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...shrieking high notes to 60 albums and several of his own Big Bands, which reinterpreted pop songs (including the Beatles' Hey Jude) and helped revive the genre; in Ventura, Calif. In the late 1970s Ferguson, who credited yoga with his ability to hit double high Cs, found brief mainstream fame with Gonna Fly Now, his Top 40 version of the theme song from Rocky...
...canvases on fire. He has been playing with fire--and ephemeral art forms--ever since. His art today draws on a wide range of disciplines (from feng shui to astrophysics) and materials (from vending machines to roller coasters). But gunpowder--the medium that brought him international fame--remains one of his favorites...
...history of pop music, there is exactly one good song about celebrity: Fame, which required the combined effort of David Bowie and John Lennon to be brought into existence. Otherwise, from the Rolling Stones' Star Star to Britney Spears' Lucky, the subject has been a disaster for any artist who comes near it. It's not that people aren't interested in celebrity--Mary Hart's summerhouse is a monument to the contrary--but that the pleasures it provides are voyeuristic, defined completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance...
...multiplex or the gossip-mag rack, and inevitably they usher their notoriety into their music. For those of us who like pop for pop's sake, the degree to which the albums succeed is entirely a function of how much the singers keep any mention of their fame--and the distance it creates--to a minimum...
...Still, Fame Becomes Me shows what can happen when smart TV gag writing is given some Broadway polish, and a performer who can squeeze every ounce of juice out of a line, and then italicize it with a bodily contortion you don't expect to see in people older than eight. "Just remember," Short says, in one of his mock-sincere moments after returning from rehab, "my rock bottom is still your wildest dreams." I'm not quite sure why the New York critics who lost their heads over Spamalot - a lumpier,and even more self-referential show than this...