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30 May 2023, 15:05

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Mr Mister had some of the most enduring power ballads of the 1980s.

The American rock band formed back in 1982, and scored massive international hits with the songs 'Broken Wings', 'Kyrie' and 'Is It Love' in the mid-'80s.

However, by 1990, the band had parted ways and had not performed live together since. Until now.

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Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, Mr Mister consisted of Richard Page on lead vocals and bass guitar, Steve George on keyboards and backing vocals, Pat Mastelotto on drums, and Steve Farris on guitars and backing vocals.

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The band was the successor to the band Pages, which was fronted by Page and George from 1978 to 1981.

Earlier this month, the band's official Facebook page posted a fantastic video of Page, George, Farris and Mastelotto performing 'Broken Wings' together at a joint celebration of Page, George and John Lang's birthdays.

According to a fan forum , their former manager George Ghiz and Richard Page have been hoping for a reunion in recent years.

The idea of performing some Pages or Mr Mister material was put forward to Steve George, but he declined. George had all but retired from the music industry following a gig with Jewel in the early 2000s.

However, the Mr Mister members have all kept in touch over the years, despite living in different parts of the US. They also got together several years ago to complete three unfinished tracks from the Pull album sessions.

A full reunion idea was put out there to celebrate Richard Page's 70th birthday, by his wife Linda. Thankfully, all four members were up for it.

They are said to have put together a short set, including 'Broken Wings', 'Is it Love', and 'I Don't Know Why'.

The fact that they haven't performed properly together for over 30 years, it's as if they never went away! Watch the full performance below:

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Richard Hammond has spoken about the future of The Grand Tour after ending his TV partnership with Jeremy Clarkson and James May .

The former Top Gear trio began presenting the show in 2016 and have worked on the show for five seasons and 46 episodes in total.

Fans of the series may have feared that the show would be leaving their screens for good when the final episode debuts on 13 September but Hammond has now quashed those concerns.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk , the presenter has revealed the show will be “carrying on.”

He said: “ The Grand Tour continues. We’re stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it.”

Hamond then jokingly added: “So I can’t wait to sit on my own chair and watch somebody else do it. That’s amazing.”

The TV star admitted that he didn’t know who the new presenters would be but did share some advice with his successors. “If you’re making any show that at its heart has a subject, whether it’s cooking, dancing or cars, the hosts, the primary makers of it, have to have that passion in their heart. And we always did,” said the 54-year-old.

Clarkson, Hammond and May’s 22-year journey of working together, across both Top Gear and The Grand Tour , comes to an end later this month with an episode called ‘One For The Road’ which was filmed in Zimbabwe and Botswana . The episode will reportedly end on Kubu Island, which the gang visited as part of a Top Gear special in 2007.

Meanwhile, Clarkson , who is currently enjoying the biggest success of his career with Clarkson’s Farm , has reflected on why he decided to cut professional ties with both Hammond and May.

‘After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in, because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t,” he said in a new interview with The Sunday Times .

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“What this means of course is that my 22-year partnership with James May and Richard Hammond is now over. You can see our final road trip together on Amazon Prime very soon. It’s emotional.”

Clarkson said the trio had “thought long and hard about how we should end our 22-year partnership, but in the end we just went to the end of the alphabet” and selected Zimbabwe as a place to set the special.

“There was another reason why we chose Zimbabwe, though,” he continued, revealing: “We would drive across it from east to west, as usual, but then we could cross the border and finish up where we began all those years ago: the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana.”

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The Grand Tour's Richard Hammond on new presenters taking over show

The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond has addressed the future of the show and it continuing with new presenters.

Hammond and his co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May are bidding goodbye to the Prime Video car series after eight years and five seasons, with the final episode titled The Grand Tour: One For The Road dropping on the streaming service on September 13.

In a new interview with Metro , Hammond confirmed that whilst the three are departing, The Grand Tour will continue with new presenters taking over.

Related: Top Gear's Richard Hammond responds to show hiatus

"It will be carrying on," he says. "The Grand Tour continues. We're stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it. So I can't wait to sit on my own chair and watch somebody else do it. That's amazing."

Hammond admits he doesn't know the identity of the new presenters, but revealed the key factor he thinks they'll need in order for the show to continue being a success.

"If you're making any show that at its heart has a subject, whether it's cooking, dancing or cars, the hosts, the primary makers of it, have to have that passion in their heart. And we always did," he said.

"You never had to be a car geek to watch our show. Plenty of people who weren't did watch it, but it was important that we were the car geeks."

Related: The Grand Tour's James May reveals show secret

Hammond, Clarkson and May have worked together as a presenting trio for over two decades, with the three of them co-hosting BBC car show Top Gear from 2002 to 2015, before moving to Prime Video and launching The Grand Tour in 2016.

