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Carly Simon on Being 'Isolated,' Suffering From Stage Fright and How Modern Music Turned Into 'Noise'
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Carly Simon on Being 'Isolated,' Suffering From Stage Fright and How Modern Music Turned Into 'Noise'

Lynn Goldsmith Two weeks ago, singer-songwriter Carly Simon received the ASCAP Founders Award, which is among the most prestigious honors that the organization gives to songwriters and composers who have made pioneering contributions to music. As ASCAP describes it, "Each recipient is a musical innovator who possesses a unique style of ...

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Talking Heads' Chris Frantz: I Still Hope for a Reunion With David Byrne

Lawrence Lucier, Getty Images The recently released, career-spanning Talking Heads DVD "Chronology" features classic video performances and interviews that date back to the band's groundbreaking 1975 appearances at CBGB in New York City. The viewer gets to see the transition from the early three-piece days (singer/songwriter/guitarist David ...

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Carlos Santana's 'Keys to Survival': Not Letting Grammys Inside His House, Approaching the World Like Einstein

Fabrice Coffrini, AFP/Getty Images For 40 years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 90 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won 10 Grammys, including a record-tying nine for a single project, 1999's Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year ...

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Donovan Admits He 'Didn't Pay Attention' to Rock Hall Until He Was Inducted

Chris Epting While Axl Rose's no-show for Guns N' Roses' induction will surely be the hot topic of this weekend's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, the other artists being honored certainly deserve as much, if not more, attention. The Beastie Boys, Laura Nyro, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the gentle, elfin musical idol known simply as Donovan ...

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Meat Loaf Q&A: Rock Legend on Getting Bullied Over His Weight, Turning Down 'Idol' and Why the Country Is Going to 'Hell'

Sony/Legacy The world first met the iconic frontman known as Meat Loaf back in 1977, when his breakout album, 'Bat Out of Hell' took the world by fire. Blending sparkling, operatic teen angst and epic pop masterpieces such as 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light,' it remains as one of the world's five top-selling records of all time with more ...

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Duane Eddy on Playing With Authority, Talking Tech With Elvis and Letting the Beach Boys Steal His Twang

Kevin Winter, WireImage The legend is wearing black slacks, a black shirt and a cowboy hat. There's a bit of silver woven in, too, that picks up the light in the small hotel room. With his neatly trimmed beard and gentle country manner, he cuts a romantic, old-time figure, like some charming character from another age. Then he sits down ...

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Mamas and the Papas' Michelle Phillips Is Disappointed in Modern Music, Almost Rewrote 'California Dreamin'' Church Verse

Charles Epting At this year's NAMM convention in Anaheim, Calif., Martin Guitars unveiled a special model guitar in honor of one of the most iconic groups from the '60s, the Mamas and the Papas. The story behind it is special, as is the woman who was on hand to sit and play the guitar, the lone surviving member of the group, Michelle ...

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