While performing in the Gershwins’ musical Funny Face in London in 1928, Fred Astaire bought a custom-bodied 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Town Car. He was so impressed with the vehicle, he shipped it ba...
10.19.2025 hollywoodreporter.com , indiatimes.comThere are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic Nebras...
10.19.2025 Yahoo.com and 2 sitesDemo-itis. That’s the term producers and musicians use to describe their frustrating attempts to recreate the raw purity of the first realization of a brand-new song: the demo. When demo-itis sets in,...
10.21.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesThe University of Michigan’s campus has a dazzling, starry double-header of jazz programmed for the coming weekend, anchored by the mighty Count Basie Orchestra on Friday, Oct. 24, and 14-time Grammy-...
10.22.2025 Yahoo.com and 2 sitesWhen Bruce Springsteen finally pulled off the road after a long tour in support of his first No. 1 album, 1980's The River , the plan was to begin work on his sixth LP after a short rest. It didn't take long for those ambitions to derail. Holed up in a rented house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Springsteen thought he was writing songs for the E Street Band , whose performance muscles were at their peak following the 1980-81 tour. The River was crafted as a showcase for the group's live shows, and f...
10.21.2025 Wour.com and 45 sitesWith the highly anticipated Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere set to hit big screens this week, 20th Century Studios and Columbia Records have detailed the movie’s original motion picture soundtrac...
10.20.2025 Themusicuniverse.com and 10 sitesAnticipation filled the hall as conductor Ahmad Muriz Che Ros stepped onto the stage of Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in a sleek black suit. The audience was about to witness a rare musical encounter – t...
10.20.2025 Thestar.com.myLorenz Hart isn’t the most obvious subject for a biopic. What a lyricist does, even one as gifted as Hart, is heard rather than seen. Nor was his life a happy one. Hart was painfully short (“Five foot...
10.17.2025 Bostonglobe.combuck·et list /ˈbəkət ˌlist/ noun, informal A number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime. “Making this trip is the first thing on my bucket li...
10.21.2025 1057thehawk.com and 3 sitesThere are special moments that Rumson-Fair Haven junior Jordyn Sullivan says she will remember during her time as a Bulldog. Friday afternoon’s Shore Conference Tournament Round of 16 matchup against Red Bank Catholic at Count Basie Field in Red Bank...
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