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...Then there was the sweat-stained T-shirt sold by Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash in 2008. "It was a Clash T-shirt with sweaty armpits - they were so stained that if you looked at it, you would think it's disgusting," said Woolley. But the stains also meant Strummer likely wore it onstage, and it came with a handwritten note that read "This shirt was mine and worn by me - this is a f**n great shirt! Signed Joe Strummer." The final sale price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson, Woodstock Spark Surge In Memorabilia | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

...Made his television debut in 1988 and his first film appearance four years later. Also a popular singer and dancer, he hosted India's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for one season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bollywood Star Shah Rukh Khan | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...stuff, but in the bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...sell the sound to a mass audience, the one man needed one woman: a vocalist. Gene Autry recommended a singer who had worked with him, Colleen Summers. Paul and Summers were lovers from 1946, though they didn't marry until the end of 1949, back in Milwaukee. (Paul got his blood test from the father of Steve Miller, the blues-guitar man.) Summers was with Paul when their car crashed and he broke his back, both collarbones, six ribs and his nose. His right arm and elbow were crushed. Doctors suggested it be amputated, but he said no, so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...High the Moon For all the attention paid to Les Paul the technical innovator, not enough was paid to his skill as an arranger of guitar solos and vocal parts. Similarly, Ford didn't get her due as a singer. She looked the way she sang: smooth, clear, pretty. Her voice, tripled or sextupled in harmony, was the vocal version of his slide-guitar style. Her glissandi were intimate, as if she had been singing inside the microphone. (She was, in fact, the first vocal artist to sing not a foot or so away from the microphone, as most studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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