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  1. durante

    AHC: Make Rock Music "Black" Again

    Ok maybe a bit out of left field here, but I believe this is likely a subject near and dear to many of our hearts. I'm currently reading "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination", by Jack Hamilton, which discusses how media marketing in the USA during the 1960s was...
  2. Lafayette_

    The Beatles Compromise (a Discography)
    Threadmarks: Intro

    Hi all - I've decided to gather the few different entries I've made to the "Rock albums from alternate timelines" thread and post them on a new one, dedicated to a timeline where the Beatles find ways to compromise starting in 1967. I plan to cover their output through 1980. Some albums will be...
  3. Sixto Rodriguez is a more successful singer and songwriter

    I did start a thread about this before but got the spelling wrong. So again, suppose he started his musical career early, say as early as 1962, made more albums and was more successful. Could he have been the jewel in Motown's crown?
  4. AG_AG

    Hays Code for Concerts

    So I was reading about some of the insane things that used to go on in concerts (like Gitaur Sacrifice), and that made me think: Might there at one point have been some Hays code like regulation for what acts were allowed in concerts hosted in stadiums in the 60's and 70's?
  5. What if Freddie Mercury survived?

    The AIDS crisis claimed many lives. Few of its victims were as iconic as Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. One of the most influential singers in the history of rock music, Mercury left a profound legacy that can still be felt more than thirty years after his death. However, the band he helped...
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