Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actressy masochism. As Sadie, Corliss notes, Leigh leaves no emotional scab unpicked. "It's a role for which her voice, carriage and technique are ill suited; she's too small for these grandiloquent gestures. Georgia's big set piece is an eight-minute (or possibly eight-hour) Joplinesque song in which Leigh screams, whines and pleads "Take me back" while falling to pieces onstage. It's a startling, exhausting spectacle, and, like the rest of Leigh's performance, very, very...
Throughout the performance, Chapman alternated between an electric guitar, and her signature acoustic sound. After warming up with a number of songs from previous albums, Chapman performed a track entitled "Heaven's Here on Earth," a selection from her newest album. In the song, she appealed to audiences to recognize that "each of us holds inside the map to the labyrinth [of the universe...
...song, Chapman appealed to her audience to remember that "all that you have is your soul...
...very important that we all have a say in what this world becomes," Chapman said. The concert ended with a standing ovation, just before an encore rendition of "Talkin' About a Revolution," an early song that cemented Chapman's reputation as a rising star...
...Want to Hold Your Hand, the first Beatles single to get much airplay in the U.S., premiered on Nov. 26, 1963, the day after John Kennedy's funeral; the song's chipper vitality offered instant reprieve from the tragedy. The Beatles' last album to be issued, Let It Be, came out the month of the Kent State killings. The group's music was the soundtrack of the '60s, and the Anthology footage makes for a compelling, long-form music video, a reminder of what the fuss was all about...