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Coproduced by Phil Spector and already in the top ten on the Billboard charts after only four weeks, John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band has a spare, economic deployment of musical means that suits Lennon's soul-baring mood perfectly. / Found Out ("There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky/ Now that I found out I know I can cry") relies for much of its effect on the simple, choked sound of a single guitar strand. Elsewhere Lennon mourns the death of his mother twelve years ago, defines love (as feeling, reaching, needing, freedom) and finally, in God, Lennon...
...touch of the crooner, but it can turn soulful. His songs delve ingeniously into hard and soft rock, blues, gospel, even country rock-a range of styles that Bacharach does not even try to match. Diamond's latest album, Tap Root Manuscript (Uni), was No. 16 on the Billboard charts last week-with more than $1,000,000 in sales. That gives him four top-selling LPs at once...
...idea was tried and abandoned in California. Billboard cars were made and spotted around the state. Like signposts, they began to attract bullet holes. Inevitably, it happened: a passing motorist took a potshot at what he thought was a dummy and killed a patrolman...
...credit for that must go to John's favorite arranger, Paul Buckmaster, 24, whose deft classical touches-sweeping strings and poignant little solos by oboe and harp, for example-lend both drama and restraint to John's big beat. The first album is already in Billboard's top 25. Tumbleweed, earthier and more direct, ought to be one of the big hits of 1971. John's first U.S. tour-last week he all but filled the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and two weeks ago jammed Manhattan's Fillmore East four times in two nights...
...Billboard Windfall. A wholesale shift of cigarette ads into print media is unlikely, partly because tobacco companies fear that this would lead to another ban. Next year, magazines are conservatively expected to add about $8 million to the annual $50 million in cigarette advertising that they now carry. An estimated $34 million will be spent in newspapers, up from the present $16 million. American Cancer Society officials recently appealed to publishers for free space for antismoking ads similar to those that the Federal Communications Commission now requires on television. Cancer Society spokesmen say they expect the television spots to continue...