Ten years ago today, one of the biggest moments in my life, the very day I changed my title from âwriterâ to âauthorâ, I officially launched my first book: BLANTIKA â LINIMASA.
41 years ago today, The Sugarhill Gangâs âRapperâs Delightâ became the first hip hop single ever to reach the Billboard top 40.
Rod Stewart married New Zealand model Rachel Hunter in Beverly Hills, this week in 1990. After the wedding Stewart was quoted as saying âI Found the Girl that I Want, I wonât be putting my banana in anybodyâs fruit bowl from now on.â They split in 1999. Four years later, still in December, Stewart played in front of 3.5 million people on Copacabana beach in Rio De Janeiro, and made into the Guinness Book of World Records for staging the largest free rock concert attendance in history.
Ryan Adams shows his weird and wonderful sensitivity through "Sylvia Plath".
The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording "Dreams". Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Christine McVie was separating from her husband John McVie. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship; Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood had just started an affair. What made it more complicated and worse was that all the band members were so addicted to cocaine during the production of the album, Rumours. Hard drugs, bad romances, excellent album.
"I Remember You" is charming rock with pop sensibilities, continuing the Fleetwood Mac tradition.
One of my biggest 90s crushes turned 57 today. Happy birthday and stay wonderful, Natalie Merchant!
I have a forever soft spot for this song. I immediately get little tears in my eyes, get goosebumps each and every time.
"We Are the Champions" is the catchiest song of all time, according to science. "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People, Europe's "The Final Countdown", and "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi were also in the list.
63 years ago today, the most acclaimed musical of all time, West Side Story, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
Have you ever cried because of gorgeous guitar soundscapes and beautiful noise?
Cocteau Twins' singer, was once described as "the voice of God", Liz Fraser, turned 62 today.
Doug Fieger would have been 68 today. Do you even know that "My Sharona" is actually taken from a girl with the same nameâSharona Alperin?
He would've turned 71 today. Happy birthday, Phil Lynott! Bring Thin Lizzy boys back in town!
Matt Berninger, the oaken baritone singer of The National, is like the Neil Diamond of indie rock.
Robert Smith penned âLovesongâ as his wedding present for Mary Poole in 1988. The two are still together, their rock 'n' roll marriage bucking the odds and showing no signs of, well, disintegrating.