Word: rocker
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...from history -- were evoked for millions of Americans last summer by the ravishingly melancholy fiddle and guitar strains that accompanied the PBS series The Civil War. The haunting tune, called Ashokan Farewell, had been composed eight years earlier, one morning at the end of summer, by a lapsed '60s rocker turned upcountry fiddler named Jay Ungar. By wedding its beauty and timelessness to hundreds of graphic still photos, PBS created an affecting combination...
...release of La Bamba, the disarming biography of Latino rocker Ritchie Valens, that launched them into the full glare of the big time. They performed superb renditions of Valens' classics for the film and had a No. 1 single with the title cut, as well as a sound-track album that spent two weeks at No. 1. "That kind of eclipsed everything else we had done up to that point," says Perez. But as Hidalgo recalls, "we didn't know if we were going to be an alternative novelty thing or just a flavor of the month...
...think there should be any symbolism attached," Taylor says. "It doesn't mean you're a punk rocker or a rebel--it just...
This season, however, Broadway has three new musical productions that reclaim the giddy simplicity of the past. Only one, the Caribbean fable Once on This Island, is entirely new. Buddy, a biographical sketch of rocker Buddy Holly, who died in 1959, naturally features his old hits. And Oh, Kay! straddles the line between being a revival of the 1926 Gershwin success and an imaginative reworking of its raw material. Strikingly, these stories of boy meets girl all take place long ago or far away. Apparently our times remain too cynical for headlong romance close to home...
...Jersey Shore rocker ditched his wife, broke up his band, recorded a version of Elvis' Viva Las Vegas and bought a $14 million Beverly Hills estate. Is the Boss trying to become the King...