Hotel historians will devote at least a chapter to Keith Moon.
Posted on 05/25/2016 7:20:38 AM PDT by Borges
Classifying anyone as the “most successful” at anything tends to reflect more on the source than the subject. So keep that in mind when I make the following statement: John Philip Sousa is the most successful American musician of all time.
Marching music is a maddeningly durable genre, recognizable to pretty much everyone who has lived in the United States for any period. It works as a sonic shorthand for any filmmaker hoping to evoke the late 19th century and serves as the auditory backdrop for national holidays, the circus and college football. It’s not “popular” music, but it’s entrenched within the popular experience. It will be no less fashionable tomorrow than it is today.
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Tommy Lee and Bun E Carlos.
Bob Seger
Skynyrd for the southern rock genre
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Over the Allman Brothers?
I’d have to disagree on that one.
Do not tell that to the folks who write music history.
Hotel historians will devote at least a chapter to Keith Moon.
Souza has no Grammys.
“I’m 36-years old and I have 21 Grammys.”
—K. West
Follow the talent, yo.
“It’s no longer appropriate to dismiss disco as superficial. More and more, we recognize how disco latently pushed gay, urban culture into white suburbia, which is a more meaningful transgression than going on a British TV talk show and swearing at the host.”
Things will be judged by how gay they made everyone.
Freegards
NONE
Chuck Klosterman is low grade moron.
The way our Culture is going, music from White Males will be destroyed, and its history erased.
Bob Dylan.
Bonzo
Well Terry Kath was one of the most bad-ass guitarists that ever were, Chicago was never the same after he died.
“She was a HUGE Chicago fan. I remember going with her to one of their concerts (I think it was Madison Square Garden). They were excellent!”
I had a relative that worked a local Chicago concert. He said after the show, the first thing the band did was meet and do a post mortem on the show—discuss what went right, what went wrong, and how they could improve for their next show.
That’s a group of professionals.
Elvis is Everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knc9LKjukSQ
And the rest of Bonzo’s band, who have outsold the Rolling Stones 2:1 since the early ‘70’s. Historians will view the live version of “The Ocean” for pure pleasure.
Don’t forget Strange Fruit! Lol
As long as people will be talking about 1950-2000 music in the future, there will be three names repeated over and over; The Beatles, Elvis and Michael Jackson. Everyone else will pale into insignificance.
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