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[should-know-better]

An interview from Italian Rolling Stone Magazine which I put through Google Translate.

- Note how Alex says that Sweet Dreams TN is about a beautiful Mexican girl 🤔

- Also how Alex is self deprecating about his nose 🥺

Fooling around with the Last Shadow Puppets

Alex Turner, frontman of Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane are more like brothers than friends, and they introduce us to the new album by stealing each other's jokes.

25 April 2016. Di Silvia Danielli

They look at each other secretly and burst out laughing, one finishes the other's sentence, from one word they begin to remember a thousand anecdotes about them. They call it bromance, that friendship between two people of the male sex so strong that it resembles a romantic brotherhood. Once upon a time, Bruce Springsteen and his saxophonist Clarence Clemons were a clear example of this, while in the Hollywood field it is Brad Pitt and George Clooney or Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Alex Turner and Miles Kane, both recently thirty, of The Last Shadow Puppets are no less so.

Some classify it only as the side project of Turner, frontman of Arctic Monkeys, others see its potential. Turner and Kane, the latter in the Rascals and Little Flames and now a soloist for a few years, met at a concert in 2005 and since then "have never left each other". In their free time, obviously, because Arctic Monkeys are a group with a high maintenance rate with a fan base worthy of a boy band and Last Shadow Puppets represent, after all, the time for messing around. In these years they have only produced the album The Age of the Understatement in 2008 and now Everything You've Come to Expect. The proportions, however, could also be reversed: AM are currently at a standstill, TLSP have recently started a long world tour (with two dates in Italy: July 5 in Ferrara and July 6 in Milan) and they already have the last chapter of this ideal trilogy ready (even if they still don't know when it will be released).

We meet them in a boutique hotel in London and it’s 9.30 in the morning. Early for them, very early in fact. Alex is the first to arrive and, even with his eyes rumpled and his quiff ruffled, he is still elegant. Like a new crooner, one might say, in tune with the general mood of TLSP. He starts interviewing me: “Where have you been in London these two days? Where did you eat your Sunday roast? Do you like Saint Paul’s?” After asking him in turn and finding out that he has a house in London, that on Sunday he was also in the Islington neighborhood for the ritual of the roast at the pub with friends and that the ghostly atmosphere of Saint Paul’s Cathedral scares him, Miles arrives and apologizes for the delay. I immediately sense that interviewing two subjects suffering from a bromance at the same time will be anything but simple.

Turner and Kane have both left England (Turner is from Sheffield and Miles from Birkenhead) to live in Los Angeles, so they have even more anecdotes to share, without involving the third wheel (me). They recorded this new album at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, once Bob Dylan’s and now Rick Rubin’s. They certainly had a pretty good time during that time: “Well, you know, having the Pacific Ocean in front of you all the time gives you a certain energy. Nothing like recording the previous album in the north of France. We also had lots of friends who came to visit us while we were in the studio. And we never went to the beach, you know, otherwise we would have been too distracted. Anyway, that air, the moonlight, the romantic atmosphere…” They laugh. And any chance of bringing them back to a more serious tone is lost forever. They steal each other’s jokes, like when they swear that in L.A. they go to bed early, “because, you know, we wake up really early.” Looks of understanding. And they say they only get pissed off for “fundamental” reasons: “For example, when we both want to wear white shoes in the evening. Even now, I arrived late because I had to change, for example,” Miles explains.

Back on track with Everything You’ve Come to Expect, they say they once again used James Ford (also in Simian Mobile Disco) on drums, Zach Dawes of Mini Mansions on bass and Owen Pallett on strings, but this time they limited the references to Scott Walker: «We chose him for his ability to use strings and transform the pieces into ideal soundtracks, but this time it went differently: we tried to give it a more personal touch». Like the first album, however, this one also seems like a soundtrack with a dreamlike atmosphere. And they reiterate it, using the word dream in two titles: The Dream Synopsis and Sweet Dreams. «Yes, you know, dreams are important, don’t you think?», Alex sneers. Apart from everything else, Sweet Dreams, where Alex brings out his best crooning skills, is remarkable. «It’s the only love song on the album, you know? Dedicated to this Mexican girl, very beautiful…», and he starts singing.

The two have defined the sound of this album as halfway between the Beatles and the Fast and Furious. The first reference is evident in some songs (in the title track, for example), but for the second I ask for explanations: perhaps it applies to the first single they chose, Bad Habits, which is the most rhythmic, quite different from the others and reminiscent of the Strokes. «It could be, some of the Strokes' albums were really fundamental for us, and we still like them». In fact, the video of the two of them at the Strokes concert in New York last summer, while they happily dance to Barely Legal in Hyde Park, went viral in a short time. Like the photos that portray them with it girls, from Alexa Chung to Suki Waterhouse, or the models of the moment, to the delight of the English gossip newspapers. Tombeur de femmes? They laugh. Surely fans of the genre, to the point of choosing sensual women for the covers of their albums, like for the latest one, where there is a young Tina Turner. “Always better,” Alex concludes, “than putting my nose on the cover, don’t you think?”

[shadowland]

Emmylou Harris interview by Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone, June 19, 1975

Fame Catches Up with Emmylou

Los Angeles – Guitar in hand, Gram Parsons sat in his road manager’s Laurel Canyon home and coached singer Emmylou Harris through the harmonies of the old Burritos classic, “Sin City.” Later, after she’d excused herself for a visit to the kitchen, Parsons grinned proudly. “There she is,” he said, “that’s my kick in the ass, keep an eye on her.”

That was in 1973. Now, two years later, Harris’s first major solo effort, Pieces of the Sky, has done well and her current club and concert tour (augmented by a band featuring Elvis’s guitarist James Burton and his keyboard player Glen D. Hardin) is drawing unanimous raves. But Emmylou Harris, it seems, is the last to catch up with Emmylou Harris. Still a bit dazed over Parsons’s untimely death in the fall of ’73, the 28-year-old singer is only now waking up to the reality of a successful solo career.

“I know what’s happening but it hasn’t really hit me yet,” she drawls softly, curled up on the sofa of a West Hollywood hotel room. Two nights earlier, she’d enthralled a capacity Palomino Club audience that included such luminaries as Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Lowell George, Commander Cody, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt (for whose recent country hit, “I Can’t Help It” Harris provided the strong counter harmony). “I guess it’s just been a kind of long hard road. In a way I’ve been at this for almost ten years on almost all kinds of levels – from waiting tables to playing in New York clubs and not having anybody listen to me, to making a terrible first record for a bankrupt company to working with Gram.

“I suppose working with Gram was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me,” she continues. “There was just something very magical about the experience. It was so much fun to just get up there, sing with him, and not worry about carrying a show myself. Everyone paid all this attention to me and told me how good I was and all that. It was really like being some kind of fairytale princess. Somehow that affected me more than all this that’s happening now.” She lets her words settle for a moment, then decides on a quip. “Maybe I’m on time delay.”

Born in Alabama and raised in Virginia, Harris remembers a reputation of being a “real prig” in high school. “I was considered to be a kind of oddball. You know, always studying and making good grades. Singing began as a social thing. I realized when I started singing at parties people began noticing me. High schools are real hip now, everybody’s cool, but there was a counter-culture in Woodbridge, Virginia, in 1963. You were either a homecoming queen or  a real weirdo. Here I was a 16-year-old Wasp, wanting to quit school and become Woody Guthrie.”

