What do you love about music?

To begin with?

Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. With little more than keyboards and a passport,

handsome furs create a world of smart high energy electro pop.

I'm Jim Diregatus from W be Z in Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune.

The husband and wife duo Handsome Furs performs live in our studio and we review the

strange mercy of St. Vincent. That's coming up on sound opinions. From W.B.E.Z.

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And now it's time for some music news.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

take these broken wings and learn to fly

all your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise

Oh Greg I love that song that is Blackbird by Paul McCartney from The Beatles

White Album 1968 McCartney famously wrote it about the struggle for racial

equality every time you think you know everything about the Beatles history, some other

little nugget surfaces and you learn something new.

I was intrigued by this story of an auction that happened earlier this week for a 1965 concert by the band at the Cow Palace in California.

The fact that was interesting to me is that it's stipulated in writing Brian Epstein,

The Beatles manager, said the, quote, will not be required

to perform in front of a segregated audience.

They wanted the audiences to be racially mixed, they wanted equality in their concerts, and they were putting it in writing.

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