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Like Jazz, Rock Music Is on Life Support. Is Hollywood Next?
PJ Media ^ | 09/04/2019 | Ed Driscoll

Posted on 09/04/2019 8:20:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The era of mass media may have ended decades ago, but the hangover is about to hit us all hard. In “The coming death of just about every rock legend,” Damon Linker of The Week explores the rock & roll carnage to come:

Yes, we've lost some already. On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there's the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty.

Those losses have been painful. But it's nothing compared with the tidal wave of obituaries to come. The grief and nostalgia will wash over us all. Yes, the Boomers left alive will take it hardest — these were their heroes and generational compatriots. But rock remained the biggest game in town through the 1990s, which implicates GenXers like myself, no less than plenty of millennials.

All of which means there's going to be an awful lot of mourning going on.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71);


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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: hollywood; jazz; rockmusic
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To: big'ol_freeper

I only wish Peter and Steve Marriott could have gotten together before Steve’s tragic death.


101 posted on 09/04/2019 9:48:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I thought they were in there long before Little Richard.


102 posted on 09/04/2019 9:48:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Not to the degree they are now.


103 posted on 09/04/2019 9:49:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DakotaGator

My argument is that this story assumes that “The Entertainment Industry’ is the totality of music, be it jazz or rock.

Jazz and rock are fine, they are not the same as a bunch of out of touch, leftist relics of a different era. Capitol Record, or Sony or the like are not necessary any longer; that in no ways means rock or jazz, or country are dead, it just means that some once semi-useful parasites are dead or dying.


104 posted on 09/04/2019 9:49:44 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (We had entirely enough government in 1789.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of all the people in that list, I’ll wager Keith Richards outlives them all.

His blood is probably so full of chemicals from the drugs he’s done that viruses and bacteria die on contact.


105 posted on 09/04/2019 9:50:12 AM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: RedStateRocker

Dang. I have thousands of albums. But not Fish Out of Water. I do still listen to 90125 frequently. Or Classic Yes for Starship Trooper.


106 posted on 09/04/2019 9:50:39 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970

I still say Tempus Fugit was Squire’s best bass line.


107 posted on 09/04/2019 9:51:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hoagy62

108 posted on 09/04/2019 9:52:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RedStateRocker

It’s not like the 60s and 70s, where everybody pretty much listened to the same radio stations, and that was the only way to learn about new music.


109 posted on 09/04/2019 9:53:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rock music is still there.... more or less. But it has a guy wearing a cowboy hat and singing with a twang these days.


110 posted on 09/04/2019 9:55:06 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: RedStateRocker

It’s just pathetic to hear people bemoan the lack of good music when it’s just that they are too lazy to FIND it.


Seems to me that a modern band on par with Beatles or Zep would not be hard to find if they existed.


111 posted on 09/04/2019 9:55:33 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: dfwgator

Indeed!


112 posted on 09/04/2019 9:56:37 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: dfwgator

That could be a matter of how “safe” they feel/felt to openly flaunt it.


113 posted on 09/04/2019 9:59:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

Just don’t get any tusk in the tush!


114 posted on 09/04/2019 10:00:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: dfwgator

A tune from one of the non-Anderson eras? With Trevor Horn (more known for The Buggles) on lead vocals?


115 posted on 09/04/2019 10:01:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AFreeBird

“M” was his business partner - Jerry Moss, IIRC.


116 posted on 09/04/2019 10:02:16 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Olog-hai

Drama, actually I like it more than a lot of Anderson albums (Tormato, anyone?)

And actually you realize just how important Squire’s backing vocals were to Yes’ sound.


117 posted on 09/04/2019 10:05:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yup!

Back in the early 70’s, Don McClean sang about the “Day the music died” in Bye Bye Miss American Bye, but the real day the music died was sometime in the late 80s, early 90s.

RAP = RIP Music


118 posted on 09/04/2019 10:05:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Yardstick

I’m sure people could write symphonies like Beethoven, but there’s something about being a pioneer.

Lot of guitar players today could play better than Hendrix perhaps, but Hendrix was a creator.


119 posted on 09/04/2019 10:06:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: newfreep
Do you remember Weird Al's version?


120 posted on 09/04/2019 10:10:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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