Word: tonks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drive home this point, they opened the concert with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," one of their earliest and best known singles. They proceeded to mix and match such established favorites as "It's Only Rock and Roll," "Start Me Up," "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Honky Tonk Women," "Star, Star" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," with songs from their new album Bridges to Babylon, including "Flip the Switch," Anybody Seen My Baby" and "Out of Control." The set list had a remarkable flow to it, facilitated by the rock solid and almost unwavering...
Meader wasn't totally washed out of show business: today he sings and plays honky-tonk piano in small nightclubs in Maine. But it is with Meader and more recent news events in mind that we offer similar sympathy to the producers of Diana & Me, a romantic film comedy about a woman who is obsessed with the Princess of Wales. In her effort to meet Diana, the heroine hooks up with and eventually falls for a paparazzo who is stalking Diana. This lighthearted Australian production finished shooting only recently, not long before the paparazzi-related automobile accident that has riveted...
...interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most for his gyrating performances as bass guitarist and lead singer in a rock band called the Ugly Rumours. With his full mouth and toothy grin, Blair looked a bit like Mick Jagger and managed a passable rendition of Honky Tonk Woman. On Sundays, however, he attended services in the chapel and became a committed Christian...
...Lenny Bruce cracked that two graves were dug in Arlington: one for Kennedy and one for Meader. Following J.F.K.'s assassination, Meader stopped calling himself Vaughn, his middle name, in favor of his first name, and went into what he calls "deep hibernation." Today he sings and plays honky-tonk piano in small clubs in Maine. "Lenny Bruce was right," he says. "I was stuck in something deeper than I thought." And still is. He recently recorded The Last Word, a biblical satire in which he plays 40 characters ranging from Adam to Jesus, all using the J.F.K. voice...
...gambling laws-even if most of his customers turn out to be Americans. He has plenty of backers, thanks to a glowing write-up in the Wall Street Journal last month. According to Eugene, he has just about raised the $10 million he needs to open his electronic honky-tonk on June 22. "I'm at the door," he says. "I plan to make billions and billions upon billions of dollars...