Their final episode - set in Zimbabwe - was filmed in September 2023, but Hammond admits that the show ending hasn't sunk in yet for him.

Asked what viewers can expect from the upcoming finale, he said: "It's a very honest and heartfelt goodbye and thank you from us. Don't expect big bangs and crashes. It's actually quite simple.

"It's quite a sincere thank you for making it possible for us to have such an incredible time over the last two decades together."

The Grand Tour: One For The Road will be released on Prime Video on September 13. All five seasons are available to stream now.

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While Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May are gearing up to say goodbye to The Grand Tour for good, it turns out that it’s carrying on in their absence.

In a new interview with Metro , Hammond revealed that The Grand Tour will get a new team of presenters after the trio host their final instalment.

“It will be carrying on. The Grand Tour continues,” he explained. “We’re stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it.”

He added that he was very much looking forward to the “amazing” prospect of “sit[ting] on my own chair and watch[ing] somebody else do it”.

“I can’t wait,” he enthused.

Clarkson, Hammond and May began presenting The Grand Tour in 2016, having initially fronted Top Gear together.

A year earlier, the BBC had made the decision not to renew Clarkson’s contract when he assaulted a Top Gear crew member while filming on location , and his co-stars made the decision to leave the show with him.

Prior to this, Clarkson was already reported to be on his final warning at the BBC, after footage of him muttering the N-word during a recitation of the children’s rhyme “eenie, meenie, miny, moe” was leaked in the media.

After eight years, Clarkson, Hammond and May’s last episode of The Grand Tour, titled One For The Road, will begin streaming on Friday 13 September.

Clarkson wrote in the Sunday Times over the weekend: “After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I’m packing it in, because I’m too old and fat to get into the cars that I like and not interested in driving those I don’t.”

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Richard Hammond has addressed the future of Prime Video 's The Grand Tour , as he and longtime co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May prepare to bid farewell to the series.

The trio are ending their collaboration after more than two decades, having first risen to superstardom as the hosting team on BBC motoring programme Top Gear.

The Grand Tour: One For The Road brings one last feature-length adventure for the enthusiasts, following them on an epic adventure across Zimbabwe in three vehicles that they've always dreamed of owning.

In addition to the usual banter and mischief, the special could prove an emotional watch for some fans, marking the end of an era as Hammond, Clarkson and May refocus on their individual projects.

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But while it may be the end for their motor mayhem, The Grand Tour will live on with a new creative team, as Hammond discussed in a brand new interview with Metro.co.uk this week.

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"It will be carrying on," he assured fans. "The Grand Tour continues. We’re stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it. So I can’t wait to sit on my own chair and watch somebody else do it. That’s amazing."

The broadcaster went on to say that he couldn't confirm who, if anyone, is currently in contention for the high-profile gig, nor if the next team would usher in any major changes to the format.

Hammond explained: "We’ll always be on hand to talk if they want to talk to us, absolutely. But it’s not for us to shape it anymore. We’re stepping away.

"We made the show that we made... But there’ll be a different team doing a different show, and they’ll devise the show that fits them."

On the secret of their success, Hammond explained that he and his co-presenters have a genuine love for motor vehicles, which shone through in the programmes they made together.

Their passion and knowledge allowed them to make shows that were accessible even to those who weren't actually "car geeks", with Hammond drawing a surprise comparison with Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throwdown .

"I love it," he revealed. "I’ve no interest in pottery. I don’t know anything about it, but they clearly do, and that passion is compelling."

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‘The Grand Tour’ presenters share the most memorable moments from the show ahead of the final episode release

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After five action-packed seasons, 41 countries, and 187 cars, The Grand Tour is coming to an end, with the final feature-length episode premiering on Prime Video on 13 September .

In the special episode, titled The Grand Tour: One For The Road , Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own: a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag. As they embark on a stunning road trip through Zimbabwe, they say an emotional farewell to their lives together on The Grand Tour .

Clarkson, Hammond, and May spoke about their favourite memories from the series, along with how they chose the cars for their final adventure, and why they wanted the last episode to be a “thank you” to the fans.

How did you come up with the location for the final episode?

Jeremy Clarkson: Although we’ve done some very memorable and very enjoyable specials over the years – like the Middle East and Mongolia ( The Mongolia Special – Survival of the Fattest, 2019 ), and a number of others – the three of us have always agreed that Botswana was our favourite special, probably because it was our first, and so there is nostalgia to that.

