Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anniversary of Woodstock arrived and waned, much like the first time around. It was mostly a convenience for the media, a way to get a handle on an upstart pop phenomenon. For music, a fan remembered, all the festival symbolized was a washout. Lysergic mud and bad amplification. The rest was a fairy tale...
...Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold a bill of goods about the '60s, as if it were some kind of social Golden Age, when there was no Viet Nam, no social conflict. There weren't any Negroes, nothing bad happened. You have Woodstock, but you don't have the war. You have Jim Morrison as some image of sexual nirvana, but you don't have Janis Joplin for the miserable junkie she was. But Dylan, the Beatles, Aretha, the Stones, all the good music cannot be separated from...
...bad boys of rock have definitely mellowed. "Through the years, the Stones have rarely been accessible," says Regan, who has shot pictures for several of the band's tours and albums. For our cover shoot, Mick Jagger and his mates interrupted (for 1 1/2 hours) preparations for their first American tour in eight years. Regan trundled his gear up to tiny Washington, Conn. (pop. 3,700), where the Stones were rehearsing in a former girls school. "They're not terribly comfortable posing for pictures," Regan notes, "but this time they were as loose and relaxed as I've ever seen...
...circles of frozen dough into an oven at the Mr. Pizza at the mall and lives in a town-house apartment at the edge of town until his mailman recognizes him from the picture at the post office." Rolfe's message that despair breeds violence is forcefully delivered. Too bad that he keeps getting in the way of an even stronger story...
...Woodward does want a hit, he is unlikely to get one from this turkey, overstuffed as it is with mad ambitions and bad karma. Wired wants to turn the story of the Saturday Night Live comedian and gonzo movie star into a cautionary fable about celebrity in the fast lane -- and never mind that some powerful people in the movie business were not eager to see the picture made or released. Reprising Belushi's career without being able to use clips or skits from his most famous work should be challenge enough. But nooo! Wired insists on merging the complex...