Word: marr
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...Beach”). While some press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr of the Smiths (and sang backup for them) and “They Don’t Know” is pure 60s girl group, a late-1970s recrystallization of the Brill Building sound. Worth checking...
...more than 14 years, Marr worked to stir up interest--and find the financing--to get the project going. In 1990 he at last approached the Mystic Seaport for help; by 1998 a combination of state money and corporate donations allowed building to begin. "He found very interested ears when he came here," Snediker says...
...boat that took two years to build took two dozen years to plan. The idea of re-creating the Amistad was first floated by Warren Marr, former editor of the N.A.A.C.P.'s national magazine, during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. That summer, harbors around the U.S. were bobbing with tall ships participating in Operation Sail, and Marr couldn't help noticing the underrepresentation of African Americans in the event. Rebuilding the Amistad, he figured, might be just the way to remedy that...