🎧 📺 THE WAR ON DISCO will air/stream Monday, October 30 at 9/8c on #PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
It's no secret that the backlash against Disco was racist and homophobic. People of Color and queer people came together to dance and have fun, in public, in a safe space, and the "Afraid Somebody Somewhere Might Be Having Fun" crowd hated us for it.
🎧 The last song by #TheBeatles, "Now and Then" was released today (11/2).
How John Lennon's song was salvaged from his demo cassette, then added to by Paul, Ringo and George in the mid-90s and finally finished and brought to release now is the subject of this short film, NOW AND THEN — THE LAST BEATLES SONG
However your life's going right this minute, if you watch "Justified & Ancient" (1991) by #TheKLF ft #TammyWynette, you won't come out the same on the other side.
🎧 Tough night mentally, y'all. In spite of everything good. Many of you understand.
When I'm in this space, music saves me, and I have a HOME playlist. Songs that I associate with good times and places. It's how I come back from the dark.
The Supremes' "Reflections" is on that list. Spring of 1968. We moved to a new town that April in the middle of the school year. I was 10 and not happy, but hearing this song on the radio lifted me—still does. x
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
As I was pulling into the QT for an iced tea tonight, a late-model, white Cadillac hearse was driving away. On the back window, a large, round #GratefulDead sticker inside a circle of fancy-font text:
Dead
Sled
Damn! Too late for a picture. In-state plates; I'll be ready next time.
1/2 "Chuck E's In Love" played on the FM this morning while I sat in the car at McDonald's with my rocket fuel and sausage McMuffin. Sent myself a text reminding me to post the song.
First let's take a look at RICKI LEE JONES: THE OTHER SIDE OF DESIRE, the 2015 documentary about Ricki by Gail Harvey. New to me, and maybe to you. There is a companion LP.
#GladysKnight and the Pips' version of the song was the first to be released in 1967. It went #1 and was the best-selling #Motown single at the time. The next year, #MarvinGaye made it the massive hit most of us remember.