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Hairball
The Beatles are already taught at universities ensuring they will never be forgotten.
The Beatles: University of Liverpool offers master's degree in Fab Four > FAB FOUR
And:
6 Universities Where You Can Take a Class on the Beatles > Mop Tops
I thought I read somewhere a couple of years ago that a university was thinking about offering a course on the Stones (?),
but might have been another story on The Beatles, and how they blazed trails and dominated the British Invasion.
Or maybe it was a university course on Dylan, and how he became the so-called "spokesman for his generation".
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exilestones
Gimme Shelter will still be played on the soundtrack of movies.
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jbwelda
they will be remembered for Altamont unfortunately. And it wasnt even their fault.
Well, at least not mostly.
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dmay
This is an OT as the title of the article relates to John Lennon's song "Imagine" as a touchstone for what follows. It's a bit wonky, but a reference to Elvis Presley in the article made me think about the Stones (and bands/performers from the 1960s forward) and their place in the halls of time. I also thought of all the comments here regarding the magic of VHS tapes as a technological marvel. So, if y'all are ready for a deep dive into the wonky end of the pool....
[getpocket.com]
About as much as the vaudeville legends are today
Jack Benny. W.C. Fields. George Burns and Gracie Allen. Fred and Adele Astaire. Bob Hope. Fanny Brice. Buster Keaton. Houdini. Remembered and revered? Books written about them? Every scrap of vintage film pored over? Okay. If that's their fate.
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Hairball
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I thought I read somewhere a couple of years ago that a university was thinking about offering a course on the Stones (?),
but might have been another story on The Beatles, and how they blazed trails and dominated the British Invasion.
Or maybe it was a university course on Dylan, and how he became the so-called "spokesman for his generation".
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I thought I read somewhere a couple of years ago that a university was thinking about offering a course on the Stones (?),
but might have been another story on The Beatles, and how they blazed trails and dominated the British Invasion.
Or maybe it was a university course on Dylan, and how he became the so-called "spokesman for his generation".
A few of us here took this online course on the music of The Rolling Stones by John Kovach: [www.coursera.org] and a couple people pointed out its errors.
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dmay
This is an OT as the title of the article relates to John Lennon's song "Imagine" as a touchstone for what follows. It's a bit wonky, but a reference to Elvis Presley in the article made me think about the Stones (and bands/performers from the 1960s forward) and their place in the halls of time. I also thought of all the comments here regarding the magic of VHS tapes as a technological marvel. So, if y'all are ready for a deep dive into the wonky end of the pool....
[getpocket.com]
About as much as the vaudeville legends are today
Jack Benny. W.C. Fields. George Burns and Gracie Allen. Fred and Adele Astaire. Bob Hope. Fanny Brice. Buster Keaton. Houdini. Remembered and revered? Books written about them? Every scrap of vintage film pored over? Okay. If that's their fate.
Aside from occasionally Bob Hope & George Burns - because they were very old and that's not what they were remembered for, the memories of the rest are fading. And no one reads books anymore.
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jbwelda
>The general population have no idea about Altamont in current times
The general population have no idea about pretty much anything not being crammed down their throat at any particular moment in time. Keeping that in mind then, the Rolling who?
And I totally read books. Finished two by Nick Kent (largely a waste of time) and about to start on Bill Gates' latest and then on to one I have been meaning to start for some time, The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee. I probably read 10 to 30 books a year depending on their depth and difficulty. Almost none have to do with music or entertainment, almost all are historical or historical fiction.
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GasLightStreet
One thing for sure... they will be remembered for what is arguably the greatest if not the most recognizable and one of the all time Top Ten logos in history.
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tatters
Reading thru this thread, I'm reminded of something I saw recently on the hobby of baseball card collecting. It was huge once, and very profitable, too. But, like the collecting of Rock & Roll recordings and related memorabilia, it's a dying hobby. The men in the convention hall buying and selling baseball cards were all around 60 years old. "What is the future of baseball card collecting?" one of them was asked. "It has no future," he answered. "It will end with the people in this room."