BEETHOVEN STEAM ROLLED OVER. WATCH JEFF LYNNE'S TRIBUTE TO CHUCK BERRY.

ELO's Jeff Lynne kicked off an evening of performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Friday with a roaring tribute to Chuck Berry, who died in March at age 90. Lynne remembered Berry by playing "Roll Over Beethoven," which appeared on Electric Light Orchestra's 1973 album Electric Light Orchestra II. RELATED Chuck Berry: Farewell to the Father of Rock He gave the music its sound and its attitude, even as he battled racism – and his own misdeeds – all the way Lynne was accompanied by members of his touring band, Jeff Lynne's ELO; together, the ensemble careened through one of Berry's most iconic tracks. Two cellos and a violin added light orchestral flourishes in between the guitar-heavy verses. Berry released "Roll Over Beethoven" in 1956 and it quickly became a rock and roll anthem, an announcement that the genre didn't give a damn about old-fashioned cultural hierarchies that elevated classical music above all else. The song reached No. 7 on Billboard's R&B chart. "Roll Over Beethoven" was subsequently embraced by a younger generation of aspiring rockers. The Beatles recorded a cover version for their second U.K. LP, With the Beatles. The Fab Four stuck closely to Berry's vision; their "Roll Over Beethoven" was concise and compact, a sub-three-minute wallop. In a marked contrast, Electric Light Orchestra's cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" from a decade later transformed the speeding bullet original into something more flowery and ornate. The ELO track opened with snippets of Beethoven's 5th symphony before moving into a tight, pelting Berry homage. But soon the strings returned, and the song's final minutes played out as a wild musical struggle between Berry and Beethoven. The whole thing stretches out past the eight minute mark. Bev Bevan, who served as ELO's drummer for many years, still remembers the band's Chuck Berry cover fondly. During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he proposed the song as a good candidate for the all-star jam that usually occurs at the end of the Rock Hall induction ceremony. "I can imagine Joan Baez singing 'Roll Over Beethoven,' absolutely," he said.

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MARCH, 14th, 1970, BUDDY BAKER AND THE PLYMOUTH/DAYTONA BREAK THE 200-MPH BARRIER.

BUDDY BAKER RAN ON BIAS-PLY GRANPA DAYS TYRES AND BROKE THE 200-MPH BARRIER.

45 Years Ago Today, The 200 MPH Barrier Was Broken In NASCAR SteveLehto 3/24/15 11:00am 13.9K 75 31 It was 45 years ago today that Buddy Baker broke the 200 MPH mark for a closed course with a stock-bodied car, driving a Dodge Charger Daytona past the mark at Talladega. It was an amazing event, and involved some corporate intrigue. Chrysler had come up with their winged cars - the Charger Daytona and the Plymouth Superbird - in 1969 and 1970 respectively and the cars were tearing up the big NASCAR tracks. At Talladega, qualifying speeds had approached 200 MPH but no one had crossed the magical mark. In February 1970, a promotions man from Dodge called one of the men in charge of the winged car program and asked if their car - one owned and tested by Chrysler - could run "official" laps at 200 miles per hour if given the opportunity on a good track with official timers. That man, Larry Rathgeb, didn't hesitate to tell him he was certain of it. After all, Charlie Glotzbach had run laps at Talladega of 199.466 mph in that car. Rathgeb realized that the cost would be minimal, and decided to see if Buddy Baker would be willing to give it a try between stops on the NASCAR circuit. Buddy agreed, so in the week following the Atlanta 500, Rathgeb, Baker, the engineering car, and some NASCAR officials gathered at Talladega to see if the 200 MPH barrier could be broken. They told everyone they were merely testing a new transmission, although some people were told they were testing tires. After all, Talladega ate tires for breakfast, so it was a feasible ploy. A press release put out afterwards claimed, "Buddy Baker was at Talladega for a series of engineering tests on transmission durability." Chrysler was concerned a little about the appearance of impropriety; after all, manufacturers weren't supposed to have such direct involvement in NASCAR. Hence, the transmission and tire alibis. The party arrived at the speedway a little after 8:00 the morning of March 24th. Among those present was NASCAR chief Bill France, along with Joe Epton, chief scorer for NASCAR. Baker took the car out for 5-lap circuits; the first lap to get up to speed and then three laps at speed to see how fast the car was and then a final slow-down lap to bring the car back in for adjustment. Between runs, the engineers and mechanics adjusted the suspension, fine-tuned the engine, and played with the tires to see what the perfect set up would be. "One of the first laps we ran in was 199.8 mph. And that was just warming up!" Baker noted later. After a few of the 5-lap runs, the team thought they had found the right tweaks to make the car its fastest. At 4:25 p.m. Baker ran a lap of 200.096 miles per hour, the first ever officially clocked by NASCAR at over 200. A few minutes later, he ran several more laps over 200, including one at 200.44795 miles per hour. After the runs, the crew posed with the pit board bearing the notation, "200.447." You can watch the run here. "For us it was just another day at the office. We were damn happy we did it, but it didn't seem like a big deal at the time. We had qualified close to 200 mph so we thought we could break the record," Rathgeb said. Still, Chrysler did not brag too loudly about their role in the operation. The press release that announced the record run was issued by Cotton Owens, the owner of Buddy Baker's race car – but not the car Baker was driving in the test. The release did not explain the difference, and claimed the record was set by Baker in "his Dodge Charger Daytona." Even the cover story on Stock Car Racing about the 200 mph run showed a picture of Baker behind the wheel of his Cotton Owens car #6 – not the Chrysler Engineering car. Chrysler let everyone else take the credit, knowing Chrysler would always be the underlying factor in the equation: none of this could have been done without the Dodge Charger Daytona. The record-setting trips around the track at Talladega paid big dividends as predicted in publicity. Champion, the spark plug maker, ran full-page ads in magazines with a photo of the car and the two-inch-tall caption, "200.447 MPH." The bulk of the text raves about the car and its speeds, but there are a few references to Champion spark plugs which were in the engine at the time. No NASCAR driver would qualify a car at 200 mph in a NASCAR event until 1982. It was at Talladega that Benny Parsons finally managed a 200.176 mph qualifying lap for the Winston 500.

