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Raised on the North Shore of Oahu, Johnson is the son of Hawaiian surf legend Jeff Johnson. At 16, Jack had a pro surfing contract and became the youngest-ever invitee to the ridiculously dangerous Pipe Masters. After he face-planted on a reef (an accident that left him with 150 stitches and extensive scars around his lip and forehead), Johnson made the transition into directing surf films. On "work" trips to Indonesia and Australia, he would entertain his buddies with mellow acoustic tunes, but never considered a career in music. "Because of where I grew up, music...
...interesting, relevant anecdotes gleaned from formidable amounts of research, Heavier reiterates the omnipresent commercial theme of selling out, exposing Kurt Cobain not as a misguided follower like Vicious, but as a contradictory control freak who sacrificed his life in order ensure the perpetuation of his status as a musical legend. Cross draws on an inevitable truth about major-label music that Vicious could not fathom and that Cobain knew from the start—that no music can become popular without some degree of commercial compromise...
...been the exception to the rule that conglomerates are clumsy beasts doomed to underperformance. In the two decades since he took the helm from Reginald Jones, another legend, the wiry, intense Welch, son of a train conductor from Salem, Mass., has turned a sprawling $27 billion-a-year industrial conglomerate into a $130 billion-a-year diversified dynamo that sells everything from aircraft engines, power turbines and CT scanners to life insurance, sitcoms, light bulbs and dishwashers. He exited businesses that GE couldn't dominate, from semiconductors to toasters, and earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" for his massive layoffs...
...someone so young who made such in impact so quickly, with such distinction, and in so many media as Awesome Welles (the nickname that was applied to him as much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious dynamism, he gained instant legend; between Einstein and Ray Charles, Welles was the fellow to whom the word "genius" was most easily applied. He had Mesmer?s charm; his voice could hypnotize, his gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting...
...Their conclusion: The racing legend was the victim of a disastrous chain of events. He hit the wall at 160 mph, just milliseconds after his car was hit broadside - and to top it all off, his seatbelt ripped apart during the crash. Those events conspired to fling the unprotected back of Earnhardt?s head against the steering wheel, the support behind his seat or both...