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Q: Is it harder to make fireworks in certain colors? —Deb S., Ava, N.Y. A: “It’s harder to make blue. It’s all about balancing heat and the chemical compositions,” says Jim Souza, whose Pyro Spectaculars runs the Macy’s July 4 show, the nation’s largest. Nevertheless, blue will abound in this year’s main act: a dazzling American flag launched from the Brooklyn Bridge. Learn how they make fireworks explode into shapes at parade.com/firework.

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SERVING UP BERRIES AND CREAM It wouldn’t be Wimbledon without strawberries and cream! Guests consume more than 61,000 pounds of berries (which arrive daily at 5:30 a.m., mostly from farms in Kent) and nearly 1,900 gallons of fresh cream during the two-week championship (June 23–July 6 this year). Find 10 scrumptious strawberry recipes at parade.com/strawberry.

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The former Beverly Hills, 90210 costars, 42 and 41, have reunited for Mystery Girls (ABC Family, Wednesdays).

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A: Yes—in fact, the man who penned the lyrics for “The Star-Spangled Banner” (set to the tune of an old English pub song) was “unmusical ... and possibly tone deaf,” writes Marc Leepson in his new Key biography, What So Proudly We Hailed. See the best and worst performances of our 200-yearold national anthem at parade.com/anthem.

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Haatchi & Little B Writer Wendy Holden tells the poignant story of Owen, a disabled little boy who strikes up a friendship with a three-legged rescue dog. Read a sweet excerpt at parade .com/haatchi.

Your Perfect Presentation In this smart guide, public-speaking coach Bill Hoogterp spells out how to communicate with conﬁdence. For his tips on conquering nervousness, go to parade .com/speak.

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue Journalist Meryl Gordon reveals new details about the mysterious life and death of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who passed in 2011. Get an excerpt at parade .com/clark.

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MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY With Taylor Swift, left, on her RED tour last September; hanging with Elton John in February 2013. Cox’s boyfriend). “Ed’s comfortable in his skin,” says Cox. “That’s why he brings people together. You can be 8 or 88, I don’t think it matters.” Sheeran’s Hollywood pals also include Jennifer Aniston, with whom he celebrated Thanksgiving last year. He calls Cox “the sweetest girl” and says that becoming friends with two stars of a show he grew up watching is “surreal.” ll rather heady experiences for a kid who, ﬁve years ago, was playing open-mic nights and selling his own CDs. “I do pinch myself sometimes,” he says at a café near the toy store, downing both a coffee and an

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espresso in succession. “I have so many moments like that. I grew up listening to John Mayer and Jason Mraz and the other day, [I got] emails from them. Stuff like that blows my mind.” He sips his coffee and adds with quiet conﬁdence, “Also, there are some artists who are keeping an eye on me. It’s a slight competitive thing, but that’s good since I do it as well.” As bemused as Sheeran can seem about the opportunities that have come his way, he’s equally intense and driven about his career. When he was growing up in the English town of Framlingham, his parents held “millions of jobs,” he says; among them, his father was a curator at a London

art galley, and his mother was an art consultant. (These days, she sells jewelry inspired by some of her son’s lyrics and favorite candies, of which he very much approves.) He began playing guitar after seeing Eric Clapton on TV. “I was a misguided teenager,” he says. “I just needed focus, and as soon as I started writing songs and playing shows, that was my focus.” At 16, he announced he was moving to London to pursue his music; his mother was unsure, but his father gave his blessing. Once there, Sheeran displayed a savvy and determination that served him well. He gigged at small clubs and recorded and pressed up his own CDs, selling enough copies of one of them— 2,000—to pay for a plane ticket to L.A. when he was 19. There he performed on Jamie Foxx’s satellite radio channel, the Foxxhole, and wound up crashing at the actor’s house for a few days. Back in London, he eventually landed a record deal with help from manager Stuart Camp, a colleague of Elton John’s. From the start, Camp saw how sensible his client is. “The day he signed his deal, he didn’t go out for a drink,” says Camp. “He said, ‘I’m a professional now. I have to be

ALONG WITH ED SHEERAN’S “SING,” HERE ARE NEW TUNES WE’RE LOVING RIGHT NOW.

