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...tribute to the Colonel's client, Elvis Presley. "For $5 you could visit the suite at the Hilton where Elvis lived," says Angelil. "So I go, and the Colonel's there selling souvenirs. One of my friends points to me and says, 'Colonel, this guy manages a terrific girl singer.' The Colonel says, 'Who is she?' I say, 'She sings in French, but she's a Barbra Streisand type.' The Colonel gets very serious. He says, 'Let me give you some advice: Never compare your artist to another artist...
...rally also featured a folk singer as well as speeches by local anti-war organizers, Harvard students and faculty members involved with the recently-formed Faculty Initiative for Peace and Justice, including History of Science Professor Everett I. Mendelsohn...
DIED. TOM GLAZER, 88, folk singer who, with Leadbelly and Pete Seeger, helped revive the genre in the 1940s; in Philadelphia. His best-known song, On Top of Spaghetti, sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smoky, recounted a tale of an errant meatball...
Last year, actor and singer Nicholas Tse was convicted for letting his driver take the rap after Tse slammed his sports car into a guard rail. Still paying his debt to society, Tse tells TIME's Kate Drake about his fortnight in the slammer, what happened to that famous Ferrari and why he is still the baddest boy in Canto...
...DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, R.-and-B. singer-songwriter whose chart topper The Twist ushered in a national dance mania in the late 1950s and '60s in the U.S.; in Los Angeles. Penned by Ballard in 1958, the song was picked up by Chubby Checker in 1959 and transformed into a rock-and-roll sensation. Other versions of the song became hits for acts such as the Isley Brothers and the Beatles. Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...