[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 129 (Friday, October 4, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S9979]
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                             TIMOTHY WHITE

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, Monday in Boston and Tuesday in New York 
there will be tribute concerts in memory of Timothy White, the editor 
of Billboard Magazine who recently died at the young age of 50. Tim is 
survived by his wife Judy Garlan and twin sons Christopher and 
Alexander. I understand that these concerts includes performances by 
some of my favorite musicians, performers, and recording artists, 
including Sheryl Crow, Don Henley, John Mellencamp, Sting, Billy Joel, 
James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, and Roger Waters. These are people with 
big hearts as well as talent.
  Tim White loved his family and he loved music. He wrote:

       Music entered my world on a summer morning in 1956, in the 
     tough mill town of Paterson, N.J., when a band of Italian 
     street musicians ambled down East 27th Street and paused in 
     front of my family's tiny Cape Cod-style house. . . . What 
     still moves me most about musicians--about all creative 
     people who disclose the depths of their better selves--is 
     that same thing that touched me on that otherwise torpid 
     August afternoon--that these people would be willing to trust 
     another stranger with the open expression of such inner 
     truths.

  He was an editor, a writer, an observer and a person of conviction 
and commitment. In addition to his family and friends, those who care 
about music will miss him.

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