In 1981, Oingo Boingo released their debut new wave album “Only A Lad”. In 1981, Oingo Boingo released their debut new wave album “Only A Lad”. I’ve always been a bit intrigued by the “boy scout” inspired album cover that has several easter eggs on it.
Oingo Boingo Only A Lad Normal Rockwell Boys Scouts of America. The cover is a redecorated version of this 1960 Boy Scouts of America official handbook, illustrated by Norman Rockwell.
Look at this photo of Cheap Trick drummer Daxx Nielsen tossing his drumstick to a fan at San Francisco’s Bluegrass Festival on October 8, 2017.
“Kick” is the best-selling INXS of album all-time with well over 20 million records sold but what stood out to me as a kid growing up in Los Angeles. But what stood out to me the most was the Vision Street Wear skateboard known as the “PsychoStick used on the album cover photo.
Released on February 11, 1985, “Meat Is Murder” is the second studio album by The Smiths. The memorable album cover uses a 1967 photograph of Marine Cpl. Michael Wynn in the Vietnam War with MEAT IS MUDER written on his helmet.
Rumors have been swirling on messages boards as to who portrayed and voiced “Humpty Dumpty” in the TurboTax commercial with many people claiming it was Austin Powers himself Mike Myers. I’m proud to say that the man behind the egg is my good friend actor Darren Richardson.
The Arctic Monkeys released their fourth studio album titled “Suck It and See” on June 6, 2011. They actually named their album after graffiti seen in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 cult-classic film A Clockwork Orange.
The Last Shadow Puppets, a collaboration of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and singer/guitarist Miles Kane have released two albums that both entered #1 on the UK Charts. TLSP performed on April 22, 2016 at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California in between 2016 Coachella Festival gigs. Here’s the feelnumb.com recap of the night…
INXS had performed their last “live” concert with Michael Hutchence during their North American leg of the “Elegantly Wasted Tour” on September 27, 1997 at the Star Lake Amphitheatre (now named First Niagara Pavilion) in Burgettstown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Check out this 2002 photo that has made the rounds for years claiming to be Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails in the audience of the American TV game show “The Price is Right”.
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film, staring actress Joyce Hyser, who after failing to get her dream job as a newspaper intern comes to the conclusion that she didn’t get the gig because she is a girl. That’s when she decides to disguise herself as a boy in high school.
