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...most naggingly catchy tunes in pop music--and, it turns out, one of the most controversial. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, featured in Disney blockbuster The Lion King, is based on the 1939 song Mbube, written by South African musician Solomon Linda. But Linda, a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account. His family is suing Disney for $1.5 million. Disney says it will fight the suit, but it's already paying off. Though not named in the suit, U.S. music...
...performance of Smile itself (and other Beach Boys hits, including one from Pet Sounds) was more equivocal than the concert’s sloganeering: Brian Wilson is clearly a more constrained musician than he once was. Where the Smile album succeeded in cloaking Wilson’s vocal limitations behind other singers and an excellent production, the live show necessarily did not. He ran out of breath during “Surf’s Up.” He was flat during “Vegetables.” Often, he simply delegated lyrics...
...group Nickel Creek, is almost certainly the most virtuosic mandolinist in the entire modern American roots scene, earning comparisons to David Grisman and other similarly luminary pickers. Especially on Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Thile’s 2001 solo album made with the help of such respected musicians as Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, listeners were captivated by the mesmeric and natural quality of the tracks. However, Thile’s greatest strength—his mandolin chops—are far less well-represented on this album. Given that he plays every instrument on the album this...
Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors, famously referring to an "irrational exuberance" building up in the stock market. But he refused to say more, believing a sudden collapse in share prices would carry more risk than allowing the market to discover the bubble itself. The high-tech balloon continued to inflate for several years after...
...following pages, you will meet some of them. There's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, who tries to predict the behavior of one of the most fickle, most influential demographics in the world: the Tokyo hipster. Former jazz musician (and current Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has been staring the future in the face for years and has to put our money (and his) where his mouth is. Peter Schwartz is the man whom Senators, CEOS and movie directors go to for previews of the future. He predicted the rise of OPEC in the 1970s and the fall of the World Trade Center...