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Not Fade Away 1963: Be My Baby, by The Ronettes
"In the summer of 1963 God was a teenage black girl." - Sonny Bono That’s what I think he said anyway. That’s certainly my memory of Bono’s words, as recorded in a televised history of pop broadcast at the end of the 1980s. And if he didn’t say quite tha from Herald Scotland Read more »
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One-on-One: William Friedkin
Miramax Films/Courtesy of Getty Images A conversation with the legendary director of The Exorcist and The French Connection (and Blue Chips ) about sports, movies, and the time he almost bought the Boston Celtics By James Hughes on June 4, 2013 W illiam from ESPN Read more »
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Sonny Bono, inventor of punk rock
The Bono Copyright Act is not very punk rock. Lee Hazlewood did that sound better than Bono and that nut case Spector. Needles and pins-ah doesn't modulate to the 2, it goes to the 3. Inspired genius. The content of this field is kept private and will no from San Francisco Bay Guardian Read more »
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Sarah Lim: Musicians found a home in Merced
Famous cowboy actor and Sons of the Pioneers founding member Roy Rogers lived briefly in the labor camps in Tulare while picking fruit for the Del Monte Co. during the Great Depression. The Depression, as well as World War II, brought a great influx of p from Mercedes Sun-Star Read more »
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Barbara Buono’s sneaky new ad
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s opponent is out with a new ad, and it might be a candidate for sneakiest ad of the year. At first glance, Democrat Barbara Buono’s ad appears to be just a fun, cutesy new ad making light of her hard-to-pronounce last name from The Washington Post Read more »
