SAD NEWS: A multi-trophied NBA legend who was also a former Verbum Dei and UCLA star recently passed away. When he was in middle school, David Greenwood loved basketball so much that he would play for three separate teams in three different parks on the same day, several times daily. David would repeatedly exchange his sweaty […]
“I had no idea it would become such a classic… I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of 69’ and it stuck’”: How Bryan Adams and his co-writer Jim Vallance created one of the greatest pop-rock guitar anthems of all time
Adams’ timeless classic “Summer of ’69” came to define the time and became a guitar player’s rite of passage for a number of generations. Writing a pop/rock anthem that becomes an international hit has one disadvantage: TV hosts and reporters will continue to question you about it decades after the song was published. This was […]