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Valentine’s Day is the Marmite of cultural holidays. You’re either in love with love and revel in the opportunity to gift your loved ones flowers and chocolates or dismiss it as corporate nonsense, the sole purpose of which is to sell greeting cards that will inevitably land in the bin. But whatever your stance, in the year of 2021, we here at GQ feel that everyone could benefit from an extra dose of heart-fluttering feels to get us through Valentine’s Day in lockdown, because, let s face it, the current mood of society doesn t exactly inspire romance. That doesn t mean the day should be a write off – in fact, quite the opposite. After the past year, we should all jump at the chance to shower both others and ourselves in love. Sure, you ll be staying at home, but that doesn t mean you can t treat yourself to delicious food, a few scented candles and a day of indulgence in the name of self-care. ....
Phil Spector, rock legend and convicted murderer, dies at 81
Phil Spector, circa 1970. (JTA) - Phil Spector, the massively influential rock composer and producer who murdered a woman and spent his declining years in jail, died at 81. Spector died Saturday at a hospital in French Camp, California, of COVID-19 complications, The New York Times quoted his daughter, Nicole Audrey Spector, as saying. Spector was born into a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York. His father committed suicide when Spector was 8 years old, and his mother moved the family to Los Angeles, where they settled in Fairfax, a neighborhood with a substantial Jewish population. ....
The 1992 version of the song will always be associated with Whitney Houston. “The first time that I heard Whitney’s version of (the song), I just about wrecked my car. I was heading home, and all of a sudden, I had the radio on, and I just heard the a cappella part: ‘If I should stay…’ It kind of got my attention, but it hadn’t registered yet. And I thought, ‘What?’ All of a sudden, she went into the chorus, and I thought, ‘Oh my god! This is I Will Always Love You!”,” Dolly Parton, the original singer of the song, said in an interview some years ago. ....
ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty hide caption toggle caption ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Darlene Love in 1964. Love was the uncredited singer on a handful of the biggest hits produced by Phil Spector during the era when he was making his Wall of Sound production technique famous. ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Phil Spector, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, has long been hailed as one of pop music s most influential producers, the man who created the wall of sound and gave us songs like He s a Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron and Be My Baby. As an African American woman who loves listening to these rock and roll classics, I usually find myself focusing on the voices of the African American women who collaborated with Spector on these and other iconic recordings and thinking about the often harrowing stories they have told about working with him. Starti ....
Phil Spector Was a Killer Convicted of murder, he was a troubled musical genius who transformed 1960s rock n roll and died of COVID-19. By John Sieger - Jan 20th, 2021 09:25 am //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Phil Spector. Photo from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Photo from June 10th, 2009. Phil Spector left the planet this week at age 81, another victim of COVID-19. He invented the 60’s as surely as Bob Dylan or The Beatles and did the country a special favor by keeping the flame of rock & roll lit in the early 60’s, a time when schlock, written by parents and aimed at teens, was seen as the antidote to the too wild (and probably too black) era that preceded it. His genius as a producer inspired an even more eccentric one, ....