The Swinging 60s

It was 1986, and the airwaves were strictly segregated. If you were a listener in the mid-eighties, you knew the unspoken rule: rock went on the radio, and hip-hop stayed in the shadows of the streets. When Rick Rubin suggested that the rap pioneers Run-D.M.C. should cover an Aerosmith classic, the group did not just … Read more

When Pan Am Flight 101 touched down at New York’s newly renamed JFK Airport on February 7, 1964, four young men from Liverpool stepped into a wall of screaming fans. Beatlemania had officially crossed the Atlantic. 73 Million Watching Two days later, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. An estimated 73 million Americans … Read more