Rasma Raisters
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My passions are writing and creating poetry. I write for several sites online and have four themed blogs on Wordpress. Please follow me on Twitter.
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Shining Star Janis Joplin
To tell others about a talent like Janis Joplin is like trying to explain a moonbeam that is here and then so quickly gone again. She had talent, amazing talent, but as the fates would have it, she was gone much too soon. I watched a documentary about her because I was interested and I watched her appearing on the Dick Cavett Show. I realized then and there that she was a most fascinating individual and rather eccentric too.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
This is a tragic tale involving Rory Storm who was an English musician and vocalist. He was born in 1938 as Alan Caldwell in Liverpool but took the name Storm and became the singer and leader of a Liverpool band known as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Actually, one of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, was the drummer for the Hurricanes before he met the other three.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were two real-life brothers Isaac Donald “Don” Everly and Phillip “Phil” Everly who played rock and roll songs with a kind of American country flair. They had lots of very touching songs which just made you want to sing along. They were best known for their steel-guitar playing and close harmony singing. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. The great harmony singing of the brothers strongly influenced other rock groups of the 1960s including Simon & Garfunkle, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles who developed their early singing styles doing performances using Everly covers.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
Robert Ackermann the Cannibal of Vienna
When Robert Ackermann was 19, he left his native city of Cologne, Germany and by August of 2007, he was staying in Vienna, Austria in short-term housing for the mentally ill and homeless that was run by a private charity. At the facility, he shared a room with Josef Schweiger who was 49 and had been living at the facility since June. It was amazing that Ackermann’s behavior and his feuds with his roommate didn’t alarm weekly social workers, but the neighbors on the family-filled tenement block were certainly worried about Ackermann’s behavior. They had argued with the disturbed Ackermann, had seen him crawling naked through the yard howling at the moon, or dumping what appeared to be blood from his window. They realized that this teen was quite dangerous.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
The Music of B.J. Thomas
This incredible singer who’s had many popular hits is called Billy Joe Thomas, better known to his fans as B.J. Thomas. He’s an American singer who's charted on pop, country, and Christian charts. His most popular hits came out in the 1960s and 1970s.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
The Axeman of New Orleans
On May 22, 1918 the world was still in the grips of WWI. In New Orleans, a barber named Andrew Maggio had just gotten his draft notice and decided that a night’s good drinking was in order. Returning home to the place Andrew shared with his brother, Jake, he noticed nothing unusual. He was also in no condition to determine if anything was amiss. Andrew and Jake’s rooms adjoined the home of their married brother, Joseph and his wife Catherine.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
It Was Easy Come, Easy Go
The title simply refers to a popular song by Bobby Sherman, who came into this world as Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr. on July 22, 1943. When the world was crazy for teen idols, he caught the eye of many teen girls and became a teen idol through the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. He is a talented American singer, actor, and sometimes, songwriter. Knowing that he could sing and capture a girl’s heart only added to his charm.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
When Tragedy Was Popular
In the 1950s and the 1960s tragedy was popular and there were many songs written about the trials and tribulations of teenagers. Death played a major role and the songs were sung with feeling and passion making their listeners sigh and cry. Many of the songs have heart-wrenching words and lovely melodies. However, I always found it odd to slow dance to a song telling the story of someone dying tragically. Let’s take a look at what all the crying was about.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Beat
Rock and Roll with Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is a Canadian musician, singer, actor, and producer. He came into this world as Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959. Both of his parents were Britishand relocated from Englandto Canada. It was there that his father became a Canadian diplomat to the United Nations.
By Rasma Raisters6 years ago in Beat
Air Supply How the Music Began
An odd name to choose but Air Supply was a soft rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1976. Their line-up has changed many times but two standard members of this group are Graham Russell (acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vocals, songwriter) and Russell Hitchcock (lead and harmony vocals). Despite the fact that at any one time they could be a whole band, a great deal of the time Air Supply sang as a duo.
By Rasma Raisters6 years ago in Beat
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