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Indeed they have. Since those desert meditations four years ago, the Eagles have become the top U.S. rock band. Their LP, One of These Nights, has been at the top of Billboard's chart for four weeks; they have two gold and two platinum albums; some 850,000 people will pay $5 million to see them on their current 59-city tour...
...sending people to an obscure Boston Woolworth's last week got the Stone's visit in June sold out before you could decide whether it was still worth it. Not like New York, where the Stones are always humming in the air anyway, and where a Mao-like billboard spans Times Square hailing their arrival. And not like 1972, when the band's sweep across the country didn't leave you much choice. There's still a chance of getting to the June 11 and 12 concerts, though, as people were allowed to buy four tickets each...
Similar ads in other pockets of prosperity around the U.S. have been popping up since the middle of December, along with bumper stickers reading I'M NOT BUYING RECESSION and even an occasional billboard. Read one in Charleston, S.C., where unemployment was only 3.2%: WELCOME TO CHARLESTON. THE RECESSION ENDS HERE. Charleston, in fact, is where the contagious campaign originated with Manley Eubank, a Ford automobile dealer. Worried that Americans were talking themselves into a recession, he decided to do something about it. The first spate of ads and bumper stickers appeared after Eubank got the Charleston Automobile Dealer...
...solid year now, Billboard's chart of bestselling classical LPs has been topped by Scott Joplin rags. Last week there was a surprising change: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring led the list. Though revolutionary when first performed in 1913, the work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere...
Zappa's compositions and his band's outrageous stage theatrics did not make money for the Mothers in the 1960s, nor did it place an album on the Billboard charts. But changes in personnel in recent years and new musical directions by Zappa appear to be geared toward greater financial success...