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Playing for Change video of Bob Marley's classic of hope and forgiveness, featuring Mermans Kenkosenki, Roberto Luti, as well as family members from Cuba and Jamaica including Stephen Marley.
Legendary rock star Patti Smith's look back expresses supremely well the tentativeness of every movement forward, the sense of following a path so risky, so sketchily perceptible, that at any moment one might go astray and never be heard from again, never perhaps even hear from the deepest part of oneself again. For a book that ends in success, it is acutely sensitive to that abyss of failure that haunts the attempt to become any kind of artist.
Pro baseball player and coach Dusty Baker was a teenage rock and roller. His new memoir details those years, centered on the legendary Monterey Pop Festival, where Jimi Hendrix played his way to stardom. Charles Bethea profiles Baker in advance of his memoir of those year of hanging out with a host of legendary musicians and learning how rock and roll is like baseball.
Seth Macfarlane Introduces Bernie Sanders. Eve of Destruction. 'My Kind Of America' With Jack Black. This Changes Everything -- Movie. How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain.
50 Years Ago: War, Music, Crisis. Eve of Destruction was written by P.F. Sloan in 1965; the Barry McGuire recording reached #1 in September. Fifty years, but the lyrics still resonate.
Stephen has created the greatest political anthem of all time and it’s free for any politician to use. Lincoln Chafee, this could be your moment.
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. Fireworks go off in the musician's brains.
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50 Years Ago: In 1965, as the Vietnam war escalated, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs wrote this song of resistance to an endless, senseless trail of blood.
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