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From a cotton farm in Turkey Scratch Arkansas to the very pinnacle of the music world. 71 year old Levon Helm will soon be gone. Thought I'd post this tribute song written by Elton John from his 1971 album "Madman Across the Water".

Story here. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Entertainment/Music/6474166/story.html

From the above story "Born May 26, 1940, in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, the son of cotton farmers, he learned to play guitar and drums as a child. By 17 he was appearing in honky tonks in and around nearby Helena and taking in performance by such southern legends as Conway Twitty, Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley, and Ronnie Hawkins.

He joined Hawkins’ rockabilly band The Hawks just before they moved to Canada in the late 1950s.

In the early 1960s, Helm and Hawkins recruited Canadians Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass) and pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson. They left Hawkins and toured as Levon and the Hawks before backing Bob Dylan in the mid-60s. Fans weren’t initially receptive to Dylan’s switch from acoustic folky to electric folk-rocker, and Helm headed back south, working on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of years until bassist Rick Danko asked him to rejoin the group that would become known around the world as, simply, The Band"

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Levon+Helm+near+death+wife+daughter+with+videos/6474166/story.html#ixzz1sLwHMdvM

>> ^lucky760:

Fan-effing-tastic. I loved that. Very well written and performed.
I've never heard of these rap battles of history. Are there any other good ones worth watching?


All of them imo. Some really are epic. My favourite is probably einsten vs. hawking.

Jacko pipped it for me.

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>> ^aurens:

A short and varied list of Americans educated in public high schools before the creation, in 1980, of the Department of Education:
Steve Jobs
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Ron Paul
Warren Buffett
Toni Morrison
Carl Sagan
Ernest Hemingway
Linus Pauling
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Steinbeck
Bob Dylan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Milton Friedman
Noam Chomsky
Oprah Winfrey
George Lucas
Jimmy Carter
Paul Newman
Amelia Earhart
Walt Disney
George Carlin
Elvis Presley
Neil Armstrong
Richard Feynman
Aaron Copland
(I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the point.)>> ^ghark:
No public education ... Sounds exciting.



Aye aye, was being sarcastic

A short and varied list of Americans educated in public high schools before the creation, in 1980, of the Department of Education:

Steve Jobs
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Ron Paul
Warren Buffett
Toni Morrison
Carl Sagan
Ernest Hemingway
Linus Pauling
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Steinbeck
Bob Dylan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Milton Friedman
Noam Chomsky
Oprah Winfrey
George Lucas
Jimmy Carter
Paul Newman
Amelia Earhart
Walt Disney
George Carlin
Elvis Presley
Neil Armstrong
Richard Feynman
Aaron Copland

(I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the point.)>> ^ghark:

No public education ... Sounds exciting.

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It's a medium-sized rodent with buck teeth, but that's not important right now...

>> ^Payback:

He was also a great admirer of Priscilla Presley's beaver.

But that's not important right now...

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He was also a great admirer of Priscilla Presley's *beaver.

He was also a great admirer of Priscilla Presley's *beaver.

My friend, you're like magic. Wham, bam, thank you Geo. I find it published before I know it's promoted.

Thank you!

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*promote

>> ^dag:

promote. He will return.


Andy or Elvis?

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Geez, how hard is it to say Shakespeare, Vivaldi, Bach, Elvis Presley, etc.? Really, Katie could have made him look even dumber by breaking the question into smaller, more detailed questions. What makes a culture? What is a culture? What are elements of "white" culture, etc. Who are some white artists, philosophers, etc.? If he can't answer these questions the audience knows his IQ is low enough to be institutionalized. Which it is, and he should be.

...then there are those of us for whom MJ's death means next to nothing because we never really cared for his music and felt his post-allegation actions revealed his guilt. I mean, are you really going to marry Lisa-Marie Presley and give her a disgusting kiss on television to prove you're NOT a pedophile? No no, that's not transparent at all. <rolls eyes>

So no, those of use who fall in this camp are not hypocrites. We're staying the course.