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Bison-tennial Man: A John Lurie Print
Nicholas McCarthy Is an Inspiring One-Handed Pianist
Briton Nicholas McCarthy is a classically trained concert pianist. He's excelled in the classical music world, and recently signed with Warner Classics. And he's accomplished all of this despite having only one hand. The Che Guevara of Copyright: Johannes Kreidler's 'Product Placements'
When Brahms did it, it was art. When Negativland did it, it was funny. (And when 2 Live Crew did it to Roy Orbison, in a way, it was artfully funny.) But when Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis plunders the entirety of recorded popular music and emerges with the perfect riff x to complement just the right lick y, somehow it's a borderline illegal calculus.