Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known for her recent album, "With a Little Luck," which received two 1988 New York Music Awards, McCalla will sing a variety of rhythm and blues, folk and jazz songs...
...wants it all. He has already racked up a No. 1 single, Don't Worry, Be Happy, an infectious bit of island-inclined, jazz-inflected pop that is giddy and good-natured enough to turn a forced march into a dance contest. Simple Pleasures, the album on which Happy appears, has already sold close to 1.5 million copies in the U.S., and is occupying impressive territory on the Billboard album charts: No. 5 and climbing...
WITH the long-awaited Talk Is Cheap, Keith Richards becomes the last Rolling Stone to release a solo album. The efforts from the other four Stones have been--speaking charitably--forgettable. In contrast, the high caliber of Talk proves what many listeners have suspected all along--that Richards (and not, say, Mick Jagger) is the primary architect of the Stones sound we know and love...
Richards' lyrics are adequate, if not great. "You Don't Move Me"--a swipe at Mick Jagger for his current reluctance to record with other Stones--is a litany of lines like "It's no longer funny/It's bigger than money." The album's best track, the country ballad "Locked Away," begins with the wonderfully terse summation, "She swears that I'm the only one/What about yesterday?" The singer goes on to suggest that she, he and his friends "ought to be locked away"--she for her faithlessness, he for his insane jealousy, and his friends for their insensitivity...
Here's another snapshot from the family financial album...