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...your joy. Jagger and Keith Richards, no less than Ethel Merman and Henny Youngman, have the veteran performers' love of pleasing an audience with routines that used to be antic but are now antique. By now, surely, they have performed Satisfaction more times than Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow. Yet Jagger sells it with the vigor of a Baptist preacher in a backwoods tent. In these moments, the shock of the old is that he and Richards--and guitarist Ron Wood and drummer Charlie Watts--make it sound...
...Keep it up. Remember, it took a long time to end the Vietnam War.”A band played a modified version of the 1960s song “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die.” People in the crowd sang along to the refrain–“And it’s one, two, three, what we fighting for?”Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, spoke next, calling the war a “false war, supported...
...music business has found itself a new poster girl. Adorned with tattoos and a beehive, and blessed with a smoky voice beyond her 24 years, Amy Winehouse sat proudly atop the U.K.'s album charts this spring after scooping up five awards at the Grammys in Los Angeles. She sang her signature tune for the audience there via satellite from London: "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said...
Under apartheid, large gatherings were forbidden. Church became the only place where blacks and coloreds could meet in numbers. Gospel music, with its themes of hope, strength and redemption, became their only legal form of protest and their only means of escape. "We sang to keep going," says Lucas Bok, the choir's musical director. "Singing was the only way to express yourself." That need spurred the creation of hundreds of gospel choirs in Soweto - the massive talent pool from which Mulovhedzi drew his recruits...
...necessarily be shocked. What’s shocking is the extent to which both Jay and Andelman must have tricked themselves into thinking that this kind of association is in the least bit novel. It’s been just over 30 years since Lou Reed first sang, “Heroin, / its my wife and it’s my life,” and all Jay’s been able to come up with is, “Just for one night, baby, take me in vein”? Really? Perhaps as a function of how tired...