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georgiosmasman.bsky.social
@georgiosmasman.bsky.social
Social Worker.
Ars longa, vita brevis.
"I felt my heart skip a beat
The sunlight covered the street
If I can't love you tonight...."

Reliving the magic of Willy DeVille
January 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Tom Waits 🖤
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Gm ❣️
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM
"Well now I'm over the wall I'm nearly home
I'm coming through that door coming back for you...."
According to the Sham 69: History, Discography And Biography, it was released on January 6, 1978.

#Sham69 #punkrock #punk #punks #70smusic #musicsky #rockmusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxG...
sham 69 'borstal breakout'
YouTube video by Phlips91
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January 6, 2026 at 10:47 AM
“EMI feels it is unable to promote this group’s records internationally in view of the adverse publicity which has been generated over the last two months.”
Never mind the record deal, here's the #SexPistols
January 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
On January 6, 1980 #TheStranglers frontman #HughCornwell was sentenced to 8 weeks in prison & fined 300 pounds. He & rock promoter Paul Loasby were optimistic they'd receive a warning,a fine or perhaps a suspended jail sentence. Boy, were they wrong!
#punkrock #punk #punks #80s
January 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
"He was the one that was behind AC/DC. He was our spiritual leader. He was our spitfire." #BrianJohnson

#OnThisDay #remembering Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) who was the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter of #ACDC
January 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin is a live album by Hawkwind
released #OnThisDay January 6, 1⃣9⃣8⃣5⃣ consisting of a performance at the Empire Pool, Wembley on 27 May 1973. A poor sound quality audience recording licensed by #NikTurner

#Hawkwind #spacerock #rockmusic #musicsky
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
“My part is just a few notes over and over, but Ron created a whole world around that.” Iggy Pop
#Remembering the guitar anti-hero who started the Stooges and changed the sound of rock 6-string’s future, paving the way for … everything, #RonAsheton
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 AM
#OnThisDay #Remembering #MaartinAllcock (5 January 1957 – 16 September 2018) a multi-instrumentalist known mostly as a fretless bass player & guitarist for #FairportConvention During his tenure with Fairport he also toured with #JethroTull & #TheMission
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"God must be a boogie man."
Spinning this #masterpiece in memory of the late great #CharlesMingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979).
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“The burden of life just won’t leave us alone. And the time’s never right when you’re losing a soul.”

Happy birthday #BethGibbons
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
#OnThisDay January 5, 1999 psycho-space warlords Hawkwind released their twenty-second live/studio album #Hawkwind in Your Area. The live side was recorded during the group's 1997 tour to promote the Distant Horizons album.The studio tracks were recorded during 1998.

#spacerock #musicsky #rockmusic
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"a leaden fumble, as close to formula as indie rock gets" #SPIN
#OnThisDay Jan. 5, 1993 American #alternativerock band #Cell released their debut album, Slo*Blo. It was released by DGC Records; the band had been signed by #ThurstonMoore
January 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
“[if] you could go back and do your life over again, you'll probably make all the same mistakes. But it gave me an overview that I might not have previously seen – the big picture, maybe. What did we learn from this? I don't know.”

Happy birthday to #ChrisStein
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
On Jan 5, 1973 with a boulder on his shoulder, feelin' kinda older, 23-year-old @brucespringsteen.net released his debut album "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J." upon an unsuspecting world.

#anniversary #OnThisDay #70smusic #70s #brucespringsteen #musicsky #rockmusic
January 5, 2026 at 8:58 AM
"Most of this record was written in hotel rooms or on a tour bus.Every shop front or nightclub sign seemed like a line from a song. In some cases that was just what they became" Released on Jan 5, 1979 still sounds brilliant & proves the depths of Costello's compositional talents
#OTD #elviscostello
January 5, 2026 at 8:56 AM
"You were always looking for beauty because it was such an ugly place, whether again on a subconscious level. I mean, I don’t think I saw a tree till I was about nine. I was surrounded by factories and nothing that was pretty, nothing."
#HappyBirthday to #BernardSumner
January 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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47 years ago today
XTC - Colin Moulding, Terry Chambers and Andy Partridge performing live onstage at CBGB, January 4, 1979.

Photo by © Ebet Roberts

#punk #punks #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #xtc #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory #otd
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 AM
42 years ago #today on January 4, 1983 the #German #NewWave band #Nena released their self-titled album.
NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY via @YouTube
NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo]
YouTube video by NENA
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January 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
“Songs are like ships… They have their own particular voyages and destinations.. Once they’ve been launched, there’s no turning back. You just have to follow the journey.” Annie Lennox
#OnThisDay Jan 4, 1983 Eurythmics released their 2nd album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).
#eurythmics #80smusic
January 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
"I don't know about being the best. I still can't read music. But, having never heard anyone play in a similar way, I'd certainly consider, perhaps, being the most original."

#Remembering Andonis Michaelides (24 July 1958–4 January 2011), better known as #MickKarn
January 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
#OnThisDay January 4, 1980, #TheRomantics released their self-titled debut album, which features the enduring #powerpop classic “What I Like About You,” as well as the gem “When I Look in Your Eyes” & a memorable cover of The Kinks’ “She’s Got Everything.”
January 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“A song asale should have said so much/Makes it harder the more you love” – #MarkHollis “Watershed”
#Remembering Mark David Hollis (4 January 1955 – February 2019).
January 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM