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...Brit invasion too many? That's not the problem, says Joe Levy, music editor of Rolling Stone. "The British bands that have been successful in the U.S. are those that feel like worldwide rock bands. There isn't a high school kid in America who cares that Led Zeppelin was British. Pink Floyd, as far as anyone here is concerned, come from outer space." The actual reasons for slumping British sales are a lot more complex: consolidation of record labels and radio stations, a stubbornly insular market and a commercial and artistic decline in the record industry as a whole...
...pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game that launched a million junior high school wedgies...
Audioslave's self-titled debut (out Nov. 19) is a full-on rocker that mixes Rage's heavy-metal funk with Cornell's Zeppelin wail and tortured lyrics. It tests the bass on your stereo--and it's catchy too. But the main draw is two distinct platinum parts coming together in mid-career. Cornell, who had a solo act going when he fielded Morello's call, did not want to join a political band. "Before we played music together we had the politics conversation," says Cornell. "I said I would take no specific focus lyrically before I started writing...
...already the Golden God. How can I step down that far?" ROBERT PLANT, former Led Zeppelin frontman, on whether he would accept a knighthood...
...share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...