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A Walk On The Wild Side

A Walk On The Wild Side

Les Beatles, Gainsbourg, Nancy Sinatra… aux débuts des hippies | Ina.fr, le BlogNote Comment la télévision parlait de musique en 1966 ? Cet été, Rue89 et l’INA exhument concerts, reportages et autres perles cathodiques. Année 1966 : le 29 août, à San Fransisco, les Beatles donnent leur dernier concert entre les grillages. C’est le temps de l’émergence hippie. De la Révolution culturelle et des gardes rouges dont Mao porte le brassard en ce même mois d’août. John Lennon : « Les Beatles sont plus populaires que Jésus » La mauvaise phrase de Lennon fait le tour du monde. « Bang Bang » la fille de Sinatra A l’émission « Paris carrefour du monde », Nancy Sinatra et Billy Strange chantent « Bang Bang ». Manitas de Plata à Montpellier Le jour de la Saint-Sylvestre, le JT de Montpellier retransmet in vivo la guitare de Manitas de Plata. « Les voisins du Bus Palladium se plaignent du bruit » Début janvier, l’excellent magazine « Zoom » nous ponge dans l’univers de la boîte de nuit parisienne Le Bus Palladium… Roulez jeunesse… Comic strip : « Marie mathématique »

Key Chords Key Chords app generates guitar chord progressions automatically. Use it free online, or get the app for Mac, Windows or iOS (iPad) - Click on a chord to preview how it sounds. - Drag and drop to arrange the chord progression - Tweak the settings to control the playback speed Or role the dice and Key Chords will automatically generate a nice sounding progression. Select a Key: Select a key and choose a the major or minor scale. The resulting chord chart will display applicable chords for the selected key. Click a chord: ... and you will hear a cheap computer generated guitar playing the chord. Drag & Drop: - Chords from the chart into the progression timeline. - Rearrange Chords in the progression. - Remove chords from the progression. Roll the Dice: ... and a random chord progression will appear in the timeline. The numbers below each chord in the progression refer to the number of "beats" the chord will linger for. The "Rake Speed" refers to the speed of a single "strum." The main chart areas.

The 50 Greatest Jazz Albums…Ever At the end of any year it’s a great time to look back and so we’ve decided to attempt to come up with a definitive list of the 50 Greatest Jazz Albums of all time. Impossible, you are probably thinking, and it probably is, but rather than just thinking of our favourites we decided to take a good look through the web to see what other lists there are and combine our findings. As usual we expect many of you to disagree, sometimes strongly, but as usual we will love hearing from you. It took us several days of searching but here it is, the 50 greatest… 50. Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music vol.1 & 2. 49. Musicovery Android RoboSpice with GoogleHttpClient In this post we will examine an example app in which we make a RoboSpice request using GoogleHttpClient. The github repo is here. Dependencies First, we need to grab the RoboSpice dependency JARs from the repository repo. git clone Inside of 1.4.11/robospice-google-http-client are the JARs we need to include in the project. We will also need one JAR from the Google-Http-Lib source. Classes We are going to create a few files: BaseSpiceActivity import com.octo.android.robospice.JacksonGoogleHttpClientSpiceService; import com.octo.android.robospice.SpiceManager; public class BaseSpiceActivity extends Activity { private SpiceManager spiceManager = new SpiceManager(JacksonGoogleHttpClientSpiceService.class); @Override protected void onStart() { spiceManager.start(this); super.onStart(); } @Override protected void onStop() { spiceManager.shouldStop(); super.onStop(); } protected SpiceManager getSpiceManager() { return spiceManager; } } Fin

This is What Michael Jackson Sounds Like in Quechua Even the youngs think Quechua is cool. After the language was translated for a book, a song, and given a shoutout by a fútbolero, we started thinking that Quechua was having a sort of moment. Perhaps the biggest sign of this is that a 14-year-old girl named Renata Flores sang a Quechua version of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.” The Ayacuchana sings the tune at the Vilcashuamán ruins, as guitars and a Peruvian cajón play. According to La Republica, the video is part of the Asociación Cultural SURCA, which works to get the youth to learn the importance of Quechua.

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