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When you all gathered for those sessions on East 30th Street, did you have any idea you were creating such an influential recording? Nobody that day knew it would have this longevity. For us, it was just another Miles Davis date. Miles Davis made a lot of pretty good record dates, and we just figured this was another good one. (Read reviews of two books on the making of Kind of Blue...
...point where you didn't have to keep working if you didn't want to. What's driving you to stay on the road and keep at it? I like to do it, and I'm really not at the point that you say I am. Being on a record like [Kind of Blue], you may think I was getting a lot of that money, which is not true. You can throw that one out. I'm just out there like a working...
...replaced with a new force that's two times larger and apparently many times more professional. The 1,400 new agents, said a government statement, passed "a strict selection process that included psychological and toxicological tests, as well as the necessary investigations to ensure they have no criminal record." More than 70% are college educated, compared with less than 10% of the old group. (See pictures of the great wall of America...
...success was to "let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible," helped usher in a fleet of impossibly swift African-American sprinters. Among then was Bob (Bullet) Hayes, who won the gold medal in the 100-m sprint at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and recorded what some observers consider the top time ever achieved by a human with an 8.6 split in the 4 x 100-m relay. (Relay marks are faster than regular sprints because runners receive the baton while in motion, enabling them to accelerate quicker.) Hayes later parlayed his speed into...
...Shaving fractions of a second off a speed at which humans aren't built to go isn't easy, and several title holders have crumbled under the pressure. In 1988, Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson clocked a scorching 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics, but quickly had his record expunged after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. Johnson wasn't the last World's Fastest Human to succumb to the lure of steroids. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who ran a 9.77 at a meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called...