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Yoko Ono Pt 2

Welcome back to Yoko Ono: 21st Century Icon Part Two - The Conclusion!
 
 
 
As promised 7 days ago in the waning minutes of last week's podcast, we pick up where we left off in the Continuing Story of Yoko Ono: 21st Century Icon, artist, performer, thinker, changer of the world!
 
 
 
Much of this episode covers Yoko Ono's 5 years in London between 1966 and 1971 including her invitation to appear at the Destruction In Art Symposium in London in September 1966 and her return engagement at the behest of Paul McCartney's beloved hippie bookstore turned art space Indica Gallery.
 
 
 
In this episode we retrace Yoko Ono's steps towards Beatle John Lennon and the torrid affair that ensued during the making of Sgt. Pepper and the aptly named Summer Of Love that followed its release in 1967.
 
 
 
Experience the shocking and untimely death of Beatle manager Brian Epstein at the age of 32 while The Beatles were just two days into a 10 day spiritual retreat with the Maharishi in Bangor, Wales at the suggestion of Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's wife at the time.
 
 
 
Follow John, Paul, George & Ringo in the early days of 1968 as they bunk down with the Maharishi in Rishikesh, India for two months of mantras, meditation and fun in the sun!
 
 
 
Come join the Sunshine Superman himself, Donovan, along with four Beatles, two Beach Boys and a Mia Farrow...
 
 
 
All this and MORE in the concluding episode of Yoko Ono: 21st Century Icon, brought to you by the good folks at team Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024....
 
 
 
OPENING TRACK: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/approximately-infinite-universe-feat-blow-up/1629494535?i=1629495274 "Approximately Infinite Universe (featuring Blow Up)" from Yoko Ono's 2016 Yes, I'm A Witch Too collaboration/re-mix album. Original track taken from the 1973 Yoko Ono Apple records double album of the same name.
 
 
 
CLOSING TRACK: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/dogtown-feat-sean-ono-lennon/1629494535?i=1629495027 "Dogtown" collaboration with son Sean Ono Lennon from Yoko Ono's 2016 Yes, I'm A Witch Too collaboration/re-mix album. The original track first appeared in acoustic demo form as a bonus track on the CD reissue of Yoko Ono's 1973 feminist rock Apple records double album Approximately Infinite Universe
 
 
 
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Yoko Ono: 21st Century Icon

Join us this week as we unravel the enigma that is Yoko Ono, mid 20th Century pioneer of the Avant Garde, darling of the early 60s New York underground, admired by the Guggenheims, Marcel Duchamp and associate to John Cage.
 
In this, part one of two, we explore Yoko Ono's earliest beginnings from her birth in 1933 to her wealthy international banker father and the family's long ties to ancient Samurai Warrior-scholars. 
 
Having survived the fire bombing of Tokyo during World War Two, a direct attack on innocent civilians killing over 100,000 people and displacing another million rendering them instantly homeless, the Ono's scoured the countryside staving off starvation looking for food, begging, bartering and carrying all of their remaining earthly belongings in a wheelbarrow. 
 
All of this AND MORE!
 
In the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024.
 
OPENING TRACK: "Sisters, O Sisters", https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sisters-o-sisters/1440858026?i=1440858350 the Yoko Ono penned original from the 1972 John & Yoko album Some Time In New York City, their fourth collaborative studio album and second live album. Released in the Summer of 1972 at the height of the 1972 US Presidential Election Campaign, the album was intended to polarize the vote in order to oust sitting President Richard Nixon from office and put an end to the war in Vietnam
 
CLOSING TRACK: "Why" (Extended Version edit) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/why-extended-version-bonus-track/1149642244?i=1149642288 bonus track from Yoko Ono's 1970 debut solo album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Backing Ono on the album is power trio Ringo Starr on drums, Klaus Voormann on bass and John Lennon on guitar
 
