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...More than a decade ago Paul Simon's "Graceland" album introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to international popular culture, promoting this a cappella ensemble as a global emissary of isicathamiya and its sonorous hymns of protest and healing. For years apartheid repression haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams...
...final performer was the ever-restless Paul Simon. He was in his polyrhythmic New York street-boy mode, placing percussive emphasis and new-agey world music arrangements on hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Graceland." Two musical highlights from the evening spotlighted the night's political purpose. The finale had Crosby, Stills & Nash leading all the performers (save Midler) chorusing on the presciently themed "Teach Your Children," a song that Graham Nash might have custom-composed for the Gore-Lieberman campaign (if he hadn't written it 32 years earlier.) The sentimental charm of the song seemed...
...First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 2. What We Did For Love - from "A Chorus Line" 3. What a Fool Believes 4. Too Long in the Wind - Rita Coolidge 5. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Carole King 6. Martin - Marvin Gaye 7. Friendly Persuasion - Pat Boone 8. Graceland - Paul Simon 9. Soulful Strut - Grover Washington Jr. 10. You Gotta Be Real - 3rd Force...
...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...
...better to honor the onset of ELVIS Week (Aug. 8-16) than to weigh how much you're willing to spend on Presley memorabilia? Guernsey's auction house and Elvis Presley Enterprises are putting 1,000 lots taken from the Graceland vaults up for grabs in October at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas to raise money for Presley Place, a transitional-housing development in Memphis, Tenn. Among the items: a portrait by the only artist for whom Elvis ever sat (1); a Texaco credit card (2); a 1971 jumpsuit (3); sheet music for All Shook Up (with original...