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...first two albums. Because I liked them. I still play them, and they're still good. But God, is she sterile. I happened to be in front of the Music Hall a year and a half or so ago when she played Boston last; I'd just seen Elton John and her audience made John's look like the Angels: radiant blondes, whose age gravitated between 18 and 24 or so, men in seersucker pants (it was spring), and madras. It was also the only concert I'd ever seen end before 9:30. Anyway, Carole, whose version of "Natural...
...that band promptly becomes the compleat incarnation of country rock. At which point Messina tires of touring, leaves Poco. To produce, they said. He falls in with a journeyman L.A. songwriter named Kenny Loggins, whose credits include "House at Pooh Corner," and the ability to sound like a cracker Elton John. Hired only to produce Loggins' first album for Columbia, Jimmy contributes songs and harmonies, and ultimately decides to hit the road again. This is L & M's third trip to Boston in under a year, the first as headliners. Everything that was good about Poco can be found...
Bette Midler. You have to go all the way back to Elton John. Then there was Cat Stevens, and Brinsley Schwartz, and David Bowie, and Grootna, and the Rowan Brothers. Bette Midler could be just another hype. "But this girl can really SING!" Yeah, I know that. And Danny Cater can hit the long ball. They say for the nth time, that Bette Midler is the star of the seventies. Landau said it, Rolling Stone's said it. Word's definitively out on Bette Midler. Typical success story. Extremely bosomy girl seen by big name as singing waitress in Village...
...told me that he had gone Harvard as a graduate student in 1930. (That was the year I returned to Harvard as an assistant dean. He and I probably passed each other now and then in the Yard.) He remembered with pleasure studying literary criticism under Oliver Elton, who in that year was a visiting professor from England. The next three academic years he spent at Yale and returned to China...
...those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British rock-'n'-roll band known as Faces, he is one superstar who is out mostly to have fun. That includes giving a humorous zing to his guitar playing, handing bottles of wine to lucky members of the audience...