Word: musicalities
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...rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while his bandmates faced forward; six months later, Curtis killed himself...
...love of music that drove Corbijn to take up photography in the first place. As a shy, gangly teenager, he would go to gigs on his own and take his father's camera, he says, "purely to get close to the musicians without looking like an idiot." From there, Corbijn developed into one of the most highly regarded photographers of his era, with stars as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, the Arctic Monkeys, Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood lining up to be his subjects. His portraits have been exhibited in art galleries around the world...
...that sense his move to movies couldn't be more natural. Corbijn sees Control not as a typical rock biopic or music film, but as "a tragic love story with great music." Based on the book Touching From a Distance by Curtis' wife, Debbie (played by the Oscar-nominated British actress Samantha Morton), it's a familiar tale: Debbie and Curtis, brought movingly back to life by newcomer Sam Riley, meet and marry as teenagers; Curtis joins the band and, while on tour, begins an affair with an exotic Belgian, leaving Debbie at home to take care of their baby...
...Sure enough, Radiohead.com was loading so slowly early last week that Greenwood posted an apology for the "gear-grinding." There's no question that most bands would prefer to off-load the responsibility of distributing their music, just as most consumers would prefer one-stop shopping for their music. But getting the major labels to work together is the equivalent of getting the five families to agree. Perhaps In Rainbows is the offer they can't refuse...
...Howard on the American version of The Office. It’s a no brainer—this Harvard Man would have the ladies fighting over him in no time. 2. David A. “DA” Wallach ’07: the man’s music was on Entourage. A recent grad and former FM columnist, Wallach and classmate Maxwell C. Drummey ’07 make up Chester French, a band gaining fame quickly, especially after the screen time they received while the credits rolled on an episode of Entourage. 3. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly...