All of those landlocked Midwestern teens wanted to follow along - so that they could feel like they too were regulars at Dick Dale’s legendary performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California in the summer ‘61.
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It’s the rare pop song that is so socially conservative - so normal, for lack of a better word - that space and time bend back over and it comes one of the weirdest pop songs of the 1960s.
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Ever wonder why that really terrible song keeps getting played on the radio? That one that everyone knows, and everyone loathes.
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Imagine a world in which women are able to hold men to account for their actions - in which an abuse of power behind closed doors is suddenly cast into the light. Such is the promise of #MeToo, but what if that movement had hit without the hashtag.
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