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In 1928, the Coca-Cola company first entered the Chinese market. It needed to find four Chinese characters whose pronunciations approximated the sounds "ko-ka-ko-la" .
While Coca-Cola was searching for a satisfactory combination of symbols to represent their name, Chinese shopkeepers created signs that combined characters whose pronunciations formed the string "ko-ka-ko-la," but they did so with no regard for the meanings of the written phrases they formed in doing so.
What was the English translation of the meaning of the four characters they chose?
Answered correctly by Valcazar.
While Coca-Cola was searching for a satisfactory combination of symbols to represent their name, Chinese shopkeepers created signs that combined characters whose pronunciations formed the string "ko-ka-ko-la," but they did so with no regard for the meanings of the written phrases they formed in doing so.
What was the English translation of the meaning of the four characters they chose?
Answered correctly by Valcazar.
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Led Zeppelin launched their 'boutique' record label Swan Song Records on May 10, 1974, with distribution by Atlantic Records, (their former label).
In the original cut of a movie released in 1974, the name of a media conglomerate was "Swan Song Enterprises". The name had to be deleted from the film prior to release due to objections from Swan Song Records. Although most references were removed, "Swan Song" remains visible in several scenes of the release cut.
Name the movie.
In the original cut of a movie released in 1974, the name of a media conglomerate was "Swan Song Enterprises". The name had to be deleted from the film prior to release due to objections from Swan Song Records. Although most references were removed, "Swan Song" remains visible in several scenes of the release cut.
Name the movie.
"Had me a real bad dream last night
This morning my bad dream was alive walking the streets of New York City
Somebody has to face this thing somehow
There's no one left but us now
We're all just ..."
Doing what?
Answered correctly by bluebro69.
This morning my bad dream was alive walking the streets of New York City
Somebody has to face this thing somehow
There's no one left but us now
We're all just ..."
Doing what?
Answered correctly by bluebro69.
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I've seen Steve "Little Steven"" Van Zandt perform live six times. Two times with Bruce Springsteen as part of the E Street Band, (1978 and 1981), with Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, (1982), as Little Steven, (ie: no Miami Horns) in 1984, at CNE Stadium in 1987, (first act preceding Los Lobos and U2), and again with the Disciples of Soul at the Danforth Music Hall on Thanksgiving, 2017.
There was a Region 2, (Europe - PAL) DVD of a performance from each of the 1982 and 1984 tours televised on a show named Rockpalast. A friend loaned the DVD to me to create a compressed version. You could watch it here:
Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul - Rockpalast 1982 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul - Rockpalast 1982
archive.org
In July, 1984, The Voice of America tour started in Montreal. I had a 7 AM - 3:30 PM job at that time, and I showed up at the club before the band arrived. Steve said "howya doin?" and shook my hand. I walked in following them, and nobody said anything. Club staff just assumed that I was "with the band", so no one asked me why I was at the soundcheck. I didn't speak to Steve again but I did talk to Jean Beauvoir and Dino Danelli for a few minutes. I mentioned to Dino that I'd never seen a drum kit like his before, and he said "And you''ll never see one again" - he'd made it himself. Jean was interested to learn that the Canadian cassette tape version of Voice of America didn't have any band member credits on the packaging.
Steve was part of the bill for U2 on the Joshua Tree tour mainly because of their involvement on the protest song "Sun City" - Steve wrote it, and Bono was in it.
U2 Joshua Tree tour from Syracuse New York a few days later:
U2 Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY 10 Oct 1987 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
U2 Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY 10 Oct 1987
archive.org
