Latest posts tagged with #botd on Bluesky
Sly Stone, Keystone Berkeley, CA, April 16, 1982
#OnThisDay in 1943, American musician, songwriter and record producer Sly Stone was born in Denton, Texas. He died last year.
Photo by Sarfatims
#BOTD #MusicSky #SlyStone
"Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong." The Fly, 1986 dir. David Cronenberg #botd
"Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong."
The Fly, 1986
dir. David Cronenberg #botd
#BOTD 1940. Remembering bassist, vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh. (d.2024)
Charles Lloyd #BOTD Quartet 1966 w/ Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee & Jack DeJohnette RTB TV Studio, Belgium www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKu... #Jazzsky
Charles Lloyd #BOTD and Jason Moran: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKqn... #Jazzsky
#BOTD 1912. Remembering blues guitarist and singer, songwriter Samuel John "Lightning" Hopkins.
(d.1982) #BluesSky
#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Also BOTD Sylvester Stewart AKA Sly Stone, Howard Greenfield, Eddie Calvert
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#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Howard Trafford AKA Howard Devoto, musician, Buzzcocks, Magazine, 1952
Ry Cooder, songwriter/composer/producer/guitar, 1947
Hughie Flint, drums, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, McGuinness Flint, 1941
Mike Love, singer/songwriter, The Beach Boys, 1941
4/5
#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Bret Michael Sychak AKA Bret Michaels, vocals/guitar, Poison, 1963
Sananda Maitreya AKA Terence Trent D'Arby, singer/songwriter/musician, 1962
Steve Lillywhite, producer, 1955
Dee Snider, singer/songwriter, Twisted Sister & others, 1955
3/5
#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Mark Hoppus, bass/vocals/songwriter/producer, Blink-182, Simple Creatures, 1972
Mark McGrath, singer, Sugar Ray, 1968
Sabrina Salerno, singer/songwriter/producer/actress/model, 1968
Kennedy Gordy AKA Rockwell, singer, 1964
2/5
#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
David Brown AKA Young Buck, rapper/songwriter, G-Unit, solo, 1981
Joe Hahn, keyboards/DJ, Linkin Park, 1977
William Adams AKA will. i .am, rapper/singer/songwriter/musician/producer, Black Eyed Peas, solo, 1975
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
In memory of the renowned and highly regarded German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate on his 147th birthday.
He was #BOTD on 3/14/1879 and died on 76 on 4/18/1955.
"I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds." - Horten Foote
Remembering the renowned, Pulitzer Prize/Oscar/Emmy-winning playwright and screenwriter, on his 110th birthday.
He was #BOTD on 3/14/1916 and died at 92 on 3/14/2009.
"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do." - Quincy Jones
Remembering the groundbreaking, Emmy/Grammy/Tony-winning & Oscar-nominated record producer, composer, conductor, arranger, and trumpeter on his 93rd birthday.
He was #BOTD on 3/14/1933.
"Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had." - Billy Crystal
Happy 78th Birthday to the iconic, Emmy/Tony-winning & Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker.
#BOTD on 3/14/1948.
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." - Sir Michael Caine
Happy 93rd Birthday to the legendary, Oscar-winning & Emmy-nominated British actor and cultural icon, who was #BOTD on 3/14/1933.
Dear, you're rolling them too tight.
#DianeArbus #BOTD #photography
Happy 61st Birthday to iconic and influential, as well as award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer Kevin Williamson, famous for writing SCREAM, SCREAM 2 & SCREAM, as well as writing THE FACULTY & CURSED, and directing TEACHING MRS. TINGLE, SICK & SCREAM 7.
He was #BOTD on 3/14/1965
“Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don't do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.”
⚖️ Remembering #RuthBaderGinsburg, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1993-2020), #BOTD 15 March 1933. #RBG
"Let's Go To Work."
🎭 Remembering badass actor #LawrenceTierney, great in "Dillinger" and "Reservoir Dogs", #BOTD 15 March 1919. #Film #Filmmaking
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul."
✒️ #RichardEllmann, American author and critic, whose biography "James Joyce" is one of my favourite books, was #BOTD 15 March 1918. #Literature
"People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is."
🎶 #Blues legend #LightninHopkins was #BOTD 15 March 1912. #Music
▶️ youtu.be/lK5zYI86wIw?si…
"Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies
Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder:
And at the dead of a hushed night, these eyes
Draw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Lionel-Pigot...
✒ #LionelPigotJohnson, English poet, was #BOTD 15 March 1867.
"She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself."
☘️🎭 Augusta, #LadyGregory, Irish playwright, poet and patron of #Yeats, was #BOTD 15 March 1852. #Poetry #Theatre
"It is the cultivation of our own natures that is aimed at and not the imitation of the nature of another. The powers of our own mind are to be drawn out."
✒️ #HallieQuinnBrown, African-American educator, writer, and activist, was #BOTD 15 March 1850. #Literature