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David Bowie's Reclamation

In the summer of 1971, a long haired 24 year old hippie folk singer songwriter by the name David Bowie played the very first Glastonbury Music Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England.
On the 30th anniversary of the storied annual summer music festival Bowie returned, and in doing so, reclaimed a legacy long tarnished by two decades of crass commercialism, hollow success and artistic bankruptcy.
Join us as we revisit the final days of an aging, reclusive David Bowie, anxious to shift the narrative from his elderly appearance onto his 26th and final studio album, Blackstar, released on the occasion of his 69th birthday, just two days prior to his death.
Explore the reclamation of David Bowie's artistic integrity through his triumphant performance at Glastonbury 2000 as well as the early history of his 70's Glam Rock co-conspirator Marc Bolan, the iconography of Rock N Roll and so much more!
The following questions answered:
What did Ringo Starr say when asked if he was a Mod or a Rocker?
What happy accident resulted in the creation of one of the most pivotal Beatles' album covers?
Who was on the very first cover of Rolling Stone magazine, first published in the shadow of the Summer of Love, November 9, 1967?
At the very peak of their productivity, which act wrote and recorded four studio albums of original material, circumvented the globe performing two world tours and starred in two feature films all in the span of just 24 months? 
What is the sound of a Donovan photograph?
How 60's British folk music duo Tyrannosaurus Rex transformed into 70s Glam superstars T.Rex and the longest album title in the history of rock n roll...
Oasis or Blur? You tell us!
All of this AND MORE in the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024.
OPENING TRACK: On March 2, 1973 T.Rex released the Marc Bolan penned stand alone singe "20th Century Boy" which peaked at number 3 on the UK singles chart. 30 years later Brit Pop superstars Placebo released their cover of the song on their aptly title Covers album from 2003 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/20th-century-boy/961069038?i=961069094
CLOSING TRACK: Opening title track from Bowie's final album Blackstar, released January 8, 2016 on his final living birthday https://music.apple.com/ca/album/1676286487?i=1676286495
Producer's Note: This episode was originally recorded in chronological order immediately following the release of our "Rock N Roll Movies" episode which first aired Sunday, April 20, 2025. Numerous references throughout this podcast to "last week's episode" refer to that episode. We apologize for any confusion. 
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Brian Wilson Ep.4: Pet Sounds To Smile

Happy Summer 2025 Rock N Roll Fashionistas! #BrianWilsonEndlessSummer2025
Join us for the exciting conclusion of our Four Part expose on the life and times of the late Brian Wilson (still feels weird, "the late" part)
In this ridiculously informative episode we reveal:
Why Brian relinquished the role of primary bass player for Pet Sounds in favor of newly inducted Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame session bassist Carol Kaye
How Brain came to create his masterpiece Pet Sounds with hired hand jingle lyric writer and advertising copywriter Tony Asher
The origins of the hip, cool Laurel Canyon music scene, the spiritual nexus to 1960s intelligentsia tucked high in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California
Which Beach Boy forbid the use of the chorus "Hold Onto Your Ego" on Pet Sounds, fearing the song was about him?
That time the record executives told Brian Wilson, "You can't use the word GOD in the title of a pop song!"
How Brian Wilson influenced the Beatles who influenced Brian Wilson who influenced the Beatles who influenced Brian Wilson. 
The Beach Boys to Rubber Soul to Pet Sounds to Smile to Sgt. Pepper
How it all went wrong for Brian Wilson, culminating in the non release of the most legendary unreleased album in the history of pop music
Detailing that turbulent time in the life of Brian Wilson in the mid 1960s before he spent a decade in bed in the 1970s
"Lay in a bed, just like Brian Wilson did" - Barenaked Ladies
How the very final Beach Boys album That's Why God Made The Radio, on the occasion of the band's 50th anniversary in 2012, paved the way for Brian's triumphant return with his final album of pop music No Pier Pressure in 2015
Legendary Beatles producer the late Sir George Martin & Ludwig van Beethoven, what do they have in common besides music?
The tragic last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his Requiem Mass unfinished and his estate in tatters...
All of this and MORE! 
In the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock, 2024.
OPENING TRACKS: Our Prayer from the Beach Boys Smile Sessions album recorded September 19, 1966 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/our-prayer/720113626?i=720113663 
Let's Go Away For Awhile composed by Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/lets-go-away-for-awhile/1440841241?i=1440841254
I Just Wasn't Made For These Time from the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 with music by Brian Wilson and lyrics by Tony Asher https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-just-wasnt-made-for-these-times/1440841241?i=1440841263
CLOSING TRACK: God Only Knows from the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 with music by Brian Wilson and lyrics by Tony Asher https://music.apple.com/ca/album/god-only-knows/1440841241?i=1440841258
 
