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Pink Floyd Added To National Recording Registry
Pink Floyd‘s legendary 1973 album, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ is one of 25 recordings to be inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. The record received the highest number of public nominations among...
Tags: Pink Floyd (music group), Library of Congress, Entertainment, Roger Waters, Janis Joplin
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2012 National Recording Registry selections unveiled
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is no longer just the rock album that has logged more weeks than any other on Billboard’s national album chart nor merely the one acid...
Tags: Mirrors (movie), Library of Congress, Chubby Checker, Music, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939)
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SXSW 2013: Clive Davis and how the talent scout who knew 'nothing' got famous
AUSTIN, Texas -- Clive Davis is always selling something, it seems. At the South by Southwest Music Conference on Thursday, it was his autobiography that was being flogged, and as he sat to talk about it with Billboard journalist Bill Werde, he...Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Kelly Clarkson, Clive Davis, Entertainment, Janis Joplin
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Local record stores jump on the Black Friday bandwagon
Record Store Day is a promotional event that happens in the spring, but not to be left out of all the Black Friday-Small Business Saturday hubbub, independent music shops are getting in on the holiday shopping rush. "Ah, Black Friday," reads a post on...
Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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Woodstock Rocker-Turned Public Defender Announces Retirement
WOODLAND - Barry Melton went from playing at Woodstock to representing the poor as the public defender in Woodland.
Now he's a casualty of the poor economy, taking early retirement to spare younger attorneys from being laid off in Yolo County, west of...Tags: San Francisco, Retirement, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Berkeley (Alameda, California)
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'Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents' by Mikal Gilmore
![The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the straight world, the events that defined "the '60s" were jarring anomalies that shook the status quo. Moms and dads across America recoiled in front of their sets, fingers crossed that their kids weren't getting their heads busted by the cops.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-11/43213432-06153357.gif "The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the straight world, the events that defined "the '60s\" were jarring anomalies that shook the status quo. Moms and dads across America recoiled in front of their sets, fingers crossed that their kids weren't getting their heads busted by the cops.")
The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the...Tags: San Francisco, Democratic National Conventions, Democratic Convention (1968), Culture, Los Angeles
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Special San Francisco hotel rates mark Summer of Love
Times Staff WriterIn June 1967, the Summer of Love took hold in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, where hippies gathered to experience a peace-and-love vibe. This month, 16 hotels in the city, including the Clift, the Fairmont and the Grand Hyatt, mark the 40th anniversary...Tags: San Francisco, California, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, The Beach Boys, Janis Joplin
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New Yorkers Rock Out To 40th Anniversary Of Woodstock
wpix.comCelebrations are taking place all weekend to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival on the site of the original concert.. The event is being held in the conservative farm town of Bethel. Because of its large percentage...Tags: Joan Baez, Ceremonies, Music Industry, New York City, Society
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