DON’T BURST MY BUBBLE…Dr. Allan Dafoe of Dionne Quintuplet fame looked forward to taking in the sights of New York, including Sally Rand’s famed bubble dance. (Image from the 1936 book The Country Doctor/Sally Rand via stuffnobodycaresabout.com) * * * Leading Ladies Film Critic John...
Don’t confuse the site of Metallica’s first concert for New York’s fabled Radio City Music Hall. Instead, Radio City was a small club located in a strip mall in Anaheim, California. The future metal giants had a lineup featuring Lars Ulrich, Ron McGovney, Dave Mustaine and James Het...
The much-mocked video for 1984's "Rock Me Tonight" brought that all to a crashing halt. Within days, "I was playing to half-empty houses. ... Everything I'd worked for my whole life was crumbling," he told the New York Post in 2013. "How can a four-minute video do that?" Ho...
…if you lived in New York in the 1920s and early 30s you probably would have known about the sometime artist/designerDon Dickermanand his themed Greenwich Village restaurants — especiallyThe Pirate’s Den— which inspired this line of highball glasses (yeah, Prohibition was still around, bu...
Roger Waters gave Pink Floyd the choice between this material and the songs that made up 1979'sThe Wall.The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hikingcrept to No. 31 in the U.S., but ultimately become a largely forgotten solo effort. Formatted incrementally throughout a husband's 41-minute dream abou...
The much-mocked video for 1984's "Rock Me Tonight" brought that all to a crashing halt. Within days, "I was playing to half-empty houses. ... Everything I'd worked for my whole life was crumbling," he told the New York Post in 2013. "How can a four-minute video do that?" ...
Roger Waters gave Pink Floyd the choice between this material and the songs that made up 1979'sThe Wall.The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hikingcrept to No. 31 in the U.S., but ultimately become a largely forgotten solo effort. Formatted incrementally throughout a husband's 41-minute dream abou...
What about New York's version of 2023, especially the concerts we attended. Here is a look back at the Capital Region In Concert 2023. Get our free mobile app The Classic Rockconcert calendarwas strong in 2023 with nearly 50 concerts in the Capital Region alone. That's like goi...
The Pogues recorded five albums with MacGowan beginning in 1984, brilliantly combining traditional Irish music with punk rock. He was fired in the early '90s during a ferocious bout with alcoholism, but not before the Pogues' duet with Kirsty MacColl on "Fairytale in New York" had become a...
The much-mocked video for 1984's "Rock Me Tonight" brought that all to a crashing halt. Within days, "I was playing to half-empty houses. ... Everything I'd worked for my whole life was crumbling," he told the New York Post in 2013. "How can a four-minute video do that?" ...