Word: drums
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...Richie Valens ("La Bamba") as a way to dig himself out of bankruptcy. And yet his influence on early rock 'n' roll is almost unmatched. Holly was barely out of high school when he opened for Elvis Presley in 1955. He popularized the two guitar, one bass, one drum lineup that so many acts (the Beatles, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Weezer) would later adopt. When a self-conscious Roy Orbison saw Holly's black rimmed glasses and slim jim ties, he decided not to let his homely, face-for-radio looks hinder his singing career. (For a while, John Lennon...
...that. Or you can pay for four nights, and stay for seven. You get champagne served in Waterford flutes, chocolate covered tropical fruit, and a 15-minute professional photo shoot session. Add a candlelit dinner on the beach served by a white-gloved butler and steel-drum seranade starting at $160 for two. 888-SANDALS...
...party held on Miami's South Beach that ranked among the best of the pre-Super Bowl bashes: "One section of the beach was furnished with couches and upholstered chairs arranged in front of a stage with a steel drum band and Latin dancers gyrating on platforms. Just to one side, chefs churned up paella with shovels...In another cabana, they were handing out Super Bowl commemorative Crocs-blue with orange or orange with blue, all gratis. The party felt busy, but there was never a line, whether it was for the roast pig at the savory station, the decadent...
...push her candidacy, the Hutchison camp has released a poll by Voter Consumer Research showing her defeating Governor Perry 55% to 31%. Perry's pollster, Michael Baselice, scoffs at the numbers, telling the Houston Chronicle, "He beats her like a drum." But the prospect of two rival Republicans facing off is making for a Texas-size game of falling dominoes involving a slew of top politicians from both parties...
...what was the Motown Sound? Great melodies, lots of tambourines and hand clapping, blaring horns, interplay between the lead singer and his or her backup vocalists, driving bass lines and foot-slapping drum parts. In his still essential Motown history Where Did Our Love Go? Nelson George writes, "Motown chief engineer Mike McClain built a miniscule, tinny-sounding radio designed to approximate the sound of a car radio. The high-end bias of Motown's recordings can be partially traced to the company's reliance on this piece of equipment." They knew people would be listening on their car stereos...