Inside Entertainment
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Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004
1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...
Beyoncé: The Solid Gold, Super Fly Destiny of Beyoncé
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, February 2004
SHE'S YOUNG, GIFTED and black. She's also devout, hard-working and extremely fly. ...
Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, February 2005
VANCOUVER CROONER Michael Bublé is leading a charmed life. Since launching his singing career, raised on his grandfather's love of the sounds of the Mills ...
Coldplay: Englishmen in New York
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, April 2005
CHRIS MARTIN seems perfectly at home in the Big Apple. Although quintessentially English, the Coldplay frontman talks at New York speed, his mouth racing to ...
Elvis Costello: Elvis Goes North
Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, November 2003
MY EDITOR thinks Elvis Costello's latest album, North, is a lot like Frank Sinatra's 1954 classic In the Wee Small Hours. He's right: both recordings ...
Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint: Interview: Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, May 2006
ELVIS COSTELLO is rock's renaissance man. Along with writing and recording his own songs — some of the wittiest and most acerbic in the pop ...
Crash Test Dummies: Brad Roberts: Crash Test Dude
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, December 2002
BRAD ROBERTS, the Crash Test dude, is no dummy. Although he's a Grinch who hates Christmas, can't stomach turkey and is practically Scrooge-like in his ...
Bobby Curtola, The Moffatts, Justin Timberlake: Teen Idols and the fast track to fame
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, 2003
"Some people call me a teenage idol/Some people say they envy me/I guess they got no way of knowing/How lonesome I can be" (Ricky Nelson, ...
Lhasa de Sela : Lhasa de Sela: The Beautiful Sadness of Lhasa
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, Fall 2003
SHE RAN AWAY to join the circus. Although she'd been signed to prestigious Atlantic Records and was being touted as an Edith Piaf for the ...
Franz Ferdinand: Reigning rock star geeks
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, December 2005
IT LOOKS LIKE Andy Warhol's fabled Factory in New York. Walls, windows, doors and furniture are all encased in tin foil. Silver balloons add a ...
Macy Gray: Outlandish, outrageous and utterly original
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, April 2003
THE HIGH PRIESTESS of Freak is looking suspiciously like a Volvo-Driving Soccer Mom. ...
Alicia Keys: Alicia in Wonderland
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, Summer 2002
SHE HAS THE hooks and the looks – and depth and diversity too. Barely out of her teens, Alicia Keys may be the most sophisticated ...
Daniel Lanois' shining pedal steel sound
Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, 2003
"I HAVE WANDERED far and wide," Daniel Lanois sings on the title track to his latest album, "all the way from Paris to Mexico". ...
John Legend: Mr. Legend Comes to Town
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2006
IT'S A MUGGY day and John Legend is trying his best to stay cool. The gifted American soul singer is in a Toronto Baptist church ...
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, October 2007
WHEN I FIRST met her, she spoke in a whisper, protecting the gold-plated vocal cords that had made Eurythmics one of the top musical acts ...
Oasis: Interview: Liam Gallagher and Oasis
Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, 2006
OASIS IS EITHER the best, balls-to-the-wall rock 'n' roll band of the last decade or the worst case in recent memory of media notoriety trumping ...
Review by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, 2005
CHICAGO IS THE cradle of modern blues, the place where Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf urbanized and electrified the music of the Mississippi Delta. But, ...
Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, 2007
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a few decades make. When Queen first came to prominence in the early 1970s, the British band was panned for its bombastic ...
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