Here are this week's questions (erm... demands)...
Name three songs from the year you were born. Name three artists who had hits the year you were born. Name three artists born the same year you were born.
Ya know what... I am not meeting these demands. Why? Because I was born in 1961! Yes, I said 1961. Rock 'n roll as we know it was just a baby then, there were no metal bands. So many important musical events had yet to occur. For example:
The Beatles did not appear live on The Ed Sullivan Show until I was two years old. The first tape players (8 track) did not appear in cars until the 1966 Fords rolled off the assembly line. I was seven years old before the Woodstock music festival took place. When Elvis Presley died, I was fifteen. I was nineteen when John Lennon was shot to death in New York City. MTV made its debut when I was nineteen as well. The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame didn't open until I was thirty-three! The following members (and one former member) of The Scorpions had not yet been born... James Kottak (1962), Ralph Rieckermann (1962), and Pawel Maciwoda (1967)!
So, you see, from my point of view there was no music in the year that I was born, at least nothing noteworthy. It was all still waiting in the wings.
