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Six-party talks

The six-party talks aimed to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. There was a series of meetings with six participating states in Beijing:
 * China
 * 🇯🇵 Japan
 * 🇰🇵 North Korea
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea
 * 🇷🇺 Russia
 * 🇺🇸 United States

These talks were a result of North Korea withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003. Apparent gains following the fourth and fifth rounds were reversed by outside events. Five rounds of talks from 2003 to 2007 produced little net progress until the third phase of the fifth round of talks, when North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear facilities in exchange for fuel aid and steps towards the normalization of relations with the United States and Japan. Responding angrily to the United Nations Security Council's Presidential Statement issued on April 13, 2009 that condemned the North Korean failed satellite launch, the DPRK declared on April 14, 2009 that it would pull out of Six Party Talks and that it would resume its nuclear enrichment program in order to boost its nuclear deterrent. North Korea also expelled all nuclear inspectors from the country.

Content of the six-party talks

The main points of contention were:
 * Security guarantee – this issue has been raised by North Korea since the Bush administration (2001–2009) took office. North Korea labeled the Bush administration as hostile and accused it of planning to overthrow the North Korean government by force. This concern was elevated when President George W. Bush named North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union Address.
 * The construction of light water reactors – under the 1994 Agreed Framework two light-water reactors would be built in return for the closure of North Korea's graphite-moderated nuclear power plant program at Yongbyon. This agreement broke down after both sides defaulted, especially since 2002.
 * Peaceful use of nuclear energy – whilst the NPT allows states the right to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes, this was thought to have been used by North Korea as a cover for their nuclear weapons program.
 * Diplomatic relations – North Korea wanted normalization of diplomatic relations as part of the bargain for giving up its nuclear weapons program. The U.S. has at times disagreed and at times agreed to this condition, providing North Korea irreversibly and verifiably disarms its nuclear weapons program.
 * Financial restrictions / Trade normalization – The U.S. placed heavy financial sanctions on North Korea for what they see as an uncooperative attitude and unwillingness to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. In addition, other parties such as China took actions such as the freezing of North Korean assets in foreign bank accounts, such as the US$24 million in Macau's Banco Delta Asia. With the nuclear test on October 9, 2006, UNSCR 1718 was passed, which included a ban on all luxury goods to North Korea. These funds were unfrozen by the US on March 19, 2007 to reciprocate actions by their North Korean counterparts. The United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in October 2008.
 * Verifiable and Irreversible disarmament – Members of the six-party talks disagreed on this. Japan and the U.S. demanded that North Korea completely dismantle its nuclear program so that it may never be restarted, and that it can be verified by the six members of the talks before aid is given. South Korea, China and Russia agreed on a milder, step-by-step solution which involves the members of the six-party talks giving a certain reward (e.g. aid) in return for each step of nuclear disarmament. North Korea wanted the U.S. to concede some of the conditions first before it will take any action in disarming their weapons program, which they see as the only guarantee to prevent a U.S. attack on their soil.

1st round (27–29 August 2003)

 * Representatives:
 * 🇰🇷: Lee Soo-hyuck, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
 * 🇰🇵: Kim Yong-il, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * 🇺🇸: James Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
 * : Wang Yi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * 🇯🇵: Mitoji Yabunaka, Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau
 * 🇷🇺: Alexander Losyukov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes See "Why the 6-party talks will fail" (in Korean), the Dong-A Ilbo, 27 August 2003, by Pierre Chabal
 * A Chairman's Summary agreed upon for a further round of talks.
 * No agreement between parties made.

2nd round (25–28 February 2004)
Representatives:

🇰🇷: Lee Soo-hyuck, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: James Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wang Yi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Mitoji Yabunaka, Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Losyukov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes
 * A Chairman's Statement announced with seven articles, including:
 * Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
 * Peaceful Coexistence of Participating States, stressing the use of mutually coordinated measures to resolve crises.
 * Agreement to hold the third round of talks with full participation during the second quarter of 2004.

3rd round (23–26 June 2004)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Lee Soo-hyuck, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: James Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wang Yi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Mitoji Yabunaka, Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Alexeyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes
 * A Chairman's Statement announced with eight articles, including:
 * Reaffirming the commitment to denuclearising the Korean Peninsula, stressing specification of the scope and time, interval (between steps of) and method of verification
 * Agreement to hold fourth round of talks in Beijing before September 2005

1st phase (26 July – 7 August 2005)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Song Min-soon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Alexeyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes
 * U.S. and North Korea cannot agree on 'peaceful' use of nuclear energy
 * Three-week recess of talks due to ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting

2nd phase (13–19 September 2005)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Song Min-soon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Alexeyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes
 * Agreement on a Joint Statement of six articles, including:
 * Verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
 * Observe and realize the 1992 Korean Peninsula Denuclearization Declaration
 * North Korea to agree to abandon all nuclear weapons and nuclear programs and return to the NPT as soon as possible
 * However, the states still respect North Korea's stated right to peaceful use of nuclear energy.
 * The issue of the light water reactors will be discussed "at an appropriate time"
 * U.S. and the South Korea to formally declare that they have no nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula
 * U.S. affirmed it has no intention to attack or invade North Korea and will provide a security guarantee to this effect
 * U.S. and North Korea will work to normalize ties, respect each other's sovereignty, exist peacefully together.
 * Japan and North Korea will work to normalize relations, in accordance with the Pyongyang Statement by settling historical disputes.
 * The other five Parties undertook to promote economic cooperation through strengthening bilateral/multilateral economic cooperation in energy, trade and investment.
 * South Korea reaffirmed its proposal of 7/12/05 concerning the provision of 2 million kilowatts of electricity if the DPRK abandoned its nuclear arms program.
 * The Korean Peninsula peace treaty to be negotiated separately.
 * 'Words for words'; 'actions for actions' principle to be observed, stressing 'mutually coordinated measures'.
 * Agreement to hold fifth round of talks in early November, 2005.

1st phase (9–11 November 2005)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Song Min-soon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Alexeyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Outcomes
 * Joint Statement issued with six points. This is essentially the same as the previous round's statements, except for:
 * Modifying the 'words for words' and 'actions for actions' principle to 'commitment for commitment, action for action' principle.
 * No agreement on when the next talks will be held, though March 2006 looked likely at the time.

Events between phases 1 and 2

 * In April 2006, North Korea offered to resume talks if the U.S. releases recently frozen North Korean financial assets held in a bank in Macau.
 * The U.S. treats the nuclear and financial issues as separate; North Korea does not.
 * North Korea then announced on October 3, 2006, that it was going to test its first nuclear weapon regardless of the world situation, blaming 'hostile U.S. policy' as the reason for the need for such a deterrent. However, it pledged a no-first-strike policy and to nuclear disarmament only when there is worldwide elimination of such nuclear weapons
 * On October 9, 2006, North Korea announced a successful nuclear test, verified by the U.S. on October 11.
 * In response, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1718 unanimously condemning North Korea, as well as passing Chapter VII, Article 41. Sanctions ranged from the economic to the trade of military units, WMD-related parts and technology transfer, and a ban on certain luxury goods. Both the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation were quick to stress that these were not military-enforceable sanctions. The Resolution also gave the right to other nations to inspect any North Korean vessel's cargo, although the People's Republic of China has held reservations about this move, saying it wanted to avoid any military confrontation with North Korea's navy.
 * On 31 October 2006, the Chinese government announced that six-party talks would resume. U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill later stated that the resumption could happen in the next month and that North Korea had not set preconditions for the talks. The deadlock was broken by what BBC News called "frantic behind-the-scenes negotiations" by Beijing. However, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso stated that his country was not willing to return to the six-party talks until North Korea had renounced nuclear weapons.
 * On 5 December 2006, the Russian envoy and former chief Russian negotiator for the six-party talks Alexander Alexeyev said that the talks were unlikely to resume before 2007 owing to the slow progress towards the talks and the fact that Christmas was coming up soon.
 * On 10 December, it became apparent that talks would resume on 18 December 2006.

2nd phase (18–22 December 2006)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Chun Yung-woo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Sergey Razov, Russian Ambassador to China

Objectives achieved
 * Chairman's Statement issued
 * All six parties reaffirm their commitment to the Joint Statement made on 19 September 2005 in an 'action for action' manner.
 * All six parties reaffirmed their positions, some of whose positions have differed greatly since the last time the parties met.
 * Numerous bilateral talks were held, especially the Sunday before the talks (Dec 17, 2006) and on the third and fourth days of negotiations.
 * Separate bilateral talks were made concerning the freezing of overseas North Korean financial assets between the U.S. delegation led by the U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Daniel Glaser, and the North Korean delegation led by the President of the DPRK's Foreign Trade Bank, O Kwang Chol. These talks ended without consensus on a stance, but both delegations agreed to meet again in New York in January 2007.
 * The 5th round only went into "recess" on Dec 22, 2006, indicating that the round was not over yet. China's chief six-party talks negotiator Wu Dawei stated on January 8, 2007 that working talks concerning the financial sanctions were likely to resume on January 21–22, 2007 in New York, with the main six-party talks likely to resume soon after in Beijing.

