I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, Betchum! Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

From Paul McCartney to Beyonce,

plenty of band members have felt the need to spread their wings and fly alone.

And sometimes it works.

I'm Jim De Regattis.

And I'm Greg Kot.

Stay tuned as we share some of our favorite solo efforts.

Plus we review the latest album from Rock Veterans Modest Mouse.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

This is Sound Opinions and Greg, it might seem like only yesterday at us but it was actually 2004

that Modest Mouse this indie rock band that had already been going then a decade in the Pacific

Northwest broke huge with that song float on you remember

float on I do and as he said ten years we're gonna review the new album for

modest mouse later on the show Jim but first we've got some music news. That is Percy Sledge with a 2010 performance of his best known song when a man loves a woman.

That is Percy Sledge with a 2010 performance of his best known song when a man loves a woman that was a

nationally televised performance one of the last performances at least

nationally known performances of that song from Percy Sledge he died in Louisiana at the age of 74 a few days ago.

You know, started out in Alabama,

picking cotton, working at a hospital.

The story goes that one of the patients at the hospital heard

Sledge singing in the hallway and said you got to record some some music and

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