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...Charles put on a performance that seemed designed to describe the course of his career. He sang selections from his collection of popular country-and-western songs ... It seemed embarrassingly clear that no white man could ever sing the songs his way ... there is no modern singer who has not learned something from him. His touches turn up in other singers' styles; his trademark phrases, such as 'What'd I say' and 'Don't you know now' and 'That's all right,' poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success ... Charles lives in a world of sounds...
...That's All Right As Christopher John Farley noted in his remembrance of singer and pianist Ray Charles [ESSAY, June 21], the musician's domain included a variety of genres, from jazz to blues to country. Soon after Charles appeared at a couple of standing room-only Carnegie Hall concerts, we analyzed his style...
When shooting commenced in 2001, Metallica--drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield--was starting a new album, dealing with the resignation of bassist Jason Newsted and entering therapy with performance-enhancement coach Phil Towle. With its record label, Elektra, the band hired Berlinger and co-director Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost) to document the process with an eye toward turning the footage into an infomercial. "You know, sell some albums on TV," says Hammett. "We had no f____ing idea what we were getting ourselves into...
...will be tested on focus groups before MoveOn decides when and where to air them on TV. They're the brainchild of Laura Dawn, a singer who often appears with techno-rock star Moby (who wrote the music for one of the spots). Dawn, 34, who works from her apartment in New York City's East Village, last year came up with the "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest, in which average Americans were asked to submit anti-Bush ads. "The idea was that if we did really well with the contest, we could do this afterward," says Dawn. Hollywood responded...
...include a soulful scientist (Alfred Molina) who, having fooled with Mother Nature, is somehow transformed into a great, clanking mechanical octopus; back from Spidey I, Peter's spunky, sweet-spirited aunt (the divine Rosemary Harris); and the meanest newspaper managing editor in movie history (J.K. Simmons). Occasionally, a street singer shows up to croak awful ballads about Spidey's exploits, and poor Auntie can't even get a toaster premium, much less a desperately needed loan, from her bank...