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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING & CHICAGO HOUSING RIOTS 1966
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. We are all, by now, familiar with the images that would accrue during the Sixties: tear gas, dogs and beatings in the American South, King’s March on Montgomery, angry whites cursing blacks in Chicago, Watts burning, students protestors incinerating […]
“IMAGISTIC FEATURES” SIXTIES PROTESTS
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “Despite being extensively documented in historical scholarship…. much of what passes for history and conventional thinking is actually the public memory preserved for us by the mass media” writed Edward Morgan What Really Happened to the 1960s. “(And they) […]
MADONNA “VOGUE” 1990
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. As the Eighties wore on, as Madonna adroitly used wardrobe for personal reinvention instead of, as I believed my own musical heroes had, using personal reinvention for personal reinvention (even if they fell on their face); as money became […]
ELVIS PRESLEY “LOVE ME TENDER” 1956
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBUb0ElnNY&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. I was ten when Elvis came along. Before Elvis I used to lie in bed at night with the lights off, and listen to country music very low on the radio, the tiny orange lights of the tube […]
HEMMINGS IN THE PARK “BLOW-UP” 1967 (INCOMPLETE POST)
The great movie “Blow-Up” available from: This video only viewable directly from You Tube: click here. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “Who should be the star of this exotic movie but a photographer! Suddenly this fledgling, hardly even “business” of mine (if by business you mean something that generates income) was catapulted […]
BOB DYLAN: ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
The album “The Essential Bob Dylan” available from: This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.
WHO’S NEXT 1971
The album “Who’s Next” available: This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “….Following the lead car (in which I sat), the caravan traveled at Pete’s speed — that is to say, at 100 miles per hour and above. When the car would run into a squall […]
The Beatles – LET IT BE 1969
The album “Let It Be” available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “But how could anyone have imagined it? You couldn’t have planned it, willed it, or schemed it. Even to have dreamed it would have been border-line absurd. I was a boy […]
THE FIRING OF ARCHIBALD COX – WATERGATE 1972
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SAM ERWIN WATERGATE 1972
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