Here are 5 Stoic quotes from Seneca and Marcus Aurelius to start your year off strong.
On this day in 1967, The Rolling Stones LP “Their Satanic Majesties Request” debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #7 (December 30)
This was the first Rolling Stones album to be released in identical versions in both the US and the UK.
It saw the band dip their toes into the psychedelic rock genre, and the album’s somewhat prolonged recording process was marked by drug use, court appearances, and jail terms by members of the band.
In his 2002 book Rolling with the Stones, Bill Wyman described the situation in the studio:
“Every day at the studio it was a lottery as to who would turn up and what – if any – positive contribution they would make when they did.
Keith would arrive with anywhere up to ten people, Brian with another half-a-dozen and it was the same for Mick.
They were assorted girlfriends and friends.
I hated it!
Then again, so did [producer and manager] Andrew (Oldham) and just gave up on it.
There were times when I wish I could have done, too…”
As a result of Oldham leaving, “Their Satanic Majesties Request” would be the Stones' first self-produced album.
Many viewed the album as the Stones attempt to compete with the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
In a 1970 Rolling Stone interview, John Lennon commented on the album: "Satanic Majesties is Pepper. 'We Love You' ... that's 'All You Need Is Love'."
“Their Satanic Majesties Request” went all the way to #1 in Australia and France, #2 in the US and Norway, #3 in the UK, #4 in Germany , and #7 in Finland.
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On this day in 1972, the Cat Stevens single “Morning Has Broken” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #36 (January 1)
“Morning Has Broken" is a Christian hymn first published in 1931, with words by English author Eleanor Farjeon, set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan".
Cat explained how the song came about on The Chris Isaak Hour:
“I accidentally fell upon the song when I was going through a slightly dry period and I needed another song or two for Teaser And The Firecat.
I came across this hymn book, found this one song, and thought, this is good.
I put the chords to it and then it started becoming associated with me."
The Cat Stevens' recording, with piano arranged and performed by session musician Rick Wakeman (who would go on to considerable fame with Yes), became his most successful single in the US, later tied by his rendition of "Another Saturday Night”.
It rose to #3 in New Zealand, #4 in Australia, Canada and Norway, #5 in the Netherlands and South Africa, #6 in the US and Ireland, and #9 in the UK.
In 2000, Rick Wakeman gave an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live in which he said he had agreed to perform on the Cat Stevens track for £10 and was "shattered" that he was omitted from the credits, adding that he never received the money either.
On his return to performance as Yusuf Islam, Stevens paid Wakeman and apologized for the original non-payment, which he said arose from confusion and misunderstanding by the record label.
Wakeman gave the money to one of the schools Cat Stevens founded.
On a documentary aired on British television, Wakeman said he believed that Stevens's version of "Morning Has Broken" was a very beautiful piece of music that had brought people closer to religious truth, for which he was happy to have contributed.
In March 2020, the pair performed the song at the Music for the Marsden charity concert at the O2 Arena in London…
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On this day in 2013, the Ultravox single “Vienna” topped a poll by BBC Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company to find the greatest track to miss out on the #1 spot on the UK Singles Chart (January 1)
“Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl was voted into second place.
Other songs to feature included The Beatles’ “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever”, The Who's “My Generation” and Don McLean's “American Pie”.
“We are extremely pleased and very humbled to have been given this honorary #1, especially knowing the outstanding records which were also in the running - 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Hound Dog' and 'Wonderwall' to name just a few," said Midge Ure.
The song that kept it off the #1 spot in the UK was "Shaddap You Face" by Joe Dolce!
In 2017, Ure was allegedly offered the chance to meet Dolce, but declined, saying: "I've had 40 years of people talking about Joe 'Bloody' Dolce and I don't want to spend what I've got left talking about when I met him."
The pioneering synth-driven new wave hit from the LP of the same name remains Ultravox's signature song, and their most commercially successful release.
According to Midge Ure's autobiography, the title came about by a mishearing of the Fleetwood Mac song "Rhiannon"!
The lyrics were allegedly written quite quickly by Ure, and Billy Currie (keyboards) recalled to Mojo how a key lyric in the song came about:
“We were all being very arty, discussing the composer Max Reger, and Midge walked up and said in his Glaswegian accent, 'This means nothing to me,' and turned away.”
Producer Conny Plank suggested: “Well, sing that then.”
So he did!
According to the Ultravox Discography, drummer Warren Cann said:
“The song came together very quickly.
I had a drum machine/synth pad (CR-78 & 'Synare' pads) pattern in mind that I'd wanted to do something with and played that... to paraphrase myself, I said something like, "What about this, then?" and began the 'Vienna' rhythm.
We started playing something to it and then had the thought of using a chorus idea that we had laying around which we'd previously worked on but had no verse for.
It all clicked in a few hours and we ironed out the rough spots the next day.
Except for finessing the middle 'solo' section of the song once we were in the studio, that was basically it…
A hit a day keeps the dole away!
We knew it was the musical high point of the album and made it the title track.
It was the song that best represented what we were trying to do.
We were determined that it would be our third single and fought with Chrysalis over it; naturally, they thought it was far too long at six minutes, too weird for a Top 30 chart hit, and too depressing and too slow.
Other than that, they liked it!”
It worked…
The single went all the way to #1 in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, #2 in the UK for four weeks, #7 in Sweden, #8 in South Africa and Austria, #11 in Australia, and #14 in Germany.
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January 1st is for recovery.
Around the world, the day after New Year’s Eve is marked by warm soups, fermented flavors, and salty dishes traditionally eaten to help the body bounce back.
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🤿 "Something wicked this way comes"
Pura Vida 🏝️
'Don't leave anything for later.
Later, the coffee gets cold.
Later, you lose interest.
Later, the day turns into night.
Later, people grow up.
Later, people grow old.
Later, life goes by.
Later, you regret not doing something...
When you had the chance.
Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again.
Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words.
So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled.'
~Toshikazu Kawaguchi,
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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On this day in 1973, the Jim Croce single “Time in a Bottle” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (December 29)
Croce’s record company originally didn’t intend to release the song as a single; but when he was tragically killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its poignant lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, really hit home…
The song subsequently began to get a huge amount of airplay as an album track, and demand for a single release built.
When it was eventually issued as a 7", it became Jim Croce’s second and final #1 hit, after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" in July 1973.
“Time in a Bottle” was the third posthumous Billboard #1 hit after "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin.
Elsewhere, the song that was included on the LP "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", went to #1 in Canada and #60 in Australia.
Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970…
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