Brian Downey
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Guitar enthusiast. Music Lover. Freelance communicator. Truth & Justice Seeker.
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This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
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The iconic actor and director and his wife were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home on Sunday. Police are interviewing a family member.
What We Know About Rob Reiner’s Death: Los Angeles Police Investigating As Homicide
The iconic actor and director and his wife were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home on Sunday. Police are interviewing a family member.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The iconic actor and director and his wife were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles home on Sunday. Police are interviewing a family member.
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Ted Tocks Covers
Day Tripper
Originally posted on December 8, 2022
Sixty years ago today, The Beatles hit #1 for the ninth time with ‘Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out’.
“Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out”
#thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #bobbyparker
Day Tripper
Originally posted on December 8, 2022
Sixty years ago today, The Beatles hit #1 for the ninth time with ‘Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out’.
“Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out”
#thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #bobbyparker
Day Tripper – A special blend of soul, wit and a dash of LSD. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #TheBeatles #JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney #BobbyParker #MaeWest #OtisRedding #CurtisKnight #JimiHendrix #BookerT...
Raise your hand if you have ever been under the gun by your boss to meet an important deadline, and you are expected to produce nothing but your best work. Today’s feature is an example of a song J…
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December 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ted Tocks Covers
Day Tripper
Originally posted on December 8, 2022
Sixty years ago today, The Beatles hit #1 for the ninth time with ‘Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out’.
“Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out”
#thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #bobbyparker
Day Tripper
Originally posted on December 8, 2022
Sixty years ago today, The Beatles hit #1 for the ninth time with ‘Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out’.
“Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out”
#thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #bobbyparker
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 98
The Inner Light
A brief look at the friendship between George Harrison and Ravi Shankar
“The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
#georgeharrison #Ravishankar
The Inner Light
A brief look at the friendship between George Harrison and Ravi Shankar
“The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
#georgeharrison #Ravishankar
The Inner Light – How a broken sitar string led to a monumental musical friendship. MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #GeorgeHarrison #RaviShankar
Admittedly, today’s feature song is a relative rarity, but what it lacks in the way of commercial appeal or immediate recognition it makes up for in significance. So, here I sit cross-legged on the…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 98
The Inner Light
A brief look at the friendship between George Harrison and Ravi Shankar
“The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
#georgeharrison #Ravishankar
The Inner Light
A brief look at the friendship between George Harrison and Ravi Shankar
“The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows”
#georgeharrison #Ravishankar
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 97
Power to the People
Remembering John Lennon 45 years later.
“Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street’
#johnlennon #AlGreen #ericburdon #BillyPreston #blackeyedpeas #tommorello
Power to the People
Remembering John Lennon 45 years later.
“Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street’
#johnlennon #AlGreen #ericburdon #BillyPreston #blackeyedpeas #tommorello
Power to the People – Let the working class become its own hero. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #JohnLennon
It has now been 45 years since John Lennon was assassinated. Yes, it was an assassination. Some call it a premeditated murder or just a murder. It was senseless. It was brutal. Emotionally speaking…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 97
Power to the People
Remembering John Lennon 45 years later.
“Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street’
#johnlennon #AlGreen #ericburdon #BillyPreston #blackeyedpeas #tommorello
Power to the People
Remembering John Lennon 45 years later.
“Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street’
#johnlennon #AlGreen #ericburdon #BillyPreston #blackeyedpeas #tommorello
John Lennon died on this day 45 years ago in New York. RIP ( October 9 1940 - December 8 1980)
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
John Lennon died on this day 45 years ago in New York. RIP ( October 9 1940 - December 8 1980)
The FIFA stuff with Trump is some of the most embarrassing shit I’ve ever seen in American politics. What a man-child.
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The FIFA stuff with Trump is some of the most embarrassing shit I’ve ever seen in American politics. What a man-child.
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🚨The global heavy metal community has spoken.
The petition to officially recognize July 22nd as Ozzy Osbourne Day has now surpassed 10,000 signatures, marking a major milestone in the movement to honor one of music’s most influential and iconic figures.
www.thisdayinmetal.com/ozzy-osbourn...
The petition to officially recognize July 22nd as Ozzy Osbourne Day has now surpassed 10,000 signatures, marking a major milestone in the movement to honor one of music’s most influential and iconic figures.
www.thisdayinmetal.com/ozzy-osbourn...
Ozzy Osbourne Day Petition Surpasses 10,000 Signatures Worldwide
Ozzy Osbourne Day Petition Surpasses 10,000 Signatures Worldwide
www.thisdayinmetal.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🚨The global heavy metal community has spoken.
The petition to officially recognize July 22nd as Ozzy Osbourne Day has now surpassed 10,000 signatures, marking a major milestone in the movement to honor one of music’s most influential and iconic figures.
www.thisdayinmetal.com/ozzy-osbourn...
