Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images A new duo named Stanley Simmons has played their first show. The duo is the sons of KISS legends Paul Stanley a... read more
"Panama" by Van Halen is not about the country or the canal, but about a stripper David Lee Roth met in Arizona.
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The Georgia native started his music career working in the mail room at The Nashville Network (TNN) before becoming the first artist to sign with Arista Nashville. Soon, he scored his first hit at age 32 with "Here in the Real World."
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Way back in the mists of time, - say 1970-ish I remember reading in a music journal (Prolly "Melody Maker") about the writer discovering a film somewhere entitled "Postcards of the Hanging" and speculating on Dylan sitting in some ancient movie theatre in Hibbing or Duluth and scribbling down the title for future reference in a song or something. The implication being that Dylan nicks ideas from other art works, (What else is new?). I'm not at all concerned about that, but for decades I have tried in vain to find the film so sardonically entitled. Anybody any ideas?...