Word: buskers
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...concert was "a dream come true" for the greatest busker of all, Don Partridge, 26, who plied his trade in the streets of London for five years singing traditional English and American folk songs. One day last winter, a record company executive named Don Paul heard Partridge sing his own song, Rosie, on a street corner; he liked its cheerfulness and Partridge's McCartneyesque style...
...Band. He was persuasive as a busker too. Starting out with just a guitar, he gained attention by becoming a one-man band, simultaneously playing a kazoo, tambourine and drum, in addition to the guitar. "He really busked in style," says one admirer. "He used to arrive in a taxi and go home afterward the same way." At his peak, Partridge made $300 a week...
...insisted on sound-track retakes when everybody else was satisfied, frequently drove some of the crew members up the wall with frustration over her demands for perfection. Between takes, she was the old Julie, cutting an incongruous figure in her postulant's costume and behaving like an old busker: hammering out a furious Hawaiian War Chant, whistling through her teeth, clacking out a frenzied flamenco, tossing off bawdy songs, warbling Indian Love Call, and hitting a clinker at just the right moment...
Applied Psychology. In London, a busker gave theatergoers outside the Old Vic's performance of Oedipus a sly musical preview: A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother...
...Busker-stage slang for a hireling who echoes a stage song from the gallery...