Luna’s Shadow

It’s a grand coincidence that the 2007 documentary film In the Shadow of the Moon, which has been in our Netflix queue for months, should have shown up last Thursday—the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. The film features interviews with 10 of the 24 astronauts who orbited or walked on the moon [...]

It’s Good to Be the King

I’ve got stuff going on this week and not much time to post, so here’s a quick one.
On this date in 1978, 90,000 tickets for a Bob Dylan show in London were sold in eight hours. Which reminds me of a pretty good line from a lifelong-Dylan-fan friend of mine who finally got to see [...]

No Matter What You’re Into

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June 5, 1999: Mel Tormé dies at age 73. After more than 30 years as one of the most respected jazz singers in the world, he had become an unlikely pop-culture icon in the 80s and 90s thanks to appearances on TV shows such as Night Court and Seinfeld. And [...]

Our Day Will Come

March 26, 2006: Total Guitar magazine names Jimmy Page’s solo on “Stairway to Heaven” the top guitar solo of all time. (We talked about it here.)
March 26, 1975: The film version of Tommy has its London premiere. The only thing that exceeded my desire to see this movie when it opened here, in the summer [...]

Kind of a Drag

I wrote this thing late on Monday afternoon, then got sidetracked from posting it. But since it’s still February 26 in my time zone for another 78 minutes, it’s still OK, so here we go:
February 26, 1987: The first four Beatles albums are released on CD. The albums are released in their British configurations, and [...]