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...hardest things to write is a song that has no specific meaning but nonetheless conjures up powerful feelings or ideas. Bluntly themed, big-haired, Bon Jovi-like rock anthems are commonplace. But it takes someone of exceptional talent--R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Prince--to create a song that makes little rational sense but still rings true emotionally. We expect this from poets; we rarely get it from rockers...
Serious connoisseurs of the surrealistically kitschy visit Graceland Wedding Chapel, where Norm Jones, the Elvis impersonator in residence, is both pleased and bewildered by the sudden popularity of the wedding ceremonies he performs for $250. Heavy-metal star Jon Bon Jovi got married there in 1989; Phil Joanou, director of the U2's concert film Rattle and Hum, was not only married at the Graceland Chapel but played a tape of his wedding onstage every night of the band's last American tour. In December 1992 three members of Def Leppard showed up at the door, one to get married...
...just keeps getting better). Indeed, there were moments, when four muscular men with determined faces were pictured galloping across the countryside, squinting and gritting ther teeth with determination, when I just wanted to stand up and lament, "Where oh where, at a time like this, is the Bon Jovi musical accompaniment?" J.B.J. did such a good job with the Tex-mex sound, I'm sure he could pull off an inspired 17th century France ballad...
...pinpoint how the trend began. The hit 1990 film Dances with Wolves brought Native American culture into sharp visual focus. Rappers like TLC were among the first to embrace the look: wide chokers, clunky bolo ties (often on bare chests), fanciful belts. Other rockers -- Lenny Kravitz and Jon Bon Jovi -- have followed along. Janet Jackson flaunts a white-shell-and- silver Mummy's Bundle choker on her new videos. On MTV, the veejays are decked out in silver and bone. Angelique Bianca, guitarist for a group called -- what else? -- the Indians, wears the jewelry as a form of environmental protest...
...most successful sentencing proposals serve clients' interests yet avoid offending judges and prosecutors with excessive calls for leniency. Some can be extremely innovative. When Doc McGhee, the former manager of rock bands Motley Crue and Bon Jovi, was convicted of marijuana smuggling in North Carolina, he faced a tough judge and an aggressive prosecutor. He pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Consultant Hoelter, whose nonprofit firm handles about 750 cases a year as well as sentence reductions in capital crimes, came up with the idea that McGhee should stage rock concerts to raise money...