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...urgency behind McCartney's renewed ambition is not hard to figure out. Sitting in the Manhattan town house that serves as his office, he praises an "old black drummer," then stops mid-sentence. "I say 'old black drummer,' and it's terrifying, actually. He's about my age [James Gadson, 64]. Excuse me. I'm still coming to grips with the fact that I'm an old white cat." McCartney is 63. With his hair dyed forest-floor brown, he looks younger, "but numbers don't lie, man." He has already buried a wife of almost 30 years...
...series Tommy Lee Goes to College, the Mötley Crüe drummer heads for the University of Nebraska, gets a hot chemistry tutor and tries out for the band. But he's not the only college-bound celeb...
...girlfriend pregnant often compounds his first mistake with a second one: dropping out of school. "When they leave school, they head right for a low-paying job," says Amy Williams, the executive director of the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project in San Francisco. "Their own internal drummer says to them, 'If you are going to be a good father, you have to get a job.'" Few are able to perceive the trap they are falling into. Says a counselor: "Five years down the line, they won't have skills to qualify for much more than work in a fast-food...
...Tommy and the Tigers,†a self-described “dance-rock†band that features Lowe on lead vocals and keyboard, along with lead guitarist T. Josiah Pertz ’05, guitarist Drew R. Bordeaux ’05, and drummer Drake. Last year, Lowe wrote and recorded a solo demo CD of piano-accompanied songs, but he wanted a sound closer to the music that pulsed through the night in London dance clubs...
...gets up there and says something like, ‘I didn’t come with a band, but I’d like one for this song. Is there a drummer here? Yes, you, please come on up. A pianist? Please join us. Josiah, could you come up and play guitar?’ We all huddled around on stage and he whispered, ‘Do you know ‘Stand By Me’? Let’s play it in G.’ And we did it.†According to Lowe...