Word: glammed
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...also about politics. What's most surprising about U2's comeback is that the band hasn't toned down its idealism to fit today's junk-rock, glam-rap times. In fact, the performers have amped it up. During the North American leg of the Elevation tour, the band showed footage of Charlton Heston defending his views on firearms followed by stark footage of a small child playing with a gun and violent scenes from Vietnam as a sarcastic introduction to the song Bullet the Blue Sky. The new album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, takes its title...
...Phil Spector's girl groups, a huge Beatles and Brit invasion fan, an intense radio listener who absorbed everything in the AM Top 40 between 1963 and 1969. Before the Ramones he was a glam-rocker, another New York Dolls fan. He would hitch rides on Queens Boulevard in a custom pink jumpsuit and thigh-high boots to play with a band called Sniper, finally getting his ass kicked one night like everyone who knew him was afraid would happen. Even after becoming a Ramone he always wore '60s-style elliptical specs, hiding what I always imagined to be pink...
...version of “Born Under a Bad Sign,” and all the great variations on “Knock on Wood”: Eddie Floyd’s original languid version, Otis Redding’s energetic soulful version, David Bowie’s glam version, and Amii Stewart’s canonical disco rendition...
...Jolie, 25) or 15-year movie veterans (Winona Ryder, still luminous at a grizzled 29). Goldie Hawn, a perky 55, could have taken poise lessons from her daughter Kate; while botching a TelePrompter speech she devolved into her "Laugh-In" ditz of aeons past. But Julie Andrews radiated queenly glam at 65. And the alter kockers - well, why shouldn't screenwriter Ernest Lehman, the recipient of a special and not entirely plausible honorary Academy Award, look old at 85? But then the Oscar experience can age a man. As host Steve Martin said, "It is interesting to note that...
Kubota's favored '70s retro-glam ward-robe emphasizes the mood of the music he loves. But he hasn't gone entirely native. "When I go to clubs, I like to hang out with Americans, Japanese, different types of people," he says. "But even though I've lived in America for seven years, the only drink I drink is Japanese sake." There is a new description for the music industry: a sake-voiced rhythm and blues singer...