Mick Jagger is officially on the mend after undergoing successful heart valve procedure in Manhattan. On Friday (April 5th), the Rolling Stones‘ frontman posted a message to fans and will wishers on social media, saying: “Thank you everyone for all your messages of support, I’m feeling much better now and on the mend — and also a […]
1850, The First Stagecoach Company is formed by Henry Wells & William Fargo, called the American Express. It’s later changed to Wells Fargo, a coast-to-coast express business. 1877, US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederik Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C. 1892, Lord Stanley donated a trophy to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. It became hockey’s […]
Legendary surf guitar pioneer Dick Dale has died at age 81. Dale, who was best remembered for songs such as “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin’,” was a grassroots Southern California hero in the late-1950’s drawing record breaking crowds at such early stomping grounds such as Newport Beach’s Rendezvous Ballroom. Dale, who was born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston in […]
Rolling Stone has just published an interview conducted last fall with Ringo Starr and brother-in-law Joe Walsh discussing their sobriety. The chat was taped back on October 8th when Walsh and his wife Marjorie Bach — sister of Ringo’s wife Barbara Bach — were both honored in Manhattan by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) and Facing Addiction. Ringo shed light […]
Today (February 25th) would have been George Harrison’s 76th birthday. Harrison, the first of the Beatles to embrace Eastern philosophies and culture, will also be remembered for his humanitarian efforts, such as his 1971 Concert For Bangladesh for famine relief. Harrison died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 58. Over the course of […]