Rebel Yell", INXS's "Mediate", and Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.".

Critical response
Due to the short stint of UHF in theaters, its soundtrack got "lost in the shuffle" and did not receive much of a critical response. However, from the few reviews it did receive, the album received a mixed response. Jacob Lunders of AllMusic awarded the album three stars out of five and called it a "guilty pleasure". Lunders noted that the album "endures artistically as a transitional album between his '80s heyday and the imminent artistic makeover revealed on 1992's Off the Deep End". He ultimately concluded that the album is something that only "moderate [to] genuine" fans may want, but that it is "nearly as accessible" as many of his compilation albums. The Rolling Stone Album Guide awarded the album three stars out of five, denoting a "good" album. A TV Guide critic, in a review of the movie, wrote that "the quality of [the movie's] parodies" are "inconsistent, with the movie and music takeoffs being obvious and out of date."

Commercial performance
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff was released July 18, 1989. After it was released, the album peaked at number 146 on the Billboard 200. Much like Polka Party! (1986), the album was considered a major commercial disappointment for the comedian; the album is his second-lowest charting album after Polka Party!. The UHF soundtrack is one of only a few of Yankovic's studio albums that is not certified either Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. The others include Polka Party! and Poodle Hat (2003). UHF would also be Yankovic's last studio album to be released in the US on vinyl record until 2011's Alpocalypse.

Personnel
Credits adapted from LP liner notes.

Band members
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – lead and background vocals, keyboards, accordion
 * Jim West – guitars, banjo, background vocals
 * Steve Jay – bass guitar, background vocals
 * Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Kim Bullard – synthesizers
 * Rick Derringer – guitar, background vocals
 * The Waters Sisters – background vocals
 * The Step Sisters – vocals (track 10)
 * Jimmy Z. – harmonica
 * Warren Luening – trumpet
 * Donny Sierer – saxophone
 * M.G. Kelly – "Spatula City" announcer
 * Jim Rose – "Gandhi II" announcer
 * Mark Knopfler – guitar (track 1)
 * Guy Fletcher – synthesizer (track 1)

Technical
 * Rick Derringer – producer
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – arranger
 * Tony Papa – engineer
 * Daryll Dobson – engineer
 * Jamey Dell – assistant engineer
 * Bill Malina – assistant engineer