12/11/2023 0 Comments Simon cat pop time![]() Also in this issue: Bob Dylan’s archive treasures Peter Gabriel checks in Sly Stone’s peak madness Joni Mitchell’s mid-’70s Carly Simon speaks! Plus: Joe Walsh, Thurston Moore, Black Pumas, Graham Parker, Talking Heads, Mike Stoller, Meat Puppets, Jimmy Buffett, Suicide and Micky Dolenz sings R.E.M.! Hackney Diamonds, pop and blues, the band and the establishment, Bill and Charlie (did he really punch Mick?) and more. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.EXCLUSIVE! MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS and Ronnie Wood talk the past, present and future of The Rolling Stones. Electronic musician Flying Lotus (AKA Steve Ellison) is 40. Neo-soul singer Nathaniel Rateliff (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats) is 45. Rock singer-musician Damian Kulash (KOO’-lahsh) is 48. Rock musician-dancer Leeroy Thornhill is 54. Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 55. Recording executive and TV personality Simon Cowell is 64. Olympic gold medal ice dancer Jayne Torvill is 66. Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 70. Actor Mary Badham (Film: “To Kill a Mockingbird”) is 71. Former National Security Council aide Lt. ![]() Comedian and talk-show host Joy Behar is 81. Today’s Birthdays: Author Thomas Keneally is 88. In 2020, President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for the first time since he was diagnosed with COVID-19 he credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery. In 2017, country music star Jason Aldean, who had been on stage at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas less than a week earlier when a gunman opened fire on the crowd, paid tribute to the victims and to the recently deceased Tom Petty by opening “Saturday Night Live” with Petty’s song, “I Won’t Back Down.” In 2012, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election for the third time. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger their new governor. In 2001, the war in Afghanistan started as the United States and Britain launched air attacks against military targets and Osama bin Laden’s training camps in the wake of the September 11 attacks. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s murder.) In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten and left tied to a wooden fencepost outside of Laramie, Wyoming he died five days later. In 1996, Fox News Channel made its debut. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. In 1992, trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, in the presence of President George H.W. In 1989, Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest. (The hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American tourist in a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, before surrendering on Oct. ![]() In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1982, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opened on Broadway, the first of what would become a record 7,485 performances in an 18-year run. ![]() In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed. In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta. In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England. 7, 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him Thomas denied Hill’s allegations and would go on to win Senate confirmation. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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