My original intention was to keep the light hearted flow going, but honestly, the silliness got sapped out of me this week. So I traded my original choice for today with this song, which obviously, is not too shabby. Couple of quick notes about it: My generation and those younger than me were probably […]
The mythology/story behind this song is pretty straightforward: John was only seeing the beginning of the massive heat he was going to take for leaving his wife for Yoko, so this song was a plea to his new wife, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. Probably not in the top 20 of most anyone’s favorite Beatle […]
Some of you know better than others I’m a closet Beatles junkie. Without looking I can tell you my IPod easily goes at least 20 deep with their catalog, the Cirque de Soleil ‘LOVE’ show in Vegas was one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. On the list of things I hadn’t experienced was […]
For us ‘old heads’ who always talk about how good hip hop was in the 90s, one of the few groups that seemed like they were universally respected was A Tribe Called Quest. Michael Rappaport (who seems like a very cool dude but who will always be the cat who snapped in Higher Learning […]
So what did I end up doing for my birthday (as I’ve been asked repeatedly…) This story starts a couple years back actually when a friend of mine caught on that I had taken an interest in the Beatles’ catalog of music. So he just goes on and on about how he had just come […]
This weekend would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. As a kid, I knew Lennon as a face and a name (much like the Beatles themselves) but not music I heard (or at that time recognized as theirs). As my individual interest in pop culture and music grew, it was only a matter of […]
Looking back on it, the past 12 months have been a benchmark year for me, personally and professionally. We’ll see how this new decade plays out, but at the moment this feels like the year where all the various ‘instruments’ that are playing the soundtrack of my life are starting to all play the same […]
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