Mr. Fantasy is the debut album by English rock band Traffic, released in December 1967. The recording included group members Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood...
16 KB (1,125 words) - 16:15, 17 August 2024
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. Jim Capaldi contributed the lyrics, while Steve Winwood and Chris Wood...
4 KB (309 words) - 16:16, 17 August 2024
Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant, Tattoo. Guests were granted so-called "fantasies" on the island for a price...
27 KB (3,573 words) - 02:27, 15 August 2024
their music. The band had early success in the UK with their debut album Mr. Fantasy and non-album singles "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Here We Go...
30 KB (2,661 words) - 15:21, 19 August 2024
popular songs such as "Paper Sun", "No Face, No Name, No Number", "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", and outlived the band, producing...
52 KB (4,869 words) - 02:33, 21 August 2024
released successfully in 1967, and in December the band released the album Mr. Fantasy. After one further album, Traffic, the group disbanded. Capaldi formed...
32 KB (3,329 words) - 19:02, 18 August 2024
member of the group, but left following the release of their debut album, Mr. Fantasy (1967), only to rejoin halfway through the sessions for their next album...
26 KB (2,702 words) - 03:39, 14 August 2024
version was also released on U.S. copies of the band's debut album, Mr. Fantasy (early U.S. copies of the album had the alternate title Heaven Is in...
5 KB (390 words) - 05:52, 30 May 2024
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy...
32 KB (3,629 words) - 19:19, 18 June 2024
A sexual fantasy or erotic fantasy is an autoerotic mental image or pattern of thought that stirs a person's sexuality and can create or enhance sexual...
72 KB (8,776 words) - 18:38, 30 July 2024
Melanie Cole arrive at Fantasy Island, a tropical resort where fantasies apparently come true. Upon arrival, island proprietor Mr. Roarke guides the guests...
26 KB (2,285 words) - 19:05, 16 August 2024
January 1968, after some initial success in Britain with their debut album Mr. Fantasy, Dave Mason had departed from the group. He produced the debut album...
13 KB (751 words) - 12:17, 7 July 2024
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a...
105 KB (9,351 words) - 22:55, 16 August 2024
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part British historical fantasy TV miniseries adapted by Peter Harness from Susanna Clarke's best-selling 2004...
24 KB (1,839 words) - 03:56, 29 July 2024
by Rosenberg. Reviewers variously describe Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, a historical fiction, or as a combination...
73 KB (8,557 words) - 18:10, 8 August 2024
Billy Joel and Elton John. In 2007, he was musical director for "Dear Mr. Fantasy: A Celebration for Jim Capaldi" featuring Steve Winwood, Joe Walsh, Paul...
8 KB (570 words) - 18:46, 23 May 2024
two EPs, Dear M.F. (which featured a cover version of Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy") and Ride Like Hell. Drummer Stich Wynston, who had taken over from...
32 KB (2,893 words) - 19:05, 2 April 2024
season. It was a revival of the original Fantasy Island television series, though starring Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Roarke rather than Ricardo Montalbán....
17 KB (952 words) - 00:52, 21 August 2024
Bloomfield's insomnia, and the failure of a vocal microphone during "Dear Mr Fantasy"; the track "I Wonder Who" is faded during a Bloomfield solo for no apparent...
6 KB (661 words) - 00:01, 28 July 2024
particularly impressed by "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (calling it "eleven swirling, blending, building, wondrous minutes of 'Fantasy' with Winwood as pensive/yearning/mournful...
12 KB (1,210 words) - 02:47, 14 July 2024
Mr. Munchausen is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. It is the fourth book of Bangs' Associated...
3 KB (226 words) - 14:00, 8 July 2022
Historical fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into a more "realistic"...
20 KB (2,369 words) - 02:42, 5 August 2024
highlights from this tour has been released.. Jim Capaldi's 2011 box set, Dear Mr Fantasy, includes a reggae version of the song. The song also appears as the third...
3 KB (389 words) - 21:47, 21 May 2024
Capaldi) - 14:36 "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) - 16:26 "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Winwood, Capaldi, Chris Wood) - 7:44 "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (Traditional)...
3 KB (244 words) - 19:55, 6 May 2023
Pink Fantasy, 2019 "Fantasy", by Gerard Kenny, 1980 "Fantasy", by Meiko Nakahara, 1982 "Fantasy", by Jolin Tsai from Muse, 2012 "Fantasy", by MS MR from...
6 KB (676 words) - 11:59, 1 August 2024
Come Taste the Band "Dealer", a song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy and later covered by Santana on their 1978 album, Inner Secrets "Dealer"...
2 KB (368 words) - 00:08, 13 August 2023
contribution is as the co-writer (with Winwood and Capaldi), of "Dear Mr. Fantasy". He [Chris Wood] used to study maps and charts and watch birds. He brought...
22 KB (2,248 words) - 18:45, 13 August 2024
greatest hits album Prince of Darkness (1995) and the boxed set Dear Mr Fantasy: The Jim Capaldi Story (2011). It featured his former bandmate Steve Winwood...
4 KB (429 words) - 21:23, 11 August 2024
often seen sitting in with Mason and his band, particularly on "Dear Mr. Fantasy", "Feelin' Alright", and "All Along The Watchtower". McFee was also involved...
17 KB (1,968 words) - 21:48, 15 June 2024
Winwood, Wood) 4:18 "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) 2:43 "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) 5:40 "Pearly Queen" (Capaldi, Winwood) 4:20...
9 KB (1,040 words) - 12:56, 6 July 2024