Sweden has its own variation of this tradition; before a wedding, the brideâs mother gives her a gold coin to put in her right shoe and the brideâs father gives her a silver coin to put in her left shoe. The coins represent their wish that she will never be without.
There are a few rocks around that are 4.5 billion years old. Most meteorites are about that old too. The previous star that went nova and left us all these rocks and stuff pretty much cleared the area of older stuff. The Sun is a 3rd generation star.
And the last thirty seconds of the record pick up steam with the kind of unhinged energy that would become an essential element of all great rock records. Eight years later, a 19-year old Elvis Presley did a cover record of it for his first single. Soon, Crudup was being called âthe Father of Rock ânâ Roll.â.