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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music she heard, and the music Parker urged her to make, that brought her out of herself. She was making demo tapes the night she heard that Parker had ODed. But he had left her a legacy: a little self-confidence. And some hard luck. Her first album, released in 1974, is still treasured as one of the seminal singer-songwriter testaments of the decade. There were enervating legal problems over record deals. Her subsequent releases turned unfocused, uncertain. And there were personal tragedies. Snow's daughter Valerie was born with brain damage in 1975. Music was no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Brenner says that a Boston Phoenix reporter who has listened to a demo tape of these songs told him she thought "it was the best tape she'd ever heard." And recently, Warner Brothers Records solicited a tape...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Easy Being Green | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

Calling themselves The Harvard Squares, the four have since sung for banquets, weddings, and conventions, said Miller. And he said the group has just finished making a demo tape to seek greater "notoriety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...drills bring the city to a halt on the 15th of each month. Soldiers are everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman in Manhattan; many, in fact, are concerned not that security will be too lax at the Olympics, but that it will be too inflexibly tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Anarchy By the Numbers | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...band currently is working on an extended play (EP) demo tape with six musical tracks that they will circulate to different record companies in order to secure a contract. Green Fuse also plans to take one of the songs on the EP--called "Celebration"--and create a video. The song is "very political," Ross says, adding that it deals with the present situation in South Africa. The video will include actual footage filmed in South Africa and performance footage taped at Johnny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Graduates Form Band | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

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