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Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms, yearning to breathe free.
Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms, yearning to breathe free.
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Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms, yearning to breathe free.
Sam Cooke, one of the greatest soul singers in history, was shot to death on this date in 1964 - at the height of his career. In 1963 he wrote one of the earliest protest songs of the civil rights movement: the soul-stirring "A Change is Gonna Come," which was released after his death.
When I was 16, the woman whose bedroom was above mine in our apartment building was forced to move because I wouldn't stop playing Led Zeppelin's "Nobody's Fault But Mine" at warp sound. I mean, I feel bad about it now, but at the time I felt such a sense of...victory! Behold, the power of rock.
Snarly, salty Tom Waits is one of the few singer/songwriters never to sell out by allowing his songs to be used in TV commercials. Through the years he's filed lawsuits against lots of big companies that attempted to use his songs – or rips-offs of his music – in TV ads. And he won every case.
That was the pronouncement of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the transformation of the Fab Four from the droll, cheeky mop-tops of 1964, to the lysergically induced hipster-gurus of 1967. Rumor has it that the Queen voiced this "turning funny" verdict to Sir Joseph Lockwood, chairman of the Beatles' British record company EMI, at a highbrow Buckingham Palace event that took place at the height of the boys' cosmic journey into all things metaphysical.
The government of Richard Nixon spent thousands of taxpayer dollars, installed loads of surveillance equipment, and employed countless FBI agents in its four-year effort to deport America-loving peacenik John Lennon, whom they considered a major threat due to his left-wing political activism and relationships with anti-war "subversives." But Instant Karma got 'em all in the end.