Here Today: Paul McCartney’s touching farewell to John Lennon
The Beatles are all dead except Ringo, but he’s out of the games. The Beatles’ legacy today is all in the hands of Paul McCartney, and that’s probably a good thing: the figure of John…
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The best songs of the 80s
Musically speaking, the 80s were characterized by a certain dualism: on the one hand the mainstream music, in its most pop face, glossy and shiny, almost disposable, mirror of the society of that time. On…
Say goodbye to the last train: the melancholy of Blur’s Best Days
Best Days, a melancholic, soft song, one of the best ever made by Blur, from their 1995 album The Great Escape. Very often we are led to think that our lives can not get better…
Scarlett Johansson & The Smashing Pumpkins: a video-tribute to true beauty
A fan’s passion for a band, coupled with a certain amount of creativity and inventiveness, can inspire excellent ideas and let you go viral. Some years ago, it happened to Youtube user MerseYattle, who posted on his…
R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People: the story of a commercial miracle
After their debut with Warner in 1988 and the first approaches to the star system, R.E.M. played the Joker with the mandolins of Losing My Religion, the hit that brought them to the worldwide charts…
Look what happens if Metallica meet a big fan at the supermarket
The video is in a slightly low resolution, and probably it doesn’t show the real the excitement of who was there, but this is what happened in 2016 in a Gelson supermarket in Hollywood: Metallica…