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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"This record has been more of a marathon than a sprint - it’s the longest album I have ever put out with 13 tracks that complete the i/o / o\i 25 track joint project." - pg Pre-order o\i now. lnk.to/PG24

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 02/10/2026

Counting down the top Keener13.com hits from this week in 1964. Friday at Noon Eastern, with encores Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 9am.

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BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BBC Radio 6 Music Riley & Coe Now Playing Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Big Eyed Beans from Venus

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LOOK (September 15, 1959)

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 15/09/2026

Remember Film Strips? We do. There’s an archive out there. Keener13.Substack.com #60s #filmstrips #school

Once upon a Time filmstrips were a respite from having to pay attention to our teachers. Now there’s an organization that is archiving hundreds for posterity.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 06/09/2026

Join us! All day, Labor Day on Keener13.com! #oldies #RockNRoll #radio #countdown #at40

Keener’s Labor Day programming includes 9 hours of countdowns and three deep dives into rock history. Join us at Keener13.com

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 25/08/2026

Today in 1975, @brucespringsteen.net caught lightning in a bottle. keener13.substack.com/p/born-to-run

For a performer who had spent years sweating through marathon sets in bars and clubs, the effect must have been surreal. He had wanted to be heard. Suddenly, he was being declared important.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 17/08/2026

#marvingaye & #tammiterrell, a #motown number on this date in 1968. keener13.substack.com/p/marvin-and...

On August 17, 1968, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell took “You’re All I Need to Get By” to number one on Billboard’s R&B chart, and for a few incandescent minutes, Motown sounded less like a record company than a church.

This wasn’t just another precision-built hit rolling off Berry Gordy’s Detroit assembly line. It was something warmer, stranger, and more human. Written and produced by the dynamic duo of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, “You’re All I Need to Get By” unfolds like a testimony gathering strength. There’s no rush to the hook, no obvious pop-song machinery grinding underneath. The record simply rises. Voices, strings, rhythm section, and emotion keep piling on until Marvin and Tammi sound like they’re singing from somewhere beyond the studio walls. That was the magic of their partnership.

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Classic Rock Junky AKA Todd James @tjsbam.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

June 13, 1964 The Animals went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The House Of The Rising Sun.' Recorded in one take, this was the first UK No.1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes. 🎶🎤🤘 #ClassicRock #RockNRoll #ClassicVinyl #MusicSky youtu.be/N4bFqW_eu2I?...

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Dano Loves Music @danolovesmusic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“Black Magic Woman” by Santana was a US #4 hit in 1971. #santana #classicrock #EveryHitSongEver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 15/08/2026

How long did it take #PaulMcCartney to gain control over his early #Beatles compositions? Almost 5 decades. Keener13.Substack.com.

It remains one of the coldest, smartest, most Shakespearean moves in rock-and-roll history.

In August 1985, Michael Jackson was no longer the kid from Gary, Indiana. He was the biggest pop star on Earth, still riding the thermonuclear aftershock of Thriller, an album that had turned him into an economy unto himself.

And he was about to spend $47.5 million on some of the most valuable songs ever written. He outbid Paul McCartney for over 250 early Lennon/McCartney compositions and it took almost 5 decades for Paul to get them back.

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Rock Music Association @rockmusicassoc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy Birthday @MarkKnopfler co-founder, singer/songwriter & guitarist for Dire Straits, solo artist, composer, producer and one of the greatest fingerstyle guitar players of our time, born in the rock 8/12/1949. #MarkKnopfler #DireStraits #RockHonorRoll

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 12/08/2026

How Thomas #Edison began the #Rock revolution. keener13.substack.com/p/the-night-...

On August 12, 1877, Thomas Edison reportedly sketched out an idea that would become the phonograph, a machine capable of doing something that bordered on sorcery. It could capture sound and play it back.

Until then, music was mortal. A singer opened his mouth, a violinist drew a bow across the strings, a piano chord rang through a parlor, and then it was gone. Music existed only in the instant it was performed.

Edison changed that forever.

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

August 9, 1964 Bob Dylan and Joan Baez share the stage for the first time, singing "With God On Our Side" at the Newport Folk Festival.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 10/08/2026

Today's Keener Birthdays include Kylie Jenner, 29. Actor Antonio Banderas, 66. Former heavyweight boxing champ Riddick Bowe, 59. Patti Austin, 76. Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, 79. And remembering Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector, born today in 1943.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Ronnie Spector, Born Veronica Yvette Bennett in East Harlem, New York City, August 10, 1943.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 10/08/2026

A Miracles classic. One of their few non-love song hits. Totally danceable.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 10/08/2026

Some of Detroit’s most iconic auto events are coming up. Keener13.Substack.com

Welcome to the Motor City’s annual automotive nervous breakdown. For nearly two months, southeast Michigan becomes one enormous rolling celebration of speed, noise, chrome, mud, beer, nostalgia, technological ambition, and the deeply American conviction that anything worth doing is probably worth doing with a larger engine.

