Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the 1830s.

First use

''Hello'', with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called ''The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee'', which was reprinted that same year in ''The London Literary Gazette''.

The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ''hello'' is an alteration of ''hallo'', ''hollo'', which came from Old High German "''halâ'', ''holâ'', emphatic imper[ative] of ''halôn'', ''holôn'' to fetch, used esp[ecially] in hailing a ferryman." It also connects the development of ''hello'' to the influence of an earlier form, ''holla'', whose origin is in the French ''holà'' (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French ''là'' 'there'). As in addition to ''hello'', ''hallo'' and ''hollo'', ''hullo'' and (rarely) ''hillo'' also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.

Telephone

The use of ''hello'' as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard ''Hullo''. Alexander Graham Bell initially used ''Ahoy'' (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting. However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh:

By 1889, central telephone exchange operators were known as 'hello-girls' due to the association between the greeting and the telephone.

Hullo

''Hello'' may be derived from ''Hullo'', which the American Merriam-Webster dictionary describes as a "chiefly British variant of hello," and which was originally used as an exclamation to call attention, an expression of surprise, or a greeting. ''Hullo'' is found in publications as early as 1803. The word ''hullo'' is still in use, with the meaning ''hello''.

Hallo

''Hello'' is alternatively thought to come from the word ''hallo'' (1840) via ''hollo'' (also ''holla'', ''holloa'', ''halloo'', ''halloa''). The definition of ''hollo'' is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a hunt when the quarry was spotted: Fowler's has it that "hallo" is first recorded "as a shout to call attention" in 1864.

It is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' written in 1798: ''Hallo'' is also German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Afrikaans for Hello.

Webster's dictionary from 1913 traces the etymology of ''holloa'' to the Old English ''halow'' and suggests: "Perhaps from ah + lo; compare Anglo Saxon ealā."

According to the ''American Heritage Dictionary'', ''hallo'' is a modification of the obsolete ''holla'' (''stop!''), perhaps from Old French ''hola'' (''ho'', ho! + ''la'', there, from Latin ''illac'', that way). Hallo is also used by many famous authors like Enid Blyton. Example:"Hallo!", chorused the 600 children.

The Old English verb, hǽlan (1. wv/t1b 1 to heal, cure, save; greet, salute; gehǽl! Hosanna!), may be the ultimate origin of the word. Hǽlan is likely a cognate of German Heil and other similar words of Germanic origin. Bill Bryson asserts in his book ''Mother Tongue'' that "hello" comes from Old English ''hál béo þu'' ("Hale be thou", or "whole be thou", meaning a wish for good health).

Cognates

The word "hello" is found in many other languages. It is often only used when answering the telephone, or as an informal greeting.

! Language	! Cognate	! Usage
Afrikaans	hallo
	alo	when answering the telephone
	آلو ''ālō''	when answering the telephone
	হ্যালো ''hêlo''	when answering the telephone
	ало ''(alo)''	when answering the telephone
	hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
	halo?	when answering the telephone
	hallo!	when answering the telephone
	hallo!	general greeting, normally not used for answering the telephone.
Esperanto	ha lo?	when answering the telephone
	hallo; halloo	when answering the telephone
	haloo?	when answering the telephone
	allô?	when answering the telephone
	Hallo!
	hello!	when answering the telephone
rowspan="2"	helló!	friendly (informal) greeting
halló!	when answering the telephone
	הָלוֹ ''(hallo)''	when answering the telephone / friendly (informal) greeting
	Haanjee!	when answering the telephone
	Halló	when answering the telephone
	Heileo	Rarely used
	ハロー　''(harō)''	friendly (informal) greeting
	halloa	when answering the telephone
	allô	when answering the telephone
	alio?	when answering the telephone
	ало ''(alo)''	when answering the telephone
	hello	when answering the telephone
	hallo!	general greeting
	الو alo	when answering the telephone
	halo	when answering the telephone
	alô?	when answering the telephone (Brazil only)
	alo	when answering the telephone
	алло ''(allo)'', алё	when answering the telephone
	хало/halo	when answering the telephone
rowspan="2"	¡hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
¿aló?	(Latin America) when answering the telephone
	hallå!
	helo!
	alo!	when answering the telephone
	a lô!	when answering the telephone

