Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Bill Haley, 55, singer and guitarist who combined blues, country and pop influences into a pioneering rock-'n'-roll style on such hit records of the 1950s as Rock Around the Clock, Shake, Rattle and Roll and See You Later, Alligator; presumably of a heart attack; in...
MARRIED. Bruce Jenner, 31, Olympic decathlon champion in 1976, who is now pursuing an acting career (Can't Stop the Music); and Linda Thompson, 30, actress (TV's Hee-Haw) and onetime girlfriend of Elvis Presley; he for the second time, she for the first; on the beach...
Lennon's death was not like Elvis Presley's. Presley seemed at the end, trapped, defeated and hopeless. Lennon could have gone that way too, could have destroyed himself. But he did something harder. He lived. And, for all the fame and finance, that seemed to be what...
Lennon also shared with many other rockers a kind of operational fatalism, a sense that doing your best, whether on record or in concert, required laying yourself open, making yourself vulnerable. It was not only the pressures and excesses of the rock-'n'-roll life that moved the...
Reserves of another sort gave him trouble even early on. "In one way, I was always hip," Lennon remarked recently in Playboy, during an interview that could stand as lively proof that some of the best Lennon/Ono art was their life. "I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from...