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“When we play a Beatles song, everyone has their phones out and it looks like a galaxy. When we do a new song, it’s like a black hole. But we don’t care! We’re gonna do them anyway.” Of course people across all generational lines were most eager to hear the Beatles ...
“It’s always great being here at Fenway, maybe for a different reason it would be better.”
Without disparaging the good name of The Pretty Things, The Who really put the term ‘rock opera’ on the musical books when they created not one but two enduring works in Tommy and Quadrophenia. So what do you do when you’ve done countless tours and it seems ...
If Boston sports enthusiasts are angry that the city continues to be tarnished by a bad reputation for bigoted fans, perhaps their anger’s misdirected.
"The Gardner heist happened while I was in school here, though. I was going to completely fictionalize it—make up the name of the museum, and the paintings and everything—and then I just thought to pull it out the ’90s and stick it in the ’40s, when security would have been even worse since they didn’t have cameras."
You gotta hand it to Dave Grohl. In a world where rock songs are largely irrelevant to the pop culture, where radio support and record sales are a quaint reminder of days gone past, he and his band of fellow Foo Fighters managed to bang out Fenway Park for two consecutive nights. The second ...
Boston teams begin addressing racism, but have a lot of hard work and practice ahead of them
The brothers started giggling at nothing. They felt warm and happy. Pete was relaxed and felt fantastic, the woes of his body’s deterioration faded away.
"I think [the proposed bill] makes perfect sense... I’m confused how it’s named ‘Yawkey’ anyway, in light of what we know about him.”
Offensive comments and controversy aside, these hosts are winning in the ratings, proving that there is indeed a massive audience for such bigoted rhetoric in Greater Boston.
