Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Posthumous albums can mean big money. The grunge band Nirvana sold more than 7 million copies of its Unplugged CD, released after the group's lead singer, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide last year. Selena's Spanish-language albums have sold 2.5 million copies since her death. Then there's the inevitable merchandising. The new retrospective album of reggae great Bob Marley, Natural Mystic, contains three full pages in the liner notes plugging "Bob Marley Official Merchandise," such as T shirts and knit caps. And continuing enthusiasm for Hendrix--he sold 3.5 million albums last year--has spawned a virtual cottage...
...THEY BOTH SING TOO! In a stunning coincidence, bankrupt Vegas pop singer WAYNE NEWTON announced that he's a direct descendant of POCAHONTAS the very week Pocahontas the movie was released! Newton, who traces his Powhatan heritage through his paternal grandfather, says he hopes to bring his ancestor's bones back home to Virginia from England...
...cars resemble their men? Either--or both--might hold true of rocker Neil Young as he folds his lanky, cranky frame into the driver's seat of his rust-pocked 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible. The car's been through a lot, and so has Young. The graying, semi-reclusive singer-songwriter was a member of the countrified '60s rock group Buffalo Springfield; one-fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure for a new generation...
...Ocean, Young, in his nasally tenor, sings "Need distraction/ Need romance and candlelight/ Need random violence/ Need Entertainment Tonight." Several songs appear to allude to the suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain. On Peace & Love, for example, Young performs a duet with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder that deals with mourning and the morning after. "I saw the dream/ I saw the wake," Vedder sings, and later adds, "I had it all once/ I gave it back...
...line could just as easily have been sung by Young, who throughout his career has shown a willingness to cut things loose and make new starts. He was born in Toronto, where he was a folk singer in the early '60s before moving to the States. Although he came of age as a man and a musician during a chaotic era, he claims that times are tougher now: "It was a breeze in the '60s to grow up, compared to [the '90s]. The '60s were so open-ended. The dream was still there, the no-matter-what- you-could-make...