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In 1964 The Rolling Stones did the jingle for a Rice Krispies TV ad. The song was written by Brian Jones in collaboration with J. Walter Thompson, it was never aired in the U.S
Classic clip from Australian news show, where the reporter confronts a man selling his home. But the ad ends with the words "NO ASIANS".
Liberace giving a guided tour of his Hollywood Hills home in 1972.
I would be thoroughly disappointed if Liberace’s house didn’t look like this.
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Tom Jones & Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long Time Gone (This is Tom Jones TV Show,1969)
During the 1991 Gulf War, Sean Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Lenny Kravitz assembled a collective of artists called The Peace Choir to record a new, anti-war version of John Lennon's 1969 anthem 'Give Peace a Chance'
Accompanying musicians included Amina, Adam Ant, Sebastian Bach, Bros, Felix Cavaliere, Terence Trent D'Arby, Flea, John Frusciante, Peter Gabriel, Kadeem Hardison, Ofra Haza, Joe Higgs, Bruce Hornsby, Lee Jaffe, Al Jarreau, Jazzie B, Davey Johnstone, Cyndi Lauper, Little Richard
Jimi Hendrix signed his first contract with Ed Chalpin of PPX October 15, 1965. Hendrix signed it while working as a sideman for Curtis Knight & The Squires in New York. The contract gave him a $1 signing bonus and 1% of all royalties.
This is Arthur Eggers giving evidence at various stages of his trial for the murder of his wife Dorothy. He had shot her twice, cut off her hands and head and dumped her body in Waterman Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Her hands and head were never recovered.
Eggers was undone by the fact he sold her blood soaked car to a policeman, but it was also a medical procedure that enabled detectives to identify Dorothy.
He was executed on this day in 1948.
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On this day in 1977, while speaking at an event in Iowa to promote her campaign to roll back anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people, Anita Bryant is hit in the face with a pie.
At a stop in Des Moines, Iowa, gay activist Tom Higgins pied Bryant in the face. Bryant quipped, "at least it's a fruit pie," before praying for Higgins's soul and breaking into tears.
Higgins was not alone in protesting Bryant's speaking tour.
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Vali Myers left Melbourne at 14, slept rough in post-war Paris and got thrown out of France for vagrancy. Then she spent nearly 50 years in a ravine above Positano with 100 animals and a pet fox, tattooed Patti Smith’s knee and asked Donovan for a goat as a performance fee. 🧵
If Netflix could do a film about this lady, that would be great.
More about her here (A bit NSFW)
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Fred Rogers, the creator and host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, testifying to the US Senate in 1969 to defend federal funding for public television against Nixon's proposed cuts.
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The Beatles with Gene Vincent at the Star Club, Hamburg, in 1962. Vincent survived the 1960 crash that killed Eddie Cochran, but he never got over it.
He carried guns and reportedly fired several shots at a young Gary Glitter in a German hotel in 1968 but unfortunately missed.
