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	Swan song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A swan song is a reference to an ancient and false belief that the Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is completely mute during its lifespan, but may sing one heartbreakingly beautiful song just before it dies.
		For example, Franz Schubert's collection of songs, published in his year of death, 1828, is known as the Schwanengesang (German for "swan song").
		An example of a swan song is Freddie Mercury's song "The Show Must Go On", written and performed while he was dying of AIDS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swan_Song (355 words)

	Swan Song Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swan Song Records was a record label launched by Led Zeppelin on May 10, 1974.
		Four artists that Swan Song Records wanted to sign but bowed out to other labels were Roy Harper, blues guitarist Bobby Parker, composer Vangelis, and John Lennon.
		Swan Song ceased operations in October 1983 due to the break-up of Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant’s health problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swan_Song_Records (1285 words)

	Metro Pulse/Secret History/Swan's Song
		Swan and Mabry lived near each other on the northeast side of town; Swan's estate, "Mayfield," was a mile east of the depot.
		Swan's law office, Swan and King, was on the same block of Gay Street where his friend Mabry would be shot to death a quarter-century later.
		Swan died there in April, 1869, at the age of 48, "after an illness of two weeks." The Memphis papers seem foggy about his prewar career, stating only that "he was, we believe, the recipient of public favors" in Knoxville.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2004/1404/t_secret.html (735 words)

	Wolf Hollow - Swan Song
		Lockwood speculates that after the swan was shot, she crashed to the ground, hurt her wing and wasn't able to fly.
		The swan was stuck in salt water in Mitchell Bay unable to fly to a fresh water pond and forage for food.
		The swan was slowly starving to death in Mitchell Bay.
	www.rockisland.com /~whollow/living/swans_song.html (482 words)

	Encyclopedia: Swan Song Records
		Four artists that Swan Song Records wanted to sign but bowed out to other labels were Roy Harper, blues guitarist Bobby Parker, composer Vangelis, and John Lennon before his return to music in 1980.
		Dazed and Confused is a 1969 song by Led Zeppelin.
		Black Dog is a song by British rock band Led Zeppelin, which was released as the lead-off track of their untitled fourth album in 1971.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swan-Song-Records (6564 words)

	Swan's Song
		Swan has her arm linked through his as he tries to pick his way among the tables.
		Lilah is glad that Swan cannot see her face, for the expression is not one of friendliness, but one of slight worry.
		Swan is a little taken aback by this information, that could prove to be very valuable...but was given by Lilah in a small show of friendship.
	www.deathstar.org /~krlipka/ps/stories/player/swan.html (4785 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: swan song
		A beautiful legendary song said to be sung by a dying swan.
		Opposition leaders dismissed the Chancellor's speech as the swan song of a leader who has, after 16 years in office, overstayed his welcome with the electorate.
		Swan song is from the belief that the swan sings as it dies.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2001/04/20.html (116 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Swan Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound.
		Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King's The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other.
		Swan Song is a great book that I think ranks along side The Stand, which for years has stood as my favorite horror novel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671741039?v=glance (1687 words)

	SWAN SONG? HOUSE VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO RETIRE STATE SONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The song you never hear sung in Virginia at official functions, and rarely hear anywhere else except around the Virginia Capitol of late, appears to be going, going and really close to absolutely gone.
		Legislation to repeal the song or sanitize its lyrics became annual fixtures on the General Assembly docket.
		But this year, the lawmakers were persuaded by arguments that the song is so offensive that it is no longer taught to schoolchildren and has not been performed at an official state function in two decades.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970218/02180298.htm (434 words)

	LATIN AMERICA’S SWAN SONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The "Swan diagram" analyzes the economic effects of two kinds of policies: those that affect the overall level of domestic expenditure, such as the fiscal deficit; and those that affect the relative demand for domestic and foreign goods.
		We imagine a country with a pegged exchange rate and high capital mobility, so that interest rates are determined by the need to avoid rapid depletion of reserves, and in effect monetary policy is removed as a tool of stabilization.
		What Swan pointed out was that the nature of the difficulties facing a country depend on where in this space it resides.
	web.mit.edu /krugman/www/swansong.html (1153 words)

