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One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
Rob Sheffield
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Rob Sheffield
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: February 2
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Robert James Sheffield
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Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
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Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.
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Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.
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It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
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Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
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Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.
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Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
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'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.
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Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
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One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
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I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you.
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The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
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I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
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