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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Finding John Lennon's Lost Rolls-Royce

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“We can confirm that the White Rolls Royce is owned by the Klein family and is undergoing a full restoration. ” --From an email from...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Lennon's Lost Rolls Royce: End of Year Review

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Photo credit: http://kenwoodlennon.blogspot.com Guest blogger Eric Roberts provides a year-end update on the search for John Lennon's...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Playing Tribute

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The "ever popular tortured artist effect" is one of the foundational myths of modern celebrity journalism. Presumably, shiny, ...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, 1944-2011

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Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, who died at age 66 of a heart ailment a little over a week ago, on Thursday, June 16, was an eccentric f...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Days Of Future Past

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According to the OED, the word anthem is a corruption of the Old English word antefn , derived from the Greek word antiphon , meaning “A co...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Olfactory

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The so-called "Generation Gap" of the 1960s distinguished the new from the old not so much by ideological difference as by pattern...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Pictures From Life's Other Side

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The standard view of Hank Williams' Luke the Drifter recordings can be found in Barbara Ching's Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Co...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Armageddon Days Are Here Again

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On this Earth Day, what more appropriate topic than the Whole Earth Catalog ? The Whole Earth Catalog was a thick, oversized paperback larg...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ordinary People

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The Rolling Stones' album Black and Blue (1976), a minor record in the Stones' vast oeuvre and the first made after the departure ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

History And Myth

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According to This Day In Rock , on 15 April 1955 CBS talent scout Arthur Godfrey turned down the chance to sign Elvis Presley. However, acco...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Music Box

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I haven't yet had the time to explore thoroughly all of the contents included in The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Musi...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Anamorphosis

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I'd never noticed the similarity before, but last night while watching the new Blu-ray release of Soylent Green (1973), I realized how ...
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