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Over the years, music fans have often suspended judgment in return for a few hummable bars, and generally rock stars have had the decency not to push their luck by reminding us of what we're indulging. (Chuck Berry sang Sweet Little Sixteen well before his problems with an underage girl.) R. Kelly is playing a different, more dangerous game. His shamelessness is something to behold, but indulging it comes at a cost: it's called shame...
Frontman Tom P. Lowe ‘05 sang at first to an almost empty floor on Wednesday. But the band played with an energy and charisma disproportionate to the crowd, unleashing catchy, beat-driven rock and jazz to an initially timid group of high schoolers...
Nothing says "eliminate Third World poverty" like Beyoncé in a bootyliciously short skirt. On Saturday, Destiny's Child and more than 100 other acts sang in front of more than 1.6 million concertgoers--and a TV audience of over 2 billion (the shows are also available on AOL)--for Live 8, a 10-city music extravaganza that organizer Bob Geldof called "the greatest concert ever." The free concerts in all the G-8 countries, plus South Africa, were meant to raise not money but awareness of poverty in Africa ahead of this week's G-8 summit in Scotland...
...chairman was a brash achiever from the start. His father was an M.I.T.-trained engineer and his mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope his first time on skis. Burr embraced a romantic notion that he could make any team if he tried hard enough. Recalls his mother...
...sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk, the son of a Buffalo cantor, he started out as a pianist and band vocalist and began writing tunes for revues and nightclubs like Harlem's Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World...