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As they reissue their 1981 festive EP Yuletide Throwdown, we rate the best of the New York band who strutted through punk, disco and pop with absolute cool

Instant table quiz trivia. Even greats like Beyoncé, Aretha Franklin and Johnny Cash borrow the good stuff at times.

With pop stars once again performing garish exaggerations of what seems like real personal trauma, Shirley Manson & co. have timed their return perfectly.

Paul Gilbert’s Zooming us from his home in Portland, Oregon. He’s armed with his purple Ibanez Fireman (a guitar, not a euphemism), and as we speak he noodles away whenever the occasion arises. “After dinner my job is to wash the dishes, and I hate it! But yesterday I put Iron Maiden’s Killers on my headphones – hearing Wrathchild with Paul Di Anno just killin’ [Gilbert plays the riff and emulates Di Anno’s screaming delivery], and then the song Killers, y’know, the gallop [he performs a section perfectly]....

New Haven native who became record mogul for rock's biggest stars dies at 80 FacebookTwitterEmail Lori BurtonContributed NEW HAVEN — Lori Burton wrote timeless songs for The Young Rascals and Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, and for years co-owned one of the most famous recording studios in the world — recording and mastering the likes of John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Aerosmith, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Much of that happened in New York City. But long before she and her late former husband, Roy Cicala, bought the Record Plant New York City and started working wi...