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Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semiautobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans?

Are you the trivia buff in your friend group? Maybe you're just always hoping to learn more random facts to keep up your sleeve. Whether you're a regular trivia fanatic or someone looking for a fun audiobook to listen to, this audiobook goes beyond the scope of general knowledge into some of the most interesting facts and intriguing trivia tidbits out there.

Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures. For better or for worse, he is a man who has always lived life on his own terms. Idiosyncratic but mainstream, complicated but compassionate, steadfastly maverick in spirit but avowedly commercial in outlook. He is a man of great contradictions, but even greater talent.

This audiobook is full of interesting information that you can whip out in any conversation. You'll never be lost for words and always have the perfect icebreaker.

Listen up.You’re about to be saved. This is your day of salvation — saved from that other station that keeps calling itself the home of rock and roll.Let’s be honest… it’s not.It’s the home of endless loops, boring voices, and the same songs played to death. Like The Black Crowes only ever recorded Hard to Handle and She Talks to Angels. They’ve been getting away with it for years. Not anymore.Your saviour of real rock and roll is here. I’m taking over. I am your saviour. You’re going to love this playlist.Give me 15 minutes and you’ll forget that other station ever existed...

As a stay at home mother of three, Leanne was looking for a way to get some grown up time without interfering with her children or her husband’s career. She turned to selling jewelry at in home parties. Word of her wonderful sense of humor and intoxicating southern charm spread like wildfire and she was staying booked months in advance. From here, she was asked to entertain several local corporate events and a professional comedy career was born.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be. In Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, Natasha Lance Rogoff brings this gripping tale to life.

Laughing at Daily Lives Struggles

Bill Haley, the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song "Crazy Man, Crazy" was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen "We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock", the first song of its kind to hit number one. His success made him an idol not only in the US but throughout the world, from Canada to the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and beyond.

In this new version, Jane Bussmann not so much reads as brilliantly performs her supreme comic history of British youth culture, acid house, and nightclubbing. A book so wonderful, it featured in Jeremy Deller’s winning submission to the Turner Prize. A Muzik Awards Book of the Year.

When Tom is invited to the reading of a will of a great-uncle he’s never heard of, there’s no way to know what to expect. But on the long list of possible things to inherit, a travelling carnival ghost train is the very last on the list. To get his full $10 million inheritance, all Tom has to do is run the antique ride until his 18th birthday. Easy. Except for a strange caped-creep he’s never met, who’s trying to con him out of the money...and the actual ghosts and ghouls who call the ride home.

Holly Knight’s singular music career included crafting a good part of the soundtrack to the MTV '80s with mega-hits for Tina Turner (“The Best”), Pat Benatar (“Love Is a Battlefield”), and Patty Smyth (“The Warrior”)—songs that celebrated female empowerment and shaped pop and rock for years to come.

Crazy Sexy Food is a podcast about the love of food, the importance of food and how food plays a part in different people’s lives. It’s about the people behind the food and the stories behind the people. The motive is to get to the bottom of our crazy, sexy food culture. Celebrities, restauranteurs, chefs and industry insiders are interviewed by Hannah Harley Young, a photographer by trade and a foodie at heart. Each episode she sits down with a new guest and discusses how food has played a part in their life, their career and fun, topical banter. The podcast is part of the Crazy Sexy Food...

We're currently in the golden age of superhero blockbusters. Movies like Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Joker, and Avengers: Endgame routinely break box office records and compete for Oscars. Yet, Zack Snyder's 2017 behemoth Justice League - a veritable sure bet at the Hollywood casino - tanked miserably, and the behind-the-scenes reasons for the movie's demise are fascinating.

How to Host a Viking Funeral has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Crazy Wrongs Sayings is combining "Things Not to Say to a Woman", Book One, and "Things Not to Say to a Woman", Book Two. This is for those of you who liked the first one so much that you want to learn more of what not to say! LOL

Helping you navigate Disneyland so you can reduce stress and enjoy your time with your family. Park updates, trip recaps, tips and tricks, plus more. We are a family 9 who has seen it all!

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Welcome to Crazy Enough, the podcast for creatives, founders, and anyone bold enough to believe in their own vision.Hosted by Mary Noon, founder of Salt & Pepper Gifts and By Noon Candles, this show explores the mindset behind building a business with intent. You’ll hear real conversations with entrepreneurs—big and small, about risk, resilience, and what it takes to bring an idea to life. Mary also shares behind the scenes insights from her world of packaging, product design, and running a creative business. Because sometimes, you have to be just Crazy Enough to make it happen.

I go over the craziness in the world