Last Saturday night (28 September 2019), singer Billie Eillish knocked it out of the park with a stellar performance and staging of her song, “Bad Guy”. The visual, which features Eillish walking up the walls, across the ceiling, and down the other wall while she performs, was a classic and a very large production for …
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Soundtrack For The News
Paying Attention: Trump Faces Intense Impeachment Inquiry The Fine Print: Embed Video of The Police singing “Every Breath You Take”, courtesy of Vevo and YouTube. This video has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to the respective artists. We thank Vevo and YouTube for sharing. Sound Track For The News is produced by …
While We Were Out
Update On December 31st, or maybe during the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve 2019, the DonaldPierce.com site went down, at least from an administrative point of view. If you were on the net and checked in up until the end of April 2019, you could still see the posts–all of them–starting with our …
Sympathy For The Devil
Music For Today’s Headlines: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Apparent Suicide You could just see this one coming. Too much money, too much power, too much rule breaking, too many powerful friends, too many secrets that had to go to the grave. The drama that was Jeffrey Epstein and his life will be with us …
Summer Weekend Concert Series: Dr. John at the Newport Jazz Festival, 2016
A video of Dr. John performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2006. The video is very good throughout but there is a bit of an audio issue in the beginning of the set. Stay with it. Thanks to the Newport Jazz Festival and Funk and Reggae for sharing. The Fine Print: Special thanks to …
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Transitions: Dr. John (1941-2019)
Above: Dr. John doing an extended version of “Such a Night”, one of his best known hits. Good music and excellent photography. Perfect for setting the tone for a piece to remember a musical legend. “Such a Night. Sweet confusion under the moonlight….” –from “Such a Night” by Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) Mac Rebennack, …
The Nightshift: World News 20 December 2018
Press Clippings The Nightshift publishes direct links to the world’s greatest English language newspapers to facilitate research and encourage understanding of the world’s events of the day. Today, we added the New York Times Morning Briefing to give you a brief overview of the news and Golf WRX, a specialized news/reviews/information site that covers golf, …
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Grinch Quote
“It came without packages. It came without tags. It came without boxes or ribbons or bags. ….maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more….”
The Nightshift: World News 19 December 2018
Press Clippings The Nightshift publishes direct links to the world’s greatest English language newspapers to facilitate research and encourage understanding of the world’s events of the day. The Front Page Links The Times (London) Financial Times (UK) The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) The Wall Street Journal (European edition) Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) New York Times …
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Christmas One More Time, VII
The Hunt for New Music: A new iteration of our classic Christmas music playlists, featuring both traditional songs in new performances and a selection of brand new Christmas music. As usual, the playlist includes songs you can dance to. You can listen to the entire playlist, via our friends at Spotify (see the information on …