I think I’ve returned to the Peter Gabriel-fronted Genesis more times in the last year than any other time in my life. After the 10,000th time of hearing the group around this 1972-era concert at Paris’ Le Bataclan, I think I’ve finally got them!
Watch the group play “The Musical Box,” “Supper’s Ready,” “Return of the Giant Hogweed,” and “The Knife.”
THAT chord that kicks off The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night. It’s F with a G on top. And at his “One on One” tour opener Wednesday night in Fresno, Paul McCartney played the song — the first time he’d ever performed the song as a solo artist, meaning the first time he’d played it publicly in 51 years. He also played “Love Me Do” for the first time as a solo artist, and dug out the Quarrymen song “In Spite of All the Danger.” Another notable entry in the setlist was “FourFiveSeconds,” McCartney’s hit 2015 collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna.
Lucille Ball was so far ahead of anyone else when it came to comedy that even after 57 years, this clip from The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode called “Lucy Goes to Alaska,” still delivers.
Lucy and the gang are flying to Alaska to see some property Ricky bought. The show starts off by Lucy and her friend Ethel having to share a hotel suite with Red Skelton because no rooms are available. The laughs start when the gang of 4 must sleep in a room with only a single bed. The hotel has only a hammock, army cot and sleeping bag to help out the sleepy friends.
Guess who gets the hammock? How her co-stars managed to keep a straight face, I’ll never know.
With the 2016 MLB season back in full swing, World Wide Interweb takes a look at some of the greatest foul ball catches every made by fans at baseball games over the years.
A Supercut Of The Greatest Foul Ball Catches By… by worldwideinterweb
Depending on who you ask, Kobe Bryant was basketball’s greatest hero or its greatest villain. As he walks off the court for the last time, opponents and fans tell him how they really feel.
https://youtu.be/qQYz0I5dE_A
By the way, playing in the last game of his 20-year career, Kobe Bryant put on a show for a sold-out Staples Center crowd, putting in a season-high 60 points and steering his team to a 101-96 comeback win over the Utah Jazz.
Marc Bolan hosted a music TV show in the 1970s, called – wait for it – MARC, a cross between Saturday Night Special and your favourite music video.
Granada Television commissioned Bolan to front the series, which was just fab as he was, indeed, called Marc, and he introduced new and established bands and performed his own songs. By this time Bolan had lost weight, appearing as trim as he had during T. Rex’s earlier heyday. The show was broadcast during the post-school half-hour on ITV earmarked for children and teenagers.
The last episode featured Bolan duetting with his friend David Bowie. Before the song had reached its end, Bolan tripped over a microphone cable and fell off the stage. Bowie is said to have called out “Could we have a wooden box for Marc [to stand on]?”. Following the show Bolan and Bowie co-wrote and recorded a rough outline of a new song, “Madman.” The new wave band Cuddly Toys found a bootleg tape and recorded it, which became a UK Indie Chart single and featured on their Guillotine Theatre album.
The final show was recorded on September 7, 1977, but not broadcast until after Bolan’s funeral on September 20, 1977, which was also attended by David Bowie and Rod Stewart, among others.
These itty bitty Pawdeles have a lot to “meow” about – they are looking for a home. East Bay SPCA releases Meow, a video spoof of Adele’s Hello music video featuring adoptable kittens. The East Bay SPCA video promotes cat adoption while telling a silly, yet touching story of a little girl, woman and older gentleman’s visit to the East Bay SPCA in hopes of adopting a kitten. The kittens promise their potential adopters that they will do whatever it takes to be the best pets ever! Every cute kitten that appears in the video was adopted from the East Bay SPCA.
Bobby Wesson decided to write a post on Facebook about why his wife is a hero. She is a caring wife, a giving mother, and a registered nurse. His thoughts immediately went viral online, and shows that everyone deserves a little caring, a little attention, and a good spot on the couch after a long, long day.
I urge my students to get a usage dictionary… To recognize that you need a usage dictionary, you have to be paying a level of attention to your own writing that very few people are doing… A usage dictionary is [like] a linguistic hard drive… For me the big trio is a big dictionary, a usage dictionary, a thesaurus — only because I cannot retain and move nimbly around in enough of the language not to need these extra sources.
As a teacher, about 90% of my job is getting the students to understand why they might need one.
A usage dictionary is one of the great bathroom books of all time. Because it has the appeal of trivia, the entries are for the most part brief, and you end up within 48 hours — due to that weird psychological effect — actually drawing on exactly what you learned in some weird, coincidental way.
– David Foster Wallace in Quack This Way
American Woman by Canadian rock band The Guess Who, was first released in January 1970 on the album of the same name and later in March as a single, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Backed with “No Sugar Tonight,” Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 record of 1970.
Shortly after its release, The Guess Who were invited to play at the White House. Because of its supposed anti-American lyrics, Pat Nixon asked that they not play “American Woman”.
https://youtu.be/_S0rjbDSetE?list=PL1kce1vO4m_lbSEsUa_HBQ6LC0GPKV4zA
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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