Events between phases 2 and 3

 * Russia's ex-chief negotiator for the six-party talks Alexander Losyukov has taken over from Sergei Razov as the new chief negotiator. Losyukov was previously the Russian ambassador to Tokyo, appointed immediately after the second round of the six-party talks in March 2004.
 * On 26 January 2007, Russian chief negotiator Alexander Losyukov told reporters that the third phase was most likely to resume sometime in late January or early February 2007, most likely 5–8 February 2007. Apparently the North Korean delegation wants to resume these talks on 8 February 2007. The dates were chosen to take place before the Lunar New Year, which commences in mid-February in 2007. This has been supported by the PRC and ROK delegations.
 * Both Kim Kye-gwan for North Korea and Christopher Hill for the U.S. made positive remarks about the progress of in-between-rounds one-to-one talks held from Tuesday 16 January 2007 to Thursday 18 January 2007 in Berlin, Germany, pointing to "certain agreements" being reached. They met for six hours on Tuesday and one and a half hours on Wednesday. North Korea has viewed these talks as the "bilateral negotiations" it has wanted with the U.S. for a long time, whereas the U.S. refers to it as talks in "preparation for the six-party talks".
 * U.S. Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser is due to hold talks with his North Korean counterpart, O Kwang Chol, in Beijing, China, on Tuesday 30 January 2007 regarding partial lifting of financial sanctions, thought to be around US$13 million of the US$24 million frozen in Macau's Banco Delta Asia.
 * China has confirmed on Tuesday 30 January 2007 that the third phase of talks will commence on 8 February 2007.
 * North Korea was reported to agree to freeze their nuclear program in exchange for 500,000 tons of fuel oil a year, similar to the 1994 Agreed Framework just before the third phase of talks started after a pre-talk one-on-one meeting between Kim and Hill. There were rumors that a U.S.-North Korean memorandum of understanding had been signed before this phase, although this was denied by U.S. Chief Representative Christopher Hill.

3rd phase (8–13 February 2007)
 Representatives

🇰🇷: Chun Yung-woo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Losyukov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Objectives achieved Events during the 5th round, 3rd phase of talks
 * Joint Statement issued on Tuesday 13 February 2007, 3pm
 * North Korea will shut down and seal the Yongbyon nuclear facility, including the reprocessing facility and invite back IAEA personnel to conduct all necessary monitoring and verifications
 * In return, the other five parties in the six-party talks will provide emergency energy assistance to North Korea in the initial phase of 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, to commence within 60 days.
 * All six parties agree to take positive steps to increase mutual trust, and make joint efforts for lasting peace and stability in Northeast Asia. Directly related parties will negotiate a permanent peace regime on the Korean Peninsula at an appropriate separate forum.
 * All six parties agree on establishing five working groups – on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, normalization of North Korea-U.S. relations, normalization of North Korea-Japan relations, economy and energy cooperation, as well as a joint Northeast Asia peace and security mechanism.
 * The working groups will form specific plans for implementing the September 19 statement in their respective areas.
 * All parties agree that all working groups will meet within the next 30 days
 * Details of assistance will be determined through consultations and appropriate assessments in the working group on economic and energy cooperation.
 * Once the initial actions are implemented, the six parties will promptly hold a ministerial meeting to confirm implementation of the joint document and explore ways and means for promoting security cooperation in Northeast Asia.
 * The sixth round of six-party talks will take place on March 19, 2007. This will be to hear reports of the working groups and discuss actions for the next phase.
 * China drew up a plan that was presented on Friday, 9 February 2007, building on the September 2005 agreement. It proposes that the Yongbyon 5MW(e) nuclear reactor be "suspended, shut down and sealed" within two months in exchange for energy supplies and economic aid by the other five countries to North Korea. It also proposed to establish "four to six" working groups on each of the outstanding issues not agreed on. Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso was reported to applaud the draft, hailing it as a breakthrough. However, Japanese chief representative Sasae Kenichiro and U.S. chief representative Christopher Hill were much more cautious, saying it was just a first step in a long process, but at least there was agreement by all parties on the fundamental points. North Korean chief representative Kim Kye-gwan said North Korea was "prepared to discuss initial denuclearization steps" but was "neither optimistic nor pessimistic because there are still a lot of problems to be resolved"
 * China held one-on-one talks with each of the other five countries on Sunday 11 February 2007. The six countries' chief negotiators then had an hour-long meeting together in the afternoon. They did not announce any end date for this phase of talks after the meeting.
 * China's plan has run into some difficulties regarding the steps North Korea will take to denuclearize in exchange for aid. The Japanese chief representative claimed North Korea was demanding too much compensation in return for denuclearization. South Korea's chief representative Chun Yung-woo said it was "unreasonable" to expect a breakthrough on Sunday 11 February 2007. Russia's chief representative Losyukov said that the chances of reaching a two-page joint statement are slim, and if this does not work out, a Chairman's Statement will be issued.
 * On February 13, 2007, Christopher Hill announced that a tentative deal had been reached between the negotiators, and a "final text" was being circulated to the governments of the six parties for approval. Even before the deal had been approved, it was criticized by John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who said that it sent "exactly the wrong signal to would-be proliferators around the world".
 * The Chairman's Statement adopted on February 13, 2007 was the result of 16 hours of grueling negotiations, finalized only at 2 a.m. on February 13, 2007. This was circulated to all six parties, and agreed on at around 3 p.m. that same day.

1st phase (19–22 March 2007)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Chun Yung-woo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Director-General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Losyukov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Objectives achieved
 * On March 19, 2007, the US Chief Negotiator Christopher Hill announced that all of the $25 million in funds belonging to the North Koreans in Banco Delta Asia that were frozen before were being unfrozen to reciprocate the positive steps the North Koreans have taken towards freezing their Yongbyon nuclear reactor and readmitting IAEA inspectors, with a future goal towards total nuclear disarmament of the Korean peninsula. However, this issue was only put on the agenda on the morning of the talks instead of before hand, so the financial transaction ran into some problems in terms of time and being cleared (by the Bank of China) for the North Koreans. The North Koreans, led by Kim Kye-gwan, refused to negotiate further until they received their money. The Americans (Christopher Hill, not Daniel Glaser) denied responsibility for the delay, citing it as a "Chinese matter". The Chinese (Wu Dawei) in turn said "there wasn't enough time to accomplish the transaction". The Bank of China has been hesitant to accept the money as Banco Delta Asia has not been removed from the US' blacklist despite having the funds in question unfrozen. Nevertheless, none of the five other parties see this financial issue as posing any obstruction to the talks. "The resolution of the BDA issue is a question of time, not a question of political will,", Chun Yung-woo, the South Korean Chief Negotiator, said. The talks have been put on recess at the end of the fourth day of talks after progress was not possible after the second day.
 * The US has also admitted that this freezing of funds was a bargaining chip used to pressure North Korea to dismantle.
 * The talks were abandoned as North Korea refused to proceed without receiving the $25 million in their hands.
 * A South Korean newspaper reported that North Korea had taken steps to shut their Yongbyon 5MW(e) reactor though.

Events taking place between halt and resumption of 1st phase of the 6th round of talks
 * The 60-day deadline was obviously not met because of the above, though none of the six parties made much of a hassle about it. The US has urged North Korea to meet its commitments as soon as possible, citing this matter was no longer a US one. Russia, China and South Korea have urged patience. Japan is still pressing for the abduction issue to be resolved. It keeps conditioning its provision of economic incentives to North Korea on the full resolution of the abduction issue.
 * On June 11, 2007 Russia agreed to transfer the unfrozen North Korean funds from the Macao bank and transfer them to North Korea.
 * On July 14, 2007, after receiving fuel aid from South Korea, North Korea declares it has closed the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon and says it is willing to dismantle all of its nuclear program. On July 18, 2007 IAEA inspectors verify that North Korea has closed its facilities.

Resumption of 1st phase (18–20 July 2007)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Chun Yung-woo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Vladimir Rakhmanin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Objectives achieved
 * Joint Statement issued on Friday July 20, 2007
 * The six parties expressed satisfaction with the constructive efforts made by all parties to advance the Six-Party Talks process and welcomed that productive bilateral consultations and coordination were conducted to enhance their mutual trust and improved relations with each other.
 * The parties restated their commitment to the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005 and the agreement of 13 February 2007 and undertook to fulfill their respective obligations under those agreements in line with the principle of "action for action".
 * North Korea confirmed its agreement to disclose all nuclear programs and disable all facilities related to its nuclear programs.
 * Agreement for the five working groups to meet before August to discuss plans for the implementation of the general consensus.
 * Talks will resume in September to hear the report of the working groups and work out a roadmap for implementing the general consensus. After the end of the next phase of talks the six parties will hold a ministerial meeting in Beijing as soon as possible to confirm and promote the implementation of the September 19 Joint Statement, the February 13 agreement and the general consensus, and explore ways and means to enhance security cooperation in Northeast Asia.
 * A deadline was not decided on during the talks until the working groups have a chance to meet. This is likely because the deadlines set in talks earlier in the year were not met.
 * North Korea warned of a "crisis" over Japan's refusal to fund energy assistance. Japan says it will not share the costs of the assistance until North Korea resolves the abductee issue.

Events taking place between 1st and 2nd phase of the 6th round of talks
 * South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun proposed forming a Korean Economic Community to be discussed in new inter-Korean talks.
 * US President George Bush says he will work on a peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula when North Korea completely disarms.
 * Israel reveals an IAF strike in Syria on September 6 was targeting a Syrian nuclear facility built with assistance from North Korea.
 * Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is replaced with Yasuo Fukuda. Fukuda has pledge to lead improve ties with North Korea.

