Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the Australian rock group INXS, also died from autoerotic asphyxiation, a practice which one might think he might not have needed to participate in, having Bob Geldof’s wife Paula Yates for a GF.
I died from auto-asphyxiation.
A posthumous post! How interesting.
Bob Geldof, an Irish citizen, holds a British honorary knighthood and starred in Pink Floyd’s 1982 film The Wall.
Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon spent 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard “Hot 200” Top LPs & Tapes chart from 1973 to 1988.
Floyd Abrams is a lawyer specializing in First Amendment law.
In The Maltese Falcon, Mile Archer is hired by a Miss Wonderly to tail Floyd Thursby, who supposedly ran off with Wonderly’s sister. Then things get complicated.
British author Jeffrey Archer’s first edition of Shall We Tell the President? (1977), a political thriller, had Ted Kennedy defeating Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination three years later and then winning the Presidency. Later editions substituted the fictitious Florentyna Kane for Kennedy.
Jimmy cracked corn, but nobody cared.
Boston butt, is a cut of pork that comes from the upper part of the shoulder from the front leg and may contain the blade bone
John F. Kennedy and Michael S. Dukakis were both born in Brookline, a town next to Boston, Mass.
Joseph Haydn’s tenth mass composition was his “Mass in Time of War”. Like all mass compositions that meet the definition, it included a Kyrie Eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.
Songs with the title “Gloria”
“Gloria”, written by Leon René in the 1940s
“Gloria”, written by Van Morrison in 1964, and later covered by many artists
“Gloria”, a 1979 Umberto Tozzi track later covered by Laura Branigan, featured on the soundtrack of the film Flashdance.
“Gloria”, from U2’s 1981 album October
“Gloria”, a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Yui
“Gloria”, a song from Mando Diao’s 2009 album Give Me Fire
In 1980 the New York Daily News reported on a state bailout of the transit system with the headline SICK TRANSIT’S GLORIOUS MONDAY.
The only #1 single by the Mamas and the Papas was “Monday, Monday.”
Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas was rumored to have died choking on a ham sandwich. In reality, she suffered a heart attack, but it is true that drummer Keith Moon would die in the same hotel room four years later.
Cass Elliot’s original name was Ellen Naomi Cohen.
John Phillips, who sang with Cass Elliott in the Mamas and the Papas, became better known later on for his drug-fueled incestuous relationship with his daughter Mackenzie Phillips, who played Julie on “One Day at a Time”.
Actor Mackenzie Astin, son of Patty Duke and John Astin, was named for his paternal grandmother, Margaret Linnie Mackenzie Astin.
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the longest serving prime minister in Canadian history; he is considered one of the country’s greatest PMs.
I love it!
King George III, elderly, mentally-disturbed and a virtual prisoner at Windsor Castle, appears briefly in Susanna Clarke’s massive 2005 magic-in-Regency-England novel *Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. *