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Brian Wilson Part 2

The celebrations continue in the latest installment of Brian Wilson Endless Summer 2025!
#BrianWilsonEndlessSummer2025
Join us as we retrace Brian Wilson's initial steps towards genius upon first hearing The Four Freshmen at age 10 in 1952
In this episode Brian Wilson claims his rightful place alongside the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin in the pantheon of the Most Important Composers Of The 20th Century! And you'll find out why!
With stops along the way through post World War Two era cool with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie inventing Bebop with "Salt Peanuts" 
Join us as we explore the holy rock n roll trifecta that is Elvis, The Beach Boys and The Beatles
The death of The King, John Lennon
AND SO MUCH MORE!
and...
E.G.O.T.s (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) too!
...all this and more in the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024
 
*OPENING TRACK: "It's A Blue World" 1952 Top 40 single from The Four Freshmen peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Top 100, their first single to ever chart. Included on their 1952 debut album Voices In Modern, this album left a game changing, legacy building impression on a young Brian Wilson who heard it for the first time at the age of 10 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/its-a-blue-world/1442732079?i=1442732727
*CLOSING TRACK: The GREAT! The ONE! The ONLY! One of the finest contemporary composers of the modern era, Gillian Welch and her spellbinding "Elvis Presley Blues" taken from her brilliant 2001 album Time (The Revelator), one of the finest of this century yet! https://music.apple.com/ca/album/elvis-presley-blues/79765126?i=79765084
 
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Brian Wilson Endless Summer 2025

It's official! Summer 2025 has OFFICIALLY been declared Brian Wilson Endless Summer 2025 with festivities going all summer long!
#BrianWilsonEndlessSummer2025
Today, the first full day of Summer 2025, we joyfully dedicate the ENTIRE episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas to music Produced, Written, Recorded, Arranged and Performed by that Pop Music Master genius...
THE MAESTRO
THE MAN
THE LEGEND
Mr. Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
Join us as we surf the waves of Brian's madness from the mid 1960's through the turbulent 70's, laying "in a bed just like Brian Wilson did".
We make stops along the way to Terry Melcher's unfortunate L.A. mansion where we are greeted by nonother than a disgruntled Charles Manson, friend to Brian's baby brother and fellow Beach Boy Dennis Wilson.
Seems Charlie didn't dig the fact he didn't get that record deal he was promised, a deal thoroughly supported by one time fan and music colleague Neil Young!
All this and more in the latest installment of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock 2024
*THE SONGS:
"The Black Hole" by Nine Inch Nails member Atticus Ross from his soundtrack to the 2014 Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-black-hole/1443134275?i=1443134417
"The Bed Montage" by Nine Inch Nails member Atticus Ross from his soundtrack to the 2014 Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-bed-montage/1443134275?i=1443134828
"After You" by The Four Freshman from their 1952 debut album Voices In Modern. Hearing this for the first time at age 10, Brian Wilson never looked further for the basis of a timeless vocal harmonic style he would make his own https://music.apple.com/ca/album/after-you/1442732079?i=1442732306
"Think About The Days" from the final Beach Boys album, their 2012 50th Anniversary album That's Why God Made The Radio" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/think-about-the-days/715466841?i=715466843
"Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into A Microphone" from the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making https://music.apple.com/ca/album/psycodelic-sounds-brian-falls-into-a-microphone/724119116?i=724120392 
"Summer's Gone" from the final Beach Boys album, their 2012 50th Anniversary album That's Why God Made The Radio" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/summers-gone/715466841?i=715466868 
"Fall Breaks And Back To Winter (Woody Woodpecker Symphony)" from the original recording sessions that eventually produced the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making. Initially released as part of the Beach Boys 1967 Smiley Smile album, issued in wake of the shelving of Brain Wilson's magnum opus SMiLE https://music.apple.com/ca/album/fall-breaks-and-back-to-winter-woody-woodpecker-symphony/1442864862?i=1442864889  
Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into A Piano" from the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making https://music.apple.com/ca/album/psycodelic-sounds-brian-falls-into-a-piano/720113626?i=720113842 
"Little Pad" from the original recording sessions that eventually produced the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making. Initially released as part of the Beach Boys 1967 Smiley Smile album, issued in wake of the shelving of Brain Wilson's magnum opus SMiLE https://music.apple.com/ca/album/little-pad/1442864862?i=1442865071
"Wonderful" from the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making https://music.apple.com/ca/album/wonderful/720113626?i=720113686
"'Till I Die" from the granddaddy of all Beach Boy's 70's albums, the master stroke Surf's Up album, the OTHER Beach Boys albums with songs from the long abandoned SMiLE sessions https://music.apple.com/ca/album/til-i-die/1440873813?i=1440874283
 "Surf's Up" from the long awaited, perennially delayed, once nixed legendary Beach Boy's album SMiLE, some 40 odd years in the making https://music.apple.com/ca/album/surfs-up/720113626?i=720113694
 
