The Netherlands has made it to the World Cup final! And it’s July 6th — International Kissing Day. In Flanders, Belgium and the Netherlands it’s called KUSJESDAG! I wonder if there’s a song in Dutch-Flemish about it…. hmm?
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The story I recall reading long ago in an old issue of CREEM magazine that I can’t find at the moment went something like this. Debbie Harry was spotted at CBGB’s by some fashion biz type from a slick magazine or a big modeling agency. He walked up to her, handed Debbie his card, and said, “Be there at 10 tomorrow. Name your price.” Debbie, who by then was already nearly thirty, and who had previously worked as a waitress and a Playboy bunny, threw the card away.
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Happy 65th birthday to the one and only Debbie Harry, icon and role model, who has my vote as the #1 most important female music talent of her era.
Here’s a minute of what we were doing tonight… seeing Ringo! Hard to believe he’s about to turn 70.
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Since returning from North Carolina I’m trying to get caught up on things I missed, and I’ve just learned that the Kinks’ original bassist, Pete Quaife, has died. How did all of these guys who were in their 20’s in the 1960’s get to be in their 60’s?? Don’t answer that!
Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. Denro has pointed out that Rolling Stone has some photos of the Beatles from their first American tour that you’ve never seen before. Will there ever be an end of newly-discovered and/or released Beatles material? Not in my lifetime, I hope.
Major eye & ear candy superstar Taylor Swift was in town yesterday, ending her tour. She filled Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA (home of the N.E. Patriots) with 56,000 fans, matching the attendance at Shea Stadium for the Beatles in 1965. Good thing she isn’t here today, because we are suddenly having the seriously bad rainy weather that hit the Midwest yesterday, that is undoubtedly affecting WUMB’s music festival right now.
(Wait! It’s sunny! No, it’s dark with downpours again! Now it’s clearing up….!)
