by Sean Passmore | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog
October 9, 2014 It’s John Lennon’s Birthday! HAPPY JOHN LENNON DAY! We conclude this week’s musical celebration leading up to the birth of John Lennon on this day, October 9th, 1940, with Dhani Harrison. Named after the 6th and 7th notes of the Indian...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog
Formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The Flaming Lips marked their 31st year in music in 2014. Since the release of their debut album “Hear It Is” (1986) The Flaming Lips have released thirteen studio albums, eighteen extended plays, fifteen singles, ten...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog
“Make Some Noise” is a campaign by Amnesty International using the music of John Lennon to promote human rights. Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, donated the music publishing royalties and recording rights to John Lennon’s entire solo songbook to Amnesty International....
by Sean Passmore | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog
Son of famous American physicist Hugh Everett III, Mark Oliver Everett was born April 10, 1963. Everett began his career in music in 1985 after moving from the family home in Virginia and resettling in California. Five hundred copies of his first album, “Bad Dude In...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 5, 2014 | Blog
Elliott Smith was born one Steven Paul Smith, August 6, 1969 in Omaha, Nebraska. Raised primarily in Texas till the age of 14 Elliott packed his bags and went to live with his Father in Portland, Oregon in 1983. It was after this move that the young Elliott, as he...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 4, 2014 | Blog
Robyn Hitchcock formed The Soft Boys in Cambridge, England in 1976. Disbanding the group in 1981 after the release of just one E.P. and two albums, “A Can Of Bees” and the seminal “Underwater Moonlight”, Hitchcock has gone on to release over 40 albums of his own...
