Pete Townshend talks about Brian Jones at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989: "And Brian Jones hurt me by not bothering to take a cure. Because I loved him a lot, he was very very important to me. He was the first real star who befriended me in a real way. I spent a lot of time with him before I really got to know Mick and Keith, who I love very much now. I hung out with him quite a lot and I missed him terribly. And I always felt that when he finally did collapse that the Stones were a very different group..."
I feel deprived at having only heard of this woman just last year. What a badass. Thank you, ma'am, for everything you did for music and for laying the foundation of most of the music I love. o7
Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
“Buddy, I can still see you with that shy grin on your face
Seems like your hair was always a little messed up, kinda out of place
Now not many people actually knew you, or understood how you felt
But just a song from, just a song from you could make the coldest heart melt“
Eddie Cochran, Three Stars
Jerry Lee Lewis, the last originator of rock, dies at 87
He was there at the beginning, with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly ... watched them fade away one by one till it was him alone to bear witness, and sing of the birth of rock.
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Jerry Lee Lewis. Photo: Scott Schaefer
Somewhere in the world, in a mean little honky-tonk or big music hall or church basement rec room, someone is playing a Jerry Lee Lewis song. Wherever there is a piano, someone is shouting …
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