Courtesy Rolling Stone Magazine
Glenn Frey is certainly most famous for being a founding member of California rock group The Eagles, but his career started long before that, and continues long after. When Frey was a teenager in Detroit, he played with a number of groups and worked with a number of musicians including Bob Seger. In fact Frey played guitar on Seger’s Ramblin Gamblin Man in 1968. His influence and friendship would be a lifelong part of Glenn Frey’s life. In ’68 Frey’s Girlfriend, also a musician, moved to California and Frey soon followed. There he met J.D. Souther, and Jackson Browne (they all lived in the same building). Eventually through these connections he met up with Don Henley and the Eagles were born.
With so many streaming services, 24-hour news programs, and podcasts available for online entertainment, one farmer is thanking her lucky stars that someone simply wanted to watch an Internet livestream of a pigsty. At the moment that Lucy and Ethelâa pair of pregnant pot-bellied pigsâseemed destined to be turned into a roast by a fire in the barn, Laura Palladino, who had tuned-in to the livestream to see if they had given birth, was able to call 911 and alert the farmers of the impending disaster. Palladino had visited Ethel and Lucy some weeks before at their sty on June Farms in New York state, and took a liking to the animalsâso much so that after the farmer had installed a webcam the day before the incident, she decided she would check up her new friends. According to Palladino, she was (perhaps unsurprisingly) the sole viewer of the livestreamâthe only one in the world who knew it was happening.
A hot, rocky âsuper Earth,â near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy has taken a team of planet-hunting scientists by surprise. The planet is about 50 percent larger than Earth but requires less than half a day to orbit its star. âFor every day youâre on Earth, this planet orbits its star twice,â said UC Riverside planetary astrophysicist and team member Stephen Kane. Part of the reason for the short orbit is the planetâs proximity to its star, which also creates incredible heat. Its estimated average surface temperature is over 2,000 degrees Kelvinâmuch too toasty to host life as we know it today, though it may once have been possible. In addition, Kane said that although the planet has roughly three times the mass of Earth, the team calculated its density to be the same as our planet. âThis is surprising because youâd expect the density to be higher,â Kane said. âThis is consistent with the notion that the planet is extremely
Born on the Isle of Mann, and raised in Manchester, the Gibb Brothers, Barry. Robin and Maurice, took to music quickly. They performed as a skiffle group called The Rattle Snakes, before their family emigrated to Queensland Australia in the late 50’s. It was in Australia they would finally gain success as a recording act.
The name they were most famous for, was not BG as in Brothers Gibb as often assumed, but was BG, as in the initials of Barry Gibb, Race Car Driver and Track Promoter Bill Goode, and DJ/presenter Bill Gates who got them a gig at a local race track. Eventually BGs became Bee Gees. They released a number of singles, had numerous TV appearances, and scored their first #1 with “Spicks and Specks” in 1964. The group wrote all their own hits, and Barry also wrote a significant number of songs for other artists in Australia, and eventually around the world.