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May 17, 2024 · By Charles Apple. Fri., May 17, 2024. On this date 55 years ago — May 17, 1969 — the British rock band The Who released what it called a “rock opera”: “Tommy,” the story of a boy traumatized as a...
May 23, 2024 · A British music journalist, Nik Cohn, was commissioned to write a piece on New York's disco subculture — an emerging scene among the city's working class communities — for New York magazine.
May 23, 2024 · The movie was inspired by a New York Magazine article titled “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” written by Nik Cohn. The Bee Gees’ Soundtrack. The film’s soundtrack, featuring songs by the Bee Gees, became one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time. It included hits like “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever.” Disco ...
May 27, 2024 · Jann Wenner The Who have been regarded primarily as a rock band, yet have taken influence from several other styles of music during their career. The original group played a mixture of trad jazz and contemporary pop hits as the Detours, and R&B in 1963. The group moved to a mod sound the following year, particularly after hearing the Small Faces fuse Motown with a harsher R&B sound. The group ...
5 days ago · And he wrote it specifically to appeal to New York Times music critic Nik Cohn, who he knew to be a huge pinball fan. The single peaked at No. 4 on the U.K. music charts and at No. 19 in the U.S. Cohn loved it, but some critics wrote that a song about “a deaf, dumb and blind kid” was distasteful.
May 27, 2024 · Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) [1] and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), [2] together known as the Coen brothers ( / ˈkoʊən / KOH-ən ), are an American filmmaking duo. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. [3] Their most acclaimed works include Blood Simple (1984), Raising ...
May 9, 2024 · Nik Cohn, Today There Are No Gentlemen (1971) All the important bands have a manifesto, written or unwritten. These are the rules they live by and the laws that they wilfully break (for a sizable cash advance) There is poetry in The Fallen Leaves manifesto. Simple Songs For Complex People. Punk Rock For Gentlemen. No Jeans. No t-shirts. No ...
