On this Date, July 21st in 1982: The club Batcave opened its doors for the first time at The Gargoyle, 69-70 Dean Street W1 in London. Batcave, which became the first Goth punk club, was founded by members of the band Specimen. While they were not big in the US, Specimen had a few great songs such as “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and “The Beauty of Poison,” which are both on my iPod. If you, too, have fond memories of dancing to these songs in dark, smoky clubs, you can download them (and others) from iTunes.
On This Date, November 29th, in 2001: George Harrison died of brain cancer in a Hollywood Hills mansion that was once leased by Paul McCartney. He was 58 years old. I’ve been thinking of The Beatles and George (my favorite Beatle) so much lately, not only with the recent Beatles on Record special that was on the History Channel a few days ago, and the 39th anniversary of the release of All Things Must Pass, but also having spent a significant amount of time yesterday downloading all of The Beatles’ 16 CD remasters into my iTunes library (thanks Geoffrey). I love The Beatles so much, and it’s endlessly comforting to still have their music all around me even nearly forty years after they broke up. I miss you, George!
Since 100% of the music I featured on my various radio shows, way back when I was a pretty fucking fabulous DJ, is on vinyl – and I haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years – iTunes has surfaced as a nothing-short-of -miraculous way for me to recreate many of my righteous playlists from the early ‘80s. And that just rules. Continue reading How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love iTunes→
