[Franco sent this article he wrote about the rise of rock and how according to his astrological theory it all has to do with Neptune moving into Scorpio. -AC] Neptune entered Scorpio on
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The #MeToo reverberations will continue for some time yet–as they should. There will also be many long overdue ripples through the world of music. This NPR article takes a look at how things
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The phrase “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” go back at least to Ian Dury’s 1977 hit, probably earlier. The three things seem to be made for each other, but are they really that interrelated?
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For the first decade of its existence, this music was called “rock’n’roll.” But by the time we got to the 1970s, it was being referred to simply as “rock?” Why the truncation? And
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What’s driving the tech industry these days? According to TechCrunch, it’s the simple standard formula of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Fifty years ago, when someone heard the word ‘vice,’ they may have thought
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In the glory days of transatlantic cruise ships, few European ports were more important than Liverpool. Thousands of ships big and small made Liverpool their first port of call after crossing the ocean,
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It’s been a long time since “Cambodia” and “rock’n’roll” have been used together in a sentence. When the genocidal thugs of the Khmer Rouge overran the country in 1975, they did their very
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For years, Canadians did a really lousy job of documenting this country’s music history. That, however, began to turn around in the 1990s and there are a number of excellent books on what
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My father loves Reader’s Digest. Next to the “Life’s Like That” anecdotes, he enjoyed the column called “It Pays to Increase Your Word Power,” which was his monthly opportunity to increase his vocabulary.
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