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...through mud for a couple of albums. “Whatever Happened To My Rock ’N’ Roll (punk song)” has more genuine punk attitude than the stateside poseurs can pull off either, with its relentless insistence on the glory of one chord played very, very loud...
...them to sing along. This was what jazz is supposed to be about—interplay with the audience, communication between band members and spontaneous creativity. Garrett was at his absolute best when he stayed within—but was not constrained by—the structure of his chord changes, but he did that all too infrequently to redeem the remainder of the show...
...Roll,” says U2’s Bono. “You had two cultures colliding there. You had a kind of white, European culture and an African culture coming together—the rhythm of black music and the melody chord progressions of white music—just all came together in that kind of spastic dance of his. That was the moment. That’s really it. Out of all that came the Beatles and the Stones...
Every team is in first place on opening day, goes an old baseball maxim. Hope and possibility abound. Unless you are a member of the impossibly hopeless Montreal Expos. Then opening day is just the first chord of a season-long funeral march. "I like to use the analogy of someone who has been told he has a terminal illness," says Expos president Tony Tavares, who prays fans will buy tickets, if only to pay their last respects...
DIED. MARJORIE HOLMES, 91, inspirational author known as the "patron saint of housewives"; in Manassas, Va. Holmes' 32 books and articles for McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal and others struck a chord with readers by making biblical characters accessible and relating religion to real life. Of the popularity of her trilogy on Christ's birth and life, begun with 1972's best-selling Two from Galilee, Holmes said, "I made the Holy Family as real as the folks next door...