In David Bowie’s expansive career, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” stands as the groundbreaking album that blew out minds, that made the English rocker become the special man, the concept album that gave us the captivating narrative of Bowie’s alien rock god persona — a spaceman who descends onto Earth to save it but discovers rock and roll instead. Bowie, who died at age 69 on Sunday, reinvented himself time and again, and he toured as Ziggy Stardust for a relatively short period: from February 1972, when he debuted the character in small London pub Toby Jug, to July 1973, when he retired the character at a sold-out concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon Theatre. Even though the flamboyant, androgynous starman rocked Earth’s concert halls for only 18 months, the persona has become forever intwined with Bowie himself. The immortality of Ziggy and the iconic...
- 1/12/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
In an evening, conceived and directed by Tony Award winner Scott Wittman, LuPone will perform an eclectic collection of torch songs by songwriters including Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn,Billy Barnes, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, and Cole Porter. Don Heckman of The Los Angeles Times described the show as 'a beautifully paced, marvelously delivered torch-song exploration of the pleasures and pains of love LuPone's remarkable, larger-than-life qualities and stunning musicality are distilled into the pure essence of her art.' BroadwayWorld was there for a special press preview with Patti and you can check out a sneak peek of the concert below...
- 7/23/2014
- by Randy Rainbow
- BroadwayWorld.com
“A Significant New Talent.”- Don Heckman, International Review of Music “Stanley’s vocals are so voluptuous and assured that I was surprised to find out that this is her first album. I had thought it was probably another in a string of successes.” – Rad Bennett, SoundStage “This is one singer who knows how to tell her tale.” – Jack Goodstein, Blogcritics.com “One of the most sincerely beautiful tributes to the great jazz age of music I have ever heard.” – Don Grigware, Broadway World Lost In Romance, the debut album by singer Lyn Stanley featuring 13 of jazz’s finest musicians, was released August 20th to widespread critical acclaim and airplay both across the country and internationally. A passionate ode...
- 10/8/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Updated through 5/11.
"Lena Horne, the silky-voiced singing legend who shattered Hollywood stereotypes of African Americans on screen in the 1940s as a symbol of glamour whose signature song was 'Stormy Weather,' died Sunday in New York City," reports Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "She was 92.... Beginning as a 16-year-old chorus girl at the fabled Cotton Club in Harlem in 1933, Horne launched a more than six-decade career that spanned films, radio, television, recording, nightclubs, concert halls and Broadway. As a singer, Horne had a voice that jazz critic Don Heckman described in a 1997 profile in the Times as 'smooth, almost caressing, with its warm timbre and seductive drawl — honey and bourbon with a teasing trace of lemon.'"...
"Lena Horne, the silky-voiced singing legend who shattered Hollywood stereotypes of African Americans on screen in the 1940s as a symbol of glamour whose signature song was 'Stormy Weather,' died Sunday in New York City," reports Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "She was 92.... Beginning as a 16-year-old chorus girl at the fabled Cotton Club in Harlem in 1933, Horne launched a more than six-decade career that spanned films, radio, television, recording, nightclubs, concert halls and Broadway. As a singer, Horne had a voice that jazz critic Don Heckman described in a 1997 profile in the Times as 'smooth, almost caressing, with its warm timbre and seductive drawl — honey and bourbon with a teasing trace of lemon.'"...
- 5/11/2010
- MUBI
Updated through 5/11.
"Lena Horne, the silky-voiced singing legend who shattered Hollywood stereotypes of African Americans on screen in the 1940s as a symbol of glamour whose signature song was 'Stormy Weather,' died Sunday in New York City," reports Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "She was 92.... Beginning as a 16-year-old chorus girl at the fabled Cotton Club in Harlem in 1933, Horne launched a more than six-decade career that spanned films, radio, television, recording, nightclubs, concert halls and Broadway. As a singer, Horne had a voice that jazz critic Don Heckman described in a 1997 profile in the Times as 'smooth, almost caressing, with its warm timbre and seductive drawl — honey and bourbon with a teasing trace of lemon.'"...
"Lena Horne, the silky-voiced singing legend who shattered Hollywood stereotypes of African Americans on screen in the 1940s as a symbol of glamour whose signature song was 'Stormy Weather,' died Sunday in New York City," reports Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "She was 92.... Beginning as a 16-year-old chorus girl at the fabled Cotton Club in Harlem in 1933, Horne launched a more than six-decade career that spanned films, radio, television, recording, nightclubs, concert halls and Broadway. As a singer, Horne had a voice that jazz critic Don Heckman described in a 1997 profile in the Times as 'smooth, almost caressing, with its warm timbre and seductive drawl — honey and bourbon with a teasing trace of lemon.'"...
- 5/11/2010
- MUBI
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