Call it the Big Five. Call it automotive Woodstock. Call it what happens when Detroit remembers exactly who it is.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 07/08/2026

Michigan’s #Woodstock, Goose Lake, turns 56. Keener13.Substack.com

For three days, Leoni Township became the center of the rock-and-roll universe. The Goose Lake International Music Festival was supposed to be the Midwest’s answer to Woodstock. What it became was something louder, harder and considerably more dangerous: 200,000 longhairs, freaks, bikers, hippies and suburban kids descending on rural Michigan for a weekend of deafening music, open drug use and spectacularly organized chaos.

It was Woodstock with Detroit horsepower. The man behind the madness was construction entrepreneur Richard Songer, who wasn’t interested in building some temporary hippie carnival. He bought the property intending to create the world’s first permanent rock-festival grounds. And he went big.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 06/08/2026

Happy birthday, #lucilleball. How she changed #TV. Keener13.Substack.com

Before television became a glowing shrine in every American living room, before reruns, syndication, streaming, and billion-dollar production empires, there was Lucille Ball.

Born August 6, 1911, Lucy didn’t merely become television’s first great comedy star. She helped invent the business that television would become.

Onscreen, she was controlled chaos in a polka-dot dress. She stomped grapes, baked bread that blasted from an oven like a freight train, and fought a candy conveyor belt. Her timing was surgical. Her willingness to look ridiculous was fearless. But behind the slapstick was a woman who understood power, ownership, and technology better than most of the men running Hollywood.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Boys recording one of the greatest albums of all time — REVOLVER — at Abbey Road in 1966. This seminal album was released 60yrs ago today.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 05/08/2026

Happy Birthday, #AmericanBandstand! Here's the #Detroit connection. Keener13.Substack.com. #oldies #60s #radio #keener

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today we’re revisiting Episode 117: “Don’t Worry Baby” by The Beach Boys 🎶 🏖️ Andrew looks at the classic rock pop track, and how the years 1963-1964 saw a radical evolution in the sound and subject matter of The Beach Boys’ work. Listen on all the usual platforms: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...

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The Beatles Bible 🍏 @beatlesbible.com · 04/08/2026

4 August 1969: The Beatles overdub harmonies onto the Abbey Road song Because. George Martin: "The three boys sang together in harmony… then we overlaid another three voices, and another three voices, so we had nine-part harmony all the way through." www.beatlesbible.com/1969/08/04/r...

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4 August 1969: Recording, mixing: Because, Something, Here Comes The Sun | The Beatles Bible

Three days after the backing track for Because was recorded, The Beatles added the song's distinctive vocal harmonies. George Martin: "Having done the backing track, John, Paul and George sang the har...

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 05/08/2026

Context is everything. How @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social’s observation about misplaced priorities caused a firestorm for the #Beatles. Keener13.Substack.com

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 04/08/2026

Uncle Russ at age 17 on Keener’s predecessor, WKMH. Two decades later he will skyrocket the #PaulMcCartney death rumor into the stratosphere on #Keener. #beatles #paulisdead #detroit

Future DJ and Grande Ballroom impresario Russ Gibb on the air at 17 at the station that would later become WKNR. Russ amplified the rumor that Paul McCartney had died on his weekend program on Keener in 1969..

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 03/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Billboard Hot 100.. Remember what the first #1 song was? keener13.substack.com/p/the-week-p...

Before this week in 1958, nobody in the record business could say exactly what a hit was. They knew one when they heard one, of course. It swallowed dimes in jukeboxes from Detroit to Dallas. But proving that a song was a hit was another matter entirely.

The American pop charts were a glorious, corruptible mess. Billboard published separate rankings for “Best Sellers in Stores,” “Most Played by Jockeys,” and “Most Played in Jukeboxes.” One record might be flying out of shops in Chicago, ignored by disc jockeys in New York, and setting jukeboxes on fire in roadside diners across the South. There was no single scoreboard, just a collection of competing realities.

This week in 1958, Billboard brought order to the chaos. The magazine combined sales, radio airplay, and other measures into one national ranking. It called the new chart the Hot 100. And pop music would never be the same.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 02/08/2026

An underrated classic.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 01/08/2026

Remembering #MTV 45 years later. Keener13.Substack.com #80s #musicvideos #radio

At 12:01 on the morning of August 1, 1981, Apollo 11, grainy and ghostly, rose again toward the moon. But what followed was a new kind of blastoff. A voice announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” and the Buggles appeared with synthesizers, plastic glasses, and an inconvenient message for everyone working in radio. “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 01/08/2026

Will do. Thanks very much.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 01/08/2026

The WKNR #Music Guides for today in 1966 & 1968. How many of these do you remember? #detroit #rock #oldies

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 01/08/2026

Keenerfans are everywhere!

