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...albums. He insists that the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sound track package will sell 4.6 million units. For 42 weeks of 1978, RSO albums occupied the top slot on the charts. During one of those weeks, the RSO logo?a benign, bright red castrated bull???graced the labels on three of the top five albums. During two of those weeks, across the way on the singles charts, RSO claimed four of the top five. Music biz stats like this burn the giant tails of such outfits as Columbia and Warner Bros.-Elektra/Asylum-Atlantic. Such a fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA? Sabatini? Brentano ($4.50). Iron men in "an age of steel and velvet" ? the growth, rampage and decline of the Borgian Bull??? in the fields of Renaissance Italy? a biography that for color, excitement and human interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Son at the Front-- | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

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