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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PETER FRAMPTON!!!
Happy Birthday to Peter Frampton, who turns 67 on Saturday (April 22nd)!!! Frampton just wrapped his latest acoustic “Raw” tour, hitting North America’s finest theaters — and will be on the road throughout the summer with the Steve Miller Band. Peter Frampton first made his mark in Britain in the late-1960’s with the pop group the Herd, and then later as part of the hard rocking Humble Pie with co-founder Steve Marriott. Frampton left Humble Pie in late 1971 to go solo, and released four moderate selling solo albums before releasing his 1976 blockbuster double album Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! propelled Frampton into superstardom with its hit singles “Show Me The Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” and “Do You Feel Like We Do.” Last month, Frampton released the new digital single, called “I Saved A Bird Today.” The track was inspired by Frampton discovering a bird on his patio, which was unable to fly away. Frampton explained to us that upon calling his local wildlife rescue group, the bird was identified as a coot — as in “crazy as a coot” — and was only able to fly away by taking off from a body of a water.
In February 2016, Peter Frampton released his latest album, Acoustic Classics, which covers key tracks from his ’70s A&M catalogue and beyond — including “Fig Tree Bay” “All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side),” “Wind Of Change,” “Lines On My Face,” “Do You Feel Like We Do?,” “Sail Away,” “Show Me The Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” — with Frampton handling nearly all the guitar, keyboards, and bass work on the album.
https://youtu.be/t8HTWZgd_UM
ROGER WATERS: ‘WE’RE LIVING A LIFE WE DON’T REALLY WANT TO LIVE’
Roger Waters shed light on his new album, Is This The Life We Really Want?, which marks his first new set since 1992’s Amused To Death, and will be released on June 2nd. Waters kicks off a 52-date North American tour behind the new collection on May 26th in Kansas City, Missouri and wraps things up on October 28th in Vancouver, BC.
Waters spoke about how the new project will translate to the stage, telling Rolling Stone, “I will be making the point that we’re living the life that we don’t really want to live. I like to think that people would still like to live in a world where we might address the problems of climate change, where we might understand that if we empathize with others, it makes us feel happier. Maybe we should start looking at happiness indexes rather than if we win and lose. And if we do that, then we may start to understand that the idea of ‘us’ and ‘them’ is actually an illusion.”
The tracklsiting to Is This The Life We Really Want?:
“When We Were Young”
“Deja Vu”
“The Last Refugee”
“Picture That”
“Broken Bones”
“Is This The Life We Really Want?”
“Bird In A Gale”
“The Most Beautiful Girl”
“Smell The Roses”
“Wait For Her”
“Oceans Apart”
“Part Of Me Died”
CHRIS CORNELL ON ‘THE PROMISE’: ‘THESE THINGS HAPPEN NOW’
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell performed his new solo track called “The Promise” on Wednesday night’s (April 19th) edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song is the title theme from the upcoming film starring Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale and Charlotte Le Bon, a love triangle drama set against the Armenian genocide.
The Promise premiered last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival and opens in theaters Friday (April 21st).
Cornell will donate his proceeds from the song to the International Rescue Committee, which responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.
Soundgarden last month announced a North American tour that will kick off on May 3rd in Atlanta, winding down on May 27th at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma.
The band has been working on material for its seventh studio album, which will follow up 2012’s King Animal.
PROCOL HARUM RELEASES NEW ALBUM TODAY
Procol Harum is back today (April 21st) with Novum, the band’s first new album in 14 years. Led by co-founder Gary Brooker, the album, marks their return to recording since the 2003 collection The Well’s On Fire, and features lyrics by legendary Cream wordsmith, Pete Brown.
Gary Brooker said in statement: “Our last studio album was in 2003, and with 2017 being 50 years of Procol Harum, something special was needed, which has resulted in a new album of new songs with the band as weโve stood for the past decade, all contributing. . . to make what I believe to be one of the finest Procol Harum albums ever — Novum — just listen.”
Earth Day is tomorrow, so here are a couple random facts for you.
1.ย The first ever Earth Day happened in 1970 and about 20 million people participated.ย Today, more than one billion people throughout the world get involved every year . . . and it’s considered the largest civic observance in the world.
2.ย It was started by a Senator from Wisconsin named Gaylord Nelson, who eventually won the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in 1995 in recognition of his work.
3.ย The most common way people celebrate Earth Day is by recycling, followed by planting a tree, and cleaning up a local park.
4.ย Nobody really knows why it’s held on April 22nd.ย But some theories are that it was chosen so that more students would be able to participate, because it fell between spring break and final exams . . . and because it’s close to Arbor Day, which is about planting and taking care of trees.
5.ย It has its own flag that features a blue background and a picture of the Earth taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.
