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Dominican daily scoops the world on Jackson-Presley item...
...produced by 31-year-old music mogul Rick Rubin. It's hard to imagine a less likely collaboration than that between Cash and Rubin; on the surface, it seems as ill-advised a pairing as, say, Dan Rather and Connie Chung. Cash is a contemporary of Elvis Presley's and was once the host of a network variety show. Rubin is a hairy, ripped- jean-wearing studio virtuoso who has produced platinum albums for rappers like Run-D.M.C. and for the punk-funk band Red Hot Chili Peppers. As it happened, their different backgrounds didn't matter, for Cash...
...redemption are not just topics for Cash's songs; they're themes in his career. He grew up in the tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas (pop. 464). After signing with legendary Sun Records -- Presley's first label -- in 1955, he recorded such hits as Folsom Prison Blues before moving to Columbia Records in 1958. Cash remained with Columbia for almost three decades and produced a formidable string of hits. Along the way he married June Carter, of the Carter Family Singers, a country-gospel group; they have a son as well as several children by previous marriages. As Cash aged...
...Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band." Yet, both Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix were rock gods who succumbed early to tragic drug overdoses. So wouldn't chance departure form this life be a pathetic cliche...
...author; of a heart attack; en route from Miami to London. After stints as an English professor at Columbia and a critic for Life magazine, Goldman found his calling as a merciless demythologizer of such pop icons as Lenny Bruce (in 1974's Ladies and Gentlemen -- Lenny Bruce!!), Elvis Presley (Elvis, 1981) and John Lennon (The Lives of John Lennon, 1988). No one would call these biographies "appreciations": the sordid side of his subjects -- from Presley's addictions and gluttony to Lennon's appetite for violence and sex -- fascinated Goldman. All of it was served up in high- voltage prose...