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38-588: The "Alabama Song" was written as a German poem and translated into idiosyncratic English for the author Bertolt Brecht by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and published in Brecht's 1927 Home Devotions ( Hauspostille  [ de ] ), a parody of Martin Luther 's collection of sermons. It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny ( Mahagonny-Songspiel ) and reused for Brecht and Weill's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of

76-460: A systematic regularity . While systematic regularities in the sound system of a language are useful for identifying phonological rules during analysis of the forms morphemes can take, idiosyncratic properties are those whose occurrence is not determined by those rules. For example, the fact that the English word cab starts with the sound /k/ is an idiosyncratic property; on the other hand that its vowel

114-573: A Brecht fan, performed the song throughout his 1978 Isolar II tour. A live version from the tour, recorded in either Philadelphia on 29 April 1978 or in Boston on 6 May, appeared on the 1991, 2005 and 2017 reissues of the live album Stage . On 2 July 1978, a day after the tour's European leg ended, Bowie recorded a studio version at Tony Visconti 's Good Earth Studios in London with his studio band. Pianist Sean Mayes stated that "it had been such

152-427: A Dalek operator he has also appeared in person on Blue Peter and in many editions of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential . In November 2013 he appeared as himself in the 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot . Pegg has also worked on Doctor Who in the audio medium, acting, writing and directing for several Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions . For

190-490: A Rustling , and Diary of a Somebody . Pegg's long-term partner is actor Barnaby Edwards . Guesting at the 2017 Pride Cymru event Who's Queer Now , a symposium celebrating the impact and influences of Doctor Who on LGBT people, the couple revealed that they were celebrating their 25th anniversary. Pegg has operated the Daleks in numerous episodes of Doctor Who since 2005: He has also written, featured in or directed

228-430: A complete market in which the capital asset pricing model holds, the price of a security is determined by the amount of systematic risk in its returns. Net income received, or losses suffered, by a landlord from renting of one or two properties is subject to idiosyncratic risk due to the numerous things that can happen to real property and variable behavior of tenants. According to one macroeconomic model including

266-443: A financial sector, hedging idiosyncratic risk can be self-defeating as amid the "risk reduction" experts are encouraged to increase their leverage. This works for small shocks but leads to higher vulnerability for larger shocks and makes the system less stable. Thus, while securitisation in principle reduces the costs of idiosyncratic shocks, it ends up amplifying systemic risks in equilibrium. In econometrics , "idiosyncratic error"

304-459: A following of one's particular temperament or bent especially in trait, trick, or habit; the former often suggests mental aberration, the latter, strong individuality and independence of action". The term can also be applied to symbols or words. Idiosyncratic symbols mean one thing for a particular person, as a blade could mean war , but to someone else, it could symbolize a surgery . In phonology , an idiosyncratic property contrasts with

342-438: A hit on the tour that David wanted to do it as a single." With unconventional key changes, the track "seemed calculated to disrupt any radio programme on which it was lucky enough to get played", in the words of NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray . Bowie's studio cut of "Alabama Song" was released by RCA Records as a single on 15 February 1980, with the catalogue number RCA BOW 5. Reaching number 23 in

380-509: A list ranking every Bowie single from worst to best. Bowie later appeared in a BBC version of Brecht's Baal and released an EP of songs from the play. He subsequently performed "Alabama Song" on his 1990 Sound+Vision and 2002 Heathen tours. The song also appeared on the 1992 Rykodisc reissue of Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) , as well as the compilation albums Rare (1982), The Singles Collection (1993), The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007) and Re:Call 3 , part of

418-774: A regular contributor to the Album to Album Bowie podcast series. In 2019 and 2021 he was a guest speaker at the annual Dublin Bowie Festival, and in 2022 he compered the David Bowie World Fan Convention in Liverpool, a role he would reprise at the 2023 event in New York. He also appeared as a Bowie expert in the 2007 TV documentary series Seven Ages of Rock , and has hosted Bowie radio specials for broadcasters in Australia and

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456-417: A specific security, as opposed to the overall market, are called "idiosyncratic risks". This specific risk, also called unsystematic, can be nulled out of a portfolio through diversification. Pooling multiple securities means the specific risks cancel out. In complete markets , there is no compensation for idiosyncratic risk—that is, a security's idiosyncratic risk does not matter for its price. For instance, in

494-592: A tribute to Bowie in the company of Lindsay Kemp , while in January 2017 Pegg teamed up with Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet to make a short film for The Guardian website to mark the first anniversary of Bowie's death. Also in 2017, Pegg appeared as a guest Bowie speaker at events including the Penzance Literary Festival and the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Celebrating Bowie at 70 . Since 2018 he has been

532-404: Is high. Type B reactions are most commonly immunological (e.g. penicillin allergy). The word is used for the personal way a given individual reacts, perceives and experiences: a certain dish made of meat may cause nostalgic memories in one person and disgust in another. These reactions are called idiosyncratic . In portfolio theory , risks of price changes due to the unique circumstances of

