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Article: For as long as pop music is heard, everyone will listen to Leiber and Stoller. Except Jerry Leiber
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller opened
recently in London. It's hardly a musical in the conventional sense
- no book, no plot - just a bunch of songs, tightly drilled and
blasted right up into the cheap seats. But what a bunch. "Hound
Dog", "On Broadway", "Love Potion Number Nine", "Spanish Harlem",
"Stand by Me". . . What must it be like to be the creators of this
giant catalogue of seminal pop hits?
"I've been tired of them for about 30 years," Jerry Leiber says,
his loud New York voice rustling the palms in the Ritz Hotel.
"There's an occasional record I would pull out: Mama Thornton, or