Hey Jude has become the first Beatles song licensed for use in China. The Paul McCartney/John Lennon song will feature in Yesterday Once More, a new movie from director Yao Tingting. Film bosses at Beijing Enlight Media reportedly paid a six-figure sum to score the rights to the 1968 tune. Sony/ATV senior vice president Esther […]
Happy Together Tour is coming to the Hard Rock Rocksino August 24th The Happy Together Tour of 2016 is back by popular demand, once again highlighted by Flo and Eddie of The Turtles. Their debut single, Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe,” went Top Ten in 1965 and launched the band on a brief string of […]
Whitesnake coming to the Hard Rock Rocksino June 11th Whitesnake have announced they’ll set off on a Greatest Hits tour this summer and they will be landing at the Hard Rock Rocksino on June 11th. The tour will kick off on June 1 and will take in dates across the US and Europe. The group’s last […]
Eagles, Dan Fogelberg – Kent State University– May 3, 1975 41 years ago today in Northeast Ohio music history, The Eagles performed at the Memorial Gymnasium at Kent State University as part of the One Of These Nights Tour. Dan Fogelberg was the opening act. (poster courtesy of and available at rawsugarstudio.com)
Tom Shipley grew up in Bedford, Ohio as the son of the principal of Bedford High School. Just a few years later he ended up on the infamous “Enemies List” of then President Richard Nixon. Funny how one song can change your life, especially when that song was “One Toke Over The Line“, which he recorded […]