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RIP Brian Wilson & Sly Stone: Rough Week

A sad week indeed for Rock N Roll nation. Two heavyweights. Two titans. Two innovators. Two legends. Lost. But not forgotten...
Sylvester Stewart (aka Sly Stone of Sly & the Family Stone) Passed June 9, 2025
Brian Wilson (of The Beach Boys) Passed June 11, 2025)
Join us as we celebrate the joy, love, life and art of two music giants of 20th century song:
One continuing on in the time honored tradition of Tin Pan Alley...
The other invented FUNK...
All this and more on your weekly Sunday morning drop of the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas...contextualizing rock n roll since 2024.
OPENING TRACK: "Come Sit Down And Tell Me" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/come-sit-down-and-tell-me/1799238478?i=1799238483 taken from Stony Plain's 2Fer deluxe version of Ellen McIlwaine's 1982 album Everybody Needs It featuring legendary lead singer/bass player extraordinaire of iconic 1960's British psych power trio Cream along with Eric Clapton and King Crusty himself on drums, Mr. Ginger Baker
CLOSING TRACK: "California Girls" https://music.apple.com/ca/album/california-girls/1585395623?i=1585395630 taken from Brian Wilson's masterstroke, his album, At My Piano from 2021    
Further Research:
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson And The Story of SMiLE (2004 documentary) https://youtu.be/0SriaRRcA6w?si=X6OqYBCyJhIXwPNH
Love & Mercy (2014 feature film trailer) https://youtu.be/Xne-_S34T1c?si=CpOy-aYuXVNUNi3K
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (1995 Brian Wilson documentary) https://youtu.be/8JjAZomaxww?si=cfV7JU26zctzXtvx
 
 

