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Good Times Magazine [1] is a music and entertainment newspaper in Long Island, New York.Founded in 1969 by Richard Branciforte [2] in an effort to get free tickets to Woodstock, the paper became the Long Island musician's bible in the 1970s and 1980s, publishing interviews with Bruce Springsteen and Duane Allman among others.
New York/New Wave was an exhibition curated by Diego Cortez in 1981. Held at the Long Island City gallery P.S.1 , it documented the crossover between the downtown art and music scenes. The show featured a coalition of No wave musicians, painters, graffiti artists , poets, and photographers.
Video Soul was a two–hour long American music video program that originally aired on BET from June 26, 1981 [3] to September 1996. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The program was devoted to showcasing R&B and Soul recording artists and performers' music videos.
Long Islander News is a local news organization that covers the town of Huntington, New York. The organization's flagship newspaper, The Long-Islander, was founded by American poet Walt Whitman in 1838. [1] It is the oldest continuously-published community newspaper on Long Island. [citation needed]
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 26, 1981, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1980 through October 31, 1981.
The MTV network debuted on cable television, playing music videos 24 hours a day. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles was the first video broadcast on the network. August 9 Following a two-month-long players strike, Major League Baseball resumed with the All-Star Game from Cleveland on NBC.
April 12 – WJOI/Pittsburgh flipped from beautiful music to Top 40, branded as "B94", and adopted the new call letters "WBZZ." That fall, WWJ-FM, a beautiful music station in Detroit, picks up the WJOI calls. June 1 – CJCB-FM Sydney, Nova Scotia flips from Easy Listening to Country. Along with the format change, the station changes its call ...
A Mailer–Breslin campaign button in 1969. Breslin began working for the Long Island Press [12] as a copy boy in the 1940s. [7] After leaving college, he became a columnist. His early columns were attributed to politicians and ordinary people that he chatted with in various watering holes near Queens Borough H