"Hello, World" computer program

Students learning a new computer programming language will often begin by writing a "Hello, world!" program, which outputs that greeting to a display screen or printer. The widespread use of this tradition arose from an introductory chapter of the book ''The C Programming Language'' by Kernighan & Ritchie, which reused the following example taken from earlier memos by Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs:

int main() { printf("hello, world"); }

The Apple DOS HELLO program

A diskette formatted to boot Apple DOS 3.x on the Apple II series of computers will look for a BASIC program to run automatically after the operating system has booted. By default, the name of the program is HELLO, and is specified as a parameter of the INIT command used to format a floppy disk. For the HELLO program to work, it has to be created in the same language (Integer BASIC or Applesoft BASIC) that is present in the language ROM of the system the disk is being booted on.

Perception of "Hello" in other nations

In some other nations, especially the ones that had little contact with foreigners at the time, Westerners were often viewed as people who constantly said "hello" and little else. Jung Chang describes this view as follows:

See also

World Hello Day

;Greetings in other languages

Aloha

As-Salamu Alaykum

Ciao

Namaste

Ni hao

Shalom

References

External links

Hello in more than 800 languages

OED online entry for ''hollo'' (Subscription)

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: hollo, hullo

How to Say Hello Around the World - slideshow by ''Life magazine''

Category:Greeting words and phrases

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The Dancing Man is the name given to the man who was filmed dancing on the street in Sydney, Australia, after the end of World War II. On 15 August 1945, a reporter took note of a man's joyful expression and dance and asked him to do it again. The man consented and was caught on motion picture film in an Australian edition of the newsreel Movietone News. The film and stills from it have taken on iconic status in Australian history and culture, and symbolise victory in the war.

Identity

There has been much debate as to the identity of the dancing man. The identity commonly accepted, though, is that he is Frank McAlary, a retired barrister who claims that he was the man photographed pirouetting in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, on 15 August 1945. A Queen's Counsel, Chester Porter, and a former Compensation Court judge, Barry Egan, both claim to have seen Mr. McAlary being filmed dancing.

The television programme ''Where Are They Now'', produced by Australia's Seven Network, attempted to solve the mystery of the dancing man's identity. The network hired a forensic scientist who examined the film reel and picture and came to the conclusion that it was indeed McAlary.

The Royal Australian Mint, however, chose to portray Ern Hill as the dancing man on a 2005 issue $1 coin commemorating 60 years since the World War II armistice. Mr. Hill has made a statement that, "The camera came along and I did a bit of a jump around." The coin does not bear any name.

Rebecca Keenan of Film World Pty. Ltd., says the dancer may be one Patrick Blackall. Mr. Blackall has claimed, "I'm the genuine dancing man," and has signed statutory declarations that he is the man in the film.

See also

V-J Day in Times Square, an image of V-J Day in Manhattan

Notes

References

"Dancing man still got the moves." St George Leagues Club, ''Leagues Club Journal.'' 25 July 2005

Macy, Richard. "Who is the dancing man?." ''Sydney Morning Herald,'' 8 December 2004

Stephens, Tony. "Famous pirouette of peace stepping up to a war dance" ''Sydney Morning Herald,'' 10 August 1995

Movietone clip with teacher's notes on australianscreen online

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name	Martin Solveig
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
born	September 22, 1976 Paris, France
instrument	Turntable, Vocals
genre	House, pop, funk
occupation	Producer, DJ
years active	1994–present
label	Mixture Stereophonic, Ministry of Sound Australia
website	www.martinsolveig.com }}

Martin Picandet, better known under his stage name Martin Solveig (born September 22, 1976) is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland. His label is called Mixture Stereophonic.

Early history

Martin chose his pseudonym as an homage to the French actress Solveig Dommartin.

In 2011, Solveig has been officially named as one of the producers for Madonna's yet untitled new studio album.

