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...adventurous musicians around New York City were making, Reid organized the Black Rock Coalition in 1985. The group's manifesto bluntly declared, "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs." Still, it took the intervention of Mick Jagger, who paid for and produced the band's demo tape, for Living Colour to get signed by Epic Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IS ROCK 'N' ROLL A WHITE MAN'S GAME? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Real Love, Lennon's dreamy 1979 ballad to which Paul, George and Ringo added sweet harmonies and rhythmic heft. There's also 12-Bar Original, a metallic-blues instrumental from 1965. Two other "new" songs are from that year: Paul's flaccid That Means a Lot, recorded as a demo for a single by P.J. Proby; and a Ringo vocal, If You've Got Trouble, with inanely taunting lyrics: "You think I'm soft in the head/ Well, try someone softer instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MORE TAPES FROM THE CRYPT | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...hard to describe what this version of Quake is. id has said repeatedly that it's simply a test of the game's core engine, and not an alpha version, beta test or demo...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

Before you knew it, they all started eye gouging like a bunch of Demo-crats, and Bob Dole arrived in New Hampshire charging that corporate fat cats were getting rich while the working man took a licking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARY FIXATION | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...original 1977 demo tape, widely available on bootleg cassette, Lennon prefaces the tune by announcing, in the terse gutturals of a Brooklyn gangster, "Free. As a boid.'' That larkish spirit, absent in the new version, abounds on the two-CD album The Beatles Anthology (Apple/Capitol)--60 tracks of the group's compositions, cover recordings, outtakes, TV skits and reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREE AS A BEATLE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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