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...have always been a lot of bands. The Scots are very congenial and really love to get together. It's a real pub culture. Playing in the pubs, not just in clubs, was a very common way of reaching a live audience. You would play for a lot of drunken Scotsmen. They would all sing along--that's just the way the culture is over there...
...left the country for the first time, I crossed the Atlantic for the first time, I went to Europe for the first time—all to be sexually attacked by a drunken birthday girl in a club (sadly, also for the first time...
...spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
...Grammy too. With a simple, one-key modulation after every verse, and solid underscoring of reeds and horns by arranger Richard Wess, Darin evinced a subtler understanding of lyrics: he gets nicely slurry on the line "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor," as if imitating a drunken sailor. And his attack has more power. He sings like a grownup...
...problem is that the motives for coming back--needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body does not--violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th century's first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve: Babe's pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his politics, his opinion or a superstar personality. To be a Jordan...