Word: fab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: The ex-Beatle is reborn in an album with the verve and sound of the Fab Four's early hits...
...even though there doesn't seem to be any pudge to hide. Otherwise, there's nothing flashy about him: just a pair of old Timberlands on his feet, a wedding ring with a tiny jade heart on his hand and that cheeky irreverence well known to fans of the Fab Four...
Surrounding the Chateau Frontenac are the standards of the pre-fab family vacation: the park, the boardwalk, the coin-slot telescopes, the street musicians, the toddlers stumbling around looking cute, the proud parents snapping picture after picture...
...maybe hipsters will stop calling the show the "Granny Awards." But still present -- they won't go away -- are the unsavory reverberations of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, the two Audio-Animatrons who were supposed to be Milli Vanilli but weren't, and had to surrender their 1989 Best New Artist Grammy. Very embarrassing...
Producer Farian was using the same studio singers -- Charles Shaw, Johnny Davis and Brad Howell, the latter two of whom are credited with background vocals on Girl -- to make the new Milli Vanilli album, due out in January, and Rob and Fab were having none of it. After all, as far as the public was concerned, they were Milli Vanilli: they were the ones who went on tour and shook their booties; they were the ones who accepted the Grammy last year for Best New Artist. They demanded to sing for themselves. When the producer remained adamant, they fired...