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Queen Rock Montreal Concert | Things you didn’t know

lmassa — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:20:45 +0000

Incredibly, tickets for this show were in the $10 range! Imagine that! And it was a pivotal concert for many Montrealers, like Fauteux, who also says, “I remember Queen's light system which, at the time, was huge, with its removable panels - absolutely breathtaking! Not to mention Roger Taylor, the rockstar-looking drummer, was clearly an influence on some of my looks over the years!” According to Simon, and surely, this was the case for so many in attendance for the show, "that gig is by far the most significant show I've ever attended, to this day!"

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10 Pop and Rock Star Costume Ideas for 2021

mmandato — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:53:25 +0000

Need some ideas? In no particular order, here are our Top 10 Costume Ideas for 2021.

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Remembering the Summer of Love, 50 Years After

mmandato — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:21:59 +0000

50 years after the Summer of Love, Been Fong-Torres discusses the "San Francisco Sound" and the revolutionary attitude that propelled artists like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane to fame.

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Tina Turner: One Last Time, Live in Concert

lmassa — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:56:14 +0000

Tina’s career ranged some 50 years, from her start as a teenaged partner to the nasty blues guitarist and band leader, Ike Turner, to her escape from him and into a brilliant second life as a solo star. She did several farewell concert tours, including One Last Time in 1999, when she was the sexiest 61 year-old imaginable, but would continue to say goodbye on stage until 2009.

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Remembering Ray Manzarek

lmassa — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:32:42 +0000

Ray Manzarek told me that he was dying. He had an incurable disease, he said in an email dated April 2nd. “I’m hoping that was a belated April Fools joke,” I replied.

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Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City

lmassa — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:49:56 +0000

Call it a Maccathon.

Whenever Paul McCartney does a concert these days, he’s in for the long haul, and the haul includes five decades of iconic hits, discoveries of other worthy tunes, and massive doses of charm.

McCartney likes to perform, and he aims to please.

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Paul McCartney – Live at Knebworth, 1990

jperron — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:12:52 +0000

Think Paul McCartney’s a medical and musical phenomenon, performing at full-tilt, these days and nights, at age 71?

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The Beach Boys Live at Knebworth: A visit with Brian Wilson

jperron — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:54:24 +0000

Summertime, and it’s easy, musically, to float over to the music of the Beach Boys, who were all about the California sun, about surfin’ and cruisin’ and being true to your school – except in summer, of course, when it’s time for fun, fun, fun.

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Discover The Doors at the Bowl: Mick, LSD and a Moth

lmassa — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:36:51 +0000

To play the Hollywood Bowl. For any musician, that has to be a career highlight. The Doors performed in that revered venue in 1968, and Ray Manzarek, in his interview for Qello Concerts, articulated the import of such an occasion.

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Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America / The Harmony Game

jperron — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:26:26 +0000

I have a friend who likes Paul Simon. Check that. “I LOVE Paul Simon!” she’ll exclaim whenever we talk about music.

Simon was the genius half of Simon and Garfunkel. He wrote all those great songs, helped arrange them, and sang half of them. And it was Paul, not Art, who went on to a prolific solo career.

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John Fogerty: Live at Soundstage

jperron — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:43:52 +0000

There are rockers, and there are rock ‘n’ rollers. John Fogerty is one of the few major musicians who can claim to be both, bridging the guitar-driven, band-based rock of the late ‘60s and ‘70s with the R&B and country-rooted rock and roll—think Little Richard and Elvis—of the ‘50s into the ‘60s.

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The Gift of Dad Rock | Father’s Day

jperron — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:15:59 +0000

Dad-bod, dad jeans, dad rock.
These are most definitely not flattering terms. They signify the opposite of cool. Or even worse, the idea of an unhip man past his prime trying embarrassingly hard to be cool.

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The Northern Pikes: 30 Years Under the Big Blue Sky

lmassa — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:08:50 +0000

You may not realize that you know The Northern Pikes, AKA the greatest band to ever come out of Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada), but odds are you would be able to belt out “Teenland” and “She Ain’t Pretty” if they came on the radio while you were taking a cross-country road trip down a (Canadian) Prairie road.

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