Word: gig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with it. The comfortable but undistinguished corduroys and wool sweater could have also had an effect, not to mention the music emanating from the stereo by musicians who shun narrow lapels pointy shoes, and sunglasses. Whatever the reasons, I just wasn't hip enough to "dig this gig," as the back cover of this compilation of "hundreds of items of enduring cool" urges...
...first important gig came at the Freshman Smoker, a bawdy, all-male (and long extinct) annual revue that Harvard's freshman class used to sponsor. Lehrer played the Smoker for four straight years, parlaying his original songs, parodies and piano-playing into a small-time institution. He decided to make a record...
...friends-Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Cy Coleman and Stephen Sondheim. By the end of April he will have appeared in Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. At the end of this week he will entertain the Reagans and their special guest, Prince Charles, at the White House-his third gig at the Executive Mansion since...
...16th year, John had formed his first band, the Quarrymen, and Paul McCartney had enlisted as guitar player. John and Paul began to write songs together almost as soon as they had finished tuning up, and they played any gig the band could get. By the end of 1956, though he had his first group and a best friend, Lennon suffered a lasting wound His mother was killed in an accident while she stood waiting for a bus. As he said, "I lost her twice...
Langston, downstairs in his dressing room, is oblivious to the joke. In fact, he is drinking. He and his two-piece back-up band, the Brown-Baggers, are passing around bottles of Heineken. But they are celebrating more than just another opening night; the gig at the Diplomat is Langston's first appearance on the East Coast...