January 22

[digitS']

___Believe me, those who had read Nineteen Eighty Four 20 or 30 years earlier faced that year with unease:

Commercial, played during the Super Bowl that day.

it's a job Steve

 

[so lucky]

Ugh.

 

[Smart Red]

Read the book, missed the commercial. Cool when put into literary context.

 

[digitS']

Two years and a day later:

The first inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame included the Genius of Soul, Ray Charles.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

As it certainly should have. Not just soul, I liked all his music.

 

[digitS']

On the 24th of January 1967 Aretha Franklin's career is reborn when she signs with Atlantic Records, the label that introduced the world to Ray Charles, etc.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Aretha can still out sing most of todays music stars.

 

[Nyboy]

Another great performer

 

[digitS']

January 25, 1890

Inspired by the book, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the world in 72 days.




Steve

 

[digitS']

This year's

Budweiser Super Bowl Ad:

LINK

Steve