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Peak chart positions
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2002		*First studio album	*Released: 2002	—	—	—	—
2003	align="left"	*Second studio album	*Released: 2003	84	—	—	—
2005	align="left"	*Third studio album	*Released: 2005	43	—	99	—
2008	align="left"	*Fourth studio album	*Released: 2008	16	99	23	59
2011	align="left"	*Fifth studio album	*Released: June 6, 2011	*Label: Mercury Records	18	—	37	77

Compilations

Year	Album	Peak chart positions
!width=35	!width=35	!width=35
2006		*First Compilation album	*Released: 2006	38	100	85

Singles

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|- |rowspan="3"|2003 |align="left"|"Madan" (vs. Salif Keita) |37 |— |— |— |— |64 |87 |— |66 |— |— | |rowspan="4"|''Sur La Terre'' |- |align="left"|"Rocking Music" |47 |39 |— |54 |— |64 |82 |— |— |35 |— | |- |align="left"|"Heartbeat" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |- |2004 |align="left"|"I'm a Good Man" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |57 |— | |- |2005 |align="left"|"Everybody" |37 |33 |— |28 |— |27 |— |— |— |22 |— | |rowspan="4"|''Hedonist'' |- |rowspan="2"|2006 |align="left"|"Jealousy" |36 |— |— |30 |— |40 |— |— |60 |62 |— | |- |align="left"|"Something Better" |— |— |— |— |— |64 |— |— |— |— |— | |- |2007 |align="left"|"Rejection" |34 |— |— |57 |— |52 |— |— |55 |— |— | |- |rowspan="2"|2008 |align="left"|"C'est La Vie" |— |— |— |53 |— |59 |— |— |63 |— |— | |rowspan="3"|''C'est La Vie'' |- |align="left"|"I Want You" (featuring Lee Fields) |59 |— |— |54 |— |37 |— |— |— |— |— | |- |rowspan="2"|2009 |align="left"|"One 2.3 Four" |— |— |— |52 |— |57 |— |— |— |— |— | |- |align="left"|"Boys & Girls" (featuring Dragonette) |17 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |rowspan="3"|''Smash'' |- |2010 |align="left"|"Hello" (with Dragonette) | 5 || 13 || 1 || 1 || 8 || 2 || 1 || 5 || 10 || 13 || 46 | AUS: 2× Platinum CAN: 2× Platinum ITA: Gold NZ: Gold US: Gold |- |2011 |align="left"|"Ready 2 Go"(featuring Kele) | 20 || — || 49 || 65 || — || 58 || 24 || — || 70 || 48 || — | |- |colspan="15" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |}

Other singles

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" border="1" ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Title ! scope="col" style="width:7em;"| Album |- |1996 |align="left"|"Satisfied" (Vinyl only) |''Non-album single'' |- |1999 |align="left"|"Heart of Africa / Afro Deep" |rowspan="7"|''Sur La Terre'' |- |rowspan="3"|2000 |align="left"|"Come with Me" (Vinyl only) |- |align="left"|"Destiny" |- |align="left"|"Edony (Clap Your Hands)" |- |2001 |align="left"|"Mr. President" |- |rowspan="2"|2002 |align="left"|"Linda" |- |align="left"|"Someday" |}

Notes: - Solveig was credited as ''Africanism''.

References

External links

TwistedHouse.com Martin Solveig Interview

Martin Solveig Interview (Ibiza,Spain)2006

Martin Solveig biography

Allmusic article

Top 40 charts record for Martin Solveig

Martin Solveig İstanbul

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Coordinates	30°19′10″N81°39′36″N
Name	James May
Birth name	James Daniel May
Birth date	January 16, 1963
Birth place	Bristol, England
Residence	Hammersmith, West London, England
Nationality	British
Other names	''Captain Slow'', Captain sense of direction
Ethnicity	White British
Known for	Presenting:
Education
Years active	–
Alma mater	Lancaster University
Employer	BBC, ''The Daily Telegraph'',
Occupation	Author, writer, journalist,television presenter, pianist, media personality
Home town	Bristol, England
Height
Partner	Sarah Frater (–present)
Website	}}

James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter, journalist and writer.

May is best known as co-presenter of the motoring programme ''Top Gear'' alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. May has presented a variety of other programmes on themes including science and technology, childhood toys, cars, food and drink, and the plight of manliness in modern times. In addition he has released a variety of DVDs and books with similar themes, and writes a weekly column for ''The Daily Telegraph's'' motoring section.

On ''Top Gear'', May has the nickname "Captain Slow", for his careful driving style, a love of small, underpowered cars and habit of getting lost and distracted while driving. However, in a July 2010 episode of Top Gear he drove a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, reaching a speed of .

