Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!

One of the 1960s iconic rockers/folk singers is having his day today.  Many Happy Returns, Mr. Zimmerman!  Bob was also in the Traveling Wilburys!

Times They are A-Changing by Bob Dylan

 

Mick Jagger Kept Me Awake on Saturday Night!

Kudos to Mick Jagger for doing a great job hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live!  The whole 90 minutes was a thrill ride.  I was awake the whole time, instead of falling asleep.  Mick was also did some singing with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, and Jeff Beck.  Give Mick a Emmy for guest-hosting!  He was just as funny as Betty White!  At least, he’s younger than her!

Mick even did a good-bye tribute for departing SNLer Kristen Wiig.

2 Disco Icons Gone: Donna Summer and Robin Gibb

Donna Sumer died of lung cancer last Thursday in Florida.  She was 63 years old.  She was even working on a new album at the time of her death.  Donna rose to fame in the 1970s as the Queen of Disco.  She had a ton of hits over the years: Last Dance, She Works Hard for the Money, Bad Girls, Hot Stuff, On The Radio, and Dim All The Lights.  She’ll be greatly missed.

I played this album a lot when I got this back in the late 1970s.

 

 She Works Hard for The Money by Donna Summer

Robin Gibb was one third of the Bee Gees who were the biggest disco group during the 1970s.  The Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack album was on the top of the music charts for more that six months during 1977.  The Bee Gees started in the 1960s as a rock group before converting to disco and consisted to the twins Robin and Maurice Gibb and their brother Barry.  Maurice Gibb passed away in 2003.  Younger brother Andy Gibb, who wasn’t in the group, passed away in 1988.  Robin Gibb died of cancer on Sunday, May 20.  He was 62 years old.

The Bee Gees had a ton of hits too: Stayin’ Alive, To Love Somebody, Night Fever, How Deep is Your Love, Tragedy, and Jive Talkin’.

 

 To Love Somebody by the Bee Gees

 

Outside In Song of The Week

Rest in peace, MCA (Adam Yauch)!  Lost his battle with cancer last Friday!  He was 47 years old.  Too young!

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right to Party! by the Beastie Boys

 

The Avengers Win The Box Office

The Avengers movie assembled $200.3 million over the weekend!  What a take!

Desperate Housewives Ends on Mother’s Day!

Desperate Housewives, the ABC show that’s been on Sunday nights for the last 8 years, comes to the end on Mother’s Day.  Bree, Linette, Susan, and Gabrielle will be taking their final bows on Wisteria Lane.

Mom in Ohio Wants to Put a Stop to the Bullying of Asperger Son

A mother in Ohio who has a son with Asperger’s Syndrome wants a more proactive approach towards the bullies at his school.  She wants the officials to do more than just talk to the other students.

She said in the article that it’s not bad about her son being different.

I agree so much.  Being different is not a bad thing to others.