The Parachute Club was a Canadian band formed in Toronto in 1982. They released three top 40 hits in Canada between 1983 and 1987, including "Rise Up"...
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Parachute club may refer to: a club of parachuting and skydiving enthusiasts The Parachute Club, a Canadian band This disambiguation page lists articles...
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the Canadian group the Parachute Club on their self-titled 1983 album. It was produced and engineered by Daniel Lanois, and written by Parachute Club...
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A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift. A major...
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involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or multiple parachutes. For human skydiving, there is often a phase of free fall (the skydiving...
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Lorraine Segato (category The Parachute Club members)
singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for and a principal songwriter of new wave and pop rock group The Parachute Club, with which she continues...
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The Irish Parachute Club (IPC) is an air sports club, located in Clonbullogue, County Offaly, in Ireland. The club was founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper...
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The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication...
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Producer of the Year and Jazz Vocal Album of the Year for Emilie-Claire Barlow's album Clear Day. A founding member of Canada's The Parachute Club, Webster...
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Julie Masi (category The Parachute Club members)
known as a percussionist and vocalist with The Parachute Club. She was also a co-writer of several of the band's songs. She is notable as being part of...
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The Parachute Murder is the name the Belgian media gave to the crime that led to a 2010 Belgian love triangle skydiving murder trial. The defendant, elementary...
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Rebecca Jenkins (category The Parachute Club members)
Jane Siberry and The Parachute Club. Early in her career, she provided the voicings of the mermaids in the 1987 film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing....
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Although the band recorded only a single EP as Mama Quilla II, after 1982 a revised lineup evolved into the influential pop band Parachute Club. Mama Quilla...
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Hall & Oates (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
co-songwriter and co-lead vocalist of the single "Love Is Fire" by The Parachute Club, which was a top 40 hit in Canada in 1987.[citation needed] Hall and...
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Lunch, The Nylons, k.d. lang, Carole Pope, Parachute Club, Dragonette and The Cliks. PFLAG sponsored a Pride flag, mounted on a flagpole atop the Churchmouse...
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season the Premier League paid £243m in Parachute Payments split amongst 8 clubs, and £100m in Solidarity Payments split amongst the remaining 64 clubs. This...
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biggest hit "Constant Craving", "Parachute Clubbing" is a take on Parachute Club's "Rise Up", and "Bitchsy" references the Fifth Column song "All Women Are...
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Stevens. She has also worked with Iggy & The Stooges, Laura Mvula, Snarky Puppy, The Parachute Club, and the Zac Brown Band. After graduating from Humber...
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Billy Bryans (category The Parachute Club members)
percussionist, songwriter, music producer and DJ, known as one of the founders of The Parachute Club, among other accomplishments in music. As a producer, he worked...
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Lauri Conger (category The Parachute Club members)
Conger is notable primarily as the keyboardist and one of the principal co-writers of most of the songs of The Parachute Club. Conger is a native of Thunder...
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Jack (2013 film) (redirect from Smilin' Jack: The Jack Layton Story)
Jack: The Jack Layton Story. The film was directed by Jeff Woolnough, and written by Shelley Eriksen and Andrew Wreggitt. The Parachute Club's 1983 hit...
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Music in Toronto. After joining the canadian pop band The Parachute Club in the late 2000s, in the 2010s she formed the group Glenda del E & Q-ban Mixology...
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McIntyre played the Parachute Club chief instructor (as "Head Jumpin' Bean" in Proof). Their collaboration in Waterworld actually resulted in the two parting...
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Franz Reichelt (redirect from Parachute Jacket)
inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while...
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Album of the Year: Parachute Club, Parachute Club Single of the Year: Men Without Hats, "The Safety Dance" Group of the Year: Parachute Club Female Vocalist...
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The Juno Award for Single of the Year has been awarded since 1974 for the best single in Canada. It has also been known as Best Single and Best Selling...
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Daniel Lanois (category Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year winners)
including The Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991). Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
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the advancement of sport parachuting within the UK. British Skydiving aims to encourage participation in skydiving within the UK. In 2016 there were nearly...
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List of bands from Canada (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
Paper Moon (2000–) The Paperbacks (2000–) The Paperboys (1991–) The Pappy Johns Band (1978–) Parabelle (2008–) The Parachute Club (1982–2014) Paradox...
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(Rough Trade) and Paul Hyde (The Payola$) Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde), and Lorraine Segato (The Parachute Club) Chorus members included: Liona...
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