Posted Tuesday 06/30/2009 5:00 PM in
Blender Blog
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Blender Video
The iTunes store is making rare live video performances available from The Prince's Trust rock/charity galas of the 1980s.
Blender.com has an exclusive video from the series.
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Posted Tuesday 06/30/2009 2:31 PM in
Live Performances
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Blender Video
George Harrison and friends perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" during The Prince's Trust concert in 1987.
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Posted Wednesday 04/01/2009 12:00 PM in
Lists
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Jon D'Auria
You gave into the crowd. You spent over a hundred dollars a month on hair product just to fit in. You keep your high school pictures hidden at all costs. You received nasty looks at every family gathering from 1984 to 1995. You have clearly fallen victim to the worst hair trends in the history of music.
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Beatle children have been used and bruised by the music business. So Dhani Harrison—the physical reincarnation of his dad, George—has a new plan.
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Posted Friday 03/20/2009 12:41 PM in
Magazine Issues
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Jason Gay
Beatle children have been used and bruise by the music business. So Dhani Harrison—the physicial reincarnation of his dad, George—has a new plan.
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What was supposed to be a standard appraisal of some concert posters turned out to be the discovery of a lifetime - an extraordinary collection of 3500 unpublished photographs taken by Bob Bonis (above), the first U.S. Tour manager for both The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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Posted Thursday 03/05/2009 3:55 PM in
Photos
Thank heavens The Beatles and The Rolling Stones’ 1st US tour manager Bob Bonis had his camera with him, or else we wouldn’t have these amazing photos (some exclusive to Blender.com) from 1964-1966, recently rediscovered by his son and now on display at the Not Fade Away Gallery in NYC.
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Posted Monday 01/26/2009 12:21 PM in
Blender Blog
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Conrad Doucette
Remember Microsoft Songsmith? How could you forget. That stunningly
irony-free tsunami of vomit-inducing, song-based advertising we
recently brought you has gone global. It's everywhere; a full on
sensation. It's even, dare we say it, viral. Even the New York Times
knows about it now! And so do loads of clever lil' music lovers who
have fed classic tunes into the Demon App just to hear what would come
out. As you can imagine, it ain't pretty.
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Posted Thursday 01/22/2009 2:59 PM in
Blender Blog
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Conrad Doucette
What is it about lists that is so rock n' roll? Does it have anything
to do with the intersecting of arts (music) and science (the numerical
qualities inherent in lists)? It must - Nick Hornby has made a fortune analyzing and exploring this peculiar phenomenon.
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Posted Monday 12/08/2008 5:21 PM in
Blender Blog
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Elizabeth Goodman
Thanks to Life Magazine and the fine people at Google we get to see Grace Slick’s mom’s sitting room.
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Posted Monday 11/24/2008 12:08 PM in
Blender Blog
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Conrad Doucette
The world was a smaller place in the Sixties. Before cell phones, blogs and the internet, the amount of popular culture fighting for global attention was more manageable. For example, you could, as John Lennon did, casually compare yourself to Jesus, and actually capture the attention of the world's leading pro-Jesus entity, the Vatican.
This actually happened in 1966.
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