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...week flew American rhythm-and-soul star Alicia Keys to Amsterdam to help launch the N91, the company's response to Apple's iPod music player. Keys dazzled the crowd with piano wizardry and powerful vocals. Nokia boss Jorma Ollila is hoping she can do for the N91 what rocker Sheryl Crow did for the iPod. The stylish device holds 3,000 songs and doubles as a phone. It can fetch tunes from mobile networks and wireless Internet connections; iPod can't. But the $910 price will probably turn off consumers unless mobile operators subsidize it. IDC analyst Paolo Pescatore...
...daughter are planning a TV mini-series on his life, and he talked to her about his longtime regimen of swimming and running ("before it became fashionable"), hoofing it with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh ("he kind of danced down to me, which was wonderful of him") and Rocker Bruce Springsteen ("I think he is a tremendous performer"). Obviously, the Chairman of the Board knows something about some kinds of Bosses...
...that sound, as on this stand-out, they succeed with flying colors. But, for the most part, this isn’t what they’re after—rather than accept themselves as heirs of British rock, they explore just what it means to be a British rocker, and even just to be British, and these level of inquiry and musical introspectiveness I just find completely absent in the pleasant but not ultimately intellectually engaging music of their Manchester peers...
...jolly "heh!" after almost every sentence he utters, even the ones in which he describes spending much of the '90s wondering how he had become uncool. "At first you think there's something wrong with you, but then you realize it's just the stupid, funny life of a rocker. Heh! Spinal Tap showed it all off, so I might as well have a laugh...
Career turn The folk rocker disappeared from the music scene but resurfaced on a "no-fly" list while on a flight from London...