December 21
Pop culture's most surreal meeting occurred on this date in 1970 when Elvis Presley secretly visited President Nixon in the Oval Office, the King of Rock and Roll requesting to become a "Federal Agent at Large" for the Bureau of Narcotics while sporting a cape and collecting police badges… We remember rock's most uncompromising maverick Frank Zappa on his birthday today in 1940, the composer-satirist whose fearless creativity spanning doo-wop parody to orchestral complexity made him one of music's most important voices before prostate cancer claimed him in 1993… The Beach Boys' most underrated member Carl Wilson was born today in 1946 in Hawthorne, California, the youngest Wilson brother whose angelic lead vocals on "God Only Knows" and steady guitar work held the band together through Brian's troubles before lung cancer took him in 1998… The blues lost one of its three Kings today in 1992 when Albert King died from a heart ...
