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...line for "30 #1 Hits" reads: "Before anybody did anything, Elvis did everything." He certainly knew his job - all of them. He was also a fine instinctive musician, a fast study with a gift for synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles...
Outside the studio, Eminem continued to act like someone who listens to too many Eminem CDs. At the MTV Video Music Awards, he threatened to deck Moby, the pencil-necked vegan techno musician who criticized him for his homophobic lyrics. And yet this fall Eminem managed to win over even p.c. middle-aged white critics with his semiautobiographical movie, 8 Mile, playing a rapper from Detroit who defends gay men and pulls himself up by his vocal cords to escape wage-slave trailerdom. The movie's implicit premise is one that our public figures rarely acknowledge: that a poor white...
...42nd Street. "She's a gypsy," says director Rob Marshall. "Those are her roots." Same with Gere, who appeared in rock musicals early in his career and was an understudy in the original Broadway production of Grease. Still, Gere had to gear up for Chicago. "I was a rock musician and a blues guy," he says, "so for this film, I had to find another place in my voice. It was work." Zellweger endured the most intense vocal training, but she came to the movie with one very important quality ready-made: her winning, vulnerable persona. "You have to like...
...hate hearing “What Child Is This?” in CVS because it is a selfish rendition of a song that’s meant to be shared. Folk musician Pete Seeger says that singing has only recently become the province of professionals and stopped being an everyday way of expressing oneself. Christmas carols played in CVS worry me because they challenge the populism the song has retained in the Rooster Church in December, and thus the spirit of Christmas itself...
LeBlanc, in addition to being a spectacular showman, is a talented musician, as are the other members of the band. While LeBlanc’s drum set is prominent at the front and center of the stage, the microphones on either side of it help demonstrate that it’s not a one-man band. Indeed, the Mouths’ two guitarists, John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez, and bassist Rob Savoy all write songs and take turns singing lead...