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The 10 greatest rock'n'roll myths
observer ^ | 2/22/05 | Graeme Thomson

Posted on 02/22/2005 9:53:02 PM PST by freedom44

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To: freedom44

It's like it's written with English words and Roman letters, yet it's not English! God, that commonwealth English is hard to understand!


21 posted on 02/22/2005 10:35:51 PM PST by TypeZoNegative (Isn't it ironic that the spleen, most useless organ in our body is also on the left side of our body)
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To: Graybeard58
Here's another one - Jimmy Hendricks was the best guitarist ever.

Now you had to go and do that.

I was just enjoying Jimi: The BBC Sessions today. Damn that is good stuff.

22 posted on 02/22/2005 10:36:47 PM PST by TheOtherOne
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To: RightWingAtheist

you guys have to be quicker with these pings... 2 articles tonight already I've had to pick up the slack on, and it's like, 3 hours past my bedtime here in the East!

*grin*

(of course I'm the slacker for not posting the articles in the first place...)


23 posted on 02/22/2005 10:37:26 PM PST by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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To: freedom44
Not the most reliable witness - he once claimed he wrote 'Eleanor Rigby'

No he didn't. Even so, Lennon certainly did write some of the song. For example, Lennon came up with a line about "Father McCartney", but Paul got the creeps and changed it to "Father McKenzie". The bulk of the Beatles earlier stuff was genuinely written by both Lennon and McCartney. At least, each usually made some contribution to the other's efforts.

24 posted on 02/22/2005 10:45:26 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: freedom44
5: Stevie Nicks having cocaine blown up her bum

Don't think I'd ever heard about that one before.

"...Just like a white wing dove
"Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
"[Poot!], [Poott!!], said [fffffffttt!!!]"

25 posted on 02/22/2005 10:47:09 PM PST by RichInOC (...oops, did I sing that out loud?)
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To: freedom44

They pumped out a quart of what out out of Rod Stewart's stomach?


26 posted on 02/22/2005 10:49:11 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: Graybeard58

out of curiousity, who is your pick?


27 posted on 02/22/2005 10:52:33 PM PST by Quixotical (Private Pyle is that a Jelly Doughnut)
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To: freedom44
Richey Edwards lives Ten years on, Richey's disappearance remains imbued with a Lucan-like mythology

Who's Richey Edwards. And what does "Lucan-like" mean? Who or what is Lucan.

And Robert Johnson had nothing to do with rock and roll having died in the 1930's.

English people can be weird.

28 posted on 02/22/2005 10:52:53 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: freedom44
Although he mentioned one of them, it was silly to leave the two biggest myths off his list, that Paul is dead and Elvis isn't. There are a couple of web sites that go into the Paul is dead story, and if you read one for a little while, you'll start going "dang, maybe he IS dead."
29 posted on 02/22/2005 11:04:21 PM PST by Richard Kimball (It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
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To: HHFi
YES, in a Roundabout fashion, I suppose you have.
30 posted on 02/22/2005 11:06:28 PM PST by bd476
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To: Quixotical

Check out this maniac.

www.spasticink.com

Ron's a friend of mine. I played with his brother Bobby for years off and on.

Go to videos. Classic cartoons scored with heavy metal, and other stuff. Very unique and you will certainly appreciate his virtiousity.


31 posted on 02/22/2005 11:06:46 PM PST by planekT
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To: Charles Henrickson
.daed si luaP

If you play Sgt. Pepper backwards and at a slow speed, you can hear Paul's voice saying "You bloody idiot. You're playing this record backwards and at a slow speed."

32 posted on 02/22/2005 11:07:50 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Let's REALLY Split The Country! (http://righteverytime3.blogspot.com))
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To: Quixotical

Chet Atkins.

He could and did play any kind of music. I have a 78rpm album of his that I wouldn't part with for any money. Nothing but classical music on it.


33 posted on 02/22/2005 11:08:39 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Richard Kimball

28 IF (if he would have lived)

license on the volkswagen on the abby road album.


34 posted on 02/22/2005 11:08:58 PM PST by planekT
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To: TheOtherOne

My Back Pages, Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Hey Joe, yeah he's pretty darned mesmerizing.


35 posted on 02/22/2005 11:09:20 PM PST by bd476
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To: Arkie2

Just looked it up. Apparently Mick Jagger once ate said candy bar out of Miss Faithfull's...well, perhaps that's where the Stones got the inspiration for "Brown Sugar"?


36 posted on 02/22/2005 11:16:53 PM PST by RichInOC ("...how come ya taste so good?")
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To: djf

In that song, Zappa namechecks the Vanilla Fudge.


37 posted on 02/22/2005 11:18:20 PM PST by Chunga
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To: tallhappy

Richey Edwards was the guitarist for the Manic Street Preachers, who disappeared in 1995 shortly before the band was supposed to tour the U.S. to promote their then-current album.

Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, disappeared in 1974, after allegedly beating the family nanny to death and also battering his wife.

Apparently there's some controversy about exactly what happened to both gentlemen.


38 posted on 02/22/2005 11:21:34 PM PST by RichInOC (Elvis is everywhere, Elvis is everything, Elvis is everybody, Elvis is still the King!)
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To: RichInOC
Thanks for the info.

Very British. I'd've not known at all.

39 posted on 02/22/2005 11:35:01 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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Did Kerry King from Slayer play guitar for the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep till Brooklyn" hit in the 80's?
40 posted on 02/22/2005 11:43:33 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Can't afford Medical care? Thank an illegal alien.)
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