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02 Nov 09

List of drug-related deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bryan Ottoson (27) - musician, American Head Charge, accidental prescription-drug overdose.
- Delphine Neid - musician, The Nuns, drugs overdose.
- Joachim Nielsen (36) - rock musician in the band Jokke & Valentinerne, drug overdose
- Bradley Nowell (28) - musician, Sublime, heroin overdose.
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- Jim Morrison (27) - musician, The Doors, heart failure, alcohol abuse (cause and fact of death disputed).
  Billy Murcia - musician, the New York Dolls, accidental suffocation after drugs and alcohol.
  Brent Mydland (37) - musician, keyboardist, of the Grateful Dead, cocaine/morphine overdose.
- Keith Moon (32) - musician, the Who, accidental overdose on anti-seizure medication prescribed for alcoholism.
- David McComb (36) - musician, The Triffids, heroin overdose.
  Jimmy McCulloch (26) - musician with Wings, guitarist, heroin overdose.
  Robbie McIntosh (24) - musician, Average White Band, heroin overdose.
- Billy Mackenzie (39) - musician, the Associates, overdosed on temazepam, amitriptyline, and paracetamol (suicide).
- Phil Lynott (36) - musician, Thin Lizzy, health breakdown caused by a heroin overdose. (speedball.)
- Frankie Lymon (25) - musician, doo wop singer, heroin overdose.
- John Kahn (48) - musician, Jerry Garcia Band, complications of heart disease, heroin, cocaine, and antidepressants found in his body.
- Janis Joplin (27) - rock and roll and blues musician, heroin overdose.
  Rick James (56)- musician Died August 6, 2004 of a drug induced heart-attack
  
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- Rob Jones (a.k.a. The Bass Thing) - musician - former bassist of The Wonder Stuff, heroin/cocaine/alcohol overdose.
- Michael Jackson (50) - musician, heart attack due to drug overdose.
- Steven Ronald "Stevo" Jensen - musician, The Vandals, prescription drug overdose.
- James Honeyman-Scott (25) - musician, the Pretenders, cocaine overdose.
  Shannon Hoon (28) - musician, singer in Blind Melon, cocaine overdose.
- Hollywood Fats (32) - musician, heroin overdose.
- Jimi Hendrix (27) - rock and roll musician, respiratory arrest caused by alcohol and barbiturate overdose and vomit inhalation.
- Tim Hemensley - indie musician, member of GOD, heroin overdose
- Eddie Hazel (42) - musician, guitarist, of the P-funk collective, liver failure.
- Bobby Hatfield (63) - musician, The Righteous Brothers, heart attack triggered by cocaine overdose.
  Tim Hardin (39) - folk musician, heroin and morphine overdose.
- Paul Gonsalves (53) - jazz tenor saxophonist, Duke Ellington, narcotics overdose
  Gribouille (26) - singer, drugs overdose.
- Lowell George (34) - musician, Little Feat, heart attack - habitual drug abuse probable cause.
- Paul Gardiner (25) - musician, Tubeway Army, drug overdose.
- Zac Foley (31)^[4] - musician, EMF, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, temazepam, barbiturates and alcohol in bloodstream.
- Pete Farndon (31) - musician, the Pretenders, drowned/ heroin overdose.
- John Entwistle (57) - musician, bassist for the Who, died from heart failure brought upon by cocaine use.
  Brian Epstein (32) - Manager of The Beatles, accidental sleeping pill overdose.
  Howie Epstein (47) - musician, ex-bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, heroin overdose^[3].
- Nick Drake (26) - musician, anti-depressant overdose, disputed suicide.
- Kevin DuBrow (52) - rock vocalist, cocaine overdose.
- John Dougherty - musician, Flipper, heroin overdose.
- Tommy Dorsey (51) - jazz musician and bandleader, choked to death while sleeping with the aid of drugs.
- DJ Screw (29) - musician, heart attack thought to be result of codeine overdose.
- Jesse Ed Davis (43) - guitarist, session musician, drug overdose.
- Pamela Courson (27) - common law wife of Jim Morrison of The Doors, heroin overdose.
  Carl Crack (30) - musician, Atari Teenage Riot, drug overdose.
  Darby Crash (22) - punk musician, of The Germs, suicide by heroin overdose.
  Robbin Crosby (42) - musician, ex-Ratt, contracted HIV as a result of long-time heroin addiction and died of a heroin overdose.
- Brian Cole (29) - musician, the Association, heroin overdose.
- Sonny Clark (31) - musician, hard bop pianist, heroin overdose.
  Steve Clark (30) - musician, Def Leppard, accidential death (anti-depressants, painkillers and alcohol).
- Toy Caldwell (45) - musician, Marshall Tucker Band.
  Casey Calvert (26) - guitarist of Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose through mixture of opiates, citalopram, and clonazepam.
- Chad Butler (aka "Pimp C") - rap musician, accidental overdose of Promethazine/Codeine "syrup" mixed with a pre-existing medical condition, sleep apnea^[1]^[2].
  Paul Butterfield (44) - musician, drug and alcohol overdose.
- Tim Buckley (28) - rock and roll musician, heroin overdose.
- Mike Bloomfield (36) - blues guitarist, heroin overdose.
- Florence Ballard (32) - musician, The Supremes, cardiac arrest strongly exacerbated by long-term drug abuse.
- Dwayne Goettel (31) - musician, Skinny Puppy, heroin overdose.

