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There is a parable on film of the changeover of power between jazz and rock and roll, in Jazz on a Summer’s Day—a hugely important film for aspiring rock musicians at the time, mostly because it featured Chuck Berry at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, playing “Sweet Little Sixteen.” The film had Jimmy Giuffre, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, bu
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But Woody Allen changed everything. Woody Allen made it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, bespectacled goofballs;
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Not DJ Kool Herc. Not The Sugarhill Gang. Not Crazy Legs. Not even Cornbread. The true father of hip-hop is Moses. The tyrannical, mercilessly efficient head of several New York City public works organizations, Robert Moses, did more in his fifty-year tenure to shape the physical and cultural conditions required for hip-hop’s birth than any other f... See more
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“Paula was the ex-wife of Irish rock star Sir Bob Geldof, late of the Boomtown Rats, and the ex-consort of Australian rock star Michael Hutchence, late in a more permanent sense, and was widely admired by many distinguished Americans, including Andy Warhol, who hailed her first book-a collection of photographs entitled Rock Stars In Their Underpant... See more
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
This tale is extremely famous, but much less well-known is the fact that Paul plays drums on it. And the reason: Ringo just quit the band.