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Red Dog was nominated in nine categories at the 2011 Inside Film Awards. The movie won seven of them, including The Best Feature Film.

There is a statue in his memory in Dampier, which is one of the towns he used to live in.

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Hot Rats, released in 1969 is the second solo album by an american guitarist and composer Frank Zappa. The album was dedicated to Zappa’s new-born son Dweezil and it featured only six songs from which five were instrumental.

Hot Rats was the first Frank Zappa album recorded on 16-track equipment and one of the first rock/jazz albums ever to use that technology.  

The album cover photo was shot by Andee Cohen Nathanson utilizing a psychedelic infrared photography technique. The cover featured Miss Christine Frka freakishly peeking out of an empty lily pond at the infamous Errol Flynn Estate in Hollywood Hills.

Christine Frka was originally hired as a nanny for Frank Zappa’s children Dweezil and Moon Unit (yes, those are their real names) but she was also a member of the notorious Sunset Strip groupie group GTO with Pamela Des Barres.

Miss Christine died of a heroin overdose in 1972 shortly after she had spent close to a year in a full body cast to correct her crooked spine. She was 23 years of age.

Hot Rats reached position 173 on Billboard in the pop albums category.

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This book is great for anybody who is a Rolling Stones fan as well as enjoys reading interesting autobiographies. Highly recommended!

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Pink Floyd was founded in 1965 in the UK and featured Syd Barrett and Bob Klose (at the early stages) Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and David Gilmour. Pink Floyd has been one of the most influential and successful bands in progressive rock history. They have sold 200+ million albums worldwide earning 16 gold, 13 platinum and 10 multi-platinum albums.

Animals, their eighth studio album released in 1977 was loosely based on George Orwell’s political novel Animal Farm; hence the dogs, pigs and sheep.

Hipgnosis was commissioned to create the cover and the packaging for the album but the final concept was actually designed by Roger Waters who decided to use an image of a power station located at Battersea, an inner-city district of South London.

For the cover of the album Waters used a huge pig shaped balloon floating in between the two major chimneys of the Battersea power station.

Animals entered at number two in the UK and number three in the US and the Brittish rock newspaper New Musical Express evaluated the album as “one of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing and downright iconoclastic hunk on this side of the sun.”

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Sticky Fingers is the ninth album by one of the most influential rock groups of all time, The Rolling Stones. Sticky Fingers was released in 1971 and it’s the first release on the Rolling Stones’ own label, Rolling Stones Records. Sticky Fingers was also the first Rolling Stones album that did not feature Brian Jones, the founding guitarist who drowned in his swimming pool in 1969.

The legendary cover of the original album release featured a notorious metal zipper (a real one!) which destroyed huge amounts of vinyl and record covers when placed in a pile. The artwork for the cover was conceived by Andy Warhol. The cover photo was photographed by Billy Name and it featured a close up of Joe Dallesandro’s crotch clad in tight-fitting blue jeans. Joseph Dallesandro is an American actor generally considered to be one of the most famous male sex symbols of the 20th century.

Because of the controversial cover image as well as the metal zipper causing all kinds of problems Sticky Fingers was released with alternative covers in Russia

The opening track and lead single from Sticky Fingers was Brown Sugar and it reached No.1 in the US and No. 2 in the UK. Brown Sugar has since become a classic play in rock radio in just about every country of the world. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Brown Sugar at number 490 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2003 VH1 TV-network named Sticky Fingers the No. 1 Greatest Album Cover of all time. On Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Sticky Fingers was listed at number 63.

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