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...Grateful Dead returned to the road last week without their keyboardist, who died in July of a cocaine and morphine overdose. But what really killed him? According to the group's lyricist in Rolling Stone, "Basically, he died of rock and roll and a terminal affliction of the heart...
Hornsby the lyricist is at his best when describing Southern working-class life with distinctly populist political overtones. This is highlighted on the album's best track, "Another Day," a hand-clapping, banjo-picking, hyperactive hoedown tune that could well have been played at a Southern dance hall like the one pictured on the album jacket...
HEARD MELODIES ARE SWEET. King, the much delayed London musical based on the life of the slain civil rights leader, has some high-powered talent, including opera singer Simon Estes in the title role and Maya Angelou as the principal lyricist. But the show's intention to portray Martin Luther King Jr.'s human side (although not, producers insist, his womanizing) nettled Coretta Scott King, who has legal rights over the commercial use of her husband's image in the U.S. To win back her support, the script is being substantially rewritten, with greater emphasis on King's leadership...
CLOSER THAN EVER. This musical sampler from lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire is an off-Broadway charmer deftly performed. Special joys: character songs that actors Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes render as richly nuanced as one-act plays...
...audiences. With negritude the cultural rage, Baker was nominated as queen of Paris' great Colonial Exposition of 1931 -- until critics pointed out the obvious, that she was neither French nor African. Baker was memorably reminded of that during a 1935 dinner party in New York City given by Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. She insisted on speaking French at table until Hart's black maid burst out, "Honey, you is full of s - - - -. Talk the way yo' mouth was born...