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Clive Davis is not a man easily stripped of his judgment. Davis, as he often reminds people, discovered Janis Joplin, Patti Smith and Whitney Houston. Despite his status as chairman and CEO of the RCA music group, he still considers himself an A.-and-R. (artist-and-repertoire) man, which means he loves matching singers to songs. It is Davis' job to gather material from professional songwriters for the Idol albums, oversee their production and put his stamp of good taste on every finished product. Shortly after the Idol finale, Davis invited Aiken to his home to discuss Aiken...
...thing that Rush proved is that he knows little about football. Donovan McNabb is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, as are Mike Vick and Daunte Culpepper. The media doesn't have to be "desirous" to make the young men the stars that they are. Tom Rajan Houston, Texas...
Raised in Ferriday, La., Mickey Leroy Gilley boasts two famous cousins: Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart. After moving to Houston at age 17, Gilley worked in construction until a meeting with Jerry Lee made Gilley think, "If he can do it, why can't I?" ("The Killer," as Jerry Lee was known, famously pulled a roll of cash from his pocket to stir young Gilley.) But it wasn't easy. For more than a decade, he played at a string of honky-tonks, earning a reputation as a solid journeyman pianist, albeit a clone of the cousin...
...member band. "The energy that made him want to play and perform and entertain still exists," says Jim Ed Norman, president of Warner Bros. Records Nashville and a producer of several Gilley albums. "It's a primal, core essence of what artists are." Gilley also owns restaurants in Houston and Branson and licenses his name to a Las Vegas venue in addition to the Dallas club...
...frosh weekend on a note of refusal, Taj and Tonika exchanged “real letters” throughout the subsequent summer. In an act of fate, Taj’s family moved from New Jersey to Texas that summer, and he was able to visit Tonika in Houston. Lady Fortune seemed to be working to bring Tonika and Taj together...