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...original duet was no lyrical masterpiece but instead drew its charm from the interplay of the couple. Here it is effectively gutted by their removal of the male voice, stripping the tune of its original charisma and replacing it with vocalist Sally Ellyson’s somnambulant, though urbane, croon. Here and elsewhere on the album, her voice lacks any of the smoke or hue that lends distinction to good country singing. As a result, the album drifts by affably and forgettably. None of this is helped by the excessively and almost comically maudlin lyrics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW MUSIC | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...bear-hugging an unfortunate reporter. When dancing girls in short skirts and blond wigs start jiggling to ear-numbing Korean pop music, the tireless Kim, 59, cavorts in a mosh pit of drunken workers near a makeshift stage. Later he ascends the stage himself, microphone in hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time." CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common man in an Asia dominated by secretive business clans and élite old-boy networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Religion | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...bear-hugging an unfortunate reporter. When dancing girls in short skirts and blond wigs start jiggling to ear-numbing Korean pop music, the tireless Kim, 59, cavorts in a mosh pit of drunken workers near a makeshift stage. Later he ascends the stage himself, microphone in hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Religion | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...bear hugging an unfortunate reporter. When dancing girls in short skirts and blond wigs start jiggling to ear-numbing Korean pop music, the tireless Kim, 59, cavorts in a mosh pit of drunken workers near a makeshift stage. Later he ascends the stage himself, microphone in hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive V.P. "He shows us a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outward Bound | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...band is bathed in blue and red lights that heighten the contours in lead singer Jason Pegg’s face and long blonde hair. He regards the microphone at an angle, seeming to sing at it rather than into it, and his silvery croon is accompanied by occasional vocals from the microphones to his left and right, where Woodward and Hewitt round out the front line...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clearlake Flashes Its British Charm | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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