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LANDGREN HAPPY NEW YEAR?
The eternal presence of Billy Joel Meaghan Racicot Special to Worcester Magazine USA TODAY NETWORK
A few weeks ago, I piecemeal watched “Hired Gun” in my car as I waited to pick up my daughter from school, watching about 15 minutes each day. “Hired Gun” is a documentary about musicians who are hired by other, larger name musicians to play their hit songs “behind them.” They are not in the band, just part of it for as long as they are hired. It was a fascinating documentary, and I don’t want to Billy Joel, performing in Austin in October. See JOEL, Page 10
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A wish for the New Year – We all deserve to be seen Victor D. Infante Worcester Magazine USA TODAY NETWORK
I am, perhaps unsurprisingly, a fan of “best of ” lists, yearend “people to watch” lists, “favorite album or music video lists” and their ilk. Usually, they're pretty terrible – “Hey, fellow kids! Let's check out those new hep cats Ed Augustus and Jim McGovern! They really might make something of themselves!” – but when done right, they can help journalists illuminate the amazing people who surround us: Some who grab the headlines, others who toil in obscurity, but nonetheless the people who often make our world better in some way, and they deserve to be seen. Worcester Magazine and the Telegram & Gazette do a
number of these, of course, beginning on Thanksgiving with our “Hometown Heroes” issue and rolling into the new year with a few interesting odds and ends. I even enjoy reading the lists by our rival and frenemy publications, such as The Worcester Business Journal's “22 People You Should Know in 2022,” or Vanyaland's “21 Boston Songs of 2021.” Indeed, the reasons I love these things are probably a lot of the same reasons I'm so excited about the Telegram's Storytellers program: We can't tell every story, no matter how hard we try, but sometimes, we can give people the tools and forum to tell their own. Mind, there are some limits to my love of these year-end lists. It was nice that the BosSee WORCESTERIA, Page 10
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