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Happy happy birthday my beautiful ray of sunshine 💙

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Liam on NME magazine, February 2018

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Talking Heads perform Mind live in ‘82, at Wembley. David Byrne is in total top genius/weirdo form; beautiful, quirky vocal and his inimitable preposterous, inspired dancing, or movements, or...? This became part of a 1984 film, which uses some splicing, and so on. I would vastly prefer to see the band only, but, it’s way worth it. By far the greatest version of this song I’ve seen or heard.

Talking Heads with, to me, their greatest personnel ever, in 1980. Adrian Belew (lead guitar) is over the top fantastic/out of his mind, for example, and Dollette McDonald (backup vocals) add worlds o' to the overall sound.This song, from 1979′s Fear of Music, Drugs, concludes the album on a spooky note, and it has never sounded better than right here. Live from the famed Capitol Theatre concert. Such a strange, haunting beauty they achieve.

Lastly, let’s do Drugs again, with the same godlike personnel, this time from the excellent 1980 Rome concert. Equally hypnotic, eerie, and bewitching.

And what good times they have. Or in some cases, strange, “esque” times.

Including............

Powerhouse Personnel for 200.

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Holy, well, I cannot say. David Bowie performs live, and brilliantly, his composition Moonage Daydream. 1973. Bowie was virtually messianic at the time, and he kills it, and then..........Mick Ronson!! He goes on the rampage like I have never ever seen him do. The audience does not have to cease worshiping once Bowie exits. **Very** inspired.

Quite the pair. Whoa.

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Marcus Licinius Crassus (portrayed iconically by Laurence Olivier) discusses the rate at which the night passes with Antoninus (a younger, hipper Tony Curtis), and **then**, in a very measured, intense "conversation" (Spartacus, portrayed by Kirk Douglas, says nary a word...), Crassus uses the famed predicate nominative (”You are He”) to identify the rebel. A bit of slapping ensues. The incremental, steadily increasing rage of Olivier is the work of a maestro. A truly great scene from the film Spartacus (1960), directed by a 30 year old Stanley Kubrick. Right up there with “By Gad, sir, you **ARE** a Character” (Maltese Falcon) as far as climactic, epoch-defining moments go.