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...version of 'How High the Moon,' Lou Pallo does the intricate plucking; Les mostly sits in on his own signature song. It's an instrumental (Paul never worked with a female singer after he broke up with Ford), but there's still a pretty woman on-stage: Parrott, the Australian double-bassist. 'I want her to get damn tired,' the old spieler says. ''Cause I got somethin' in mind.' Now he's playing the cute old goat. 'I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole.' Parrott soldiers on, with exemplary forbearance, and Paul puts a note of hope...
...popular mind Les Paul existed for a half-decade: the years 1950-54, when he and Ford enjoyed 16 top-ten hits, including 'How High the Moon' (#1 for nine weeks) and 'Vaya Con Dios' (#1 for 11). That would be enough, for anyone whose memory contained chips of Ford's silky stylings and Paul's amazing facility with a sound he invented and perfected. As he told Stephen K. Peeples in the 60-page booklet that comes with the 'Les Paul: The Legend and the Legacy' four-volume CD set (on the Gold Rush label): 'That big, fat, round...
...earth, when it is lined up opposite the Sun, with Earth in between. This year, the Red Planet is a mere 42 million miles from Earth, the closest since 1988. For the next two weeks, it will glow orange-gold, brighter than anything in the night sky except the moon...
...This time around, the easy listening kitsch of Moon Safari has been retired in favor of a dark machine-age psychedelia, undercut with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. The opening track Electronic Performers sets the tone: amid distorted guitars, orchestral flourishes and spectral choirs, disembodied robot voices sing of love and desire...
...When Air released its album Moon Safari early in 1998, the world discovered the awesome potential French music could have once it freed itself from its inferiority complex. While precursor Daft Punk remained rooted in the strobe-lit euphoria of dance culture, Air's eclecticism hitched up '60s film soundtracks with drum machines and spacey synthesizers to create a crisp pop sound you could listen to outside the nightclub...