While rehearsing “Ode to Joy,” the climactic final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, soprano Pat Rowser discovered it had plenty of high notes. And another challenge presented itself: “Ode to Joy” lyrics are in German.
It took 4 months, 42 episodes, 24 semifinalists, 3 intermittently infuriating judges, a small army of Swaybots, a handful of botched lyrics, 97.5 million votes, and one particularly soul-crushing bit of promotion on behalf of Mike Myers’ latest (alleged) comedy, but American Idol ’s seventh season has finally come to an end.
The SPECIALS frontman TERRY HALL is studying his band’s old albums in preparation for a reunion tour later this year (08) - because he can’t remember the words to songs …
Vigorous guitar riffs and Sufiana lyrics filled the air as close to 4,000 Kashmiri music aficionados converged on the banks of the Dal for a rare event: A concert by Pakistani rock group Junoon.
Country music may be full of woeful lyrics, but the genre is having a grand ol’ time today with box office successes like “Walk the Line” winning awards, and artists such as Sara Evans collaborating with pop chart toppers like Maroon 5 to blur the lines between musical realms.
Written as part of his Vietnam War protest, “Imagine” was John Lennon’s second major solo release. Thirty six years later, the lyrics from the 1971 song still send a powerful message to our own unsettled times.
In his 1981 single, Tom Petty wrote that waiting is the hardest part. No doubt, Dave Van Horn and his Arkansas Razorbacks can relate to those lyrics in a personal way. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
The veterans home in Hollidaysburg, Pa., has 467 residents. Tony Uhouse is the home?s only veteran of the Iraq war, and, at 41, its youngest occupant.
Kanye West’s debut album, “The College Dropout,” which came out in 2004, was a concept album. The title referred to West, then 26 years old and already a successful hip-hop producer. The lyrics pointed out that many of his peers who had finished college weren’t doing nearly so well.
Considering the mature elements that are currently bombarding Usher’s life, like marriage and fatherhood, his lyrics are surprisingly juvenile. At the age of 29, one would think that Usher would have infinite fountains of inspiration. He’s a newly-wed, a first-time father and the owner of one of the decade’s best-selling R&B albums. Yet, with one cursory listen of Here I Stand, he gives off the …
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