Word: singer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like the Michelin Man," says Elliott. "I was like, 'Excuse me?' And he was like, 'Trust me. It's going to be hot.'" Try scorching. The Williams-directed music video for The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly), the first single off Elliott's debut album, Supa Dupa Fly, features the singer in that weird, bulbous leather suit, as well as surreally distorted camera shots and dancers prancing in shiny yellow raincoats. MTV has been playing it steadily, propelling the previously little-known Elliott to the top of the charts...
...cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about a man who longs to be abducted by UFOs...
...particularly smart or involving album, but then neither was Morning Glory. That previous album's charms consisted of four sprightly, tuneful songs--including Don't Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall--and a lot of latter-day Beatle-ish attitude. The members of Oasis, led by volatile singer Liam Gallagher and his songwriting, guitar-playing brother Noel, cut their hair like the Beatles, sometimes use the same kinds of guitars and amplifiers the Beatles used, and even try to write songs like the Beatles with Hey Jude-like na-na choruses and lyrical references to "yellow submarines" and the like...
DIED. NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, 48, mesmerizing singer who brought the mystical music of the Sufis of northern India and Pakistan to a global stage, becoming one of the superstars of world music; after suffering cardiac arrest during a trip to Britain to seek medical treatment for chronic liver and weight problems; in London. For 600 years, Khan's family had been singers in the qawwali tradition, a style that built layer upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native...
EDGARTOWN, Mass: Rumor has it President Clinton will get 51st birthday cheers tonight from actor Ted Danson and his actress wife Mary Steenburgen (like Clinton, an Arkansas native) at their 19th century farmhouse on Martha's Vineyard. The White House is neither confirming nor denying that singer James Taylor, also a Vineyard local, will attend. Best presidential present: The settlement of the UPS strike...