2nd phase (27–30 September 2007)
Representatives

🇰🇷: Chun Yung-woo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

🇰🇵: Kim Kye-gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸: Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

 * Wu Dawei, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

🇯🇵: Sasae Kenichiro, Deputy Director-General of Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau

🇷🇺: Alexander Losyukov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Objectives achieved
 * Reports from working groups heard and endorsed.
 * Implementation of initial actions of February 13, 2007 Agreement confirmed
 * List of Second Phase Actions for Implementation of Joint Statement issued 2 October 2007.
 * DPRK agreed to disable all nuclear facilities subject to September 2005 Joint Statement and February 13 Agreement, including the disablement of three facilities at Yongbyan by 31 December 2007: the 5 MW Experimental Reactor, the Reprocessing Plant, and the Nuclear Fuel Rod Fabrication Facility.
 * The DPRK agreed to provide a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear programs in accordance with the February 13 agreement by 31 December 2007.
 * The DPRK and the United States will increase bilateral exchanges and enhance mutual trust. The U.S. will fulfill its commitments to the DPRK (regarding the processes of removing the designation of the DPRK as a state sponsor of terrorism, and that of terminating the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act to the DPRK) in parallel with the DPRK's actions, as based on consensus reached at the meetings of the Working Group on Normalization of DPRK-U.S. Relations.
 * The DPRK and Japan will hold intensive consultations to make sincere efforts to normalize their relations expeditiously in accordance with the Pyongyang Declaration.
 * In accordance with the February 13 agreement, economic, energy and humanitarian assistance up to the equivalent of one million tons of HFO (inclusive of the 100,000 tons of HFO already delivered) will be provided to the DPRK. Specific modalities will be finalized through discussion by the Working Group on Economy and Energy Cooperation.
 * The Parties reiterated that the Six-Party Ministerial Meeting will be held in Beijing at an appropriate time.
 * A final meeting was decided on before the end of 2007. However, this was never realized because despite the DPRK issuing a report of its inventory in November 2007 and thus claiming that since it fulfilled its side of the bargain, it was waiting for its promised shipment of aid, the US claimed the inventory list was definitely incomplete and until the complete list was given by the DPRK, aid would be suspended. There have been numerous US-DPRK bilateral meetings held in Beijing and Geneva since the end of this phase of this round of talks.

Discontinuation of talks in 2009
On April 5, 2009, North Korea proceeded with its announced satellite launch, despite international pressure not to do so. The pressure was due to international belief that the satellite launch was in fact a test of ICBM technology. The launch was a failure, and it landed in the Pacific Ocean. Despite the failure, U.S. President Barack Obama responded that "violations must be punished." South Korea urged heavier sanctions against North Korea. On April 13, the United Nations Security Council agreed unanimously to a Presidential Statement that condemned North Korea for the launch and stated the Council's intention to expand sanctions on North Korea. The following day, North Korea, responding angrily to the UN Security Council's resolution, said that it "will never again take part in such [six party] talks and will not be bound by any agreement reached at the talks." North Korea expelled nuclear inspectors from the country and also informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that they would resume their nuclear weapons program.

On May 25, 2009, North Korea detonated a nuclear device underground. The test was condemned by the United Nations, NATO, the other five members of the Six-party talks, and many other countries worldwide. On October 11, 2011, South Korea appointed a new envoy to the Six-party talks; Lim Sung-Nam, who worked for the Ministry of Tourism and Sport beforehand.

On November 10, 2009, the Daecheong incident took place. On this date North and South Korean ships exchanged fire. The Southern vessel was almost unharmed while the North reportedly sustained heavy casualties.

North Korean attacks in 2010
Cheonan, a South Korean patrol vessel with 104 people aboard, sank after an unexplained explosion tore through its hull while conducting a normal mission in the vicinity of Baengnyeong Island at 9:22 p.m. on March 26, 2010. An investigation conducted by an international team of experts from South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Sweden concluded that Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo launched by a North Korean Yeono class miniature submarine. This incident caused rising tension and antagonism between North and South Korea.

On October 26, 2010, Red Cross officials of North Korea and South Korea held meetings to discuss ways of further family reunions, but failed to reach agreement. So did UNC and North Korea, failing to arrange higher-level meeting.

On November 23, 2010, North Korea shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island. Two South Korean soldiers were killed and a dozen injured after North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island setting more than 60 houses ablaze and sending civilians fleeing. These two incidents stood in the way of holding six-party talks during this period.

Proposed resumptions
On 29 February 2012, the United States and North Korea announced a "leap day" agreement that the U.S. would provide substantial food aid in return for the North agreeing to a moratorium on uranium enrichment and missile testing and a return of IAEA inspectors to Yongbyon, leading to a resumption of the six-party talks. On 16 March 2012, North Korea announced it was planning to launch a satellite to commemorate the late founder Kim il-Sung's 100th birthday, drawing condemnation by the other five participants in the Six-Party Talks, casting doubt on the "leap day" agreement. On 6 April 2012, North Korea's satellite failed to enter into orbit, and was declared a failure by the United States and South Korea. In addition, the launch was described as a provocative test of missile technology, and the United States subsequently announced the suspension of food aid to North Korea.

On 29January 2014, the official Chinese Xinhua News Agency announced on Twitter that the DPRK ambassador to China had received DPRK agreement on resumption of the six-party talks and called on the United States to fulfill its related obligations.

On April 5, 2018, China's paramount leader Xi Jinping announced that after a meeting with North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un that Kim is willing to resume talks. Further updates are pending.

On April 25, 2019 after his first meeting with Kim Jong-un, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he believed any U.S. guarantees might need to be supported by the other nations involved in previous six-way talks on the nuclear issue. Putin promised to brief the Chinese and U.S. leadership about his talks.

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Trønder-Avisa

Trønder-Avisa is a regional newspaper in Norway. It is printed in the town of Steinkjer in Nord-Trøndelag. The newspaper was founded as a union of Nord-Trøndelag (founded 1919) and Inntrøndelagen (founded 1897) after both newspapers' headquarters were bombed during the Second World War. These two papers were originally connected to the Norwegian Centre Party and the Liberal Party (Inntrøndelagen). This connection still exists to some extent by ownership. The newspaper is published by a company with the same name, Trønder-Avisa Group. The company also owns the local papers Inderøyningen, Steinkjer-Avisa, Lokalavisa Verran-Namdalseid, Ytringen and Snåsningen.

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Talk:List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States

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Since I just removed Jimi Hendrix form this list again, I think I will explain my reasoning.

My definition of a "one hit wonder" is something like this:

 * A "one hit wonder" is an artist who had only one notable song, and was then forgotten, and who is only remembered for that one hit, and only remembered by people familiar with music from the one-hit-wonder's era. A one hit wonder is inevitably assosciated with their hit.

This is a somewhat fuzzy meaning, and a stricter meaning is needed to minimize edit wars. However, this proposed meaning does not convey the essence of the above meaing:

 * A "one hit wonder" is someone who only had one top 40 Billboard hit

This is not a reasonable translation of the above definition of "one hit wonder". For example, what comes to mind when you think of "Jimi Hendrix"? You proably start thinking about his masterful guitar playing, his contributions to rock and roll, his untimely death...you're probably not thinking about his one song that happened to become a Billboard hit, "All along the Watchtower". What comes to mind when you hear "That singer Tiffany" or "That band Men Without Hats"; in both cases, the one hit those two bands had ("I Think We're Alone Now" and "Safety Dance") comes to mind. It's a somewhat insulting term; it implies that the artist in question has made no contributions to music beyond their one hit. This is why I have remapped the term to something which more reflect's an average person's internal definition of "one hit wonder":

A "one hit wonder" is someone who only had one top 40 Billboard hit, and who has had less than three top 40 albums in their musical career.

This is a better heuristic (Plain English: "This works a lot better") for determining what is and is not a "one hit wonder", since it better reflects the reality that a lot of very notable artists, who are more album-oriented than single oriented, and hence have few (sometimes only one) hit singles, are not one hit wonders.

To support my argument, from the article One-hit wonder:

 * The term one-hit wonder does not, however, usually refer to performers who have had only limited chart success but whose importance spans beyond sales charts. Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, The Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop and Radiohead have each had only one song in the top 40 positions of Billboard Magazine’s list of most-played pop songs, yet none is considered a one-hit wonder because each has created other work that, while not as initially commercially successful, has had significance to popular music.

Samboy 06:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Based on that criteria, do Buck Owens, Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald really belong on this list?

 * I would say that this list has rather broad criteria for being a one-hit wonder. Or, perhaps more accurately, its definition for not being a one-hit wonder is very narrow. I'm leaving David Houston on the list because he technically meets the definition. It is true that he only cracked the Top 40 of the Pop chart once. He actually charted on the Pop chart three times, but only once broke the Top 40. He also had several #1 hits on the Country chart, but that doesn't meet the conditions of this list. So, technically, that makes him a one-hit wonder. However, I see a world of difference between David Houston and, say, Rod Lauren. --GentlemanGhost 15:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

One Hit Wonders should only have one hit.
While it's fun to make lists of one-hit wonders, many people do not have the musical depth to accurately list them. For instance, on this list of the 60's, Love is listed with "One and One Is", completely forgetting "My Little Red Book," their biggest hit, which would also disqualify them as a "one hit wonder." Likewise, Spirit also had the hit "Nature's Way." Big Brother had "Down on Me", and the Sufaris had "Surfer Joe."

