Results for John LennonWho was he, this bespectacled, long haired, rich-as-God hippie with a penchant for noble causes and the experimental? On and off this planet in almost forty years flat, he's remembered more for his Beatle years, roughly ten, of which seven were wildly popular, than the other 30 in which he wrote prose and lyrics, acted, fathered, ran with the Radicals and lobbied for causes important. Lennon's final release, 'Double Fantasy,' put second wife and soul mate Yoko Ono squarely in the center of his universe, which meant that diehard Lennon fans had to endure her in the center of theirs, too, if they wanted to hear him sing. His murder on a New York street in December, 1980 had to be a mistake: he wasn't ready. Unlike some niche stars that are destined to fizzle early, Lennon was neither assiduously self-destructive nor a one-trick pony, and neither he nor his fans got to see what Lennon would become....more
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by j. poet•August 28, 2008•
You’re already in a pleasant pop trance when you notice that they’re not painting joyful pictures of boy meets girl. No, the songs on The Silent Generation deal with murder, political riots, war, death, and people going insane before they jump into the sea in botched suicide attempts. The album has gotten raves for their ability to bring light into even the darkest scenarios and the band’s blend of acoustic and electric guitars to create a sound that manages to be soothing
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by James Greene, Jr.•August 20, 2008•
"This film suffers something of an identity crisis, which is strangely apropos"
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by Keith Altham•August 13, 2008•
Conducting an interview with Keith Moon is rather like running a mental obstacle course with a megalomaniac (his manager's reference, not mine), with imminent danger to your own person. I have always felt that Moon should be made to wear a placard reading, "Those riding on this machine do so at their own risk." I also feel that he deserves, along with the Beatles, a monument to testify to his outstanding irreverence
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by Denise Sullivan•August 6, 2008•
And in less than 30 seconds, a song that I had been loving and found so sweet just moments before had become as appealing as sour milk to me.
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by Keith Altham•July 23, 2008•
Andrew Oldham is egotistical, talented, insulting, outrageous, and likeable almost in spite of himself. He manages the world's number two group, owns his own record company, produces discs, writes songs, sleeve notes, and poetry, and publishes the Beach Boys' music in Britain. In the hip vocabulary of pop music they say he is "happening." Perhaps Mama Cass stressed
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5/4/2008
One of the best concerts I ever saw was Rockpile at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on December 10 (or 12), 1980 ...
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3/8/2008
GEORGE THOROGOOD gets bad to the bone in Houston on 3/13/08:
George Thorogood has a theory.
"In any field,...
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12/14/2007
Agree with all of the above. Another fantastic, never-to-be-replicated, station of that era, was KTIM, which operated...
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9/19/2007
Two other leftys who play guitars strung in the right handed manner are Glenn Burtnik (Styx)and Paul Raymond (UFO). Don...
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8/21/2007
Diane M: Good for you, that is, teaching this music history. And, the thing is about this era -- the music is strongly...
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