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...DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, R.-and-B. singer-songwriter whose chart topper The Twist ushered in a national dance mania in the late 1950s and '60s in the U.S.; in Los Angeles. Penned by Ballard in 1958, the song was picked up by Chubby Checker in 1959 and transformed into a rock-and-roll sensation. Other versions of the song became hits for acts such as the Isley Brothers and the Beatles. Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Other notable tracks of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, all of which 50 Cent executes with his smooth baritone drawl, are “Life’s On The Line” and the rapid, chart-climbing party anthem “In Da Club,” the edgy, infectious beats of which could only hail from uber-producer...
Last week the teen pop duo t.A.T.u. hit No. 1 on the British singles chart, the first Russian band to do so, with the moody dance track All the Things She Said. Their gimmick? They're cute, they wear skimpy schoolgirl outfits, and they make out with each other. It's unclear whether Lena Katina, 18, left, and Julie Volkova, 17, are lesbians or just attention hungry, but nobody seems to care: the single has gone to No. 1 in Spain, Austria and Italy, and--don't look so superior--their album is swiftly moving up the Billboard charts...
...millionaire at 21, Spector, now 62, was the mad genius who perfected the pop single with his lavishly textured "wall of sound" studio technique, crafting hits for the Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume. Recently he was said to have cleaned up his act. Few were aware, however, that late last summer Spector fired...
...winning all the awards, America just isn't interested in him. Many Brit bands that have captured America's cold heart - such as Oasis - have found its affections fickle. Says a gloomy Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, which organizes the Brits: "Last year in terms of chart placings [in the U.S.] was one of the least successful in U.K. recording history." So has America had one Brit invasion too many? That's not the problem, says Joe Levy, music editor of Rolling Stone. "The British bands that have been successful in the U.S. are those that feel...