Early life

James May was born in Bristol, one of four children; he has two sisters and a brother. In his early years, May attended Caerleon Endowed Junior School in Newport, Monmouthshire. He spent his teenage years in South Yorkshire where he attended Oakwood Comprehensive School in Rotherham and was a choirboy at Whiston Parish Church. He was also at school with ''Life On Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes'' star Dean Andrews. A keen flautist and pianist, he later studied music at Lancaster University, where he was a member of Pendle College. After graduating, May briefly worked at a hospital in Chelsea as a records officer, and had a short stint in Her Majesty's Civil Service.

Personal life

May currently lives in Hammersmith, London with dance critic Sarah Frater, whom he has dated since 2000.

May has owned a number of cars: Bentley T2, Triumph 2000, Rover P6, Alfa Romeo 164, 1971 Rolls-Royce Corniche, Jaguar XJS, Range Rover, Fiat Panda, Datsun 120Y, Vauxhall Cavalier Mk1, Ferrari F430, 1984 Porsche 911, 2005 Porsche Boxster S (which he claims is the first car he has ever purchased new), Mini Cooper, Citroën Ami, Mazda MX-5 and several classic motorcycles including a Yamaha XJR1300, Moto Guzzi V11 Sport, a Triumph Daytona 675R and a 1978 Guzzi California. He has a penchant for prestige cars like Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, simple and basic cars such as the Fiat Panda, and motorcycles. He often uses a Brompton folding bicycle for commuting. He passed his driving test on his second attempt, and justified this by saying "All the best people pass the second time".

May obtained a light aircraft pilot's licence in October 2006 having trained at White Waltham Airfield. He has owned a Luscombe 8A 'Silvaire' and an American Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon.

May received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Lancaster University on 15 July 2010.

Journalism

During the early 1980s, May worked as a writer for ''The Engineer'' and later ''Autocar'' magazine, from which he was dismissed. He has since written for several publications, including a regular column called ''England Made Me'' in ''Car Magazine'', articles for ''Top Gear'' magazine, and a weekly column in ''The Daily Telegraph''.

He has written a book titled ''May On Motors'', which is a collection of his published articles, and co-authored ''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure'', based on the TV series of the same name.

He has also written the afterword to ''Long Lane with Turnings'', published in September 2006, the final book by motoring writer L. J. K. Setright. In the same month he co-presented a tribute to Raymond Baxter. His book, ''Notes From The Hard Shoulder'', was published on 26 April 2007. ''James May's 20th Century'', a book to accompany the television series of the same name, was published on 6 September 2007.

Dismissal from ''Autocar''

In an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2, May confessed that he was fired in 1992 from ''Autocar'' magazine after putting together a hidden message or acrostic in one issue. At the end of the year, the magazine's "Road Test Year Book" supplement was published. Each spread featured four reviews and each review started with a large red letter (known in typography as an initial). May's role was to put the entire supplement together, which "was extremely boring and took several months". He went on to say:

So I had this idea that if I re-edited the beginnings of all the little texts, I could make these red letters spell out a message through the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was to the effect that "You might think this is a really great thing, but if you were sitting here making it up you'd realise it's a real pain in the arse". It took me about two months to do it and on the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being "put to bed" and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something.

May's original message, punctuated appropriately, reads: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse."

This was referenced by Jeremy Clarkson during episode 2 of series 17 (in the course of the "hot hatch"-challenge in Italy) when May was noting Autocar's opinion on the car he had purchased, and Clarkson replied "Autocar.... The magazine that sacked you...?"

Radio and television

His past television credits include presenting ''Driven'' on Channel 4 in 1998-99, narrating an eight-part BBC One series called ''Road Rage School'', and co-hosting the ITV1 coverage of the ''2006 London Boat Show.'' He also wrote and presented a Christmas special called ''James May's Top Toys'' (for BBC One) exploring the toys of his childhood. This list was followed up the next year by a sequel of sorts, broadcast on BBC Two, entitled ''James May: My Sister's Top Toys'', this time attempting to investigate the gender divide of toy appeal. In series 3, episode 3 of Gordon Ramsay's ''The F Word'', May managed to beat Ramsay in eating animal penises and with his fish pie recipe.

