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...sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content is not, even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says Stock, as if he's talking about a miniskirt. "It's nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes for The New Ice Age | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...After Sir Astley Cooper, a 19th century British anatomist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cooper's Droop | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. A mod family in Brisbane meets its moral fate in this lively social satire by an Australian craftsman of the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading writers tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading novelists tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 10, 1967 | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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