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Paul McCartney's Prediction About Pink Floyd Was Absolutely Right
"The Pink Floyd" as the band was known early in its career (they later dropped "the" from their name) was in the midst of recording their first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" at London's Abbey Road Studios. It was April 1967 and in the next studio over the Beatles were also working hard, according to "Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey." They were busy with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney popped over to see how things were going with the young band. The members of Pink Floyd stopped what they were doing and "stood rooted to the spot, excited by it all," Rogers Waters, the band's bass player and vocalist, recalled (via "Pink Floyd: The Early Years).
Country Music Star Toby Keith Dead At 62
On February 6, 2024, Toby Keith's family announced via his official X account that he died at the age of 62. The statement — overlaid on a photograph of the famed country singer in a cowboy hat and dark jacket — said that Keith "passed peacefully last night on February 5th, surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy of his family at this time."
Who Was Bob Marley's Father, Norval Marley?
Even before his early and tragic death to cancer in 1981, Bob Marley had already become a legend. Rising up from one of Kingston, Jamaica's roughest neighborhoods, Trench Town, Marley became an icon of culture, music, spirituality, and love, and bound all four together in himself anytime he took the stage. Marley's wife Rita said on American Songwriter of her husband's final performance, "My strongest memory was of the audience, watching them observe his movement. Bob's connection to his music was spirit and power. He was such a force, and the audience felt his transformational liveliness."
The Tragic-Real Life Story Of Richard Simmons
For decades, the one name most synonymous with exercise and fitness was Richard Simmons. From the late 1970s until well into the early 21st century, he was a reliable TV presence, appearing on talk shows, soap operas, his own series, and infomercials for his venerable "Sweatin' to the Oldies" workout videos and Deal-a-Meal program, always oozing empathy, encouragement, and excitement. To reach out honestly and emotionally to those who wanted to get in shape, Simmons made an example of himself, often recounting his own experiences with issues related to his health and fitness.
The Most Disastrous Donald Trump Interviews In History
U.S. presidents have faced off with some formidable adversaries over the country's history, but in the last decade or so, they have faced none more formidable than the English language. After eight years under President Barack Obama, one of the most eloquent men to ever hold the office, the contrast was glaring when he was followed by Donald Trump and then Joe Biden, two guys who have been known to wrestle with their words, to put it politely. To put it more accurately, they have been known to get treated by their words much like the Hulk treated Loki at the end of "The Avengers."
Celebrities Who Got Snubbed From The Grammys 2024 In Memoriam Tribute
The Grammy Awards is, as broadcaster CBS and the organizers at the Recording Academy like to call it, "music's biggest night." Luminaries from every branch of the American music industry gather annually in Los Angeles to celebrate themselves and each other, bestowing little trophies on the creators of the previous year's most crucial songs, records, albums, and musical achievements.
What It Was Really Like Being A Go-Go Dancer In The 1960s
The revolutionary dance clubs of the 1960s were perhaps most hilariously summed up by The Saturday Evening Post's Norman Poirier. He was writing in the heyday of the Swingin' Sixties, and in 1965, observed that the club scene was "a noisy national madness that the anthropologists of the 21st century will find difficulty in explaining." Clearly, he had no idea what was in store.
Did A Pope Really Choke To Death On A Fly? Here's What We Know
It'd be quite the horrifying, foreboding scene. You, your bishop buddies, some attendants, and other pontifical persons sit at the table having dinner like any other evening. There's some wine going around, maybe some jokes, maybe some talk about God or politics, and snap — the pope starts choking. People ask him if he's okay, but he can't respond. He drops his food, maybe his goblet, clutches his throat, but no one knows what to do. Folks race to his side, call for help, and maybe check his mouth for anything stuck in the throat, but ... It's too late. The pope has died right there and then. And now, someone is swearing that they spotted a fly zip into his mouth just before he choked.
Why Usher's Hit Song Yeah! Almost Didn't Happen
Usher has maintained a seat at R&B's top table ever since he broke into the industry back in 1994 while still just a teenager. Since then, he has sold millions of albums and topped the Billboard charts with some of the biggest singles of the 21st century. But one of these — "Yeah!" the lead single from his 2004 album "Confessions," which was produced by a team including crunk pioneer Lil Jon — stands head and shoulders above the rest of Usher's discography. As Jon himself described it to MTV, the song was a "powerful monster," a commercial, critical, and club smash that went on to become the second-biggest-selling single of the 2000s, helping turn "Confessions" one of the defining albums of the decade.
These Were Bob Marley's Tragic Final Words
Bob Marley lay in a Miami hospital close to death from cancer. His head rested in the arms of his wife, Rita Marley, who sang an old hymn, "God Will Take Care of You." She suddenly broke down crying. "Bob, please, don't leave me," she told him, according to her book "No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley." Bob looked up and responded. "Leave you, go where? What are you crying for? Forget crying, Rita! Just keep singing. Sing! Sing!"
What Happened To Shakespeare's 1655 King Lear Book From Antiques Roadshow?
Plenty of folks have loads of junk hanging around the basement, attic, garage, packed into closets, crammed into glove compartments, shoved into the back of cupboards, you name it. Some stuff might be personally meaningful no matter how forgotten, like an old handwritten rice pudding recipe that grandma scratched out when she was young. Other things might have monetary value, like a mint-condition baseball card. And yet other things might have greater cultural value beyond one person, one family, and however many generations of people kept such items safe.
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