Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million dollar gift-certificate to McDonalds and a trip for two to Hollywood? No? Well, how about a sort of layaway plan--say, 10 thou a year for the next hundred years at four and a quarter percent interest...I'll even throw in my new Juice Newton album...
Oddly for a work so plot-heavy and meticulously told, Les Miserables began life as a score rather than a libretto, appeared as a record album before it reached the stage, and languished for five years between the French and British productions. The original creators, Composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length...
...small suburb (pop. 17,000) south of Chicago. The bodies of Karen Logan, 17, and her friend Nancy Grannan, 19, were discovered in Grannan's car, which was idling in a closed garage attached to the Logan home. Logan clutched a stuffed animal and a rose, Grannan held an album of her wedding photos. On the dashboard of the car, the two had left nine sealed letters to friends and relatives, as well as two notes stuck under the windshield wipers. Said Alsip Police Chief Warner Huston: "The publicity surrounding the Bergenfield incident probably gave them the impetus...
USUALLY A BAND TITLES ITS first album eponymously, not its third, but the newly released Rank and File signifies such radical changes in this L.A. band that it is essentially a new group. Personnel shakeups have brought drummer R. Kahr and lead guitarist Jeff Ross into the group. Ross's guitar pyrotechnics have changed Rank and File's style accordingly, from a country-edged punk flavoring to a corporate-rock, Jefferson Starship-type sound...
...everything from Australia is as cute as koala bears or Mel Gibson. With their debut album, 12 Days to Paris, Melbourne's grungy-looking and grungy-sounding Huxton Creepers offer proof, by reviving that wonderful 60s genre of Ugly Rock...