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Some kids dream about being in a rock band. Dave Grohl dreamed of being in every rock band. "As a kid, my fantasy was that I would go to a concert, any concert, and something would happen to the drummer," says Grohl, 34. "The lead singer would look out into the audience and say, 'Is there anyone out there who knows how to play our songs?' And, of course, they'd have to pick...
...drink or take no drugs/ But Christ she's hit the bottle/ Like there's no tomorrow." And while Hefner ballads usually chronicled a brief infatuation, many French songs are about something like commitment. In The Stars, the Moon, the Sun and the Clouds, the singer chastises his girlfriend's scholarly squalor: "It's all very well/ Learning poetry by heart/ But it doesn't mean/ We have to live like poets." As with so much electronica, there's a soulless quality to this record, not helped by Hayman's insistence on recording with a drum machine. His DIY aesthetic...
...melding R. and B. with country-and-western music. In 1951 he produced Rocket 88, often called the first rock-and-roll single, performed by Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. Sun released Elvis Presley's first five singles, including That's All Right, before Phillips sold the singer's contract...
...painting of Lenin, Hommage à Lenin, reflects the shift: it is a bombastic explosion of color, celebrating Lenin at a time when the Soviet Union was despised by the people of Eastern Europe. By the 1980s, the end of the regime was nearing. Cornelia Schleime, a former singer in a Dresden punk band and painter, was forced to leave East Germany in 1984. All of her early work was lost when she left, but her Gelber Horizont (Yellow Horizon) is part of the exhibit. She is nevertheless disappointed in the show. "Everything started to change," she says. "This exhibit...
...GUERRA. Fusing pop, trip-hop and a variety of Latin American styles, Mexican singer-songwriter Ely Guerra forges her own eclectic, mature sound, topped by velvety vocals in Spanish which soar, smolder and seduce. Her Mexican record label, who didn’t know what to make of her, shelved the songstress before demand for her addictive and understated brand of pop led her to EMI. Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m. $15. 18+. Downstairs, The Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave. (MRH & HLN) WINTERBOY. Oddbeat singer/songwriter/guitarist Alan Winters has a zest for experimentation. He’s tried his hand...