Only a few months after releasing their debut album, Rage Against The Machine arrived at Pinkpop in 1993 with a song that was already becoming impossible to ignore. “Killing in the Name” combined Tom Morello’s innovative guitar work with Zack de la Rocha’s uncompromising lyrics, turning political anger into one of the most explosive tracks of the decade.
@Bomberbuzzer Why didn’t Essendon select every gun that’s ever played the game? Fixed it for you and both statements sound stupid. It’s not exclusive to Essendon, Lachie Neale was good at Freo but won two Brownlows and two flags at the Lions. We get hung up on Voss and D’Ambrosio…move on FFS
Gilmour wore that strap for 18 years.
It broke seconds before the Comfortably Numb solo. His tech saved it. The cobbler saved the strap.
Gilmour never blinked.
@Dan90091917@fantasynut_afl And Dees got two top 8 picks plus some steak knives and got Oliver’s fat 8 year deal off their books. Offering a pick they didn’t even own and two shitty picks in the 20’s for our best player of the last decade whilst under contract. Hawthorn screwed the pooch
Backdraft - released 35 years ago today
Donald Sutherland rocks up for 7 minutes and it's genius. The Suth was a lifelong professional scene-stealer; effortlessly brilliant moments like this pop up all across his career.
His switch in this scene is chiling. 'Burn it all' 🔥
Happy Birthday Graeme Hick
None of Graeme Hick’s six Test hundreds were as famous as the one he never made.
On 98 in the Sydney Ashes Test of 1995, Hick was stranded when Mike Atherton declared. With only a couple of minutes left before the 3pm deadline, Hick inexplicably blocked out the final three balls of a Damien Fleming over.
Atherton lost patience and declared ungenerously. Hick never went on to score an Ashes hundred, and it was said he didn’t speak to England coach Keith Fletcher for a month afterwards.
Classic Tony Greig commentary praising the beauty of the women in the crowd.
Tony Greig: Oh boy... and she looked gorgeous.
(A long pause follows as Bill Lawry refuses to take the bait)
Tony Greig: Well, go on then, say something.
(Another pause)
Tony Greig: He won't say anything. It's gotta be a pigeon before he comments.
Bill Lawry: You dig a hole, you fill it up, mate.
(Cameraman cuts a shot of a pigeon sitting on the grandstand roof)
Tony Greig: Oh, isn't that beautiful!
Bill Lawry: That's what's called a mongrel black checker.
I met Shane Warne once. That was interesting. Not a bad bloke. He had his arms around two blonde bimbos at the Birmingham Walkabout in 1997, after the second day of the First Ashes Test. Mark Taylor was drinking Tequila shots at the bar. All the lads were there. Warnie told me...