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...Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder Road: "The door's open, but the ride it ain't free...
...certifiable child prodigy, young Davis could sing, dance, tell jokes, improvise, do impressions--"He did it all" would be his epitaph. The older he got the more incandescent his talent became. He was a fireball of energy. He never seemed to sleep. By the 1950s he was cutting albums, making movies, strutting on Broadway and helling around Hollywood with the likes of Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra...
...stick with you - "You are young, darling/ For now but not for long," "Kiss me now that I'm older" - smack of premature angst, but Casablancas sells it well. He sounds genuinely bored through a solid 75% of Room on Fire - at one point he even advises, "Don't sing along with me." But most cynics turn out to be romantics, and at the critical three-quarter point of every song - the moment just before the bridge, when a song's soul is revealed - Casablancas turns out to be a believer. On tracks like What Ever Happened? and Automatic Stop...
With a strong acoustic sound, The Decemberists use simplicity in both lyrics and sound to sing about 19th century life. 9:00 p.m. $9; 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
Yorke himself is a prophetic figure. Listening to him sing, “I wish I was special”, it became hard to imagine how the song had ever made sense before Radiohead’s overwhelming fame. And “No Surprises” sounds like it was written yesterday about today’s America; when Yorke intoned “Bring down the government / They don’t, they don’t speak for us,” the audience roared with cathartic acclaim...