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 31/07/2026

The Sultan of Groove. How Ahmet Ertegun Built a House That Rocked Detroit. Keener13.Substack.com. #atlanticrecords #AhmetErtegun #RockHistory #arethafranklin #detroit

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 30/07/2026

On Henry #Ford’s birthday, we look back on his impact on #Detroit #cars and #rockandroll. keener13.Substack.com

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 29/07/2026

Remembering Mama Cass, who left us today in 1974. She charted 10 times on the WKNR Music Guide - eight with the Mamas and the Papas, twice as a solo act. Keener13.Substack.com #casselliot #mamasandpapas #oldies #detroit #keener

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 27/07/2026

The Detroit Jazz Festival returns Labor Day weekend with four days of free performances in downtown and Midtown. See which jazz legends, rising stars, and Detroit musicians are on the 2026 lineup. www.metrotimes.com/music-2/detr...

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Detroit Jazz Festival reveals 2026 lineup and a new Hart Plaza layout - Detroit Metro Times

The Detroit Jazz Festival is bringing jazz legends, rising stars, and a new, more compact layout to downtown Detroit this Labor Day weekend.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 28/07/2026

How Davy Crockett invented today’s pop-culture. Keener13.substack.com #nostalgia #television #disney #detroit

To understand the hypnotic grip of American pop culture in 1955, watch Back to the Future. When Marty McFly staggers into Eisenhower-era Hill Valley, Robert Zemeckis surrounds him with tailfins, soda fountains, and spotless storefronts. But the detail that truly pins the year to the wall is the music in the background. The theme from Disney’s Davy Crockett.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 27/07/2026

Band on The Run: How #paulmccartney Grew #Wings and Escaped the #Beatles Shadow. Keener13.Substack.com

Band on the Run reached Number One in Britain on July 27, beginning a seven-week reign at the top. The debate was over.

This was not merely a successful album. It was McCartney’s dazzling escape from the long shadow of the Beatles. It was a declaration that he could still build pop monuments without Lennon, Harrison, Starr, George Martin, or the machinery of Beatlemania.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 15/07/2026

Happy Birthday, Linda Ronstadt. Here's our appreciation: keener13.substack.com

Linda Ronstadt did not merely sing songs. She entered them.

She found the bruise inside a melody, pressed down hard, and made millions of people feel it.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 03/07/2026

When The Doors lit the match. How a razor blade turned an album track into the Keener 13 song of the year. keener13.substack.com/p/when-the-d...

From the darker end of the Sunset Strip, a band called The Doors were not selling utopia. They were selling heat, danger, sex, death, poetry, and whatever might happen after midnight if you stopped pretending you were afraid.

Then, on July 3, 1967, Elektra Records sent “Light My Fire” out into our consciousness.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 02/07/2026

What was your first #AirConditioned car? We had AC in the car before we had it in the house. Remember many a hot night driving around town just to keep cool.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 30/06/2026

Remember "Quad"? Were you one of the few who had a quad receiver and figured out how to play #Quad #LPs on it? keener13.substack.com/p/the-day-th... #radio #keener #detroit

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Paul Harris @paulharrisshow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I was saddened by the death of David Clayton-Thomas, one of the great voices in rock history. I highly recommend the documentary about his band, "What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears?" (now streaming for free), which I wrote about it here: harrisonline.com/david-clayto...

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 29/06/2026

Always the last song I played at record hops.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 29/06/2026

Will there be a sequel to "St. Elmo's Fire"? Maybe. Would you watch it?

NBC Los Angeles reports the plan is “Yes”, but nothing is official yet. Rob Lowe says a St. Elmo’s Fire sequel is being written and that the original cast is interested. The idea gained momentum after Andrew McCarthy’s Brats documentary revived Brat Pack nostalgia.
No release date, director, or production start has been confirmed. For now, the fire is glowing, but not yet burning.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 25/06/2026

On this date in 1966, The #Beatles Paperback Writer hit number on on the Hot 100. The single sold in the US for 67 cents. Here's it's backstory. keener13.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

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The Sound That Shook the Needle

How The Beatles Found Their Heavy Groove on “Paperback Writer”

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 24/06/2026

Today in 1967, Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" topped the UK charts. Here's some Keener backstory. keener13.substack.com/p/1967-proco...

Somewhere in the blur of 1967, lyricist Keith Reid heard somebody tell a woman she had gone “a whiter shade of pale.” That was all it took. A fragment. A spark. A sentence with no map. From there, Reid built one of the strangest and most enduring fever dreams ever pressed onto vinyl.

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Keener13.com @keener13.com · 01/06/2026

This week on Keener13.com in 1964.

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