Word: authorships
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...owned the catalogue. He also took droit de seigneur on certain compositions. Somehow, between Little Junior's initial recording of "Mystery Train" and Elvis' remake, Phillips had become the song's co-author. (Presley took instruction from the master: when he moved to RCA, he demanded and got co-authorship on Otis Blackwell's "Don't Be Cruel" and "All Shook...
DIED. MILDRED BENSON, 96, original author of the bestselling Nancy Drew mystery novels, written under the pen name Carolyn Keene; in Toledo, Ohio. Benson set the series' tone, offering girls a heroine sleuth with brains, courage and a cute boyfriend. Her editor later claimed authorship of the books--saying she had outlined the plots and heavily edited the manuscripts--thus creating another mystery. But Benson was not irked. "I'm so sick of Nancy Drew," she once said, "I could vomit...
...other tracks, Benson’s composition—he wrote seven tracks and shares authorship on the remaining five—shows that he’s done his musical homework. Parts of “What” pay homage to Iggy Pop’s “I am a Passenger,” and Benson astutely captures the California post-punk movement and adds to that Beach Boys influences on “I’m Easy.” The fusion is seamless and the result is supremely infectious music. Over the course...
Gone too, naturally, is the remarkable artwork of Eddie Campbell. Campbell shares authorship with Moore for good reason. His scribbley, impressionist black and white pen work picks out just the details important to a scene. The rest seems shrouded in mist. After several hundred pages you feel closed in yourself. You can't read the book without at least one walk in the sunshine. The Hughes brothers have their own misty style, but have chosen to shoot in color. The look of the movie becomes its best asset, exploring the medium's unique possibilities of luminosity, movement and composition...
...original that critics invented the genre “triphop” in an attempt to contain it, while Björk’s first two albums, Debut and Post had already established her as the new queen of dance music, with numerous hit singles and co-authorship of the title song on Madonna’s Bedtime Stories. Nearly God avoided the expectations of critics in the wake of their successful first albums, and its sparse, minimalist, lonely melodies succeeded admirably...