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...trumpet player, Morricone studied composition at a conservatory but earned his early money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor who played the Man with No Name...
...Grammy Awards served as more than a shiny gold attaboy! from the music industry for some artists this year. Shunned by Nashville since 2003, when lead singer Natalie Maines told a London crowd, "We're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," the DIXIE CHICKS collected five Grammys for their unrepentant single Not Ready to Make Nice and their album Taking the Long Way. While accepting the Best Country Album award, a vindicated Maines said, "To quote the great Simpsons: Hah-hah!" LUDACRIS, meanwhile, wryly thanked two VIP hip-hop critics when he won Best Rap Album...
...before preseason ball starts up again, there is one facet of the big game that we’ll see for weeks, maybe months to come. From a FedEx spot about fittingly-named co-workers to an Emerald Nuts ad serving to resurrect the career of an obscure Canadian singer, it’s the game’s commercials that get everyone—from the most casual of observers to the self-described fanatics like yours truly—pumped for the ultimate lesson in how to be an American couch potato...
...produced albums by Kasabian, Snow Patrol, and U2. The resulting LP, “A Weekend In The City,” will not likely disappoint, as it builds upon the success of their first album with catchy up-tempo dance beats and the moody lyrics of lead singer Kele Okereke. The album opens with Okereke in an almost theatrical falsetto on the track “Song For Clay (Disappear Here),” before the entrance of a fast snare and surging guitar riff that brings the energy to a classic Bloc Party peak. The lyrics...
...Staff writer Jeremy S. Singer-Vine can be reached at jsvine@fas.harvard.edu...