Word: decca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rock Mass for Love (Decca, $5.98). A live recording of a celebration last March in St. George's Cathedral. Perth. Australia, presided over by the Dean of Perth, the Very...
...Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber were putting the finishing touches on Superstar in London when Bender mentioned the imminent debut of the opera in our Jan. 12, 1970 cover story on The Band, one of the first rock groups to give penetrating treatment to religion. As soon as the Decca recording appeared last fall, he withdrew to his stereo-equipped office, emerged with an enthusiastic notice - one of the first reviews of Superstar published anywhere...
...lines of hopefuls crowded outside the Mark Hellinger Theater last week to read for parts in a touring concert company that goes on the road July 12. Jesus will be Shawn Phillips (left), a blond, bearded Texan with silky hair almost to his waist. Yvonne Elliman, star of the Decca recording, will play Mary Magdalene. Judas will be played by black, talented Carl Anderson, a good bet to graduate to the Broadway production next fall. Some of the country's Jesus revolutionists-and Billy Graham-have complained that the rock opera asks who Christ is rather than affirming...
...sense of dejd vu is everywhere. Chelsea House has sold 50,000 copies of the adventures of Buck Rogers and 27,000 copies of the famous cases of Dick Tracy. Twenty First Century Communications has revived Liberty, which died in 1950, as "the nostalgia magazine." Columbia and Decca report exuberant sales of their re-releases of rare old recordings, from Bessie Smith to Alice Faye. More than 300 radio stations have brought back the serials of the '30s and '40s, morality plays for two generations of American children. Once again Lament Cranston, the Shadow, knows what evil lurks...
Jesus Christ, Superstar; 2 LPs (Decca). An evocative modern passion play offers the first real proof that rock can deal with major subjects...