This used to be negatively banked because UCLA would not give up land for fill and the City was too cheep to build a retaining wall. Untangling the events that led to the "Stairway To Heaven" lawsuit.A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs Also one on Mulholland Drive heading westerly just past Skyline Drive.
Three days later, while driving his sports car eastbound at 9:30 p.m., Blanc was hit head-on by a car that had lost control on this notoriously dangerous bend in Sunset Boulevard, a place already known as "Dead Man's Curve." The former Metallica bassist talks about his first time writing a song with James Hetfield, and how a hand-me-down iPad has changed his songwriting.
Which makes sense, a little over a mile of near straight road from Doheny to build up speed into the curve at Greenway Drive.
A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.Daryl Hall's TV show is a hit, and he's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - only one of these developments excites him. Berry suffered permanent brain damage in the crash, but did recover well enough to resume performing with Dean Torrence starting in 1978.
The recording was disrupted by guitarist Jo Callis reaching through an open window from outside to repeatedly flush one of the toilets.
Doesn't say anything about going through all the other curves to get to it. I've counted three just Wiki-traveling west on Sunset Boulevard! "Sunday Girl" was written by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein to cheer up Debbie Harry after her cat had run away whilst they were away on tour. At Dead Man's Curve" In January 1961 Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) and former Warner Brothers executive producer John Burton started a commercial production company called Mel Blanc Associates.
The gray cat was called Sunday Man.The TV show Cheers was nearly canceled after its first season, but the theme song, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," was very popular.
To satisfy viewer demand, the theme was made into a full song and released as a single.Phil Oakey recorded his vocals for "Don't You Want Me" in the studio bathroom. This part of Sunset Boulevard was made safer shortly after Mel Blanc's crash, but the part of Sunset that I'VE always known as Dead Man's Curve (because my mom always described it that way to me, presumably because her mom did so to her as well) is the big blind curve that comes just east of Beverly Glen but before the Beverly Hills city limits. http://usclibraries.tumblr.com/post/77398486705/dead-mans-curve-on-sunset-boulevard-near-ucla He died of a seizure on March 26, 2004.The credited songwriters are Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan Berry, Roger Christian (a DJ and car enthusiast who wrote "In the liner notes for the Jan and Dean collection The cars described in the song were the ones owned by Jan Berry and his co-writer Roger Christian - Jan had a Stingray and Roger had a Jaguar XKE.
According to the song it's the first curve going west past Doheny, "He passed me at Doheny then I started to swerve Roger wanted the song to end with the racers finishing in a tie, but Berry insisted it end in a fiery crash.The real Dead Man's Curve was so dangerous because it bows to the outside, and centrifugal force draws cars coming down the hill into the oncoming lane if they're moving too fast.