Steve Prestegard.com: The Presteblog

Today in 1980, Brian May of Queen collapsed while onstage. This was due to hepatitis, not, one assumes, the fact that Paul McCartney released his “McCartney II” album the same day. Today’s ...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/16/presty-the-dj-for-may-16-14/

The number one British single today in 1959 was not number one due to grammar: The number one album today in 1971 was Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s “4 Way Street”: The number one single toda...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/15/presty-the-dj-for-may-15-13/

The number one British album today in 1983 (with the clock ticking on my high school days) was Spandau Ballet’s “True”: The number one British album today in 2000 was Tom Jones’ “Reload...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/14/presty-the-dj-for-may-14-13/

The number one British single today in 1957 gave a name to a genre of music between country and rock (even though the song sounds as much like the genre as Kay Starr’s “Rock and Roll Waltz”...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/13/presty-the-dj-for-may-13-14/

The number one single today in 1958: Today in 1963, the producers of CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Shew told Bob Dylan he couldn’t perform his “Talking John Birch Society Blues” because it mocked ...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/12/presty-the-dj-for-may-12-14/

The number one British single today in 1958 was a cover of a song written in 1923: The number one British album today in 1963 was the Beatles’ “Please Please Me,” which was number one for 3...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/11/presty-the-dj-for-may-11-14/

From NBCUniversal: American Wire listed some Twitter reactions: Let me guess: the main theme will be about how reporters aren’t Leftwing enough! They could just as well have picked NYT or Wapo,...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/10/nbcs-next-flop/

You may remember a couple weeks ago I noted the first known meeting of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Today in 1963, upon the advice of George Harrison, Decca Records signed the Rolling Ston...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/10/presty-the-dj-for-may-10-14/

Dan McLaughlin: Yesterday’s announcement of the abrupt closure and dissolution of FreedomWorks by its board of directors is the closest thing we will get to a formal date of death for the Tea...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/09/the-end-for-now-of-small-government-republicans/

Eric Boehm: Neither of the two men most likely to be elected president in November has anything that could properly be described as a workable plan for addressing the approaching insolvency of Am...

https://steveprestegard.com/2024/05/09/the-issue-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/