Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, fearing another bloody melee, officials at the Hollywood Palladium canceled a Run-D.M.C. concert. The band, however, blamed lax security for the riot. Joseph ("Run") Simmons, 21, who with Partner Daryll ("D.M.C.") McDaniels became the first rap artist to produce a platinum album (1 million copies sold), defended his group. "Rap music has nothing to do with crack or crime," he said. "Check my lyrics. I'm a role model for kids, and I go out of my way to give them a positive message...
...Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...
...Muppets, whom he squired around Miami for the latest issue of Muppet magazine. Johnson gallantly allows to Her Porcinity that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, "they'll probably climb over me to get to you." Perhaps not. This week Heartbeat, Johnson's first album of pop rock and rhythm-and-blues tunes, is to be released. It features backup vocals by Willie Nelson, Whoopi Goldberg and Bonnie Raitt, who challenged the star. "If you run with them," says , Johnson, "you'd better have it together." He began singing in his uncle's church in Missouri...
...there is a hint of life and movement. Helga's hip has curled out of its confining sheet, perhaps in response to the sound of the cascade outside her window that gives the work its title. Following the gestation from sketch to drybrush is like flipping through a family album of Atget X rays...
...ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling Stone. Now fans will have to be content with his new album, Knocked Out Loaded, in which the freewheeling bluesand gospel-flavored numbers evoke the rowdy, roadhouse Dylan of a decade ago. The opening verse of one song sums up a career of confounded expectations: "Don't ever try to change me, I've been indistinct too long...