Bad song lyrics...and assorted stuff

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On this day 56 years ago, in 1970, the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix passed away at the age of 27

 

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On this day 56 years ago, in 1970, the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix passed away at the age of 27

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Yesterday was International Peace Day, and there's no better photo to celebrate it than 86-year-old Ringo Starr striking his iconic pose!

 

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On this day in 1970, the legendary Janis Joplin passed away at the age of 27.

 

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Charles Bronson was born on this day in 1921. Like many actors of his generation, he served in World War II seeing action as a gunner on B-29s in the Pacific.

 

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When Glenn Frey died on January 18, 2016, at 67, Bob Seger didn’t reach for a big stage or a rock-anthem send-off. He waited a year, then quietly released a free track called “Glenn Song”—a sparse, reflective ballad written specifically to remember the friend he’d known since they were both young musicians hustling in Detroit’s mid-1960s scene.Long before arenas and platinum records, Seger took the younger Frey under his wing. Frey sang backup on Seger’s early hit “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” and the two stayed close even as their paths diverged—Frey co-founding the Eagles, Seger building his own heartland-rock career with songs like “Night Moves” and “Against the Wind.” Their bond showed up in the music too: in 1979, while the Eagles were struggling through the tense sessions for The Long Run, Seger helped finish “Heartache Tonight,” spontaneously coming up with the chorus that turned it into a No. 1 hit.After Frey’s death, Seger sang that same song at the memorial and later at the Kennedy Center Honors. But “Glenn Song,” released on the one-year anniversary, was different—deliberately uncommercial, with no big chorus, just a gentle recollection of the sharp, strong-hearted kid he’d first met in 1966. “It’s obviously not meant to be a hit,” Seger said. “The idea was just to honor his memory.”For a singer whose voice had filled stadiums for decades, the restraint said as much as the lyrics. Sometimes the clearest goodbye is the quiet one.