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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ROMEO VOID!

Ok, you kids head to bed, the adults have a really fucking great song to dance and sing along to. No, bed, NOW. Sorry, sometime the Bigs have to do their thing. This is one of those times.

Note the producer on this song on the record in the picture. Cool eh? 'Never Say Never' starting things off with a bang tonight.

You might like Johnny better if we slept together...

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with RILO KILEY!

This song has grown on Johnny. A song that comes across the iTunes every so often and after 3 or 4 plays Johnny has a hankering to play it on the Music Series. See how that works? Rilo Kiley and 'Under the Blacklight'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE!

Johnny loves this song. Loved hearing it live at Radio City years ago. A good way to send you all off into this steam bath tonight, something ghostly. 'Seven Devils' wrapping up another Music Series.

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It's finally sinking in

Probably the greatest singer of this era of rock and roll, pop, that began back in the mid 50's in earnest (Elvis also died on this day so the King and Queen curse of 8/16 can begin) has passed. Rolling Stone polled their best and brightest writers and researchers along with people in the music business and Aretha Franklin not only win top female artist ever, she won best singer ever, boys OR gurls. A titanic presence on so many fronts.

'Chain of Fools' on Aretha Franklin Day. If Johnny were Mayor of Detroit tomorrow he'd rename all the streets Aretha Franklin Boulevard for 24 hours. Probably a good thing he's not Mayor of Detroit.

Remember when Mick Jagger redid 'Beast of Burden' with Bette Midler?

In the mid to late 80's Mick Jagger and Keith Richards weren't having much of each other. All those years together had reached critical mass. Oil and water, The Glimmer Twins. It is not known if Mick redid the Stones classic 'Beast of Burden' with the magnificent Bette Midler to get under Keith's skin or not. Keith sure thought so. He decided to redo another of their classics in 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and if you're gonna even gonna try and one up the Divine Miss M there's only one person on this earth you can call. The Detroit area code is 313.

Keef will have his revenge in the person of Aretha Franklin...

Hallelujah!

More with the Queen of Soul this morning

On an all-Aretha Thursday. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.

RIP to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin

Just awful news (on the same day Johnny finally got his wife's updated death certificates after six months) from Detroit this morning. Detroit legend and their gift to the signing world, well, one of them anyway, has passed at 76. We're going to spend the day playing Aretha Franklin songs to help fill a great void.

'I Say a Little Prayer' to start off

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