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...Newtyle, Scotland. As an 18-year-old soldier serving in the Black Watch regiment, he heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front on Christmas Day as British and German soldiers emerged from the trenches to greet each other in no-man's-land; they sang carols, swapped cigarettes and played soccer until fighting resumed that afternoon. In 1998, he was awarded France's Legion of Honor for his war service...
...Even the group's early songs, the ones you sang along with but never really listened to, have parents in them. The singer in "Sherry" tells the girl, "You better ask your mama"; the one in "Big Girls Don't Cry" (kind of downer sequel to the first song) gets news about the girl's heartbreak from her mother: "Shame on you, your mama said. / Shame on you, you're cryin...
...Whether he was both of these characters, or neither, Cash brought the outlaw presence to pop music. The authenticity in his quavering baritone attested to a life of bitter experience. In those ballads of hard traveling, careless love and felonious assault, the words he sang were places he'd been, got hurt in and learned from. That startling line in ?Folsom Prison Blues? - ?I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die? - is followed by ?When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry.? First the bad-man boast, then the sinner's remorse...
...time we play Yale. We’re going for a victory.” As Grimm finished up his speech, a swaggering John Harvard and a helpless Yale bulldog performed an intricate fight sequence that ended with John Harvard flattening the bulldog with a vicious uppercut. Students also sang along as the Harvard Band played “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” and watched as cheerleaders performed acrobatic stunts. “I’ve been here 12 years, we’ve never had anything like this,” Coach Tim Murphy said...
...caliber biopic. Unlike “Ray,” however, it makes no attempt to cast Cash as a legend in the making, choosing instead to focus on his humanity. Nothing is overdramatized, a wise choice when dealing with a man with a voice like sandpaper who sang for “good Christian folk” and inmates alike. It is this same popular appeal of Cash’s which makes the film appropriate for a wide variety of audiences. Whether you grew up belting out “Ring of Fire?...