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Freelance Music Publicist. SiriusXM Host. Shameless Idealist. Lifelong Musicaholic. I talk about Music News in the Media. Eric @ThatEricAlper .com
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Journalist: "What do you think is your greatest achievement?"
David Bowie: "Marrying my wife."
"But as a musician?"
"Nothing else matters."
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This might be still one of my fave moments on Twitter.
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It's Winona Ryder's birthday today which means I get to bring this out again
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Journalist: "What do you think is your greatest achievement?"
David Bowie: "Marrying my wife."
"But as a musician?"
"Nothing else matters."
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Carrie Fisher once delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend.
She wrote, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box."
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After a 5-year-old blind girl wrote a letter to Mr. Rogers asking him to tell her when he fed his fish so she doesn't worry about them going hungry, he began narrating the feeding of his goldfish in every episode.
How simple it often is to be a more compassionate friend.
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Tracy Chapman is the first Black woman in history to have the sole songwriting credit on a
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In 1964, Ringo Starr snapped a photo of some high school students who had skipped class to see the Beatles during their first trip to the US.
50 years later, the group reunited and recreated the photo.
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In 1954, Betty White was criticized for having Arthur Duncan, a Black performer, on her show.
When the show went national, affiliates from southern states complained and Betty said "I'm sorry. Live with it" and gave Duncan MORE airtime.
The show was soon cancelled.
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Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean in the 60s. They have now been married for over 55 years.
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Dolly Parton's birthday is today, so this is your reminder that she wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' on the same day.
ON THE SAME DAY.
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That time in 1982 when Johnny Cash hosted SNL with Elton John as the musical guest, and they switched clothes.
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Journalist: "What do you think is your greatest achievement?"
David Bowie: "Marrying my wife."
"But as a musician?"
"Nothing else matters."
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TMZ reports they were on their way to the Mamba Academy for a basketball practice when the crash occurred.
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Journalist: "What do you think is your greatest achievement?"
David Bowie: "Marrying my wife."
"But as a musician?"
"Nothing else matters."
On this day in 1992, David married Iman and remained together until his death.
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Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” has jumped to
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been great on social media.
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Ottawa teenager Jonathan Pitre, known as the ‘Butterfly Boy’ as he was born with epidermolysis bullosa, an incurable genetic disorder that causes his skin to easily tear and constantly break into blisters, has died.
He was the epitome of strength, determination and courage.
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Dolly Parton, the 74-year-old legend who in 2020 released a Christmas album AND a book about songwriting, AND a Christmas special AND wrote an entire musical AND donated a million dollars to COVID-19 research used to fund Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Artist of the Year.
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See if you can spot Dave Grohl cleverly hidden in this photo.
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Anyone remember the metal lid you had to use a butter knife to pop off?
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Somewhere between Apocalypse Now and The Matrix, let’s remember Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Playhouse in the 80s.
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Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" has entered into the iTunes US Top 50 Chart.
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Stereos in the 1980s were so valuable we put them behind GLASS.
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The International Space Station just pulled off the photobomb of a lifetime
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Photo by NASA's Joel Kowsky
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Dolly Parton's birthday is today, so this is your reminder that she wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' on the same day.
ON THE SAME DAY.
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Dolly Parton wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' on the same day.
ON THE SAME DAY.
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There are vending machines in Istanbul that dispense food and water for stray dogs. The price? An empty recyclable bottle.
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BTS charted more songs on the Hot 100 in 2020 by themselves than all South Korean musicians combined, with 12.
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BTS. has now surpassed 5 billion streams on Spotify. BTS are worth more than $3.6 billion USD to South Korea's economy each year, and were the reason one in every 13 foreign tourists visited the country earlier that year.
@BTS_twt
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When you just want to play your guitar, but your dad is that guy from Pink Floyd.
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High school gym teacher Leonard Skinner holds the latest album by a band of his former students Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley — has died at 54. She just attended the Golden Globes and recently wrote a heartbreaking essay about her grief following her son Benjamin Keough’s death by suicide in 2020.
Rest in peace, Lisa Marie.
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Give Dolly ALL the statues.
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Grant Imahara, the electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the MythBusters and Netflix's White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49.
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George Harrison did a selfie in 1966 and it's still one of the greatest ever.
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Here's the photographer Charles Ebbets taking that photo.
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Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman sitting down to develop a show that would later be called “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
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In 1954, Betty White was criticized after having Arthur Duncan, a black tap dancer, on her show.
White said, "I'm sorry. Live with it," and she gave Arthur even more airtime. The show was canceled soon after.
Protect her at all cost.
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Sinead O'Connor's bold actions, like tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church showed us she was right.
She. Was. Right.
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I worked with Sinead O'Connor for several albums but adored her from the start.
I have always said this when someone passes, but I mean it more than ever: May she rest in peace.
She deserves it, wanted it, strived for it and could never achieve it.
I will miss her greatly.
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John Candy took this photo of Conan O'Brien while Conan was his tour guide at Harvard University in 1984.
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Juice Wrld, best known for his hit singles "All Girls Are the Same", "Lucid Dreams", and "Bandit". has passed away after suffering a seizure in Chicago’s Midway airport.
Jarad Anthony Higgins was only 21 years old.
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On this day in 1959, introduced by Johnny Cash, 13-year-old Dolly Parton makes her Grand Ole Opry debut singing George Jones' "You Gotta Be My Baby." She receives three encores.
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You're officially old if you used one of these to game.
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'Map of the Soul: 7’ has now sold over 500,000 pure copies in the US. It’s the first album to achieve this milestone in 2020.
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If Stephen 'tWitch' Boss's passing should tell us anything, it's that we never know what anyone else might be going through. Treat people with a little bit more kindness this season.
RIP Twitch.
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I'm not saying the world went to hell since David Bowie and Prince died, but *wildly gestures at everything*
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Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello's mother is a 99-year-old anti-censorship activist who founded the Parents for Rock and Rap to counter Tipper Gore's pro-censorship PMRC.
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Tracy Chapman, the self-titled debut album by singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, has never been re-issued or remastered.
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Sinead O'Connor has died at the age of 56.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
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A mother once called into PBS, asking if Mister Rogers could send an autograph to her daughter. She was suffering from seizures and set to have brain surgery.
When Mister Rogers heard about it, he flew to see her in the hospital.
He even brought his puppets along.
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