--5 Sleep Myths Busted--

It accounts for a third of your life and a big chunk of your health and longevity. So why aren't you sleeping enough?

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What a night. The woman of your dreams appeared. Your pulse raced. Heavy breathing ensued. You do remember it, right? Oh, wait, you were asleep. And that's not all you missed. Under cover of night, sleep floods your veins with age-defying human growth hormone. Sleep raises an army of T cells and sends them into battle against colds and infection. Sleep resets the appetite controls that tell you to not hit the turn signal when you pass a McDonald's. And, of course, sleep helps you above the neck as well as below the belt.

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"It stabilizes your waking brain, makes you more alert, and allows you to process information faster," says David Dinges, Ph.D., who studies shut-eye at the University of Pennsylvania. "It helps you remember things and consolidate those memories." You won't get that from a Red Bull. So then why are we engaged in a society-wide experiment in sleep deprivation? Average nightly sleep time during the workweek in the United States is down nearly 20 minutes in the last decade, to six hours and 40 minutes. And men ages 30 to 44 are the worst offenders: Thirty percent of them say they log less than six hours of sleep at night, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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~http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100235358&GT1=31036

--Frank Sinatra--Fly Me to the Moon (1964)--

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998)

"Fly Me to the Moon" is a pop standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. When introduced by Felicia Sanders on the cabaret circuit, it was originally titled "In Other Words". The song became popularly called "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, but it took a few years for the publishers to change the title officially.
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Frank Sinatra recorded the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played to the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar mission. Sinatra also performed the song with Basie on 1966's Sinatra at the Sands, and on 1994's Duets II, his final recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" and his final collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim. He also performed this song in 1969 TV-show "Sinatra", there he dedicated it to the Apollo astronauts "who made the impossible possible".
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Me_to_the_Moon

--John Lennon-Imagine (1971)--

"Imagine" is a song written and performed by English rock musician John Lennon. Among Lennon's best known and influential songs, it is considered by critics to be his magnum opus. The track was released as a single in October 1971, and is the opening track of his album Imagine released the same year. "Imagine" reached #3 in the U.S. Billboard charts, and #6 in the United Kingdom. After Lennon's death in 1980, the song rose to #1 on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained for four weeks. When asked about the song in one of his last interviews, Lennon declared "Imagine" to be as good as anything he had written with the Beatles. The song is one of three Lennon solo songs, along with "Instant Karma!" and "Give Peace a Chance", in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #3 among greatest song of all time.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(song)