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...would in Hemingway's high school journalism, Quentin Tarantino's first script or Madonna's early nudes. But as a time capsule, the set is invaluable. To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating in good-rockin' four-four time...
...that's her landscape, and Carpenter looks fetching in it. Three years running, she has won a Grammy for wrapping her dusky alto around, respectively, Down at the Twist and Shout, I Feel Lucky and Passionate Kisses. She could easily make it four with her current single, the slow-rockin', Bonnie Raitt-ish Shut Up and Kiss Me, in which a take-charge woman whispers those five magic words to a too-well- behaved beau...
...question everybody wants to ask Sharon Stone: "Did you fish and hunt with your dad growing up in Pennsylvania?" She did.) U2's the Edge, with a channel-surfing video wall and Deep Space Nine outfit, was pure 2001. And when Pearl Jam performed Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World with Young himself, neo-'60s avatars alloyed with the genuine article and made the ecstatic audience feel as if they were in just the right place at the right time. Whatever time that is, exactly...
...Rockin' Docent...
...twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics to his '50s chugger Reelin' and Rockin': "I set my watch and it was quarter to eight,/ You know, Bill's gonna get this country straight." Rapper ( L.L. Cool J had the word from a new generation: " '93! You and me! U-ni-tee!/ Time to par-tee with Big Bill and Hillaree...