Also, the Pixies Three were not one hit wonders, besides the listed "Birthday Party", they had an even larger hit with "442 Glenwood Avenue." Also, the Seeds struck again with "Can't Get Enough of You Baby."

Decided to go to Amazon and factcheck on these assertions using Joel Whitburn's book. If you [ http://www.amazon.com/Billboard-Book-Top-Hits-Forty/dp/0823074994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244135133&sr=1-1#reader click this link] and then do searches for "love arthur lee", "spirit i got a line on you","surfaris wipeout","big brother piece of my heart","pixies three birthday party","seeds pushin' too hard" it should take you the entries for MOST of the artists. (Not all the pages of the text are searchable..)

Surfaris appear to have had a charter with "Never Gonna Let you Down" which reached #28 airplay, #47 sales...not sure which one is the "definitive" number. (If you do search for "surfaris" and hover on the link, it expands enough to give me a little info on the song but not the full SURFARIS entry.) Couldn't find "Surfer Joe" listed in the song index, though, which would indicate it's not a hit for them.

Spirit: Only 1 hit on the top 40. This list doesn't count anything #41-100.

Big Brother: Only 1 hit. "Down on Me" didn't chart top 40.

Pixies Three: Only 1 hit. Others didn't chart top 40.

Seeds: Can't see full entry..but it doesn't look they charted twice either. GBrady (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Another Error
The Electric Prunes don't belong on this list, either. They had a second hit: "Get Me to the World On Time," which went to #27 on the Billboard charts in May of 1967.

I agree with the previous comments that a true "one-hit wonder" is an artist or group that only had one Top 40 hit on the Billboard charts. At least, this would be the definition for America. For Europe and other parts of the world, they'd have to define it according to local conventions.

BTW, to the above commentator, who insisted that The Seeds were not a one-hit wonder because of "Can't Get Enough of You Baby": they may have performed the latter song, but the only group to have a hit with it in America was ? & The Mysterians (aka "Question Mark & The Mysterians"), whose Cameo single went to #56 on the charts. The Seeds almost had a second Top 40 hit: "Can’t Seem to Make You Mine," which went to #41 in 1967. Close, but no cigar.

You forgot to put "96 Tears" by "? and the Mysterians" on your 1966 list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.137.205 (talk) 05:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The Electric Prunes commentor is correct. Verified in Whitburn. At any rate, I couldn't find it in the 1967 list so it appears someone's already taken care of that. GBrady (talk) 17:28, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

On 12/10/66 ? and the Mysterians peaked at #22 with "I Need Somebody" (Cameo 441) so they aren't a one-hit wonder. GBrady (talk) 17:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Changes I made and a question
I tried to source some of the red-links. Yeah I was lazy and used All-Music, but I think for saying what charted it should be okay. The other thing is that calling Roy Clark, The Statler Brothers, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, and Jimmy Smith "one-hit wonders" seems a bit misleading to me. It's technically correct, using Billboard, but these musicians are in some cases major stars in their genre. In addition to that some are more known for songs that aren't "the hit" listed. A different example on that is Vince Guaraldi who is mostly known today for Linus and Lucy.--T. Anthony 04:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I would say in Guaraldi's case it's a generational thing. "Music of your Life" stations still play "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" so if you're of a certain age, that would be the tune you think of first. I think the method used in the list of italicizing artists that aren't "technically" one-hit wonders and using a citation reference at the bottom, i.e. Roy Clark was well-known country musician and star of "Hee Haw", is a good way to address these concerns you mention. GBrady (talk) 17:32, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguations
It appears that there may be need of some disambiguation. The link for The Ramrods points to the 1970's punk group. Dan ad nauseam (talk) 04:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Similarly, the link for Johnny Thunder points to the comic book character, with a disambiguation notice to Johnny Thunders, the New York Dolls guitarist. Dan ad nauseam (talk) 04:33, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Another disambiguation: The link for Jimmy Hughes points to an English soccer player. Dan ad nauseam (talk) 06:30, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Band member search
Looking for the Band that had a member by the name of Tom or Thomas Pena. They had (a one hit wonder ) can you help he is about 63 years old at this time. thanks. papasmurfthe1@sbcglobal.net

What about Witchi Tai To?
At least in Portland, Oregon, Witchi Tai To (written by Jim Pepper and performed by Everything is Everything, probably recorded in Apostolic Studios in 1969) got tons of airplay. What counts as a one-hit wonder, anyway? Is there an objective index anywhere? Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 22:40, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

 * No. Everything Is Everything is not an one-hit wonder. Their single "Witchi Tai To" peaked at #69 in 1969. TheSkinsAdded (talk) 05:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Small Faces
I've noticed that the Small Faces are not included here despite the fact that "Itchycoo Park" is there only Top 40 hit on the charts. Bob3458 (talk) 17:36, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

One-hit wonder inclusion criteria
If you're interested in the topic, your comments would be appreciated at Talk:List of 2010s one-hit wonders in the United States where there is a discussion with sweeping ramifications about whether the "one-hit wonder" articles will be based on charting songs or on artists described in sources. Binksternet (talk) 15:26, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Robin Ward
On the Hot 100, "Wonderful Summer" peaked at #14 on 14-21 December 1963, not 16 November 1963.107.185.97.165 (talk) 15:47, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


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Will.i.am

William James Adams Jr.  (born March 15, 1975), known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "will I am"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. He is the frontman of the musical group Black Eyed Peas, which he formed with fellow musicians apl.de.ap and Taboo in 1995. The group, having released nine total studio albums, saw their furthest mainstream success during their 2000s pop rap era with Elephunk (2003), Monkey Business (2005), The E.N.D. (2009), and The Beginning (2010). Adams served as lead vocalist since its formation, although for the albums, he did so alongside singer Fergie—who joined the group in 2002 and departed after the latter album.

As a solo artist, Adams released his first two albums, Lost Change (2001) and Must B 21 (2003) to lukewarm commercial response. The former was released by Atlantic Records, while the latter contained the song "Go!", which served as theme music for the NBA Live 2005 and Madden NFL 2005 seasons. His third album, Songs About Girls (2007) marked his first entry on the Billboard 200 as a solo act and spawned the moderate hit single "I Got It From My Mama." His fourth album, #willpower (2013) peaked at number nine on the chart and saw further success with its singles "Scream & Shout" (with Britney Spears) and "#thatPOWER" (featuring Justin Bieber). The former song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, his guest appearances on Fergie's 2006 single "Fergalicious" and Usher's 2010 single "OMG" peaked at numbers two and one on the chart, respectively.

A prolific record producer and songwriter, Adams has amassed credits on singles and albums for other artists including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, U2, Kesha, Lady Gaga, Psy, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj, Estelle, Nas, John Legend, Cheryl, and 2NE1, among others. Through his solo career and collaborative work with the Black Eyed Peas, he has a total of 41 top-40 entries on the UK Singles Chart since 1998, and has sold 9.4 million singles in the country. He founded his namesake record label in 1998, which has signed artists including LMFAO, Kelis, and Macy Gray.

Outside of his music, Adams has served as a panelist and mentor on the reality competition series The Voice UK (2012–present), The Voice Australia (2014), and The Voice Kids (2017–2023). He is the recipient of seven Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Early life
William James Adams Jr. was born in Los Angeles on March 15, 1975, the son of an African-American mother Debra (née Cain) and Jamaican father William James Adams Sr. He has never met his father, and was raised by his mother in the Estrada Courts housing projects in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they were among the few African-Americans living in a predominantly Hispanic community. He did not discover his full birth name until he was 25. His mother encouraged him to be unique and to avoid conforming to the tendencies of the other youths in the neighborhood. To guide his musical career, she sent him to public schools in the more affluent West Los Angeles area such as Paul Revere Charter Middle School, which was one hour-long bus journey away. During the regular school year, he attended Palisades Charter High School. During that time, he started going to raves with classmate Pasquale Rotella.

Adams' maternal uncle is former National Football League (NFL) player Lynn Cain, who inspired him during his early years. While studying at summer school at John Marshall High School, Adams became best friends with Allan Pineda (better known as apl.de.ap), who would later become a member of the Black Eyed Peas. While still in high school, Adams and Pineda performed in East Los Angeles clubs and were soon joined by three others to form the socially conscious Atban Klann rap group. Atban Klann caught the attention of rapper Eazy-E and Mason Miller, signing to his record label Ruthless Records in 1992. Adams later said his history with rave culture is why he chose a more electro sound for the Black Eyed Peas' albums The E.N.D. and The Beginning. Despite the use of electro and house music elements, will.i.am prefers to separate the underground from pop. In an article with Los Angeles Times, he mentioned that the secrecy surrounding the whereabouts of raves is what made raving special and different from the mainstream.

