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The Alamo Cenotaph, also known as The Spirit of Sacrifice, is a monument in San Antonio, Texas, United States, commemorating the Battle of the Alamo of the Texas Revolution, which was fought at the adjacent Alamo Mission. The monument was erected in celebration of the centenary of the battle, and bears the names of those known to have fought ...
The band recorded several songs based on the event, and inspired by the state of Texas generally, including one original composition based on Ozzy Osbourne's infamous visit to the Alamo cenotaph in 1982. Remembers the Alamo was the band's last album to feature guitarist Jim Murphy and fiddler Haydn Vitera.
When the Alamo Cenotaph was created by Pompeo Coppini in 1939, the 187 defender names on the monument came from the research of Amelia Williams, [20] considered the leading Alamo authority of her day. [21] Her work is still used by some as a benchmark, although skepticism has been voiced.
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
SUNDAY. Mdou Moctar Gobi 3:30 – 4:10 – Some of the most exciting guitar-based music of this century has come out of West Africa, and Mdou Moctar and his band combine the rhythms and melodies ...
"I’m getting pissed off reading the papers, and they’re saying things like, ‘Ozzy is fighting his last battle.’ He’s sung his last ‘Paranoid,’ " Osbourne told Rolling Stone UK in a ...
Forty years ago, on Jan. 20, 1982, 17-year-old metalhead Mark Neal threw a dead bat onstage at an Ozzy Osbourne concert at Des Moines’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (then Sharon Arden), Rudy Sarzo, and Tommy Aldridge were all asleep on the bus while Randy Rhoads, Don Airey, tour manager Jake Duncan, the band's wardrobe/makeup artist Rachel Youngblood, bus driver Andrew Aycock and his wife Wanda, and the rest of the crew were awake. On the property, there was an airstrip and a ...