570-472: Is longer than in the English word cap is a systematic regularity, as it arises from the fact that the final consonant is voiced rather than voiceless. Idiosyncrasy defined the way physicians conceived diseases in the 19th century. They considered each disease as a unique condition, related to each patient. This understanding began to change in the 1870s, when discoveries made by researchers in Europe permitted

608-548: Is not something to be shuffled off on to some stray boffin, you know" (ostensibly a reference to a line of dialogue by the character Brownrose from the 1971 story Terror of the Autons , mentioned in passing in the article.) In addition to several Doctor Who audio plays for the Big Finish series, Pegg's work as a director includes theatre productions of Hamlet , Twelfth Night , Peter Pan , Funny Money , I Thought I Heard

646-554: Is used to describe error—that is, unobserved factors that impact the dependent variable—from panel data that both changes over time and across units (individuals, firms, cities, towns, etc.) Nicholas Pegg Nicholas Pegg is a British actor, director and writer. Educated at Nottingham High School and graduating with a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Exeter , Pegg subsequently trained at

684-480: The A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) box set, in 2017. According to Chris O'Leary: Technical Idiosyncratic An idiosyncrasy is a unique feature of something. The term is often used to express peculiarity. The term "idiosyncrasy" originates from Greek ἰδιοσυγκρασία idiosynkrasía , "a peculiar temperament, habit of body" (from ἴδιος idios , "one's own", σύν syn , "with" and κρᾶσις krasis , "blend of

722-613: The Doctor Who DVD audio commentaries of The Mutants and Resurrection of the Daleks (Special Edition), and wrote the "info text" subtitles for many DVD releases. In October 2017 Pegg, under his regular pseudonym of The Watcher , concealed a crude acrostic message in his regular "Wotcha" column in Doctor Who Magazine, in which the first letters of each sentence spelled out the message " Panini ..." (publishers of Doctor Who Magazine) " ...and BBC Worldwide are cunts". This

760-564: The Guildford School of Acting . Pegg's acting work in the theatre includes productions for Nottingham Playhouse , Scottish Opera , Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Plymouth . His television roles include appearances in EastEnders , Doc Martin and It's a Sin , and he has appeared as a Dalek operator in numerous episodes of Doctor Who . In his capacity as

798-661: The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch , the MacRobert Playhouse in Stirling, and the Theatre Royal, Nottingham . He is also the author of the Doctor Who audio play The Spectre of Lanyon Moor , and he adapted the text of King Lear for the 2017 Big Finish version starring David Warner . Pegg has written for publications including Mojo , Q Magazine , Pride Life , and Doctor Who Magazine . His other writing credits include

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836-547: The UK Independence Party . The sketch went viral, receiving 250,000 hits in 4 days. As a writer, Nicholas Pegg is a noted authority on the life and work of David Bowie . He is the author of The Complete David Bowie ( ISBN   9781785653650 ), published by Titan Books and described by Bowie's long-time producer Tony Visconti as "the best Bowie reference book one could ever hope for". Pegg has acted as consultant and contributor to numerous Bowie projects, including

874-576: The Vintage TV show The Vintage TV Sessions , introducing a live session by the Decades band, having previously presented a 2017 edition of the same channel's video jukebox show My Vintage , during which he introduced a selection of his favourite music videos and premiered the videos for the Decades singles 'We All Fall Down' and 'Hurting, Sinking'. Pegg has written stage plays, including numerous pantomimes for British theatres including Harrogate Theatre,

912-584: The 1927 Baden-Baden Festival's performance of Little Mahagonny . The first recording of the song—by Lenya for the Homocord record label—came out in early 1930 under the title "Alabama-Song"; it was rerecorded the same year for the Ultraphon record label for release with the 1930 Leipzig premiere of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny , despite Lenya not being a member of that cast. She continued to perform and record

950-586: The 2012 comedy film The Plotters . For the audiobook company Textbook Stuff he recorded the collected poems of Andrew Marvell , and for Penguin Audiobooks in 2013 he read the Doctor Who short stories Tip of the Tongue by Patrick Ness and Spore by Alex Scarrow . On 19 January 2014, Pegg wrote and performed The UKIP Shipping Forecast , a satirical response to the pronouncements of various high-profile members of

988-712: The 2022 Brett Morgen film Moonage Daydream , the BBC TV documentaries David Bowie: Five Years (2013) and David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017), the Victoria and Albert Museum 's exhibition David Bowie Is , the BBC Radio 2 documentary Exploring 'Life On Mars? (2017), and the same year's Royal Mail edition of commemorative Bowie stamps. He also worked on the Isle of Man Post Office 's 2022 issue of commemorative stamps celebrating David Bowie's acting career. In May 2016 Pegg joined Marc Almond on stage at London's Ace Hotel to co-host

