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Deep Purple’s Jon Lord Dies at 71

Jon Lord, the founder and organist for Deep Purple, died July 16. Here is the beginning of his Wikipedia bio: Jonathan Douglas “Jon” Lord (9 June...

Rock

Etta James, Mick Taylor, John Mayall

Mick Taylor was the lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones before Ron Wood. One of the commentators suggests that the bass player is John McVie from Fleetwood...

Rock

In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, Baby

  On this day in 1968, Iron Butterfly’s In-a-Gadda-da-Vida entered the U.S. charts, where it sold 4 million copies. It was the band’s second album...

Hip-Hop

Blockhead: “None Shall Pass”

This post comes from my nephew. He writes: Blockhead is an instrumental-hip hop/trip hop producer from Manhattan. His songs are made exclusively from samples...

Opera

The Spice Girls and Pavarotti

The Spice Girls made their debut on this day in 1996 on the British show Top of the Pops. Above they sing Viva Forever with Hairy Spice, who also was known as...

Jazz

Norah Jones: Don’t Know Why

I had no idea that Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. It was the most surprising thing I’ve learned since starting this...