Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left with two hours of Napoleon sitting in his villas, suffering cardiac spasms-a mild attack while mounting Billie Whitelaw, a worse one while mounting a horse-and grinding out fatuities like "Power is my art; I love it the way a musician loves his instrument." The routine virtuosity of good professional actors fills the gaps-but only with the kind of narcissism that mocks the story. No eagle, caged or free, could survive this taxidermy...
...music to emerge last year came from younger artists. In addition to the deaths of Otis Spann and Magic Sam, the world suffered the losses of King Curtis and Duane "Skydog" Allman last year. Allman was a guitarist of both incredible technical virtuosity and unerring taste. As a studio musician for Atlantic Records, he played on countless albums, ranging from those of Aretha Franklin to Boz Scaggs, Herbie Mann to John Hammond. He is best known, however, for his work in the Allman Brothers Band. After two good albums, a third and great album was released last year, The Allman...
...with growing up in a tightly knit, loyal family of social workers in Cincinnati and Knoxville. As a child she had two idols, her glamorous older sister Gary and her grandmother Louvenia. Nikki did all Gary's fighting for her for the excellent reason that Gary was a musician who argued that if her hands were "maimed," the families of her music teachers might starve. Protecting Louvenia was a harder assignment. Nikki's childhood ended the day she realized that her grandmother was dying...
...protracted scenes flowing slowly from one to the next, the story of Gertrud who leaves her husband Gustav because his love for her is not, she says, complete enough. "The man who I love must belong to me completely. I must come first in his life," she insists. The musician Erland to whom Gertrud turns for the perfect love she seeks disappoints her too. When she proposes going away together, he tells her about another woman who is pregnant and whom he will not abandon. Rejecting the entreaties of a former lover. Gertrud leaves the men who love...
...George Harrison, the musician who tied together his friends, fame, talent and human concern to the benefit of the Pakistani refugees...