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Hace 5 días · Thankfully, here comes “Uncle Joe the Ice Cream Man”, the Mindbenders’ ( see #496) final A-side. This “lost anthem of what John Lennon would have termed ‘granny music’ [was a] curiously mind-expanding tune about the local ice-cream man . . . peak toytown”.
Hace 5 días · One of the most important band members of Led Zeppelin (who is also the most commonly overlooked) is John Paul Jones. Led Zeppelin thrived on chaos. Jimmy Page was a guitar wizard, Robert Plant was a vocal acrobat, and John Bonham ripped apart the drumming rule book before writing his own.
Hace 5 días · Jones' reports of the seige are blocked from reaching Catherine the Great by her own military leaders. He is later banned from court at St. Petersburgh and is reportedly "framed" in a sex scandal by military leaders.
Hace 5 días · We celebrate Midsummer’s Day with poems that explore this heady midpoint in the year. Critic Tristram Fane Saunders chooses some of the most evocative midsummer verses, and Forward Prize-winning poet Sasha Dugdale reads “June”, a brand new poem specially commissioned for today’s Front Row.
Hace 5 días · Few Americans realize that John Paul Jones (1747-1792) was buried twice. 114 years after his first burial, in 1905, his mummified corpse was discovered under the streets of Paris. Or was it his corpse?
Hace 4 días · As described by Trouser Press, the album, produced by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10cc, moved the Ramones "away from their pioneering minimalism into heavy metal territory". Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio. [63]
Hace 5 días · Although his naval career never saw him above the rank of Captain in the Continental Navy after his victory over the Serapis with the frigate Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones remains the first genuine American Naval hero, as well as a highly regarded battle commander.
