Word: mick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophistication and primitivism in Elton's assertive piano style that makes it an instantly recognizable musical signature-as unmistakable in its way as a Beach Boys harmony or Joe Cocker's sandpaper rasp. Elton's own voice is a supple instrument. He can growl like Mick Jagger or sing an insinuating lyric plaint. He writes for himselfnot surprisingly with supreme correctness, confidence, even elegance. To an unusual degree, he is the only one who can effectively sing the songs he writes...
Although they will play to 1.5 million fans during their three-month tour of the Americas, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are only tourists in some places. After two performances at the San Antonio Convention Center, the British rock megastars decided to pose for pictures at a famous Texas landmark. As they gathered together near a wooden door, it suddenly opened and a woman in her 60s emerged. "Would you mind not leaning against the door?" she snapped. "You're blocking our way to the Alamo." Jagger & Co. stepped aside and regrouped for their photo, then headed...
...modeling gigs ($100 an hour). By the time her 20th birthday came round in February, Margaux had posed for a Vogue cover, was starring at celebrity-jammed parties, and had announced her engagement to Boy Friend Errol Wetson. On the pop scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed the biggest advertising contract ever given to a woman: $1 million from Fabergé to promote a new, unnamed scent. Said Margaux simply...
Including Bach and the Beatles, Monteverdi and Mick Jagger, Parsons' encyclopedia lists 10,250 classical themes and 3,900 popular songs according to title and author. It is not necessary to know how to read music to use Parsons' book. The key to the system is that almost all themes can be differentiated by the relationship of the notes to each other-whether a note repeats (R) its predecessor, or goes up (U), or down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...concerts, though, as people were allowed to buy four tickets each and a lot of scalping is bound to go on--at decadent prices. They'll be in N.Y. and L.A. five days each, too. Ron Wood of the Faces is temporarily standing in for the departed Mick Taylor on the tour...