Word: rockers
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...most famous connection between pop music and ancient megaliths is Stonehenge, the heavy - metal ode to the Druids by the spoof band Spinal Tap. But in real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They...
...love is a battlefield, as eighties rocker Pat Benetar once noted, the struggle has only become more and more tactical in recent years, leaving Lou a little lost in the shuffle. But this year, single men have one more weapon in their pick-up arsenal, and it requires almost no work on their part: the wing woman...
ELTON JOHN is starting to remind us of that curmudgeonly relative who blurts out what everyone else is really thinking at the family reunion. While accepting a songwriting award in London last week, the elder rocker, 57, griped that he couldn't believe Madonna had been nominated for best live act. "Since when has lip synching been live?" John asked. "Madonna, best [expletive] live act? [Expletive] off." Last month John called a group of Taiwanese paparazzi who ambushed him "rude, vile pigs." And last spring he called the reality show American Idol "racist" after two black contestants were eliminated...
...American men contract prostate cancer at some point in their life. And although there is no shortage of famous people who have succumbed to the disease--punk rocker Johnny Ramone, who died at age 55 two weeks ago, immediately comes to mind--there are also plenty of prominent survivors, including John Kerry (who had his prostate removed) and Rudy Giuliani (who opted for radiation therapy). Both men are doing just fine...
...Thumbs Press; 48 pages; $4), the third issue of which appeared a few months ago. Hall approaches travel writing from an unusual angle by adapting and illustrating other people's stories. The first two issues collected short, anecdotal tales of (mis)adventure. One story involves a young punk rocker on her way to San Francisco who, on a stop at Bryce Canyon, Utah, decides to clamber down the rock face rather than follow the "hippies" down the trail, to predictably disastrous results. In another a man cruises a fellow traveler for a quickie inside an Egyptian temple. But, lacking...