I heard on the radio this morning, on my way home from work, that Steven Tyler is 63 today. Amazing! And yet, about right, since that means he’d have been about 25 when Aerosmith hit big. I vividly remember Dream On as a new hit song, hearing it play on the radio, [...]

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Some things are memorable beyond merely their timing in my youth…

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What if the Beatles Were Irish? Brilliant!

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Number one songs 5 seconds at a time (give or take) in two parts. The first part was my favorite, naturally, and had almost nothing I didn’t recognize or couldn’t name readily. There are clearly some groups who got shortchanged in the number one hits department, but then only a song at a time [...]

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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. The first time I can remember ever hearing it as a young kid, strangely enough, was at my grandmother’s house, from the radio in the dining room. It put me into a mental state, almost a waking dream, in which I imagined as vividly as [...]

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