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 BEATLES RUBBER SOUL “THE WORD” 1965
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962
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THE BEATLES I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND 1962
The first time I heard The Beatles it was I Want to Hold Your Hand. It had come wafting across a university lawn somewhere on campus. It sounded great but it was a little disconcerting. There was no precedent. Rock ‘n’ rollers were solo performers, not groups. I went to the supermarket and bought the […]
JOAN BAEZ MARY HAMILTON 1960
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I LIKE IKE – EISENHOWER FOR PRESIDENT 1952
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BENNY GOODMAN TRIO 1955
My parents hated the music I found so exciting (and which my mother in particular was certain would never last). In turn, I found an afternoon spent in the car with them listening to Tony Bennett was more than I could endure. Their music – Cole Porter, Benny Goodman, wonderful music really – made no […]
Tony BENNET 1955
Elvis was my first musical hero, indisputably the King (though he wasn’t called that, yet. There was no need.) His smile was charming, and America, as straight as a thin string tie, reacted in horror at his rotating leg. And there were the others: Jerry Lee Lewis (with his thirteen year old bride; these boys […]
HAIR 1968
I was ten when Elvis came along. I sang his songs in front of the mirror. I imitated his smile, raising the corner of one side of my mouth. I tried to move like him, rotating one leg from the hip. And I tried to comb my hair like him. I used Vitalis, Butch Wax, […]
BUTCH WAX 1954
I was ten when Elvis came along. I sang his songs in front of the mirror. I imitated his smile, raising the corner of one side of my mouth. I tried to move like him, rotating one leg from the hip. And I tried to comb my hair like him. I used Vitalis, Butch Wax, […]
The Eagles DIRTY LAUNDRY 1982
http://youtu.be/8icJnavt2So When the dominance of the LP ended – and with it the ”writerly” concept album, it was the sunset of an era. I didn’t remark it at the time. I just missed what those LP fueled inspirations had been able to tell me. I definitely noticed they were gone. The effects of television went […]
