Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, most of Cale's songs were much older, coming from his '70s albums. Despite their age, though, the songs were new to a large portion of the audience and a surprised murmur spread through the crowd as Cale sat before his keyboard and began to sing Elvis's "Heartbreak Hotel" to his own classical composition. As one of the best classically trained musicians ever to play rock, Cale excels in playing his compositions...
Cale emerged onto the stage and began with a reading of the lyrics to "Lament," beginning to play his keyboard only after he had read out the first few lines. Looking younger than his 56 years, Cale dressed in a black t-shirt and vest. Rarely smiling, he maintained the unenthusiastic stage presence he had established for himself years ago. John Cale's legend began with the release of the first Velvet Underground album in 1967. After being forced out of the band following the release of the band's second record, Cale followed a career of producing albums...
...course of his set, Cale alternated between keyboard and guitar, demonstrating his talent with both as fans waited impatiently for the vinyl-clad Siouxsie to emerge. It was only during his fifth song that she strutted onto the stage crooning the last of the lyrics along with Cale. Siouxsie was happy and comfortable in the spotlight, slightly heavier than she used to be, her voice clearly older, yet still staring ahead with her striking eyes, graced with amply black mascara...
Siouxsie and Cale took turns performing solo sets, sometimes collaborating on The Creatures' songs. At times Cale would emerge with a guitar to accompany the band for Siouxsie's singing; at times he would join them on the keyboard. Even more interestingly, Cale and Siouxsie sometimes took the stage together to sing, with Cale's deep voice reading off some of the lyrics and the vinyl priestess crooning the rest...
...first patient to benefit from the pilot program was Della O'Leary, 60, a part-time receptionist with no health insurance and an $8,000 bill for gallbladder surgery. Would she be interested in using her keyboard skills to enter data into a hospital computer? O'Leary agreed. After she worked 20 hours a week for four months, her debt was paid. "I was brought up to take care of my bills," O'Leary says. "Without this program, I was going to be paying little by little for the rest of my life...