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Forget the youthquake. What America really loves is... old. Whatever Wayne represents - the Old Testament God, a Mount Rushmore face with a permanent scowl, the craggy soul of Frontier or Sunbelt America - he has made the list in each of the Harris poll's 13 years, and he's figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Wayne: Still Tops | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

Elvis shimmied, Little Richard wailed, Jerry Lee Lewis smashed the piano stool and played the keys with his feet, and all helped liberate pop culture from the straitjacket of propriety. Rock ?n roll made them move like that. But those three had a guitar or piano to play or play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: James Brown | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

On another level, the performer who called himself the Hardest Working Man in Show Business wasn?t kidding. In a nonstop one-hour show Brown did spray his energy around like ballplayers with champagne after the big win. Further, he extended this sense of urgency to the entire show. Elvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: James Brown | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

Reissued this year as Christmas With Peggy Lee, this innovative album contains many less familiar songs, including three of the singer-songwriter's own compositions ("Don't Forget to Feed the Reindeer," "Christmas Carousel" and "The Tree"). Lee could bring as much sex to singing as Elvis; but whereas he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

If you buy (or can tolerate) only one Christmas album, this is it. Among the 17 tracks are Bing's "White Christmas," Elvis' "Blue Christmas," Nat's "The Christmas Song," Johnny's "Sleigh Ride," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," Sarah MacLachlan's "Song for a Winter's Night" and, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

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