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Wonderful @StevieWonder article about what happened after the show I saw last weekend on my birthday 💜
‘So lovely’: Stevie Wonder surprises Stalybridge restaurant with late-night visit and £1,000 tip theguardian.com/music/2026/n…
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Six years ago, California passed a law—Assembly Bill 2314— requiring an advisory committee to improve voting access for Native Americans. The committee still doesn't exist. Advocates say the barriers it was meant to fix, from faraway polls to unreliable mail, still remain.
Lovely video. @BillyIdol 💜
Billy Idol performs on the steps of City Hall in LA!
The City of Los Angeles officially declared November 13, 2026, as Billy Idol Day to honor the rocker.
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Grateful to be seeing two #PattiSmith shows in 2027 - including a poetry show with #SoundwalkCollective at @Bristol_Beacon which be my first ever visit to Bristol. 💜
52 years ago
Patti Smith and Iggy Pop and James Williamson of The Stooges in November 1974 backstage at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, California.
Credit: Michael Ochs Archives
#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #iggypop #pattismith #history #punkrockhistory
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In 1939, Jesse Lee Bond was lynched in Tennessee simply for asking for a receipt. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, Justice Kyra Harris Bolden, became the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court.This is the arc of the moral universe. This is how pain is turned into purpose. This is how we redeem the Dream of America—by refusing to forget our history and by continuing the fight for justice.
Op: @twahairbeauty
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Just Announced: Dumb Nathan Fielder Rave at First Avenue on Saturday, January 16.
Tix on sale now → buff.ly/N7IDyMt
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Many people here in the UK think they're amazing, tho I don't see much beyond a few seconds of novelty.. There are far more talented jazz and rock n' roll musicians who don't get the right recognition..
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Very kool 💜
Thank you James, Lars, Kirk and Rob and everyone from the @Metallica organization for the warm welcome!
We had such a wonderful time seeing you at the Sphere. We absolutely loved the show.🤘.
With our love,
- Celine, Nelson, and Eddy xx…
📸: Brett Murray
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We Love You, @JoniMitchell. And it's my birthday today (Sunday) 💜
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Today, #November4, 2026, #BobDylan was received in audience by Pope Leo XIV. Together with the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, I accompanied him to the Apostolic Palace. The meeting had the feel of history about it, and at every step I had the sense that anything could happen.
Speaking of peace, Leo brought up "Go Away You Bomb." In 1963, Izzy Young, who ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, was putting together a songbook against the atomic bomb; Dylan showed up the next day with the lyrics, typed. In the song, a man talks to the bomb, insults it, orders it to leave. The book never came out, and Dylan never recorded the song. In 2014, the typescript went on the block at Christie's and found no buyer, but the lyrics were published, and so a song that was never sung made its way to a pope's desk, in the company of Dorothy Day, Giorgio La Pira, and Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who, in 1983, declined to pass on a missile alert that the computers insisted was real.
Leo is an Augustinian. In 1967, on John Wesley Harding, Dylan had dreamed of that saint. In "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," the narrator watches Augustine searching for those who have already sold their souls, witnesses his martyrdom, and realizes, with horror, that he is one of the crowd that put him to death. He wakes alone, in tears. The model was the old ballad about Joe Hill, the labor organizer executed by firing squad in Utah in 1915; Dylan put the Bishop of Hippo in his place and turned a rallying cry into an unwitting confession about our tendency to silence those who bring us the truth.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost grew up on the American music of those years. Jim Musselman, a classmate of his at Villanova and a Dylan devotee, recalls that the two of them talked about music a great deal, and that it was Musselman who got him to read an essay pointing to Dylan as the poetic talent of his generation.
The Pope who introduced himself from the loggia of St. Peter's as "a son of St. Augustine" knows Dylan's music, and Dylan was glad to meet the American Pope.
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An expanded collection of Jimi Hendrix portraits by @ronniewood are now on display at @HandelHendrix through April 11, 2027. The new exhibition – Ronnie Wood: The Jimi Hendrix Portraits – features two brand new, unseen portraits alongside much-loved works, all displayed in Jimi’s own London home at 23 Brook Street.
More details and tickets at:
handelhendrix.org/events/ron…
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So wonderful. Am grateful to be seeing @BobDylan again at the end of this month right here in #Yorkshire.
Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4.
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I'm really excited to announce that after 25 years of being a book publicist working in in-house publishing, I've launched my own PR consultancy - Karen Baker PR
Please do contact me via my email or my website if I can help you with my services! thebookseller.com/news/forme…
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#Yorkshire is ready to rock n' roll tonite 💜
Manic Street Preachers’ UK arena tour with @suedeHQ continues tonight in Leeds.
Manic Street Preachers on stage at 7.35pm.
@fdarena
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