(a real unstable psycho, killed to boost his ego and did have a baby face), Machine Gun Kelly (real name George Barnes, dumb as a sack of nails, his wife nagged him into a world of crime), Pretty Boy Floyd (was not pretty, but was cool enough to have Woody Guthrie write a song...
Richard Marx wrote his 1989 single “Right Here Waiting” as a love letter to his wife, Cynthia Rhodes, while she was away in South Africa filming a movie. He initially sent it to Barbra Streisand to sing but, after she rejected it, recorded it himself. It went on to become a No.1...
I get that automated journalism is infiltrating its way into newsrooms around the globe, but the Rolling Stone magazine using an AI to write stories seems sacrilegious, especially given it is often referred to as a “rock bible”. It wouldn’t be dissimilar to the Catholic Church claiming i...
So thoroughly did materiel crowd the landscape that finally the Reagan administration decided to take their game to space with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or "Star Wars." This was a grab-bag of offensive and defensive weaponry parked in orbit around earth that would give the U.S....
And, I continue to sing my songs, write my poems and plays." Moe lives in the Boston area and has a farm in Virginia. His website is: www.peereducatorsproject.com/moe/ Tom Ballantyne only worked one paid shift at KSAN. O'Hair offered him weekends, but he liked the prospects at ...
Stephen King writes about ordinary things: dogs, cats, small towns, the girl next door, cars. The kind of things we can all relate to. So does Mike. Oh sure, you may not play high-stakes politics in Washington or whatever, but that’s not what’s at the heart of Mike Lawson‘s ...
What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that. —Billie Joe Armstrong 76 Reading the right books can change your life. Reading the wrong books can confuse the hell out of you. —Patrick Bet-David ...
The changes to the grad program I helped develop as DGS and then put through as chairgot a nice writeup last week in theChronicle of Higher Education.Whatever else happens: send your English-curious students to Marquette! I’ve beenon the newsa couple times. ...
s divorce. Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Elvis Presley have all covered the song, as didWilson Pickett, whose R&B version of “Hey Jude”made the Billboard charts while The Beatles were still #1. Rolling Stone rated “Hey Jude” eighth on the list of the500 Greatest Songs of All ...
6. Richard Marx - Another One Down I have always liked Richard Marx songs (no matter how many people say they sound cheesy), but even I mostly put his work in the "adult contemporary" category. Imagine my surprise when I heard this. It's very...