Brian Wilson
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Just as it isn’t Burt Bacharach’s fault that his name is now rock-critical shorthand for “This band knows someone with a flugelhorn,” BRIAN WILSON (born 1942) is not to be blamed that his is invoked […]
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Franklin Bruno is the author of The Accordion Repetoire (poetry, Edge Books) and Elvis Costello's Armed Forces (33 1/3 series, Continuum). His current band is The Human Hearts.
Cole Porter
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Called by collaborator Moss Hart “the greatest amateur I ever met,” COLE PORTER (1891-1964) treated the plots and characters of his Broadway shows and Hollywood films as shim-thin pretexts for his brilliant, brittle, notably frank […]
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