100.5 K-Rock Back Pages

56 North is a specialty program hosted by Rosco. It’s an opportunity to hear from not only rock’n’rollers, but generally interesting people from coast to coast and beyond. All the past shows, and dates for future shows are found online at www.krock.fm

Rock Facts

The artist formerly known as, now once again known as, Prince is a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix.

The song Purple Rain is an allegory to Purple Haze.

Speaking of Hendrix, piano and soul legend Little Richard kicked Jimi out of his band for stealing the attention of the audience. The story goes that Jimi wouldn’t wear the uniform Richard had imposed (since he wanted all the attention) and the audiences were drawn to Jimi firstly for his clothes, not his music.

Punk rock legends The Sex Pistols in their prime were banned in almost every part of the UK, so they started touring under the name SPOT (Sex Pistols On Tour).

This story should ring true to our morning man, McCully: In Freddie Mercury’s video The Great Pretender, one of the women that sings with him is actually the band’s drummer Roger Taylor disguised as one.

Ever have a teacher that impacted your life? Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

Ever preach one thing, and do anther? Unlike pretty much every rocker, Frank Zappa didn’t like beer. He used to say his body “gets along better with pepper, tobacco, and coffee”. The problem with that statement is Zappa also said “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” I’ll pick beer.

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