When I sang this part live on stage, I would often become furious, thrashing at my guitar until I could thrash no more, frantically forgiving my mother, her lover, my grandmother, her lovers, and most of all myself." ---Chapter Nine, Acid in the Air "Seeing Jimi play for the first...
Among her best-known singles are “Respect,”“Chain of Fools,”“Think,”“(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” a duet with George Michael. “Rosanna” by Toto Rock band Toto was at their peak in 1982 when it released the top-fiv...
Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once telling Oprah Winfrey that "There are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents or caretakers, and those ...
Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, telling Oprah Winfrey that “There are two kinds of people: those ...
Only sprites of dizziness sprang, dancing, round;-they sang, they swung, circle-wise, past sight and hearing! ASE [dizzy]. Oh, God save me! PEER All at once, at a desperate, break-neck spot, rose a great cock-ptarmigan, flapping, cackling, terrified, from the crack where he lay ...
Our choir sang the most beautiful song on Sunday, one that was new to me: Jesus, I Give You Praise. I quickly looked it up on the Internet, and I have been playing it over and over. Even this morning (Monday), I have tears as I sing along. While all the lyrics are beautiful,...
like three or four years old, I sang all of “Coal Miner’s Daughter” standing in a corner with my nose pressed into the corner to Meemaw. And Memaw was like, “Well, Cindy, I think that she actually can sing.” And so from that point, Memaw started going, “Y...
The former wrestler broke a new record in June 2022 after it was announced that he has granted more Make-a-Wish Foundation wishes than other celebrities. Cena’s wish record currently stands at 650. Credit:John Salangsang/Invision/AP/Shutterstock ...
He cried then, too, and in the pictures they took, as people sang "Happy Birthday," he looks overwhelmed. It was a miracle, really. He had been welcomed into a family that remembered his birthday. I've got a newspaper feature from The Odessa American in front of me. It makes me shu...
[out] of me and my two brothers, because I always liked to do things, to invent.” As the eldest child, he kept up good grades but felt continuously pulled towards more imaginative pursuits. In school, he would do things like drum on the desk to make beats, and he sang in the ...