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Backstreet Boys

Arts Music

Mad About the Boys

The rise and fall of Lou Pearlman; blimp impresario, packager of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, molester, fraudster, and ultimately fugitive from justice.

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Pearlman died in prison on Friday at 62.

Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair Nov 2007 45min Permalink

World Music

Blank Space

The most successful songwriter of the last twenty years is a forty-four year old Swede, Max Martin.

John Seabrook New Yorker Sep 2015 15min Permalink