New York Times : LITTLE RICHARD The Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll By David Kirby 218 pp. Continuum. $19.95 Then there’s the cuteness factor. The dynamo born Richard Penniman has inspired many nicknames, beginning with the sobriquet “Little,” which, as with Stevie Wonder and many other African-American musicians, signaled his precocious gifts. However, Kirby’s calling...
Satisfaction isn’t my favorite Rolling Stones song. I liked Last Time and Brown Sugar much better. But Satisfaction may be the most popular song by the greatest rock band of all time. It continues to receive more air play and is probably better known than any other tune by the scruffy British band. As teenagers, we loved the Stones. They were edgy and irreverent, much more dangerous than their...
From The New York Times: David Kirby’s brief biography of Little Richard reads the way Richard’s shows of the past few decades have played. It’s an engaging, intermittently exciting but ultimately frustrating mix of assertion, reminiscence, free association, repetition, clowning...
Good golly . . . what hangs there? Find a color clue in the lower left corner. Why . . . it’s Miss Holly aka these days as Paul Andrew. If you click the Paul Andrew link, check Sarah Ann. Paul Andrew (ex-Miss Holly) built in 1968, 63′ x 23′ x 8 draft and 2400 hp. [...]
Title: Louisiana Rocks: The True Genesis of Rock & Roll Author: Tom Aswell Publisher: Pelican Format: Hardcover book (500 p.) ISBN: 978-1-58980-677-1 Publication date: January 2010 _ _ “Let us not forget the role that Louisiana—literally every corner of the state— played in shaping the new sounds that came roaring out of the swamps, the prairies, the red clay country, and the...
Continuing down the N'awlins path, we stumble across a man who was sadly lost to us just this year at the age of 78. Mr. Eddie Bo was a singer and pianist who took the funk/jazz world by storm through a number of different names. Like Dorsey, he too went into service after high school, joining the army. Unlike Dorsey, however, Bo studied music after his spell in the army and actually studied classical...
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I was recently sent a link to a Facebook group Is it possible that The Beatles are not the greatestband ever? and it got me thinking; who are 'the greatest band ever' and is there even such a band? (a little note, I am using the word band, but including single artists too.) To answer this you've really got to think about what makes The Beatles arguably the greatest band there has ever been. They are...
“Welcome to Paradise” – Green Day “Moneytalks” – AC/DC “Saturday Night Is Dead” – Graham Parker & the Rumour “Let it Whip” – Dazz Band “So Far Away” – Dire Straits “Promised Land” – Bruce Springsteen “Tangled Up in Blue” – Bob Dylan “A Boy Named Sue” –...
At first, it appears the kind of local album we see all too often. Take, for instance, the terrible-looking presentation. The CD cover is laughable and silly: Stu's sitting on his bed, strumming, and sporting a lipstick kiss on his right cheek. A random cartoon of Lennon, Little Richard and Einst...
Partly to commemorate David Kirby's recently published book about Little Richard , and partly to reassert that Little Richard is a raving lunatic, I present to you this video of the former Richard Penniman live in Paris in 1966. Long before his Hollywood Squares days.
Highly Recommended The Film: For many years I wanted to do a documentary that traced the history of rock-n-roll from a completely black perspective. While I love rock as much as the next person--and perhaps even more than the next person--there is a special place in my heart for black rockers, and I've often felt most of them have never gotten there just due. Sure, guys like Little Richard and Jimi...
Fifty-one years ago today, a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper crashed on route from Clear Lake, Iowa to Moorhead, Minnesota, during a brutal winter tour of the upper Midwest. The Day the Music Died turned out to be one of the worst days in rock and roll history. One wonders what would have happened to these guys had they lived. How would they have adjusted over time? Of...
American Pie “The Day The Music Died” Don McLean Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue On The Ed Sullivan Show Buddy Holly Live in New York With Peggy Sue 1958 Buddy Holly s / ‘Mayby baby Buddy Holly And The Crickets – That’ll Be The Day (Live ‘57) Rock’n Roll BUDDY HOLLY “Oh Boy” Rock and Roll Legends Oh, Boy !…Buddy Holly [...]
Asia's leading 'environmental branding consultancy' Equal Strategy has helped New Balance to project a total sensory experience with a retro '50's and '60's look and feel in its Worlds first New Balance Experience Store in Beijing's historic Qianmen Avenue.
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