Pause & Play Today: Feb. 24, 2021
UPDATES / ADDITIONS
NEW RELEASES
“Let the Bad Times Roll,” The Offspring – April 16
“Evil and Divine,” Sunbomb – May 14
REISSUES
“Lazer Guided Melodies,” Spiritualized – April 23
MUSIC BOOKS
“Set the Night on Fire: My Many Lives and Deaths as the Guitarist of The Doors,” Robby Krieger – Oct. 12
“We Could Be … Bowie and His Heroes,” David Bowie – Oct. 19
“Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go’s,” Gina Schock – Oct. 26
“The Lyrics,” Paul McCartney – Nov. 2
NEW SONGS
Let the Bad Times Roll, The Offspring
Shake, Sam i feat. Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet
Young Libertine, Left Field Messiah
See a Better Day, ElectroBluesSociety feat. Boo Boo Davis
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Renata Scotto (86)
Joanie Sommers (80)
Paul Jones [of Manfred Mann] (79)
Rupert Holmes (74)
George Thorogood (71)
Plastic Bertrand (67)
Sammy Kershaw (63)
Michelle Shocked (59)
Chad Hugo (47)
Jimmy Greene (46)
Ashley MacIsaac (46)
Brandon Brown [of Mista] (38)
Matt McGinley [of Gym Class Heroes] (38)
Trace Cyrus (32)
O’Shea Jackson Jr. (30)
IN REMEMBRANCE
Franny Beecher [of Bill Haley & His Comets] (1921-2014)
Virgil Johnson (1935-2013)
Larry Norman (1947-2008)
Webb Pierce (1921-1991)
Johnnie Ray (1927-1990)
RELEASED ON FEB. 24 IN … 1968
“Fleetwood Mac,” also known as “Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac,” Fleetwood Mac (their debut album was a mixture of blues covers and originals written by Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer; producer: Mike Vernon; Blue Horizon)
R.I.P.
Sean Kennedy (former I Killed the Prom Queen bassist)
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