Richard Hammond: We knew we wanted to end up on Kubu Island. Beyond that, I think we may have benefited a bit from the experience of making shows through lockdown. We had to strip it back a bit, and it made us think, “Okay, the big bangs and stuff are great, but hang on a minute, let's remember what's at the heart of this show.” And so that was to the fore when we came to say goodbye.

How did you choose the cars?

Jeremy Clarkson: The premise of the original Botswana film was: why, when you leave London and move to Surrey, do you always buy yourself a 4x4? You don’t need one. To prove this, we decided to drive three perfectly ordinary cars across Botswana. I've always liked the premise that cars are much tougher than you think they are. They can take so much punishment; people don't believe how much their car can take before it expires.

So, we did a similar thing this time: the three that we took to Zimbabwe were, on the face of it, ridiculous, but as you can see in the film, they survive. The concept was just driving cars we liked.

James May: I said all along we mustn’t play it for gags, we must have things that we’re genuinely curious about and always wanted. That's always risky with things like cars because inevitably, there's a car you really loved as a kid, but when you get it, it’s crap because it’s 40 or 50 years old.

So, it was a bit risky, but we had to be genuinely invested in our choices because we're not actors. We can't pretend to love things. I know Jeremy's story about looking through the dealership window longingly at the Lancia as a young man is true because I used to go past the same place, and I know exactly what he's talking about.

I had a friend whose parents had a Triumph Stag when I was a kid, and I just thought they seemed amazing. The Stag has a reputation as one of the most unreliable cars ever made but weirdly on this, it kept going all the way through.

Did it feel emotional to film the finale?

Richard Hammond: Not just for the three of us but the entire group. We've worked together for decades and we've been through good times and bad. We've seen each other in jungles covered in leeches, exhausted and grumpy in tents and boiling heat, elated in the most beautiful cities in the world. We’re a great big dysfunctional family, so there were a lot of tears.

Jeremy Clarkson: I'm not saying this in a derogatory way by any means, but James has the emotions of a stone. He just doesn't do emotions, so there were no tears from him. Hammond, yes. I was surprisingly unemotional in a weird way because I can see James and Hammond any time I want to, they’re only a phone call away, and I’m sure we will. And I’ve done enough of the travel, I was worn out by it.

Where I would have been emotional was saying goodbye to the crew because most of them started with us. There's a photograph taken on Kubu Island of Russ Edwards and Casper Leaver (Camera Operator) and Andy Wilman (Executive Producer), who were there on the original crew, and they're still with us. You can’t say that about any other show.

What did you want to achieve with the final film?

James May: I remember saying in an early meeting that it was important that we actually genuinely enjoyed our cars and didn't allow it to descend into too much bickering or aggressive pranking of each other. I also didn't want to be too introverted, emotional or navel-gazing; it had to be joyous. We had to come together and acknowledge our shared enthusiasm. It's quite a tricky balance to strike, I think because it's in our nature to be horrible about each other. And there are a few moments like that, like when I say, “I’m deleting their numbers from my phone” as soon as it’s over. That’s us being quite British and undermining our own feelings, which I think is the right thing to do because that’s genuinely us.

Richard Hammond: We wanted to say “thank you” to the audience. This is the biggest thing to happen in my life ever. It changed my life, it affected my daughters’ lives, my whole family, everything. And that's down to the audience.

I think you will see that this is each of us genuinely saying “thank you”, and the way Andy Wilman put that together – he’s the master behind it. Andy Wilman didn't want it to end on exploding things; he wanted it to be sincere. You don't put on a comedy clown suit to say “thank you”, do you?

What have been the highlights from ‘The Grand Tour’ journey?

Jeremy Clarkson: I have always loved driving into an African city. There’s a buzz in African cities that you don’t get anywhere else. Harare — wow, what a singing, melting pot of busyness and joy that was. Kampala’s the same.

I think the most surprising location in all the years was Mongolia (The Mongolia Special – Survival of the Fattest, 2019). That was incredibly beautiful. It’s carpeted – and I mean completely carpeted – by thyme, rosemary and sage. As you drive along, you just get the smell all day, constantly. And then we drove into a pine forest, and I can still remember that. Mongolia was the nicest smelling country I've ever been to, and the terrain is also visually stunning. For six days, we drove in pretty much a dead straight line, and we never saw a cloud in the sky, a farm animal, a person, a telegraph pole or a pylon – there was simply no evidence that man had ever existed.

Richard Hammond: We’ve always loved Africa, waking up in jungles. I remember in Syria in the desert, we were all staying in this massive tent with about 50 of us, and it was boiling, and I was like, “sod this” so James and I grabbed our gear and decided to sleep in the desert instead. Unfortunately, the incredibly strong and mind-numbingly cold wind shot straight into the sleeping bags. It was just the worst night. We were freezing to death.

