Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happily I needn't have worried. The Stones are still the most professional and spectacular rock band in the world, and their new album, Some Girls, proves it. So what if they don't suffer as they did 15 years ago? The name of the band is not Mick of Assisi and the Rolling Saints, you know...
...volley of legal actions between Bruce and his former manager kept Springsteen effectively off course for more than a year after the release of his galvanic 1975 album Born to Run. Once he and Producer Jon Landau began recording again in the spring of 1977, it took him ten months, and upwards of 30 songs, to come up with Darkness on the Edge of Town, which headed straight for the Top Ten after its release in June. It has been there ever since, setting up a long-term residence and lending a little class to that generally tacky neighborhood...
This is some small part of what he means in his beautiful ballad The Promise, when he sings about making "my peace with the past." He dropped The Promise from his new album, fearing that it could be narrowly interpreted as a comment on his legal hassles, which he believes have been credited with "too much affect on my writing." He performs the song in concert, though, and its dour, defiant spirit haunts the album nonetheless...
...gaps or deleted expletives. The taped conversations between Japan's Emperor Hirohito and 55 of the guests who were invited to his semiannual parties are a source of pride in the imperial palace. They are in fact being made into a record album. Among the voices of prominent Japanese on the LP is that of Sadaharu Oh, the home-run king who last fall topped Hank Aaron's 755 record. "What exactly was the most difficult thing in setting your home-run record?" asked Hirohito. "The overwhelming expectation on the part of my fans," replied...
...week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making it big. Says she: "I sound better on tape than in person...