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Zeke Manyika, Pop's Citizen of the World
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Baz Luhrmann’s #ElvisMovie features a mash-up of an Elvis song with “Backstreet’s Back” and Britney Spears’ “Toxic.”
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Lean on Me
youtube.comElvis Presley wanted to record “Hound Dog,”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
But the songs for Presley’s films Loving You and Jailhouse Rock were worse. Written by Leiber and Stoller, they allowed Presley to indulge his tendency to exaggerate the importance of his feelings and began his decline towards melodramatic popular songs, a decline that became “official” when he recorded “It’s Now or Never” in a pseudo-operatic styl
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These traces can be heard in the Bamako station buffet orchestra guitars, known as the Rail Band, financed by the Ministry of Transport, and which would become known as the Super Rail Band in 1978. Its music is a mix of languages and rhythms representing the region’s many ethnic groups; traditional and electronic instruments and Cuban rhythms, whic... See more
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