A Gallery Of Cool, Take Seven

Ike and Tina Turner

Michael Caine

Cockney Rejects

Oliver Reed

Humprey Bogart

George Best and friend

Peter Falk

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated." - Jean-Luc Godard 

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Quote Of The Week

"It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing."

Stare Into The Vacuum Of His Eyes

"I found myself writing this song, this story, this long piece of vomit, 20 pages long... And I'd never written anything like that before and it suddenly came to me that this is what I should do."

46 years ago today... "Bob Dylan releases 'Like A Rolling Stone' in the USA. At six minutes, it becomes the longest single ever recorded up to this date." [Source: The Rock Source Archive]

Download: "Like A Rolling Stone" by James MarshallDownload: "Like A Rolling Stone" by The Soup Greens
Download: "Like A Rolling Stone" by Phil Flowers & The Flower ShopDownload: "Like A Rolling Stone" by The Wailing WailersBuy: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads by Greil Marcus

Quote Of The Week

"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere."

Quote Of The Week

"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."

Killed By Death

Michael "Würzel" Burston

Rest In Peace

"Few fans of the English heavy metal band Motörhead would recognise the name Michael Burston, but if presented with his stage name, Würzel, the majority would respond with unequivocal enthusiasm. The guitarist, who has died aged 61 after suffering from heart disease, came closer than any of the group's many members to being the face of the band, with the exception of Motörhead's founder, Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister. Much of Burston's enduring popularity came from his unaffected good nature, his reluctance to avoid playing the role of the rock star and his expert musicianship." ... Story continues here: Würzel Obituary (The Guardian)

Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues

Ruth Roberts

Rest In Peace

"Among the many songs written by Ms. Roberts and various collaborators were "First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And The Last Thing Ev'ry Night)," written with and recorded by Jimmy Dean, and "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues," originally done by Buddy Holly and recorded by the Beatles in 1969 at a session for their album Let It Be, although their version was not released until 1996. But she is probably best remembered for "Meet the Mets," which beat 18 competitors to be chosen as the New York Mets' official song in late 1961, before the team ever played a game, and was introduced to the public in 1963." ... Story continues here: Ruth Roberts, ‘Meet the Mets’ Songwriter, Dies At 84 (NY Times)

Dig: True To The Orange And Blue

Quote Of The Week

"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception…. If any one, upon serious and unprejudic'd reflection thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continu'd, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me."