Instead, Harris made it to the University of North Carolina on a drama scholarship. Using free time to play off-campus bars in a folk duo, she lasted a year and a half before applying to the more prestigious drama department at Boston University. “I was gonna work as a waitress in Virginia Beach for a while to get enough tuition money,” she recalls. “But there was an incredible little music scene going on down there. That’s when I got serious about singing.”

Harris never made it to Boston U. “I thought I was going to get married. My first big love below up in my face, so I just went to New York ’cause there was nothing else to do. I was greener than green. I got a room at the YWCA, started going to the Village, playing basket houses [pass-the-hat-clubs] and just . . . hangin’ out.”

In two years of scuffling around New York, Emmylou made some valuable friends like singers Jerry Jeff Walker and David Bromberg. “Besides turning me on to country music, they sort of looked out for me,” she says. “Even so, I must have had some protective kind of bubble around me. I used to walk home from gigs on dark streets at two in the morning with my guitar and never think anything of it. Looking back, I get scared to death.”

Harris’s first album (on the now defunct Jubilee records), recorded in New York just after her marriage, is one she’d like to forget. “I was trying to keep it a secret,” she laughs (ironically, since the 1970 release was titled Emmylou Harris). “I hope somebody in authority will be able to buy the masters and burn them. Everybody involved with that record hated everybody else and I was in the middle trying to keep the peace. It was a disaster.”

Several months after recording, “the worst possible thing any girl could ever do to her budding career” happened. Harris became pregnant with her child, Hallie. “Up until then,” she admits, “my life had been a little too nebulous, I had no clear vision at all. The pregnancy, although it wasn’t planned, gave me something very real and something present to relate to.”

Later, with her marriage broken and ten dollars in her pocket, the protectiveness of motherhood, soon drove Harris out of New York. “I didn’t know where I was gonna go, but I knew I had to get a job and make some money. By accident I got back into music through some friends, Billy and Kathy Danoff [writers of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’]. They were still living in their basement apartment with all the cockroaches running around. They were the ones that put a guitar in my hands and ordered me onstage again.”

It was early ’71 when Flying Burrito Brothers guitarist Rick Roberts stumbled onto Harris performing in a small Washington D.C. bar called the Red Fox. The next night, Roberts brought the rest of the Burritos down for a look. They invited her to join the band; before she could accept, the Burritos had dissolved.

“Chris Hillman,” Emmylou remembers, “wanted to come out to L.A. so he could produce some demo tapes. He was really busy at the time. Anyway, I think it probably worked out the way it should have.” The way it worked out was for Hillman to turn on Gram Parsons, the Burritos’ long estranged cofounder, to their incredible discovery. Months later, Parson dropped in on one of Harris’s many D.C appearances and made a few vague promises. A year later, Parsons invited her to L.A. to sing on his first solo album, GP. Their partnership quickly intensified. “It was gonna be a Dolly Parton-Porter Wagoner situation. We didn’t see any need to break up that partnership because we really got higher on what we did together than anything we did separately. I still feel that way.”

It was hard work, she says, that kept her from slipping into an extended depression. “Gram’s death was like falling off a mountain. It was a very hard year between his death and the recording of my album [Pieces of the Sky]. A year of throwing myself into a lot of work that my heart wasn’t really into. There was a lot of stumbling involved. I was playing quite a few bars and was in a real vulnerable position. People felt that they could come up and ask me anything. I used to get hostile. It  hurt. I didn’t want to get emotional around some perfect stranger who had the goddamn gall to come up and ask me something that was none of his goddamn business.”

The subject brings her close to tears. “Gram was such an amazing part of my life. I have so many good memories of him, it seems pointless to dwell on the tragedy of it.” Abruptly, she reaches to turn up the country station already blaring from a hotel room radio. “Do you like Conway Twitty?” she asks. “I just love the harmony on this.”

Pieces of the Sky��was almost a year long project in itself. Emmylou for one could not be more proud. With the help of Anne Murray’s ex-producer Brian Ahern, great care was taken in selecting material. “I’m just starting to write again,” says Harris. “I don’t mind the fact that I only wrote one song [“Boulder to Birmingham,’ cowritten with Bill Danoff] on the album. There are just too many tunes that I get off doing and want to turn people on to. I feel very deeply and personally involved with each one, so I don’t miss that writer’s identity of making a statement.

“I think any singer feels that way,” Harris says about choosing songs like the Everly Brothers’ “Sleepless Nights,” the Beatles’ “For No One”and Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors.” Like Linda [Ronstadt]. When she sings a song it’s really sung. Nobody cares that she doesn’t write; the delivery’s all that really matters.”

Besides a heavy touring schedule and the summer recording of her next album, Emmylou Harris spunkily refuses to acknowledge the long-range future. “A lot of my life has been circumstance. The future just doesn’t exist for me. You’re not responsible for decisions if you don’t make them.

“What do I see in the future?” Harris asks, reaching for the telephone. “A chocolate shake. Hello, Room Service?”

[deathsimage]

Ghost have issued a statement after a concert venue in the US ordered some of their fans to remove face paint at a recent show.

As part of their ongoing Re-Imperatour North American tour, Ghost played a show at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights, Missouri on Friday night (11th August).

Two days before the show, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre issued an entry requirement to fans on their social media accounts, reading: “Face paint or masks covering the face are not allowed while entering the venue or purchasing items at concessions. Any face coverings must be removable upon request.”

Many fans voiced their bafflement with the statement, with one writing on Facebook: “I’m confused, I emailed you guys about the paint and was told it was fine. But then this post says while entering. Does this mean NO altogether or not until after check in? I’m fine not having it but this is confusing and I don’t want to be turned away.”

The venue replied: “We do not allow face paint while entering the venue or if you are making purchases at concessions. Masks are fine as they can be removed for entrance / concessions.”

Clarifying, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre added in another comment: “Anything that distorts your face to the point that you do not resemble your photo id is not allowed.”

Many fans, who seemingly hadn’t seen the strict face paint policy, turned up in full Ghost regalia and were ordered to remove the make-up by staff.

“It really sucked that a lot of us begged you to elaborate on your public Facebook and you refused to give answers. Your staff humiliated a LOT of fans at the gate,” one fan wrote.

Another tweeted: “Was severely disappointed in how this was handled, a post two days before the show and then people with and without masks and face paint inside the venue? Like what ? People being turned away, some lady in a pink cowboy hat making a lot of confusion orders to us in line.”

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre has since issued a statement for the “miscommunication” and clarifying that Ghost had nothing to do with their masks and face paint policy.

“Thanks to everyone who joined us for an amazing Ghost show last night. On behalf of our crew, we’d like to apologize for a miscommunication about removing face paint,” Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre wrote.

“This was not directed by Ghost. If you experienced issues at last night’s show, please reach out to us at Hollywoodampstl@livenation.com so we can improve for future shows.”

Ghost themselves have now shared the venue’s statement, and they wrote: “We wish to inform you that we will ALWAYS encourage creative expression, we will NEVER stifle it."

