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DIED. WAYLON JENNINGS, 64, gristly Grammy-winning country "outlaw" who recorded Nashville's first platinum album (Wanted: The Outlaws); of a diabetes-related illness; in Chandler, Ariz. With his black Stetson and brash persona, Jennings, along with Willie Nelson, led country's outlaw movement of the late '60s and early '70s--a honky-tonk response to country's slick pop sound. Perhaps best known for Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, he recorded 16 No. 1 singles. Once a bassist for Buddy Holly, Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane in 1959 that killed...
Field, 38, started the Wiggles a few years after he left the platinum-selling rock band the Cockroaches in 1988. He, Cook, 41, and Page, 30, recorded a few children's songs for fun while in college together. They were three of just a handful of men studying preschool education, which they chose because teaching toddlers wouldn't require them to stick to a curriculum...
Club vending machine stocked with Beluga caviar, rare “platinum cheddar” cheez...
Cocky Kid Rock To frustrated white males who enjoy strippers, watching wrestling, drunkeness, bragging, or sucking a plug of chaw while drag-racing strangers on their way home from work, Kid Rock offers Cocky, the follow-up to his platinum 1998 major-label debut, Devil Without a Cause...
Despite Room’s inherent strengths, Alicia Keys (another new-ultra-young-woman-with-substance) will likely overshadow poor Miss Branch. Keys, positively ancient at 20 years of age, has been catapulted further into public attention. Her debut LP, Songs in A Minor, has gone double-platinum in less than three months, with a no less impressive, but certainly more well-publicized effort. Like her songs, Keys is sultry, confident and poised, but she lets her material speak instead of her figure. She and Branch seem to share a kinship in that they mark a return to musical...