Word: singalongs
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...newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give up the microphone. But beware of karaoke's addictive quality: after such performances as a song-and-dance interpretation of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, a duet of Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe and a raucous singalong on Aha's Take on Me, our exhilarated group decided to extend the planned two-hour session to three. As Fox, an admitted "terrible singer," says: "It's about the natural high you get from singing." So book way in advance, as 250 divas-by-night regularly swell the joint...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music?an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong?can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music - an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza...
...lyrics. Listen. What you hear isn't just Mapfumo's rasp through an amplifier. Mapfumo is the amplifier. "He is the voice of the people," says Ephraim, a businessman. Despite the police, who watch, arms folded, the onlookers sing - no, shout - things they wouldn't dare say. The biggest singalong moment comes in Marima Nzara, a lament about a man with a big mouth who chases all the workers away. "You have lost the plot," everyone sings. "You have plowed hunger." Mapfumo never names the big mouth, but everyone knows it's President Robert Mugabe, who has led independent Zimbabwe...
...Israeli club scene dominated by trance music, Moshe Lahav had modest ambitions for his nostalgia singalong show. But after 20 years in the business, this pudgy, scruffy guitarist is suddenly riding a wave of sentimentality among young Israelis yearning for less complicated times. From midnight to 4 a.m. at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial district, Lahav sings tunes written when Israel was a brand-new state by people who, if they are still alive, are probably in bed with their teeth on the nightstand by the time Lahav takes the stage. At 2 a.m., Lahav wraps...