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...troubled history, in the past its difficulties have all been occupational. Starting as a British blues band, its only claim to notoriety was guitarist Peter Green's authorship of Santana's hit "Black Magic Woman." Even an intimacy with witchcraft failed to spirit them to the top of Billboard, so they initiated a personnel change. Upon Green's departure, keyboard player Christine McVie joined the group, but while her marriage to bassist John McVie sailed smoothly, her betrothal to Fleetwood Mac did little to improve their fortunes. Once again the group shifted its roots, this time by recruiting a Southern...
...June, Atlantic Records put up a billboard on Sunset Strip to push the Rolling Stones album Black and Blue; it showed a bound woman saying, "I'm 'Black and Blue' from the Rolling Stones -and I love it!" A new organization, called Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), protested to Atlantic, which took down the billboard. Now WAVAW is demanding that Atlantic, Warner Brothers and Elektra clean up their album covers, but the companies are stonewalling. Says Warner Bros. Publicity Director Bob Merlis: "If a group wants a gorilla on the cover, they get a gorilla...
...judge him. "He almost had me in tears," said William McLaughlin, state Republican chairman. "If he keeps going he'll have everybody believing it was Esch on the tapes." Riegle also produced a TV spot similar to one used by Bob Dole in his 1974 Senate race: a billboard is shown, with mud being thrown at it, then falling off as a voice extols the candidate's virtues...
...bottle bill especially suffered from an extraordinary campaign against it that included newspaper ads, radio and television commercials, billboard and subway advertising, and banners and stickers on most soft drink trucks, machines and packages...
More than a year after signing Singer-Composer Stevie Wonder to a $13 million contract, the folks at Motown Records were getting nervous. A colossal 60-ft. by 265-ft. billboard in New York's Times Square had been heralding the coming of his new album for three months, but Wonder kept fiddling away at his unfinished work. Last week the wait ended as Stevie, clad in Lone Ranger rig, welcomed critics and reporters to North Brookfield, Mass., for a preview of Songs in the Key of Life. The record just might earn a silver bullet on the charts...