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Annie Lennox by Rob Thomas

Annie Lennox
by Rob
Thomas
Anybody my age turning on MTV and seeing Annie Lennox sing
Sweet Dreams, that was enough right there. And then when she
started doing songs like Walking on Broken Glass or Missionary
Man, theres just something thats so soulful in those — and
its not like a put-on, blue-eyed soul kind of thing:...

James Taylor by David Crosby

James Taylor
by David
Crosby
James Taylor has a tremendously rich and beautiful voice, and
he controls it so well. Its easy to get fooled by his
understatement: As beautiful as James voice is, theres nothing
mellow about a performance like Fire & Rain — its a
song of great depth sung by a man whos experienced the...

Janis Joplin by Stevie Nicks

Janis Joplin
by Stevie
Nicks
You could say that being yelled at by Janis Joplin was one of
the great honors of my life. Early in my career, Lindsay Buckingham
and I were in a band called Fritz. There were two gigs we played in
San Francisco that changed everything for me: One was opening up
for Jimi Hendrix, who was completely...

What Makes a Great Singer?

Theres something about a voice thats
personal, not unlike the particular odor or shape of a given human
body. Summoned through belly, hammered into form by the throat,
given propulsion by bellows of lungs, teased into final form by
tongue and lips, a vocal is a kind of audible kiss, a blurted
confession, a soul-burp you really cant...

Our blue-ribbon panel of 179 experts ranks musics finest vocalists
1 | Aretha Franklin
by Mary
J. Blige

Photo: Goodwin/Redferns/Retna
Born
March 25th,
1942
Key
Tracks
(You Make Me Feel
Like) A Natural Woman, Respect, I...

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time

1 | Aretha Franklin
by Mary
J. Blige

Photo: Goodwin/Redferns/Retna
Born
March 25th,
1942
Key
Tracks
(You Make Me Feel
Like) A Natural Woman, Respect, I...

The 50 Best Rock & Roll Video Games of All Time

1978

Simon
FROM: Milton Bradley

BEHIND THE
MUSIC: Launched May
15th at Studio 54, this Jurassic forerunner to todays
touch-sensitive Nintendo DS featured four colored buttons (red,
green, yellow, blue) and three simple variations. Memorizations
the goal, with players...

AC/DC and the Gospel of Rock & Roll

• Video:
Go Behind the Scenes at AC/DCs Rolling Stone Cover
Shoot

•
Photo Gallery: AC/DC Through the Years

•
Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes at AC/DCs Rolling Stone
Cover Shoot

• Video:
Watch behind-the-scenes footage of AC/DC at the video shoot for
Rock N...

Obamas Moment

Its the morning after the vice
presidential debate, and Barack Obama strides onto the football
field at Abington Senior High School in suburban Philadelphia as
Bruce Springsteens The Rising rings out over the loudspeakers.
The bleachers on both sides of the field are packed with cheering
students and their parents, and the crowd has spread out...

Make-Believe Maverick

• VIDEO: Five Myths About John McCain
• The Double-Talk Express
• Mad Dog Palin: The Full Story
• Karl Roves A-Team
At Fort McNair, an army base located
along the Potomac River in the nations capital, a chance reunion
takes place one day between two former POWs. Its the spring of
1974, and Navy commander John...

Fall Music Preview 2008

The
Killers

Day & Age 11/25

Photo: Torey
Mundkowsky

One of Brandon Flowers favorite songs on the new Killers record
features a ripping tenor-sax solo, steel drums and a string
section...

Louder Faster Stronger

Photo Gallery: Three Decades of Metallica
Video: Behind the Cover Shoot

James Hetfield: Theres More Dedication From the Four of Us Than
Ever Before

Lars Ulrich: If We Dont Get Along, Everything Else Is
Irrelevant

Kirk Hammett: I Was Ready To Start Working On a...

Dirty Sexy Funny

There are edgy comedians, and then there
is Russell Brand. The big-haired 33-year-old British comic is
beloved in the U.K. for his Johnny Knoxville-style pranks (he once
wanked off a man in a public bathroom on British TV) and for his
darkly confessional stand-up about his wild, druggy days, in which
he has said he smoked abundant marijuana,...

Fall TV Preview

Highly Anticipated Sequel
90210
The CW, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Stars: Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth
(Beverly Hills, 90210), Tristan Wilds (The Wire),
Lori Loughlin (Full House)
The premise: Its been only eight years since
the original 90210 went off the air, and now its already...

Cabin Man

Late in 1980, Chris Elliott was working the
admission booth at Rockefeller Centers observation deck when David
Letterman walked up with his mother, Dorothy, and asked to buy two
tickets. Earlier that summer, Letterman had been the host of his
own daring and funny NBC morning show that had proven popular with
television critics but not with viewers....

The 25 Funniest Web Videos (No, Really!)

Fat Kid on
Rollercoaster

Poached from Australias Funniest Home Videos, this
viral classic finds a rotund kid losing his shit — and nearly
his seat — on a coaster while the woman next to him
obliviously yuks it up.

Highlight: 0:16-:24 — from thrilling to
scary to hilarious in seconds.

Five Comics to Watch

Bo Burnham
Age: 18
Hometown: Hamilton, MA
Style: Hyper teen performing songs in
bedroom
Background: Taught himself guitar and keyboard and
began churning out YouTube videos — Im just a giddy
teenager who would like to break into show business anyway I can,
Burnham says.
Signature bit: Rhapsodic ode to Helen Keller (I

Dave at Peace: The Rolling Stone Interview

Oh, my God — fantastic! Theyre
calling from the Museum of the Moving Image. We have couriers on
motorcycles on the way! Its an early evening in late August, and
David Letterman is giving a predictably sarcastic post-mortem on
tonights taping of Late Show, which ended just a few
minutes ago. Hes sitting in the...

Fall Movie Preview

Buzz off if you think the big fall whoop is High School Musical
3. Or Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson trying to steal scenes from
a dog in Marley and Me. Or Robert De Niro and Al Pacino
slumming in another paycheck movie in Righteous Kill. My
admittedly selective guide to whats up in film for the rest of
2008 is all about punch and provocation. Sequels...

How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party

• Video: Five Ways Bush Sunk the GOP
The failure of the administration of
George W. Bush — and the accompanying crisis of the
Republican Party — has caused a political meltdown of
historic proportions. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of
September 11th, Bush enjoyed the greatest popularity ever...

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