''Top Gear''

May first co-presented ''Top Gear'' in 1999, before it was axed by the BBC because of poor viewing figures. He rejoined the show in the second series of the present ''Top Gear'' format in 2003, where he earned the nickname "Captain Slow" owing to his careful driving style. Despite this sobriquet, he has done some especially high-speed driving, including in ''Top Gear'' Series 9, taking a Bugatti Veyron to its top speed of 253 mph (407 km/h) which is nearly one-third of the speed of sound at sea level and later on taking a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport edition to 259 mph (417 km/h). In an earlier episode he also tested the original version of the Bugatti Veyron against the new Pagani Zonda F. On the show he claimed that it was 'a piece of cake' driving those cars, but seconds later Jeremy Clarkson played a tape showing him spinning wildly over the test track in the Zonda. Originally he did not want to do this test, but Clarkson had hurt his neck in the previous episode while driving a truck through a brick wall and Richard Hammond claimed that he was busy selling fish at Morrisons. He is often mocked for a poor sense of direction, shown getting lost many times throughout the course of the series, including race tracks and even being mocked once by Jeremy and Hammond for mistaking a normal Range Rover as the camera crew. He also flew in a Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon at a speed of around 1320 mph for his television programme, ''James May's 20th Century''. He also became one of the first people – with co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson and an Icelandic support crew – to travel by car to the magnetic North Pole, using a modified Toyota Hilux. He claims to be the first person on the north pole who didn't want to go there. He was also one of the first people to drive across the Makgadikgadi salt plains in Botswana. He has driven a 1.3 litre Suzuki SJ413 through the Bolivian jungle and along Death Road and over the Andes to the Pacific Ocean in Chile. He also drove a modified Toyota Hilux (also used as a crew car during the North Pole expedition) up the side of the erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.

Science

May has also presented a documentary for Sky about sharks called ''Inside Killer Sharks'' and a series looking at inventions and discoveries during the twentieth century, entitled ''James May's 20th Century''. In late 2008, the BBC broadcast ''James May's Big Ideas'', a three-part series in which May travelled around the globe in search of implementations for concepts widely considered science fiction.

''James May on the Moon''

In June 2009 May presented a documentary on BBC Two called ''James May on the Moon'' commemorating 40 years since man first landed on the moon. This was followed by another documentary on BBC Four called ''James May at the Edge of Space'', where May was flown to the edge of space (70,000 ft) in a U.S. Air Force Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Highlights of the footage from the training for the flight, and the flight itself was used in ''James May on the Moon'', but was shown fully in this programme. This made him one of the highest flying persons, along with the pilot, at that time, after the crew of the International Space Station.

''James May's Toy Stories''

Beginning in October 2009, May presented a 6-part TV series showing favourite toys of the past era and whether they can be applied in the modern day. The toys featured were Airfix, Plasticine, Meccano, Scalextric, Lego and Hornby. In each show, May attempts to take each toy to its limits, also fulfilling several of his boyhood dreams in the process. For example, in August 2009, May built a full-sized house out of Lego at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey. Plans for Legoland to move it to their theme park fell through in September 2009 because costs to deconstruct, move and then rebuild were too high and despite a final Facebook appeal for someone to take it, it was demolished on 22 September, with the plastic bricks planned to be donated to charity. Also for the series, he recreated the banked track at Brooklands using Scalextric track, and an attempt at the world's longest working model railway along the Tarka Trail between Barnstaple and Bideford in North Devon, although the attempt was foiled due to vandals placing coins on the track, causing a short circuit. The running order was:

Episode number !! Featured toy !! Feat accomplished
One	Airfix	Building a 1:1 scale Spitfire model in the plastic injection moulding style of Airfix
Two	Plasticine
Three	Meccano
Four	Scalextric
Five	Lego
Six	Hornby Railways>Hornby
2011 Special	Great Train Race

Drink

In late 2006, the BBC broadcast ''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure'', a series in which May, a committed bitter drinker, travelled around France with wine expert Oz Clarke. A second series was broadcast in late 2007, this time with May and Clarke in the Californian wine country, and was followed by a third series in 2009 called ''Oz and James Drink to Britain''.