1988–2000: Formations and the Black Eyed Peas
In the summer of 1988, will.i.am began his music career as an eighth-grader when he met up with rapper Allan Pineda (better known as apl.de.ap) and fellow student Dante Santiago. They began performing together around Los Angeles and were soon discovered by rapper/entrepreneur Eazy-E, who signed them to his label Ruthless Records in 1992. At the time, Will was known as "Will 1X". Atban Klann's first song, "Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas", was included on Eazy-E's extended plah 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992). Afterward, the trio began recording an album, Grass Roots with the help of producers Mookie Mook and DJ Motiv8, but the album was never released due to Eazy-E's death in 1995. Subsequently, they changed their name to Black Eyed Pods, and Will replaced Dante with Jaime Gomez, better known under his stage name of Taboo. In 1997, they once again changed their name, this time to the Black Eyed Peas, and began recording their first album, Behind the Front, with the help of soul singer Kim Hill. They were soon signed to Interscope Records, and released their debut single, "Joints & Jam", in early 1998. The album was successful enough for the group's contract to be renewed, and in 2000, a second album, Bridging the Gap, was released.

2000–2003: Lost Change, Elephunk and Must B 21
Following the release of Bridging the Gap, Will began recording his first solo release, Lost Change, which was the official soundtrack to the film of the same name. Featuring collaborations with Medusa, Planet Asia and Terry Dexter, the album was a critical success.

In November 2001, work began on a third Black Eyed Peas album, Elephunk. Development of the album began on November 2, 2001, and was released just under two years later in 2003. At the time of development, only will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo were to feature on the album. During the production of "Shut Up" (the second single released from the album), they realized that a female vocal would work well with the song. Originally, Nicole Scherzinger (lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls) was approached to make a guest appearance on the record. She was forced to decline because she already was signed to a contract with Eden's Crush. Danté Santiago then introduced Fergie to will.i.am, whom she impressed with her vocal talents. She immediately bonded with the band and became a permanent member of the Peas, and her photo was printed onto the album cover. Lyricist Robbie Fisher, who has been working closely with the band since the beginning stages of the album, composed nine out of the fourteen tracks. In the United States, Elephunk reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 and became their first album to chart in the top 15. It gained even more commercial success internationally, particularly in the UK Album Charts where it reached number 3. It has sold over 1.6 million copies in the UK and 8.5 million copies worldwide. After the success of Elephunk, the group was approached by Electronic Arts to feature some of their music on the 2004 game The Urbz. They remixed some of the tracks on Elephunk and translated it into Simlish and created new tracks for the game. They also feature in the game as playable characters.

Elephunk contained their breakthrough commercial single, "Where Is the Love?", in November 2002 (featuring Justin Timberlake, although he did not appear in the video). On the strength of that single and follow-up singles like "Shut Up", Elephunk went on to sell 8.5 million copies worldwide. During this time, Will recorded a second solo album, Must B 21 to similar reception as its predecessor. "Where Is the Love?" and "Shut Up" reached number 1 on the UK Singles chart. "Hey Mama" was used for several advertisements including for Apple and iTunes. "Let's Get It Started" also received universal acclaim in the media section where a cover version of the song appears in the film Hot Tub Time Machine. In 2002, Will recorded the song "Secrets" for the soundtrack to Dexter's Laboratory: The Hip-Hop Experiment, a musical accompaniment to the Cartoon Network original series. Prior to this, he had also composed the theme music for another Genndy Tartakovsky series, Samurai Jack.

2003–2006: Monkey Business
In November 2003, work began on a fourth Black Eyed Peas album, entitled Monkey Business, the second album with new band member Fergie. Upon the success of Monkey Business, which was released in 2005, the album was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (or CRIA) has certified Monkey Business 6× Platinum, with sales of over 600,000 copies. The Australian Recording Industry Association (or ARIA) has also certified Monkey Business 6× Platinum, denoting sales of over 420,000 copies. The album's tracks earned the group four 2006 Grammy Award nominations and they also won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Don't Phunk with My Heart". According to IFPI, over 2 million copies have been sold in Europe. In the UK alone, it has sold over 1 million copies, although this is significantly lower than their sales of Elephunk, which stand at over 1.6 million copies and 10 million worldwide. The band announced they were going to take a break to focus on their own personal projects. Will went on to produce Fergie's first solo album, The Dutchess, which was released in 2006, before beginning work with Michael Jackson, who had requested Will's expertise for the recording and production of his new album. Work began on the Jackson album in 2006, and continued until the singer's death in 2009, at which point will.i.am revealed that none of the material recorded during the period would be released. However, remixes recorded for Jackson's Thriller 25 anniversary album were released in 2008.

2007–2009: Songs About Girls and Change Is Now
In 2007, will.i.am announced that he had co-created an all-female soul band entitled the Paradiso Girls, who he intended to work with on an upcoming solo project. The album, Songs About Girls, was released in 2007. The album spawned three singles, "I Got It From My Mama", "One More Chance" and "Heartbreaker", and fared slightly better than his previous solo efforts, however, failed to shift more than 75,000 copies. Will also did a remix to the song "With Love" by actress and singer Hilary Duff.

In 2008, will.i.am contributed the song "One Tribe" to the Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival. Also in 2008, he was featured on rapper Flo Rida's debut album, Mail on Sunday, where he produced and featured on the song "In the Ayer", and featured on Usher's fifth album, Here I Stand. In January 2008, will.i.am announced plans that he was masterminding a political album, Change is Now: Renewing America's Promise, in support of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The first single, "Yes We Can", featured a music video directed by Jesse Dylan. The lyrics of the song are composed almost entirely of excerpts from Obama's speech on January 8, 2008, following the New Hampshire presidential primary election. The video features appearances from numerous celebrities and first appeared on the website for Dipdive. The video racked up three million views within a week and over four million subsequently on YouTube. On June 13, 2008, "Yes We Can" won an award at the 35th Annual Creative Arts and Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards for "New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment". On February 29, 2008, the album's second single, "We Are the Ones", was released on Dipdive and YouTube. The video features several celebrities chanting "O-BA-MA" as a portrayal as their hopes and wishes for Obama and his presidential campaign. On November 4, 2008, will.i.am spoke to CNN's "Anderson Cooper" about his support for then-Senator Obama using CNN's 'hologram' technology (actually tomography). Following the 2008 election, and Obama's victory, Will released the album's third single, "It's a New Day". The video reflects on the historical events that led to the election of the first African-American president and the public's reaction to his election. The video debuted on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, will.i.am collaborated with producer David Foster on the album's fourth single, "America's Song", with contributing vocals from Seal, Bono, Mary J. Blige, and Faith Hill. In response to Obama's reaction following Kanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, will.i.am penned the album's fifth and final single, "The Jackass Song". It featured a sample of Kanye West's "Heartless". Will wrote a blog post, which featured the song on Dipdive, and released in February 2009. Will.i.am attended and spoke at the FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff on January 8, 2011, declaring, "I am a FIRST fan." He has also named FIRST Founder Dean Kamen "one of [his] heroes" on his verified Twitter account.

2009–2016: Black Eyed Peas reformation, The E.N.D, The Beginning, and #willpower

In March 2009, will.i.am announced plans for the Black Eyed Peas to return, and within months their comeback single, "Boom Boom Pow", had reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100. They went on to have three number 1 singles before releasing their comeback album, The E.N.D. The album's success warranted a second comeback album, The Beginning, released in November 2010. The album spawned another three hit singles, but the band soon announced plans they were to break again, following the conclusion of their world tour. In 2009, will.i.am worked with rappers Flo Rida and Akon for Flo's second studio album, R.O.O.T.S., and recorded four tracks with Girls Aloud member Cheryl for her debut solo album 3 Words. He also worked with Rihanna on her fourth studio album, Rated R, for a track called "Photographs". In February 2010, he wrote and produced the single "OMG" by Usher, which appeared on Usher's seventh studio album, Raymond vs. Raymond. In a YouTube video posted by YGLifeOfficial on March 15, 2010, will.i.am expressed his desire to work with Korean K-pop girl group 2NE1, and help them achieve international success. Will has recorded a collaboration with Britney Spears, "Big Fat Bass", which features on her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale.

During the recording of the Black Eyed Peas' sixth studio album, The Beginning, band colleague Fergie announced in an interview that will.i.am was in the process of recording a new solo album, tentatively entitled Black Einstein. Will.i.am formally announced that he was in the process of recording a fourth solo album, with some material being recorded under the pseudonym Zuper Blahq. In January 2010, a cut from the album, "I'm In the House", a collaboration with Steve Aoki, was released as a single, charting at #29 on the UK Singles Chart due to strong downloads. In October 2010, a second cut from the album, "Check It Out", a collaboration with rapper Nicki Minaj, peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. In February 2011, a third cut from the album, "Dance", a collaboration with Natalia Kills, peaked at #62 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by James Sutton, and features a cameo by Natalia. In April 2011, will.i.am recorded four songs for the soundtrack of the animated film Rio, in which he voiced the character, Pedro the red-crested cardinal. "Hot Wings (I Wanna Party)", "Drop It Low", "Real In Rio" and "Advice For The Young At Heart", featuring an array of artists including Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway and Tears for Fears. None of the songs managed to chart, however, Will announced that he was going to remix the tracks for inclusion on Black Einstein. In September 2011, a fourth cut from the album, "Forever", a collaboration with Wolfgang Gartner, was released as a single. It was around this time that will.i.am announced that he changed the title of the album from Black Einstein to #willpower. The video premiered on August 26, 2011. In November 2011, Will premiered what is intended to be the album's official lead single, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)", a collaboration with Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger. Will announced via his Twitter that the video for "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" was filmed in LA, and that before he returned home, he stopped off in Brazil to film the video for the album's second official single, "Great Times". In December 2011, a fifth cut from the album, "Party Like An Animal", a collaboration with Dutch singer Eva Simons and LMFAO, premiered at the HTC Beats Launch party. Will.i.am also announced he has collaborations with Britney Spears, Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz and a couple others on the album. He also stated there is a possibility Shakira could feature on the album. #willpower is due for release in 2013, and will.i.am later confirmed that Cheryl and Justin Bieber would also appear on #willpower. In mid-October, Britney Spears confirmed on her Twitter account that she had filmed the music video for the single she was featuring in called "Scream & Shout".

