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Their classic songs have been recorded by artists as varied as the Beatles, John Mellencamp, Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin and Barbra Streisand. Kansas City alone, Stoller guesses, has had about 500 versions. Not long ago, the two were invited to the White House. President Clinton was excited to meet them, Stoller recalls fondly: "He broke out singing, 'The neon lights are bright on Broadway...
...same can be said of Smith. She planned to be a tap dancer ("I got too fat") or a jazz singer ("I wasn't as good as Aretha"), despite a lifelong interest in writing. She grew up in an irreligious, working-class household in London. Her father, a onetime photographer, and her mother, a model turned child psychoanalyst, divorced when she was 12. Smith took to writing short stories and poetry during an adolescence she describes as "pathologically angst ridden." She hasn't outgrown the angst: her manner is painfully serious, even defensive, despite the success of White Teeth, which...
...goal when you're a diva-in-training is to be known eventually to the public at large by your first name alone. Surnames are for the little people--you know, people like McCartney and Dylan and whatnot. Divas--Aretha, Mariah, Whitney, Sisqo--have no need of surnames. So up-and-coming R.-and-B. singer Mya (much like one of her contemporaries, Aaliyah) is already a bit ahead of the game. She doesn't use her last name, Harrison, professionally. Yes, she's on her way to divadom...
...interesting story: Burt Bacharach and Hal David may be performing together for the last time this summer. I guess it's fashionable to either totally hate Bacharach or to like him only in an ironic way, but I think he's written some great stuff. Just think of Aretha Franklin's "I Say a Little Prayer," Naked Eyes' "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" or Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love." Of course, Bacharach's reputation isn't improved by album covers like the one pictured here...
...Lynne, 31, "so I wasn't scared of much. I got more comfortable with my writing." I Am extends country's reach to the threshold of rock and Memphis soul, incorporating unlikely touches of Dusty Springfield and John Lennon on the jilted lover's lament Your Lies and of Aretha Franklin on the empty-bed ode Black Light Blue...