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...Love and Theft, from a little-known Japanese writer named Junichi Saga. A doctor and author of 15 books, Saga told TIME he was "filled with surprise and true joy" when he learned from a reporter at that frothy Dylan fanzine, the Wall Street Journal, that some of the singer's lyrics match passages in Saga's 1989 book, Confessions of a Yakuza. Dylan's publicist declined to comment on whether the singer intentionally lifted the lines. But the similarities are striking...
...that makes the Super Furries special. Since its first album, Fuzzy Logic, in 1996, the band has been delivering intelligent, often satirical and occasionally frank songs about global warming, rural life, mobile phones and hamsters. "We should have a quota of songs that reflect our name somehow," says lead singer and guitarist Gruff Rhys. "It's very difficult for the Clash to do anything except write songs about conflict, but I think we have the freedom to write about war on one hand and dogs on the other." SFA's serious side dominates Phantom Power, the band's sixth album...
...name was Compay Segundo, the legendary singer and guitarist whose life had been long enough to accommodate two breathtaking rags-to-riches cycles: born poor, he became a celebrated musician in the '20s whose phone stopped ringing in the '60s until the late '90s, when he suddenly became the most famous (beardless) Cuban alive...
...from ever returning to Cuba, died in exile in New Jersey at the age of 78.
singer belted over the top, literally singing Segundo's praises. Of all the lines sung in those homages, I remember this one particularly well today: "Compay, as he goes, so go the Cuban people...
...APPOINTED. AMY DICKINSON, 43, a former lounge singer and TIME writer; to take over the Ann Landers advice column; in Chicago. Dickinson will pen "Ask Amy," the successor to Landers' Chicago Tribune column, which was once the most widely read newspaper column in the world. The new agony aunt is a distant relative of poet Emily Dickinson...