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MORRISSEY: The singer releases his first album in seven years...
...Personal family matters" forced the scarred soul singer to reschedule some shows, his rep says. One theory: Seal is looking after his girlfriend, model Heidi Klum, and her new baby...
...just because you felt you should support their talent? The voting on Idol, says Fuller, represents "people power," just as record-buying does. "A lot of music purists don't understand that," he says. "The biggest stars are not always the best. Elvis had charisma. He was a good singer, but not the best ever...
...music is about popularity; performance is about personality. And an Idol contestant who gets over on charm or a touching story is in good company. Singers have always used biography, real or concocted, to bond with their audience: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby...
DIED. JOHN WHITEHEAD, 55, R.-and-B. artist best known for his 1979 hit, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...