Elmer Paisley:

Part 1/8 of “Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy” (1954)

Aphrodite’s Child- “Day of the Fool”, 1968

Mozart’s complete Requiem Mass in D Minor

Nico performing “All Tomorrow’s Parties” live, c. early 80s. So haunting.

Pan’s People dancing to “Itchycoo Park” by the Small Faces, 1976

Nina Hagen performing “Naturträne” live in 1978

Kinuko Y. Craft’s posters for “Der Ring des Nibelungen” at the Dallas Opera.

Ella Fitzgerald performing “Mack the Knife” live in Berlin.

She forgot the lyrics halfway through and improvised it. Totally badass.

“The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek”

 ”One night in the year 1713,” said Tartini, “I dreamed that I had made a compact with the Devil, and that he stood at my command. Everything thrived according to my wish, and whatever I desired or longed for was immediately realised through the officiousness of my new vassal. A fancy seized me to give him my violin to see if he could, perchance, play some beautiful melodies for me. How surprised I was to hear a sonata, so beautiful and singular, rendered in such an intelligent and masterly manner as I had never heard before. Astonishment and rapture overcame me so completely that I swooned away. On returning to consciousness, I hastily took up my violin, hoping to be able to play at least a part of what I had heard, but in vain. The sonata I composed at that time was certainly my best, and I still call it the ‘Devil’s Sonata,’ but this composition is so far beneath the one I heard in my dream, that I would have broken my violin and given up music altogether, had I been able to live without it.”

Parts one and two of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Complete book: 

http://archive.org/stream/rhinegoldvalkyri00wagn#page/n11/mode/2up