I told you about the walrus and me, man. You know that we're as close as can be, man. Well, here's another riddle for you all: A g...

It is a generally accepted fact that it was Columbia Records' executive Mitch Miller's idea to do the first "greatest hits...

According to this site , a reissue is “the repeated issue of a published work,” and is also known as a “re-release” or “re-edition.” But wha...

An article in today’s L. A. Times includes the announcement that Edward O. Bland’s 1959 documentary short The Cry of Jazz is among the tw...

Among the many nice gifts I received for Christmas this year were two Elvis CDs containing rare outtakes, one titled '60-'61 Session...

Frequent 60x50 correspondent Eric Roberts provides a year-end update on the continuing saga of John Lennon's white Rolls Royce: The my...

If you’ve been following this blog, then you know that I have been trying to learn what happened to John Lennon’s white Rolls Royce (scroll ...

Becky and I, along with our son John and his friend Melody, spent last weekend in the high Rocky Mountains of Colorado where I, at least, th...

Elvis News has reported that fans who have already gotten hold of a copy of the new DVD of Elvis On Tour (the official release of which is...

A couple of years ago I posted a blog on John Lennon’s white Rolls Royce Phantom V, the vehicle that appears at the end of Donald Cammell a...

The movie, that is. The Who’s Tommy (1969) is, of course, the band’s acknowledged masterpiece, even if the story line is slightly incoheren...

Criterion’s announcement that it is issuing in August a Blu-ray edition of Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus should remind us of how the bossa n...