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Twisted Fact of the Day:
Starfish haven't got brains.
The Day In Rock
No. 1
1957 Elvis Presley: Too Much US 45
1959 Lloyd Price: Stagger Lee US 45
1963 Paul and Paula: Hey Paula US 45
1974 Love Unlimited Orchestra; Love Theme US 45
1985 Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson: I Know Him So Well UK 45
1985 Madonna: Like a Virgin US LP
1991 Jesus Jones : Doubt : UK LP
1991 C.C. Music Factory: Gonna Make You Sweat US 45
Births
1939 Barry Mann (Who Put the Bomp)
1941 Bruce Bennett (Shadows)
1942 Carole King (Tapestry)
1942 Mark Mathis (Newbeats)
1944 Barbara Lewis (Baby I'm Yours)
1951 Dennis 'Dee Tee' Thomas (Kool and the Gang)
1960 Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) Jimmy Pursey (Sham 69)
Deaths
1981 Bill Haley (Rock Around the Clock)
Miscellany
1964 Beatles make their US TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1972 Paul McCartney appears live for first time with Wings at Nottingham University. 1974 Hall and Oates debut on US chart with She's Gone on way to becoming most successful duo of all time.
1978 Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights hits UK chart.
1997 The Simpsons,which has featured such guest stars as Aerosmith, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Peter Frampton. becomes the longest-running prime-time animated series. The record was previously held by "The Flintstones."
What’s in the CD player?
Oingo Boingo – Nothing To Fear
Review by Kieran McCarthy
Though Nothing to Fear is by no means Oingo Boingo's best album, it is certainly not as bad as many near-sighted critics have asserted. Elfman's songwriting, even when he's not firing on all cylinders, still blows the hinges off most of his peers on their best days. It is true that many songs on this go-around lack the smooth transitions that characterize Only a Lad, but the intricately woven, complex song structures do well to sustain Elfman's erratic mood swings. The album begins strongly, with Boingo's trademark bells and synth on "Grey Matter" and then switches gears with an abrupt slap-bass progression on "Insects." "Private Life" brings it all together, oozing forth elaborate instrumentation and rich songwriting. If you can humor Elfman when he gets too excited by his own proselytizing with songs like "Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself," and you give the album a few listens, you'll recognize it's a vastly underrated sophomore effort.
Funny
Food
Porterhouse Steak
Zoom Zoom
The King
Babe (of yore)
Bridgette Bardot – By Request
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Art
Kurt Schwitters
As You Like It, 1946
Collage 343 x 445 mm
Last edited on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 08:51 am by Paxman