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Pring-Wilson sang in the choir, played piano in the jazz band, acted in school plays and served as captain of the football team...
...started playing in the '60s, yes, for money. I grew up in the middle of this world in Greenwich Village. I played with Arlo Guthrie in his band. We went to the same high school. I started on the mandolin, then I played the guitar...
...seasoned underdog, Saban grew up so poor that his family shared a communal bathroom with streetwalkers in a Tel Aviv apartment building. After stints playing bass in a rock band and promoting concerts, he moved to Paris in 1975. One day he was watching an English-language TV show and realized the theme music might be popular on French radio. He could buy the foreign rights to such tunes for a pittance, he discovered, and by the early '80s, he was licensing entire shows, mostly for kids...
...extreme sport. But recently the industry has been working hard to shake off its old-age image. With some success: in any given week, around 3 million people play bingo across the U.K. and almost half are under 45; 10 years ago, the average age was 55. The electronica band Lemon Jelly opened recent concerts with a bingo game instead of a supporting band. "Bingo is the only female-dominated leisure pursuit," says Richard Sowerby, marketing director for Gala Group, one of Britain's two biggest bingo operators. "We target women in their mid-to-late thirties because they...
...cared about music as much as I did was really cool. We learned “When Doves Cry” by Prince for the Freshman Talent Show and I didn’t think it would continue, but then we decided we wanted to be a band and started writing music. And by the time we had ten songs we went to Vermont to record a demo. It’s fun because we’ve gotten to the point now where we can go in a different direction with our music. Now writing is much more...