What i said was that if the songwriter himself made a statement about the origin of the song, then chances are pretty good it's accurate. What i said was that if the songwriter himself made a statement about the origin of the song, then chances are pretty good it's accurate. Besides:...
During this month, The Who premiere their new look. Modeled after the then art school of "Pop Art," The Who wear T-shirts with Royal Air Force roundels, jackets covered in war medals and a special jacket made out of the Union Jack. It sparks a fashion trend that remains popular to ...
pop art, and conceptual extended musical pieces into the group's style. The remainder of the Who, especially Entwistle and Daltrey, weren't always eager to follow him in his musical explorations, especially after the success of his first rock opera, Tommy. Instead, they wanted to stick...
One notion kept coming into my head: I can’t explain. I can’t explain. This would be the title of my second song, and I was already doing something I would often do in the future: writing songs about music. 'Got a feeling inside, I can’t explain A certain kind, I can’t ...
Stromberg seems to have been first to market, but no one can say how many instruments it made or sold. Rickenbacker and Vivi-Tone were in a close race. But while all these firms created an electrically amplified guitar, their designs were strikingly different. The Stromberg Electro (or what...
de gueltzl. christopher john rogers made a colorful return to the runway in june. mid-pandemic, the new york up-and-comer opted to move to the pre-season schedule to boost his sales and stand out from the fashion week crowds. not that rogers has any trouble standing out—his exuberant...
aI went red in the face.I didn’t know what to say and other children started laughing.Then a little girl,Rosalyn,who sat beside me turned to me and said, “You can have some of mine .”She offered a bag of macaroni to me.The kindness in her eyes made me cry and I ran out of...
No matter how clever the script, the film needed the right person to pull the strings. In hindsight, Zemeckis seems the perfect fit, having made a career of pioneering effects, from DeLoreans disappearing inBack to the Future(1985), to Tom Hanks appearing in archival footage inForrest Gump...
This is actually the sixth ‘thing’ I’ve written since we lost Dorothy. But it’s the first ‘thing’ I’ve actually made public. The problem I’ve had is that there’s nothing comforting to write. Everything I’ve put down is just so bleak. So I’ve waited for a story to tel...
the notion of a child tortured by his parents came back two years later when he began work onTommy.“I’ve always addressed and acknowledged child abuse, the neglect of children, the misunderstanding of adolescence,” Townshend said in 1993. “The first song in which I addressed it was ‘...