In the comments, a Ghost fan wrote: “Land of the free, yeah right. 🤦‍♀️ In no other country have I heard of such bs venue policy.”

Another said: “Imagine going to a Kiss concert and being told not to wear makeup? Wtf? What's going on down there?”

Author: Scott Colothan

Published 14th Aug 2023

[aliypop]

HEAD CANONS FOR MY EP FANFIC OC

CECELIA VALMOS

SO these headcanons are more so her earlier years, but I hope you all like her she lives in my brain rent-free!

Cecelia Valmos was born on January 7th 1935 In North Carolina

Elvis and Cecelia met, actually during the Louisiana Hayride in which her mother brought her along to a one night only concert of hers.

The Hayride performance was the reason Cecelia really took music seriously, not that she didn't before, but her mother was a famous jazz singer, and Cecelia preferred Blues and Rock n Roll

Cecelia wouldn't say while starting her career under her mothers label that she was obsessed with Elvis, but when the two started playing gigs on the same stage, she had wanted nothing more than for him to notice her.

When Cecelia and her mother decided to open a recording studio in Memphis and keep their NYC studio open, she didn't think she'd find herself running into Elvis so much especially in Beale Street

Cecelia loves Mustang cars the way Elvis loves Cadillacs

Cecelia would sneak out of her mothers tour Rehersals if she knew Elvis was in town.

Cecelia and the colonel don't exactly see eye to eye, but not as much as Her mother and the colonel don't.

When Cecelia finally got to meet Elvis, it was at Club Handy by the doing of BB King.

Cecelia, in her early career, was very well seen as risqué for her choices in dresses, the nearly skin-tight pencil skirt dresses, and her outrageous rockabilly hair, thus earning her the title of " The lady Elvis."

It was a compliment until it wasn't... although it never was a compliment in the first place.

When the two did start dating, both their managers agreed it was safer for them to hide their relationship rather than be open about it.

They were bad about hiding it.

Cecelia had a huge crush on James Dean, Frank Sinatra, and Cab Calloway growing up.

She's a Betty Boop Fanatic.

A Billy Holiday Fan

And Ella Fitzgerald

Her favorite superhero is Wonder Woman

She inspires to be a bombshell like the classic Hollywood greats.

When Elvis was drafted, she was devastated. She'd go go Graceland every day wondering if he was back yet.

Gladys found her dedication to writing him letters very sweet.

However, Cecelia would barely eat or drink anything unless she knew he was okay.

Vernon couldn't get her to even sleep.

When Gladys passed and he returned, she refused to leave him. She gave him space but equally grieved. Knowing how it is to be close to one's mother, she could only imagine the pain he felt.

Her death impacted her mother, learning that Gladys and her mother Denise were friends when she had her first tour down south and Gladys, although not having much housed her when no one else would.

Cecelia and Elvis both have nicknames for each other, Babydoll and Sugar pie.

Elvis and Cecelia have been known for having conversations via eyebrows.

Cecelia's favorite show is I love Lucy

Although in her early 20s it wasn't her favorite genre so she'd say, but if Elvis were to ask her to sing it, she'd sing dream a little dream of me as she's scratching his head.

This usually gets him to fall asleep instantly

Cecelia is a morning person .

Shes a film fanatic.

Elvis caught her a few times while on set, saying how she'd make the movie better if she had her way.

Her favorite movie of Elvis's is King Creole, it holds a soft spot in her heart.

Not only can she play guitar, but violin and it's rare if she plays it.

They once went to go see Birds, and Cecelia was terrified to leave the house for a week.

Elvis once took her to a carnival and took her on the ferris Wheel in which she had her eyes closed until they were back on solid ground.

These are just a few head canons I have, but there's a lot more coming!

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[youngveinsworld]

young veins spring tour

The Young Veins toured North America opening for Foxy Shazam with Bad Rabbits in the spring of 2010. The band knew Foxy Shazam because they were also with One Haven Music. Ryan explained how the tour came about in this interview:

We are managed by the same people. It was kind of tough to get on a tour when you don’t have any music out or any records, so I think they did us a favor. Or maybe we are doing them a favor.

^ map of the Foxy Shazam tour.

As well as touring with Foxy Shazam, the Young Veins also played two solo shows at the Echo in Los Angeles, which is a tiny venue with a 350 person capacity, as well as a set at South By Southwest Festival (SXSW) on 19 March.

Several fans who posted concert recaps of the shows mentioned that the band didn't have roadies and were setting up their equipment themselves. It seems like Jon was doing most of it, which makes sense as he used to be a guitar tech for The Academy Is... and he was probably also the strongest.

The band ran a Twitter competition for the tour, where fans could tweet a picture of their favorite vacation memory to be entered to win free tickets to one of the shows. Here is an infographic posted by the band about it:

Ryan talked about the competition in this interview:

[The vacation photograph contest] was [the label's] idea, which I really liked because I have been meeting the kids every night and they are really excited about it. There is really nothing we have to do, it is just a great way to have people come for free.

Tour dates

The hyperlinked shows from the dates below are the ones I've found pictures/videos/information for, so clicking them will take you to a tag about that day. The italicised shows are ones that were not part of the Foxy Shazam tour.

13 March - Los Angeles, CA (The Echo) 15 March - Nashville, TN (Exit/In) 18 March - Houston, TX (House of Blues Houston) 19 March - Austin, TX (SXSW - Dirty Dog Bar) 21 March - San Antonio, TX (White Rabbit) 23 March - Little Rock, AR (Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom) 24 March - Atlanta, GA (The Masquerade) 26 March - Ybor City, FL (Orpheum) 27 March - Jacksonville, FL (Jack Rabbits) 28 March - Richmond, VA (Canal Club Downstairs Lounge) 29 March - New York, NY (The Studio At Webster Hall) 30 March - Allston, MA (Great Scott) 31 March - Brooklyn, NY (Knitting Factory) 1 April - Webster, CT (Webster Underground) 3 April - Montreal, QC (Petit Campus) 5 April - Toronto, ON (Sneaky Dee’s) 6 April - Buffalo, NY (Mohawk Place) 7 April - Columbus, OH (The Basement) 8 April - Pontiac, MI (The Eagle Theatre) 9 April - Covington, KY (The Mad Hatter) 10 April - Chicago, IL (Beat Kitchen) 11 April - Buffalo, MN (The Vault) 13 April - Denver, CO (Marquis Theatre) 15 April - Seattle, WA (El Corazón) 16 April - Vancouver, BC (Venue Nightclub) 17 April - Portland, OR (Satyricon) 18 April - San Francisco, CA (Bottom of the Hill) 19 April - Orangevale, CA (The Boardwalk) 21 April - West Hollywood, CA (Troubadour) 23 April - Scottsdale, AZ (Martini Ranch) 24 April - Albuquerque, NM (Launchpad) 26 April - Lawrence, KS (Jackpot Saloon & Music Hall) 27 April - St. Louis, MO (Off Broadway Nightclub) 31 May - Los Angeles, CA (The Echo)

Average Setlist

Defiance Take a Vacation! Change Dangerous Blues Everyone But You The Other Girl Cape Town Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't Young Veins (Die Tonight)

^ a picture of the band with Bad Rabbits and Foxy Shazam during the spring tour from the Young Veins' Facebook page.

