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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
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02/09/12 01:37 AM
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This news warmed my heart. Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas has reached unprecedented worldwide creative and commercial heights with debuts in the #1 position on the official Album Sales Chart in 9 countries. Additionally, Old Ideas has smashed records with its debut at the top of the charts (official, iTunes or Amazon) in 17 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland {trending to #1}, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA). The highly acclaimed 10-song collection of new material from poet/singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was also Top 5 in an additional 10 countries. This makes Old Ideas the highest debuting album of Leonard Cohen's career! It opened #3 on the Billboard 200. Pretty damn impressive considering his previous peak best was #131.
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
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02/09/12 12:27 PM
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Does anyone know what today is (musically speaking)? Feb. 9th. It was this date 1964 that the Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan show. ![smile smile](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/smile.gif) Ahhh yes, I remember it well. I was a little young to participate in the excitement of Elvis when he hit the scene, but The Beatles, I was right in the middle of the excitement. I remember the next day (Sullivan was on Sunday)at school, as the kids walked the halls to their classes EVERYONE was excited. You only needed to ask "did you see it?" Hard to explain, but we KNEW it was something big. Even teachers were talking about it. ![smile smile](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/smile.gif) From then on it was Beatle hats, Beatle Boots, Beatle pictures in the girls' lockers....and the rest as they say, is history. I am very happy I was at, what I would say, the perfect age (a teenager) to be a part of that excitement. Here's a story on the Grammy flashback including the Beatles and AND a list of albums, songs, groups of the year in the 60's. I thought I heard this morning that Sir Paul would be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this afternoon, but I thought he already had a star. ![confused confused](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/confused.gif) I know the Beatles do. http://kearth101.radio.com/2012/02/09/grammys-flashback-the-top-award-winners-of-the-60s/TIS
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
[Re: DE NIRO]
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02/09/12 01:27 PM
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There's a well known myth that the hour they played there wasn't a single crime reported between 8pm and 9pm as the kids where transfixed by the show.. 73 million viewers watched the Ed Sullivan show that night, which is still one of the most watched shows in American history.. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. ![lol lol](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/lol.gif) I still remember going to see "A Hard Days Night" with some friends. The lines were unbelievable and the excitement was wonderful. Once in the theater, and I kid you not, you could NOT hear anything but screaming girls. ![lol lol](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/lol.gif) You had to look around in amazement. I kick myself that the Beatles appeared in Detroit and I didn't go see them. ![frown frown](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/frown.gif) Never have that chance again. ![frown frown](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/frown.gif) TIS
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
[Re: The Italian Stallionette]
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02/09/12 01:36 PM
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I remember the next day (Sullivan was on Sunday)at school, as the kids walked the halls to their classes EVERYONE was excited. You only needed to ask "did you see it?" Hard to explain, but we KNEW it was something big. Even teachers were talking about it. It was the same in my school. I was just turning 13 and EVERYBODY was talking about the Sullivan show. I had only first heard of The Beatles a few weeks prior to the show. My cousin told me about them.... 4 British musicians who all looked like Moe (of the 3 Stooges). ![lol lol](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/lol.gif)
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
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02/09/12 01:43 PM
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SC Do you remember that appearance (at least I think it was that appearance) as the Beatles were singing, they showed a close-up of each Beatle and who they were. When they came to John, they had written on the screen "sorry girls, he's married"? Even way back then, loving all the Beatles, my sister and I concluded that Paul was definitely the cute one. I remember going to the local shopping center with girlfriends after school. One little teenage shop type store, had Beatle lipstick and the Beatle hats/caps became quite popular. Guys in school started growing their hair a little longer and got that "Beatle" look. LOL Exciting times. Oh, and EVERYTHING English or from England was totally cool. TIS BTW, and our parents thought the Beatles hair was too long at that time??? Little did they know what a few years would bring hu?
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
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02/09/12 02:09 PM
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Ha ha ha ha!! Girls gone wild. ![lol lol](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/lol.gif) Thanks PB I watched the entire clip. To think the songs they sang, good at the time, were NOT their best. Their music kept improving. What young kids they were. And man I remember those 48 years ago as though it were only a few years back. ![confused confused](/threads/images/graemlins/classic/confused.gif) We never would have dreamed that John would have been murdered by some psycho cutting his life so short. Thank God for the memories though. Don't know where they were, but I like the dance scenes at the end. They were doing "The Swim." Ha ha ha. I remember it well. TIS
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"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Random Music News/Musings/Debates Thread
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02/12/12 07:21 PM
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It's sad how people buy music when they die.. YES! I hate that. If you liked their music seems like you should have already had it. If you didn't then why are you buying it now?
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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