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Phil Ramone

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2013

    Billy Joel: Still Kicking Ass (First Leg)

    One Sunday morning a few weeks ago, my wife and I watched the Billy Joel concert documentary The Last Play at Shea. When my daughter stumbled into the den to ask about breakfast, we were soiling Kleenexes and wiping tears from our eyes. "Did you take your meds this morning, Dad?" she asked. I trie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    There Goes Rhymin' Simon: The First Four Books Of Paul

    ​With Paul Simon's latest CD, So Beautiful or So What, released this spring, the reissue folks at Columbia/Legacy have embarked on a reissue project. Out of the box first this month are his four solo releases after the implosion of Simon and Garfunkel. Coming on the heels of S&G's epic farewe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Sonidos y Mas: Getz/Gilberto Turns 45

    2009 marks the 45th anniversary of Getz/Gilberto, the album that established bossa nova in the international market - something that came at the right time, as the popularity of the unapologetically apolitical genre had begun to wean in its native Brazil. But it was not like Verve Records was exc ... More >>

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    October 10, 2007
  • Film

    December 30, 2004

    Splish Splash Thud

    Kevin Spacey honors a man who did it all, and somehow nothing much happens

  • Music

    August 21, 2003

    Ratt Steaks

    Austin's Meat Purveyors beef up their songbook with unlikely grade-A covers

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