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...During the 10 weeks Kerrey taught with Capps, Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky died, opening up a seat in the U.S. Senate. Kerrey switched back into politics and won the race. Celebrating on election night, he sang a searing Australian ballad of a soldier whose legs were blown off at Gallipoli: "Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head/ And when I awoke in my hospital bed/ I saw what it had done/ And I wished I were dead./ Never knew there were worse things than dying...
...avoid focusing on myself throughout this column, choosing to write instead about music news, although I suppose one can never really escape talking about one’s life or biases. “You can’t hide from yourself,” as Teddy Pendergrass once sang. So I suppose it’s alright to write just one column that’s personal. Hey boys hey girls superstar DJs here...
...initial, Promethean moment of personal discovery of the very concept of pop music. I’m sure that’s not a unique feeling. Oh, to be 15 again and have music mean everything and be certain about my musical opinions. To know that when Michael Stipe sang it was the expression of my inner voice, and then to resent the fact that other people knew about this private meaning, and then to resent yet other people for not knowing about REM. To be so vain I probably thought the song was about me. To have walked around...
...American rainforest, I got goosebumps. When she then made the entire hall sing it in parts, my hair stood on end. It is the magic of Sweet Honey that can turn an audience that would otherwise sound like a football mob into a 1,000-strong choir. When they sang “Motherless Chile,” I had to dry my eyes...
...press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr of the Smiths (and sang backup for them) and “They Don’t Know” is pure 60s girl group, a late-1970s recrystallization of the Brill Building sound. Worth checking...