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...first husband was a musician with a humble background; her second, a fabulously famous pop star who became a freakish recluse. Now she has married an actor who has made two movies in Las Vegas. LISA MARIE PRESLEY seems to be assembling a nuptial collage of her late father Elvis. After her marriages to Danny Keough and Michael Jackson, Presley walked down an aisle in Hawaii with NICOLAS CAGE last week, the 25th anniversary of Elvis' death. The groom, a fan of Elvis memorabilia, got to add the King's daughter to his collection...
...hard to imagine any other musician confronting the subject of Sept. 11 as well as the Boss has. For decades he has written music from a uniquely American perspective that can somehow haunt our souls and lift us up at the same time. If we knew Bruce for his words alone, he would be considered one of America's finest poets. But set to music, those words have the power to make generations of Americans think, hope and live better lives. The Rising is Springsteen's effort to try through his art to make us respect, remember and somehow overcome...
...Musician Eric Rosser intended to die in Bangkok, the "City of Angels." Here, the former piano player for faded American rock star John Mellencamp found a haven. He had an attractive Thai wife, a young son, a luxury apartment and what he once described as the best gig in town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper...
...only musician working today who could start an advice column if she tired of writing in rhyme may be AIMEE MANN. Her songs often take the perspective of an older sister talking a listener through a breakup. "This is how it goes: You'll get angry at yourself/And think you can think of something else," she sings on her new album, Lost in Space. Her music is rock at its most comforting, with gently swinging rhythms and mournful guitar lines. Sometimes only a hint of distortion steers it clear of soft-rock territory. The words ultimately, however, are not soft...
...didn't sing or play an instrument; he often left session supervision to his assistant Jack Clement, an actual musician and songwriter. But Phillips did have an ear. He could hear the brilliance in a raw musician. (Sam liked raw; it was what made him rock's first impresario.) He could also hear what wasn't there but could be: what a performer might accomplish if given full freedom in the studio...