Monthly Archives: July 2009

Sam Phillips Dies 30 July 2003

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Sam Phillips did more than most to shape popular music in the 50s and 60s. As Owner and leading light of the mighty Sun Records he discovered or developed Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Inpite of this roll call of talent it is easy to forget […]

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On This Day – John Denver Dumped

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On this day in 1986 RCA dumped John Denver, his crime? Recording a song called “What Are We Making Weapons For?” You may know that I have absolutely no love for John Denver and others of his ilk.  However, they did not dump him because of crimes against music – which would have been fair […]

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Michael Jackson – Worth More Dead than Alive?

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So what is going on with the Michael Jackson estate and debts? Well, it seems that some of the legal suits against him could be dropped, at least those that depended on MJ’s testimony. Those based on non payment of written contracts will continue. However, it would seem that the money making side of Jackson […]

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Michael Michael Jackson – Why Wait Till He’s Dead ? (part 3)

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I never thought when I started this blog that Michael Jackson would provide the first serial post, but then he was such a sad person perhaps I should have. I said in the last post about Michael Jackson that we should expect lots of litigation. I am reminded by James (thanks James) that only in […]

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On This Day – Folkies Go Wild!!

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On this day in 1965 the beards and sandals brigade at the Newport Folk Festival were very upset when Bob Dylan turned up backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band with his new electric sound. He was heckled and booed, eventually leaving the stage. Later he returned to the stage to play a couple of […]

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On This Day – Ayatollah agrees with Little Richard!

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On this day in 1979, just a day after Little Richard spoke out against the evils of rock ‘n’ roll The Ayatollah Khomenini echoed his warning. He banned all forms of rock ‘n’ roll in Iran after saying that it was a corrupting influence.

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On This Day – Frank You’re a Star, Well a Rock!

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On this day in 1994 The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after the much missed Frank Zappa who had died in December the previous year. The Scientific Stuff, Beyond Mars but before you get to Jupiter there should be another planet, but there isn’t. What there is a a pile of debris. Some of […]

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Michael Jackson Why Wait Till He’s Dead ? (part 2)

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I touched on this in a previous post. It now seems that Michael Jackson has sold 2.3 million albums in the last 2 weeks, in thew States alone.  Good news for the owners of the state. (Expect more legal wrangling).  My question remains the same, why now?  Are we so stupid that we forget about […]

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Champion Jack Dupree

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All things are connected, sort of. Yesterday I wrote about Keef Hartley because I had lost a post about him due to a problem with wordpress (too boring to explain fully, just stay with this). So last night I picked up Keef Hartley’s book Halfbreed opened it at random and started reading about Keef recording […]

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Keef Hartley

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My scheduled posts was not working a little while ago I fixed the bug and wrote a test post to make sure that it was working. In that test post I mentioned that I had lost a post about Keef Hartley.  I was surprised and pleased to see the number of people who had found […]

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