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Bob Marley Day – No Woman, No Cry

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February 6

“I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black…Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.”     – Bob Marley

There’s a scene in L’auberge espagnole where the main character witnesses a guitar-playing American woo a European girl with his very …Read more

Bob Marley Day – Song of Freedom

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February 6

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look?

Some say it’s just a part of it:

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Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’s Birthday

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January 27

Today, January 27, is Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’s birthday.

If you’re like me, everything you know about Mozart comes from Falco’s immortal ballad “Rock Me Amadeus.”

“1756, Salzburg, January 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born. “1761, at the age of five Amadeus begins composing. “1773, he writes his first piano concerto…

But did you know that, according to Marcel Danesi’s Forever Young: The Teen-Aging of Modern Culture:

There are solid data to suggest that …Read more

Birthday of the King: Elvis

January 8

The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a National guitar, I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war,

I’m going to Graceland, Graceland In Memphis Tennessee… …I’ve reason to believe We both will be received In Graceland

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Today is the birthday of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley. Though not an official holiday in any nation, it is …Read more