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July 27, 1985 –The Eurythmics’ song There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) went to No.1 on the UK singles chart on this date, the duo’s only UK No.1 single. The song features Stevie Wonder, who provides the harmonica solo. Wonder worked on this own schedule, so when Annie Lennox and Dave StewartContinue reading “There Must Be An Angel topped the charts”

July 26, 2015 –In a field just outside of Cesena, Italy, 1000 musicians and singers play Foo Fighters Learn to Fly simultaneously with the dream of attracting the band to play a show in their city for the first time in nearly 20 years. On November 3, 2015, the Foo Fighters performed a 27-song setContinue reading “That’s a big noise”

July 26, 1951 – Walt Disney’s 13th animated feature, Alice in Wonderland, premiered in the UK and New York City on this date. Continuing the pattern of film versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland not being commercially successful, this movie was a huge box office failure. However, it did become something of a cult filmContinue reading “No time to say “Hello, Goodbye””

July 26, 1958 – The Looney Tunes short, Dog Tales, directed by Bob McKimson, was released on this date.< Victor Barky (the Great Dane pianist) is a play on Victor Borge – perhaps as no surprise, one of Borge’s nicknames was ‘The Great Dane‘.

July 26, 1952 – The Merrie Melodies cartoon, Oily Hare, directed by Bob McKimson and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date The comically stretched limo is modeled after a 1952 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special.

July 26, 1991 –One of Mel Brooks non-film parody movies, Life Stinks, starring Mel, Leslie Ann Warren, Howard Morris, and Jeffrey Tambor was released on this date. (This was one of my father-in-law’s favorite movies.) The film screened out-of-competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991 playing at a “surprise screening“. France, being the homeContinue reading “Life Stinks opened”

July 26, 1985 –The award-winning drama, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Héctor Babenco, based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig, and starring William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, and Denise Dumont, was released on this date. During rehearsals, the two actors had trouble finding the chemistry theyContinue reading “The Kiss of The Spider Woman premiered”

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.. — Abraham Lincoln (I wonder how that worked out for him?) For some reason, today is All or Nothing Day. All or Nothing Day is a time to take risks and live on the edge. Live likeContinue reading “Life is short, break the rules”

July 26, 1943 –Michael Philip Jagger, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, occasional film producer and actor, was born on this date. Ponder this: Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger, Mick’s eighth child (who is almost ten years old) is the grand uncle to his half sister Jade Jagger Fillary’s first granddaughter, Ezra Key, whoContinue reading “I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five. (Oops!)”

July 25, 1989 –After leaving Def Jam, Beastie Boys release their second album, Paul’s Boutique, on Capitol Records, on this date. Paul’s Boutique was a very big deal because it determined the whether the Beastie Boys were going to be a short-lived novelty act (not a stretch considering their big hit (You Gotta) Fight forContinue reading “To all the Brooklyn girls …”