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Does he look like the composer of not one but two of the most famous bass lines in popular music? Well, he does not. Rather, he is the composer of of three of them.

Go to google.com, and watch the best doodle animation ever. And then read this post by Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury.

 Freddie (Farokh) Bulsara Mercury was born in Zanzibar on 5th of September 1946. Time to Turn It On! Links to this post: Photo is originally from http://sprucebringsteen-.tumblr.com

Bob Dylan has this great radio show called Theme Time Radio Hour. Every week he chooses a theme,such as Coffee, Devil, Trains, and plays a wide collection of songs about the theme. Interested can download almost all the episodes from the following website ( link to the website ). I was listening to the Weather episode the other day. He played De Niro's famous "Someday a real rain will come and wash away this scum" sample from Taxi Driver. Apparently Dylan likes this movie. So I googled De Niro and Dylan, and here is what I found: Brad Elderman ( link to his website ) took this photo in 1976 in a New York City backstage, where Dylan called the young and new actor to meet him in person. Apparently he tried a lot to get it back. I am happy he didn't get his way. Then I came across a similar picture in the Galatasaray blog I follow Kalendar Libero( link to the blog ): When Queen met the God. This picture of Maradona with Queen is from Queen's epic 81 South Am...

Today is Teacher's Day in Turkey. I would like to use this opportunity to thank all my teachers, and professors for helping me shaping my world view, understanding, and personality. The teacher-student relation is one of the most delicious and important aspects of the human experience, in fact perhaps one of its defining charachteristics. Each year we would celebrate this day in school, and I would spend the festivities listening to Queen on my walkman - I was not conscious of the importance of the day yet- praising the memory of Freddie Mercury, who died on 1991 this day. He was not a teacher, but his voice takes me in a delightful journey in another defining dimension of human experience, music. Here is Queen, with Teo Torriate, the only song in Japanese I can sing: This weekend was out of this world. 3 days with my love, to be crowned with a 2-0 victory over Eskisehirspor, which brought tears in my eyes, just like this fellow " galera " in the stadium:

The most successful "entertainer" in Rock'n'Roll, at least I have ever seen, died 17 years ago on this day. I would like to pay my respects to this great artist with the video of one of his great performances from Live Aid, which I mentioned in my blog earlier.

Brian May, one of my childhood heroes, and the guitar player of my childhood band Queen was elected anonymously as the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. He had finished his Bsc in astrophysics before his success with Queen, and luckily his undergraduate research topic was not a hot one, allowing him to obtain his PHD in 2007 with his thesis titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" which is about the interplanetary dust, that is crucial to understanding of the formation of the solar system.

Spent the Monday home. Devoted the the whole day (well almost the whole, I woke up at 2pm) to spring clean-up. I did not know my apartment could house so much garbage without me knowing. Anyway I found some time to surf the web for interesting music news. I wanna share two... Queen is my first musical obsession, to whom I owe a great deal for the appreciation for multi-layered polyphonic music I grew by listening to them, and helped me appreciating music across the spectrum. Dubbed the first "Stadium Rock"ers, their stage performances had always been great. More than their show on the stage, thanks to flamboyance of Freddie Mercury, they distinguished themselves by getting through to the guy sitting on the last row. People could relate to Queen, composed of the only true male rock diva, the scientist turned guitarist Brian May, the true rocker Roger Taylor and the shy guy on the street John Deacon who plays most of his sets facing Roger Taylor... Their brilliance on stage pea...