Paramore “Ain’t It Fun” The band has a blast with this track, a likely anthem for homesick campers.

Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea “Problem” A party starter pairing the Sam & Cat star with the Aussie rapper.

Nico & Vinz “Am I Wrong” The Norwegian duo is breaking big with this soulful yet sunny single.

Michael Jackson feat. Justin Timberlake “Love Never Felt So Good” Jackson wrote this with Paul Anka back in the ’80s.

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Sheeran’s appeal isn’t restricted to adoring females. The 23-yearold’s effortless blend of troubadour pop and hip-hop—the result of inﬂuences as disparate as Bob Dylan and Eminem— has already earned him three Grammy nominations, a gig on SNL, and multiple Today show appearances (he’ll make his fourth on July 4). The new toast of the music business, he’s one of the few artists who can collaborate with both Williams and Taylor Swift, who tapped Sheeran to join her 2013 tour, boosting his proﬁle with her massive fan base. One minute he’s getting career advice from Elton John and the next he’s working on a new song with Usher, who met Sheeran at a dinner this past spring. “He can create images through words and melodies,” says Usher. “It’s like watching a movie.” And those are just his musicbiz buddies. Visiting Los Angeles more than a year ago, Sheeran was invited to a dinner party that turned out to be at the Malibu home of actress Courteney Cox; he serenaded her guests and crashed in her cabana. Another night, he brought along Swift and members of the band Snow Patrol (one of whom became

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and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about it.â&#x20AC;? Says Camp, â&#x20AC;&#x153;That sums him up. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see a bill, so he probably put it back even tidier than it was before.â&#x20AC;? (Fun footnote: In the video for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sing,â&#x20AC;? an Ed Sheeran puppet spends a debauched evening and ends up, with the real Ed, in a thoroughly wrecked room.) Sheeran is all too aware that, if he misbehaves or insults someone, the news could easily make TMZ or Twitterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and result in lost record sales. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time of being polite,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radio stations arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to play you if you show up late. You have to be respectful and do your job. You can guarantee that Taylor will always be professional and polite, and if you want to be as big as her, you have to be just as professional and polite. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not, radio stations will say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hmmm, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very nice to us yesterday, but she was lovely, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play her records.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? In some ways, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a male version of Swift: young, talented, ambitious, supremely conďŹ dent, and unafraid to leap across musical genres and write songs inspired by people in his life. The song â&#x20AC;&#x153;AďŹ re Love,â&#x20AC;? off his new album, is about his grandfather Bill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ďŹ nished writing it on the day of his funeral,â&#x20AC;? Sheeran says, continued on page 12 â&#x20AC;&#x153;and played

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it for my whole family. Before it went any further, I needed to get the blessing of the people I care about.” And if you’re wondering, “Don’t,” a bitter song of romantic betrayal, is “about someone who’s well known, but not Taylor,” says Sheeran, who has denied ever dating Swift (rumor has it that fellow Brit pop sensation Ellie Goulding is the song’s subject). He’s even got a 10-year plan. “I know this isn’t going to last forever. Now is the time when I’m making my musical statements and being cool and going to parties. But I don’t think I’ll be living this life in 10 years’ time. If I am, please slap me.” Where will he be instead? “Back home, bunch of kids,” he says without hesitation. “At 33, I should be starting to settle down.” He won’t name his current girlfriend, though he says she’s a chef. That Sheeran is already thinking about family doesn’t surprise Cox. “He’s extremely family-oriented,” she says. “I’ve met his dad, mom, and brother, and their love for each other is so sweet.” Back at the toy store, Sheeran’s quest to find Captain America flatlines, but then he unearths something more rare: a Ronald McDonald figurine. On his way out of the shop, he spots an Elmo doll and gently tickles its belly. Always happy to make a new fan. David Browne is the author of the just-published The Spirit of ’76, about the American renewal in the Bicentennial year (Amazon Kindle Singles).