Quotes from the band about the spring tour

It’s been so much fun playing these venues. We’ve scaled back on the way that we’re touring. We’re back in a van and we’re actually able to experience what we’re doing and where we’re going instead of just being on someone else’s schedule and being told where to be and when. This last tour we just finished with Foxy Shazam was just so much fun. We had more time to hang out with fans and the venues sound better, it’s so much more intimate, I really hope that we can continue and maintain playing in smaller places for awhile just because of the fact that the sound is so much better. Once you get into the bigger places it really makes a difference. – Jon

It is more interesting every night, you never know what you are going to walk into. I question the craftsmanship in a lot of these clubs because I can't figure out what they were thinking but it makes it a lot of fun. Being so close to the crowd again, I forgot how that was and it makes the show have more energy. – Ryan

It’s been weird for us because this is the first time in the last four or five years that we’ve gone on tour playing songs that no one really knows. It was interesting to get people’s reactions and I think it went fairly well. I know just playing live for us in general gives us motivation to do the kind of songs we want to write and even more focused on wanting to have it translate better live than songs we’ve written in the past. – Jon

Especially since we don't have any music out or released, building a really close relationship with what fanbase we do have is really important. Being as close as possible, building friendships and meeting people around the country is good. [...] The best feeling in the world is to have people that did not come for our band and like our band and tell us that after the show, especially since no one has any pretense of what to expect. If they did like it that is a really good feeling. – Nick M

Photos from the road

In the first picture you can see a fox that was given to the band by a fan at the Atlanta show on March 24th, which they took on the road during this tour.

[the-immaculate-madonna]

THE CELEBRATION TOUR (2023)

The Celebration Tour kicked off with 4 dates at the London O2 Arena in October 2023. Tour stops in another 10 European cities followed until early December. The North American leg of the tour was originally planned for the summer of 2023, but due to health issues, these dates were all rescheduled between December 2023 and April 2024. After 80 shows, Madonna held a final show at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The show was free, to thank her fans for their support over the past 40 years. It drew a staggering 1,6 million people, the largest crowd for a standalone concert ever. On the first day of sales, the tour had sold-out 36 shows and counting across Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and more, with over 600,000 tickets sold. It was the first time Madonna hit the road without promoting a new studio album. The setlist was entirely based on her back catalog of the past four decades. "I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for," Madonna said in the announcement. 

CONCERT SET LIST

Act I

"It's a Celebration" (Bob the Drag Queen introduction; includes elements of "Lucky Star", "Material Girl", "Vogue", "Express Yourself", and "Bitch I'm Madonna")

"Nothing Really Matters"

"Everybody" (With elements of "Where’s the Party")

"Into the Groove" (With elements of "Into the Hollywood Groove")

"Burning Up"

"Open Your Heart"

"Holiday" (With elements of "I Want Your Love")

"In This Life" (Intermission)

"Live to Tell"

"Like a Prayer" (Includes elements of "Girl Gone Wild", "Act of Contrition", "Unholy" and "Let's Go Crazy")

Act II

"Blond Ambition" (Interlude; includes elements of "Living for Love", "Fever", "Erotica" and "Justify My Love")

"Erotica" (With elements of "Final Demo 2" and "Papa Don't Preach")

"Justify My Love" (Includes elements of "Gangsta")

"Fever"

"Hung Up" (Includes elements of "Hung Up on Tokischa")

"Bad Girl"

"Ballroom" (Interlude; includes elements of "Up Down Suite", "Break My Soul (The Queens remix)" and "Vogue")

"Vogue"

"Human Nature"

"Crazy for You"

Act III

"The Beast Within"

"Die Another Day"

"Don't Tell Me"

"Mother and Father"

"I Will Survive"

"La Isla Bonita"

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

"I Don't Search I Find" (Intermission)

Act IV

"Bedtime Story"

"Ray of Light" (Sasha Ultra Violet mix)

"Rain"

"Like a Virgin" (Interlude; includes elements of "Smooth Criminal", "Billie Jean", "Dangerous", "Express Yourself", "You Rock My World", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Celebration", "She's Not Me" and "Angel")

Act V

"Bitch I'm Madonna" (With elements of "Give Me All Your Luvin'")

"Celebration" / "Music"

The Celebration Tour in Rio (Live)

TRACKLIST

1. It's a Celebration (Intro) (Live) 2. Nothing Really Matters (Live) 3. Everybody (Live) 4. Into the Groove (Live) 5. Burning Up (Live) 6. Open Your Heart (Live) 7. Holiday (Live) 8. Live to Tell (Live) 9. Like a Prayer (Live) 10. Living For Love (Interlude) (Live) 11. Erotica (Live) 12. Justify My Love (Live) 13. Hung Up (Live) 14. Bad Girl (Live) 15. Vogue (Live) 16. Human Nature (Live) 17. Crazy For You (Live) 18. The Beast Within (Interlude) (Live) 19. Die Another Day (Live) 20. Don't Tell Me (Live) 21. Express Yourself (Live) 22. La Isla Bonita (Live) 23. Music (Live) 24. I Don't Search I Find (Interlude) (Live) 25. Bedtime Story (Live) 26. Ray of Light (Live) 27. Rain (Live) 28. Billie Jean/Like a Virgin (Interlude) (Live) 29. Bitch I'm Madonna/Celebration (Live)

[mrholley1997]

Clarence Alexander Avant 

Music executive Clarence Alexander Avant II became one of the most successful music producers in the recording industry.

Avant was born on February 25, 1931, in Greensboro, North Carolina in the racially segregated L. Richardson Hospital, to Gertrude Avant and Clarence Avant, Sr. He was reared in Climax, North Carolina with seven siblings, Ann, Brenda, Weldon, William, Harold, Paula, and Linda. Avant completed the tenth grade in 1947 at Dudley High School in Greensboro, eleven miles from his hometown. At 16, he left Climax for Summit, New Jersey, and landed a job managing Teddy P’s (Teddy Powell) Lounge in Newark in 1954, booking performance acts. In 1967 Avant relocated to Hollywood, California to work for Venture Records.

In 1971, Avant founded Avant Garde Broadcasting in Los Angeles. Two years later in 1973, Avant served as executive producer for the historic concert film Save the Children produced for Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson’s PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) Black Expo in Chicago. In addition, he purchased the first African-American-owned FM radio station in Los Angeles, California, and renamed it KAGB-FM.

In 1985, Avant appeared in the supportive role of an African musician in the film The Color Purple. Two years later, in 1987, he was pivotal in promoting Michael Jackson’s Bad World tour which generated more than $125 million in revenue. Consequently, he was named chairman of Motown Records in 1993, where he also managed musicians for the label.

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FREE Concerts at North Hollywood Park via www.nohoartsdistrict.com Queen Nation – A Tribute to the Music of Queen and Marina V

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[ENG] EXO Tourgram - EXO

Full Episodes:

Special Talk LIVE with Suho & Sehun (Introduction to EXO TOURGRAM, behind the scenes during the North America Tour Concert, and free traveling stories by SUHO & SEHUN)

Episode 1 - How EXO Prepares for NA Tour (3 EXO secrets! Revealing their dorm for the first time! Revealing the luggage of SUHO, the professional tourist! And also revealing CHANYEOL’s abs!)

