Melted Idol

DRog brings the funny:

...the audience grew even larger and more enthusiastic when platinum-blonde '80s pop prince Billy Idol delivered a set of oldies such as "Dancing With Myself" and "White Wedding."

At age 50, Idol looked as if he'd stepped out of Madame Tussaud's wax museum, and the heat and his ridiculous leather pants threatened to make him melt onstage, which would have been the most entertaining part of his show.

Taking Over the Controls

Gotta have some laughs as the neo-fascists take another step forward...

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
--Lloyd Bridges as Steven McCrosky

iCanned

Jacques Chailley in 1961 (i.e., pre-Walkman, pre-iPod):

The fantastic success of the L.P. record, which has found its way into every home, is perhaps the most important single event in the history of twentieth-century music. Combined with the no less spectacular diffusion of radio and television, it has resulted in "canned music" having become the essential musical nourishment of our generation. ... Thanks to "canned music" we hear infinitely more music than ever before and, if we desire it, of infinitely better quality. But do we listen to it as well as we used to? The best tinned products can never take the place of a sauce carefully prepared and left to simmer slowly over the fire. Is not the loss of that human contact which the concert hall ensures an exorbitant price to pay for this extraordinary all-round enrichment?

from 40,000 Years of Music: Man in Search of Music