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...band takes a similar approach to its music. "As an adult you'd always be tempted to say, 'We're not going to put in that chord because that's too easy; let's put in a minor fifth or something,'" says Field. "We say, 'No, let's keep it that easy.'" The resultant happy tunes stick to young (and, alas, older) brains like toffee...
...soloist, Doughty has moved away from the Soul Coughing sound he calls “a very baroque arrangement, so big, so much density to the songs.” In his words, “When you just strip it down to the basic chord and the melodies, there’s kind of a haunting quality that I really like.” He has gone acoustic for his upcoming tour, as he did on Skittish. “It’s how I started out,” he reminds us, “it?...
...Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
...syncopation in "Fascinatin' Rhythm," then executed his own elaborate, fairly daring ricochet rhythms in "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Monkey Doodle Doo" and "Everybody Step." Profligate with melody, he tossed extra bridges into "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" and his longest (64-bar), finest construction, "Cheek to Cheek." The strange chord shift in bridge to "You're Laughing at Me" has endeared the song to jazzmen...
...Nation of Islam to spout racist rhetoric and promote a homemade version of Islam, he showed his vulnerability to cults, but he later revealed his strengths by walking away. Perhaps Ali's greatest American-rebel moment was when he refused to go into the military service: he rang a chord going all the way back to the Civil War, when some whites refused to defend slavery for slave owners who had no respect for them either...