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...Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder Road: "The door's open, but the ride it ain't free...
...certifiable child prodigy, young Davis could sing, dance, tell jokes, improvise, do impressions--"He did it all" would be his epitaph. The older he got the more incandescent his talent became. He was a fireball of energy. He never seemed to sleep. By the 1950s he was cutting albums, making movies, strutting on Broadway and helling around Hollywood with the likes of Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra...
First, the article suggests that the LowKeys achieved Sanders status easily. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We had to: become a Harvard student group in the face of strong opposition; sell out Lowell and Paine Halls; record two CDs; travel in the U.S. and to Paris; and sing for hundreds of audiences before even being considered for Sanders Theatre. We negotiated with the top a cappella groups at Harvard for years to be included in auditions, jams and the community in general. We had to prove ourselves to discerning audiences, singers and Harvard officials before...
Third, there is amply enough talent for the singing groups on campus—this year’s audition pool was excellent. Seven groups is more than six, so it is true that more groups are drawing on the same supply, but I have seen from experience that the LowKeys don’t take talent from the other groups—we simply give more talented people a place to sing. There is a limit to the number of groups we can have, but there is definitely enough talent to sustain the seven top a cappella groups today...
...stick with you - "You are young, darling/ For now but not for long," "Kiss me now that I'm older" - smack of premature angst, but Casablancas sells it well. He sounds genuinely bored through a solid 75% of Room on Fire - at one point he even advises, "Don't sing along with me." But most cynics turn out to be romantics, and at the critical three-quarter point of every song - the moment just before the bridge, when a song's soul is revealed - Casablancas turns out to be a believer. On tracks like What Ever Happened? and Automatic Stop...