Editorial Notebook - Memphis - NYTimes.com

If I had to name the best short story in the form of a song lyric, I suspect the winner would be Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee”

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16 Aug 09

While My Guitar Gently Beeps - The Beatles - Rock Band - NYTimes.com

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The band that upended the cultural landscape of the 1960s is now hitching its legacy to the medium of a new generation: the video game.
games intensify people’s engagement with music.
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- THE EVENTS THAT The Beatles: Rock Band recreates and reimagines are not just stepping stones in the career of a band but transformational shifts in the history of popular music.
- The Beatles are positioning themselves to once again play a significant role in the evolution of popular music — this time by embracing interactivity.
- “We’re on the precipice of a culture shift around how the mass market experiences music,”
- music games are now the second-most-popular type on the market, ahead of sports and not far behind the traditional action category.
- Together, Guitar Hero and Rock Band (now rival franchises owned by competing companies) have altered the way fans relate to music.
- Increasingly, games are also seen as a significant distribution platform in their own right. In its first week, Motley Crue’s 2008 single “Saints of Los Angeles” sold nearly five times as many copies on Rock Band as it did on iTunes, and at twice the price. Next month, Pearl Jam plans to release its new album simultaneously on CD and in Rock Band.
- But last month Harmonix announced that it will license software tools and provide training for anyone to create and distribute interactive versions of their own songs on a new Rock Band Network, which will drastically expand the amount and variety of interactive music available.
- McCartney’s own musical beginnings weren’t too different from picking up Rock Band and pretending to be a star, he pointed out. “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.”

12 Aug 09

What Is Your Favorite Song From Woodstock? - NYTimes.com

A good overview of Woodstock classics ... but they left out CSN&Y

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11 Jul 09

Book Review - 'How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll - An Alternative History of American Popular Music,' by Elijah Wald - Review - NYTimes.com

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He has set himself a deceptively simple task: to write about the popular music of the last century by concentrating on what was actually popular, and to figure out why people — not critics or historians but the people who bought the sheet music and the records, listened to the songs on the radio and went to the dances — liked it.
In doing so he ends up taking aim, for example, at the notion that mainstream pop music in the early 1950s was mired in white-bread mediocrity, as embodied by the likes of Perry Como, until Elvis Presley and company came along to rescue it. He doesn’t deny that rock ’n’ roll delivered a new energy and a new attitude, but he maintains that Elvis and Perry had more than a little in common — and he notes that plenty of teenage record buyers liked them both.

01 Apr 09

Dan Kennedy's Rocky Times in the Music Biz : NPR Music

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05 Mar 09

Trendspotting - So You Want to Be a Rock Star? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Yes, it's one more sphere of RnR influence ... with a little work, you too can look like a rock star.

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U.K. University Offers MA In Beatles - CBS News

My next degree?

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Brocken said students would be expected to study the Beatles' songs, stardom, hometown and cultural impact through four 12-week courses and a dissertation.
a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.
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- Liverpool Hope University said Tuesday that its new master's program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," would give students the opportunity to analyze music and culture through the band's work.

03 Mar 09

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | U2 play surprise rooftop concert

Emulating the Beatles

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Rock band U2 have played a surprise gig on top of BBC Broadcasting House, in central London.
The performance was also broadcast live on DJ Chris Evans' BBC Radio 2 show.
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- U2's impromptu gig echoed The Beatles' 1969 rooftop performance at record label Apple's London headquarters.

21 Feb 09

Tell Us Your Story -- San Jose Rocks

100W profile project? MCom 96 project?

"Whether it's a story about one of our inductees or someone you'd like to see inducted. The greater San Jose Silicon Valley area is rich with contributions to rock 'n' roll by bands, musicians, writers, rock promoters, teachers, radio personalities, business leaders, inventors, music venues and technologists with roots here."

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Whether it's a story about one of our
inductees or someone you'd like to see inducted. The greater San Jose
Silicon Valley area is rich with contributions to rock ‘n’ roll by
bands, musicians, writers, rock promoters, teachers, radio
personalities, business leaders, inventors, music venues and
technologists with roots here. If you have photos, recordings, film
or other memorabilia you'd consider loaning or donating to History
San Jose, let us know that too.

San Jose Rocks -- home page

Local non-profit that celebrates San Jose's rock 'n' roll history.

