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...York, he and three other teens formed the group in 1974, taking the name from an alias Paul McCartney sometimes used in hotels. During the next 22 years they developed an underground following with their fast, angst-ridden music, including anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop. Despite his rebellious lyrics, Ramone, the third member of the group to die in the past three years, was a lifelong Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association. DIED. FRED EBB, 76, lyricist who, in partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway...
...DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and co-founder of seminal punk band The Ramones, known for their angsty punk anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop; after a five-year battle with prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Ramone, born John Cummings, helped craft The Ramones' thrashing, guitar-driven songs and unadorned pop melodies that became a model for future groups from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. Despite his rebellious image, Ramone was a teetotaler and staunch Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association...
...makes a selection. It isn't Roc-A-Fella superstar Jay-Z, with whom Dash launched the company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead singer introduces the chorus by belting, "Toora loora toora...
Aficionados had much the same reaction to two sophisticated young pianists who made New York City debuts last week. One was jazzman Matt Savage, who led his trio through a swinging, bop-tinged evening at Manhattan's Blue Note. His sets ranged from the standard My Favorite Things to originals like Groovin' on Mount Everest. He traced melodies simply, sometimes decorating them with trills, and shifted between softly gliding passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson...
...popular SNL skit, Ferrell and castmate Chris Kattan play the Butabi brothers, a duo of misfit partiers who continuously bop their heads in unison to Haddaway’s classic 80s song “What is Love...