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Oh Shangri-La, Shangri-La la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
The Rolling Stones miming to I Got You Babe on Ready Steady Go 1965. Brian & Cathy McGowan are delightful. So is Keith on tuba. The whole thing is 😍
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Julian and me
Julian and me, Fried era 🐢 ❤️
02.03.2025 21:10 — 👍 238 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1RIP David Jo 💔
If you don't know his post-Dolls career, here's Frenchette – one of my all-time favourite songs
David Jo
I'm so sad we've lost David Johansen – our last living Doll 💔 I saw him a good dozen times in 1978/79 after his first amazing solo album. Such an icon. 💔
01.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 84 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0It was also Frat Boy. Utterly repugnant.
01.03.2025 10:56 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's uncanny.
01.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This reeks of March 1939, when the Czech President Hacha was duped into going to Berlin at the invitation of Hitler "for talks". It's also Caesarian. A tyrant is a tyrant is a tyrant.
01.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 52 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0
Best Dolls song IMHO: Frankenstein
I'm gonna shout about I'm gonna scream about I'm gonna shout about it bitch about it scream about it
Bless you, David Jo
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So very sad to hear of David Johansen's Stage 4 cancer. I'm a huge fan. Just made a donation to his fund – here's the link:
www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
And here's an absolutely awesome performance of the absolutely awesome Frenchette:
youtu.be/08MuQAC5zpw?...
We have Jethro Tull to thank for Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi was only briefly in Tull but he learned the importance of discipline & professionalism. After 1 month he went back to B'ham, got serious with Sabbath & the rest is history. Here's Tony with Jethro Tull
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My favourite Black Sabbath performance on YouTube – War Pigs live on Pop Shop, 1970. Everything about it is chef's kiss (especially Bill Ward).
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Genius metal poetry! 🤘
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Wayne Kramer departed for the next dimension a year ago today. I miss him every day
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When Julian was 15 he bought an album for 25p by a band he'd never heard of called Saint Steven. Therein was a GEM of a song that is a household favourite – Bastich I
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Fabulous & surreal 1972 film of Nico having a fiery meltdown followed by a sublime version of Abschied
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Julian and I played this song over and over and over during our "Fried" garage-rock years ❤️
Richard & the Young Lions – Open Up Your Door
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Excellent lesser-known Krautrock for those seeking a Kosmic Friday night (top tip: listen with headphones)
Günter Schickert - Rabe in der Nacht
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Marianne
One of the best Marianne pics ever. Hell, one of THEE best pics ever
30.01.2025 20:30 — 👍 276 🔁 42 💬 5 📌 9What RnR lover worth one's salt wasn't obsessed with Marianne Faithfull at some point? 💔
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Marianne 💔
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Ray ❤️❤️❤️❤️
29.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is totally epic songwriting. And to my ears there's not much that's sweeter than the Davies brothers singing together. Ahhhh...
The Kinks – Lola live on Top of the Pops 1970
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cadburys
My first visits to the UK in the late 1970s, the Cadbury's vending machines on London Underground platforms blew my mind. As an American accustomed to Hershey's, I could not believe how friggin good that chocolate was.
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book
This is a masterful book. Highly recommended – especially for those who deeply love art
28.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Finding out that the same person wrote Louie Louie and Have Love, Will Travel was the good version of finding out that one Thomas Midgley Jr developed both leaded petrol AND CFCs
26.01.2025 20:13 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0In 1959, Richard Berry sold the copyright of Louie Louie for $750 to pay for his wedding.
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Come on!
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...he also wrote and originally recorded Have Love, Will Travel 😵❤️
youtu.be/biwW1Zx2KDU?...
SO, not only did Richard Berry write and originally record everyone's favourite garage song Louie Louie BUT...
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One of my favourite-ever vids on YouTube – early Sly & the Family Stone, Dance to the Music.
All the squares go home!
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