	Meet The Band
		Swan Song would like to send a special Thank You to Kirk Young, bass player for Tornado Alley, a local classic rock band, for filling in on bass for several shows when Nathan Contreras was unable to attend.
		So, when he got a call from Swan Song inviting him to audition, Eddy said, "It was something like a dream!" -- at that time, the prospect of doing a tribute to Led Zeppelin was a dream come true.
		Kirk has been a Swan Song friend since its’ inception and even played a handful of gigs with them on a fill-in basis over the years.
	www.swan-song.net /meet.htm (1803 words)

	Swan Song Records -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Swan Song Records was a record label launched by (Click link for more info and facts about Led Zeppelin) Led Zeppelin on May 10, 1974.
		Both (Instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim) Iron Maiden and The Q Tips featuring (Click link for more info and facts about Paul Young) Paul Young were considered but not signed.
		Swan Song ceased operations in October 1983 due to the break-up of (Click link for more info and facts about Led Zeppelin) Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant’s health problems.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/swan_song_records.htm (1773 words)

	Robert R. McCammon's Swan Song
		Swan Song was a relatively easy birth, in that it flowed smoothly from beginning to end.
		Swan Song, even though the new hardback version is out and it looks terrific and I hope it does very well, is ancient history to me. I got a letter not long ago addressed to Robert "Mr.
		Now: let me say first of all that I'm really, really glad readers responded to Swan Song, and that the book continues to speak to people about hope in a world where hope seems to be a dirty word.
	www.robertmccammon.com /novels/swan_song.html (1466 words)

	Swan Song
		Frankenstein's mission is to protect the child Swan, a girl that plants seeds of hope and is the catalyst to recovery across the war-stripped United States.
		But Swan Song is a more effective take on an apocalyptic world: the villains in Swan Song exist in a time and a place that are more accessible, a dimension that relies less on supernatural elements.
		Swan bursts with hope so magnificently that the cornstalks sprout from the ground inexplicably.
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/swansong.html (528 words)

	Is regal bird facing its swan song?
		Cornwall — The regal mute swan is about to become the subject of a loud debate over whether it is an invasive species that needs to be controlled.
		She said she is waiting for New York state to file for a swan management control permit with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before she decides if her group should sue to block it.
		And the swan lovers won their case in federal court in December.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2002/04/17/whswans.htm (416 words)

	Swan Song - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin
		Swan Song is working on several new shows in the D/FW area.
		Swan Song takes a great deal of pride in looking and sounding as close to Led Zeppelin as possible, while adding a selected handful of Led Zeppelin's live-version performances to their repertoire.
		Swan Song would like to thank each and every one of you for showing support for our efforts.
	www.swan-song.net (465 words)

	phorum - General Discussion - RE: swan song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "swan song" and who or were it was first used?
		a song of great sweetness said to be sung by a dying swan.
		Swans are mute are they not so a swan song would be especially poignant.
	www.wordsmyth.net /live/phorum/read.php?f=8&t=93&a=2 (73 words)

	Missoulian: No swan song here
		LINCOLN - All neck and curiosity, a trio of 10-week-old trumpeter swans was released onto a pond in the upper Blackfoot Valley on Wednesday afternoon.
		After the female swan was killed and the eggs were carried away, only the male swan remained.
		If the male swan will accept the three young birds - and he may not - he could show them the way south come winter, said Bill Long, a biologist for the Wyoming Wetland Society and Trumpeter Swan Fund in Jackson Hole, and a consultant to recent trumpeter reintroduction efforts on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/09/11/news/top/news01.txt (1465 words)

	No swan song for the trumpeter \| csmonitor.com
		Because swans lay up to nine eggs each year, Matteson often took several eggs from a nest, leaving at least two for the parents to hatch.
		In the second group, swans were raised on their own in large pens.
		The other native swan, the tundra (formerly called the whistling swan), is white like the trumpeter, but slightly smaller.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1029/p22s02-hfks.html (1367 words)

	Bruuuce.com - Swan Song
		I remember the sheer panic which characterised the internet response of some fans to "Swan Song", immediately after Spirit Trail was released.
		I note on Si's polls that "Swan Song" is unofficially the most popular song on the album.
		In terms of musical arrangement, "Swan Song" is also one of my favourites on this album.
	www.bruuuce.com /swansong.htm (441 words)

