Much will be written about #Apple and its history. Most of it will be BS which does not align with reality. For those of us who were there at the beginning and have remained on board, it has been quite the ride. #FiftyYearsAfter
A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off. The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976 when a then-shaggy Steve Jobs and his gadget-tinkering friend Steve Wozniak signed the partnership papers that created Apple Computer Co. What happened next has become ingrained in the cultural zeitgeist. The Associated Press looks back Apple's peaks and valleys during a journey that thrust the company to the brink of bankruptcy before its exiled co-founder Steve Jobs came back to build an empire.
Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track box set
Rest in Peace old friend. #DavidJohansen #NewYorkDolls. #FiftyYearsAfter and a bit. Where have all my old mates gone?
David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls, has died. Johansen, who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, was 75. The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band’s style — teased hair, women’s clothes and lots of makeup — inspired the glam movement that took up residence in heavy metal a decade later in bands like Faster Pussycat and Motley Crue. In the ’80s, Johansen assumed the persona of Buster Poindexter, a pompadour-styled lounge lizard who had a hit with the kitschy party single “Hot, Hot, Hot” in 1987.
Rest in Peace Marianne Spaceship.
Richard R Lee
