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11/02/2024

Zepp-a-die-do-dah!

09/02/2024

"...it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
https://www.facebook.com/americanamusicsociety/posts/pfbid0MFK5dVHzUXbuGpEpZgtXeZp4VeeARhRe2RAbWBsEaEy8dHHtLQjDr5Aetcw5UUiSl

The Bluesmobile

The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan that was prominently featured in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In the film, it is described as a decommissioned Mount Prospect police car, purchased by Elwood Blues at an auction after he had traded the previous Bluesmobile (a Cadillac) for a microphone. The new Bluesmobile is equipped with the "440 Magnum" squad car package, an option offered by Dodge for the Monaco in 1974. It bears an Illinois license plate reading "BDR 529," a tribute to the Black Diamond Riders motorcycle club of Toronto, Canada at 529 Jarvis Street. Dan Aykroyd, co-writer of the film, stated that he chose the 440 Dodge Monaco because he considered it to be the hottest car used by police during the 1970s.
In describing the car to his brother Jake, Elwood says, "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas." The Bluesmobile has the ability to perform seemingly impossible stunts, such as jumping over an open drawbridge, flipping backward in midair, and even "flying" for very brief periods. However, its cigarette lighter does not work, as discovered by Jake early in the film.

04/02/2024

The night before the music died...

The last photograph of Buddy Holly, February 2nd 1959
Surf Ballroom Clear Lake Iowa

03/02/2024

Quattro außerhalb Deutschlands.

The great Suzi Quatro and her companion for almost six decades

14/01/2024

13 Jan 2005, A report showed that more songs had been written about Elvis Presley than any other artist. It listed over 220 songs including: ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon, ‘A Room At The Heartbreakhotel’ by U2, ‘Calling Elvis’, Dire Straits, ‘Happy Birthday Elvis’, Loudon Wainwright III, ‘There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis’, Kirsty MacColl, ‘I Saw Elvis in a UFO’, Ray Stevens. ‘Elvis Has Left the Building’ by Frank Zappa and 'My Dog Thinks I'm Elvis' by Ray Herndon. Can you name another one?

Elvis Presley
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On Aug 16th 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead lying on the floor in his bathroom by his girlfriend Ginger Alden; he’d been sitting on the toilet reading The Scientific Search For Jesus. He died of heart failure at the age of 42.
The King of rock & roll dead at 42! I was 19 at the time and working at HMV records, the largest record store outside of London. I wasn’t important, in fact as well as making the tea, I worked the shrink-wrapping machine that all records were covered in before going out in the racks. This was well before the days of CD’s. Our stock consisted of vinyl, cassettes and 8-track cartridges.
I didn’t know of Presley’s demise until I arrived for work that morning. I was in shock, as was everyone else – except the boss. He saw a huge marketing opportunity. All the rival shops would soon sell out of everything Elvis, as would we. So, here’s the plan: Cossar and a mate can get on a train to London, (just over 200 miles away) and go to RCA records, and buy as many Elvis Presley records as you can fit into a black cab taxi. Bring them back on the train and HMV will be the only shop in the north of England with any Elvis records for sale.

He was right.

was terrified. Not only was I being forced to travel to London, (which I’d never visited before), but I had over £500 in cash tucked away in my jeans! I’d never seen so much cash. What if I was mugged? Or murdered? What if I lost the cash on the train?
Anyway, all went well and I returned that afternoon triumphant in my task. We returned with hundreds of Greatest Hits albums and sold every last copy.
But enough about me – Elvis was dead.
I can’t think of another performer who has been the subject of so much posthumous attention, so many urban myths and so many tales. Everything that needs to be written about Elvis has already been written. So it just leaves me to leave you with some facts about Elvis you might not know.
Like, did you know:
In 1960, after completing his national service and flying back to America, he stepped on British soil for the first and only time in his life when the plane carrying him stopped for refuelling at Prestwick Airport, Scotland.
Elvis made his first ever public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi, Alabama Dairy Show, singing ‘Old Shep’, Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came second.
He was fired from his job at Loew’s State Theatre during 1952 after punching a fellow usher who told the manager that Elvis was getting free candy from the girl at the concession stand.

Elvis Presley was a big Monty Python fan. His favourite film was The Holy Grail. It was in his video recorder when he died.
In 1957, Elvis was rushed to a Los Angles hospital after swallowing a porcelain cap from one of his front teeth which then lodged itself in one of his lungs.
Sheet metal worker Louis Balint punched Elvis at a Hotel in Toledo claiming that his wife’s love for the singer had caused his marriage to break up. Balint was fined $19.60 but ended up being jailed after he was unable to pay the fine.
In 1957, Elvis purchased the stately mansion ‘Graceland’ in Whitehaven, Memphis. He paid $102,500 for the property which had previously been used by the Graceland Christian Church.
In 1958, Elvis Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’, exceeded three million copies in the USA, becoming only the third single to do so ( Bing Crosby’s White Christmas & Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer by Gene Autry being the other two).
In 1988, Hound Dog was named the most-played record of all time on American Juke Boxes.
Elvis became the first rock ‘n’ roll artist to be honoured by the US Postal Service with a commemorative stamp.
Elvis has scored 21 UK No.1 singles, had 130 UK hit singles and spent over 1170 weeks on the UK singles chart. Making him the No.1 act of all time.
In 1997, a report showed that Elvis was the world’s best selling posthumous entertainer. With worldwide sales over 1 billion, over 480 active fan clubs and an estimated 250,000 UK fans still buying his records.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to cut a front lawn while dressed as Elvis Presley.
The lightest Elvis ever weighed as a six-foot-tall adult was 170 lbs in 1960 following his discharge from the U.S. Army. The heaviest was at the time of his death, which was 260 lbs.
Elvis became a karate black belt in 1960 and went on to use karate moves in his stage shows.
Preseucoila imallshookupis is a species of gall wasp derived from the Elvis Presley song ‘All Shook Up’.
In 1977 there were 170 Elvis impersonators. By 2002 there were 85,000. At that rate of growth, by 2019 a third of the world’s population will be Elvis impersonators.

