Janis Joplin was born in January 1943 and died on October 4, 1970. How did Janis Joplin die? As many rock stars tend to do, she died from a drug overdose. Before her death, Janis was among the most successful rock stars of her time and was popular for her electric performances and ...
for me, from another time. I also have never had a sort of Road To Damascus moment with The Beatles music where I became an obsessive convert or did a deep dive into every single aspect of their music and production history (which gauge of strings did George use on his guitar for AND ...
and knowing the year they are born, means knowing the planetary cycles that were in force at that time. Much is made of the first Saturn return for example
Released in three parts over the coming weeks, the first episode of Jeen-yuhs introduces us to West as an ambitious 21-year-old producer, prized (and occasionally taken advantage of) by other artists for his beats, but desperate to rap himself. While it now seems surreal to see West ac...
Jimi Hendrix is arguably the greatest guitar player of all time with his unique style and knowledge of the fretboard. His manager had booked him to be the closing act at Woodstock in ’69, scheduling his performance to be on the Sunday night of that weekend. However, the weather wasn’t...
because Joni Mitchell was going to be at Atlantic City and not at Woodstock. And even at my 22-year old counter-cultural best, I could neither afford or stomach another overblown, crowd-crushing rock ‘n roll festival. Unfortunately and regretfully for me, I made the wrong call, both miss...
and then we’d follow it up with an album the next year. It ended up on a bootleg record, like five years later, on theBetter Than the Restalbum – a really terrible record – but the song did finally see the light of the day. Our bass player at that time hated the song because...
I go to the cinema at our local arts centre a lot, as it’s where I socialise with my friends. This year has been a bit of a disappointment however as although I’ve seen 20+ films, none of them have really blown me away. I did really enjoy the filmWickedwhich Iwrote aboutlast ...
Absolutely phenomenal. Paul did great for a 71 year old legend. He totally held His own and then some way off the charts. There is always a few “Surprises” for me, since this was the 6th time I got the pleasure of seeing Him live in concert. This was no exception as He played ...
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