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...Hayes' imposing frame, and a stare that managed to intimidate and seduce, made the songwriter a natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold...
...Father Eugene and his musical collaborators - his brother Martin O'Hagan, 45, and their childhood friend David Delargy, 44 - the path to stardom seems ordained from above. Earlier this year Epic Records, a division of Sony, scoured Europe for clergymen with the chops to record a Latin Mass album. Word of mouth led them to the trio, who started singing together 35 years ago at a Belfast boarding school, and later performed at their seminary in Rome. After hearing a demo tape, Nick Raphael, the managing director of Epic in the U.K., raced to sign them...
That's one reason they're off to a remarkable start. Sony affiliates in 32 territories - including the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and largely Catholic nations like Brazil and the Philippines - have agreed to release their debut album. In an age of illegal downloading and music piracy, Sony is betting that the Priests are a financial godsend that should resonate with the world's 1.1 billion Catholics - and Raphael figures the devout might also be more likely to pay for music than steal...
...cloth present fewer challenges than high-maintenance newbies with legions of stylists and image consultants (not to mention debauched groupies). "Their brand isn't something that's been invented; it's been around for 2,000 years," says Samantha Wright, the group's manager. The Priests' first album, to be released in November, will include Catholic favorites like Ave Maria, O Holy Night and Panis Angelicus. Mike Hedges, a producer who has also worked with U2 and Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, won't be setting those tracks to a funky beat, but will be infusing them with piety...
...results appear in three columns across the page, also allows for longer previews of each site's content. But other search sites make better use of page real estate. SearchMe, which launched earlier this year, offers full-page snapshots in its results, through which you can flip like the album covers on iTunes. And the No. 4-ranked search engine, Ask, also uses a wider layout to display both images and sub-categories for refining one's search...