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Tales of a misspent rock and roll youth: Unplugging Leo Sayer
Every once in a while I’ll break away from my list making and my struggle to figure out the deal Justin Bieber made with the devil to tell you a story about music and my misspent youth. This is one of...
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Vatican to Beatles: Let it Be
In between fending off more accusations of abuse, linking pedophilia to homosexuality and doing damage control, the Vatican found the time to take on another very important matter: They have forgiven...
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Albums revisited: David Bowie, Young Americans
[An ongoing series in which I tell you not so much about an album, but its place in my life] For whatever reason, I distinctly remember buying the 45 single of Fame. It was Modell’s record department,...
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I read an article a while back about a guy who took his kids “pretend birthday shopping.” The author had three young daughters with birthdays coming up. He and his wife took the kiddies to Target to...
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Word to your mother: songs for Mother’s Day
Before we get started let’s say this isn’t your normal list of songs about mother. This one is for everyone, not just the people who love their moms so much they get her name tattooed over their heart....
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Twitter jokes on trial: how one tweet turned a man into a criminal
“Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!“ And with that tweet, the life of Paul Chambers took a very wrong...
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Albums revisited part 2: the ones I forget to remember
We’ll call this one Albums I Forgot I Loved. I’ve been driving my daughter’s car for the past two weeks; mine needs work and she’s in Florida, so I did what any broke person would do – I put off the...
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Ronnie James Dio dead at 67
From Yahoo News: Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a...
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A commencement speech for the graduating music fans of 2010
No one ever asks me to give commencement speeches. The one I wrote this morning is probably a good reason why. Well, that and I’m not famous. But if I could give a commencement speech based on the...
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It’s a small, evil world of earworms
I just spent three days in Disney World. I’m wondering how many days it will take before “It’s A Small World’ is no longer playing in my head. It’s a funny thing about that song. All I had to do was...
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