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from the beach boys, pet sounds posted in music by crabapple
The cover for The Beach Boys experimental 1966 album Pet Sounds was shot at the San Diego Zoo. The shot was taken by photographer George Jerman on Feb 15, 1966.
From the liner notes: "The photos of The Beach Boys feeding an assortment of goats was a play on the album's chosen title, Pet Sounds."
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from sam cooke posted in music by crabapple
On December 11, 1964, Sam Cooke ran up to the manager's office at this motel, clad only in a shoe and a sports jacket.
Although the circumstances leading up to and after that encounter are still debated, the results were the same: Sam Cooke was fatally shot in the torso. He was 33 years old.
Reportedly, his last words were, "Lady, You Shot Me."
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from the smashing pumpkins, jonathan melvoin posted in music by crabapple
On July 12, 1996, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin were sharing a room at the Regency Hotel on Park Ave. They were also sharing heroin- the Pumpkins had recently done an Asian tour recently the readily available heroin in Thailand had revived addiction in both of them.
Shortly before midnight on July 11th, both of the musicians took some heroin. A couple of hours later, Chamberlain woke up to find Melvoin unconscious and was unable to revive him. When the paramedics, they pronounced Melvoin DOA from an overdose.
Melvoin was a multi-instrumental talent, a graduate of Julliard who played drums in the Dickies and keyboards for Prince and the Smashing Pumpkins.
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On Saturday, Oct. 21, 1995, Shannon Hoon was found dead from a heroin overdose in the Blind Melon tour bus near Kingsway Studios, where the band had recorded their second album, Soup, earlier that year. He was 28 years old.
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At the old Harris Drug store in Pampa, TX, Woody Guthrie worked on and off after his family moved here from Okemah, OK.
Today, it is the site of the Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center. The music venue and meeting space is dedicated to promoting Guthrie's music and ideals, and it has a number of photos and artifacts from the American songwriter.
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