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Fun Fact: Saturday Night Fever Hits No 1 on Travolta’s Birthday
Written by Jimmy
Okay, so I think the title is true. Find a cool site that I’ll only share every once in a while on Today in Music History. Points out that today…Read more
Be My Yoko Ono: Happy Birthday
Written by Jimmy
Yoko Ono was born today — in 1933. For those keen readers, Yoko is second to Pattie Boyd in ‘woman who inspired great music’, but falls down to 567th in…Read more
Colin Hay, Scrubs, Kookaburras
Written by Jimmy
Fascinating glimpse of song-writing from Colin Hay, song-writer of Down Under, founder of Men At Work.
My Sharona… the passing of Doug Fieger
Written by Jimmy
Sadly, Doug Fieger, front man of the Knack and co-writer of My Sharona died yesterday at 57 of lung cancer. My Sharona was inspired by Sharona Alperin (now a real…Read more
Song Discovery: 10.02.14 Valentine’s Special
Written by Jimmy
This is it — the long promised and long threatened Valentines Day Song Discovery. I pulled in our ‘Voices’ gang (more on this later) to help… Listen up
Song Discovery: 10.02.11 Free Nelson Mandela
Written by Jimmy
20 years ago Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after 27 years to become President of South Africa. The song Free Nelson Mandela, written in 1984
Fun Facts: 10.02.08 (Gen Z Facts)
Written by Jimmy
So weird emerging facts about Gen Z… That digital group, those bizzare students that do homework while watching TV, doing MSN, chating on FaceBook and listening to songs in one ear…….Read more
Fun Facts: 10.02.09 (Not so fun really)
Written by Jimmy
Kind of scary ‘fun fact’ really… about dangers of over-consumption.
Fun Facts: 10.02.07 All Before 18
Written by Jimmy
Tory pointed this out: Hunter, Tory and Morgan have lived in three decades, two centuries and two milleniums… and they’re not even 18 yet.
Fun Fact: 10.02.05 Christopher Guest’s Birthday
Written by Jimmy
11. It goes to 11. You can’t love music unless you love 11. You can’t love 11 unless you love Christopher Guest. And today is his birthday.