Manning was still a high-school freshman in El Paso, Texas, when he began playing guitar and befriended a local attraction named Bobby Fuller — in 1966, Fuller would enjoy brief fame with 'I Fought The Law' before dying in mysterious circumstances. Manning played several gigs with Fuller, w...
with the intro, “Thought you might appreciate this.” So, someone *has* has been reading myscreeds against religious nonsense and bigotrythoughtful critiques of the dangers of entangling mythology and supernatural beliefs with cultural institutions and government....
20/12 : The Crickets - I Fought The Law (1960) 19/12 : INXS - Devil Inside (1988) 18/12 : M (Matthieu Chedid) - Dans ta radio (2022) 17/12 : The Breeders - Cannonball (1993) 16/12 : Aretha Franklin - Respect (1967) 15/12 : Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You (198...
Our narrator then moves onto World War II (‘the Blitzkrieg raged,’) the holocaust (‘and the bodies stank,’) the hundred years war (‘your kings and queens, fought for ten decades,’) and the Kennedy assassinations. The allusion to the ‘Troubadours’ are the hippies who traveled the ...
Of course the marriage was broken off; her betrothed had vanished without any explanation, and of all the young men who a month before had actually fought for a dance with her, not one had the courage–(it is quite comprehensible)–to take a blind girl to his arms. And so Modesta, ...
Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the American Revolutionary War. The grave of Chow Manderien. Another lesser-known burial is that of Chow Manderien in 1798. Chow’s burial is the first known documentation of a Chinese person in the United States. ...
out he was leaving to design my film. Roger, known for his ability to spot talent, was not letting Jim go so easily. Roger promised to give Jim his first feature as a director if Jim continued working for him. Roger had correctly sensed Jim was a major talent. He fought to keep him...
the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come...
One time he brought out his keyboard and wanted me to play “Amazing Grace.” Mind you, he didn’t ASK me to; he TOLD me to. The last thing I wanted to do was embarrass myself by struggling to remember the chords to that song in front of the other customers. But guess who ended...
Through the steam of the well-foughten field. The children of Ammon are broken, their princes and warriors yield, The captain is chosen for fight; The light of his eye is as fire, His hand is hardy of might And heavy as dead desire; The sword of the Lord and of Jephthah ...