11/01/2024

Lest we forget! ☝️🧐
(also true of the late 70's.)

09/01/2024

Smart dressed man!

05/01/2024

We knew this.

Erkenntnis des Tages:

Mehr Metal als Finnland geht nicht!🤣🤟

04/01/2024

Wow.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1lOB9ZM4jK/

31/12/2023

Wenn es um die Music geht, sind sie Harmonisch. Wir denken an Dennis und Carl. 🥲

This year’s most popular post: Brian and the ‘Boys reunite for “A GRAMMY Salute To The Beach Boys Tribute Concert” at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.

30/12/2023

Sounds like a Playlist to me. Guten Rosch von Andrew Ridgeway!

Apologies to anyone if this list makes them feel as though they are getting on a bit....

16/12/2023

Andrew Ridgeway grüßt Bay City Rollers an S-S-S-Saturday Night!
😄

25/11/2023

Hi-Fi, yes. But how about that fruit bowl full of f**s?

23/11/2023

Cher zum Thanksgiving? Aber Ja!

23/11/2023

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxlKVFkoLqA/
Heavy!

18/11/2023

Dolly's Rock excursion is out!

15/11/2023

https://www.facebook.com/plaidonflannel/posts/pfbid02HAPKpdp5rxPgZZCGA1E1kq6R4sDs48YR8tZn6KKVj7Q2QTDtjBGpxoW8kBuFeEUvl

Hopefully the driver still has his license 😂🪪🚗

09/11/2023

What, you too?

04/11/2023

It's still Rock n Roll to me...

Thank you Spotify for celebrating the 50th anniversary of Piano Man with us.

04/11/2023

In the Master's chambers and otherwise....

01/11/2023

Echt.

29/10/2023

100?? Wie bitte?

28/10/2023

Jagger/Gaga erinnert an Jagger/Turner. 🥰 - Andrew Ridgeway.

Watch Mick Jagger Tina Turner - State Of Shock It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (Live Aid 1985) - DS HD on Dailymotion

26/10/2023

Etwas tröstlich.

Jiles Perry Richardson aka J.P. Richardson aka "The Big Bopper" drinks a Schlitz beer with his wife Adrienne Joy "Teetsie" Richardson, 1955.
The Big Bopper is best known for his monster hit song "Chantilly Lace, recorded in 1958. The song sat for a while before if finally took off, eventually spending 22 weeks on the charts. But before that, J.P. was a radio DJ in Beaumont. He was a big, quiet, introverted, kind, almost shy, until he got behind the microphone and went on the air, where his personality changed. He almost became a wild man; he had developed an on-air persona that was unlike any other DJ in the area.
Over time he began using the alias “The Big Bopper”, and at times got loud and crazy. Doing commercials for Schlitz beer and Yazoo mowers, he would proclaim, “If you ain’t drinking Schlitz, you ain’t drinking beer!”, and “If you ain’t Yazooing, you ain’t mowin’”. Sadly, he was killed in the same plane crash that took the life of fellow Texan Buddy Holly, the great Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger Peterson.
Chantilly Lace was topping the charts when J.P. died but he had not yet seen any royalties. At the time of his death, he had $8 in a savings account, a Dodge sedan worth $400, and a $100 guitar. His wife had to pay $2642 for his funeral expenses. His contributions to rock and roll as a singer and songwriter would later bring his estate over $100,000 per year in royalties from Chantilly Lace alone.

25/10/2023

Just Paradise. (by the dashboard light, of course. 😉 )

Meat Loaf's blockbuster 'Bat Out of Hell' was released 46 years ago today:

19/10/2023

Zu cool.
https://www.facebook.com/terryhoax/posts/pfbid0XNFbWKQQgzK1cEtHqpoCV9chthbnyRGrrv2hWu1fRX6G8dnkSZ3hSUR2D3DPro84l

'sdochgesagt

26/09/2023

Now if she was only standing next to the record-machine... 🥰
https://www.facebook.com/100070968439476/posts/364801335895478/

A very early shot of Joan Jett and me from a campus concert The Runaways did. Joan still had her natural hair and I was still dressing like the California surfer girl I was before I joined the band.

15/09/2023

🤘
https://www.facebook.com/100085748001043/posts/265770466291218/

Joan Jett (65) 22 Sep 1958.