There were lots of nights like that. Or I remember lying in a tent in Bolivia at about 35 degrees, full of cockroaches that kept me awake all night. And if it wasn’t the cockroaches, it was the drug runners on mopeds going up and down the dirt track passes.

I remember chasing one of Pablo Escobar’s hippos when we were drunk late at night, trying to get a picture on my phone before thinking, “Hippos are quite dangerous; I probably shouldn’t be doing this.” Lots of stupid, wonderful, privileged moments.

James May: I remember in Chile – or maybe Argentina – staying in a shepherd's hut with simple embroidered bedspreads. I shared a room with Hammond, and it was like an adventure from childhood. It was like going to a holiday cottage somewhere, and it was really brilliant. We did some awful camping all over the world, but it was still quite exciting waking up in the desert or in a rainforest. I wouldn’t have done that were it not for the show.

What we've just done, going across Zimbabwe and into Botswana, I don't know if you could even organise that as a holiday. You could probably pay a posh holiday agent to put that together for you, but it would be extremely expensive, so I’ve seen a lot of places that I simply wouldn’t have done if it hadn't been part of my work.

I’ve thought constantly over the years, “How the hell did this happen?” It really is an enormous privilege, or an enormous stroke of luck, however you want to look at it. Being able to do that and making a living out of it whilst being on the telly and going to foreign places, that blew my mind – it still staggers me.

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The Grand Tour: One For The Road will see Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take their final adventure together as they say goodbye to the beloved motoring show

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Richard Hammond has spoken out about the ending of The Grand Tou r and working with Jeremy Clarkson .

The Grand Tour has clocked up journeys through 41 countries, utilising a whopping 187 cars as the presenting team powered through five thrilling series on Prime Video. That's not all the series has racked up an impressive count of additional vehicles and transport modes, including 30 boats, 16 planes, seven helicopters, one Royal Navy warship, and even a tank.

Yet, for fans of the high-octane show hosted by Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond, and James May , a bittersweet moment is fast approaching with The Grand Tour: One For The Road marking their final lap. Having graced our screens in Top Gear since 2003, the dynamic trio are now preparing to bid farewell after more than two decades, with their last hurrah showcasing a trip to Zimbabwe. Clarkson will be behind the wheel of a Lancia Montecarlo, Hammond taking on a Ford Capri 3-litre, and May cruising in a Triumph Stag.

As they gear up for goodbye, 54-year-old Hammond reflects on the upcoming end of an era: "I don't think it's sunk in," he shares, hinting that the reality began to dawn during the final shoot: "You could see it starting to sink in when we were shooting the final scenes ... people were starting to realise, 'Oh, hang on a minute, this is the end'".

In the months to come, the impact of the show's conclusion is something Hammond expects to feel gradually: "I think it'll probably hit me slowly over the next few months." Prime Video's The Grand Tour boasts some dazzling figures beyond its main stars they've also used an extra 180 cars in background roles across its lifespan. Plus, there's been quite the tally of technical hitches, with 73 breakdowns overall, and Hammond himself being at the helm for 38 of those mishaps.

The grand finale of season five, episode two, (The Grand Tour: Eurocrash), which saw the trio driving onto a moving cargo plane, is hailed as their most daring stunt yet, taking two years to orchestrate. Back in 2006, while filming Top Gear, Hammond suffered a severe accident when he crashed a jet-powered dragster at nearly 320mph. The crash left him in a coma for two weeks and with serious head injuries.

"We're a big family," he shares. "We've worked with the same people for over 20 years, and not just in an ordinary way. We've shared tents in jungles, dog sledges, and ferries across African lakes, incredible experiences together. We've seen each other at our best and worst, happy and sad, strong and weak, and that creates a real bond."

TV personality Clarkson, 64, who recently inaugurated a new pub, The Farmer's Dog in Asthall, near Burford in Oxfordshire, reflects on the final farewell with his usual humour. "I'm not saying this in a derogatory way by any means, but James has the emotions of a stone," he jokes. "He just doesn't do emotions, so there were no tears from him. Hammond, yes. I was surprisingly unemotional in a strange way because I can see James and Hammond any time I want to, they're only a phone call away, and I'm sure we will."

"And I've done enough of the travel, I was worn out by it". Clarkson is also being kept busy by his other TV project, the Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm which started in 2021 and has become a hit. "I'm 100% convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show," he adds.

Asked why now was the right time to say goodbye to The Grand Tour, Clarkson reflects: "Because I'm too old. It's a young man's game. The other thing is that if we were to sit down and ask, 'Where next?' well, we've been everywhere. We've done everything you can realistically do with a car, and the world has shrunk and that's the tragedy. The world is a much more troubled place than it was 20 years ago."

