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Hans Zimmer built a band, not an orchestra
The Diamond in the Desert concert cut runs 1:46:01 and hands its biggest cues to soloists rather than sections. A timestamped guide to who plays what — Tina Guo, Lisa Gerrard, Lebo M, Loire Cotler, Pedro Eustache — and where Zimmer's method breaks from John Williams.
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Legacy acts are quietly outwriting the algorithm this summer
Robert Smith on a Rolling Stones bridge, the Yummy Fur back after 28 years, Fiona Apple scoring a prestige miniseries, Hayley Williams covering Sinéad O'Connor, Queens of the Stone Age burying the setlist formula, and Victor Willis's death — six stories this week that all argue the same thing: the people who built the genres are still writing better songs than the systems that replaced them.
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Clive Davis and the end of the record man
Clive Davis — who ran Columbia, founded Arista and J Records, signed Janis Joplin and Santana and launched Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys — died at his Manhattan home on June 22 at 94. On the last of the great A&R men and the era of the all-powerful label boss.
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