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Dr. Rhino's Picks #172 (Article)
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Man, time is flying! I spaced on last week’s list, but here’s a real gem: Lou Reed & John Cale. Mea culpa and carpe diem! ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the attending physician recalls, the tune was “Touch Me In The Morning” by Diana Ross. It was a mind-blower. Over the years, Dr. Rhino listened to many, many more songs. And, after several summers of diggin’ music, making the scene & a stint in Attica, the good doctor joined Rhino Records. A remarkable career of taste & empathy ensued. Dr
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Happy 35th: Genesis, Abacab (Article)
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
35 years ago today, Genesis released their 11th studio album, an LP which went on to become the band’s second consecutive #1 album in the UK and a double-Platinum seller in the US. Recorded at The Farm in Surrey, England and produced by the band themselves, the album we know as ABACAB was, in fact, not the album that Genesis had originally written as the follow-up to their 1980 album DUKE Actually, that’s slightly misleading: a more precise way of putting it is to say that the songs contained on ABACAB were not the first batch of songs that the band had written for their DUKE follow-up. The
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Rhino Factoids: Sex Pistols on the Walk of Fame (Article)
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
11 years ago today, the Sex Pistols found their way onto the Avenue of Stars in London’s Covent Garden, an honor which would seem way more impressive if they hadn’t ended up removing all the stars only a year later. Devised as the London approximation of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Avenue of Stars was in reality a walkway passing by St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, one which opened in 2005 with one hundred stars, the first of which was Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. In addition to the Sex Pistols, other members of the music world included The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Bob Geldof, The
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Doing a 180: Madonna, Something to Remember (Article)
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Rhino has made it a point to reissue classic albums on 180-gram vinyl on a regular basis. This is the latest to get that treatment. During the course of her career to date, Madonna has released a handful of best-of collections. The first was 1990’s brilliantly-titled THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION, a set which earned an official sequel in 2001 when GHV2 was released, and in 2009 she issued CELEBRATION, a two-disc, 36-track retrospective which received near-universal acclaim. There’s another compilation in the mix, however, and if you’ve forgotten it, then hopefully you’ll appreciate the irony when
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Now Available: Ramones, Ramones: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue (Article)
Friday, September 9, 2016
Gabba gabba hey, have you heard that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Ramones’ self-titled debut album? For those who weren’t there in ’76 with their ears pealed upon the LP’s release, you can’t really wrap your head around just how much it changed the musical status quo for these “bruddas” from Forest Hills to suddenly show up and rip their way through punk-pop numbers the way they did. The songs were as catchy as they were loud and raw, and they transformed more than a few kids into full-fledged punk rockers as a result of the wondrous material they delivered on that album, and
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Rhino Factoids: Introducing Led Zeppelin (Article)
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
48 years ago today, Led Zeppelin made their live debut…sort of. Yes, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham performed together as a proper band for the first time, but they weren’t actually being billed as Led Zeppelin: this was when they were still calling themselves The Yardbirds...or the “New” Yardbirds, if you will. You surely know the story by now, but if you don’t, then suffice it to say that Page found himself in a situation where he was the last Yardbird standing and had to fulfill the band’s contractual touring obligations, and he did so by putting together a new
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Happy 20th: Pet Shop Boys, Bilingual (Article)
Friday, September 2, 2016
20 years ago today, Pet Shop Boys released their 10th album, a 12-track affair which – as the title implies somewhat – has a slightly international flair, delving into some Latin sounds here and there, including one of the several successful singles scattered amongst its dozen songs. Bilingual found Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe exploring some of the sounds and musical styles that they learned about while touring South America for their previous album, Very, most notably on “Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is),” which hit #8 on the UK charts. But that was actually the album’s second single: the
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Happy 25th: Rush, Roll the Bones (Article)
Friday, September 2, 2016
25 years ago this week, Rush released their 14th full-length studio album – or their second album for Atlantic Records, if you prefer to look at it that way – and found themselves back in the top 5 of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the first time in a decade. Roll the Bones was co-produced by the band with the assistance of Rupert Hine, who’d worked with Rush on their previous album, Presto. While Roll the Bones wasn’t quite as critically acclaimed as its predecessor, that probably didn’t bother the band too much, given the obvious commercial success. In addition to the album’s sales
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Once Upon a Time at the Top of the Charts: Tina Turner, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (Article)
Thursday, September 1, 2016
31 years ago today, Tina Turner came back. Yes, we know that LL Cool J once said, “Don’t call it a comeback,” but in this case, we think it’s a fair choice of phrase to describe Turner’s arrival at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. After spending the early years of her career alongside her abusive husband, Ike Turner, Tina finally found the strength and courage to go it alone in the late ‘70s. Unfortunately, despite having a relatively high profile as a singer, she struggled to find chart success on her own until 1983, when she scored a top-10 hit in the UK – not to mention as top-30 hit in
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This Day in 1995: Dedicating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Article)
Thursday, September 1, 2016
21 years ago today, a crowd of over 10,000 people – including more than a few rock ‘n’ roll VIPs – gathered together for the dedication ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had been a long time coming, something that had been long discussed but which took an extended period of time to actually bring to fruition, and when it finally did, there were plenty of people ready to celebrate the fact that it had. Michael R. White, mayor of Cleveland, took the stage while Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” played, repeatedly trumpeting, “We did
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