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Pete Townshend spent a few weeks in his home studio putting together the part that sounds like a synthesizer on a Lowry organ. His goal: to create "a replication of the electronic music of the future." He tried to run it through an ARP synthesizer/sequencer, but couldn't get the sound he was looking for. Instead, he used the "marimba repeat" setting on his Lowrey to create the arpeggiated, complex repeating pattern.

In addition to sampling The Who's "Baba O'Riley" it also contains bits of "Here Comes the Judge" by Pigmeat Markham and "Child in Time" by Deep Purple.

Only 124 days until International Clash Day. Will it be virtual this time?

The Equals performing "Police On My Back" in 1967: www.youtube.com

The song refers to the Electric Avenue in London and to the 1981 Brixton Riot. Built in the 1880s, Electric Avenue was the first market street to be lit by electric lights.

Unlike most Clash songs, which were written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, "The Guns Of Brixton" was written by bass player Paul Simonon, who decided to get in on the songwriting himself. It became one of the band's best-known songs and a staple of their live set. Simonon takes lead vocal duties on the song, which is about gangsters in his hometown of Brixton in South London.

Beyonce's BeyGOOD partnered with Jack Dorsey's startsmall to provide $6million in COVID-19 relief. www.beyonce.com

Just increased amplifier donation. THANK YOU for playing 'Lift Every Voice' after 'Freedom' (Homecoming edition) because it's one of the best transitions ever. This is why DJs matter -Erin

OMG!!!!! I got my You Are Not Alone pin yesterday afternoon in the mail. I was having a suck day so it was a true delight. You know I'm usually listening as much as I can every day, but OMG - did I miss you talking about how the "t" in "Not" looks like it's got its arm around the "o!!!" That is completely utterly so sweet! Was that planned??? Sending big love and light to this entire community near and far! xxx Leilani L.

In the video, Mick Jagger is seen waiting for Keith Richards in the doorway of an apartment block. The building, at 96–98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, also appeared on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti.

After it was released in the United States, Maryland Governor and future Vice President Spiro T. Agnew lobbied to have the song banned because he believed it was about drug use.

From the start, Mission of Burma received support from local music magazine Boston Rock, which printed a lengthy interview with the band before they released their first record, and MIT community radio station WMBR. Support community radio! kexp.org/donate

The Godfather's frontman Peter Coyne on David Bowie: "I cried when he died. It wasn’t just his music, it was a whole thing associated with my life. I owe him a lot. He actually came to see the band a couple of times in the eighties, which was a massive honour. We were playing a festival in Switzerland, with The Damned and Motörhead, and when I walked off stage there was this bloke sitting on a flight case, wearing a duffle coat. He went: “Wotcha!” And it was Bowie. He came backstage and hung out with us for about two hours. We had a great old night." Read more of his interview: bit.ly

Regarding the video, INXS bass player Tim Farriss said in the book I Want My MTV: "We fed Valium to a few cats and had them running around a table while we had a feast with sexy models and Playboy centerfolds, ripping apart a turkey. Next thing we knew, we had a Top 40 hit in America."

You've probably listened to the Electric Light Orchestra's Top 5 1979 hit "Don't Bring Me Down" and thought: So, who's Bruce? After all, singer-songwriter Jeff Lynne calls out his name right after the song's title line. But there was no Bruce. Lynne used a made-up place-keeper word when the song was still unfinished, only learning later that it perhaps had an actual translation in another language. "When I was singing it, there was gap in the vocals, so I just shouted out 'groose,'" Jeff Lynne told Rolling Stone in 2016. "It was a word that came to my head." Turns out 'gruss means "greetings" in German. Read the whole story: ultimateclassicrock.com

"Beyond all the praise and accolades we have received there is something magic about feeling carried by the ones you love. Forever grateful, IDLES x" -from their Twitter Oct 2nd

Chuck D celebrated the album's release with a Billboard interview. During the discussion, he revealed that Flavor Flav was a key part of what inspired the group to return to Def Jam instead of again going the fully independent route. "The statement of Public Enemy and anything we do is always for other artists to be the best to explore themselves and for their artistry, and hopefully change the world or speak to the world," Chuck D said, noting that he views the group's latest return as a "visitation" of sorts. Read more at Complex: bit.ly

Good morning! During "Fight the Power" my 13 year old said we need to have an election party and play that song and "Arrest the President". We're all thinking the same thing!! And maybe "This is America". I donated $500 this morning to join the record club. Love listening to you both pitching. Miss being in the phone room. Good luck this week! 🖤🎶 -Miina

"It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say Born In The U.S.A.': it's merely sardonic," Bowie explained in a press release. "I was traveling in Java when its first McDonald's went up: it was like, 'for f--k's sake.' The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."

Reznor refused to record the album with a conventional band, recording Pretty Hate Machine mostly by himself. "A lot of it sounds immature to me now," he stated in 1991 of the recordings that were then two years old. "At first it totally sucked. I became completely withdrawn. I couldn't function in society very well. And the LP became a product of that. It's quite small scale, introverted, claustrophobic – that's the feel I went for."

This song inspired by The Morning Show isn't available anywhere yet, but you can support Brandon Summer's band The Helio Sequence here: theheliosequence.bandcamp.com

Following the success of 1986's Graceland, on which he worked principally with South African musicians, Simon turned to Latin America for much of The Rhythm of the Saints. The drums for this song were recorded live at Pelourinho Square in the Brazilian city of Salvador. They were played by the Afro-Brazilian group Grupo Cultural Olodum, who are masters of the heavily percussive sub-style of samba called Batuque. Simon recalled to Mojo magazine July 2011: "One day we were driving through the old part of Salvador in Bahia when we heard this incredible drumming coming from Pelouinho Square. It was the group Olodum practising outside and (Simon's percussionist) Mazzola asked if we could record them. We did it in their back yard, just rented a couple of 8-tracks, and that was our backing-track for 'The Obvious Child.'"

The Hot 8 Brass Band recorded a lockdown version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" for the Jazz Foundation Musicians' Emergency Fund Concert. Check it out: bit.ly

In 2002, NME named "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as the greatest single of all time.

Bassist Peter Hook told Radio X that the song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.”

Good morning and welcome to The Midday Show! The late and lamented Toots Hibbert said of "Pressure Drop": It’s a song about revenge, but in the form of karma: if you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. The title was a phrase I used to say. If someone done me wrong, rather than fight them like a warrior, I’d say: “The pressure’s going to drop on you.” Read how he and the band made this classic song: www.theguardian.com