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 ELEANOR RIGBY 1966
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. The video on this page is a link from YouTube. Copyright © remains with the rights holder.
DR STRANGELOVE 1964
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. (From “Dear Mr. Fantasy: An American Tale”:) Dylan hit a nerve for me, opened a door into a trove of barely distant memories when I was a grade-schooler and would be told to huddle under my desk in case of attack. I had […]
Bob Dylan MASTERS OF WAR 1963
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLNEUsdmf0&feature=youtube_gdata_player “Dylan hit a nerve for me, opened a door into a trove of barely distant memories when I was a grade-schooler and would be told to huddle under my desk in case of attack. I had grown up with Fail-Safe and Dr. […]
Jack Kerouac reads from ON THE ROAD 1957
In my room at prep school, Bobby Vee’s voice is replaced by that of Joan Baez, swelling in nasal perfection. She sings “folk music.” It is different from rock, but simple, affecting. It reaches inside you. Time magazine puts her on their cover. Outside the window of my dormitory room, the California sun shone upon […]
The Beatles ON THE ROOF 1969
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ysfuWh0OAk&feature=youtube_gdata_player I scrambled madly about the rooftop, changing angles, (over John’s left shoulder) for if I was focused on Paul I would, of course, be missing John (and George and Ringo) and vice versa. It was a typically high-overcast, gray London day. In […]
Everly Brothers BYE BYE LOVE 1957
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Jerry Lee Lewis WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN GOIN ON 1957
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Kingston Trio THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND 1957
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Elvis Presely “Heartbreak Hotel” 1956
and on The Milton Berle Show! “Since-a-my-baby-left-me….” It was a seminal song. In San Francisco when I was eight, I sang it, rotating my leg at the hip trying to be just like Elvis. This it turns out was more or less exactly what Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Keith Richards were doing […]
Go Big Hair or Go Home: Is This the Greatest Music Video of the 1980s?
“Let the revels begin Let the fire be started We’re dancing for the restless and the broken-hearted!” Smoking! From the strange and brooding Streets of Fire , a film that improves with age like a surprising vintage of blood-dark wine. Arguably, when all the components are taken into account, this cut (Fire, Inc) is the […]
