Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canyon where Dory Previn lives is somewhat less rustic, but the sexual gambits and Peyton Place plays enacted in the neighborhood serve as a source for lyrics that have won her a strong cult following. The lyrics produced by Minnie Riperton, 26, are a bit less worldly. Her songs about personal motivation, spiced with a soupçon of I'm O.K.-You're O.K. philosophy, are deliciously upbeat. Few miss the message, since several years of operatic vocal training have given her a five-octave range...
Labelle had a large, almost cult-like following there from as far as New York and Philadelphia, as numerous intermission-time re-encounters revealed. And indeed some of the members of this group were almost as entertaining as the performance, looking like personalities from a "Who's Who in Wonderland" directory. Glitter in the jammed lobby reached from wall to wall, a la East Village via Hollywood chic...
...small towns as hopelessly dull (there's nothing to do but visit Woolworth's and the cannon; you get in a cab and the driver turns around and asks you if you know where he can get laid), Lenny was labelled "sicknik" by Time magazine. He had won a cult of followers, but his appeal was by no means universal. And then came the arrests...
Sociologically, Sgt. Pepper proves that the infantile youth cult of the '60s, the drug scene and all the militant mini-revolutions are now a series of receding bad dreams. It takes a decadent nightmare of a show like this even to conjure up their ghosts...
...second set temporarily relieved me of my fears that Zappa would eventually sell out to commercialism. He played heavy metal, but only in the context of a parody ("Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Watch carefully as we demonstrate our Blue Oyster Cult choreography...