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Twisted Fact of the Day:
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The Day In Rock
No. 1
1976 Paul Simon: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover US 45
1976 Bob Dylan: Desire US LP
1981 John Lennon Woman UK 45
1981 John Lennon: Double Fantasy UK LP
1987 Aretha Franklin and George Michael: I Knew You Were Waiting UK 45
1987 Madonna: Open Your Heart US 45
1999 Blondie : Maria : UK single
Births
1949 Alan Lancaster (Status Quo)
1959 Brian Travers (UB40)
1960 Steve Bronski (Bronski Beat)
1962 David Bryan (Bon Jovi)
1962 Garth Brooks
Deaths
1959 Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones (influence on Jimi Hendrix)
Miscellany
1964 Beatles visit America for first time. I Want to Hold Your Hand is No. 1, and thousands of screaming fangs greet them at Kennedy airport.
1964 Kinks appear on Ready, Steady, Go performing Long Tall Sally.
1965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed at University College Hospital, London. 1966 First edition of the first rock magazine, Crawdaddy, published in US.
1979 Stephen Stills completes the first digitally recorded rock LP, which is never released.
1980 Pink Floyd premiere their concert The Wall in Los Angeles.
1981 Talking Heads debut on UK chart with Once in a Lifetime.
1983 Led Zeppelin go platinum with Coda LP.
1984 CBS hold a party for Michael Jackson at Museum of Natural History, New York. 1987 Luther Vandross finally hits US Top 20 singles chart for the first time as Stop to Love moves to No. 19
1987 Open Your Heart becomes Madonna's third straight No. 1 single from her latest LP True Blue - only Whitney Houston has achieved this before, when Greatest Love of All hit the top.
1994 Blind Melon's singer Shannon Hoon is thrown out of the American Music Awards for loud and disruptive behavior.He is later charged with assault, battery, resisting arrest and destroying a police station phone.
1995 Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to one-to-four-and-a-half years in jail for sexual abuse.
What’s in the CD player?
Pete Towshend -- Empty Glass
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Pete Townshend was heading toward collapse as the '70s turned into the '80s. He had battled a number of personal demons throughout the '70s, but he started spiraling downward after Keith Moon's death, questioning more than ever why he did what he did (and this is a songwriter who always asked questions). Signs of that crept out on Face Dances, but he saved a full-blown exploration of his psyche for Empty Glass, his first solo album since Who Came First, a vanity project released to little notice around Who's Next (so limited in its distribution that Empty Glass seemed like his solo debut). Some of the songs on Empty Glass would have worked as Who songs, yet this is clearly a singer/songwriter album, the work of a writer determined to lay his emotions bare, whether on the plaintive "I Am an Animal" or the blistering punk love letter "Rough Boys." Since this is Townshend, it can be a little artier than it needs to be, as on the pseudo-Gilbert & Sullivan chorus of "Keep on Working," but the joy of Empty Glass is that his writing is sharp, his performances lively, his gift for pop hooks as apparent as his wit. Though it runs out of steam toward the end, Empty Glass remains one of the highlights of Townshend's catalog and is one of the most revealing records he cut, next to his other breakdown album, Who By Numbers.
Funny
Food
Banana Bread
Zoom Zoom
2007 Honda F1 Car
Babe (of yore)
Phoebe Cates.. By Request
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Art
Rising Sun – Paul Klee