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...wave of popularity. It is due partly to the same nostalgia kick that has given so many other rock "oldtimers" new commercial success. But the Boys' floating style also fits right in with the softening of rock's hard core that has brought composer-singers like Elton John and James Taylor to the fore. The Beach Boys themselves have matured considerably. Brian is now 29, brothers Dennis and Carl 27 and 25 respectively, Al Jardine 27, Bruce Johnston 27, and Mike Love 30. As men they have more to say (all those beaches are dirty, for one thing...
...Band, and a couple of Dylan albums that at their best moments are just barely tolerable. We have had to rely on second-string groups who continue to produce solid, respectable, and, on occasion, brilliant, records; people like Creedence, the Dead, the Steve Miller Band, Delaney and Bonnie, Elton John, Poco, Leon Russell, Traffic, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All these people are putting out fine music, but none of them has been able to really challenge that insane devotion that is reserved for the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan...
...organ, steel guitar, and clarinet. The three guys in the band, who play bass, drums, and percussion, aren't bad, but seem pretty superfluous. All the originals on the record are-excellent songs; the fast numbers don't always work so well, but the slow ones are reminiscent of Elton John or the Band at their best contemplative moments. And like the Band, they have worked out most of the songs carefully with little virtuoso soloing to interfere with the mood. Both of the women sing and play well, though neither of them vocally can really compare to someone like...
...derive some comfort from the division of public attention, which is certain to grow more pronounced as the individual reputations of his fellow rock troubadours grow. There are, for example, such famous ex-group soloists as the individual Beatles, Neil Young and Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). Elton John is an English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville...
...never before met, after their first 2½ hour chat. Perenchio can be persuasive. "Sure, I've never put on a fight before," concedes Perenchio, whose Chartwell Artists has made a solid name for itself by managing such stars as Andy Williams, Glen Campbell and Elton John. "But I've been involved in putting on concerts ever since I worked at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, picking up Coke bottles and chorus girls...