But it occurred to me that in just a five-year span – from 1968 to 1972, Rod’s discography containsninealbums, and they are all classics. 1968 saw his debut as the singer of the Jeff Beck Group (which also featured bass player Ron Wood) onTruth. The following year, they releasedBec...
This film contains the only other lead role for Duane Jones, best known for starring in the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. The film's extras included the postmodern novelist William Gaddis and his wife Judith Thompson. The film was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee...
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin brings his signature rapid-fire, sharp and witty dialogue to this story of the 1969 trial of seven people charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The star-studded cast...
Released: 1968 Directed by: William Wyler Dig Deeper Every Song in Funny Girl, Ranked by Singability Also ranks #1 on The Best Barbra Streisand Movies Also ranks #3 on All Of Omar Sharif's Movies, Ranked 11 How to Steal a Million Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach 66 votes A...
in 1968 and the U.S. one year later (with a slightly different song list that includes "All Along the Watchtower"), Smash Hits is everything any Hendrix fan could want. "Purple Haze," "Fire," "The Wind Cries Mary." That's just the first three songs on the album. Over t...
“rock poet” Bob Dylan, the likes of protest singer Phil Ochs set extant poetry to music (Alfred Noyers’ “The Highwayman”), and 60s hitmakers Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich used Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” as the basis for their 1968 UK chart-topper, “The ...
Year: 1968 A beguiling cocktail of country, rock, folk, classical and soul, Music From Big Pink was quite unlike anything that had been heard before. Striking out on their own after working as Bob Dylan's backing band, they nevertheless employed Dylan's help - he co-wrote five of the...
Thomas A Dorsey was widely known as the father of gospel music, writing many of the world’s greatest gospel songs. Moments before Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, in 1968, he asked to have Dorsey’s best-known song, “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” performed. In the following...
1968 Writer(s):Billy Sherrill, Tammy WynettePowered byPlay the Full Song From the start, this pledge of wifely devotion, the first song Wynette ever co-wrote, was a cultural lightning rod. Feminists recoiled from its pledge of unquestioning fidelity in the Seventies, and Hillary Clinton defined...
The Beatles (1968): While My Guitar Gently Weeps 'The Beatles' (1968): "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Harrison's tour de force is a sly dig at the other Beatles during one of their most tumultuous periods. The White Album is basically four solo albums with assist from the other members...