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A 14-year-old California girl was dismembered with a chainsaw in a backyard inflatable pool after threatening to expose her alleged child predator ex-boyfriend, according to Los Angeles prosecutors. David Anthony Burke, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter known as "D4vd," faces charges of murder, child sex abuse and the unlawful mutilation of human remains after prosecutors allege he sexually abused the teen for months before killing her, cutting up her remains and allowing them to decompose in the trunk of his Tesla. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. The morning after allegedly killing Celeste Rivas Hernandez, he sat...

Puppetgate produces another hit track "Commie Mamdani" featuring Zohran the Moron on the mic! *DISCLAIMER: This video is a fictional puppet satire. All characters are imaginary and no one was harmed* Transcript of lyrics linked below video.

*ABOUT P.U.L.S.E. RESTORED & RE-EDITED* The P.U.L.S.E. concert film (helmed by esteemed director David Mallet) will be available as 2x Blu-ray and 2x DVD deluxe box sets, with the video footage having been expertly re-edited by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis from the original tape masters especially for The Later Years release in 2019. The cover design, originally created by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon for the 2006 DVD release, has also been updated with photography by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis and Rupert Truman/StormStudios. The packaging artwork is designed by Peter Curzon from StormStudios, under the direction of Aubrey Powell/Hignosis. This release also sees the...

Take a look back at Secretariat earning the first jewel of his Triple Crown run with a still-standing track record time of his historic Kentucky Derby win. https://youtu.be/LV4drumXbA4?si=WYW54bcTugE92Xqs

A song that became a symbol of profound change, one that lives on decades after its release.It’s strange to think that Helen Reddy’s now-iconic women’s empowerment anthem was not initially a hit. Once the 70s burgeoning second-wave feminist movement found it, though, “I Am Woman” evolved into so much more than just a song: it became a symbol of profound change, one that lives on decades after its release. Co-written with Ray Burton, “I Am Woman” was Reddy sounding off about the entertainment industry and all of the demeaning comments made to her by men in positions of power....

A performance of William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18'.David Gilmour - Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare) | 2:56David Gilmour | 1.34M subscribers | 232,000 views | June 2, 2023Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?By William ShakespeareShall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of...

Here is some music to get you into the mood this first day of May. "The Lusty Month Of May", performed by Vanessa Redgrave, from the film adaptation of Camelot.

My latest song. Yes, I chose it for the irony value.

The quartet were missing the warmth of Los Angeles, but turned that into a gold-certified classic.By the spring of 1966, the Mamas and the Papas were big news in the United States. They’d gone Top 5 with “California Dreamin’’’, released the previous December 8, and were climbing fast with the follow-up, ‘Monday, Monday.’ That was on its way to a three-week stint at No.1 in the US when, on the chart for April 28, the vocal quartet appeared on a British chart for the first time. If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears LP If You Can Believe...

0:00Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 47th President of the United States, 0:055 seconds: President Donald J. Trump, accompanied by First Lady Mrs. Melania Trump. 0:1919 seconds: I got Trump arrangement syndrome. I hate the mother. T D S TDS. Democrats have 0:2828 seconds: TDS. You can't catch it from French kissing. No, it's all inside your head. 0:3434 seconds: What is more, there's no cure. Makes you dumb and immature. Watch the fake news. 0:4040 seconds: It's atrocious. See their hatred so ferocious. They can scream, they can shout, some will threaten to move out and expatriate like a...

One of the most brilliant, most controversial, most mercurial, most wild and wildly influential artists, songwriters, and performers in country music history has done something that almost seemed impossible from this old stump of hickory who survived prison stints, motorcycle gang fights, horrific automobile accidents, run-ins with the law, and a major bout with COVID that put him in the hospital at 82—he’s succumb to mortality and passed on to that honky tonk in the sky. David Allan Coe was always just as much myth as he was man. That is the reason his music, and his legacy is often...

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Conrad Murray served two years in prison for his role in Michael Jackson's 2009 deathIn 2011, Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for his role in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson. SNIP A decade later, he opened up a medical institute in his native country, Trinidad and Tobago, the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reported. SNIP "I have lost a great deal," Murray said at the time. "I've lost everything. Everything I've amassed has been taken from me as a result of an unjust verdict. I am and I remain an innocent man." In May 2023,...

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From a "Day On The Green" concert promoted by Bill Graham, 2 July 1977. A brilliant live performance, they also played "Sweet Home Alabama". I was able to replace the audio as this performance was used in "Freebird - The Movie" of which a soundtrack album was issued. Unfortunately there is no track for "Sweet Home Alabama". MtnClimber: I saw the band on October 18, 1977 at the Lakeland (FL) civic center on the next to the last performance before the plane crash. It was the 5th time I had seen them. The devastating Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash near Gillsburg,...

I've long thought Eric Carmen's "Go All the Way" by his group, Raspberries (1972) was a practically perfect rock n roll song.

A video of Alex Lifeson, the guitarist of the band, “RUSH,” arguing with his parents about quitting high school to go into music. Alex’s dad wants him to follow him into the world of plumbing. If you are a fan like me, it’s an amazing video.

Opera singer Jessye Norman says https://youtube.com/shorts/rzgees_8oII?si=7Aahdum4rPW92GZ7 it has "too much territory". (Its tessatura = an octave, Do to Do, 12 notes from Ab to Ab, PLUS an additional "fifth", 7 notes from Ab to Eb). Marian Anderson effortlessly sang https://youtu.be/_iYcheeUS5A?si=t2zq5uuyr-DPnQ-v?t=29s The Star Spangle Banner with her 3 octave vocal range. "Registers" is a confusing term. It usually means, one's personal range. But I was taught that a register is a narrow range in which you sing with the same tone; then you have to switch to different positioning of the vocal "mechanism" to go to "another register". You can hear...

The history of recorded jazz is hard to pin down. So many conflicting stories make up a rich patchwork that guides us towards the truth of how jazz began.So much of our history is about establishing records: we are fascinated by who was first to do a particular thing. Yet all too often the history that’s passed down is actually less accurate than we would like it to be. As the popular truism goes, “History is written by the victors,” and the history of recorded jazz is no different. Most of those who have written about it will tell you...

My latest song. Listen to the city.