Word: bandness
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...reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner Bros. Records designer who conceived some of rock's most definitive LP covers, including Jimi Hendrix's visually trippy Are You Experienced and Joni Mitchell's Clouds...
...provided his livelihood. Despite the stylistic constraints, his lens would draw something alluring from the shadows. What came into focus was not so much celebrity as the public's fascination for it. In 1963, Morley was invited by Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Liverpool, where he photographed the band's birthplace, the Cavern nightclub, in the best portrait of Beatlemania without any band members: four fabulous nobodies, their doe eyes blinking back the light...
...circus," says Williams, "and the circus at that time was punk rock." Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the pierceable parts of its players' bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band, Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its stage show. When the Fingers broke up in 1982, he called his new favorite band. "They happened to be named...
Jessica Simpson, famous newlywed turned famous divorcé, has no such ambitions for A Public Affair. Simpson owes her career to the MTV reality show she did with her ex, boy-band alum Nick Lachey, and her album is an unapologetic bit of celebrity striptease. For starters, there are the title and some Jackie Collins-- quality liner notes ("I believe in fantasy, but no longer do I believe in fairytales"). Simpson's voice is blandly likable, but she overemotes so much that you can't fail to deduce whom she's talking about on I Don't Want to Care...
...Bodied has no hummable melody, a title I don't understand and a chorus that repeats "Can you get me bodied/ I wanna be myself tonight." But set to a double-Dutch rhythm by producer Swizz Beatz, with lots of hand claps and whistles and maybe a passing marching band, it's impossible not to sway from side to side, and Beyoncé, whose voice really is a wonder, cuts through all of it with crystalline joy. Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone...