Night Beat Post 174 – The Clash Part IV: “THE CLASH NOT FOR SALE”
WITH BERNARD RHODES GONE, things proved better for a time.
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Night Beat Post 173 – The Clash Part III: “This is a place where no judge can stand”
I want to thank all those who have recently become subscribers to Night Beat. I also want to thank Elaine for encouraging readers to take that step. After I get settled into my new abode here in Fort Worth—furnishing the place, deciding what records and books to bring in from Elaine’s home—I will be embarking on a new personal narrative line:
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Night Beat Post 172 - The Clash Part II: Year Zero
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Night Beat Post 171 – The Clash Part I: Guttersnipes
THE MOMENT THAT BEST EXEMPLIFIED the Clash didn’t come in England, where they helped tear rock & roll history in half.
Night Beat Post 170 - Bob Marley Part V: Redemption Song
BOB MARLEY DIED IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, on May 11, 1981.
Night Beat Post 169 - Bob Marley Part IV: A Force to Contend With
THE WAILERS’ CATCH A FIRE WAS A LANDMARK: It was the first wholly formed, cohesive reggae album, and it immediately cast Marley into the artistic big leagues for many critics.
Night Beat Post 168 - Bob Marley Part III: “The attitude they gave off was like real rebels”
The name of the living God who came to Jamaica was Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, and the product of yet another complicated strand of history that marked the lives of Marley and Jamaica.
Night Beat Post 167 - Bob Marley Part II: Trenchtown
Bob Marley’s mother, Cedella, was worried that her son had grown too comfortable with ghetto life and was too close to the Rude Boys.
Night Beat Post 166 - Bob Marley Part I: Kingston
It had been a while since I’d written for Rolling Stone when an editor called me in 2005 and asked if I’d be willing to look at Bob Marley for a commemoration of his 60th birthday.
Night Beat Post 165 - Sinéad O'Connor Part VI: "Everywhere is war"
Nothing Compares to You is the story—in documentary form—of Sinead O’Connor, and it covers in part the abuse she experienced when she was quite young in her native Ireland at the hands of her mother and parochial Catholicism.