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The thing I love about the way the late Canadian-born Robbie Robertson played guitar is the way that he could pluck one note out of the universe and let it sit there like an image of God. From "Who Do You Love" through "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" and "This Wheel’s On Fire" to one of my personal favourites in "Ophelia", the man never wasted a note. And he wrote glorious songs. Such music is a wonderful medicine for much modern American social malaise (which is a state of robust health compared to some of Trudeau’s Canadian crap). Robertson himself said...

"Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them." - Robbie Robertson (born July 5, 1943) Actress Diana Lynn was such a stunning beauty and was also born on July 5, but in 1926, in Los Angeles. John Curtin died in office as Australian Prime Minister on the same date in 1945. In a defining moment of modern Australian history a few years earlier, Curtin said: "Australia looks to America" in response to Imperial Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. National Security was the first thing on his mind then, but the cultural reasons for Australia to...

One birth of the bikini on Frenchwoman Micheline Bernardini‘s body in a photo shoot on July 5th, 1946, owes its then new name to the island where, four days earlier, America tested one of the first of the atomic weapons which still both terrify and (hopefully) stabilise the modern world. Robbie Robertson, one of my favourite guitarists, who was born on July 5, but in 1943, said: “You don’t stumble upon your heritage. It’s there, just waiting to be explored.” God Bless Beauty And The Fearsome Freedom To Enjoy It