Tom Waits

...world premiere of David Mamet adaptation, 2005 The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs, English-language premiere, 2004 A Mother by Constance Congdon, adapted from Maxim...

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...the Ramones and Rod Stewart. So feted has he become, that the historian Simon Schama recently claimed that there is "something almost Shakespearean about the breadth of Tom Waits' take on modern American life". Yet despite Waits' carefully...

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...Lou Reed, and Patti Smith. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits, a Beat fan, wrote "Jack and Neal" about Kerouac and Cassady, and recorded "On the Road" (a song written by Kerouac after finishing the novel) with Primus . He also collaborated with...

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The Black Rider (album) The Black Rider is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records. The album contains studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William...

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...Dracula '', as the possessed lunatic Renfield. In 1993, he released The Black Rider '', which contained studio versions of the songs that Waits had written for the musical of the same name three years previously, with the exceptions of...

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...duke himself will place the hand of Agathe in that of Max. The Black Rider, a stage musical by Robert Wilson , Tom Waits, and William S. Burroughs, is based on Der Freischutz. Magic Hunter (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109356/), a...

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...performed by Tom Waits, and was released as a record in 1993. The best known track is probably the ballad "November", which is still occasionally performed by Waits during concerts. "'Tain't No Sin" features spoken word dialogue by Burroughs.

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...S. Burroughs, and avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson . They also produced the American English premiere of The Black Rider at the New York Fringe Fringe Festival in 1999. November Theatre's production went onto tour Canada in...

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Another well-known song is "Pirate Jenny". The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded "The Second Threepenny Finale" under the title "What Keeps Mankind Alive". The Threepenny Opera was first performed at the...

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