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Before the events of September 11, 2001 ever happened, New York City’s Come Together concert had already been planned as a tribute to Lennon. When the concert occurred as planned on October 2nd, it took on new meaning. Come Together: A Night For John Lennon’s Words & Music recaptures that event ... read more |
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Yes that Glen Campbell. On his comeback album, the sixties and seventies country crossover giant offers his takes on the songs of modern artists like Tom Petty, The Replacements, and U2. This is what a great Glen Campbell album is actually supposed to sound like in 2008. It’s damn fine listening
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In what seems a trial by fire attempt to get some sort of bleeding heart sympathy from a panel of people who decide whether you get to breath civilian air again, it is no surprise that Chapman was again denied parole for his 20-to-life sentence. ... read more |
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Though this is clearly a biased list, I’ll try my best to create an order that is fitting the impact the album had on the world. Now, before we get started, understand that there are obviously going to be some variations of this list as my life goes on; there’s only room for five albums on this list. (Count ‘em: 1-2-3-4-5) And they’re all albums that I’m aware of so far ... read more |
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Welcome to the debut edition of the Friday Flash, where from this point forward, we will bring you the latest, breaking music news stories as you head out into the weekend to do…well, you know, whatever it is you do. Ladies, show em’ if ya’ know em’! ... read more |
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The interview took place in April 1964, shortly after the Beatles’ American TV debut on The Ed Sullivan show, and has never been aired since. In a nine-and-a-half-minute conversation with Scottish television, the band talked about the songwriting process, and how Lennon and McCartney met ... read more |
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With the self-destructive state of the music business steadily continuing on its downward spiral, it seems the fledgling EMI Music Group has turned back the hands of time for profit. No, CDs aren’t climbing up the sale’s scale again just yet – despite my white-knuckling the over 300 alphabetized collection awaiting in my racks. It’s seems vinyl records are making a comeback. ... read more |
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Ladies and gentleman, Mixtape Madness is back, on a mission from God. We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it ... read more |
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Celebrities looking for positive publicity could have learned a thing or two from John Lennon. Instead of getting swept up in the media mayhem that would follow his and Yoko Ono’s marriage in 1969, he used to it peacefully protest the Vietnam War by staging bed-in’s during what should have been their honeymoon in several cities ... read more |
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The annals of Rock N Roll lore are filled with hundreds of talented and tortured souls. Some of them fought through the pain, some of them took the easy way out. I’m sick and fucking tired of lauding the quitters. There’s nothing poetic about dying in some godforsaken shack after systematically distancing yourself from everyone who cares ... read more |
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Acclaimed Beatles engineer Norman Smith has passed away. Dubbed Norman Normal by John Lennon, the studio hand worked on every Beatles album up to Rubber Soul and later found pop music success himself under the alias Hurricane Smith. Perhaps most famously, he presided over the first ever Fab Four recording at Abbey Road Studios in George Martin’s absence ... read more |
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John Lennon can add “inspiration for ice cream flavor” to his quite lengthy posthumous resume as Ben and Jerry’s, purveyors of the finest “give yourself a heart attack – naturally” ice cream, have honored Lennon his own flavor – complete with signature printed on the carton so you know it's authentic ... read more |
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I heard you’ve been having problems with your woman. The bitch reached up high–to the ho-zone layer–and gave your arch nemesis a reacharound. On your birthday. In an Olive Garden bathroom. That’s cold, broseph. Don’t worry, Mack is here to save you. We’ll take that streetwalker down a few pegs. No, I can’t advocate using a right hook to exact revenge, but an ironic and timely mixtape can do wonders where your sissy slaps might fail ... read more |
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In honor of Cupid and his contumelious nature, Cinema Blend writer Jessica Grabert and I have decided to join forces on the greatest mixtape ever created. Yesterday, we took a little field trip to Staples and loaded up on Post It Notes. Then we took meticulous, irreverent and sometimes pointless musings and wrote them down throughout the day on said little yellow pads of paper ... read more |
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You can zealously keep the old, the tired, and the weary. I’ll cling to the hopelessly romantic, the pathetically love-struck, and the desperately sentimental. Sure, most of the time I’ll take John Lennon’s frenzied rantings about changing the world, but you know what, sometimes Sir. Paul McCartney and his silly love songs sooth in a mushy way I can’t begin to quantify ... read more |
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