	After the Swan Song 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Medieval times, people believed that once one heard the swan sing, death was close.
		Because of the elegant shape of the neck, it was also believed that the song of the swan was the most beautiful sound on earth.
		In this painting, there are two swans and somebody has passed away.The tree is full of strange and somewhat frightening shapes and crevices, a symbol for confused thoughts and amorphous grief.
	www.kppc.org /marianna/recentwork/AboutSwansong.htm (420 words)

	Recordings: Milton Babbitt’s Premature ‘Swan Song’
		Probably the only reason he thought of writing a swan song in the first place was that he was commissioned by the namesake Cygnus Ensemble, a New York group comprising guitar, mandolin, violin, cello, flute and oboe.
		Working with six diverse instruments in "Swan Song No. 1," he provides not only dance but conversation, distantly suggesting the kind of Renaissance ball at which a similarly mixed group might have served.
		The alert guitarist William Anderson is heard on both CD's: in the solo Composition (Tzadik) and with colleagues in "Soli e Duettini" and the premature swan song (Bridge).
	www.nytimes.com /2004/01/11/arts/music/11GRIF.html?ex=1389157200&en=55394d7510415a17&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (819 words)

	Swan Song
		It was said that this swan was born from the tear of Aphrodite who cried for the first time when a mortal’s heart was broken.
		The swan would live and die and be reborn in the turning of a hundred summers.
		Its a song we’ve sung from the dawn of time, a song we sing together now, and a song we’ll sing for lifetimes yet to come.
	ausxip.com /fanfic/lnjames8.html (1769 words)

	Swan song
		With the help of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, the Pennsylvania Ballet was able to combine tradition and a contemporary audience together to create a fresh, million-dollar version of Swan Lake for its 40th anniversary season.
		Roy Kaiser, Pennsylvania Ballet artistic director, described the resetting as a ballet that uses the original score, story line and some of the original choreography, but was recreated into a performance for 2004.
		Swan Lake is just the start of a great season that includes 28 performances.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2004/09/09-30-04tdc/09-30-04darts-04.asp (679 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Swan Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I downgrade Swan Song one star beacuse I thought the Man with the Scarlet Eye was a bit weak as an evil character.
		Swan Song was the first book I had ever read by Robert R. McCammon and I must say that after this one I was hooked.
		I picked up Swan Song becouse I remembered my mother reading it years befor and telling me it was a good book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671741039 (1115 words)

	Swan Song
		Pilot of the marvel spaceship HOODED SWAN, the strange double-mind that occupied his brain had pulled him out of difficulties that would have doomed anyone else.
		His extraordinary brain function aboard the starship Hooded Swan has ensured his survival through the myriad dangers of the galaxy.
		Swan Song is exactly that, a fitting and in some ways melancholy end to Brian's first important series.
	freespace.virgin.net /diri.gini/swansong.htm (326 words)

	Led Zeppelin Song Question - Swan Song
		Now, I'm a Zeppelin fan and I've explained to my boss that the only thing titled Swan Song that Zeppelin had a hand in was their record label.
		He's convinced it's a Zeppelin tune but only knows that there is a lyric in it which is "Baby, this is your swan song".
		I believe Swan Song was the name of there record label.
	www.askmehelpdesk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3280 (264 words)

	Cushcity.com - A Swan Song: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories
		Through a blend of poerty and prose, A Swan Song explores the "caveat emptor" syndrome of love and relationships, while challenging our obssession with finding Mr.
		In her first work of fiction, A Swan Song, she received much praise from the African American community.
		An appealing and enlightening book, A Swan Song offers a fictionalized view of life through the eyes of a realist.
	www.cushcity.com /books/0967731208.htm (191 words)

	Moviefone: Swan Song Movie
		Synopsis: David Soul stars in the made-for-TV Swan Song as a former Olympic skiing champ.
		The NY Times review of Swan Song, a Kenneth Branagh film starring and.
		Swan Song movie trailer, showtimes, tickets and reader reviews are also available.
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1089335 (278 words)

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