Word: lennon
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...last are the Sinister Turns, who are using the occasion to promote their new EP. Ever the diplomatic easy-goers, the band is reluctant to denounce their adversaries while they set up their equipment.Keyboardist and occasional trombone player Edward R. Sherrill ’08 is more Lennon than Lenin as we discuss his band’s intentions for their set.“In a weekend filled with hate, vitriol, and violence, we’re really trying to bridge the gap with our rocking tunes,” he says.And just how is this noble mission going...
Ortega still likes to take shots at Washington--in one of his victory speeches, he said Bush "is seeking to start wars with the whole world"--but he has strived to adopt a more moderate look. His campaign anthem this year was sung to the tune of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance. To underscore his warmer, fuzzier incarnation, supporters often wore pink to rallies instead of the party's more militant red and black. But whether Ortega has shed his penchant for cynicism is another question. He and his Sandinista comrades were global guerrilla heroes when they overthrew...
...Cleese was the Python's John Lennon (a natural leader, quick and acerbic), surely Idle was Paul McCartney: the cute one with the high voice, the gregarious disposition and the burden of the audience's suspicion that he needed to be universally loved. "When you make an audience laugh they love you, they really do love you," he has said, in what seems to be a dead-serious, Sally Field fashion, "and that's one of the nicest things about being a comedian." Pre-Python, Idle contributed a Beatles parody song, "I Want to Hold Your Handle," to the radio...
...history of pop music, there is exactly one good song about celebrity: Fame, which required the combined effort of David Bowie and John Lennon to be brought into existence. Otherwise, from the Rolling Stones' Star Star to Britney Spears' Lucky, the subject has been a disaster for any artist who comes near it. It's not that people aren't interested in celebrity--Mary Hart's summerhouse is a monument to the contrary--but that the pleasures it provides are voyeuristic, defined completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance...
...than the Martins, father and son. George was not only present at the creation; he was crucial to it. He was the one who insisted that Ringo Starr (anyone, actually) replace Pete Best as the band's drummer. He gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions...