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...stubbornness. Those qualities are all present in the campaign to help end poverty in Africa that you've heard so much about lately. When the leaders of the rich G-8 countries - essentially the world's bank managers - meet in Scotland next month, everyone, from a pair of crusading rock stars to a gaggle of African premiers and presidents, will be campaigning for a better deal for the world's poorest continent. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has already convinced his G-8 counterparts to forgive the debt of 18 of the world's poorest countries, a deal worth more...
...geriatric crooners weren't unorthodox enough--they have sung with break dancers and a gay men's chorus--consider their new sidekick, the Drunk Stuntmen, a real rock-'n'-roll band with members the ages of their grandchildren. The two Northampton groups share some songs in Road to Nowhere, which they performed in the Netherlands last fall and plan to take in October to London, where Young@Heart will do 12 shows...
...crowds swarm around them like rock stars," marvels Steven Sanderson, 34, the Stuntmen's lead electric guitarist, who is extensively tattooed, sports a cowboy hat and wears shades indoors. Why would these grandparent types appeal to the 18-to-50-year-olds? "It's unlike anything else," Sanderson says. "The first time I heard them at a rehearsal, it brought me to tears. It was one of the most emotional things I've ever seen. What happens is that the words take on a whole new meaning when they sing the songs...
...group usually does a song in the language of or by a musician from the country it is visiting, whether it's Take on Me by Norway's rock gods A Ha or Olivia Newton-John's Let's Get Physical in Australia...
...become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer. He's now 35, an age at which most fast bowlers' bodies have cried, enough. But it's unlikely McGrath will be lowering his rangy frame onto a piano stool anytime soon. To his mind, he has a lot of bowling...