Ellen McIlwaine: School Bus Driver Jammed With Jimi Hendrix

Ellen McIlwaine, one of the greatest practitioners of slide guitar ever, soulful powerhouse vocalist extraordinaire, poet, composer, songstress, lyricist, recording artist, painter, visual artist, interpreter of song and more. She was all that and then some...
Join us in our celebration of the life and artistry of this giant amongst musicians, this icon, this goddess...
Ellen McIlwaine's life and times explored through the lens of the newly posted CBC Docs YouTube channel music documentary "Goddess Of Slide" from Soul Flicker Films, an Alfonso Maiorana production https://youtu.be/SCTety1hwdI?si=PC2ux8sTlD5_Occr
As far back as 1973 the impact of Ellen McIlwaine's presence has been deeply felt and loomed large in the personal life of Rock N Roll Fashionista's host Sean Passmore (AKA "unimportant").
Join Passmore as he outs himself as the guy who made the phone call that changed McIlwaine's life.
Passmore sets the record straight on one singular inaccurate fact in this otherwise thoroughly inspiring love letter to McIlwaine who passed away quite suddenly at the age of 75 in 2021, six weeks after receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer.
McIlwaine's music weaves poignantly through Passmore's life through personal recollections and anecdotes of Swami Bill, Brother Tommy and others in the colorful cast of characters from the Rock N Roll Fashionistas universe.
Did a teenage Passmore put an impertinent and inappropriate move on the middle-aged McIlwaine while making an embarrassingly inebriated song request in a bar?
And did McIlwaine play the song?
Would this same song fatefully draw McIlwaine & Passmore together again over a decade later with surprising, life altering results?
FIND OUT NOW and SO MUCH MORE on the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas
THE SONGS:
Opening Track: "Can't Find My Way Home" is a song written by Steve Winwood that was first released by Blind Faith on their self titled 1969 debut album. They were an English rock supergroup consisting of Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech. They followed the success of each of the member's former bands, including Clapton and Baker's former group Cream and Winwood's former group Traffic but split up after a few months, producing only one album and a three-month summer tour. McIlwaine's cover of the song appears of her debut solo album Honky Tonk Angel released by Polydor Records in 1972 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/cant-find-my-way-home/1444004698?i=1444005078
"Higher Ground" is a song written by Stevie Wonder that first appeared on his 1973 album Innervisions. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the US Hot R&B Singles chart. Wonder wrote and recorded the song in a three-hour burst of creativity in May 1973. McIlwaine's stunning reinterpretation of the song appears on her 1975 3rd album The Real Ellen McIlwaine released by Montreal, Canada label Kot'Ai Records https://music.apple.com/ca/album/higher-ground/932879780?i=932882018
"Down So Low" was written by American R&B and country music singer/songwriter Tracy Nelson. McIlwaine's stunning reinterpretation of the song appears on her 1975 3rd album The Real Ellen McIlwaine released by Montreal, Canada label Kot'Ai Records https://music.apple.com/ca/album/down-so-low/932879780?i=932882059
 

Rock Talk With MistyK The DJ

This episode is dedicated to the memory of MistyK The DJ's beloved friend and companion, Vino The Rock N Roll Dog, who passed suddenly this past week. Our hearts go out to the MistyK The DJ family, friends and loved ones. We wish them light, love and healing at this most difficult time.
A few weeks back we had the good fortune of visiting with MixCloud master DJ MistyK The DJ https://www.mixcloud.com/Redgirl77/ to discuss the latest in her series of Unscripted shows, the half marathon she ran in Vegas earlier this year and her subsequent MixCloud mega show FEELING LUCKY? THE VEGAS MIX
Along the way we touch on her personal encounters with Rock N Roll royalty including Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie as well as Little Steven from Underground Garage, The Sopranos, Bruce Springsteen's band, her dream gig and much more.
Her touching tribute to Blondie's Clem Burke, the final Blondie album of the 80s, Deborah Harry's reinvention as a solo act in the 90s, personal anecdotes and the unmistakable charm and charisma that is the GREAT MistyK The DJ...
All hear on the latest BONUS episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas.
OPENING TRACK: Sure Don't Feel Like Love https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sure-dont-feel-like-love/380593433?i=380593552 by master American songwriter Paul Simon from his 2006 Brian Eno produced album Surprise. Completely unrelated to the theme of this BONUS episode. Due to time limitations we were unable to include this track on our previous episode Paul Simon: 8 Decades so have done so here.
CLOSING TRACK: Well, Did You Evah! https://music.apple.com/ca/album/well-did-you-evah/1629181291?i=1629181417  is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1939 musical DuBarry Was A Lady, where it was introduced by Betty Grable and Charles Walters. It is written as a duet, with the pair exchanging bad news, shrugging off and one upping each others stories all in the name of an aloof good time.
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sang the song in the movie High Society, January 17, 1956. The film is a musical remake of the 1940 screwball comedy film The Philadelphia Story staring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, itself based on Phillip Barry's 1939 play of the same name.
The Sinatra/Crosby duet is likely the most well known version of the song. It was added to the movie late in development, to give the two stars an opportunity to sing together.
Punk Rock royalty Debbie Harry and proto punk granddaddy Iggy Pop recorded the song in 1990 for Red Hot + Blue, a compilation album released as part of an urgent call to raise funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS.
Red Hot + Blue is the first compilation album from the Red Hot Organization in the Red Hot Benefit Series. It features contemporary pop performers reinterpreting the songs of legendary LGBT Great American Songbook composer Cole Porter. The title of the album originates from Cole Porter's 1936 Broadway musical Red, Hot and Blue staring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope.
Released in September 1990, the album sold over a million copies worldwide, raising nearly $1m for the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power). Heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business, this initiative came a full two years before the creation of The Elton John Foundation, itself inspired by the tragic death from AIDS of teenager Ryan White who had, before his passing, forged a strong and meaningful friendship with pop singer Elton John.
Released as a single in the UK on December 24, 1990 but not the US. The single reached No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 29 in the Irish chart.
 