Programme !! Notes
''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure''	Book released (October 2006), DVD released (2007)
''Oz and James Drink to Britain''	Book released (January 2009), DVD released (2009)

Television

Year !! Title !! Role
1999	Top Gear (1977 TV series)>Top Gear (Original Format)''	Presenter
2003	Top Gear (current format)>Top Gear (Current Format)''
2005	''James May's Top Toys''
2006	''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure''
2006	''Inside Killer Sharks''
2006	''Petrolheads''
2007	''Top Gear of the Pops''
2007	''James May's 20th Century''
2007	''James May: My Sisters' Top Toys''
2008	''Top Ground Gear Force''
2008	''James May's Big Ideas''
2009	''Oz and James Drink to Britain''
2009	''James May on the Moon''
2009	''James May at the Edge of Space''
2009	''James May's Toy Stories''
2010	''James May's Man Lab''
2011	''James May's Things You Need To Know''

DVD

Title !! Label !! Year
''James May's Motormania Car Quiz''	DMD	2006
''James May's 20th Century''	ITV
''James May's Big Ideas''	DMD
''James May's Moon Adventures''	BBC
''James May's Amazing Brain Trainer''	DMD
''James May's Toy Stories''	BBC
''Oz and James Big Wine Adventure: Series One''	BBC
''Oz and James Big Wine Adventure: Series Two''	BBC
''Oz and James Drink to Britain: Series Three''	BBC
''Top Gear Apocalypse''	BBC

As The DVD Contains Both "On The Moon" and "The Edge Of Space", The Classification Name Is "Moon Adventures" or "James May On The Moon".

Books

Title !! Publisher !! Year
''May on Motors: On the Road with James May''	Virgin Books	2006
''Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure''	BBC Books
''May on Motors''	Virgin Books
''Notes from the Hard Shoulder''	Virgin Books
''James May's 20th Century''	Hodder & Stoughton
''James May's Magnificent Machines''	Hodder & Stoughton
''Oz and James Drink to Britain''	Pavilion (Anova)
''James May's Car Fever'' (H/B)	Hodder & Stoughton
''James May's Car Fever'' (P/B)	Hodder & Stoughton
''James May's Toy Stories''	Conway (Anova)
''James May's Car Fever: Volume 2''	Hodder & Stoughton
''How to Land an A330 Airbus''	Hodder & Stoughton

References

External links

''Telegraph Motoring'' - James May's weekly column

James May on Top Gear

''Daily Mail'' article on May

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background	solo_singer
born	October 02, 1981
instrument	Keyboard, turntable, computer
genre	Electro House Dutch House
occupation	Disc jockey
label	Spinnin' Records & Ultra Records
website	http://www.sidneysamson.com/ }}

Sidney Samson (born 2 October 1981) is a Dutch DJ and dance musician. Samson started DJing at the age of 13, focusing on hip-hop music before working seriously on house music from 1999. He is a resident DJ at The Matrixx, a major Dutch nightclub and released "Bring That Beat Back" and "It’s all funked up" on the digidance and Spinnin' Records labels respectively. After collaborating with Gregor Salto, he formed his own record label, Samsobeats, in 2007.

Samson managed to get his debut single "Riverside" to #1 on the Dutch Top 40, #9 on the Australian ARIA Charts, #1 on the Irish Singles Chart, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart.

He released his second single "Shut Up and Let It Go" (featuring Lady Bee) in February 2010.

Discography

Singles

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Other singles

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Remixes

#"Laidback Luke & Steve Aoki feat. Lil Jon - "Turbulence" #"Katy Perry - "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" #"Rihanna - "S&M" #"David Guetta & Chris Willis feat. Fergie & LMFAO - "Gettin' Over You" #"3OH!3 - "Double Vision" #"Kylie Minogue - "Get Outta My Way" #"Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie - "Moombah" #"Kelly Rowland feat. David Guetta - "Commander" #"Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - "Club Can't Handle Me" #"Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - "Hello" #"Ian Carey - "Let Loose" #"Roger Sanchez & Far East Movement - "2gether" #"Tony Cha Cha - "Solar" #"Ellie - "Superstar" #"Lil John feat. LMFAO - "Outta Your Mind" #"Pitbull feat. T-Pain - "Hey Baby" #"Her Majesty & The Wolves - "Stars In your Eyes" #"David Guetta feat. Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj - "Where Them Girls At" #"Innerpartysystem - "Not Getting Any Better" #"Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - "Telephone"

References

Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Dutch DJs Category:Dutch pop singers

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