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John Hughes, Iron & Wine + Calexico, Jose Gonzalez, Salvador Dolly   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, August 02, 2019 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."

IRON & WINE + CALEXICO play a Tiny Desk Concert.

JOSE GONZALEZ & THE STRING THEORY visits KEXP.

DAVID BYRNE shares a playlist of unexpected covers.

FOALS share "Black Bull."

JULIANA HATFIELD shares "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" from her Police tribute LP.

DAVE GROHL joined THE BIRD & THE BEE to cover Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love”on Corden.

CREAM syncs "I Feel Free" at the Beat Club.

BOWIE '69: After the failure of his debut album two years earlier, just how did Bowie become the Starman?

TY SEGALL Goes Into Battle Without Guitars.

NEIL YOUNG has postponed all but two of his scheduled 2019 shows in order to launch an ambitious archival film project.

BRUCE HORNSBY: The '80s hitmaker and shape-shifting pianist on Spike Lee, movie cameos, the Dead, and more.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Bee Gees' disco breakthrough, "Jive Talkin'."

FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW is this weekend's sole wide release, currently scoring 71 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

LISA-MARIE PRESLEY is working on a tell-all book about her ex-husband, Michael Jackson.

TO CHEAT AND LIE IN L.A.: Inside the College-Admissions Scandal.

JULIANNE HOUGH may be married to a man, but that doesn’t mean she’s “straight.”

JEFFREY EPSTEIN hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.

1917: The WWI drama from Sam Mendes has a trailer online.

ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD: Tarantino's Most Transgressive Film?

A HISTORY OF WOMEN in Quentin Tarantino movies.

A PUPPY that appears to have a mustache is trending online and will soon be available for adoption in New York City.

A FISH CATCH, with a twist ending.

GATORS have a taste for Florida Man.

A TORONTO SEWER RESCUE turns out to be the wrong python.

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