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...collecting anecdotes about himself that other people have told and weaving them into his narrative. Here's the touch that's pure Dylan: even if he knows a tale isn't factual, if it sounds good, he'll use it anyway. "I'll take some of the stuff that people think is true," he says, "and I'll build a story around that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legend Of Dylan | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...sings, in that ancient lilting rasp, stressing unexpected syllables, mesmerizing with folky cadences, loping along somewhere between conversation and caterwauling. All the compositions on Love and Theft are autobiographical, he says. "Yeah, all of 'em. Every single one, every line. It's completely autobiographical, as most of my stuff usually is on one level or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legend Of Dylan | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...electronica dance duo named Matmos live. (Matmos' latest album, A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, contains sounds sampled during plastic surgery.) Down the street from the Chelsea apartment, the Matthew Marks gallery is showing Bjork's upcoming video, five minutes of multicolored, multitextured gloopy stuff running from her eyes into her nostrils and back out her eyes. Bjork maintains, paradoxically, that she has to create videos that odd to make her music more accessible. "If I do a song, people have to listen to it 10 times to grasp it; but if they have an image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bjork: The Ice Queen | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...World debt with slavery. In the course of his work with the campaign Bono has met with Presidents, Prime Ministers and the Pope to get attention for the issue. He relishes the incongruity of a rock star talking about world policy, but he backs it up by knowing his stuff. He reads economics tomes and did some unofficial studying at Harvard. "I think that politicians are attracted at first by the celebrity," says Harvard economics guru Jeffrey Sachs, who has huddled with Bono and the Pope on the debt issue. "But once they meet him, they find that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bono And U2: Can Rock 'N' Roll Save The World? | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...natural sense of discipline and the ability to be a hard worker. If you look on the map, Haiti is right next to Santo Domingo, and at one time it was really one place, you know? Then you have Jamaica and Puerto Rico. I think musically all of that stuff in the Caribbean--the rhythm and the drums--you just get a natural sense of it. Sometimes, when I'm with my friends in the studio, I start to play salsa or merengue, and they're like, "Man, you're playing like you're from Puerto Rico or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wyclef Jean On Haiti | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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