Word: demos
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...crossover smash, wowing critics and beating the Streets to the highly respected Mercury Music Prize. Her lyrics denounce the macho posturing and gun culture often associated with the rap scene. Last month she played at an anti-gun event in Birmingham and appeared last week at an antiwar demo in London's Hyde Park. On her hit single It Takes More she raps, "Who gives a damn about the ice on your hand/ If it's not too complex/ Tell me how many Africans died for the baguettes on your Rolex...
...singin' 'Hound Dog'." The weirdness was watching not just a white kid who sang black, but a man who moved like a antsy woman. And sometimes sang like one. Around his 19th birthday, a year before he hooked up with Sam Phillips' Sun Records, Elvis did a demo tape he recorded a noble-masochism ballad called "I'll Never Stand in Your Way." (The cut appears on RCA's four-CD, 100-song set "Platinum: A Life in Music.") Here his voice is thin, nasal, with an attack of naked innocence and, yes, a feminine vibrato...
...resort 300 miles from Timmins and moved the whole family to a cabin with no running water. Once the siblings were adults and out of the house, Twain says she felt "very old." With no idea of what she wanted from life, she nevertheless put together a demo tape, and in 1991 Mercury Nashville gave her a $20,000 advance and signed her to a contract...
Council members chose the bands from among 12 that submitted demo tapes...
Unfortunately, the tower’s 360-degree view of Harvard is difficult to appreciate with the bell swinging within inches of one’s head. Though the schedule is complex and exact, Campbell graciously allows for some experimentation. After a demo swing or two, FM let the Mem Hall bell rip. And ask not, gentle reader, for whom it was tolling...