This sounds like a cross between ELO and that old "Towing The LIne" song. That was the title, right? Some song like that from the 70s. Yes, it's all very 1970s with the 2010's production sheen.

"Well, Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he'd kick it in the head when he was 25
Speed jive, don't want to stay alive
When you're 25…"

Young Hurt as Caligula in I, Claudius on PBS's "Masterpiece Theater" in the 70s was my first exposure to him as a child. I probably was too little to be watching it, but he was spellbinding. Total dedication to the role.

George and Marian Kerby.

Whenever I think of classic rockers using synths, it's that outro to Don Henley's "Sunset Grill". Every time i hear it, I think to myself, "Aw, someone's standing on their little kid chair and playing 'symphony conductor'." It's too much, though.

I saw Chappelle at one of the sets he did in NYC, and both Che and Brennan were there. He greeted them from the stage.

"Well, I don’t feel like that but I guess now that’s what will be the future of doing things like that. Now when you sing or appear at things it’s no longer just a performance, it means that you support or you believe what that person is standing for. So, I know that now.”

The Kinks: "Waterloo Sunset"

The Staples Singers - "Let's Do It Again"

The Violent Femmes - "Gone Daddy Gone"

For almost an entire decade between 1993-2004, it seemed like whatever show I attended at Bowery Ballroom or Webster Hall in NYC, David Byrne was also there. Except for Soul Coughing. I guess he didn't like them. It was to the point that, when I spotted him getting on his bike after a Scott Herren/Prefuse 73 show, I…

I never heard "kids' songs" until I got to school for kindergarten. My then-20-something aunt/guardian owned an R&B record store in our black neighborhood back in ~1973, when I was 4, and it was all about Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Delfonics, Curtis Mayfield, The Staple Singers…

Well, yes, Singin' in The Rain, which is my favourite musical, but she'll always be Charlotte to me.

George Michael was barely out of high school when I first heard Wham! and I was in middle school. While he was much too pretty for me to fangirl over, he had such a great voice that the music actually did come first for me, unlike with my schoolmates who swooned over his looks. Gone way, WAY too young.

QUIET!

I've spent a good part of today wondering what I'll have to do to protect myself and other people in the very near future. I've seen too many bad things happening today. And then to see this.

For a second, I thought the guy in the thumbnail for this article was Richard Ayoade. I love that guy! But Wyatt Cenac is all right, too.

(What about the five demos, or was Visconti talking some shit?)

Aw, thanks.

I was angry at him as a fourteen year old girl in 1984—here was this MAN who was simply prettier than I would ever be (I hadn't seen photos of early-20s Bowie at that point). I liked the song enough to get over that, though, true, I have never ever been even a 1/10 as beautiful as he was in his heyday.