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...preparation and performance of Berry's 60th-birthday concert in St. Louis last year, tempers simmer as Berry keeps running Keith Richards, the concert's music director, through the opening guitar slur for Carol. And yet at the end of their concert -- which features guest shots by Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray and Julian Lennon -- Richards can feel satisfied that he provided a fine backup band for his loner-hero...
Following that purist philosophy, he dislikes such popular favorites as Linda Ronstadt (he actually sneers when he mentions her name), Frank Sinatra ("too hip for me") and Ella Fitzgerald. "Unquestionably a beautiful voice," he says of Ella, "but I never got a sense she connected with the lyrics. She never churned my kishkes -- that's Yiddish for intestines." His list of favorites is just as idiosyncratic. It includes Minnelli, of course, but also Rosemary Clooney ("she does everything a singer should do"), Gogi Grant ("she has an emotional intensity and is much underrated") and Martha Raye ("her voice was like...
GLASS: SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS (CBS). Linda Ronstadt and the Roches combine for a minimalist songfest...
...electronic avant-garde ensemble may seem fairly far out, but it appeared to be a normal idea to Composer Philip Glass. Last week the minimalist music master completed a five-show, three-city tour showcasing Songs from Liquid Days, a song cycle performed by the likes of Linda Ronstadt and The Roches to lyrics by Paul Simon, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson. Anyone hoping for a Top Ten single from the extravaganza is likely to be disappointed. The songs are more symphonic than pop, Glass explains. "There's really no rock in them." The program, which was performed...
Cray sang with Tina Turner for her HBO special, due out this winter, and recently showed up in St. Louis for Chuck Berry's 60th birthday party, a concert extravaganza that featured such luminaries as Keith Richards and Linda Ronstadt and was filmed for theatrical release next year. Cray sang two Berry classics, Come On and Brown-Eyed Handsome Man, and admits, "That was a real kick. But it was also intimidating...