"We were very lucky to do what we did, when we did". The show's long-serving producer, Andy Wilman, believes the success of the programme lies largely with its hosts. "Besides their chemistry, those three have incredible intelligence about walking a line where it remains a car show where they are the stars," he comments, adding: "If an alien landed and watched it, they'd go, 'That's not a car show; it's about those three guys'."

"It is about cars, but I think it's a quite charming journey into the male brain, which is done through cars." For May, aged 61, the decision to bring the curtain down on the show felt timely. He says: "I've always said if it ends tomorrow, which it nearly did at one point, that I should just be grateful that I had the opportunity.

"I could always have gone back to some sort of proper life and done something responsible and sensible. But it didn't end, it kept going. In the end we got to the point where we said, 'No, we must stop whilst we're still vaguely ahead. We mustn't keep going until we embarrass ourselves'."

May, who cherished his time working on the Our Man In series with Prime Video, emphasises that their final project had to exude a sense of joy. He shares: "I remember saying in an early meeting that it was important that we actually genuinely enjoyed our cars and didn't allow it to descend into too much bickering or aggressive pranking of each other. I also didn't want to be too introverted, emotional or navel-gazing; it had to be joyous."

May highlights the tricky act they pulled off by adding: "We had to come together and acknowledge our shared enthusiasm. It's quite a tricky balance to strike, I think because it's in our nature to be horrible about each other."

Despite their notorious banter, May - alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson - have been winning hearts in homes around the globe. It's their authentic love for what they do that resonated with viewers, according to Hammond. Hammond suggests: "I think it's very important with shows or any sort of media that if it's about something, that it matters to the people at the heart of it."

He concludes with a nod to their ethos: "We always said you don't have to be a car geek to watch our shows, because we do that for you. Our audience was incredibly broad, and only some of them were car nerds like us. But even those who weren't car nerds would have been very quick to spot if we weren't. It lives in our hearts and you'll tell that enthusiasm is compelling.

"So that was part of the secret, and part of it was, I don't know, we just were lucky. The world wanted a show about three misshapen guys exploring their passion for subjects together and caught on, and that was the opportunity to do what we did. We were lucky."

Fans are poised in anticipation as The Grand Tour: One For The Road gears up to make its grand debut exclusively on Prime Video across the globe come September 13.

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Tissues at the ready, “ The Grand Tour ” fans – the last ever episode is gearing up to be a tear-jerker.

Prime Video has released a nearly three-minute-long trailer for the final episode, “The Grand Tour: One for the Road,” which sees hosts Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May head to Zimbabwe on what is being billed as their last ever episode.

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Clarkson, Hammond and May first teamed up on BBC motoring series “ Top Gear ” in 2002. After Clarkson was fired from the show for punching a producer, his co-hosts left in solidarity. The trio were soon scooped up by Prime Video to host another motoring show, “The Grand Tour,” in 2016, which was similar in tone and theme to “Top Gear.”

“I shall certainly miss doing this sort of thing,” Clakson admits in the trailer as he zips down a road in Zimbabwe.

In a synopsis for the special, Prime Video tease: “In their last adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island.”

In one scene, teased in the trailer, the three men are tinkering with what appears to be a broken-down car when Hammond quips: “We don’t all have to go to the same old folks home do we, I mean it’s not obligatory after this?”

Clarkson, gesturing to May, laughingly retorts: “He said he’s deleting our numbers as soon as we finish!”

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Richard Page’s Peculiar Life

But functioning purely as a writer for hire “doesn’t scratch the itch of wanting to do your own thing, especially when you have to make compromises,” Page explains of the motivation behind the writing and recording of  Peculiar Life , his first album since 1995’s  Shelter Me . “So I really started missing this again, though it amps my life up tremendously and is hard on the family. But there’s something special about doing your own record and making your own music that I really missed, and I didn’t know how much I missed it until I went through this experience.”

Gathering the all-star core band of drummer  Vinnie Colaiuta  (Jeff Beck, Sting, Herbie Hancock), percussionist  Luis Conte  (Pat Matheny, James Taylor, Jackson Browne), bassist  Kevin McCormick (a mainstay of Browne’s longtime band) and guitarist  James Harrah  (Chris Botti, Elton John, John Prine), augmented on certain tracks by pedal steel giant  Greg Leisz  (k.d. lang, Wilco, T Bone Burnett) and violin virtuoso  L. Shankar  (Peter Gabriel, John McLaughlin, Talking Heads), the Malibu-based artist brought a special set of songs to the nearby studio of his surfer buddy  Richard Gibbs  (an Oingo Boingo member turned film scorer), who’d readily agreed to co-produce after hearing the material.

