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Hampton String Quartet

The Hampton String Quartet, alternately known as the Hampton Rock String Quartet, is a string quartet specializing in rock music and other popular styles using two violins, a viola and a cello. In 1998 they were nominated for a Grammy Award, and as of 2012 they were the best selling string quartet with over 1 million CDs sold in the US alone. According to the liner notes of their 1986 debut album, What if Mozart wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", the quartet was formed specifically for that album in response to RCA's desire to record string quartet arrangements of mostly-secular Christmas music in a classical (Mozart) style. That album went on to sell close to a million copies and together with their following albums and CDs have made HSQ one of the largest selling string quartets in history. Their debut album was followed in 1988 by What if Mozart Wrote "Roll Over Beethoven" and What if Mozart Wrote "Born to Be Wild" in 1989 and then What if Mozart Wrote "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". Following the What if Mozart... series, little was heard from the quartet until 1993, when they released an album featuring the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" as its title track, which subsequently was part of the debut album on the label of the cellist's music publishing company, Mona Lisa Sound.…

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The Hampton String Quartet, alternately known as the Hampton Rock String Quartet, is a string quartet specializing in rock music and other popular styles using two violins, a viola and a cello. In 1998 they were nominated for a Grammy Award, and as of 2012 they were the best selling string quartet with over 1 million CDs sold in the US alone. According to the liner notes of their 1986 debut album, What if Mozart wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", the quartet was formed specifically for that album in response to RCA's desire to record string quartet arrangements of mostly-secular Christmas music in a classical (Mozart) style. That album went on to sell close to a million copies and together with their following albums and CDs have made HSQ one of the largest selling string quartets in history. Their debut album was followed in 1988 by What if Mozart Wrote "Roll Over Beethoven" and What if Mozart Wrote "Born to Be Wild" in 1989 and then What if Mozart Wrote "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". Following the What if Mozart... series, little was heard from the quartet until 1993, when they released an album featuring the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" as its title track, which subsequently was part of the debut album on the label of the cellist's music publishing company, Mona Lisa Sound.…

Key claims

  1. date of birth: 1989 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. release date: 2004 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of birth is "1989". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the release date is "2004". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344884589

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