MARCH 2023 BOOGIE PEOPLE FAN OF THE MONTH
Congratulations to the Boogie People Fan of the Month for March 2023, Gene U! Learn more about Gene below!
Where are you from?: St Charles, MO
How many years have you been a fan?: 41 Years
What is your favorite George Thorogood song: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
How many times have you seen George Thorogood live? 4 times…1982 in Germany, 1994 in St. Louis, 2004 in South Carolina and 2022 in St. Louis Missouri
What’s one thing that sets you apart from other George Thorogood fans?: Length of time I’ve been a fan, and diversity of where I’ve seen him!
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FEBRUARY 2023 BOOGIE PEOPLE FAN OF THE MONTH
Congratulations to the Boogie People Fan of the Month for February 2023, Ken W! Learn more about Ken below!
Where are you from?: Calgary
How many years have you been a fan?: 45 Years
What is your favorite George Thorogood song: I can't pick just one!
How many times have you seen George Thorogood live? 10 At Least
What’s one thing that sets you apart from other George Thorogood fans?: I believe all fans are unique and it’s a good time when they get together!
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JANUARY 2023 BOOGIE PEOPLE FAN OF THE MONTH
Congratulations to the Boogie People Fan of the Month for January 2023, Linda B! Learn more about Linda below!
Where are you from?: Memphis, TN
How many years have you been a fan?: 30+ Years
What is your favorite George Thorogood song: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
How many times have you seen George Thorogood live? At least 20!
What’s one thing that sets you apart from other George Thorogood fans?: Die hard fan that will travel anytime I can to see George! Rain, sleet. Hail or snow!
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Dwayne Johnson Picks George Thorogood’s Baddest Song for Big XFL Moment
By Claude Wooten / 2paragraphs
Dwayne Johnson knows how to hit the notes that sell a narrative, and his talent is on full display as he promotes the story of the 2022 XFL Draft. First, The Rock makes it personal, telling how back in the mid-90s he had his own draft moment, waiting for a call from an NFL executive that never came.
Funny how well disappointment can turn out — that’s the moral of the story, as it often is with Johnson (see Young Rock). Johnson would hardly be The Rock you know today if the Dolphins or Raiders had drafted him back then.
Johnson also hammers home the sense of loyalty and the poignant passage of time, as he reminds fans that the current CEO of XFL Football, Dany Garcia, was with him in the room decades ago waiting for the call that never came. (Garcia, of course, became his wife, his ex-wife, and then his manager — Johnson does things differently.)
And The Rock, as usual, throws in the perfect humorous grace note, too, saying the only call he got then was from his grandmother asking if he’d been drafted yet.
But it’s not just the personal touch that makes Johnson a pro, it’s the production. The dramatic moment of being drafted into a professional sports league is personified by the real life characters Johnson features, in the form of the coaches, and the drama is heightened by the perfectly chosen George Thorogood cover of Bo Diddley’s classic “Who Do You Love?”
Not only does Thorogood’s pitiless beat frame the action, but the question the song asks is the very question, of course, that the teams answer when they make their selections. They are revealing who they love.
Here is Thorogood performing his most badass song on stage in 1984 with music legend John Hammond. You’ll notice that, as in the XFL and as with Johnson and Garcia, it’s team effort.