Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close-knit but independent-minded family (see page 10). So intent is he on demythologizing the nation's highest office that he has put a virtual ban on the playing of Hail to the Chief; he prefers to hear bands strike up the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors...
...performance last spring was any indication, she just doesn't give a shit after all these years. She growled at the audience, growled at the band, and ran through a set that felt like she did it a hundred times a month. "Back To Tennessee" was an okay song; there were a couple of soulful Redding-like numbers that she steeped in; but it was a poor show. Maybe it was only an off night...
...game-winner or catch the game-saver every day. He won the Triple Crown, and was voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League. As Yaz became a near-god in Boston, his name took on an institutional quality. There was Yaz Bread, Yaz Ford, and the Yaz Song...
...sweet conceit in which the writers conjure up for us what the real-life astronauts never seem to have: the feeling of anxious sadness that must attend exceedingly rapid passage from familiar earth into the dark, cold reaches of unknowable outer space. Then there is Daniel, a song about a wounded war veteran taking leave of his family in order to avoid their pity. These can scarcely be dismissed as moon-June moonings...
...what the other could not. They bought a bunk bed and rented digs together in Islington, a grimy section of North London, where they perfected remarkably friction-free methods of collaborating. "It's so simple," says Taupin. "Bernie writes lyrics. Bernie gives lyrics to Elton. Elton writes a song. And plays it back to Bernie. It sounds cold, but it's not." It takes Bernie only an hour to write the words and Elton about half that time to set them to music. Though they may throw away, they never revise...