“Substitute”—declared themselves in an unprecedented fury of compressed sonic aggression, an artistic statement matched and intensified onstage by Townshend’s habit of smashing his guitar to climax concerts. While other groups were moving toward peace-and-love idealism, the Who sang of unrequited...
Reception was very positive with theNew York Timescomparing it toThe Wind in The Willowssaying and “These really are the nicest folk on the river.” It was Christmas season, blame that comparison on too much eggnog made way too strong if you want. AndAV Criticsaid that “it was “The ...
Once Ken had produced a basic script he felt he could use, I started on scratch lyrics for the additional scenes. As I completed them they were added to the script Ken had laid out in two columns: action to the left, lyrics to the right. No dialogue. Ramport was the obvious venue t...
Every rally needs music — the only problem is, musicians don't always want to lend their songs to political campaigns. Here are some of the musicians who've spoken out against politicians playing their tracks at events, ranging from Bruce Springsteen going up against a trio of Republicans to...
then as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. "A Fool in Love" was the first charting single in 1960, while the next decade would deliver such classics as "Proud Mary," "I Want to Take You Higher," "River Deep, Mountain High," "Nutbush City Limits" and "It's Gonna Work Out Fin...
For me it will always be 'the numbered seats in empty rows it all belonged to me you know.'Why should I try to write something that would take me 3 pages to explain when these lyrics do it in one sentence? You want your heroes never to grow old, to stay the same and to be ...
but watching trashy TV (thank you new season of Emily In Paris, I had been saving you for just such an occasion), sleeping in and just generally relaxing. I still don’t particularly want to go back to work on Thursday but I do feel like I’m heading home tomorrow actively refreshed!
Do you want to live the way those people live, showing your papers to some creepy armed Jew at a checkpoint twice a day, fearful that he may refuse to let you pass today? This is how life is under Jewish Rule. But forget Palestine – now we’re getting a well-deserved dose of ...
The next day, Rihanna went DEFCON-0 onInstagramwith an epic takedown of Jones. "My money got a bad habit of pissing people off!!" Rihanna wrote, accompanied with an admittedly less-than-flattering photo of the British reporter. "If you sincerely wanna help little girls more than their own...
Cyrus said to theTimes,"Not to sound like a bitch, but that's like, 'Eh, I didn't get my VMA.' If you want to make it about race, there's a way you could do that. But don't make it just about yourself. Say: 'This is the reason why I think it's important to be nomina...