Following the success of "Do They Know It’s Christmas "and “We Are the World,” Bryan Adams put together a Canadian all-star group called Northern Lights, who sang “Tears Are Not Enough” to raise money for famine victims in East Africa. The bizarrely diverse group of performers included Geddy Lee and Jane Siberry, John Candy and Gordon Lightfoot, Mike Reno and Joni Mitchell, Paul Shaffer and Bruce Cockburn, Aldo Nova and Ian & Sylvia.
And Ronnie James Dio put together a heavy metal all-star band called Hear ‘N’ Aid to perform a song called “Stars” for the same cause. He personally invited Spinal Tap to participate- Michael McKean and Harry Shearer took him up on it…
The Royal Canadian Air Force provided three squadrons of Air Observation Post light aircraft and crews to the Allies for WW2 artillery spotting. Of the total of 77 pilots who flew in the AOP squadrons, no fewer than 5 went on to become Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada.
A better YouTube link. In that first one, the song’s pace is slower than the version heard in the movie - it is “over-milked”, to my ears anyway. This second link is from the movie.
Forward the Foundation was one of Isaac Asimov’s many books about the fall of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the Foundation, which preserved the spark of civilization and cushioned the impact of the Empire’s long fall.
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine released its first issue in 1977. When the periodical was sold by Davis Publications to Bantam Doubleday Dell a few months before Isaac’s death in 1992, the name was simplified to Asimov’s Science Fiction. As editorial director, Asimov did not actually edit the magazine, but did write editorials and answer “letters to the editor”.
The film ***Almost Famous ***was based on director Cameron Crowe’s real experiences as a teenage music critic touring with Led Zeppelin, King Crimson and the Allman Brothers.
Martin Mull (not, as commonly but plausibly believed, Frank Zappa) is responsible for the saying “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Martin Mull was born in Chicago but grew up in North Ridgeville, Ohio, which he revisited as part of an HBO special about him in the Eighties. He is a talented amateur painter - one of his paintings was used on a Joyce Carol Oates novel cover - and an atheist.
Martin Mull attended Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in painting. His most distinguished project was an art show held in the men’s room of Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, entitled “Flush with the Walls (or I’ll Be Art in a Minute).”
Martin Mull also recorded several albums for Capricorn Records, along with the Christmas single “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope.” His hobby is placekicking.*
Jan Stenerud, who came to the US from Norway on a ski jumping scholarship to Montana State and played in the NFL mostly for the Kansas City Chiefs, is the only kicker in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Lou “The Toe” Groza of the Cleveland Browns is officially listed as a lineman, even though his placekicking is what got him into the Hall.
In Iceland people are addressed by their first name. People are not Mr or Mrs so-and-so: not teachers, not the Prime Minister, not the President – nobody. People are even listed in the phone book by their first names.
Icelandic people use patronyms. For a surname, they take their father’s first name (less often so, the mother’s first name) and add ‘son’ or ‘dóttir’ to the end, as in ‘Jónsson’ and ‘Jónsdóttir’.
Also, women don’t change their names when they get married.
Schuyler Colfax was vice president during U.S. Grant’s first term, but did not run again partly because of his involvement with the Credit Mobilier scandal.