1026-553: The City of Mahagonny ( Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ), where it is sung by Jenny and her fellow prostitutes in Act I. Although the majority of all three works is in German, the "Alabama Song" retained Hauptmann's English lyrics throughout. Brecht and Weill's version of the song was first performed by the Viennese actress and dancer Lotte Lenya , Weill's wife, in the role of Jessie at

1064-622: The DVD release of Revenge of the Cybermen . He also wrote When Worlds Collide , a documentary about politics and ideology in Doctor Who , which appeared on the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol , and A Matter of Time , a documentary about Doctor Who under the producership of Graham Williams , which was the leading special feature on the Key to Time series box set. Pegg has worked as script editor on several other documentary features, appears as moderator for

1102-531: The UK, the single featured a fold-out sleeve and was backed by Bowie's new acoustic rendition of " Space Oddity ", recorded in December 1979 for The "Will Kenny Everett Make It to 1980?" Show . Discussing the track, biographer Nicholas Pegg calls it "one of the most defiantly uncommercial, discordant and aggressive recordings Bowie ever released". In 2016, Ultimate Classic Rock placed the single at number 84 (out of 119) in

1140-767: The United Kingdom. In 2018, the author Philip Reeve revealed that Pegg's book The Complete David Bowie had "played an inspirational role" in the genesis of Reeve's Railhead trilogy of novels. Nicholas Pegg is the co-creator of the 2017 concept album Decades , a collaboration with songwriter David Palfreyman which features a cast of notable actors, singers and musicians, including David Warner , Richard Coyle , Jacqueline Pearce , Jan Ravens , Simon Greenall , Edward Holtom, Sarah Jane Morris , Cassidy Janson, Mitch Benn , Jessica Lee Morgan , Ian Shaw , Gary Barnacle , Greg Hart , Terry Edwards and Martyn Barker . In April 2018 he appeared with David Palfreyman on

1178-548: The advent of a "scientific medicine", a precursor to the evidence-based medicine that is the standard of practice today. The term idiosyncratic drug reaction denotes an aberrant or bizarre reaction or hypersensitivity to a substance, without connection to the pharmacology of the drug. It is what is known as a Type B reaction. Type B reactions have the following characteristics: they are usually unpredictable, might not be picked up by toxicological screening, not necessarily dose-related, incidence and morbidity low but mortality

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1216-408: The four humors " ( temperament ) or literally "particular mingling". Idiosyncrasy is sometimes used as a synonym for eccentricity , as these terms "are not always clearly distinguished when they denote an act, a practice, or a characteristic that impresses the observer as strange or singular." Eccentricity, however, "emphasizes the idea of divergence from the usual or customary; idiosyncrasy implies

1254-511: The group during their early years, and due to their dissatisfaction with the melody, they radically changed it. The Doors' cover version combines avant-garde and polka music influences with psychedelic elements. It was a regular one from their set at the Whisky a Go Go , and Van Morrison reported that he was surprised when he heard the Doors playing it at the venue. Lead singer Jim Morrison altered

1292-771: The same company, he played the Duke of Albany in King Lear (2017), Foxy-Faced Charles in The Box of Delights (2021), the Law Machines in Torchwood (2018), and Captain Smollett in Treasure Island (2013). His other acting roles include Gervais of Waringham in the 2020 Audible serial The Waringham Chronicles , and its 2017-18 Audible prequel serial Scarlet City , and Robert Wintour in

1330-437: The second verse from "Show us the way to the next pretty boy" to "Show me the way to the next little girl",. For the Doors' recording, Ray Manzarek also contributed marxophone along with organ and keyboard bass. Manzarek recalled that it was producer Paul Rothchild 's idea to provide a marxophone on the track, to which Manzarek ultimately said, "It worked out perfectly, that jingle- jangly sound." Per sources: David Bowie ,

1368-459: The short stories Deep Water and Hold Your Horses for the 2008 and 2009 Doctor Who Storybooks as well as contributions to The Doctor Who Annual and The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who . He has also written numerous features for the BBC's range of DVD releases of the Doctor Who television series. He wrote Cheques, Lies and Videotape , a documentary about the heyday of pirate videos, which appeared on

1406-536: The song throughout her life, including for her 1955 album Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill ( Lotte Lenya singt Kurt Weill ), released in the United States under the title Berlin Theater Songs . The song was recorded in 1966 by the rock group the Doors , listed as "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)". According to drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger , the song was presented by keyboardist Ray Manzarek to

1444-407: Was widely reported as leading to his sacking from the magazine and from Doctor Who . These reports turned out to be inaccurate, as Pegg has continued to work regularly on the series. Alternative accounts suggest that the decision to axe his column had already been made and that it was this decision that led to Pegg writing the hidden message. Pegg's column that month was subtitled "The column that

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