He was among the performers at the Diamond Jubilee Concert held outside Buckingham Palace on June 4, 2012.

The first song broadcast from Mars was his new single, "Reach for the Stars". He discussed and listened to it with a live audience at NASA in Pasadena, California after it was returned from the Curiosity rover.

The song "Hall of Fame" by the Script also featured will.i.am. It debuted onto radio on July 23, 2012, and was released for digital download on August 21, 2012. He later featured in Priyanka Chopra's debut single "In My City". It was announced in October 2012 that will.i.am will feature on Kesha's second album Warrior on the track "Crazy Kids". He also co-wrote and co-produced the Dr Luke produced track.

In November 2012, will.i.am released the third single from #willpower which was "Scream & Shout" featuring Britney Spears. It debuted in the top 20 on the Billboard 100, eventually reaching a peak of number 3 and debuting at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and reaching number one in January 2013 for two weeks. It went number one in many countries During an interview with Capital FM, will.i.am confirmed he had collaborated with Justin Bieber for his next release "#thatPOWER" and premiered the single on the same day it was released onto iTunes in the US the same day and debuted on the Billboard 100 at number 42.

In April 2013, will.i.am and Chris Brown's track "Let's Go", also from the #willpower album, became the centre of a copyright controversy, with trance producers Arty and Mat Zo claiming that will.i.am used elements of their 2011 track "Rebound" in his song without permission from the artists or their label. This claim was later backed by Anjunabeats, the record label behind Arty and Mat Zo.

His fourth studio album, #willpower, was re-released in December 2013 featuring several new tracks, including the lead single "Feelin' Myself" featuring Miley Cyrus, French Montana, and Wiz Khalifa.

Britney Spears featured will.i.am on her song "It Should Be Easy" on her eighth studio album Britney Jean, for which he co-wrote and produced several tracks. He was also an executive producer of the project.

On April 4, 2014, will.i.am appeared on Alan Carr: Chatty Man, where he talked about plans to release his own Smartwatch. He revealed that it can be used as a phone, to store music, and use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. He also showed a preview of a music video for a song called "It's My Birthday". On May 20, 2014, a 90-second snippet was uploaded to SoundCloud. It features American singer-songwriter Cody Wise, is produced by Will and Damien LeRoy and is written by himself, Cody Wise and Keith Harris. It was released on July 6, 2014.

In an interview with Capital FM, will.i.am confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas were getting back together. On April 7, 2016, will.i.am released the single "Boys & Girls" featuring Pia Mia. A week later on April 14, a new remix of "Mona Lisa Smile" featuring Nicole Scherzinger was released.

2017–present

In March 2020, will.i.am collaborated with a group of artists made up of Bono, Jennifer Hudson, and Yoshiki for the song "Sing For Life". The musicians felt motivated by the widespread sense of despair surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the attempts by multiple individuals to pursue creative endeavors while facing new social restrictions. The official YouTube description stated that the track aimed to spread "joy" during trying "times like these". In 2023, he released the singles "The Formula" (with Lil Wayne) and a fourth collaborative song with Britney Spears titled "Mind Your Business", both of which were panned by critics and failed to make an effect on domestic or worldwide charts.

In February 2024, will.i.am appeared as a guest during Usher's Super Bowl halftime show, performing "OMG".

Acting
The Black Eyed Peas, including will.i.am, first started acting in the commercial series "Instant Def" to advertise Snickers chocolate bars. He starred in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa as the voice of the hippopotamus character Moto Moto. He also contributed a number of tracks to the film's soundtrack in collaboration with the score composer Hans Zimmer. Will.i.am played John Wraith in his major film debut, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to the X-Men film series. He also guest-starred on the CBS drama Joan of Arcadia as God, one of several actors who played this role during the series. He also starred in the 2011 animated film Rio, and 2014's Rio 2, as a rapping red-crested cardinal named Pedro, and like Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, he contributed his singing voice to the film's soundtrack, along with his fellow co-stars. In The Urbz: Sims In The City, will.i.am appeared as himself along with the Black Eyed Peas, and the film also uses Black Eyed Peas' songs as its soundtrack. He briefly appeared as himself in the Tina Fey and Steve Carell comedy film Date Night. He appeared in the 2016 Grammy-nominated documentary film about American DJ and producer Steve Aoki, titled I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

The Voice UK and Australia
On being confirmed as a coach on The Voice UK, will.i.am said, "I'm proud to be doing The Voice UK because the UK was the first place I saw success," and "It's the place I'm the most creative outside of home." Danny Cohen, controller of BBC One, added, "I am thrilled that will.i.am has signed up to be a coach on The Voice. He is a huge star who will bring a unique creativity to the show." Talking about the differences between the show and X Factor, "I won't be a judge on X Factor. The Voice is different. You can't even compare the two. One, you have people in the music industry, current and legends, coaching the next generation. The other format you have judges critiquing, giving their opinions on things when they don't really know, other than Randy Jackson on Idol".

In preparation for the role as a coach, he asked advice from friend and ex-The X Factor judge Cheryl Cole. Talking to Capital FM he said, "I reached out to Cheryl for advice on keeping your cool, having a poker face, the importance of sticking with the singers – it's their dream, a lot of the times when you have other performers a part of the show, celebrities tend to want the shine so they hog up time. So my whole thing was that I want to do The Voice, but I don't want to hog up time to where the singers up there are looking like, 'Is this about you guys?'. In March 2012, it was reported that he had turned his "plush" dressing room into a recording studio, and "instead of just listening with his headphones, he has installed some mega bass bins".

On November 26, 2013, will.i.am was announced as a coach for the 2014 series of the Australian version of The Voice along with fellow Voice UK judge Kylie Minogue. He was the winning coach having coached voice winner Anja Nissen in 2014. Neither will.i.am nor Minogue returned for the fourth series in 2015.

He has contributed to The Voice UK since 2012. He also served as a coach on the UK version of The Voice Kids from 2017 to 2023.

Fashion
Before joining the Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. In 2001, he began designing his own signature clothing line, i.am, which made its official debut in 2005 at the Magic Apparel Trade Show in Las Vegas. In 2007, will.i.am teamed up with Blue Holdings to design a premium denim collection, i.am Antik, that was scheduled to debut in August 2007 at the Project Show in Las Vegas. will.i.am instead had new partners and was launching i.am. Will.i.am is currently being sued $2 million for abandoning the project for which, the label states, he was obligated until 2016, but will.i.am insists it is already over. He also launched his own glasses range.

Technology

Appearing at the kickoff event for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition, Logo Motion held at Southern New Hampshire University, will.i.am stated that he is "a big fan", and that the newly unveiled game was "dope". He also executive produced a TV Special - I.AM. FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll - about the 2011 FIRST World Championship at the Edward Jones Dome, St Louis. It was produced by Greg Sills and Paul Flattery, directed by Michael Dempsey. It was aired by ABC on August 14, 2011, at 7 p.m. As part of the special, will.i.am appeared with the Black Eyed Peas. Willow Smith also performed and will.i.am did a DJ set. He continues to support FIRST, and at the 2013 FIRST World Championship, will.i.am became the first recipient of the Make It Loud award, which is given to the person who has contributed the most in increasing the awareness of FIRST to the general public.

In January 2011, Intel named will.i.am as director of creative innovation, with input in developing smartphones, tablets and laptops. In January 2012, he appeared on the BBC TV series Top Gear, as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, where he claimed he was starting his own car company called IAMAUTO.

By becoming the first artist to stream a song ("Reaching for the Stars") from the surface of Mars on August 28, 2012, will.i.am made inter-planetary music history. The event took place at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Expanding his forays into iPhone accessory development, will.i.am announced plans to release a camera enhancer to "dramatically enhance the clarity and definition of iPhone photographs," by effectively making the 8-megapixel sensor into a 14-megapixel one. Termed the i.am+, the device was said to be the first in a series of "digital real estate" for the singer.

In April 2016, it was announced that i.am+ had acquired the Tel Aviv machine-learning technology start-up Sensiya.

3D Systems appointed will.i.am as its chief creative officer (CCO) on January 8, 2014.

Since retiring from music (a retirement that did not last), he has helped design smartwatches for German company Deutsche Telekom since late 2015.

In 2016, The Verge reported that will.i.am would join actress Gwyneth Paltrow and serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk on Apple TV's Planet of the Apps, calling the trio "successful" and "big names" with experience launching companies. The show received mixed to negative reviews.

On July 27, 2017, i.am acquired Wink, the Internet of Things and Smart Home hub platform, from owner Flextronics for a reported $38.7 million with an additional $20 million commitment, likely earmarked to sustain manufacturing of Wink's products.

Will.i.am has focused his efforts on optimizing inclusivity of artificial intelligence. On June 7, 2024, he gave a speech at the Stata Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the CEO of the company Focus Your Ideas.

