Author: mick

David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie , was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative…

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977 Tupelo, Mississippi), also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the “King of Rock and Roll“, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley’s energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance…

Dave Weckl

Dave Weckl

Dave Weckl (born January 8, 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American jazz fusion drummer and the leader of the Dave Weckl Band. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2000. Weckl started playing his first set of drums at age 8 in his spare room along with records. He…

Tampa Red

Tampa Red

Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician. His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James.In a career spanning over 30 years, he…

Amilcar Cabral

“The role of Education in the revolution is to create a new mentality free from superstition, subservience, and other forms of mental oppression–to develop among the masses a capacity to analyze, criticize and to carry forth revolution.” Amilcar Cabral

Mothership

“When the birds fall from the sky, and the fish are all left out to dry; the message becomes very clear you see, if this is Armageddon, it’s time to set yourself free! Love each other and hold on to the ground, the Mother Ship is coming, just look all around.” m.laBriola 2011

Cosmos NGC 6543

Cosmos NGC 6543

It is actually one of the brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. This nebula‘s dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of…

Kenny Loggins

Kenny Loggins

Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded with Jim Messina as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977. His early soundtrack contributions date back to A Star Is Born…

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