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...American singer Leonard Cohen once spent a few hours on an unmade hotel bed with a fellow musician. In an explicit song about their romp - clearly punctuated by some of Dr. Meloy's "emphatic exclamations" - Cohen doesn't name the woman, but there are several clues that she was the late great Janis Joplin. Cohen quotes her as saying that she preferred handsome men, but in his case would make an exception. What most impressed him about her was that throughout her short life she shunned those handcuff words, "I need you/I don't need you." That...
...DIED. MICHIKO NAMIKI, 79, Japanese singer whose Apple Song was a major hit following WWII; in Tokyo. As historian John Dower wrote: "That spirits were lifted by a peppy jingle about something edible was hardly surprising at a time when food was an overriding concern...
Tata Young certainly knows how to let loose. Back in 1995, when she broke into Thailand's entertainment industry at the age of 15, the pert half-Thai, half-American singer was on the forefront of the Eurasian trend. Today, the majority of top Thai entertainers are luk kreung. Now 20, Young is the first Thai to sign a contract with a major U.S. label, Warner Brothers Records (owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of Time), which she hopes will elevate her into the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera pantheon. Back at home, Young has to contend with a gaggle...
...music of Altan is touching regardless of whether or not the listener is Irish or understands a word of Gaelic. High energy fiddling and masterful percussion get the feet tapping and the head nodding in enthusiastic rhythm. Breathy acoustic ballads are interwoven throughout, and lead singer Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh’s haunting vocals are nothing short of harmonic bliss. Steeped in the power of an ancient culture, this music is a wistful tribute to a peaceful time before memory...
...have one complaint—and it is a minuscule one at that—but you misspelled my name. James Dickinson is the piano player on the Stones’ classic “Wild Horses” and the father of the drummer and lead singer of the North Mississippi Allstars. I’m just a simple scribe who lives in a van down by the river. Or something like that. Thanks for mentioning my email...