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See Buck 65 For Zero Bucks

By Carly Beath

2007_10_22Buck65.jpgHip-hop blues music maker Buck 65 drops his new album Situation at the end of the month. The release is an ode to 1957, a time period the man born Richard Terfry considers world-changing in terms of pop culture (or, as he says in a video on his website, “the year all hell broke loose”) thanks to events like Bettie Page going into self-imposed exile, those iconic plastic pink flamingoes appearing on lawns everywhere, and the delightful Situationist International emerging in Italy.
If that sounds intriguing, you can hear all about it live when Buck 65 performs at The Music Gallery on Thursday night. Courtesy of Warner Music, we have two double passes to give away. The first two people to leave a comment about their favourite 1957 happening will win. So get Wikipedia-ing!
Photo by gsdali.

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  • furandloathing

    Definitely the Cavern Club opening in Liverpool.

  • beanmedic

    Fangio winning the F1 championship for the fourth consecutive time!

  • RKBS

    City Lights’ publication of On the Road to great fanfare! There’s been nary a single richer contribution to our last fifty years of culture.

  • valerieintoronto

    My parents graduating from Kingsville High School (later to become my elementary school) in Kingsville, Ohio. Okay, maybe not a major event in global culture, but it’s my favourite anyway.

  • rek

    1957? Well I’d have to say the passing of the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Act.
    http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/1957medicare.html

  • AnarchX

    without a doubt: the publication of “On The Road”, followed closely by the emergence on the road of the classic ’57 Chevy.

  • joeclark

    Where will Terfry be “dropping” this album? Into a Loblaws bag? The Don River?
    To answer the ostensible question: Helvetica.

  • roolb

    The launch of Sputnik, of course.

  • David Topping

    I don’t even care that I can’t win and that eight people have beat me to it. In 1957, some dude named U Nu became Prime Minster of Burma. That is awesome.

  • WannaBinToranna

    Wow…whu nu about U Nu? U nu about U nu?
    I can’t believe U Nu U Nu…and U didn’t tell me?
    If You knew U Nu like I knew U Nu…oh, I need a drink.
    In the Mountains of Burma,
    Hope you’re light years away.

  • Carly Beath

    furandloathing and beanmedic are the winners! Thanks everyone for your comments – and keep ‘em coming if you want, even though the contest is over. Winners, check your email later today for details.