Personal life
In December 2010, will.i.am discussed suffering from tinnitus as a result of his career. In April 2013, he revealed that he has ADHD. He became a vegan in early 2017.

The i.am Angel Foundation provided fast internet access to the Estrada Courts housing project in Boyle Heights where he formerly lived.

Legal issues
On June 22, 2009, gossip blogger Perez Hilton accused will.i.am and his entourage of assaulting him in Toronto after the MuchMusic Video Awards, a charge will.i.am denied in a video posted on his blog. No further action was taken.

In late 2019, will.i.am's technology company i.am+ was the subject of multiple tax liens, with the state of California alleging over $500,000 in delinquent taxes and the federal government alleging $1.78 million in delinquent taxes and interest.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Lost Change (2001)
 * Must B 21 (2003)
 * Songs About Girls (2007)
 * #willpower (2013)
 * TBA (2024)

Tours

 * The #Willpower Tour (2013–15)
 * The Vans Warped Tour (2009)

Awards and nominations

 * Daytime Emmy Awards
 * 2008, New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment: "Yes We Can"

 * Grammy Awards

 * rowspan=3|2004
 * Elephunk
 * Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=2|"Where Is the Love?" (ft. Justin Timberlake)
 * Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=2|Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=4|2005
 * rowspan=3|"Let's Get It Started"
 * Nominated
 * Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
 * Won
 * rowspan=3|Best Rap Song
 * Nominated
 * "Hey Mama"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=6|2006
 * rowspan=2|"Don't Phunk with My Heart"
 * Nominated
 * Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
 * Won
 * rowspan=2|"Ordinary People"
 * Song of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best R&B Song
 * Nominated
 * "Gone Going" (with Jack Johnson)
 * Best Pop Collaboration with Vocal
 * Nominated
 * "Don't Lie"
 * rowspan=2|Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=4|2007
 * "My Humps"
 * Won
 * will.i.am
 * Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * "Mas Que Nada"
 * rowspan=3|Best Best Urban/Alternative Performance
 * Nominated
 * "That Heat"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=3|2009
 * "Be OK"
 * Won
 * "American Boy"
 * Song of the Year
 * Nominated
 * will.i.am
 * Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=6|2010
 * rowspan=2|The E.N.D.
 * Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Pop Vocal Album
 * Won
 * rowspan=2|"I Gotta Feeling"
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
 * Won
 * rowspan=2|"Boom Boom Pow"
 * Best Dance Recording
 * Nominated
 * Best Short Form Music Video
 * Won
 * }
 * will.i.am
 * Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=6|2010
 * rowspan=2|The E.N.D.
 * Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Pop Vocal Album
 * Won
 * rowspan=2|"I Gotta Feeling"
 * Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
 * Won
 * rowspan=2|"Boom Boom Pow"
 * Best Dance Recording
 * Nominated
 * Best Short Form Music Video
 * Won
 * }
 * Best Dance Recording
 * Nominated
 * Best Short Form Music Video
 * Won
 * }
 * }

 * Latin Grammy Awards
 * 2006, Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album: "Timeless", Sérgio Mendes (producer)

 * Television Rack Awards
 * As of 2012, will.i.am. had won ten Television Rack Awards altogether (five with the Black Eyed Peas and five as a solo artist).

 * The National Television Awards

 * 2018 || The Voice UK || TV Judge || Nominated
 * }
 * }

 * Mirchi Music Awards
 * 2012, Indie Pop Song of the Year – "In My City" (Nominated)

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Lola (song)

"Lola" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies for their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details a romantic encounter in a Soho bar between a young man and the eponymous Lola, who is possibly  a trans woman or cross-dresser. In the song, the narrator describes his confusion towards Lola, who "walked like a woman but talked like a man", yet he remains infatuated with her.

The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 12 June 1970, while in the United States it was released on 28 June 1970. Commercially, "Lola" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. The track has since become one of the Kinks' most popular songs and was ranked number 386 on Rolling Stone's 2021 edition of its "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. "Lola" was also ranked number 473 on NME's own "The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time" list.

Since its release, "Lola" has appeared on multiple compilation and live albums. In 1980, a live version of the song from the album One for the Road was released as a single in the US and some European countries, becoming a minor hit. In the Netherlands it reached number 1, just as in 1970 with the studio version. Other versions include an instrumental on the band's 1971 movie soundtrack album Percy and live renditions from 1972's Everybody's in Show-Biz and 1996's To the Bone. The Lola character also appears in the lyrics of the band's 1981 song "Destroyer".

Origin and inspiration
Ray Davies has claimed that he was inspired to write "Lola" after Kinks manager Robert Wace spent a night in Paris dancing with a cross-dresser. Davies said of the incident, "In his apartment, Robert had been dancing with this black woman, and he said, 'I'm really onto a thing here.' And it was okay until we left at six in the morning and then I said, 'Have you seen the stubble?' He said 'Yeah', but he was too pissed [intoxicated] to care, I think".

Drummer Mick Avory has offered an alternative explanation for the song's lyrics, claiming that "Lola" was partially inspired by Avory's frequenting of certain bars in West London. Avory said: "We used to know this character called Michael McGrath. He used to hound the group a bit, because being called The Kinks did attract these sorts of people. He used to come down to Top of the Pops, and he was publicist for John Stephen's shop in Carnaby Street. He used to have this place in Earl's Court, and he used to invite me to all these drag queen acts and transsexual pubs. They were like secret clubs. And that's where Ray [Davies] got the idea for 'Lola'. When he was invited too, he wrote it while I was getting drunk."

Ray Davies claimed to have done "a bit of research with drag queens" for the song's lyrics. He has denied claims that the song was written about a date between himself and Candy Darling – Davies contends the two only went out to dinner together and that he had known the whole time that Darling was transgender.

In his autobiography, Dave Davies said that he came up with the music for what would become "Lola", noting that brother Ray added the lyrics after hearing it. In a 1990 interview, Dave Davies stated that "Lola" was written in a similar fashion to "You Really Got Me" in that the two worked on Ray's basic skeleton of the song, saying that the song was more of a collaborative effort than many believed.

Writing and recording
Written in April 1970, "Lola" was cited by Ray Davies as the first song he wrote following a break he took to act in the 1970 Play for Today film The Long Distance Piano Player. Davies said that he had initially struggled with writing an opening that would sell the song, but the rest of the song "came naturally". He noted that he knew the song would be successful when he heard his one-year-old daughter singing the chorus, stating, "She was crawling around singing 'la la, la la Lola.' I thought, 'If she can join in and sing, Kinks fans can do it.

Initial recordings of the song began in April 1970, but, as the band's bassist John Dalton remembered, recording for "Lola" took particularly long, stretching into the next month. During April, four to five versions were attempted, utilizing different keys as well as varying beginnings and styles. In May, new piano parts were added to the backing track by John Gosling, the band's new piano player who had just been auditioned. Vocals were also added at this time. The song was then mixed during that month. Mick Avory remembered the recording sessions for the song positively, saying that it "was fun, as it was the Baptist's [John Gosling's] first recording with us".

The guitar opening on the song was produced as a result of combining the sound of a Martin guitar and a vintage Dobro resonator guitar. Ray Davies cited this blend of guitar sounds for the song's unique guitar sound.

Release
Despite the chart success "Lola" would achieve, its fellow Lola vs. Powerman track "Powerman" was initially considered to be the first single from the album. However, "Lola", which Ray Davies later claimed was an attempt to write a hit, was eventually decided on as the debut single release.

"Lola" was released as a single in 1970. In the UK, the B-side to the single was The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society outtake "Berkeley Mews" while the Dave Davies-penned "Mindless Child of Motherhood" was used in the US. It became an unexpected chart smash for the Kinks, reaching number two in Britain and number nine in the United States. The single also saw success worldwide, reaching the top of the charts in Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as the top 5 in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and it reached number six in Australia. The success of the single had important ramifications for the band's career at a critical time, allowing them to negotiate a new contract with RCA Records, construct their own London Studio, and assume more creative and managerial control. In a 1970 interview, Dave Davies stated that, if "Lola" had been a failure, the band would have "gone on making records for another year or so and then drifted apart".

Although the track was a major hit for the band, Dave Davies did not enjoy the success of "Lola", saying, "In fact, when 'Lola' was a hit, it made me feel a bit uncomfortable. Because it was taking us out of a different sort of comfort zone, where we'd been getting into the work, and the writing and the musicality was more thought about. It did have that smell of: 'Oh blimey, not that again.' I found it a bit odd, that period. And then it got odder and weirder". Conversely, Mick Avory said that he "enjoyed the success" the band had with "Lola" and its follow-up, "Apeman".

Controversy
Originally, "Lola" saw controversy for its lyrics. In a Record Mirror article entitled "Sex Change Record: Kink Speaks", Ray Davies addressed the matter, saying, "It really doesn't matter what sex Lola is, I think she's all right". Some radio stations faded the track out before implications of Lola's biological sex were revealed. On 18 November 1970, "Lola" was banned from being played by several radio stations in Australia because of its "controversial subject matter", though some began playing "Lola" again after having made a crude edit, which sounded like the record had jumped a groove, to remove the line "I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola".

The BBC banned the track for a different reason: the original stereo recording had the words "Coca-Cola" in the lyrics, but because of BBC Radio's policy against product placement, Ray Davies was forced to make a 6000 mile round-trip flight from New York to London and back on June 3, 1970, interrupting the band's American tour, to change those words to the generic "cherry cola" for the single release, which is included on various compilation albums as well.

