John Legend tries out popular wine hacks to help you live like a legend.
Mister Rogers Tells David Letterman In 1982 That Things Don’t Always Go As Planned In The Neighborhood
Fred Rogers’ only appearance on the 11th episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
The Clash’s Joe Strummer Ran 3 Marathons Without Training. Here’s How He Did It.
Before the album Combat Rock by The Clash was released in 1982, lead singer and guitarist Joe Strummer went into hiding and the band’s management said that he had “disappeared”. Bernie Rhodes, the band’s manager, pressured Joe to do so because tickets were selling slowly for the Scottish leg of an upcoming tour. It was planned for Strummer to travel, in secret, to Texas and stay with his friend, musician Joe Ely. Uneasy with his decision, Strummer instead decided to genuinely disappear and “dicked around” in France. During this time, Strummer ran the Paris Marathon in April 1982. He claimed his training regimen consisted of 10 pints of beer the night before the race.
In 1999, Strummer discussed his showing at the Paris Marathon of April 1982 with American magazine Steppin’ Out.
Steppin’ Out: Didn’t you once run in the Paris Marathon?
Joe Strummer: Yep. I ran three of them.
SO: Correct me if I’m wrong but is it also true that you never trained for any of them?
JS: You shouldn’t really ask me about my training regime, you know.
SO: Why?
JS: Because it’s not good and I wouldn’t want people to copy it.
SO: Don’t make me beat it out of you.
JS: Okay, you want it, here it is. Drink 10 pints of beer the night before the race. Ya got that? And don’t run a single step at least four weeks before the race.
SO: No running at all?
JS: No, none at all. And don’t forget the 10 pints of beer the night before. But make sure you put a warning in this article, “Do not try this at home.” I mean, it works for me and Hunter Thompson but it might not work for others. I can only tell you what I do.
The Paris Marathon story remains unsubstantiated. But Joe talks about what happened in the video below – the Paris segment begins just after 4:30.
Well, this just made me question everything
Caltech researchers have developed these two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other—in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so quickly that they illustrate a phenomenon called postdiction (as opposed to prediction) in which a stimulus that occurs later can retroactively affect our perceptions of an earlier event.
Roger Waters explains the arguments over ‘Comfortably Numb’
Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters explains to Absolute Radio’s Russ Williams why and how he and band-mate David Gilmour fell out over the recording of seminal ‘The Wall’ track ‘Comfortably Numb’.
Tommy Smothers dead-on imitation of Johnny Carson
Tommy Smothers, best known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick, does a dead-on imitation of Johnny Carson.
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) With Synchronized Lighting
Rousseau, who performs “piano covers of classical and pop songs with a reactive visualizer”, did just that with a very cool take on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement).
Daniel Baron’s “One More Goodbye” Might Be His 6th #1 Song…
Daniel Baron, the self-taught singer-songwriter-producer has achieved five number 1 hits and People Magazine have referred to him as “One of South Africa’s greatest pop-stars”. His brand new single titled ‘One More Goodbye’ releases today, accompanied with a spectacular music video capturing the singer performing the piano ballad on a moving open-top trailer through the streets of Johannesburg.
Known for his constantly evolving sound and bold cross-genre antics, Baron’s success has stemmed from pop-rock anthems such as ‘So Much More’, to the dance-floor chart-crusher ‘Children Of The Sun’, which was one of the biggest SA dance songs in 2016, also receiving airplay in Europe.
Daniel, who opened for Bon Jovi at FNB Stadium in 2013, is currently travelling across South Africa, on his Unplugged Tour, recently performing a number of shows along the coast with plans to visit Europe and the States in 2019.