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...innovations, including the first use of feedback. He also pries open the songwriting dyad of McCartney and Lennon, who couldn't seem to stop writing perfect pop songs even when they couldn't stand each other. Anything was raw material: a cornflakes jingle (Good Morning, Good Morning), a snippet of Shakespeare on the radio (I Am the Walrus), the stoned ramblings of Peter Fonda (She Said She Said...
...pretty calculating," he says, standing before the baroque altar of Prague's Church of St. Simon and Juda. "I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides." As an example, he cites a snippet of Diamonds from Sierra Leone about his rise to fame: "'Life movin' too fast, I need to slow down/ Girl ain't give me no ass, she need to go down.' All right, that's really crass, right? Really bogus. So what comes next? 'My father been said I need Jesus...
...more people want to use it." So far the song has appeared on such U.S. TV shows as The West Wing, Crossing Jordan, Third Watch, Scrubs, Without a Trace, The O.C. and, most recently, LAX. (It has also sneaked onto the iTunes Top 100.) Some shows use just a snippet, but The West Wing and Without a Trace let it play for minutes over their season finales, a tacit admission that neither the writers nor the actors could convey their characters' emotions as well as Buckley. It's proof that in his brief life, Jeff Buckley did achieve some kind...
...intelligence and thoroughness of the book's selections should appeal to novices and comixcenti alike. Several of the works have appeared elsewhere, such as the excerpt of Chester Brown's "Louis Riel," the 2003 biography of a 19th century rabble rouser, or the snippet of Charles Burns' inky teenage horror comedy "Black Hole." Other superstars have brand new work. Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination...
...Buffalo Springfield, Manassas and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), and lost some hearing after decades on the road in front of a stack of amps. Audience members frequently had to repeat their questions as Stills left his seat and approached them, cocking his ear to catch even a snippet of the questions asked. But he has the same sharp intelligence that captivated listeners in the Summer of Love, the same earnest dedication to peace, justice and cool that came through on so many not-quite-protest songs in those years. It took Stills a while to warm...