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Freedy Johnston

Never HomeElektra His 1994 album, This Perfect World, deservedly earned near-universal praise, and Johnston was even named “Songwriter of the Year” by Rolling Stone. Not bad for a guy who's…

Donald Fagen

Keyboardist/vocalist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker are the principals of the long-running group Steely Dan. From 1972 to 1980 the group released a series of jazz-tinged pop albums which…

Brooke Mueller

Brooke Mueller married TV star Charlie Sheen on 30 May 2008 and became an instant celebrity, thanks to Sheen's other career as a tabloid headline generator. Brooke Mueller was raised in Florida, and…

Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton was a country singer who also topped the pop charts with hits like "North to Alaska" and "The Battle of New Orleans." Horton first found an audience in the early 1950s as a regular…

Billy Crudup

Billy Crudup is a darkly handsome stage and film actor known for taking serious-minded roles on stage and a variety of wild and intense roles on screen. Billy Crudup gained notice as the rebellious…

Keith Urban

Guitarist Keith Urban made his name by mixing Nashville sounds with the scruffy rock-n-roll looks of Kurt Cobain. Urban was born in New Zealand and grew up in Australia; determined to be an…

Annie Leibovitz Biography

Annie LeibovitzphotographerBorn: 1949 Annie Leibovitz is a photographer of celebrities who has become a celebrity herself. At age 23 she became chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine,…

Alan Lomax 2002 Deaths

Alan LomaxAge: 87 folk-music collector, writer, and disc jockey, who, in addition to discovering Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, and Muddy Waters, preserved the folk tradition and inspired…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Pan

PanO what are heroes, prophets, men, But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow A momentary music. Being's tide Swells hitherward, and myriads of forms Live, robed with beauty,…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 9

Part 9The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,…