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...Bottom line, the weddings you attend this summer are likely to have much better odds of lasting than a coin flip. That's something to relish, when the champagne has run dry and the band covers Kool & The Gang and one of the bridesmaids has run off in tears...
...DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, a co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool and the Gang?once called the Jazziacs?whose instrumental-heavy monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Ladies' Night, Jungle Boogie, Joanna?which Smith wrote?and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood, New Jersey...
DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool & the Gang (once called the Jazziacs), whose monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Jungle Boogie, Joanna--which Smith wrote--and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood...
...Chang writes, "most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American...
...That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus of the ensuing carnage, a note was "If nobody understands, it matters not, I am ready to die now. Darkness settle on Jonestown on its last day on earth...