Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Rolling Stones, and the most talented musician in the band, is dead. Only he could fight Richard for control; with Jones gone the music is all Richard's show. Their new album, Let it Bleed, maintains much of the Stones instrumental excitement only because Richard does the important rhythm work himself in the Jones style. But Mick Taylor, who may be nice for John Mayall, can't hold his own, and the result is Richard's easy domination of many of the songs. All the live pieces that depended on twin guitar work-"Sympathy for the Devil," "Stray...
...forth directly into "What Is and Should Never Be," a desultory serenade. This song's marcato conclusion features the best example of Plant's consummate syncopated singing in which he takes cognizance of each word past and forthcoming, and deftly employs the syllables to counterpoise the principal rhythm. "The Lemon Song" is a tongue-in-cheek medley of blues cliches, even to the point of "down on this killin floor." Although the band is almost as wry as the Beatles in "Yer Blues" or "Helter Skelter," the result here as there does not prove durable. Led Zeppelin's only ostensible...
...word of Buñuel's enlarging reputation reached Generalissimo Franco, who invited Buñuel back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...
...writes about the emotional rather than the metaphysical. He writes about the passionate more than the romantic. And though not wholly unconcerned with the sound of words, he clearly subordinates poetry's musical dimension to the wisdom of the message. Rhythm is there (particularly when he reads), but is hardly a major concern...
...sung over and over on the vast grassy slope around the Washington Monument. "All we are saying is 'Give Peace a Chance, ' " sang the young college girl from New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a smile on her face and a woolly scarf around her throat. And they swayed in rhythm to the song-the marshals with arms linked ringing the speakers podium and keeping order in the crowd...