The petition to officially recognize July 22nd as Ozzy Osbourne Day has now surpassed 10,000 signatures, marking a major milestone in the movement to honor one of music’s most influential and iconic figures.
www.thisdayinmetal.com/ozzy-osbourn...
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
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Ted Tocks Covers
Walking on the Moon
Originally posted Dec. 7/24
On this day in 1979 #ThePolice had their second U.K. #1 with this hit from ‘Regatta de Blanc’.
“Some may say I’m wishing my days away
No way, and if it’s the price I pay
Some say tomorrow’s another day
You stay, I may as well play”
Walking on the Moon
Originally posted Dec. 7/24
On this day in 1979 #ThePolice had their second U.K. #1 with this hit from ‘Regatta de Blanc’.
“Some may say I’m wishing my days away
No way, and if it’s the price I pay
Some say tomorrow’s another day
You stay, I may as well play”
Walking on the Moon – I may as well play. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ThePolice
‘Reggatta de Blanc’ has always been my favourite album by The Police so it is refreshing to hear that Stewart Copeland lists it as his sentimental favourite when he looks back on his days with the …
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December 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Ted Tocks Covers
Walking on the Moon
Originally posted Dec. 7/24
On this day in 1979 #ThePolice had their second U.K. #1 with this hit from ‘Regatta de Blanc’.
“Some may say I’m wishing my days away
No way, and if it’s the price I pay
Some say tomorrow’s another day
You stay, I may as well play”
Walking on the Moon
Originally posted Dec. 7/24
On this day in 1979 #ThePolice had their second U.K. #1 with this hit from ‘Regatta de Blanc’.
“Some may say I’m wishing my days away
No way, and if it’s the price I pay
Some say tomorrow’s another day
You stay, I may as well play”
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Ted Tocks Covers
Venus
Originally posted on Sept. 6/18.
On this day in 2006, #MariskaVeres died of cancer. She was the vocalist for #ShockingBlue who brought us the original version of ‘Venus’.
“A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame"
#bananarama
Venus
Originally posted on Sept. 6/18.
On this day in 2006, #MariskaVeres died of cancer. She was the vocalist for #ShockingBlue who brought us the original version of ‘Venus’.
“A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame"
#bananarama
Venus – A smash hit in successive decades. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ShockingBlue #Bananarama
Out of the ‘Shocking Blue’ from the Netherlands came this psychedelic rock folk group in 1967. They were actually quite a deal from the ‘summer of love’ through 1974 when th…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ted Tocks Covers
Venus
Originally posted on Sept. 6/18.
On this day in 2006, #MariskaVeres died of cancer. She was the vocalist for #ShockingBlue who brought us the original version of ‘Venus’.
“A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame"
#bananarama
Venus
Originally posted on Sept. 6/18.
On this day in 2006, #MariskaVeres died of cancer. She was the vocalist for #ShockingBlue who brought us the original version of ‘Venus’.
“A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame"
#bananarama
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NEWS: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — calling her appointment unlawful and void. The 3rd Circuit panel upheld a prior decision that her tenure violated federal appointment law.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
NEWS: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — calling her appointment unlawful and void. The 3rd Circuit panel upheld a prior decision that her tenure violated federal appointment law.
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Ted Tocks Covers
The Top Three Posts for November and a few bonus songs.
Enjoy some quality music from R.E.M., Gordon Lightfoot, Def Leppard and a whole lot more.
Have a grateful day!
#ToddSnider #JimmyCliff #DonnaJeanGodchaux #REM #GordonLightfoot #DefLeppard #JacksonBrowne
The Top Three Posts for November and a few bonus songs.
Enjoy some quality music from R.E.M., Gordon Lightfoot, Def Leppard and a whole lot more.
Have a grateful day!
#ToddSnider #JimmyCliff #DonnaJeanGodchaux #REM #GordonLightfoot #DefLeppard #JacksonBrowne
Top Three Posts for November and a Whole Lot More. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers
I write this while looking at a world that somehow continues to function while reigns of terror and chaos all around us aim to grind us down. Or worse, their efforts to flood the field with so many…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ted Tocks Covers
The Top Three Posts for November and a few bonus songs.
Enjoy some quality music from R.E.M., Gordon Lightfoot, Def Leppard and a whole lot more.
Have a grateful day!
#ToddSnider #JimmyCliff #DonnaJeanGodchaux #REM #GordonLightfoot #DefLeppard #JacksonBrowne
The Top Three Posts for November and a few bonus songs.
Enjoy some quality music from R.E.M., Gordon Lightfoot, Def Leppard and a whole lot more.
Have a grateful day!
#ToddSnider #JimmyCliff #DonnaJeanGodchaux #REM #GordonLightfoot #DefLeppard #JacksonBrowne
