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Happy Birthday, Pete Townshend!
Image Source Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who and certainly one of the most awesome living Rock Stars ever in the universe of all time, was born on this day, May 19th, in 1945. I’m lucky enough...
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Memory Of An Awesome Bicentennial Concert, 1976
Fun Fun Fun On This Date, July 3rd, in 1976: Brian Wilson made his first appearance in 11 years with The Beach Boys in concert in Anaheim, CA at Anaheim Stadium. It was a co-headlining show with the...
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John Lennon Gets His Green Card
On This Date, July 27th, in 1976: After being ordered to leave the country more than three years earlier, John Lennon finally received his green card and was granted permanent U.S. residency.Filed...
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The Sex Pistols Release "Anarchy in The UK"!
On This Date, November 26th, in 1976: The Sex Pistols released their debut single “Anarchy in the U.K.,” from the very excellent album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. “Anarchy…”...
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Remembering Tommy Bolin
On This Date, December 4th, in 1976: Tommy Bolin, guitarist for Deep Purple and The James Gang, as well as a gifted solo artist, was found dead in a Miami hotel room from a drug overdose. He was 25...
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Frampton Comes Alive! Is Released
On This Date in 1976: Peter Frampton released his breakthrough double live album Frampton Comes Alive! The album would be certified gold less than 8 weeks after its release and go on to sell 6 million...
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Kiss' Bootprints Immortalized in Concrete
On This Date in 1976: The members of Kiss placed their booted footprints outside of Grauman’s (Now Mann’s) Chinese Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.Filed under: Gail's Rad Blog Tagged: 1976,...
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Happy Birthday, Al Stewart!
Although Freddie Mercury gets to steal a lot of the Birthday thunder for September 5th, today is also the birthday of the great Al Stewart, who was born on this day in 1945. The video above is from a...
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Happy Birthday, Steve Howe!
Image Source Yes guitarist (also a member of Asia) Steve Howe was born on this day April 8th, in 1947. The band Yes was a passionate favorite of mine growing up in the seventies. In fact, one of the...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Portrait of Jamie Wyeth by Andy Warhol
Photo By Gail This 1976 oil on canvas portrait of artist Jamie Wyeth is one half of a “Portrait Exchange,” which includes a portrait of Warhol done by Wyeth. Warhol’s half of the portrait exchange...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Peter Saul, de Kooning’s Woman With Bicycle
Photos By Gail In the mid-1970s, after skewering American political, social and cultural; mores with his work, Peter Saul (b. 1934) took aim at the art world. Saul executed a number of parody...
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Eye On Design: Glass Armchair by Shiro Kuramata
Photographed By Gail in the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum In the mid-to-late 20th century, an atmosphere of innovation and a desire to question the tenets of modernism led some designers to explore a...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Alice Neel, 107th and Broadway
Photo By Gail In 1962, Alice Neel (1900 – 1984) moved to her final apartment and studio on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Delimited by what was visible through a north-facing window, this scene in 107th...
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