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America began its life by throwing off a king and has been crowning them ever since. We have a King of Pop, a King of All Media, a King of Beers. That Johnny Carson was dubbed the King of Late Night, at first blush, says less about him than about our national case of regis envy...
DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 88, classically trained Mexican pianist turned pop composer whose sultry World War II--era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by such artists as Frank Sinatra and the Beatles; in Mexico City...
Every day, a stream of haggard customers would show up at Mark Dodson's drugstore in Altus, Okla. (pop. 23,000), just north of the Texas border. And every day Dodson would find dozens of empty cold-medicine boxes--the pills shoplifted--stuffed behind other products on the shelves or abandoned in grocery carts. Sometimes the 38-year-old pharmacist suspected that a buyer was using sniffle pills to manufacture methamphetamine, a dangerous drug, and he refused a sale. But usually, he says, "I had to give people the benefit of the doubt...
After finishing the aptly named Pop Disaster tour in 2002, Green Day had a series of state-of-the-band conversations in which its members resolved to stay together but change everything else. "We didn't do the therapy thing," says Armstrong, "but we talked about the fact that with people outside of the band, we interact like adults. Then we get back together, and it's like, 'Dude, you got a booger!'" Having agreed to retire every lame joke about one another, they moved on to the task of redefining their creative process. "We like each other...
...lyrics are the reason American Idiot is the most fully realized piece of Pop art to emerge from the 2004 political campaigns. Armstrong is a punk-rock millionaire from Northern California, and his party affiliation isn't tough to guess. But while most would-be artistic commentators droned on about candidates and policies, Armstrong dramatized his protest. A verse like...