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Courtesy of low-budget soft-rockumentary auteur JD Ryznar comes the long-awaited Footloose episode of Yacht Rock, the show that put the “biz” in “Webisode.” It’s surprising enough to see Jason Lee guest-starring, but is that Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton as James Ingram? (No, it isn’t, but for a second…) January 28, 2008 More Rock Snobbery »
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Nilsson, Harry. Brooklyn-born, powerfully piped singer-songwriter equally famous for well-realized retro-pop albums such as Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) and for being John Lennon’s drinking buddy/partner in crime during the latter’s “Lost Weekend” period in Los Angeles. Though his adept melding of Tin Pan Alley and Sergeant Pepper idioms suggested an artist of limitless possibility in the late ’60s and early ’70s, his increasingly sozzled state put him into a mid-’70s artistic decline from which he never recovered. (His tipple of choice was the Brandy Alexander, which the admiring Lennon referred to as a “milkshake”). Since his 1994 death, however, Nilsson’s oeuvre has acquired significant hipster cachet, with his oeuvre lavishly repackaged by BMG and his song “One,” as sung by Aimee Mann, used prominently over the credits of P.T. Anderson’s 1999 epic Magnolia.