Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everybody's in then biz and everybody's a star...
...Everybody's in show Biz, Everybody is a Star, is Ray Davies's first long look at America. Thematically, the album combines a look at America from the point of view of the touring rock star, with a look at the America symbolized by Hollywood of the forties. Davies stresses the perpetual motion of the tour throughout the album, on songs like "Motorway," in lines like "I'm a Maximum Consumption, super-grade performer-High powered machine," or "Motorway food is the worst in the world,-You've never eaten food like you've eaten on the Motorway." He falls...
Until "Celluloid Heroes." It has none of the Davies whimsy or wit; it is the climax and statement of Everybody's in Show Biz, "I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show." Ray Davies returned to Muswell Hill, working class hero (more legitimate than Lennon could've imagined) wasting the worriless, painless celluloid life, "Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain-And celluloid heroes never really...
...song "Is that all there is?" Indeed, this Pippin might seem like something of a fool if John Rubinstein, son of the pianist Artur, had not imbued him with such a sweet and winning nature. His life, as related in this story, is more the stuff of show biz than history...
...Hollywood version of the Holiday story is no better. A spindly, cliché-ravaged tale of the sorrows of show biz, Lady Sings the Blues stars Diana Ross, former lead singer of the Supremes. That is a casting coup about as appropriate as signing up Sammy Davis Jr. to play Charlie Parker. It is eerie to watch and listen to Miss Ross, the princess of plastic soul, work her way through such songs as Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child. She has the phrasing, and the Holiday intonation. What she doesn't have is the passion. Her Billie...