Episode 2 - The Beginning of NA Tour: New York (Doing rehearsals just like actual performance! The serious EXO members!)

Episode 3 - The Delivery: New York (They called a delivery of Hollywood celebrities’ favorite foods from New York’s restaurants! Which one would be EXO’s favorite?)

Episode 4 - EXO'rdium in New York (New Yorkers become EXO-holics! The live New York Concert!)

Episode 5 - Improvisational Trip in NY - Baekhyun & Chanyeol TV 1 (Home-lover BAEKHYUN on New York trip with CHANYEOL’s lead! Lost in New York! What could be the reason of them being frustrated in the middle of New York?)

Episode 6 - Improvisational Trip in NY - Baekhyun & Chanyeol TV 2 (Searching for pizzas! CHANYEOL and BAEKHYUN’s obsession to taste the New York pizza in New York!)

Episode 7 - Improvisational Trip in NY -  Kai TV (He’s a thrifty and intriguing man, a.k.a. the thrif-triguing man! KAI’s shopping in SoHo!)

Episode 8 - Improvisational Trip in NY - Suho, Chen & Sehun TV 1 (SUHO and SEHUN becoming Executive Kim and Producer Oh! And CHEN as writer Kim! What’s the big picture they’re imagining?)

Episode 9 - Improvisational Trip in NY - Suho, Chen & Sehun TV 2 (SUHO and SEHUN went to a Michelin 2-star restaurant! Producer Oh continues to take a big part as SEHUN becomes the camera man! Watching musical “Chicago” with CHEN!)

Episode 10 - Hola Mexico City (EXO’s first solo concert in Mexico! Who could be the member who had a ghost dream the night before the concert?)

Episode 11 - Second City of NA Tour - Mexico City (The stage in Mexico City seems to depict EXO’s love house! Stop being nervous and let’s start the rehearsal!)

Episode 12 - The Delivery: Mexico City (Local foods (burritos, tacos, and nachos) delivered to the waiting room! Which food surprised EXO?)

Episode 13 - EXO’rdium in Mexico City (First solo concert in Mexico! The live Mexico City Concert! They sang a love song for Mexican fans! “Ti Amo” ��)

Episode 14 - Suho & Sehun Tour - LA Santa Monica Beach (From roommates to travel mates, SUHO & SEHUN! A real shrimp mukbang at Santa Monica Beach!)

Episode 15 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Experimenting LA Circuit Race (Every man’s dream! Experiencing circuit race at (Ferrari) Driving Center! Two men’s race with pride on the line! And the winner is…?)

Episode 16 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Las Vegas 1 (Las Vegas, a city of 5-hour drive from LA! SUHO & SEHUN crossing the dessert with a classic car.)

Episode 17 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Las Vegas 2 (Two men’s road movie! A journey to Las Vegas! But an unexpected sitcom happens in a gas station…)

Episode 18 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Las Vegas Activities (Indoor skydiving and zipline! SEHUN promises to do tumbling at the skydiving center! Could he really do it?)

Episode 19 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Las Vegas Hotel Tour & Le Reve Tour (A hotel tour with SUHO the guide! SUHO buys a gift for his best friend 000 during the tour! They also watched Le Reve Show, the greatest show on earth!)

Episode 20 - Suho & Sehun Tour - Las Vegas Limousine Tour (Enjoying in limousine the city of night, Las Vegas! All sentimental, they call members and…only one person answers their call. Who would that be?)

Other:

Gift VOD 1 (LA, the last city of EXO’s North America tour! ‘LOVE ME RIGHT’)

Gift VOD 2 (Making LA fans fever up with ‘WHITE NOISE’ by EXO)

Gift VOD 3 (EXO’s perfect choreography to 'TRANSFORMER’)

Gift VOD 4 (EXO becoming cute little dwarves during performance in LA!)

EXO members, EXO love letter (A video letter from each EXO member! Includes stories behind the scenes and comments about EXO TOURGRAM.)

Vehind 1

Vehind 2

Vehind 3

[twopoppies]

I'm flying in for harry 2 shows next week and on the second day before the concert i have the whole day free. Any recommendations for what to do for a few hours? My hotel is close to the arena and I don't think there's much to do in inglewood so id have to take uber. Do you or your readers have ideas?

Hi love. Hmmm. No, there really isn’t anything near the venue. I’m not sure how much you want to spend on an Uber, but you could go about 20/30 minutes north and be in Santa Monica. There’s plenty of food/shopping/the beach/movie theaters/the pier (if you like arcade and amusement park rides) etc. Venice is a bit closer if you want to do the beach there, or check out the weirdos and little shops and restaurants on the boardwalk. If you stay close to Inglewood and like museums, The California Science Center and the Natural History Museum are both there. The science center is actually pretty cool. I haven’t been to the natural history museum in probably 10 years, but it’s got some interesting stuff. Other than that, I think the Ubers might get a bit pricey if you wanted to go into Beverly Hills or Hollywood etc because they’re a bit further away. I guess it kind of depends on what set of things you like to do.

Anyone else have some suggestions?

[thetimelessdreams]

A world without their encore - AU

a week ago I thought about this story while listening to Encore again.

Encore! Encore! Encore! - the fans screamed, like always. They wanted more of their favourite seven boys. The freedom is all theirs.

A nice August morning in a calm village in South Korea. Jaebeom woke up as usual at 6:30am, going outside for a small walk around his garden, admiring the work he and his wife had done. Being a farmer was his destiny, he believed. This place earned him so much money, selling fruits and vegetables every year. The sun was still rising in the clear sky. "It's a beautiful sky!", he thought. That's when he was hugged from behind. "Good morning, farmer!", Jaebeom's wife exclaimed. "Good morning, lady farmer...", he replied turning back to face her. They shared a small peck and looked at the sun again. It's like the sky was watching them, and admired them, just like the farmers were right now.

"The sun will always watch us and help us," Jaebeom said and his wife nodded. Between them was no misunderstanding, just purity.

남아있는 날도...

"And there goes my brother, Tuanzy with a quadra kill this round, praise him in the chat. He needs it!!", Joey exclaimed after winning another round of Valorant during his Twitch stream. It's not often his older brother, Mark Tuan, was free to play with him anymore. They used to be gamers all the time before Mark graduated college. Now he has serious work and it's rare to have free days. The elder was smiling at his brother's screams. He knew Joey was more emotional than him and didn't mind it. That added a lot of charm to him. A charm that Mark also has and uses at his workplace. Gaming is always well spent time, but hours pass too fast and they had to end the stream, leaving people to sleep.

이젠 편하게 이젠 goodnight...

Morning for the Olympic gold medalist, Jackson Wang. It's been a sleepless night for all of China. The 27yr old fencer got a gold medal after defeating his childhood rival, Sandro Bazadze with 15-13. The journalists were all over the charismatic fencer who won this year's Olympics. He did it for his country, to hear the hymn, to be proud of how far he had gone. He accomplished his dream. His parents were in the stadium watching. His mother cried tears of joy, that her son is a world champion, the thing she never succeeded to do. Then something surprising happened. Bazadze came to him and they hugged. "You did well today, Wang!", Sandro said leaving the other fencer's embrace. "You too Bazadze!", Jackson replied smiling.

아�� 우린 어린아이 같은데 세상은 어른이라 부르네 평생 우린 철들지말자 약속했던 그때 그시절 우리 잊었나...

Park Jinyoung, the most famous actor, the face of Korea, the boy of the nation has become a world star. His last movie was a coproduction with Hollywood, which earned him a lot of new fans. Park is a really quiet and reliable person, doesn't smile a lot, but is always happy about his success. Jinyoung's manager and the star were celebrating at Park's home with a classy dinner. It was cooked by the maid that Jinyoung secretly likes. He never had the courage to ask her out though. He kept staring at her and she did at him. Love is in the air. Affection is there. But will that hurt the fans, if he dated? He wanted to never damage their feelings. He cares too much.

모든게 처음이었던 우리에겐 너의 모든게 선물이었던 걸...

Choi Youngjae, the soloist. One of the best, well known in Korea, the face of the country, the sunshine of all people. Who stays for the North Koreans as well. He had done concerts there and still wants the two Koreas to be one. His grandfather lives in the North and he met him at the last concert. The heartbreaking event was recorded and all the world saw that even there, people have the chance to be united. Despite the differences in the systems, Youngjae kept going. And he was nominated for a noble prize, which he won.

"Thank you so much for the award, you'd given me. The world can be one peaceful place if we believe in ourselves. Even in God if you are religious unlike me. We all have a spirit or at least something that keeps us strong. No one has to give up. Never ever." Choi said proudly, not stuttering for a second. He kept being applauded even when he sat in his place after receiving the award. Youngjae was about to cry, so many emotions that he hadn't witnessed in this amount.

세상이 끝나도...

Kunpimook Bhuwakul, one of the worst criminals of Thailand. A mafia head, whose face and name are unknown to society. People call this mysterious person BamBam. The person who overthrew an old and well-respected monarchy led it alone. He didn't need help. Bam had a sweet voice when he had been broadcasted to the public eye, he spoke in 4 languages, saying all he had planned for his home country. His siblings knew he is behind all of this, but not his best friend, Lalisa. She suspected his voice is familiar but never thought Kunpimook is behind all of this. She just can't imagine him like that.

Today was another day of his weekly speeches, trying to save a dying country, normalise it and other stuff. Then Lalisa entered the room, seeing her best friend since childhood grabbing the mic to speak.

"Kunpimook! For hell's sake, idiot, how dare you be a leader like that!"

"Lisa, this isn't what you-"

Then she slapped him in the face, she couldn't take seeing him anymore. No emotions were on his face, but his tone was really devastating. BamBam finally felt sadness and humiliation.

"Lisa...don't you leave me too..."

해가 저물어 검게 물들고...

Kim Yugyeom, who sells flowers and walks his dog around the park. He sees a pretty girl with her dog and talks to her. They have so much in common. Yugyeom is happy, they start dating. She works with him in his flower shop. Both earn a lot of money together and buy a house. Yugyeom is finally happy that he found the one. Unlike his parents. He is afraid of her leaving him. So he is protective and shows a lot of affection. Every night he sleeps and wakes up with anxious thoughts of loneliness. His girlfriend understands him completely and is always with him. Both are emotional and seem to always be happy with each other. She tells him every day that she won't leave him for anyone or anything. She is honest or is she lying?

Yugyeom shrugged at that thought finally falling asleep at 4am.

너의 모든게 선물이었던 걸...

One day, a portal opened in front of them all. So they entered it. 7 men, 1 place. A scene, it was a concert. Many people were carrying green lightsticks and were chanting encore, encore, encore in the darkness. Then the men who were performing turned back to the ones from the portal. Frustration. All of them were identically the same.

- You are us? - Jinyoung the actor said. - What...? - replied Jaebeom the idol. - You look so much like me!! - shouted Jaebeom the farmer.

The fans noticed something was wrong and stopped.

A big black hole opened and all 14 of them went in there. Abruptly, they all fell from the sky in a lake in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't their world. No one understood what happened, but the term GOT7 was forever forgotten as if it was wiped off existence.

기억해 지금도 그댈 오랜시간 우리 함께 했던 건 아무 이유없이 너라서 그래 오랜 시간 지난후에도 여기 나와 함께 있어줄래

널 위해 부를게 시간이 지나도 널 위해 부를게 남아있는 날도...

Only one disk was in front of them. It had the word Encore on it. They played it, intertwining hands, closing their eyes and listening to the melody that brought them to another place, undiscovered by humans. Big palms, the endless ocean around them.

So they all neglected their differences and began building an unusual civilization that will soon crash down in the thought of mortality and extinction. Years passed and the dysfunction, chaos and arguments were vivid among them. Everyone missed their homes. The stars, GOT7, missed the encore chants. Mark his job, Jaebeom his farming lifestyle, Jackson his sabre, Jinyoung his fans, Youngjae his music career, Kunpimook his family and most importantly Lisa. And Yugyeom, he gave up.

13 left.

Will you continue?

Y / N

[only-johnny-deppp]

“On tour I can escape my normal, what I say 'abnormal life'... I'm free on stage... Myself.” ~ Johnny Depp (July 5, 2018)

Johnny showing his moves, 5 years ago, on July 18, 2016, during the Hollywood Vampires concert, in Fargo, North Dakota.

Definitely his best place in the world...  😎 🎸 ♥️

[nohoartsdistrict]

Meet musician Alfredo Cáceres AL FRESCO Fridays – Music on Magnolia on Friday, October 30 from 6:30-9:15PM via www.nohoartsdistrict.com

[the-real-wayward-writing]

Okay, so it’s a fic... but it’s not. If you read my RPB RPF’s, imagine those turned into a three-book trilogy! That’s what this is! Book One, No Ordinary Love has just been released! You can grab a FREE preview at the link above and then get a copy at my website! Don’t be left out of the concert!  

The NORTH OF ORDINARY saga journeys from the fast-paced, hard-rocking nightclubs of Hollywood to the isolated wilderness of Alaska. Told from three distinct points of view, it explores how four people’s quest for love intersect and finally collide as they discover that, while everyone makes mistakes of the heart, some are misguided and can even turn deadly.

[blackkudosuniverse]

Roland Hayes

Remembering Roland Hayes.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Roland_Hayes

Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. It is a common myth that Hayes was the first world-renowned African-American concert artist. He had a couple of predecessors that acclaimed fame. People like Sissieretta Jones and Marie Selika were very known, but the nature of their performances were not minstrelsy and that made it not possible for them to be recorded by recording companies. The recording companies wanted a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was able to break this barrier in his career and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills with songs in French, German and Italian.

