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...These were rock ballads with titles like “I Love You” and “Our Song.” He followed with a Dylan tune perfectly preserved in its translation into Hebrew. Geffen truly captures the aura of the ’60s folk-rocker...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Israeli Rock Star Geffen Speaks out for Peace | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

Such sunny enthusiasm pushes the album smoothly and gleefully from unrequited love odes (“Always On My Mind”) to breakup-makeup ballads (“All Over Again”) to the sing-along rocker “Anthem,” but no farther. With the exception of the richer, more imaginative musicality the band hints at with “Turn Smile Shift Repeat,”—the album’s best song—it’s all fun sugary stuff, easy to listen to but also easy...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...terrorism has not obviated the culture wars, expect some family-values commentator to cry that MTV's The Osbournes (Tuesdays, starting March 5, 10:30 p.m. E.T.) is leading America further down the road to hell already well trod by its protagonist: Ozzy Osbourne, the shock rocker who once bit the heads off bats onstage. On this winning "situation reality" show, shot inside the Osbourne family's L.A. mansion, teenage sis calls her brother a "f___ing loser." Mom tells the kids to "shut the f___ up and go to bed." And Dad, exasperated, says, "I love you more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Ozzy, Not Ozzie | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Health Organization or debt relief or HIV/AIDS in Africa," Bono says. But he also knows that no one else with his kind of access to media and money has taken on the job. In an effort to keep the discussion serious and avoid the appearance of being just another rocker against bad things, he refrains from treating Africa as an emotional issue. "We don't argue compassion," he says. His argument is pragmatic, not preachy. "We put it in the most crass terms possible; we argue it as a financial and security issue for America ... There are potentially another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bono's Mission | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Winners OZZY OSBOURNE Ex-satanic rocker gets reality show on MTV. Fans may be bummed: he can't rock quite as hard with his new, restrictive hernia truss HU JINTAO Jiang's prot?g? invited to visit Washington by none other than invisible VP Dick Cheney. Of course, he'll actually have to find Cheney first AL GORE The Non-President holds first postelection fund raisers. Gala went well until Gore insisted that everyone call him "Mr. Real President" Losers DONALD RUMSFELD The Pentagon makes plans to spread false information ... then tells us about it. Does that mean they're lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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