🎼15 November 1986. 35 years ago American Rap Rock group Beastie Boys released their debut studio album Licensed to Ill. It was an immediate revolution for the entire contemporary #MusicHistory! 😱🤟
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November
https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November
https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg
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Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Music video by Beastie Boys performing No Sleep Till Brooklyn.© 1986 The Island Def Jam Music Group
👨🎨15 November 1701. Pietro Longhi, prominent and prolific XVIII century Venetian painter was born Pietro Falca in Venice. He adopted the art name "Longhi" as soon as he started painting.
Longhi's pictures of real life in Venice (mainly banquets, feasts, brothels, gaming houses, street life) was in constant reference to the theatrical world, and a parallel development can be traced between his work and that of the contemporary Venetian playwright #CarloGoldoni: the latter, through the overcoming of the "Commedia dell'Arte", created a new type of theater inspired by real life, in the same way #PietroLonghi painted the social customs of the time.
Most of Longhi's paintings and frescoes are today held and visitable in Venice Museums and Palaces like Ca' Rezzonico, Querini Stampalia, Accademia Galleries, Ca' Sagredo☝️
#Longhi was also crucial for introducing to the global imagery of the time the traditional Venice Carnival masks 🎭 as people often appear wearing them in his paintings!
#VeniceArt #15November
Longhi's pictures of real life in Venice (mainly banquets, feasts, brothels, gaming houses, street life) was in constant reference to the theatrical world, and a parallel development can be traced between his work and that of the contemporary Venetian playwright #CarloGoldoni: the latter, through the overcoming of the "Commedia dell'Arte", created a new type of theater inspired by real life, in the same way #PietroLonghi painted the social customs of the time.
Most of Longhi's paintings and frescoes are today held and visitable in Venice Museums and Palaces like Ca' Rezzonico, Querini Stampalia, Accademia Galleries, Ca' Sagredo☝️
#Longhi was also crucial for introducing to the global imagery of the time the traditional Venice Carnival masks 🎭 as people often appear wearing them in his paintings!
#VeniceArt #15November
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📌15 November 1983
Ozzy Osbourne
📀 Bark At The Moon
#HeavyMetal #HardRock
40 years ago Ozzy Osbourne from West Midlands, England, #UK released his 3rd studio album (my European edition cassette in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️).
Bark At The Moon is #Ozzy first studio album after
👉 Randy Rhoads tragedy, it features for the first time guitarist Jake E. Lee and his only studio album to feature drummer Tommy Aldridge.
In this album:
#OzzyOsbourne – vocals
#JakeELee – guitar, backing vocals
#BobDaisley – bass, backing vocals
#TommyAldridge – drums
#DonAirey – keyboards
Additional Personnel
#LouisClark - String arrangement
#15November
🎧 Listen to Bark At The Moon 👉 here
@Venice_Rocks
📌15 November 1983
Ozzy Osbourne
📀 Bark At The Moon
#HeavyMetal #HardRock
40 years ago Ozzy Osbourne from West Midlands, England, #UK released his 3rd studio album (my European edition cassette in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️).
Bark At The Moon is #Ozzy first studio album after
👉 Randy Rhoads tragedy, it features for the first time guitarist Jake E. Lee and his only studio album to feature drummer Tommy Aldridge.
In this album:
#OzzyOsbourne – vocals
#JakeELee – guitar, backing vocals
#BobDaisley – bass, backing vocals
#TommyAldridge – drums
#DonAirey – keyboards
Additional Personnel
#LouisClark - String arrangement
#15November
🎧 Listen to Bark At The Moon 👉 here
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👨🎨 #15November 1701.
Born in Venice painter #PietroLonghi.
It's also thanks to his amazing paintings that Venetian Masks 🎭 became popular all over the world.
👉 Read about him here
Born in Venice painter #PietroLonghi.
It's also thanks to his amazing paintings that Venetian Masks 🎭 became popular all over the world.
👉 Read about him here
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