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@ThatEricAlper Um, Elvis Presley?

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@ThatEricAlper Willis Alan Ramsey

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@derpo377 I think Henley and Frey being so openly vested in sales, success, money cost them whatever "cool" factor they otherwise might have had. Therefore their music was not to be taken seriously.

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@JamesSurowiecki You're not familiar with Hothouse Flowers?

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@MetamateDaz May I suggest you not judge a country of 340 million based on one guy?

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@mattyglesias With chip cards it's really not necessary to sign the receipt, and fewer and fewer retail establishments require that.

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@guyfelicella The short answer here is he's protected by the Republican Party in Congress, and our Republican-dominated Supreme Court.

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@maleekskies Would it not have been possible for him to put a round on the wall next to the kid, or at his feet, to scare him off?

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@RealEmirHan Wouldn't Travolta, at 6'2", have been too tall to be a fighter pilot?

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@mattyglesias "The Israelites"

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@BestMovieMom Maybe that was a rare example of "studio executives" being right about something,

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@luizmelo001 @historyinmemes That point is made in the film...that she vastly over-packed.

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@MickPuck Off topic, but I'm going to take a moment here to say that Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper is a pretty terrific album.

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@LesPurves Don't know about the others but Waiting for Columbus definitely had some post-production studio fixes, unfortunately. Bill Payne has talked about it.

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@MickPuck Yep, until Mr. Russell swiped the whole band to play with Joe Cocker.

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@20th_Centurygal Nina Simone "Here Comes the Sun."

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@20th_Centurygal "The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar."

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@20th_Centurygal Sorry Andy, but "Mother" on Synchronicity.

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@MickPuck @patrickfcox_cox @rockhall Correct. Specifically Memphis, the birthplace of rock and roll.

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@jackappky @fourteenkitties @BenjaminCrew1 Being part of the United States, we call it the French and Indian War. It's not called that in Britain, France, or Canada.