Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Dana Spiardi 
While dance clubs around the globe were blasting “Kung Fu Fighting,” I was fighting Kung Fu blasting. This early disco hit, which topped the U.S. charts in September 1974, was recorded in ten minutes and took singer Carl Douglas a mere two takes to complete. It was originally intended to be the B side of … Read more
Badfinger was a Beatle-esque British band that scored a number of hits in the 1970s, including “No Matter What,” “Day After Day,” and “Baby Blue.” In 1968 they became one of the first groups signed by The Beatles’ new Apple records label. Originally known as The Iveys, they changed their name upon release of their … Read more
All the Beatles smoked. But then, who didn’t have a ciggie ‘tween their fingers in those days? Keith Richards of The Stones was simply incapable of playing guitar without a cigarette dangling from his lips. But John Lennon obviously cursed his cigarette habit. In two of his Beatles’ songs he makes references to the evil cancer … Read more
I don’t know any goat that’s 100% black or white or tan. Most of us are of mixed color, and proud of it. But I do know a few billies and nannies who are predominantly black and beautiful, and I never understood how they could work at that racist place called ‘Maggie’s Farm.’ You know, … Read more
Singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye was one of Motown’s greatest recording artists, releasing two groundbreaking concept albums in the early 1970s: “What’s Going On” and “Sexual Healing.” After seeing the soul man’s large collection of pornography, Rolling Stone critic David Ritz suggested that Gaye needed some “sexual healing.” This comment inspired the title of one of Marvin’s … Read more