In his report to the Comintern Executive Committee, he wrote, “Chinese political life is totally controlled by foreign influences. At the present period there is not a single class mature enough to take on political leadership.” That was another wrong assessment. Creativity, risk and misjudgment...
Maybe that’s why it didn’t occur to me just how much the words of ‘The Seeker’ – a song about a man I could see in my mind’s eye as I wrote it, that wild-eyed Vietnam vet who grabbed Karen when we did our first tourist walk of Haight-Ashbury – reflected the impasse I...
Allow me to blow your mind with this fact: pop stars don't always write their own music. I mean, not everyone can be Taylor Swift, okay? Okay, obviously not very shocking. What might surprise you? That some celebrities are actually the scribes behind some of the biggest hits on the ra...
Smokey wrote Being With You for Kim but his manager persuaded him to record it himself and he ended up in the No 2 spot behind Kim’s monster hit. Ray Charles – Them That Got 1962 Always a winner Ray Charles had it all when it comes to an encyclopedia of music talent, barrelhouse,...
‘Distraught' is too strong an adjective to describe salmon viewing." He turned and wrote "distraught" on the instructional board. Beside it he wrote "distracted." ("我得感谢你,因为你再一次提供了一个学习语言的机会。用‘Distraught'这个形容词来形容观看鲑鱼实在是太过分了。"他转过身,在黑板上写...
Astrud volunteered, and her vocals made the song an instant hit. It won the Grammy Award for record of the year. She often had to fight misogyny in the industry, like when Getz said he rescued her from being a housewife. She wrote on her website, “Nothing is further from the ...
It turns out that math has the answer. Debates have long raged across pop culture about who wrote which Beatles song, both before and after the internet was born. The melody from "In My Life" in particular has been one of the bigger sources of consternation among fans....
Travel is at the very heart of the TCK. Many of us have flown before we could walk. When we grow up, we travel because it’s at the heart of how we see ourselves – as exploring entities, not static creatures of habit. The TCK won’t just stick to their ow...
how I wrote this. It came out of the top of my head when I was 18-and-a-half.” Unsure the Who were up to the task, Talmy brought in session musicians, including 20-year-old guitarist Jimmy Page, as well as backing vocalists to help with the song’s harmonies. But the ...
"Frazier wrote that the higher we climb on that social and economic ladder, the less intense and heartfelt our worship becomes," Smith says. Some of the criticism of whoopers, though, is warranted, even some whoopers will acknowledge.