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'60s musicians pay tribute to Count Five's John Byrne at Avalon tonight - San Jose Mercury News

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Dan Orloff — a PR professional, drummer for Black Pearl and co-founder of the nonprofit San Jose Rocks organization — said the show was conceived at Byrne's December memorial service.
Dan Orloff — a PR professional, drummer for Black Pearl and co-founder of the nonprofit San Jose Rocks organization — said the show was conceived at Byrne's December memorial service.
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- Radio veteran Mark Fenichel, who will stage-manage the event
- Fenichel tracked down rock and sports memorabilia for auction items
- The evening will pay homage to Byrne, but it also will celebrate an era when South Bay musicians, most still in their teens, reached the masses with hard-driving songs birthed in garages and honed in sweaty gigs at the Continental Ballroom or the Pioneer High School teen center.

11 Feb 09

Travel to Liverpool - Beatles Magical Mystery Tour - Video Episode 45 | The Amateur Traveler Travel Podcast - best places to travel

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09 Feb 09

All You Need Is Love: Various Artists: Tony Palmer - Amazon.com

Get this for MUSE rock 'n' roll class?

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04 Feb 09

The Day the Music Died: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

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28 Jan 09

Bruce Springsteen, "Working on a Dream" | Salon Arts & Entertainment

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What makes Springsteen's popular success all the more astonishing is his bleakness. At its most searing, his work probes the underside of the American dream -- its elusiveness for everyday Americans, the price we pay for chasing it, even the need to escape it altogether in order to survive. By offering up the American promise as a lie, Springsteen belongs alongside such diverse writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison, all of whom have probed the darkness of the American condition.
His 16th studio album is titled "Working on a Dream," and in the context of Obama's inauguration and Springsteen's performance at the Lincoln Memorial, it is impossible not to think about the best-known use of the word in American history: Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
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- Springsteen's art lies in a deception, a tension between the verse lyrics and the chorus. He sings to our heads, but rocks to our hearts. In the verses, he explains, he sings the blues. But the chorus is gospel. And so we shout, "Born in the USA," fists pumping in celebration, yet the lyrics ("born in a dead man's town") depict a defeated patriotism.
- Musically, the best songs feature orchestral walls of sound and clever hooks. Echoes of a dozen groups and riffs from the 1960s, especially the Beatles, Byrds and Beach Boys, can be heard here, and for good measure Springsteen throws in some folk, blues and soul. But lyrically the songs are no joyous romp. There is very little happiness here.
- Springsteen's message on "Working on a Dream" seems to be that the answer is love. He knows the Beatles delivered the news more than 40 years ago, which is perhaps why so many of the song titles on the new album evoke the Fab Four: "Tomorrow Never Knows," "This Life," "Life Itself" and "Surprise, Surprise." (Recall that John Lennon whistles at the end of "The Two of Us," a song about a relationship and going home.) Half of the new songs have the word "love" in them. And the others include lines such as "with you I have been blessed" and "you're mine for always."
- Bruce has returned to an original faith in rock 'n' roll as the music of liberation. He once observed that Elvis freed our bodies and Dylan freed our minds. Springsteen is working on our souls.
- The saving grace of rock 'n' roll will not revolutionize society, and it certainly will not deliver the American dream, but it has changed many a person's life. Springsteen knows this because he is one of the saved. He got religion after seeing Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show in 1957, and he got his first electric guitar after seeing the Beatles on the show in 1964.
- Springsteen's music can make us feel alive, but it cannot save the country or restore the American dream. That part is up to us.

10 Jan 09

Celebrating 50 years of Motown | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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07 Dec 08

Soul Reviver - Gabriel Roth - Daptone Records - Profile - NYTimes.com

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Roth is a 34-year-old songwriter, bassist and sound engineer, as well as the somewhat-reluctant co-owner of Daptone Records, a small record label in Brooklyn. He is still a musical outsider: he says he strongly dislikes almost every pop song recorded since 1974
What appeals to him — what consumes him — are dusty soul and funk records from the 1960s and early ’70s. By studiously emulating these recordings, he has gained a reputation as a devoted, even obsessive, musical purist. In an age of MP3s and computer-generated sounds, he has distinguished himself by making vinyl records featuring actual musicians manipulating real-life instruments.
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- The smash hit “Rehab,” along with five other songs from “Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse’s top-selling album from 2007, were recorded in Roth’s studio
- The defining project of Roth’s career is Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, a nine-piece band with a horn section, an extensive wardrobe of crisp suits and a 52-year-old lead singer (Jones) who once worked as a prison guard on Riker’s Island.
- few people could have anticipated that an outfit of meticulous soul revivalists with an astonishingly energetic, smack-talking, 4-foot-11 middle-aged black woman for a lead singer would become one of the more celebrated indie acts in the country
- In 2002, Roth started a new label, Daptone, with Neal Sugarman, a talented saxophonist from Boston who had recorded with Roth on Desco. Roth and Sugarman were determined to avoid what they saw as the major labels’ mistakes. They would spend conservatively, pay artists fairly and never put out a record they didn’t like.
- With the Dap-Kings serving as a house band, Roth recorded several singles and albums featuring various members of the original soul generation, gifted artists who, for one reason or another, had never crossed over into the mainstream.
- Roth wrote songs for them and got them gigs and engineered and released their records.

30 Sep 08

TV on the Radio, "Dear Science" | Salon Arts & Entertainment