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Article: The chemistry is bubbling: My Chemical Romance looks for a formula for taking its rock opera, ?The Black Parade,' on tour.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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Byline: Glenn Gamboa
Feb. 18--My Chemical Romance is working its way out of an artistic puzzle. The New Jersey band's album "The Black Parade" (Warner Bros.) is an ambitious rock opera about The Patient, a promising young man who is dying of cancer. Instead of the Grim Reaper, The Patient sees the personification of death as The Black Parade, a rock band dressed in uniforms that are a visual hybrid of marching-band outfits and skeletons, sent to comfortably usher him into the afterlife. The album's songs are designed to tell the tale of his journey. While all that may be a little more thematically advanced than, say, the Paris Hilton album, it's not that ...
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