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The Real-Life Interaction That Inspired Paul Simon’s Mid-Life Crises, “You Can Call Me Al”
That's the onus behind Paul Simon's playful take on a mid-life crises, "You Can Call Me Al." Uncover the meaning behind this track, below.
When Robert Frost Was Bad
The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, ...
Here shreds the bride: How Sister Rosetta Tharpe turned her wedding day into the first major rock concert
Sister Rosetta Tharpe had already been married twice by 1951, and concert promoters decided that her third wedding ought to be a grand spectacle.
Five TV Shows That the Critics Were Wrong About
The critics don’t always get it right. Some viewers are adamant that certain polarizing or panned shows deserve their flowers ...
TV war reporter JAMES LONGMAN: My grandfather AND my father took their own lives and my mother battles depression. For years, I thought the family curse would …
The bombing would start at nightfall. For hours we watched what looked like giant orange and yellow fireflies streaking ...