Donny Osmond

In 2004 Donny Osmond returned to the UK Top 10 for the first time as a solo artist since 1973, with the George Benson-sampling "Breeze On By", co-written with fellow former teen idol (in many countries but never the United States) Gary Barlow, of 1990s UK boy band Take That. See also: 1991 in music, 1993 in music, 1996 in music, 1999 in music. He received some criticism from members for not serving a mission like his religion encourages, but most of the furor over this lack of service has died down. From their initial inception as a tripped out hardcore rave band with scene classics such as Your Love and Out of Space, to the much more mainstream dance of No Good, to the rockish Their Law to punk-like tracks such as Fuel my Fire in more recent years, the Prodigy continue to innovate and surprise. Donny, like the rest of his family, is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each of their albums represents a distinct stage in the band's musical evolution. Donny is currently the host of Pyramid, a syndicated game show. The Prodigy are a difficult band to classify, because they have evolved significantly with time.

He married Debra Glenn in 1978 and is the father of five boys. The experiment was a success, with the 5,000 copies being sold in just over 36 hours in spite of server problems from the demand. Donny is still recording new music, and is quite content with his place in the music business. Five mixes were sold in three file formats, WAV, two audio mixes in MP3, and a 5.1 DTS Multichannel audio mix and all were free of Digital rights management. The show ran for two seasons, and marked the first time the brother and sister had been together professionally in twenty years. Each copy was a combination of customer-chosen instrumental, rhythmic, and melodic options, of which 39,600 (of 660,000 total) choices were available. He suffered from Social Anxiety Disorder, which he was able to get under control and go on to cohost a television talk show with Marie in 1998. 5,000 digital copies of Memphis Bells were sold over the internet.

Donny also found success on the Broadway stage when he starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A precursory and experimental single Memphis Bells was released in very limited numbers, followed by the traditional release of the single Girls. charts with the song "Soldier of Love" and its followup "Sacred Emotion". The Prodigy's latest album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned was released on 23 August 2004 (14 September 2004 in the USA). Donny spent several years as a performer before returning to the U.S. In the same year, however, Q magazine named The Prodigy as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". When Donny and Marie ended, Donny tried to reinvent himself as a solo artist. The single was produced by Liam Howlett.

The duo recorded several albums together before and while starring in their own television variety series, "Donny and Marie" which aired on ABC from 1976-1979. The song was written by Keith Flint's sideband, Flint, and also featured Jim Davies. In the mid '70s, Donny was paired up with his younger sister, Marie. In 2002, after a break from touring and recording, the single Baby's Got a Temper was released to critical disappointment. Donny became a teen idol in the early 1970s when he broke away from his older brothers to become a solo act. This album was not strictly speaking a Prodigy album, being a DJ mix album by Howlett, produced as an official record of a successful guest appearance on the British Radio 1. The two oldest children, Tom and Virl, were hearing-impaired; Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmond Brothers. 1999 saw the release of Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1.

He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, and Virl Osmond. The best selling single Breathe, also released in 1997, was taken from this album. Donny was half of the brother-sister singing act Donny and Marie. Featuring simplified melodies, sparser sampling, and more sneering, punk-like vocals, the album nevertheless retained the bone-jarring breaks and buzzsaw synth so idiomatic of the band. Perfectly poised between underground acceptability and mainstream acceptance, the album cemented the band's position as one of the most internationally successful and famous acts in the hard dance genre, entering the British and American charts at number one. Born to parents Olive and George Osmond. Like its predecessors, the album represented a new milestone in the evolution of both the band and the wider mainstream dance scene. Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond (born December 9, 1957 in Ogden, Utah) is a singer, ex-teen idol, talk show host, actor, and record producer. The third Prodigy album, The Fat of the Land, was released in 1997.

The Prodigy have toured all over the world, including Beirut and Moscow's Red Square. In this year the Prodigy also headlined the prestigious Lollapalooza festival. The 1996 release of Firestarter, featuring vocals for the first time courtesy of a new-look Keith Flint, helped the band break into the US and other overseas markets, and reached number one in the UK. The band augmented their live line-up with guitarist Jim Davies in 1995 for tracks such as Their Law, Break And Enter 95, and various live-only interludes and versions.

The international success of Music for the Jilted Generation meant that touring beyond the United Kingdom was now a viable prospect. Musically, the album was a call to arms for electronic breakbeat-based music, a tour-de-force of originality that provided a tantalising and impelling glimpse of what was still possible within the genre. Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, the album perfectly captured the widespread anger and embitterment among British rave-goers at the time, as the Criminal Justice and Public Order act of 1994 had effectively criminalised raves, rave culture, and by implication, rave music itself. The Prodigy moved to distance themselves from the imploding rave scene with 1994's Music for the Jilted Generation.

Charly was quickly followed by the band's first full length album, The Prodigy Experience, widely regarded as one of the finest examples of the rave/breakbeat genre ever recorded. Some critics were later to identify the release of Charly, with its memorable sample of a government television infomercial aimed at children, as the tune that instigated the ultimate destruction of the underground rave scene, opening the door to a flood of low quality cheesy rave tracks, most notoriously Urban Hype's ultra-saccharine Trip to Trumpton, and Smart E's Sesame's Treet, a reworking of the theme tune of the popular children's TV show Sesame Street. Charly, released 6 months later, was a huge hit in the British rave scene of the time, catapulting the band into the wider public consciousness for the first time. The band's first performance was at Four Aces in Hackney, London.

XL Recordings picked up the demo and an initial 12" pressing of What Evil Lurks was released in early 1991. Formed in Essex, England, the Prodigy started life with an initial 10-track demo by Howlett, put together on a Roland W-30 sequencer keyboard. A female dancer called Sharky was also briefly associated with the band during their brief unsigned period. Leeroy Thornhill (Dancer) was also a member of the band from 1990 to 2000.

The Prodigy is a British hard dance/rave act, consisting of Liam Howlett (Keyboards), Keith Flint (Dancer/Vocalist) and Maxim (Live MC). 2004 "Hotride" #60 UK (Non-chart qualifying). 2004 "Girls" #19 UK. 2004 "Girls" / "Memphis Bells".

2002 "Baby Got a Temper" #5 UK. 1997 "Smack My Bitch Up" #8 UK. 1996 "Breathe" #1 UK. 1996 "Firestarter" #1 UK, #30 US.

1995 "Poison" #15 UK. 1994 "Voodoo People" #13 UK. 1994 "No Good (Start the Dance)" #4 UK. 1993 "One Love" #8 UK.

1993 "Wind It Up (Rewound)" #11 UK. 1992 "Out of Space/Ruff in the Jungle Bizness" #5 UK. 1992 "Fire/Jericho" #11 UK. 1992 "Everybody in the Place" #2 UK.

1991 "Charly" #3 UK (#73 Re-release in 2004 along with Pandemonium / Your Love). 2004 Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned #1 UK, #62 US. 1997 The Fat of the Land #1 UK, #1 US. 1995 Music for the Jilted Generation #1 UK, #198 US.

1992 Experience #12 UK. Gizz Butt (Guitarist). Jim Davies (Guitarist). Kieron Pepper (Drummer).

Sharky (Dancer) (Left in early 1990s). Leeroy Thornhill (Dancer) (Left 4 April 2000). Maxim (MC). Keith Flint (Vocalist, dancer).

Liam Howlett (Keyboards).