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...Sayyaf in the Philippines. But smoking out evil in Indonesia is fast becoming a foggy affair. Case in point: a supposedly top-secret document entitled 'Jihad War in Southeast Asia' outlined a plan to blow up the U.S. embassies in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Dec. 4. This screed fell into the hands of Indonesian police and surfaced in January as an exclusive for Singapore's Straits Times. A costly slip by the evildoers, it would seem. But why would the authors, purportedly from the radical Jemaah Islamiah organization, include their names and addresses? And if the document...
...work on ‘ugly plantations’...It’s when the music is at its most awkward that the album hits its low points. Nails-on-chalkboard synthesizers drive the horrible backing tracks of ‘Stolen King’ (an anti-slavery screed that sounds like a bad Prince imitation) and ‘3Ms’ (Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X).” (Steve Holtje, CDNOW Senior Editor, Comedy/Spoken Word...
...Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said he wrote "hundreds"; Paul came up with at least 15; and most of the Beatles' White Album and Abbey Road were conceived in Rishikesh. George contributed four songs, including the anticarnivore screed Piggies and the gorgeous Here Comes the Sun and Something. With more than 150 versions recorded, Something is the second-most-covered Beatles song after Yesterday, but a measure of Harrison's obscurity within the band is that Frank Sinatra used to introduce Something as his favorite Lennon-McCartney tune...
...Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said he wrote "hundreds"; Paul came up with at least 15; and most of the Beatles' White Album and Abbey Road were conceived in Rishikesh. George contributed four songs, including the anticarnivore screed Piggies and the gorgeous Here Comes the Sun and Something. With more than 150 versions recorded, Something is the second-most-covered Beatles song after Yesterday, but a measure of Harrison's obscurity within the band is that Frank Sinatra used to introduce Something as his favorite Lennon-McCartney tune...
...Dylan, who had become Joan Baez's lover, was eyeing that place for himself. In 1965 Dylan recorded Positively 4th Street, a bitter screed that renounced the folk scene he had come from, and by extension Farina, and embraced rock 'n' roll...