When Bob Marley sang No woman No Cry, he would not have thought that in the later days it would translate into No Music, No Life. Music has been an inspiration, means of opening the heart to a sweetheart, a peaceful medium of demonstration and the best form of political lobbying. When John Lennon sang All we are saying is give peace a chance, people around the world the world took up the song for their own causes, demanding peace, or when modern day Romeos sing “Killing me softly” or even when the activists sing We shall overcome some day; it is music that is the underlying agent in all the instances. Music is what connects strangers in a microbus and lovers when cross at each other. You take along hundreds of voices in your jukebox, iPods, disk man, mobile phones, MP4s, MP3s and those voices soothe you, befriend you and entertain you. Listening to the pitter patter of the rain, singing duets with your best friend, crooning Elvis Presley’s song at a concert, humming old classics in memory of good old days—the omnipresence of music can hardly be negated. Memorizing the lyrics of Joss Stone, striking the right cord, foot tapping to the tunes of a saxophone, dancing to the beats of drums, listening to the chirping of birds, singing hymns with your grandmother—music manifests itself in everything.
World news on music
- Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain all died at age 27.
- American composer John Cage (1912-1992) composed a work in 1952 entitled 4’ 33”, which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence.
- Along with his older brother, Mark Wahlberg was a part of the boy band named New Kids on the Block, the group that would lead the boy-band phenomenon of the 1990’s. He even formed the group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The first single “Good Vibrations” from their debut album was used as the theme tune for the film “The Mighty Ducks” and for Calvin Klein advertisements which featured Mark as a model.
- Lennon developed severe myopia as he grew up and was obliged to wear glasses in order to see clearly. During his early Beatles career, Lennon wore contacts or prescription sunglasses (or simply “toughed it out” without them). In 1966, on the set of How I Won the War, Lennon was issued a pair of National Health spectacles. He continued to wear the round, wire-rimmed glasses which became part of his iconic public image.
