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...time they arrived at Atlantic, L&S had already written songs that would be revived as monster hits in the rock era. Wilbert Harrison had a #1 hit with "Kansas City" in 1959, seven years after Little Willie Littlefield recorded it as "K.C. Lovin?." "Hound Dog," written for Big Mama Thornton, and "Love Me," for Willy and Ruth, were covered by Elvis Presley (whose Sun contract Ertegun had tried to buy, in 1955, for $25,000; RCA, which outbid him by $20,000, got a quick and lasting return on its investment). And somewhere beyond the sea, Edith Piaf would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Shoichet ’04, a Crimson editor, is a History and Literature Concentrator in Winthrop House. In addition to wandering the streets of Detroit, she spends her spare summer moments haunting the streets of Ann Arbor, trying to catch a glimpse of Lee C. “Harrison Ford” Bollinger...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, | Title: POSTCARD FROM DETROIT: Rebuilding a City | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...next day—Sunday—Reuters reported that George Harrison was dying of a brain tumor. The tabloids had said it many times before, and George had denied it, but this was Reuters. Thinking only of how Freddie Mercury finally admitted he had AIDS the day before he died, I was convinced that the quiet Beatle had one foot in the grave. He had dodged throat cancer and a lunatic’s knife, but at 58, he had finally lost his battle with cancer...

Author: By David C. Newman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON: My Sweet George | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...

Author: By David C. Newman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON: My Sweet George | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Winners HARRISON FORD Indiana Jones actor rescues a 13-year-old lost boy scout. Last year he saved a climber. Surely, he's planting these victims to look heroic GARETH FOX Brit beats the competition to spend a night in a dog pound. Inspired, he vows to win the next contest. The prize? A week in a dirty car trunk RESHMILA SHAKYA Four-year-old girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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