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45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

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My Watch of the Day

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The Day In Rock

No. 1

1965 Beatles: Ticket to Ride UK 45

1972 Deep Purple: Machine Head UK LP

1983 David Bowie: Let's Dance UK LP

1990 Sinead O' Connor : I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got : US LP

1995 Wet Wet Wet : Picture This : UK LP

Births

1922 Charlie Mingus (jazz musician)

1936 Glen Campbell

1937 Jack Nitzsche (Lonely Surfer)

1950 Peter Frampton (Show Me The Way)

1955 Arthur Baker (producer)

1969 Craig Logan (Bros)

Miscellany

1959 Alan Freed premieres his last rock-and-roll move, Go Johnny Go, starring Chuck Berry, Ritchie Valens, Jackie Wilson, Eddie Cochran and Flamingos

1961 First annual Country Music Festival held in US, at the 13,000-seater Coliseum in Jacksonville, with Faron Young and Earl Scrubbs

1963 Gene Vincent's recording contract with Capitol expires. His last recording is a tame remake of Be-Bop-A-Lula

1965 Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde LP released in the US

1969 John Lennon officially changes his middle name from Winston to Ono in a ceremony on the rooftop of the Beatles' Apple Building

1977 Jam release first single, In the City

1978 30,000 attend as Bob Marley headlines the One Love peace concert in Kingston for unemployed ghetto kids

1979 Rolling Stones perform two benefit concerts for the blind in Toronto to fulfil terms of Keith Richard's sentence for heroin trafficking

1989 1927's That's When I Think of You hits UK chart.

Birthday wishes to Peter Frampton Comes Alive…

What’s in the CD player?

Mott The Hoople – Mott

 

 

All songs written by Ian Hunter, except where indicated.

"All the Way from Memphis" – 5:02

"Whizz Kid" – 3:25

"Hymn for the Dudes" (Verden Allen, Hunter) – 5:24

"Honaloochie Boogie" (Hunter, Mick Ralphs) – 2:43

"Violence" (Hunter, Ralphs) – 4:48

"Drivin’ Sister" – 3:53

"Ballad of Mott (26th March 1972, Zürich)" (Hunter, Dale "Buffin" Griffin, Peter Watts, Ralphs, Allen) – 5:24

"I’m a Cadillac/El Comino Dolo Rosos" (Ralphs) – 7:51

"I Wish I Was Your Mother" – 4:52

 

 

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

All the Young Dudes actually brought Mott the Hoople success, but you wouldn't know that from its sequel, Mott. Ian Hunter's songs are a set of road tales fraught with exhaustion, disillusionment, and dashed dreams, all told with a wry sense of humor so evident on Mott's earlier work. So, this is no ordinary road album, where a band whines about the perils of traveling -- it's more of a wry commentary on rock & roll itself, which, as Hunter notes, is a "loser's game." Mott doesn't sound that way, though -- it's as winning and infectious as rock & roll gets. Even with the undercurrents of ironic despair and restrained hostility, this is a fun record (partially because of that despair and hostility, of course). This sounds better, looser, than All the Young Dudes, as the band jives through "All the Way From Memphis" and "Honaloochie Boogie," beats the living hell outta "Violence," swaggers on "Whizz Kid," and simply drives it home on "Drivin' Sister." Apart from the New York Dolls (who, after all, were in a league of their own), glam never sounds as rock as it does here. To top it all off, Hunter writes the best lament for rock ever with "Ballad of Mott the Hoople," a song that conveys just how heartbreaking rock & roll is for the average band. If that wasn't enough, he trumps that song with the closer "I Wish I Was Your Mother," a peerless breakup song that still surprises, even after it's familiar. It's a graceful, unexpected way to close a record that stands as one of the best of its era. 

Comic Of The Day

Tales of Suspense #74

1959 Series - Marvel, February 1966, coverprice 0.12 , 36 pages.
Format: Color; Standard Newsstand; Saddle-stitched; monthly series
*No Title Given*

Cover Credits:
Jack Kirby (Pencils) Mike Esposito? (Inks) ? (Colors) ? (Letters)

Cover Feature: Captain America

Character appearances:
Captain America; a Sleeper

Genre: superhero

Editor: Stan Lee 

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Country Fried Steak

Zoom Zoom

Al Unser in the Lola T3321 1975.

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Michelle Bass

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