Album Anniversary - December 12, 2015

Today is the 35th anniversary of Sandinista!, the fourth album from the Clash.

Video: "Hitsville UK"

Film Anniversary - December 12, 2015

Today is the 35th anniversary of Popeye, the Robert Altman film adaption of the E.C. Segar comic strip, starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, and Ray Walston.

Album Anniversary - December 12, 2015

Today is the 40th anniversary of Mothership Connection, the fourth album from Parliament.

Video: "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)"

Today's Words of Wisdom - December 12, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

John Jay (1745 – 1829):

“The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880):

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

and

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

and

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

and

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

and

“The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.”

Patrick O’Brian (1914 – 2000):

“We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.”

Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998):

“A simple I love you means more than money.”

and

“You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”

Album Anniversary - December 11, 2015

Today is the 45th anniversary of Plastic Ono Band, the recognized debut solo album from John Lennon.

Video: "Mother"

Television Anniversary - December 11, 2015

Today is the 35th anniversary of Magnum, P.I., the private detective show set in Hawaii and starring Tom Selleck.

Film Anniversary - December 11, 2015

Today is the 45th anniversary of the Disney film, The Aristocats.