(U.S. News / UN.org / Telegraph / Livescience)
STUDY: DIET SODA COULD INCREASE RISK OF STROKE, DEMENTIA: A new study out Thursday (April 20th) found that artificially sweetened drinks like diet soda may increase the risk of stroke and dementia. Researchers found that people who drank one artificially sweetened drink a day were almost three times as likely to have a stroke than those who never drink them, and nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with dementia as well. Those who drank one to six artificially sweetened beverages a week were 2.6 times as likely to have a stroke, but no more likely to develop dementia. The researchers didn’t know what could cause the association, which they emphasized wasn’t a proven cause-and-effect, but said more research is needed.
COMPANY DEBUTS FLYING CAR: A Slovakian company called AeroMobil has debuted a flying car at an auto show in Monaco, and said it will start taking orders for the vehicles that it will deliver in 2020. They don’t came cheap of course, costing between $1.3 million and $1.6 million. TechCrunch reports that the vehicle transforms from car mode to air mode in less than three minutes.
https://youtu.be/OPdswUgF9cY
UTAH LEGALIZES LEMONADE STANDS: Kids in Utah will no longer have to worry about police shutting down their lemonade stands. A new state law that passed with overwhelming bipartisan support forbids cities and counties from requiring a license for any business operated by minors. Crackdowns have occurred in other states like Texas, where police stopped two sisters from selling lemonade, because they didnโt have the proper permits. (Institute For Justice)
SPORTS:
NBA PLAYOFFS: Results from first-round playoff games yesterday (April 20th):
Cleveland Cavaliers 119, Indiana Pacers 114 — Cleveland leads series 3 games to 0. — The Cavaliers came back from being 26 points down for the greatest second-half comeback in playoff history.
Memphis Grizzlies 105, San Antonio Spurs 94 — San Antonio leads series 2 games to 1.
Milwaukee Bucks 104, Toronto Raptors 77 — Milwaukee leads series 2 games to 1.
NHL PLAYOFFS: Results from first-round playoff games yesterday (April 20th):
Pittsburgh Penguins 5, Columbus Blue Jackets 2 — Pittsburgh wins series 4 games to 1.
Nashville Predators 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1 — Nashville sweeps series 4 games to 0.
New York Rangers 3, Montreal Canadiens 2 (OT) — New York leads series 3 games to 2.
Edmonton Oilers 4, San Jose Sharks 3 (OT) — Edmonton leads series 3 games to 2.
AARON HERNANDEZ LEFT THREE NOTES BEFORE HANGING HIMSELF: Officials revealed Thursday (April 19th) that Aaron Hernandez left three notes next to a Bible before hanging himself with his bedsheet a day earlier in his cell at the Massachusetts prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder. Investigators wouldn’t say what the notes said, but stated they were satisfied that the 27-year-old former NFL star’s death was a suicide. Hernandez’s family will donate his brain to sports concussion researchers.
PATRIOTS TO KICK OFF NEW NFL SEASON VS. CHIEFS ON SEPTEMBER 7TH: The NFL released its schedule for next season yesterday (April 20th), which shows that the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots will kick off the league’s season on Thursday, September 7th, with a home game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Five games will be played out of the country next year, four of them in London and one in Mexico City.
STUDY: TAKING THE STAIRS GIVES YOU MORE ENERGY THAN THE CAFFEINE IN A SODA: If you need an afternoon energy boost, but don’t want all the sugar of soda, you could just run up and down some stairs. University of Georgia researchers have found that 10 minutes of walking up and down stairs at a regular pace was more likely to make participants feel energized than ingesting 50 milligrams of caffeine– about the equivalent to the amount in a can of soda. Researcher Patrick O’Connor explains, “We found, in both the caffeine and the placebo conditions, that there was not much change in how they felt. But with exercise they did feel more energetic and vigorous. It was a temporary feeling, felt immediately after the exercise, but with the 50 milligrams of caffeine, we didn’t get as big an effect.” (Daily Mail)
ONE RESEARCHER SAYS BINGE-WATCHING STUFF ISN’T SO BAD: There have been enough studies by now that condemn binge-watching your favorite shows, but now one researcher says it’s not so bad. Elizabeth Cohen, a communications professor at West Virginia University writes in The Conversation, “Even though watching TV gets a bad rap as the ‘junk food of media diets,’ it can be good for you– as long as your give yourself permission to indulge.” Cohen argues that watching TV was once thought of as a “mindless” activity, but considering how complex TV series have gotten in recent years, things are very different these days. She adds, “When individuals binge watch, they are thought to have what’s called a ‘flow experience.’ Flow is an intrinsically pleasurable feeling of being completely immersed in a show’s storyline.” (Elite Daily)
