Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LATEST LIVE RELEASE, I Hear You Rockin,' British rocker Dave Edmunds performs an almost unimaginable feat. Here, the former member of Rockpile gets away with covering both Elvises, Presley and Costello, on the same side of the same album. Rather than taking the advice of another famous rocker, whose trademark is "Cover me," Edmunds has here adopted as his motto, "Cover everyone...
Amazingly, Rockin' does seem to contain most of the essential (and extremely danceable) Edmunds canon, from his first hit, "I Hear You Knocking"--hence the clever album title--to his hits with Rockpile (his acclaimed 1980 collaboration with Lowe) to his synthesizer era. As a result, there are few surprises on this album, in terms of its choice of songs and their journeyman renditions...
...DOES THE ALBUM COVER'S PICTURE of four tree-tressed tribesmen mean something? Do they and the primitive pictographs on the inner sleeve have anything to do with this album's music or lyrics? More important, does Dreamtime offer any reason to care...
...video made by a Harvard junior may debut this week on MTV, furnishing millions of Americans with the images they will associate with a new group's first album, record company officials said yesterday...
Soviet filmmakers, whose professional union is now headed by a former black sheep, have released a number of great films that had been banned. Recently Moscow television showed a 90-minute film about the late Poet-Singer Vladimir Vysotsky, who, when alive, never held in his hands a single album of his songs except those made in the West. For the first time in years, Soviet television is presenting live, unrehearsed broadcasts...