Inspired by the April 14 birthdays of Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Spoon’s Brit Daniel, Loretta Lynn, Da Brat, Edison Lighthouse/FirstClass/Brother of Man’s Tony Burrows, and Mike Brewer.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (4-11-20)
Inspired by the April 11 birthdays of The Specials’ Neville Staple, Lisa Stansfield, Joel Grey, Big Country’s Stuart Adamson, Richard Berry, Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews and The Originals’ Freddie Gorman.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (4-5-20)
Inspired by the April 5 birthdays of ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog, Pharrell Williams, The Hollies’ Allan Clarke, The Platters’ Tony Williams, Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, Wall of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway, Paula Cole, Crispian St. Peters and Bette Davis.
Tonys! Tonys! Tonys!
The Tony Awards, celebrating excellence on the Broadway stages, are being presented this evening. The Tony Awards are like the gay version of the Tony Awards. That’s how gay they are.
Last year I took second place in a speech contest where I spoke about the effect Broadway had on my life. Here is that speech, followed by a playlist consisting of cover versions of Broadway classics.