The thoughts of a journalist/libertarian–conservative/Christian husband, father, Eagle Scout and aficionado of obscure rock music. Thoughts herein are only the author’s and not necessarily the opinions of his family, friends, neighbors, church members or past, present or future employers.
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Today is the anniversary of the Beatles’ first song to reach the U.S. charts, “From Me to You.” Except it wasn’t recorded by the Beatles, it was recorded by Del Shannon:
Five years later, John Lennon sold his Rolls–Royce:
Sharing my daughter’s birthday are Smiley Lewis, who first did …
Robbie Robertson of The Band:
Huey Lewis:
Guitarist Michael Monarch of Steppenwolf:
Michael Gismondi played saxophone for the Michael Stanley Band:
[…] When you reach my age, the fact that my birthday would be on a Saturday or my wife’s birthday would be on a Sunday doesn’t mean much. Appropriately celebrating our anniversary on a Tuesday, though, would be difficult. I doubt our kids would be happy with birthdays on, respectively, Thursday, Monday and Thursday. […]
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