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Fate of the Furious races past Star Wars to break global box office record Sequel speeds ahead of The Force Awakens with global opening weekend takings of $532.5m despite grossing less in North America than its predecessor Charlize Theron and Vin Deisel and Fast & Furious 8. Turbo charged … Charlize Theron and Vin Diesel and Fast & Furious 8. Photograph: Allstar/Universal Pictures View more sharing options Shares 903 Comments 145 Gwilym Mumford and agencies Monday 17 April 2017 10.50 BST Last modified on Monday 17 April 2017 22.00 BST Fast & Furious 8 has raced to a global box office record for an opening weekend, taking an estimated $532.5m (£425m) worldwide. The action thriller, which stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Dwayne Johnson as street car racers, reached that total despite a drop-off in opening weekend takings in North America from its predecessor. The latest instalment took $100.2m in the region, enough to top the US charts but significantly less than Fast & Furious 7, which made $147.2m in its opening weekend. The figures for Fast & Furious 8 (titled The Fate of the Furious in the US) were boosted by takings in foreign markets. The film took $423.3m altogether, across 63 territories. A hefty proportion of that total came from China, where the film set a record for the biggest three-day opening weekend, taking $190m. (Although Chinese cinemas only give studios about 25% of ticket sales, roughly half of what they receive in most other major territories.) The Fate of the Furious review - Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson ensure franchise still has va-va-vroom The latest instalment of the car-based action thriller – also called Fast & Furious 8 – has lost none of its zip, and even gained Charlize Theron, Jason Statham and Helen Mirren Read more The film’s global total was enough to take it past Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which made $529m in its opening weekend in December 2015. The only other film to break the $500m barrier is Jurassic World, which earned $525.5m. Fast & Furious 7 made $397.7 in its opening weekend. Fast and Furious 8 has received mixed reviews. It has a rating of 56 out of 100 on the critic aggregation site Metacritic, based on 44 reviews. While some critics were won over by the film’s sense of spectacle, others were not so complimentary, with one particularly scathing review in the Wall Street Journal describing it as “soulless, graceless, witless, incoherent and brain-numbingly long”.

AC/DC - C.O.D.

CARE OF THE DEVIL.

Call of a dog, cry of a bitch
Cream of a dream is the cause of the itch
Call of the doctor, cash on demand
If you get enough rope, might even hang

C.O.D. - care of the devil
C.O.D. - the devil in me
C.O.D. - care of the devil
Care of the devil in me

The curse of love is the cause of the pain
The crime of the day is when you do it again
Call of the doctor, cash on demand
If you give them a finger, they'll take off your hand

C.O.D. - care of the devil
C.O.D. - the devil in me
C.O.D. - care of the devil
Care of the devil in me

Call of the dove, cry of a bitch
The sign of the sinner, the size of his itch

I'm paying, paying, I'm paying C.O.D.
Care of the devil, care of the devil in me
It's the curse of love

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