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The film Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, premiers in New York City. The soundtrack to the movie, which features performances by The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf, peaked at #6 on the Billboard album chart the following September and was certified Gold in January 1970

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Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" is released in the US, where it will reach #2. A line from the song which includes the words "heavy metal thunder" is often credited with popularizing a new term for loud, guitar dominated music.

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Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl held the infamous Disco Demolition between games of a baseball doubleheader at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Dahl burned Disco records brought by fans who received discount admission. Some of those fans decided to start their own fires and a mini-riot ensued, forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I’ve officially crossed the 365 day mark of posting Today In Rock and Roll History.

Today was also the day, in 1969, when The Rolling Stones released Honky Tonk Woman

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Lars Ulrich of Metallica appears before a US Senate panel to testify against websites like Napster, that allowed people to trade music for free over the Internet.

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New York radio station WINS announced the hiring of pioneer Rock disc jockey Alan Freed to be the host of their Rock 'n' Roll Party. As he did on his earlier Moondog's Rock 'n' Roll House Party Show on WJW in Cleveland, Freed programmed records by Black R&B artists that many White teenagers had never heard before. Freed is often credited with popularizing the term "Rock and Roll", although the phrase was first used in 1942 by Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker to describe upbeat recordings.

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Paul McCartney and Wings played their first show of their inaugural tour when they appeared in the small French town of Chateauvillon. The band included Denny Laine, Henry McCullough, Denny Seiwell, and Paul's wife, Linda. It was McCartney's first time on the road since The Beatles quit touring in 1966.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Piers aren’t tall enough; I’d go with placing him underneath one of those Falcon Heavy’s at liftoff. Or out of an airlock into the void of space.

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After signing with Island Records, the B-52's make their live debut at London's Lyceum Ballroom. The band would go on to reach the Billboard Hot 100 eight times and the UK Top 100 fourteen times. In 2008, they dropped the apostrophe in their name, with vocalist / keyboard player Kate Pierson explaining, "It was not grammatically correct. It's not like a possessive. It just seemed superfluous."

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Paul McCartney releases "Live and Let Die", the theme from the James Bond movie of the same name. It will reach #2 in the US and #9 in the UK, making it the most successful Bond theme up to that time. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were".

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[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m just shocked that the NYPD didn’t kill 50% of the people arrested. Most useless bunch of assholes on planet earth.

I say this as a NY’er and as a person whose personal experiences with them have taught me that they’re absolute trash

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 184 points 2 months ago

Internet Archive and Wikipedia are two websites that need to exist in perpetuity.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago

Does this fucker not get it? State laws don’t supersede federal laws.

A link for Ronnie Meatball’s education

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 176 points 4 months ago

Approval ratings mean nothing to lifetime appointments. Nobody should hold a position forever. If they wanna keep them there for life, then at least make them subject to review every X years

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 89 points 5 months ago

During covid my former company made record profits 2 years in a row; nearly doubling their annual profits. I had an open position on my team and had to hire a new employee. I got to pick the candidate and HR handled their offer and compensation package. The amount of disrespect they showed in their offers made me lose a lot of good candidates and in the end the person that was hired left after a few months when we were “reorganized” and he was going to be moved and dropped from L3 support down to L1 and his salary was going to be cut in half. I wrote letters of recommendation for all my team members and I'm happy to say all of us left for greener pastures. At one point I was even told my most senior employee couldn’t earn more than me despite his years of tenure and complication of his role. I had no issue with it but it apparently was against “company policy”

Fuck greedy companies!

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 119 points 5 months ago

I want stricter enforcement on anyone with power, not less. If you have the power to create and/or enforce the laws of the nation you should be held at a higher standard to uphold them.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 122 points 6 months ago

Buying Twitter was never about him making money. It was about giving shithead, likeminded assholes, like him, a place to openly spew their vitriol hate speech without fear of bans or repercussions.

Delete your account if you have one; don’t share links to his site and FFS let’s stop allowing hatred to have an open forum or a place within proper society.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 226 points 6 months ago

He’s not carrying water for the facists, he IS a fascist and they’re trying to spill that water on everyone in an attempt to undermine people’s freedoms. Fuck him and fuck his kind

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

There are some bizarre and pointless laws in this country.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 150 points 11 months ago

Please, please do that. I can’t wait to see the discovery portion of the trial

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