“Richard, who’s a great musician and helped me a lot, insisted that we have live musicians playing everything,” says Page. “To me, if music sounds and feels good, I don’t really care if it was played by a machine or human beings. But I admit, I’d gotten swept up in programming because it’s so easy to write when you program, with so many tools at your fingertips. But having done this record, I can now see that I’d forgotten how nuanced real musicianship can be. I had most of the songs somewhat arranged already, and many of the vocals were done here at my studio. I took over the mockups—essentially song demos with programmed sounds, vocals and some guitar—to Richard’s studio, and we replaced nearly all the instruments. The guys appreciated being able to play to songs that already had lead and background vocals and ideas that were already finished thoughts. So it worked out pretty cool that way.”

The resulting album—mixed by the brilliant  Elliot Scheiner  (Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles)—sounds as taut and vibrant as you’d expect from the collective chops and experience of this crew; the revelation here has to do with the depth of Page’s writing. The dozen songs range from the brightness of “ Brand New Day ” (“When I wrote that one, I was thinking that things are gonna be OK, and it’s OK to say so”) to the dark night of the soul evoked in “Shadow on My Life”; from the life-embracing pop of “No Tomorrow” (co-written with his old friend  Richard Marx ) and “You Are Mine” (a collaboration with Nashville-based songsmiths  Melissa Pierce  and  Mike Busbee ) and to the album’s three-pronged spiritual center, comprising the provocative title song, the contemplative “Worldly Things” and the widescreen epic “When You Come Around,” each of them at once intensely personal and universally relatable.

Describing “Peculiar Life,” Page says, “The line, ‘I’ve got too much invested in this peculiar life’ speaks of grasping, and the grasping has to do with believing that all this is real and wanting a payoff from it. And the hardest thing to do is to let all that go and not be so affected by loss or gain, winning or losing. The struggle I have in my life is to try to balance those things out, so that I’m not so affected emotionally when things go wrong or, conversely, when things go right—to find that place where you’re not swinging back and forth so hard that you suffer from either incredible glee or unbearable unhappiness. The metaphor of feeling like you’re drowning speaks to not having a clear resolve to get out of this mess. So that song says a lot about where I’m at.”

The companion piece “Worldly Things” turns on the lines, “Sometimes I don’t feel so strong/Days go by, barely hangin’ on/Shine a light in my eye so I can find my way home.” According to Page, the song’s narrator is pondering the question, “Why can’t I seem to find any true meaning or happiness in life? It seems like that’s a common struggle for many of us.”

“When You come Around,” written with composer/programmer  Jochem van der Saag , is “a song of gratitude or devotion to a spiritual friend, or a greater being, but it also could mean different things to different people. Jochem, who came up with the spatial qualities in the arrangement, had a riff that I really liked, so I took that riff home and wrote the song to it, basically. One of my favorite songs of all time is George Harrison’s ‘Within You, Without You’ from  Sgt. Pepper , and I’m sure it was a subconscious inspiration.”

Accumulated over a number of years, these songs spoke to Page in a different way from the rest of his output. “When I write a song,” he explains, “I automatically think, ‘Who could I pitch that to?’ And with some of these songs I would think, ‘Nobody.’ Not because they’re so great but because I just can’t imagine anyone else doing them; they’re so personal and have so much of my own stamp on them. Frankly, some songs can work for many different singers, but with these, I felt I needed to do my own thing with them.”

Page is spending the summer on the road in the company of another set of A-list musicians, playing bass and singing with  Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band . The 2010 lineup also boasts keyboardists  Edgar Winter  and  Gary Wright , guitarists  Rick Derringer  and  Wally Palmer  (The Romantics), and drummer  Gregg Bissonette . The downside is that the tour takes him away from his home life with his four kids and his wife of 30 years. “Linda has had a huge impact on my life,” he says, “and I’m sure I wouldn’t be the same guy without her. She’s really helped guide me. And put up with a lot”

And speaking of inspiration, inseparable from the expression of meaningful thoughts and feelings is the craft that goes into the creative process. “I have a short list of the artists I feel are the standard bearers,” Page points out, “and if I can even emulate them a tiny bit, that’s what I’m after at this point in my life. There was a time a while back when all I listened to were Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan, because I thought those two were at the high point of the craft. I couldn’t go there myself and felt frustrated by that, but kept trying anyway. This is my humble effort at paying homage to the kings and queens of songwriting, and who knows, perhaps inspire someone else”

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When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language

Richard Nelson’s “Our Life in Art” has been translated into Russian and French. Both times required, above all, preserving a specific sensibility.

