Word: rockers
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...Wallach ’07 couldn’t possibly have looked nerdier—he sports a curly Jew-fro and bowtie—while singing about having safe sex with a cheating girl. Bandmate Maxwell C. Drummey ’07 seems to embody the rocker spirit with shoulder length hair and the stony, “I don’t give a damn” look. However, his style must have been too hip a statement as both Drummey and Wallach get brutally beaten in the music video by a girl half their size...
...Rocker, John • disparagement of Jews...
...style that is copied by other artists, destroying their chances at mainstream success. Chess seeks out a different artist who can cross over not just in terms of style, but in terms of color, from country-boy black to white radio. He finds Chuck Berry, the guitar-slinging, pioneering rocker of “Johnny B. Goode” fame with only one vice: women. Chuck Berry, played by Mos Def, is soon incarcerated for his antics and Chess sets off to uncover yet another star. This time, Chess’s salvation comes in the form of talented jazz/blues...
...resonance was literal, political - few civil rights rallies of the early '60s were complete without an Odetta rendition of "We Shall Overcome" - and cultural. "The first thing that turned me on to folksinging was Odetta," Bob Dylan once said, and listening to that Tradition album helped persuade the young rocker to switch from electric to acoustic guitar. Odetta returned the favor in 1965, recording an LP of Dylan songs with an emphasis on the antiwar numbers rather than Dylan's sheaf of civil rights ballads...
...Frederick H. Gwynne ’51, forever known to audiences everywhere as Herman Munster of the sitcom “The Munsters.” And what about one of the most influential alumni of all time, Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, Weezer rocker? You could take his picture by the pool, because he’s the next big thing. Don’t feel too poorly about your mistakes—it certainly isn’t easy sifting through the sea of brilliance that is Harvard to find notable alumni. Good...