The film Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, premiers in New York City. The soundtrack to the movie, which features performances by The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf, peaked at #6 on the Billboard album chart the following September and was certified Gold in January 1970
I’ve officially crossed the 365 day mark of posting Today In Rock and Roll History.
Today was also the day, in 1969, when The Rolling Stones released Honky Tonk Woman
Lars Ulrich of Metallica appears before a US Senate panel to testify against websites like Napster, that allowed people to trade music for free over the Internet.
New York radio station WINS announced the hiring of pioneer Rock disc jockey Alan Freed to be the host of their Rock 'n' Roll Party. As he did on his earlier Moondog's Rock 'n' Roll House Party Show on WJW in Cleveland, Freed programmed records by Black R&B artists that many White teenagers had never heard before. Freed is often credited with popularizing the term "Rock and Roll", although the phrase was first used in 1942 by Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker to describe upbeat recordings.
After signing with Island Records, the B-52's make their live debut at London's Lyceum Ballroom. The band would go on to reach the Billboard Hot 100 eight times and the UK Top 100 fourteen times. In 2008, they dropped the apostrophe in their name, with vocalist / keyboard player Kate Pierson explaining, "It was not grammatically correct. It's not like a possessive. It just seemed superfluous."
I’m just shocked that the NYPD didn’t kill 50% of the people arrested. Most useless bunch of assholes on planet earth.
I say this as a NY’er and as a person whose personal experiences with them have taught me that they’re absolute trash
In America, if a corner exists a company will cut it.
Internet Archive and Wikipedia are two websites that need to exist in perpetuity.
Does this fucker not get it? State laws don’t supersede federal laws.
Approval ratings mean nothing to lifetime appointments. Nobody should hold a position forever. If they wanna keep them there for life, then at least make them subject to review every X years
During covid my former company made record profits 2 years in a row; nearly doubling their annual profits. I had an open position on my team and had to hire a new employee. I got to pick the candidate and HR handled their offer and compensation package. The amount of disrespect they showed in their offers made me lose a lot of good candidates and in the end the person that was hired left after a few months when we were “reorganized” and he was going to be moved and dropped from L3 support down to L1 and his salary was going to be cut in half. I wrote letters of recommendation for all my team members and I'm happy to say all of us left for greener pastures. At one point I was even told my most senior employee couldn’t earn more than me despite his years of tenure and complication of his role. I had no issue with it but it apparently was against “company policy”
Fuck greedy companies!
I want stricter enforcement on anyone with power, not less. If you have the power to create and/or enforce the laws of the nation you should be held at a higher standard to uphold them.
Buying Twitter was never about him making money. It was about giving shithead, likeminded assholes, like him, a place to openly spew their vitriol hate speech without fear of bans or repercussions.
Delete your account if you have one; don’t share links to his site and FFS let’s stop allowing hatred to have an open forum or a place within proper society.
He’s not carrying water for the facists, he IS a fascist and they’re trying to spill that water on everyone in an attempt to undermine people’s freedoms. Fuck him and fuck his kind
Please, please do that. I can’t wait to see the discovery portion of the trial
Awesome idea! Wish this was a nationwide website