RIP Queen of Soul

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Not knowable.

There's an arched eyebrow GIF that someone from another era can insert here. I promise I'll Like it.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

You're completely missing my point.
I'm not disputing "how rock came to be."
I'm pointing out that rock could have developed through an alternative route. It's unknowable.
Like pyramids in Egypt and in Meso America.

Like how with enough monkeys and enough typewriters, we'd get Shakespeare?

 

[storrsroars]

There's an arched eyebrow GIF that someone from another era can insert here. I promise I'll Like it.

Not what you were specifically asking for, but in light of post #32...

 

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[Guapo]

You're completely missing my point.
I'm not disputing "how rock came to be."
I'm pointing out that rock could have developed through an alternative route. It's unknowable.
Like pyramids in Egypt and in Meso America.

I get the abstract point you're trying to make but music doesn't work the same way as feats of engineering which are following natural rules of math and physics.

Music comes out of the specific creative minds of specific people.

No other individuals would have organically written "Please Please Me"

 

[Guapo]

I get the abstract point you're trying to make but music doesn't work the same way as feats of engineering which are following natural rules of math and physics.

Music comes out of the specific creative minds of specific people.

No other individuals would have organically written "Please Please Me"

In the words of Bruce at the Spectrum on December 9th, 1980 "If it wasn't for John Lennon, we'd all be someplace very different tonight"

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Clearly, the most memorable and my favorite song on the radio when we went on a family vacation to Florida in March 1968. It cut through the background every time.

My favorite aunt died yesterday at 91. If it works out that she and Lady Soul cross paths, perhaps on the bus to the "Defending Your Life" thing, so much the better.

 

[UConn77]

Unfortunately, we're at a point in time where we will be regularly saying goodbye to the musical titans of the 60s and 70s. 20 years from now, most of them will be gone.

Saddest post ever on The Boneyard.

 

[Kitaman]

Clearly, the most memorable and my favorite song on the radio when we went on a family vacation to Florida in March 1968. It cut through the background every time.

My favorite aunt died yesterday at 91. If it works out that she and Lady Soul cross paths, perhaps on the bus to the "Defending Your Life" thing, so much the better.

Today's youth may not realize this but songs were less than 3 minutes long back then, and there were no voice enhancements done in the studio. You either could sing or you couldn't. 'Street/Porch Corner' harmony was real, and those who couldn't sing could only listen, but never join in. People would be practicing everywhere including the high school bathrooms. You had to have talent, and Aretha (no high school diploma, mother at 12, then again at 15, and all her other misfortunes) had 'it'. So much so she sang in front of the Pope, Presidents, Stadiums, etc..), not to mention the Grammy's and many of her other 'firsts'. She will never be duplicated in our lifetime. A Pure Natural Singer.

 

[David 76]

Can you imagine growing up in Detroit at that time? Her childhood buddy Smokey Robinson. Around the corner the Temptations, the Four Tops, that little upstart, Stevie Wonder and more.
What a neighborhood!