Today I learned Elvis Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, sold both “I love Elvis” and “I hate Elvis” buttons as a way to get money from all sides.
Broken-Down Washing Machine Is Your New Band Member!
Is your washing machine making noises? Don’t think of it as broken, but a valuable, new member of your band, like Aaron Attaboy McAvoy did with his unbalanced washing machine “Ken E More” produced a few laundry-inspired lyrics for the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!),” Jerry Reed’s “East Bound and Down,” Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”
Check Out These Kids In Thailand Cover Linkin Park’s “Numb”
Numb by Linkin Park was the third single from their second studio album, Meteora, and is the thirteenth and final track on the album. The track became one of Linkin Park’s most critically acclaimed songs, as well as one of their most commercially successful, peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on February 24, 2004, and was also successful in Oceania, peaking at number 10 in Australia and number 13 in New Zealand. “Numb” is also their longest running single in France, spending 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 19; it was also successful in Greece, topping the singles chart. However, it only ranked for one week in Italy and on the Belgian Singles Chart.[6] In the UK, the song peaked at #14 and stayed for only 6 weeks on the chart, being less successful than its two preceding singles.
Which might explain how a song like this gets popular and played on the street by kids in Thailand.
John Bonham’s Isolated Drums From Led Zeppelin’s “Wearing and Tearing”
Wearing and Tearing by Led Zeppelin is the eighth and final track on their final studio album, Coda. It was recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden during the In Through the Out Door sessions on 21 November 1978. The song was never performed at Led Zeppelin concerts, but Jimmy Page and Robert Plant played it at their Knebworth reunion in 1990.