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lyrics
Popular Israeli singer wishes death to Obama in new song
Jewish Journal
May 5, 2015
The popular Israeli singer Amir Benayoun released a song that wishes for the death of President Barack Obama, whom he refers to as a “treacherous creature.”
Bob Dylan ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ lyrics etch $2M at auction
Jewish Journal
June 24, 2014
Bob Dylan’s handwritten manuscript for “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for just over $2 million on Tuesday at Sotheby’s rock and roll auction, which also included memorabilia from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley.
Bob Dylan: In His Own Lyrics
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2005
Nods to religion in Bob Dylan\’s song lyrics.
Novel Tears Down a Sacred Shrine
Peter Manseau
June 23, 2005
One of the more surprising moments in recent music history comes midway through the celebrated 1998 indie rock album, \”In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,\” by the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Hiding in an otherwise understated tune are some startling lyrics:
I know they buried her body with others.
Her sister and mother and five hundred families.
And will she remember me fifty years later?
I wish I could save her with some sort of time machine….
It is, as many a hipster could tell you, an album about Anne Frank. Its singer and lyricist was a shaggy-headed 27-year-old named Jeff Magnum. As far removed as his native Louisiana was from Amsterdam, his songs give the unmistakable impression that he is a man in love with a 15-year-old girl who had been murdered more than five decades earlier.
The King of Israeli Hip-Hop
Kelly Hartog
February 24, 2005
With angry lyrics that court controversy, two multiplatinum albums and a third on the way, his own clothing line, record label, legions of fans and glittering religious jewelry, Subliminal could easily be mistaken for a Jewish P.Diddy.
Long-Hair Music Gets Kid’sBuzz Cut in ‘Beethoven’s Wig’
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
April 22, 2004
Move over Baby Mozart and Baby Bach. If you really want your children to learn the classics — and know the composer\’s name to boot — check out \”Beethoven\’s Wig, Sing Along Symphonies.\”
He Sang/She Sang
Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
April 22, 2004
Take one part Aimee Mann, one part Pete Yorn, stir in some Tori Amos and add a dash of Yiddishkayt and you\’ve got two of the newest sounds in rock.
Livin’ La
Gaby Wenig
December 18, 2003
Singer-songwriter Diex sees himself as an ambassador, a bridge between the unlikely worlds of the prayer filled synagogues and the groove-shaking beats of J Lo, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin.
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