Tag: Lachman Balani
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Freddie Mercury: The Indian Parsi who rocked the universe!
Born to a Parsi family in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, Farrokh went to a British style boarding school in Panchgani (about a 7 hour drive from Mumbai) called St. Peter’s, where friends, as was the style in those days, nicknamed him Freddie.
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Summer Jam of 1973 was biggest-ever concert in US
All the 150,000 tickets were sold quickly and people in thousands showed up at Summer Jam 47 years ago today TORONTO: Considered fools for having actually purchased $10 tickets to the Summer Jam concert on July 28, 1973, three of us landed at Watkins Glen in upstate New York from nearby Ithaca a day earlier…
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Gone at 27, Jim Morrison was first rock star to be arrested on stage for having sex backstage
The death of Jim Morrison, who died reportedly of a heart attack caused by drug abuse on July 3 in 1971, remains a mystery TORONTO: “When I was back there in seminary school, There was a person there Who put forth the proposition, That you can petition the Lord with prayer Petition the lord with…
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Toronto’s Little Norway Park totem pole is carved from 700-year-old cedar tree!
Called “Dreamwork of the Whales,” this masterpiece was raised by 300 volunteers on October 13, 1981! TORONTO: Little Norway Park, situated at the southwest corner of Bathurst Street and Queens Quay near Billy Bishop airport, is a gem of a hideaway right smack in the middle of downtown Toronto. It boasts of a unique magnificent…