Paul Simon 8 Decades

You read that right folks!
8 DECADES!!
Paul Simon
He began his music career in the 1950's while still in High School, writing, recording and releasing records from the age of 16.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
And that's just the first four decades!
And then there's the...
1990s
2000s (the Aughts)
2010s
2020s
While not an exhaustive history of the man and his music, we choose instead to focus on Simon's origin story, before the fame, before Simon & Garfunkel, highlighting what's possibly his finest artistic achievement to date 
Two legacy defining albums of Simon's, one from the Aughts, the other from very early on in the 2010s. Most folks have not heard these albums. We're gonna change that,
All this and MORE!
And COOPER THE COMFORT DOG!
on Rock N Roll Fashionistas,
Your trusted source for everything Rock n Roll!
THE SONGS:
"Voices Of Old People" from the 1968 Simon & Garfunkel album Bookends, "Voices of Old People" is a sound collage recorded on tape by Art Garfunkel at the United Home for Aged Hebrews in New Rochelle, New York and the California Home For The Aged in Reseda, California: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/voices-of-old-people/203303421?i=203303893
"Old Friends" from the 1968 Simon & Garfunkel album Bookends https://music.apple.com/ca/album/old-friends/203303421?i=203304062
"Outrageous" taken from Paul Simon's 2006 Brian Eno produced album Surprise https://music.apple.com/ca/album/outrageous/380593433?i=380593549
"How Can You Live In The Northeast" taken from Paul Simon's 2006 Brian Eno produced album Surprise https://music.apple.com/ca/album/how-can-you-live-in-the-northeast/380593433?i=380593474 
"Old" taken from Paul Simon's 2000 album You're The One https://music.apple.com/ca/album/old/380591854?i=380591892
"That's Me" taken from Paul Simon's 2006 Brian Eno produced album Surprise https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thats-me/380593433?i=380593682
"So Beautiful Or So What" taken from the 2011 Paul Simon album of the same name https://music.apple.com/ca/album/so-beautiful-or-so-what/1416977100?i=1416978487
"The Afterlife" taken from the 2011 Paul Simon album So Beautiful Or So What https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-afterlife/1416977100?i=1416977631
"Love And Hard Times" taken from the 2011 Paul Simon album So Beautiful Or So What https://music.apple.com/ca/album/love-and-hard-times/1416977100?i=1416978264
"Father And Daughter" taken from Paul Simon's 2006 Brian Eno produced album Surprise https://music.apple.com/ca/album/father-and-daughter/380593433?i=380593683
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