Word: fender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song's sincere appeal to simplicity has won the hearts of listeners who have boosted the song well up into the Top 40 charts. With the gentle Fender Rhodes playing background to a pair of soft acoustic guitars, Joel has put together a tune that succeeds because it is so straightforward...
...record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy Holly horn-rims. No doubt about it--this guy is strange. Musically, too, the album has more than...
...Waiting to blow our minds in 30. Like a professional I worked my way through that jungle of human bodies. A smooth curve connected to a beautiful well-kept body which she'd soon be inside. I went for it. I was determined. I jumped on top of the fender and was king of the hill. She was mine...
...saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame sans Merci-enigmatic as a sphinx, cruelly indifferent as a Byzantine empress, wearing the features of the Divine Sarah and the aggressive glitter of a vintage Cadillac fender...
...vigilantes of Interstate 94 almost produced the opposite effect. As traffic backed up, drivers risked life and fender to pass the righteous threesome, climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile...