Month: June 2010

Why We Built May Father’s Coffin

June 3, 2010
Memoir
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Part II –Why We Built my Father’s Coffin Posted by John Manchester on June 3, 2010 at 2:30pm View Blog RATE: 11 Flag This is an excerpt from my memoir: In his last years my father told me, “When I die I want you children to build my coffin.” He’d gotten the idea sometime in the seventies,…

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Guilty Pleasures: The Beach Boys

June 3, 2010
60's MusicPop Music
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Part 2 – The Warmth of the Sun I could come to the neat conclusion that the Beach Boys are part wonderful, part terrible and some strange, and leave it at that.  But there’s a deeper truth hiding in their contradictions.  The Beach Boys are the quintessential American band.  Not just because they sold more…

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Guilty Pleasures: The Beach Boys

June 1, 2010
60's MusicPop Music
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Part 1 Given the fallen state of Rock music in recent decades, I felt it my duty as a father to try to turn my sons on to some of the great stuff of Rock’s golden age in the ‘60s.  I was pleased when they went enthusiastically for the Beatles, Dylan, Motown and Hendrix with…

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It’s the Sixth Anniversary of my Father’s Death

June 1, 2010
Kennedys
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EDITOR’S PICK JUNE 1, 2010 7:06AM RATE: 19 Flag Part 1: The Reason I’m Here on Open Salon My father with JFK looking over his shoulder, 1964 (Image rights reserved John Manchester) A month ago I started merrily blogging away here and never properly introduced myself.  I’m the son of the writer William Manchester. He became well-known when he…

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