In bars, restaurants, clubs and clothing stores across Europe, St. Germain's "Rose Rouge" has become ubiquitous with its insistent 4/4 vamp and the now-famous sample of Marlena Shaw singing "I want you to get it together".
Like its predecessor, it went to No 1, propelled on its way by gossip surrounding the identity of the female celebrity in "When You Wasn't Famous" (sample lyric: "Considering the amount of prang you've done, you looked amazing on CD:UK").
"We don't take famous samples that would make people say "Oh, that's a Michael Jackson sample!'" To protect themselves, they work hard to "camouflage" the remnants of music they make, looping multiple pieces of music over each other.
In one famous report, the New York State Department of Labor audited a random sample of car washes, and found tip abuse at 21% of car washes statewide (pdf).
The title, which originated from a lyric of the famous Billie Holliday song "Strange Fruit," features a sample of Nina Simone's version on West's new song.
Priestley called the new substance "dephlogisticated air", which he made in the famous experiment by focusing the sun's rays on a sample of mercuric oxide.
Built around a sample of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back," her ode to her famous bottom is playful and brash.
Place a small sample of text into a box, click "analyze," and the machine comes up with a famous author who used similar words or a similar style.
Taking a sample of 16 of India's big houses, nine came originally from the Marwari and Bania communities, famous for their trading nous.
But as the others lost interest or found other hobbies, Andy and Chris kept rhyming and making up their own music by pulling samples of famous artists' songs off the Internet.
Here's a sampling of famous permanent residents at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Hollywood Forever Cemetery and Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park. .
