Freed stars as host of ABC’s “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue,” premiering on April 10. 1958 BOSTON ARENA RIOT May 4: Freed hosts the post-show at the Boston Arena’s ‘Big Beat’ event. When Police refuse to dim the lights, Freed blurts:“I guess the police here in Boston don’t...
28 – Ron Popeil, Inventor/pitch-man – founded Ronco company to promote various products on TV including the Chop-O-Matic, coined the phrase “But wait, there’s more!”– age 86 30 – Jay Pickett, Actor played Frank Scanlon on soap opera “Port Charles” and Detective David Harper on...
Steppenwolf’s rumbling “Born to Be Wild” took the free-willed, adventurous spirit born of ‘60s drug culture and fastened it to hard-driving, blues-tinged rhythms with a touch of psychedelia. The song’s title and lyrical theme of rebellion along with introduction of the phrase “heavy me...
He is also known for his famous catchphrase "I've started so I'll finish", which he said whenever the time ran out while he was reading a question on Mastermind. Birthplace: Reykjavik, Iceland Frank Herbert Dec. at 65 (1920-1986) Frank Herbert was an American writer and actor who ...
may be lost on her Japanese fans without the ElvisPresleyreference. You can really feel that she is letting loose on a man she is disappointed with. Go get him Hanachan,the weak bastard deserves it. Listeners may not know that the phrase “tragically hip” was coined by Elvis Costello in...
But with the addition of whirlwind drummer Mick Harris in 1985 – who claims to have coined the term “grindcore” – Napalm Death became a brutal, frantic combination of Repulsion, Siege, Discharge and Possessed. Motivated by speed, noise and unintelligible screaming about self-empowerment and ...
The company truly took off in 1979 when it coined its famous phrase "Pizza! Pizza!" and started selling two pizzas for the price of one. Today, the chain has thousands of locations around the world and is just as well-known for its sit-down restaurants as it is for delivery and ...
and a tale of Young John Gaunt that ran in the back of GrimJack during its final year at First Comics. I think Kim was afinerwriter than I am. I’m at heart a storyteller and I’m mostly about what happens next; I turn a good phrase and I know plot, character, theme and so ...
But with the addition of whirlwind drummer Mick Harris in 1985 – who claims to have coined the term “grindcore” – Napalm Death became a brutal, frantic combination of Repulsion, Siege, Discharge and Possessed. Motivated by speed, noise and unintelligible screaming about self-empowerment and ...
Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[19] He ...