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...profile release of his debut album, Richard Morel has surprisingly hefty credentials. A former engineer for U.S. house auteurs Deep Dish, he’s gone on to remix the likes of Depeche Mode and New Order. Queen of the Highway, then, is intended as his claim to fame, or at least musical autonomy. Apparently designed to showcase the breadth of his abilities, it sets mid-tempo guitar numbers and downtempo head-nodders next to the progressive house for which he’s best known...
...Jennings was not won over by the acclaim. He skipped awards shows on the grounds that musicians should not be in competition and did not attend his induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame last year. He kept on making music, however, recording and touring with Nelson, Cash and Kris Kristofferson as the Highwaymen in the mid-80's, putting out more albums with ornery titles - 1992's "Too Dumb for New York, Too Ugly for L.A.," for one - and even playing a few dates on the 1996 Lollapalooza tour headlined by Metallica...
...those looking to win friends and first kisses. We’d create a kind of “Be Mine” swapmeet for about half-hour after recess, allowing the kids with the most Garfield valentines or pastel candy necklaces to gloat over the proof of their fame. For whatever reason, I completely forgot about the scheduled lovefest and had nothing to give. I sat quietly at my desk and watched as Kelly Kinchen told everyone not to give me any chocolate hearts because I was too stingy to bring any of my own. Our teacher was?...
...gossip web is so strong because we love power. Let’s face it: gossip makes us feel better about ourselves. The listeners bask in the glow of knowing something that they shouldn’t and the spreaders acquire Harvard’s number one commodity: fame. Quite a symbiotic relationship...
...That fame comes as no surprise to the people who have followed Miller. By the time he got to Carrabbassett Valley Academy (C.V.A.), a ski-racer prep school, his athleticism was evident but his style was wildly unorthodox...