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The song's lyrics place the location of the "Dead Man's Curve" accident at the curve on westbound Sunset Boulevard just west of Doheny Drive in West Hollywood. Voice actor Mel Blanc was severely injured while driving here in 1961, and later sued the City of Los Angeles, prompting a reconstruction of the road. However, the earlier lyrics suggest ...
This is a list of songs about Los Angeles, California: either refer to, are set there, named after a location or feature of the city, named after a famous resident, or inspired by an event that occurred locally.
"Los Angeles Is Burning" is a single by the punk rock band Bad Religion from their 2004 album, The Empire Strikes First. "Los Angeles Is Burning" was released to radio on April 27, 2004. [ 1 ] The song reached number 40 on the Modern Rock Tracks in July 2004.
The song's lyrics draw inspiration from John Rechy's transgressive novel City of Night, published in 1963, [11] [12] while its title is expressed as a metaphor, personifying L.A. (Los Angeles) as a woman. [4] In author Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith's description, it is also used to describe the city's topography and atmosphere. [13]
The city of Los Angeles is on the verge of redrafting blueprints for its neighborhoods to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes. But under a recommendation from the planning department, nearly ...
"Pico and Sepulveda" is a 1947 song by Freddy Martin and his orchestra. Composed by Eddie Maxwell (Eddie Cherkose) and Jule Styne (Ambassador Records, 1947 — b/w "She of the Coffee Brown Eyes"), it features a Latin-style beat, and Martin used the alias "Felix Figueroa" when performing and recording the song.
On Oct. 17, 2024, Jelly Roll will perform a live concert in Los Angeles for the season kick off of the Amazon Music Live concert series.
The official music video for the single was uploaded to VEVO May 5, 2015. [3] It was directed by Warren Fu.In the video, a group of African Americans in 1940s Los Angeles, in a movie theater to see the (fictional) film California Roll: A Flight to the Future, find that the film is more like a ride, with seat belts required, and narrated by a talking robot.