John Mayer: Artist or Clown?
Erin Carlson covers media for The Business Insider.
The musician is a cad, an attention-seeker, a Twitter star-and an earnest singer-songwriter. Erin Carlson examines how Mayer's bemused persona plays out in public.
Kanye's Softer Side
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Kanye West is known for speaking his mind. And his new book, Glow in the Dark, documents his "human" side. VIEW OUR GALLERY and read an interview with his photographer and confidant.
"It's just an emotional time, I think for everybody in the world, dealing with change," Kanye said of his tour in an interview with Spike Jonze. "I...
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Lucy of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" just died, but whatever happened to Peggy Sue, Sweet Caroline, Delilah, and Mozart's Elise?
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