Richard Nelson in Paris. His new play imagines a day during the 1923 U.S. tour of the Moscow Art Theater, led by the Russian theater director Konstantin Stanislavski. Credit... Elliott Verdier for The New York Times

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Richard Nelson seemed to have found the perfect home for his play “Our Life in Art.”

He had written a show about the Moscow Art Theater’s 1923 tour of the United States with its director, Konstantin Stanislavski, and was planning to have a Russian translation presented by the company’s modern leader at a performance space that Stanislavski had built on the grounds of his family’s factory.

What’s more, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was interested in bringing the production to New York, where Nelson is best known as the author of the “Rhinebeck Panorama,” a collection of a dozen intimate plays that document and dissect slices of American life and history through nothing more than dinner conversation.

A major step toward the play’s premiere in Moscow came on Feb. 23, 2022, when the director, Sergei Zhenovach, read through it with his company. Everyone seemed enthusiastic about the project, but Nelson awoke the next day to a message that read, “Something awful has happened.”

Russia had invaded Ukraine.

“That was it,” Nelson recalled during a recent video interview. “The war cut all ties to Russian theater, so it was over.”

The war, and a fresh crackdown on dissent in Russia, made “Our Life in Art” all the more necessary. Its plot, which unfurls between Moscow Art Theater performances in Chicago, examines and questions how art is navigated within world events and politics. “The play has evolved into being about itself,” Nelson said. “What’s happened while trying to get the play on has now affected how it is seen. So many people I know in Russian theater and art — it’s just a very difficult time, and all of these issues are in the air.”

In the air, and finally onstage. In the end, Nelson’s play about a close-knit troupe of the past was taken up by a close-knit troupe of the present: “Our Life in Art” found a new home at the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris , where it is running through March 2, translated into French by that company’s director, Ariane Mnouchkine.

The production has put Nelson on the other end of work he has previously done translating Russian theater classics into English with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the power couple behind many Russian literature translations in print today. So, Nelson knows that the process is more than mapping one language onto another; as with the plays by his hero and aesthetic ancestor, Anton Chekhov, it also requires the preservation of a specific, crucial sensibility.

In the works of both Chekhov and Nelson, the extraordinary emerges only from the ordinary. Revelations come not in speeches, but in passing comments. And, above all, in the spirit of verisimilitude, people have true conversations . Nelson’s characters speak to one another, not to the audience. He likes to tell actors that the performance “is the relationship you have with everyone else.”

That’s a level of lived-in mastery rarely seen even in naturalistic theater. Not for nothing does Nelson tend to work with the same actors as a de facto company; Jay O. Sanders and Maryann Plunkett appeared in all the Rhinebeck plays, but as members of three different families. And Sanders starred in Nelson, Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”

The translators got to know Nelson when he had mailed them a letter introducing himself and expressing interest in a collaboration. They later met in New York, during the release of their version of “War and Peace” about 15 years ago, and the three of them decided to embark on translating Russian theater, starting with Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country.”

“He’s a man of very great integrity,” Volokhonsky said of Nelson, “and he has a gift for friendship.”

The three quickly grew close, and built up their working relationship to translating all the major plays of Chekhov. “We would submit the text to him,” Pevear said, “and he would go through it and say, ‘My actors wouldn’t say that, what if we did it this way?’ That’s why we only wanted to do this work with a playwright. It’s not just about narrative.”

So, when Nelson wrote “Our Life in Art” — a nod to Stanislavski’s book “My Life in Art” — in fall 2020, he recruited Volokhonsky to translate it. Originally, it had been planned for Lev Dodin, the artistic director of the Maly Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, but he and Nelson had different visions for the play, about whether it should be understated or eruptive, and their collaboration ended on friendly terms. Next, the show was taken up by Sergei Zhenovach before he left the Moscow Art Theater, and by that point, Volokhonsky said, her work on the show was done; anything further would be refined in rehearsals. But those never came.

As the play lay dormant, Mnouchkine, who had seen Nelson’s work in New York, approached him about creating something for Théâtre du Soleil. He told her that he happened to have a show about an acting company, and sent it to her. She read “Our Life in Art” overnight and decided to mount it, with him directing, as he often does with productions of his plays in the United States.

Mnouchkine translated the text quickly, she said, “while he was already rehearsing” with her actors, over a luxuriously long 10 weeks last spring. “I had to go quite fast, but I needed to have this very high-standard, delicate easiness, which seems easy to say but is not easy. And I wanted to have the same rhythm as Richard.”

