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...including one for Album of the Year. While the Grammys are notorious for their grandfatherly taste (she'll be competing against Herbie Hancock, among others), they're spot-on about Winehouse. On Back to Black she sounds like Dusty Springfield teleported into the hip-hop era. The songs???all of which move with the economy of old 45s and all of which Winehouse had a hand in writing?tell tight, complicated stories, but more important, they tell her stories...
...M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner, on bass, the group was soon able to earn something like $12 a night. Despite its low income, it was quite a good band. What it proved while it lasted was that Taylor had somehow evolved into an accomplished musician. Most of his songs???including Knocking 'Round the Zoo, Night Owl and Rainy Day Man, which were later recorded for Apple in the James Taylor album?were first written for the Flying Machine...
...young, too, are exploiting the boom, although less cynically. A California rock group called The Fool has recorded several zodiacal songs???not because they believe only in astrology, but because they feel generally tuned in to the entire occult world (the Fool is the card in the fortunetelling Tarot deck that stands for Man). "This is a very brilliant generation," says Kiyo, a young half-Japanese astrologer who works mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan...
Hindus observed last week the 5,000th birthday of Krishna, their epic hero, who traditionally composed the Bhagavad-gita?perhaps comparable to Solomon's Song of Songs???and is now exalted as the full incarnation of Vishnu, a God of the Bright Heaven...
...certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs???Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle...
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