Sublime

The bands were judged partly on their ability to generate intense excitement at the end of a dance. For this, they needed at least one saxophonist who could blow hard and long at fast rocking tempos, and at least one singer who could match him, with a clear strong delivery.

If you asked anyone in 1951 why DiMaggio was a celebrity (or even if you asked someone that question today), they could undoubtedly give a satisfactory answer. However, it’s impossible to explain why Tommy Lee is a celebrity. You can’t say “because he’s a rock star,” because he’s not; the last record Tommy Lee made that lots of people liked was Dr.

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Everyone took Sunshine acid and smoked grass called Icepack. And then, of course, there was all that tequila and rum and Courvoisier that rock-’n’-roll was finding out about after deciding grass wasn’t enough. She wore skintight

The sound of a sax solo breaking loose from a series of driving riffs is one of the most exciting experiences of this century’s music.

he’d met a gorgeous young Nicaraguan woman, a diplomat’s daughter named Bianca. He’d taken hundreds of pictures of her, and the Polaroids of the woman who later became Mick Jagger’s wife hung all over the apartment.