"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a #funk song recorded by #JamesBrown with #BobbyByrd on #backingVocals. Released as a two-part #single in 1970, it was a no. 2 #RAndB hit and reached no. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2004, "Sex Machine" was ranked number 326 on #RollingStone magazine's list of #the500GreatestSongsOfAllTime. In the 2021 update of the list it had risen to 196. In 2014, #theOriginal 1970 recording of "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a).
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"Maggie May" is a song cowritten by singer #RodStewart and #MartinQuittenton, performed by Stewart for his album #EveryPictureTellsAStory, released in 1971. In 2004, #RollingStone ranked it number 130 in #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime. In 2017, the #MercuryRecords single was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBlrMtFprKs
"The Last Resort" is a song written by #DonHenley and #GlennFrey, which describes industry and commerce inevitably destroying beautiful places. It was originally released on the #Eagles album #HotelCalifornia on December 8, 1976. It was subsequently released as the B-side of "#LifeInTheFastLane" single on May 3, 1977. In a 1978 interview with #RollingStone, Henley said: "'The Last Resort', on Hotel California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgMAzDioMc
Via #RollingStone - Apr 15, 2025
Recently, the #Trump administration moved to raid the #DHS CivilRights office’s coffers to fund the president’s $200 million #propaganda campaign — and only backed off after Rolling Stone published this story. The ads feature #HomelandSecurity Secretary #KristiNoem repeatedly thanking Trump and warning #immigrants to leave now or avoid coming to America.
Rolling Stone · Trump Admin Was Set to Raid DHS Civil Rights Funds for His Anti-Immigrant Propaganda Ads
"Lovely Day" is a song by American #soul and #RAndB singer #BillWithers. Written by Withers and #SkipScarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, #Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained note towards the end which, at 18 seconds, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song. The song was listed at No. 402 on #RollingStone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0L7kzW0sk
"Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" (also written "Do Right Woman — Do Right Man") is a song written by #ChipsMoman and #DanPenn, and made famous by #ArethaFranklin. Her version was released on February 10, 1967. #RollingStone listed it as number 476 in their list of #the500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MW6xXjW8g
Five years ago:
“I’m very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength. I think weakness, in a way, can be also needed because we don’t have to be the loudest, we don’t have to take up the most amount of space, and we don’t have to earn the most money...We need to care about each other more.”
— Greta Thunberg
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
Read interview (paywall): https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/greta-thunberg-climate-crisis-cover-965949/
#climate #climatechange #gretathunberg #rollingstone
"Kid Charlemagne" is a song by American rock band #SteelyDan, released in 1976 as the opening track on their album #TheRoyalScam. An edited version was released as a single, reaching number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. #LarryCarlton's guitar solo on the song was ranked #80 in a 2008 list of the 100 greatest guitar solos by #RollingStone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9Xk-VoGqo
"I Know You Got Soul" is a song recorded by #EricBAndRakim in 1987. A commercial and artistic success, it was ranked #23 by #RollingStone on their list of Top 50 hip-hop songs, and #396 on their list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HPERIjAhU
"We Will Rock You" is a song by the British rock band #Queen from their 1977 album #NewsOfTheWorld, written by guitarist #BrianMay. #RollingStone ranked it number 330 of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" in 2004, and the #RIAA it placed at number 146 on the #SongsOfTheCentury list in 2001. In 2009, "We Will Rock You" was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. Other than the last 30 seconds, which contains a guitar solo by May, the song is generally set in #aCappella form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGbhniTBrU
"She's Gone" is a song written and originally performed by the American #duo #DarylHallAndJohnOates. The #soulBallad is included on their 1973 album, #AbandonedLuncheonette. It is ranked number 336 on #RollingStone's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVXIUyshng
"We've Only Just Begun" is a single by #theCarpenters, written by #RogerNichols (music) and #PaulWilliams (lyrics). It was ranked at No. 414 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime." It also became Carpenters' second consecutive top-five single in the #Billboard Hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI
"Living for the City" is a 1973 single by #StevieWonder from his #Innervisions album. It reached number 8 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the #RAndB chart.: 635 #RollingStone ranked the song number 104 on their 2004 list of the "#500GreatestSongsOfAllTime".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu95a_RiH54
"Runaway" is a number-one #Billboard Hot 100 song made famous by #DelShannon in 1961. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist #MaxCrook, and became a major international hit. It topped the Billboard charts for four consecutive weeks, and Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1961. It was No. 472 on the 2010 version of #RollingStone's list of the #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime and No. 466 on the 2004 version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkV9pdzLgo
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/darren-beattie-state-department-1235255529/
#RollingStone 3 February 2025
'Competent white men must be in charge''said
#DarrenBeattie, a #Whitesupremacist who was sacked during the first #Drumpf admin , but he is now a high profile State Department appointee . scumbag!
Rolling Stone · ‘Competent White Men Must Be in Charge,’ High-Profile State Dept. Appointee Wrote Last Year
"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz, also known as "La Bomba". The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #Top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine′s list of the #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime, and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. "#LaBamba" has been #covered by numerous artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp6j5HJ-Cok
"96 Tears" is a song recorded by the American #garageRock band #AndTheMysterians in 1966. In October of that year, it was #1 on the #Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and on the #RPM 100 in Canada. Billboard ranked the record as the #5 song for 1966. It was ranked #213 on the #RollingStone list of the #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime in 2010. On November 11, 1966, the single was certified as gold by the RIAA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCOMYGIfUQ
"Ain't That a Shame" is a song written by #FatsDomino and #DaveBartholomew. Domino's recording of the song, originally stated as #AintItAShame, released by #ImperialRecords in 1955, was a hit, eventually selling a million copies. It reached number 1 on the #Billboard R&B chart and number 10 on the #pop chart. The song is ranked number 438 on #RollingStone magazine's #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime list. This recording was included in the debut Fats Domino album Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuI_cVNW4Y