Word: rockers
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...still a mocker-a fusion of mod and rocker? -Robert Soares, New York CityWe were always pop. "I'm a mocker"-that was one of the lines in A Hard Day's Night. I'm a popper...
...know the type of '80s rocker--tight pants, bleached hair, long tongue. Though pop metal (or, to some, "hair metal") is often remembered for big-name bands like Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe, Kevin Dubrow, the front man for Quiet Riot, was a key force in popularizing the genre. His frequent diatribes against other musicians--and his own record company--could grate. But his gravelly vocals on songs like Cum on Feel the Noize helped propel Riot's 1983 album, Metal Health, to No. 1 on Billboard's pop charts, a first for a metal band. Dubrow...
...screen a sappy story that relies too heavily on the viewer to piece everything together. “August Rush” brings together two charming romantics for a one night stand—Layla (Keri Russell), a budding cellist, and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish rocker. Layla’s overprotective father cuts short his daughter’s relationship and then tells her that her son, Rush, died at birth. That turns out to be a lie; Rush survives and is secretly given up to the state. Ten years later, after her father reveals the truth, Layla...
...theme, it is sort of accidentally about young people feeling like they have so much they want to prove and want to say and not enough time to say it and do it.” Some of his songs, such as “Joey is a Punk Rocker,” follow clichéd tropes—in this case, popular cheerleader falls for punk rocker. Others begin with the familiar, but end up far from the expected. One song begins with the age-old breakup excuse “It’s not you, it?...
...like their swimming pools: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was found dead in one, Keith Moon of the Who claimed to have driven a Lincoln into one, and Joe Perry of Aerosmith--among many others--has one shaped like a guitar. Bono has lampooned the average activist rocker as a guy "with a swimming pool shaped like his own head." Paul McCartney said he and John Lennon used to sit down to compose saying "Let's write us a swimming pool...