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...Elvis revolution was on - and as parents around the world quickly realized, the sultry crooner wasn't just a temporary distraction. As the singer's popularity exploded, his risque dance moves sent girls into paroxysms of excitement and his slightly suggestive half-snarl made mothers everywhere a little bit nervous...
Radio stations across the country got a little surprise in the mail last week: just-burned plain white compact discs on which were scrawled, Let's Roll and NEIL YOUNG. Yes, the Neil Young, muttonchopped crooner of protest hymns, who, while recording his new album, asked his manager to roll out Roll, his ode to the hijacked passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. Young was inspired by reading an article about Todd Beamer, 32, who stormed the cockpit--but not before signaling his fellow rebels with his now famous phrase, "Let's roll." The song is "a powerful funk-rock...
...York) could get a song out of the Cold War ("Russians"), surely today?s other New York-area performers will find meaning and inspiration in the city?s recent history. Already, New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen has written a song that deals with the recent attacks that Latin pop crooner Marc Anthony, a native New Yorker, may record for his new album. In 1994, on his song "NY State of Mind," the rapper Nas rapped "nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind." His words still ring true...
...many Arab politicians could win a popularity contest, even among their own constituents. But they're writing songs about former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa, who in May became secretary-general of the Arab League. "I hate Israel," goes a chart topper of the same name by Egyptian crooner Shaaban Abdel Rahim. "But I love Amr Moussa." When the tune hit the Egyptian airwaves several months ago Moussa's standing soared. You might think that such Israel-bashing lyrics would cause some discomfort for an official whose job at the time involved his country's ultra-sensitive diplomatic relations with...
Amid the hype and hard work, Cantopop is maturing. "We Chinese have changed so much over the years," says crooner Leon Lai. "Our position in the world changed. So our music has changed too." But no one wants it to change too much. Any music that has so many millions of fans around the world has to be doing something right...