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...This is a wonderful, intelligent musician,” Ozawa told the Globe. “You know, I have never before conducted a soloist who improvises his own cadenzas—I wasn’t sure when he was going to end, so I just watched him very closely! It is very enjoyable to work with someone whose mind is so clear...
...American singer Leonard Cohen once spent a few hours on an unmade hotel bed with a fellow musician. In an explicit song about their romp - clearly punctuated by some of Dr. Meloy's "emphatic exclamations" - Cohen doesn't name the woman, but there are several clues that she was the late great Janis Joplin. Cohen quotes her as saying that she preferred handsome men, but in his case would make an exception. What most impressed him about her was that throughout her short life she shunned those handcuff words, "I need you/I don't need you." That...
...insisting on getting it right, absolutely straight-edge on tour with no drink or drugs and an early bedtime. There was always a dark side to Johnny; he seemed tightly wound, intense, sometimes downright nasty. In 1983 he got into a fight over a woman with an obscure punk musician; he was repeatedly kicked in the head, had brain surgery, almost died...
...Myself, and Irene for the Farrelly Brothers and has a song on a Dawson Creek compilation. But don’t get the wrong idea, he’s not a teenager’s popstar nor is his music suitable for the WB. Rather Yorn is a serious musician, who plays the guitars, bass, piano, drums, tambourines and synth strings on the album and sings as well. His self-created sound mixes folkish American rock with the luscious melodies of British pop. The songs revolve around themes of distance and intimacy, and Yorn refuses to fall into the cliche...
...someone with great pop chops (Janet Jackson will do fine without me giving her any publicity, presumably. Sorry Miss Jackson). MacColl’s songs are catchy without being stupid—I would call them intelligent pop in the Sam Phillips/Aimee Mann mold, except she was a musician way before either of those artists (“They Don’t Know,” Tracey Ullman’s musical hit of the 80s, is a cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side “He?...