Early years and family

Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, on June 3, 1887, to Fanny and William Hayes. Roland’s parents were tenant farmers on the plantation where his mother had once been a slave. Roland’s father, who was his first music teacher, often took him hunting and taught him to appreciate the musical sounds of nature. When Hayes was eleven his father died, and his mother moved the family to Chattanooga, Tennessee. William Hayes claimed to have some Cherokee ancestry, while his maternal great-grandfather, AbOugigi (also known as Charles) was a chieftain from the Ivory Coast. Aba Ougi was captured and shipped to America in 1790. At Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Curryville (founded by Roland’s mother) is where Roland first heard the music he would cherish forever, Negro spirituals. It was Roland’s job to learn new spirituals from the elders and teach them to the congregation. A quote of him talking about beginning his career with a pianist:

"I happened upon a new method for making iron sash-weights," he said, "and that got me a little raise in pay and a little free time. At that time I had never heard any real music, although I had had some lessons in rhetoric from a backwoods teacher in Georgia. But one day a pianist came to our church in Chattanooga, and I, as a choir member, was asked to sing a solo with him. The pianist liked my voice, and he took me in hand and introduced me to phonograph records by Caruso. That opened the heavens for me. The beauty of what could be done with the voice just overwhelmed me."

At the age of twelve Roland discovered a recording of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Hearing the renowned tenor revealed a world of European classical music. Hayes trained with Arthur Calhoun, an organist and choir director, in Chattanooga. Roland began studying music at Fisk University in Nashville in 1905 although he only had a 6th grade education. Hayes’s mother thought he was wasting money because she believed that African-Americans could not make a living from singing. As a student he began publicly performing, touring with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1911. He furthered his studies in Boston with Arthur Hubbard, who agreed to give him lessons only if Hayes came to his house instead of his studio. He did not want Roland to embarrass him by appearing at his studio with his white students. During his period studying with Hubbard, he worked as a messenger for the Hancock Life Insurance Company to support himself.

Early career

In January 1915 Hayes premiered in New York City in concerts presented by orchestra leader Walter F. Craig. Hayes performed his own musical arrangements in recitals from 1916–1919, touring from coast to coast. For his first recital he was unable to find a sponsor so he used two hundred dollars of his own money to rent Jordan Hall for his classical recital. To earn money he went on a tour of black churches and colleges in the South. In 1917 he announced his second concert, which would be held in Boston’s Symphony Hall. On November 15, 1917, every seat in the hall was sold and Hayes’s concert was a success both musically and financially but the music industry was still not considering him a top classical performer. He sang at Walter Craig's Pre-Lenten Recitals and several Carnegie Hall concerts. He performed with the Philadelphia Concert Orchestra, and at the Atlanta Colored Music Festivals and at the Washington Conservatory concerts. In 1917, he toured with the Hayes Trio which he formed with baritone William Richardson (singer) and pianist William Lawrence (pianist).

In April 1920, he traveled to Europe. He began lessons with Sir George Henschel, who was the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and gave his first recital in London’s Aeolian Hall in May 1920 with pianist Lawrence Brown as his accompanist. Soon Hayes was singing in capital cities across Europe and was quite famous. Almost a year after his arrival in Europe, Hayes had a concert at London’s Wigmore Hall. The next day, he received a summons from King George V and Queen Mary to give a command performance at Buckingham Palace. He returned to the United States in 1923. He made his official debut on 16 November 1923 in Boston's Symphony Hall singing Berlioz, Mozart, and spirituals, conducted by Pierre Monteux, which received critical acclaim. He was the first African-American soloist to appear with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1924.

Late career

Hayes finally secured professional management with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Company. He was reportedly making $100,000 a year at this point in his career. In Boston he also worked as a voice teacher. One of his pupils was the Canadian soprano Frances James. He published musical scores for a collection of spirituals in 1948 as My Songs: Aframerican Religious Folk Songs Arranged and Interpreted.

In 1925 Hayes had an affair with a married Bohemian aristocrat, Bertha von Colloredo-Mansfeld (1890-1982), née Countess von Kolowrat-Krakowský, who bore his daughter, Maria "Maya" Dolores Kolowrat (1926-1982). Married since 1909 to a member of a German princely family, Hieronymus von Colloredo (1870-1942), twenty years Bertha's senior, he refused to allow the expected child to bear his name or to be raised along with the couple's four older children, managing to quietly obtain a divorce in Prague in January 1926, while Bertha left their home in Zbiroh, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) to bear Hayes' child in Basel, Switzerland. Hayes offered to adopt the child, while the countess sought to resume the couple's relationship, while concealing it, until the late 1920s. Maya Kolowrat would marry Russian émigré Yuri Mikhailovich Bogdanoff (1928-20012) and give birth in Saint-Lary, Gers to twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff in 1949, who later attributed their early interest in the sciences to their unhampered childhood access to their maternal grandmother's castle library.

After the 1930s, Hayes stopped touring in Europe because the change in politics made it unfavourable to African–Americans.

In 1932, while in Los Angeles for a Hollywood Bowl performance, he married Alzada Mann. One year later they had a daughter, Afrika. The family moved into a home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Hayes did not perform very much from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1966, he was awarded the degree of Honorary Doctorate of Music from The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. Hayes continued to perform until the age of eighty-five, when he gave his last concert at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was able to purchase the land in Georgia on which he had grown up as a child.[3]

He died five years after his final concert, on January 1, 1977.

Racial reaction

Even when Hayes became a successful musician he faced the same prejudices as most African-Americans at the time. During his tour of Germany in 1923, some people protested against his concert in Berlin. A newspaper writer criticized him as “an American Negro who has come to Berlin to defile the name of the German poets and composers.” The night of the concert Roland faced an angry audience who mocked him for ten minutes. Hayes stood still until they stopped and then he began singing Schubert’s "Du bist die Ruh". Hayes’s remarkable voice and musical talent won over the German audience and his concert was a success.

The Chicago Defender (National edition of July 25, 1942) reported a case in which Hayes' wife and daughter were thrown out of a Rome, Georgia shoe store for sitting in the white-only section. Hayes confronted the store owner. The police then arrested both Hayes, whom they beat, and his wife. Hayes and his family eventually left Georgia.[3]

On many of his concerts Hayes would attempt to abandon the use of segregated seating. At a concert in Atlanta, Georgia Hayes had the main floor of the auditorium as well as the boxes and first balcony halved between the races. The galleries were reserved for colored students at a special rate. No whites were allowed in them except the ones chaperoning the students.

Hayes taught at Black Mountain College for the 1945 Summer institute where his public concert was, according to Martin Duberman, "one of the great moments in Black Mountain's history" (215). After this concert, in which unsegregated seating went well, the school had its first full-time black student and full-time member of the faculty.

Legacy

* In 1982, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga opened a new musical performance center, the Roland W. Hayes Concert Hall. The concert venue is located at the Dorothy Patten Fine Arts center.

* The Roland Hayes Committee was formed in 1990 to advocate the induction of Roland Hayes into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 1992, when the Calhoun Gordon Arts Council was incorporated, the Roland Hayes Committee became the Roland Hayes Music Guild and Museum in Calhoun, Georgia. The opening was attended by his daughter Afrika.

* There is a historical marker located on the grounds of Calhoun High School (Calhoun, Georgia) on the north-west corner of the campus near the front of the Calhoun Civic Auditorium.

* Hartford Stage and City Theatre (Pittsburgh) shared the world premiere of "Breath & Imagination" by Daniel Beaty, a musical based on the life of Hayes, on January 10, 2013.

* Part of Georgia State Route 156 was named for Hayes.

