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n. endurance, the ability to continue at something for a long period of time.
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"Staying Power" is the first track on the first side of Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. It was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and is notable as being the only Queen song to have a horn section, which was arranged by Arif Mardin. The song is driven by a funk-styled bass riff (played by Mercury) beginning in D minor and modulating to E minor throughout the song. John Deacon does not play bass on this song—instead playing rhythm guitar on a Fender Telecaster. Roger Taylor programmed a Linn LM-1 drum machine for the track. Brian May is on his Red Special. In a Stylus review of the album, critic Anthony Miccio described the song's style as "an electro-disco track with frenetic horns."
The song was released as a single in Japan, the US and Poland where it reached #21.
" Staying Power" is a song by Queen. The title may also refer to:
- Staying Power (album), Barry White's double-Grammy-Award 1999 album
- Stayin' Power, a 1981 single of Neil Young
- Staying Power, a 1999 crime novel by Judith Cutler
- Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (1984) by Peter Fryer
Staying Power is the twentieth and last album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in July 1999. The album was White's first release for five years, and his only recording for the Private Music label, with whom he had signed following a four-album deal with A&M which had culminated in 1994 with the acclaimed The Icon Is Love, his most successful album since the 1970s.
Staying Power features duets with Chaka Khan and Lisa Stansfield. These are the only White tracks with a shared vocal credit, apart from the 1981 duet album Barry and Glodean. Lead single " Staying Power", although not a significant hit, won White two Grammy Awards in 2000 in the categories Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Staying Power was less successful than The Icon Is Love, peaking at #13 on the R&B chart and #43 on the pop chart. Similarly, its critical reception was more mixed, the overall opinion tending to the view that while there is little to find fault with, the material and production is less distinguished than had been the case with The Icon Is Love. ( Allmusic reviewer Stephen Erlewine for example describes Staying Power as "...classy and entertaining, but [it] doesn't add to the legacy".)
"Staying Power" is a 1999 song recorded by Barry White and written by Rory Holmes and Joey Paschaland, one of the singles from his album of the same name. Although not a major hit for White, it did manage to chart. The song is in the key of B flat minor.
Usage examples of "staying power".
He couldnt remember when Guy hadnt had women on the side, though Renee Devlin had certainly had a lot more staying power than the rest of them.
The blue males were sturdier than their smaller sisters, while the browns and bronzes had the staying power for long, arduous battles against Thread.
Before the incident on Winter's Eve, he'd had the staying power of a man half his age.
No doubt he had chosen his and Master al'Thor's rough-coated animals, not so tall as the other horses, but sturdy, with gaits that spoke of good speed and staying power.
They might not have the staying power to conduct a siege of their own.
I guess that was around the point where he broke down most opponents by virtue of sheer staying power, if they were good enough to resist his attacks up until then.
I had come to the hard bit, and needed the reserves I didn't have, of staying power, of will.
The night before had been well beyond anything I might have imagined, and his staying power had been little short of incredible—.
He didn't know the difference between staying power and being unable to finish what he'd started, so he was seriously considering giving up on the idea of marriage!
Slot players have more staying power than any other human beings on the planet.