Reception and legacy
"Lola" received positive reviews from critics. Upon the single's release, the NME praised the song as "an engaging and sparkling piece with a gay Latin flavour and a catchy hook chorus". Writing a contemporary review in Creem, critic Dave Marsh recognized it as "the first significantly blatant gay-rock ballad". Billboard said of the song at the time of its US release, "Currently a top ten British chart winner, this infectious rhythm item has all the ingredients to put the Kinks right back up the Hot 100 here with solid impact". Record World praised the "first-rate" production. Rolling Stone critic Paul Gambaccini called the song "brilliant and a smash". Music critic Robert Christgau, despite his mixed opinion on the Lola vs. Powerman album, praised the single as "astounding". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic lauded the song for "its crisp, muscular sound, pitched halfway between acoustic folk and hard rock". Ultimate Classic Rock ranked "Lola" as the Kinks' third best song, saying "the great guitar riff that feeds the song is one of Dave's all-time greatest". Paste Magazine listed the track as the band's fourth best song.

The song was also well-liked by the band. Mick Avory, who noted the song as one of the songs he was most proud to be associated with, said "I always liked 'Lola', I liked the subject. It's not like anything else. I liked it for that. We'd always take a different path". In a 1983 interview, Ray Davies said, "I'm just very pleased I recorded it and more pleased I wrote it". The band revisited the "Lola" character in the lyrics of their 1981 song, "Destroyer", a minor chart hit in America.

Satirical artist "Weird Al" Yankovic created a parody of the song called "Yoda", featuring lyrics about the Star Wars character of the same name, on his 1985 album Dare to Be Stupid.

Live versions
Since its release, "Lola" became a mainstay in the Kinks' live repertoire, appearing in the majority of the band's subsequent set-lists until the group's break-up. In 1972, a live performance of the song recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City appeared on the live half of the band's 1972 album, Everybody's in Show-Biz, a double-LP which contained half new studio compositions and half live versions of previously released songs.

A live version of "Lola", recorded on 23 September 1979 in Providence, Rhode Island, was released as a single in the US in July 1980 to promote the live album One for the Road. The B-side was the live version of "Celluloid Heroes". The single was a moderate success, reaching number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also released in some countries in Europe (although not the UK) in April 1981. It topped the charts in both the Netherlands, matching the number one peak of the original version, and in Belgium, where it exceeded the original's peak of three. It also charted in Australia, peaking at number 69 and spending 22 weeks on the charts. Although not released as a stand-alone single in the UK, it was included on a bonus single (backed with a live version of "David Watts" from the same album) with initial copies of "Better Things" in June 1981. This live rendition, along with the live versions of "Celluloid Heroes" and "You Really Got Me" from the same album, also appeared on the 1986 compilation album Come Dancing with The Kinks: The Best of the Kinks 1977–1986.

Although it did not appear on the original 1994 version, another live version of "Lola" was included on the 1996 US double-album release of To the Bone, the band's final release of new material before their dissolution.

Personnel
According to Doug Hinman, the following musicians played on the Kinks' original version of "Lola":

The Kinks

 * Ray Davies – lead vocal; acoustic and resonator guitars
 * Dave Davies – backing vocal, electric guitar
 * John Dalton – bass
 * Mick Avory – drums

Additional personnel

 * John Gosling – baby grand piano
 * Ken Jones – maracas

Other versions
Post-punk band The Raincoats recorded a version of Lola on their 1979 album The Raincoats. In 1990, former Duran Duran and Power Station member Andy Taylor released his version as the lead single from his second solo album Dangerous. "Lola" peaked at No. 60 on the UK Singles Chart. The British band Madness released a ska version of "Lola" on their 2005 album, The Dangermen Sessions, Volume One. The Danish band Natural Born Hippies produced their cover "Lola (if you ever)" in 1999.

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You Get What You Give (song)

"You Get What You Give" is a song by American alternative rock band New Radicals. It was the first and most successful single from their only studio album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (1998). Released on November 3, 1998, it reached number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the US, it reached number five in the United Kingdom, number four in Ireland, and number one in Canada and New Zealand.

In the liner notes to her 2004 compilation Artist's Choice, the Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell praised "You Get What You Give" for "rising from the swamp of 'McMusic' like a flower of hope". In 2006, Ice-T was asked on Late Night with Conan O'Brien about what he has heard, besides rap music, in the last few years that really grabbed him and his only reply was "You Get What You Give". In a Time interview, U2 lead guitarist the Edge is quoted saying "You Get What You Give" is the song he is "most jealous of. I really would love to have written that."

Composition
"You Get What You Give" has been described as an alternative rock, power pop, and pop rock song. It is written in the key of D major with a moderate tempo of 120 beats per minute. Gregg Alexander said the central theme of the song was "remembering to fly high and be completely off your head in a world where you can't control all elements".

Much of the media attention "You Get What You Give" received centered on the closing lyrics:

 * "Health insurance, rip-off lying
 * FDA, big bankers buying
 * Fake computer crashes dining
 * Cloning while they're multiplying
 * Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,
 * Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
 * You're all fakes, run to your mansions
 * Come around, we'll kick your ass in."

According to lead singer Gregg Alexander, he had written this section for the song as a test to see whether the media would focus on the important political issues of the first few lines, or the petty celebrity-dissing. As suspected, a considerable amount of press began to appear about the name-dropping, and the other political issues were largely ignored.

Marilyn Manson commented that he was "not mad he said he'd kick my ass, I just don't want to be used in the same sentence with Courtney Love... I'll crack his [Alexander's] skull open if I see him." Beck reported that Alexander personally apologized for the line when they met each other by chance in a supermarket, claiming that it was never meant to be personal. Alexander collaborated with Hanson, whose drummer, Zac Hanson, called him "a bit of a character, but a cool guy."

Although the lines were used for the band's Top of the Pops appearance, it was truncated at "kick you".

Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard gave a mixed review of the song, saying that it was a "chugging, Wham!-style pop song with slightly cheesy lyrics", but that the ending lyrics were "interesting". Daily Record wrote, "This anthem sounds like The Waterboys at their best and has meaningful lyrics." They also added, "It may sound like Bruce Springsteen, but that's no bad thing. This upbeat anthem will be played in all the good bars of the land." A reviewer from The Mirror called it a "gold nugget of a single".

Music video
The accompanying music video for "You Get What You Give" was filmed in the Staten Island Mall in New York and directed by Evan Bernard. The New Radicals' frontman Gregg Alexander said he chose this setting because he sees the shopping mall as a metaphor for society—a fake, controlled environment engineered to encourage spending. The video showed a group of teenagers, led by Alexander, going through the mall wreaking havoc—tossing nets on security guards, placing businessmen in animal cages, knocking over merchandise, hijacking Lambrettas, and moshing in the food court.

Impact and legacy
In 2002, VH1 voted it as the 64th greatest one-hit wonder of all time. In 2007, the song was voted number 90 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s". It was listed number 440 on Blender's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". In 2010 it was number 106 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s". In 2011, VH1 ranked it as 11th on "40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 90s". Annie Zaleski for The A.V. Club wrote that the song was "surprisingly influential on popular music, just in a non-obvious, almost obscured way", and that it was "both a nostalgic artifact and a song that transcends any era". BBC Radio ranked the song at number 38 on its list of the "Most Heard Recordings in Britain of the Last 75 Years".

The song was used by American Vice President Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, for his walk-on music as part of Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. On January 20, 2021, New Radicals reunited for the first time in 22 years to perform the song during an inauguration performance on the day Biden was sworn in as president. The song was a favorite of Joe's son Beau Biden. Beau died in 2015; at his funeral, his sister Ashley recited the lyrics in her eulogy. The band had rejected offers to perform over the past 22 years but wanted to honor this day and honor Beau, who was a military veteran. The band's Gregg Alexander said prior to their performance, "We pledged if Joe [Biden] won, we'd get together and play our little song both in memory and in honor of our new president's patriot son Beau and also with the prayer of Joe being able to bring our country together again with compassion, honesty and justice for a change".

Track listings

 * UK CD single
 * 1) "You Get What You Give" – 4:42
 * 2) "To Think I Thought" – 2:46
 * 3) "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" – 5:21

 * UK cassette single
 * 1) "You Get What You Give" – 4:42
 * 2) "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" – 5:21

 * European CD single
 * 1) "You Get What You Give" – 4:42
 * 2) "To Think I Thought" – 2:46

 * Australian CD single
 * 1) "You Get What You Give" – 4:42
 * 2) "To Think I Thought" – 2:46
 * 3) "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" – 5:21
 * 4) "You Get What You Give" (album version) – 5:02

 * Japanese CD single
 * 1) "You Get What You Give" – 4:08
 * 2) "You Get What You Give" (album version) – 5:00
 * 3) "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" (album version) – 5:20

Personnel

 * Gregg Alexander – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Rusty Anderson – lead guitar
 * John Pierce – bass guitar
 * Rick Nowels – keyboard, backing vocals
 * Gary Ferguson – drums
 * Juliet Prater - percussion
 * Richie Podler – additional vocal arrangement
 * Michael Brauer – mixing

Cover versions
In 2017, Felix Cartal released a cover version (entitled "Get What You Give"), which received two nominations at the 2018 Juno Awards for Producer of the Year and Dance Recording of the Year.

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