GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
THE ROLLING STONES “BEGGARS BANQUET” 1968
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THE ROLLING STONES “2000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME” 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BajH1t3uHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player The Stones have just finished a new record Beggar’s Banquet. Their last release, Their Satanic Majesties Request, came at the peak of acid mania: on the cover the Stones are pictured wearing capes and surrounded by castles and crescent moons on a cover reproduced as if in three dimensions. “Far out,” we said. This […]
SEX PISTOLS “NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS” 1977
Rock and roll splintered. Mainstream metal took on the flavor of professional wrestling, a theater of excess. Years earlier punk reacted years earlier with the Sex Pistols wonderfully-titled “Never Mind the Bollocks.” But they,too, became a splinter. Rap and Hip Hop emerged. The Wall Street Journal wrote a cover story about how rock’s audience had […]
TRAILER FOR THE WILD ONES 1953
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“ROUTE 66” THE ROLLING STONES 1965
I woke up the next moning at four and drove off into a gathering snow storm which I tried to outrun. I almost didn’t make it, spinning out on the freeway in front of an onrushing semi, only to slide off onto the shoulder as it flew by. But I survived. I’d drive from before […]
THE JUMP TO HYPERSPACE “STAR WARS” 1977
Woke up. fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. . Found my way upstairs and had a smoke And somebody spoke and I went into a dream (“Had a smoke and went into a dream.” Right!) Then John’s voice again, after the word “dream,” singing in falsetto, high and drifty. Behind John […]
BOB DYLAN BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME 1965
It seems as though every album – from every artist – is a major creative leap further. In 1965 Bob Dylan releases Bringing It All Back Home. He’s on the cover with an unnamed woman in a red dress; he’s holding a cat and looking like the head of SPECTRE in a James Bond movie. […]
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE 1965
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THE BEATLES EIGHT DAYS A WEEK 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzEvqDQfIA The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, The Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles release four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, […]
THE YARDBIRDS “FOR YOUR LOVE” 1965
The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, The Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The Beatles release four LPs. Fifty-seven songs. (The albums are The Early Beatles, March; Beatles VI, June; Help, August; and Rubber Soul, December.) […]
