music – RickMcCharles.com

Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays

A song inspired by a 1979 school shooting in San Diego. ☹️

Though the family was very poor, the killer’s father — Wallace — had given his daughter a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas 1978.

She later said, “I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun.” When asked why he might have done that, she answered, “I felt like he wanted me to kill myself.”

The killer will die in prison.

The father, I assume, is free. If it were up to me, I’d put him in prison too.

… on male privilege

I doubt any human has had life easier than me — a white, male, heterosexual Canadian born 1957.

Talk about privilege.

Any man calling himself victim to the women’s rights movement is an idiot. And a snowflake. 😀

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Sun Valley Sally by Joe Cannon

Back in my University days we bought tickets for Joe Cannon every year.

In fact it was Keith Erhardt and friends who sponsored his trips to Calgary.

So far as I know Joe still lives in Sun Valley.

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The Cat Empire

Sam told me this was currently his favourite band.

Next day I couldn’t recall their name … The Cow Pasture? 😀

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Amie – Pure Prairie League

The 1972 classic.

Amie what you want to do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do …

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Click PLAY or watch a cover on YouTube.

Thanks Ron.

Bohemian Rhapsody – my review

Loved it.

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury was terrific.

I’ve been a fan of the band since 1974. Ron Shewchuk rang me up and told me to rush over to his place to listen to Queen II. I was blown away. They were so outrageous. So creative.

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I saw it on London’s biggest Imax screen. Great sound!

The film received a mixed critical reception; its direction, screenplay and historical inaccuracies were criticized, but the Live Aid sequence and cast, particularly Malek’s performance as Mercury, received unanimous praise.

Farrokh Bulsara (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), known professionally as Freddie Mercury, was born of Parsi descent on Zanzibar, and grew up there and in India before moving with his family to Middlesex, England, in his late teens. He formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor.