Haunting Songs of Heartbreak, Done by a Man With Experience
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Where âControlâ might have been literal-minded and sentimental, it is instead enigmatic and moving, much in the manner of Joy Divisionâs best songs.
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough.
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Of all the music-related memoirs due this fall, Vivian Cashâs is liable to be the most surprising.
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Poems written by a young Indian AIDS patient describing the shame and fear he felt after being diagnosed with the disease have been recorded by a top pop band to help tackle the prejudice sufferers face.
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âGreat World of Soundâ observes a sadder, tawdrier side of the self-deluding dream of fame.
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&quot;Seems like that guy singing this song has been doing it for a long time -- is there anything he knows that he ain&#39;t said?
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Try as you like, it's hard to erase traces of a traumatic past.
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Arts & entertainment: Ian Curtis's story has become rock legend - but his three bandmates lived through the sad reality. They tell Paul Lester about it.
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Singer Melissa Etheridge beat a bout of breast cancer and says she used that experience as the inspiration to write a new album free from commercial pressures or concerns about producing hits.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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With the hundreds of albums released this year, finding ten that rose to the top was surprisingly difficult Â few were special enough to merit repeat listens, let alone remain in your brain long after the CD stops playing.
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Bob Dylan's songs may have spoken for a generation in the 1960s, but the music legend says he's not a prophet or a savior.
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Heâs not only the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for megaband Fall Out Boy. Patrick Stump is also one of the most prolific composers in pop music. And he composes that music all over the world using his MacBook Pro and GarageBand.  âThe beauty of GarageBand is that itâs only limited by what you want to do with it,â he says. âUltimately, you can do anything. Itâs a sequencer and you can record and edit audio. And it runs on my laptop. Iâve composed and recorded on the plane, on the bullet train in Japan. Itâs made me so much more prolific because I donât have to think about where and when I can record or write music. I can do it anywhere.â
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The songs on her new album deal with the death of her mother and the breakup of a love affair--and thatâs the good news.
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The Grammys have gone autobiographical. Kanye West raps about religion, his fears and his own greatness. Usher steamed up the charts with songs about sex, affairs and breakups. Alicia Keys sang about aching for love, confiding secrets and imagining a different future for herself.
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The singer's new album shows that pop music Svengalis, weird and controlling  as they may be, are sometimes necessary