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RIP Nick Ashford and Jerry Leiber
Two songwriting icons passed away yesterday, and ironically, both were halves of legendary songwriting teams. Nick Ashford, legendary Motown songwriter, who was paired with his wife Valerie Simpson, died at 70 in Manhattan. Jerry Leiber, partnered with Mike Stoller, co-wrote some of Elvis Presley’s greatest hits, died at 78 in Los Angeles. Among Ashford’s greatest…
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George Harrison, Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Living in the Material World Documentary
I normally don’t update twice in one day, but news such as this demands action on my part. I am a massive George Harrison fan, and when I heard a few years ago that Martin Scorsese was putting together a three and a half hour George Harrison documentary, I started counting down the days. At…
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CBS's Most Valuable Blogger, The Monkees, I'm a Believer, and a New Banner!
Like the new banner? I sure do. I might tweak it a bit in the next week, but I think it’s beautiful. I have to give a special thanks to my dear friend Sonia for creating it. The unfurling of the new banner coincidentally coincides with a cause to celebrate, as this site has been…
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Seinfeld, Brokeback About Nothing
I’m getting pretty good at predicting trends. Just a few days ago I posted a series of Seinfeld trailers cobbled together by a brilliant internet guy, and today I have a new one from a different guy who imagines Jerry and George lost somewhere on Brokeback Mountain. His future film entitled, “Brokeback About Nothing,” is…
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Give My Regards To Broad Street, Yesterday, Here There and Everywhere, Wanderlust
I’m not ready to say goodbye to Paul’s terrible movie, in fact watching this makes me want to see the whole thing. I might have seen the whole thing laid out on youtube, and if it is, expect the entire film posted on my website soon with humorous remarks dashed about. Anyway, despite the movie…
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Paul McCartney, Give My Regards to Broad Street, Eleanor Rigby
I’ve never seen Give My Regards to Broad Street, but from what I’ve read, its pretty awful. Apparently, it was Paul McCartney’s ego run amok, thinking he could replicate the success of “A Hard Day’s Night” with another movie about a “day in the life” of…Paul McCartney. The movie was a huge waste of money,…
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Seinfeld, The Movie!
Some of the best running gags on Seinfeld were the fake movies the gang was always seeing. Rochelle, Rochelle, Death Blow, Checkmate, and Sack Lunch all come to mind, but it all begs a larger question, what would a Seinfeld movie look like? Well, luckily some genius on the internet has no shortage of ideas. …
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The Hey Jude Rehearsal Videos
I should have reversed these posts, but after I was surfing “Hey Jude” yesterday on youtube, I found some more choice clips of the legendary song, so consider this an unofficial part 2. These are rehearsal videos of the lads in the studio learning the song. You get John doing some funny antics, Ringo singing,…
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The Beatles, Hey Jude
I woke up this morning knowing I wanted to post something by the Beatles. For whatever reason I put on “Hey Jude,” their 1968 9 week #1 smash hit. By this point, “Hey Jude” is rather rote and overplayed, but this morning, to me at least, the song sounded fresh. It’s kind of strange how…