SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - OCT. 8-14Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - OCT. 1-7The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - SEPT. 17-23David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - SEPT. 9 -15New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: MARCH 5-11Jeff Beck betters The Yardbirds; Tommy debuts in North American movie theatres; The Number of the Beast is released; Jimi Hendrix sets himself on fire in protest of his first-ever UK concert
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: BATTLE OF THE BANDS: ZOOEY DESCHANEL VS. KATY PERRYJust who is trying to copy whom? In this Battle of the Bands, SoundProof pits She & Him's Zooey Deschanel against pop singer Katy Perry.
SOUNDPROOFFEATURES: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: FEB 26 - MAR 4Britney's bubble gum; Tommy Lee is a cowardly immoral dirt-bag; Wham! haters rejoice; This Is Spinal Tap premieres
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
