Robert Hilburn: Selected Los Angeles Times works
October 20, 2002
Johnny Cash (2002): At home and at peace
Maces Springs, Va. -- John R. Cash was born Feb. 26, 1932, which means a recent Saturday was somewhere around his 25,800th day on Earth. That he spent most of that day in a modest, two-story wood-frame house in a quiet Virginia valley says a lot about the country music pillar and the historic locale.
October 29, 2000
U2 (2000): Far Down the Road, a Sudden U-Turn
DUBLIN -- Bono is behind the wheel of his black Mercedes sedan, taking a visitor on a mini-tour of the city as he heads downtown to meet the other members of U2 for dinner.
February 9, 1992
Bob Dylan (1992): Dylan Now
Bob Dylan stares idly at the paperback book that someone has brought aboard his custom tour bus, which is speeding through the snowy Wisconsin countryside in the midnight hour. He has just finished a concert in Madison and is on his way to South Bend, Ind., where he'll play again in 20 hours.
September 11, 1992
Kurt Cobain (1992): Cobain to Fans: Just Say No
"I don't want my daughter to grow up and someday be hassled by kids at school . . . I don't want people telling her that her parents were junkies."
April 2, 1989
(1989) Striking Tales of Black Frustration and Pride Shake the Pop Mainstream
Rap music is not polite. It's a noisy 'n' crude attack on mainstream sensibilities that has even liberal-minded adults who were raised on the rebellious, outlaw beat of Little Richard and the Rolling Stones asking themselves, "What happened to real music?"
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