The translation was not without its complications. Nelson doesn’t speak French, and not everyone in the Théâtre du Soleil company speaks English. A translator was an essential intermediary. He would tell the actors what was happening in a scene, and if they responded, “That’s not quite what’s here in the text,” they would together work toward a more accurate turn of phrase. They talked through complicated idioms, untranslated figures of speech and, most difficult, the difference between pronouns, a nonissue in English: When should characters who are close but still colleagues address each another as the informal “tu” or the formal “vous”?

It helps that, after more rehearsals this fall, Nelson had 14 weeks with the actors, and spent that time living in the company’s home, La Cartoucherie, in the bucolic Bois de Vincennes on the outskirts of Paris, seeing them behave as a true company. “There are no stage managers, there are no real designers,” he said. “The actors do everything: They clean toilets, they move furniture around. This is their home, and they own this.”

The result may not have been an unequivocal success — in The New York Times , the critic Laura Cappelle found the play’s realistic conversations casual to the point of rendering historical context inaccessible — but Mnouchkine said she and her actors were “very pleased” to work with Nelson. For his part, he felt as if the most difficult translation, of his nothing-forced aesthetic, was achieved.

“I’m really happy with where the play has landed,” Nelson said. “At a time when the American theater is in crisis , to have this luxury and this luck, where every day, for months and months, I am just able to focus on making theater without any other pressures or anything else going on, is a piece of profound fortune.”

Joshua Barone is the assistant classical music and dance editor on the Culture Desk and a contributing classical music critic. More about Joshua Barone

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Taylor Swift is ending the U.S. leg of her Eras Tour with three nights at Lucas Oil Stadium before heading to Canada for the tour's final shows.

She'll perform in Indianapolis Nov. 1, 2 and 3, bringing thousands of fans and a massive economic impact to the Circle City.

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Breaking news, damar hamlin’s season about more than just the firsts with bills starting role.

The day before it became official, before Damar Hamlin’s spot as a starting safety in Week 1 went from a plausible scenario to his concrete reality, he sent Micah Hyde a text. 

Hyde, along with Jordan Poyer, had anchored the Bills defense as safeties for seven seasons. 

They were the starters — unless injuries dictated otherwise. 

The two All-Pros were the constants on a team in a league defined by roster turnover — and that included the 2021 campaign when Hamlin made the roster as a sixth-round pick. 

“They were the guys. So it was easy for me to just sit back and just pay attention and just learn and be a sponge,” Hamlin told The Post of Hyde and Poyer on Tuesday while promoting his partnership with Invisalign, which connects back to the company’s treatment program with the league that involves over 500 players.

But that changed this offseason. 

Poyer went to the Dolphins in free agency. 

Hyde hasn’t retired, but he hasn’t signed anywhere, either — and has said that he’ll either play for the Bills this year or end his career. 

Hamlin texted Hyde on Tuesday to say that he missed him. 

Their exits have opened up an opportunity for Hamlin to crack the starting lineup again when the Bills open against the Cardinals on Sunday, and he takes the latest step in his improbable return to football following the harrowing 2023 incident when he suffered cardiac arrest during a game . 

“I think life’s about making the most of your situations and being ready when the opportunity presents itself,” Hamlin said. “And proper preparation prevents poor performance.” 

Hamlin has been a starter before, during the 2022-’23 season, when Hyde missed most of the year with a neck injury. 

His life changed, though, the last time he was in the starting lineup. 

He suffered cardiac arrest on the field after attempting to make a tackle against the Bengals during their Jan. 2, 2023 game, and in the months that followed, his recovery remained an inspirational storyline throughout the NFL. 

He was cleared for football activities in April 2023 , just four months after he received CPR on the field and was placed on a ventilator at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. 

So last season for Hamlin, and by extension the rest of the Bills surrounding him, became about the firsts. 

His first training camp practice since the cardiac arrest. 

The first snap in a game. 

First tackle. 

He was a finalist for the league’s Comeback Player of the Year award, but lost to Joe Flacco , even though the quarterback expressed his support for Hamlin. 

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Minimal contributions within games were amplified by the context of what had unfolded across the previous year. 

The Bills’ need for Hamlin to take on a larger defensive role in 2024 has now materialized. 

It wasn’t always a guarantee. 

The Bills drafted a safety — Cole Bishop — in the second round. 

But now after being named the starter of a Super Bowl contender, Hamlin’s journey back to football will reach another tier. 

The Bills are depending on Hamlin — at least for Week 1, and potentially throughout the rest of the season. 

He’ll have a chance to ensure they don’t experience a drop-off from the consistency that defined the Hyde-Poyer reign at safety. 

“I took everything from them,” Hamlin said. “Just their approach to the game, how serious they were about their day-to-day approach within how they prioritize their work. They came to work every day. They showed up and gave it their all. So that’s my focus with everything.”

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