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...life of Imelda Marcos, the widow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was something of a head-scratcher. Peculiarity, though, is Byrne's specialty, and the recorded version of Here Lies Love is a winning twist on the "album musical" tradition. Twenty-two different singers (including the likes of Tori Amos and Nellie McKay) alternate in the roles of Imelda Marcos and the people who passed through her orbitmost notably Estrella Cumpas, a housekeeper and mother figure to the future First Lady who later made the mistake of speaking out about their relatively humble origins...