* A bronze plaque, mounted on a granite post, marks Hayes' home, at 58 Allerton Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The plaque was dedicated on June 12, 2016, in a ceremony in front of the home in which Hayes lived for almost fifty years. The ceremony was attended by his daughter Afrika, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Brookline Town officials, and many more.

Discography

LPs

* Roland Hayes (vocal), Reginald Bordman (piano) – The Life of Christ (Amadeo, 1954)

* Roland Hayes (vocal), Reginald Bordman (piano) – Negro Spirituals (Amadeo, 1955)

Compilations

* The Art of Roland Hayes (Preiser, 2010)

[sunsetstudiesx]

Film Recommendations!

I thought I’d recommend some of my absolute favourite movies, because I love sharing my love of movies and just things in general with people. So, in no particular order, here is my list of recommendations:

1. Tombstone (1993)

So I just watched this movie a couple days ago and absolutely loved it. Yes, it is a western. Do you need to like westerns to watch it? Nope. That’s why it’s great. And, it’s based on real people/real events. I sobbed hysterically at the end, but I’m also a huge sap. Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is perfection. I love love love him.

Here’s the plot summary: Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his brothers, Morgan (Bill Paxton) and Virgil (Sam Elliott), have left their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down and start a business in the town of Tombstone, Ariz. While they aren't looking to find trouble, trouble soon finds them when they become targets of the ruthless Cowboy gang. Now, together with Wyatt's best friend, Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), the brothers pick up their guns once more to restore order to a lawless land.

Quotes:

“I’m your huckleberry.”

“Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.”

“You gonna do somethin’ or just stand there and bleed?”

2. Fight Club (1999)

Okay. Okay. I just watched this one, too, and let me tell you. If you haven’t seen it/haven’t been spoiled for it, you have no idea what it’s really about. Honestly. It’s so fuckin’ weird and it blew my mind which is something I thought only M. Night Shyamalan could do. Wow, just. . . wow. Watch it, I implore you. I think everyone essentially knows the basic plot, but here it is if you want it, straight from google:

A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.

Quotes:

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

3. Unbreakable (2000)

Speaking of M. Night Shyamalan. While every one of his movies I’ve seen (Split, Glass, Lady in the Water, The Visit) have all been fantastic and mind-blowing, Unbreakable still has my favourite premise and my favourite Shyamalan twist ending. I love this one, even though I don’t really care for Bruce Willis.

Plot summary: A security guard, having been the sole survivor of a high-fatality train crash, finds himself at the centre of a mysterious theory that explains his consistent physical good fortune. When news of his survival is made public, a man whose own body is excessively weak tracks him down in an attempt to explain his unique unbreakable nature.

Quotes:

“Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To not know why you’re here.”

4. This is the End (2013)

Seth Rogen. Jay Baruchel. James Franco. Jonah Hill. Danny McBride. Craig Robinson. Playing themselves. The apocalypse. Hilarity ensues. Cameos from Emma Watson, Kevin Hart, Michael Cera, Rihanna, Paul Rudd, Channing Tatum, Aziz Ansari, Jason Segel, Mindy Kaling, and the Backstreet Boys. It’s so funny, I absolutely love it.

Plot summary: In Hollywood, actor James Franco is throwing a party with a slew of celebrity pals. Among those in attendance are his buddies Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson. Suddenly, an apocalypse of biblical proportions erupts, causing untold carnage among Tinseltown's elite and trapping Franco's party in his home. As the world they knew disintegrates outside, cabin fever and dwindling supplies threaten to tear the six friends apart.

Quotes:

“I don’t want to die at James Franco’s house.”

“Oh, no, no, no. I’m drinking and smoking weed. I’m on a cleanse, I’m not psychotic.”

“Take it easy, Dumbledore.”

5. You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. This might be my favourite romantic comedy, and I watch a lot. They’re adorable, and Meg Ryan is everything. This one made me cry twice. Once from sadness, once from happiness. Also it has Dave Chappelle in it, who I absolutely love.

Plot summary: Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous Internet romance, oblivious of each other's true identity. Eventually Joe learns that the enchanting woman he's involved with is actually his business rival. He must now struggle to reconcile his real-life dislike for her with the cyber love he's come to feel.

Quotes:

“There’s the dream of someone else.”

“But I just wanted to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.”

“I love daisies. They’re so friendly. Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?”

6. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

For anyone who loves The Beatles. Here they play themselves, and show what their lives are like. It’s ridiculous and hilarious and god, if I didn’t love them before I loved them dearly after watching. It’s such a fun, easy watch and I adore it.

Plot summary: Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live television performance.

Quotes:

“How did you find America?” “Turned left at Greenland.”

“Hey mister can we have our ball back!”

“You’re a swine.”

7. Dazed and Confused (1993)

My favourite movie to watch at the beginning and end of the school year, and let’s be honest, every month in between. I’ve seen this movie more times than I can say. I love the ‘70’s setting, the actors, the plot. Another wonderful, easy watch that just makes me happy. Killer soundtrack, too.

Plot summary: The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.

Quotes:

“You just gotta keep livin’, man. L-i-v-i-n.”

“It’d be a lot cooler if you did.”

“I just wanna look back and say that I did it the best that I could while I was stuck in this place.”

“I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, is some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin’ else.”

8. Dirty Dancing (1987)

Anything with Patrick Swayze is wonderful, and this is no exception. Johnny and Baby are perfect. This movie also has the best soundtrack of any movie I’ve ever watched. Fantastic love story, fantastic movie. Watch it.

Plot summary: Baby (Jennifer Grey) is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth while it lasts, she's disappointed when her summer plans deposit her at a sleepy resort in the Catskills with her parents. Her luck turns around, however, when the resort's dance instructor, Johnny (Patrick Swayze), enlists Baby as his new partner, and the two fall in love. Baby's father forbids her from seeing Johnny, but she's determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer.

Quotes:

“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”

“Fight harder, huh? I don’t see you fighting so hard, Baby. I don’t see you running up to daddy telling him I’m your guy.”

“You’re right, Johnny. You can’t win no matter what you do.”

“Go back to your playpen, Baby.”

9. The Sound of Music (1965)

This is such a beautiful movie, and I love it so much. My mom and I try to watch it every Christmas as our little tradition. Julie Andrews as Maria is so wonderful, and all of the songs are so, so good. I love all of the children dearly, and oh, do I love Captain VonTrapp.

Plot summary: A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Quotes:

“You cry a little, and then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.”

“God bless Louisa, Brigitta, Marta, and little Gretl. Oh, I forgot the other boy. What’s his name? Well, god bless what’s-his-name.”

“I want you to stay. I ask you to stay.”

10. Gladiator (2000)

“Are you not entertained?” I think everyone has heard that line, from this amazing movie. One of the many that has made me cry, it’s such a beautiful story. Also, gladiators. That immediately sells it for me. All of the performances by the actors are top notch as well.

Plot summary: Set in Roman times, the story of a once-powerful general forced to become a common gladiator. The emperor's son is enraged when he is passed over as heir in favour of his father's favourite general. He kills his father and arranges the murder of the general's family, and the general is sold into slavery to be trained as a gladiator - but his subsequent popularity in the arena threatens the throne.

Quotes:

“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance. In this life or the next.”

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”

“Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.”