Word: bros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harmony (Sesame Street/Warner Bros.). Various pop stars make the playroom rock, gently of course. The idea -a good one-was to gather some songs for kids and about kids that wouldn't reduce Mom and Dad to a gibbering frenzy. Producers Lucy Simon and David Levine recruited talent as diverse as Bette Midler, James Taylor, the Doobie Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Lindy Waldman and Carly Simon (the co-producer's sister), and let them loose in the realms of whimsy. The results-especially by Taylor, Midler, and Dr. John in a duet with Libby Titus-are easy to take...
Ever since Parker Bros. brought out Monopoly in the depths of the Depression, economic bad times have spawned board games for tycoons manques. Even apple sell ers could feel as rich as a Rockefeller if they had two hotels on Boardwalk. Business parlor games are again popular this recession-haunted Christmas. Avalon Hill, a Baltimore games manufacturer, reports that business games are now selling just behind always popular war contests like Third Reich and Gettysburg...
Looking sleepy, friendly and Englishman-pale alongside the beach-sunned office workers, Mark Knopfler, centrifugal force of Dire Straits, and bassist John Illsley are wandering the corridors of Warner Bros. Records in New York. They're on holiday from the making of Making Movies, their third album, recorded in a scant few weeks at Nassau's Compass Point studios. Coffee is thrust into their hands; radio stations phone incessantly, demanding over-the-phone interviews...
Meanwhile, the bristling machinery of Warner Bros. Records produces thousands, soon to be millions, of the new LP. With awesome precision, the album will surface in record stores mid-tour...
...spawned two hit singles. Their new album, One Step Closer, released a month ago, gunned right for the chart tops, packing a hit single, Real Love, right along with it. There is no reason to doubt, either, that there are a few more where that came from. Warner Bros, is projecting an album sale of at least 2 million by Christmas, a figure that can make the middle of the road look like the swankest neighborhood in town...