Word: armenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays it aggressively like a lead guitar, contributing positively always to the overall arrangement of each number. On 'Doctor, Doctor' he is amazing with his rumbling thriving chords. He is a visionary brooding bass in "Armenia, City in the Sky" forcing up against Townshend's electronic wizardry...
...Music so that they go together--such music it seems is known as Musique Concrete. Writing in the Aug. 10 issue of Rolling Stone, Edmund O. Ward calls Townshend "one of the foremost pioneers and practitioners of this art" and goes on to rave about the instrumental break in "Armenia, City in the Sky" as being "perfectly true to the harmonic structure of the song as well as perfectly integrated kinetically into it." However that may be one can only testify that the song is a poetic evocation of a soaring mood and the electronic mesh of sound contributes powerfully...
...closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different version: she says he told her that "he walked a good deal...
...baked beans, Medac acne salve and Odorono deodorant. Once that's out of the way, the boys get down to music with their hard-rock top seller, I Can See for Miles; I Can't Reach You, a tightly vocalized rock piece with a brisk tambourine; and Armenia City in the Sky, a sprightly mind excursion with soft feedback and subtle imagery. Unfortunately, to get to these pleasantries, the listener has to put up with...
Died. Gerhart Eisler, 71, Communist agent and propagandist, who in 1949 escaped from U.S. authorities and set up shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime...