Video: Tina & Ike Turner - Proud Mary

T.G.I. Friday Video Time, that special time in the week when we boil down 50 years of music into just five songs that start with the same letter of the alphabet. This week it's on to the letter "P". We've got songs about wizardry, planes, and a very fuzzy fruit. Click below to see what tunes made our list. And remember, if you don't agree with us on our selections, we want to hear from you! Don't forget, we'll be doing the letter "Q" next Friday. Oy, that's gonna be a tough one. [...]

The Doheny Blues Festival in May heralded a new look for the band . Gone were the days of "well, jeans and t-shirts" and in was a new look of dress pants and shirts, sometimes accented with a sport coat or vest, for the guys. Grace and Cat entered a new era that I think I'll be calling "short and slinky". And sometimes in your face sexy. Grace Potter 2009_1 , originally [...]

Ca te va bien ce nom vieille canialle. Ni voit rien d'insultant, non ! C'est juste qu'avec la vie que tu as eu mourir

Left a good job in the city, Workin for the man evry night and day, And I never lost one minute of sleepin, Worryin bout the way things might have been. Él la descubrió siendo una gran estrella, y a medida que su maltrato creció, ella le fue opacando hasta robar todo su protagonismo a base de fuerza, talento y el mejor par de piernas de la historia de la música. Morir en el práctico olvido fue el gran pago de Ike Turner por tanto sufrimiento por el que hizo [...]

Ike Turner , autore, produttore, musicista e pioniere del rock'n'roll, è morto ieri nella sua casa di San Marcos, California, all'età di 76 anni. Universalmente conosciuto come "il marito di Tina Turner ", Izear Luster Turner Jr. era nato nel 1931 nel cuore nero del Missisipi, e aveva fondato la sua prima band già al liceo. Negli anni 40, con i Kings of Rhythm, raggiunse il successo con il brano Rocket 88 , primo di una lunga serie di hit blues e rock. Tina entrò nella band a metà degli anni 50; i [...]

I've written a few obituaries and tribute pieces in my day. They're tough to write. People – family, friends, admirers – have certain expectations. Their expectations are born of nostalgia, and nostalgia is a nasty little thing. In Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez said, "The heart's memory eliminates the bad and [...]