The Finnish guitarist, band leader and arranger Esa Pulliainen (1957-2026) passed away on Saturday. Although he was widely imitated, no one could really replicate his sound and his sense of style.

Since his band, the Agents, recorded newly arranged versions of old tunes, there is a lot of great material for #MondayCovers among their repertoire. They reached the peak of their popularity in the mid-eighties with vocalist Topi Sorsakoski - this was one of their biggest hits:

Topi Sorsakoski & the Agents: Salattu suru (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i34rrdR_dkE

The song was originally recorded in 1965 as "My Heart Must Do the Crying" by the Renegades, a British group that was hugely popular in Finland at the time. The first Finnish-language version was done by Danny in 1966.

#EsaPulliainen #TopiSorsakoski #Agents #Renegades #Danny #suomirock

DISTANT WORLDS.
DYING PLANETS.
LEGENDARY POWER.

This is bigger than a crossover.

This is a COLLISION!

TRANSFORMERS: REANIMATED #81 - Renegade Ultra
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#Comics #Transformers #Gobots #Renegades

No tricks. No gags. No fooling.

Just one of the most ambitious issues of TRANSFORMERS: REANIMATED stories yet.

Issue #81 - Renegade Ultra

AUTOBOTS vs GOBOTS.
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#Transformers #comics #Gobots #80s #Renegades

One book spotlight.

Book Featured:

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Recently finished The Lunar Chronicles by this author, and realized it was too YA for me because I wasn't the target audience for it. Oh, well.

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