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Much the same can be said for the latest batch of releases from the Minneapolis Sound. Prince's backup band, the Revolution, has dispersed. Wendy & Lisa's first project away from supporting Prince as members of the Revolution is an awkward, mystical disaster. Sheila E.'s most recent album is worth more for the seductive cover than the music inside it. And, horror of horrors, former time members turned successful producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have announced that Pia Zadora's upcoming LP is next on their list of projects for their Flyte Tyme Productions team...
...will orbit for a time, taking data on solar physics. The first Phobos will match orbits with the moon for which it is named, a chunk of rock about 14 miles across believed by many astronomers to be an asteroid captured by Mars' gravity. The other will be a backup...
...control center at Leesburg, Va., which handles flights in the greater Washington area, lost electrical power for 30 seconds. Another brief outage, lasting 1 minute 40 seconds, occurred at 9:08 that night in the New England control center at Nashua, N.H. Both operations quickly switched to their emergency backup systems, and officials at the Federal Aviation Administration maintain that safety was not seriously compromised. But the disruptions delayed flights along the busy East Coast corridor...
...Newark. After the Newark riots of 1967, the Houstons moved to a two- story house in East Orange, where Cissy still lived until this March. For the most part they were an ordinary family, except that Mom would occasionally hit the road to sing backups for Elvis, Aretha or Dionne. While Cissy toured with her group, the Sweet Inspirations, John, the group's manager, tended the three children. Whitney's half-brother Gary Garland, 28, sings duets and backup in her act; her brother Michael, 25, is the production manager on Whitney's tour...
...soft, sweet. And diction was very important." You can hear the fruit of Cissy's lessons even in a dance tune like How Will I Know. In the refrain "If he loves me,/ If he loves me not," Whitney really punches that final t. No wonder: Mama was singing backup...