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When Alain levy was executive vice president at PolyGram records in 1989, a representative for Island Records came to see him with an offer to sell the independent label for $300 million. Levy knew that Island?s roster of popular acts, including U2 and Bob Marley, could boost PolyGram?s efforts to build market share quickly. But there was a caveat: if Levy wanted the deal, it had to be inked before the agent left the premises. Business executives negotiate for weeks, even months, before spending that kind of money. Not Levy. By 1 a.m., the deal was sealed...
...picture hangs in shop windows across the northern Afghan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif and is pasted in the windshields of Alliance pickups and jeeps. Along every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze out from their baggy sockets. He's the Che Guevara of northern Afghanistan, its Mandela, Marley, JFK. (Nearly anyone you ask can recall where he or she was when the news of his assassination broke.) Not merely because Massoud was a famed fighter or a charismatic leader?but because he had a vision of a unified, representative government for Afghanistan, which remains the country's best hope...
...Conflict may make some entertainment superfluous, but it also helps make some great art possible, from Bob Marley?s anthemic song ?War? to Kurt Vonnegut?s novel ?Slaughterhouse Five? to Picasso?s masterpiece ?Guernica.? Many mere entertainers - the teen pop idols, the nihilistic gangsta rappers, the amoral hard rockers - will no doubt have to (at least temporarily) rethink their relevance in the light of recent events. Do we need to hear DMX?s violent boasts when there?s so much violence on TV? Is there any point in enduring Slipknot?s horror metal assault when real life is already dealing...
...Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers JAMAICA Ziggy, Stephen, Sharon and Cedella are keeping reggae's (and their father Bob's) positivity and purpose alive. Key album: Spirit of Music...
...problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called "rebel music" today is not that there's too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture's liberal definition, that there's way too much. Since the dawn of rock 'n' roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee...