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DIED. LINK WRAY, 76, the original thrashing guitarist whose pioneering use of the "power chord" on his 1958 instrumental hit Rumble inspired rockers from Pete Townshend to Neil Young; in Copenhagen. In an era of clean-cut performers, Wray shook up the music world with his distorted guitar and menacing persona, laying the foundation for punk, metal and beyond. In the 1990s, he enjoyed a resurgence when his music was featured in several films, including Pulp Fiction and Independence...
...group’s appropriately secretive “Redmoon nights” of experimental music and bonfires in the lonely Scottish wilderness, and you get a glimmer of the band’s near-cultish appeal. Yet “Campfire” is remarkably clean-cut; devoid of devil worshipping and all the stronger because of it. BoC openly admits that some of their past records used forms of subliminal manipulation, (fitting for a band that takes their name from the National Film Board of Canada) but they assert that their latest album is focused solely...
...Gentler’s fittingly gentle, sweet voice, which harkens back to that of Perry Ferrell of Jane’s Addiction. Like Brandon Boyd, Incubus’ imposingly six-packed singer, he has the looks and body made for success; his dueling nipple rings certainly give his otherwise clean-cut look a bit of an edge. Perhaps Gentler’s stage presence lacks the gravitas to captivate an audience, but this doesn’t concern them. As he says of his on-stage show, “We do try to let the music speak for itself...
...pitching Merkel as honest and unvarnished. Posters depict the 51-year-old former research chemist as apple-cheeked and glowing in an apricot-colored jacket. She's also lightening up on the stump a bit, seeming surer, more relaxed and even cracking the occasional joke. The clean-cut, no-nonsense image is meant to make Merkel look more trustworthy than the slicker, suaver Schröder. "If we were to disappoint voters again the way Schröder did in 2002, people would ask themselves whether there is any party they can vote for," says Norbert Röttgen...
DIED. Eric Milliard ("Ricky") Nelson, 45, clean-cut rock singer and former teenage idol who grew up on TV's longest-running family sitcom, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiance and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly...