Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stranger's original version, along with 15 other vintage ska songs, is available on a recently released compilation called Intensified! (Mango Records), which offers some interesting source material to set against the carnival modifications of the young English revivalists. Most of the Intensified! tunes have a loping energy, even...
The pirates usually restrict themselves to plundering pop recordings because classical and jazz albums do not sell well enough to make duplicating profitable. Counterfeiters are said to have sold almost as many copies of John Denver's Greatest Hits as RCA, the singer's legitimate recording company. The...
The Pretenders is an important, state-of-the art album. Neither the musical technique nor the message is new, but both are here to stay for awhile. As the new decade begins, the music world has split into rival camps: the "energy-makers," spearheaded by the Clash, Elvis Costello, Blondie...
After Elvis Presley was found dead on his bathroom floor in Memphis on Aug. 16, 1977, the county medical examiner ruled that the king of rock 'n' roll had died of natural causes. The verdict: cardiac arrhythmia, perhaps brought on by longstanding hypertension and atherosclerosis. But rumors, fed...
After ten years, it has become a capital custom: the turn-of-the-year list of what's In and what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash...