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...wealthy and chronically insecure. That may be why, while recording Magical Mystery Tour in 1967, John Lennon deliberately mangled a couple of choruses. According to Bob Spitz's colossal quadruple biography The Beatles (Little, Brown; 983 pages), instead of singing, "Baby, you're a rich man too," Lennon sang, "Baby, you're a rich...
...burly security guards wearing orange vests, arms crossed like shields over their chests made sure that no one stood in the walkways and that fervent fans didn’t overstep their ticket assignments. Behind my seat, a shaggy haired all-American knew every word to every song and sang every syllable into my ear.—Staff Writer Adam C. Estes can be reached at estes@fas.harvard.edu...
...hours of conversation, Phoenix tells one story that is personally revealing. As it happened, Phoenix was invited to a dinner party with Johnny Cash long before he knew he might one day play him. Cash and June sang Far Side Banks of Jordan, and then, Phoenix recalls, the Man in Black cornered him and said, "'I really like that film you did, Gladiator. I love the part where you said'--and he did a better reading than me--'Your son squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross, and your wife moaned like a whore when they...
...Howard calls the measures "major but not extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will...
...clanged to life.“I love Australians,” Avis, my concert-mate and a devoted fan, said as she smiled. In front of her, the chorus three women, one man, all standing in black with their fingers clasped, bouncing to the beat behind their backs sang with their chins up and their lips curled. “Look how happy they are!”Energy fed dance—by the third song even the navel-gazers tapped their toes. The better three of them in front of me traded elbow nudges and head nods...