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I haven't heard the Marvin Gaye version of Make Me Wanna Holler, but the Dirty Dozen Brass Band cover is pretty darn good.
I predict that in the next ten years there will be just boatloads of movies made about popular musicians. Ray Charles and Johnny Cash both got movies following their deaths - as more such folk pass on, I expect to see a real surge in the same genre. I guess Marvin Gaye doesn't really fit the trend, though, having died over twenty years ago . . .
I don't know, musicians die all the time. I think it's just that Ray Charles and Johnny Cash had exceptionally interesting lives and serious talent. The best most musicians can do is VH1 behind the music.
Hmmm . . . my theory was based around the idea that musicians die in their early seventies. If this is true, then famous popular musicans SHOULDN'T be dying all the time, since we're only now getting to the point where the big stars from the early 1950s are in their seventies (and how many really famous popular musicians were there before 1950?). By this logic, the big death wave of famous musicians should just be kicking off now, moving into the '60s stars ten years from now. But unfortunately, most musicians seem to find ways to die before they turn 70, which kind of torpedoes the whole theory.
And yup, Ray Charles has definitely left the building. Just Google ray charles death.
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I haven't heard the Marvin Gaye version of Make Me Wanna Holler, but the Dirty Dozen Brass Band cover is pretty darn good.
I predict that in the next ten years there will be just boatloads of movies made about popular musicians. Ray Charles and Johnny Cash both got movies following their deaths - as more such folk pass on, I expect to see a real surge in the same genre. I guess Marvin Gaye doesn't really fit the trend, though, having died over twenty years ago . . .
6:02 PM, April 16, 2006
I don't know, musicians die all the time. I think it's just that Ray Charles and Johnny Cash had exceptionally interesting lives and serious talent. The best most musicians can do is VH1 behind the music.
6:29 PM, April 17, 2006
And isn't Ray Charles still alive? Just hit me if I'm wrong, because I probably am...
6:30 PM, April 17, 2006
Hmm... apparently there are two movies about Janis Joplin that are currently in the making.
7:27 PM, April 17, 2006
Hmmm . . . my theory was based around the idea that musicians die in their early seventies. If this is true, then famous popular musicans SHOULDN'T be dying all the time, since we're only now getting to the point where the big stars from the early 1950s are in their seventies (and how many really famous popular musicians were there before 1950?). By this logic, the big death wave of famous
musicians should just be kicking off now, moving into the '60s stars ten years from now. But unfortunately, most musicians seem to find ways to die before they turn 70, which kind of torpedoes the whole theory.
And yup, Ray Charles has definitely left the building. Just Google ray charles death.
5:43 PM, April 18, 2006
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