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IT IS A GARISH, cosmic nightclub, the figures on the floor drug-addled, lobotomized, throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his...
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 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...