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Indra Nooyi's bulldog determination is already the stuff of musical legend--a friend once rewrote Black Sabbath's Iron Man in honor of the electric guitar-loving PepsiCo president and chief financial officer. ("Driving them up the wall/Iron Woman rules them all.") Nooyi, 48, plays a mean power chord herself. In 1997 she prodded Roger Enrico, then CEO, to spin off PepsiCo's fast-food business. She later pushed Enrico to buy Quaker Oats and Tropicana, two bold acquisitions that kept the company squarely in snack foods while adding healthier fare to the mix. Strategic vision has always been...
Montgomery also worked at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for almost a half-century, operating on such patients as the actor Jack Klugman, who played Oscar in “The Odd Couple” TV show and who suffered from vocal chord paralysis. Montgomery developed and inserted a special implant into Klugman’s throat to keep one of the damaged chords from opening, restoring Klugman’s voice...
...become consuming. Burt's brilliant. But he can labor on a note for 40 minutes. "Do you like this chord? Do you like that chord?" It was hard to leave the music room and just be Carole and Burt...
...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, who was in the Blue Note audience. So it was, especially for a performer who was up well past his bed-time and who could barely reach the pedals with his favorite blue sneakers. Savage is 11 years...
...Rope”, the male members of the band sing “Way-Oh, way-oh” over a classic three chord riff, while Brody sings, “I wish you didn’t love me no more...