Word: demo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chelsea disco that caters to purple-haired punks in leather and other exotics, is credited with "discovering" Madonna in 1982, although like America before Columbus, she was there all along. "She had this incredible sense of style," says Kamins. "She had an aura." She also had a four-track demo tape she had made with another boyfriend, a musician named Steve Bray. Kamins played it and got great response from the disco crowd for a song called Everybody. Madonna's career began to gather momentum, and Kamins at one point thought she had agreed to let him produce her first...
That cold-eyed view of the future makes some of Ferraro's colleagues uncomfortable. "She has a tendency to be involved in everything," says a Demo ratic Congressman. "I'm a little backed off by her multiple ambitions." There is also concern over her untroubled rise in the House. "Because she's the darling of the leadership, we've handed her every prize in the book," says one Democratic member. "She hasn't been tested here...
...then it's Jim Garvey. Before being recognized as one of the squad's most talented and versatile performers, Garvey had to steer his way around several obstacles. Seeing very little playing time through the beginning of his junior year, Garvey spent most of his time working with the demo squad and watching the events of a game from the sidelines...
Part of the peculiar physics of rock 'n' roll, however, is the ability to fuse opposites. What happened between The Charlie Daniels Band and Dan Daley and his demo tape is a hit song called Still in Saigon, featured on Daniels' new album, Windows, already 24 on the singles charts and climbing fast. At this bleak and uncertain moment for rock 'n' roll, Still in Saigon is not only the best single of the year so far; it would be a standout in the most bountiful of times...
Kennelly, daughter of the late Demo cratic national chairman John M. Bailey, got help from her father's friends, including Senator Edward Kennedy; in the course of one rally he called her McNelly, Connelly, and Kannally before giving up and referring to "my friend Barbara...