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n the 30th anniversary of the release of Br uce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A.., let’s kick off this appreciation of his seminal album by, well, trashing some of it. In June 1984, as my friends and I watched the Boss cavort in a cheesy video with a then unknown Courteney Cox on MTV, we were aghast. In the ’70s we’d fallen in love with Bruce’s gritty rock anthems. I was a songwriter, too, back then; Born to Run had blown me away. So “Dancing in the Dark,” the Boss’s slick new single, seemed like a sellout. We called it “Disco in the Dark.” But the best music demands time to get its hooks, and message, into you. I spent the first part of the summer of ’84 locked in my bedroom recording new songs, trying to bring the Boss’s influence into my music; then I drove across America with my friends on a seemingly endless road trip, listening to his new album. By the time we got my family’s station wagon from Florida to L.A., then wound our way up the California coast, it had worked its way into our hearts. The Boss was displaying a songwriting finesse few other rock musicians could match. Consider “No Surrender,” a lastminute addition to the album that showed Bruce at his joyous best. “I’m on Fire” still transports me to a sweltering July 4th fireworks show somewhere on the Gulf Coast. We spent many a late night that summer racing through sleepy coastal towns, shouting the

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough harks back to the summer of 1984, and the hit song that pitted his political idol against his musical hero words to “Darlington County.” Those were our glory days, and Born in the U.S.A. was our summer soundtrack. Seven Billboard Top 10 singles came out of that album, but it was more than a hit factory. Bruce’s seventh studio effort was also a requiem for the American dream, a working-class hero’s love song to folks busted and bruised by Vietnam, heartbreak, and the passage of time. Like the Eagles’ Hotel California in the ’70s and Nirvana’s Nevermind in the ’90s, Born in the

U.S.A. defined and was defined by the decade of its release. In June 1984, the Reagan Revolution was in full force. Reagan was running for a second term using the campaign slogan “It’s Morning in America,” a promise to voters that good times lay ahead. That idyllic patriotism was probably disorienting for Bruce, who wrote music that chronicled the underside of the American experience. Still, whether he liked it or not, many of the young concertgoers who idolized him also voted for our conservative president. “Born in the U.S.A.” was the song of the summer in ’84, so it

wasn’t a surprise when Reagan’s reelection team tried to trade on its popularity. In a stump speech in New Jersey, Reagan said Bruce’s lyrics held “a message of hope,” a reading that was embarrassingly off. “Born in the U.S.A.” was in fact an antiwar protest song. Reagan’s mistake didn’t hurt him—he went on to win in a historic landslide. But the flap made presidential history. Even if Springsteen rejected Reagan’s sunny patriotism, his album oozed Stars and Stripes, from the title track down to the iconic Annie Leibovitz photo on the cover. It was like tipping a hat to Reagan’s America with one hand and thumbing a nose at it with the other. And despite their dark themes, the songs were infectious. Tapping your foot to the thumping drumbeat in “Born in the U.S.A.,” singing along to the chorus, you felt good. Bruce’s heroes may have been beaten down, but you got the feeling the Boss wasn’t counting them out. They were proud, and above all, tough. Three decades later, as the rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer, and the middle class keep feeling the squeeze of changes that seem beyond their control, Bruce’s words feel as relevant as ever. My friends and I may have gagged over “Dancing in the Dark,” but we loved the rest of that album. It spoke to everyone, from postmen to presidents, in ways no other album could. And it still does. Joe Scarborough is the cohost of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

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Photos, from top: Lennox McLendon/AP images; Courtesy of Joe Scarborough

Springsteen on his “Born in the U.S.A.” tour. Below, inset: The author in an undated photo from the mid-’80s.

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