Word: mardin
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Rent does end on a high note: R.-and-B. superstar Stevie Wonder, who doesn't appear in the stage version, delivers an uplifting version of Seasons of Love, one of the show's signature pieces. Arif Mardin, who produced the album, says Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang were also approached to guest-star on the CD, but Wonder had the only schedule that allowed it. He's all that's needed anyway. His rendition of Seasons of Love is soulful, disarming--and something you haven't already heard even if you saw the show on Broadway...
...fell in a barrel of tits you'd come up sucking your thumb." He: "You're so ugly we're all hoping that wind don't blow off your clothes." In the same town, he finds the spare, waste-no-words diary of 18-year-old Elizabeth Ann Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon and I went to see the soldiers drill in the after noon it was a plesant day." For Dec. 12, of the same year: "We cleaned some of the ((hog)) guts for soap...