RockGeek Fact #0519
Chinese automaker Geely Automobile received press in 2003 for making the first car with a karaoke machine as standard equipment.
Am I a middle-aged housewife!?
I have a love/hate relationship with the gym. Everyone does. For me though, it’s a personal test of my own impatience for both results and boredom. Rippling muscles don’t come overnight, and you can’t get your…
But it’s free …
Yay for Radiohead! Yay for NIN! Yay for the millions of other people who gave their music away for free. Free is good, free is easy, free is … well, free. Wait a minute. Is it…
RockGeek Fact of the Day #1109
On most CD pressings of “Dark Side of the Moon”, a barely-audible orchestral version of The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” is audible after “Eclipse”, playing very faintly over the heartbeats that close the album. It is…
RockGeek Fact #836
The cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Physical Graffiti” and the Rolling Stones video for “Waiting on a Friend” were shot in front of the same NYC building.
Social Networking? Just go DO stuff!
The big trend across music and people and seemingly life itself is “social networking sites.” You know, MySpace, Facebook, and a million others. The theory is that since you can’t meet, find, or keep friends in…
Anthemic Rock – or a lack thereof…
Yesterday evening, I went to an NFL game at [Big Corporate Sponsor] Stadium. Alongside the $8 beers, and the $7 hot dogs, I noticed that the music predates many of the attendees. This got me to…
RockGeek Fact of the Day #237
Elton John was the first artist to have an album debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts with “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” in 1975.
Back from the dead?
It’s a great time to be old in the music industry. No really, it is. The Billboard Top 200 albums (week of 11/3/07) showcases a number of acts who are grandparents, eating early bird dinners, or…