Word: wagnerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heated. She also kept writing, encouraged by a couple of musicians around the studio like Keyboard Player Ralph Schuckett, who helped her with musical structure, co-produced her first album and now shares a brownstone in Brooklyn with her. In Heroes of Yesterday, there are echoes of the mock-Wagnerian melodramas produced by Phil Spector for '60s girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes, but Shipley's lyrics try to go deeper, attempt to capture the ebbing of a lost childhood ("Born too late, born too late . . ."). With a little luck, however, Shipley may have come...