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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
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Lenny Kravitz stretches his musical limits
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The setting is downtown Manhattan. Lenny Kravitz is offering a few reminders of how his job — rock star — is so different from other occupations.
He talks about his newest release, a greatest hits album. Kravitz was taken aback when the idea was suggested to him. There's something about a
Kravitz is directed across the street by a photographer to pose in a doorway.
That duty done, he's ready for a limousine ride uptown. But first, someone's waiting in a hotel lobby to meet him.
Finally, Kravitz stretches out in the limo. He's riding to a studio in Manhattan, where he's been asked to write a song for a boldface name Kravitz doesn't want to divulge. The assignment's a thriller for him.
It's Robbie Robertson, former Band leader, now working as a record company executive. They've never met before and eagerly exchange pleas antries, rock star to rock star.
greatest hits disc that lets you know how long you've been making music.
"I feel quite blessed," Kravitz said. "Eleven years later, I'm still in the game — still on the top of my game. That's an amazing blessing."
he also needs to schedule his sudden flood of side projects. Kravitz has done occasional work with other musicians through the years, but now he finds himself in real demand.
Kravitz's limousine pulls up in front of an unmarked door on a busy side street.
Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J. Blige and Destiny's Child have requested his help, he said. They're asking for his song-writing or production acumen, sometimes both.
"They're all challenges," he said. "I like to take on things that are completely opposite from what people would expect me to do, purposely because it stretches you as a musician."
It's his intended location. He steps from the limo and quickly disappears into the studio, before anyone on the street has the chance to recognize him.
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1 Trip in the bush
7 Audit expert's letters
10 Yeam
14 Tolerated
15 Sept. preceder
16 Ran like Madras
17 Italian sausage
18 Using a mechanical fastener
20 Stalk
21 Incident
23 Affirmative reply
24 Binding device
25 Sending Kefauver
26 Stationed
27 Perform
28 Terrible
29 Danger
30 Caesar's eggs
36 Reusable spacecraft
38 Burst toth
40 Male offspring
41 Skinfilt
43 Went out with
44 Type of scan
45 Yielded
47 Bower
50 Backcourt player
51 RR depot
54 Balcony railing
54 Sound or thunder sound
57 Unassigned costs
58 Scuttle drawing
58 Jacket silt
61 Fuss
62 Fred's dancing partner
63 Linemen
64 Sun, talk
65 Firstborn
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2 Subside
3 Nail smoothers
4 Man with an apple?
5 Dreamer's giveaway
6 Dunes
7 Waterfall
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9 Thickening agent
10 Most capable
11Actor Eastwood
12 Later than now
13 Rims
14 Made impossible
22 Thin pancakes
22 Coastal wetland
26 However
28 Publicize
28 Blockhead
29 "damaged"
Roger Rabbit??
30 Good time
30 Double-check text
33 Mel of
Cooperstown
34 Victory sign
35 Append
37 Ignited
39 Lily or launch follower
42 Peru's neighbor
44 Woos
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46 Deeper, an
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48 Poe's bird
49 Mixture
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